Max Maxudian

Max Maxudian

Movies for Max Maxudian...

Death Threat
Title: Death Threat
Character: Sanger
Released: February 22, 1950
Type: Movie
André Garnier, a young pianist, who was sent to deportation following a denunciation, absolutely wants to find his informer. He falls in love with Hélène, the mistress of a wealthy industrialist, Bernier, in whom he soon discovers the man who once sold him to the Gestapo. Bernier is soon found murdered. André deflects suspicion on Jacques, the victim's secretary. Hélène and André's affair ends up being discovered by the police, who seem to see in it the motive for the crime. André surrenders to justice.
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The Ferret
Title: The Ferret
Character: Prefect
Released: February 10, 1950
Type: Movie
A mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping them off about murders that are to be committed around Paris. Among those caught up in the police manhunt is a fraudulent clairvoyant.
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Night Round
Title: Night Round
Character: Colonel
Released: September 9, 1949
Type: Movie
During Christmas night, two police officers make their nocturnal rounds, in their round they meet tramps, brawlers in a café, a naked man, a concierge, a sexton, revelers in a nightclub, and end by signing in their report to the police station.
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Sextette
Title: Sextette
Character: Dupuis
Released: September 17, 1948
Type: Movie
A man remembers all the incredible stories that took place in his hotel.
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Devil in the Flesh
Title: Devil in the Flesh
Character: Schoolmaster
Released: September 22, 1947
Type: Movie
In France during World War I, Marthe waits for her husband, Jacques, while he fights on the front lines. Marthe then begins a tempestuous affair with 17-year-old François, with whom she had a dalliance before marrying Jacques. Jealous François struggles with the fact that Marthe is married, while she tries to prove her devotion to her young, hotheaded lover. Things become even more complex when Marthe becomes pregnant with Jacques' baby.
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Three Waltzes
Title: Three Waltzes
Released: December 14, 1938
Type: Movie
"Les Trois Valses" traces the love story of two people over three eras. In the first waltz (music based on Johann Strauss I), Yvonne is a sensitive Parisian ballet dancer, whose romance with a dashing officer is brought to an abrupt end by his family. She goes off to Vienna to become a big star. In the second waltz, her daughter, an even bigger star, but now of Paris music halls, has a brief flirtation with the rakish man-about-town who is the son of suitor number one. She throws him over pretty quickly for a chance to shine at a Gala performance. Finally, in the third waltz, the two get together, when she is a movie star, and he is posing as an insurance salesman.
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The Midnight Airplane
Title: The Midnight Airplane
Released: August 4, 1938
Type: Movie
During a stopover, Morel, an airline pilot and Colette spin the perfect love. She hides from him that she is compromised in the actions of a band of criminals. She manages to escape her dangerous friends while a shootout wipes them all out.
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Escadrille of Chance
Title: Escadrille of Chance
Character: The boss
Released: June 29, 1938
Type: Movie
Edwige, a rich American divorcee, goes to Morocco to look up an amazing pilot she once knew. The young woman's secretary, also an aviator, won't fly a plane because he was in a terrible accident. As he is in love with Edwige, the secretary does everything in his power to thwart her romance with the other pilot. He finally supplants his rival and wins the heart of his boss.
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Street Without Joy
Title: Street Without Joy
Character: (uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1938
Type: Movie
Jeanne supports supports his family on his modest salary. Her boss is arrested for fraud. Jeanne is forced, out of poverty, in the street.
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Un soir à Marseille
Title: Un soir à Marseille
Released: March 30, 1938
Type: Movie
The wife of a Marseille industrialist is murdered. An inspector and a young journalist investigate together, and suspect the husband, then the lover, before finding the real culprit.
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French White Cargo
Title: French White Cargo
Character: Le commandant
Released: February 3, 1937
Type: Movie
Two journalists from different papers are looking for the same story. They want to know, who a group of gangsters getting young women from Europe to South America, where they are forced to work in brothels. But the gangsters have their own battels against each over, so the journalists can escape the danger, in which they've brought themselves.
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Passé à vendre
Title: Passé à vendre
Character: The banker
Released: September 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Maryse blackmails her former lovers by threatening to mention their names in her memoirs. But a real blackmailer appears and cashes the checks for him.
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The Two Girls
Title: The Two Girls
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Two girls, Ginette and Gaby, have just run away, outraged by the mistreatment of their governess. After many adventures, they will find their father, who has become a thug, and their mother who had disappeared in a shipwreck.
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Dark Eyes
Title: Dark Eyes
Released: September 5, 1935
Type: Movie
In 1913, in Russia, a widower hides from his daughter that he is a butler in a meeting restaurant. She meets a banker who is trying to seduce her and takes her to this restaurant. The father, knowing the decadent life of this client, immediately sends his daughter home. The pure love that her piano teacher devotes to her will allow the young girl to console herself for her disappointments...
