The best Pierre Larquey’s movies

Pierre Larquey

Pierre Larquey

10/07/1884- 17/04/1962
We present our ranking of the best Pierre Larquey’s movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about Pierre Larquey.
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Diabolique

Diabolique
8.1/10
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.

Le Corbeau

Le Corbeau
7.8/10
Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as "Le Corbeau" (The Raven) soon targets the whole town, exposing everyone's dark secrets. This allegorical film was highly controversial at the time of its release, and was banned in France after the Liberation.

Royal Affairs in Versailles

Royal Affairs in Versailles
6.8/10
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.

The President

The President
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaMysteryThriller
  • Release: 01/03/1961
  • Character: Augustin, le vieil agriculteur ami de Beaufort

The Murderer Lives at Number 21

The Murderer Lives at Number 21
7.3/10
Inspector Wens moves into a Paris boarding house to catch a serial killer.

Quai des Orfèvres

Quai des Orfèvres
7.7/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 04/10/1947
  • Character: Emile Lafour, un chauffeur de taxi
Jenny Lamour sings in a music hall in postwar Paris, accompanied by her husband, Maurice Martineau, on piano. When Martineau notices his wife flirting with an older businessman named Georges Brignon, he follows her to Brignon's house with the intent to kill him. At the house, Brignon is found murdered -- but by someone else. Inspector Antoine conducts an investigation that implicates Martineau, whose planned alibi comes loose.

Carnival of Sinners

Carnival of Sinners
7.3/10
Roland Brissot bought for a nickel a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a cut left hand, and it works perfectly. But of course there is nothing free in this world, and after one year the devil comes and asks for his due... Written by Yepok

The Witches of Salem

The Witches of Salem
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaHistory
  • Release: 26/04/1957
  • Character: Francis Nurse
Salem, 1692. Industrious farmer, John Proctor, has twice made love to 17-year-old Abigail, a youth he and his wife have taken in. (His wife Elisabeth has rebuffed him for seven months; she is puritanical and cold.) When she finds John and Abigail embracing, she sends the lass from her home and John, feeling damned, agrees. Abigail vows revenge. Her chance comes when she accuses Elisabeth of witchcraft and manipulates younger girls to support her claims of seeing spirits. The town's minister and politicians want a cause: ridding the town of witchcraft is the ideal repression.

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 04/01/1934
  • Character: Hippolyte Tautain, le pied-bot
Soon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country doctor in Normandy, marries Emma Rouault. In her new home, Emma finds conflict with her mother-in-law, a husband uninterested in the social whirl, and general discontentment; thereby proving an easy conquest for philanderer Rodolphe. Other lovers follow. Does tragedy await?

Topaze

Topaze
7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 25/01/1951
  • Character: Tamise, un autre professeur
Albert Topaze, sincere schoolteacher addicted to "rote" morality, works at a private school run by supremely money-grubbing M. Muche, whose daughter, also a teacher, makes cynical use of the knowledge that Topaze loves her. Alas, Topaze's naive honesty brings him unjust dismissal...and makes him fair game for the "aunt" of his private pupil, really the mistress of crooked politician Regis, who needs an honest-seeming "front man." Can artful Suzy Courtois keep Topaze on the string? With steadily escalating disillusion comes moral crisis...

Crazy for Love

Crazy for Love
6.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/11/1952
  • Character: Testu, le bistrot
A comedy about a dimwitted man who must obtain a high-school diploma before he can inherit an inn.

Seven Men, One Woman

Seven Men, One Woman
6.7/10
  • Release: 28/08/1936
At the urging of her childhood friend Brémontier, Lucie de Kéradec, a wealthy widowed countess who wishes to remarry, invites all of her seven suitors to her mansion. Her untold intention is to test them by claiming to be ruined. The experience is a success in that each of the potential husbands reveals his inner nature but a failure when it comes to finding a new life partner. None of the guests passes the test except - the eighth man, namely Brémontier who loved Lucie in secret but, being penniless, had not dared declare his flame to her.

La grande marnière

La grande marnière
6.3/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/03/1945
  • Character: Malaizot

If Paris Were Told to Us

If Paris Were Told to Us
6.3/10
Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.

Sylvia and the Ghost

Sylvia and the Ghost
6.9/10
A teenager becomes fixated on the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her uncle oversees three men who pretend to be the ghost of the suitor to entertain her - but little do they know, the ghost of the suitor himself is roaming the castle halls......

La Maternelle

La Maternelle
6.1/10
  • Genre: Romance
  • Release: 20/05/1949
  • Character: Paulin

L'hôtel du libre échange

L'hôtel du libre échange
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 10/11/1934
  • Character: M. Pinglet

Happy Days

Happy Days
6.3/10
  • Release: 08/11/1935
Sylvie, a rich girl, learns at the same time the death and the ruin of her father. Forced to find work in Paris, she is given shelter by a medical student who soon falls for her. Another young man falls in love with her. When her benefactor gets ill and finally dies, Sylvie refuses to give the other man her heart out of faithfulness for the dearly departed. But youth commands and after a time love -but not oblivion - triumphs.

Le Grand Jeu

Le Grand Jeu
7.2/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/05/1934
  • Character: Gustin
Pierre , a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence and her whims of luxury life. Pierre has gone too far and put the family firm in jeopardy. They ask him to expatriate. To avoid scandal, Pierre joins the Foreign Legion. In Morocco, near the desert, Pierre goes with his comrades of the Legion to a bar-restaurant-brothel, owned by a shady character, Mr. Clement . Clement lives more or less with Ms.Blanche who is a fortune teller with cards, as a hobby. But Clement is also after his girls now and then. Pierre is still obsessed with Florence but he meets Irma , one of Clement's girls, who is the double of Florence except for hair color. Irma has had an accident and has lost part of her memory at a certain point of her recent past, and Pierre slowly persuades himself she is Florence, but cannot remember it. Advised by Ms.Blanche, Irma finally accepts to act as if she was Florence because she is falling in love with Pierre.

On n'aime qu'une fois

On n'aime qu'une fois
6.3/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 09/06/1950
  • Character: Ravenel

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