Jacques Dumesnil
Biography: Jacques Dumesnil (born Marie Émile Eugène André Joly ; 9 November 1903 – 8 May 1998) was a French film and television actor. Jacques Dumesnil was born as Marie Émile Eugène André Joly on November 9, 1903, in Paris, France. Before becoming an actor, he received training as a mechanical engineer. After starting as a secretary at the aviation school, he became an industrial designer, a profession he left to devote himself to the theater. He adopted the pseudonym Dumesnil because of the admiration he had to French actor Camille Dumény. He started out as a fanciful singer in a café located in Paris Place de l'Hôtel de Ville , he was paid in sandwiches and glasses of beer. Dumesnil started on stage in 1927 and divided his career between theater and cinema. Having spent two years at the Comédie-Française , he played among other things in Les Tontons flingueurs and provided the French voice of Charlie Chaplin in Monsieur Verdoux (1947) and A King in New York (1957). His role as Duke of Plessis-Vaudreuil in the television series Au Plaisir de Dieu , earned him a resurgence of popularity and the 7 d'Or for best actor. Jacques Dumesnil had a son, Pierre Joly dit Dumesnil , who was a French swimming champion and participated in the 1952 Summer Olympics in Helsinki , Finland.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: November 09, 1903
Deathday: May 08, 1998
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Crooks in Clover
1963-11-27
Crooks in Clover
Overview: An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-27
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56, rue Pigalle
1949-03-18
56, rue Pigalle
Overview: Lucien Bonnet, Jean Vigneron's manservant, blackmails his boss, who is having an affair with Inès de Montalban, married to Ricardo. Vigneron pays the sum but Lucien is killed by an accomplice, Baruch. Everything seems to accuse Jean who, for fear of compromising Inès, prefers to keep mum. Fortunately, his innocence will be proved thanks to a surprise witness. The two lovers flee to Congo while the husband soon forgets them, finding comfort in debauchery.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-03-18
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Plucking the Daisy
1956-07-25
Plucking the Daisy
Overview: Due to an urgent need of money, aspiring writer Agnes participates in an amateur striptease contest. Her new boyfriend, Daniel, who is a reporter by profession, covers the contest for his magazine.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-07-25
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Julie de Carneilhan
1950-04-21
Julie de Carneilhan
Overview: A penniless aristocrat is fooled by her ex-husband, a crook.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-04-21
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Mon amant l'assassin
1932-06-10
Mon amant l'assassin
Overview: An eccentric woman is determined to marry a murderer. Her admirer will have to become a murderer in order to conquer her heart.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-06-10
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Danton
1932-10-14
Danton
Overview: Reconstruction of Danton's political career, from the moment he had just been admitted as a lawyer and became friends with Camille Desmoulins and Fabre d'Eglantine. Until his death sentence on the charges of Robespierre.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-10-14
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3 of the navy
1934-10-19
3 of the navy
Overview: The sentimental and comic adventures of three sailors, during a stopover of their ship in Toulon, are grafted onto a story of stolen documents, which allows the three friends to turn into amateur detectives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-10-19
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The King of the Champs-Élysées
1934-12-10
The King of the Champs-Élysées
Overview: In Paris, a stage-struck would-be actor is mistaken for an escaped convict.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-12-10
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Lucrezia Borgia
1935-12-20
Lucrezia Borgia
Overview: French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother, Cesare. and her father, Pope Alexander VI -- one of history's most ruthless and ambitious crime families.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-20
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Bach the Detective
1936-11-20
Bach the Detective
Overview: Narcisse is a doorman for a jeweler but dreams of becoming a private detective. The Criminas agency hires him and he comes to the aid of his former boss's nephew, accused of stealing jewelry. He first passes for the accomplice of the young man but soon discovers the culprit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-11-20
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Le cœur dispose
1937-05-14
Le cœur dispose
Overview: An aristocratic family wants to marry off their young Helene. The mother and grandmother each pick not so bright prospects.Helene herself is drawn to an elderly baron.But what about Robert, the family secretary?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-05-14
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Marked Girls
1938-10-12
Marked Girls
Overview: Juliette, an innocent woman, is wrongly sentenced to prison for attempted murder. After her release, she married an industrialist to whom she did not speak of her tumultuous past. But, victim of a rampant blackmail, she cannot continue to hide her prison past and the scandal breaks out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-12
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Behind the Facade
1939-03-14
Behind the Facade
Overview: In the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an elderly woman, Madame Mathieu, the owner of both buildings. Boucheron, the local superintendent, is dispatched to investigate, along with his rival, Inspector Lambert of the "Sûreté". To solve the enigma, they scour staircases and corridors, visiting every floor of both buildings, courtyard and facade. Their gruff rivalry allows them to complement each other in discovering who committed the crime among a gallery of characters, humble or rich, who all have something to be ashamed of... A rare, fast-paced, picturesque comedy set against the backdrop of a police mystery.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-14
