Marcel Achard Movies

Celestin works as an organist at a girl's school. By day, Celestin is the meek and mild target of the girls' incessant practical jokes. By night,...

In 1930s France a bar hostess helps a man prove himself innocent of murder.

André is a loving and attentive husband, but when he agrees to plead his enamored brother's case with student Françoise Massard, he in...

Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poor stock who taunts and degrades him.

A Parisian reporter tries to exonerate a fugitive neighbor of charges he murdered his wife.

Madame Célerier is determined to marry off her son François to a rich and haughty woman but François has other plans.

Domino has only a wooden statuette, a typical piece of African art, to show for his trip. Arriving in Paris, Domino phones the famous Heller...

Leon Rollo whose nickname is "Patate" is an inventor adored by his wife and is daughter. He is mostly happy but his best friend Noël seems to...

The works of Marcel Pagnol are a veritable monument of French cultural heritage. Based on previously unseen archive material, film extracts, novels,...

A young man makes his living in Paris in 1900 by fighting duels on behalf of other parties. He is hired to injure a leading politician and starts to...

A brave bookseller raises his four daughters alone, all of whom he employs in his shop. They are especially interested in their sentimental stories....

A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider.

Marceline is pretty but inconstant. She has a brother, eccentric as well as invading, who serves as a go-between between the fickle young woman and...

A barge captain saves Marinette from drowning and soon marries her. On the wedding day, Sylvestre, the captain’s best friend, falls in love...

Sylvie is a young cashier in a Montmartre café, "le bar des Philosophes", owned and run by Monsieur Marcel, a former safe cracker. One day,...

During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for...

A free-spirited, guileless and amoral young woman, who works as a maid in the home of one of the most prominent and influential families in France...

La Garçonne is a 1957 French film directed by Jacqueline Audry. It follows Monique, an ingenue and a clueless girl who believes in true love....