Philippe Janvier
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Une faim de loup
1932-11-18
Une faim de loup
Overview: René is hungry and has no money. He returns home, where only bills await him. Her neighbor Lulu is a film actress. She tries to get him hired as an extra on the set where she herself works. It is a film about gastronomy. He thinks he can finally get his fill of food, but bad luck, he plays the role of an old man who pushes her away. At the end of the day, he returns home and, passing in front of his landlady who receives, goes to mime them all that is supposed to have taken place during the filming by eating all the food offered to his appetite. After this meal, he will invite his neighbor Lulu to come to his place.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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L'ange gardien
1934-02-23
L'ange gardien
Overview: On the advice of his impressario, the singer André Soral resumes his former job as a sailor. He falls in love with Pola, the daughter of the owner of the barge, whom he marries after many adventures.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-02-23
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Quadrille d'amour
1935-12-12
Quadrille d'amour
Overview: Irene, a young Hungarian becomes an elegant and brilliant Parisian for the love of a car racer. Her transformation earns her the heart of her beloved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-12
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Prête-moi ta femme
1936-09-18
Prête-moi ta femme
Overview: Gontran is required to marry if he wants to benefit from his aunt's inheritance. To convince the latter in favor of a visit, he calls on the wife of a friend who will play the role of the future wife. This maneuver will cause many misunderstandings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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Mercadet
1936-08-21
Mercadet
Overview: A businessman on the verge of bankruptcy, Mercadet, is harassed by his creditors. To keep them waiting, he invents a fictitious partner, Godeau, who has gone to make his fortune in India and who should return laden with gold. The heart of the plot is therefore this famous Godeau whom we spend our time waiting for, and who never comes. While waiting for Godeau, Mercadet has a rich idea: to marry his daughter Julie to Monsieur de la Brive, whom he believes to be very rich.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-08-21
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Cinderella
1937-06-30
Cinderella
Overview: An unemployed maid is hired in a music hall to wash the floors. The whim of a screenwriter makes her go on stage in the most basic outfit. A revelation, success is at his doorstep! However, the young woman would prefer a virtuous life and a serious marriage to the easy but immoral existence offered to her by the world of entertainment.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-06-30
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Les Petites Alliées
1936-07-27
Les Petites Alliées
Overview: A young girl has left her family and lives as best she can on the generosity of her lovers. A naval officer introduces her to Toulon in a special environment which provides companions to sailors on leave. After some setbacks, she finds love and protection with a doctor who marries her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-07-27
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Assault
1936-12-31
Assault
Overview: Alexandre Mérital, the leader of a political party, finds himself under attack from Frépeau, one of his opponents. The latter has indeed discovered that Mérital committed a theft in his youth. But Mérital will not be intimidated by his adversary's move. In his turn, he discovers that Frépeau was once involved in a financial scandal, which forces the plaintiff to discontinue the prosecution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-12-31
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Alexis gentleman chauffeur
1938-07-22
Alexis gentleman chauffeur
Overview: Alexis, a former war pilot, attempted the Paris-Tokyo raid and failed. He became a taxi driver. The film actress, Margot Fontane, forgets her bag in the taxi and Alexis thus meets her. He goes to see the great actress shoot, he is hired for a small role as an aviator, and to simulate a take-off, he flies to Tokyo. It is the signal of happiness for the two lovers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-07-22
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Vacances payées
1938-12-14
Vacances payées
Overview: Prosper, the accountant of a fashion house, takes a vacation to Monte Carlo without his wife Sabine. And if he goes alone it is for a very good reason: he has a rendezvous with Olga, a beautiful woman. Once in Monte Carlo, he wins a large sum of money at the casino. Unfortunately for him he immediately becomes the prey of three gangsters who proceed to relieve him of his newly acquired fortune.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-14
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Captain Benoit
1938-12-30
Captain Benoit
Overview: An officer saves the life of a foreign prince who is in France to buy seaplanes, while pursued by his enemies.
