The best Joëlle Bernard’s drama movies

Joëlle Bernard

Joëlle Bernard

14/08/1928- 23/03/1977
Today we present the best Joëlle Bernard’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 Joëlle Bernard’s movies.

Casque d'Or

Casque d'Or
7.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDramaRomance
  • Release: 13/03/1952
  • Character: Une fille à la guinguette (uncredited)
Ex-convict Georges Manda returns to the free world determined to go straight and takes a steady job as a carpenter. Unable to completely shake his connections with the underground, he meets with a former prison mate, older gangster Félix Leca, who introduces him to his mistress, the sweet but guarded Marie "Casque d'Or". Marie and Georges fall into a passionate relationship, driving Félix to do everything in his power to ruin the couple.

Diary of a Chambermaid

Diary of a Chambermaid
7.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1964
  • Character: (uncredited)
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.

Girl on the Third Floor

Girl on the Third Floor
6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 02/08/1955
  • Character: La fille au restaurant (uncredited)

Adélaïde

Adélaïde
5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/08/1968
  • Character: Janine
A mother and her daughter both have a relationship with the same man.

Three Days to Live

Three Days to Live
6.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 14/08/1957
Trois jour à vivre (Three Days to Live) takes off with a bang when two-bit actor Daniel Gelin witnesses a murder. He didn't see the killer, but that doesn't stop him from claiming that he did in order to get his name into the papers. Sure enough, the murderer targets Gelin as his next victim. Our hero is temporarily rescued by Jeanne Moreau, an aspiring actress who has always had a crush on him.

Le Long des trottoirs

Le Long des trottoirs
6.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 17/05/1956
  • Character: Monique
A girl surviving on public welfare, fall into a life of prostitution.

Emile's Boat

Emile's Boat
6.2/10
Charles-Edmond, l'aîné des frères Larmentiel, décide de revenir à La Rochelle, sa ville natale pour y mourir. Quarante ans plus tôt il en avait été chassé par son père. Avant de trépasser, le vieil original annonce qu'il a un fils caché, Émile, marin-pêcheur auquel il souhaite lèguer ses biens. François, le frère cadet, que Charles-Edmond déteste, lorgne sur l'héritage pour renflouer la puissante entreprise familiale, véritable trust de la pêche, et va tenter de s'approprier l'affection et les biens de cet héritier inopportun. Émile, quant à lui, est trop occupé à se disputer avec Fernande, chanteuse de beugland, pour se douter de ce qui l'attend…

Les amants de demain

Les amants de demain
6.7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/08/1959
  • Character: Yvonne
A man throws a revolver in the Seine and checks into a hotel run by an unhappy Turkish couple. The wife falls for the mysterious guest, and kills her husband to prevent him from the turning the man in to the police.

Stain on the Snow

Stain on the Snow
6.7/10
La neige était sale is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon. Upon learning that his mother was a prostitute, Frank (Daniel Gelin) dejectedly vows that he, too, will live a life of debauchery. Part of his self-degradation program is to kill someone, and since the story takes place during the Nazi occupation of France, he chooses a German officer as his victim. His steady descent into psychosis and depravity becomes his ultimate undoing.

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