Michel Simon Movies

The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Heinz Rühmann

As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany....

Genre: War

Cast: Burt Lancaster

A mentally disturbed man named Jérémie is scouring the area in search of women he can strangle with his scarf, which is embroidered...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Serrault

Former professor of natural history, Louis Compiegne lives in retirement in a big house, with Pascal, his faithful servant. The arrival of a young...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Simon

Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Simon

Charles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers, decides to return to La Rochelle, his hometown to die there. Forty years earlier he had been...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Lino Ventura

Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Simon

Capricious small-town girl Juliette and barge captain Jean marry after a whirlwind courtship, and she comes to live aboard his boat, L'Atalante. As...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Michel Simon

Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernand Gravey

A story of the caring friendship formed between a crusty, old anti-Semite and an eight-year-old Jewish boy who goes to live with him during World War...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Simon

The intersecting lives of neighbors in a courtyard apartment building in Vienna,including a football player related to the concierge,a new blonde...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean Gabin

A small town gentleman learns that his prim and proper wife was once a showgirl, and that, even worse, he had enjoyed a one night stand with her in...

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Cast: Michel Simon

An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Fernandel

In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Erich von Stroheim

Harsh Parisian judge Gaetan (known as Monsieur Maximum), chafing in the idleness of retirement, leaves for a seaside holiday. But Gabriel the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arletty

A famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin, escapes from prison. Chance makes him meet...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Georges Marchal

An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. The episode triggers a sense of confidence and he...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Jean Debucourt

Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate,...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Jean Gabin

Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each other without risk. After listening to a radio show,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Simon

Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Ivan Mosjoukine

Professor Charles Buisson, astronomer and Nobel Prize winner, has just discovered a nova. He informs the other observatories by telephone. Just as he...

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Cast: Michel Simon

Jojo’s ambition is to become a gangster, but to be admitted into a gang he has to prove himself by committing a daring act. To that end, he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Simon

The struggles of a small business owner come to light in this film by director André Cayatte. The proprietor of a fabric shop, M. Baudu faces...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Simon

Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Simon

Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in which he was to play with Aurélia Nobli, his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Barsacq

La Vie d'un honnête homme English: The Virtuous Scoundrel, is a French comedy drama film from 1953, directed by Sacha Guitry, written by Sacha...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Simon

The tale of a rich, flaky poet and his servant who both join the army and wind up in the same barracks.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Georges Pomiès

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Mondy

The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken:...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Françoise Arnoul

An honest taxi driver gets into trouble by looking for a customer who left her purse full of cash in her vehicle.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Simon

Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Louis Jouvet

Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at the ravages of old age ... whereupon...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Simon

A successful businessman whose destiny leads him to a secluded Swiss chalet where his life is put on trial by a group of retired law professionals....

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Alberto Sordi

A terminally ill Mr. Bard, a casino bus driver forced to quit his job, miraculously wins a fortune playing roulette. Instantly becoming a...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Simon

A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Françoise Rosay

A story about a simple old man with a lot of love for his only daughter. She falls in love with a doctor's son and he don't understand why...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Simon

Saadia is a wild, strange Arab girl whose life has been dominated by a local sorceress, a vengeful outcast in the community, who has convinced her...

Genre: Adventure

Cast: Cornel Wilde

A tour of the Hotel des Invalides, and more particularly of the Army Museum and the Saint Louis Chapel. From François I's armor to Guynemer's...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Michel Simon

A little boy won't go to the bathroom, which leads to all sorts of complications for his parents and their friends.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Marguerite Pierry

A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpine lake resort. He falls in love with a young...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Jean-Pierre Aumont

In the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an elderly woman, Madame Mathieu, the owner of both...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Lucien Baroux

Gilbert Quercy, 18, tried to commit suicide after a heartache. At the hospital, three women try to cheer him up : the three former wives of his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Simon

Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him...

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Cast: Michel Simon

When Paul, an officer, discovers Denise, a young orphan escaped from her orphanage, he takes advantage of his naivete to seduce her before changing...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Françoise Rosay

Blanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land. Every man is in love with her, including the King and his...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Simon

Captain Palmer's daughter, Maria, is neglected by her husband, the cynical Leo, who lives with the beautiful Sylvia. To defeat his son-in-law, Palmer...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Simon

Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy against King Louis XIII of France.

Genre: Adventure

Cast: José Ferrer

Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Fresnay

In the waiting room of the Auvernaux station, the atmosphere is very lively. Several passengers, who have missed their train, are discussing the...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Pierre Brasseur

In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. After Fabiola's father is killed, the...

Genre: History

Cast: Michèle Morgan

At the urging of his over-protective father, André Carel, a young bourgeois from Paris, travels to Lake Geneva to rejuvenate his health....

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Cast: Blanche Montel

Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution and Maigret.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Michel Simon

Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Gaby Morlay

Commander Gerard and his band of guerrillas have found the ideal hideout: a nursing home in the Alps where, along with the mentally ill, are also...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Simon

A young journalist who has gone reporting with the papers of a friend gets caught up in an arms smuggling operation. It is in this context that he...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Käthe von Nagy

The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Gaby Morlay

Jo Guardini, now the peaceful owner of a charming inn by the banks of the River Marne, once was a dreaded gangster. The respectful citizen does not...

Genre: Mystery

Cast: Michel Simon

A would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michèle Morgan

Claude, son of a ruined family, pretends to be a dangerous trickster in order to get credit from the guys in the middle. He is in charge of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Arletty

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Cast: Michel Simon

Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Simon

Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the walls of the Chateau de Champs. Legend has it that...

