Jean-Pierre Aumont
Biography: Jean-Pierre Aumont (January 5, 1911 – January 30, 2001) was a French actor.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 05, 1911
Deathday: January 30, 2001
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Known For
Day for Night
1973-05-24
Day for Night
Overview: A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-24
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Siren of Atlantis
1949-01-04
Siren of Atlantis
Overview: Two Foreign Legion soldiers, Jean (Dennis O'Keefe) and Andre (Jean Pierre Aumont), accidentally discover the famed lost continent of Atlantis. Bewitched by the sultry, beauty of the Queen of Atlantis (Maria Montez) the two men vie for her affections; little realising that her previous lovers have been embalmed into statues that line the passages of her kingdom.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-01-04
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Mahogany
1975-10-08
Mahogany
Overview: An aspiring designer from the slums of Chicago puts herself through fashion school in the hopes of becoming one of the world's top designers. Her ambition leads her to Rome spurring a choice between the man she loves or her newfound success.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-10-08
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Vivement Truffaut
1985-07-12
Vivement Truffaut
Overview: A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie, Vivement Dimanche!, released in 1983. Included in this overview of Truffaut's contribution to filmmaking are clips from 14 of his movies arranged according to the themes he favored. These include childhood, literature, the cinema itself, romance, marriage, and death.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-07-12
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Catherine & Co.
1975-10-29
Catherine & Co.
Overview: Catherine, a young British sexworker living in Paris, decides to start her own "company" after learning the basics of big businesscom from her clients. She encounters both interest and setbacks in her search for investors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-29
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The Blood of Others
1984-08-25
The Blood of Others
Overview: In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-25
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Los mares del sur
1992-01-24
Los mares del sur
Overview: Long ago, the architect Stuart Pedrell told his family that he was going to the South Seas. However, his daughter Yes has recently received a postcard from her father that comes from a far less exotic place: L'Hospitalet. Carvalho goes to Bellvitge in order to find Yes' father and to discover why he lied to his family. Pedrell never went indeed to the South Seas. He took refuge in Bellvitge where he was murdered.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-01-24
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The Devil at 4 O'Clock
1961-10-18
The Devil at 4 O'Clock
Overview: A crusty, eccentric priest recruits three reluctant convicts to help him rescue a children's leper colony from a Pacific island menaced by a smoldering volcano.
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-10-18
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Heartbeat
1946-05-01
Heartbeat
Overview: A female escapee from a reform school joins a pickpocket academy in Paris.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1946-05-01
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Lili
1953-03-10
Lili
Overview: Members of a circus troupe "adopt" Lili Daurier when she finds herself stranded in a strange town. The magician who first comes to her rescue already has romantic entanglements and thinks of her as a little girl. Who can she turn to but the puppets, singing to them her troubles, forgetting that there are puppeteers? A crowd gathers around Lili as she sings. The circus has a new act. She now has a job. Will she get her heart's desire?
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1953-03-10
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Entire Days in the Trees
1977-02-09
Entire Days in the Trees
Overview: An old lady returns from Africa where she made a fortune to find her son in Paris, whom she has not seen in five years, with the intention of bringing him back with her. But this project fails.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-02-09
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Castle Keep
1969-07-23
Castle Keep
Overview: During the Battle of the Bulge, an anachronistic count shelters a ragtag squad of Americans in his isolated castle hoping they will defend it against the advancing Germans.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-23
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Hôtel du Nord
1938-12-17
Hôtel du Nord
Overview: A young couple's suicide pact goes awry, leaving the woman to face her survival with a new admirer while pining for her lost love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-17
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
1954-02-10
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Overview: Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-02-10
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Jean of the Moon
1931-02-27
Jean of the Moon
