Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is in love with him, and he discovers that he is in love with her. He must choose between an exciting life at sea, and a boring life with the woman he loves. And Fanny must choose between keeping the man she loves, and letting him live the life he seems to want.

Man About Town

1947

French

7.1

♡ 1

René Clair Director

Maurice Chevalier as Emile Clément

Paul Faivre as Le cocher

Dany Robin as Lucette

Bernard La Jarrige as Paulo

Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting a tour through France. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his younger friend Jacques come back from military service and after complaining his misfortune with women, follows Emile's advice in starting affairs with women and he meets Lucette.

Personal Column

6.9

Robert Siodmak Director

Robert Seller as Carioni

Philippe Richard as L'avocat

Erich von Stroheim as Pears

Maurice Chevalier as Robert Fleury

To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienne Charpentier, friend of the latest missing person.

Gigi

1958

English

6.6

♡ 15

90%

74%

Action

based on novel or book

Vincente Minnelli Director

Dorothy Neumann as Designer

Maurice Chevalier as Honoré Lachaille

John Abbott as Manuel

Jacques Bergerac as Sandomir

A home, a motorcar, servants, the latest fashions: the most eligible and most finicky bachelor in Paris offers them all to Gigi. But she, who's gone from girlish gawkishness to cultured glamour before our eyes, yearns for that wonderful something money can't buy.

Monkey Business

1931

English

7.4

♡ 13

90%

Norman Z. McLeod Director

Billy Barty as Child

Bobby Barber as Hoarse Barber Customer

Thelma Todd as Lucille

Maurice Chevalier as Maurice Chevalier

Four stowaways get mixed up with gangsters while running riot on an ocean liner.

The Sorrow and the Pity

1969

French

8.1

♡ 1

100%

nazi collaborationism

Marcel Ophüls Director

Adolf Hitler as Self

Maurice Chevalier as Self - Denies Making Tour of Germany

Marcel Ophüls as Self, interviewer

Anthony Eden as Self, Winston Churchill's foreign Secretary 1940-1945

An investigation into the nature, details and reasons for the collaboration between France’s Vichy government and Nazi Germany from 1940 to 1944.

Jessica

1962

English

5.5

♡ 7

Jean Negulesco Director

Carlo Croccolo as Beppi Toriello

Maurice Chevalier as Father Antonio

Angie Dickinson as Jessica Brown Visconti

Agnes Moorehead as Maria Lombardo

When the men of a Sicilian village start obsessing over ravishing blonde midwife Jessica, angry females revolt by refusing to have sex with their husbands. As the local priest tries to encourage procreation, Jessica falls for a tricky recluse.

Love in the Afternoon

1957

English

7.1

♡ 15

79%

78%

Action

based on novel or book

Billy Wilder Director

Audrey Hepburn as Ariane Chavasse / Thin Girl

Audrey Long as Brunette

Maurice Chevalier as Claude Chavasse

Gary Cooper as Frank Flannagan

Lovestruck conservatory student Ariane pretends to be just as much a cosmopolitan lover as the worldly mature Frank Flannagan hoping that l’amour will take hold.

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Love in the Afternoon