Jacques Morel
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1922-05-29
Locus Natus: Paris, France
Et ut: Jacques Houstraete
Asterix the Gaul
In the year 50 BC, Gaul is occupied by the Romans - nearly. But the small village of Asterix and his friends still resists the Roman legions with the...
release : 1967.12.20popularis : 14.147
Clara and the Villains
A rich kid, the daughter of an oil tycoon, lives a life of luxury. Bad guys kidnap the heiress.
release : 1958.12.24popularis : 0.867
Asterix and Cleopatra
Popular animated hero Asterix and his faithful sidekick Obelix travel to ancient Egypt to help Cleopatra build a new summer home. Cleopatra and...
release : 1968.12.19popularis : 10.292
The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
Asterix and Obelix depart on an adventure to complete twelve impossible tasks to prove to Caesar that they are as strong as the Gods. You'll roar...
release : 1976.06.26popularis : 15.225
Topaze
Albert Topaze, sincere schoolteacher addicted to "rote" morality, works at a private school run by supremely money-grubbing M. Muche, whose daughter,...
release : 1951.01.25popularis : 2.428
Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose
The cowboy Lucky Luke tracks the Dalton brothers who escaped from prison and are seeking refuge in Canada.
release : 1983.09.30popularis : 4.703
L'aventure est au coin de la rue
A rich young man, Pierre Trévoux, has a desire for adventure and boasts of his courage. While he is staying with friends in the countryside,...
release : 1944.02.18popularis : 1.76
Voyage à trois
A couple and a friend find themselves on a desert island. The friend asks the husband to share his wife, the situation being very particular. But a...
release : 1950.05.12popularis : 0.599
Toute la famille était là!
Mr. Catignac, a pork butcher in Perigueux, plans to marry Victor, his son, to the daughter of a magistrate. What he does not know, for his son does...
release : 1948.12.17popularis : 1.307
Girl from Maxim's
After a crazy night spent at Maxim's, Doctor Montgicourt returns home with the Môme Shrimp. General Petypon invites her to his castle for the...
release : 1950.09.15popularis : 0.735
Poison
Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each other without risk. After listening to a radio show,...
release : 1951.11.30popularis : 4.728
Full House
Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution and Maigret.
release : 1952.10.10popularis : 3.457
Over the waves
Panorama of the programs and hosts who made the heyday of radio in the 1950s.
release : 1951.05.11popularis : 0.849
Victor
Secretly in love with Françoise, the companion of his best friend Marc, Victor decides to go to prison in his place.
release : 1951.06.13popularis : 1.966
Une fille dans le soleil
The young mayor of Fontenac, Virgile, is much loved by his constituents who appreciate the improvements he has made in their peaceful village. This...
release : 1953.01.14popularis : 0.979
Un trésor de femme
Francois is engaged to Isabelle. While going to buy the engagement ring, he meets Sophie, who puts the ring on her finger and does not manage to...
release : 1953.02.11popularis : 0.33
Marie-Antoinette Queen of France
While Louis XV is dying, the Dauphine of France, Marie-Antoinette, seduces a Swedish officer, Axel de Fersen, which pains her husband, the new King...
release : 1956.04.27popularis : 2.486
Alone in the Night
A series of crimes is being perpetrated around a famous singer. Strangely, during each of the crimes, the artist's voice is heard humming his...
release : 1945.11.21popularis : 1.711
Life Together
The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on the loving relationships of four couples. Now...
release : 1958.09.24popularis : 2.511
The Suspects
Commissaire Perrache, the chief of the D.S.T., the French domestic intelligence service, tries to neutralize a group of terrorists named the...
release : 1957.08.20popularis : 0.63
Fatal Affair
Didier's wife is ill, and he does the best he can to take care of her. But he's often absent and he has casual love affairs. But Leone he meets in...
release : 1953.04.09popularis : 1.021
Mandat d'amener
Appointed public prosecutor in a small provincial town, Gérard Latour befriends Delanglade, whose young wife becomes his mistress. Shortly...
release : 1953.08.02popularis : 0.637
Une nuit à Megève
Régine was married to Léon. She is currently engaged to Daniel, but still has feelings for Maurice. Young Georgette would like to find...
release : 1953.05.29popularis : 1.197
After You, Duchess
When she married her snobbish lawyer husband a woman hid her family's modest background from him. Her father, who is in fact a plumber dresses up as...
release : 1954.05.20popularis : 0.532
Men Think Only of That
Alfred is in love, but shy. Desperate not to have the audacity to express his passion to the woman of his dreams, Nicole, a young dairyman, he...
release : 1954.06.13popularis : 1.946
An Evening at the Music Hall
A GI on furlough attends a Folies-Bergères show. He falls in love with a dancer, Claudie, the star of the theater.
release : 1956.11.19popularis : 2.19
The Crab Basket
Charles is a student in Strasbourg. Abandoned by Liliane, his fiancée, who has inexplicably given up on marriage, he moves to Paris, where he...
