Jacques Varennes Trailers
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Total trailers found: 64
19 July 1939
The wife of a stable manager will try everything to clear her husband, a very violent being, accused of the assassination of a trainer.
20 January 1956
Penelope Benson, known as Penny, is both romantic and determined. Put in a select boarding school by her mother, she takes advantage of a trip to Paris to get away from it all and live her own life.
05 December 1939
To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienne Charpentier, friend of the latest missing person.
28 July 1943
France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that prides itself on its impeccable morals.
14 July 1943
A scientist who have discovered how to turn salt water into petrol dies before he has revealed his formula.
09 June 1943
A young man from an aristocratic family tires of the country life and moves to Paris where he squanders his inheritance.
03 May 1944
On the death of the famous singer Maria Malibran, Countess Merlin retraces the main lines of the unusual destiny of this young woman entirely devoted to her art.
06 December 1955
Dominique is a pretty, vivacious girl. When she witnesses a car theft, she throws herself and her bicycle under the vehicle.
22 September 1948
Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face for the ten years since her husband's assassination, longing to join him in death.
28 February 1951
France, July 1782. During her birthday, the beautiful young Marchioness Caroline meets the attractive soldier Gaston.
15 December 1953
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date.
24 August 1934
Foreign spies are interested in plans for a device invented by a French aviator. They kidnap the young man but fail in their business thanks to the energy of his wife and the cunning of the mechanic.
16 January 1931
A bank employee who stole money at work falls in the hands of a dangerous escaped convict whose girlfriend is going to help him out of this mess.
29 September 1950
A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess.
24 October 1956
A man becomes the lover of his former persecutor's wife.
11 July 1948
The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Constitutional Monarchy.
04 May 1944
Sitting at his desk, Guitry gives us a lecture on French history from Joan of Arc to the Occupation, with some focus on a number of its great writers and musicians.
13 December 1943
A famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin, escapes from prison.
10 October 1950
A man assists his gravely ill wife to die and wants to face justice for this, but his brothers try everything to keep the family's name clean.
04 December 1931
An art historian has an affair with a young saleslady while his disaffected wife cheats on him in turn.
04 June 1954
Prosecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere presumptions.
15 June 1939
An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.
29 January 1955
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts.
27 January 1956
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.
29 October 1954
It's no holds barred for Julian in pursuit of upward mobility. Although expected to channel career aspirations into the Church of the post-Napoleonic era, his intensely romantic liaisons propel him forward at a pace he cannot control.
10 November 1937
A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of justice will lead an innocent person to the guillotine.
27 April 1934
Jacqueline took one of her friends to a place where tourists, informants, girls, pimps and Apaches rub shoulders.
07 June 1938
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.
30 November 1951
Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each other without risk.
09 January 1941
A student, who wishes to become an opera singer, is helped by a good boy, Saturnin, who improvises as a manager.
13 April 1938
Inspector Doirel investigates the murder of a man whose servant was found tied up. He discovers very quickly that the servant has lied.
23 April 1937
Ginette, daughter of a foreman of an automobile factory, and Claude, son of the director of this company, love each other, but the father of the young man refuses the marriage.
28 December 1934
Lagardère protects Aurore, the granddaughter of the Duke of Nevers whose deceitful Philippe de Gonzague covets the inheritance.
05 June 1938
The reign of Tsar Paul I and the intrigues of his friend, Governor Pahlen, to rid the country of the mad despot by plotting to have him murdered.
30 July 1937
In the 13th century, lovers hurried to the door of Marguerite de Bourgogne. The aristocrat who every day was indulged in orgies that were famous throughout the country.
24 November 1943
In Central Europe, an organization of counterfeiters is headed by Burcq. An Air France pilot introduces an intelligence agent to the principality.
21 December 1908
Everyman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful Virginie.
11 January 1939
Bouboule is a taxi driver. A Russian princess wishing to acquire French nationality offers to marry her to divorce a few months later.
15 May 1945
Jeanne De Pincret refuses to marry Viscount Haussy De Villefort, having discovered his frivolity. After a duel against the Duke De Montgobert, whom Louis XIV recommended to Jeanne, the king forced De Villefort to marry Jeanne, then sent her to war.
17 April 1931
Italian-language version of the Germany-made DER TEUFELSBRUDER (FRA DIAVOLO), with different supporting cast and some scenes.
12 August 1932
The son of a rich soap manufacturer gets himself in predicaments trying to prove to his father that he's responsible enough for marriage.
20 December 1940
A group of political exiles conspire in France against their government. They are pursued by Daminoff, head of the intelligence service of the country of origin of the conspirators, who uses Nadia, a singer who soon betrays him by taking up the cause of his compatriots.
14 June 1934
A street singer becomes the star of the circus but his pal Armand shows him who his real friends are.
13 December 1935
A banker threatened by gangsters is replaced by a tramp who is his perfect double. The gangsters arrest the fake banker and take him for a madman.
03 July 1942
A former colonial official lives far from Paris with a dry cousin who pays attention to his heritage.
02 August 1953
Appointed public prosecutor in a small provincial town, Gérard Latour befriends Delanglade, whose young wife becomes his mistress.
26 November 1948
A series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and leading actor, that examine the bores and pests of everyday life much like Pete Smith and Robert Benchley had done for years in American short subjects.
08 June 1934
Julien Villandrit owns a textile factory whose manager, Henri Corrandi, is his childhood friend. Both love the same woman, Régine de Bettigny, who grants her hand to Villandrit.
26 June 1957
Georges Villard, a minor bank employee, is won over by Mr Steve who does him favours, treats him to the high life and introduces him to his wife Florence, with whom he falls in love.
29 July 1936
Robert Bernier murdered his brother with the complicity of a worker. The only witness to the tragedy, Veronique was injured while rescuing her boss and remains blind.
04 September 1942
Julie and Désirée Clary are courted by the brothers Joseph and Napoleon Bonaparte. Joseph marries Julie and Napoleon is affianced to Désirée.
02 October 1936
Fernand Espitalion is miserable as totally whipped husband of a dragon 'passed on' -like cloths- by his late cousin.
27 March 1931
Betty marries rich Allan out of interest and drives a wedge between him and his family.
27 March 1942
Edwige Feuillère and Pierre Richard-Willm star in director Jacques de Baroncelli's adaptation of the Balzac novella The Duchesse de Langeais, which tells the tale of a Parisian socialite who is romantically pursued by a Napoleonic war hero.
05 June 1953
A young customs officer is given an important mission: to investigate drug trafficking on the Belgian border.
02 May 1945
During the Directory, a handful of royalists tried to get the Dauphin Louis XVII to escape from the Temple.
21 January 1959
Lise is bored with her parents and gets a job as a waitress. She meets a sailor, Fausto, who leaves her to escape from the police.
15 January 1932
A bank guard disappears from the elevator between the ground floor and the first floor. He was carrying a briefcase containing valuable documents.
16 November 1941
A rich businessman living alone is deprived of the nephew he was to have brought up decides on his doctor's advice to search for the four illegitimate children he once fathered, which leads him to accept responsibility for his actions.
21 December 1934
An honest worker is unjustly accused of murder. The culprit promises him to give his son a good education if he allows himself to be condemned.