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Bourrasque
Title: Bourrasque
Released: June 28, 1935
Type: Movie
A young settler from Algeria is in love with the boss's niece. Of course, the father of the young man is formally opposed to the marriage. But helped by his mother and by the kingpin himself, the boy achieves his goals.
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Le Miroir aux alouettes
Title: Le Miroir aux alouettes
Character: The Persian (as Maxudian)
Released: April 5, 1935
Type: Movie
From Constantinople to Marseilles, aboard a cargo ship, an intrigue full of adventures brings together a courageous young girl and a young risk-taker who succeeds in thwarting a series of long-planned crimes.
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Le Clown Bux
Title: Le Clown Bux
Released: March 17, 1935
Type: Movie
Pierre Buxeuil is better known as the popular clown Bux. One day, he falls in love with Nicole, a romantic but whimsical young lady. He soon elopes her and the beautiful Nicole follows him, persuaded that she will love circus life. Unfortunately for Bux she does not and she leaves him as a result. After a few other disappointments due to false accusations, Bux finally marries a kind-hearted circus acrobat and pursues a successful career under the big top.
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Behold the Man
Title: Behold the Man
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The final days of Jesus from the time he enters the city of Jerusalem. Viewed as a threat, it is decided that he must be captured, tried, and executed as a criminal, a plan aided and abetted by disciple Judas Iscariot.
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Trois balles dans la peau
Title: Trois balles dans la peau
Released: June 22, 1934
Type: Movie
Open and shut case: Maxime Dartois, the painter, is found dead in his penthouse with three bullets in his body, but the pistol that killed him is still being held by the (fainted) young lady by his side. A detective will find a few odd notes, and the plot thickens when plenty of people are interviewed, and more than one could have the will, and the opportunity, to be the killer, and it is not clear what the relationship of the girl was with the deceased.
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L'amour qu'il faut aux femmes
Title: L'amour qu'il faut aux femmes
Released: March 2, 1934
Type: Movie
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Le simoun
Title: Le simoun
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
Abandoned by his wife for twenty years, a colonist brings his daughter whom he has never seen and falls in love with her.
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La Voix sans visage
Title: La Voix sans visage
Character: President
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
The singer Saltore is accused of the murder of his wife's lover, and is sentenced to ten years' hard labour. His daughter proves his innocence when she discovers the culprit to be his wife, who wanted to end an embarrassing love affair.
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Rocambole
Title: Rocambole
Released: January 6, 1933
Type: Movie
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Mists of Paris
Title: Mists of Paris
Released: October 28, 1932
Type: Movie
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Venetian Nights
Title: Venetian Nights
Character: Le baron étranger
Released: February 27, 1931
Type: Movie
After winning a cash prize in a contest a young woman decides to visit Venice. She hires a secretary, a wealthy young man in disguise, to accompany her on the holiday. Once in Italy she attracts several suitors but her real love is her secretary. When she discovers he has deceived her she returns to Berlin on the express and he pursues her to try and declare his love. Loosely based on the 1883 operetta Eine Nacht in Venedig (A Night in Venice) by Johann Strauss II, it was a French-language version of the 1931 German film The Love Express.
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The Man Who Killed
Title: The Man Who Killed
Released: January 16, 1931
Type: Movie
The new French military attaché at the Constantinople embassy helps a young woman being blackmailed by her own husband.
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The house of La Fleche
Title: The house of La Fleche
Released: December 12, 1930
Type: Movie
After a rich English lady is killed in a Dijon house, the only person there who doesn't have a solid alibi is about to be arrested.Will a detective from Paris be able to help?
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The Two Worlds
Title: The Two Worlds
Released: September 12, 1930
Type: Movie
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The defender
Title: The defender
Released: June 6, 1930
Type: Movie
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Vénus
Title: Vénus
Character: Le prince Mario Zarkis
Released: September 29, 1929
Type: Movie
A Princess learns that the captain of a ship she owns has struck a passenger, indirectly causing the passenger's death. The Captain is immediately sacked without realising that his action was in defence of her honour. Later, in Cyprus, the Princess meets a handsome man and they're mutually attracted. Only when he expresses contempt for the name of Princess Beatrice Doriani for costing him his job does she realise that this is the same Captain whom she had sacked.
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Un soir au cocktail's bar
Title: Un soir au cocktail's bar
Released: May 10, 1929
Type: Movie
From 6 P.M. to 8 P.M., in a documentary fashion, the film shows different character types sitting, meeting, and working at a cocktail's bar.
