Marcel Achard Movies

A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider.

Examining magistrate Sévigné wants to make a career in Paris, mainly at the urging of his wife. She is assigned to investigate a murder...

A free-spirited, guileless and amoral young woman, who works as a maid in the home of one of the most prominent and influential families in France...

When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.

Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage to a Belgian princess. As he seeks to flee his...

Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and...

A Parisian reporter tries to exonerate a fugitive neighbor of charges he murdered his wife.

A documentary view of the galas of Paris’s Palais Garnier in the 1950s and ’60s.

A brave bookseller raises his four daughters alone, all of whom he employs in his shop. They are especially interested in their sentimental stories....

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...

Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays...

The works of Marcel Pagnol are a veritable monument of French cultural heritage. Based on previously unseen archive material, film extracts, novels,...

Alternate-language French version of Folies Bergère de Paris (1935).

One Christmas Eve, a carefree young man, Eric, arrives in a small provincial town. Here, he meets Julien, a bar pianist who is his exact double. ...

Sylvie is a young cashier in a Montmartre café, "le bar des Philosophes", owned and run by Monsieur Marcel, a former safe cracker. One day,...

In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of...

After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning to the music shop he discovers that the...

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...

During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for...