Croque la vie

Explore our selection of movies and TV shows croque la vie

poster Crainquebille

Crainquebille

Jérôme Crainquebille, is an ageing vegetable seller who has sold groceries from his cart in in Paris for over 40 years. One day, he is harassed by a policeman who insists that he moves on. When he protest…

poster Le goûter des bébés

Le goûter des bébés

1mn - Documentary

poster Léonce Loves Morels

Léonce Loves Morels

A photogenic Partie de campagne with Léonce looking for mushrooms! A nice prestation by Poupette Suzanne Le Bret and a nice little fantasy.

poster Le cigare introuvable

Le cigare introuvable

Three portly, white-face clowns wrangle over a cigar stub. One of them keeps it by hiding it in his mouth and similar ruses.

poster The Oubliette

The Oubliette

29mn - Drama, History

Francois Villon, vagabond, poet and philosopher, and his friend Colin, leave the vagabond camp and start for Paris. En route to that city, Villon's heart is touched at sight of the eviction of an elderly …

poster Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke

Carmaux: Drawing Out the Coke

1mn - Documentary

Carmaux is in south-central France, near the Tarn River. As a brick of coke, about four feet high and three feet wide, is gradually pushed out of a smelter into a yard, one worker sprays it with water fro…

poster Tit-for-Tat

Tit-for-Tat

An entomologist guilty of trying to capture rare insects is condemned to be pinned on a giant cork.

poster The King and the Jester

The King and the Jester

French short about King Francis I and his jester Triboulet, who form the basis for Hugo's play Le roi s'amuse (and Verdi's opera Rigoletto).

poster Boules Game

Boules Game

1mn - Documentary

poster Felix Trifles with Time

Felix Trifles with Time

8mn - Sci-Fi, Animation, Comedy

Felix the Cat can't find anything to eat, so he bribes Father Time to send him back to when life was easier. However, the Stone Age turns out to have its own problems.

poster The Voyage of M. Bourrichon

The Voyage of M. Bourrichon

An indebted French family flees its creditors in this comic picaresque, one of pioneering French director George Méliès last films.

poster Nursing a Viper

Nursing a Viper

During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a mob attacks a nearby chateau an aristocrat bursts into the couple's home. They save his life by disguis…

poster Calino courtier en paratonnerres

Calino courtier en paratonnerres

Calino goes politely around to three or four people from the bourgeois class, trying to sell them a lightning rod: but due to a factory defect, the apparatus attracts lightning instead of driving it away.

poster The Burning Crucible

The Burning Crucible

97mn - Comedy, Drama, Mystery

A woman, named simply "Elle" and her husband, a wealthy industrialist, are not on the best of terms. While she enjoys the way he caters to her every whim, she wonders whether he really loves her. He, on t…

poster Elvis Lives!

Elvis Lives!

82mn - Comedy, Drama, Thriller

Elvis Presley must fake his own death to protect his family from the mob after helping the FBI bust a crime syndicate, leading to a secret new life far from Graceland.

Greed

100mn - Drama, Crime

A lottery win of $5,000 forever changes the lives of a miner turned dentist and his wife.

poster Chicot the Jester

Chicot the Jester

The film based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Duma, is concerned with fraternal royal strife at the court of Henri III. Tragically caught between the millstones of history are the gallant Coun…

poster Chaise en bascule

Chaise en bascule

Vaudeville comedians Foottit and Chocolat hop and dance around and occasionally fight.

poster The Mills in Joy and Sorrow

The Mills in Joy and Sorrow

A hobo takes revenge to a miller who didn't give him something to eat.

poster Onésime a un duel à l'américaine

Onésime a un duel à l'américaine

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