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1. La galerie des monstres (1924)
75 min | Drama
The life of the clown Riquet and his young wife, the dancer Ralda, is threatened by the despotic owner of the circus where they work together. He wants the girl and will not hesitate to try... See full summary »
Director: Jaque Catelain | Stars: Jaque Catelain, Lois Moran, Claire Prélia, Jean Murat
Votes: 119
2. The Late Mathias Pascal (1925)
Not Rated | 170 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Mathias Pascal, only son of a once rich family, marries beautiful Romilde, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his home life becomes a nightmare, as well ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel L'Herbier | Stars: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Marcelle Pradot, Lois Moran, Marthe Mellot
Votes: 442
3. The Vocation of André Carel (1925)
96 min | Comedy, Drama
On the shores of Lake Geneva, a young Parisian bourgeois spends his holidays in Evian, the fashionable spa for the well-to-do.
Director: Jean Choux | Stars: Stéphane Audel, Blanche Montel, Camille Bert, Michel Simon
Votes: 95
4. L'inconnue des six jours (1926)
70 min
Director: René Sti | Stars: Tania Fédor, Michel Simon, Jean Painlevé, Charles Montel
5. Casanova (1927)
132 min | Biography, Drama
A flamboyant portrait of the famous seducer seen by a former baritone of the Moscow Opera who, after a vocal accident, leaves for Germany and then France to devote himself to cinema.
Director: Alexandre Volkoff | Stars: Ivan Mozzhukhin, Suzanne Bianchetti, Diana Karenne, Jenny Jugo
Votes: 256
6. The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Passed | 114 min | Biography, Drama, History
In 1431, Jeanne d'Arc is placed on trial on charges of heresy. The ecclesiastical jurists attempt to force Jeanne to recant her claims of holy visions.
Director: Carl Theodor Dreyer | Stars: Maria Falconetti, Eugene Silvain, André Berley, Maurice Schutz
Votes: 60,666 | Gross: $0.02M
7. Tire au flanc (1928)
87 min | Comedy
A rich poet and his servant both join the army and wind up in the same barracks.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Georges Pomiès, Michel Simon, Félix Oudart, Jean Storm
Votes: 282
8. L'enfant de l'amour (1930)
90 min | Drama
The illegitimate son of a music-hall star and an ambitious politician has grown up to become a journalist. He decides to get back at his father by using blackmail.
Director: Marcel L'Herbier | Stars: Emmy Lynn, Jaque Catelain, Warwick Ward, Marcelle Pradot
Votes: 19
9. Jean de la Lune (1931)
85 min | Comedy
Marceline, the young wife of the florist Jean, can't help flirting with other men, but her brother Clo-Clo takes the poor husband's side against his sister.
Directors: Jean Choux, Michel Simon | Stars: Madeleine Renaud, René Lefèvre, Michel Simon, Constant Rémy
Votes: 36
10. Baby's Laxative (1931)
46 min | Comedy
A porcelain-maker invites a guest to sell him chamber pots, but family problems cause interruptions.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Marguerite Pierry, Jacques Louvigny, Michel Simon, Olga Valéry
Votes: 521
11. La Chienne (1931)
Not Rated | 95 min | Crime, Drama
Maurice Legrand, a meek cashier married to a nagging wife, has a secret passion: he's a Sunday painter. He falls in love with Lulu, a young woman dominated by Dédé, the pimp who she works for. Dédé pushes Lulu into a relationship with him.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Michel Simon, Janie Marèse, Georges Flamant, Roger Gaillard
Votes: 4,838
12. Baleydier (1932)
74 min | Comedy
The attempt of a young hairdresser to act in a serious film with his chosen co star , recognized during the shooting as inept, is mistakenly taken by the audience to be deliberately comic.
Director: Jean Mamy | Stars: Michel Simon, Josseline Gaël, Pierre Pradier, Géo Lecomte
13. Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
Not Rated | 85 min | Comedy
A bookseller saves a tramp from drowning and shelters him, but the tramp's odd behavior starts to wear everyone down.
