Jacques Dumesnil Movies

An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo...

Set during World War II in France, the story begins when a resistance fighter is given shelter in an asylum by a friend who manages the institution....

A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war.

The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location...

A detective investigates a murder and gets caught up in spy shenanigans.

Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's...

Married to Karl Ammer, the station master of Thaya, a Hungarian quiet village, Anita is a pretty young peasant who feels deeply bored. She dreams of...

In Paris, a stage-struck would-be actor is mistaken for an escaped convict.

French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one...

The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on the loving relationships of four couples. Now...

Reconstruction of Danton's political career, from the moment he had just been admitted as a lawyer and became friends with Camille Desmoulins and...

The life story of a nun who started out as a bar singer, then took the veil because she couldn't choose between two men, and now devotes herself to...

A penniless aristocrat is fooled by her ex-husband, a crook.

Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.

In the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an elderly woman, Madame Mathieu, the owner of both...

The sentimental and comic adventures of three sailors, during a stopover of their ship in Toulon, are grafted onto a story of stolen documents, which...

Considering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not allow her to turn to another man.

Lily is a lost girl who lived a miserable childhood. Now she works for Martial, a small-time crook. One day, she meets Armand, a shy high school...