Louis Seigner
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1903-06-23
Locus Natus: Arcisse, Isère, France
Et ut: Луи Сенье
Holiday for Henrietta
Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a comical path for their heroine, who is overcome...
release : 1952.12.17popularis : 2.195
Les Misérables
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and...
release : 1982.10.20popularis : 9.743
L'Eclisse
This romantic drama by Michelangelo Antonioni follows the love life of Vittoria, a beautiful literary translator living in Rome. After splitting from...
release : 1962.04.13popularis : 9.263
Obsession
Hélène and Aldo Giovanni are a circus trapeze double act and a couple. Aldo is temporarily replaced by former-partner Alexandre when...
release : 1954.10.28popularis : 3.001
Le Corbeau
Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and...
release : 1943.09.28popularis : 8.252
The Possessors
Noël Schoudler, founder of an empire built on three foundations - sugar, banking and the press - reigns like an absolute sovereign over his...
release : 1958.11.19popularis : 4.534
Le Plaisir
Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and...
release : 1952.02.29popularis : 10.535
The Price of Flesh
Christiane, a gullible young girl who wants to become a dancer, is lured by Daniel, a handsome, elegant talker. He takes her to Tangiers and forces...
release : 1959.12.09popularis : 1.351
The Truth
As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship...
release : 1960.11.02popularis : 12.061
Forbidden to Love
An unconsummated marriage to fool the father who wants his heir to be wed.
release : 1942.10.30popularis : 0.668
A Lover's Return
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...
release : 1946.10.18popularis : 1.128
Creezy
Julien Dandieu, leader of the socialist political party PRU is asked to be part of the new conservative government as minister of foreign affairs....
release : 1974.04.10popularis : 5.846
A Certain Mister
Documents relevant to National Defence have been concealed in a certain vase by a dangerous gang of robbers. To neutralize the criminals, a seasoned...
release : 1950.05.24popularis : 1.98
Marie of the Port
Henri Chatelard is well into his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciates women. When he meets Marie, an 18-ish...
release : 1950.02.27popularis : 5.62
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 : 5.466
The Count of Monte Cristo
Edmond 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 : 1954.01.14popularis : 10.317
La rue des bouches peintes
An English governor in India, deceived by his wife, proposes to him either to accuse the lover of embezzlement, or to condemn her to end her days as...
release : 1955.07.22popularis : 0.584
The Law of Spring
The children born from a first marriage of a widower and a widower who have remarried do not get along. Frequent quarrels break out in the household...
release : 1942.05.20popularis : 1.2
La Symphonie fantastique
The film is biographical, telling the story of the life and artistic struggles of the French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz is shown as a...
release : 1942.04.01popularis : 4.554
Pasha
Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss...
release : 1968.03.14popularis : 6.753
Portrait of Innocence
A student from an elementary school accidentally breaks the glass roof of his school. His comrades decide to support it by working during the summer...
release : 1941.12.02popularis : 1.04
The Chain Breaker
Antoine Mouret, an authoritarian restaurateur, is the head of a large family where, for reasons of interest, people only marry cousins. But some have...
release : 1941.12.23popularis : 1.259
The President
Aged 73, the former President of the French Council Émile Beaufort still plays a central role in the political life of the country. Writing...
release : 1961.03.01popularis : 6.157
Des jeunes filles dans la nuit
Six young boarding girls return home unexpectedly after their college has been destroyed by fire. Their unexpected presence arouses melodramatic...
release : 1943.04.14popularis : 1.168
Angels of Sin
A well-off young woman decides to become a nun, joining a convent that rehabilitates female prisoners. Through their program, she meets a woman named...
release : 1943.06.23popularis : 3.496
The Secret of Madame Clapain
Madame Clapain dies in dubious circumstances at the home of the Cadifon ladies, of which she was a tenant. A friendly inspector and...
release : 1943.08.11popularis : 0.885
The Roquevillards
France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that prides itself on its impeccable morals....
release : 1943.07.28popularis : 2.014
Rue de Paris
Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a dash of comedy. While...
release : 1959.10.21popularis : 2.764
The Eternal Husband
An adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Le Eternel Mari", a somber story of marital infidelity, revenge and near madness, and starring Raimu in his...
release : 1946.06.19popularis : 1.907
The Most Wanted Man
Joe Calvert (Fernadel) is a nearsighted, friendly man who works as a clerk in a large department store, who gets into embarrassing situations when he...
release : 1953.12.02popularis : 2.233
Vautrin the Thief
A famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin, escapes from prison. Chance makes him meet...
release : 1943.12.13popularis : 1.642
First in Line
A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain guides and their families in the French Alps,...
release : 1944.02.23popularis : 1.512
The Last Judgment
In Central Europe, resistance to the Germans in growing. But the partisan leader is denounced and killed. His daughter and the son of the traitor...
