Roger Blin
Biography: Roger Blin (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 22 March 1907 – Évecquemont, France, 21 January 1984) was a French actor and director. He staged world premieres of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in 1953 and Endgame in 1957. Blin was the son of a doctor; however, despite his father's wishes, Blin forged a career in the theatre. As a teenager he was 'fascinated' by the Surrealists and their conception of revolutionary art. He was initially part of the left-wing theatre collectives The Company of Five and The October Group. In 1935 Blin served as Antonin Artaud's assistant director for his production of Les Cenci [The Cenci] at the Folies-Wagrams theatre in 1935. Following his work with Artaud, Blin focused on 'political street-theatre.' During the war, Blin was a liaison between the Resistance and the French Army. His extensive career as both director and actor in both film and theatre has been largely defined by his work and relationship with Artaud, Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet. In addition to being a close friend and confidant of Artaud during the latter's nine years of internment, he directed the first performances of Beckett's Waiting For Godot, Happy Days and Endgame as well as directing the initial performance of Genet's The Blacks and the controversial The Screens. Genet's key correspondences to Blin have been published by Editions Gallimard. The 1986 Faber and Faber publication, "Samuel Beckett: The Complete Dramatic Works" carries only three dedications from Beckett: "Endgame" is dedicated to Blin, while "Come and Go" is for John Calder, and "Catastrophe" is for Václav Havel. Source: Article "Roger Blin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 22, 1907
Deathday: January 20, 1984
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Known For
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020-09-09
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Overview: Laurent Terzieff was more than a good actor, after having been a real "star" in the cinema, through his professional choices, he gradually became a real "conscience of the theater", so much had he thought about his art. He received six Molière awards and was always unanimously praised by his peers. “THE GHOST OF LAURENT TERZIEFF” is a daring portrait, as it explores in depth “the secrets of a soul” and the atypical journey of the actor.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-09-09
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That Most Important Thing: Love
1975-02-12
That Most Important Thing: Love
Overview: Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by Nadine Chevalier, a tormented low-budget movie actress married to an eccentric film photo collector.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-02-12
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Orpheus
1950-09-29
Orpheus
Overview: A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-29
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A Taste for Women
1964-05-13
A Taste for Women
Overview: A writer discovers a link between a vegetarian restaurant and a series of mysterious deaths.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-05-13
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Le Corbeau
1943-09-28
Le Corbeau
Overview: Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as "Le Corbeau" (The Raven) soon targets the whole town, exposing everyone's dark secrets.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-09-28
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Strange Tales
1949-10-26
Strange Tales
Overview: A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse in the floor, and a wine aficionado who buries his friend alive.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-10-26
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The Devil's Envoys
1942-12-05
The Devil's Envoys
Overview: At the end of the 15th century, a man and a woman, posing as traveling minstrels, are sent by the Devil to a castle to seduce its inhabitants.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-12-05
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Street Without a Name
1934-02-02
Street Without a Name
Overview: The story focuses on a street in the Parisian banlieue where Italian and French workers live. Their neighborhood will soon be demolished and a mysterious character hides himself in this street.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-02-02
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Alibi
1937-12-22
Alibi
Overview: Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool Callas, the police officer who investigates the murder. He hires one of his fellow officers in order to seduce Helene.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-12-22
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The Time of the Cherries
1938-01-26
The Time of the Cherries
Overview: A poor peasant family, a failed cabinet maker and an unemployed worker struggle in contrast to crooked rich businessmen. nearby.A Communist meeting gives young workers hope for a better future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-26
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Adrienne Lecouvreur
1938-10-28
Adrienne Lecouvreur
Overview: Adrienne Lecouvreur is an acclaimed actress who falls in love with Polish prince Maurice de Saxe, only to be poisoned by a jealous rival while Maurice is away at war. The film was a co-production between the two countries, and was made at UFA's Berlin Studios. It was based on the 1849 play Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé about the life of the eighteenth century actress Adrienne Lecouvreur.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-28
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The Curtain Rises
1938-10-06
The Curtain Rises
Overview: 1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique"). The first-year entrance exams are in full swing. Many applicants, few accepted. Isabelle (Janine Darcey) is one of the few chosen. She joins former students from the second and third years, including François (Claude Dauphin) and Cécilia (Odette Joyeux). They attend the drama class run by Professor Lambertin (Louis Jouvet). The young people, passionate and eager to become comedians, clash in tumultuous love affairs, because by dint of acting, they imagine that life is a farce. François, for example, is in love with Isabelle, who also loves him, but is pursued by Cecilia, his former mistress... "Put art in your life and life in your art!"
