Gaston Modot
Birthday: 1887-12-31
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Biography: No biography available.
Movies
The Rules of the Game
A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois a...
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Grand Illusion
A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...
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La prairie en feu
A Sioux tribe, led by their great chief, wreaks revenge on the palefaces by setting fire to a nearby...
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The Lovers
A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic ...
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L'Âge d'or
The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which details ...
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Pépé le Moko
Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He ...
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A Drama on a Locomotive
Henri and Pierre, railroad engineers, are both in love with Jeanne. When Pierre refuses to give her ...
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Antoine & Antoinette
1947, in France, Antoine and Antoinette, a young couple living in Paris, lead a monotonous existence...
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Calino à la chasse
Clément Mégé borrows the shotgun of a sleeping hunter and goes after big game, like ducks and a cat....
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Under the Leather Helmet
Set in Rumania, the film focuses on a female secret agent who intends to use an airplane to fly behi...
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The 1002nd Night
An Arabian prince falls in with a group of downtrodden rebels and faces the wrath of an unsympatheti...
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Colomba
A young officer of Napoleon's armies returns to Corsica where his sister is waiting for him to aveng...
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Plein aux as
Flipotte, driven out of his band of burglars, takes the name, personality, house and checkbook of Mo...
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Quelqu'un a tué...
A Scotland investigation into the sinister Lamberton family castle, where a servant was mysteriously...
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Crainquebille
Crainquebille, merchant of four seasons, is sentenced to fifteen days in prison for having insulted ...
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L'Auberge du Petit-Dragon
Two horsemen are inseparable. One is smart and the other clumsy. A young girl is engaged to the clum...
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Le Billet de mille
The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through doz...
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Le Clown Bux
Pierre Buxeuil is better known as the popular clown Bux. One day, he falls in love with Nicole, a ro...
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Le Mystère Imberger
For sentimental reasons, Monsieur Imberger, a fifty-year-old, disappears. Everyone thinks he was mur...
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Lucrezia Borgia
French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, ...
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La Bandera
Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. S...
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Les Réprouvés
At the borders of the Saharan desert, the dramatic situation of a battalion of light infantry attack...
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The Time of the Cherries
A poor peasant family, a failed cabinet maker and an unemployed worker struggle in contrast to crook...
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Under the Roofs of Paris
In the tenement slums of Paris between the world wars, impoverished street singer Albert yearns for ...
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Patrouille blanche
An Oriental villain named Halloway is called in by wealthy oil interests who want to destroy a dam p...
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Ceux De Demain
Jean is ten years old and imagines that he is the cause of the misunderstanding that occurred betwee...
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Sirocco
Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic...
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The Chess Player
A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "aut...
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Final Accord
A famous violinist enlists in a music school in order to woo one of the students....
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Montmartre on the Seine
Maurice loves Juliet and Michael loves Lily. Romance blossoms on the hill. They are workers, artisan...
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Une idée à l'eau
Three screenwriters try to write a comedy about a young first man who must conquer a rich billionair...
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Le brigand gentilhomme
A gentleman, falsely accused of an assassination, becomes a formidable bandit. Condemned by the king...
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The Hunchback
The knight Henri de Lagardère wants to avenge the death of his friend, the duke Philippe de Nevers a...
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Silence Is Golden
Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daugh...
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Eternal Conflict
Janvier, an embittered teacher, is fed up with his colorless, monotonous life. One day he breaks awa...
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Calino s'endurcit la figure
There is one joke in this slapstick from Jean Durand's comedy unit at Gaumont: Calino wants to win a...
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The London Man
Maloin, a maritime station guard, spends his nights at the port signal box. One night, he becomes th...
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Last Refuge
Philippe and Sylvie have to do with Alvarez, a dangerous gang leader. They break up with him and com...
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The Trump Card
A man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country. Clarence and Montès, two inspecto...
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Here Is the Beauty
Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success as a ...
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The Beauty of the Devil
Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at t...
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This Rascal of Anatole
Anatole, quivering nostrils and greedy lips, is the resourceful clerk of Mrs. Paufilat, a butcher. I...
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The Devil and the Ten Commandments
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more ...
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Rendezvous in July
Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians....
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Victor
Secretly in love with Françoise, the companion of his best friend Marc, Victor decides to go to pris...
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The Threepenny Opera
The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German versio...
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The Ship of Lost Men
A young doctor gets stuck on a ship after treating an injured first mate. Later, he rescues a woman ...
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The Mystery of the Yellow Room
A young reporter solves a mystery crime. The fictional reporter is Joseph Rouletabille. He works on ...
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The Perfume of the Lady in Black
Mathilde Stangerson just married her fiance, when she heard that Larsan, her cruel former husband, w...
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The Torture of Silence
Hardly one of French filmmaker Abel Gance's masterpieces, The Torture of Silence nevertheless has mo...