release : 1945.12.08popularis : 0.952
Homeland
Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occupiers. Led by Count de Rysoor, the revolt...
release : 1946.10.22popularis : 1.707
Dreams of Love
Paris, 1833. The famous composer Franz Liszt is friends with Chopin who introduces him to Countess Marie d'Agout. Very quickly Liszt falls in love...
release : 1947.01.29popularis : 0.665
The Royalists
The Marquis de Montauran was appointed to command the Chouans whose first two revolts were crushed. An aristocrat, Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil, is...
release : 1947.03.20popularis : 1.324
The Woman in Red
Two paintings are stolen. Amateur private detective Roland Gautier investigates.
release : 1947.05.21popularis : 1.393
La Carcasse et le Tord-cou
La Carcasse, an obtuse peasant, lives with his wife Lucie and his father-in-law Tord-cou. At odds with his son-in-law, the Tord-cou takes it into his...
release : 1948.04.30popularis : 0.848
Colonel Durand
In his younger days, a dashing officer, Colonel Durand, compromised Madame De Monthieux, who entered a convent. Now, he is garrisoned at Strasbourg.
release : 1948.08.25popularis : 0.46
The Bouquinquant Brothers
A provincial, Julie Moret, is hired as a servant in a Parisian bourgeois residence. She is courted by one of the Bouquinquant brothers, Léon,...
release : 1948.01.11popularis : 4.075
Miquette
A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater, only to become entangled in relationships...
release : 1950.04.14popularis : 5.908
Marguerite of the Night
It tells the story of an older pedant who buys adolescence from Satan.
release : 1955.12.29popularis : 2.548
Vire-vent
The Donadieu family lives in the Provençal sun in a happy letting go, The father, the mother, the son and the three daughters. One of them,...
release : 1949.04.08popularis : 0.565
Tête blonde
When he finds a package in the metro, given this period of restrictions, Mr. Truche thinks it may be a good deal, he takes it home but discovers a...
release : 1950.09.01popularis : 1.82
Maya
Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance) who is all things to all men. No matter what...
release : 1949.12.09popularis : 2.312
Skipper Next to God
Captain Joris Kniper believes so strongly that he is "skipper next to God" that he is used to playing God on his ship. Tough and bossy, he gives...
release : 1951.03.02popularis : 1.191
Alone in the World
François wants to buy a house to help underprivileged children. He lacks money, but a generous donor allows him to realize this dream.
release : 1952.07.11popularis : 1.998
L'enfant des neiges
Mony, fiancée of Jacques, adopts the child he had with Gisèle. When she wants to take it back, she gives it back to him and pushes...
release : 1951.04.20popularis : 0.804
Le cas du docteur Galloy
Madame Guérin, who has been suffering from cancer, benefits from a period of remission and she tries to regain health at any price. That is...
release : 1951.06.20popularis : 0.447
Napoléon Bonaparte, empereur des Français
Emperor Napoléon Ier's prodigious destiny, from his childhood in Corsica to the Return of the Ashes from Saint Helena, on the one hand,...
release : 1951.08.25popularis : 0.853
Hotbed of Sin
A couple of dancers performs in a night club. The man is jealous of Gina, his partner,and keeps making scenes to her, going as far as bullying her on...
release : 1951.07.20popularis : 0.794
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
In order to please Martineau, a wealthy industrialist, cynical Gabory accepts to organize a rigged beauty contest whose winner will be...
release : 1951.10.31popularis : 3.543
Special Section
In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty...
release : 1975.04.23popularis : 3.462
Rendezvous in July
Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.
release : 1949.12.06popularis : 1.6
Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur
Tartuffe, a hypocritical man confided in false devotion, monopolizes the confidence of Orgon, a wealthy bourgeois and undertakes to seduce his wife...
release : 1960.07.05popularis : 1.191
The Wind Is My Lover
Set in medieval times about the cursed Moonshield family. The young knight Erland Moonshield fall in love with a gypsy enchantress, Singoalla, he...
release : 1949.12.13popularis : 1.865
The Lovers of Manon Lescaut
In the reign of king Louis XV,a handsome student,Des Grieux, meets his charming cousin,Manon,just when she goes to the convent of Amiens,to take the...
release : 1954.12.28popularis : 1.787
Nathalie
Haute Couture model in Paris becomes involved in the activities of two rival jewel thief gangs.
release : 1957.12.04popularis : 2.429
Behind These Walls
June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by the resistance, the inhabitants who listen to...
release : 1946.03.13popularis : 2.313
The Marriage of Chiffon
Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A...
release : 1942.08.06popularis : 2.264
Judgement of God
Bavaria, 1433. Reason of state rules that Prince Albert is to marry Princess Bertha of Wurtemberg. But the fine-looking young man is loath to become...
