The best Jean Carmet’s drama movies

Jean Carmet

Jean Carmet

25/04/1920- 20/04/1994
Today we present the best Jean Carmet’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 Jean Carmet’s movies.
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Germinal

Germinal
7.1/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 29/09/1993
  • Character: Vincent Maheu, aka Bonnemort
It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them

Les Misérables

Les Misérables
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 20/10/1982
  • Character: Thénardier
The story of Jean Valjean, a Frenchman convicted of minor crimes, who is hounded for years by an unforgiving and unrelenting police inspector, Javert.

My Mother's Castle

My Mother's Castle
7.6/10
My Mother's Castle (Le chateau de ma mere) is a sequel and companion piece to My Father's Glory (La Gloire de Mon Pere), both based on the childhood recollections of Marcel Pagnol. Like its predecessor, the movie explores the adventures of the young Marcel (Julien Ciamaca) during his summers at the family summer home in Provence.

Any Number Can Win

Any Number Can Win
7.3/10
Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.

Children of Paradise

Children of Paradise
8.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 15/03/1945
  • Character: Un spectateur au paradis des Funambules (uncredited)
Filmed during the German occupation, this French milestone centers around the theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan and the four men who love her. Voted the “Best French Film in History” by the French Film Academy in 1990.

Violette

Violette
7.1/10
Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.

La Vouivre

La Vouivre
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/01/1989
  • Character: Requiem
Arsène Muselier returns to his home village at the end of the First World War. His only injury is a head wound, which sometimes provokes periods of delirium and fury. As he renews his acquaintance with the people he left behind - his mother, the old farmhand who brought him up after his father's death, his former girlfriend, and many others - he becomes fascinated by the legend of La Vouivre, a creature with the body of a woman who lives in the marsh, surrounded by vipers. One day, Arsène sees the strange woman - she is naked, beautiful, alluring, and he is instantly enchanted by her. Can she be real, or is she merely a creation of his damaged mind...?

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 28/10/1965
  • Character: Paulo
The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes a lantern from the entrance to a brothel. The second part is about how the lantern and jewelery were stolen from a young baroness. And in the third part the hero of Louis de Funes hangs a lantern at the entrance to his house.

Black and White in Color

Black and White in Color
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDramaWar
  • Release: 01/01/1976
  • Character: Sergeant Bosselet
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.

Dog Day

Dog Day
5.8/10
A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession.

Just Before Nightfall

Just Before Nightfall
7.2/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 31/03/1971
  • Character: Jeannot
A married man who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn himself in.

The Lady Banker

The Lady Banker
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 27/08/1980
  • Character: Duvernet
The scene is the restless Paris of the interwar years where an attractive and ambitious woman successfully makes her way in a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. Originating from a humble background, she quickly becomes popular with small savers by offering them outstanding interest rates. Extremely popular, she makes no secret of her taste for the good things in life and her homosexual affairs. They will cost her dearly...

The Common Man

The Common Man
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 26/02/1975
  • Character: Georges Lajoie
As every summer, Georges Lajoie, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite. They join old friends, the Schumachers and the Colins. Brigitte Colin, the daughter, is quite a pretty young girl now. One day, Georges rapes and murders her. He hides the body near the barracks of the immigrant Arab workers. The racism of the campers will do the rest... A virulent lampoon against the average Frenchman's racism.

Oh! Qué mambo

Oh! Qué mambo
6.2/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 13/05/1959
  • Character: Jo le Bègue
Miguel foils a bank robbery and becomes a successful nightclub singer, but he doesn't know that his wife is being courted by an Italian fitness instructor.

Alice or the Last Escapade

Alice or the Last Escapade
6.7/10
One night Alice can't stand her husband anymore and she decides to leave him. It's a dark, rainy night and something smashes the windshield so Alice is forced to seek shelter in an old mansion. She is warmly welcomed but soon realises that strange things are happening. She tries to escape but it seems there's no way out.

Monsieur Vincent

Monsieur Vincent
7/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 05/11/1947
  • Character: L'abbé Pontail
The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders.

Sunday Encounter

Sunday Encounter
6/10
Jean Brevent still did not understand the departure of his wife, Danielle Darieux. It's been five years, but he still can't forget her. In spite of a work of writer originator in a newspaper, in which it tried to be invested completely, time did not make its work. One day, by chance, he meets her in the bus...

Thank You, Life

Thank You, Life
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 13/03/1991
  • Character: Raymond Pelleveau, le père âgé
Camille, a naive schoolgirl meets an intriguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new friend through the discovery of sex and the darker side of life. As the film progresses, Camille discovers AIDS and the fear that she may have picked up the disease in her early encounters.

Eugénie Grandet

Eugénie Grandet
7.1/10
When the daughter of the miserly cooper Grandet is up for marriage, both families Des Grassins and Cruchot want to marry their sons to her and her substantial dowry. But the girl shows more interest in the impoverished cousin, whom she entrusts her entire fortune to.

The Novices

The Novices
5.1/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 01/04/1970
  • Character: Le client au chien
A nun and a spirited prostitute convert an ambulance into a bordello on wheels.

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