11 Movies Starring Louis Jourdan

Letter from an Unknown Woman

Letter from an Unknown Woman

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1948-09-13

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

86 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

(7389 Reviews)

Director:

Max Ophèls

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Howard Koch (screenplay)

Stefan Zweig (story)

Fullplot:

Madame Bovary

Madame Bovary

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1950-01-23

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

114 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (1714 Reviews)

Genres:

DramaRomance

Cast:

Writer:

Robert Ardrey (screenplay)

Gustave Flaubert (novel)

Fullplot:

French author Gustave Flaubert is on trial for writing the "indecent" novel "Madame Bovary." To prove that he wrote a moral tale, Flaubert narrates the story of beautiful Emma Bovary, an adulteress who destroyed the lives of everyone she came in contact with.

The Happy Time

The Happy Time

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1952-12-03

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

7.1 (345 Reviews)

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Earl Felton (screenplay)

Robert Fontaine (stories)

Samuel A. Taylor (play)

Fullplot:

Spring inspires lessons in love and life for a French family in 1920s Ottawa, especially for teenage Robert, who's blind to the attentions of an American neighbor girl, because he's infatuated with the beautiful new maid, fleeing life as a magician's assistant. Robert's mother bemoans some of the Bonnard family male role models available to Robert: his party animal grandfather, roguish traveling salesman uncle Desmond, and an uncle who carries a water cooler filled with wine everywhere while his wife does all the work. As Desmond's temporarily off the road, he also targets the maid.

Three Coins in the Fountain

Three Coins in the Fountain

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1954-05-01

Languages:

English, Italian

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

102 min

Rated:

UNRATED

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (2006 Reviews)

Director:

Jean Negulesco

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

John Patrick (screen play)

John H. Secondari (from a novel by)

Fullplot:

American girls dream of finding romance in Rome, but there is none for secretaries, Anita tells her replacement at the USDA. But Maria soon meets Prince Dino de Cessi at a party at her boss's home who invites her to fly to Venice in his private plane. Frances, who has been in Rome for 15 years as the secretary of a successful American writer who talks a lot like George Bernard Shaw and is just as elusive as Professor Henry Higgins in "My Fair Lady," tells her at first to say "no" and then decides that together they can handle the man nicknamed the predatory prince. Coins tossed in the Trevi Fountain can indeed work magic.

Gigi

Gigi

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1959-02-04

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA, France

Runtime:

115 min

Rated:

APPROVED

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (13412 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Alan Jay Lerner (screen play)

Colette (based on the novel by)

Fullplot:

Weary of the conventions of Parisian society, a rich playboy and a youthful courtesan-in-training enjoy a platonic friendship, but it may not stay platonic for long. Gaston, the scion of a wealthy Parisian family finds emotional refuge from the superficial lifestyle of upper class Parisian 1900s society with the former mistress of his uncle and her outgoing, tomboy granddaughter, Gigi. When Gaston becomes aware that Gigi has matured into a woman, her grandmother and aunt, who have educated Gigi to be a wealthy man's mistress, urge the pair to act out their roles but love adds a surprise twist to this delightful turn-of-the 20th century Cinderella story.

Can-Can

Can-Can

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1960-03-09

Languages:

English, French

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

131 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (1489 Reviews)

Director:

Walter Lang

Cast:

Writer:

Dorothy Kingsley (screenplay)

Charles Lederer (screenplay)

Abe Burrows (musical comedy)

Fullplot:

1896, Montmartre: the Can-Can, the dance in which the women lift their skirts, is forbidden. Nevertheless Simone has it performed every day in her night club. Her employees use their female charm to let the representatives of law enforcement look the other way - or even attend the shows. But then the young ambitious judge Philippe Forrestier decides to bring this to an end. Will Simone manage to twist him round her little finger, too? Her boyfriend Francois certainly doesn't like to watch her trying.

The V.I.P.s

The V.I.P.s

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1963-09-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

UK

Runtime:

119 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.3 (2282 Reviews)

Director:

Anthony Asquith

Genres:

Drama

Fullplot:

Awaiting at London Airport for a flight to New York, Frances Andros, seen off by her tycoon husband, Paul Andros, plans to leave her spouse for the arms of an aging international playboy, Marc Champselle. Les Mangrum, a self-made Australian businessman traveling with his loyal secretary, Miss Mead, must be in New York the following day to arrange the loan that will help him repel a hostile takeover of his tractor company. Max Buba, a film mogul traveling with starlet Gloria Gritti, must get out of England immediately or face ruinous British income tax. The Duchess of Brighton has taken a job as a hostess at an American holiday resort, thinking she will be able to keep her family estate on her new income. Fog descends and blurs the future for them all, forced now to wait in the airport hotel for morning and fair weather.

Made in Paris

Made in Paris

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1966-02-09

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

103 min

IMDB Ratings:

5.4 (267 Reviews)

Director:

Boris Sagal

Fullplot:

Maggie Scott (Ann-Margret), a fashion buyer in Paris on her first buying spree where she meets famous fashion designer Mark Fontaine (Louis Jourdan) and he immediately gives her the big rush. When Maggie appears to have lost the lucrative contract with Fontaine, her boss Ted Barclay (Chad Everett), the son of her company's owner, comes to Paris to straighten things out, making an even bigger mess of things.

Swamp Thing

Swamp Thing

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1982-02-19

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

91 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

5.4 (8479 Reviews)

Director:

Wes Craven

Genres:

HorrorSci-Fi

Cast:

Writer:

Wes Craven

Len Wein (comic book)

Bernie Wrightson (comic book)

Fullplot:

Dr. Alec Holland, hidden away in the depths of a murky swamp, is trying to create a new species - a combination of animal and plant capable of adapting and thriving in the harshest conditions. Unfortunately he becomes subject of his own creation and is transformed . . . Arcane, desperate for the formula attempts to capture the Swamp Thing. An explosive chase ensues that ultimately ends with a confrontation between Holland and a changed Arcane . . .

Octopussy

Octopussy

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1983-06-10

Languages:

English, Russian, German, Spanish

Countries:

UK, USA

Runtime:

131 min

Rated:

PG

IMDB Ratings:

6.6 (67662 Reviews)

Director:

John Glen

Cast:

Writer:

George MacDonald Fraser (screen story and screenplay)

Richard Maibaum (screen story and screenplay)

Michael G. Wilson (screen story and screenplay)

Fullplot:

James Bond's next mission sends him to the circus. A British agent was murdered and found holding onto a priceless Faberge egg. Kamal Kahn buys the egg at an auction, but Bond becomes suspicious when Kahn meets up with Russian General, Orlov. Bond soon finds out that Kahn's and Orlov's plan is to blow a nuclear device in an American Air Force Base. Bond teams up with a circus group, which are headed by the beautiful Octopussy, who is also close friend of Kahn. Will Bond be quick enough, before World War III begins?

The Return of Swamp Thing

The Return of Swamp Thing

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1989-05-12

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

88 min

Rated:

PG-13

IMDB Ratings:

4.4 (2532 Reviews)

Director:

Jim Wynorski

Cast:

Writer:

Len Wein (comic book)

Bernie Wrightson (comic book)

Neil Cuthbert

Grant Morris

Fullplot:

The Swamp Thing returns to battle the evil Dr. Arcane, who has a new science lab full of creatures transformed by genetic mutation, and chooses Heather Locklear as his new object of affection.

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