Movies: Maurice Derville

  • 1953
    Follow That Man

    Follow That Man (1953)

    Follow That Man

    6.11953HD

    While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier recalls two of his most celebrated cases. The first involves duplicitous moneylender Olga. The second concerns the brutal broad daylight murder of innocent young Yvonne....

    Follow That Man
  • 1962
    Emile's Boat

    Emile's Boat (1962)

    Emile's Boat

    6.41962HD

    Charles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers, decides to return to La Rochelle, his hometown to die there. Forty years earlier he had been driven out by his father. Before passing away, the old eccentric announces that he has a hidden son, É...

    Emile's Boat
  • 1947
    Six Hours to Lose

    Six Hours to Lose (1947)

    Six Hours to Lose

    5.21947HD

    A traveller is stuck in an unknown town because his connecting train will only arrive in six hours. He decides to kill time by taking a stroll. He is not prepared to get confused with somebody else. In fact the citizens are eagerly awaiting the visit...

    Six Hours to Lose
  • 1949
    The Cheat

    The Cheat (1949)

    The Cheat

    6.91949HD

    The life of a weak-willed man is thrust into a downward spiral by the scheming of his manipulative girlfriend and her mother....

    The Cheat
  • 1951
    The Straw Lover

    The Straw Lover (1951)

    The Straw Lover

    3.51951HD

    The wife of gunsmith Gaston Sarazin cheats on him with his salesman. The husband, informed, wants revenge. The culprits try to divert suspicion on the dashing Stanislas. The husband forces the straw lover to live with him. Stanislas then brings the s...

    The Straw Lover
  • 1950
    Marie of the Port

    Marie of the Port (1950)

    Marie of the Port

    5.81950HD

    Henri Chatelard is well into his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciates women. When he meets Marie, an 18-ish strong-head who just lost her father in a small fishing village, it is not clear who is the hunter and who is ...

    Marie of the Port
  • 1951
    Without Leaving an Address

    Without Leaving an Address (1951)

    Without Leaving an Address

    6.11951HD

    A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address....

    Without Leaving an Address
  • 1949
    Return to Life

    Return to Life (1949)

    Return to Life

    6.21949HD

    In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War....

    Return to Life
  • 1950
    Le 84 prend des vacances

    Le 84 prend des vacances (1950)

    Le 84 prend des vacances

    11950HD

    Gaston Bernod is a Parisian bus driver. Honest, upright and hard-working, he is held in high esteem by his superiors. Gaston has always pampered "his" bus, going as far as to equip it with a fuel-saving device of his invention. Very close to his vehi...

    Le 84 prend des vacances
  • 1947
    Silence Is Golden

    Silence Is Golden (1947)

    Silence Is Golden

    6.71947HD

    Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting a tour through France. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his younger friend Jacques com...

    Silence Is Golden
  • 1961
    The Nina B. Affair

    The Nina B. Affair (1961)

    The Nina B. Affair

    4.81961HD

    A businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him....

    The Nina B. Affair
  • 1948
    White as Snow

    White as Snow (1948)

    White as Snow

    6.41948HD

    Naive and good-hearted Léon Ménard arrives in Paris, determined to find work in the capital. In a café, he meets Bob, a seedy guy, who helps him to get a job. On cloud nine, the ingenuous young man, does is unaware of how Bob manipulates him. Having ...

    White as Snow
  • 1947
    Danger of Death

    Danger of Death (1947)

    Danger of Death

    5.41947HD

    Loiseau the pharmacist mistakenly mixes potassium cyanide into a batch of cough syrup and sells five bottles. With horror he discovers his mistake and sets out to find the buyers. He finds only four. The fifth, not a regular customer, comes back to t...

    Danger of Death
  • 1956
    In the Manner of Sherlock Holmes

    In the Manner of Sherlock Holmes (1956)

    In the Manner of Sherlock Holmes

    7.41956HD

    A horrific and, on the face of it, incomprehensible murder has just been committed on the unsympathetic person of a loan shark. The victim's body is found lifeless, but the circumstances of his death are far from clear. For want of anything better to...

    In the Manner of Sherlock Holmes
  • 1947
    Square of Knaves

    Square of Knaves (1947)

    Square of Knaves

    11947HD

    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. For the beautiful eyes of the young ...

    Square of Knaves
  • 1948
    In the Eyes of Memory

    In the Eyes of Memory (1948)

    In the Eyes of Memory

    6.61948HD

    Director Jean Delannoy's immediate followup to his brilliant Les Jeux sont Faits was the more conventional Aux Yeux du Souvenir (aka Souvenir and To the Eyes of Memory). The film is based on a true story, wherein an France airliner managed to survive...

    In the Eyes of Memory
  • 1954
    Palace of Shame

    Palace of Shame (1954)

    Palace of Shame

    4.41954HD

    Tongues start to wag after a famous Parisian music hall dancer is rushed to hospital after being found poisoned by arsenic at the Concert Mayol....

    Palace of Shame
  • 1950
    L'homme de joie

    L'homme de joie (1950)

    L'homme de joie

    01950HD

    A boudoir adventure during which the seductive Madame Jolivet, shocked by the behavior of her husband who appears with an actress, calls on the services of a young man, known as "the man of joy"....

    L'homme de joie