The best Roger Legris’s movies

Roger Legris

Roger Legris

03/07/1898- 22/05/1981
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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.

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...

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.

Snobs

Snobs
5.8/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 05/09/1962
  • Character: Nicolas Grimon

Le dernier des six

Le dernier des six
6.6/10
Six friends promise to share their fortune in 5 years. The moment is very close, but one of the six is mysteriously murdered, then another... Superintendent Wenceslas Woroboyioetschik (aka Wens) is in charge of the investigation...

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.

Your Money or Your Life

Your Money or Your Life
5.7/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 26/04/1966
  • Character: Dumoulin, le pharmacien
Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank.

The Big Scare

The Big Scare
6.3/10
Two police inspectors Triquet and Vergus launch their investigations to arrest a dangerous escaped forger named Mickey Le Bénedictin.

Thank Heaven for Small Favors

Thank Heaven for Small Favors
6.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 28/08/1963
  • Character: Sacristain of Saint-Étienne du Mont
Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family to do strange work.

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.

Courrier Sud

Courrier Sud
6.8/10
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Release: 22/01/1937
  • Character: Le premier radio

Coral Reefs

Coral Reefs
6.1/10
  • Genre: Adventure
  • Release: 01/03/1939
  • Character: Johnson
The adventures of a sailor (Lennard) from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lonely girl (Lilian White).

Ne bougez plus!

Ne bougez plus!
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 30/10/1941
  • Character: Marmuse
Are these two tramps who come to pose for an advertising agency at Patrice Farfadou, the fashionable photographer, the Prince Andromache of Miremir and his faithful secretary Palmer? Who will find the key to the Enigma: The melancholic Hector, the youthful Geneviève, or the feverish Elyane?

Raphaël le tatoué

Raphaël le tatoué
5.9/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 09/02/1939
  • Character: Bédouin
Modeste is a timid watchman at an automobile factory which is run with an iron hand by its owner, Roger Drapeau. One evening, Modeste leaves his post to visit a fairground, where he meets the attractive Aline. Having glimpsed his employer, Modeste makes a hasty return to the factory. When Monsieur Drapeau appears, Modeste explains that it must have been his twin brother that his boss saw at the fairground, a nasty piece of work named Raphaël. Not only does Drapeau fail to see through this unconvincing lie, but it gives him an idea to win a marathon car race. Modeste and Raphaël will take alternate turns in the stages of the race and, because they are so similar, no one will be any the wiser. Unable to admit that he has no brother but afraid of losing his job, Modeste allows himself to be coerced into taking part in the race...

The Novel of Werther

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

Le trésor de Cantenac

Le trésor de Cantenac
6.3/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 06/09/1950
  • Character: l'idiot du village

Cristobal's Gold

Cristobal's Gold
6.2/10
  • Release: 22/04/1940
  • Character: Le râleur
Dupuy, the first officer of the Cristobal, a French merchant ship, is informed by cabaret dancer La Rubia that the Cristobal carries a priceless secret cargo of gold. Based on the novel by Albert t'Serstevens.

Les compagnons de la marguerite

Les compagnons de la marguerite
7.1/10
  • Genre: Comedy
  • Release: 20/01/1967
  • Character: Le président du tribunal
Jean-Louis Matouzec works for French National Library as an expert looking after the restoration of old manuscripts.He falsifies marriage certificates as his wife refuses divorce.

Un mauvais garçon

Un mauvais garçon
6.6/10
  • Genre: Music
  • Release: 18/12/1936

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