Jacques Dumesnil Movies

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

A Lebanese Christian girl of European origin is attracted to a visiting Muslim chief and rides off with him.When her Christian fiance brings her...

Côme de Lambrefaut inherited the family castle on the death of his father, but the notary told him that all his property was mortgaged....

A documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts...

An accomplished young man, Prince Stéphane is destined for a brilliant future but when he finds out that Marie, his beloved fiancée,...

A high school boy falls for a prostitute he has met on the notorious "Rue Des Patures".

A jealous wealthy landlord intercepts a letter to his wife written by her cousin. He decides to take revenge by drugging the young man's horse, but...

A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.

Two families fight to stay in power. On one side, the Horatii, who rule Rome; on the other, the Curiatii, who rule Albe-la-longue. To escape the war,...

Pedro is accused of the murder of Eduardo . The evidence against him is overwhelming. A famous lawyer has to give up his defense because he is...

Henri Pierson, the chief engineer of a railway line crossing Yunnan in China, must prevent the incessant attacks of a gang of looters.

A young noblewoman is unhappy about needing to marry the village ironmaster for financial reasons, but later comes to appreciate her husband.

A colonial wife carries on an affair with a French officer, but the wife's native servant may have overheard their plan to leave Africa and return to...

An aristocratic family wants to marry off their young Helene. The mother and grandmother each pick not so bright prospects.Helene herself is drawn to...

As her neighbor Rémi Courmont has told her off for making his ears bleed with Ravel's Bolero, a music piece she plays at full volume all the...

A child is rejected by his father and sister when his mother dies giving birth to him. The family is falling apart; the father takes to drinking, the...

Juliette, an innocent woman, is wrongly sentenced to prison for attempted murder. After her release, she married an industrialist to whom she did not...

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

Based on a play by Pierre Wolff, about a wronged husband’s revenge on his wife and her lover, La belle de nuit is a major find, a work of...

Alice, an unhappy young woman in the household, is the mother of a little boy, Pierre. She falls in love with a young doctor and plans to run away...