Alice Tissot

Alice Tissot

Born: January 2, 1890
Died: May 5, 1971
in Paris, France

Movies for Alice Tissot...

Césarin joue les 'étroits' mousquetaires
Title: Césarin joue les 'étroits' mousquetaires
Released: November 17, 1962
Type: Movie
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The Longest Day
Title: The Longest Day
Character: Housekeeper (uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1962
Type: Movie
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
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Port of Point-du-Jour
Title: Port of Point-du-Jour
Character: The concierge
Released: April 13, 1960
Type: Movie
Emile is a steelworker in a car factory ;a confirmed bachelor going on fifty, he leads a peaceful life .One night, he is woken up by a burst of machine gun fire. The cafe in the corner of the street has been burglarized.A distraught young girl rushes into his apartment building and hides in his room .When the police make a search, he makes her out to be his lover for the night.Madeleine tells her about her sad past : she has severed all links with her parents ,she's an unwed mother and in the underworld's clutches. Emile sends his protegee to old mommy Dupont's place ,in the suburbs of Paris.
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En bordée
Title: En bordée
Released: September 10, 1958
Type: Movie
The two merrymakers Cartahu and Bailladrisse sail together on a cargo ship. When customs officers come aboard to conduct a search, Cartahu is unaware of a drug dealer's accomplice, who hides the box of narcotics in Cartahu's bag, which has already been visited. Unsuspecting, the two comrades go ashore, taking the precious box with them. At the hotel, by mistake, their luggage is given to another person. To recover the merchandise, the traffickers pursue the two friends, who nevertheless manage to have the whole gang arrested; and, after being tempted by pretty women to live with them, prefer to set sail for new adventures.
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Trois marins en bordée
Title: Trois marins en bordée
Character: The director of the boarding school
Released: December 10, 1957
Type: Movie
The marchioness of Botarin secretly exchanges passionate letters with Jean, a young sailor. What Jean doesn't know is that the lady of his heart is twice as old as he thinks, for the photo she has sent her was one of her young niece Jacqueline, instead of her. Things get complicated when Jean turns up at the Botarin manor, escorted by two other sailors. The young man immediately falls under the spell of Jacqueline, which drives the marchioness crazy. The latter resorts to various subterfuges to separate the lovebirds, but to no avail. She will end up marrying a gendarme who has been her suitor for years while Jean weds his beloved Jacqueline.
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The Gates of Paris
Title: The Gates of Paris
Character: the concierge
Released: September 27, 1957
Type: Movie
Juju, a drunken oaf who feels the need of being important to someone---anyone---and his friend The Artist are forced at gunpoint to house a fugitive, Pierre Barbier, in Juju's broken-down home. The urge for being needed is such in Juju that he gives up drinking and takes care of Pierre. But one day Juju finds out that Pierre has been making love to his girl Maria...
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La joyeuse prison
Title: La joyeuse prison
Character: Madame de St-Leu
Released: June 29, 1956
Type: Movie
Benoit, the head guard of Clouville Prison, prefers to be liked than feared. This basic principle transforms the jail-house into a joyful prison, where all the inmates live amicably together. Among them, various colorful characters : a farmer, a poacher, a distiller, a forger, two pickpockets, a safe-cracker, a gangster and... a good-looking guy who pleases Rosette, Benoit's daughter, well. But too much leniency takes its toll : after Vauclin, the gangster, manages to escape and a complaint is filed against "the deplorable disorder reigning in the joyful prison", Benoit is given early retirement. He will know how to take advantage of his new status live a joyful life with his wife, his daughter and André, his son in law, in fact the nice-looking young prisoner who, in the meantime, has been cleared of all charges.
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If Paris Were Told to Us
Title: If Paris Were Told to Us
Character: Madame Denis
Released: January 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.
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We're Moving the Colonel
Title: We're Moving the Colonel
Character: Elodie Grivier
Released: December 9, 1955
Type: Movie
The dynamic Flora has decided to burglarize Colonel de la Ribodiere's apartment in the company of Romeo and Clotaire. The two men discover the old soldier lifeless on his bed. One after the other, the colonel's goddaughter Annette, the gendarmes and their brigadier, the Grivier cousins, who are sniffing out the inheritance, and the three thieves, who are hoping to get their way, pass by each other and avoid each other in the house. La Ribodière isn't dead, but he listens to what's being said, forms an opinion about everyone, ousts the Griviers, rewards Annette with a betrothal to Clotaire, and gives Flora and Roméo absolution.
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Fête de quartier
Title: Fête de quartier
Released: January 7, 1955
Type: Movie
Pouske runs the "Le Bienvenu" café with his wife Antoinette and daughter Jeanne. On the market square, the fairgrounds are setting up their rides and the neighborhood is getting ready to party. But Jeanne is about to fall in love with a sweetheart who has come from who knows where to cause trouble.
