Jacques Dumesnil Movies

Married to Karl Ammer, the station master of Thaya, a Hungarian quiet village, Anita is a pretty young peasant who feels deeply bored. She dreams of...

Set between Christmas and New Year, the film told the story of six criminals who kidnap an ambassador's daughter and await the ransom; enter Monsieur...

As her neighbor Rémi Courmont has told her off for making his ears bleed with Ravel's Bolero, a music piece she plays at full volume all the...

A penniless aristocrat is fooled by her ex-husband, a crook.

A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.

A documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts...

Henri Pierson, the chief engineer of a railway line crossing Yunnan in China, must prevent the incessant attacks of a gang of looters.

An aristocratic family wants to marry off their young Helene. The mother and grandmother each pick not so bright prospects.Helene herself is drawn to...

In 1825, Paul-Louis Courier, a Republican writer known for publishing pamphlets against the French monarchy, was killed in the farm where he had...

Guy Carbonnel, a rich industrialist, has more eyes for rugby than for his wife Hélène. René Rivals, his long-time pal, takes...

A child is rejected by his father and sister when his mother dies giving birth to him. The family is falling apart; the father takes to drinking, the...

Pedro is accused of the murder of Eduardo . The evidence against him is overwhelming. A famous lawyer has to give up his defense because he is...

A young noblewoman is unhappy about needing to marry the village ironmaster for financial reasons, but later comes to appreciate her husband.

A colonial wife carries on an affair with a French officer, but the wife's native servant may have overheard their plan to leave Africa and return to...

A great disappointed love once encouraged the vocation of Sister Claire, who, however, forgot nothing. She follows in their daily life three young...

Considering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not allow her to turn to another man.

A Lebanese Christian girl of European origin is attracted to a visiting Muslim chief and rides off with him.When her Christian fiance brings her...

Based on a play by Pierre Wolff, about a wronged husband’s revenge on his wife and her lover, La belle de nuit is a major find, a work of...

Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A...