Pierre Dux
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 21, 1908
Deathday: December 01, 1990
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Z
1969-02-26
Z
Overview: Amid a tense political climate, the opposition leader is killed in an apparent accident. When a prosecutor smells a cover-up, witnesses get targeted. A thinly veiled dramatization of the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis and its aftermath, “Z” captures the outrage at the US-backed junta that ruled Greece at the time of its release.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-02-26
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Is Paris Burning?
1966-10-26
Is Paris Burning?
Overview: Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-26
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Marie des angoisses
1935-07-24
Marie des angoisses
Overview: A neglected young woman comes up against the equivocal feelings of a steward.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-07-24
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The Wedding of Miss Beulemans
1932-12-02
The Wedding of Miss Beulemans
Overview: The daughter of a Brussels restaurant proprietor prefers the company of a young man from Paris, to that of her compatriots.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-12-02
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Monsieur Vincent
1947-11-05
Monsieur Vincent
Overview: The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-11-05
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The Grand Manoeuvre
1955-10-26
The Grand Manoeuvre
Overview: Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-10-26
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The Horse
1970-02-22
The Horse
Overview: Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules with an iron hand. Things go awry the day he discovers one of his grandsons is involved in drug traffic. To make matters worse, the reckless youth has hidden the white powder in the Maroilleur farm. Without a moment's hesitation, Auguste gets rid of the toxic substance but, of course, the mob has different views...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-02-22
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La Lectrice
1988-08-17
La Lectrice
Overview: A young woman passionate about reading immerses herself in the adventures of a fictional character who makes reading her profession. As she explores different neighborhoods and wintertime Provence, her imagination blends with reality, revealing the mysteries behind each word.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-08-17
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Shadow and Light
1951-06-27
Shadow and Light
Overview: A few years ago, Isabelle Leritz, a famous pianist, suffered a fit of madness, in the middle of a concert. Now recovered, she fell in love with Jacques whom she plans to marry. She does not know that he is having an affair with Caroline, his sister, director of a fashion house.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-06-27
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April Fools' Day
1954-07-28
April Fools' Day
Overview: Emile is a good mechanic whose clientele is very loyal. A bit naive, he is bamboozled by a seller who manages to sell him the full trappings of the perfect fisherman. No sooner did he regret that he bought, frightened by his wife's reaction to such expenditure. But he plans to try it ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-07-28
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Le monde où l'on s'ennuie
1935-01-18
Le monde où l'on s'ennuie
Overview: Suzanne de Villiers, an illegitimate daughter of a noble family, has a lot of difficulty getting the people of the "high" to accept her feelings for her tutor, the Viscount of Ceran...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-01-18
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The Kiddos
1935-12-27
The Kiddos
Overview: Mr. Bouton, a modest carpenter from Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, widower and father of Pinpin, a little boy, marries Mrs. Colombe, mother of Ninette, a little girl. Soon deceived and abandoned, he raises the two children alone. As an adult, Pinpin falls in love with Ninette, but she is in love with Gérard Garnier, whom she soon marries. The children gone, Bouton finds himself alone and one Christmas evening meets Mrs. Marie, a mother who raises her two children alone.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-27
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Dernière aventure
1942-03-26
Dernière aventure
Overview: Comte de Larzac, an aging seducer, leaves Paris for Lannemezan. Accompanied by his friend Charmeuil, he goes there to acknowledge the paternity of Jean, a twenty-year old young man who knows nothing about his biological father. Jean, after falling for Jeanne, the daughter of a farmer, now courts Georgina, a middle-class woman of Romanian origin. After Father Jocasse has told Jean that he is Comte de Larzac's son, the young man follows his father to Paris. But he finds it hard to comply with the usages of high society and when his father refuses to consent to his marriage with Georgina, he returns to Lannemezan. Georgina is so upset by the count's refusal that she comes to see him and tells him very candidly about her past life. Moved by her plea, de Larzac drives her back to Lannemezan so that she can marry Jean. What was not expected is that, during the trip, they discover they are close to each other.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-03-26
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The Royalists
1947-03-20
The Royalists
Overview: The Marquis de Montauran was appointed to command the Chouans whose first two revolts were crushed. An aristocrat, Marie-Nathalie de Verneuil, is sent by Joseph Fouché to seduce and capture him.
