The best Michel Etcheverry’s drama movies

Michel Etcheverry

Michel Etcheverry

16/12/1919- 30/03/1999
Today we present the best Michel Etcheverry’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 Michel Etcheverry’s movies.
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Eyes Without a Face

Eyes Without a Face
7.6/10
Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane's.

Is Paris Burning?

Is Paris Burning?
6.8/10
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.

I... For Icarus

I... For Icarus
7.9/10
The film's plot is based on the Kennedy assassination and subsequent investigation. The film begins with the assassination of President Marc Jarry, who is about to be inaugurated for a second six-year term of office. Henri Volney, state attorney and member of the commission charged with investigating the assassination (based on the Warren Commission) refuses to agree to the commission's final findings. The film portrays the initial controversy about this, as well as Volney and his staff's reopening of the investigation.

The Milky Way

The Milky Way
7.4/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 15/03/1969
  • Character: The Inquisitor
Two drifters go on a pilgrimage from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. Along the way, they hitchhike, beg for food, and face the Christian dogmas and heresies from different Ages.

A French Woman

A French Woman
6.2/10
Wed just as war breaks out, Jeanne hardly gets to know her military husband, Louis, before the debacle of 1940. While waiting for his return from a POW camp, Jeanne journeys through countless affairs with Louis' comrades- in-arms. Hoping to forget these wartime betrayls, Louis takes his wife and the infant twins he didn't father to Berlin, where she falls for Matthais, a sensitive German industrialist. When the Indochinese war sends Louis to Vietnam, Matthais follows Jeanne back to France. A subsequent move to Damascus where Louis is posted as military attache, fails to break their bond.

Witness in the City

Witness in the City
6.9/10
Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife's murderer, who has been acquitted by justice.

Perceval

Perceval
6.9/10
The film chronicles Perceval's knighthood, maturation and eventual peerage amongst the Knights of the Round Table, and also contains brief episodes from the story of Gawain and the crucifixion of Christ.

Woman in Chains

Woman in Chains
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/11/1968
  • Character: Surgeon
Stanislas Hassler blazes the development of modern art in his gallery, packed with works of surprising shapes, colours and textures, and where exhibitions turn into media events. Gilbert Moreau is one of the artists whose sculptures are on display in the gallery. His wife, Josée, is intrigued by the stern Stanislas, who devotes his free time to photography in an apartment that highlights his sophisticated artistic tastes. But besides enlarged pictures of calligraphic samples, Stanislas is amassing a collection of photographs that reveal a disturbed character. So why would Josée endanger her mature relationship with Gilbert for the morbid observation of Stanislas's hidden personality?

The Aristocrats

The Aristocrats
6.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 12/10/1955
  • Character: Le notaire Crouelles
A novel by Michel De Saint Pierre was the source for Les Aristocrates. Pierre Fresnay stars an aging Marquis, who tries his best to uphold the traditions of nobility in an ever-changing world. The Marquis' children prefer the trappings of modern society and pop culture and regard their father as a relic. This cultural clash nearly results in tragedy when two of the Marquis' offspring substitute recklessness for common sense.

The Blonde Witch

The Blonde Witch
6.6/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 06/06/1956
  • Character: Engineer Camoin
Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in a remote Swedish village, meets Ina, who has been raised in forested isolation by her haggish mother and believes herself to be a witch. He falls in love with her and tries to convert her to civilization; but in the meantime, his female boss, Kristina, has fallen in love with him, while the villagers turn against him for consorting with someone they believe is cursed by the Devil.

Mathias Sandorf

Mathias Sandorf
5.8/10

Rasputin

Rasputin
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/07/1954
  • Character: Pourlchkevitch (as Etcheverry)
Gregory Iefommovich Raspoutine is a monk with healing powers and a liking for debauchery who manages to insinuate himself into the court of the Romanoffs thanks to Princess Dikvona. Being the only person able to heal he son of Czar Nicolas II and Czarina Alexandra from his hemophilia, he becomes a very powerful man, which infuriates many.A group of nobles, determined to save the monarchy, start conspiring to murder him.

Tomorrow Is My Turn

Tomorrow Is My Turn
6.8/10
Following the defeat of France by Germany during WWII, two french soldiers are taken to a german farm as forced laborers.

Tower of Lust

Tower of Lust
5.8/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 18/03/1955
  • Character: Enguerrand de Marigny
France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are invited. The young men were brought blindfolded, and after a night of love they were killed and their corpses thrown into the river, because the queen was afraid that her husband would learn about her adventures. One of her lovers managed to escape death. He knows the secrets of the queen, knows that she once gave birth to a son from him, claims that he has evidence that Margarita wanted to kill her father and blackmails her.

Le Désert de Pigalle

Le Désert de Pigalle
5.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 09/05/2018
  • Character: Le Radiologue
A young priest works as a barman in a Pigalle cafe in Paris. He tries to prevent the women there to prostitute themselves....

Recourse in Grace

Recourse in Grace
6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/05/1960
Mario di Donati, a deserter from the Italian army, lives in Paris under a false name with Germaine, his French lover. When the latter learns about his hidden past, she feels hurt by Mario's lack of trust in her and she distances herself from him. In despair, Mario surrenders to the law but, at the time of trial, he runs away to join the woman he loves.

Vous pigez ?

Vous pigez ?
4.8/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 29/12/1955
  • Character: (uncredited)

Dom Juan

Dom Juan
7.3/10
  • Genre: DramaTV Movie
  • Release: 06/11/1965
  • Character: Voix du Commandeur
This telefilm in black and white is diffused on the first French chain the November 6th 1965. It undoubtedly remains the most known adaptation of the Dom Juan of Molière.

The Contessa's Secret

The Contessa's Secret
6/10
The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life.

Vers l'extase

Vers l'extase
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/09/1960

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