Date of birth: 1893-07-16
Place of birth: Bois-Colombes, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Абель Жакен
1930-12-31
Monsieur Gazon is not likely to win employee of the month: he is assuredly the worst salesman at the

1933-09-29
In 1917, a French deserter entered the service of German counterintelligence, but Villard (number 33

1938-03-23

1932-05-13
Estelle de Pressendi, famous music-hall singer, was all the rage in the 1910s thanks to her two inse

1934-07-13
Jacques de Nisson, a rich man, has a new mistress, Lucie Cavelier. Which does not prevent him from c

1934-09-28
In 1721, at the end of his career as a bandit, Cartouche, touched by the grace of an honest young gi

1935-11-15
Claude, son of a ruined family, pretends to be a dangerous trickster in order to get credit from the

1937-07-16
An operetta baron has teamed up with a mechanic to carry out insurance scams. During one of their sh

1936-12-04
Maxime, heir to an old provincial family, is deeply in love with Maud whom he makes his fiancée. But

1937-03-12
Blanchette, unable to find a job, prostitutes herself in Paris. She then finds the man she loves whe

1937-04-09
For years now, Chief inspector Gustave Picard has been trying to bring down Salviati, the dreadful l

1938-02-17
An officer is tried for self-inflicted injury.He is thrown out of the Foreign Legion .

1939-12-08
In the thirties, a Chasseur Alpin commander is accused of spying and sentenced to death. At the last

1946-10-02
Petrus, a Montmartre photographer, is accidentally wounded by Migo, a dancer at the Frou Frou night

1947-03-21
Alain Marchal, wrongly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from prison the day before his executi

1948-08-27
Caroline feels neglected by her husband, the businessman Lorin. She plans to have fun with an invent

1948-08-29
The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross,

1949-02-02
A gangster, arrested by the police, manages to escape during his transfer to Paris. He takes refuge

1949-08-18
A plane flying to Dakar is caught in a storm and has to land in the desert. Deprived of a radio, he

1949-11-30
World War I aviator Carbot attempts to establish a commercial airline after the war, for the purpose

1949-12-02
The Moroccan adventure of Charles de Foucauld, explorer in Morocco, in 1883-1884. The ex-officer's c

1951-03-02
Captain Joris Kniper believes so strongly that he is "skipper next to God" that he is used to playin

1936-03-06
Raymond Bernard’s film of a script by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince) about a young wom

1956-08-10
Elvire, Nathalie and Christine, three young ladies with a proven track record, are called in by the

1937-04-30
Arsène Lupin decides to run a detective agency in addition to being a gentleman thief. As a detectiv

1937-07-01
Russia, 1835. Lieutenant Hermann, a compulsive gambler, is fascinated by an infallible martingale he

1938-03-23
A film about the story of princess Élisabeth Tarakanova.

1954-08-04
Marie-Thérèse is firmly involved in a charity dedicated to the rehabilitation of prostitutes. She ap

1956-03-16
A dying man entrusts 25 million to a young girl's care, but she's afraid of being suspected of theft

1938-10-27
About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuse

1938-11-10
During the lead up to a second World War, one of several French films hoping for peace,specifically

1954-02-26
Pierre Fresnay plays the title character in Le Defroque (The Defrocked One). Cast out by his church,

1945-10-31
An Alsatian, head of a section of the Gestapo, is actually spying on behalf of the French and disman

1938-08-04
During a stopover, Morel, an airline pilot and Colette spin the perfect love. She hides from him tha

1937-02-03
Two journalists from different papers are looking for the same story. They want to know, who a group
1931-01-16
The new French military attaché at the Constantinople embassy helps a young woman being blackmailed

1938-04-01
A British officer poses as a traitor in order to infiltrate a team of terrorists who are sabotaging

1937-01-22
A pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief romance w

1948-01-11
A provincial, Julie Moret, is hired as a servant in a Parisian bourgeois residence. She is courted b

1936-11-24
Michel Levasseur is a joyous reveler who does not care about the next day. So much so that one day a