Genres: Adventure History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-03-20
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Goodbye Again
1961-05-23
Goodbye Again
Overview: Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her longtime philandering partner begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman. She soon learns that May-December romances with older women are frowned upon in society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-23
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Paris Waltz
1950-05-05
Paris Waltz
Overview: A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-05-05
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The Mask of the Gorilla
1958-08-14
The Mask of the Gorilla
Overview: Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must infiltrate a dangerous gang working for a foreign embassy as their leader, a spy enjoying diplomatic immunity, can't be arrested by regular police.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-08-14
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Lettre ouverte
1953-03-11
Lettre ouverte
Overview: Martial, Colette 's husband, is madly jealous. One day, he catches his wife writing a letter and he does want to know what this message contains, to no avail.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-03-11
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Special Section
1975-04-23
Special Section
Overview: In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-04-23
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Gigolo
1951-11-08
Gigolo
Overview: Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, he fell into misery when he left it. His only asset was his good looks, which did not escape the attention of Madame Alice, a shady woman who persuaded him to pose for pornographic photos meant for lonely aging women. Marceau also served as a gigolo before the war and captivity put an end to this juicy business. Now he wants to start a new life, all the more as ha has found love in the person of a pure young lady named Dominique. But Madame Alice won't hear of it...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-08
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Les Vignes du Seigneur
1958-06-20
Les Vignes du Seigneur
Overview: Now Gisèle Bourjeon is the mistress of the count Hubert Martin de Kardec.After a long journey abroad Henri Lévrier, a champagne producer has come back and meets again his friends Hubert and the Bourjeon family.And surprise, Henri doesn't drink alcohol anymore.He says Gisèle that he was drinking because he loved very much.Henri and Gisèle feel well together and become lovers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-06-20
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La vie continue
1981-09-23
La vie continue
Overview: Jeanne, mother of two children, loses her husband. She meets Pierre, abandoned by his wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-09-23
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Green Harvest
1959-12-02
Green Harvest
Overview: In 1943, a group of high school students decide to take action against the Nazi occupying forces. Showing courage and imagination, they manage to blow up the Kommandantur and to release hostages. But after the killing of a German soldier the Nazi police apparatus strikes back. The young resisters are arrested and two of them are condemned to death.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-12-02
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The Pleasure of Love
1991-04-10
The Pleasure of Love
Overview: Guillaume de Burlador is a private tutor who hits a low point sufficiently severe for him to contemplate a somewhat theatrical suicide. Instead he is taken off by flying boat to a mad French colonial possession bedecked by mad servants and crazy decor. Three educated and rather gorgeous women live there, and they hire him to tutor a young teenager, but more with plans to seduce him in mind.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-04-10
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Friends of the family
1964-10-20
Friends of the family
Overview: Leon Rollo whose nickname is "Patate" is an inventor adored by his wife and is daughter. He is mostly happy but his best friend Noël seems to succeed in everything he undertakes... Patate become increasingly jealous of this incredible luck.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-10-20
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The Song of Styrene
1957-12-01
The Song of Styrene
Overview: Le chant du Styrène is a 1958 French documentary film directed by Alain Resnais. The film was an order by French industrial group Pechiney to highlight the merits of plastics.
Genres: Documentary Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-12-01
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Heat of Desire
1981-04-29
Heat of Desire
Overview: In France in the near future, revolt and chaos erupt. A right-wing politician, Philippe Muphand, is set to take control when his lady friend Caroline walks out, announcing she will take up with the first fool she sees. The fool is Serge Laine, a professor and author of the prize-winning "Le voyage qui ne finit pas," headed to the train station for tickets to Barcelona where he and his wife will enjoy a second honeymoon and he will lecture at the university. Caroline seduces Serge, and he soon abandons wife, family, job, and honesty to embrace Caroline, the romanticism of Jack London, and murder.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-04-29
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Three Men to Destroy
1980-10-31
Three Men to Destroy
Overview: A man helps the victim of an auto accident, not realizing that the man has actually been shot. The men who shot him are now after the man who helped him, in order to eliminate him as a potential witness. Soon they are killing everyone he even comes in contact with in order to get him.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-10-31
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Return at Dawn
1938-11-18
Return at Dawn
Overview: Married to Karl Ammer, the station master of Thaya, a Hungarian quiet village, Anita is a pretty young peasant who feels deeply bored. She dreams of another life while watching the daily express trains to Budapest. An incident will force her to leave her province: she has to go to Budapest to attend the funeral of an aunt and receive a share of the inheritance. After completing the formalities, Anita misses the train to go back home and then she finds herself alone in the capital.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-18
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The Crumblers Are Doing Well
1961-11-15
The Crumblers Are Doing Well
Overview: In his desirable mansion, a widower wants to marry again with a twenty-year old brunette. His children disagree and they tell him so .