Overview: Marceline, the young wife of the florist Jean, can't help flirting with other men, but her brother Clo-Clo takes the poor husband's side against his sister.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-02-27
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Checkmate
1931-08-21
Checkmate
Overview: After his engagement party with beautiful Aline, Claude, a struggling writer, meets his two closest friends. The trio sets up a daring publicity stunt, involving a fake murder. The scheme backfires as the fake victim gets really dead.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-08-21
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La merveilleuse tragédie de Lourdes
1933-10-06
La merveilleuse tragédie de Lourdes
Overview: A professor of philosophy, an atheist, converts to Catholicism following a miracle: his daughter, whose leg must be amputated, is taken to Lourdes by her very religious fiancé, and is cured there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-10-06
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Ève cherche un père
1933-12-22
Ève cherche un père
Overview: Eve is to marry Jacques, the son of a general. But the general does not want a fatherless girl as a daughter-in-law. To remedy the problem Eve, who is the resourceful kind, sets about finding herself a father. She finds one in the person of a charming forty-five- year-old man. The brooding fiancé remains reluctant though and Eve is about to get engaged with her pseudo father when the latter suddenly remembers that he is ...Eve's real father!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-12-22
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The Great Temptation
1936-01-02
The Great Temptation
Overview: The son of a naval commander faces his first heartbreak when he falls for the young American woman who is destined to become his father's new wife.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-01-02
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The Messenger
1937-09-02
The Messenger
Overview: Nick, a Parisian businessman, divorces his rich American wife, marries his new secretary Marie, but is prevented from success in France so travels without his wife to an African outpost. He tells his young assistant Gilbert about his wife. When Gilbert takes sick and returns to Paris, he begins to fall in love with Marie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-09-02
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S.O.S. Sahara
1938-08-17
S.O.S. Sahara
Overview: At a North Africa desert outpost threatened by Arabs, the French commander has added trouble when his wife visits and is captivated by a younger officer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-08-17
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The Seven Deadly Sins
1962-03-07
The Seven Deadly Sins
Overview: Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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John Paul Jones
1959-06-16
John Paul Jones
Overview: The career of Revolutionary War naval hero John Paul Jones, from his youth in Scotland through his service to Catherine the Great of Russia.
Genres: War History Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-06-16
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The Happy Hooker
1975-05-08
The Happy Hooker
Overview: Having emigrated to New York and immediately got the kiss-off from her mother-besotted fiance, a Dutch lass takes a well-paid office job and starts liberally sampling the local male talent. After a while she decides to make her pleasure her business too, and as her reputation grows she graduates to a high-class bordello. Soon she realises she has the right talents to make a real success of a place of her own.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-08
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Cat and Mouse
1975-09-03
Cat and Mouse
Overview: A jaded and charming police inspector is assigned along with his cheerful partner to a case involving the mysterious death and/or suicide of a wealthy entrepreneur. The chief suspect is his enchanting wife who was aware that her husband had a mistress. It is also possible that the dead man may be the victim of a radical terrorist group.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-09-03
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The Cross of Lorraine
1943-11-12
The Cross of Lorraine
Overview: French soldiers (Jean-Pierre Aumont, Gene Kelly) surrender to lying Nazis and are herded into a barbaric prison camp.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-11-12
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Bizarre, Bizarre
1937-10-20
Bizarre, Bizarre
Overview: A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin – an Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against such writing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-10-20
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Giorgino
1994-10-05
Giorgino
Overview: October 1918: After returning to the civil life, the young Doctor Giorgino Volli searches for a group of children, which he had been the care-taker of before the first world war began. However, soon the searching becomes a part of hide-and-seek with death. Giorgino finds a village bordered with a treacherous marsh and rumours of wolves. There he also meets the mysterious Catherine....
