Maurice Maillot
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: September 18, 1906
Deathday: February 08, 1968
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Whirlpool
1935-03-14
Whirlpool
Overview: The happiness of a newly-married couple, Henry and Jeannie Saint Clair, is shattered when the husband is made a paralytic in an automobile accident. The wife still loves him, although he is incapable of any physical love. She is slowly drawn into a short-lived affair with a handsome athlete, Robert Vanier. When the husband learns of the affair, he commits suicide. But the wife cannot forget him and she sends her lover away.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-03-14
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Aviator Rouletabille
1932-12-09
Aviator Rouletabille
Overview: Rouletabille interrupts his vacation in Hungary to fight a gang of air pirates with his boss Sainclair and the daughter of Budapest's chief of Police.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-12-09
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Marchand d'amour
1935-01-01
Marchand d'amour
Overview: A genius director whose daring and sensual films have earned him the nickname "The Merchant of Love", claims to escape commercial contingencies and direct the film of his life on his own. It is a resounding failure that leads him to the forfeiture from which the fate of a woman's love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Aux portes de Paris
1935-03-22
Aux portes de Paris
Overview: A local man raised two boys. One is his son and the other is that of a rich industrialist, to get the bonus to the unhappy father, he gives his own son a lazy scoundrel, to the tearful father and decides to keep the other boy, but the truth does not soon to burst.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-03-22
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Une gueule en or
1936-06-16
Une gueule en or
Overview: The Marquis de Barfleur, an unattractive man, decides to resort to plastic surgery to ensure the fidelity of Colette, his young mistress. Now endowed with a face to die for, he is about to achieve his goal. But the Marchioness de Barfleur, the Marquis' loving wife, does not hear it that way. She has her revenge claiming everywhere that her husband is... dead! An assertion people believe since they do not recognize the Marquis! When her vengeance has lasted long enough, she forgives the Marquis and husband and wife fall into each other's arms.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-06-16
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The Happy Road
1936-02-14
The Happy Road
Overview: It is only the prospect of having a child that draws the otherwise strictly urban new wife, Suzanne, to a family farm, she really doesn't care for the countryside of for her in laws.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-02-14
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Un scandale aux Galeries
1937-07-28
Un scandale aux Galeries
Overview: The son of an industrialist is in love with a saleswoman employed by his father. The latter coos with an ingenue from whom he hides the age of his son. A department manager involved in all this has his sentimental disappointments. A double marriage puts a happy ending to the plot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-07-28
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Champions of France
1938-12-21
Champions of France
Overview: In the lead up to WWII, several escapist French films were made promoting health and sport among youth.In this one, we see the friendship of young males on a Marne river rowing team threatened by the presence of a typical femme fatale.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-21
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Dorothy Looks for Love
1945-11-09
Dorothy Looks for Love
Overview: To be able to win paradise, a selfish old billionaire, who has just died, must make someone happy. He will have to guide a young girl through the intricacies of love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-11-09
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Du Guesclin
1949-06-03
Du Guesclin
Overview: A chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th century.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-03
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Precious Fools
1938-01-07
Precious Fools
Overview: Being a tramp is not always a disadvantage. For example when there is a masquerade ball. Indeed wearing flea-ridden rags might just mean having donned a costume. This is what happens to two resourceful Brussels bums, La Cloche and Picolard, who manage to gain entry in a fancy-dress ball. Once there, La Cloche is mistaken by an oriental prince for a respected doctor. His mission will be to give care to a music-hall diva. Even more exciting, he is asked to vaccinate a whole troupe of showgirls. Trouble guaranteed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-07
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Threats
1940-01-11
Threats
Overview: "Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel :t he fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-01-11
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The Puritan
1938-01-13
The Puritan
Overview: A religious fanatic finds his entire life and philosophy turned upside-down as he falls in love with a girl and kills her in a jealous rage. His search is for peace of mind and a desire to justify the murder of the girl to himself. His mind becomes distraught as he gropes trying to rationalize his deed and his world falls apart around him. A police inspector patiently and tirelessly stays on Barrault's trail, without putting him under arrest, though convinced he is the murderer, and waiting for the moment when he feels Barrault will break under the strain of his own religious fanaticism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-13
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Tant qu'il y aura des femmes
1955-09-14
Tant qu'il y aura des femmes
Overview: A man of of principle leads a double life: one for his mistress and one he takes home to his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-09-14
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The Roundup is for Tonight
1954-12-01
The Roundup is for Tonight
Overview: Three sketches that all start in the police station, where Léa, La Pintade and the brigadier himself tell their little stories. The story of Danielle, who bamboozled the impresario Mortimer so well that he made her his wife; the story of the sad little Simon, deprived of a father and unable to stand the mockery of his friends; and the story of the daughter of an ex-convict who - by golly - steals a statue on the day of her First Communion.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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Odette
1935-05-31
Odette
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-05-31
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The Wandering Beast
1932-08-13
The Wandering Beast
Overview: In the Yukon, searching for gold, Hurricane picks up a paper and discovers that the girl back home is planning to marry another man. Abandoning all care, Hurricane is soon embroiled in a fight in which guns play a part. It is then that the true value of one of his companions, Flossie, a girl of the gold-fields, becomes apparent.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-08-13
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Adémaï au Moyen Âge
1935-01-01
Adémaï au Moyen Âge
Overview: Joan Of Arc has just released Orléans (1429)but the English are still here to stay . The fortress of Châteauneuf is hold by Lord Pickwickdam
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Trois dans un moulin
1938-03-16
Trois dans un moulin
Overview: Three university students decide, before they pursue their various careers, to spend some time together living in a mill.A young woman joins them for a while and all three fall in love with her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-03-16
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Camp Thirteen
1940-12-13
Camp Thirteen
Overview: In a camp of sailors, the suicidal and solitary life of Greta, which makes men lose their heads.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-12-13
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