Caprices

1942

French

5.8

♡ 1

Comedy

Léo Joannon Director

Franck Maurice as

Jean Parédès as Constant

Robert Rollis as Ernest

Bernard Blier as Marcel

Caprices tells the story of two young rich people. A famous actress poses as a poor florist, and a distinguished society man camouflages himself as forger and swindler. This game leads them to make close relations in a series of adventures.

Seul dans la nuit

7.0

Christian Stengel Director

Denise Benoît as

Bernard Blier as Inspecteur Pascal

Sophie Desmarets as Thérèse

Odette Barencey as (uncredited)

A series of crimes is being perpetrated around a famous singer. Strangely, during each of the crimes, the artist's voice is heard humming his favorite song. Suspicions lead to a chase through a nocturnal Paris, ending in a disused theater where the assassin has lured his final victim.

L'enfer des anges

1941

French

6.9

♡ 2

Action

Drama

Christian-Jaque Director

Bernard Blier as Freddy, la patron du bistro

Lucien Gallas as Jean Ballard

Dorville as Le père La Loupe

Sylvia Bataille as Simone

Abandoned children, left to their own devices and a life of danger, are adopted by a kind man.

Amici miei

1975

Italian

7.9

♡ 11

91%

Mario Monicelli Director

Philippe Noiret as Giorgio Perozzi

Adolfo Celi as Professor Sassaroli

Bernard Blier as Righi Niccolò

Silvia Dionisio as Titti

Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of their families and the people around them.

Crooks in Clover

1963

French

7.7

♡ 7

96%

Action

based on novel or book

Georges Lautner Director

Henri Cogan as Freddy

Francis Blanche as Maître Folace

Bernard Blier as Raoul Volfoni

Horst Frank as Théo

An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.

Greed in the Sun

1964

French

7.0

♡ 4

Henri Verneuil Director

Gert Fröbe as Castagliano dit 'La betterave'

Lino Ventura as Hervé Marec dit 'Le plouc'

Bernard Blier as Mitch-Mitch

Jean-Paul Belmondo as Rocco

A truck driver ventures into the Moroccan desert to retrieve a stolen truck, facing danger, bad luck, and uneasy alliances. Chaos builds to a climactic showdown.

The Stranger

1967

Italian

7.1

♡ 8

46%

71%

based on novel or book

Luchino Visconti Director

Valentino Macchi as

Bernard Blier as Defense Counsel

Vittorio Duse as Lawyer

Jean-Marc Bory as (uncredited)

Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in murder.

La symphonie fantastique

1942

French

5.8

♡ 1

Biography

classical music

Drama

Christian-Jaque Director

Bernard Blier as Antoine Charbonnel

Jean-Louis Barrault as Hector Berlioz

Maurice Schutz as Niccolò Paganini

Jules Berry as Schlesinger

The film is biographical, telling the story of the life and artistic struggles of the French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz is shown as a recalcitrant medical student in an anatomy class dreaming of becoming a composer; at a demonstration during a performance at the Paris Opéra conducted by Habeneck; at supper with other young artists (Hugo, Janin, Dumas, Mérimée, Delacroix); and chasing after his future wife Harriet Smithson, after a performance of Hamlet. Also depicted are his life in a garret, while suffering from an illness due to an abscess in the throat; a visit from his mother who curses him; and the composition of the Symphonie fantastique. The film then shows his marital breakdown, the premiere of his opera Benvenuto Cellini, his travels throughout Europe, his second marriage to Marie Recio (called "Marie Martin" in the film), public acceptance in old age and reconciliation with his son.

How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

1965

French

6.3

♡ 3

40%

Action

Comedy

Drama

Georges Lautner Director

Bernard Blier as Charles Labergerie

Jacques Marin as Le brocanteur déménageur

Mireille Darc as Marie Cruchet dite "Eloise"

Jean Carmet as Paulo

The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes a lantern from the entrance to a brothel. The second part is about how the lantern and jewelery were stolen from a young baroness. And in the third part the hero of Louis de Funes hangs a lantern at the entrance to his house.