Genres: Drama Horror Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-10-05
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Blackout
1978-08-25
Blackout
Overview: A black comedy of violent criminals who terrorize apartment dwellers during New York's 1977 power blackout.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-08-25
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Something Short of Paradise
1979-09-14
Something Short of Paradise
Overview: A young couple in New York are having problems with their relationship.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-09-14
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The Proprietor
1996-09-09
The Proprietor
Overview: An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being placed on the auction block.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-09-09
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Charge of the Lancers
1954-02-01
Charge of the Lancers
Overview: The downward spiral of the quality of films Paulette Goddard appeared in in the 1950's would cause a gravitational blackout to anyone viewing them in a single day, but with some of the all-time great schlock names serving as the producers---Sam Katzman, the Danziger brothers, Albert Zugsmith and---gasp---Sigmund Neufeld--- the results easily met the low expectations.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1954-02-01
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Wicked City
1949-11-16
Wicked City
Overview: A Canadian sailor becomes a fugitive for love after a night with a woman in Marseille.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-11-16
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Ladies Lake
1934-05-18
Ladies Lake
Overview: A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpine lake resort. He falls in love with a young heiress who is staying there with her father, but he also grabs the attention of tomboyish Puck who lives on the other side of the lake and who saves him from drowning one foggy night. Further havoc is caused by the arrival of Eric's old sweetheart whose husband is wanted by the police.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-05-18
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The Boy Soldier
1981-03-04
The Boy Soldier
Overview: In the 1930s a young fellow, Simon Chalumet, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who has little sympathy for his son's more gentle temperament, or for his interest in films.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-03-04
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The Deserter
1939-03-18
The Deserter
Overview: During WW1, a train is stopped by a bombing, a young soldier takes advantage of the opportunity to go to his native village to connect with his love and his family. As WW2 began in the real world, this film was rereleased later in ‘39 under the revised title Je t'attendrai (I Will Wait for You).
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-18
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Hilda Crane
1956-05-08
Hilda Crane
Overview: After two failed marriages, a disillusioned woman returns to her hometown to start life anew.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1956-05-08
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Pride
1962-03-07
Pride
Overview: A woman leaves her lover to return to her husband who cheats on her, something that his pride can not admit.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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Five Miles to Midnight
1962-12-12
Five Miles to Midnight
Overview: Immediately after Lisa declares that she is leaving her immature, abusive, but easy-going husband Robert, he is reported dead in a plane crash. Secretly still alive, he convinces her to collect his life insurance, although she knows that it's a bad idea. Lisa must contend with the complications of the scheme, which involve an aggressive suitor, Robert's jealousy, and her own guilt.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-12-12
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Crimes et jardins
1991-10-26
Crimes et jardins
Overview: Suzanne is a former singer but also a seductress in her sixties. During a reunion meal with the former musicians of the orchestra that accompanied her on her tours, the young men in love with the lady all hope to seduce her. All except one, who mysteriously finds death in the elevator, hanging by his tie. A hecatomb among the suitors begins. An employee of the morgue decides to launch a personal investigation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-10-26
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The Seventh Sin
1957-06-28
The Seventh Sin
Overview: In post-WWII Hong Kong, unhappily married Carol has an affair with Paul. Her physician husband Walter discovers it and presents her with a choice: travel with him to China (where he will fight a cholera epidemic) or face the scandal of a public divorce. She persuades him to reconsider and he proposes an alternative. If Paul's wife will agree to a divorce and he marries Carol within one week Walter will obtain a quiet divorce. Carol presents Walter's 'deal' to Paul, who regretfully declines, citing respect for his wife.Carol sees as her only choice to accompany Walter to the village, where she meets booze-soaked Tim. He soon introduces her to nuns at the local hospital-convent and Carol begins to re-evaluate her self-absorbed life and character. Working at the convent, Carol learns she is pregnant. She tells Walter she's unsure who is the father and he regrets her honesty. Shortly after, Walter contracts cholera and dies. Carol returns to Hong Kong and an uncertain future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-28
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Carnival of Crime
1962-06-05
Carnival of Crime
Overview: Mike, an architect, is married to Lin, a beautiful and unfaithful woman. Returning from a trip, he finds she's disappeared. When he tries to locate her, he also learns about her many affairs, and he gets closer to Marina, his efficient assistant, who helps him solve the mystery.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1962-06-05
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Assignment in Brittany
1943-03-11
Assignment in Brittany
Overview: A French Resistance fighter discovers he's a dead ringer for a Nazi official.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1943-03-11
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Last Meeting
1951-10-24
Last Meeting
Overview: The wife of a mechanic and tester of Alfa Romeo cars becomes the lover of a pilot. The two decide to flee together in Argentina.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-10-24
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French White Cargo
1937-02-03
French White Cargo
Overview: Two journalists from different papers are looking for the same story. They want to know, who a group of gangsters getting young women from Europe to South America, where they are forced to work in brothels. But the gangsters have their own battels against each over, so the journalists can escape the danger, in which they've brought themselves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-02-03
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Wolves Hunt at Night
1952-02-06
Wolves Hunt at Night
Overview: A secret agent is summoned by the head of a counter espionage organization, to Trieste where he is to unmask a potential enemy operating in Venice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-02-06
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Flight Into Darkness
1935-10-22
Flight Into Darkness
Overview: During the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon (Jean-Pierre Aumont) has a liaison with Helene (Annabella), a married woman. The young man discovers that his mistress is none other than the wife of Maury (Charles Vanel), an aviator friend.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-10-22
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The Two Missionaries
1974-12-21
The Two Missionaries
Overview: Two missionaries come into conflict with the authorities when they turn their missionary into a parrot farm. The Bishop of Maracaibo calls them his 'black sheep' and the Monsignore has been called to check on their behavior. Like usual, our heroes help the poor to defend themselves and provoke some funny fist fights in the process.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-12-21
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Song of the Streets
1933-07-26
Song of the Streets
Overview: A gang of poverty-ridden juvenile delinquents progress from petty theft to hard crime, but a kindly judge manages to set most of them on the right path after they are finally apprehended.
