11 Movies Directed by Julien Duvivier

David Golder

David Golder

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1931-03-06

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

86 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (63 Reviews)

Director:

Julien Duvivier

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Irène Nèmirovsky (novel)

Julien Duvivier

Fullplot:

The Red Head

The Red Head

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1934-03-07

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

91 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (272 Reviews)

Director:

Julien Duvivier

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Jules Renard (novel)

Julien Duvivier (screenplay)

Fullplot:

Maria Chapdelaine

Maria Chapdelaine

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1935-09-24

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

77 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.9 (135 Reviews)

Director:

Julien Duvivier

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Louis Hèmon (novel)

Julien Duvivier (screenplay)

Gabriel Boissy (dialogue)

Fullplot:

A young woman living with her family on the frontier in Quebec, Canada, endures the hardships of isolation and climate, and chooses between three suitors: a trapper, a farmer, and an immigrant from Paris.

Pèpè le Moko

Pèpè le Moko

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1941-03-03

Languages:

French, Arabic

Countries:

France

Runtime:

94 min

Rated:

NOT RATED

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (4398 Reviews)

Director:

Julien Duvivier

Cast:

Writer:

Henri La Barthe (novel)

Henri La Barthe (scenario)

Julien Duvivier (scenario)

Jacques Constant (adaptation)

Henri Jeanson (dialogue)

Fullplot:

Pèpè le Moko is a gangster from Paris that hides in Algier's Casbah. In the Casbah, he is safe and is able to elude the police's attempts to capture him. But he misses his freedom, after two years in the Casbah. He meets a gorgeous Parisian tourist, Gaby, and they fall in love. Native inspector Slimane tries to use her to attract Pèpè out of the Casbah in order to catch him.

Dance Program

Dance Program

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1938-03-25

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

144 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.4 (281 Reviews)

Director:

Julien Duvivier

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Julien Duvivier

Henri Jeanson

Yves Mirande

Jean Sarment

Pierre Wolff

Bernard Zimmer

Fullplot:

After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she had a stronger inclination. To overcome these dreary thoughts, she decides to find out about him and the other men who danced with her during a ball that was a turning point in her life, many years ago. She pays a visit to those forgotten acquaintances one after the other; Christine is not only surprised to see how they have fared, but also discovers the impact she had, unknowingly, on the feelings and the destiny of these persons.

The Great Waltz

The Great Waltz

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1938-11-04

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

104 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

6.7 (722 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Gottfried Reinhardt (original story)

Samuel Hoffenstein (screen play)

Walter Reisch (screen play)

Fullplot:

In 1845 Vienna, Johann Strauè II - Schani to his friends - would rather write and perform waltzes than anything else, this at a time when a waltz is not considered proper society music. After he is fired from his clerical bank job because of his preoccupation with composing, he decides to follow his passion and form an orchestra. After some famed opera singers, including Carla Donner, hear his music, they expose Schani's music to the masses, to royalty and to music publisher Julius Hofbauer. As such, Schani becomes the toast of Vienna. With his new found musical fame, Schani's life, which includes his work in the European Revolutions, changes. He becomes torn for his love for his loving and faithful wife Poldi Vogelhuber and his more emotionally passionate but somewhat destructive love for Carla Donner, who herself is involved with Count Anton Hohenfried.

Marie Antoinette

Marie Antoinette

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1938-08-26

Languages:

English

Countries:

USA

Runtime:

149 min

Rated:

PASSED

IMDB Ratings:

7.6 (1988 Reviews)

Cast:

Writer:

Claudine West (screen play)

Donald Ogden Stewart (screen play)

Ernest Vajda (screen play)

Stefan Zweig (based in part on the book by)

Fullplot:

The life of Marie Antoinette (1755-1793) from betrothal and marriage in 1770 to her beheading. At first, she's a Hapsburg teenager isolated in France, living a virgin's life in the household of the Dauphin, a shy solitary man who would like to be a locksmith. Marie discovers high society, with the help of Orleans and her brothers-in-law. Her foolishness is at its height when she meets a Swedish count, Axel de Fersen. He helps her see her fecklessness. In the second half of the film, she avoids an annulment, becomes queen, bears children, and is a responsible ruler. The affair of the necklace and the general poverty of France feed revolution. She faces death with dignity.

La fin du jour

La fin du jour

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1939-09-11

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

99 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (263 Reviews)

Director:

Julien Duvivier

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Julien Duvivier

Charles Spaak

Fullplot:

Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.

Panic

Panic

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1947-11-26

Languages:

French

Countries:

France

Runtime:

91 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.9 (434 Reviews)

Director:

Julien Duvivier

Genres:

Drama

Cast:

Writer:

Charles Spaak (screenplay)

Julien Duvivier (screenplay)

Georges Simenon (based on a novel by)

Fullplot:

In the suburbs of Paris, an old maid has just been murdered. Every body talks about that, except the misanthrope Mr Hire. The same evening, Alice, just getting out of jail, arrives and meets up with her lover Alfred again. They act as they do not know each other, for Alice went to jail to spare Alfred. But Mr Hire falls in love with Alice, and he knows Alfred is the murderer...

The Little World of Don Camillo

The Little World of Don Camillo

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1953-01-13

Languages:

Italian

Countries:

Italy, France

Runtime:

107 min

IMDB Ratings:

7.8 (2796 Reviews)

Director:

Julien Duvivier

Genres:

Comedy

Cast:

Writer:

Giovanni Guareschi (novel)

Julien Duvivier

Renè Barjavel

Fullplot:

In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.

Diaboliquement vètre

Diaboliquement vètre

Basic Info:

Released Date:

1967-12-22

Languages:

French, German

Countries:

Italy, France, West Germany

Runtime:

93 min

IMDB Ratings:

6.4 (577 Reviews)

Director:

Julien Duvivier

Cast:

Writer:

Louis C. Thomas (book)

Roland Girard (adaptation)

Jean Bolvary (adaptation)

Julien Duvivier (adaptation)

Fullplot:

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