Jean Desailly Movies

Noël Schoudler, founder of an empire built on three foundations - sugar, banking and the press - reigns like an absolute sovereign over his...

Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours,...

10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices after a break-in. During the fight with the...

Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company...

A portray of French actress Françoise Dorléac

Play by Peter Ustinov, about a return to the modern world by Beethoven, who knocks on the door of a London music critic. He is fitted with a hearing...

On Christmas Eve, Swiss minister Jean Martens takes in a blind, half-crippled orphan and brings her up among his own four children. But Gertrude...

This comedy short subject satirizes the Hollywood genre which the French had given the name to of Film Noir.

Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is...

Documentary on France's industrial chemistry.

Lucky Baron Jérôme Napoléon Antoine wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover in search of new adventures....

An anthology of four historical love affairs: at Versailles, Louis XIV shares his mistress with one of his subjects; a courtesan tries to disfigure...

A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her father...

Quentin and André, two brothers who had lost sight for several years, find themselves in the family home, uninhabited since the death of their...

Nobel-prize-winning author, social justice crusader, anti-colonialist, adventure traveler, musician, and one-time Communist: André Gide was a...

A series of events beginning during the German occupation of France showing what might have happened if one thing had gone differently. The premise...

Philippe, Théo and Bob share the same cell in the prison of La Santé. Philippe, a young student, known as "Sciences-Po", is planning...

A young woman's comfortable life with her boyfriend is disrupted when he leaves for military duty, entrusting her to a playboy friend seeking a fake...