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Poison Ivy
FBI Agent Lemmy Caution is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss mistress Ca...
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Calino polygame
Against a painted backdrop of palm trees, Clément Mégé accepts an Arab's offer of three Black wives ...
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Onésime et la grève des mineurs
Ernest Bourbon, with his idiotic smile perpetually plastered on his face, invites the miners into hi...
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The Railway of Death
When gold is discovered the first man there gets to stake his claim. Joe and another man race each o...
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Milady of Liban
The story, a tale of political and amorous intrigue in Beirut, is based on one of Pierre Benoit's no...
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Onésime: Costume Boy
While the costume maker Onésime is absent, his mannequins begin to play......
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Onésime vs. Onésime
His double behaves very badly, while the real Onésime suffers the consequences....
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Carmen
Feyder's scenario very closely follows Don José's own account of his story and his fatal relation wi...
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Onésime and the Heart of the Gypsy
While accompanying his lady to a fashionable casino, Onésime hears someone playing an overpowering w...
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Onésime's Theatrical Debut
Onésime came down and threw himself on stage, starting into the great aria at which he excelled. We ...
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The Disappearance of Onésime
When Onésime gets declared dead by drowning, the supposed-widow consults a private detective special...
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Onésime Goes to Hell
Not having enough money to pay his drink bill, Onésime sells his soul to the Devil....
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Casque d'Or
At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a fo...
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Der Erzieher meiner Tochter
An American billionaire's daughter is obsessed with the idea of marrying a count. Her father would p...
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Freiheit in Fesseln
The carpenter Franz Aigner, a kind-hearted but strong and irascible fellow, has beaten a man to deat...
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Burning Heart: An Indian Tale
An Indian maiden wishes to marry her lover, but her father refuses because he does not have the requ...
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Au secours !
Max accepts a wager that he cannot remain in a haunted castle for one hour (11 PM to midnight) witho...
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The Sultan of Love
An French orientalist fairy tale starring France Dhélia, Gaston Modot, Sylvio De Pedrelli and Marcel...
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Fièvre
Militis, a sailor, returns to a bar where he finds Sarah, the girl he once loved and is still attrac...
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La Maison des lions
Madam Berre, the widow of an African traveler, has a lion and two lionesses in her conservatory. Fre...
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July 14
A light, comedy romance about a cab driver named Jean and a flower girl named Anna that takes place ...
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Monte Cristo
This epic adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo was directed by Henri Fescourt, and stars Jean Ang...
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Onesime, Clockmaker
In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up activit...
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Zigoto Drives a Locomotive
When the train workers go on strike, Zigoto terrorizes the town in a hijacked locomotive....
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Calino sourcier
A magic wand falls into Calino's hands, and he turns everything he touches into running water, until...
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Meeting in Paris
A wealthy young American woman is suddenly cut off by her father while living in Paris. A philosophe...
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The Rembrandt in Rue Lepic
A couple buy what is advertised as a Rembrandt painting, but a wild slapstick chase ensues after a w...
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Calino, Love Tamer
One day, Calino has the bold and imprudent idea to follow a woman down the street. The woman leads h...
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Calino courtier en paratonnerres
Calino goes politely around to three or four people from the bourgeois class, trying to sell them a ...
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French Cancan
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of ...
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Experiment in Evil
Dr. Cordelier, living in a suburb of Paris, withdraws from society to pursue research into the funct...
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Nène
Michel Corbier, a widower, remarries Madeleine. His children, Lalie and Jo, see her as their second ...
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Monsieur Octave
Monsieur Octave, a good man who has retired from the French national railway company, wants to have ...
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Children of Paradise
In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater...
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Zigoto's Outing with Friends
The short by Jean Durand begins with his frequent character, Zigoto (Lucien Bataille) reading a bori...
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Onésime et le nourrisson de la nourrice indigne
Onésime needs to take care of an infant and does everything he can to avoid that responsibility....
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Zigoto et la blanchisseuse
For some time now, Sosthène, clerk at the Grand Laundromat of Papillon-sous-Bois, has been in love w...
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Under the Claw: A Story of the Transvaal
A mine owner discovers a vein of gold but unfortunately dies. His wife doesn't want to sell the mine...
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Pendaison à Jefferson City
Joe is about to be hung for his crimes but he's going to reveal the whole truth first....
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Onésime's Family Drama
Much to his annoyance, Onésime's relatives arrive to stay with him, and the family resemblance is st...
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Onésime, You'll Get Married... or Else!
Onésime becomes enamoured of a girl and sends a messenger to her on a motorcycle....
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Onésime Loves Animals
Looking after his aunt and uncle's house when they're away, animal lover Onésime turns it into a hos...
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Onésime: Calino's Inheritance
Calino's uncle leaves him an inheritance, but only if he can uncover it hidden in his uncle's house....
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The End of the Day
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or ...
