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Jean Desailly (August 24, 1920, Paris – June 11, 2008) was a French actor. He was a member of the Comédie-Française from 1942 – 1946, and later participated in about ninety movies. Desailly was married to the French actress Simone Valère.
Total trailers found: 79
08 May 1961
During WW2, in a Nazi-occupied country, a local partisan blows-up a German military train, prompting the Germans to take civilian hostages to be shot if the culprit doesn't surrender before a deadline.
21 October 1981
Josselin Beaumont, a French secret agent, is tasked with assassinating Njala, the president for life of Malawi in Africa.
28 June 1950
Fred Peloux, nicknamed Chéri, the handsome son of Charlotte Peloux, a former demimondaine, lives in the small circle of his mother's friends, all high-class prostitutes past their best.
13 April 1960
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures.
25 May 1960
On his journey through USA, Simon Templar, alias 'the Saint', landed in Palm Springs. After arrival, Simon is offered a job as a bodyguard of a millionaire who is threatened with death.
06 February 1946
A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love.
01 October 1972
A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s having an affair with is a bank robber planning a heist.
18 January 1952
In 1786, Jocelyn entered the Seminary. He leaves his share of the inheritance to his younger sister Julie.
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.
10 July 2018
A portray of French actress Françoise Dorléac
20 April 1964
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He starts a love affair with air hostess Nicole, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stay away from her.
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.
01 January 1969
Harmonious, inspired by nature, moving, luminous... there is no shortage of words to describe La Chapelle Notre-Dame du Haut in Rochamp (France) and its curves.
16 May 1947
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.
07 July 1999
Pierrette is a woman who describes herself as having "opted for the temporary on a permanent basis." After 15 years of living the good life in Switzerland, Pierrette one day packs her bags full of fashionable outfits and returns to her native Paris with no idea of what she'll do.
24 July 1951
This comedy short subject satirizes the Hollywood genre which the French had given the name to of Film Noir.
17 January 1979
A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people in his life attempt to force him to grow up in this French comedy/drama.
07 March 1962
This short film by Jacques Demy was based on his memories of growing up in Nantes, France. While it was initially made for the omnibus film THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS (as the segment on "Lust"), it has also been distributed and exhibited separately.
09 January 1970
Philippe, Théo and Bob share the same cell in the prison of La Santé. Philippe, a young student, known as "Sciences-Po", is planning revenge against those who sent him to prison.
08 December 1945
In Central Europe, resistance to the Germans in growing. But the partisan leader is denounced and killed.
30 April 1974
A series of events beginning during the German occupation of France showing what might have happened if one thing had gone differently.
09 February 1949
A trio of criminals gradually become entangled in theft and crime. Serge is arrested, his mistress, Hélène, and his accomplice, Michel, both become lovers, try to exonerate him and use false fingerprints first, then after Serge's conviction, gloves covered with the same fingerprints of the prisoner.
30 March 1972
A Stalinist assassin tracks exiled revolutionary Leon Trotsky to Mexico in 1940.
03 November 1961
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
10 December 1947
Summoned by his mother to plead, a very young lawyer has a trio of pathetic criminals acquitted. The daughter of one of them reveals to the lawyer that the three accomplices hoped to find food and board in prison.
06 April 1949
In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up and prepare for a new day at work.
26 October 1955
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.
16 March 1985
Play by Peter Ustinov, about a return to the modern world by Beethoven, who knocks on the door of a London music critic.
07 March 1962
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war.
07 April 1973
Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case.
29 January 1958
Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't molested.
24 August 1949
Nicole, a spirited lawyer, must defend, for her debut in the courtroom, the accused Panoyau. It is a failure, the death sentence.
01 November 1956
(auto-translation: LA CINÉMATHÈQUE FRANÇAISE ) Using a subjective camera, set to music by Bela Bartók and text by Arthur Rimbaud, François Reichenbach offers a highly singular vision of the American megalopolis.
26 April 1967
A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture is based on real events.
13 December 1962
Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist.
25 April 1990
Quentin and André, two brothers who had lost sight for several years, find themselves in the family home, uninhabited since the death of their parents.
08 April 1960
Bernard Sommet has killed his wife and her lover and he declares that was a crime of passion. Sylvie Foucot, his court-appointed attorney, not only believes him but falls in love with him.
14 June 1961
Un soir sur la plage is relatively interesting; the cast includes highly talented Jean Dessailly, Martine Carol, a cast against type Michel Galabru as the cop.
26 September 1946
A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.
02 March 1961
Stéphane Blanchon lives a quiet life in Switzerland with his wife, Christine, until a young American boarder named Belle, who was living with them, is found murdered.
30 August 1980
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others.
24 May 1965
A story about two girls who grew up as sisters, were separated and finally met again.
22 March 1973
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built.
04 April 1979
In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a television dance show.
26 November 1969
Montage film dedicated to the Resistance, under German occupation from 1940 to 1945, with documents from French, Canadian, American, English and German archives.
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.
10 July 1951
The film evokes all the aspects of bullfighting - its history, the bulls, the toreros, the arena, the audience - and involves numerous matadors from the era.
07 April 1966
The rich and conservative Edward can not forgive his younger wife who had been unfaithful. She's trying to get his attention by flirting with a Dutch tourist.
09 September 1959
Desperate, Didier throws himself out in the Seine. Pascal, a newsboy, jumps and saves him. It’s the beginning of the friendship between them.
16 September 1960
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.
15 July 1998
Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault (1791-1824).
29 January 1970
10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices after a break-in.
23 September 1959
Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to transmit his inheritance to his son Pascal.
23 October 1946
Roger Laroque is now a rich man. He returns to France under the name of William Farnell. There, he discovers that on the one hand his wife has died of a broken heart and on the other that his daughter Suzanne is in love with Raymond de Noirville, the son of his former mistress.
09 June 1948
The tour of a theatrical troupe is disturbed by the waltz-hesitation love of the young actress Stepha between the young first and the director.
19 November 1958
Noël Schoudler, founder of an empire built on three foundations - sugar, banking and the press - reigns like an absolute sovereign over his business and his family.
02 July 2021
We thought we'd seen, read, and heard everything there was to see about the Cannes Film Festival, from the glitz and gossip to the scandals and censorship.
