Jean Servais
Biography: Jean Servais was a Belgian actor best known for the French heist movie 'Rififi' and Luis Bunuel's 'Fever Mounts at El Pao'.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 24, 1912
Deathday: February 17, 1976
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Known For
Rififi
1955-04-13
Rififi
Overview: Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-04-13
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Mater Dolorosa
1933-01-06
Mater Dolorosa
Overview: One of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and obsessively jealous husband obducts his own son to bully his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-01-06
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That Man from Rio
1964-02-05
That Man from Rio
Overview: French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-02-05
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Jeunesse
1934-05-25
Jeunesse
Overview: After being saved from suicide due to an unhappy marriage, Marie hesitates between two other men, but lands up rejoining her husband in the colonies as she now expects a baby.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-05-25
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The Glass Castle
1950-12-16
The Glass Castle
Overview: Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she must decide between telling her husband and continuing to see Rémy.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-16
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Le Plaisir
1952-02-29
Le Plaisir
Overview: Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-02-29
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Angele
1934-10-26
Angele
Overview: Angèle is a 1934 French drama film directed, produced and written by Marcel Pagnol. It stars Orane Demazis as a naive young woman who is seduced and abandoned. It is based on the novel Un de Baumugnes by Jean Giono.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-10-26
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Coplan Saves His Skin
1968-07-13
Coplan Saves His Skin
Overview: Free-lance undercover agent Coplan receives a phone call from an old girlfriend in Turkey. The panic-stricken woman gives sketchy details of a plot that threatens world security. When Coplan arrives, he is told the woman has been killed, and the trail of the murderer leads to her mad-scientist brother.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-07-13
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Fever Mounts at El Pao
1959-12-05
Fever Mounts at El Pao
Overview: Aroused citizens assassinate an unpopular Caribbean despot, then two men vie for his gorgeous widow Ines. Ojeda is a steamy, isolated island, the penal colony for an oppressive dictatorship. A reactionary seizes the murdered governor's post, and rushes to eliminate his romantic rival, an idealistic underling. The bureaucrat Vazquez hopes to marshal the angry residents of the capitol, El Pao, plus the many political prisoners, to oust Governor Gual.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-12-05
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Such a Pretty Little Beach
1949-01-19
Such a Pretty Little Beach
Overview: During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains open. His arrival arouses curiosity and a degree of suspicion, as people note that he appears to know the area, yet gives no explanation for his presence at that bleak time of year in the dead-end town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-01-19
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Les Misérables
1934-02-09
Les Misérables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-02-09
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To Skin a Spy
1966-08-24
To Skin a Spy
Overview: A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the crossfire of international enemy agents trying to eliminate the French.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-08-24
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Criminal
1933-01-06
Criminal
Overview: A wrongfully convicted man finds himself suspected of a crime committed in his prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-01-06
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La Voix sans visage
1933-12-01
La Voix sans visage
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
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Dernière heure
1934-09-28
Dernière heure
Overview: A young woman flees with her lover, after having killed her brutal husband; hoping to live a few hours of happiness, before his arrest...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-09-28
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Bourrasque
1935-06-28
Bourrasque
Overview: A young settler from Algeria is in love with the boss's niece. Of course, the father of the young man is formally opposed to the marriage. But helped by his mother and by the kingpin himself, the boy achieves his goals.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-06-28
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Daddy's Girl
1936-04-14
Daddy's Girl
Overview: After winning the lottery, an orphan who wants to find a husband asks a hotel porter to be her father.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-04-14
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Rose
1936-02-21
Rose
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-02-21
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Gigolette
1937-02-19
Gigolette
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-02-19
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Les Réprouvés
1937-02-19
Les Réprouvés
Overview: At the borders of the Saharan desert, the dramatic situation of a battalion of light infantry attacked by the enemy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-02-19
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Social Police
1937-04-09
Social Police
Overview: For years now, Chief inspector Gustave Picard has been trying to bring down Salviati, the dreadful leader of a drug-selling gang. Lucienne Préville, an informer who works for him, has infiltrated the gang but her position is dangerous. On the other hand, Scoppa, Salviati's former right-hand man, has started challenging his former boss. Will Salviati, the brutal public enemy, clear off at last?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-04-09
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Those of the Sky
1941-03-05
Those of the Sky
Overview: An airplane manufacturer asks his son-in-law to try out the prototypes he builds. This one ends up having an accident because of fatigue, and pushes the sacrifice to help his rival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-03-05
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Loguivy-de-la-Mer
1952-02-11
Loguivy-de-la-Mer
Overview: A small Breton port is falling asleep: individual and coastal fishing is dying, as is the case for François, an old sailor close to retirement. The only solution is to form a cooperative to buy a motor trawler. Five young sailors help rebuild the Roches-Douvres lighthouse in order to buy their boat "Le Tourmentin". In Brittany too, cinematographically, it was possible to make the future sing. .