Director: Jean Renoir | Stars: Michel Simon, Marcelle Hainia, Sévérine Lerczinska, Jean Gehret
Votes: 6,207
14. Miquette et sa mère (1933)
75 min | Comedy
Miquette, the daughter of Mme Grandier, a tobacconist, would be just another country girl if she did not make men crazy. For the time being, no fewer than three men vie for her: Marquis de ... See full summary »
Directors: Henri Diamant-Berger, Henri Rollan, André Gillois | Stars: Blanche Montel, Michel Simon, Roland Toutain, Marcelle Monthil
Votes: 16
15. High and Low (1933)
79 min | Comedy
The intersecting lives of neighbors in a courtyard apartment building in Vienna,including a football player related to the concierge,a new blonde maid hired by the wife of a baron,whom both... See full summary »
Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Jean Gabin, Janine Crispin, Micheline Bernard, Pauline Carton
Votes: 96
16. Léopold le bien-aimé (1934)
102 min
Away in the colonies for 15 years after his girlfriend has jilted him, Leopold returns to his village to resume involvement with women ,hopefully with better results.
Director: Arno-Charles Brun | Stars: Michel Simon, Jean Sarment, Marguerite Valmond, Marcel André
17. Ladies Lake (1934)
106 min | Drama
A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpine lake resort. He falls in love with a young heiress who is staying there with her ... See full summary »
Director: Marc Allégret | Stars: Rosine Deréan, Simone Simon, Ila Mecséry, Odette Joyeux
Votes: 167
18. L'Atalante (1934)
Not Rated | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Newly married couple Juliette and a ship captain Jean struggle through marriage as they travel on the L'atalante along with the captain's first mate Le père Jules and a cabin boy.
Director: Jean Vigo | Stars: Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Gilles Margaritis, Louis Lefebvre
Votes: 17,473
19. Le bonheur (1934)
98 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Injured by anarchist Philippe Lucher, film actress Clara Stuart falls in love with her attacker and decides to plead in his favor at his trial.
Director: Marcel L'Herbier | Stars: Gaby Morlay, Charles Boyer, Paulette Dubost, Jean Toulout
Votes: 261
20. Adémaï au Moyen-Âge (1935)
80 min | Comedy
Joan Of Arc has just released Orléans (1429)but the English are still here to stay . The fortress of Châteauneuf is hold by Lord Pickwickdam .
Director: Jean de Marguenat | Stars: Noël-Noël, Michel Simon, Jacques Grétillat, Maurice Maillot
Votes: 17
21. Amants et voleurs (1935)
90 min | Comedy
A ruined young man makes people believe in the middle class that he is a thug. He will meet love by collecting important documents from this woman's lover.
Director: Raymond Bernard | Stars: Arletty, Michel Simon, Florelle, Pierre Blanchar
Votes: 57
22. Le bébé de l'escadron (1935)
95 min | Comedy
Director: René Sti | Stars: Michel Simon, Paulette Dubost, Pierre Larquey, Suzy Prim
23. Under Western Eyes (1936)
95 min | Drama
Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia, as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official.
Director: Marc Allégret | Stars: Pierre Fresnay, Danièle Parola, Michel Simon, Jacques Copeau
Votes: 90
24. Moutonnet (1936)
95 min | Comedy
A crude countryman sells horses and ,thanks to an old war buddy who has now become a film star, has achieved some renown.Full of himself, he ventures to Paris to see his movie friend ,only to experience bitter disappointment.
Director: René Sti | Stars: Noël-Noël, Lucien Rozenberg, Michel Simon, Janine Crispin
25. Les jumeaux de Brighton (1936)
89 min | Comedy
Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the great Raimu who also plays their father.