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-06
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The World Will Shake
1939-05-10
The World Will Shake
Overview: In this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die. Oddly enough, the people do not want to know and therefore begin to riot…
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-05-10
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The Trump Card
1942-09-02
The Trump Card
Overview: A man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country. Clarence and Montès, two inspector students, must solve this murder, but they don't know that dead guy is the USA public enemy No.1.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-09-02
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Captain Fracasse
1943-06-19
Captain Fracasse
Overview: Out of love for an actress, Isabelle, the Baron de Sigognac joins a traveling troop en route to Paris. When an actor dies, he takes over his role: that of Captain Fracasse.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-06-19
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L'âge d'or
1942-01-28
L'âge d'or
Overview: Véra, a vivacious woman, and her alleged brother Boris, are both hired by the Dubelairs as their chambermaid and caretaker. But Dubelair has done bad business while his wife Juliette plays at the races and... loses ! So when it comes to paying their domestics wages, Dubelair gives them lottery tickets. Chance has it that one of them is winning...!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-01-28
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Adieu Léonard
1943-09-01
Adieu Léonard
Overview: A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the village idiot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-09-01
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Checkerboard
1959-05-06
Checkerboard
Overview: In a small Gallic village, tourists are regaled by street entertainers and brash prostitutes. One of the tourists, a black girl named Bessie, falls in love with local villager Bob, and he with her. Soon racial tensions erupt volcanically among tourists and townsfolk alike. All is forgiven when the respective parents of the hero and heroine save the village's water supply.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-05-06
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Douce
1943-11-09
Douce
Overview: In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager of the estate. However she cannot hope to marry him because of their class difference. Douce's widowed father, the Count de Bonafé, has a wooden leg, and is infatuated with Irène. Douce discovers that Fabien is planning to flee to Quebec with Irène, and also finds out that the Count has asked Irène to marry him. So Douce tells Fabien this and convinces him to run away with her, causing consternation in the family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-11-09
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First in Line
1944-02-23
First in Line
Overview: A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain guides and their families in the French Alps, near Chamonix and the French/Swiss/Italian borders... Like his father, Zian Servettaz is a dedicated mountain man. His Italian-born wife Bianca does not adjust well to his mountain village in France, and to the ever life-threatening dangers presented by his mountain guiding and climbing. She briefly returns to Italy and to her family. However, after Zian's insistence and trip to Italy, she returns to mountain life in the French Alps. Once back there, events will unfold, changing their lives as well as those of other mountain people forever.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-02-23
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The Bohemian Life
1945-10-17
The Bohemian Life
Overview: Four young friends share the carefree, cheerfulness, laughter and dances of Bohemian life. Rodolphe the painter, Alexandre Chaunard the composer, Colline the philosopher, as well as Marcel and his friend Musette. Mimi, a romantic young girl, falls in love with Rodolphe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-10-17
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The Ideal Couple
1946-05-31
The Ideal Couple
Overview: Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love with Diavalo. Diavalo is forced to wear a series of disguises to elude the police so he can attend a Gala for the President.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-05-31
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The Last Judgment
1945-12-08
The Last Judgment
Overview: In Central Europe, resistance to the Germans in growing. But the partisan leader is denounced and killed. His daughter and the son of the traitor love each other. Condemned by his comrades, the informer commits suicide in front of the young couple.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-12-08
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Jenny
1936-09-18
Jenny
Overview: When her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Danielle leaves London and returns to her mother, Jenny, in Paris. With her business partner Benoît, Jenny runs what appears to be a respectable nightclub – it is in fact a place where wealthy men can buy the favours of attractive young women. Oblivious to her mother's professional and personal life, Danielle meets a handsome young man named Lucien, and falls in love with him – not realising that he is Jenny's lover...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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Vagabonds imaginaires
1950-04-26
Vagabonds imaginaires