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-02-11
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Patricia
1942-10-27
Patricia
Overview: Mademoiselle Bressac is a bossy spinster who manages "Le Clos", her estate, with an iron hand. But is she really a bad person? Her manners are abrupt but they only hide a heart of gold. Doesn't she bring up four orphans, Dominique, Fabien, Chantal and Jean? And as if it were not enough, she has accepted to educate another child, her niece Patricia, entrusted to her care by her irresponsible father. Thanks to her, the five young people have grown up in harmony and now they are about to find their place in society. Two of them, Jean and Patricia, who love each other, live only for the estate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-10-27
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Fromont Young and Risler Elder
1941-10-08
Fromont Young and Risler Elder
Overview: An ambitious and perverse adventurer sows dissension and ruin in a wealthy family of industrialists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-10-08
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L'Étrange Nuit de Noël
1939-08-17
L'Étrange Nuit de Noël
Overview: Taking advantage of their uncle's absence, André and Raymond Rafet organize a New Year's Eve party at his house. The uncle returns unexpectedly, disturbs the party, threatens his nephews to disinherit them and then locks himself in his office. A few minutes later, he is found dead, poisoned.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-08-17
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Tornavara
1943-10-06
Tornavara
Overview: In a lost village in Lapland, Gérard comes to the aid of his friend Anders, in conflict with his father, a rich owner of gold mines.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-10-06
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Finance noire
1943-11-24
Finance noire
Overview: In Central Europe, an organization of counterfeiters is headed by Burcq. An Air France pilot introduces an intelligence agent to the principality. A woman, Helene, betrays them first, then in love with Francois, the pilot, helps the two friends to escape.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-11-24
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Mahlia the Mestiza
1943-12-15
Mahlia the Mestiza
Overview: Daughter of a French officer and an Annamite, Mahlia was brought up in Indochina by Mr. and Mrs. de Roussière. Their son, Henri, would like to marry her but they are against it. Mahlia flees and Henri is killed for trying to protect her. The young girl enters the Mission to raise children there in the love of France.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-12-15
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Life of Pleasure
1944-05-16
Life of Pleasure
Overview: An aristocrat instigates divorce proceedings against his son-in-law, a commoner and the ex-owner of night club "La Vie de Plaisir".
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-05-16
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When a Woman Meddles
1957-11-15
When a Woman Meddles
Overview: French film favorite Edwige Feuillere plays a high-class gangster's moll named Maine. When Maine's first husband and daughter pay a visit, it's an awkward time for our heroine and her current amour, gang boss Godot (Jean Servais). In addition to fielding a lot of embarrassing questions, Godot also has to deal with a pesky turf war with a rival mobster. Not that the ex-husband is a paragon of virtue: he's busy trying to get even with a crooked business associate.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-11-15
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The Devil's Nightmare
1971-11-14
The Devil's Nightmare
Overview: Seven tourists sent by Satan to a castle are caught by a ghastly woman as they commit deadly sins.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-11-14
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Song of Farewell
1934-11-02
Song of Farewell
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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The Ferret
1950-02-10
The Ferret
Overview: A mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping them off about murders that are to be committed around Paris. Among those caught up in the police manhunt is a fraudulent clairvoyant.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-02-10
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The Game of Truth
1961-11-26
The Game of Truth
Overview: A dozen elegant people are gathered in a writer's desirable mansion. In the grand tradition of Agatha Christie, they all have something to hide.They begin a cruel game of truth, a game where you're not supposed to tell lies. As the questions become more and more intimate and precise, the tempers rise, while outside the storm is raging. Enter a hateful person (played by Paul Meurisse, the nasty headmaster in "Les Diaboliques") who seems to know a lot about them. Someone is murdered. Whodunit?
