Movies: Fréhel

  • 1937
    Pépé le Moko

    Pépé le Moko (1937)

    Pépé le Moko

    7.21937HD

    Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he fa...

    Pépé le Moko
  • 1936
    The Story of a Cheat

    The Story of a Cheat (1936)

    The Story of a Cheat

    7.51936HD

    Life story of a charming scoundrel, with little dialogue other than the star/director's witty narration. As a boy, only he survives a family tragedy when he's deprived of supper (poisonous mushrooms!) for stealing...concluding that dishonesty pays. T...

    The Story of a Cheat
  • 1932
    Lilac

    Lilac (1932)

    Lilac

    5.41932HD

    Also known as Lilac, this early Anatole Litvak-directed talkie was based on a play by Tristan Bernard and Charles Henry Hirsch. The story bears traces of the Bertold Brecht-Weill piece The Threepenny Opera, with heroine Lilac (Marcelle Romeo) consort...

    Lilac
  • 1934
    Amok

    Amok (1934)

    Amok

    5.31934HD

    Dr. Holk leads an isolated and lonely existence in a small, Dutch colony in the tropics. Having fled from love and civilization, his only companions now are alcohol and his work, which takes him to villages ravaged by dirt, fever and a strange illnes...

    Amok
  • 1950
    A Man Walks in the City

    A Man Walks in the City (1950)

    A Man Walks in the City

    51950HD

    Le Havre, France, in 1949. In a town that still shows the scars of war, several friends meet up in Albert's café. One of them, Laurent, has lost his job on the docks and his marriage to Madeleine is falling apart. He knows that his wife wants to star...

    A Man Walks in the City
  • 1949
    Maya

    Maya (1949)

    Maya

    5.61949HD

    Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance) who is all things to all men. No matter what sort of woman her client wants, she will become that woman -- at least for the night. When a middle-age...

    Maya
  • 1941
    Hell of Angels

    Hell of Angels (1941)

    Hell of Angels

    6.91941HD

    Abandoned children, left to their own devices and a life of danger, are adopted by a kind man....

    Hell of Angels
  • 1938
    Street Without Joy

    Street Without Joy (1938)

    Street Without Joy

    01938HD

    Jeanne supports supports his family on his modest salary. Her boss is arrested for fraud. Jeanne is forced, out of poverty, in the street....

    Street Without Joy
  • 1934
    Street Without a Name

    Street Without a Name (1934)

    Street Without a Name

    01934HD

    The story focuses on a street in the Parisian banlieue where Italian and French workers live. Their neighborhood will soon be demolished and a mysterious character hides himself in this street....

    Street Without a Name
  • 1939
    Berlingot and Company

    Berlingot and Company (1939)

    Berlingot and Company

    5.81939HD

    François and Victor sell hard candy at the fun fair. They also bring up Gisèle, a one-year-old child they found by the side of the road. Although the two men are often at each other's throats they are the best friends, getting on well with the other ...

    Berlingot and Company
  • 1938
    Bouquets from Nicholas

    Bouquets from Nicholas (1938)

    Bouquets from Nicholas

    01938HD

    A florist in a nightclub in Montmartre, a good, naive man is manipulated by a gang of gangsters who use him to smuggle drugs....

    Bouquets from Nicholas
  • 1938
    Sirocco

    Sirocco (1938)

    Sirocco

    6.11938HD

    Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the mistress and then wife of a wealthy archaeologist, and bears him Matteo's child, ...

    Sirocco
  • 1947
    L'homme traqué

    L'homme traqué (1947)

    L'homme traqué

    01947HD

    A Parisian baker boy, tired of his monotonous and hopeless life, kills the owner of a hotel to rob him. A woman of questionable morals noticed his absence. To buy his silence, he makes her his friend. Rivaled by their secret and not really loving eac...

    L'homme traqué
  • 1939
    Une java

    Une java (1939)

    Une java

    61939HD

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    Une java
  • 1937
    Gigolette

    Gigolette (1937)

    Gigolette

    01937HD

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    Gigolette