Movies: Julien Maffre

  • 1944
    L'aventure est au coin de la rue

    L'aventure est au coin de la rue (1944)

    L'aventure est au coin de la rue

    4.21944HD

    A rich young man, Pierre Trévoux, has a desire for adventure and boasts of his courage. While he is staying with friends in the countryside, his hosts, to play a trick on him, organize a fake burglary, but he discovers the hoax. When he returns home,...

    L'aventure est au coin de la rue
  • 1959
    It Only Happens to the Living

    It Only Happens to the Living (1959)

    It Only Happens to the Living

    71959HD

    A young garage owner, Henri, whose business is not going well, fixes the lovely Gloria's car on the road. She suggests he let part of his garage to her friends....

    It Only Happens to the Living
  • 1950
    The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang

    The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang (1950)

    The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang

    41950HD

    The manager of a firm has a very unusual idea : asking his employees to pose as gangsters and to hold up a bank before returning the stolen money and pocketing the reward. But things do not go according to plan and the phony thieves get stolen in the...

    The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang
  • 1956
    Honoré de Marseille

    Honoré de Marseille (1956)

    Honoré de Marseille

    5.71956HD

    As he explains to the journalist who came to interview him, Honoré cultivates, as a perfect Marseillais, farnienté and galéjade. He evokes the Phocaean Protis, who founded the city of Marseille, and the Roman Honorius, who invented pétanque. He loves...

    Honoré de Marseille
  • 1947
    Mirror

    Mirror (1947)

    Mirror

    6.31947HD

    Portrait of a two-faced man. By day he is rich, brilliant and respectable financial officer Lussac; at night, he becomes "Mirror", a ruthless gang leader in Marseilles....

    Mirror
  • 1954
    The Secrets of the Bed

    The Secrets of the Bed (1954)

    The Secrets of the Bed

    11954HD

    Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural background take refuge in a cabin after being sidetracked by bad weather on their way to conference....

    The Secrets of the Bed
  • 1948
    Le diamant de cent sous

    Le diamant de cent sous (1948)

    Le diamant de cent sous

    01948HD

    For fun and to dazzle his wife, the novelist Morgan steals a ring and gets rid of it in the costume jewelry section of a supermarket. Sophie buys the diamond, which forces the novelist to embark on crazy adventures to recover the jewel....

    Le diamant de cent sous
  • 1948
    Eternal Conflict

    Eternal Conflict (1948)

    Eternal Conflict

    5.21948HD

    Janvier, an embittered teacher, is fed up with his colorless, monotonous life. One day he breaks away and ends up becoming a circus clown. In his new world, he meets a beautiful acrobat nicknamed Lili and grows fonder and fonder of her every day of h...

    Eternal Conflict
  • 1952
    Woman Are Angels

    Woman Are Angels (1952)

    Woman Are Angels

    11952HD

    In order to inherit her husband's old aunt more quickly, a greedy peasant woman engages in various dishonest maneuvers....

    Woman Are Angels
  • 1955
    Girl on the Third Floor

    Girl on the Third Floor (1955)

    Girl on the Third Floor

    51955HD

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

    Girl on the Third Floor
  • 1952
    French Touch

    French Touch (1952)

    French Touch

    6.61952HD

    Mario, a bumptious sheep-shearer, discovers he has a inimtable touch that makes women, as well as sheep, swoon at his professional caress. He is soon the most sought-after hairdresser in France and is awarded the Legion of Honor......

    French Touch
  • 1948
    Le voleur se porte bien

    Le voleur se porte bien (1948)

    Le voleur se porte bien

    01948HD

    Hector Dumontier has had enough of his wife Noémie : she is always immersed in those detective stories he disapproves of. To teach her a lesson, Dumontier decides to simulate the burglary of their house, with the help of an alleged jewel thief masked...

    Le voleur se porte bien
  • 1949
    The Farm of Seven Sins

    The Farm of Seven Sins (1949)

    The Farm of Seven Sins

    5.71949HD

    In 1825, Paul-Louis Courier, a Republican writer known for publishing pamphlets against the French monarchy, was killed in the farm where he had retired. Was it a political assassination or a vicious crime? Those who have known him loved him or hated...

    The Farm of Seven Sins
  • 1951
    Perfectionist

    Perfectionist (1951)

    Perfectionist

    6.21951HD

    Professor Louis Delage is a kidney transplant specialist. He is so good in his field that his peers nickname him the "great man". But one day, one of his patients die during surgery and Delage starts doubting. Is he actually such a great man? To figh...

    Perfectionist
  • 1945
    Resistance

    Resistance (1945)

    Resistance

    01945HD

    An Alsatian, head of a section of the Gestapo, is actually spying on behalf of the French and dismantling a Nazi network. His activities are brought to light by the Germans and he owes his life only to the intervention of a young woman....

    Resistance
  • 1948
    The Secret of Monte-Cristo

    The Secret of Monte-Cristo (1948)

    The Secret of Monte-Cristo

    01948HD

    One of Alexandre Dumas's most popular adventure novels is "The Count of Monte-Cristo". What is little known is that the famous writer made up neither its plot nor its characters. Dumas actually heard the true story of a man named François Picault dur...

    The Secret of Monte-Cristo
  • 1949
    Marlène

    Marlène (1949)

    Marlène

    01949HD

    Returning from South America, a singer is hired by an old pal who runs a detective agency to use a perch as a night club performer to be an investigator.The amateur sleuth then falls for a girl whose brother is a jewel thief....

    Marlène
  • 1946
    Mr. Gregoire Runs Away

    Mr. Gregoire Runs Away (1946)

    Mr. Gregoire Runs Away

    5.61946HD

    Alex Grégoire is a timid insurance company clerk who shares his uneventful life between his wife Angèle, his colleagues and his passion for crosswords. But all of a sudden his existence changes dramatically. First because he wins a crossword competit...

    Mr. Gregoire Runs Away
  • 1954
    On the Bench

    On the Bench (1954)

    On the Bench

    4.21954HD

    La Hurlette and Carmen are a pair of philosophical tramps who enjoy simple pleasures in the company of the cheerful Sosthène. As in the fairy tales, La Hurlette learns that he has just inherited a tidy fortune, provided he can find a job. By dint of ...

    On the Bench
  • 1950
    Here Is the Beauty

    Here Is the Beauty (1950)

    Here Is the Beauty

    01950HD

    Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success as a ballerina despite being wounded by him in a fit of jealousy. His career as a sculptor is stymied when he is arrested....

    Here Is the Beauty