The best Josette Day’s movies
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Josette Day’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Josette Day.
Beauty and the Beast
7.9/10
The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the repellent but strangely fascinating Beast, who tests her fidelity by giving her a key, telling her that if she doesn't return it to him by a specific time, he will die of grief. She is unable to return the key on time, but it is revealed that the Beast is the genuinely handsome one. A simple tale of tragic love that turns into a surreal vision of death, desire, and beauty.
Accord final
6.1/10
A famous violinist enlists in a music school in order to woo one of the students.
Swiss Tour
5.9/10
A sailor on leave meets a beautiful girl on the ski slopes of Switzerland.
The Well-Digger's Daughter
7.3/10
A rural maiden's two suitors go off to war, leaving her pregnant.
L'amour, Madame
4.5/10
The Storm Within
6.9/10
Young Michel is in love with the attractive Madeleine, so he decides to tell his parents of his intention to marry her. He thinks his announcement is innocent enough; his engagement, however, threatens to reveal dark secrets lurking within his family's home. Yvonne, Michel's overbearing mother, concocts an elaborate scheme to drive Madeleine away, thus keeping uncomfortable household truths from being exposed.
Girls' Club
6.3/10
A hotel for women-only and catering to working girls is the setting for not being able to get a USA PCA seal-of-approval for this French-film, but New York City's 55th Playhouse played it anyway. Along the way the audience meets the girl who sneaked her lover into her no-men-allowed room and her patch soon turns blue; a young lady with a passionate intensity who chooses another young lady as the object of her affections; the blindly-misguided director of the hotel, another lady of real easy virtue who is not the one who smuggled her lover into her room; and a girl who is only there as a procurer for a slavery ring.
Stolen Affections
5.8/10
The ordeal of Françoise who, deceived by her husband, sees her dying child. After a few events in the backdrop of a festival, the husband returns, she pushes him away, driving him to suicide. Another man she thinks she loves is already married.
The Five Cents of Lavarede
6/10
Some try to travel around the world with a time constraint, but Lavarède has to perform an even harder task than Phineas Fogg. His assignment is to go around the globe with a mere five cents coin. Worse, he can't even spend it or else he will not come into the money of his inheritance. To make sure Lavarède plays by the rules of the game, two supervisors stick to him like a shadow. Will the young man meet this unbelievable challenge?
Léon tout court
Léon is hired by a detective agency to monitor a music hall star whose friend is extremely jealous.
Le couché de la mariée
Claude loves Gisèle, Raymonde loves Édouard, but a double misunderstand leads to the marriage of Claude and Raymonde. Obviously, they vow not to consumate the marriage until they divorce, and can marriage their true loves. But than, come the honey-moon night, more extraordinary things happen to them - even love.
The Bureaucrats
6.8/10
French comedy film directed by Yves Mirande.
Mam'zelle Spahi
La sonnette d'alarme
Here's Berlin
6.9/10
Story of a rendezvous in Paris which is prepared through telephone calls between a Berlin telephonist and his female colleague in Paris.
The Man of the Day
6/10
Alfred Boulard, a good-natured electrician, gives his blood to save Mona Thalia, a great theater actress. Mona Thalia survives and Boulard becomes the man of the hour. Grateful to him, Mona helps Alfred to become a singing star. But his fame will be short-lived.
La prière aux étoiles
6.1/10
Pierre and Florence meet at the fair in Paris. They vow eternal love and go to Cassis, under the Southern sun. But Florence has a burdensome past: before meeting Pierre she was a kept woman. Her chivalrous lover, Dominique, chooses to set her free. But Pierre is an uncompromising man and, furious with Florence, threatens to leave her...
The Adventures of King Pausole
5.9/10
