Henri Arius
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 19, 1897
Deathday: May 08, 1968
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Rumors
1947-03-25
Rumors
Overview: Jean is a good man who has a steady job (he is a mechanic in the village garage) and a companion named Aline. But Jean is also a guzzler and a philanderer. As a result, when a local prostitute is killed in the surroundings, he becomes at once the victim of rumor...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-03-25
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Escale au soleil
1947-01-01
Escale au soleil
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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A Man Named Rocca
1961-11-17
A Man Named Rocca
Overview: Roberto goes to Marseilles to give a hand to his friend Xavier, wrongly imprisoned following a frame-up organized by his associate Villanova. Roberto sets out to seduce Villanova's mistress, but when Villanova is killed, Roberto ends up leader of the band...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-17
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Savage Triangle
1951-09-26
Savage Triangle
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by writer Edouard Peisson, this Jean Delannoy film display one boy’s unconditional love for his mother, despite her tragic mistreatment of him. After being raised by a shepherd for the past 12 years, Simon (Pierre-Michel Beck) is reunited with his mother Marie (Madeleine Robinson). Marie is a prostitute in Marseilles and is now stable enough to welcome Simon back into her life. Unaware of her profession at first, Simon is happy to have his mom back, but in time he learns how she makes her living. This troubles Simon but he continues to love her, despite not loving her chosen profession. His anger toward this issue gets directed toward Marie’s louse of a boyfriend, Paul (Frank Villard), and the result is a heartfelt tale about love and family.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-09-26
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My Wife's Husband
1963-12-20
My Wife's Husband
Overview: After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disparition, his wife as made her life with a norman chef, sympathetic but a specialist of butter's cooking when Fernand cook only with oil!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-12-20
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Letters from My Windmill
1954-11-05
Letters from My Windmill
Overview: Set in the countryside of Provence, the film is based on three tales from Alphonse Daudet's 1869 short story collection Letters from My Windmill: "The Three Low Masses", "The Elixir of Father Gaucher" and "The Secret of Master Cornille".
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-11-05
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Cap au large
1942-09-25
Cap au large
Overview: Father Boquet, old and sad, hopes that François, his son, will be a fisherman like him. Alas, François follows his evil genius Simon to town and succumbs to the charms of the great Lisa. The wise village teacher sets out to find him when his father is ill, and brings François back in a violent storm. Love is on the way
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-09-25
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Little Nothings
1942-12-16
Little Nothings
Overview: Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have often changed their lives. Each of these stories told will prove that a tiny detail in life can change an entire destiny.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-12-16
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Le soleil a toujours raison
1943-01-27
Le soleil a toujours raison
Overview: Tonio, pretty Micheline's fiance, meets Georgia ,a gypsy who makes advances to him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-01-27
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Le Roi des galéjeurs
1940-04-24
Le Roi des galéjeurs
Overview: Because the shiner Titin has fallen in love with a singer, he braves the latter's protector, the baron, and passes himself off as an insurer in connection with a pearl necklace that is circulating. Bitters get involved, Titin kidnaps the beauty and leaves the pearls to the baron.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-04-24
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The Lucky Star
1943-03-23
The Lucky Star
Overview: Auguste, a somewhat simple-minded Provençal fisherman, loves and admires Mireille. This concerns only Maurice, son of an important wholesaler, whom scruples do not stifle. Seduced and abandoned, Mireille moves Auguste who tries to mend his poor happiness. The local priest, with wise words, leads Mireille to offer her hand to Auguste.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-03-23
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Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
1943-07-14
Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
Overview: A scientist who have discovered how to turn salt water into petrol dies before he has revealed his formula. By mistake it's assumed that his assistant knows it although he does not.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-07-14
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Jeannou
1943-11-10
Jeannou
Overview: Jeannou lives in a castle in Périgord with his father, the last man of aristocratic lineage landowners, very attached to traditions. She meets Peter, a young engineer, she joined in Paris, decided to marry her. A few months later, pregnant, she returned to the area where the wedding will be celebrated.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-11-10
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Song of the Clouds
1946-03-06
Song of the Clouds