Overview: Jean-Louis Barrault, Charles Dullin and Roger Blin each say a poem. The actors do not appear on screen.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-04-26
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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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Adventures of Captain Fabian
1951-10-06
Adventures of Captain Fabian
Overview: It all begins with the discreet romance between the Creole maid Lea Mariotte and her young boss, George Brissac, an amoral bourgeois who plans to inherit his uncle's fortune and marry a young woman from a good family. After an incident where she kills a man, she is saved from the gallows by Fabian, a ship's captain, who has personal reasons for antagonizing the Brissacs. He takes care of her and falls in love with her, but doesn't tell her. She, in turn, takes the opportunity to return to her lover Brissac's arms, forcing him to marry her after seeing him murder his uncle.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-06
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Torticola versus Frankensberg
1952-04-19
Torticola versus Frankensberg
Overview: A comedic take on the Frankenstein story.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-04-19
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Piédalu fait des miracles
1952-10-10
Piédalu fait des miracles
Overview: The inhabitants of Marboue-Chambourcy want a swimming pool, and the difficulties in realizing this expensive dream divide the village into two clans: on one side the women, on the other the men. Piedalu, whom this conflict desolates, discovers by chance, as part of a found bicycle, a fortune in gold coins.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-10
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Too Small My Friend
1971-08-06
Too Small My Friend
Overview: Ticky Edriss, a dwarf, develops a scheme to avenge him on society and extort a bank.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-08-06
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L'illusion comique
1970-04-14
L'illusion comique
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-04-14
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Law of Survival
1967-04-19
Law of Survival
Overview: In 1960, Stan, the protagonist, after having made a fortune in Asia, returns to Corsica, to visit a friend's tomb. In Ajaccio, he meets Helene, who she rescues from her kidnappers, who take advantage of her "charms" in a house of ill reputation. They hide then somewhere in the mountains, where they are pursued by the Corsican mobsters...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-04-19
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Vendredi ou la vie sauvage
1983-02-25
Vendredi ou la vie sauvage
Overview: Victim of a shipwreck, a British man is stranded on a deserted island where he manages to survive through ingenuity.
Genres: Adventure Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-02-25
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1956-12-19
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy, performs a bewitching dance in front of delighted spectators. From up in a tower of the cathedral, Frollo, an alchemist, gazes at her lustfully. Later in the night, Frollo orders Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer and his faithful servant, to kidnap Esmeralda. But when the ugly freak comes close to her is touched by the young woman's beauty...
Genres: Drama History Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-12-19
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Jamais plus toujours
1976-03-10
Jamais plus toujours
Overview: Claire (Bulle Ogier) returns to France following the death of her actress friend Agathe (Loleh Bellon). She attends an auction of her friend's possessions, provoking memories of the past. As her camera glides across the auction house bric-a-brac, Yanick Bellon mixes past, present and future to create a delicate piece of cinematic poetry. Set to the music of Georges Delerue.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-10
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Egypt, oh Egypt: Images of Heaven
1963-01-01
Egypt, oh Egypt: Images of Heaven
Overview: A documentary short about Egypt.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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The Star Ship
1962-12-11
The Star Ship
Overview: Onboard a spaceship sailing into infinity, generations of travelers are subject to dictatorial rules imposed by the central computer "Psycho." Recruited as a new police officer, Eddy Burns will discover the terrifying secrets behind this flawless system.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-11
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Calligraphie Japonaise
1958-01-01
Calligraphie Japonaise
Overview: In a comparative study between different forms of calligraphy, the film traces parallels between modern Japanese painting and traditional Japanese writing.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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The Knight of the Night
1953-11-22
The Knight of the Night
Overview: Paris, 1884. Bella Fontanges, a renowned ballerina, is married to Georges de Segar. But after just a few years together, the couple slowly sinks into weariness. Bella has forgotten what happiness used to taste like. Then a mysterious squire appears. Aware of the couple's faltering situation, he makes Bella and Georges a most astonishing proposal: he claims to be able to separate Good from Evil in Georges. Reluctant at first, the couple eventually agrees to play along. But it's not long before they realize that in Georges, it's Evil that has prevailed.
