Jacques Grétillat Movies

David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris,...

A woman is accused of the murder of her husband, who was jealous and brutal. Her lawyer manages to get her acquitted and they get married in the end.

During the Directory, a handful of royalists tried to get the Dauphin Louis XVII to escape from the Temple.

A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist...

This film is not exceedingly well acted, but has the additional charm of being taken from the actual history of the man whose personality dominated...

The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and...

A brave woman is sentenced to prison on false testimony. She escapes twenty years later and takes refuge in Paris where she carries bread while...

France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that prides itself on its impeccable morals....

A young journalist hungry for scoop lets himself be suspected of a crime to write a report.

Claire and Jean are lovers, but Claire's father opposes this union, because Jean is the son of a woman he once knew. Jean becomes a great singer, but...

The error of an examining magistrate forever tears apart a happy and united family.

12-year old Armand-Pierre embraces the French Revolution and leaves his mother to enlist in the army.

Biography portraying the life of the Roman Emperor Nero.