Director: Claude Heymann | Stars: Raimu, Michel Simon, Suzy Prim, Charlotte Lysès
Votes: 50
26. Jeunes filles de Paris (1936)
90 min | Comedy, Drama
Turning among characters such as : an alcoholic bum, a rich banker, an eccentric old lady, a working class girl, a poor lover, and a hypocritical bourgeois.
Director: Claude Vermorel | Stars: Michel Simon, Mireille Balin, Paul Azaïs, Nadia Sibirskaïa
Votes: 11
27. Le mort en fuite (1936)
85 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
Two third-rate thespians feign a murder to make the headlines.Their subterfuge backfires on them and both are sentenced to death.
Director: André Berthomieu | Stars: Jules Berry, Michel Simon, Marie Glory, Fernande Albany
Votes: 165
28. Let's Make a Dream (1936)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Romance
A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, in a daze. Another man is there, and the dazed man confesses his infidelity to this stranger--who turns out to be his wife's lover.
Director: Sacha Guitry | Stars: Sacha Guitry, Raimu, Jacqueline Delubac, Arletty
Votes: 580
29. Le choc en retour (1937)
94 min | Comedy, Romance
Directors: Maurice Kéroul, Georges Monca | Stars: Michel Simon, René Lefèvre, Janine Crispin, Raymond Cordy
Votes: 12
30. Boulot aviateur (1937)
89 min | Comedy
Director: Maurice de Canonge | Stars: Robert Arnoux, Marguerite Moreno, Michel Simon, Jacqueline Daix
31. La bataille silencieuse (1937)
113 min | Comedy, Drama
A young journalist who has gone reporting with the papers of a friend gets caught up in an arms smuggling operation. It is in this context that he meets Draguicha, a Serbian student who, ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Billon | Stars: Käthe von Nagy, Pierre Fresnay, Michel Simon, Abel Tarride
Votes: 7
32. Bizarre, Bizarre (1937)
84 min | Comedy
In Victorian London, a crime novelist and his wife fake their disappearance in order to hide from an uptight Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against the "evils" of crime fiction.
Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Françoise Rosay, Michel Simon, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis Jouvet
Votes: 1,965
33. Naples Under the Kiss of Fire (1937)
83 min | Comedy, Romance
Mario Esposito, who sings in a Neapolitan restaurant, is in love with Assunta, the niece of Teresa, the owner of the place. He shares his apartment with Michel, his best friend. This one ... See full summary »
Director: Augusto Genina | Stars: Tino Rossi, Michel Simon, Mireille Balin, Marcel Dalio
Votes: 64
34. Mirages (1938)
98 min | Drama
A star of Les Folies Bergères has to choose between her career and her love for an engineer.
Director: Alexandre Ryder | Stars: Michel Simon, Jeanne Aubert, Jean-Louis Barrault, Arletty
Votes: 18
35. Les disparus de St. Agil (1938)
98 min | Drama, Mystery
Strange things happen at night at the Saint-Argil secondary school. Baume, Sorgues and Macroy, three of the school's pupils, discover a suspicious man on the premises. Shortly after this unsettling event, pupils begin to go missing.
Director: Christian-Jaque | Stars: Erich von Stroheim, Michel Simon, Armand Bernard, Aimé Clariond
Votes: 952
36. Port of Shadows (1938)
Not Rated | 91 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a foggy, French port city.
Director: Marcel Carné | Stars: Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Michèle Morgan, Pierre Brasseur
Votes: 9,962 | Gross: $0.03M
37. Les nouveaux riches (1938)
89 min | Comedy
Former workers, Martinet and Legendre have become successful company managers after winning the lottery. Martinet plays on the stock market against his former boss, and ruins him, what enrages Legendre, and his son.
Director: André Berthomieu | Stars: Raimu, Michel Simon, Betty Stockfeld, Fernand Fabre
Votes: 17
38. Belle étoile (1938)
87 min | Comedy, Drama
Life is sweet and easy beneath the stars ,when we are together.
