Jacques Grétillat

Jacques Grétillat

Movies for Jacques Grétillat...

Jenny Lamour
Title: Jenny Lamour
Character: Auguste
Released: October 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical police inspector.
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Paméla
Title: Paméla
Character: Le Villeheurnois
Released: May 2, 1945
Type: Movie
During the Directory, a handful of royalists tried to get the Dauphin Louis XVII to escape from the Temple.
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Coup de tête
Title: Coup de tête
Character: The footman (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1944
Type: Movie
A sporty and chivalrous young man creates, with some comrades, a society whose goal is to protect honest people against rogues. He finds himself thrown into unforeseen adventures, at the end of which he will discover love.
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The Roquevillards
Title: The Roquevillards
Character: Porterieux
Released: July 28, 1943
Type: Movie
France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that prides itself on its impeccable morals. Francois's world rapidly begins to fall apart when his son Maurice elopes to Italy with Edith Frasne, the wife of an esteemed notary.
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Coup de feu dans la nuit
Title: Coup de feu dans la nuit
Character: Monsieur du Coudrais
Released: March 3, 1943
Type: Movie
A woman is accused of the murder of her husband, who was jealous and brutal. Her lawyer manages to get her acquitted and they get married in the end.
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Strangers in the House
Title: Strangers in the House
Character: Le président du tribunal des assises
Released: May 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the brilliant lawyer has sunk into alcoholism and his relationship with his daughter is virtually non-existent. However, one day the corpse of a stranger is discovered in the residence of Loursat. Nicole, who frequents a gang of young people who escape boredom by stealing cars and other objects, is immediately suspected.
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Face au destin
Title: Face au destin
Character: The business manager
Released: September 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Two modest young employees, Jean and Madeleine, dream of leading the way, but the experience turns out badly. Madeleine marries a German aristocrat who turns out to be a spy, and finds Jean who had joined the Legion.
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Les 3 tambours
Title: Les 3 tambours
Released: December 22, 1939
Type: Movie
12-year old Armand-Pierre embraces the French Revolution and leaves his mother to enlist in the army.
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Cordial Agreement
Title: Cordial Agreement
Character: Le député Roussel
Released: April 20, 1939
Type: Movie
The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.
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The Chess Player
Title: The Chess Player
Character: Potemkine
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.
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Café de Paris
Title: Café de Paris
Released: September 28, 1938
Type: Movie
This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed journalist and extortionist who is killed at his table in the cafe. Though the prime suspects are gathered together( including his wife and her lover, the gun-runner, the creditor, and a playboy) and all of them have motives, none of them did it. So whodunit?
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Gosse de riche
Title: Gosse de riche
Character: Gonfaron
Released: June 7, 1938
Type: Movie
The daughter of an industrialist takes an interest in the workers and tries to improve their lot. She avoids a strike, and falls in love with an engineer.
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Si tu reviens
Title: Si tu reviens
Character: Monsieur Itier
Released: February 23, 1938
Type: Movie
Claire and Jean are lovers, but Claire's father opposes this union, because Jean is the son of a woman he once knew. Jean becomes a great singer, but doesn't forget Claire.
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Gribouille
Title: Gribouille
Character: L'avocat de la défense
Released: September 10, 1937
Type: Movie
Camille Morestan serves as a jury member at a court in Paris. The attractive Natalie Roguin is accused of murder. Morestan doesn't want to believe she really killed her lover. He succeeds in convincing the other jury members she was innocent. After her acquittal he takes her into his house. While he tries to keep her identity a secret for his family her presence leads to a number of unfortunate incidents.
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L'empreinte rouge
Title: L'empreinte rouge
Character: Suriano
Released: March 19, 1937
Type: Movie
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À minuit, le 7
Title: À minuit, le 7
Character: Investigating judge
Released: January 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A young journalist hungry for scoop lets himself be suspected of a crime to write a report.
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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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Adémaï au Moyen Âge
Title: Adémaï au Moyen Âge
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Joan Of Arc has just released Orléans (1429)but the English are still here to stay . The fortress of Châteauneuf is hold by Lord Pickwickdam
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La flambée
Title: La flambée
Released: November 16, 1934
Type: Movie
A commander who had devised helpful defenses for his country kills a spy who'd tried to entrap him.The officer's young wife who had been thinking of leaving him for a minister, rallies to his side.
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The Bread Peddler
Title: The Bread Peddler
Character: Garaud
Released: March 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A brave woman is sentenced to prison on false testimony. She escapes twenty years later and takes refuge in Paris where she carries bread while looking for her children Georges and Lucie who will find her and exonerate her.
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La robe rouge
Title: La robe rouge
Released: November 24, 1933
Type: Movie
The error of an examining magistrate forever tears apart a happy and united family.
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Danton
Title: Danton
Released: October 14, 1932
Type: Movie
Reconstruction of Danton's political career, from the moment he had just been admitted as a lawyer and became friends with Camille Desmoulins and Fabre d'Eglantine. Until his death sentence on the charges of Robespierre.
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Not on the mouth
Title: Not on the mouth
Character: le mari de Gilberte
Released: October 6, 1931
Type: Movie
A wife uses the pretext, that her American husband refuses to kiss her on the lips, to divorce him. Later after she is remarried he tries in vain to win her back.
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David Golder
Title: David Golder
Character: Marcus, Golders früherer Sozius
Released: March 6, 1931
Type: Movie
David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris, only to have his selfish and demanding wife squander his fortune.
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Nero
Title: Nero
Character: Nero
Released: May 22, 1922
Type: Movie
Biography portraying the life of the Roman Emperor Nero.
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Le Père Goriot
Title: Le Père Goriot
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
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Le Coupable
Title: Le Coupable
Character: Prosper Aubry
Released: October 5, 1917
Type: Movie
At trial the prosecuting attorney makes a startling confession: the defendant is his son whose pitiful fate led him to murder. The attorney left the young man's pregnant mother, and the unwed poor thing had to fight against a hostile world.
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The Corsican Brothers
Title: The Corsican Brothers
Released: January 26, 1917
Type: Movie
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Géo, le mystérieux
Title: Géo, le mystérieux
Character: Georges "Géo" Morland
Released: January 1, 1917
Type: Movie
An industrialist badly in need of money hopes to marry his daughter off to a rich suitor, but she only has eyes for her penniless childhood sweetheart.
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Les soeurs ennemies
Title: Les soeurs ennemies
Released: January 1, 1915
Type: Movie
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A Tragic Love of Mona Lisa
Title: A Tragic Love of Mona Lisa
Released: May 17, 1912
Type: Movie
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The End of Robespierre
Title: The End of Robespierre
Character: Jean-Lambert Tallien
Released: April 5, 1912
Type: Movie
This film is not exceedingly well acted, but has the additional charm of being taken from the actual history of the man whose personality dominated the Committee of Safety in the early days of the French Revolution. It's tragic but enthralling, and full of the atmosphere of those more than troublous times of the French Revolution, when blood was shed like water and men seemed turned to beasts.
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L'Assommoir
Title: L'Assommoir
Character: Lantier
Released: December 21, 1908
Type: Movie
Everyman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful Virginie. Based on Zola's novel, Capellani's film is about the free fall of a group of working-class French folk into degradation and tragedy due to carelessness, jealousy, and alcohol abuse. At the time of its release, L'Assommoir was hugely successful.