Genre: Romance

Cast: Claude Dauphin

Charming and innocent, Candide is vigorously chased away by the Baron, for his close encounters with the pretty Cunégonde. World War II breaks...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jean-Pierre Cassel

In 1932, Michel Simon plays in "Boudu sauvé des eaux" under the direction of Jean Renoir. Three years later, he was again invited to don the...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Simon

Episodes centering on different aspects of early-1970s Italian life, set in a television studio, a factory, a university, and a Catholic parish.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Nino Manfredi

1847. Franz Liszt meets the beautiful princess Caroline von Sayn-Wittgenstein in Kiev. The two fall in love, but the princess is forced to marry an...

Genre: Music

Cast: Paul Hubschmid

A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Maria Falconetti

A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts...

Genre: Science Fiction

Cast: Horst Frank

Second in the documentary trilogy from mastermind Jacques Rivette, featuring a conversation between Jean Renoir and Michel Simon, who celebrate their...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jean Renoir

A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, puzzled. He finds there, without knowing it, the lover of his wife, to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Sacha Guitry

The daughter of a notorious smuggler is raised as a boy by her foster mother.

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Simon

The workers Legendre and Martinet have won a large sum in the national lottery. Instead of squandering it, they had the good idea to invest it in...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raimu

On the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and incidentally a poacher - lives out of wedlock...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Gaby Morlay

Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia desires Tosca and oppresses Cavaradossi who is...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Imperio Argentina

Joan Of Arc has just released Orléans (1429)but the English are still here to stay . The fortress of Châteauneuf is hold by Lord...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Noël-Noël

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Vittorio De Sica

A star of Les Folies Bergères has to choose between her career and her love for an engineer.

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Cast: Michel Simon

In Marseille, crime squad captain Dominique fights against racketeers and tries to put a young man back on the right track.

Genre: Crime

Cast: Michel Simon

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Serge Bromberg

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Claude Aveline

Two second-rate, hammy actors, Hector Trignol and Achille Baluchet, come up with a fake murder story to draw attention to themselves. Baluchet is to...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Jules Berry

Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the great Raimu who also plays their father.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Raimu

A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Michel Simon

The irresistible rise of a young provincial, Miquette, who, having risen to Paris, will experience success in the theater and love in Hollywood with...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Blanche Montel

Documentary about French playwright and film director Sacha Guitry.

Genre: Documentary

Cast: Jeanne Fusier-Gir

Carolyn de Sayn was married at the age of sixteen, against her will, to the Prince of Wittgenstein, much older than herself. A few years later, she...

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Cast: Michel Simon

The young Loris is undergoing a trial for killing his girlfriend Maria Luce. According to the reconstruction of the facts, the young man would shoot...

Genre: Drama

Cast: Anna Maria Ferrero

Jacques spends his summer vacation with his grandfather, Jericho, in the company of his wife Marie. The malicious ancestor quickly realizes that his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Simon

A documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavior. Included are a tour of the Grand Guignol...

Genre: Documentary

Cast: George Sanders

In this crime drama, Michel Simon is cast as Pierrot, an elderly gangster who does not fit the stereotype -- he is soft-hearted. After a petty...

Genre: Crime

Cast: Michel Simon

Marceline, the young wife of the florist Jean, can't help flirting with other men, but her brother Clo-Clo takes the poor husband's side against his...

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Cast: Michel Simon

The illegitimate son of a music-hall star and an ambitious politician has grown up to become a journalist. He decides to get back at his father by...

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Cast: Emmy Lynn

Away in the colonies for 15 years after his girlfriend has jilted him, Leopold returns to his village to resume involvement with women ,hopefully...

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Cast: Michel Simon

Meg decides to commit suicide to escape the marriage to which her father intends her. She is saved by Jean-Pierre, another candidate for suicide, and...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Simon

La Carcasse, an obtuse peasant, lives with his wife Lucie and his father-in-law Tord-cou. At odds with his son-in-law, the Tord-cou takes it into his...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Simon

Mario Esposito, who sings in a Neapolitan restaurant, is in love with Assunta, the niece of Teresa, the owner of the place. He shares his apartment...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Tino Rossi

A rich sugar factory manager wants to marry his daughter to an aristocrat, while the young girl is in love with an engineer, employed in a rival...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Simon

The attempt of a young hairdresser to act in a serious film with his chosen co star , recognized during the shooting as inept, is mistakenly taken by...

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Cast: Michel Simon

A young woman is seduced by a soldier whose name she does not know. Pregnant, she asks the colonel to review the squadron in order to recognize him.

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Simon

A crude countryman sells horses and ,thanks to an old war buddy who has now become a film star, has achieved some renown. Full of himself, he...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Noël-Noël

A few colorful characters, with very different social origins and whose destinies are not always glorious, will parade before our eyes, for our...

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Cast: Michel Simon

An operetta baron has teamed up with a mechanic to carry out insurance scams. During one of their shots, they come up against Boulot, a drunken but...

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Cast: Robert Arnoux

Eusèbe Bonbonneau, a solicitor's clerk, learns one day that a candidate bearing his name runs for election as a member of parliament. In fact...

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Cast: Michel Simon

Genre: Documentary

Cast: René Clair

Saul De Tarse is a Roman soldier who is making rough all over. He arrives at the Golgotha when the apostles remove the cross. He ruthlessly...

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Cast: Michel Simon

Genre: Western

Cast: Michel Simon

A journey through history

Genre: History

Cast: Werner Herzog

Pivoine, a tramp living on the docks near Notre Dame, Macaroni and Georgette are his companions in misfortune. Could no longer bear the insults of...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Simon

Benoit, the head guard of Clouville Prison, prefers to be liked than feared. This basic principle transforms the jail-house into a joyful prison,...

Genre: Comedy

Cast: Michel Simon

A butcher dreams of becoming a famous director. He hires stars that he begins to kill.

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Cast: Gérard Croce