Damia
Biography: French actress and singer.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 05, 1889
Deathday: January 30, 1978
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Known For
A Man's Neck
1933-02-18
A Man's Neck
Overview: Willy Ferrière is a gambler living beyond his means, and his mistress is as greedy as he's dead broke. One day, he says out of loud in a a Montparnasse café that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt so he could claim his inheritance. Someone secretly lets Willy know it's a deal. The old lady is murdered, and a low-life criminal is manipulated to be the perfect suspect. But Superintendant Maigret feels something is wrong.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-02-18
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Tu m'oublieras
1932-08-26
Tu m'oublieras
Overview: Estelle de Pressendi, famous music-hall singer, was all the rage in the 1910s thanks to her two inseparable impresarios. Twenty years later, then on the verge of death, the singer wants to entrust her daughter Yvonne to them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-08-26
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Lily of Life
1920-01-01
Lily of Life
Overview: Loie Fuller, in her 1920 feature-length film Le Lys de la vie, […] explored the new technique for poetic ends, creating fleeting, dreamlike images that "freed" the medium from "illusionism" and imbued it with fantasy. A 17 minutes fragment is held at the Cinémathèque française.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1920-01-01
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1956-12-19
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy, performs a bewitching dance in front of delighted spectators. From up in a tower of the cathedral, Frollo, an alchemist, gazes at her lustfully. Later in the night, Frollo orders Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer and his faithful servant, to kidnap Esmeralda. But when the ugly freak comes close to her is touched by the young woman's beauty...
Genres: Drama History Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-12-19
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The Pearls of the Crown
1937-05-12
The Pearls of the Crown
Overview: The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-05-12
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Napoleon
1927-01-10
Napoleon
Overview: A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-01-10
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Alone
1931-02-13
Alone
Overview: A prominent chanteuse on a world tour meets a young fellow European in Singapore, a soldier of fortune who becomes obsessed with listening to her voice on a recording.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-02-13
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Damia: Concert in Black Velvet
1989-01-01
Damia: Concert in Black Velvet
Overview: Documentary on the singer Damia.
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Goubbiah and the Gipsy Girl
1956-03-14
Goubbiah and the Gipsy Girl
Overview: Goubbiah is a Yugoslav sponge fisherman. He loves Trinida, but she is promised to Peppo, the village drunkard. Jao tries to keep Goubbiah away from his daughter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-03-14
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