Paul Ollivier
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 09, 1876
Deathday: June 10, 1948
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Baby
1933-01-13
Baby
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-01-13
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À Nous la Liberté
1931-12-18
À Nous la Liberté
Overview: In this classic French satire, Louis, a convict, escapes from prison and takes on legitimate work, making his way up in the business world. Eventually becoming the head of a successful factory, Louis opts to modernize his company with mechanical innovations. But when his friend Émile finally leaves jail years later and reunites with Louis, the past catches up with them. The two, worried about being apprehended by police, long to flee the confines of industry.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-12-18
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Le Million
1931-02-04
Le Million
Overview: Debt-ridden painter Michel is overcome with joy at discovering that he has just won 1 million florins in the Dutch lottery, but almost immediately, he discovers that his softhearted girlfriend, Béatrice, has given away his jacket containing the winning ticket to an elderly petty thief. Soon Michel, Beatrice and Michel's artistic rival, Prosper, are hurtling through the streets of Paris on the trail of the missing jacket.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-02-04
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La Maternelle
1925-10-02
La Maternelle
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-10-02
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That scoundrel Morin
1932-12-30
That scoundrel Morin
Overview: Life is so dull in a quiet little neighborhood that gossips, eager for some kind of scandal to brighten things up, imagine their haberdasher has been having quite a raunchy sex life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-12-30
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Le Capitaine Rascasse
1927-04-01
Le Capitaine Rascasse
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Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1927-04-01
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The Unknown Dancer
1929-11-29
The Unknown Dancer
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-11-29
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The crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
1929-12-31
The crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-12-31
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Le Ruisseau
1930-04-21
Le Ruisseau
Overview: A famous painter loves Madeleine Granval, a rich and divorced society woman, who cheats on him. To console himself, he goes to Montmartre where he meets Denise Fleury, a young woman who has fallen into poverty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-04-21
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Twice twenty years
1931-03-14
Twice twenty years
Overview: Men including younger ones flock around a seductive older woman of mixed race, so that she forgets her age.Will she choose the one rightly destined for her?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-03-14
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Marchand d'amour
1935-01-01
Marchand d'amour
Overview: A genius director whose daring and sensual films have earned him the nickname "The Merchant of Love", claims to escape commercial contingencies and direct the film of his life on his own. It is a resounding failure that leads him to the forfeiture from which the fate of a woman's love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Debout là-dedans !
1935-12-20
Debout là-dedans !
Overview: A student monitor in a high school in the French provinces has no control over the pupils. He is in love with the caretaker's daughter but his superior, the Dean of Discipline, is also his love rival. Now, the two men are sent on military temporary duty and irony has it that in the Army the Dean is only a private whereas the mere supervisor's rank is ... corporal!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-20
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Joli monde
1936-07-31
Joli monde
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-07-31
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Passé à vendre
1936-09-14
Passé à vendre
Overview: Maryse blackmails her former lovers by threatening to mention their names in her memoirs. But a real blackmailer appears and cashes the checks for him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-14
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Les Gaietés de l'exposition
1938-05-18
Les Gaietés de l'exposition
Overview: Set against the backdrop of the 1937 Paris Exposition, a mistaken identity plot where a travel agent from Morocco is confused by the French police with a dangerous swindler.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-05-18
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Sideral Cruises
1942-04-19
Sideral Cruises
Overview: 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 whereas 25 years have passed on Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-04-19
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Féliana l'espionne
1924-10-07
Féliana l'espionne
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-10-07
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À la Belle Frégate
1943-04-01
À la Belle Frégate
Overview: It's a sailors' story; they often sail away and when they return, the first thing they do is searching girls in the harbor. One of them -Jean- is shy and he does not know how to go with women. One day, he meets Yvonne and falls in love with her. But, alas, she prefers his good friend René. Another suitor, Pierre, owns the "À la Belle frégate" a café where Yvonne works as a waitress. Madam(e )Juliette, pretends she helps Yvonne and tries to make her an "entraineuse"(hostess) for less-than -handsome guests. But the girl knows better and will choose one of her suitors.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-04-01
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Le Mistral
1943-04-08
Le Mistral
Overview: In a small Provençal port, a young girl tries to divert a fisherman from his laborious life and his chaste loves.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-04-08
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La Justicière
1925-09-18
La Justicière
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-09-18
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Fou d'amour
1943-06-16
Fou d'amour
Overview: Claude, who temporarily replaces his father at the head of a department store, falls in love at first sight with a pretty female customer. He finds out that she is named Solange and that she is the goddaughter of Professor Hauteclerc, who runs a private psychiatric hospital. To come closer to the girl of his dreams, Claude has a crazy idea: he pretends to be mad so as to be placed in Hauteclerc's institution.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-06-16
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The Inevitable Mr. Dubois
1943-09-22
The Inevitable Mr. Dubois
Overview: With a hand of steel, Hélène efficiently runs a big luxury perfume factory in Grasse. There is no room for fun in her dull businesswoman's life. Then, a car accident drops Claude Dubois, a painter, into her lap. But the artist will have to deploy all his subtle wiles and clever tricks to rouse Hélène's feelings and get her to enjoy the cozy life of a cherished wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-09-22
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Coup de tête
1944-10-12
Coup de tête
Overview: A sporty and chivalrous young man creates, with some comrades, a society whose goal is to protect honest people against rogues. He finds himself thrown into unforeseen adventures, at the end of which he will discover love.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-10-12
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The White Blackbird
1944-12-06
The White Blackbird
Overview: Jules Leroy, an industrial shoe polish manufacturer, on his deathbed reveals to his son Achille that the family fortune originates from an inheritance stolen 23 years earlier. The one who should have inherited is one of the factory employees, Hyacinthe Camusset. The latter is also one of the lovers of Lucienne Leroy, the daughter of the family, who has a penchant for Jean Bernon, a boy who dedicates verses to her. Hyacinthe is unaware that he has been robbed but the Leroy family, who are not sure, try to woo him. The family, Hyacinthe, Jean and Lucienne meet at the castle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-12-06
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Christine se marie
1946-06-30
Christine se marie
Overview: In order to engage in life experiences, Christine takes the civil status of her three sisters to marry as many times.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-06-30
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Destitute Mary
1945-10-03
Destitute Mary
Overview: Marie is one of her kind. While the other girls are after gold, diamonds and jewels, she swears by ... poverty! She does not remain the companion of a banker too long for obvious reasons. But when she can be the muse of a poor music composer it is fine by her. Unless the musician becomes too famous...! Then, she leaves him! But maybe not forever... He can fall into poverty again, can't he?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-10-03
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Strange Fate
1946-06-05
Strange Fate
Overview: Patrica is the wife of Alain de Saulieu, a handsome engineer. She unfortunately loses her husband, who is killed in action during a battle of the First World War. At least, this is only the official truth, for Alain is not dead. Patricia indeed recognizes him one day. But the inverse does not work the other way around: Alain has become amnesiac and he does not remember her. And worst of all, he lives in a conjugal relationship with Germaine, his dedicated nurse, who is now pregnant by him. What has the future in store then for the three (not to say four) of them?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-06-05
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Destiny
1946-12-18
Destiny
Overview: This is the story of two brothers: the good one, the virtuous gent, an acclaimed singer, and the bad one who leads a wild life.
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-12-18
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La Parade du rire
1948-03-26
La Parade du rire
Overview: A debate on the definition of the word laughter, organized by Madame de Saint-Jules and two academicians, illustrated by film extracts, turns into a huge battle of cream pies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-03-26
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The Beautiful Trip
1947-06-26
The Beautiful Trip
Overview: She dragged out a more than mediocre life in the port of Antwerp; he is a renowned pianist-virtuoso. These two solitary beings, totally different, meet by chance on a liner and gradually realize that they complement each other harmoniously.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-06-26
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The Chips Are Down
1947-07-01
The Chips Are Down
Overview: "Les jeux sont faits," is a fantasy film based on a screenplay by French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. A society heiress and a resistance fighter are tragically killed at the same moment and meet in the afterlife. They are offered a second chance at life if they can prove their love is real or be doomed to roam the earth as ghosts.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-07-01
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Le voleur se porte bien
1948-01-14
Le voleur se porte bien
Overview: Hector Dumontier has had enough of his wife Noémie : she is always immersed in those detective stories he disapproves of. To teach her a lesson, Dumontier decides to simulate the burglary of their house, with the help of an alleged jewel thief masked by a hood. He creates many false leads and everybody in the house gets suspected, from Ernestine, the maid, to Cabassol, the chauffeur, to Rosine, the Dumontiers'daughter. The disorder is complete and the various police detectives in charge do not help much.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-01-14
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Boléro
1942-03-25
Boléro
Overview: As her neighbor Rémi Courmont has told her off for making his ears bleed with Ravel's Bolero, a music piece she plays at full volume all the time, Anne-Marie decides to get even with him. She sets up a hoax with the complicity of her friend Catherine, who agrees to post as Remi's mistress to embarrass him. Just then, Niquette, Rémi's real lover, resurfaces.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-03-25
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Tartarin of Tarascon
1934-11-10
Tartarin of Tarascon
Overview: Tartarin is the local hero in the small provincial town of Tarascon. He shows off about imaginary adventures in Africa, where he has never been, as a Lion Hunter, which he is only in his imagination. Even though the locals know he has never been to Africa, they keep hoping he will leave one day. After a misunderstanding, and much gossip, everyone thinks that Tartarin plans to actually take the trip.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-11-10
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Silence Is Golden
1947-05-21
Silence Is Golden
Overview: Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting a tour through France. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his younger friend Jacques come back from military service and after complaining his misfortune with women, follows Emile's advice in starting affairs with women and he meets Lucette.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-05-21
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The Phantom of the Moulin-Rouge
1925-03-13
The Phantom of the Moulin-Rouge
Overview: A young man, unsuccessful in love, manages to leave his body and tours Paris, disembodied and invisible, playing practical jokes: a row of coats walks off from a hotel cloakroom; an unattended taxi drives itself away; a row of top hats appears on the pavement.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-03-13
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The Last Billionaire
1934-10-16
The Last Billionaire
Overview: The Last Billionaire is a 1934 French comedy film directed by René Clair and starring Max Dearly, Marthe Mellot and Renée Saint-Cyr. The film is based on a fictional small European kingdom which is on the verge of going broke. Its French title is Le dernier milliardaire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-10-16
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July 14
1933-01-13
July 14
Overview: A light, comedy romance about a cab driver named Jean and a flower girl named Anna that takes place in Paris during the Bastille day celebration of July 14th.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-01-13
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Justin de Marseille
1935-04-05
Justin de Marseille
Overview: A respected gangster, Justin, finds himself in a deadly feud with his rival, the unscrupulous Esposito. The latter plans to steal a cargo of opium bound for China and to have Justin killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-04-05
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Under the Roofs of Paris
1930-04-28
Under the Roofs of Paris
Overview: In the tenement slums of Paris between the world wars, impoverished street singer Albert yearns for beautiful Romanian immigrant Pola. Pola's boyfriend, local hoodlum Fred, grows jealous of Albert's constant attention to his woman and frames the hapless musician for one of his own petty crimes. But while Albert is in prison for Fred's misdeed, Pola ends up falling for Albert's faithful best friend, Louis.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-04-28
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Gargousse
1938-07-27
Gargousse
Overview: The peace of Trépigny is shattered when the new mayor Lebrennois sets out to modernise the little village and make it more attractive to tourists. Opposed to his schemes is the village's stationmaster Gargousse, a free-spirited soul who poaches in his spare time and has no time for Lebrennois's grand ambitions. Relations between Gargousse and the mayor are further strained when the former's goddaughter Antoinette begins an affair with the latter's nephew Allain. The mayor insists that the railway line is out-dated and should be replaced with a more efficient coach service. By taking up Lebrennois's offer of a duel, Gargousse has one last chance to save his job and discredit the unpopular mayor...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-07-27
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Die Königin von Moulin Rouge
1926-10-04
Die Königin von Moulin Rouge
Overview: a silent movie by Robert Wiene
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1926-10-04
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The Tales of the Thousand and One Nights
1921-12-23
The Tales of the Thousand and One Nights
Overview: Tells the story of the adventures of the resourceful Scheherazade. Newly married to Shahryar, a deranged monarch who murders his brides after the wedding night, Scheherazade manages to keep her head by entertaining her husband with exciting stories and always trailing off at the most infuriating cliffhangers.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1921-12-23
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Little One
1935-08-22
Little One
Overview: Mister Darnétal is invited by his nephew Georges to the premiere of his extravaganza in Paris;but his partner (he did not marry her,even after all those years)is not prepared to accept it and he uses his best friend as an alibi ;the two pals intend to live a wild life in the capital where there are plenty of lovely girls.But the uncle discovers that his dear nephew has a fiancee ,actually an unwed mother for she's got a little kid.The young man has fallen for the star of his variety show,a coquette fickle Chanteuse who ,in the end ,only has eyes for her co-star in the show .Uncle gets angry ,threatens to disinherit this infamous nephew and marries the young mom ,unbeknown to his fifty-something partner who has come to meet him in Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-08-22
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The Fire Triangle
1932-12-02
The Fire Triangle
Overview: Two police inspectors track down a mysterious criminal who signs his crimes with a fiery triangle. When they have just discovered an accomplice, one of the police officers, in love with the young girl, is shot dead. His colleague will then have only one goal in mind.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-12-02
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About an investigation
1931-06-05
About an investigation
Overview: During an inquest after a woman is killed, the judge suspects his own son. The woman's lover had been friendly with the son and he was also supposed to be married to the judge's daughter.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-06-05
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The Italian Straw Hat
1928-01-13
The Italian Straw Hat
Overview: On the day of Fadinard's wedding, his horse eats a lady's hat on a bush at the roadside, while the lady is hidden behind the bush with her lover Lieutenant Tavernier. Because she is married, she cannot return home hatless without being compromised, and Tavernier orders Fadinard to replace the hat with one exactly like it - or else he will wreck his new home. In an elaborate sequence of complications, Fadinard tries to find a hat while keeping to his marriage schedule
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-01-13
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The Lie of Nina Petrovna
1937-11-04
The Lie of Nina Petrovna
Overview: Nina Petrovna is a Russian beauty claimed by two Austrian officers.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-11-04
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Gonzague
1934-03-23
Gonzague
Overview: Superstitious new rich find that they will be thirteen at the table. To reassure themselves, they invite a piano tuner, named Gonzague, whom they pretend to be Prince Gonzague to their guests. One of them imagines that Gonzague is his wife's lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-03-23
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The Child of the Carnival
1921-07-29
The Child of the Carnival
Overview: A foundling is left in front of the home of a rich aristocratic bachelor during the Nice carnival. The marquis adopts the child but soon finds that he cannot cope, so he employs a nanny who turns out to be the child's real mother. Just as the two have fallen in love and there is a happy ending in sight, the woman's husband - long thought dead - turns up.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1921-07-29
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Nuit de carnaval
1922-11-10
Nuit de carnaval
Overview: On a carnival evening in Nice, when Jeanne Olier is to be engaged to a certain Natahlie Rouhais, a mysterious woman in black enter the room and violently demands the young girl to renounce this marriage. Jeanne, shaken and afraid, runs away i despair. He is followed by the lady in black.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1922-11-10
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Le Chiffonnier de Paris
1924-09-19
Le Chiffonnier de Paris
Overview: Paris, under the reign of King Louis-Philippe. Jean, a rag-and-bone man, witnesses a murder. The victim begs him to adopt little girl Marie Didier. 20 years later, in 1846, she has grown into a beautiful young lady and works as a seamstress. One night, she is taken to a party where she is insulted by the nasty Baron Hoffmann because she was wearing the dress she had made for his daughter. Dashing Henri de Berville takes her defense.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-09-19
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Le Prince charmant
1925-03-27
Le Prince charmant
Overview: Unkwown to the vast majority, Count Patrice is the crown prince of Simenia. One day he sails for the East on his yacht "Bengal" in the company of Christiane, a beautiful princess, in love with him. Chance has it that Patrice sets Anar, an Oriental beauty, free from the harem where she is held captive. Love is born between the two young people, which infuriates Christiane. Mad with jealousy, the vexed woman sets about preventing Patrice and Anar from marrying... by all means fair or foul!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-03-27
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The Little Ones
1925-10-30
The Little Ones
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Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1925-10-30
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Lure of the Sea
1925-05-08
Lure of the Sea
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-05-08
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Oiseaux de passage
1925-12-04
Oiseaux de passage
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Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-12-04
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