The best Roger Legris’s drama movies

Roger Legris

Roger Legris

03/07/1898- 22/05/1981
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Roger Legris’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Roger Legris.

Port of Shadows

Port of Shadows
7.7/10
Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.

Pépé le Moko

Pépé le Moko
7.7/10
Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.

They Were Five

They Were Five
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 01/09/1936
  • Character: Le garçon de café
Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.

Head against the Wall

Head against the Wall
7/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 20/03/1959
  • Character: Decauvill
An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.

The Deserter

The Deserter
7.2/10
  • Genre: DramaRomanceWar
  • Release: 18/03/1939
  • Character: Blaise - Le domestique
During WW1, a train is stopped by a bombing, a young soldier takes advantage of the opportunity to go to his native village to see his parents.

Hatred

Hatred
7.4/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 26/01/1938
  • Character: Le radio
Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the victim of a malicious attack, he returns to his hometown of Dunkirk. Mollenard receives a frosty welcome from his wife Mathilde, who resents the way in which he has neglected his family for so many years. Mollenard’s only wish is to get back to sea as soon as he can, but a sudden heart-attack leaves him paralysed and entirely in his wife’s power...

The Novel of Werther

The Novel of Werther
6.6/10
Adaptation of Goethe's novel.

Various Facts About Paris

Various Facts About Paris
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 19/07/1950
Full of hopes, the young Raymonde leaves her country life in north of France to work in Paris. She promises her first love, François, that she will return to marry him. But their lives take differents paths, even if they never stop loving each other.

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