Movies: Jean-Louis Barrault
- 1962
The Longest Day (1962)
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The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the ...
- 1950
La Ronde (1950)
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An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. Th...
- 1945
Children of Paradise (1945)
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In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: pretentious actor Frederick, connivi...
- 1954
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
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Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after w...
- 1937
Bizarre, Bizarre (1937)
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A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin – an Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against such writing....
- 1960
The Dialogue of the Carmelites (1960)
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This drama about the Carmelite order of nuns is set during the French Revolution. A young woman seeks refuge with the Carmelites because she is terrified of dying during the upheaval. The longer she associates with the nuns the more she is transforme...
- 1982
The Night of Varennes (1982)
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During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps....
- 1961
Blood on His Sword (1961)
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Charles le Temeraire asks in marriage Jeanne de Beauvais, daughter of King Louis XI, wishing to get her valuable lands in dowry. The King is wise to this, and since his daughter does not feel inclined to accept, he refuses. Charles sets up a plan to ...
- 1960
The Doctor's Horrible Experiment (1960)
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Dr. Cordelier, living in a suburb of Paris, withdraws from society to pursue research into the functioning of the human brain. His lifelong friend, Maître Joly, becomes concerned when Cordelier draws up a will that bequeaths his entire estate to a st...
- 1936
Jenny (1936)
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When her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Danielle leaves London and returns to her mother, Jenny, in Paris. With her business partner Benoît, Jenny runs what appears to be a respectable nightclub – it is in fact a place where wealthy men can buy ...
- 1964
The Big Scare (1964)
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Two police inspectors pursue a dangerous counterfeiter on the run....
- 1967
The Birth of Children of Paradise (1967)
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Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing the director, the actors and production designer, as well as other French directors....
- 1951
Venom and Eternity (1951)
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In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of movie-making: through scratching and bleaching the film, through desynchronizing the soundtrack and the...
- 1985
To Be Hamlet (1985)
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Documentary examination of the role of Hamlet, in which ten prominent actors who have played the part discuss Hamlet's personality, Shakespeare's play, and the enduring popular fascination it has inspired. The actors interviewed are Laurence Olivier,...
- 1938
I Accuse (1938)
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After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in scientific research, seeking a machine to prevent war. He thinks he has succeeded, but the government ...
- 1937
The Pearls of the Crown (1937)
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The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing....
- 1937
The Life and Loves of Beethoven (1937)
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Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist....
- 1941
Montmartre on the Seine (1941)
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Maurice loves Juliet and Michael loves Lily. Romance blossoms on the hill. They are workers, artisans, and Lily has a real talent as a singer. But Claude's arrival brings trouble to their relationships. Maurice, jealous, approaches Lily. Singing in t...
- 1942
La Symphonie fantastique (1942)
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The film is biographical, telling the story of the life and artistic struggles of the French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz is shown as a recalcitrant medical student in an anatomy class dreaming of becoming a composer; at a demonstration during a ...
- 1945
Blind Desire (1945)
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A violinist passes on to his daughter three rings which represent three passions of his romantic past, and urges her to save each for men who truly deserve one.She squanders them all on one man who is undeserving....