Louis Jouvet Movies

Quai des Orfèvres

77/100

Jenny Lamour wants to succeed in music hall. Her husband and accompanist is Maurice Martineau, a nice but jealous man. When he knew Jenny is making eyes at Brignon, an old businessman, in ... See full summary »

The Lower Depths

78/100

A charismatic thief makes friends with a bankrupt baron who comes to live in the thief's slum. Meanwhile the thief seeks the love of a young woman, who is held emotionally captive by her slumlord family.

Hotel du Nord

78/100

A young couple, Renee and Pierre, take one night a room at the Hotel du Nord, in Paris, near the canal Saint-Martin. They want to die together, but after having shooted at Renee, Pierre ... See full summary »

Bizarre, Bizarre

76/100

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.

Carnival in Flanders

76/100

Tells the story of the Spanish invasion of Flanders

La Marseillaise

72/100

A news-reel like movie about early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of individual people, citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course the king Louis XVI, ... See full summary »

Dr. Knock läßt bitten

74/100

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... See full summary »

Dance Program

75/100

Christine, newly widowed and consumed by the memory of a ball she attended age 16, decides to track down the men she danced with that night and discover their fates.

La fin du jour

80/100

Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures...

In Teufels Krallen

69/100

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... See full summary »

Volpone

74/100

Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is dying...

The Phantom Wagon

71/100

A nun suffering from TB is desperately trying to save an alcoholic tramp and to bring him back to his wife and kids.He has a friend who died last year and became the coachman of the "Ghost Wagon" .

Between Eleven and Midnight

70/100

A police detective with a striking resemblance for a murdered criminal impersonates the deceased to identify his murderer.

Un revenant

74/100

A ballet producer returns to his native town and schemes to avenge himself on the family who tried to murder him 20 years before.

Miquette

62/100

The Alibi

69/100

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 ... See full summary »

Rückkehr ins Leben

71/100

Five prisoners ,a woman and four men,return to France after WW2.We follow their rocky road to life.It's a movie which consists of five different stories.

Monelle

73/100

Immortal France

64/100

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 Franco-Prussian War of 1871 to the invasion by the Germans in World War II.

The Shanghai Drama

65/100

A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera...

The Cheat

68/100

The Curtain Rises

71/100

Topaze

74/100

Lady Paname

64/100

Une histoire d'amour

68/100

Caherine, 18, loved Jean, a young accountant, who loved her in return. And yet, one morning, two policemen...