Marcel Achard Movies

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

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 documentary view of the galas of Paris’s Palais Garnier in the 1950s and ’60s.

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

Lorette is married to Heller, a very jealous husband who has discovered a love letter from a former lover named François. He suspects (rightly...

Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and...

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

One Christmas Eve, a carefree young man, Eric, arrives in a small provincial town. Here, he meets Julien, a bar pianist who is his exact double. ...

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

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

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...

Mario Esposito, who sings in a Neapolitan restaurant, is in love with Assunta, the niece of Teresa, the owner of the place. He shares his apartment...

Alternate-language French version of Folies Bergère de Paris (1935).

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...

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,...

A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider.

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...

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,...