Movies: Louis Jouvet
- 1936
The Lower Depths (1936)
The Lower Depths7.21936HD
Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord's wife, Vassilissa, and takes up with her sister, Natacha. Pepel al...
- 1938
The Curtain Rises (1938)
The Curtain Rises7.91938HD
1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique"). The first-year entrance exams are in full swing. Many applicants, few accepted. Isabelle (Janine Darcey) is one of the few chosen. She joi...
- 1938
Hôtel du Nord (1938)
Hôtel du Nord7.21938HD
A young couple's suicide pact goes awry, leaving the woman to face her survival with a new admirer while pining for her lost love....
- 1938
La Marseillaise (1938)
La Marseillaise6.91938HD
A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course, the king Louis XVI, each showing their own small problems....
- 1937
Life Dances On (1937)
Life Dances On7.01937HD
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she had a stronger inclination. To overcome these dreary thoughts, she decides to find out about him an...
- 1947
Jenny Lamour (1947)
Jenny Lamour7.51947HD
Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical...
- 2010
Lusitanian Illusion (2010)
Lusitanian Illusion6.42010HD
Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguis...
- 1935
Carnival in Flanders (1935)
Carnival in Flanders7.31935HD
Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the annual local festivities when the arrival of the Duke of Olivares, who rules the country on behalf of the King Philip III of Spain, is announced. Whi...
- 1946
A Lover's Return (1946)
A Lover's Return6.11946HD
1946, a man walks in Lyon. He makes a pilgrimage to the places of his childhood. Another man, Edmond Gonin, recognizes him. It was Jean-Jacques Sauvage, whom he had ousted in a "radical" way with a young heiress. Only Savage is not dead, and here he ...
- 1951
Dr. Knock (1951)
Dr. Knock7.31951HD
Saint-Maurice, an ordinary peaceful village, lived healthily so much so that the local doctor's practice was scant. But that was before Dr. Parpalaid retired and was replaced by a charlatan by the name of Knock. A real genius this one, for he soon ma...
- 1947
Carbon Copy (1947)
Carbon Copy5.91947HD
A smooth criminal, who turns to be Manuel Ismora, and his gang successfully and peacefully pull off con after heist. Elsewhere a timid office worker, Gabriel Dupon, is pressured by his boss......
- 1941
Volpone (1941)
Volpone6.71941HD
Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is dying, knowing that each will try to curry favor with him in order to be named his heir. He is inundated with valuable gifts, and soon find...
- 1937
Bizarre, Bizarre (1937)
Bizarre, Bizarre6.91937HD
A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin – an Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against such writing....
- 1949
Return to Life (1949)
Return to Life6.21949HD
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War....
- 1939
The End of the Day (1939)
The End of the Day6.81939HD
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter ...
- 1937
Alibi (1937)
Alibi6.51937HD
Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool C...
- 1939
The Phantom Wagon (1939)
The Phantom Wagon7.21939HD
French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he's wrought when he dies on New Year's Eve and is collected by Death in his carriage....
- 1950
Lady Paname (1950)
Lady Paname6.11950HD
The evocation of Paris in the 1920s mingles with the rapid rise of the irresistible Caprice, a talented singer, and her tumultuous love affair with Jeff the composer. A photographer nicknamed Bagnolet, a gentle anarchist, gently monitors the activiti...
- 1963
The Depths (1963)
The Depths6.11963HD
A bourgeois family, who is harassed and humiliated, ruins their young maids without pay for several years....
- 1951
Young Love (1951)
Young Love6.31951HD
Catherine, 18, loved Jean, a young accountant, who loved her in return. And yet, one morning, two policemen find their dead bodies on a stretch of waste ground. The case is obvious: the two young people have killed themselves. But why? Chief Inspecto...