Troubleshooters

1971

French

6.1

♡ 4

Action

Comedy

Crime

Georges Lautner Director

Mireille Darc as Carla

Nanni Loy as Charles Varèse

Bernard Blier as Commissaire Caillaud

Guy Delorme as Homme de Varese

The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the jewels stolen during his last stickup. On the other hand the police inspector who arrested him offers him protection on condition he gives him the same piece of information. Serge refuses and is about to be tortured by Varèse's henchmen when Michel, a friendly hood, comes to his rescue. His friendship will result in... a heap of corpses! —Guy Bellinger

Marie-Octobre

1959

French

7.5

♡ 4

Julien Duvivier Director

Serge Reggiani as Antoine Rougier - imprimeur

Lino Ventura as Carlo Bernardi - patron de boîte de nuit

Bernard Blier as Julien Simoneau - avocat d'Assises

Paul Guers as Père Yves Le Guen

A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin. The former members of the network have carried on with their lives after the war, but this evening they are going to have to live again a fateful night – the night their leader was killed. He had been betrayed, his name given to the Germans. The search for the traitor puts each personality in the spotlight – and also that of the killed leader, Castille.

Jo

1971

French

7.1

♡ 12

Jean Girault Director

Jacques Marin as Andrieux

Bernard Blier as Inspecteur Ducros

Ferdy Mayne as Mister Grunder

Carlo Nell as Plumerel

A writer accidentally shoots his blackmailer and tries to hide the body.

Daybreak

1939

French

7.7

♡ 7

92%

Marcel Carné Director Arletty

Arletty as Clara

Bernard Blier as Gaston

Georges Douking as L'aveugle

Marcel Rouzé as Un agent

After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.

My Uncle Benjamin

1969

French

6.7

♡ 7

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marriage

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Édouard Molinaro Director

Bernard Blier as Le marquis de Cambyse

Jean-Louis Tristan as Le sergent

Carlo Alighiero as L'intendant du marquis

Guy Delorme as Un laquais

Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the marriage contract, and marriage does not fit in with Benjamin's spirit of independence. For the same reason he resists the efforts of his sister Bettine to marry him off to Arabelle, the daughter of old Dr. Minxit. Benjamin does agree to go and meet the girl. But that evening his sister finds him at the inn together with Manette, who is arrested by her father. So she decides to go with Benjamin herself. But as result of an incident with the fat Marquis puts paid to the expedition. Benjamin is subjected by the Marquis to a humiliating practical joke. Benjamin is determined to got his revenge. He succeeds thanks to the gorgeous Vicomte Hector de Pont-Cassé, who also helps Manette with her problems against her father. But Benjamin is now arrested by the Marquis...

Twist again à Moscou

5.6

Jean-Marie Poiré Director

Albert Delpy as

France Rumilly as

Bernard Blier as Alexei

Christian Clavier as Iouri

Igor, who manages a fancy hotel and is on the take, has to juggle several problems at once. He has a two-hour window to get his ill-got gain out of the hotel, he must misdirect and obstruct the inquiries of a Party auditor who suspects that all is not above board, and he must keep out of sight and out of trouble his interloping and troublesome young brother-in-law, who arrives unannounced with barrels of rotten herring.

The Counterfeiters of Paris

1961

French

7.0

♡ 5

77%

Gilles Grangier Director

Bernard Blier as Charles Lepicard

Jacques Marin as L'inspecteur Larpin - de la Brigade des Moeurs

Paul Faivre as Mathias - le concierge

Martine Carol as Solange Mideau

"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Dutch florin, he accepts immediately. He retired after having counterfeited 100 florin notes just before the Queen Wilhelmina retired them from circulation. He flies to Paris. But the gang is not to be trusted, at least not all of them.

The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

1972

French

7.2

♡ 10

67%

Yves Robert Director

Mireille Darc as Christine

Bernard Blier as Colonel Bernard Milan

Pierre Richard as François Perrin

Jean Carmet as Maurice

A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.