Movies: Jacques Erwin

  • 1951
    Mr. Peek-a-Boo

    Mr. Peek-a-Boo (1951)

    Mr. Peek-a-Boo

    6.21951HD

    A simple civil servant Léon, who has the unusual ability to walk through walls, falls madly in love with a hotel thief by the name of Susan. He poses as Garou-Garou, a dangerous gangster to attempt to woo her affections, but is arrested and sent to j...

    Mr. Peek-a-Boo
  • 1938
    Katia

    Katia (1938)

    Katia

    91938HD

    In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic girl from the provinces, unruly in character. He falls in love with her and tries to see her again....

    Katia
  • 1947
    The Chips Are Down

    The Chips Are Down (1947)

    The Chips Are Down

    6.71947HD

    "Les jeux sont faits," is a fantasy film based on a screenplay by French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. A society heiress and a resistance fighter are tragically killed at the same moment and meet in the afterlife. They are offered a se...

    The Chips Are Down
  • 1954
    Strange Desire of Mr. Bard

    Strange Desire of Mr. Bard (1954)

    Strange Desire of Mr. Bard

    5.81954HD

    A terminally ill Mr. Bard, a casino bus driver forced to quit his job, miraculously wins a fortune playing roulette. Instantly becoming a millionaire, he wants to fulfill his life's dream: to become a father. This plan is opposed by his greedy relati...

    Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
  • 1938
    Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées

    Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées (1938)

    Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées

    5.71938HD

    The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself....

    Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
  • 1951
    Gigolo

    Gigolo (1951)

    Gigolo

    5.31951HD

    Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, he fell into misery when he left it. His only asset was his good looks, which did not escape the attention of Madame Alice, a shady woman who persuaded...

    Gigolo
  • 1949
    Forbidden to the Public

    Forbidden to the Public (1949)

    Forbidden to the Public

    01949HD

    Hervé Montagne, a famous but awfully self-satisfied playwright, is furious when he learns that the actress signed to lead in his latest play will not be able to play the part on account of pregnancy. All the more as no other great actress is availabl...

    Forbidden to the Public
  • 1931
    Moon over Morocco

    Moon over Morocco (1931)

    Moon over Morocco

    5.71931HD

    When one of their number tries to tear away the veil from the face of a woman of Morocco, five French tourists find themselves cursed by an Arabic sorcerer to die in a specified order before the next new moon appears - and one by one, in different wa...

    Moon over Morocco
  • 1941
    The Italian Straw Hat

    The Italian Straw Hat (1941)

    The Italian Straw Hat

    5.51941HD

    Fadinard is going through the woods on his horse en route to his wedding. Unfortunately, his horse eats the straw hat of a married woman who is having a secret rendezvous with her lover. In order to save the woman's honor, Fadinard must find the exac...

    The Italian Straw Hat
  • 1939
    Nine Bachelors

    Nine Bachelors (1939)

    Nine Bachelors

    6.31939HD

    Nine Bachelors is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Sacha Guitry and starring Guitry, Max Dearly and Elvire Popesco.[1] An opportunist dreams up a new scheme to make money when the French government passes a law forbidding foreigners from living ...

    Nine Bachelors
  • 1938
    Ramuntcho

    Ramuntcho (1938)

    Ramuntcho

    01938HD

    Ramuntcho is a young man who has fallen in with a gang of smugglers, led by Itchoua, who carry their contraband across the border into Spain. He is in love with Gracieuse whose mother, Dolorès, bitterly dislikes Ramuntcho because he was born an illeg...

    Ramuntcho
  • 1940
    The Wonderful Night

    The Wonderful Night (1940)

    The Wonderful Night

    5.51940HD

    A couple of refugees arrives in a village: he is a cabinet maker, she's pregnant and the innkeeper refuses to give them a room; they wind up in the cowshed of a farm where she gives birth to her baby, the very night of Christmas....

    The Wonderful Night
  • 1938
    Les Nuits blanches de Saint-Pétersbourg

    Les Nuits blanches de Saint-Pétersbourg (1938)

    Les Nuits blanches de Saint-Pétersbourg

    31938HD

    Pozdnycheff, a young party animal, destroyed by his lightness the marital happiness of one of his childhood friends who committed suicide. Since then, he is haunted by the memory....

    Les Nuits blanches de Saint-Pétersbourg
  • 1947
    Captain Blomet

    Captain Blomet (1947)

    Captain Blomet

    01947HD

    Returning from the cemetery where he has just buried his wife, Captain Blomet is on the point of committing suicide, when his valet reveals to him that the deceased had 17 lovers. Blomet undertakes to wash his honor in different ways according to his...

    Captain Blomet
  • 1940
    There's No Tomorrow

    There's No Tomorrow (1940)

    There's No Tomorrow

    6.51940HD

    Evelyne, a woman of bourgeois origin, now reduced to dancing in a sleazy nightclub, is reunited with her first love, who has become a successful doctor....

    There's No Tomorrow
  • 1936
    J'arrose mes galons

    J'arrose mes galons (1936)

    J'arrose mes galons

    01936HD

    The son of a ruined family transforms into a castellan following an inheritance, becomes a parachutist champion in spite of himself, and becomes famous....

    J'arrose mes galons
  • 1942
    Little Nothings

    Little Nothings (1942)

    Little Nothings

    71942HD

    Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have often changed their lives. Each of these stories told will prove that a tiny detail in life can chan...

    Little Nothings
  • 1939
    Corsican Brothers

    Corsican Brothers (1939)

    Corsican Brothers

    01939HD

    Siamese twins, separated at birth, maintain a psychic knowledge of each other's dire fates....

    Corsican Brothers
  • 1944
    La Rabouilleuse

    La Rabouilleuse (1944)

    La Rabouilleuse

    71944HD

    1824 in Issoudun. A bourgeois, Rouget, lives as a husband and wife, La Rabouilleuse, who holds him in her power. The old man's nephew, ex-Colonel Philippe Bridau of the Imperial Guard, swears to hunt the intruder....

    La Rabouilleuse
  • 1935
    Stradivarius

    Stradivarius (1935)

    Stradivarius

    01935HD

    A French-language version of Stradivari (1935)....

    Stradivarius