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Alex Joffé
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Alex Joffé

French film director (1918-1995)
November 18, 1918 (August 18, 1995)

The Hotshots

V.O.: Les Cracks
Fr. 1967. Comedy by Alex Joffé with Bourvil, Robert Hirsch, Monique Tarbès. The inventor of a new bicycle decides to enter a race.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1965. Comedy by Alex Joffé with Bourvil, Paul Meurisse, Françoise Deldick. A subway clerk gets involved in a heist he had imagined in a novel.
Runtime: 78 min.
Fr. 1964. Comedy by Alex Joffé with Robert Hirsch, Mischa Acheroff, Dalia Friedland. As he dies, an old conductor learns that he can only enter heaven if five of his sons come in person, with their wives, to collect their share of the inheritance.
Runtime: 106 min.
Fr. 1962. War drama by Alex Joffé with Bourvil, Laurent Terzieff, Étienne Bierry. Despite being cowardly and fearful, a French prisoner in a German concentration camp participates in another prisoner?s escape plan.
Runtime: 106 min.
Fr. 1961. Satire by Alex Joffé with Bourvil, Pierrette Bruno, Armand Mestral. The misadventures of a pharmaceutical laboratory employee dealing with the troubles of everyday life.
Runtime: 103 min.
Fr. 1960. Dramatic comedy by Alex Joffé with Bourvil, Michèle Morgan, Teddy Bilis. During World War II, a poacher who smuggled the wife of a resistance fighter into the free zone, falls in love with her.
Runtime: 121 min.

Riff Raff Girls

V.O.: Du rififi chez les femmes
Fr. 1959. Crime drama by Alex Joffé with Nadja Tiller, Robert Hossein, Silvia Monfort. In Brussels, gangsters planning a daring bank robbery come into conflict with other mobsters who want their share of the loot.
Runtime: 96 min.
Fr. 1957. Drama by Alex Joffé with Pierre Fresnay, Michel Auclair, Grégoire Aslan. Two terrorists are preparing to blow up a plane carrying a South American dictator.
Runtime: 90 min.

Girl in His Pocket

V.O.: Amour de poche
Fr. 1957. Fantasy comedy by Pierre Kast with Jean Marais, Geneviève Page, Agnès Laurent. A biologist develops a chemical substance that petrifies living things and reduces their volume.
Runtime: 82 min.
Fr. 1956. Crime drama by Victor Vicas with François Périer, Daniel Gélin, Bella Darvi. A young teacher witnesses a heinous crime and finds himself caught up in the vicious cycle of a miscarriage of justice.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 1956. Drama by Alex Joffé with Jean-Marc Thibault, Barbara Laage, Paul Frankeur. The second thoughts of a mechanic who forgot to screw the steering nut of a car.
Runtime: 110 min.
Fr. 1955. Comedy by Alex Joffé with Bernard Blier, Bourvil, Giovanna Ralli.
Runtime: 102 min.
Runtime: 100 min.
Fr. 1951. Comedy by Jean Boyer with Henri Génès, Philippe Lemaire, Max Elloy. An orchestra musician takes in a baby he believes to be his grandson.
Runtime: 101 min.
Fr. 1951. Dramatic comedy by Hervé Bromberger with Bourvil, Magali Noël, Yvette Etiévant.
Runtime: 95 min.

Without Leaving an Address

V.O.: ...Sans laisser d'adresse
Fr. 1951. Dramatic comedy by Jean-Paul Le Chanois with Bernard Blier, Danièle Delorme, Pierre Trabaud. In Paris, a brave cab driver takes charge of a young provincial who came to join her lover who is nowhere to be found.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1949. Comedy by André Hunebelle with Gaby Morlay, Pierre Larquey, Pierre Brasseur. The joy and disappointment of people in solidarity with a lottery ticket falsely announced as a winner.
Runtime: 82 min.

Le Quatre-vingt-quatre prend des vacances

V.O.: Le 84 prend des vacances
Fr. 1949. Comedy by Léo Joannon with Rellys, Yves Deniaud, Paulette Dubost. A bus driver leads his passengers to chase after his cheating wife.
Runtime: 93 min.

Six Heures à perdre

V.O.: 6 Heures à perdre
Fr. 1947. Dramatic comedy by Alex Joffé, Jean Lévitte with André Luguet, Denise Grey, Pierre Larquey. Mistaken for another, a man succeeds in restoring quite a bit of order to the affairs of the one who is absent.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1946. Police comedy by René Delacroix with Albert Préjean, Jacqueline Gauthier, Jules Berry. Suspected of the murder of the three young leads of a crime film, a novelist-screenwriter conducts his own investigation to clear his name.
Runtime: 82 min.
Runtime: 115 min.

As Long As I Live

V.O.: Tant que je vivrai
Fr. 1945. Sentimental drama by Jacques de Baroncelli with Edwige Feuillère, Jacques Berthier, Georges Lannes. While on his way to a psychiatric institution, a young painter with tuberculosis falls in love with an adventurous woman.
Runtime: 100 min.

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