Movies: Micheline Francey

  • 1943
    Le Corbeau

    Le Corbeau (1943)

    Le Corbeau

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    Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as ...

    Le Corbeau
  • 1945
    A Cage of Nightingales

    A Cage of Nightingales (1945)

    A Cage of Nightingales

    7.41945HD

    In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of his boarding school director....

    A Cage of Nightingales
  • 1952
    Holiday for Henrietta

    Holiday for Henrietta (1952)

    Holiday for Henrietta

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    Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a comical path for their heroine, who is overcome with sentimental love for a young photographer on Bastille Day. The other has a more thrilling and dasta...

    Holiday for Henrietta
  • 1945
    La Grande Marnière

    La Grande Marnière (1945)

    La Grande Marnière

    01945HD

    A rich peasant, Carvajan, seeks revenge on the castellan, Clairefont, with whom he had a serious conflict. Their respective children, Antoinette and Pascal, meet and fall in love with each other. Robert de Clairefont, Antoinette's brother, unjustly a...

    La Grande Marnière
  • 1942
    Midnight in Paris

    Midnight in Paris (1942)

    Midnight in Paris

    6.21942HD

    On a rainy night, eccentric tramp Mr. La Souris finds a corpse. But the body soon vanishes in his car leaving only his wallet. While the police start investigating a missing person report, La Souris concocts a plan to secure his find....

    Midnight in Paris
  • 1952
    Imperial Violets

    Imperial Violets (1952)

    Imperial Violets

    5.41952HD

    Violeta, an Andalusian gypsy, foretells a lady she will become empress. The lady is Eugenia de Montijo, and when she marries emperor Luis Napoleón of France she takes the young girl with her. The empress'cousin readily makes her his focus of attentio...

    Imperial Violets
  • 1950
    Sending of Flowers

    Sending of Flowers (1950)

    Sending of Flowers

    51950HD

    Envoi de Fleurs is based on incidents in the life of French composer Paul Delmet. Played by popular French singing star Tino Rossi, Delmet is depicted as a man all too willing to give up personal happiness in favor of blind ambition. After carrying o...

    Sending of Flowers
  • 1950
    The Strollers

    The Strollers (1950)

    The Strollers

    5.21950HD

    Jean-Louis forgets to use the pedestrian crossing;Who could have believed then where it would lead the unfortunate guy to?...

    The Strollers
  • 1948
    The Eleven O'Clock Woman

    The Eleven O'Clock Woman (1948)

    The Eleven O'Clock Woman

    6.11948HD

    Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving anonymous letters. And soon a mysterious murder is committed. SOS begins to investigate......

    The Eleven O'Clock Woman
  • 1939
    The Phantom Wagon

    The Phantom Wagon (1939)

    The Phantom Wagon

    7.21939HD

    French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he's wrought when he dies on New Year's Eve and is collected by Death in his carriage....

    The Phantom Wagon
  • 1938
    The Chess Player

    The Chess Player (1938)

    The Chess Player

    4.71938HD

    A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces....

    The Chess Player
  • 1947
    Danger of Death

    Danger of Death (1947)

    Danger of Death

    5.41947HD

    Loiseau the pharmacist mistakenly mixes potassium cyanide into a batch of cough syrup and sells five bottles. With horror he discovers his mistake and sets out to find the buyers. He finds only four. The fifth, not a regular customer, comes back to t...

    Danger of Death
  • 1953
    Mandat d'amener

    Mandat d'amener (1953)

    Mandat d'amener

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    Appointed public prosecutor in a small provincial town, Gérard Latour befriends Delanglade, whose young wife becomes his mistress. Shortly afterwards, a fire ravages Delanglade's factory. During the ensuing investigation, the Public Prosecutor discov...

    Mandat d'amener
  • 1955
    Crime Boulevard

    Crime Boulevard (1955)

    Crime Boulevard

    01955HD

    Madeleine Vernier, a renowned actress, is soon to perform a play written by her second husband, Gilbert Renaud. Her previous husband, Raymond, shows up and reveals to the young woman that the play is a transposition of a crime that Gilbert has always...

    Crime Boulevard
  • 1947
    Anger of the Gods

    Anger of the Gods (1947)

    Anger of the Gods

    01947HD

    Sylvain, sentenced to death, assures the visiting priest that his life could have been completely different, and invents different situations....

    Anger of the Gods
  • 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
  • 1938
    La Présidente

    La Présidente (1938)

    La Présidente

    01938HD

    Vérotchka, a vivacious theater actress touring in a provincial town, is turned out of her hotel by orders of Monsieur Tricointe, the stern president of the local law court. In a rage, the actress knocks at Tricointe's door with a view to protesting a...

    La Présidente
  • 1959
    Night Dance Hall

    Night Dance Hall (1959)

    Night Dance Hall

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    Martine is a young woman plagued both by poverty and by uncaring, problem parents who in no way can provide the kind of nurturing that Martine needs during her adolescent years. As a result of her family situation, Martine runs away from home and get...

    Night Dance Hall
  • 1945
    François Villon

    François Villon (1945)

    François Villon

    01945HD

    An episode in the life of the tumultuous poet who murdered his rival, in love with Catherine de Vauselles....

    François Villon
  • 1949
    Piège à hommes

    Piège à hommes (1949)

    Piège à hommes

    41949HD

    A gangster, arrested by the police, manages to escape during his transfer to Paris. He takes refuge in the suburbs where his accomplices and his mistress await him....

    Piège à hommes