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The Egyptian
Title: The Egyptian
Character: Old Woman Near the House of Death
Released: August 25, 1954
Type: Movie
In eighteenth-dynasty Egypt, Sinuhe, a poor orphan, becomes a brilliant physician and with his friend Horemheb is appointed to the service of the new Pharoah. Sinuhe's personal triumphs and tragedies are played against the larger canvas of the turbulent events of the 18th dynasty. As Sinuhe is drawn into court intrigues he learns the answers to the questions he has sought since his birth.
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Le collège en folie
Title: Le collège en folie
Released: June 16, 1954
Type: Movie
Charming, charming but unstable, Rudy is married to Lydia. He dreams of becoming a famous painter. His father-in-law offers him a contract: if he stays in the same job for at least two months, he can devote himself to painting. Under the name of his friend Ravot, Rudy is hired to teach gymnastics at a girls' college. Things soon get complicated. The jealous Lydia, who plays student, keeps an eye on her husband. The headmistress glares at him, and the arrival of the real Mme Ravot doesn't help matters. The contract is almost not honored, but as in the best comedies, everything works out.
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Naked in the Wind
Title: Naked in the Wind
Released: April 29, 1953
Type: Movie
Smalltown confectioner Lespinasse, hopeful of being reelected as chief councillor, is opposed by Darcepoil, the local druggist. Darcepoil arranges for the incumbent's defeat by having Pantaflon, a nightclub singer, lure him to the nudist camp on the Isle of Levant, where Lespinasse is photographed surrounded by half-naked women. At home, he is berated by his wife and thrown out of office; but he returns to Levant with the penitent Pantaflon and is welcomed by the nudists and voted camp president. His forgiving wife follows him and herself becomes a nudist.
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The Drunkard
Title: The Drunkard
Character: Madame Pitois aka 'La Pimbêche'
Released: February 27, 1953
Type: Movie
Unfairly accused of her husband's murder, a woman is imprisoned.
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The Fighting Drummer
Title: The Fighting Drummer
Character: Hortense Gambier, the aunt
Released: December 12, 1952
Type: Movie
The rivalry between Albert Gambier, head of the municipal brass band, and the jazz band, led by Jacques Hélian, provokes many comic adventures in this small provincial town. Everything will end in songs, thanks to the love uniting Jimmy, the band's composer, and Nicole, Gambier's daughter.
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Les deux Monsieur de Madame
Title: Les deux Monsieur de Madame
Character: Aunt Irene
Released: December 27, 1951
Type: Movie
Adolphe is in serious financial difficulties and the extravagances of his wife do not help to fix things.
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Jamais deux sans trois
Title: Jamais deux sans trois
Character: Baroness Flouc de la Donzelle
Released: November 22, 1951
Type: Movie
Father Benoît would like one of his twins to take over his inn, at 3 plates. But his ancillary ambitions are not commensurate with his last 3. Bernard is also in love with Hélène, daughter of Colonel Flouc de La Donzelle. He dreams of becoming an actor and goes to Paris to find a job. Difficult beginnings since from the theater, he goes to the cabaret, then to the radio, without success. In the final scene, the 3 brothers meet, which gives rise to a series of gags during the wedding.
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A Night at a Honeymoon
Title: A Night at a Honeymoon
Released: February 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Gaston wants more than anything to marry the naive Simone. But where he is, there is Sidonie, a local singer romantically pursued by the police commissionaire.
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The Inn of Sin
Title: The Inn of Sin
Character: Madame Rallier
Released: December 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Two murders are committed in an inn for the possession of a bag containing a fortune.
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White as Snow
Title: White as Snow
Character: Mademoiselle de Brézoles
Released: April 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Naive and good-hearted Léon Ménard arrives in Paris, determined to find work in the capital. In a café, he meets Bob, a seedy guy, who helps him to get a job. On cloud nine, the ingenuous young man, does is unaware of how Bob manipulates him. Having become the night concierge of a hotel, the thankful Léon lets Bob and his accomplices get into the pace. Jewels are stolen as a result.When he is accused, Leon refuses to incriminate his "friend". Fortunately, Charlotte, Léon's fiancé, manages to find evidence of Bob's guilt and thanks to a premium paid by the diamond dealer the two lovebirds can buy a grocer's shop and tie the knot.
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Title: Cyrano de Bergerac
Character: La duègne
Released: August 29, 1946
Type: Movie
Cyrano, poet and cadet from Gascony, is afflicted with an excessively long nose which makes the beauties smile. He is no less in love with his cousin Roxane.
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Loves, Delights and Organs
Title: Loves, Delights and Organs
Character: Tante Ursule
Released: June 25, 1946
Type: Movie
The head of a school in a little French country town encourages the playful romances between his young students, as well as a love of jazz music.
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Goodbye Darling
Title: Goodbye Darling
Character: Mlle Chomelette
Released: April 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Chérie is a beautiful young woman who works as an escort girl. She meets a young and wealthy man who propose her to be his fictional wife so that his mother won't bother him anymore with this other girl, a rich one, she wants to see her son married to.
