Movies: Michel Simon

  • 1928
    The Passion of Joan of Arc

    The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)

    The Passion of Joan of Arc

    7.91928HD

    A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of c...

    The Passion of Joan of Arc
  • 1959
    The Head

    The Head (1959)

    The Head

    51959HD

    A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts off his head and, using the serum, keeps the doctor's head alive and forces it to help him on an exper...

    The Head
  • 1964
    The Train

    The Train (1964)

    The Train

    7.51964HD

    As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends...

    The Train
  • 1934
    L'Atalante

    L'Atalante (1934)

    L'Atalante

    7.51934HD

    Capricious small-town girl Juliette and barge captain Jean marry after a whirlwind courtship, and she comes to live aboard his boat, L'Atalante. As they make their way down the Seine, Jean grows weary of Juliette's flirtations with his all-male crew,...

    L'Atalante
  • 1938
    Port of Shadows

    Port of Shadows (1938)

    Port of Shadows

    7.41938HD

    Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news....

    Port of Shadows
  • 1950
    The Beauty of the Devil

    The Beauty of the Devil (1950)

    The Beauty of the Devil

    7.21950HD

    Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at the ravages of old age ... whereupon Mephistopheles, agent of Lucifer, appears as a virile, handsome young man and exchanges bodies with him to induce...

    The Beauty of the Devil
  • 1962
    The Devil and the Ten Commandments

    The Devil and the Ten Commandments (1962)

    The Devil and the Ten Commandments

    5.71962HD

    The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a...

    The Devil and the Ten Commandments
  • 1932
    Boudu Saved from Drowning

    Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)

    Boudu Saved from Drowning

    6.91932HD

    Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and is rescued by a well-to-do bookseller, Edouard Lestingois. The Lestingois family decides to take in ...

    Boudu Saved from Drowning
  • 1960
    The Battle of Austerlitz

    The Battle of Austerlitz (1960)

    The Battle of Austerlitz

    6.61960HD

    Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802....

    The Battle of Austerlitz
  • 1931
    La Chienne

    La Chienne (1931)

    La Chienne

    7.31931HD

    Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love with Dede, her pimp. She only accepts Legrand to sa...

    La Chienne
  • 1958
    It Happened in Broad Daylight

    It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958)

    It Happened in Broad Daylight

    7.41958HD

    The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession....

    It Happened in Broad Daylight
  • 1952
    Full House

    Full House (1952)

    Full House

    6.51952HD

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

    Full House
  • 1964
    Cyrano and d'Artagnan

    Cyrano and d'Artagnan (1964)

    Cyrano and d'Artagnan

    5.81964HD

    Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy against King Louis XIII of France....

    Cyrano and d'Artagnan
  • 1972
    The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life

    The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life (1972)

    The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life

    7.31972HD

    A successful businessman whose destiny leads him to a secluded Swiss chalet where his life is put on trial by a group of retired law professionals. The men assemble to analyze Sordi's rise to power and his increasingly immoral behavior as he attained...

    The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
  • 1928
    The Sad Sack

    The Sad Sack (1928)

    The Sad Sack

    6.51928HD

    The tale of a rich, flaky poet and his servant who both join the army and wind up in the same barracks....

    The Sad Sack
  • 1967
    The Two of Us

    The Two of Us (1967)

    The Two of Us

    7.51967HD

    A story of the caring friendship formed between a crusty, old anti-Semite and an eight-year-old Jewish boy who goes to live with him during World War II....

    The Two of Us
  • 1954
    The Anatomy of Love

    The Anatomy of Love (1954)

    The Anatomy of Love

    6.41954HD

    Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom....

    The Anatomy of Love
  • 1951
    Poison

    Poison (1951)

    Poison

    7.11951HD

    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...

    Poison
  • 1934
    Le Bonheur

    Le Bonheur (1934)

    Le Bonheur

    6.91934HD

    Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation and curiosity to know his motives, pleads in his favour at his trial, but he rebuffs her pity. After h...

    Le Bonheur
  • 1960
    Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century

    Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century (1960)

    Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century

    6.11960HD

    Charming and innocent, Candide is vigorously chased away by the Baron, for his close encounters with the pretty Cunégonde. World War II breaks out, and when he is drafted and taken prisoner, he is forced to take German nationality and ends up guardin...

    Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century