Louis Jouvet
Date of birth: 1887-12-24
Place of birth: Crozon, Finistère, France
Known for: Acting
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Biography
Louis Jouvet (24 December 1887 - 16 August 1951) was a renowned French actor, director, and theatre director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Louis Jouvet, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Carnival in Flanders
1935-12-03
Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the
Ramuntcho
1938-02-24
Ramuntcho is a young man who has fallen in with a gang of smugglers, led by Itchoua, who carry their
La Marseillaise
1938-02-10
A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseil
Return to Life
1949-09-14
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war afte
The Lower Depths
1936-12-11
Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Ko
The Curtain Rises
1938-10-06
1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dr
Between Eleven and Midnight
1949-03-23
Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot whil
Volpone
1941-05-10
Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends
Forfaiture
1937-11-24
Denise Moret joins her husband, Pierre, in Mongolia where he works as a civil engineer. One night sh
Carbon Copy
1947-07-09
A smooth criminal, who turns to be Manuel Ismora, and his gang successfully and peacefully pull off
Young Love
1951-11-14
Catherine, 18, loved Jean, a young accountant, who loved her in return. And yet, one morning, two po
The Phantom Wagon
1939-09-07
French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a
Un revenant
1946-10-18
A ballet producer returns to his native town and schemes to avenge himself on the family who tried t
Miquette
1950-04-14
A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater,
Sirocco
1938-09-22
Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic
Alibi
1937-12-22
Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music
Hôtel du Nord
1938-12-17
A young couple's suicide pact goes awry, leaving the woman to face her survival with a new admirer w
Jenny Lamour
1947-10-04
Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely
Bargekeepers Daughter
1938-10-11
Prince Sacha studies in Paris and cares more for Marianne than about Silistrie, the country his fami
Life Dances On
1937-09-09
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him
The End of the Day
1939-03-24
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or
Topaze
1933-01-06
A tale of a socially inept schoolmaster who must confront his own principles.
The Heart of a Nation
1943-04-07
The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of t
Bizarre, Bizarre
1937-10-20
A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pret
Dr. Knock
1951-03-21
Saint-Maurice, an ordinary peaceful village, lived healthily so much so that the local doctor's prac
Street of Shadows
1937-04-13
A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece a
Lady Paname
1950-05-26
The evocation of Paris in the 1920s mingles with the rapid rise of the irresistible Caprice, a talen
Monelle
1948-09-15
A beautiful young pianist falls for her mentor.
Brasil
1950-12-31
Abandoned documentary on the country Brazil which director Clouzot wanted to make while on honeymoon
The Shanghai Drama
1938-09-23
A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dream
Stars Never Die
1957-05-07
For Les étoiles ne meurent jamais, director/archivist Max De Vaucorbeil has assembled precious film
Schubert's Serenade
1940-02-28
Serenade represented the return to the screen of international favorite Lillian Harvey after an abse
Mister Flow
1936-12-02
While still behind bars, a crook manages several schemes including one that almost gets his penniles
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
1933-11-03
"Everybody is ill: you just don't know it yet". Knock, a newly arrived physician takes over a small
Lusitanian Illusion
2010-04-22
Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rur
Belmondo: The Incorrigible
2022-09-05
Charismatic and resourceful, seducer and daredevil, Jean-Paul Belmondo has always played his roles a