Jean-François Martial
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1891-09-12
Locus Natus:
Et ut: Martial, Martial Joseph Ghislain Fosseprez, J.F. Martial
Mon Oncle
Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to...
release : 1958.05.10popularis : 9.012
Fun in the Barracks
The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines.
release : 1932.09.18popularis : 1.836
The Two Orphans
A more small scale version of the story Griffin used for his epic Orphans Of The Storm: a doctor tries to reunite two sisters who have become...
release : 1933.03.03popularis : 2.389
Rio's yellow house
When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who looks like him, the staff and spectators at that...
release : 1931.03.20popularis : 0.739
Gypsy Baron
An Hungarian young man hides his real identity as baron Barinkay until he returns to his birthplace and claims the family properties, now occupied by...
release : 1935.07.05popularis : 0.269
Debout là-dedans!
A student monitor in a high school in the French provinces has no control over the pupils. He is in love with the caretaker's daughter but his...
release : 1935.12.20popularis : 0.965
Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
Mario Esposito, who sings in a Neapolitan restaurant, is in love with Assunta, the niece of Teresa, the owner of the place. He shares his apartment...
release : 1937.12.07popularis : 1.09
Mélodie pour toi
Famous singer, René Sartène, falls in love with a young bourgeois, Marie. Irène, her stage partner and the director of the show...
release : 1942.11.11popularis : 0.364
Sacred Fire
A young woman from the countryside travels to Paris to become an actress. Despite all kinds of difficulties, affronts and emotional adventures, she...
release : 1942.11.12popularis : 0.327
Narcisse
To inherit from his late uncle, Narcisse Pigeon is obliged to pass his pilot's license.
release : 1940.02.10popularis : 0.511
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 : 1.543
Men Without Fear
1895. Discovery of X-rays. Researchers and scholars are true martyrs, because they do not know how to protect themselves against radiation...
release : 1942.10.07popularis : 2.232
The Clairvoyant
Jean is thrown out of the house by his father, a remarried politician, out of jealousy for his friendship with his mother-in-law. He finds refuge at...
release : 1924.10.31popularis : 0.301
History of Singing
Gino Fabretti is a famous Italian tenor. During a tour in Nice, he begins a relationship with the wife of a renowned doctor. The doctor traps and...
release : 1947.02.19popularis : 1.816
The Kids Are Leading the Investigation
When Monsieur Crauqual, the supervisor, is found hanging, all wonder why this rather rich person decided to kill himself. And when a pupil is found...
release : 1947.06.25popularis : 0.673
Le Secret du Florida
Three friends vacationing on the French Riviera open a bar on a yacht and are mistaken by the police for drug traffickers.
release : 1947.03.06popularis : 1.102
Woman of Evil
Laurent meets Louvaine and brings her back to his island.
release : 1947.09.23popularis : 0.5
Si ça peut vous faire plaisir
Gonfaron is barking at the auction of Cassis. He accepted with good heart to believe that he was the proud custodian of the jackpot of the National...
release : 1948.09.01popularis : 1.292
Fandango
In the Basque Country, two friends, José and François, live a cheerful life. The two sly foxes use their wit to boost the business of...
release : 1948.12.03popularis : 1.178
Madame and Her Redskins
After the exodus, a woman with a tidy life decides to take in the abandoned children; she meets a singer who knows how to make her see life with more...
release : 1948.09.02popularis : 0.633
The Red Signal
A physician whose wife was killed when two trains collided has remained a tormented soul,In his mind,he can still hear his wife whisper "Stop the...
release : 1949.02.04popularis : 0.299
56, rue Pigalle
Lucien Bonnet, Jean Vigneron's manservant, blackmails his boss, who is having an affair with Inès de Montalban, married to Ricardo. Vigneron...
release : 1949.03.18popularis : 1.288
We Request an Assassin
A son of a family in debt decides to put an end to his life and calls on a professional killer to do so, who promises to kill him within forty-eight...
release : 1949.10.20popularis : 1.751
Guilty?
Charles Walter, a forestry contractor, has helped Noël Portal to start a new life. When Victor, the new foreman and Charles'wife's lover, is...
release : 1951.06.29popularis : 0.333
The Drop Of Blood
The film, shot in Nice, was started by Jean Epstein, and the editing finished by Maurice Mariaud, who had just shot The Adventurer
release : 1924.09.26popularis : 1.16
Loyalty
Kaatje, the daughter of the miller Schoonejans, and Jef, a little shepherd, who live near Delft, are happy together. In a floral parade, the carriage...
release : 1914.04.23popularis : 0.704
Wooden Crosses
The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying,...
release : 1932.03.17popularis : 1.957
The Last Turning
Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and...
release : 1939.05.17popularis : 3.476
Lady Killer
Lucien Bourrache, a good looking non-commissioned officer at the Spahis, is used to charm many women. He met Madeleine Courtois at Cannes. She is...
release : 1937.09.15popularis : 2.531
Pas de grisbi pour Ricardo
Ricardo will try his luck in the capital after winning an amateur singing contest. He has many adventures. Kidnapped by gangsters, he is only freed...
release : 1957.06.26popularis : 0.43
Accused, Stand Up!
Paris, 30's declared professional rivalry between two stars of the musical, Yvonne and Gaby leads to dire consequences. Yvonne's body is found in the...
release : 1930.09.12popularis : 0.835
Sacred Fire
A young woman from the countryside travels to Paris to become an actress. Despite all kinds of difficulties, affronts and emotional adventures, she...
release : 1942.11.12popularis : 0.327
Bagarres
A proud femme fatale who works at a mountainous farm property manages, after being prodded by her lover, to become the heiress, but she plays the...
release : 1948.11.05popularis : 1.02
Blind Venus
Vénus aveugle (Blind Venus) is a 1941 French film melodrama, directed by Abel Gance, and one of the first films to be undertaken in France...
release : 1941.09.14popularis : 0.567
Dawn Devils
A lieutenant, at the head of a commando ready to land in France, finds among his men a maquisard who had tried to kill him in the past.
release : 1946.11.20popularis : 0.723
Fantômas
A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits crimes while eluding Inspector Juve's tireless...
release : 1913.05.09popularis : 3.559
Easy Come Easy Go
Édouard and Félix, two inseparable friends, live off the times and do odd jobs, sharing a tiny apartment in Montmartre with Laurence,...
release : 1960.05.26popularis : 0.65
Yvette
Paris 1883. Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are...
release : 1927.12.30popularis : 1.421
Gaëtan ou le commis audacieux
"Be bold, young man, be bold!" repeats Judge Barbachon to his clerk Belhomme. Putting the precepts of his boss into practice, Belhomme first tries to...
release : 1922.02.17popularis : 0.246
Panic
Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he...
release : 1947.01.15popularis : 4.798
Mysteries of Paris
Paris, 1830. Fleur de Marie is rescued from poverty by the mysterious Rodolphe, who is in fact the Grand Duke of Gérolstein, who has gone...
release : 1943.09.08popularis : 1.081
The Case of Dr. Laurent
Le Cas Du Dr. Laurent (The Case of Dr. Laurent) stars Jean Gabin as a Paris-based doctor who tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth....
release : 1957.04.03popularis : 4.037