The best Gérard Philipe’s romance movies

Gérard Philipe

Gérard Philipe

04/12/1922- 25/11/1959
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Devil in the Flesh

Devil in the Flesh
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 22/09/1947
  • Character: François Jaubert
In France during World War I, Marthe waits for her husband, Jacques, while he fights on the front lines. Marthe then begins a tempestuous affair with 17-year-old François, with whom she had a dalliance before marrying Jacques. Jealous François struggles with the fact that Marthe is married, while she tries to prove her devotion to her young, hotheaded lover. Things become even more complex when Marthe becomes pregnant with Jacques' baby.

Fan-Fan the Tulip

Fan-Fan the Tulip
7.2/10
Fanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage and because a gipsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as a wife. But the gipsy girl was in fact Adeline, the daughter of the recruiting officer. Once he has discovered the stratagem, Fanfan refuses to forget this dream and decides to fulfill the destiny of the fake prediction. Fantastic swashbuckling adventures in a 18th century setting, with a light criticism of the war and the mighty.

La Ronde

La Ronde
7.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 27/09/1950
  • Character: Le comte
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. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.

Dangerous Liaisons

Dangerous Liaisons
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 09/09/1959
  • Character: Valmont
Juliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both have sexual affairs with others and share their experiences with one another. But there is one rule: never fall in love. But this time Valmont falls madly in love with a girl he meets at a ski resort, Marianne.

The Lovers of Montparnasse

The Lovers of Montparnasse
7.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 04/04/1958
  • Character: Amedeo Modigliani
Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial help. Modigliani worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.

The Grand Maneuver

The Grand Maneuver
6.7/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 25/10/1955
  • Character: Le lieutenant Armand de la Verne
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.

Juliette, or Key of Dreams

Juliette, or Key of Dreams
6.9/10
Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One night, while sleeping in his cell, he wakes up all of a sudden, the gates open and he finds himself in a strange village where all the inhabitants have lost their memory. There, meets Juliette again who seems to agree to marry a powerful man, who might well be Bluebeard...

Beauties of the Night

Beauties of the Night
6.9/10
A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.

The Charterhouse of Parma

The Charterhouse of Parma
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 21/02/1948
  • Character: le marquis Fabrice Del Dong
This adaptation of Stendhal's timeless masterpiece of French literature tells the tale of Fabrice Del Dongo (Grard Philipe) a young archibishop who gives his heart and soul to romance rather than to the Church creating upheaval in the lives of evergone around him the Countess of Sanseverine (Maria Casares) is but one of the may women who love him. In turn she incurs jealous retributions from those in high places who desire her. For his crimes Fabrice is thrown in Prison where from Crimes Fabrice is thrown in prison where form his lonely window he falls in love with his jailer s daughter and plans a daring escape she however calls his plan insane and takes a vow to the Virgin Mary to never see him again ever if his escape succeeds the Charterhouse of Parma explodes with conflicting desires man s desire form God vs. his desire for romance.

Land Without Stars

Land Without Stars
6.4/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 02/04/1946
  • Character: Simon Legouge / Frédéric Talacayud
Simon's life is troubled by images of a crime which happened in his family a hundred years ago. While traveling in south France, he finds the landscape familiar. That's when he meets Catherine and falls in love. But her lover comes back and his strong personality attracts her again.

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