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7.2

♡ 5

100%

Jean Renoir Director

Édouard Delmont as Fernand

Paul Bozzi as Guitar Player

Celia Montalván as Josefa

Vincent Florio as Un enfant de choeur

In the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in the agriculture. Many mingle with locals and settle down permanently - like Toni, an Italian who has moved in with Marie, a Frenchwoman. Even a well-ordered existence is not immune from boredom, friendship, love, or enmity, and Toni gets entangled in a web of increasingly passionate relationships. For there is his best pal Fernand, but also Albert, his overbearing foreman; there is Sebastian, a steady Spanish peasant, but also Gabi, his young rogue relative; there is Marie, but there is also Josefa.

Harvest

1937

7.4

♡ 4

100%

Romance

Marcel Pagnol Director Bassac

Bassac as Le percepteur

Édouard Delmont as Le vieux Gaubert

Olive Pierre as L'oncle Joseph

Gabriel Gabrio as Panturle

In the 30s, a small village in the Provence is losing its inhabitants because young people prefer to go to the city to find easy jobs and escape from being farmers living in relative poverty. Only a few old people and the poacher Panturle remain. Panturle dreams of bringing the village back to life, finding a wife, founding a family and work as a farmer. One day, the village is visited by a traveling knife-grinder, Urbain Gedemus and a young woman, Arsule. Gedemus treats Arsule like a slave, but Arsule accept this because she has nowhere to go and -we guess- her 'work' with Gedemus is the last thing that saves her from being a prostitute. When she meets Panturle and knows about his dreams, she escapes from Gedemus and decides to stay with him. Together, they start a new life, made of hard farming work but mostly of happiness to have each other - fulfilling the earlier dreams of Panturle. Can anything break the happiness of their new life?

Angele

1934

7.3

♡ 4

Marcel Pagnol Director

Édouard Delmont as Amédée

Thommeray as Le monsieur de la ville

Delaurme as Le Patron du bar

Juliette Petit as L'Esmenarde

Angèle is a 1934 French drama film directed, produced and written by Marcel Pagnol. It stars Orane Demazis as a naive young woman who is seduced and abandoned. It is based on the novel Un de Baumugnes by Jean Giono.

Picpus

1943

6.1

♡ 2

based on novel or book

Richard Pottier Director

Huguette Vivier as Eliane

Jean Dasté as Le clerc

Édouard Delmont as Le Cloaguen

Maurice Marceau as Un inspecteur

Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed. Maigret tries to find the killer.

The Strange Monsieur Victor

7.2

♡ 3

wrongful imprisonment

Jean Grémillon Director

Viviane Romance as Adrienne Robineau

Marcelle Géniat as La mère de Victor

Armand Larcher as L'inspecteur #2

Édouard Delmont as Paroli

Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and considerate to all who know him. However, beneath this veneer of respectability hides a notorious receiver of stolen goods, who trades with hardened criminals. Victor manages to keep up his double life without any difficulty until the fateful day when one of his partners in crime threatens to expose him. Fearing a scandal, Victor kills the crook in a moment of panic, using a shoemaker's tool. Naturally, the murder is blamed on a local shoemaker, who is sentenced to ten years' hard labour. Seven years later, the former shoemaker reappears in Toulon, having escaped from prison. The first person to recognise him is Monsieur Victor...

The Baker's Wife

7.5

♡ 9

100%

88%

Comedy

Marcel Pagnol Director

Charblay as Arsène, le boucher

Adrien Legros as Barthelemy

Jean Castan as Esprit, un berger

Édouard Delmont as Maillefer dit Patience

In this little Provencal village, a new baker, Aimable, settles down. His wife Aurelie is beautiful and much younger than he. She departs with a shepherd the night after Aimable produces his first breads. Aimable is so afflicted that he can not work anymore. Therefore, the villagers, who initially laughed at his cuckoldry, take the matter very seriously (they want the bread) and organize a plan to find Aurelie and to bring her back to the bakery.

Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves

1954

6.0

♡ 12

47%

male female relationship

morocco

Romance

thief

Jacques Becker Director

Édouard Delmont as Harun, Père de Morgiane

José Casa as Mendiant

Samia Gamal as Morgiane

Gaston Orbal as Mufti

A lord’s servant, Ali Baba, is sent to retrieve a slave for his master, but ends up on an adventure filled with gold, mischief, love, and forty famous thieves instead.

La fiancée des ténèbres

1945

6.2

♡ 3

Serge de Poligny Director

Robert Dhéry as L'aubergiste de Tournebelle

Léonce Corne as Le docteur

Édouard Delmont as M. Toulzac

Jean-Pierre Belmon as Tristan

Sylvie, a young woman who believes to be cursed, lives in the town of Carcassonne with her guardian, Mr. Toulzac. He is a retired teacher who wishes to discover the secret of the Cathars, a Christian sect of the Middle Ages that glorified death over life. Sylvie meets Roland, a composer who instills new hope into her troubled mind. Mr. Toulzac then asks her then to renounce the world and go down a secret tomb he has just found.

Marius

1931

7.8

♡ 5

100%

Alexander Korda Director

Zé Digiovanni as Innocent Mangiapan

Édouard Delmont as Le Goelec

Milly Mathis as Tante Claudine Foulon

Giovanni as (uncredited)

César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23-year-old son, Marius. Friends since childhood, Fanny and Marius love each other, but Marius has a secret wanderlust: every ship's whistle stirs a longing for foreign lands. When M. Panisse seeks Fanny's hand in marriage and when a departing clipper needs a deckhand, Marius and Fanny must decide who and what they love most. César, with his generous, wise spirit, tries to guide his son.

César

1936

7.6

♡ 2

100%

88%

Marcel Pagnol Director

Orane Demazis as Fanny Panisse

Édouard Delmont as Le docteur Félicien Venelle

Albert Spanna as Le facteur

Milly Mathis as Tante Claudine Foulon

Leaping forward twenty years, the trilogy continues with the death of Fanny's husband, Panisse, and the discovery of her secret by her son, Césariot. The young man resolves to track down his biological father, Marius, whose life has been fraught with calamity and poverty.

La Marseillaise

7.0

♡ 3

78%

Jean Renoir Director

Robert Rollis as

Édouard Delmont as Anatole Roux dit 'Cabri'

Jaque Catelain as Le capitaine Langlade

Louis Jouvet as Roederer, le procureur du département

A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course, the king Louis XVI, each showing their own small problems.

Port of Shadows