Movies: Gaston Modot

  • 1945
    Children of Paradise

    Children of Paradise (1945)

    Children of Paradise

    8.01945HD

    In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: pretentious actor Frederick, connivi...

    Children of Paradise
  • 1958
    The Lovers

    The Lovers (1958)

    The Lovers

    6.61958HD

    A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions of love, leading her further towards Paris and the country wilderness....

    The Lovers
  • 1939
    The Rules of the Game

    The Rules of the Game (1939)

    The Rules of the Game

    7.41939HD

    A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois acquaintances....

    The Rules of the Game
  • 1937
    Grand Illusion

    Grand Illusion (1937)

    Grand Illusion

    7.81937HD

    A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieutenant Maréchal, grapple with their own class differences after being captured and held in a World War I German prison camp. When the men are transferre...

    Grand Illusion
  • 1930
    L'Âge d'or

    L'Âge d'or (1930)

    L'Âge d'or

    6.71930HD

    The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are passionately in love. Their attempts to consummate their passion are constantly thwarted, by their families, by...

    L'Âge d'or
  • 1954
    French Cancan

    French Cancan (1954)

    French Cancan

    7.11954HD

    Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beaut...

    French Cancan
  • 1952
    Casque d'Or

    Casque d'Or (1952)

    Casque d'Or

    7.31952HD

    At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal gang....

    Casque d'Or
  • 1937
    Pépé le Moko

    Pépé le Moko (1937)

    Pépé le Moko

    7.21937HD

    Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he fa...

    Pépé le Moko
  • 1962
    The Devil and the Ten Commandments

    The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962)

    The Devil and the Ten Commandments

    5.61962HD

    The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a...

    The Devil and the Ten Commandments
  • 1930
    Under the Roofs of Paris

    Under the Roofs of Paris (1930)

    Under the Roofs of Paris

    6.51930HD

    In the tenement slums of Paris between the world wars, impoverished street singer Albert yearns for beautiful Romanian immigrant Pola. Pola's boyfriend, local hoodlum Fred, grows jealous of Albert's constant attention to his woman and frames the hapl...

    Under the Roofs of Paris
  • 1950
    The Beauty of the Devil

    The Beauty of the Devil (1950)

    The Beauty of the Devil

    7.31950HD

    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
  • 1960
    Experiment in Evil

    Experiment in Evil (1960)

    Experiment in Evil

    6.61960HD

    Dr. Cordelier, living in a suburb of Paris, withdraws from society to pursue research into the functioning of the human brain. His lifelong friend, Maître Joly, becomes concerned when Cordelier draws up a will that bequeaths his entire estate to a st...

    Experiment in Evil
  • 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
  • 1929
    Saint Joan the Maid

    Saint Joan the Maid (1929)

    Saint Joan the Maid

    6.31929HD

    This relatively straightforward dramatic biography was one of two films commissioned to honor Joan of Arc on the 500th anniversary of her death, but it was soon undeservedly relegated to obscurity in favor of Carl Dreyer's triumphant 'La Passion de J...

    Saint Joan the Maid
  • 1956
    Elena and Her Men

    Elena and Her Men (1956)

    Elena and Her Men

    5.81956HD

    Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy Elena and her Men stars a radiant Ingrid Bergman as a beautiful, but impoverished, Polish princess who drives men of...

    Elena and Her Men
  • 1947
    Antoine & Antoinette

    Antoine & Antoinette (1947)

    Antoine & Antoinette

    6.41947HD

    1947, in France, Antoine and Antoinette, a young couple living in Paris, lead a monotonous existence: he works in a print shop while she is a shop assistant. But one evening, they regain hope: Antoine finds a winning lottery ticket in his girlfriend'...

    Antoine & Antoinette
  • 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
  • 1939
    The End of the Day

    The End of the Day (1939)

    The End of the Day

    6.81939HD

    Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter ...

    The End of the Day
  • 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
  • 1942
    At Your Command, Madam

    At Your Command, Madam (1942)

    At Your Command, Madam

    41942HD

    Hector and Odette Dupuis' car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, but not far from a luxury hotel. The couple are well off but, being miserly, Odette is determined to keep her budget tight. Fortunately for her, the hotel offers rooms for domestics ...

    At Your Command, Madam