Jacques Grétillat Movies

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

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

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

A commander who had devised helpful defenses for his country kills a spy who'd tried to entrap him.The officer's young wife who had been thinking of...

Everyman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful Virginie. Based on Zola's novel, Capellani's film is...

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

An industrialist badly in need of money hopes to marry his daughter off to a rich suitor, but she only has eyes for her penniless childhood...

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

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...

M. Rasta, a high society con man, is accused of a crime he didn't commit.

At trial the prosecuting attorney makes a startling confession: the defendant is his son whose pitiful fate led him to murder. The attorney left the...