release : 1960.05.20popularis : 1.337
Madame et son auto
Sophie Dirondel, history teacher at the Saint-Cloison-sur-Ermoise, wins the jackpot of a lottery, a 2CV. The good-natured woman is both happy and...
release : 1958.10.15popularis : 1.205
Les mordus de Paris
Paris is a city where effervescence is dangerous for city dwellers, who have become nothing more than "nervous machines". Two eminent psychiatrists,...
release : 1965.05.31popularis : 0.899
Rope Around the Neck
Arthur can no longer stand married life. He wants to get rid of his wife and live with his mistress. In doing so, he makes a mistake and kills his...
release : 1965.08.04popularis : 0.994
Killer Spy
The most secret agent Stanislas Dubois, tired of saving the world alone decides to retire and to start writing his memoirs. The enemies of humanity,...
release : 1965.09.23popularis : 2.341
The Gamblers
Adaptation of classical Russian Nikolai Gogol's comedy.
release : 1950.12.20popularis : 1.107
Diamonds Are Brittle
Bernard Noblet is a modest bank clerk with a passion for billiards. His fiancée Juliette, a schoolteacher, dreams of one day living the high...
release : 1965.10.07popularis : 1.823
L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
Julien Brûlebois, a brave peasant from Auvergne, learns that he has been summoned to Strasbourg to collect an inheritance. Amazed by the...
release : 1969.04.18popularis : 1.14
The Grand Manoeuvre
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is...
release : 1955.10.26popularis : 4.134
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours,...
release : 1954.02.10popularis : 3.458
The Seventh Commandment
Princesse Nadia Vronskaïa is a veteran con artist who uses her feminine wiles to bilk wealthy, susceptible old men. Inevitably, she outsmarts...
release : 1957.02.01popularis : 1.257
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has...
release : 1959.09.02popularis : 6.184
Question of Love
Architect Dumas dies from a bullet of his own gun in front of his house. The police suspect his young Swedish wife Catherine and her English lover...
release : 1978.10.18popularis : 1.114
Au p'tit zouave
Au p'tit Zouave, a café, sees a colorful clientele from working-class Paris. An assassin will shake up the daily life of the regulars.
release : 1950.03.16popularis : 2
The Turkey
Paris at the Belle Epoque. Monsieur de Pontagnac, a perfect honest man, loves pretty women too much and that plays him many tricks. What need does he...
release : 1951.11.21popularis : 1.85
Sacred Youth
Mr. Longué, aged 79, is offered a life annuity on his provincial estate by his nephew. He receives the same, but more advantageous, offer from...
release : 1958.08.05popularis : 1.873
Rencontres
Bella Krastner is sunbathing on a beach on the Côte d'Azur when she attracts the attention of an attractive younger man, Ralph Scaffari. It is...
release : 1962.02.16popularis : 1.255
Elena and Her Men
Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy Elena and...
release : 1956.09.12popularis : 4.609
Les bons bourgeois
In May of 1968, a well-off family from the XVIth district in Paris lives through the revolutionary fever of the Latin District in its own...
release : 1981.07.15popularis : 0.63
L'Exercice du pouvoir
At the turn of the century, an unusual woman refuses to become an object to be desired or played with. Instead she wants to succeed on the stage of...
release : 1978.03.08popularis : 1.83
À rebrousse-poil
Two scientists have invented a kindness serum which can turn the fiercest human being into the sweetest kindest person. Testing the product on a wild...
release : 1961.02.08popularis : 0.306
Ivory Coast Adventure
An Embassy attache and a butterfly hunter become involved in a treasure hunt between two rival gangs.
release : 1965.04.01popularis : 2.229
Drôles de phénomènes
Since the day their mother Aline remarried, Patrice and Eric, a joyful pair of twins, have been very happy. Indeed, François Chantour, their...
release : 1959.03.04popularis : 0.92
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 : 2.677
Between Eleven and Midnight
Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot whilst walking in a tunnel in...
release : 1949.03.23popularis : 2.064
L'homme de joie
A boudoir adventure during which the seductive Madame Jolivet, shocked by the behavior of her husband who appears with an actress, calls on the...
release : 1950.12.08popularis : 1.198
If Paris Were Told to Us
Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's...
release : 1956.01.27popularis : 4.213
Unexpected
An English teacher seduces a young student in the company of his wife to help him in an ambitious plan with the kidnapping of a newborn baby of a...
release : 1961.04.20popularis : 0.705
A Certain Mr. Jo
Jo Guardini, now the peaceful owner of a charming inn by the banks of the River Marne, once was a dreaded gangster. The respectful citizen does not...
release : 1958.04.16popularis : 0.594
La Môme Pigalle
Released from prison, Arlette returns to her job as a cabaret star. The police try to get her to confess where the stolen jewels are hidden.
release : 1955.11.29popularis : 1.876
We Are All Murderers
Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former lawyer who detested France's execution...
release : 1952.05.21popularis : 2.578
Deux Romains en Gaule
This film is directly inspired by Asterix, created by René Goscinny and Albert UDERZO, chronicles the adventures of a little boy, Antoine,...
release : 1967.02.25popularis : 3.686