Complete Filmography

The Spy
1964
Screenplay
The British Admiralty is worried: several cargo ships carrying troops have mysteriously jumped off Gibraltar. The Admiralty calls in the Intelligence ...

Visa to Hell
1959
Writer
The action takes place on the coast of the eastern Pyrenees near the Spanish border. Mario Balducci escaped from prison, after settling his account wi...

The Seventh Commandment
1957
Writer
Princesse Nadia Vronskaïa is a veteran con artist who uses her feminine wiles to bilk wealthy, susceptible old men. Inevitably, she outsmarts herself ...

I'll Get Back to Kandara
1956
Writer
One evening, professor André Barret sees the author of a murder in the darkness; cafe owner Cordelec is the victim. From then on, his suspicions fall ...

An Evening at the Music Hall
1956
Writer
A GI on furlough attends a Folies-Bergères show. He falls in love with a dancer, Claudie, the star of the theater.

The Blonde Witch
1956
Writer
Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in a remote Swedish village, meets Ina, who has been raised in forested isolation by her haggish mother...

La Môme Pigalle
1955
Adaptation, Writer
Released from prison, Arlette returns to her job as a cabaret star. The police try to get her to confess where the stolen jewels are hidden.

Du mein stilles Tal
1955
Screenplay
Elisabeth, wife of a landowner, has kept from her husband for twenty years that their daughter is not his. Rather, she is the result of an affair with...

Blackmail
1955
Screenplay
An atmospheric tale about a national blackmail organization, where no one can be trusted.

Nagana
1955
Writer
A group of crooks takes advantage of a rich old lady's naivete: they pretend they are to sail to Africa to fight... the sleeping sickness. They are on...

Le Crâneur
1955
Writer
A singer tries to rescue a man drawn into the drug trade.

Intermediate Landing in Paris
1955
Writer
Michèle, an employee at the airport, is in love with American pilot Eddie Miller who regularly flies the route from New York to Paris, but problems ar...

Fantaisie d'un jour
1955
Writer
Thérèse is the daughter of a modest couple. One day, she wins a voucher for two hundred thousand francs in a department store. Dazzled, the little typ...

Lovers' Net
1955
Adaptation
Daniel Gelin plays a soldier who is acquitted after committing a crime of passion. Relocating to Lisbon, and still feeling remorse over his impulsive ...

Queen Margot
1954
Writer
Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officially, it's a rapprochement between the Lea...

Orient Express
1954
Story
On December 24th the Orient Express gets snowbound near a little mountain village and its passengers are forced to spend some time there, mingling wit...

Nadie lo sabrá
1953
Writer

Les Compagnes de la nuit
1953
Adaptation
Three events that seemingly nothing related, namely the murder of a truck driver, the discovery of the corpse of a vitriolic young woman, and the deat...

Jeunes mariés
1953
Writer
Jacques and Gisèle, who are just married, are starting their honeymoon. But at nightfall, on their way to marital bliss, their car chooses to break do...

Full House
1952
Writer
Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution and Maigret.

Casque d'Or
1952
Screenplay
At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Mari...

Adorable Creatures
1952
Screenplay
Andre Noblet, a 21-year-old French artist falls madly in love with Christine, the mother of two children. He tells Chistine he will tell all to her hu...

Vienna Waltzes
1951
Writer
A biography of the composer Johann Strauss.

A Tale of Five Cities
1951
Screenplay
An Englishman has been working in the US so long he now speaks with an American accent. He is drafted into the British Army during WWII but is injured...

Jamaican Man
1950
Screenplay
Jacques Mervel, also known as "L'Homme de la Jamaïque" makes use of his talents as a gun runner in Tangiers, Morocco. After triumphing over a rival ga...

Gunman in the Streets
1950
Writer
An American is on the run in the streets and back alleys of France.

Lost Souvenirs
1950
Scenario Writer
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 ...

Shadow of the Eagle
1950
Original Story
During the eighteenth century the Empress of Russia sends her lover to kidnap her rival for the throne.

