Movies: Jean Joffre

Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to...

Tells the story of a young woman escaping from reform school who tries to steal a foreign ambassador's watch but ends up falling in love with him....

Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter ...

To inherit from his late uncle, Narcisse Pigeon is obliged to pass his pilot's license....

In the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an elderly woman, Madame Mathieu, the owner of both buildings. Boucheron, the local superintendent, is dispatched to investigate, along with his rival, Inspec...

The mistress of an engineer meets the man's pregnant wife and decides to give up the liaison....

Fictionalized reconstruction of the life of the French spy Marthe Richard who decided to contact the secret services during the First World War....

A 14-episode silent adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers....

French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he's wrought when he dies on New Year's Eve and is collected by Death in his carriage....

Max is a millionaire who is forced to lead a double-life as a waiter, the result of having lost a wager....

Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas....

A kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence and carries out dishonest activities....

A wealthy man's wife dies in a car crash; she is survived by him and their daughter. The father learns that he's not her biological father....

For 15 years after Waterloo, a baron refuses to accept the defeat. He reluctantly marries one of 2 Bourbon sisters but lands up dueling with the wife's former lover. Finally he gets a chance to prove himself again in battle....

The gratuitous murder of his father and the misery of the people, aggravated by a succession of bad harvests, lead Gaspard, a great admirer of Mandrin and blacksmith by profession, to revolt. With his companion Samplan, he finds himself at the head o...

Claude, son of a ruined family, pretends to be a dangerous trickster in order to get credit from the guys in the middle. He is in charge of retrieving compromising letters from a woman whose lover fears blackmail. But before arriving there, Claude fo...

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Alexandre Mérital, the leader of a political party, finds himself under attack from Frépeau, one of his opponents. The latter has indeed discovered that Mérital committed a theft in his youth. But Mérital will not be intimidated by his adversary's mo...

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....

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