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-15
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Dr. Laennec
1949-06-17
Dr. Laennec
Overview: Breton doctor René Laennec fights tooth and nail against consumption, all the more desperately as his brother Michaud has just died of it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-17
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Homeland
1946-10-22
Homeland
Overview: Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occupiers. Led by Count de Rysoor, the revolt against the ruthless Duke of Alba, is meant to help Prince William of Orange to get into the city and come to power. Now, the count's lieutenant, has an affair with Elisabeth, Rysoor's wife. For the time being, the count, who thinks of his homeland first, turns a blind eye. But such a relationship might well undermine the whole rebellion movement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-10-22
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Queen's Necklace
1946-09-14
Queen's Necklace
Overview: The adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France Henri II, and who claims to be "Countess de la Motte", imagines a tortuous plan to steal a magnificent diamond necklace that the queen Marie-Antoinette refused to buy from the jewelers Boehmer and Bassange.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-09-14
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Famous Love Affairs
1961-11-03
Famous Love Affairs
Overview: Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-03
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Meeting in Paris
1956-05-02
Meeting in Paris
Overview: A wealthy young American woman is suddenly cut off by her father while living in Paris. A philosopher, she tries to make a living as a guide in the capital. The Marquis de Cernay, who has his eye on Nancy's portfolio, engages Maurice, a hardworking writer, to follow the young woman. She learns from both of them that they are only interested in her fortune. However, when she learns of the deception, she returns to her usual social life. She will return to him when the Marquis de Cernay has betrayed himself once and for all.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-05-02
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La Troupe du Roy : Hommage à Molière
1973-02-17
La Troupe du Roy : Hommage à Molière
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-02-17
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Monsieur Teste
1975-12-31
Monsieur Teste
Overview: On the terrace of a Parisian café, Paul Valéry observes his neighbor, Monsieur Teste. The two men strike up a conversation. A supporter of "neither god nor master", Mr. Teste engages in a regular introspection, as rigorous as it is passionate, and shares his thoughts with humor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-31
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Jean de la Lune
1949-01-26
Jean de la Lune
Overview: Marceline is pretty but inconstant. She has a brother, eccentric as well as invading, who serves as a go-between between the fickle young woman and her lovers. She has been the mistress of Richard for a while when Jeff, an engaging but but unrepentant dreamer, falls madly in love with her. Marceline first turns him down but finally accepts him after she breaks up with Richard. But the coquette has not given up her escapades to which the young florist, nicknamed "Jean de la Lune" for his naivety, turns a blind eye. Little time after their wedding , Marceline becomes infatuated with the good looks of a superficial young man, Alexandre. But Jeff, who has developed a fondness for Jean, intervenes to save the couple.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-01-26
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Girl on the Third Floor
1955-08-02
Girl on the Third Floor
Overview: A Parisian reporter tries to exonerate a fugitive neighbor of charges he murdered his wife.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-08-02
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Monsieur Abel
1983-10-20
Monsieur Abel
Overview: A retired old man sees his life turned upside down by the discovery of the corpse of a young woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-10-20
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The Hand
1969-12-17
The Hand
Overview: Screenwriter Philippe (Duchaussoy) imagines a crime committed by his wife Sylvie (Delon) and a mutual friend Pierre (Serre): a dead body is put in a trunk but the hand sticks out. Sylvie and Pierre begin to have an affair and things get very dangerous and the imaginary crime is on its way to becoming prophetic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-17
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The Last Vacation
1948-03-24
The Last Vacation
Overview: A schoolboy remembers his last holiday in the big house of his family in the country, before it was sold.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-03-24
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The Day and the Hour
1963-04-05
The Day and the Hour
Overview: It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases with food. Some British and American planes have been shot down and the Germans want to know where the pilots are hiding. An acquaintance has clearance to drive to Paris with a truckload of goats. After she is in the truck Therese discovers that two British pilots and an American pilot are back there with the goats. She must get the men on a train to Paris and to a safe house there, where there is no room for the American. Can she leave him at the Metro station trying to figure out the map?
Genres: Drama Action War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-04-05
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La trilogie de la Villégiature
1979-06-17
La trilogie de la Villégiature
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-06-17
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