Movies: Jean Delannoy

  • 1956
    The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame

    6.61956HD

    Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy, performs a bewitching dance in front of delighted spectators....

    The Hunchback of Notre Dame
  • 1964
    This Special Friendship

    This Special Friendship (1964)

    This Special Friendship

    7.91964HD

    A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the fourteen-year-old upperclassman who is the object of his desire, all set within the rigid atmosphere of a Jesuit-run school....

    This Special Friendship
  • 1959
    Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

    Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case (1959)

    Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

    6.91959HD

    Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has received a disturbing anonymous letter....

    Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
  • 1958
    Maigret Sets a Trap

    Maigret Sets a Trap (1958)

    Maigret Sets a Trap

    7.01958HD

    Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret pieces the clues together, he comes to realize that for the elusive man that he suspects to be unmas...

    Maigret Sets a Trap
  • 1988
    Bernadette

    Bernadette (1988)

    Bernadette

    6.11988HD

    Evocation of the life of Bernadette Soubirous, the eldest of four children, who, at the age of fifteen, experiences a religious vision at the Massabielle grotto near Lourdes....

    Bernadette
  • 1967
    Action Man

    Action Man (1967)

    Action Man

    5.71967HD

    An American talks a retired French crook into robbing a bank, but kidnappers demand the loot as ransom....

    Action Man
  • 1961
    Princess of Cleves

    Princess of Cleves (1961)

    Princess of Cleves

    5.61961HD

    When a young teen marries the Prince of Cleves, more than twice her age, she automatically becomes an official Princess and takes her new position to heart. Although distracted by the elite entertainments found at court, the princess cannot help but ...

    Princess of Cleves
  • 1990
    The Passion of Bernadette

    The Passion of Bernadette (1990)

    The Passion of Bernadette

    7.31990HD

    French filmmaker Jean Delannoy directs this inspiring sequel to his biopic about Marie-Bernarde Soubirous (portrayed by Sydney Penny), a young shepherdess who claimed to have seen numerous apparitions of the Lady in White at Lourdes in 1858. Chronicl...

    The Passion of Bernadette
  • 1954
    Daughters of Destiny

    Daughters of Destiny (1954)

    Daughters of Destiny

    41954HD

    Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war widow who comes on pilgrimage in Italy....

    Daughters of Destiny
  • 1962
    Imperial Venus

    Imperial Venus (1962)

    Imperial Venus

    3.71962HD

    The romanticized gallant adventures of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. First "engaged" to the Conventionnel Fréron, then separated from him by her brother for political reasons, Pauline joined Napoleon in the Italian army, where she fell in lov...

    Imperial Venus
  • 1960
    The Baron of the Locks

    The Baron of the Locks (1960)

    The Baron of the Locks

    6.31960HD

    The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for more attractive scenery offered by a wealthy loca...

    The Baron of the Locks
  • 1943
    The Eternal Return

    The Eternal Return (1943)

    The Eternal Return

    6.51943HD

    A retelling of Tristan and Isolde set in 1940s France....

    The Eternal Return
  • 1970
    Only the Cool

    Only the Cool (1970)

    Only the Cool

    51970HD

    A network of spies affects the lives of people in and out of the organization in this espionage drama. Dominique is the neglected wife of a spy who tracks him down at a Paris antique shop. Finding him with a female spy, the enraged wife shoots both o...

    Only the Cool
  • 1950
    God Needs Men

    God Needs Men (1950)

    God Needs Men

    6.21950HD

    The inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany follow their own religion without need for clergy, but as strangers arrive, their faith and beliefs face a deep crisis....

    God Needs Men
  • 1965
    The Double Bed

    The Double Bed (1965)

    The Double Bed

    31965HD

    Various sketches centered on alcove stories....

    The Double Bed
  • 1952
    The Moment of Truth

    The Moment of Truth (1952)

    The Moment of Truth

    5.91952HD

    After attending to a suicidal young man, Dr Richard learns that his wife has been unfaithful for years. This comes as a shock after 10 years of supposedly happy marriage. Back home, he demands answers from Madeleine. A long night of explanations ensu...

    The Moment of Truth
  • 1959
    Guinguette

    Guinguette (1959)

    Guinguette

    61959HD

    Renée dite Guinguette, a former prostitute, has earned enough money on the Parisian sidewalk to buy her dream: a waterfront guinguette. Her new lover, Marco, offers her the use of an unused adjoining barn to store the second-hand cars he trades in. B...

    Guinguette
  • 1960
    Love and the Frenchwoman

    Love and the Frenchwoman (1960)

    Love and the Frenchwoman

    4.91960HD

    The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman....

    Love and the Frenchwoman
  • 1946
    Pastoral Symphony

    Pastoral Symphony (1946)

    Pastoral Symphony

    6.21946HD

    A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son....

    Pastoral Symphony
  • 1955
    The Little Rebels

    The Little Rebels (1955)

    The Little Rebels

    6.81955HD

    Judge Julien Lamy regularly deals with the welfare of children, namely down on their luck delinquents. When an orphan named Alain Robert burns down a barn belonging to his abusive foster family, Judge Lamy has no choice but to send him to a juvenile...

    The Little Rebels