Jean Aurenche

Most Popular Jean Aurenche Trailers

Total trailers found: 76

The Emigrant Trailer (1940)

29 January 1940

Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there.

Adrien Trailer (1943)

22 December 1943

Adrien Moulinet, a modest encashing agent in the Nortier bank, is also an inventor in his spare time.

It Happened All Night Trailer (1960)

13 September 1960

Michel Ferréol reluctantly meets up with an old school friend, Antoine Fiesco. Michel didn’t like Antoine much when they were at school and tries to get away by making an excuse.

Confessions of a Newlywed Trailer (1937)

26 February 1937

A timid young man marries the daughter of the entomologist he works for. On the train for their honeymoon, he takes his young wife in his arms when a customs officer suddenly enters the compartment.

Potatoes Trailer (1969)

22 November 1969

In a village in the Ardennes, during the German occupation, finding rations is becoming almost impossible.

Sylvia and the Ghost Trailer (1946)

06 February 1946

A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love.

The Proud and the Beautiful Trailer (1953)

25 November 1953

Life in a small Mexican village where joy and misery, hope and pain, passion and guilt, love and decay, life and death are mixed in the peasants life and two French citizens who end up stranded in there, during a typhoid epidemic.

The Hunchback of Notre Dame Trailer (1956)

19 December 1956

Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame.

Franciscan of Bourges Trailer (1968)

29 April 1968

Albert is a Franciscan monk and a medical orderly at a monastery in France. Although he is German, the kindly monk helps hide French resistance members.

Gigolo Trailer (1951)

08 November 1951

Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, he fell into misery when he left it.

This Special Friendship Trailer (1964)

04 September 1964

A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the fourteen-year-old upperclassman who is the object of his desire, all set within the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit-run school.

Mademoiselle Nitouche Trailer (1954)

21 April 1954

Celestin works as an organist at a girl's school. By day, Celestin is the meek and mild target of the girls' incessant practical jokes.

The Lafarge Case Trailer (1938)

08 March 1938

Based on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this is the story of a wife who might have poisoned her husband .

The Oldest Profession Trailer (1967)

07 April 1967

A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.

Let Joy Reign Supreme Trailer (1975)

23 March 1975

A look at 18th-century France, when the depravity of the authorities contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.

The Lightning Rod Thief Trailer (1944)

01 January 1944

An encounter on a rooftop between two policemen and a thief who specializes in lightning conductors.

A Woman in White Trailer (1965)

28 April 1965

Claude Sauvage, a tenacious young gynecologist takes a months long internship in a Paris hospital. Between her private life and medical career, she set her doubts and desires in a society where the square and the plight of women remain at that time a secondary issue.

Le Rouge et le Noir Trailer (1954)

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.

Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma Trailer (2010)

08 May 2010

La Tradition de minuit Trailer (1939)

22 April 1939

Five people are gathered in a cafe because of a phone call they have all received. The plot thickens when they discover a dead body in a bedroom upstairs.

Forbidden Games Trailer (1952)

09 May 1952

Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant boy, and the two quickly become close.

Rendezvous Trailer (1961)

10 November 1961

A soap-opera/murder mystery that builds to a deliriously melodramatic finale.

God Needs Men Trailer (1950)

03 October 1950

The inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany follow their own religion without need for clergy, but as strangers arrive, their faith and beliefs face a deep crisis.

Daughters of Destiny Trailer (1954)

21 January 1954

Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war widow who comes on pilgrimage in Italy.

Gervaise Trailer (1956)

05 September 1956

An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.

The Regattas of San Francisco Trailer (1960)

20 April 1960

A teenager who suffers from his mother's escapades imagines the life of his father in San Francisco.

Hôtel du Nord Trailer (1938)

17 December 1938

On the meandering Canal St. Martin, at the Parisian Hôtel du Nord, a nearly fatal gunshot separates a dejected young couple.

L'Âge d'or Trailer (1930)

28 November 1930

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love.

The Gambler Trailer (1958)

26 October 1958

In 1866, a young Muscovite named Alexei Ivanovitch arrives in Baden Baden, then the gambling capital of Austria, and is soon engaged by General Zagorianski to look after his children.

The Red Inn Trailer (2007)

05 December 2007

A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard.

The Scarecrow Trailer (1943)

29 August 1943

A scarecrow is trying to protect two birds from a cunning cat.