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Ils étaient cinq permissionnaires
Title: Ils étaient cinq permissionnaires
Character: Mademoiselle de Grand-Prix
Released: July 18, 1945
Type: Movie
Four French conscripts are going to go on leave with their godmother, in Provence, in the company of a comrade from the British army. But, in the absence of the godmother, the five leavers end up at a mineral water merchant.
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The White Blackbird
Title: The White Blackbird
Character: Madame Jules Leroy
Released: December 6, 1944
Type: Movie
Jules Leroy, an industrial shoe polish manufacturer, on his deathbed reveals to his son Achille that the family fortune originates from an inheritance stolen 23 years earlier. The one who should have inherited is one of the factory employees, Hyacinthe Camusset. The latter is also one of the lovers of Lucienne Leroy, the daughter of the family, who has a penchant for Jean Bernon, a boy who dedicates verses to her. Hyacinthe is unaware that he has been robbed but the Leroy family, who are not sure, try to woo him. The family, Hyacinthe, Jean and Lucienne meet at the castle.
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Angel of the Night
Title: Angel of the Night
Character: Mme Robinot
Released: January 19, 1944
Type: Movie
A young sculptor presides over the destinies of a student club where a miserable young girl ends up one evening. The treasurer of the association falls in love with the young girl who returns the favor. The war. The sculptor comes back blind. Out of gratitude, the young girl marries him and restores his confidence in his talent; out of discretion, the treasurer steps aside.
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Captain Fracasse
Title: Captain Fracasse
Character: Dame Léonarde
Released: June 19, 1943
Type: Movie
Out of love for an actress, Isabelle, the Baron de Sigognac joins a traveling troop en route to Paris. When an actor dies, he takes over his role: that of Captain Fracasse.
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Pension Jonas
Title: Pension Jonas
Released: March 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A tramp has taken up residence in the belly of a museum whale.
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Bécassine
Title: Bécassine
Character: la marquise de Grand-Air
Released: September 3, 1940
Type: Movie
A little Breton tries to save her boss's daughter an unhappy marriage.
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Sixième étage
Title: Sixième étage
Character: Landlady
Released: September 2, 1940
Type: Movie
The joys and miseries of the inhabitants of a building in a Parisian district.
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Last Desire
Title: Last Desire
Character: La padrona della pensione
Released: August 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Caesar, a senior French colonist returned home after many years of absence, knows a girl, Marcella, who is in full depression because she was abandoned by her lover. Caesar welcomes her into his home and surrounds her with paternal attention so that he can quickly forget the past. Slowly his feeling turns into a love that Marcella seems to reciprocate. However, when Cesare realizes that the girl feels only gratitude for him and is in love with a younger man, he loses control. Blinded by jealousy, he plans to kill Marcella's lover but, in the face of the girl's vulgarity and indifference, he realizes that he has been teased and turns his anger towards her.
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Mon oncle et mon curé
Title: Mon oncle et mon curé
Character: Mademoiselle de Lavalle, tante de Reine
Released: March 9, 1939
Type: Movie
Reine, a young woman, meets for the first time a cousin of hers, Paul. She falls in love with him but she soon leans that Paul is engaged to Blanche, the beautiful daughter of Reine's uncle.
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Feux de joie
Title: Feux de joie
Character: Madame Maud
Released: February 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Once their military service is over, the instrumentalists of a regimental orchestra find themselves in civilian life and decide to run a hotel themselves on the Côte d'Azur.
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Second Childhood
Title: Second Childhood
Character: Guesthouse Proprietress
Released: January 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Middle-aged Georges of the "old school" who offers shelter and comfort to Marcelle. Despite his own reservations, Georges falls in love with the much-younger girl, remaining faithful to her even after he realizes that she cares only for his money.
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Mon curé chez les riches
Title: Mon curé chez les riches
Character: Une dame patronesse
Released: December 21, 1938
Type: Movie
In the village of Sableuse, the local manor has been bought out by a nouveau riche, Emile Cousinet. When his wife Lisette, a former music hall actress, flees to Paris with young Pierre de Sableuse, Cousinet asks Father Pellegrin, the village vicar, to bring the lost sheep back home.
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The Tamer
Title: The Tamer
Character: Hortense
Released: December 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A very shy person inherits a traveling circus on the express condition that he manages to present a number on the ring.
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La marraine du régiment
Title: La marraine du régiment
Character: Agathe Cascarel
Released: October 28, 1938
Type: Movie
A wealthy old maid offers to be the godmother of a regiment in order to find a fiancé for her niece who must come into possession of a large inheritance the day she marries a private.
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Precious Fools
Title: Precious Fools
Character: L'écailleuse d'huitres
Released: January 7, 1938
Type: Movie
Being a tramp is not always a disadvantage. For example when there is a masquerade ball. Indeed wearing flea-ridden rags might just mean having donned a costume. This is what happens to two resourceful Brussels bums, La Cloche and Picolard, who manage to gain entry in a fancy-dress ball. Once there, La Cloche is mistaken by an oriental prince for a respected doctor. His mission will be to give care to a music-hall diva. Even more exciting, he is asked to vaccinate a whole troupe of showgirls. Trouble guaranteed.
