Louis Jourdan
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1921-06-20
Locus Natus: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Et ut:
Letter from an Unknown Woman
A pianist about to flee from a duel receives a letter from a woman he cannot remember. As she tells the story of her lifelong love for him, he is...
release : 1948.04.28popularis : 7.303
Octopussy
James Bond is sent to investigate after a fellow “00” agent is found dead with a priceless Indian Fabergé egg. Bond follows the...
release : 1983.06.05popularis : 19.735
Cervantes
This epic Spanish biopic chronicles the life of Cervantes, Spain's great novelist, playwright and poet, during the 16th-century, when as a young man...
release : 1967.11.02popularis : 7.062
The Count of Monte Cristo
Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison,...
release : 1961.12.06popularis : 5.855
The Man in the Iron Mask
The story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe imprisoned away from sight and knowledge of the public,...
release : 1977.07.17popularis : 7.7
The Count of Monte-Cristo
A TV adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to...
release : 1975.10.31popularis : 15.99
The Paradine Case
Attorney Anthony Keane agrees to represent Londonite Mrs. Paradine, who has been fingered in her husband's murder. From the start, the married lawyer...
release : 1947.12.31popularis : 10.82
Can-Can
Parisian nightclub owner Simone Pistache is known for her performances of the can-can, which attracts the ire of the self-righteous Judge Philipe...
release : 1960.03.09popularis : 3.46
Three Coins in the Fountain
Three American roommates working in Italy wish for the man of their dreams after throwing coins into Rome's magnificent Trevi Fountain. Frances, a...
release : 1954.05.01popularis : 4.726
The Swan
Princess Beatrice's days of enjoying the regal life are numbered unless her only daughter, Princess Alexandra, makes a good impression on a distant...
release : 1956.04.26popularis : 3.498
The V.I.P.s
Wealthy passengers fogged in at London's Heathrow Airport fight to survive a variety of personal trials.
release : 1963.09.01popularis : 6.047
Silver Bears
Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he...
release : 1977.06.03popularis : 6.286
Year of the Comet
Year of the Comet is a 1992 romantic comedy adventure film about the pursuit of the most valuable bottle of wine in history. The title refers to the...
release : 1992.04.24popularis : 4.08
Madame Bovary
After marrying small-town doctor Charles Bovary, Emma becomes tired of her limited social status and begins to have affairs, first with the young...
release : 1949.08.25popularis : 7.666
Julie
A terrified stewardess is stalked by her psychotic estranged husband.
release : 1956.10.17popularis : 4.654
Swamp Thing
Mutated by his own secret formula, Dr. Alec Holland becomes Swamp Thing - a half human, half plant superhero who will stop at nothing to rescue...
release : 1982.01.01popularis : 16.063
Gigi
A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone...
release : 1958.05.15popularis : 10.941
Anne of the Indies
After buccaneer captain Anne Providence spares Pierre LaRochelle and recruits him into her pirate crew, their growing attraction is tested when...
release : 1951.10.18popularis : 3.902
The Return of Swamp Thing
The Swamp Thing returns to battle the evil Dr. Arcane, who has a new science lab full of creatures transformed by genetic mutation, and chooses...
release : 1989.05.11popularis : 12.886
Bird of Paradise
Andre Laurence accompanies his college roommate, Tenga, back to Tenga's Polynesian island home. There, Andre becomes attracted to the native life and...
release : 1951.03.14popularis : 1.731
Parade in 7 Nights
In the pound, Pipo the dog recounts his adventures to his fellow inmates.
release : 1941.09.24popularis : 2.372
The Beautiful Adventure
On the very day of his wedding, Valentin Le Barroyer sees the one he was to marry fly away. Hélène has always loved her cousin...
release : 1942.12.20popularis : 1.306
Immortal France
The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of the city by the Prussians during the...
release : 1943.04.07popularis : 1.574
Cover Up
In this feature-length pilot, Dani Reynolds thinks that she has the perfect life, a perfect job, she's a renowned fashion photographer, and has a...
release : 1984.09.22popularis : 1.123
The Best of Everything
An exposé of the lives and loves of Madison Avenue working girls and their higher-ups.
release : 1959.10.09popularis : 6.181
A Flea In Her Ear
Suspecting that her husband might be having an affair, a wife plots to catch him in the act.