Last Hour, Special Edition
1949
Screenplay
A journalist who deals with the column "courier du cœur" has the absurd idea of launching an investigation into the death of a pianist whom he claim...

Bonheur en location
1949
Script
Saint-Aignan needs a family. He hires people to act as his people to achieve his goal: to succeed in the business world.

A Cop
1947
Screenplay
Georges, hunted by the Germans, had taken refuge with his brother, Commissioner PJ Paris. Once released, he teams up for the sake of a girl with the l...

The Damned
1947
Story
A group of Nazis and sympathizers board a submarine bound for South America in the hopes of finding shelter.

Lured
1947
Story
Sandra Carpenter is a London-based dancer who is distraught to learn that her friend has disappeared. Soon after the disappearance, she's approached b...

The House Under the Sea
1947
Screenplay
A stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband Lucien. But she suddenly experiences a passionate love, ...

Carbon Copy
1947
Adaptation, Scenario Writer
A smooth criminal, who turns to be Manuel Ismora, and his gang successfully and peacefully pull off con after heist. Elsewhere a timid office worker, ...

The Fan
1947
Writer
Martine is a lonely girl in an exclusive boarding school who conjures up a glamorous existence in order to make her dull life tolerable and to impress...

Le destin s'amuse
1946
Writer
A guardian, abusing his prerogatives, imposes on a young girl the husband he has chosen for her. On the very day of the wedding ceremony, the bride fl...

Goodbye Darling
1946
Writer
Chérie is a beautiful young woman who works as an escort girl. She meets a young and wealthy man who propose her to be his fictional wife so that his ...

A Friend Will Come Tonight
1946
Writer
Commander Gerard and his band of guerrillas have found the ideal hideout: a nursing home in the Alps where, along with the mentally ill, are also hidi...

Secret Documents
1945
Writer
An adventure between rival spies about documents concerning the process for extracting fuel from seawater. A love story that threatens to turn tragic,...

A Woman in the Night
1943
Writer
A theater troupe is touring Manon Lescaut, starring Denise, whose husband is a sick alcoholic. Tired of his violent outbursts, and wanting to rebuild ...

Alibi
1942
Screenplay
In 1930s France a bar hostess helps a man prove himself innocent of murder.

Whims
1942
Screenplay
Caprices tells the story of two young rich people. A famous actress poses as a poor florist, and a distinguished society man camouflages himself as fo...

I Was an Adventuress
1940
Original Film Writer
Posing as the fabulously glamorous Countess Tanya Vronsky, a poor young ballet dancer and her two accomplices are really a team of skilled con artists...

Schubert's Serenade
1940
Screenplay
Serenade represented the return to the screen of international favorite Lillian Harvey after an absence of two years. Based loosely on the life of com...

The Emigrant
1940
Screenplay
Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there.

Personal Column
1939
Screenplay
To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienne Charpentier, friend of the latest mis...

The Deserter
1939
Story
During WW1, a train is stopped by a bombing, a young soldier takes advantage of the opportunity to go to his native village to connect with his love a...

I Was an Adventuress
1938
Writer
Old friends of Vera Vronsky remind her of her past and try to blackmail her.

Katia
1938
Writer
In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic girl from the provinces, unruly in character. He fa...

Gibraltar
1938
Scenario Writer
A British officer poses as a traitor in order to infiltrate a team of terrorists who are sabotaging ships, while a seductive cabaret dancer is working...

Princess Tarakanova
1938
Writer
A film about the story of princess Élisabeth Tarakanova.

The Postmaster's Daughter
1938
Scenario Writer
A small town postal official allows a military officer to sweep his lovely daughter away to St. Petersburg, assuming the man will do the right thing a...

Forfaiture
1937
Adaptation, Scenario Writer
Denise Moret joins her husband, Pierre, in Mongolia where he works as a civil engineer. One night she loose a lot of money on the roulette and therefo...

Feu!
1937
Writer
During the Rif War, a lieutenant commands a torpedo boat. He finds in an abandoned yacht, a beautiful portrait of a woman, and soon meets this one who...

The Lower Depths
1936
Writer
Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, e...
Tausend für eine Nacht
1933
Writer