Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 12, 1885
Deathday: December 11, 1949
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1941-05-10
Overview: Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is dying, knowing that each will try to curry favor with him in order to be named his heir. He is inundated with valuable gifts, and soon finds himself entangled deeper and deeper in a web of lies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-05-10
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1937-11-10
Overview: A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of justice will lead an innocent person to the guillotine.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-11-10
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1934-02-09
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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1947-10-04
Overview: Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical police inspector.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-10-04
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1941-12-23
Overview: Antoine Mouret, an authoritarian restaurateur, is the head of a large family where, for reasons of interest, people only marry cousins. But some have other plans, Marcus especially when he meets a passing circus girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-12-23
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1950-04-26
Overview: Jean-Louis Barrault, Charles Dullin and Roger Blin each say a poem. The actors do not appear on screen.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-04-26
Popularity:
1937-04-13
Overview: A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, a French military officer.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-04-13
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1924-11-13
Overview: King Louis XI tries to unify France by all means fair or foul, which does not please his powerful rival Charles the Bold. It is against this troubled backdrop that the loves of the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois and the king's god-daughter Jeanne Fouquet and knight Robert Cottereau unfurl in spite of all the obstacles in their way. One of these being a pack of hungry wolves trying to stop Jeanne from carrying out an important mission assigned to her by the king himself.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-11-13
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1927-05-17
Overview: In 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame leads it to the court of the Russian empress.
Genres: Fantasy Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-05-17
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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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1928-09-14
Overview: Maldone is a canal worker, happy with his life after running away from his family estate. He falls in love with Zita, a young gypsy girl, during a local fete. However, after his brother dies, Maldone is called back to manage the estate. There, he takes up the life of a landowner and marries a neighbor's daughter. Years later Maldone is still restless on the estate, and becomes obsessed with Zita, after meeting her by chance one evening.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-09-14
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1921-10-13
Overview: A 14-episode silent adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1921-10-13
Popularity:
1947-07-01
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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