Paul Frankeur
Paul Frankeur (29 June 1905 - 27 October 1974) was a French actor who appeared in films by Jacques Tati (Jour de fête) and Luis Buñuel (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Phantom of Liberty). He was sometimes credited as Paul Francoeur.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.039 |
| Birthday | 1905-06-29 |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Also Known As | Paul Francoeur, Поль Франкёр, ポール・フランクール, |
1969
My Uncle Benjamin
6.2/46
Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the mar...
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My Uncle Benjamin
1949
Jour de Fête
7/217
Jour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French mailman who frequently interrupts his duties to converse with the local inhabita...
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Jour de Fête
1972
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
7.5/797
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a v...
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1974
The Phantom of Liberty
7.48/293
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Pr...
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The Phantom of Liberty
1961
Hauteclaire
2/1
The action takes place under the Restoration, at the Château de Savigny, near Nerville, a devout and prudish little town in the Cotentin region. Docto...
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Hauteclaire
1966
Le Deuxième Souffle
7.631/175
A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.
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Le Deuxième Souffle
1959
The Magnificent Tramp
7/37
Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.
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The Magnificent Tramp
1962
A Monkey in Winter
7.555/209
During World War II, an innkeeper vows to abstain from alcohol for the sake of his family. Years later, as they thrive in Normandy, his resolve is tes...
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A Monkey in Winter
1954
Touchez Pas au Grisbi
7.2/240
Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the styl...
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Touchez Pas au Grisbi
1969
The Milky Way
7/164
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some trucu...
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The Milky Way
1949
Strange Tales
7.3/7
A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse in...
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Strange Tales
1962
The Gentleman from Epsom
6.1/56
The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive characters.
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The Gentleman from Epsom
1955
Razzia
6.8/74
Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. W...
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Razzia
1946
Mr. Orchid
6.2/21
This character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the chief of the underground who uses his hobby of growing or...
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Mr. Orchid
1949
Return to Life
6.2/13
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second Worl...
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Return to Life
1959
Come Dance with Me!
5.9/19
The wife of an accused murderer embarks on a dangerous masquerade to find the real culprit behind a dancer's death.
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Come Dance with Me!
1953
Thérèse Raquin
6.6/53
Star-crossed lovers Thérèse and Laurent think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's weakling husband "falls" from a speeding train. But when...
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Thérèse Raquin
1951
Under the Paris Sky
7/6
Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.
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Under the Paris Sky
1957
Sunday Buddies
6.1/5
Casti and Trébois, two friends who are workers at the same factory, have developed a common passion for flying. They dream of starting an aviation clu...
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Sunday Buddies
1942
Fantastic Night
5.938/16
Denis, a poor student in philosophy, works as a night porter in the Paris market of Les Halles in order to pay for his studies. Constantly weary, he f...
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Fantastic Night
1942
The Marriage of Chiffon
6/10
Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow,...
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The Marriage of Chiffon
1941
Portrait of Innocence
6.3/3
A student from an elementary school accidentally breaks the glass roof of his school. His comrades decide to support it by working during the summer h...
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Portrait of Innocence
1943
A Star to the Sun
0/0
Martine, who has become a major star of the song in Paris, wants to return to visit her hometown. Confronted with Merlerault, a very haughty and noble...
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A Star to the Sun
1943
Madame et le mort
0/0
A person who had usurped the identity of a famous writer of detective stories was killed in the train. Why and by whom?
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Madame et le mort
1943
Adieu Léonard
5.2/4
A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the vill...
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Adieu Léonard
1956
Blood to the Head
6.1/15
François Cardinaud is one of the richest shipowners in the region. But this success arouses resentment and jealousy. When Marthe, his wife, leaves the...
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Blood to the Head
1959
Rue de Paris
6.7/26
Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a dash of comedy. While Hen...
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Rue de Paris
1950
Au P'tit Zouave
5.2/3
Au p'tit Zouave, a café, sees a colorful clientele from working-class Paris. An assassin will shake up the daily life of the regulars.
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Au P'tit Zouave
1945
A Cage of Nightingales
7.4/15
In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of his...
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A Cage of Nightingales
1946
Devil's Daughter
6.7/13
Pursued by the police, Saget usurps the identity of a man who was returning to his town after having made his fortune in the United States. Under this...
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Devil's Daughter
1945
Girl with Grey Eyes
7/1
A village lost in the mountains where Catherine called L'Airelle's love affair takes place with a young doctor. Catherine's father is the local bonese...
