Movies: Jacques Gencel

  • 1950
    The Elders of Saint-Loup

    The Elders of Saint-Loup (1950)

    The Elders of Saint-Loup

    5.91950HD

    Due to financial problems, the boarding-school of Saint-Loup is on the verge of closing its doors. In desperation, Jacquelin, the headmaster, has the idea to invite former students to a fund-raising reunion. Among the alumni, three men whose common p...

    The Elders of Saint-Loup
  • 1952
    Forbidden Fruit

    Forbidden Fruit (1952)

    Forbidden Fruit

    5.71952HD

    A doctor, leading an agreed life of the provincial petty bourgeoisie, falls in love with a young woman. As their relationship deepens, he becomes violently jealous and blames her for her dating and friendships....

    Forbidden Fruit
  • 1947
    A Cop

    A Cop (1947)

    A Cop

    41947HD

    Georges, hunted by the Germans, had taken refuge with his brother, Commissioner PJ Paris. Once released, he teams up for the sake of a girl with the lackluster Zattore. A bank is robbed, but the police is fast and Georges will either lose his life....

    A Cop
  • 1949
    Return to Life

    Return to Life (1949)

    Return to Life

    6.21949HD

    In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War....

    Return to Life
  • 1959
    Green Harvest

    Green Harvest (1959)

    Green Harvest

    5.71959HD

    In 1943, a group of high school students decide to take action against the Nazi occupying forces. Showing courage and imagination, they manage to blow up the Kommandantur and to release hostages. But after the killing of a German soldier the Nazi pol...

    Green Harvest
  • 1952
    Mr. Leguignon Lampiste

    Mr. Leguignon Lampiste (1952)

    Mr. Leguignon Lampiste

    5.61952HD

    A railway worker, Leguignon, and his wife are forced to move into a house located in a shaggy part of town. What Leguignon doesn't know is that a group of children have discovered a treasure and keeps it stored in the house. Trouble ensues when he di...

    Mr. Leguignon Lampiste
  • 1951
    Le Roi des camelots

    Le Roi des camelots (1951)

    Le Roi des camelots

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    How Robert, who does not manage to impose himself in the representation, sees his life turned upside down when he begins a career as a street vendor, which, thanks to his resourcefulness, turns out to be more and more brilliant....

    Le Roi des camelots
  • 1948
    Une mort sans importance

    Une mort sans importance (1948)

    Une mort sans importance

    5.51948HD

    A man who has made a pact with death must designate the member of a family who must die the next day. After many hesitations, he will sacrifice the innocent young girl so that she does not know the infamy of her family....

    Une mort sans importance
  • 1952
    Judgement of God

    Judgement of God (1952)

    Judgement of God

    51952HD

    Bavaria, 1433. Reason of state rules that Prince Albert is to marry Princess Bertha of Wurtemberg. But the fine-looking young man is loath to become the husband of a woman with pimples,flat feet and no breast. Nevertheless, he has to obey his authori...

    Judgement of God
  • 1949
    Kindergarten

    Kindergarten (1949)

    Kindergarten

    01949HD

    1948. Madeleine is the headmistress of a kindergarten in Ménilmontant. Dr Libois, the school doctor, is very close to her heart. When Rose, a new helper comes to the school, Libois is impressed at once by her understanding of the little ones and her ...

    Kindergarten
  • 1950
    No More Vacation for the Good Lord

    No More Vacation for the Good Lord (1950)

    No More Vacation for the Good Lord

    01950HD

    Montmartre in the summertime. A group of street urchins idles outside while the other kids of the neighborhood are away on holiday.To keep the gang busy, Pivolo, their leader, has an idea : they are going to kidnap Aunt Faguet's doggy. Just for the f...

    No More Vacation for the Good Lord
  • 1951
    Passion

    Passion (1951)

    Passion

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    An unhappy wife who has had a child by her lover lives a daily drama under the watchful eye of her husband who hates them both....

    Passion
  • 1953
    L'oeil en coulisse

    L'oeil en coulisse (1953)

    L'oeil en coulisse

    01953HD

    Wounded during a rugby match he'd come to Paris to play, Tonin Bonnafous, a thoroughbred southerner, settled in Paris with a former stalag mate he'd happily met. Tonin liked the asylum. His friends are charming, and there's a neighbor, Martine, a you...

    L'oeil en coulisse
  • 1954
    Paris Urchin

    Paris Urchin (1954)

    Paris Urchin

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    The adventures of a Parisian boy and his little friends, who have taken on the role of detectives to track down the shady activities of Max, a disreputable individual who is courting Sylvie, the Parisian boy's young aunt... The discovery of a pricele...

    Paris Urchin
  • 1953
    The Last Robin Hood

    The Last Robin Hood (1953)

    The Last Robin Hood

    71953HD

    While Ludovic Dubois, a young summer camp monitor in Saint-Benoît, entertains the children by playing Robin Hood, the lord's niece is kidnapped by her uncle, in the castle next door. Helped by the children and the customs inspector, the last of the R...

    The Last Robin Hood