Genres: Drama History Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-11-22
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Quatrevingt-treize
1962-12-29
Quatrevingt-treize
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-29
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One Must Live Dangerously
1975-09-03
One Must Live Dangerously
Overview: Richard is a private detective. He makes a good money from marital infidelity: the deceived husband and wife generously paid him for proof of their infidelity "halves"...
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-09-03
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The Life and Loves of Beethoven
1937-01-15
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Overview: Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
Genres: Drama Music History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-01-15
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The King and the Mockingbird
1980-03-19
The King and the Mockingbird
Overview: A young shepherdess and a chimneysweep plan to get married and escape the clutches of a tyrannical king in love with her, assisted by the guile of a cheeky mockingbird, the king's archenemy.
Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-03-19
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Marie Soleil
1964-12-19
Marie Soleil
Overview: He's twenty-five. She's thirty-five. He is a young agricultural engineer. She runs a nightclub in Cahors. He's a runner and a pretty boy. She's beautiful and unscrupulous. They like each other. People gossip about them. He persists. She leaves, afraid to see such a beautiful love deteriorate. She returns. He wants to marry her. She tells him it's no longer possible. Out of spite, he throws stones into the bushes. And then, after all, he comes to his senses.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-19
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Colonel Chabert
1943-12-01
Colonel Chabert
Overview: The story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the novel Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-12-01
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The Invitation to the Waltz
1954-01-01
The Invitation to the Waltz
Overview: French horror short from 1954.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Les trois soeurs
1960-01-31
Les trois soeurs
Overview: A year after the death of their father, life can begin again for Macha, Olga, Irina and their brother, Andrei. But the unpredictability of life destroys their hopes and certainties. The sisters of failed dreams now live in an idle city where everything has to start again. Chekhov's drama about loss and regaining meaning.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-01-31
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The Adolescent
1979-01-24
The Adolescent
Overview: In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-24
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The Shadow Line
1973-08-29
The Shadow Line
Overview: Story of a young, inexperienced ship captain named Marlow, who struggles in solitude during the voyage with disease, insubordinate crew and vagaries of weather.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-08-29
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Beating Heart
1940-02-01
Beating Heart
Overview: Tells the story of a young woman escaping from reform school who tries to steal a foreign ambassador's watch but ends up falling in love with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-02-01
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Stars at Noon
1959-01-01
Stars at Noon
Overview: Les Etoiles de Midi is an engaging docudrama about some of the more spectacular exploits of French mountain climbers over the last several decades. In one re-enacted story, there is a wartime escape through the mountains, and in another, a daring rescue of a pair of climbers who had been missing. The actors themselves are adept at the sport of climbing, and they give the scenes an immediacy and real daring that brings the stories alive. A combination of their acrobatics and skill and the outstanding episodes in the history of French climbing creates a winning 78 minutes.
Genres: Documentary Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Volpone
1941-05-10
Volpone
Overview: Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is dying, knowing that each will try to curry favor with him in order to be named his heir. He is inundated with valuable gifts, and soon finds himself entangled deeper and deeper in a web of lies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-05-10
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The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died
1977-08-08
The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died
Overview: A middle-aged man travels to France and is discouraged by the attitudes of the people concerning his native land until he meets and begins relationships with two lonely women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-08-08
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The Sunday of Life
1967-01-13
The Sunday of Life
Overview: After five years in the army, Valentin Brû marry a haberdasher. They move to Paris, where Valentin sells frames, while his wife becomes fortune teller. One day, Valentin replaces her, and predict a terrible event which will happen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-13
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Five and the Skin
1982-06-02
Five and the Skin
Overview: Ivan, a writer living in Manila, walks through the city in search of his past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-06-02
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The Companions of Baal
1970-06-11
The Companions of Baal
Overview: Journalist Claude Leroy (Jacques Champreux) reports that a secret society, The Companions of Baal, is behind a hold-up in the small town of Blaingirey. They are led by the Grand Maître Hubert de Mauvouloir (Jean Martin). An adorant of Lucifer, he aims to enslave the world. Accompanied by their acolyte, Pierrot Robichat (Gérard Zimmermann), and a young girl, Françoise Cordier (Claire Nadeau), Claude Leroy is determined to finally reveal the mysteries of the group's criminal enterprise.