Director: Jacques de Baroncelli | Stars: Michel Simon, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Meg Lemonnier, Saturnin Fabre
Votes: 22
39. Le ruisseau (1938)
100 min | Drama
When Paul, an officer, discovers Denise, a young orphan escaped from her orphanage, he takes advantage of his naivete to seduce her before changing her mind and sending her to live with her mother while sailing.
Directors: Maurice Lehmann, Claude Autant-Lara | Stars: Françoise Rosay, Michel Simon, Gaby Sylvia, Ginette Leclerc
Votes: 37
40. La chaleur du sein (1938)
85 min | Comedy, Drama
Eighteen-year-old Gilbert Quercy has tried to commit suicide and has been sent to hospital. Nobody is surprised there when his mother comes to visit him but the nurse cannot believe her ... See full summary »
Director: Jean Boyer | Stars: Michel Simon, Arletty, Gabrielle Dorziat, Pierre Larquey
Votes: 84
41. Le règne de l'esprit malin (1938)
Drama
Director: Max Haufler | Stars: Walburga Gmür, Heinrich Gretler, Max Haufler, Michel Simon
42. Noix de coco (1939)
80 min | Comedy, Drama
A small town gentleman learns that his prim and proper wife was once a showgirl, and that, even worse, he had enjoyed a one night stand with her in the Orient.
Director: Jean Boyer | Stars: Raimu, Marie Bell, Michel Simon, Gilbert Gil
Votes: 51
43. Eusèbe député (1939)
85 min
Eusèbe Bonbonneau, a solicitor's clerk, learns one day that a candidate bearing his name runs for election as a member of parliament. In fact Frazier, a crooked businessman, has urged an ... See full summary »
Director: André Berthomieu | Stars: Michel Simon, René Bergeron, Jules Berry, Albert Broquin
44. Derrière la façade (1939)
85 min | Comedy, Crime, Drama
The owner of an apartment building is found murdered. Two rival policemen, Boucheron and Lambert, investigate the matter and get into the private lives of the tenants: an unfaithful judge, ... See full summary »
Directors: Georges Lacombe, Yves Mirande | Stars: Lucien Baroux, Jules Berry, André Lefaur, Gaby Morlay
Votes: 151
45. La fin du jour (1939)
99 min | Drama
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.
Director: Julien Duvivier | Stars: Victor Francen, Michel Simon, Louis Jouvet, Madeleine Ozeray
Votes: 1,030
46. The Last Turning (1939)
90 min | Crime, Drama, Romance
Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and mercenary woman half his age. Frank, ... See full summary »
Director: Pierre Chenal | Stars: Fernand Gravey, Michel Simon, Marcel Vallée, Auguste Bovério
Votes: 301
47. Fric-Frac (1939)
92 min | Comedy
Marcel works as assistant to a jeweller whose bossy daughter Renée keeps hitting on him. When he meets lovely Loulou and her lazy friend Jo, he is fascinated by the girl and somehow ... See full summary »
Directors: Maurice Lehmann, Claude Autant-Lara | Stars: Fernandel, Michel Simon, Arletty, Hélène Robert
Votes: 553
48. Circonstances atténuantes (1939)
85 min | Comedy
A retired criminal-court judge on vacation finds himself stranded in a nest of thieves, who show him a friendlier side of crime.
Director: Jean Boyer | Stars: Michel Simon, Arletty, Dorville, Andrex
Votes: 217
49. Cavalcade d'amour (1939)
100 min | Drama, History, Romance
A triple love story stopped each time by low material interests.
Director: Raymond Bernard | Stars: Simone Simon, Michel Simon, Claude Dauphin, Janine Darcey
Votes: 60
50. Musicians of Heaven (1940)
98 min | Drama
A would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant.
Director: Georges Lacombe | Stars: Michèle Morgan, Michel Simon, René Lefèvre, René Alexandre
Votes: 36