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The Ladies in the Green Hats
Title: The Ladies in the Green Hats
Released: December 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Arlette, a young orphan girl, is taken in by four spinster cousins, the eldest of whom, Telcide, is very authoritarian. Arlette befriends Marie, and arranges her sentimental affairs, which were at an impasse.
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La course à la vertu
Title: La course à la vertu
Released: June 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Two twin sisters, nieces of the mayor of Buissons-les-Amours, are, one very wise, the other evaporated. The lover of the second falls in love with the first whom he will marry after being forgiven for his conduct.
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La rose effeuillée
Title: La rose effeuillée
Character: Madame Renault
Released: June 18, 1937
Type: Movie
A washerwoman works so long for the same bosses that she gets to like their young son very much. One day she is unjustly accused of robbery, and dismissed. She suffers in her loneliness, until the day she hears that the boy is terminally ill, and there's no medical hope for him. She comes back and sits by him, praying to Saint Thérèse de Lisieux - and the miracle happens.
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Ignace
Title: Ignace
Character: La colonelle Gabrielle Durosie
Released: April 30, 1937
Type: Movie
Ignace Boitaclou, although sympathetic, is not very intelligent. Upon his arrival at the barracks to perform his military service, he was appointed colonel and had to take care of the latter's terrible wife.
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François 1er
Title: François 1er
Character: Madame Cascaroni / Dame Alfredine
Released: February 17, 1937
Type: Movie
Honorin is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition is to once play the role of the cavalier in the opera "Francis I, or the Loves of the Beautiful Ferroniere". A hypnotist puts him to sleep and in his dreams he is transplanted to the days of the Renaissance. There, among other items, he is made a Duke by Henri VIII, fights a duel and survives a series of medieval tortures, while also bestowing some 20th century blessings on the court of Francis I.
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My Aunts and I
Title: My Aunts and I
Character: Tante Lucie
Released: February 5, 1937
Type: Movie
Three "spinsters" focus their attention very narrowly on their nephew, in his first phase of adulthood. Éloi, handicapped by his shyness, behaves a bit awkwardly. He falls under the unfortunate influence of a couple of haddocks. The love of a pretty blonde woman will save him from this embarrassment.
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Les maris de ma femme
Title: Les maris de ma femme
Released: January 15, 1937
Type: Movie
A poor boy, having consented to play the role of the victim in a fake car accident story, is also invited to marry in the place of his crush who wishes to keep his freedom.
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Œil de lynx, détective
Title: Œil de lynx, détective
Character: Mrs. Dunoyau
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
Marc Lanterne and Monsieur Smith investigate the home of a castellan who is the victim of jealousy, justified by the way, of his wife. Monsieur Dunoyau wants to know the author of the anonymous letters he receives. After a whole series of extraordinary adventures, the truth comes out and Dunoyau is reconciled with his wife.
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La madone de l'atlantique
Title: La madone de l'atlantique
Released: July 29, 1936
Type: Movie
A divorcee, who has many flirtations, decides to marry one of them.
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Trois jours de perm'
Title: Trois jours de perm'
Released: June 26, 1936
Type: Movie
On one side, a crooked banker, his nephew and his orderly; on the other, the honest friend of the banker and his daughter. Substitution of male and female characters that end with two marriages.
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You Can't Fool Antoinette
Title: You Can't Fool Antoinette
Released: May 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Hubert has married a little provincial girl and, to disgust her with Parisian life, he takes her out every evening.
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The Call
Title: The Call
Character: La femme du notaire
Released: May 1, 1936
Type: Movie
The story of Charles de Foucauld, a cavalry officer, who became an explorer, and then became a Catholic priest and hermit in the Sahara
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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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La Petite Sauvage
Title: La Petite Sauvage
Released: January 3, 1936
Type: Movie
The young Paulette is placed by her tutor in a boarding school in Lausanne. It is at the neighboring dance hall, by running away for a short time, that she will find love.
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Vogue, mon coeur
Title: Vogue, mon coeur
Released: November 29, 1935
Type: Movie
Ginette is always squabbling with her mother and she cannot take it any more. One day, she asks Jim Ashbury to intervene and this is how the son of a wealthy lord gets involved in the life of a pretty Jane Doe. Charmed by Ginette, Jim invites her to a cruise on the Mediterranean. It does not take long before Cupid sends his arrows at the two young people but things are not so simple for all that. Jim indeed fears Ginette might want to marry him for money, which is totally wrong. Fortunately, Lord Ashbury manages to persuade his stubborn son of his error.
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Le train d'amour
Title: Le train d'amour
Released: October 23, 1935
Type: Movie
A doctor is married to an overly jealous wife who wants a divorce. He advises one of his very shy patients to take a mistress when he feels attracted to the latter's fiancée. The "sick", meanwhile, feels weaknesses for the wife.