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L'Eau du Nil
Title: L'Eau du Nil
Character: Wirsocq
Released: October 18, 1928
Type: Movie
Wirsoq, who belongs to the type of cosmopolitan financier, gets into his power a young French aristocrat, Arthur de Sorgepois, and insists that the boy's sister should marry him. The girl is in love with a young artist, Pierre Levannier, who secretly returns her affection, but does not declare himself at this critical moment because he is not rich enough to support a wife.
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Mon Paris
Title: Mon Paris
Character: Nicolas Desprès
Released: June 1, 1928
Type: Movie
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Feu!
Title: Feu!
Released: May 29, 1927
Type: Movie
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Napoléon
Title: Napoléon
Character: Paul François Jean Nicolas, Viscount of Barras
Released: April 7, 1927
Type: Movie
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
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Les dévoyés
Title: Les dévoyés
Released: September 19, 1926
Type: Movie
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The Awakening
Title: The Awakening
Released: November 6, 1925
Type: Movie
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La Clé de voûte
Title: La Clé de voûte
Released: September 11, 1925
Type: Movie
Rose is a young factory worker, seduced and abandoned by her lover. She feels compelled to abandon her baby, who will grow up in a rich family, with problems of its own. Rose lives through plenty of adventures, always repenting for leaving her child, until one day.
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La terre promise
Title: La terre promise
Character: Moise Sigoulim
Released: January 23, 1925
Type: Movie
In a small east-european ghetto, the Jewish family is celebrating Easter. The fraternal dissonance between the Sigoulim brothers pretty accurately mirrors the strife between the two powers, one surrounding Samuel, a devoted rabbi, and the other around Moïse, a talented money lender. Moïse becomes the king of petrol and ships to London with his niece Lia. Conflict continues and leads to the violent strike by oilworkers...
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I Have Killed
Title: I Have Killed
Released: October 25, 1924
Type: Movie
Hideo, an antiques dealer in Tokyo, is accused of killing his best friend. In a dramatic court-room hearing, the truth will be revealed.
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La fontaine des amours
Title: La fontaine des amours
Released: August 29, 1924
Type: Movie
A French film star visits Coimbra and it's old university, and breaks a poor local girl's heart, as her fiancee turns his attentions to the foreign girl. In a play within the story, one is told the sad love story of Don Pedro, king of Portugal, and Inês de Castro.
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The Arab
Title: The Arab
Character: The Governor
Released: July 13, 1924
Type: Movie
Jamil, a soldier in the Bedouin defense forces during a war between Syria and Turkey, deserts his regiment but later returns to save children of a missionary’s orphanage who are at risk of being enslaved or killed by the Turks.
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Os Olhos da Alma
Title: Os Olhos da Alma
Released: December 11, 1923
Type: Movie
In a small fishermen's village love affairs are in turmoil, amidst political meetings and revolutionary activities. Nature adds drama to the human passions with its wind- and sea-storms.
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Heritage
Title: Heritage
Character: Domingo (as Maxudian)
Released: October 19, 1923
Type: Movie
There is a rivalry between the top part and the lower part of the village of Murcie because of water. Pancho, Maria del Carmen's fiancé, hurts Xavier, son of the rich Domingo, so he has to leave the country. Maria proposes to take care of Xavier in exchange for Pancho's freedom. Unfortunately, Xavier falls in love with her and Domingo forces her to marry his son. Pancho reappears, ready to defy Xavier, but the two overhear a conversation and learn that Xavier's days are numbered. So he asks Pancho to elope with Maria.
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La Roue
Title: La Roue
Character: Le minéralogiste Kalatikascopoulos
Released: February 17, 1923
Type: Movie
Sisif, a railwayman, saves a young girl named Norma orphaned by a train crash and raises her as his own daughter alongside his son, Elie. As she becomes an adult, Sisif grapples with whether to tell Norma the truth about her parentage.
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L'Éternel féminin
Title: L'Éternel féminin
Released: September 15, 1921
Type: Movie
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Infatuation
Title: Infatuation
Character: Henri Le Baron
Released: December 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Flora Nys, a poor flower girl of Paris faces hard times. Her rent overdue, Le Baron, the landlord, oppresses her and puts before her a shady proposition. Indignantly she orders him out of her room. When she takes up her flowers, preparatory to going forth to sell them, she discovers that Le Baron has trampled on them. Tempted by her poverty she steals a fur in a department store.
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Adrienne Lecouvreur
Title: Adrienne Lecouvreur
Character: Maurice de Saxe
Released: January 1, 1913
Type: Movie
A considered lost film from 1913
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Queen Elizabeth
Title: Queen Elizabeth
Character: Howard, Earl of Nottingham (as Maxudian)
Released: August 16, 1912
Type: Movie
Episodes from the life of Elizabeth I, Queen of England (1533-1603), focusing on her ill-fated love affair with Robert Devereux, Earl of Essex.