Jean-Louis Barrault Movies

Helene is based on Helene Wilfur, a novel by Vicki (Grand Hotel) Baum. Madeleine Renaud essays the title role, a young medical student in love with...

In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of...

Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.

After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in...

Documentary examination of the role of Hamlet, in which ten prominent actors who have played the part discuss Hamlet's personality, Shakespeare's...

For years now, Chief inspector Gustave Picard has been trying to bring down Salviati, the dreadful leader of a drug-selling gang. Lucienne...

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

Nobel-prize-winning author, social justice crusader, anti-colonialist, adventure traveler, musician, and one-time Communist: André Gide was a...

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

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...

The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross, and who was offered the first Nobel Peace Prize.

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...

Two bank employees like Lucie, their colleague. They steal money from the cash register to gamble. Jean wins and Paul ends up in prison for five...

A violinist passes on to his daughter three rings which represent three passions of his romantic past, and urges her to save each for men who truly...

A man dreams he is in a wax museum after it is closed for the night.The statues come to life and behave in mysterious ways.

Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing the director, the actors and production...

Jean-Louis Barrault, Charles Dullin and Roger Blin each say a poem. The actors do not appear on screen.

A young sculptor presides over the destinies of a student club where a miserable young girl ends up one evening. The treasurer of the association...