The best Janine Darcey’s movies

Janine Darcey

Janine Darcey

14/01/1917- 01/10/1993
Today we present the best Janine Darcey’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 Janine Darcey’s movies.
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Rififi

Rififi
8.1/10
Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.

Out of It

Out of It
6.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/10/1978
  • Character: PTT attendant
The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.

Une Époque Formidable…

Une Époque Formidable…
6.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 19/06/1991
Michel Berthier, cadre supérieur d'une entreprise de matelasserie, vient d'être licencié. Comme il n'ose pas avouer la vérité à Juliette, sa compagne, il s'endette pour maintenir le niveau de la famille qu'il couvre de cadeaux. Mais il ne peut bientôt plus mentir et il décide alors de quitter la maison. Après avoir perdu son argent, sa voiture et ses chaussures, il rencontre Toubib, Mimosa et Crayon, trois «Sans Domicile Fixe» qui font leur toilette dans les lavabos de la gare de l'Est. Ils le prennent sous leur aile et l'entraînent à aller cambrioler son ancienne entreprise afin de se munir de duvets et de lits

Hothead

Hothead
7.2/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 14/02/1979
  • Character: Mrs. Lambert, secretary
Delightful French comedy about a talented soccer player whose foul temper causes him to be cut from the team, lose his job and even be banned from his favorite bar.

American Dreamer

American Dreamer
6.5/10
American housewife Cathy Palmer loses her memory on a trip to Paris after being hit by a car. She wakes up in the hospital believing she's the fictional international spy, Rebecca Ryan.

Witness in the City

Witness in the City
6.9/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaMystery
  • Release: 06/05/1959
  • Character: la propriétaire de l'hôtel
Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife's murderer, who has been acquitted by justice.

The Adolescent

The Adolescent
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/01/1979
The summer of 1939. Marie, at 13, goes with her parents to visit her grandmother in a small town near Avignon. Although rumors of war reach the countryside, it's an idyllic place. Marie's parents are constantly making love. Surrounded by sexual frankness, Marie fancies herself a woman and develops a crush on Alexander, the town's young Jewish doctor. She's despondent when he treats her as if she were a child. After Marie's father abruptly leaves for a few weeks to assist with a relative's harvest, Marie's mother and the doctor disappear into the woods for hours at a time. Marie tries to spy on them. When dad returns, what will the family and the doctor do?

The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish

The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyRomance
  • Release: 01/05/1991
  • Character: Old Lady in Park
A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds himself doing a voice track for a porno movie with Natasha Richardson. Hoskins finds his model for Jesus in Jeff Goldblum and a romantic triangle begins in which Goldblum finds adoring crowds believing him to be Jesus and then begins to believe it himself.

Le Bon Plaisir

Le Bon Plaisir
6.3/10
Claire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter he urges his pregnant mistress to have an abortion. Claire immediately alerts the President's men. From that moment, the machinery of state swings into action.

The Curtain Rises

The Curtain Rises
7.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 10/10/1938
  • Character: Isabelle
François, Cécilia and Isabelle are students of the drama class of the Conservatoire led by Professor Lambertin. François is in love with Isabelle who also loves him, but he is pursued by Cecilia, his former mistress. Cécilia commits suicide staging the suicide like a crime, so as to involve Francis. But a testimony restores the truth.

Le Petit Chose

Le Petit Chose
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 31/05/1938
  • Character: Camille

Yoshiwara

Yoshiwara
6.5/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 23/06/1937
  • Character: Une geisha
Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in the Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer, and a rickshaw man.

Old Bill and Son

Old Bill and Son
5.5/10
  • Genre: ComedyWar
  • Release: 01/03/1941
  • Character: Françoise
Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!

Entente Cordiale

Entente Cordiale
5.7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 20/04/1939
  • Character: Sylvia Clayton
The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.

The Tender Enemy

The Tender Enemy
6.5/10
Line, annette's daughter, is about to marry a man she's not in love with. At the engagement party three ghosts revisit their disastrous relationships with Annette and decide to take action to help Line.

Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées

Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
6.6/10
The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.

Double crime on the Maginot line

Double crime on the Maginot line
5.8/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 02/01/1937
Navy melodrama directed by Félix Gandéra.

Les hommes sans peur

Les hommes sans peur
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/10/1942
  • Character: Denise
"Men withour fear" - 1895. Discovery of X-rays. The work of a team of scientists who become martyrs because they do not know how to protect themselves against radio-dermatitis.

Moitié-moitié

Moitié-moitié
3.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 22/02/1989
  • Character: Héléna
A comedy directed by Paul Boujenah.

Cavalcade of Love

Cavalcade of Love
6/10
  • Release: 17/01/1940
Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the walls of the Chateau de Champs. Legend has it that whoever marries in the Chateau is doomed to an unhappy life. This proves to be the case in 1639 and 1839, but the heroine of the 1939 segment, Corinne Luchaire, is determined to break the jinx. She is convinced that she will prove an unsuitable bride for Claude Dauphin, and he is likewise convinced that he will turn out to be an inadequate groom. But the couple's respective families will not be dissuaded, and the marriage takes place as scheduled? with unexpectedly happy results!

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