Movies: Jean Parédès

  • 1950
    The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang

    The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang (1950)

    The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang

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    The manager of a firm has a very unusual idea : asking his employees to pose as gangsters and to hold up a bank before returning the stolen money and pocketing the reward. But things do not go according to plan and the phony thieves get stolen in the...

    The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang
  • 1942
    Signé illisible

    Signé illisible (1942)

    Signé illisible

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    Strange things are happening in the small town of Breuil-le-Château. Provisions from the black market are stolen regularly and wealthy young men, including the squire's son, start vanishing... Ransom demands are sent but with an illegible signature. ...

    Signé illisible
  • 1951
    Les deux Monsieur de Madame

    Les deux Monsieur de Madame (1951)

    Les deux Monsieur de Madame

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    Adolphe is in serious financial difficulties and the extravagances of his wife do not help to fix things....

    Les deux Monsieur de Madame
  • 1959
    The Bureaucrats

    The Bureaucrats (1959)

    The Bureaucrats

    5.51959HD

    The gifts and bequests department is particularly eccentric, including Lahrier, a fervent absentee and songwriter in his spare time....

    The Bureaucrats
  • 1971
    The Song of the Balalaika

    The Song of the Balalaika (1971)

    The Song of the Balalaika

    21971HD

    Sasha Voronin, a famous singer about to marry supermodel Nathalie, falls victim to John Darow, who attempts to murder him by knocking him out and throwing him into the sea. Sacha is taken in by fishermen, but he has lost his memory and takes the name...

    The Song of the Balalaika
  • 1947
    The Village of Wrath

    The Village of Wrath (1947)

    The Village of Wrath

    01947HD

    A young man and an alleged witch get married despite the prejudices of their fellow citizens....

    The Village of Wrath
  • 1945
    The Queer Assignment

    The Queer Assignment (1945)

    The Queer Assignment

    11945HD

    A young man, Robert Dupont, with suicidal tendencies and a bit stupid to boot, is saved by a stranger who pretends to be a well-known banker. This stranger then entrusts him with a suitcase full of mysterious documents, which he asks him to take with...

    The Queer Assignment
  • 1947
    One Night at the Tabarin

    One Night at the Tabarin (1947)

    One Night at the Tabarin

    01947HD

    Together with his uncompromising friend Marie Girard, André de Lurvire clamors for moral reasons for the closing of the Bal Tabarin, a famous Paris cabaret. So, imagine André's reaction when he... inherits the joint! But, following the seductive sche...

    One Night at the Tabarin
  • 1954
    After You, Duchess

    After You, Duchess (1954)

    After You, Duchess

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    When she married her snobbish lawyer husband a woman hid her family's modest background from him. Her father, who is in fact a plumber dresses up as a duchess in order to fool him....

    After You, Duchess
  • 1960
    The Crab Basket

    The Crab Basket (1960)

    The Crab Basket

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    Charles is a student in Strasbourg. Abandoned by Liliane, his fiancée, who has inexplicably given up on marriage, he moves to Paris, where he decides to pursue a career in cinema. He founded a film club and became a journalist, then assistant to a fa...

    The Crab Basket
  • 1950
    Without Trumpet or Drum

    Without Trumpet or Drum (1950)

    Without Trumpet or Drum

    31950HD

    For the Marquis Barbezieux de Saint-Rosay, nobility is important. If anything can comfort her, it's her family tree. In order to erase any doubt he invites in his castle a cousin of his established in Scotland, whom he instructs to bring him his titl...

    Without Trumpet or Drum
  • 1949
    My Aunt from Honfleur

    My Aunt from Honfleur (1949)

    My Aunt from Honfleur

    01949HD

    A young man leads a happy life in Paris, while making his aunt believe that he is continuing his studies, while she supports him financially....

    My Aunt from Honfleur
  • 1951
    Good Enough to Eat

    Good Enough to Eat (1951)

    Good Enough to Eat

    6.51951HD

    Rose Chaperon is asked by her confectioner mother Mathilde to bring jewels to her sick grandmother, Madame de Mergrand. But Hugues, the latter's brother, is prepared to do anything to get his hands on the loot. To this end he hires a villainous young...

    Good Enough to Eat
  • 1952
    The Happiest of Men

    The Happiest of Men (1952)

    The Happiest of Men

    01952HD

    An industrialist who prefers painting to business is cheated on by his wife with a painter who prefers business to painting....

    The Happiest of Men
  • 1973
    La Tête des autres

    La Tête des autres (1973)

    La Tête des autres

    01973HD

    Prosecutor Maillard can rejoice: he has just obtained the death sentence of an accused accused of murder. It is the third head he gets at the assizes. There followed an evening of rejoicing with his wife and friends, including the prosecutor Bertolie...

    La Tête des autres
  • 1948
    Cité de l'espérance

    Cité de l'espérance (1948)

    Cité de l'espérance

    01948HD

    The City of Hope is the place where left-behind artists subsist by scraping by. When one of them is accused of murder, all try to find the real culprit....

    Cité de l'espérance
  • 1949
    The Inn of Sin

    The Inn of Sin (1949)

    The Inn of Sin

    01949HD

    Two murders are committed in an inn for the possession of a bag containing a fortune....

    The Inn of Sin
  • 1954
    Cadet Rousselle

    Cadet Rousselle (1954)

    Cadet Rousselle

    4.91954HD

    The Adventures of Cadet Rousselle that on the French Revolution left his hometown in search of fortune. He thinks he knows love with Violeta, a dancer in a band of comedians but ends up involved in a monarchist plot....

    Cadet Rousselle
  • 1953
    Lightly and Shortly Dressed

    Lightly and Shortly Dressed (1953)

    Lightly and Shortly Dressed

    5.21953HD

    Jacqueline and Jacques, newlyweds, are in frequent discussions. The cause is Jacqueline's flirtatious nature, which she has not been able to shake off despite her marriage. One of her tennis partners, Pierre, declares his love for her, but Jacqueline...

    Lightly and Shortly Dressed
  • 1941
    Night in December

    Night in December (1941)

    Night in December

    51941HD

    In 1919, Pierre Darmont, a handsome, much-loved piano virtuoso, falls in love with Anne Morris, a young woman who shares his tender feelings. But, quite inexplicably, after an unforgettable night, Anne vanishes without trace. Twenty years later, Pier...

    Night in December