release : 1952.08.20popularis : 2.205
Girls of Today
Peppino Bardellotti, a widower, lives in Milan with his four daughters and ex sister-in-law Matilde, who urges girls to settle down by marrying a...
release : 1955.12.27popularis : 1.328
With Both Hands
In Spain, criminals steal a large stock of watermarked paper for banknotes. In France, they hire Besnard, a specialist in counterfeit money, to do...
release : 1960.03.02popularis : 0.625
Nights of Montmartre
Bobby earns his living in Montmartre by duping naïve provincials, along with his pal Julien, as well as crooks and drug dealers, replaced by...
release : 1955.08.08popularis : 0.952
The Spies
A doctor at a run-down psychiatric hospital is offered a large sum of money to shelter a new patient. Soon the place is full of suspicious and...
release : 1957.10.10popularis : 3.793
The Cossacks
Set in the 1850s in Czar Alexander II's Russia, this drama and adventure film focuses on the strife between the Circassian Muslims, led by Shamil and...
release : 1960.02.04popularis : 2.292
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 : 1.826
The Big Bluff
A penniless adventurer, Eddie Morgan survives on his wits and good humor. He's a bluffer. To help the owner of an oil field, he launches a vast...
release : 1957.05.14popularis : 2.502
Eyes of Love
During the German occupation, Jeanne Moncatel, pretty but complexed, has to put up with her mother, a cantankerous old woman who keeps telling her...
release : 1959.11.25popularis : 2.517
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 : 0.694
Asphalt
Heavy traffic in the summer. Bad luck for Juliet, Albert, Jaeger and Arthur who does not reach their destination. Involved in a terrible accident...
release : 1981.01.07popularis : 1.949
Marriage of Figaro
It's the day of Figaro's marriage to Susanna, but first he must help the Countess divert the Count's attention away from Susanna and back to her,...
release : 1959.11.04popularis : 2.035
Quai des illusions
Lise is bored with her parents and gets a job as a waitress. She meets a sailor, Fausto, who leaves her to escape from the police. Nevertheless, she...
release : 1959.01.21popularis : 0.931
Paris, Palace Hôtel
On Christmas Eve, Françoise, a manicurist at the Paris-Palace-Hotel, is invited to celebrate by Henri Delormel, an attractive fifty-something...
release : 1956.10.18popularis : 1.12
Miss Catastrophe
A talented but crazy painter, Elvire Mercier agrees to sell one of her canvases to Pierre Leroy, a rich heir. But after a string of...
release : 1957.01.25popularis : 0.846
Lucrèce
Lucrèce, a famous actress, is bothered first, then flattered by the passionate testimonies of love given to her by François, a 12th...
release : 1943.12.15popularis : 0.916
The First Outrages
Christian has just returned home after failing his A-levels. His father, incensed by his failure, asks a neighboring teacher to give him lessons. But...
release : 1955.10.28popularis : 0.92
Monsieur Octave
Monsieur Octave, a good man who has retired from the French national railway company, wants to have his house built. To this end he contacts a loan...
release : 1951.11.07popularis : 1.211
Bells Without Joy
In November 1942, American troops landed in Tunisia. German paratroopers were immediately launched and occupied Tunis. A French squadron of chasseurs...
release : 1962.04.20popularis : 1.773
The Seven Deadly Sins
A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.
release : 1952.03.27popularis : 3.289
The Dreadful
César Dandieu is an honest cashier in an oil company, and Fernand Mouchette an absent-minded inventor. The latter comes to propose a new type...
release : 1959.09.10popularis : 1.749
Cordial Agreement
The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and...
release : 1939.04.20popularis : 1.902
Rooster in dough
A famous lawyer is irritated to see his fiancée spending her time trying to educate Languille, a tramp. Wanting to discourage his...
release : 1952.06.02popularis : 1.189
Dangerous Games
Alain is the only son of a wealthy bourgeois couple. He takes violin lessons in Ménilmontant, where he is spotted by Fleur, a poor girl: she...
release : 1958.12.12popularis : 2.067
Man to Men
The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross, and who was offered the first Nobel Peace Prize.
release : 1948.10.01popularis : 1.142
Her Last Christmas
A very ill little girl having expressed the wish to live until Christmas, the whole neighborhood agrees to anticipate the celebration.
release : 1952.12.12popularis : 0.871
Black Sun
A young Gallic heiress Christine is looking for her long-lost brother in Algeria. She's not looking for danger, but that's what comes in her way from...
release : 1966.12.10popularis : 1.399
Jamaican Man
Jacques Mervel, also known as "L'Homme de la Jamaïque" makes use of his talents as a gun runner in Tangiers, Morocco. After triumphing over a...
release : 1950.12.22popularis : 2.145
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 : 1.474
Night Shift
A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.
release : 1944.04.19popularis : 1.245
The Beautiful Otero
An Italo-French biopic about one of the most famous women of Belle Époque, Spanish-born dancer and actress, star of Folies-Bèrgere:...
release : 1954.11.04popularis : 0.732
Les Dents longues
A young, talented and ambitious journalist, Louis heads off to try his luck in Paris. He's spotted by Walter, editor-in-chief for a major daily...
release : 1953.03.15popularis : 2.725
Chotard and Co.
