Gaston Dubosc

The Life and Loves of Beethoven

Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.

Nine Bachelors

Nine Bachelors is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Sacha Guitry and starring Guitry, Max Dearly and Elvire...

The Pearls of the Crown

The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing.

Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées

The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himse...

The King

King John IV of Cerdania, who knows monarchs are a vanishing race but who plays his royalty role in state counc...

Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre

Maxime de Champcey, a bankrupt marquis, is hired by the wealthy Laroque and falls for his daughter Marguerite....

My Father Was Right

After being left for another man by his wife, Charles Bellanger raises his only son to fear and suspect women....

Mater Dolorosa

One of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and obsessively jealous...

From Mayerling to Sarajevo

Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, is kept absent from the royal court due to his dangerou...

Dawn Over France

The gratuitous murder of his father and the misery of the people, aggravated by a succession of bad harvests, l...

The New Rich

The workers Legendre and Martinet have won a large sum in the national lottery. Instead of squandering it, they...

Un jour viendra

A Gentleman of the Ring

Chouchou leads a happy life between his comrades and his fiancée. But his father wants him to marry a rich Amer...

L'Aristo

Nicknamed "the Aristo", a friendly tramp, once a very rich and influential man, will one fine day rediscover th...

Once Upon a Time

A poor disgraced girl, belonging to a gang of criminals, is morally transformed by a cosmetic operation that ma...

La Robe rouge

The error of an examining magistrate forever tears apart a happy and united family.

Pasteur

Guitry reprises his role as Pasteur which he played successfully at the Vaudeville Theatre in 1919.

Dainah the Mixed

After three weeks and a long, hot voyage across the Pacific, an ocean liner finally arrives at its destination,...

The Secret of Polichinelle

Secret de Polichinelle roughly translates as Open Secret. The "secret" in question is an illegitimate child, th...

Deputy Eusèbe

Eusèbe Bonbonneau, a solicitor's clerk, learns one day that a candidate bearing his name runs for election as a...

N'aimer que toi

A great singer eager to know the love of a sincere woman, in love with him and not with his glory, disguises hi...

L'épervier

A Son from America

An unemployed youth pretends to be the long lost son of an elderly industrialist but after helping the man with...

The Guilty One

Directed by René Leprince.

What for?

Céleste Noménoé, a provincial actor, comes to Paris for an inheritance. He also gets a part in a movie. The man...