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Twisted Mistress
1942-08-14
Twisted Mistress
Overview: Guy Carbonnel, a rich industrialist, has more eyes for rugby than for his wife Hélène. René Rivals, his long-time pal, takes advantage of it to court her but Guy is becoming suspicious so René has to find a way to deflect his friend's suspicion. He finally has an idea: he asks Lilian, a circus acrobat, to pose as his mistress. Lilian accepts and they embark on a series of eventful moments.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-08-14
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White Wings
1943-03-10
White Wings
Overview: A great disappointed love once encouraged the vocation of Sister Claire, who, however, forgot nothing. She follows in their daily life three young girls beloved and badly brought up by a widower, an artist with measured comicality. Sister Claire will save one of the sisters abandoned by her seducer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-03-10
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Malaria
1943-06-30
Malaria
Overview: A colonial wife carries on an affair with a French officer, but the wife's native servant may have overheard their plan to leave Africa and return to Europe together.And then the servant goes missing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-06-30
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Sowing the Wind
1944-03-16
Sowing the Wind
Overview: A child is rejected by his father and sister when his mother dies giving birth to him. The family is falling apart; the father takes to drinking, the child is placed with a nurse. However, the little girl will take the initiative to bring the child back to the family home which she decides to take care of, thus encouraging the father to change his behavior.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-03-16
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Le bal des passants
1944-04-01
Le bal des passants
Overview: Fabienne believes herself to be cheated on by her husband Claude and divorces her. He leaves for America and does not return until eight years later. He then meets his daughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-04-01
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Father Serge
1945-09-04
Father Serge
Overview: An accomplished young man, Prince Stéphane is destined for a brilliant future but when he finds out that Marie, his beloved fiancée, has had an affair with the man he respects the most, Tsar Nicolas 1er in person, the shock is terrible. Unable to recover, he chooses religion and becomes a monk and a hermit. He becomes known as a healer and worshiped as a saint, although he himself is aware of his many weaknesses. The day he learns Marie is seriously ill Le père Serge formerly known as Prince Stéphane leaves sanctity behind and hits the road for Saint Petersburg.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-09-04
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Women's Games
1946-05-13
Women's Games
Overview: The agency À Votre Service has the reputation of meeting all needs. This is what Stanislas observes when his uncle replaces his mistress with a fiancée provided by the agency.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-05-13
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Anna
1951-12-20
Anna
Overview: Anna is a 1951 Italian drama film directed by Alberto Lattuada and starring the same trio as Bitter Rice: Silvana Mangano as Anna, the sinner who becomes a nun; Raf Vallone as Andrea, the rich man who loves her; and Vittorio Gassman as Vittorio, the wicked waiter who sets Anna on a dangerous path.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-12-20
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The Hideout
1962-09-21
The Hideout
Overview: Set during World War II in France, the story begins when a resistance fighter is given shelter in an asylum by a friend who manages the institution. Soon after, the manager is arrested by the Gestapo, which gets the resistance fighter involved. He finds the informer who set his friend up and kills him. But then no one will believe his story about the informer and he becomes desperate enough to start losing his own mental balance. A young doctor and the daughter of one of the inmates help him keep it together, but he knows he cannot continue like this for long.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-09-21
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The Marriage of Chiffon
1942-08-06
The Marriage of Chiffon
Overview: Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow, her mother (Suzanne Dantes) would like to remarry a rich noble. Without realizing it, Chiffon is in love with her uncle, a ruined pioneer of aviation ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-08-06
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African Diary
1940-06-25
African Diary
Overview: During a French construction project in the Sudan, a military doctor fights against leprosy and the natives seek protection against witch doctors.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-06-25
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Que personne ne sorte
1964-07-29
Que personne ne sorte
Overview: Set between Christmas and New Year, the film told the story of six criminals who kidnap an ambassador's daughter and await the ransom; enter Monsieur Wens, who infiltrates their hideout using various comic disguises, bumps them off one by one and rescues the little girl.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-07-29
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Trafiquants de la mer
1947-12-19
Trafiquants de la mer
Overview: A gang of drug pushers is rampant on the French Riviera. The police has been informed and arrests an accomplice who is about to collect the drugs dropped off from a yacht. This person happens to be a public figure of a nearby village...