Genres: Crime Adventure Horror TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-06-11
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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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Pasha's Wives
1939-02-18
Pasha's Wives
Overview: Mireille, a Frenchwoman, marries a westernized Turkish diplomat and, thinking that she will live a dream life in an Arabian Nights setting, follows him back to his native country, only to discover that, in a staunchly traditional society, she will not be a free woman there any longer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-02-18
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Little Claus and Big Claus
1964-12-25
Little Claus and Big Claus
Overview: Once upon a time there lived in the same village two men bearing the very same name. One of them chanced to possess four horses, the other had only one horse, so, by way of distinguishing them from each other, the proprietor of four horses was called "Great Claus," and he who owned but one horse was known as "Little Claus"...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-25
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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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Life Is Ours
1936-04-07
Life Is Ours
Overview: A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-04-07
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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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Louise
1939-04-16
Louise
Overview: What was it about opera diva Grace Moore that attracted the attention of filmdom's top directors? Moore's 1937 American movie vehicle When You're in Love had been directed by Josef Von Sternberg; two years later, her French starrer Louise was helmed by no less than Abel Gance, who a decade earlier had revolutionized the "historical epic" genre with the awesome Napoleon. There was, however, little that was revolutionary in this cinemadaption of Gustave Charpentier's opera. Moore plays Louise, a poor seamstress who is led astray by the rakish Julien (Georges Thill). After falling from grace (no pun intended), our heroine is rescued by her understanding father (Andre Pernet), who demonstrates his forgiveness by singing to her (it is, after all, an opera). Though it played to enthusiastic crowds in both London and Paris, Louise turned out to be Grace Moore's final film; conversely, Abel Gance continued to make commercial potboilers well into the 1970s.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-16
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The Devil's Tricks
1966-06-15
The Devil's Tricks
Overview: Ginette Chaluzac, who has left Central France for Paris, now works as a seamstress in a modest workshop in the Marais district. Her life is quiet and uneventful until the day when, to her surprise, she receives a letter containing a hundred-franc banknote. The sender, who remains anonymous, renews his gift day after day and Ginette grows accustomed to the situation. Her material situation improves but after a while she starts asking herself questions about the one who sends her the money and his/her intentions. Till obsession. To make it clear in her mind she eventually decides to investigate...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-06-15
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L'hôpital de Leningrad
1983-05-28
L'hôpital de Leningrad
Overview: A story of political imprisonment set in a mental hospital where the Stalin state police placed whoever their opponents were.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-05-28
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Paris Blues
1961-09-27
Paris Blues
Overview: During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and love.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-27
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Qui donc a rêvé ?
1965-12-31
Qui donc a rêvé ?
Overview: A little girl named Alice dreams about going through the looking-glass and becoming a queen in the mirror reality.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-12-31
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The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
1953-05-29
The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
Overview: A chimney sweep and his beloved shepherdess are aided by Wonderbird in their escape from a ruthless dictator
Genres: Fantasy Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-05-29
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Le Colisée
1933-01-01
Le Colisée
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Aloïse
1975-04-02
Aloïse
Overview: The painful life of a mentally unstable but highly gifted woman is unveiled in this film, based on episodes from the life of an actual person. Aloise (Delphine Seyrig) creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. She endures torments as a musically gifted girl and later as a young woman; her developing madness and the barbaric treatments of the time are shown.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-04-02
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