List of the best Danielle Darrieux movies: Marie Octobre(1959), The Rage of Paris(1938), Mauvaise Graine(1934), Lady Chatterley's Lover(1956), The Earrings of Madame De ...(1953), The Red and the Black(1954), Mayerling(1936), Loss of Innocence(1961), Towards Zero(2007), Rich, Young and Pretty(1951), Friend of the Family(1964), Five Fingers(1952) ... ...
Drama
France
1959
98 Minutes
Danielle Darrieux Serge Reggiani Bernard Blier Lino Ventura Paul Meurisse Paul Guers Robert Dalban
Fifteen years after WWII, a group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, so that the former members of the network can finally relive one fateful night and find out who betrayed their murdered leader, Castille.
Comedy
USA
1938
77 Minutes
Nicole de Cortillion
Danielle Darrieux Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Mischa Auer Louis Hayward Helen Broderick Charles Coleman Samuel S. Hinds Nella Walker
model advertising executive friend waiter millionaire butler cheery lighthearted new york city office apartment hotel opera house cottage gold digging friendship impersonation modeling jealousy mistaken identity
Nicole has no job and is several weeks behind with her rent. Her solution to her problem is to try and snare a rich husband. Enlisting the help of her friend Gloria and the maitre'd at a ... See full summary »
Drama
France
1934
77 Minutes
Danielle Darrieux Pierre Mingand Raymond Galle Paul Escoffier Michel Duran Jean Wall Marcel Maupi Paul Velsa Georges Malkine
young man doctor thief beautiful woman gang member suspenseful amusing paris marseilles, france gas station apartment street car theft romance money gangs fresh start chase escape temptation
A young man-about-Paris, cut off from his father's money, falls in with a picaresque gang of car thieves.
Romance
1956
100 Minutes
Constance Chatterley
Danielle Darrieux Leo Genn Erno Crisa Janine Crispin Gérard Séty Berthe Tissen
D.H. Lawrence's chaste aristocrat (Danielle Darrieux) goes to her invalid husband's (Leo Genn) gamekeeper (Erno Crisa).
Drama
France|Italy
1953
105 Minutes
Charles Boyer Danielle Darrieux Vittorio De Sica Jean Debucourt Jean Galland Mireille Perrey Paul Azais Hubert Noël
general wife mistress jeweler aristocrat unrestrained passionate paris constantinople opera house infidelity affair aristocracy betrayal jewelry forbidden love transformation 19th century
When an aristocratic woman known only as "Madame de . . ." sells a pair of earrings given to her by her husband in order to pay some debts, she sets off a chain reaction of financial and carnal consequences that can end only in despair.
Drama
France
1954
170 Minutes
Gérard Philipe Danielle Darrieux Antonella Lualdi Jean Martinelli Jean Mercure
peasant aristocrat priest lover emotional spirited france household church ambition class distinctions social standing infidelity religion adventure discovery rise fall 1820s
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving a soporific soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and ... See full summary »
Romance
France
1936
89 Minutes
prince mistress emperor franz josef baroness count winsome emotional sad touching vienna court opera house prater hunting lodge archduke rudolf affair repression austro-hungarian empire catholic church tragic love
Rudolf, Crown Prince of Austria, is fettered on all sides. He's bored; his father, the emperor, is domineering; his politics are more liberal than his father's, but he knows his views carry... See full summary »
Romance, Drama
UK
1961
99 Minutes
Madame Zisi
Kenneth More Danielle Darrieux Susannah York Claude Nollier Jane Asher Elizabeth Dear Richard Williams David Saire Raymond Gérôme Maurice Denham André Maranne
thief hotel owner hotel worker lover adolescent child suspenseful melodramatic emotional france hotel rape accidental death jealousy coming of age abandonment rivalry forbidden love transformation 1960s
Sensitive story of a British girl's awakening from childhood into life and love on vacation in France.
Mystery & Thriller
France
2007
107 Minutes
François Morel Danielle Darrieux Melvil Poupaud Laura Smet Chiara Mastroianni Alessandra Martines
A wealthy woman holds a party at her estate for family and friends. When a solicitor and the hostess herself are both murdered, only the trusty Inspector Bataille can put together the pieces.
Musical, Comedy
USA
1951
95 Minutes
Jane Powell Danielle Darrieux Wendell Corey Vic Damone Fernando Lamas Marcel Dalio Una Merkel Richard Anderson Jean Murat Hans Conried Monique Chantal
rancher daughter nightclub employee seducer mother boyfriend mushy spirited playful paris nightclub hotel restaurant father/daughter relationship mother/daughter relationship secret marital problems reunion culture clash love
Jim Stauton Rogers, a Texas rancher turned international diplomat, takes his young daughter, Elizabeth Rogers, on a trip to Paris. He is concerned that his daughter might come in contact ... See full summary »
Comedy
France|Italy
1964
95 Minutes
Dith Rollo
Jean Marais Danielle Darrieux Anne Vernon Sylvie Vartan Pierre Dux Jane Marken Noël Roquevert Hubert Deschamps Jacques Jouanneau
A French farce: Leon "Patsy" Rollo is a toy inventor who goes to his boyhood friend Noël Carradine, now a wealthy industrialist, to convince him to invest in his new invention. The meeting ... See full summary »
Mystery & Thriller
1952
108 Minutes
James Mason Danielle Darrieux Michael Rennie Walter Hampden Oscar Karlweis Herbert Berghof John Wengraf Ben Astar Roger Plowden Michael Pate Ivan Triesault
spy mercenary countess ambassador agent cool tense creative turkey rio de janeiro world war ii espionage nazism true crime escape love fall 1940s
The Albanian valet (James Mason) for the British ambassador to Turkey sells secrets to World War II Germans.