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-30
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Deputy Eusèbe
1939-03-09
Deputy Eusèbe
Overview: Eusèbe Bonbonneau, a solicitor's clerk, learns one day that a candidate bearing his name runs for election as a member of parliament. In fact Frazier, a crooked businessman, has urged an accomplice to impersonate Eusèbe, in order to obtain, through this straw man, authorizations for the creation of a casino in Sanceau-les-Nains and to make big money out of it. Eusébe decides to go to Paris to investigate. In the capital he meets Mariska, an exuberant actress who encourages him to try to get elected. As a result, thanks to her the true Bonbonneau becomes a member of parliament and the crook's accomplice is arrested. But Frazier is not impressed and, changing tactics, he starts manipulating Eusèbe.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-09
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Les 3 tambours
1939-12-22
Les 3 tambours
Overview: 12-year old Armand-Pierre embraces the French Revolution and leaves his mother to enlist in the army.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-12-22
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L'Esprit de Sidi-Brahim
1939-07-28
L'Esprit de Sidi-Brahim
Overview: In the thirties, a Chasseur Alpin commander is accused of spying and sentenced to death. At the last minute, he is saved from the firing squad by a female spy's confession.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-07-28
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L'intrigante
1940-08-29
L'intrigante
Overview: A father falls in love with his son's mistress whom he has forced to emigrate to force him to break up. More carefree than a schoolboy, he ruins himself for the beauty who soon chases him away. The family will soon be reunited permanently.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-08-29
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La Troisième Dalle
1946-10-23
La Troisième Dalle
Overview: A historian seeks to clarify the mysterious death of Sire de Malvaleix and will find himself involved in the murder of the current descendant.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-10-23
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Le dolmen tragique
1948-07-21
Le dolmen tragique
Overview: Chatelard, one of Viscount de Kerlec's guests, has died in mysterious conditions. The police initiates an investigation and sends detective-inspector Pauc to de Kerlec's manor. Pauc decides to mingle with the viscount's guests , who are all likely to have committed the murder. Among them, there is Jacques Mauclerc, a naval officer, and a seedy character named Bartoli, in fact a spy in search of secret documents. Pauc will end up untangling the web during a dramatic séance.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-07-21
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L’atomique Monsieur Placido
1950-07-05
L’atomique Monsieur Placido
Overview: A gangster, thief of atomic formulas, has a double in the person of a naive musician. A music hall artist who makes eyes at the musician is deceived by the gangster who also takes advantage of the resemblance to track down a band of thugs who are chasing him. Virtue is ultimately rewarded.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-07-05
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Just Me
1950-11-15
Just Me
Overview: Maurice Vallier, nicknamed "Ma Pomme"(which means "myself" in slang), is a cheerful man, well aware that money does not make happiness and who, of all things, prices freedom. Which is why he has become a tramp and he has never regretted his choice of life. Things go smoothly until the day he inherits a huge amount of money. He first refuses it but changes his mind when he realizes that thanks to the inheritance he can help others. Even more enticing is the fact that he must share the big money with a charming air hostess. However once he deems he has done enough good he gives up the money left and resumes his old lifestyle singing along "Ma pomme c'est moi, j'suis plus heureux qu'un roi..."
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-15
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Gunman in the Streets
1950-12-13
Gunman in the Streets
Overview: An American is on the run in the streets and back alleys of France.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-13
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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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Life Is a Game
1951-06-13
Life Is a Game
Overview: Evanella, who writes the “Horoscope” section of a major newspaper, and her brother Méristo, create with the help of a young journalist, Jean Lassère and the capital of their uncle Amédée, a “Bureau des Prédictions”. Success being expected, they manage to obtain revelations about a gang of gangsters which they publish as predictions. It is success and fortune. Jean marries the newspaper director's daughter and Evanella the director himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-06-13
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Three of the Canebière
1955-12-21
Three of the Canebière
Overview: Toinet, Girelle and Pénible fish for sardines in Marseille. To dazzle their conquests, they present themselves as rich can manufacturers, while the little flower girls play movie stars. A ridiculous suitor wants to discuss a business deal, a potential sponsor appears and the whole tohu-bohu reclaims the songs of Vincent Scotto.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-21
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Le Bonheur
1934-09-15
Le Bonheur
Overview: Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation and curiosity to know his motives, pleads in his favour at his trial, but he rebuffs her pity. After he has served 18 months in prison, they meet and fall in love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-09-15
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Louise
1939-04-16
Louise
Overview: What was it about opera diva Grace Moore that attracted the attention of filmdom's top directors? Moore's 1937 American movie vehicle When You're in Love had been directed by Josef Von Sternberg; two years later, her French starrer Louise was helmed by no less than Abel Gance, who a decade earlier had revolutionized the "historical epic" genre with the awesome Napoleon. There was, however, little that was revolutionary in this cinemadaption of Gustave Charpentier's opera. Moore plays Louise, a poor seamstress who is led astray by the rakish Julien (Georges Thill). After falling from grace (no pun intended), our heroine is rescued by her understanding father (Andre Pernet), who demonstrates his forgiveness by singing to her (it is, after all, an opera). Though it played to enthusiastic crowds in both London and Paris, Louise turned out to be Grace Moore's final film; conversely, Abel Gance continued to make commercial potboilers well into the 1970s.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-16
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