The best Pierre Palau’s movies

Pierre Palau

Pierre Palau

13/08/1883- 03/12/1966
We present our ranking of the best Pierre Palau’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 Palau.
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Children of Paradise

Children of Paradise
8.3/10
  • Genre: DramaRomance
  • Release: 15/03/1945
  • Character: Le régisseur des Funambules
Filmed during the German occupation, this French milestone centers around the theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan and the four men who love her. Voted the “Best French Film in History” by the French Film Academy in 1990.

Carnival of Sinners

Carnival of Sinners
7.3/10
  • Genre: FantasyHorror
  • Release: 21/03/1943
  • Character: Le petit homme
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

Nana

Nana
6.3/10
Nana or Nanà is a French-Italian film by Christian-Jaque starring Charles Boyer. It is an adaptation of Émile Zola's novel Nana.

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.

The Joker

The Joker
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/01/1961
  • Character: Uncle Théodose
A young man who lives on women meets his match in the young wife of a rich industrialist. Their affair is doomed by her taste for luxury and his dislike of her coolness.

Famous Love Affairs

Famous Love Affairs
5.2/10
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.

La danse de mort

La danse de mort
6.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 02/01/1948
  • Character: Le sergent / Il sergente
Directed by Marcel Cravenne.

Carrefour

Carrefour
6.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/01/1938
  • Character: Le duc
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 ...

Zouzou

Zouzou
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 21/12/1934
  • Character: Saint-Lévy
Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.

Feu Mathias Pascal

Feu Mathias Pascal
6.8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 18/02/1937
  • Character: Le chevalier Titus
Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely lucky at several gambling resorts. He returns home and discovers that a drowned man, fished out of the river, bears an uncanny likeness to him and is being buried by his family as him. This, to him, is a pleasant turn of events and he goes to Rome, where he falls in love with Louise Paleari. Count Papiano, a jealous suitor of Louise's, threatens him with arrest unless he produces credentials to prove his identity.

Auguste

Auguste
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 24/10/1961
Auguste is about an eponymous bank clerk who finds fame and fortune. Auguste happens to be in the right place at the right time to save young starlet Francine from killing herself -- or more accurately, pretending to kill herself. His supposed heroism hits the news, and before Auguste knows what is happening, a Machiavellian publicist is using him for his own ends. The bank clerk is no fool and soon thinks of a way to come out on top.

Public School

Public School
5.4/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 07/10/1965
  • Character: Le père Bigeard
A schoolteacher (Robert Dhéry) and his wife (Colette Brosset) use the couple's new car for a class field trip in this routine situation comedy. Soon the children are lost in this story written and directed by Jean L'Hôte taken from his own novel.

Queen's Necklace

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

La Dame d'onze heures

La Dame d'onze heures
6.5/10
  • Genre: ActionCrime
  • Release: 03/03/1948
  • Character: le portier
Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving anonymous letters. And soon a mysterious murder is committed. SOS begins to investigate...

Triplepatte

Triplepatte
6/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 17/11/1922
  • Character: Boucherot
Robert de Houdan is indecisiveness itself. He keeps hesitating, shilly-shallying and never reach any decision in any way. So much so that he finds himself on the verge of ruin and falls prey to Boucherot, a greedy loan-shark who puts pressure on him to marry Yvonne Herbelier. Boucherot is assisted in his undertaking by baroness Pépin, a typical matchmaker. But Robert, who does not know the young lady, shies away from her.

Knock

Knock
  • Release: 08/11/1933
  • Character: Le docteur Parpalaid

Marguerite of the Night

Marguerite of the Night
6.5/10
It tells the story of an older pedant who buys adolescence from Satan.

Tous ceux qui tombent

Tous ceux qui tombent
  • Release: 25/01/1963
  • Character: Mr. Tyler
A 1963 TV film directed by Michel Mitrani.

The Phantom Wagon

The Phantom Wagon
6.7/10
  • Genre: DramaFantasy
  • Release: 07/09/1939
  • Character: Monsieur Benoît
French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he's wrought when he dies on New Year's Eve and is collected by Death in his carriage.

La dame de chez Maxim's

La dame de chez Maxim's
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 01/04/1933
  • Character: le docteur Mongicourt
Dr. Lucien Petypon is usually a serious man, but, drawn by his friend Corignon, he once paints the town red at Maxim's. When he wakes up late the next morning, he finds the scantily clad Môme Crevette, a dancer at the famous Paris restaurant, by his side. It is the moment General Petypon du Grêlé, Lucien's rich uncle, chooses to make an unexpected visit. The good doctor has no other choice but to pass Crevette off as his lawful wife.

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