Overview: Sylvio, a successful singer, has found a way to take a peaceful vacation, safe from his female adulators: to travel incognito. He puts up at an old castle whose landlord, Count Fabrice, a ruined nobleman, seeks a hidden treasure. Posing as the nephew of the castle gardener, Sylvio enjoys happy days and even finds the time to fall in love with Gracieuse, the count's daughter. Unfortunately for him, his impresario ends up locating him...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-03-06
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Le gardian
1946-05-15
Le gardian
Overview: The guardian is engaged to a girl from a good family, but the intervention of a gypsy will make his heart lean. This one comes in fact to take revenge and will try to kill him.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-05-15
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L'Aventure de Cabassou
1946-05-07
L'Aventure de Cabassou
Overview: An architect whose wife has cheated on him withdraws to a solitary life in a cave, but somehow manages to keep au courant with what is going on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-05-07
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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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Rooster Heart
1946-12-26
Rooster Heart
Overview: A man is too shy to ask a girl out and decides to kill himself. While lying in the road he is rescued by a Doctor who tries to cure him by implanting the heart of a rooster into him, something which suddenly makes him irresistible to women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-12-26
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Inspector Sergil
1947-01-15
Inspector Sergil
Overview: Inspector Sergil is a detective comedy. Sergil, inspector of the P.J., investigates three crimes, helped by two pretty women, Bijou and Nadège.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-01-15
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Passionnelle
1947-05-14
Passionnelle
Overview: Thérèse kills her lover during the very night of her wedding to the count of Vétheul. To gain a night with her, a modest local worker agrees to bury the body.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-05-14
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La Dame de Haut-le-Bois
1947-03-05
La Dame de Haut-le-Bois
Overview: The son of the Comtesse de Brévannes dies. She, who has never wanted to meet her daughter-in-law and who wants to take care of her grandson, goes to their house under the guise of a governess.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-03-05
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Simple-Minded
1942-09-11
Simple-Minded
Overview: A simpleton turns out to be the lucky charm of a village.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-09-11
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The Crowned Fish Tavern
1947-09-19
The Crowned Fish Tavern
Overview: Captain Palmer's daughter, Maria, is neglected by her husband, the cynical Leo, who lives with the beautiful Sylvia. To defeat his son-in-law, Palmer has the idea of putting Sylvia back in the presence of Pierre, her first love. Leo takes revenge by creating many difficulties for Palmer who retaliates by starting a violent fight where Leo is killed. Everything seems to point to Pierre, but...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-09-19
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Si ça peut vous faire plaisir
1948-09-01
Si ça peut vous faire plaisir
Overview: Gonfaron is barking at the auction of Cassis. He accepted with good heart to believe that he was the proud custodian of the jackpot of the National Lottery , to avoid marital trouble his friend Viala, which is the real winner with his mistress Ginette . Millionaire become false as false Ginette lover until one day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-09-01
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Sergil et le dictateur
1948-10-13
Sergil et le dictateur
Overview: Inspector Sergil is assigned the mission to protect the dictator of Santa Juanita during his stay in France and - it goes without saying -trouble begins at once, as of his journey in the fast train from Paris to Marseilles. A lot of opponents of all kinds are intent on liquidating the dictator and they do not particularly like to have Sergil in their way. When Bijou, the inspector's fiancée, accepts to serve as a bodyguard for the dictator, she is soon kidnapped and will not be released until Sergil tells them about their enemy's hiding place. Where the shoe pinches is that the dictator has disappeared and Sergil does not even know where he is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-10-13
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Here Is the Beauty
1950-04-21
Here Is the Beauty
Overview: Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success as a ballerina despite being wounded by him in a fit of jealousy. His career as a sculptor is stymied when he is arrested.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-04-21
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Two Loves
1949-01-05
Two Loves
Overview: Sylvain is the town clerk of the small Provençal village of Coursoul. He is the darling of all the girls in the country. His brother, Désiré, a disabled carpenter, secretly loves Toinette, the lumber merchant's daughter. She falls in love with Sylvain. This one, convinced by the director of a traveling circus of the excellence of his voice, is about to leave everything to follow his career. But Désiré learns from Toinette that she is expecting a child from Sylvain. He goes to inform his brother, who reconsiders his decision. But Désiré will leave in his place, not to sing, but with his bruised heart to play Paillasse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-01-05
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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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Three Sinners
1950-10-10
Three Sinners