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-26
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Thomas the Impostor
1965-06-01
Thomas the Impostor
Overview: In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacuate the wounded from the front, and bring them back to her villa in Paris to recuperate. The authorities will not give them passes until an innocent 16-year-old boy, Guillaume Thomas de Fontenoy, joins them and is mistaken as the nephew of the popular General de Fontenoy. The Princess is enraptured by Thomas and her daughter, Henriette, falls in love with him. However Thomas feels impelled to see more of the action of the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-06-01
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Black Jesus
1968-05-16
Black Jesus
Overview: A thinly-disguised biography of African leader Patrice Lumumba, here called Lalubi. Lalubi, a Christ-like leader determined to save his people, by passive resistance, from the dictatorial regime propped up by European colonialists, is imprisoned and tortured, along with a thief who comes to a greater understanding through his contact with Lalubi.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-05-16
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They Came to Rob Las Vegas
1968-02-07
They Came to Rob Las Vegas
Overview: After successfully assaulting an armored car between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the ambitions of the diverse members of the intrepid criminal gang collide, causing undesirable consequences.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-02-07
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Tourbillon
1953-10-02
Tourbillon
Overview: Taking advantage of the shooting of a film, gangsters stage a hold -up. A black man, Selim, is unfairly accused.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-10-02
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He Who Must Die
1957-05-03
He Who Must Die
Overview: Greece, in the 1920s, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village that conducts a passion play each year. The leading citizens of the town, under the auspices of the Patriarch, choose those that will play the parts in the Passion. A stuttering shepherd is chosen to play Jesus. The town butcher (who wanted to be Jesus) is chosen as Judas. The town prostitute is chosen as Mary Magdalene. The rest of the disciples are also chosen. As the movie unfolds, the Passion Play becomes a reality. A group of villagers, uprooted by the war and impoverished, arrive at the village led by their priest. The wealthier citizens of the town want nothing with these people and manipulate a massacre. In the context of the 1920s, each of the characters plays out their biblical role in actuality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-05-03
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Paul Gauguin
1949-01-01
Paul Gauguin
Overview: Short documentary on Paul Gauguin by Alain Resnais
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-01-01
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The Corsican Brothers
1961-12-22
The Corsican Brothers
Overview: The Dumas story about Siamese twins separated at birth but who have a strong psychic link.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-22
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Amok
1934-02-21
Amok
Overview: Dr. Holk leads an isolated and lonely existence in a small, Dutch colony in the tropics. Having fled from love and civilization, his only companions now are alcohol and his work, which takes him to villages ravaged by dirt, fever and a strange illness which turns innocent people into madmen: Amok. One day, he is called on by Helene Haviland, who asks him to abort her lover's child before her husband returns from abroad. Even though Holk is enchanted by her seductive beauty, he haughtily refuses her request. Rejected, the woman turns to a Chinese practitioner. When Holk tracks her down in a dirty dive, it's already too late for the two of them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-02-21
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La Femme de 100 têtes
1968-01-01
La Femme de 100 têtes
Overview: Surrealist short film of images viewed to a surrealist poem by Max Ernst.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-01-01
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Crime Does Not Pay
1962-07-06
Crime Does Not Pay
Overview: Husband try to kill his wife with a help of the plan he saw in a film. But reality is not a film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-07-06
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The Cage
1963-06-08
The Cage
Overview: An African physician returns home after studying medicine in Paris. He marries and settles down to life in the bucolic splendor of his native land. When he has a confrontation with a white plantation owner, the white man sees red and casts a spell on the African doctor. Although he realizes the curse is an ancient tribal superstition, he still is plagued by the ghost of his late first wife. The black doctor and the white man are assimilated into cultures in which neither of them were born in this vexing jungle tale.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-06-08
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On Friday at Eleven
1961-02-16
On Friday at Eleven
Overview: An enigmatic woman recruits a gang of specialised criminals to rob a US Army payroll armoured truck bound for Marseilles. However, things don't go exactly as planned.
