Movies: Jean Castan

  • 1938
    The Baker's Wife

    The Baker's Wife (1938)

    The Baker's Wife

    7.41938HD

    In this little Provencal village, a new baker, Aimable, settles down. His wife Aurelie is beautiful and much younger than he. She departs with a shepherd the night after Aimable produces his first breads. Aimable is so afflicted that he can not work ...

    The Baker's Wife
  • 1936
    César

    César (1936)

    César

    7.61936HD

    Honoré Panisse is dying, cheerfully, with friends, wife, and son at his side. He confesses to the priest in front of his friends; he insists that the doctor be truthful. But, he cannot bring himself to tell his son Césariot that his real father is Ma...

    César
  • 1938
    Heartbeat

    Heartbeat (1938)

    Heartbeat

    6.91938HD

    A pompous grocer’s assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank him with a phony acting contract; believing it to be real, the “schpountz” heads to Paris for his new career....

    Heartbeat
  • 1935
    Merlusse

    Merlusse (1935)

    Merlusse

    7.31935HD

    "Merlusse" is French schoolboy slang for codfish, and M. Blanchard, a professor at a certain lycée, was known to his victims by that name. On Christmas eve, when some twenty of the students—orphans, foreigners or just plain "unwanteds"—had to remain ...

    Merlusse
  • 2019
    Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol

    Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol (2019)

    Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol

    82019HD

    The works of Marcel Pagnol are a veritable monument of French cultural heritage. Based on previously unseen archive material, film extracts, novels, plays, interviews and letters, the film pays tribute to the major author and popular filmmaker, who m...

    Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol
  • 1936
    Topaze

    Topaze (1936)

    Topaze

    6.71936HD

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    Topaze
  • 1943
    A Dog's Life

    A Dog's Life (1943)

    A Dog's Life

    6.51943HD

    Mr. Gustave Bourdillon loves hopelessly the wife of the director of the institution where he is the only teacher. Soon a widow, the pretty wife of Mr. Calumet, agrees to marry the brave professor, but believes each onstant that her husband has return...

    A Dog's Life
  • 1935
    Cigalon

    Cigalon (1935)

    Cigalon

    6.41935HD

    Cigalon (Alexandre Arnaudy) manages a restaurant in a small town in Provence. A chef with a high opinion of his past culinary achievements, he makes no effort to attract customers and is rude to those who venture into his establishment expecting to b...

    Cigalon
  • 1942
    Little Nothings

    Little Nothings (1942)

    Little Nothings

    71942HD

    Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have often changed their lives. Each of these stories told will prove that a tiny detail in life can chan...

    Little Nothings