Movies: Gaston Modot

  • 1950
    The Beauty of the Devil

    The Beauty of the Devil (1950)

    The Beauty of the Devil

    7.21950HD

    Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at the ravages of old age ... whereupon Mephistopheles, agent of Lucifer, appears as a virile, handsome young man and exchanges bodies with him to induce...

    The Beauty of the Devil
  • 1954
    Papa, Mama, the Maid and I

    Papa, Mama, the Maid and I (1954)

    Papa, Mama, the Maid and I

    5.71954HD

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    Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
  • 1935
    Lucrezia Borgia

    Lucrezia Borgia (1935)

    Lucrezia Borgia

    5.51935HD

    French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one of history's most ruthless and ambitious crime families....

    Lucrezia Borgia
  • 1942
    The Trump Card

    The Trump Card (1942)

    The Trump Card

    41942HD

    A man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country. Clarence and Montès, two inspector students, must solve this murder, but they don't know that dead guy is the USA public enemy No.1....

    The Trump Card
  • 1935
    La Bandera

    La Bandera (1935)

    La Bandera

    5.81935HD

    Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. So he joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. He meets there two fellow countrymen, Mulot and Lucas. He tries to forget his fault... but Lucas's friendship s...

    La Bandera
  • 1931
    About an investigation

    About an investigation (1931)

    About an investigation

    01931HD

    During an inquest after a woman is killed, the judge suspects his own son. The woman's lover had been friendly with the son and he was also supposed to be married to the judge's daughter....

    About an investigation
  • 1951
    Monsieur Octave

    Monsieur Octave (1951)

    Monsieur Octave

    01951HD

    Monsieur Octave, a good man who has retired from the French national railway company, wants to have his house built. To this end he contacts a loan company. They ask him to credit them with 100,000 francs. Which he does. From then on, Octave starts w...

    Monsieur Octave
  • 1948
    Eternal Conflict

    Eternal Conflict (1948)

    Eternal Conflict

    5.21948HD

    Janvier, an embittered teacher, is fed up with his colorless, monotonous life. One day he breaks away and ends up becoming a circus clown. In his new world, he meets a beautiful acrobat nicknamed Lili and grows fonder and fonder of her every day of h...

    Eternal Conflict
  • 1949
    Truant School

    Truant School (1949)

    Truant School

    71949HD

    1920, in a small village in Provence. Monsieur Pascal, a young schoolteacher, is faced with a lack of interest from his pupils. He decides to radically change the methods employed by his predecessor. He listens to the children, draws inspiration from...

    Truant School
  • 1956
    Meeting in Paris

    Meeting in Paris (1956)

    Meeting in Paris

    11956HD

    A wealthy young American woman is suddenly cut off by her father while living in Paris. A philosopher, she tries to make a living as a guide in the capital. The Marquis de Cernay, who has his eye on Nancy's portfolio, engages Maurice, a hardworking w...

    Meeting in Paris
  • 1940
    Une idée à l'eau

    Une idée à l'eau (1940)

    Une idée à l'eau

    01940HD

    Three screenwriters try to write a comedy about a young first man who must conquer a rich billionaire on a desert island....

    Une idée à l'eau
  • 1950
    Here Is the Beauty

    Here Is the Beauty (1950)

    Here Is the Beauty

    01950HD

    Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success as a ballerina despite being wounded by him in a fit of jealousy. His career as a sculptor is stymied when he is arrested....

    Here Is the Beauty
  • 1949
    The Perfume of the Lady in Black

    The Perfume of the Lady in Black (1949)

    The Perfume of the Lady in Black

    51949HD

    Mathilde Stangerson just married her fiance, when she heard that Larsan, her cruel former husband, whom she believed to be dead, is actually very much alive. Taking refuge to her castle, she appealed to the journalist Rouletabille to protect her....

    The Perfume of the Lady in Black
  • 1929
    The Ship of Lost Men

    The Ship of Lost Men (1929)

    The Ship of Lost Men

    4.91929HD

    A young doctor gets stuck on a ship after treating an injured first mate. Later, he rescues a woman from plane wreckage, and with the help of the cook, he hides her away from the rowdy and dangerous crew....

    The Ship of Lost Men
  • 1949
    The Mystery of the Yellow Room

    The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1949)

    The Mystery of the Yellow Room

    01949HD

    A young reporter solves a mystery crime. The fictional reporter is Joseph Rouletabille. He works on a complex, and seemingly impossible, crime in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room....

    The Mystery of the Yellow Room
  • 1949
    The Mark Of The Day

    The Mark Of The Day (1949)

    The Mark Of The Day

    81949HD

    In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up and prepare for a new day at work. The young engineer Larzac, newly appointed to the mine, will soon oppose the authoritarian and conservative methods o...

    The Mark Of The Day
  • 1938
    Sirocco

    Sirocco (1938)

    Sirocco

    6.11938HD

    Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the mistress and then wife of a wealthy archaeologist, and bears him Matteo's child, ...

    Sirocco
  • 1956
    Les Truands

    Les Truands (1956)

    Les Truands

    4.51956HD

    "Thieves We Are" - In flashback, the audience learns why 104-year-old Amedee steals the watch belonging to the town mayor. The story develops into a history of the watch-thievery business, told in anecdotal fashion....

    Les Truands
  • 1936
    Les Gaîtés de la finance

    Les Gaîtés de la finance (1936)

    Les Gaîtés de la finance

    51936HD

    The banker Marivol looks like a tailor, Lambinet. Gangsters threaten the first, who hires the second as a double. The latter accepts ignoring everything. When he learns that he will be the target of killers, the unfortunate man begins to live in terr...

    Les Gaîtés de la finance
  • 1948
    The Cupboard Was Bare

    The Cupboard Was Bare (1948)

    The Cupboard Was Bare

    6.11948HD

    The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver, not wishing to be bothered by a police interrogation, hides her corpse in a cupboard before notifying Alfred. But the van is stolen. Alfred, being t...

    The Cupboard Was Bare