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Zigoto et l'écuyère
Lucien Bataille finds himself hired as a secretary to an elderly man. His principal duty is to make ...
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Zigoto gardien de grand magasin
Lucien Bataille is hired as security for the department store, and proceeds to wreck much of it to k...
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Zigoto et le château mystérieux
Berthe Dagmar is kidnapped and Lucien Bataille is almost immediately on the case: examining the road...
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That Is the Dawn
A generous doctor is aghast that the population of a small island is being oppressed and mistreated,...
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At Your Command, Madam
Hector and Odette Dupuis' car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, but not far from a luxury hotel....
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About an investigation
During an inquest after a woman is killed, the judge suspects his own son. The woman's lover had bee...
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Más allá de la muerte
Raimundo Davidson is a young man in love with Florence, the niece of Dr. Belforger, master of hypnot...
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Spanish Fiesta
A Spanish festival reveals the emotional distance between a woman and a man....
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Saint Joan the Maid
This relatively straightforward dramatic biography was one of two films commissioned to honor Joan o...
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Heart of an Actress
Desire brings out the worst in an actress' suitors-- One a well-to-do patron of London's theatre set...
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Secrets of the Orient
A cobbler dreams that he is a prince, in this takeoff on an Arabian Nights style romance....
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French White Cargo
Two journalists from different papers are looking for the same story. They want to know, who a group...
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Calino et ses pensionnaires
Calino decides to take a boarder. The gentleman turns out to be a huntsman. All goes well until pay ...
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House of Sin
In this mystery, a nouveau-riche Frenchman returns to his Parisian home after finding a fortune in A...
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Onésime Gets Married... So Does Calino
Difficulties ensue when Calino and Onésime get married on the same day, in the same registry office....
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Miracle of the Wolves
King Louis XI tries to unify France by all means fair or foul, which does not please his powerful ri...
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The Green Monocle
Hans von Trass is a high-ranking German diplomat. When a top-secret document is stolen, his fiancée ...
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Fantômas
The Marquise de Langrune invites her friends at her castle in Beaulieu. Among them is Lord Beltham w...
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The Isle of Zorda
Sarkani, an adventurer, finds a trusted carrier pigeon, takes possession of the code message and, te...
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Zigoto, policier, trouve une corde
Just as the streets to hell, to hear it from the travelers, are paved with good intentions, the illu...
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In the Air
Julius wants to marry Nelly, but her uncle forbids that. An attempt to court her failed, but the sec...
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The Mark of the Day
In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up an...
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Life Is Ours
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat ag...
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La Marseillaise
A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseil...
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Coral Reefs
The adventures of a sailor from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lone...
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Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
The residents of the apartment building on Rue Montmartre are a motley crew of oddballs and eccentri...
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Les Truands
"Thieves We Are" - In flashback, the audience learns why 104-year-old Amedee steals the watch belong...
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Elena and Her Men
Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean R...
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Les Gaîtés de la finance
The banker Marivol looks like a tailor, Lambinet. Gangsters threaten the first, who hires the second...
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Onésime champion de boxe
Ernest Bourbon -- that's Onesime -- has decided to learn to box, for some reason, and also fight an ...
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Calino achète un chien de garde
But when he refuses to tip the assistants at the fancier's sales room they lay a scheme for revenge,...
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Spain 1936
A Spanish documentary from Jean-Paul Le Chanois & Luis Buñuel made during the Spanish Civil War....
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Change of Heart
Middle-aged teacher Nadia experiences increasing social exclusion and paranoia as society begins to ...
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Truant School
1920, in a small village in Provence. Monsieur Pascal, a young schoolteacher, is faced with a lack o...
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The Cupboard Was Bare
The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver...
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Le Cavalier de Croix-Mort
Elisabeth D'Anthar cheats on her husband François with Simon De Chabre. François, who suspects somet...
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Onésime et son âne
Ernest Bourbon discovers that a shower of gold coins fall from his donkey's hindquarters -- I've phr...
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Coup de feu à l'aube
A crime has been committed by the Trembleur gang, which specializes in jewelry thefts. The Berlin po...
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Onésime et l'oeuvre d'art
Ernest Bourbon gets a bust delivered. Eduoard Grissolet visits him and rhapsodizes over it. Then Bou...
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Onésime gardien du foyer
Seated comfortably in the green pastures near his home, Batty Bill is suddenly presented with a baby...
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Onésime et le pas de l'ours
The fact that the Four Arts Club were organizing an international competition of modern dances was w...
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Onésime et son collègue
Batty Bill has some bachelor apartments. He also has a friend, who has fallen in love. These lovers ...
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Before the Battle
When the commander of a cruiser ,which sank in a confrontation,is tried for negligence, will the wif...
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Bornéo Bill, le brave cow-boy
Cowboy Borneo Bill is in love with Gracie Jackson, the daughter of a miner with whom he had the bad ...
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