Roger Monteaux
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Nights of Fire
1937-04-16
Nights of Fire
Overview: 19th Century Russia. State prosecutor Fedor Andreiev is presiding over the trial of a man who murdered his wife's lover. Despite a robust defence from the brilliant young lawyer Serge Rostoff, the accused man is found guilty and will be deported to Siberia. Having spoken to the condemned man, Fedor Andreiev sees a disturbing parallel with his own life...
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-04-16
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Street Singer
1938-10-28
Street Singer
Overview: A father allows himself to be accused of the murder of a blackmailer to save his son who is the real murderer. But he is forced to confess, and commits suicide in his cell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-28
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Cordial Agreement
1939-04-20
Cordial Agreement
Overview: The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-20
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The Village of Wrath
1947-05-07
The Village of Wrath
Overview: A young man and an alleged witch get married despite the prejudices of their fellow citizens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-05-07
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Zig et Puce sauvent Nénette
1955-02-16
Zig et Puce sauvent Nénette
Overview: Zig and Puce, accompanied by their friend Alfred the penguin, break into the backstage of a fairground circus to rescue little Nénette, who is beaten by an odious character. So the three children and Alfred travel across the country.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-02-16
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Dominique
1950-04-21
Dominique
Overview: Dominique, a medical student, works in a cinema to help her friend Simone Lambert, a pharmacy student. Big scandal in his bourgeois-minded family when we learn and he works and he has a friend. His father chases him away brutally. Dominique is going to live with Simone, in her sixth grade. From that day on, she receives a visit from a mysterious character who calls himself a novelist and who helps her to meet the needs of her household. Dominique discovers that this character is none other than his father: he no longer understands.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-04-21
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The Pretty Miller Girl
1948-11-28
The Pretty Miller Girl
Overview: Franz Schubert retired from Vienna in country for musical writing. He draws his inspiration from a romance with the watermiller's daughter. An operetta in the fifties Vienna style. This is the only movie from Marcel Pagnol in color and the only movie in rouxcolor, a French experimental process derivated from the agfacolor German process.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-11-28
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A Royal Affair
1949-12-14
A Royal Affair
Overview: Mme Beaudrier, the wife of a Parliamentary Senator, hurls a pastry at visiting King Joan IV of Cerdagne, sparking off a series of farcical events involving all levels of the government and their mistresses.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-14
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Guilty?
1951-06-29
Guilty?
Overview: Charles Walter, a forestry contractor, has helped Noël Portal to start a new life. When Victor, the new foreman and Charles'wife's lover, is found murdered, everything points to the guilt of the deceived husband. To save his benefactor, Noël decides to accuse himself of the the crime. He is condemned to death.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-06-29
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The Convict
1951-03-07
The Convict
Overview: The practice of Dr. Julien, a GP of Marseilles, consists mainly of drug-addicts. One day, one of his patient dies at his surgery and Julien yields to the temptation : he steals the dead man's money and hides the corpse in a trunk. But the whole thing is discovered and ... misinterpreted. The doctor is condemned for killing the junkie and sent to the Cayenne convict prison, from which he escapes. The Indians give him shelter and he is soon given the opportunity to return their good deed when a yellow fever epidemic strikes their tribe. A young woman helps to fight the disease and, thanks to her, Julien starts considering that a new life is possible for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-03-07
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Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
1951-09-14
Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
Overview: Is it because his father was a groom that Adhémar Pomme has a long horse head and a horse- toothed smile? Maybe but the fact is that his head has invariably caused laughter whatever the circumstances, which is the tragedy of his life. After having worked as an undertaker, a theater prompter, a casino bouncer, and so on, and failing at each job, he applies out of desperation to an institution where those rejected for physical reasons can hide and live together. But Adhémar immediately starts... laughing at them and gets kicked out as a result! In the end though, he finds his way as a circus artist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-09-14
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A Missionary
1955-12-02
A Missionary
Overview: Dreaming of heroic deeds, a young missionary soon becomes disillusioned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-02
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Four Flights to Love
1939-10-27
Four Flights to Love
Overview: In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until the war breaks out and he becomes a soldier. Janine dies in childbirth and, no longer desiring to live, Pierre volunteers for a dangerous patrol behind German lines. While recuperating in the hospital from a wound he received on the mission, Pierre spends his time drawing sketches of dresses. He becomes rich and famous after the war. Years later, after devoting himself to his daughter, Pierre seeks a marriage with a girl no older than his daughter. A conflict develops and to ensure his daughter's happiness, Pierre sacrifices his own plans.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-10-27
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Bold Adventure
1956-11-07
Bold Adventure
Overview: In the 16th century, as Flanders is invaded by the Spanish, Till the Mischievous uses stratagems to enter the service of Ferdinand Alvare de Toledo, Duke of Alba, and from there organize resistance against the invaders.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-11-07
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56, rue Pigalle
1949-03-18
56, rue Pigalle
Overview: Lucien Bonnet, Jean Vigneron's manservant, blackmails his boss, who is having an affair with Inès de Montalban, married to Ricardo. Vigneron pays the sum but Lucien is killed by an accomplice, Baruch. Everything seems to accuse Jean who, for fear of compromising Inès, prefers to keep mum. Fortunately, his innocence will be proved thanks to a surprise witness. The two lovers flee to Congo while the husband soon forgets them, finding comfort in debauchery.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-03-18
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The Case of Dr. Laurent
1957-04-03
The Case of Dr. Laurent
Overview: Le Cas Du Dr. Laurent (The Case of Dr. Laurent) stars Jean Gabin as a Paris-based doctor who tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth. Working in a cloistered rural community, Gabin runs up against the stone walls of fear and prejudice. His theories are proven sound when unwed mother Nicole Courcel gives birth within Gabin's methodology. The childbirth sequence is filmed straight-on with a delicate combination of taste and frankness. Nonetheless, the lurid ad campaign of Cas Du Dr. Laurent sensationalized this sequence all out of proportion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-04-03
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Rival de son père
Rival de son père
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