Overview: A man assists his gravely ill wife to die and wants to face justice for this, but his brothers try everything to keep the family's name clean.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-10-10
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Oriental Port
1950-12-06
Oriental Port
Overview: In Marseille, a customs inspector falls in love with a young woman involved in dubious traffic.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-06
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Sin and Desire
1949-11-15
Sin and Desire
Overview: The tumultuous loves of a diver and a pretty bitch. Mario loves Perrucha, she only loves money. When, by dint of diving, the boy's health deteriorates, the girl goes to find an important industrialist. Such a story can only end badly and Mario strangles Perrucha.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-11-15
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The Passenger
1949-11-04
The Passenger
Overview: When her godmother dies, Nicole's happiness collapses and her fiancé leaves her because she is ruined.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-11-04
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Millionaires for One Day
1949-12-13
Millionaires for One Day
Overview: A typographer makes a mistake by printing the winning number of the national lottery. Many people believe they have won the jackpot. Pursued by his newspaper editor, the worker appears in court where all mystified people are invited to testify.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-13
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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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Sergil Among the Girls
1952-06-06
Sergil Among the Girls
Overview: The maid of a clandestine brothel in Marseille is found murdered. The inspector Sergil, in charge of the investigation will employ somewhat particular methods in order to unmask the assassin.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-06-06
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Carnival
1953-05-25
Carnival
Overview: Dardamelle does not conceal the fact that his wife has made him a cuckold.How will his fellow townspeople react?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-05-25
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I Was It Three Times
1952-10-31
I Was It Three Times
Overview: A husband who had divorced twice because he had been betrayed by his former wives, takes his precautions to prevent the deed from happening a third time. And yet it does.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-31
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Les révoltés du Danaé
1952-11-07
Les révoltés du Danaé
Overview: Captain Handson, captain of the "Danae", learns that his wife, Danae, is the mistress of his owner, Pierre Ricardo. Leaving for a new crossing, he takes his wife and her lover by force, whom he makes work in the holds. After a stopover in Douala, the "Danae" sets off again for the French coast.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-11-07
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Manon of the Spring
1953-01-16
Manon of the Spring
Overview: Marcel Pagnol's adaptation of his own novel Manon des sources, the story of a shepherdess who exacts her revenge on the townsfolk she blames for killing her father, in two parts: Manon des sources and Ugolin.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-01-16
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My Husband Is Marvelous
1953-04-29
My Husband Is Marvelous
Overview: A young journalist, Sylvia, has to interview a writer, Claude Chatel, whose success is due to his misogyny.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-04-29
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The Wild Oat
1953-02-27
The Wild Oat
Overview: A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother of a pregnant young girl. She accuses the baker's son, doing his military service in Algeria, to be the father of the would be child. Offended, the baker refuses to deliver bread to the villagers standing on the mother's side.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-02-27
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Naïs
1945-11-17
Naïs
Overview: Toine, the local hunchback, works at the tile manufacturing plant, but during the summer, he gives a hand to Micoulin, the farmer, thereby being able to spend more time close to Nais, Micoulin's daughter. That summer, the estate owner's son, Frederic Rostaing, decides to rest on the farm during his vacation from Law school. But his real motives are to seduce young Nais, whom he knows from their childhood days, after having seen her in town. Who will win the power struggle between the possessive father, the naive daughter, the vile student and the golden-hearted cripple?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-11-17
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The Law Is the Law
1958-09-17
The Law Is the Law
Overview: Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses the village itself. The French customs agent Ferdinand is always trying to catch the Italian smuggler Giuseppe. Giuseppe discovers that Ferdinand was actually born in Italy and therefore he can't be a French customs agent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-09-17
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Ugolin
1953-01-16
Ugolin
Overview: Manon has blocked the spring that feeds the village, whose inhabitants she hates. They gradually become aware of the evil they have done to her and try to obtain her forgiveness…
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-01-16
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Mr. Scrupule, Gangster
1953-08-12
Mr. Scrupule, Gangster
