Jean Sylvère Movies

The orphan Catherine Maguet, nicknamed "La grande Maguet", was taken in by a young and good chatelaine, Suzanne de Norvaisis. Edmond, the husband of...

A man is alone in Paris during the month of August while his woman and children go on vacation. He meets a young English girl posing as a model who...

Paris at the Belle Epoque. Monsieur de Pontagnac, a perfect honest man, loves pretty women too much and that plays him many tricks. What need does he...

Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One night, while sleeping in his cell, he wakes up...

Together with her partner-in-crime Claude, Clarence sets her sites on famed explorer Maxime. It seems that Luguet has stumbled upon the fabled...

Louis Mennechain is a modest locksmith. So imagine his amazement when Professor Piétrefond approaches him and tells him he recognizes in him a...

Julien Couturier and his wife Louise, a young couple from Auvergne who have come to Paris to try their luck for the first time in their lives, become...

A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider.

A tough customs man, out to get a youth smuggling tobacco into France across the Belgium border, falls for the jaded ex bar hostess the smuggler...

While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier recalls two of his most celebrated cases. The first involves duplicitous moneylender Olga....

When Charles learns that his wife and her lover want to poison him, he thinks of killing both of them.

A woman who has a terrible secret to conceal takes refuge on a barge.

In 1944, in a small village in Calvados, just as the Allies landed, a British plane was shot down. The wounded pilot seeks help. All the villagers,...

An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. The episode triggers a sense of confidence and he...

Having become famous, a painter marries his model whom he soon brings to despair by deceiving her.

Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot whilst walking in a tunnel in...

An industrialist who prefers painting to business is cheated on by his wife with a painter who prefers business to painting.

Robert Lanier, a man with a doubtful past, disembarks clandestinely in Le Havre decided to rebuild his life. Johnny, an orphaned young acrobat, takes...