Maurice Régamey
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 07, 1924
Deathday: August 23, 2009
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Florence is Crazy
1944-06-01
Florence is Crazy
Overview: Monsieur Benoit's existence is transformed when his dour wife suddenly thinks in a bout of folly that she will become a chanteuse and her husband the impresario.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-06-01
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The Idiot
1946-06-07
The Idiot
Overview: Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determined to spread decency and kindness in the harsh and cruel world. He becomes betrothed to an innocent young girl while trying to save a less-innocent woman from her own travail, but jealousy and his own naivete conjoin to bring about unimaginable tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-06-07
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The King of Dodgers
1945-12-21
The King of Dodgers
Overview: Mimile is a street singer and also a very inventive free rider. With his friend Georges, a musician in the same orchestra, they meet Arlette Sicleton and Lulu. Arlette is the sister of Sicleton, a sports event organizer and Lulu is the daughter of Ledoux, the supervisor in charge of tracking down free riders. After many misunderstandings, love will triumph.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-12-21
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White as Snow
1948-04-28
White as Snow
Overview: Naive and good-hearted Léon Ménard arrives in Paris, determined to find work in the capital. In a café, he meets Bob, a seedy guy, who helps him to get a job. On cloud nine, the ingenuous young man, does is unaware of how Bob manipulates him. Having become the night concierge of a hotel, the thankful Léon lets Bob and his accomplices get into the pace. Jewels are stolen as a result.When he is accused, Leon refuses to incriminate his "friend". Fortunately, Charlotte, Léon's fiancé, manages to find evidence of Bob's guilt and thanks to a premium paid by the diamond dealer the two lovebirds can buy a grocer's shop and tie the knot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-04-28
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Mirror
1947-05-02
Mirror
Overview: Portrait of a two-faced man. By day he is rich, brilliant and respectable financial officer Lussac; at night, he becomes "Mirror", a ruthless gang leader in Marseilles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-05-02
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Cruise for the Unknown One
1948-09-01
Cruise for the Unknown One
Overview: Kohlman, the attorney for the Fournil bank, diverts money from the institution. To hide his malpractices, he imagines to remove the director, the young and overconfident Clement Fournil, during a cruise at sea on the yacht Emile Frechisse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-09-01
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Lady Paname
1950-05-26
Lady Paname
Overview: The evocation of Paris in the 1920s mingles with the rapid rise of the irresistible Caprice, a talented singer, and her tumultuous love affair with Jeff the composer. A photographer nicknamed Bagnolet, a gentle anarchist, gently monitors the activities of Caprice, who has become Lady Paname and, in the absence of morality, makes love triumph.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-05-26
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Mademoiselle Has Fun
1948-01-30
Mademoiselle Has Fun
Overview: Christine, the daughter of a rich American, acquires from her father the jazz band of Ray Ventura who will be made responsible for accompanying her from morning till evening wherever she goes. From an endless number of amusing situations, the fiancée of the girl despairs. But soon the musicians rebel in in the face of the requirements of their patroness. More than a job, it is for them misery. Christine excuses them and she goes back to America with her band. Things go bad, degenerate, but the kindness of the musicians and the firmness of the fiancée of Christine really quiet down the moods of the young woman .
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-01-30
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Bed for Two
1950-08-23
Bed for Two
Overview: Robert Bobin has been an assistant accountant for twenty years now and, although meek and obedient, is getting weary of his monotonous, limited life. He tries marriage but, unfortunately, Blanche, the nurse he marries, proves to be a shrew. One day, a miracle happens : Michèle, a young orphan and fellow-worker gradually develops tender feelings for him. But will Robert be able to overcome his mediocrity and grasp this unexpected opportunity to find happiness?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-08-23
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Cartouche, King of Paris
1950-08-02
Cartouche, King of Paris
Overview: The romantic life of the head of a bandit gang, wanted by the police. Cartouche gets away with being deported to Louisiana after unmasking a plot by a Duke against the throne.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-08-02
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I Love Only You
1949-06-30
I Love Only You
Overview: Ronaldo, a singer with the growing reputation dedicating himself body and soul to his art, sacrificing his marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-30
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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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Maya
1949-12-09
Maya
Overview: Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance) who is all things to all men. No matter what sort of woman her client wants, she will become that woman -- at least for the night. When a middle-aged man named Jean insists that Bella is his long-lost sweetheart, she plays along, hoping to escape her sordid lifestyle. The emotional tragedy that follows is meant to explain how Bella became "Maya," the living embodiment of Lost Souls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-09
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Duel à Dakar
1951-12-06
Duel à Dakar
Overview: Robert Vernier is assigned by the Secret Service to unmask a band of gangsters determined to get their hands on the plans for a new plane. They manage to steal part of it and kidnap Robert's fiancée, named Monique. Robert will manage to dismantle the gang and will be surprised to find that at the head there is a policeman...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-12-06
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Et ta soeur
1951-11-30
Et ta soeur
Overview: In order to escape the police, a man takes the place of his missing sister, who was clairvoyant.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-30
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Rue des Saussaies
1951-03-23
Rue des Saussaies
Overview: The brother of Jeanne Masson, a young nightclub singer, has been murdered by Brasier, a criminal who pretends to be a respectable man. Jeanne has resolved to avenge her brother but she just cannot take action herself. The way she finds is to ask police detective Pierre Leblanc to help her do it. Pierre gives his agreement and starts following the trail. He soon finds out that Brasier belongs to a gang whose boss, Cortedani, has ordered the murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-03-23
