The best Gilbert Gil’s drama movies

Gilbert Gil

Gilbert Gil

07/09/1913- 25/08/1988
Today we present the best Gilbert Gil’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Gilbert Gil’s movies.

Pépé le Moko

Pépé le Moko
7.7/10
Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.

Royal Affairs in Versailles

Royal Affairs in Versailles
6.8/10
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.

Napoleon

Napoleon
6/10
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.

Gribouille

Gribouille
6.6/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 10/09/1937
  • Character: Claude Morestan

If Paris Were Told to Us

If Paris Were Told to Us
6.3/10
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.

Le dernier sou

Le dernier sou
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 23/01/1946
  • Character: Pierre Durban

Nightclub Hostess

Nightclub Hostess
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/06/1939
  • Character: Pierre Noblet
The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one night she gets propositions from a rich widower who would like to have her as his girlfriend, Suzy wishes to leave this place, where she has no future, for a better one. Abandoned by her protector, a young hoodlum named Robert, she gets the occasion to get away from it. She decides to go on vacation on the Riviera and stay at the Chateau des Cedres, the former residence of a noble family that has been transformed into a bourgeois guest house by the baroness Saint-Leu. Shy and elegant, in her modest suit, Suzy stays there under the name of Suzanne Michelet and soon makes new friends among the young people of very wealthy families.

From Mayerling to Sarajevo

From Mayerling to Sarajevo
6.8/10
An Austrian prince's doomed love affair with a Czech countess sparks turmoil across Europe.

La symphonie fantastique

La symphonie fantastique
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/04/1942
  • Character: Louis Berlioz
The film is biographical, telling the story of the life and artistic struggles of the French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz is shown as a recalcitrant medical student in an anatomy class dreaming of becoming a composer; at a demonstration during a performance at the Paris Opéra conducted by Habeneck; at supper with other young artists (Hugo, Janin, Dumas, Mérimée, Delacroix); and chasing after his future wife Harriet Smithson, after a performance of Hamlet. Also depicted are his life in a garret, while suffering from an illness due to an abscess in the throat; a visit from his mother who curses him; and the composition of the Symphonie fantastique. The film then shows his marital breakdown, the premiere of his opera Benvenuto Cellini, his travels throughout Europe, his second marriage to Marie Recio (called "Marie Martin" in the film), public acceptance in old age and reconciliation with his son.

Pierre et Jean

Pierre et Jean
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/12/1943
  • Character: Pierre

Abused Confidence

Abused Confidence
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/11/1937
  • Character: Paul
Lydia (Danielle Darrieux) is a student, poor and orphaned, who pretends to be the daughter of a famous writer.

Secrets

Secrets
6.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 17/03/1943
  • Character: Michel Aylias
A penniless private tutor is hired by a wealthy family in Provence. The brat is a reluctant pupil, but Michel, without any magic power, turns out to be a wonderful teacher and he wins them all over,not only the student but everyone, from the grumpy dowager to the clueless gorgeous blonde girl. But the best is yet to come:the boy's mother -a married woman- falls in love with the newcomer. And she becomes jealous of her young blonde goddaughter who has a romance with Michel

Portrait of Innocence

Portrait of Innocence
6.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 02/12/1941
  • Character: Monsieur Morin, l'instituteur
A student from an elementary school accidentally breaks the glass roof of his school. His comrades decide to support it by working during the summer holidays in order to pay for reconstruction.

A Woman of No Importance

A Woman of No Importance
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 05/03/1937
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