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-07-26
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A Star for Two
1991-08-10
A Star for Two
Overview: Love between a man and a woman that endures the ravages of time.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1991-08-10
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Song of Scheherazade
1947-02-26
Song of Scheherazade
Overview: A beautiful cabaret dancer inspires composer Rimsky-Korsakov.
Genres: Adventure Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1947-02-26
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Les Beaux Quartiers
1983-03-31
Les Beaux Quartiers
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-03-31
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Revenge of the Pirates
1951-10-18
Revenge of the Pirates
Overview: A pirate tries to lead his followers in vengeance against a corrupt governor.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-10-18
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Carné, You Said Carné?
1994-12-31
Carné, You Said Carné?
Overview: A primer on French film director Marcel Carne's career through interviews with critics and close creative collaborators.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-12-31
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Jefferson in Paris
1995-03-31
Jefferson in Paris
Overview: His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-31
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Don't Look in the Attic
1982-04-15
Don't Look in the Attic
Overview: A couple inherits a mansion, but when they move in they discover that it is haunted by the murderous spirits of people who have died there.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-04-15
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Nana
1983-06-13
Nana
Overview: In Zola's Paris, an ingenue arrives at a tony bordello: she's Nana, guileless, but quickly learning to use her erotic innocence to get what she wants. She's an actress for a soft-core filmmaker and soon is the most popular courtesan in Paris, parlaying this into a house, bought for her by a wealthy banker. She tosses him and takes up with her neighbor, a count of impeccable rectitude, and with the count's impressionable son. The count is soon fetching sticks like a dog and mortgaging his lands to satisfy her whims.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-06-13
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The Enemy General
1960-10-18
The Enemy General
Overview: OSS agent, working with the French underground, ambushes Nazi convoy with high-ranking general, who escapes. Later they take him from a Nazi prison and smuggle him to England.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-10-18
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Three Faces of Sin
1961-09-12
Three Faces of Sin
Overview: Laurent is an artist and sometimes con-man. He wanders into the life of Renee one day in her antique shop and tries to seduce her. Before they can leave town on a weekend getaway together, Renee's teenage daughter Daniele quits school and unexpectedly shows up. Laurent and Daniele fall for each other immediately and end up getting married. The film follows the disastrous situation created by the jealous mother and her daughter's immature husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-12
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Shadow Dance
1983-08-31
Shadow Dance
Overview: The French intelligence agency plants Xavier, a former militant leftist, into a fascist organisation called Janus, against whom Xavier bears an old grudge.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-08-31
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Cauldron of Blood
1970-02-16
Cauldron of Blood
Overview: A blind sculptor works on his magnum opus unaware that the skeletons he has been using for armatures are the remains of the victims of his evil wife and that he is the next target.
