Jean-Max
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 16, 1896
Deathday: December 07, 1970
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Nitchevo
1936-12-18
Nitchevo
Overview: A commander suspects his wife of infidelity, when she turns to a subordinate officer to help her against someone threatening to blackmail her about her troubled past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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The Darling of Paris
1931-10-09
The Darling of Paris
Overview: In order not to compromise the great music hall star with whom he spent the night, a man is accused of a murder he did not commit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-10-09
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Suzanne
1932-10-28
Suzanne
Overview: The many difficulties of a couple to harmonize, between the need for independence of one and the brutality of the other...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-10-28
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Once Upon a Time
1933-10-06
Once Upon a Time
Overview: A poor disgraced girl, belonging to a gang of criminals, is morally transformed by a cosmetic operation that makes her beautiful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-10-06
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La cinquième empreinte
1934-07-13
La cinquième empreinte
Overview: Jacques de Nisson, a rich man, has a new mistress, Lucie Cavelier. Which does not prevent him from courting Florence, the wife of his lawyer friend Forestier. One day, Jacques is found murdered and chief-inspector Candély is sent on the spot to investigate. Jean, the victim's butler, Lucie as well as Florence are suspected in turns but the real murderer is finally identified thanks to his fingerprints.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-07-13
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Sapho
1934-04-07
Sapho
Overview: During a transvestite ball, a young provincial meets Fanny Legrand. A great love is born between them. Later, the young man learns that Fanny was a great coquette. He leaves her, he comes back, he forgives. But when he embarks for America, Fanny does not follow him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-04-07
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Pension Mimosas
1935-01-16
Pension Mimosas
Overview: Mr. and Mrs. Noblet run a boarding house on the French Riviera. One day, they are led by circumstances to welcome a little boy Pierre, whose father is in jail, into their home. Which makes Louise Noblet all the happier as she can't have children herself. But, after a while, Pierre's father is released from prison and reclaims his son... Time passes and Pierre, now a young adult, lives in Paris more or less on the wrong side of the law. He has a mistress, Nelly, who does not say no to other men's money... Louise, who still loves Pierre as her own son, wants only one thing - to help him get by.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-01-16
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Second Bureau
1935-09-19
Second Bureau
Overview: Captain Benoît manages to take possession of the plans of a new German airplane. The German counter-espionage assigns one of their agents, beautiful Erna Fiedler, to seduce Benoît and to eliminate him. But the two spies fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-09-19
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Les hommes de proie
1937-07-02
Les hommes de proie
Overview: A blackmailer is murdered. Vauzelle, the lover of the beautiful Michelle Korany, is suspected because he was the one who was being blackmailed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-07-02
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A Man to Kill
1937-02-25
A Man to Kill
Overview: Captain Benoit successfully completes a mission in Berlin, but when he returns to Paris he escapes attacks by German agents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-02-25
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The Woman Thief
1938-03-30
The Woman Thief
Overview: The woman thief evades a young lady who is onto his game, but then tries his wiles elsewhere on a married woman by attempting to compromise and ruin the husband she is happy with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-03-30
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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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Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
1939-06-07
Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
Overview: In 1917, in a small village in the North, Abbe Gaillard is suspected by the Germans of facilitating the escape of French and Belgian soldiers. A false alibi makes him innocent and he can thus continue his mission, thanks to the devotion of an Alsatian who, in enemy uniform, obscurely serves his country.
Genres: War Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-06-07
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Face au destin
1941-09-17
Face au destin
Overview: Two modest young employees, Jean and Madeleine, dream of leading the way, but the experience turns out badly. Madeleine marries a German aristocrat who turns out to be a spy, and finds Jean who had joined the Legion.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-09-17
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Finance noire
1943-11-24
Finance noire
Overview: In Central Europe, an organization of counterfeiters is headed by Burcq. An Air France pilot introduces an intelligence agent to the principality. A woman, Helene, betrays them first, then in love with Francois, the pilot, helps the two friends to escape.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-11-24
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Last Refuge
1947-08-26
Last Refuge
Overview: Philippe and Sylvie have to do with Alvarez, a dangerous gang leader. They break up with him and commit robbery and murder. Sylvie suggests that Philippe take refuge in his quiet family. His younger sister Antoinette attracts and charms Philippe and excites the jealousy of Sylvie who informs Alvarez. The police get involved and Philippe is killed during a merciless fight.
Genres: Drama Comedy Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-08-26
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Les Nouveaux Maîtres
1950-05-10
Les Nouveaux Maîtres
Overview: Durand, a big industrialist, works with an international adventurer, Mr. Ernest, who covets Mrs. Durand and threatens to bankrupt her husband if she does not consent. She calls him a jerk. Mr. Ernest sets out to ruin the Durands, and leaves in the castle that they must sell their couple of servants, Victor and Marie, who become the new masters, at the same time as they serve as a screen for Ernest for his dubious business.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-05-10
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Les Aventuriers de l'air
1950-10-20
Les Aventuriers de l'air
Overview: A pilot, hero of the war, finds himself implicated in spite of himself in a traffic. He is wanted by the police, but his former companions and an air hostess will help him prove his innocence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-10-20
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Le Costaud des Batignolles
1952-04-30
Le Costaud des Batignolles
Overview: Jules, small and weak, dreams of becoming a formidable athlete. He strives every morning to practice physical culture exercises and takes comforting tablets, without success. But he meets Nénette, a woman who, when he kisses her, suddenly endows him with prodigious strength.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-04-30
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The Ferret
1950-02-10
The Ferret
Overview: A mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping them off about murders that are to be committed around Paris. Among those caught up in the police manhunt is a fraudulent clairvoyant.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-02-10
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I Accuse
1938-01-23
I Accuse
Overview: After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in scientific research, seeking a machine to prevent war. He thinks he has succeeded, but the government subverts his discovery, and Europe slides with seeming inevitability toward World War II. In desperation, Diaz summons the ghosts of the war dead from the graves and fields of France to give silent, accusing protest.
