Jacques Dumesnil Movies

Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A...

In 1825, Paul-Louis Courier, a Republican writer known for publishing pamphlets against the French monarchy, was killed in the farm where he had...

Alice, an unhappy young woman in the household, is the mother of a little boy, Pierre. She falls in love with a young doctor and plans to run away...

A young noblewoman is unhappy about needing to marry the village ironmaster for financial reasons, but later comes to appreciate her husband.

The sentimental and comic adventures of three sailors, during a stopover of their ship in Toulon, are grafted onto a story of stolen documents, which...

In Paris, a stage-struck would-be actor is mistaken for an escaped convict.

As her neighbor Rémi Courmont has told her off for making his ears bleed with Ravel's Bolero, a music piece she plays at full volume all the...

Reconstruction of Danton's political career, from the moment he had just been admitted as a lawyer and became friends with Camille Desmoulins and...

In the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an elderly woman, Madame Mathieu, the owner of both...

A jealous wealthy landlord intercepts a letter to his wife written by her cousin. He decides to take revenge by drugging the young man's horse, but...

Two families fight to stay in power. On one side, the Horatii, who rule Rome; on the other, the Curiatii, who rule Albe-la-longue. To escape the war,...

Juliette, an innocent woman, is wrongly sentenced to prison for attempted murder. After her release, she married an industrialist to whom she did not...

A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.

A high school boy falls for a prostitute he has met on the notorious "Rue Des Patures".

Married to Karl Ammer, the station master of Thaya, a Hungarian quiet village, Anita is a pretty young peasant who feels deeply bored. She dreams of...

Henri Pierson, the chief engineer of a railway line crossing Yunnan in China, must prevent the incessant attacks of a gang of looters.

Princesse Nadia Vronskaïa is a veteran con artist who uses her feminine wiles to bilk wealthy, susceptible old men. Inevitably, she outsmarts...

A colonial wife carries on an affair with a French officer, but the wife's native servant may have overheard their plan to leave Africa and return to...

The agency À Votre Service has the reputation of meeting all needs. This is what Stanislas observes when his uncle replaces his mistress with...