The best Jules Berry’s movies

Jules Berry

Jules Berry

09/02/1883- 20/04/1951
Today we present the best Jules Berry’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 Jules Berry’s movies.
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Les Visiteurs du soir

Les Visiteurs du soir
7.2/10
At the end of the 15th century, two minstrels Gilles and Dominique come from nowhere into the castle of Baron Hugues. Gilles charms Anne, Hughes' daughter, while Dominique charms both Hugues and Ann's fiance. Gilles and Dominique are not really in love : they are sent by the Devil to desperate people. But Ann is so pure that Gilles is caught to his own trap... How will they fight against the Devil ?

Le Jour Se Lève

Le Jour Se Lève
7.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 09/06/1939
  • Character: M. Valentin
After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events the led him to the killing.

Carrefour

Carrefour
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1938
  • Character: Lucien Sarrow
A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then appears a blackmailer who accuses him of being a usurper, actually called Jean Pelletier, a mobster well known to police. Vetheuil, judging himself slandered, refuses to listen to his tormentor and goes to the police. The man speaks. The scandal is public soon ...

The Crime of Monsieur Lange

The Crime of Monsieur Lange
7.3/10
A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description. His name is Amedee Lange, he murdered Batala in Paris. His lady friend Valentine tells the whole story : Lange was an employee in Batala's little printing works. Batala was a real bastard, swindling every one, seducing female workers of Valentine's laundry... One day he fled to avoid facing his creditors, and the workers set up a cooperative to go on working. But the plot is less important that the description of the atmosphere just before the Popular Front.

The Woman of Monte Carlo

The Woman of Monte Carlo
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/07/1938
  • Character: Count Messirian
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L'Argent

L'Argent
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 25/12/1928
  • Character: Huret
Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.

Hercule

Hercule
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/03/1938
  • Character: Vasco

Portrait of an Assassin

Portrait of an Assassin
6.6/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 25/11/1949
  • Character: Pfeiffer
Three powerhouse European screen personalities--Pierre Brasseur, Erich Von Stroheim, Maria Montez---elevate the tawdry melodramatics of Le Portrait d'Un Assassin.

L'assassin a peur la nuit

L'assassin a peur la nuit
6.1/10
  • Genre: Crime
  • Release: 02/09/1942
  • Character: Jérôme
Having pulled off a robbery with his friend Maurice, Olivier leaves his mistress Lola and hides out in a small village in the country. He finds work, thanks to a young man named Gilbert, who introduces him to his sister, Monique. Once the robbery has been all but forgotten, Olivier intends to head back to Paris, but before he goes, he steals money from his employer. In Paris, Olivier wants to say a proper goodbye to Lola, but she is being blackmailed by Jérôme, an antique dealer who has recognized a necklace stolen by Olivier. Before returning to Monique, Olivier calls on Jérôme to recover the necklace.

Derrière la façade

Derrière la façade
6.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 14/03/1939
  • Character: Alfrédo d'Avila

Marie-Martine

Marie-Martine
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 11/05/1943
  • Character: Loïc Limousin, le romancier

L'Héritier Des Mondésir

L'Héritier Des Mondésir
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/05/1940
  • Character: Waldemar, le mage

Tristi amori

Tristi amori
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 29/10/1943
  • Character: Il conte Ettore Arcieri
Emma, who is married to lawyer Giulio Scarli, is secretly in love with Fabrizio Arcieri, who works with her husband.

La symphonie fantastique

La symphonie fantastique
5.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/04/1942
  • Character: Schlesinger
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.

Monsieur Grégoire s'évade

Monsieur Grégoire s'évade
5.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 01/01/1946
  • Character: Charles Tuffal
Alex Grégoire is a timid insurance company clerk who shares his uneventful life between his wife Angèle, his colleagues and his passion for crosswords. But all of a sudden his existence changes dramatically. First because he wins a crossword competition. Second because a jewel thief, Charles Tuffal, thinks he recognizes in him a former accomplice. From that moment "uneventful" is not the best adjective to qualify Alex's life anymore...

Paris-New York

Paris-New York
  • Genre: Romance
  • Release: 01/01/1940
  • Character: Sinclar
The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of kidnapping by the girl's snobbish father Rene Alexander. By the time the Normandie reaches New York, however, the "mystery" is solved and all misunderstandings blithely swept away.

Le voyageur de la Toussaint

Le voyageur de la Toussaint
7.4/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 08/04/1943
  • Character: Plantel
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they were music hall artists, "entertainers". But because he's the sole legatee of an uncle's fortune, his relatives become friendly with him.. at least for a while.

Monsieur Personne

Monsieur Personne
5.4/10
  • Release: 04/12/1936
  • Character: Monsieur Personne

Baccara

Baccara
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrime
  • Release: 27/12/1935
  • Character: André Leclerc
A rich banker is actually a crook. His mistress, an alien, wants to become French and the only way is to marry a Frenchman.

Arsene Lupin, Detective

Arsene Lupin, Detective
5.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyCrimeDrama
  • Release: 01/01/1937
  • Character: Barnett, alias Arsène Lupin
Arsène Lupin decides to run a detective agency in addition to being a gentleman thief. As a detective he happens to cooperate with police in order to unveil the criminal activities of a villain. When he succeeds the villain returns the favour. The unmasked Arsène Lupin manages to escape with the villain's gangster moll as his new companion.

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