Overview: Mr. Scrupule is a mild-mannered smuggler operating on the coast of Nice. If it hadn't been for an unexpected encounter, he'd probably have gone on for a long time in a trade that earned him the esteem of the bourgeoisie. An attractive young woman, Rolande, leads him to new ambitions and soon to dangerous adventures where he risks losing his skin.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-08-12
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Le club des 400 coups
1953-07-22
Le club des 400 coups
Overview: An orphan's grandmother dies. Alone in the world,he is going to be confided to the health and social security services. His pals decide to kidnap him so that he can stay with them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-07-22
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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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Sister Angele's Secret
1956-03-21
Sister Angele's Secret
Overview: A poor wop entrusts his savings to an antique dealer's care. Bad idea. When he comes back to claim his dough,the villain acts as if they've never met. And the poor Italian immigrant kills him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-03-21
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Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
1954-01-04
Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
Overview: A terminally ill Mr. Bard, a casino bus driver forced to quit his job, miraculously wins a fortune playing roulette. Instantly becoming a millionaire, he wants to fulfill his life's dream: to become a father. This plan is opposed by his greedy relatives who would go any low to take this money away from him. They are being led by a small-time crook. Mr. Bard's natural shyness and good heart lead him to the journey of self-exploration and finding his true love.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-01-04
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Pas de grisbi pour Ricardo
1957-06-26
Pas de grisbi pour Ricardo
Overview: Ricardo will try his luck in the capital after winning an amateur singing contest. He has many adventures. Kidnapped by gangsters, he is only freed by the intervention of his fiancée. Finally, the director of the "Folies Parisiennes" presents him with a contract.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-06-26
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Honoré de Marseille
1956-12-12
Honoré de Marseille
Overview: As he explains to the journalist who came to interview him, Honoré cultivates, as a perfect Marseillais, farnienté and galéjade. He evokes the Phocaean Protis, who founded the city of Marseille, and the Roman Honorius, who invented pétanque. He loves to go fishing with his friends Garrigue and Watermelon to prepare a good bouillabaisse, and even more, to rig the results of a vote to allow a little protégée to be crowned Miss flots bleus.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-12-12
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The Virtuous Bigamist
1956-12-20
The Virtuous Bigamist
Overview: The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his quarrelsome wife for his weekly round. On the train he meets a young woman, Marie, who looks a little lost. No wonder. Marie is pregnant but lacks the customary husband. She's returning to her village but is not exactly looking forward to the confrontation with her parents and the villagers, all pretty conservative people. After getting to know Paul a little better (for which there is ample time during the trip by train and bus) Marie decides to ask Paul to act as her husband, just to allay the suspicions of her family. After some hesitating Paul accepts, charmed by the girl and unaware of the complications such is bound to cause to his own life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-20
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Quai des illusions
1959-01-21
Quai des illusions
Overview: Lise is bored with her parents and gets a job as a waitress. She meets a sailor, Fausto, who leaves her to escape from the police. Nevertheless, she gives birth to a baby who dies shortly afterwards. Distraught, she steals a parentless child from a maternity hospital. Arrested and tried, she is acquitted, only to find Fausto innocent.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-01-21
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Naked in the Wind
1953-04-29
Naked in the Wind
Overview: Smalltown confectioner Lespinasse, hopeful of being reelected as chief councillor, is opposed by Darcepoil, the local druggist. Darcepoil arranges for the incumbent's defeat by having Pantaflon, a nightclub singer, lure him to the nudist camp on the Isle of Levant, where Lespinasse is photographed surrounded by half-naked women. At home, he is berated by his wife and thrown out of office; but he returns to Levant with the penitent Pantaflon and is welcomed by the nudists and voted camp president. His forgiving wife follows him and herself becomes a nudist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-04-29
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Croquemitoufle
1959-05-20
Croquemitoufle
Overview: Returning from a two-year stay in Terre Adélie, explorer Bernard Villiers meets up with his best friend, Thomas Desjardins, whose diplomatic duties call him to London. While Thomas is away, Bernard learns that Catherine, his wife, has run off with his collaborator Michel. Out of friendship for Thomas, and always resourceful, he follows the couple and tries to separate them. He does so much, in fact, that he falls in love with Catherine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-05-20
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Jenny Lamour
1947-10-04
Jenny Lamour
Overview: Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical police inspector.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-10-04
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Girl and the River
1958-06-08
Girl and the River
