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The Train

The Train (1964) more movies like this

directed by John Frankenheimer
featuring Burt Lancaster, Paul Scofield, Jeanne Moreau, Michel Simon, Suzanne Flon

John Frankenheimer directs Burt Lancaster in the tense spy thriller The Train. Lancaster plays Labiche, a French railway inspector. Allied forces are threatening to liberate Paris, so Col. Franz von Waldheim (Paul Scofield) is ordered to move the priceless works of art from the Jeu de Paume Museum to the fatherland. The head of the museum (Suzanne ...

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L'Atalante

L'Atalante (1934) more movies like this

directed by Jean Vigo
featuring Dita Parlo, Jean Dasté, Michel Simon, Louis Lefebvre, Gilles Margaritis

The most acclaimed (and sentimental) film in Jean Vigo's short career. L'Atalante is the name of the barge owned by Jean (Jean Daste), who marries the lovely Juliette (Dita Parlo) at the film's beginning. Juliette comes to live aboard the barge, for Jean makes his living on the Seine. The arrival of a woman on board disrupts the small crew, but ...

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Boudu Saved from Drowning

Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) more movies like this

directed by Jean Renoir
featuring Michel Simon, Charles Granval, Marcella Hainia, Jean Gehret, Severine Lerczynska

Boudu (played by Michel Simon, who also produced the film) is a shaggy, foul-smelling tramp who is rescued from drowning by bourgeois Frenchman Charles Granval. Deciding to "reform" Boudu, Granval invites the hobo into his home. Boudu returns the favor by turning the household upside down and by conducting an affair with Granval's wife Marcella ...

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Le Vieil Homme et l'Enfant

Le Vieil Homme et l'Enfant (1968) more movies like this

directed by Claude Berri
featuring Michel Simon, Alain Cohen, Charles Denner, Luce Fabiole, Roger Carel

Having been forced into minor parts for several years by a debilitating illness, veteran film actor Michel Simon made a triumphant return to leading roles in the charming, poignant The Two of Us (Le Vieil Homme et L'Enfant). Simon plays a likeable old soak with one significant character flaw: he is a flagrant anti-Semite. During the Nazi ...

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Drôle de Drame

Drôle de Drame (1936) more movies like this

directed by Marcel Carné
featuring Michel Simon, Françoise Rosay, Louis Jouvet, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Nadine Vogel

In a comedy-farce that runs from black humor to slapstick, this story is one in which a mystery writer is caught unawares by his cousin, a vicar, who shows up unannounced for a visit. Since the servants have just walked out, the writer's wife hides out from the vicar, taking care of the cooking, cleaning and other household chores. To explain his ...

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The Head

The Head (1959) more movies like this

directed by Victor Trivas
featuring Christiane Maybach, Horst Frank, Michel Simon, Paul Dahlke, Karin Kernke, Helmut Schmidt

A horror film of dubious taste, a least for the early '60s when it was released, this Gothic tale about transplanted heads comes from Germany and is directed by Victor Trivas. Prof. Abel (Michel Simon) has invented the miraculous "Serum X," and with it he successfully keeps a dog's head alive after the rest of the canine is quite dead. When the ...

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La Beauté du Diable

La Beauté du Diable (1950) more movies like this

directed by René Clair
featuring Michel Simon, Gérard Philipe, Nicole Besnard, Simone Valere

La Beaute du Diable came into being when French filmmaker Rene Clair became fascinated with a structural defect in the "Faust" legend. Clair felt that the beginning and end of the story was perfect, but the middle section, wherein the title character blasphemes the Pope, was "silly." The director also wondered what would happen if, instead of ...

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Port of Shadows

Port of Shadows (1938) more movies like this

directed by Marcel Carné
featuring Michèle Morgan, Jean Gabin, Michel Simon, Pierre Brasseur

Adapted from a novel by Jacques Prevert, Port of Shadows (Quai des brumes) stars that eternal victim of society, Jean Gabin. Having deserted the French army, Gabin ducks into a back alley and meets the lovely Michelle Morgan. He becomes her champion by taking on her evil "protectors" (Michel Simon, Pierre Brasseur), but loses his last bid for ...

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Panique (1946) more movies like this

directed by Julien Duvivier
featuring Michel Simon, Viviane Romance, Paul Bernard

For his first French film in nearly a decade (he'd spent the war years in Hollywood), filmmaker Julien Duvivier chose to adapt Les Fiançailles de Monsieur Hire, a novel by Georges Simenon. Panique, as Duvivier's version was titled, is a twisted tale of murder, subterfuge and revenge from "Beyond." Middle-aged loner Monsieur Hire (Michel Simon) ...

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