Movies: Janine Viénot

  • 1952
    Le Plaisir

    Le Plaisir (1952)

    Le Plaisir

    7.51952HD

    Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending...

    Le Plaisir
  • 1945
    Angel and Sinner

    Angel and Sinner (1945)

    Angel and Sinner

    5.51945HD

    During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known as "Boule de Suif", renders these people a signal service, but comes up against their stupidity and their sufficiency. A little later, Boule de Suif as...

    Angel and Sinner
  • 1948
    Monelle

    Monelle (1948)

    Monelle

    6.31948HD

    A beautiful young pianist falls for her mentor....

    Monelle
  • 1952
    Adorable Creatures

    Adorable Creatures (1952)

    Adorable Creatures

    5.11952HD

    Andre Noblet, a 21-year-old French artist falls madly in love with Christine, the mother of two children. He tells Chistine he will tell all to her husband and demand her freedom. Christine learns that her husband has been carrying on a romance of hi...

    Adorable Creatures
  • 1940
    My Crimes After Mein Kampf

    My Crimes After Mein Kampf (1940)

    My Crimes After Mein Kampf

    31940HD

    The film shows the seizure of power by the Nazis and Hitler wants a trial, at a time when France has just declared war on Germany (Sept. 3, 1939). Hybrid composition, it alternates originals and reconstructions performed by actors (docudrama). A not-...

    My Crimes After Mein Kampf
  • 1948
    Man to Men

    Man to Men (1948)

    Man to Men

    4.21948HD

    The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross, and who was offered the first Nobel Peace Prize....

    Man to Men
  • 1949
    Between Eleven and Midnight

    Between Eleven and Midnight (1949)

    Between Eleven and Midnight

    6.71949HD

    Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot whilst walking in a tunnel in Paris. The case is assigned to Inspector Carrel, who is Vidauban’s perfect double. Using his resemblance to the arch crimina...

    Between Eleven and Midnight
  • 1948
    In the Eyes of Memory

    In the Eyes of Memory (1948)

    In the Eyes of Memory

    6.61948HD

    Director Jean Delannoy's immediate followup to his brilliant Les Jeux sont Faits was the more conventional Aux Yeux du Souvenir (aka Souvenir and To the Eyes of Memory). The film is based on a true story, wherein an France airliner managed to survive...

    In the Eyes of Memory
  • 1943
    Picpus

    Picpus (1943)

    Picpus

    4.71943HD

    Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed. Maigret tries to find the killer....

    Picpus
  • 1947
    The Royalists

    The Royalists (1947)

    The Royalists

    71947HD

    The Marquis de Montauran was appointed to command the Chouans whose first two revolts were crushed. An aristocrat, Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil, is sent by Joseph Fouché to seduce and capture him....

    The Royalists
  • 1951
    Each in turn

    Each in turn (1951)

    Each in turn

    5.51951HD

    Robert Montfort, happily married to Solange, is his parents-in-law's pet aversion though. To them he is a punk, a good for nothing, a small-time, untalented poet! Robert, who is more gifted than what they think, manages, following a workmate's recomm...

    Each in turn
  • 1946
    Special Mission

    Special Mission (1946)

    Special Mission

    51946HD

    The exploits of Chief Police Inspector Chabrier, first before the invasion of France in May 1940 as he fights against spies preparing the coming the Germans, particularly Emmy de Welder, the alleged manager of the Rouen hospital. Later, Chabrier and ...

    Special Mission
  • 1947
    Monsieur de Falindor

    Monsieur de Falindor (1947)

    Monsieur de Falindor

    01947HD

    A time lord of Valois must go to war. He learns by a prophecy that his honor risks being affected. He entrusts his wife to Maxime de Falindor who, despite the temptation, will know how to restore her wife and honor intact....

    Monsieur de Falindor
  • 1946
    The Idiot

    The Idiot (1946)

    The Idiot

    6.51946HD

    Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determined to spread decency and kindness in the harsh and cruel world. He becomes betrothed to an innocent young girl while trying to save a less-innocent w...

    The Idiot
  • 1942
    Love Marriage

    Love Marriage (1942)

    Love Marriage

    01942HD

    Pierre, who is a Fine Arts student, and Denise, who is a chemistry student, work for a department store where, wearing wedding suits, they distribute flyers to passers-by. The store manager, Bernard, falls in love with Denise and arranges to take her...

    Love Marriage
  • 1941
    Those of the Sky

    Those of the Sky (1941)

    Those of the Sky

    01941HD

    An airplane manufacturer asks his son-in-law to try out the prototypes he builds. This one ends up having an accident because of fatigue, and pushes the sacrifice to help his rival....

    Those of the Sky
  • 1943
    The Roquevillards

    The Roquevillards (1943)

    The Roquevillards

    01943HD

    France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that prides itself on its impeccable morals. Francois's world rapidly begins to fall apart when his son Maurice elopes to Italy with Edith Frasne, the wife...

    The Roquevillards
  • 1943
    Mahlia the Mestiza

    Mahlia the Mestiza (1943)

    Mahlia the Mestiza

    01943HD

    Daughter of a French officer and an Annamite, Mahlia was brought up in Indochina by Mr. and Mrs. de Roussière. Their son, Henri, would like to marry her but they are against it. Mahlia flees and Henri is killed for trying to protect her. The young gi...

    Mahlia the Mestiza
  • 1950
    Born of Unknown Father

    Born of Unknown Father (1950)

    Born of Unknown Father

    01950HD

    By taking the defense of Raymond Denis, accused of having killed his mistress, when she committed suicide because he did not want to recognize his child, the lawyer Claude Nogent, learns that he himself was born of unknown father....

    Born of Unknown Father
  • 1947
    Rumors

    Rumors (1947)

    Rumors

    01947HD

    Jean is a good man who has a steady job (he is a mechanic in the village garage) and a companion named Aline. But Jean is also a guzzler and a philanderer. As a result, when a local prostitute is killed in the surroundings, he becomes at once the vic...

    Rumors