Movies: Sacha Guitry
- 1956
If Paris Were Told to Us (1956)
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Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history....
- 2001
A Crime in Paradise (2001)
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In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. The only thing that keeps the oppressed Jojo from murder is the threat of the guillotine......
- 1955
Napoleon (1955)
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The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace o...
- 1938
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife (1938)
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American multi-millionaire Michael Brandon marries his eighth wife, Nicole, the daughter of a broken French Marquis. But she doesn't want to be only a number in the row of his ex-wives and starts her own strategy to tame him....
- 1954
Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954)
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Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after w...
- 1936
The Story of a Cheat (1936)
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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...
- 1937
The Pearls of the Crown (1937)
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The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing....
- 1936
Let's Make a Dream (1936)
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A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, puzzled. He finds there, without knowing it, the lover of his wife, to whom he confesses his infidelity....
- 1957
Three Make a Pair (1957)
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Jojo’s ambition is to become a gangster, but to be admitted into a gang he has to prove himself by committing a daring act. To that end, he kills someone in broad daylight, not knowing that his victim is an actor who is playing a scene in a film dire...
- 1951
Poison (1951)
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Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each other without risk. After listening to a radio show, Paul decides to go to Paris to meet a famous lawyer in the acquittal of the murderers. He tells the law...
- 1997
Quadrille (1997)
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Carl Herickson, a big American film star, unwillingly upsets a Parisian trio: a newspaper editor, his theater actress wife, and their fiery journalist best friend....
- 1999
Le Nouveau Testament (1999)
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- 1949
Rendezvous in July (1949)
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Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians....
- 1938
Quadrille (1938)
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The battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a successful stage actress. He tells her friend Claudine, a realistic and enterprising reporter, that he's thinkin...
- 1948
The Devil Who Limped (1948)
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The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, t...
- 1952
I Was It Three Times (1952)
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A husband who had divorced twice because he had been betrayed by his former wives, takes his precautions to prevent the deed from happening a third time. And yet it does....
- 1936
The New Testament (1936)
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Husbands and wives, lovers and gigolos, all break a sweat when Dr. Marcelin’s newly-revised last will and testament is prematurely exposed....
- 1944
From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain (1944)
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Sitting at his desk, Guitry gives us a lecture on French history from Joan of Arc to the Occupation, with some focus on a number of its great writers and musicians....
- 1958
Life Together (1958)
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The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on the loving relationships of four couples. Now he's setting up his will and wants to leave his wealth to the couples among the four, which are still as...
- 1940
Lucky Partners (1940)
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Two strangers split a sweepstake prize to go on a fake honeymoon with predictable results....