Genres: War Drama Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-23
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I Was an Adventuress
1938-12-21
I Was an Adventuress
Overview: Old friends of Vera Vronsky remind her of her past and try to blackmail her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-21
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More Whiskey for Callaghan
1955-12-07
More Whiskey for Callaghan
Overview: Valuable documents have been stolen from a British laboratory. Slim Callaghan is sent to investigate the theft. But his tracks soon lead him to the welcoming skies of the Côte d'Azur. There, he decides to infiltrate a network of aristocratic spies.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-07
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Children of Love
1953-11-10
Children of Love
Overview: In a maternity hospital, young single mothers are accompanied by social worker Hélène Lambert, who tries to make them aware of their new responsibilities, while Dr. Baurain stresses the importance of their moral and sexual education. They come to the aid of several young women: one who would like to give up her child to a couple applying for adoption, another who, after the death of her first baby in dramatic circumstances, is expecting a second, and many others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-11-10
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Lilac
1932-03-13
Lilac
Overview: Also known as Lilac, this early Anatole Litvak-directed talkie was based on a play by Tristan Bernard and Charles Henry Hirsch. The story bears traces of the Bertold Brecht-Weill piece The Threepenny Opera, with heroine Lilac (Marcelle Romeo) consorting with the criminal scum of Paris. Lilac falls in love with a handsome detective (Andre Luguet), but he doesn't let his emotions stand in the way of his duty, and in the end he reluctantly turns her over to the authorities. At $120,000, Coeur de Lilas was one of the most expensive movies to come out of France in 1931, but it more than made back its cost at the box-office.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-03-13
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Crimson Dynasty
1935-12-04
Crimson Dynasty
Overview: Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is based on the novel Koenigsmark by Pierre Benoît. It's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. The film was known in the United States as Crimson Dynasty.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-04
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The Prosecutor Hallers
1930-08-31
The Prosecutor Hallers
Overview: The simultaneously filmed French language version of the 1930 German film The Other. A psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme involving a strict legal official.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-08-31
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Rose de Nice
1921-11-04
Rose de Nice
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1921-11-04
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Dark Eyes
1935-09-05
Dark Eyes
Overview: In 1913, in Russia, a widower hides from his daughter that he is a butler in a meeting restaurant. She meets a banker who is trying to seduce her and takes her to this restaurant. The father, knowing the decadent life of this client, immediately sends his daughter home. The pure love that her piano teacher devotes to her will allow the young girl to console herself for her disappointments...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-09-05
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Satan's Paradise
1938-09-03
Satan's Paradise
Overview: Driven by necessity, Jean Larcher, a young agricultural engineer, accepts the degrading mission of leading to ruin, under cover of administering it, a huge cocoa plantation on the island of São Tomé. His employers, a financial coalition, indeed plan to dispossess its owner, an inexperienced young woman who has just inherited it, of her property. But when Jean comes into contact with her, he recognizes Francesca, a girl he had fond feelings for when he was a student.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-09-03
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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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Criminal Brigade
1947-09-05
Criminal Brigade
Overview: After the discovery of two murders, Commissioner Chabrier, of the French secret services, is investigating the disappearance of plans affecting the national defense of the country robbed by a gang of international spies.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-09-05
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My Wife Is a Panther
1961-09-07
My Wife Is a Panther
Overview: During an evening in a bar, Roger, a friendly cognac salesman and connoisseur, overhears a telephone conversation that intrigues him, then worries him: "... a few bullets to the head and she'll be dead in a minute...". Distraught, Roger follows the stranger who has taken his car. A relentless pursuit ensues. Roger arrives at a mysterious property where the "assassin" disappears to commit his crime. Knocked unconscious by the killer he fought and prevented from carrying out his crime, Roger regains his senses, comfortably installed in the living-room of an old colonel, Colonel Van Booren.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-07
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Port-Arthur
1936-12-11
Port-Arthur
Overview: French-language remake of Port Arthur (1936): espionage, action and romance in the Russo-Japanese War, as the conflict threatens Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky and his Japanese wife Youki.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-12-11
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The Gambler
1958-10-26
The Gambler
Overview: In 1866, a young Muscovite named Alexei Ivanovitch arrives in Baden Baden, then the gambling capital of Austria, and is soon engaged by General Zagorianski to look after his children. Alexei discovers that his employer is a compulsive gambler who has been almost ruined by his addiction. The only money the General has is provided by the Marquis de Grieux, an adventurer who intends to marry Zagorianski’s sister, Pauline. In doing so, de Grieux hopes to profit from the vast inheritance that will come the General’s way from his Aunt Antonina, who is presently very ill. Alexei is appalled by this society which lives only for money. He loves Pauline and wants to take her to a healthier place, but when she refuses to marry him, he begins to gamble at the casino…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-10-26
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The Lost Course
1931-04-03
The Lost Course
Overview: Bored with her life with her husband the lighthouse keeper, Hélène sleeps with two other men who fight for her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-04-03
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