Jean Aurenche Movies

A tale of the tender relationship between a twelve-year-old boy and the fourteen-year-old upperclassman who is the object of his desire, all set...

Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other...

Orphaned after a Nazi air raid, Paulette, a young Parisian girl, runs into Michel, an older peasant boy, and the two quickly become close. Together,...

A young couple's suicide pact goes awry, leaving the woman to face her survival with a new admirer while pining for her lost love.

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.

Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.

A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.

A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.

France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he...

A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her father...

A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the...

A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details the story of a man and a woman who are...

The romanticized gallant adventures of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. First "engaged" to the Conventionnel Fréron, then separated from...

A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.

Animated short originally produced in France by Paul Grimault.

Married French lawyer Andre defends succesfully the case of Yvette, who committed a robbery. He falls in love with her, but she isn't true to him.

Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war...

Winner of the grand prize at the 1946 Venice Biennale