Genres: Horror Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-02-16
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Biribi
1971-06-02
Biribi
Overview: Infantryman Jean Froissard is sentenced to two years in Biribi Military Prison in North Africa. He seems to get along, but as incompetence, corruption and sadism of his superiors (which include sexual abuse of the prison inmates) force him and others into rebellion. Court martial ensues ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-06-02
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Taras Bulba
1936-03-05
Taras Bulba
Overview: In war against the Poles, the leader Cossack sees itself betrayed by one of his threads, been in love the girl of an enemy.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-03-05
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To Our Late Husband
1988-02-24
To Our Late Husband
Overview: The widow of a thief learns that the chateau she lives in has a fortune in gold hidden somewhere.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-02-24
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Golden Arrow
1949-12-31
Golden Arrow
Overview: On a journey from Paris to London, a Briton, a Frenchman and an American bond with each other and indulge in a romantic fantasy about a girl they see.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1949-12-31
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Man with the Transplanted Brain
1972-03-29
Man with the Transplanted Brain
Overview: Professor Marcilly is a famed brain specialist who, following in-depth and extended research work, is now able to perform brain transplant surgery. One day, he finds himself in the presence of a young car accident victim for whom the only hope of survival would be a brain transplant. Marcilly, who has a heart condition and is terminally ill, decides to become the "donor". The operation is a success. But who is actually the patient discharged from the hospital: a young fellow with the brain of a young man or an old man in the body of a young one?
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-03-29
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The Sparrows of Paris
1953-06-11
The Sparrows of Paris
Overview: An American manager and his daughter want to hire "the little singers with the wooden cross" for a tour of the United States,but Jeannot,a young member of the choir recognize his grandma's locket round the girl's neck .
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-06-11
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Un jour viendra
1934-03-27
Un jour viendra
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-03-27
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Mama Hummingbird
1937-11-26
Mama Hummingbird
Overview: A middle aged baroness thinks she is still young enough to have an affair with a military man the age of her son.She deserts her family and follows the youth to Algeria.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-11-26
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Coup de soleil
1982-05-02
Coup de soleil
Overview: Valentine Matignon is a renowned perfumer, "nose". She has had a relationship for 15 years with Gérard, and is about to break up because she is bored. Patrick appears, a lively florist, who gives him the bouquet that Gérard ordered to be forgiven for being late. Patrick makes him a dishonest proposition which she ends up accepting. She takes a funny "sunburn".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-05-02
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On a volé Charlie Spencer !
1986-12-24
On a volé Charlie Spencer !
Overview: Students of film history will appreciate the many tributes to famous films of yore which appear in this first-time feature directed and written by former drama teacher Francis Huster. In the story, a mild-mannered bank clerk has heroic dreams of being a real he-man. Given his diffident, shy nature, it comes as a bit of a surprise that not only does he actually have a girlfriend, but he has managed to get her pregnant. However, she doesn't fit his image of himself, and he can't bring himself to marry her. When the bank he works in is robbed by a daring group which includes a magnetically attractive woman, the clerk throws his lot in with them and becomes an outlaw.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-12-24
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Dark Eyes
1935-09-05
Dark Eyes
Overview: In 1913, in Russia, a widower hides from his daughter that he is a butler in a meeting restaurant. She meets a banker who is trying to seduce her and takes her to this restaurant. The father, knowing the decadent life of this client, immediately sends his daughter home. The pure love that her piano teacher devotes to her will allow the young girl to console herself for her disappointments...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-09-05
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Napoleon
1955-03-25
Napoleon
Overview: The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-03-25
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Chéri-Bibi
1938-03-02
Chéri-Bibi
Overview: An innocent young man, burglar Cheri-Bibi, and his gangsters are sent to a penal colony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-03-02
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The Memory of Eva Ryker
1980-05-05
The Memory of Eva Ryker
Overview: A young woman has spent her life tormented by the death of her mother, who was on a ship torpedoed during World War II. When her father hires an investigator to look into the circumstances of the mother's death 30 years prior, it triggers a new rash of emotional turmoil for the young woman and uncovers a heinous crime.
Genres: Action Drama Mystery War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-05-05
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Maria Chapdelaine
1934-12-14
Maria Chapdelaine
Overview: A young woman has three suitors on her father's logging ranch on the Quebec frontier.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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La Pomme de son œil
1970-10-17
La Pomme de son œil
Overview: What father doesn't care for his daughter unconditionally? It's a real question for Roland de Mailly, a divorced father who, in spite of himself, is subjected to the extravagances of his beloved daughter. By turns religious, hippy, extra-lucid, circus performer, will she overcome her father's love?
