Movies: Germaine Stainval

  • 1953
    The Earrings of Madame de...

    The Earrings of Madame de... (1953)

    The Earrings of Madame de...

    7.51953HD

    In France of the late 19th century, the wife of a wealthy general, the Countess Louise, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off debts; she claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is th...

    The Earrings of Madame de...
  • 1951
    Diary of a Country Priest

    Diary of a Country Priest (1951)

    Diary of a Country Priest

    7.51951HD

    An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bibl...

    Diary of a Country Priest
  • 1952
    The Seven Deadly Sins

    The Seven Deadly Sins (1952)

    The Seven Deadly Sins

    61952HD

    A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony....

    The Seven Deadly Sins
  • 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
  • 1950
    The Glass Castle

    The Glass Castle (1950)

    The Glass Castle

    5.61950HD

    Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she must decide between telling her husband and continuing to see Rémy....

    The Glass Castle
  • 1946
    A Lover's Return

    A Lover's Return (1946)

    A Lover's Return

    5.91946HD

    1946, a man walks in Lyon. He makes a pilgrimage to the places of his childhood. Another man, Edmond Gonin, recognizes him. It was Jean-Jacques Sauvage, whom he had ousted in a "radical" way with a young heiress. Only Savage is not dead, and here he ...

    A Lover's Return
  • 1951
    Without Leaving an Address

    Without Leaving an Address (1951)

    Without Leaving an Address

    6.11951HD

    A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address....

    Without Leaving an Address
  • 1951
    Young Love

    Young Love (1951)

    Young Love

    6.21951HD

    Catherine, 18, loved Jean, a young accountant, who loved her in return. And yet, one morning, two policemen find their dead bodies on a stretch of waste ground. The case is obvious: the two young people have killed themselves. But why? Chief Inspecto...

    Young Love
  • 1942
    The Marriage of Chiffon

    The Marriage of Chiffon (1942)

    The Marriage of Chiffon

    61942HD

    Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow, her mother (Suzanne Dantes) would like to remarry a rich noble. Without realizing it, Chiffon is in...

    The Marriage of Chiffon
  • 1942
    Love Letters

    Love Letters (1942)

    Love Letters

    6.11942HD

    A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town’s class tensions....

    Love Letters
  • 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
    She and Me

    She and Me (1952)

    She and Me

    6.21952HD

    You never can tell. Jean had always been one of the most confirmed bachelors that kept swearing to anyone that would listen he would never put a ring on a female finger. But that was before he met Juliette, a capricious but irresistibly lovely young ...

    She and Me
  • 1946
    Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent

    Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent (1946)

    Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent

    01946HD

    France under Louis XIII. 1615. The Duke of Angoulême is at the head of a group of gentlemen who are conspiring to drive the Florentines out of court, of whom Concini is the all-powerful leader. A cadet from Gascony, Adhémar de Capestang, who was late...

    Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent
  • 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
  • 1952
    Matrimonial Agency

    Matrimonial Agency (1952)

    Matrimonial Agency

    5.11952HD

    Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it....

    Matrimonial Agency
  • 1950
    Just Me

    Just Me (1950)

    Just Me

    3.81950HD

    Maurice Vallier, nicknamed "Ma Pomme"(which means "myself" in slang), is a cheerful man, well aware that money does not make happiness and who, of all things, prices freedom. Which is why he has become a tramp and he has never regretted his choice of...

    Just Me
  • 1948
    The Eleven O'Clock Woman

    The Eleven O'Clock Woman (1948)

    The Eleven O'Clock Woman

    6.11948HD

    Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving anonymous letters. And soon a mysterious murder is committed. SOS begins to investigate......

    The Eleven O'Clock Woman
  • 1945
    Box of Dreams

    Box of Dreams (1945)

    Box of Dreams

    61945HD

    Nicole tries to seduce a young man who lead a bohemian life in an untidy flat with his three pals....

    Box of Dreams
  • 1939
    Girls in Distress

    Girls in Distress (1939)

    Girls in Distress

    4.51939HD

    Jeune Filles en Detresse (Young Girls in Distress) was director G. W. Pabst's last French production before his (ill-timed) return to Nazi-occupied Austria in 1941. Somewhat reminiscent of Maedchen in Uniform, the story is set in a private girl's sch...

    Girls in Distress
  • 1946
    The Murderer Is Not Guilty

    The Murderer Is Not Guilty (1946)

    The Murderer Is Not Guilty

    8.31946HD

    In a film studio, several actors are the victims of attempted murders. Julien Brisseau, a writer, decides to use these facts as the backbone of his new novel. But while he is working on his detective story, young actors are actually killed. Julien th...

    The Murderer Is Not Guilty