Genres: Action Mystery Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-02-16
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Agent of Doom
1963-07-31
Agent of Doom
Overview: Scientist André Ségonne hits the headlines with his discovery of anti-matter. On his way to a few days' vacation, he is involved in a motorcycle accident. Rescued by Piort and Florence, a strange couple, André is taken to their equally peculiar house: an inexplicable power seems to emanate from it.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-07-31
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Sunless Neighborhood
1946-10-31
Sunless Neighborhood
Overview: In a slum set to be demolished, dramas are played out among the picturesque slum dwellers, including a young couple who, denounced by the police, are forced to leave home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-10-31
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The Knight of the Night
1953-11-22
The Knight of the Night
Overview: Paris, 1884. Bella Fontanges, a renowned ballerina, is married to Georges de Segar. But after just a few years together, the couple slowly sinks into weariness. Bella has forgotten what happiness used to taste like. Then a mysterious squire appears. Aware of the couple's faltering situation, he makes Bella and Georges a most astonishing proposal: he claims to be able to separate Good from Evil in Georges. Reluctant at first, the couple eventually agrees to play along. But it's not long before they realize that in Georges, it's Evil that has prevailed.
Genres: Drama History Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-11-22
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Les Crimes de l'amour
1953-01-02
Les Crimes de l'amour
Overview: Two adaptations. First, "Le Rideau cramoisi" by Jules-Amédée Barbey d'Aurevilly is about a young second lieutenant of hussars, garrisoned in the provinces, who evokes a strange adventure. Staying with an old couple, he acts as acquaintance with Albertine, the daughter of his hosts, fell in love with her and, after paying her assiduous courtship, made her his mistress. But one night, she died in his arms. He tried in vain to get rid of the corpse and ended up run away. Second, "Mina de Vanghel" by Stendhal is about Mina, a young German, who came to settle in France with her mother in 1820. Her father, a deceased Prussian general, left her a immense fortune. Courted, she falls in love with Monsieur de Ruppert, a ruined man whose castle her mother bought. But Mina does not take long to unmask the dowry hunter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-01-02
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The Longest Day
1962-09-25
The Longest Day
Overview: The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-25
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Murder at 45 R.P.M.
1960-05-24
Murder at 45 R.P.M.
Overview: Danielle Darrieux stars in this French thriller as a singer having an affair with her accompanist. When her husband dies in an automobile accident, the two lovers suspect each other of having murdered him. Soon after, they receive 45 rpm records with the dead man’s voice, threatening to come back.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-05-24
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Every Man Is My Enemy
1967-01-01
Every Man Is My Enemy
Overview: When a heist goes wrong, a safe cracker (Robert Webber) looks for the person who's betrayed him...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Tamango
1958-01-24
Tamango
Overview: A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captain's mistress, forcing a showdown.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-24
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Valse éternelle
1936-04-03
Valse éternelle
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-04-03
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That Night
1958-09-11
That Night
Overview: Jean, who is the artistic director of a fashion magazine, is married to a very pretty cover girl, Sylvie. They both work for André Reverdy, a very cynical man, who openly covets Sylvie.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-09-11
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Heroes and Sinners
1955-09-12
Heroes and Sinners
Overview: A good cast smooths over the rough spots of Les Heros sont Fatigues. The scene is the African republic of Liberia, which in this film proves to be a stopping-off point for a number of shady characters. Yves Montand plays a French ex-pilot who becomes involved in a scheme to smuggle stolen diamonds. His cohorts include a Nazi collaborator, a German refugee, and the white mistress of a prominent Liberian. A romance develops between the ex-pilot and the aforementioned mistress. Meanwhile, one of the conspirators (Curt Jurgens) has a last-minute attack of conscience, effectively queering the deal. The steamier romantic passages in Les Heros sont Fatigues had to be trimmed for American consumption.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-09-12
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The Crazy Capo Affair
1973-09-09
The Crazy Capo Affair
Overview: Jean Diserens has a double life: he's a property developer and... drug dealer. He's looking for a new way to sell it. But his superior, Crazy Capo, doesn't see things the same way.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-09-09
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Land of Fire