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Girl with Grey Eyes
1946
Messieurs Ludovic
6/1
Anne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different character than the other two. The young woman will fin...
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Messieurs Ludovic
1946
The Ideal Couple
5/1
Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love with Diavalo. Diavalo is forced to wear a series of...
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The Ideal Couple
1958
The Night Affair
6.3/40
Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky (Najda Tiller), whom he considers to be mo...
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The Night Affair
1963
Maigret Sees Red
6.2/44
Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help land an influential mobster in jail. It's up to detec...
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Maigret Sees Red
1965
God's Thunder
6.3/26
Veterinarian Léandre Brassac lives with his wife Marie on a remote estate. One day, he decides to shelter a young woman with no bearings.
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God's Thunder
1959
Marie-Octobre
7.3/77
A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin. The former members of the network hav...
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Marie-Octobre
1947
Counter Investigation
0/0
Alain Marchal, wrongly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from prison the day before his execution. Before committing suicide, he contacts Monsieu...
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Counter Investigation
1948
The Bouquinquant Brothers
7/1
A provincial, Julie Moret, is hired as a servant in a Parisian bourgeois residence. She is courted by one of the Bouquinquant brothers, Léon, who does...
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The Bouquinquant Brothers
1947
The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
6.6/7
On the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and incidentally a poacher - lives out of wedlock with Vic...
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The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
1950
Justice Is Done
6.526/19
Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal...
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Justice Is Done
1949
Monsignor
6.5/8
Louis Mennechain is a modest locksmith. So imagine his amazement when Professor Piétrefond approaches him and tells him he recognizes in him a descend...
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Monsignor
1950
The First Weapons
5.7/3
A sensitive teen-age boy survives the brutalities of a country training school.
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The First Weapons
1957
Speaking of Murder
6.3/44
Louis Bertain is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his accomplices are careful to keep up a civic veneer by da...
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Speaking of Murder
1959
The Tiger Attacks
6.3/18
Paul Lamiani, a wizened mobster, is asked to return to duty following the disappearance of secret documents of extreme importance. It is assumed that...
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The Tiger Attacks
1951
Passion
0/0
An unhappy wife who has had a child by her lover lives a daily drama under the watchful eye of her husband who hates them both.
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Passion
1953
Follow That Man
6.1/7
While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier recalls two of his most celebrated cases. The first involves duplicitous moneylender Olga. T...
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Follow That Man
1961
The Dwarf
5/3
In a small circus campaign, the act of Valentine, the dwarf, is one of the highlights of the show. But then one night, he grew suddenly and turns into...
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The Dwarf
1970
Le chien qui a vu Dieu
0/0
In a small Italian village live a group of men, each as miscreant as the next. Among them is the baker, violent and miserly. One day, to benefit from...
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Le chien qui a vu Dieu
1955
Nana
6.2/13
Nana or Nanà is a French-Italian film by Christian-Jaque starring Charles Boyer. It is an adaptation of Émile Zola's novel Nana.
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Nana
1946
Star Without Light
5.4/5
An aspiring singer tries to break into films during the early talkie era. She is hired to dub the singing and speaking voice of a silent-movie favorit...
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Star Without Light
1961
The Lovemakers
6.4/33
The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys out his other relatives in order to gain full con...
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The Lovemakers
1967
L'Espagnol
0/0
A survivor of the Spanish Civil War who had been in French internment camps takes refuge with a family of winegrowers in the Jura. He becomes attached...
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L'Espagnol
1956
People of No Importance
5.9/24
During a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman Clothilde who works there. Their friendship soon develops i...
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People of No Importance
1966
The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen
5/9
A thief falls in love with a maid and goes on the run after stealing Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa."
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The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen
1958
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
5.2/10
Back from Indochina, Tony and Dick, two French soldiers, are now in possession of more than 20 million, entrusted by a trafficker. They buy a nightclu...
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A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
1956
Les Assassins du dimanche
5/2
After failing to carry out an urgent repair to the car of two German tourists, mechanic Robert has a crisis of conscience. Accidents loom at every tur...
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Les Assassins du dimanche
1957
Reproduction interdite
6.3/6
An art dealer in dire straits, after being ripped off by two crooks, one of whom owns a genuine painting by Gauguin while the other is an expert copyi...
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Reproduction interdite
1964
License to Kill
5.3/3
Didier Formenter, the French scientist, has just put the final touch on an invention that will be able to destroy to destroy any sort of flying appara...
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License to Kill
1968
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
5.99/48
Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge.