release : 1968.11.27popularis : 4.713
Beverly Hills Madam
A bordello catering to rich and wealthy clients, run by Lil Hutton experiences a series of crises as one girl ends up pregnant, and another dead. As...
release : 1986.04.06popularis : 1.848
Made in Paris
A pretty fashion buyer visiting Paris on business is courted by a famous designer. Boris Sagal's 1966 romantic comedy stars Ann-Margret, Louis...
release : 1966.02.09popularis : 2.043
Decameron Nights
Italian poet Boccaccio (Louis Jourdan) hides in the court of Fiammetta (Joan Fontaine) and tells three tales of love and lust.
release : 1953.01.13popularis : 5.425
L'Arlésienne
In the Camargue a local young playboy named Frédéri falls in love with a young woman from Arles. His family thinks she is unsuitable as...
release : 1942.09.04popularis : 0.959
Amazons of Rome
Marching down the Italian peninsula to sack ancient Rome, Etruscan warrior Drusco instead offers to hold back his onslaught if the Romans hand over...
release : 1961.03.24popularis : 5.281
The Sultans
Lisa, a fashion photographer, has an affair with a married man. They both know that the relationship forces them to have fun. When he goes through a...
release : 1966.05.06popularis : 3.347
To Commit a Murder
A writer gets wrapped up in espionage.
release : 1967.04.07popularis : 1.033
The Happy Time
A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa.
release : 1952.10.30popularis : 3.785
Rue de l'Estrapade
While Henri Laurent speeds along on the racing circuits, his pretty wife Françoise goes from luxury boutique to luxury boutique with her best...
release : 1953.04.14popularis : 2.761
No Minor Vices
Perry Ashwell is a self-satisfied child psychologist who takes his colleagues and wife somewhat for granted. So confident is he of his position that...
release : 1948.11.12popularis : 2.074
Count Dracula
For those familiar with Bram Stoker's novel, this adaptation follows the book quite closely in most respects. Jonathan Harker visits the Count in...
release : 1977.12.22popularis : 2.394
Dark Journey
In this movie based upon Julian Green's novel, we follow Paul's downfall as he is torn between his love for Angele, a local prostitute, as he finds...
release : 1962.04.13popularis : 1.601
Counterforce
A team of specialists is dispatched to protect the leader of a Middle Eastern country from a neighboring dictator who has designs on his country.
release : 1988.02.05popularis : 1.427
Twilight
At the beginning of the 20th century, the destiny of Félicie Nanteuil, a young girl from the provinces who became a big star on the stage...
release : 1944.12.20popularis : 1.061
Fear No Evil
A psychiatrist specializing in the occult becomes involved in the case of a man who is possessed by a spirit in an antique mirror. The man's fiance...
release : 1969.03.03popularis : 3.736
The Great American Beauty Contest
The pursuit by America's loveliest girls for a coveted beauty crown is threatened by a scandal which implicates a judge, a former winner, and one of...
release : 1973.02.13popularis : 3.04
Run a Crooked Mile
A man witnesses a murder in a secluded mansion. When he reports it, there's no evidence of the murder, or that anyone was there. Two years later he...
release : 1969.11.18popularis : 1.705
Her First Affair
Micheline Chevassu is a young, naive woman living in an orphanage. Through classified ads, she has a date with an unknown man. She escapes from the...
release : 1941.08.14popularis : 2.082
That's Entertainment!
Various MGM stars from yesterday present their favorite musical moments from the studio's 50 year history.
release : 1974.06.21popularis : 4.773
Dangerous Exile
Dangerous Exile is a 1957 British historical drama film directed by Brian Desmond Hurst and starring Louis Jourdan, Belinda Lee, Anne Heywood and...
release : 1957.12.12popularis : 2.702
The Little Ones of the Flower Platform
A brave bookseller raises his four daughters alone, all of whom he employs in his shop. They are especially interested in their sentimental stories....
release : 1944.05.26popularis : 2.289
Roger Moore: A Matter Of Class
The story of actor Roger Moore, including clips from his movies, television shows and interviews with the actor, his family and acquaintances.
release : 1995.11.16popularis : 3.208
The Simple Truth
Nancy is an attractive, intelligent receptionist at a New York publishing firm. She unwittingly becomes romantically involved with the president of...
