The best Marcel Delaître’s drama movies

Marcel Delaître

Marcel Delaître

25/01/1888- 21/04/1963
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La Vérité

La Vérité
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/11/1960
  • Character: Un journaliste
As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the two used to share.

When You Read This Letter

When You Read This Letter
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/07/1953
  • Character: Le Grand-Père (as Marcel Delaitre)
After a novice nun learns of the sudden death of her parents, she leaves the convent to manage the family business and look after her teenage sister. Both of them fall prey to a womanizing mechanic with psychopathic tendencies.

Paradis perdu

Paradis perdu
6.7/10
In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until the war breaks out and he becomes a soldier. Janine dies in childbirth and, no longer desiring to live, Pierre volunteers for a dangerous patrol behind German lines. While recuperating in the hospital from a wound he received on the mission, Pierre spends his time drawing sketches of dresses. He becomes rich and famous after the war. Years later, after devoting himself to his daughter, Pierre seeks a marriage with a girl no older than his daughter. A conflict develops and to ensure his daughter's happiness, Pierre sacrifices his own plans.

Du Guesclin

Du Guesclin
6.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 03/06/1949
  • Character: Jean Chandos
A chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th century.

Wooden Crosses

Wooden Crosses
7.7/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 17/03/1932
  • Character: Soldat Berthier
The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, endless trench war in Champagne, where more and more wooden crosses have to be erected for this cannon fodder.

Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre

Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 21/02/1935
  • Character: M. Laroque
Maxime de Champcey, a bankrupt marquis, is hired by the wealthy Laroque and falls for his daughter Marguerite. She loves him too but rejects him under the belief he's a fortune hunter.

La Maison sous la Mer

La Maison sous la Mer
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/08/1947
  • Character: Kappel
A stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband Lucien. But she suddenly experiences a passionate love, taking refuge with Constant in a cave they call “home under the sea.”

Mr. Orchid

Mr. Orchid
6.8/10
  • Genre: DramaWar
  • Release: 30/04/1946
  • Character: Charrat
This character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the chief of the underground who uses his hobby of growing orchids to hide his radio equipment.

Queen's Necklace

Queen's Necklace
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 14/09/1946
  • Character: Maître Target

Cœurs joyeux

Cœurs joyeux
6.3/10
A young man, Charles, operator in a neighborhood cinema, is suspected of involvement in the theft of jewelry. His fiancée, Lucette, but it would save would necessitate denounce his brother Olivier who is the leader of the band of thieves. Lucette will see the victim, the jeweler Van Hoolst who agrees to withdraw its complaint against restitution jewelry. Thieves do not meet the market but ultimately, the operator is cleared and becomes the owner of the cinema.

Premier de cordée

Premier de cordée
6.3/10
A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain guides and their families in the French Alps, near Chamonix and the French/Swiss/Italian borders... Like his father, Zian Servettaz is a dedicated mountain man. His Italian-born wife Bianca does not adjust well to his mountain village in France, and to the ever life-threatening dangers presented by his mountain guiding and climbing. She briefly returns to Italy and to her family. However, after Zian's insistence and trip to Italy, she returns to mountain life in the French Alps. Once back there, events will unfold, changing their lives as well as those of other mountain people forever.

Prisons de femmes

Prisons de femmes
5.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/10/1938
  • Character: Police Inspector
Juliette, an innocent woman, is wrongly sentenced to prison for attempted murder. After her release, she married an industrialist to whom she did not speak of her tumultuous past. But, victim of a rampant blackmail, she cannot continue to hide her prison past and the scandal breaks out.

The Gardens of Murcia

The Gardens of Murcia
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 28/11/1936
  • Character: Domingo
Murcia countryside, Spain, at the end of the 19th century. Pencho, a peasant, and Xavier, son of a powerful landowner, get into a bloody fight after arguing over the distribution of irrigation water. When Xavier is injured, Pencho is forced to flee from justice.

Return at Dawn

Return at Dawn
7/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 18/11/1938
  • Character: Le commissaire
Married to Karl Ammer, the station master of Thaya, a Hungarian quiet village, Anita is a pretty young peasant who feels deeply bored. She dreams of another life while watching the daily express trains to Budapest. An incident will force her to leave her province: she has to go to Budapest to attend the funeral of an aunt and receive a share of the inheritance. After completing the formalities, Anita misses the train to go back home and then she finds herself alone in the capital. - Written by jsanchez from IMDB.com

L'Invité de la onzième heure

L'Invité de la onzième heure
6.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 15/08/1945
  • Character: Monsieur Sulnac

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