Jean-Max
Know for: Acting
Born: 1896-02-16
Place of birth: Paris, France
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Nitchevo (1936)
A commander suspects his wife of infidelity, when she turns to a subordinate officer to help her against someone threatening to blackmail her about...
The Darling of Paris (1931)
In order not to compromise the great music hall star with whom he spent the night, a man is accused of a murder he did not commit.
Suzanne (1932)
The many difficulties of a couple to harmonize, between the need for independence of one and the brutality of the other...
Once Upon a Time (1933)
A poor disgraced girl, belonging to a gang of criminals, is morally transformed by a cosmetic operation that makes her beautiful.
La cinquième empreinte (1934)
Jacques de Nisson, a rich man, has a new mistress, Lucie Cavelier. Which does not prevent him from courting Florence, the wife of his lawyer friend...
Sapho (1934)
During a transvestite ball, a young provincial meets Fanny Legrand. A great love is born between them. Later, the young man learns that Fanny was a...
Pension Mimosas (1935)
Mr. and Mrs. Noblet run a boarding house on the French Riviera. One day, they are led by circumstances to welcome a little boy Pierre, whose father...
Second Bureau (1935)
Captain Benoît manages to take possession of the plans of a new German airplane. The German counter-espionage assigns one of their agents,...
Les hommes de proie (1937)
A blackmailer is murdered. Vauzelle, the lover of the beautiful Michelle Korany, is suspected because he was the one who was being blackmailed.
A Man to Kill (1937)
Captain Benoit successfully completes a mission in Berlin, but when he returns to Paris he escapes attacks by German agents.
The Woman Thief (1938)
The woman thief evades a young lady who is onto his game, but then tries his wiles elsewhere on a married woman by attempting to compromise and ruin...
Dernière aventure (1942)
Comte de Larzac, an aging seducer, leaves Paris for Lannemezan. Accompanied by his friend Charmeuil, he goes there to acknowledge the paternity of...
Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur (1939)
In 1917, in a small village in the North, Abbe Gaillard is suspected by the Germans of facilitating the escape of French and Belgian soldiers. A...
Face au destin (1941)
Two modest young employees, Jean and Madeleine, dream of leading the way, but the experience turns out badly. Madeleine marries a German aristocrat...
Finance noire (1943)
In Central Europe, an organization of counterfeiters is headed by Burcq. An Air France pilot introduces an intelligence agent to the principality. A...
Last Refuge (1947)
Philippe and Sylvie have to do with Alvarez, a dangerous gang leader. They break up with him and commit robbery and murder. Sylvie suggests that...
Les Nouveaux Maîtres (1950)
Durand, a big industrialist, works with an international adventurer, Mr. Ernest, who covets Mrs. Durand and threatens to bankrupt her husband if she...
Les Aventuriers de l'air (1950)
A pilot, hero of the war, finds himself implicated in spite of himself in a traffic. He is wanted by the police, but his former companions and an air...
Le Costaud des Batignolles (1952)
Jules, small and weak, dreams of becoming a formidable athlete. He strives every morning to practice physical culture exercises and takes comforting...
The Ferret (1950)
A mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping them off about murders that are to be committed around...
I Accuse (1938)
After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in...
I Was an Adventuress (1938)
Old friends of Vera Vronsky remind her of her past and try to blackmail her.
More Whiskey for Callaghan (1955)
Valuable documents have been stolen from a British laboratory. Slim Callaghan is sent to investigate the theft. But his tracks soon lead him to the...
Children of Love (1953)
In a maternity hospital, young single mothers are accompanied by social worker Hélène Lambert, who tries to make them aware of their...
Lilac (1932)
Also known as Lilac, this early Anatole Litvak-directed talkie was based on a play by Tristan Bernard and Charles Henry Hirsch. The story bears...
Crimson Dynasty (1935)
Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is...
The Prosecutor Hallers (1930)
The simultaneously filmed French language version of the 1930 German film The Other. A psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme...
Dark Eyes (1935)
In 1913, in Russia, a widower hides from his daughter that he is a butler in a meeting restaurant. She meets a banker who is trying to seduce her and...
Satan's Paradise (1938)
Driven by necessity, Jean Larcher, a young agricultural engineer, accepts the degrading mission of leading to ruin, under cover of administering it,...
The Mask of the Gorilla (1958)
Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must infiltrate a dangerous gang working for a foreign...
Criminal Brigade (1947)
After the discovery of two murders, Commissioner Chabrier, of the French secret services, is investigating the disappearance of plans affecting the...
My Wife Is a Panther (1961)
During an evening in a bar, Roger, a friendly cognac salesman and connoisseur, overhears a telephone conversation that intrigues him, then worries...
Port-Arthur (1936)
French-language remake of Port Arthur (1936): espionage, action and romance in the Russo-Japanese War, as the conflict threatens Russian naval...
The Gambler (1958)
In 1866, a young Muscovite named Alexei Ivanovitch arrives in Baden Baden, then the gambling capital of Austria, and is soon engaged by General...
The Lost Course (1931)
Bored with her life with her husband the lighthouse keeper, Hélène sleeps with two other men who fight for her.
Par le sang des autres (1974)
In a little French town everything goes on as usual and people seem friendly and good-natured, until the day two women arrive from Paris. A man gets...