Jean-Louis Barrault

All Movies of Jean-Louis Barrault

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  7.0
  That Night in Varennes
  June 1791. When the controversial novelist Restif de la Bretonne sees Queen Marie-Antoinette’s lady-in-waiting secretly leaving Paris one evening, he concludes that King Louis XVI and his family have already fled the capital. De...
   1982

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  Chappaqua
  Semi-autobiographical story of Conrad Rooks, who travels to France to undergo a drug-withdrawal cure. Flashbacks to the beginings of psychedelia in San Fran.
   1966

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  7.0
  The Big Scare
  French comedian Bourvil is a police inspector who trails a counterfeiter and spends several days in a small rural town, where you'll find one policeman, one butcher, one doctor, one chemist, and so on. And, supposedly, one bald, h...
   1964

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  7.7
  The Longest Day
  England in June 1944. Unseasonal storms. Allied troops are massed ready for the invasion of France, some already on the boats. The Normandy beaches will be their destination while paratroopers are dropped inland to take key towns ...
  Character: Father Louis Roulland

   1962

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  6.0
  The Miracle of the Wolves
   1961

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  7.7
  Le dialogue des Carmélites (Dialogue with the Carmelites)
  Character: Le mime

   1960

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  6.9
  Experiment in Evil (The Doctor's Horrible Experiment)
  Based on the Novel: "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" by Robert Louis Stevenson. A lawyer, Joly (Teddy Bilis) is disturbed when his friend, the eminent psychiatrist and researcher, Dr Cordelier (Jean-Louis Ba...
  Character: Dr. Cordelier / Opale

   1959

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  6.5
  Affairs in Versailles
  Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the...
   1954

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  7.9
  La ronde
  An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young ...
  Character: Robert Kuhlenkampf

   1950

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  8.3
  Children of Paradise
  Poetic realism reached sublime heights with Children of Paradise, widely considered one of the greatest French films of all time. This nimble depiction of nineteenth-century Paris’s theatrical demimonde, filmed during World War ...
  Character: Baptiste Debureau

   1945

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  6.5
  Mlle. Desiree
  Désirée Clary met Napoleon when he was an obscure general. There was evidently a romance but, in the outcome, Désirée's sister married Napoleon's brother, while she went on to marry the prickly General Bernadotte, ending up ye...
   1942

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  6.3
  The Puritan
  A religious fanatic finds his entire life and philosophy turned upside-down as he falls in love with a girl and kills her in a jealous rage. His search is for peace of mind and a desire to justify the murder of the girl to himself...
   1938

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  Mademoiselle Docteur
  Character: Le client fou (as J.L. Barrault)

   1937

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  6.0
  Mayerling
  Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, is fettered on all sides. He's bored; his father, the emperor, is domineering; his politics are more liberal than his father's, but he knows his views carry no weight. He agrees to marry a princess...
   1936

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  Les beaux jours
  Sylvie, a rich girl, learns at the same time the death and the ruin of her father. Forced to find work in Paris, she is given shelter by a medical student who soon falls for her. Another young man falls in love with her. When her ...
   1935