Drama
1986
90 Minutes
La grand-mère
Catherine Deneuve Danielle Darrieux Wadeck Stanczak Victor Lanoux Nicolas Giraudi Jean-Claude Adelin Jean Bousquet Michel Grimaud Claire Nebout
teen boy teenager convict escaped convict mother love interest intense gripping engaging suspenseful thrilling passionate france small town cemetery nightclub prison break mother/son relationship attraction lying
An estranged Frenchwoman (Catherine Deneuve) falls in love with an escaped convict (Wadeck Stanczak) who has saved her teenage son's life.
Comedy, Drama
France|Italy
1962
120 Minutes
Clarisse Ardan
Charles Aznavour Jean-Claude Brialy Danielle Darrieux Alain Delon Fernandel Mel Ferrer Claude Dauphin Michel Simon Lucien Baroux Claude Nollier
1) Jerôme Chambard, a retired man, taken in by nuns in a convent, swears like a trooper. 2) Françoise takes a lover because he has promised her a diamond necklace. 3) Denis, a seminarist, ... See full summary »
Crime, Drama
France|Italy
1963
114 Minutes
Berthe Heon
Charles Denner Michèle Morgan Danielle Darrieux Hildegarde Neff Juliette Mayniel Stéphane Audran Catherine Rouvel
Follows a family-man who meets women through lonely hearts ads.
Romance
Germany|France
2010
93 Minutes
Madeleine
Clémence Poésy Jérémie Renier Jean-Pierre Marielle Danielle Darrieux Christophe Alévèque Aurore Clément Julie Depardieu Charlotte de Turckheim Léa Drucker Hélène Fillières
A high school teacher's experiment to demonstrate to his students what life is like under a dictatorship spins horribly out of control when he forms a social unit with a life of its own.
Drama, History
Spain|USA
1956
141 Minutes
Olympias
Richard Burton Fredric March Claire Bloom Danielle Darrieux Barry Jones Harry Andrews
king father mother stepmother friend philosopher incredible intense ancient greece babylon palace battlefield alexander the great royalty greek empire persian empire conquest family quest rivalry
The life and military conquests of Alexander III of Macedon (July 20/21, 356 - June 10/11, 323 B.C.), commonly known as Alexander the Great.
Comedy
France
1950
97 Minutes
Emma Breitkopf
Anton Walbrook Simone Simon Daniel Gélin Serge Reggiani Simone Signoret Danielle Darrieux Fernand Gravey Odette Joyeux Jean-Louis Barrault Isa Miranda Gérard Philipe
narrator prostitute soldier maid wealthy man actress emotional hedonistic austria vienna romance adultery infidelity love triangle deception love temptation 1900s
Vignettes revolving around a circle of interconnected love.
Musical, Comedy, Crime, Drama
France|Italy
2002
108 Minutes
Mamy
Catherine Deneuve Isabelle Huppert Emmanuelle Béart Fanny Ardant Virginie Ledoyen Danielle Darrieux Ludivine Sagnier Firmine Richard
murderer mother-in-law lover socialite teenager maid playful quirky amusing campy mansion france country house murder robbery infidelity testimonies family dysfunction alcoholism mystery
One murdered man, eight women, each seeming to be eager than the others to know the truth. Gimme, gimme, gimme some clues to make up my mind. And eventually enter the truth. Oh, thou cruel woman!
Crime, Drama
1962
159 Minutes
Lucienne Marsais
Edwige Feuillère Michèle Morgan Annie Girardot Pierre Brasseur Gino Cervi Danielle Darrieux Gabriele Ferzetti Richard Todd
A Frenchman sees a movie about deadly women (Edwige Feuillère, Michèle Morgan, Annie Girardot) in history, then stars in his own movie when he leaves the theater.
Musical, Romance
France
1967
125 Minutes
Yvonne Garnier
Catherine Deneuve Françoise Dorléac Gene Kelly George Chakiris Grover Dale Jacques Perrin Danielle Darrieux Geneviève Thenier Pamela Hart Leslie North
songwriter sister mother carnival worker artist pianist uplifting touching charming dreamy rochefort, france seaside café romance small-town life aspirations chance meeting music growing up quest
Two sisters leave their small seaside town of Rochefort in search of romance. Hired as carnival singers, one falls for an American musician, while the other must search for her ideal partner.