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-17
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Beggarman, Thief
1979-11-26
Beggarman, Thief
Overview: In this sequel to "Rich Man, Poor Man," moviemaker Gretchen Jordache, the until-now unseen sister, strives to pull the family together after the murder of brother Tom and the disappearance of brother Rudy by first reestablishing contact with her soldier son, and then patching things up with her sister-in-law, Kate, Tom's widow.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-11-26
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Becoming Colette
1991-10-17
Becoming Colette
Overview: French writer recalls her start as the country wife of a Paris publisher who called her erotic work his own.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-10-17
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Passion for Life
2002-01-20
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Passion for Life
Overview: On safari at the Masai Mara game preserve in Kenya with Teddy Roosevelt, Indy becomes lost in the vast and dangerous wilderness. Later, in Paris, he explores the fine-art scene and the rather wilder cafe scenes of Montmartre with a young Norman Rockwell.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-01-20
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Satan's Paradise
1938-09-03
Satan's Paradise
Overview: Driven by necessity, Jean Larcher, a young agricultural engineer, accepts the degrading mission of leading to ruin, under cover of administering it, a huge cocoa plantation on the island of São Tomé. His employers, a financial coalition, indeed plan to dispossess its owner, an inexperienced young woman who has just inherited it, of her property. But when Jean comes into contact with her, he recognizes Francesca, a girl he had fond feelings for when he was a student.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-09-03
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Mademoiselle from Paris
1955-06-28
Mademoiselle from Paris
Overview: Micheline Bertier is as wise as she is graceful, and is the perfect assistant to her boss, couturier Maurice Darnal. Darnal's business is faltering and he has to close down. Micheline's family is also in trouble. Her crazy-headed sister is about to steal her fiancé away from her. At the suggestion of singer Jacqueline François, Micheline goes on tour as an accompanist, and meets up with Darnal in Nice, full of projects he wants to involve her in. Micheline, who arrives in time to save her sister from a suicide attempt, will know how to run the new fashion house.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-06-28
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Les enfants du diable
1994-06-23
Les enfants du diable
Overview: In 1940, a young teacher who dreams of the Mediterranean is appointed to a remote village in Lozère. Despite the war and the savagery of the world, he awakens in his pupils a spirit of peace and humanism. But he will have to leave the refuge of childhood and books to become involved in the obligatory violence of the resistance.
Genres: War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-06-23
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Sweet Country
1987-01-23
Sweet Country
Overview: An American couple in Chile is drawn into the turmoil that followed President Salvador Allende's 1973 overthrow.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-23
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Happy Days
1935-11-08
Happy Days
Overview: Sylvie, a rich girl, learns at the same time the death and the ruin of her father. Forced to find work in Paris, she is given shelter by a medical student who soon falls for her. Another young man falls in love with her. When her benefactor gets ill and finally dies, Sylvie refuses to give the other man her heart out of faithfulness for the dearly departed. But youth commands and after a time love -but not oblivion - triumphs.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-11-08
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Two Solitudes
1978-09-29
Two Solitudes
Overview: The story of the problems caused by what became known as the Conscripton Crisis in 1917 Canada, which threatened to divide the country.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-09-29
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The Woman at the End of the World
1938-01-19
The Woman at the End of the World
Overview: A sailor falls in love with an innkeeper on a lost island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-19
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The Straw Lover
1951-01-05
The Straw Lover
Overview: The wife of gunsmith Gaston Sarazin cheats on him with his salesman. The husband, informed, wants revenge. The culprits try to divert suspicion on the dashing Stanislas. The husband forces the straw lover to live with him. Stanislas then brings the spouses together and makes the business of the gunsmith prosper.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-01-05
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Life Begins Tomorrow
1950-09-13
Life Begins Tomorrow
Overview: Documentary filmmaker Védrès' first semi-fictional feature was released in France in 1949 as La Vie Commence Demain. The film made it to the U.S. in 1952 as Life Begins Tomorrow. Made in cooperation with UNESCO, the film speculates on the future of mankind after the advent of Atomic Energy. Many prominent French artists and intellects contribute to the narration: Jean-Pierre Aumont plays The Man of Today, Andre Labarthe is the Man of Tomorrow, and Jean-Paul Sartre, Daniel Agache, Jean Rostand, Le Corbusier, Pablo Picasso and Andre Gide are respectively seen as "The Existentialist," "The Psychiatrist,' "The Biologist," "The Architect," "The Artist" and "The Author". Film clips of hospitals, schoolrooms, scientific laboratories, and even nightclubs are woven into Védrès' fascinating tapestry.