François Chotard, wholesale grocer, gives his daughter in marriage to Julien Collinet, a writer who prefers dreaming to working, a situation...
release : 1933.06.22popularis : 1.553
Les frangines
The owner of a suburban boarding school is found murdered. The culprit will be unmasked thanks to the ingenuity and courage of the good Janine and a...
release : 1960.02.10popularis : 0.609
The Lovers of Midnight
Marcel, rich and alone for Christmas, invite Françoise to celebrate whim him. Soon, the fairy tale turns into a bad dream.
release : 1953.04.01popularis : 1.722
Lucrèce Borgia
In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his sister Lucrèce. In a ruthless...
release : 1953.10.23popularis : 2.696
Zoé
Barbara Laage essays the title role in Zoe. Our heroine's adventures begin when she catches the eye of a big-city playboy named Arthur (Michel...
release : 1954.03.08popularis : 0.85
The Masseuses
Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in touch with a masseuses ring and one of the...
release : 1962.09.20popularis : 2.999
S.O.S. Mediterranean
The scene of action embraces Tangier, Toulon and the Mediterranean, where Pierre Fresnay, Rolf Wanka and Kim Peacock, cast as captains of French,...
release : 1938.09.07popularis : 0.633
Quelle sacrée soirée
Jean Duclos has extraordinary adventures after taking the train and mistakenly taking the luggage of a young dancer, Lola Wanda. An oil tycoon...
release : 1957.09.04popularis : 1.519
The Little Boy from the Lift
A young boy is hired as a lift attendant in a grand hotel when his mother dies. To fulfill his dream, he takes part in a competition organized by the...
release : 1962.04.05popularis : 0.698
Mr. Klein
Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly...
release : 1976.09.23popularis : 20.733
The Charterhouse of Parma
This adaptation of Stendhal's timeless masterpiece of French literature tells the tale of Fabrice Del Dongo (Grard Philipe) a young archibishop who...
release : 1948.02.21popularis : 8.011
The Baron of the Locks
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small...
release : 1960.04.13popularis : 5.866
Dakota 308
A Dakota plane is carrying a ton of gold bound for Brazzaville, but it is hijacked over the Camargue. On arrival, we find nails instead of gold!
release : 1951.04.25popularis : 0.647
The Slave
A young composer is forced to work as a bar pianist. One night he gets hit by a car and is brought to a hospital. Severely injured he is injected...
release : 1953.09.02popularis : 0.652
This Special Friendship
A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the fourteen-year-old upperclassman who is the object of his desire, all set...
release : 1964.09.04popularis : 10.494
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because...
release : 1943.04.08popularis : 1.632
Adorable Creatures
Andre Noblet, a 21-year-old French artist falls madly in love with Christine, the mother of two children. He tells Chistine he will tell all to her...
release : 1952.01.02popularis : 3.524
From Hong Kong with Love
Bons baisers de Hong Kong (From Hong Kong with Love) is a 1975 French film directed by Yvan Chiffre. It is a parody of James Bond movies featuring...
release : 1975.12.17popularis : 2.516
Would-Be Gentleman
M. Jourdain is a cloth merchant who wants to become a gentleman, learning dance, music, fencing and philosophy. Mme Jourdain is worried about...
release : 1958.11.19popularis : 2.506
It Happened at the Inn
An old woman living in an inn is killed and her family members seem like the likely culprits.
release : 1943.04.14popularis : 4.646
Revenge
After spending ten years in prison for a crime he did not commit, Juan is released.
release : 1958.05.02popularis : 2.077
Koenigsmark
A young French, Vignerte, is hired in the court of Lautenberg, an imaginary land, as the young Prince's private teacher and as the Grand Duchess'...
release : 1953.04.04popularis : 0.826
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 : 2.891
The Magistrate
Emilia Bonelli is an overly ambitious and driven woman. This dominant personality trait has its effects on her henpecked husband Luigi, and her...
release : 1959.10.07popularis : 3.862
Clara de Montargis
Renaud, a young student who is camping alone at the moment, has a dream one night, in which the woman of his dreams appears. When he wakes up the...
release : 1951.06.20popularis : 1.662