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Juanita
Title: Juanita
Character: La reine
Released: September 27, 1935
Type: Movie
Juanita is a 1935 French musical comedy film directed by Pierre Caron and starring Mireille Perrey, Alfred Rode and André Berley.
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The Pont-Biquet Family
Title: The Pont-Biquet Family
Released: September 20, 1935
Type: Movie
The family Pont-Biquet is composed as follows: father, the judge, afflicted by deafness; authoritarian and irascible mother; funny son-in-law; an ingenious son who has a mistress.
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Et moi, j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait de l'oeil
Title: Et moi, j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait de l'oeil
Character: The Baroness of Lespinois
Released: September 6, 1935
Type: Movie
When a young woman named Aurélie throws a fit of jealousy at her husband and her lover, daily life becomes more complicated.
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Le Champion de ces dames
Title: Le Champion de ces dames
Character: Madame Patterson
Released: July 30, 1935
Type: Movie
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Le chant de l'amour
Title: Le chant de l'amour
Released: July 4, 1935
Type: Movie
A poor woman forced to sew in a brothel for a living, a museum guard whose daughters party, an old lady with a fiery heart, and a teacher whose daughter is dying of tuberculosis, live in the same building and everyone dreams of love.
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Vaccin 48
Title: Vaccin 48
Released: April 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Professor Poponof, an old scientist, has just discovered a truth serum. Amédée, a burglar who has been surprised in his apartment, will become the perfect guinea-pig for testing the prof's last find. And it works well. Too well in fact, for if Amédée tells the truth he tells it to everybody and in every circumstance, thus causing disasters around him.
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The Man with a Broken Ear
Title: The Man with a Broken Ear
Released: March 29, 1935
Type: Movie
Colonel Fougas, stricken with catalepsy during the Russian campaign in 1812, was resuscitated after more than a century by French scholars and is not getting used to our time.
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La caserne en folie
Title: La caserne en folie
Released: March 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Following a misunderstanding, a young servant is mistaken for the rich heir that the owner of a fashion house intended for his daughter. The servant is satisfied while the millionaire is in charge of washing the dishes.
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L'affaire Coquelet
Title: L'affaire Coquelet
Released: March 8, 1935
Type: Movie
There are collectors and collectors. As far as he is concerned, Monsieur Coquelet has brought together a collection of historical... garters! So imagine his reaction when he realizes his most invaluable piece has been stolen... Municipal police and gendarmerie are alerted. The culprit is caught at long last but he is not... among the usual suspects!
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Inspector of the Red Cars
Title: Inspector of the Red Cars
Character: Adèle Bernard
Released: February 16, 1935
Type: Movie
Bernard, Sleeper Coach conductor and automobile inventor, is confused to be the racing car company president, and falls in love with a countess, who is actually a slogan prize winner chorine.
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Ladies Only Compartment
Title: Ladies Only Compartment
Character: Mrs. Monicourt
Released: February 1, 1935
Type: Movie
On his wedding day, Robert confesses his father-in-law that twenty years ago, he seduced a lady in a sleeping car of a train. His mother-in-law overhears the conversation and convinces Robert that she was that lady and that makes Robert's bride also his daughter. The wedding is in danger of being annulled when the trickery is finally discovered.
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Antonia
Title: Antonia
Character: Director
Released: January 25, 1935
Type: Movie
The famous singer Antonia left the stage to marry a country gentleman. She goes alone one day to Budapest to see again the operetta which revealed her and outlines a flirtation with an aviator engaged to her niece. The presence of mind of the latter pleasantly closes the adventure.
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Les suites d'un premier lit
Title: Les suites d'un premier lit
Released: January 18, 1935
Type: Movie
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Le Billet de mille
Title: Le Billet de mille
Character: The forewoman of the fashion house
Released: January 11, 1935
Type: Movie
The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands.
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L'Or dans la rue
Title: L'Or dans la rue
Character: Violette Tourbier, Adolphe's wife, Albert's landlady
Released: December 28, 1934
Type: Movie
A young man is involved in a swindle to produce synthetic gold, but fortunately when the fakery is uncovered he still has his girlfriend and a ticket to America.
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Un train dans la nuit
Title: Un train dans la nuit
Released: September 28, 1934
Type: Movie
Travelers who have missed their correspondence are forced to spend the night in the waiting room of a small country station. They are told that a ghost train rushes through the night on each anniversary of an accident that once took place there. A detective tries to solve the case.
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Le Chéri de sa concierge
Title: Le Chéri de sa concierge
Released: August 10, 1934
Type: Movie
The young Eugène Crochard, whom his entourage believes to be a billionaire following a joke published in a newspaper, is pursued by a cohort of people including his very pretty concierge. Really become very rich, he will end up being loved by the young girl he was secretly in love with. He will become the darling of his concierge.