1939-01-24
Land of Fire
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1939-01-24
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The Wheel
1957-07-02
The Wheel
Overview: Pierre is an engine driver who adopts a small girl, a WWI orphan. A widower, he sees in her the image of her mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-07-02
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Lovers Without Love
1948-01-10
Lovers Without Love
Overview: This flashback heavy melodrama is a loose adaptation of Leo Tolstoy’s novella The Kreutzer Sonata named after the Beethoven piece. The story concerns marriage, divorce, love, carnal lust and jealousy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-01-10
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Chicken Soup
1963-06-12
Chicken Soup
Overview: The fiancée of a gangster who has been shot by the police takes an entire police station hostage, armed with a revolver and a bottle of nitroglycerine...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-06-12
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Better a Widow
1968-10-08
Better a Widow
Overview: Tom Proby is a representative from a British engineering firm sent to Sicily to convince the landowners (all in the Mafia) to allow his company to build an oil refinery on some waterfront real estate. Proby talks to the mob bosses about the project, but disagreements between different bosses complicate his efforts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-10-08
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Sahara on Fire
1961-01-18
Sahara on Fire
Overview: A young engineer, Lucien Rombeau, is sent to the Sahara by the oil company that employs him, which wants to put an end to drilling that it considers unproductive. He ends up agreeing with the chief prospector, who refuses to stop the work and is convinced that prospecting will not be in vain.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-01-18
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X-Ray of a Killer
1965-03-31
X-Ray of a Killer
Overview: The murder of a bandit gives a policeman the opportunity to unmask the activities of a spy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-03-31
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Rififi in the City
1964-12-07
Rififi in the City
Overview: In an unnamed Central American state on the eve of a crucial election, a young police informer working for police officer Miguel Mora bent on uncovering the shady works of popular politician Maurice Leprince is killed. However, thugs working for Leprince began to be killed one by one as well.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-12-07
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Mademoiselle de la Ferté
1949-10-19
Mademoiselle de la Ferté
Overview: Anne seeks revenge on Jacques who betrayed her trust. She decides to poison him and the people close to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-10-19
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Harvest
1937-10-28
Harvest
Overview: In the 30s, a small village in the Provence is losing its inhabitants because young people prefer to go to the city to find easy jobs and escape from being farmers living in relative poverty. Only a few old people and the poacher Panturle remain. Panturle dreams of bringing the village back to life, finding a wife, founding a family and work as a farmer. One day, the village is visited by a traveling knife-grinder, Urbain Gedemus and a young woman, Arsule. Gedemus treats Arsule like a slave, but Arsule accept this because she has nowhere to go and -we guess- her 'work' with Gedemus is the last thing that saves her from being a prostitute. When she meets Panturle and knows about his dreams, she escapes from Gedemus and decides to stay with him. Together, they start a new life, made of hard farming work but mostly of happiness to have each other - fulfilling the earlier dreams of Panturle. Can anything break the happiness of their new life?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-10-28
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Threshold of the Void
1974-03-27
Threshold of the Void
Overview: The young artist Wanda Leibovitz comes to Paris, hoping to forget unfortunate love. Soon after arrival directly at the station Wanda meets the mysterious old woman suggesting to rent at it the room (whom the old woman, allegedly, held ready for the now deceased sister). Wanda doesn't know yet that this room will change all her life shortly after it slightly opens a mysterious forbidden door.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-27
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House of Sin
1961-10-25
House of Sin
Overview: In this mystery, a nouveau-riche Frenchman returns to his Parisian home after finding a fortune in Africa. He is looking for a wife and begins advertising in the newspaper. Instead he finds himself victimized by con-artists.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-10-25
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Dangerous Games
1958-12-12
Dangerous Games
Overview: Alain is the only son of a wealthy bourgeois couple. He takes violin lessons in Ménilmontant, where he is spotted by Fleur, a poor girl: she is going to kidnap him and demand a ransom from the young man's parents, money which will be used to pay for a good lawyer for her brother accused of killing a policeman.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-12-12