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Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
1955
Headlines of Destruction
6.2/4
Released from prison after two years, Michel Gérard sets out to find his wife Alice. Alice, luxuriously maintained by her lover, Jacques Rupert, edito...
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Headlines of Destruction
1957
An Eye for an Eye
5.8/9
In North Africa, an anguished husband tests the character of the doctor he believes is responsible for his wife’s death.
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An Eye for an Eye
1955
Black Dossier
6.1/11
In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential notable during an investigation into a suspicious de...
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Black Dossier
1955
Price of Love
4.2/4
Because he loved a trainer named Suzy too much, honest Pierre Menard wasted his life and died. Innocent, but implicated in the ransacking of a jewelry...
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Price of Love
1954
Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
5.8/9
A terminally ill Mr. Bard, a casino bus driver forced to quit his job, miraculously wins a fortune playing roulette. Instantly becoming a millionaire,...
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Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
1955
Le Crâneur
4.8/4
A singer tries to rescue a man drawn into the drug trade.
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Le Crâneur
1960
The Crab Basket
0/0
Charles is a student in Strasbourg. Abandoned by Liliane, his fiancée, who has inexplicably given up on marriage, he moves to Paris, where he decides...
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The Crab Basket
1959
Minute papillon
0/0
Oscar, a shy lifeguard, flees the wrath of his boss following the disaster caused by the water purification machine he has developed. In his haste, he...
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Minute papillon
1953
Jeunes mariés
4/1
Jacques and Gisèle, who are just married, are starting their honeymoon. But at nightfall, on their way to marital bliss, their car chooses to break do...
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Jeunes mariés
1966
Long March
0/0
In June 1944, a young doctor, Chevalier, under the threat of guns, is forced to treat a wounded man in a camp of resistance fighters (maquisards). He...
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Long March
1963
The Trip to Biarritz
6.7/6
Guillaume Dodut is a stationmaster in rural France at a station where trains no longer stop. His dream has always been to holiday in the famous resort...
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The Trip to Biarritz
1965
Rope Around the Neck
0/0
Arthur can no longer stand married life. He wants to get rid of his wife and live with his mistress. In doing so, he makes a mistake and kills his mis...
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Rope Around the Neck
1965
Le commissaire mène l’enquête
0/0
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Le commissaire mène l’enquête
1954
No Exit
6/12
The scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first, the group fails to comprehend where they are or why they...
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No Exit
1945
Children of Paradise
8.089/411
In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actr...
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Children of Paradise
1954
Before the Deluge
6.3/10
The title of this French "reality" drama, which translates to Before the Deluge, is a play on Louis XVI's famous prognostication, "Apres moi, le delug...
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Before the Deluge
1949
The Mark Of The Day
8/2
In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up and prepare for a new day at work. The young enginee...
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The Mark Of The Day
1948
The Spice of Life
6/10
A series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and leading actor, that examine the bores and pests of every...
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The Spice of Life
1946
Messieurs Ludovic
6/1
Anne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different character than the other two. The young woman will fin...
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Messieurs Ludovic
1942
Sideral Cruises
7.2/5
Robert and Françoise Monier make a hot air balloon to fly to the stratosphere. After a visit to Venus, they return home, but have only aged 15 days wh...
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Sideral Cruises
1944
Night Shift
0/0
A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.
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Night Shift
1960
Port of Point-du-Jour
2/1
Emile is a steelworker in a car factory ;a confirmed bachelor going on fifty, he leads a peaceful life .One night, he is woken up by a burst of machin...
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Port of Point-du-Jour
1961
Double Verdict
0/0
Richard killed his wife out of jealousy, but was acquitted. During the vacations, he meets a young girl and decides to start a new life with her. Know...
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Double Verdict
1954
The Atomic Cloud
0/0
A Belgian atomic cloud appears not to be deadly but instead instigates a climate of friendship and fraternity.
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The Atomic Cloud
1953
Endless Horizons
0/0
The life story of famed French aviatrix Helene Boucher is detailed in Horizons sans fin (Endless Horizons). Giselle Pascal stars as Boucher, who is fi...
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Endless Horizons
1974
Cry of the Heart
1/1
Alexandre, a young man from a wealthy family, suffers a serious fall. One leg is finally amputated, leaving the other paralyzed. Desperate, the boy tr...
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Cry of the Heart
1959
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
6.9/66
Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has re...
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Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
1943
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
7.1/7
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they...
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Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
1952
We Are All Murderers
6.7/21
Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former lawyer who detested France's execution...
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