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Flofloche
Title: Flofloche
Character: The director
Released: July 27, 1934
Type: Movie
The pharmacist Floche who was once the merry Flofloche, had a daughter by a dancer. He wants his daughter to become a pharmacist, but of course all she thinks about is dancing. And she dances while Mr. Floche finds happiness with a musichall star.
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La Banque Némo
Title: La Banque Némo
Released: July 23, 1934
Type: Movie
The rise of a crooked employee of a bank and the attempt of a former co-worker to bring him down.
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Un tour de cochon
Title: Un tour de cochon
Released: June 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A rich old man wants to give a good lesson to his niece and his nephew, who are very full of themselves. He pretends to be dead, after having put as a testamentary clause, so that they touch his fabulous inheritance, that our two "stylists" marry respectively the servant and the cook of the philosopher character...
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A Fly in the Ointment
Title: A Fly in the Ointment
Released: March 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A young man drowning in debts must make a rich marriage to pay them off. But his friend compromises the plan until there is one that she likes and she herself has found a new protector.
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Feu Toupinel
Title: Feu Toupinel
Character: la nourrice
Released: March 9, 1934
Type: Movie
The late Toupinel, a merry fellow, kept a legitimate wife in Paris, and a mistress who passed for his wife in the provinces. When he died, the two widows remarried. A former lover of the mistress comes to confuse everything because he is the real widow's friend.
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Son autre amour
Title: Son autre amour
Character: Aurore
Released: February 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A widower sends his son Dédé to boarding school, falls in love with a young woman and gradually neglects the child, not out of disaffection but because of routine. The little boy is helpless: he feels he has been completely forsaken - Fortunately, things improve: Dédé ends up finding a new mummy.
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Pleasures of Paris
Title: Pleasures of Paris
Released: January 12, 1934
Type: Movie
Provincials visiting Paris take the drug of Professor Jouvence, which rejuvenates them with the scabrous consequences that one can imagine.
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Madame Bovary
Title: Madame Bovary
Character: Madame Bovary, la mère de Charles
Released: January 4, 1934
Type: Movie
Soon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country doctor in Normandy, marries Emma Rouault. In her new home, Emma finds conflict with her mother-in-law, a husband uninterested in the social whirl, and general discontentment; thereby proving an easy conquest for philanderer Rodolphe. Other lovers follow. Does tragedy await?
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Children of Montmartre
Title: Children of Montmartre
Character: Superintendent
Released: September 15, 1933
Type: Movie
When her father files bankruptcy and then dies, Rose's fiancé jilts her; she takes a job as a maid in a Montmartre kindergarten with 150 poor children. Rose gives each child loving attention, and soon she's their favorite. An especially needy child is Marie, a prostitute's daughter. Rose and she bond, and Marie is jealous of all attentions paid Rose, especially those of Dr. Libois, the school's physician. When Rose inadvertently guides the children through the educational experiment of a visiting scholar, and then discloses she has a college degree and is working beneath her station, the principal wants to fire her. Is there any way she can stay? And what will happen to Marie?
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Le Gros Lot
Title: Le Gros Lot
Released: August 1, 1933
Type: Movie
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A Happy Man
Title: A Happy Man
Released: February 17, 1933
Type: Movie
Claude, shy, instructs Michel to declare his love to Simone, the young girl he loves. But Michel seduces her and becomes engaged to her. She surprises him in the arms of another, breaks off her engagement and marries Claude, whom she has come to know and love.
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L'Ordonnance malgré lui
Title: L'Ordonnance malgré lui
Released: February 3, 1933
Type: Movie
The colonel must marry the baroness of Flair, as soon as the girl this one will have found a match. A friend of the colonel proposes his nephew: a count with a degilded coat of arms. Private Leneveu presents himself to the baroness, who takes him for the suitor, whereas he is the colonel's driver. Gaffes and misunderstandings. The arrival of the true nephew restores the situation. Leneveu goes to the police station.
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Mirages of Paris
Title: Mirages of Paris
Character: Directrice du pensionat
Released: January 13, 1933
Type: Movie
In this fast-moving fantasy, an unsophisticated student escapes from a boarding school to become, after many trials and tribulations, the "toast of Paris."
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Baby
Title: Baby
Character: Miss Fitz
Released: January 13, 1933
Type: Movie
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Si tu veux
Title: Si tu veux
Released: September 16, 1932
Type: Movie
A novelist uses all means to curry favor with a particularly cantankerous engineer. After believing her to be selfish and despicable, the young man finally decides to marry her.
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Paris Urchin
Title: Paris Urchin
Released: September 6, 1932
Type: Movie
A young man from a good family abandons the young girl he has seduced, but finally marries her after being brought back to the right path by the young brother of the neglected woman.
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Tu m'oublieras
Title: Tu m'oublieras
Released: August 26, 1932
Type: Movie
Estelle de Pressendi, famous music-hall singer, was all the rage in the 1910s thanks to her two inseparable impresarios. Twenty years later, then on the verge of death, the singer wants to entrust her daughter Yvonne to them.
