Movies: René Lacourt

  • 1953
    Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

    Monsieur Hulot's Holiday (1953)

    Monsieur Hulot's Holiday

    6.91953HD

    Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of effortlessly well-choreographed sight gags involving...

    Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
  • 1950
    Orpheus

    Orpheus (1950)

    Orpheus

    7.61950HD

    A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld....

    Orpheus
  • 1943
    Colonel Chabert

    Colonel Chabert (1943)

    Colonel Chabert

    6.91943HD

    The story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the novel Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac....

    Colonel Chabert
  • 1939
    The End of the Day

    The End of the Day (1939)

    The End of the Day

    6.81939HD

    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 has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter ...

    The End of the Day
  • 1936
    Forty Little Mothers

    Forty Little Mothers (1936)

    Forty Little Mothers

    61936HD

    After finding and adopting a child, a man gets a job at an all-girls school which doesn't allow families. Once the girls find the baby, they become his forty little mothers. At the same time, the child's true mother searches for him....

    Forty Little Mothers
  • 1948
    The Cupboard Was Bare

    The Cupboard Was Bare (1948)

    The Cupboard Was Bare

    6.11948HD

    The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver, not wishing to be bothered by a police interrogation, hides her corpse in a cupboard before notifying Alfred. But the van is stolen. Alfred, being t...

    The Cupboard Was Bare
  • 1939
    Nine Bachelors

    Nine Bachelors (1939)

    Nine Bachelors

    6.31939HD

    Nine Bachelors is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Sacha Guitry and starring Guitry, Max Dearly and Elvire Popesco.[1] An opportunist dreams up a new scheme to make money when the French government passes a law forbidding foreigners from living ...

    Nine Bachelors
  • 1950
    The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang

    The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang (1950)

    The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang

    41950HD

    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
  • 1950
    Miquette

    Miquette (1950)

    Miquette

    5.31950HD

    A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater, only to become entangled in relationships with a lecherous aristocrat, his starry-eyed nephew, and an old ham actor....

    Miquette
  • 1950
    Lost Souvenirs

    Lost Souvenirs (1950)

    Lost Souvenirs

    5.51950HD

    Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has thi...

    Lost Souvenirs
  • 1947
    The House Under the Sea

    The House Under the Sea (1947)

    The House Under the Sea

    61947HD

    A stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband Lucien. But she suddenly experiences a passionate love, taking refuge with Constant in a cave they call “home under the sea.”...

    The House Under the Sea
  • 1950
    Amédée

    Amédée (1950)

    Amédée

    11950HD

    Employed in a beauty salon, Amédée must undergo a pentothal injection. The dose is too strong; suddenly Amédée reveals the truth to everyone; to clients of the institute; to his cheating wife; to his boss that he robs; to the tax collector; etc. When...

    Amédée
  • 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
  • 1953
    Les Dents longues

    Les Dents longues (1953)

    Les Dents longues

    5.41953HD

    A young, talented and ambitious journalist, Louis heads off to try his luck in Paris. He's spotted by Walter, editor-in-chief for a major daily newspaper, who takes to him and furthers his career. What he doesn't realise is that Louis is ready to bet...

    Les Dents longues
  • 1950
    Sorceror

    Sorceror (1950)

    Sorceror

    01950HD

    A young rogue kills an old lady to rob her. Arrested, he believes it is for this crime, hides nothing from his lawyer, who soon tells him that he is only accused of another theft prior to his crime. Sentenced to six months suspended prison sentence, ...

    Sorceror
  • 1941
    Mlle. Desiree

    Mlle. Desiree (1941)

    Mlle. Desiree

    5.81941HD

    Julie and Désirée Clary are courted by the brothers Joseph and Napoleon Bonaparte. Joseph marries Julie and Napoleon is affianced to Désirée. When Napoleon breaks the engagement and marries Joséphine de Beauharnais, Désirée becomes involved with Gene...

    Mlle. Desiree
  • 1950
    Bed for Two

    Bed for Two (1950)

    Bed for Two

    61950HD

    Robert Bobin has been an assistant accountant for twenty years now and, although meek and obedient, is getting weary of his monotonous, limited life. He tries marriage but, unfortunately, Blanche, the nurse he marries, proves to be a shrew. One day, ...

    Bed for Two
  • 1953
    Good Lord Without Confession

    Good Lord Without Confession (1953)

    Good Lord Without Confession

    5.51953HD

    Stuck in a loveless marriage, bourgeois industrialist Francois falls in love with Janine, another man's wife. Francois sets up Janine as his mistress, and she, mercenary soul that she is, likes the set-up so much that she continues the relationship e...

    Good Lord Without Confession
  • 1951
    The Passerby

    The Passerby (1951)

    The Passerby

    4.71951HD

    A woman who has a terrible secret to conceal takes refuge on a barge....

    The Passerby
  • 1939
    Extenuating Circumstances

    Extenuating Circumstances (1939)

    Extenuating Circumstances

    6.61939HD

    Harsh Parisian judge Gaetan (known as Monsieur Maximum), chafing in the idleness of retirement, leaves for a seaside holiday. But Gabriel the chauffeur has his mind on his girl, not the car; Gaetan and wife Nathalie are stranded in the country, where...

    Extenuating Circumstances