Overview: The heroine in L'Eau Vive is the unwilling heir to a fortune. Young Hortense (Pascale Audret) has always known that her family was greedy, but until she inherits her father's hidden millions she has no idea how loathsome her relatives could be. Surrounded on all sides by grubby, outstretched hands, Hortense takes some comfort in the fact that her legacy is still missing. When the money is finally recovered, our heroine does the "right thing" with her windfall, leaving her mercenary family empty-handed. Throughout the film, Hortense's dilemma is likened to a government dam project not far from her home; as the bridge grows in size, so too does Hortense's resolve to rise above the nastiness all around her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-06-08
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Fire in the Flesh
1958-01-17
Fire in the Flesh
Overview: Physicist Theodore Heldt, his young daughter Fern and his assistant Larry Gordon, on board a ship for a scientific expedition, are shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean after a terrible storm. They find themselves safe and sound on an exotic desert island paradise. Several years pass, the professor dies and Fern and Larry, long in love and alone in the world, are united. One day, the ship they'd been waiting for appears, but the sailors are three smugglers who, instead of representing salvation, pose a threat to the young couple.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-17
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The Count of Monte Cristo
1961-12-06
The Count of Monte Cristo
Overview: Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmund of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmund escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmund must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-06
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Cocagne
1961-03-08
Cocagne
Overview: As the driver of a garbage truck in Arles, Marc-Antoine leads a quiet life with his wife, Mélanie, and their two children. When Amédée's "Fanny" is stolen from the bouliste club, Marc-Antoine offers to repaint another one. As soon as the work is finished, he becomes a local celebrity and, intoxicated by his new-found fame, leaves his family to go with Hélène, the young waitress, to his friend Septime's house in the Camargue to take up painting. Eventually, Marc-Antoine realizes that he is dissatisfied and that his success seems dishonest. He realizes that happiness awaits him with his wife, children and friends, and resumes his simple life without remorse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-08
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Dangerous Turning
1954-12-28
Dangerous Turning
Overview: The adventures of Daniele as he tries to find love with Lucienne despite being framed for murder and cocaine smuggling.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-12-28
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The Amazing Mr. Callaghan
1955-03-28
The Amazing Mr. Callaghan
Overview: A ship, La Circé, has sunk and it might possibly be criminal . The vessel belongs to Storata ,who asks the insurance company for a hundred million Francs .Callaghan is working for them and he investigates on dry land and on the sea. The brilliant detective discovers that Storata has scuttled his ship himself to swindle insurance.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-03-28
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Your Money or Your Life
1966-04-26
Your Money or Your Life
Overview: Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-04-26
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Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
1964-09-08
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
Overview: The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-09-08
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The Blonde Gypsy
1953-09-20
The Blonde Gypsy
Overview: As in a Hollywood western, rice growers and bull cultivators come into conflict in the Camargue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-09-20
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Quai des blondes
1954-04-07
Quai des blondes
Overview: The blond cigarette trade is raging in the Mediterranean, pitting the crew of a former naval officer, Ferrer, against a band of pirates led by Lucky Esposito. Initially defeated and robbed, Ferrer seeks revenge. Two women emerge, a singer, Barbara, and his former mistress, who now works for Esposito. Ferrer sees death at close quarters, Barbara saves him. The police wipe out Lucky's gang. The future looks brighter for Ferrer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-04-07
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Blonde in a White Car
1959-03-27
Blonde in a White Car
Overview: Picked up by a beautiful motorist, jobless hitchhiker Pierre (Hossein) is subsequently romanced by the girl. Immediately thereafter, however, she dumps him, attempting to run him over as a final insult. Memorizing her license number, Pierre pursues the enigmatic motorist. Arriving at her home, Pierre is met by two young ladies (Marina Vlady and Odelle Versois), either one of whom might be the woman he's looking for.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-27
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Truant School
1949-04-08
Truant School
Overview: 1920, in a small village in Provence. Monsieur Pascal, a young schoolteacher, is faced with a lack of interest from his pupils. He decides to radically change the methods employed by his predecessor. He listens to the children, draws inspiration from their discoveries and takes them out into nature. The pupils will rediscover the pleasure of learning, and he will rediscover the pleasure of teaching. But some parents and notables don't take kindly to this little revolution.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-04-08
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