release : 1982.01.01popularis : 0.636
Office Romances
Angela is insecure and gawky, overawed by her new job at an advertising agency. Her boss, Pam, is poised and sophisticated - the epitome of a...
release : 1983.05.21popularis : 2.318
Mathias Sandorf
1868. Revolutionary Mathias Sandorf is determined to oust the dictatorship oppressing his country. The people see him as their liberator. Denounced...
release : 1963.02.13popularis : 1.761
The Awakening of Cassie
Cassie is a young, pretty, free-spirited artist. She meets Mark, a handsome art gallery owner, and experiences in five days what few women do in a...
release : 1982.01.01popularis : 1.972
Bayou Romance
Lily, an energetic and charming artist, leaves the city life for a sprawling plantation she's inherited in Louisiana. Unfortunately, it's inhabited...
release : 1986.01.01popularis : 0.744
Escape To Love
Lisa, a beautiful American co-ed traveling in Europe, falls in love with a brash and fearless author, critical of the government in Poland. Lisa soon...
release : 1982.01.01popularis : 1.528
For Love of Angela
Angela, a beautiful and high spirited girl, has found her true love at last in the dashing Harrison, heir to a department store fortune. But Angela,...
release : 1982.01.01popularis : 1.153
Image of Passion
Alison is a young, attractive advertising executive. Even though she has a stable relationship with a boyfriend, she is still searching for the man...
release : 1982.01.01popularis : 0.406
Isle of Secret Passion
Kathy is a young and beautiful teacher who finds love and excitement among the ruins of Greece. She gets much more than she bargained for when she...
release : 1982.01.01popularis : 2.016
A Legacy for Leonette
Leonette is a beautiful, smart young woman who travels to London for her inheritance after her father dies. When she arrives, mysterious events...
release : 1982.01.01popularis : 0.419
Grace Kelly: The American Princess
A biography of American actress Grace Kelly from her early days as an aspiring actress to her death as Princess of Monaco.
release : 1987.06.08popularis : 3.017
The Exotic Locations of 'Octopussy'
A tour of the Exotic Locations of 'Octopussy'.
release : 2006.10.04popularis : 0.816
Best Ever Bond
Roger Moore presents the ten best sequences ever to have appeared in the James Bond series, and cast members recall their favourite moments.
release : 2002.11.22popularis : 3.988
Ritual of Evil
A psychiatrist investigates the death of one of his patients, a young heiress.
release : 1970.02.23popularis : 1.057
Eloise
It's not so much that Eloise is a mischievous child, but the darnedest things do happen when she's around.
release : 1956.11.22popularis : 1.991
Her Bridal Night
A country girl is discovered by a Paris magazine, and becomes a top model.
release : 1956.10.25popularis : 3.65
Double Deal
Wealthy Peter Sterling and his younger wife Christine have an existence of little excitement so when a stranger comes into their lives, she is...
release : 1983.09.15popularis : 1.004
The Bohemian Life
Four young friends share the carefree, cheerfulness, laughter and dances of Bohemian life. Rodolphe the painter, Alexandre Chaunard the composer,...
release : 1945.10.17popularis : 0.719
Disorder
Study of 1960s Milanese social life and its glamorous depravity, as seen through the story of the working class Mario who dreams of social climbing.
release : 1962.03.16popularis : 1.239
That's Entertainment! III
Some of MGM'S musical stars review the studios history of musicals. From The Hollywood Revue of 1929 to Brigadoon, from the first musical talkies to...
release : 1994.07.01popularis : 5.947
Comedy of Happiness
Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him...
release : 1940.12.23popularis : 0.519
A String of Blue Beads
A STRING OF BLUE BEADS is a slight little Christmas tale that was a pilot for an anthology series of short stories that never came to be. What makes...
release : 1953.01.01popularis : 0.511
Grand Larceny
A woman who hasn't seen her father in 18 years, learns of his death and goes to his estate in France to carry out his wishes. She then learns that...
release : 1987.01.01popularis : 1.569
Escapade
Some gangsters use a young girl to get to a recently released convict who hid $10 million from a robbery just before he was caught.
release : 1957.06.07popularis : 1.714
James Bond in India
The making of the James Bond movie Octopussy (1983) in Udaipur, India during 1982.
release : 1983.01.25popularis : 1.767