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The Lebanese Mission
1956-09-12
The Lebanese Mission
Overview: In Lebanon, industrialist Hennequin, director of a French oil company, entrusts engineers Jean Domèvre, a Frenchman, and Mokhrir, a Lebanese, with the prospecting of an isolated region granted to him by Countess Athelstane Orloff. Their search remains fruitless until Mokhir reports the discovery of a uranium deposit, but disappears before Jean can identify the location. He goes to the Countess for help in finding Mokhir and surprises her when, due to financial difficulties, she is negotiating her concession with the Englishman Hobson, director of a rival company. Attracted by Jean, the Countess nevertheless gives him her preference and they set off together in search of Mokhir.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-09-12
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Lost Command
1966-05-01
Lost Command
Overview: After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of the Capt. Esclavier, who has grown weary of war, and Capt. Boisfeuras, who lives for it, Raspeguy attempts to convert a rugged band of soldiers into a formidable fighting unit, with the promise of marrying a beautiful countess if he's made a general.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-01
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Der Mann aus London
1971-09-25
Der Mann aus London
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1971-09-25
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The Knife to the Throat
1955-11-29
The Knife to the Throat
Overview: Pacos Le Maltais, leader of a gang, lays down the law on the quay of Marseille. He fires one of his henchmen, Le Chinois, who killed a woman during the last bank stickup.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-11-29
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Doses of Horror
2018-01-05
Doses of Horror
Overview: "In an asylum, patients were subjected to watching horror films for psychiatric study... but they all went mad and now those films have been unearthed!" claims the product description. In reality, the "story" is told with silly title cards over random abandoned asylum shots while long scenes from eleven different 70s and 80s horror films are edited in.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-01-05
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The Protector
1974-06-05
The Protector
Overview: Recently released from prison, Samuel Malakian, a wealthy architect, investigates the disappearance of his daughter, Nathalie, kidnapped by thugs linked to the underworld. When he discovers that she is a prostitute, he will descend into the slums of the city and rub shoulders with these dangerous environments. For him, from now on, all means will be good in order to find the fruit of his entrails.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-06-05
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Rue de l'Estrapade
1953-04-14
Rue de l'Estrapade
Overview: While Henri Laurent speeds along on the racing circuits, his pretty wife Françoise goes from luxury boutique to luxury boutique with her best friend Denise. One day, Denise lets her know that Henri has a lover. Outraged, Françoise moves out of marital home and rents a maids' room in Rue de l'Estrapade. Henri tries to get his wife back but Françoise does not listen. She even looks for a job in a prêt-à-porter shop and lets herself be courted by Robert, her neighbor across the landing...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-04-14
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The Seventh Door
1947-09-27
The Seventh Door
Overview: An old man about to die gives all his fortune to a young beggar he meets in an Arabian town. He takes him to his house (now the poor man's property) and he strongly advises him not to open one of the doors, the seventh door. "I could throw the key into the sea" says the young lad" No use, you'd dive to get it back". The young man is curious and he cannot resist temptation: he opens the forbidden door. A strange world is waiting for him where a girl, Leila, will be his guide .
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-09-27
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La Danse de mort
1948-01-02
La Danse de mort
Overview: A sinister fortress on an island where the sun never seems to shine. An officer whose values have long gone a thing of the past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-01-02
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La Déroute
1957-01-01
La Déroute
Overview: How to make the most of a defeat. How to make money from Napoleon's fiasco at Waterloo.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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La vie est magnifique
1939-03-08
La vie est magnifique
Overview: Two campers meet two young girls in the Landes. Love will bloom, with its heartbreaks.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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Mina de Vanghel
1953-03-06
Mina de Vanghel
Overview: A romantic German girl is brought to France. After an interlude with an old roue, she falls in love with a simple, but married, man. She goes to work for him as a servant, but after a night of love with him, she commits suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-03-06
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