Genres: Crime Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-12-19
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La P..... sentimentale
1958-10-24
La P..... sentimentale
Overview: A high school boy falls for a prostitute he has met on the notorious "Rue Des Patures".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-10-24
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Life Together
1958-09-24
Life Together
Overview: The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on the loving relationships of four couples. Now he's setting up his will and wants to leave his wealth to the couples among the four, which are still as deeply in love - if any: else, his companions get the money. He sends them out to visit the couples and test their love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-09-24
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The Great Pack
1945-07-17
The Great Pack
Overview: Côme de Lambrefaut inherited the family castle on the death of his father, but the notary told him that all his property was mortgaged. However, he wants to keep the pack of one hundred and ten hunting dogs that make him proud. In September 1939, the castle was destroyed during a bombardment, and the dogs escaped from their enclosure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-07-17
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La tricheuse
1960-01-01
La tricheuse
Overview: Lily is a lost girl who lived a miserable childhood. Now she works for Martial, a small-time crook. One day, she meets Armand, a shy high school student, the son of a renowned surgeon. And she discovers true love. But Martial is nothing of a tender heart, on the contrary. He manipulates Lily into forcing Armand to mimic the signature of his father, which will allow his gang to obtain drugs with a view to selling them...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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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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The Seventh Commandment
1957-02-01
The Seventh Commandment
Overview: Princesse Nadia Vronskaïa is a veteran con artist who uses her feminine wiles to bilk wealthy, susceptible old men. Inevitably, she outsmarts herself when she falls in love with one of her victims. In concert with her new beau, she turns the tables on her former partners in crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-02-01
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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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Un homme de trop à bord
1935-12-06
Un homme de trop à bord
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-06
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Boléro
1942-03-25
Boléro
Overview: As her neighbor Rémi Courmont has told her off for making his ears bleed with Ravel's Bolero, a music piece she plays at full volume all the time, Anne-Marie decides to get even with him. She sets up a hoax with the complicity of her friend Catherine, who agrees to post as Remi's mistress to embarrass him. Just then, Niquette, Rémi's real lover, resurfaces.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-03-25
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Pierre and Jean
1943-12-29
Pierre and Jean
Overview: Alice, an unhappy young woman in the household, is the mother of a little boy, Pierre. She falls in love with a young doctor and plans to run away with him and his son. Finally, not considering the right to deprive Pierre of his father, she gives up. Twenty years pass, Pierre has grown up, he suspects his little brother, Jean, of just being his half-brother. His suspicions gnaw at him, his mother confesses to him her past fault. Faced with this confession, Pierre will abandon the one who sacrificed her life for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-12-29
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Rail Pirates
1938-01-19
Rail Pirates
Overview: Henri Pierson, the chief engineer of a railway line crossing Yunnan in China, must prevent the incessant attacks of a gang of looters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-19
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The Farm of Seven Sins
1949-09-16
The Farm of Seven Sins
Overview: In 1825, Paul-Louis Courier, a Republican writer known for publishing pamphlets against the French monarchy, was killed in the farm where he had retired. Was it a political assassination or a vicious crime? Those who have known him loved him or hated him are interrogated by the police. Will the guilty person(s) be ferreted out?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-16
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The Ironmaster
1933-11-30
The Ironmaster
Overview: A young noblewoman is unhappy about needing to marry the village ironmaster for financial reasons, but later comes to appreciate her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-11-30
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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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Secret File 1413
1961-12-01
Secret File 1413
Overview: A detective investigates a murder and gets caught up in spy shenanigans.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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Première brigade criminelle
1961-07-19
Première brigade criminelle
Overview: Commissaire Masson tells a young journalist about the only failure of his career: the wife of a Canadian secret agent, pursued by speculators, tried to deceive them. Unsuccessful, she shot her blackmailer to protect her husband, deceiving public opinion. How guilty was she really?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-07-19
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The Count of Bragelonne
1954-12-09
The Count of Bragelonne
Overview: Raoul de Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-12-09
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Night Shift
1944-04-19
Night Shift
Overview: A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-04-19
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¿Pena de muerte?
