Movies: Germaine Dermoz

An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband....

In a maternity hospital, young single mothers are accompanied by social worker Hélène Lambert, who tries to make them aware of their new responsibilities, while Dr. Baurain stresses the importance of their moral and sexual education. They come to the...

The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders....

Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history....

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

A swashbuckling heritage reveals itself as the adopted son of 19th-century Spaniards develops into a suave lady-killer....

A misunderstanding, due to five-year-old Régine's innocent games, causes the Chambrys to split up. They send the child to pastor Crokfield, an old friend of the family, to be taken care of. Petit Ange (Little Angel), as little Régine is nicknamed, wi...

Madame Husson and her circle of holier-than-thou ladies (including an old maid Madame Cadenas)are looking for a chaste and pure girl who will win a hefty sum....

Two brothers-in-law hate each other but, for business interests, they want their respective son and daughter to marry. The young fiancées are not in agreement, as the boy has a happy relationship with a woman, and the girl is in an isolation mood. A ...

Dries, a farmer and a widower, lives with his mother-in-law Grietje and his son Peter. He falls in love with Minna, a widow, and marries her despite the opposition of his family and friends. In anger his son Peter leaves home to enlist, while Grietje...

A brave woman is sentenced to prison on false testimony. She escapes twenty years later and takes refuge in Paris where she carries bread while looking for her children Georges and Lucie who will find her and exonerate her....

Two middle-class notions dealers live happily with their girl, but an inheritance turns these nice people into snob Nouveaux Riches. Although the aristocracy invites them, the 'Tout-Paris' laughs behind their back. When they invite their would be new...

Early film version of the famous play....

As the red headed boy writes in his school book, a family is a group living under the same roof who can't stand each other....

During the First World War, the Russian officer Captain Ivan Ignatoff falls in love with his nurse, Natasha Kovrin. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is un...

A young man from an aristocratic family tires of the country life and moves to Paris where he squanders his inheritance. Returning to his home with remorse, he reconciles with his father and becomes engaged to his true love....

Commissioner Malaise investigates a strange crime: a mannequin, stolen from the window of a tailor, is found stabbed... But his face of wax has the features of a certain Gilbert, who died a year earlier in a family, all of whose members will become m...

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Drama in which the love between Claude and Germaine is tested when Claude is falsely accused and Germaine's father doesn't approve of their relationship....

A man is killed smuggling contraband through the Pyrenees Alps. He leaves behind a pregnant woman who must go on....