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The Blaireau Case
Title: The Blaireau Case
Released: March 11, 1932
Type: Movie
Blaireau, a poacher, is imprisoned for an offense he didn't commit. An ambitious lawyer tries to exculpate and glorify him. But, once he's released, this major philosopher destroys in just a few hours the prestige painstakingly built by his liberator.
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The Fortune
Title: The Fortune
Released: January 22, 1932
Type: Movie
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Captain Craddock
Title: Captain Craddock
Character: Isabelle
Released: December 4, 1931
Type: Movie
The mystery passenger on Craddock's ship is his country's queen.When he loses money she's entrusted to him at roulette, he threatens to bomb Monte Carlo unless his loss is restored.
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Not on the mouth
Title: Not on the mouth
Character: Melle Poumaillac
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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Monsieur Gazon
Title: Monsieur Gazon
Released: December 31, 1930
Type: Movie
Monsieur Gazon is not likely to win employee of the month: he is assuredly the worst salesman at the Galeries de Paris ! And, as the customers regularly complain he is regularly fired... and hired again ! This time, he has once again attracted the manager's attention by... courting his own fiancée!
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The cushion pad
Title: The cushion pad
Released: December 31, 1930
Type: Movie
Cochu, a simple soldier, is mistakenly believed to be a rich heir which causes many problems.
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Cinderella of Paris
Title: Cinderella of Paris
Character: Mme Petitpas
Released: November 21, 1930
Type: Movie
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Princely Nights
Title: Princely Nights
Released: October 7, 1929
Type: Movie
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Ces dames aux chapeaux verts
Title: Ces dames aux chapeaux verts
Released: September 27, 1929
Type: Movie
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Cagliostro
Title: Cagliostro
Character: Duchess of Mittau
Released: April 8, 1929
Type: Movie
Paris, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and necromancer, experienced physician and ruthless swordsman, triumphs among the members of the decadent French aristocracy. But a bold foretelling about a very prominent noblewoman causes his fall in disgrace… (Partially lost film.)
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Cousin Bette
Title: Cousin Bette
Released: November 30, 1928
Type: Movie
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Le capitaine Rascasse
Title: Le capitaine Rascasse
Released: April 1, 1927
Type: Movie
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Belphégor
Title: Belphégor
Character: Baronne Papillon
Released: January 1, 1927
Type: Movie
Belphégor deals with a series of mysterious appearances by a masked-and-robed figure in the Louvre; a security guard is murdered, and a later police trap is foiled when the phantom—“Belphégor” (the name of a legendary demon)—uses knock-out gas. Journalist Jacques Bellegarde of “Le Petit Parisien” (the real-life newspaper which published the original story in serial installments), investigates, and eventually discovers famous detective Chantecoq and his vivacious daughter Colette are also on the case.
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Au revoir et merci
Title: Au revoir et merci
Released: December 3, 1926
Type: Movie
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Gribiche
Title: Gribiche
Character: L'institutrice
Released: April 2, 1926
Type: Movie
Gribiche, a young boy whose mother is a war widow, gets adopted by a rich woman. She wants to turn him into a perfect gentleman, but soon he feels unhappy.
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Autour d'un berceau
Title: Autour d'un berceau
Character: Madame Ronfledur
Released: September 18, 1925
Type: Movie
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Le gardien du feu
Title: Le gardien du feu
Released: November 14, 1924
Type: Movie
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La gosseline
Title: La gosseline
Character: Mme Pédoizel
Released: December 7, 1923
Type: Movie
A film by Louis Feuillade.
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The Two Girls
Title: The Two Girls
Character: Flora Bènazer
Released: January 28, 1921
Type: Movie
Two small girls whose father is in prison are collected by their grandfather after losing their mother in a shipwreck.
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Bout-de-Zan et le cheminot
Title: Bout-de-Zan et le cheminot
Released: October 1, 1913
Type: Movie
One night, Bout-de-Zan finds a wanderer and shares his bed to him. The next morning there is a general panic among the servants...
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Léonce Loves Morels
Title: Léonce Loves Morels
Character: La cuisinière
Released: September 1, 1913
Type: Movie
A photogenic Partie de campagne with Léonce looking for mushrooms! A nice prestation by Poupette Suzanne Le Bret and a nice little fantasy.
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Bout-de-Zan's Money-Box
Title: Bout-de-Zan's Money-Box
Released: January 1, 1913
Type: Movie
Bout-de-Zan and his family are around the dinner table, awaiting the visit of his millionaire uncle. But the uncle is not what he was...
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A Race for Millions
Title: A Race for Millions
Released: December 13, 1912
Type: Movie
If an old man's niece does not claim her inheritance at the notary's office by the appointed time, his fortune will go to his housekeeper.