1961-01-01
¿Pena de muerte?
Overview: Pedro is accused of the murder of Eduardo . The evidence against him is overwhelming. A famous lawyer has to give up his defense because he is seriously ill. But his son Pablo, who is a writer, decides to investigate
Genres: Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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All the World's Memory
1956-11-01
All the World's Memory
Overview: Toute la mémoire du monde is a documentary about the Bibliothèque Nationale in Paris. It presents the building, with its processes of cataloguing and preserving all sorts of printed material, as both a monument of cultural memory and as a monstrous, alien being.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-11-01
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La Belle de Nuit
1934-03-02
La Belle de Nuit
Overview: Based on a play by Pierre Wolff, about a wronged husband’s revenge on his wife and her lover, La belle de nuit is a major find, a work of uninhibited stylistic imagination that ranges from Sirkian stylization (an elaborate play of mirrors and doubles) to brutal realism (a tour of the bordellos of Marseille suggests the contemporary photographs of Brassaï).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-03-02
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Napoleon
1955-03-25
Napoleon
Overview: The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-03-25
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La dernière chevauchée
1947-03-28
La dernière chevauchée
Overview: A jealous wealthy landlord intercepts a letter to his wife written by her cousin. He decides to take revenge by drugging the young man's horse, but it is his own son who will be the victim of the accident.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-03-28
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Secrets
1943-03-17
Secrets
Overview: A penniless private tutor is hired by a wealthy family in Provence. The brat is a reluctant pupil, but Michel, without any magic power, turns out to be a wonderful teacher and he wins them all over,not only the student but everyone, from the grumpy dowager to the clueless gorgeous blonde girl. But the best is yet to come:the boy's mother -a married woman- falls in love with the newcomer. And she becomes jealous of her young blonde goddaughter who has a romance with Michel
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-03-17
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Two Women
1940-05-16
Two Women
Overview: Considering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not allow her to turn to another man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-05-16
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L’or
1934-06-01
L’or
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Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-06-01
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Ulysses
1954-10-06
Ulysses
Overview: A movie adaptation of Homer's second epic, that talks about Ulysses' efforts to return to his home after the end of ten years of war.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-10-06
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If Paris Were Told to Us
1956-01-27
If Paris Were Told to Us
Overview: Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-01-27
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Yamilé Under the Cedars
1939-06-01
Yamilé Under the Cedars
Overview: A Lebanese Christian girl of European origin is attracted to a visiting Muslim chief and rides off with him.When her Christian fiance brings her back,she is punished for her transgression.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-06-01
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Horace 62
1963-04-24
Horace 62
Overview: Two families fight to stay in power. On one side, the Horatii, who rule Rome; on the other, the Curiatii, who rule Albe-la-longue. To escape the war, three brothers are chosen from each camp and face off in a fight to the death. A tragic confrontation with unexpected repercussions.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-04-24
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