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Judgement of God
1952-08-20
Judgement of God
Overview: Bavaria, 1433. Reason of state rules that Prince Albert is to marry Princess Bertha of Wurtemberg. But the fine-looking young man is loath to become the husband of a woman with pimples,flat feet and no breast. Nevertheless, he has to obey his authoritarian father, Duke Ernest, and accompanied by faithful Count Törring, he mounts his steed and sets out for Würtemberg. Stopping in Augsburg, he falls in love with the daughter of a local barber-surgeon, pure and beautiful Agnès Bernauer. The couple is soon secretly married and both take refuge at the castle of Margravine Josepha, Albert's aunt, waiting for Ernest's consent. Unluckily Albert's father will not accept his son's union with a commoner and Albert, supported by Josepha and an army of common people, declares war on the Duke. They seem about to be victorious when Brother Enrique, a monk formerly in the Holy Inquisition, finds a way to reverse the situation: accusing Agnès of witchcraft...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-08-20
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Les Mémoires de la vache Yolande
1951-05-02
Les Mémoires de la vache Yolande
Overview: A drama teacher works as an extra in the cinema: he has to milk a cow. Left alone with the animal in the studio, he is forced to bring it up to his apartment. The police, the Humane Society and the government get involved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-02
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Hotbed of Sin
1951-07-20
Hotbed of Sin
Overview: A couple of dancers performs in a night club. The man is jealous of Gina, his partner,and keeps making scenes to her, going as far as bullying her on the stage during their act. A man gets killed. The dancer is suspected for being jealous of all the other men. Another potential culprit could the father of Gina since he overprotected his daughter. The real culprit will be unmasked after the police detective finds the murder has something to with the Occupation period.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-07-20
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Ils sont dans les vignes...
1952-10-31
Ils sont dans les vignes...
Overview: In 1935, in the Burgundian village of Valromey, Commissioner Desbordes was the very unpopular leader of the anti-alcoholic league. His own brother, Pimpin, is an unconditional defender of the vineyard. Pierre Moreau is, for his part, the representative of a hygienic drink, the "Koku-Kolu". The cafe owner's daughter, Rose, will find the man very to her liking and will manage to seduce him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-31
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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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The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
1951-10-31
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Overview: In order to please Martineau, a wealthy industrialist, cynical Gabory accepts to organize a rigged beauty contest whose winner will be Françoise, Martineau's young mistress. However, there are other comely contestants among whom Christiane, the daughter of a general, Jackie, an unemployed actress, Colette, the daughter of a distiller and Marie, a secretary engaged to serious-minded construction foreman Robert. So, will things turn out exactly the way Martineau and Gabory want them...?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-10-31
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The Elders of Saint-Loup
1950-09-08
The Elders of Saint-Loup
Overview: Due to financial problems, the boarding-school of Saint-Loup is on the verge of closing its doors. In desperation, Jacquelin, the headmaster, has the idea to invite former students to a fund-raising reunion. Among the alumni, three men whose common point is to have been in love at the time with the headmaster's niece. One is a banker, the second a priest and the last one a globetrotter. All of a sudden, the peace of the assembly is disturbed: Jacquelin's niece has just been murdered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-08
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Farewell Mister Grock
1950-01-19
Farewell Mister Grock
Overview: The life of Adrien Wettach, famous in the annals of the circus under the name of Grock, world famous Swiss clown. A series of images from Épinal, retracing the career of a European artist, within the framework of world history. Lots of children, wars, an eccentric Russian countess, Countess Barinoff, who grows old admiring the clown, and a very long quibble about a party wall, all serve to highlight the star's final number.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-01-19
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The Idol
1948-02-13
The Idol
Overview: A young woodcutter turned into a boxer, learns the sad fact that some of his triumphs have been stage managed, and confronts his nasty manager.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-02-13
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Dawn Devils
1946-11-20
Dawn Devils
Overview: A lieutenant, at the head of a commando ready to land in France, finds among his men a maquisard who had tried to kill him in the past.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-11-20
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To Hell with Virtue
1953-07-16
To Hell with Virtue
Overview: To conceal his nighttime infidelity from his wife Gisele, Pierre calls in a particularly shady private detective to concoct an alibi. He is introduced to a certain Robert Crémieux, who will pass himself off to Gisèle as a childhood friend with whom he spent the night until the early hours of the morning. The so-called childhood friend turns out to be a delinquent accused of burglary and rape on the very night he was supposed to be with Pierre. Pierre is immediately suspected of being his accomplice and, trapped by his own turpitude, arrested. Entangled in his lies and denials, he has to admit his infidelity to get out of the impasse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-07-16
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Not Any Weekend for Our Love
1950-01-23
Not Any Weekend for Our Love
Overview: The announcement of the future marriage of Franck Reno, the star singer, causes considerable excitement around the world.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-01-23
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The Red Rose
1951-02-06
The Red Rose
Overview: The Jacques Brothers, their temporary replacements, Yves Gérard and his troupe, as well as a famous movie star looking for a new partner, Evelyne Dorsey, are causing disruption at the "La Rose rouge" cabaret, the most famous cellar in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, to the delight of regulars.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-02-06
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