The Walls of Malapaga Trailer (1949)

19 September 1949

A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.

The Passion of Bernadette Trailer (1990)

09 May 1990

French filmmaker Jean Delannoy directs this inspiring sequel to his biopic about Marie-Bernarde Soubirous (portrayed by Sydney Penny), a young shepherdess who claimed to have seen numerous apparitions of the Lady in White at Lourdes in 1858.

Lady of the Camelias Trailer (1981)

26 February 1981

A young girl from the provinces, comes to Paris with one goal: to become a part of the rich bourgeoisie.

La Traversée de Paris Trailer (1956)

26 October 1956

Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.

The Judge and the Assassin Trailer (1976)

10 March 1976

France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide.

Love Is My Profession Trailer (1958)

17 September 1958

Married French lawyer Andre defends succesfully the case of Yvette, who committed a robbery. He falls in love with her, but she isn't true to him.

Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! Trailer (1961)

04 April 1961

Henri IV falls in love with the young Charlotte de Montmorency, 40 years his junior. The king decided to marry her off to his nephew, Henri de Condé, so that he could later make her his mistress.

Imperial Venus Trailer (1962)

22 December 1962

The romanticized gallant adventures of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. First "engaged" to the Conventionnel Fréron, then separated from him by her brother for political reasons, Pauline joined Napoleon in the Italian army, where she fell in love with the comté de Canouville.

Coup de Torchon Trailer (1981)

04 November 1981

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.

The Watchmaker of St. Paul Trailer (1974)

16 January 1974

Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realizes that he knew far less about his son than he thought.

Way of Youth Trailer (1959)

23 September 1959

This movie is a Marcel Aymé adaptation and it deals with the not-so-glorious side of the Occupation: black market, war profiteers, cracking open bottles of Champagne while most of the Parisians are almost starving.

The Little Rebels Trailer (1955)

21 October 1955

Judge Julien Lamy regularly deals with the welfare of children, namely down on their luck delinquents.

Le Colisée Trailer (1933)

01 January 1933

Levitan: That Night Trailer (1932)

31 December 1932

Pastoral Symphony Trailer (1946)

26 September 1946

A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.

The Seven Deadly Sins Trailer (1952)

27 March 1952

A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.

Black Humor Trailer (1965)

12 April 1965

A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus, trapeze artist Wilma is going to get rid of a rival during a "magic act" performed by an amateur.

Crime Does Not Pay Trailer (1962)

06 July 1962

A man walks into a movie theater in Paris and starts watching a film—the same one we're watching, consisting of four stories of best criminal intentions gone awry from the Middle Ages to the present day.

A Woman Like Satan Trailer (1958)

19 December 1958

Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poor stock who taunts and degrades him.

Keep an Eye on Amelia Trailer (1949)

16 December 1949

A young woman's comfortable life with her boyfriend is disrupted when he leaves for military duty, entrusting her to a playboy friend seeking a fake marriage for inheritance.

Devil in the Flesh Trailer (1947)

12 September 1947

In France during World War I, Marthe waits for her husband, Jacques, while he fights on the front lines.

The Traveler Without Luggage Trailer (1944)

23 February 1944

Having lost his memory due to serving in World War I, Gaston has spent the past 15 years in a psychiatric hospital.

Enough Rope Trailer (1963)

11 January 1963

Two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives. Based on Patricia Highsmith's 1954 novel The Blunderer.

Engagements of the Heart Trailer (1987)

16 December 1987

Alice is the widow of a Jewish surgeon who helps the former diplomat Jerome smuggle Jews out of Austria to save them from the Nazis.

The Game of Love Trailer (1954)

20 January 1954

Friends since infancy, two youngsters struggle as their platonic bond blossoms into romantic love with adolescence.

A Woman in White Revolts Trailer (1966)

25 March 1966

Preparing her gynecology thesis, Claude Sauvage, at the urging of a village doctor, Vincent Ferrière, agrees to replace him for a few days.

Douce Trailer (1943)

09 November 1943

In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé.

Fucking Fernand Trailer (1987)

21 October 1987

A bombing raid makes travelling companions of a blind man, Fernand, and Antoine, a criminal. Fernand is a virgin and is depending on his new friend to find him a woman.

The North Star Trailer (1982)

31 March 1982

Edouard Binet, an aimless Frenchman, has been travelling in North Africa for many years, and is sailing to Belgium.