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La Rançon du Bonheur
Title: La Rançon du Bonheur
Released: December 1, 1912
Type: Movie
The bright junior lieutenant Jacques Mareuil, son of an admiral, is stationed in one of our great military ports, and is neighbors with the young Suzie Darvel, who has opted for a career as an opera singer. Having a great knowledge of music himself, the navy officer, who finds the girl’s voice quite interesting, writes her a melody, making it a gift to her. That same day, he receives orders to set sail, putting an end to the beautiful love story which had just begun. Three years later, junior lieutenant Jacques Mareuil returns to Paris. While attending a performance of Carmen, he recognizes the interpreter of the Bizet character as his lovely neighbor from the past. Jacques Mareuil falls in love with the great singer and wants to marry her. His father is however categorically opposed to the decision, and with the aid of one his colleagues at the Naval Department, he obtains an immediate departure to Indochina for Jacques.
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La conquête d'Aurélia
Title: La conquête d'Aurélia
Released: May 10, 1912
Type: Movie
1912 short French film written and directed by Léonce Perret.
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Graziella la gitane
Title: Graziella la gitane
Released: May 1, 1912
Type: Movie
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Cupidon aux manoeuvres
Title: Cupidon aux manoeuvres
Released: September 3, 1911
Type: Movie
Having been ordered to the front, a soldier entrusts his personal papers to his sister's fiancee. Soon, he too is called up. She comes upon a love letter that she mistakenly thinks is from her fiancee to another.
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La Souris blanche
Title: La Souris blanche
Released: January 1, 1911
Type: Movie
Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est that Feuillade did in which people were shown as they really are and not as they ought to have been. This one is about Hypocrisy
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André Chénier
Title: André Chénier
Released: January 1, 1911
Type: Movie
The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined during the Revolution aged only 31.
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The Nativity
Title: The Nativity
Released: November 11, 1910
Type: Movie
A silent French film depicting the story of the nativity.
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The Exodus
Title: The Exodus
Released: September 1, 1910
Type: Movie
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Esther
Title: Esther
Released: May 2, 1910
Type: Movie
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Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike
Title: Lysistrata or The Kissing Strike
Released: February 27, 1910
Type: Movie
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Title: The Seven Deadly Sins
Released: January 2, 1910
Type: Movie
A series of seven short films of varying length demonstrating each of the seven deadly sins.
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Le Festin de Balthazar
Title: Le Festin de Balthazar
Released: January 1, 1910
Type: Movie
A historical short film inspired by the Biblical story of Belshazzar's Feast.
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Le Lys d'or
Title: Le Lys d'or
Released: January 1, 1910
Type: Movie
The Madonna gives a golden lily to the poor musician. He tries to sell it and this arouses the suspicion of the goldsmith.
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Crowns, I: The Crown of Roses
Title: Crowns, I: The Crown of Roses
Released: November 8, 1909
Type: Movie
Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an epicurean party of ancients, followed by a laurel wreath and encircling a scene showing school children of 1830 receiving their marks of diligence at a distribution of rewards: then the wreath of bay tendered by the Human Senators to Caesar on the culmination of his career; now a beggar receives a loaf called a "crown" from a charitable passerby: Christ is shown crowned with thorns by the rabble; following the divine drama we see the old comedian's wreath presented him at a performance. The next view shows the Emperor Charlemagne crowning his son Lewis. The film closes with the wreath of orange blossoms encircling a bridal party.
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Le vainqueur de la course pédestre
Title: Le vainqueur de la course pédestre
Released: July 12, 1909
Type: Movie
Burlesque: the champion describes his race with such conviction that everyone is carried away with him.
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Judith and Holophernes
Title: Judith and Holophernes
Released: June 14, 1909
Type: Movie
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The Buoy
Title: The Buoy
Released: January 1, 1909
Type: Movie
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The Legend of the Spinner
Title: The Legend of the Spinner
Released: March 12, 1908
Type: Movie
The goddess Minerva is jealous of the young Arachne who is more clever it in weaving. Out of spite, Arachne Minerva rushed into hell, then transforms into a spider that will forever spinning its web.
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The Colonel's Account
Title: The Colonel's Account
Released: July 23, 1907
Type: Movie
This short film consists of a crazy old colonel being asked to entertain party guests about his exploits of daring. However, being a totally insane old coot, he runs amok acting out his war-time heroics--smashing and throwing everything in the room!
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The Janitor's Tea Party
Title: The Janitor's Tea Party
Released: March 1, 1907
Type: Movie
The scene of the drama is a block of modern flats. Many of the residents are away at a dance, and the janitor and his staff decide upon a jollification of their own. They invite their friends to a fine high tea. Everybody is having a fine time, and their spirits are running high. We are now taken to the outside of the hall door, and watch with amusement the frantic pounding and bell ringing of the residents returning from their evening engagements and seeking admission to their apartments. The gay gathering inside are too busy with their own pleasure to heed the angry crowd outdoors. A policeman is called, but all to no purpose, and the tenants are all taken to the station for quarters for the night. Returning to the janitor's quarters we see that the jollifications have been concluded and the guests are all departing. The superior officer at the station concludes to make another effort to gain admittance in the building and, with the tenants at his heels, he approaches the flats.