Genres: Documentary Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-13
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An American Girl in Buenos Aires
1961-07-06
An American Girl in Buenos Aires
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-07-06
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L'homme de joie
1950-12-08
L'homme de joie
Overview: A boudoir adventure during which the seductive Madame Jolivet, shocked by the behavior of her husband who appears with an actress, calls on the services of a young man, known as "the man of joy".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-08
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The First Gentleman
1948-03-15
The First Gentleman
Overview: The story of a romance between the daughter of the Prince Regent and Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-03-15
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Beautiful Star
1938-11-24
Beautiful Star
Overview: Meg decides to commit suicide to escape the marriage to which her father intends her. She is saved by Jean-Pierre, another candidate for suicide, and Léon, a tramp who was just trying to reason with him. The trio then becomes inseparable and organizes a new life based on friendship and freedom.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-24
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Portuguese Vacation
1963-10-09
Portuguese Vacation
Overview: Françoise and her husband Jean-Pierre invite some friend couples to spend a weekend in their large villa on the Portuguese coast. What follows is a romantic intrigue, with each character discovering a little more about themselves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-10-09
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The Horse Without a Head
1964-03-09
The Horse Without a Head
Overview: Five pampered French children with their wheeled, headless, toy horse accidentally become tangled up in a plot to rob the Dijon- Paris express of 100,000,000. They foil the robbery when a thief stashes the key to his hiding place inside 'The Horse Without A Head'.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-03-09
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Dix-huit heures d'escale
1955-05-27
Dix-huit heures d'escale
Overview: Out of love for a beautiful passenger he met on a crossing, journalist Robert Vitrac agrees to deliver a letter to a man named Pablo. A dangerous mission, since the beautiful Manuela has had in her possession the proceeds of a robbery, which she must forward to the fence. In this game, Vitrac would lose his honor and perhaps his life if Inspector Berio's friendship didn't protect him. Manuela, who seemed sincerely in love with the journalist, falls victim to the bandits.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-05-27
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Koenigsmark
1953-04-04
Koenigsmark
Overview: A young French, Vignerte, is hired in the court of Lautenberg, an imaginary land, as the young Prince's private teacher and as the Grand Duchess' reader.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-04-04
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Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
2006-09-16
Grace Kelly: Destiny of a Princess
Overview: In 1956, actress and Hollywood star Grace Kelly (1929-82), then at the height of her film career, unexpectedly dropped everything to marry Prince Rainier III of Monaco. Jinx, an American journalist and friend of the future princess, accompanied her on her journey to the wedding and covered the sensational event.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-16
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A Time for Miracles
1980-12-21
A Time for Miracles
Overview: Elizabeth Bayley Seton, America's first native-born saint and founder of the Sisters of Charity, is the subject of this inspiring biopic. After the tragic death of her husband, Seton converts to Catholicism. Once again, she suffers terrible loss when two of her children die, but goes on to found the American Sisters of Charity and the first American Catholic schools. Seton died in 1826 and was canonized by Pope Paul VI in 1975.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-12-21
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Le Voleur
1933-12-01
Le Voleur
Overview: A woman steals to have enough money to please her husband. Her nephew, madly in love with her, reports this to a detective who catches her red handed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-12-01
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Should We Wed Them?
1932-06-01
Should We Wed Them?
Overview: Professor Bock is to inaugurate the museum, the construction of which was donated by a generous patron who remains anonymous. He learns that it is his brother's wife, a former dancer, and whom he hates. But her daughter falls in love with Jim, the son of the ex-dancer, and everything will work out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-06-01
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