Marcel Achard Movies

Inspector Jacques Clouseau, smitten with the accused maid Maria Gambrelli, unwittingly turns a straightforward murder investigation into a comedic...

In France of the late 19th century, the wife of a wealthy general, the Countess Louise, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day...

Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and...

A playwright has to murder if he does not want to be murdered.

Stop-motion photography blends with extreme slow-motion in Clair's first and most 'dada' film, composed of a series of zany, interconnected scenes....

Celestin works as an organist at a girl's school. By day, Celestin is the meek and mild target of the girls' incessant practical jokes. By night,...

Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage to a Belgian princess. As he seeks to flee his...

When a jury member takes in the defendant he couldn't convict, she has a bad influence on his son.

During the First World War, a woman doctor falls in love with one of her patients who turns out to be a German spy. She herself ends up working for...

Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poor stock who taunts and degrades him.

Camille Morestan serves as a jury member at a court in Paris. The attractive Natalie Roguin is accused of murder. Morestan doesn't want to believe...

Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.

Petrus, a Montmartre photographer, is accidentally wounded by Migo, a dancer at the Frou Frou night club, when she is trying to shoot her faithless...

The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of the city by the Prussians during the...

Madame Célerier is determined to marry off her son François to a rich and haughty woman but François has other plans.

After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning to the music shop he discovers that the...

Nick, a Parisian businessman, divorces his rich American wife, marries his new secretary Marie, but is prevented from success in France so travels...

A Parisian reporter tries to exonerate a fugitive neighbor of charges he murdered his wife.

A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider.