Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 16, 1903
Deathday: October 15, 1978
Popularity:
1936-04-07
Overview: A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-04-07
Popularity:
1932-06-05
Overview: A widow named Blanche Montel endeavours to find a man with whom to produce a child so that she can pretend that the child was her late husband's and so inherit a fortune.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-06-05
Popularity:
1932-08-13
Overview: In the Yukon, searching for gold, Hurricane picks up a paper and discovers that the girl back home is planning to marry another man. Abandoning all care, Hurricane is soon embroiled in a fight in which guns play a part. It is then that the true value of one of his companions, Flossie, a girl of the gold-fields, becomes apparent.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-08-13
Popularity:
1937-02-17
Overview: Honorin is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition is to once play the role of the cavalier in the opera "Francis I, or the Loves of the Beautiful Ferroniere". A hypnotist puts him to sleep and in his dreams he is transplanted to the days of the Renaissance. There, among other items, he is made a Duke by Henri VIII, fights a duel and survives a series of medieval tortures, while also bestowing some 20th century blessings on the court of Francis I.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-02-17
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1931-07-24
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-07-24
Popularity:
1933-12-01
Overview: The singer Saltore is accused of the murder of his wife's lover, and is sentenced to ten years' hard labour. His daughter proves his innocence when she discovers the culprit to be his wife, who wanted to end an embarrassing love affair.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-12-01
Popularity:
1933-06-09
Overview: Désiré Chopin, hunter on foot and friend of François de Crecy, uses a thousand tricks to encourage the love between François and Gaby. Little Margoton is in love with Désire who disdains her. She becomes the darling of the battalion.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-06-09
Popularity:
1934-02-02
Overview: The story focuses on a street in the Parisian banlieue where Italian and French workers live. Their neighborhood will soon be demolished and a mysterious character hides himself in this street.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-02-02
Popularity:
1934-08-03
Overview: In a village on the French-Belgian border, a smuggler named Sylvain falls in love with the pretty Pascaline, which infuriates Germaine, his mistress. The jealous woman reports Sylvain to the police. As a result, the young man gets hurt during a night chase. Fortunately Pascaline offers him hospitality and looks after him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-08-03
Popularity:
1934-10-11
Overview: Adémaï is forcibly engaged to the farmer's daughter. He tries in vain to get rid of it and, weary of the struggle, flees in a plane with his comrade Michelet whom he believes to be an instructor. For three days and three nights, the unfortunates turn in a closed circuit, thus beating the world record.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-10-11
Popularity:
1935-03-17
Overview: Pierre Buxeuil is better known as the popular clown Bux. One day, he falls in love with Nicole, a romantic but whimsical young lady. He soon elopes her and the beautiful Nicole follows him, persuaded that she will love circus life. Unfortunately for Bux she does not and she leaves him as a result. After a few other disappointments due to false accusations, Bux finally marries a kind-hearted circus acrobat and pursues a successful career under the big top.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-03-17
Popularity:
1935-10-04
Overview: Annabella, Jean Gabin and Fernand Gravey star as a trio of circus trapeze artists. Both Gabin and Gravey love Annabella, but she has eyes only for Gravey. Seething with jealousy, Gabin plots revenge against his rival. He "accidentally" drops Gravey into a net during rehearsal -- but does he plan to do the same during a performance, when the trio works without a net?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-10-04
Popularity:
1936-05-25
Overview: Ruined by his competitor, the banker Saccard decides to set up a new business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-25
Popularity:
1936-07-09
Overview: Two female police officers dismantle a network of drug traffickers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-07-09
Popularity:
1936-11-13
Overview: At the turn of the last century, a beautiful spy takes advantage of a handsome officer to get across the Russian border without her passport. They fall in love. But the Grand Duke also falls in love with the young woman, who has in fact been assigned to kill him. A jealous mistress kills the spy before she can commit the crime.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-11-13
Popularity:
1937-09-08
Overview: Said Ali, an old and sick noble Arab, living on an island in the Red Sea, has no other occupation than collecting pearls. The spiteful Nadir tries to take possession of the treasure, he kills Said Aly but finds a terrible death by desecrating his tomb.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-09-08
Popularity:
1937-07-28
Overview: The son of an industrialist is in love with a saleswoman employed by his father. The latter coos with an ingenue from whom he hides the age of his son. A department manager involved in all this has his sentimental disappointments. A double marriage puts a happy ending to the plot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-07-28
Popularity:
1937-03-12
Overview: A colonel decided to be represented at the regiment festival of a tragedy in verse by the poem written by his sister.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-03-12
Popularity:
1937-03-12
Overview: A young unemployed girl pretends to be a boy and gets a job as a car washer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-03-12
Popularity:
1937-04-23
Overview: A rich, idle young man falls in love with a cabaret singer. Very skilful, she pretends to remain insensitive to this love, thus hoping to better achieve her ambitious ends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-04-23
Popularity:
1937-05-14
Overview: Monsieur Fred is a friendly Southerner who recruits pretty girls down on their luck to send to South America. After some dramatic incidents and an eventful chase, a policeman manages to lock up the gang he runs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-05-14
Popularity:
1938-03-30
Overview: The wife of a Marseille industrialist is murdered. An inspector and a young journalist investigate together, and suspect the husband, then the lover, before finding the real culprit.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-03-30
Popularity:
1938-08-04
Overview: During a stopover, Morel, an airline pilot and Colette spin the perfect love. She hides from him that she is compromised in the actions of a band of criminals. She manages to escape her dangerous friends while a shootout wipes them all out.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-08-04
Popularity:
1942-05-28
Overview: Lucien Mazerand, a bookseller from Châteauroux, goes to Paris to spend a few days in the French capital. At the music-hall, he discovers Stella Losange, a singer who literally enthralls him. Determined to seduce her, he is aware that a mere bookseller from the provinces stands no chance. So he resorts to a stratagem: posing for a globe-trotter who has gone through millions of adventures. The scheme works but the lady wants more : why doesn't he take her along with him so that she can share his dangerous life?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-05-28
Popularity:
1942-05-29
Overview: Beautiful and adored by the public, the great actress Florence once faulted with Remi, a disreputable individual. A little girl was born who lives in the countryside. Dorcier, the director, would like to marry Florence and wonders about her private life and her past existence. A jealous rival unleashes slander.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-05-29
Popularity:
1939-03-01
Overview: Several men of different nationalities have decided to free themselves from the clutches of women and have vowed to help each other in case one of them might relapse. They find shelter in a hacienda on the pampas. They believe they are now safe from the evil influence of the fair sex. Unfortunately there is a farm nearby in which... a gorgeous woman is said to live. Great principles are short-lived, as they soon realize: lust, jealousy and hate set in at once.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-01
Popularity:
1939-03-18
Overview: A film based upon the life of Vidocq, the famous adventurer, who, after numerous prison escapes ceased being a crook, a thief and a counterfeiter, and was employed by Pasquier’s government’istry as director of the crime-fighting Sûreté Nationale.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-18
Popularity:
1942-07-27
Overview: A man is killed smuggling contraband through the Pyrenees Alps. He leaves behind a pregnant woman who must go on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-07-27
Popularity:
1939-06-07
Overview: 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 false alibi makes him innocent and he can thus continue his mission, thanks to the devotion of an Alsatian who, in enemy uniform, obscurely serves his country.
Genres: War Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-06-07
Popularity:
1935-11-02
Overview: A French novelist passes off an African shepherdess as a princess.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-11-02
Popularity:
1938-03-16
Overview: Three university students decide, before they pursue their various careers, to spend some time together living in a mill.A young woman joins them for a while and all three fall in love with her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-03-16
Popularity:
1929-04-08
Overview: Paris, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and necromancer, experienced physician and ruthless swordsman, triumphs among the members of the decadent French aristocracy. But a bold foretelling about a very prominent noblewoman causes his fall in disgrace… (Partially lost film.)
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-04-08
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