Gisèle Préville
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 11, 1918
Deathday: November 26, 2006
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Mother Love
1938-11-03
Mother Love
Overview: Gilbert Quercy, 18, tried to commit suicide after a heartache. At the hospital, three women try to cheer him up : the three former wives of his father, an archaeologist and an egyptologist, whom Gilbert called his "mothers". These women show a lot of willingness, but soon will become intrusive.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-03
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Cocoanut
1939-02-17
Cocoanut
Overview: A small town gentleman learns that his prim and proper wife was once a showgirl, and that, even worse, he had enjoyed a one night stand with her in the Orient.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-02-17
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The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
1981-06-17
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Miss Osbourne
Overview: In 19th century London, a sex maniac sneaks into the engagement party of Dr. Henry Jekyll and Miss Fanny Osbourne, turning the event into a nightmarish whirlpool of murder and debauchery.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-06-17
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The Witness
1978-09-20
The Witness
Overview: An Italian painter, Antonio Berti, pays a visit to Reims to his friend Robert Maurisson, a banker with political views on the town hall, who hides, under an affable air and an irreproachable dignity, a libertine and cynical temperament. Charged by the notable with the restoration of paintings exhibited in the cathedral, the artist calls on Cathy, a young girl from the choir, to serve as his model. The young girl will be found dead a few hours after their interview, near one of Robert's properties.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-09-20
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It Happened All Night
1960-09-13
It Happened All Night
Overview: Michel Ferréol reluctantly meets up with an old school friend, Antoine Fiesco. Michel didn’t like Antoine much when they were at school and tries to get away by making an excuse. He changes his mind when Antoine introduces him to his wife, a beautiful brunette named Christine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-09-13
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Adventure in Paris
1936-11-24
Adventure in Paris
Overview: Michel Levasseur is a joyous reveler who does not care about the next day. So much so that one day a bailiff bursts into his Paris apartment and seizes his furniture on behalf of Raymond Sauvaget, his landlord, a rich food industrialist. But far from resenting Sauvaget's act of hostility, Michel ... becomes his friend. Now Raymond, although prosperous, does not know how to handle women. That is why he asks Michel, a regular Casanova, to give him lessons in seduction.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-11-24
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Three Artillerymen on the Move
1938-04-24
Three Artillerymen on the Move
Overview: During a leave, three merry soldiers experience a series of incredible adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-24
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Mélodie pour toi
1942-11-11
Mélodie pour toi
Overview: Famous singer, René Sartène, falls in love with a young bourgeois, Marie. Irène, her stage partner and the director of the show combine their efforts to annihilate this budding happiness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-11-11
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Paris - New-York
1940-04-03
Paris - New-York
Overview: The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of kidnapping by the girl's snobbish father Rene Alexander. By the time the Normandie reaches New York, however, the "mystery" is solved and all misunderstandings blithely swept away.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-04-03
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Two Shy Ones
1943-03-03
Two Shy Ones
Overview: Jules Frémissin is shy and in love. The father of the object of his flame is also shy. The marriage proposal is very laborious, because before marrying Cécile Thibaudier, Jules must fight a duel with the arrogant Vancouver, convinced that all this eager and awkward courtship was intended for his own wife, also named Cécile.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-03-03
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Vautrin the Thief
1943-12-13
Vautrin the Thief
Overview: A famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin, escapes from prison. Chance makes him meet Lucien de Rubempré, an impetuous and eternal lover who, when he is dismissed, collapses. Moved by this fragility, he takes him under his wing, and will do everything possible to ensure that his creature reaches happiness, even if it means imagining the worst shenanigans and other scams, with the help of a band of clever villains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-12-13
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Thirty and Forty
1946-07-03
Thirty and Forty
Overview: The scene is set during the Second Empire. Captain Bitterlin watches jealously over his lovely daughter Madeleine but he cannot prevent nature from demanding its rights and Madeleine soon finds herself a suitor in the person of Mario, a dashing young songwriter. Bitterlin, who wishes his daughter to "evade the grip" of the young man, takes her away to Monte Carlo. There, the captain does what he had sworn he would never do, he gambles in a casino. And even more upsetting: Mario might well be hereabouts...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-07-03
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Counter Investigation
1947-03-21
Counter Investigation
Overview: Alain Marchal, wrongly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from prison the day before his execution. Before committing suicide, he contacts Monsieur Charles, a retired gangster, and asks him to investigate, find the real culprit and clear his name. Monsieur Charles accepts his request and along with his wife Ginette and two former accomplices, Paragraphe and Teddy Coffre fort, embarks on his counter-investigation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-03-21
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Mirror
1947-05-02
Mirror
Overview: Portrait of a two-faced man. By day he is rich, brilliant and respectable financial officer Lussac; at night, he becomes "Mirror", a ruthless gang leader in Marseilles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-05-02
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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 Dancing Years
1950-07-19
The Dancing Years
Overview: The episodic story of a composer of operettas, Rudi Kleiber, in in old Viennese days, and the two women in his life; Maria Zeitler, his sweetheart, later mistress, lost love, an operetta star, and his first patron, and the mother of a son he did not know he had; and of Greta, his first love and companion in later years
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-07-19
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Nightclub Hostess
1939-06-02
Nightclub Hostess
Overview: The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one night she gets propositions from a rich widower who would like to have her as his girlfriend, Suzy wishes to leave this place, where she has no future, for a better one. Abandoned by her protector, a young hoodlum named Robert, she gets the occasion to get away from it. She decides to go on vacation on the Riviera and stay at the Chateau des Cedres, the former residence of a noble family that has been transformed into a bourgeois guest house by the baroness Saint-Leu. Shy and elegant, in her modest suit, Suzy stays there under the name of Suzanne Michelet and soon makes new friends among the young people of very wealthy families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-06-02
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The Turkey
1951-11-21
The Turkey
Overview: Paris at the Belle Epoque. Monsieur de Pontagnac, a perfect honest man, loves pretty women too much and that plays him many tricks. What need does he have to follow the pretty Lucienne Vatelin, home, to find himself in the presence of the husband, the notary Vatelin, who is part of his circle? From there, many characters will meet, avoid each other, find each other. Adultery, domestic scenes and reconciliation will be their lot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-21
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Prison Without Bars
1938-01-07
Prison Without Bars
Overview: In a state correctional institute for teenage girls, Madame Appel, the superintendent, rules with an iron fist. The State appoints thirty-year-old Yvonne to evaluate the situation. The young woman is convinced that the girls should feel wanted rather than be constantly subdued and is accordingly determined to make Madame Appel change her methods of education.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-07
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Loves of Casanova
1947-02-26
Loves of Casanova
Overview: On his way to Paris, Casanova keeps on collecting female conquests, does not shy away from duels and gets into many a colorful adventure. Once in the capital, the fearless knight saves the honor of a great lady, conquers the niece of his implacable enemy but courts disaster for love of Coraline, a faithless opera dancer.
Genres: Adventure History Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-02-26
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French White Cargo
1937-02-03
French White Cargo
Overview: Two journalists from different papers are looking for the same story. They want to know, who a group of gangsters getting young women from Europe to South America, where they are forced to work in brothels. But the gangsters have their own battels against each over, so the journalists can escape the danger, in which they've brought themselves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-02-03
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The President
1961-03-01
The President
Overview: At 73, a former President of the French Council reflects on his political career while writing his memoirs, delving into his relationships with key figures, including the one set to become the next President.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-01
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Adventure in Paris
1936-11-24
Adventure in Paris
Overview: Michel Levasseur is a joyous reveler who does not care about the next day. So much so that one day a bailiff bursts into his Paris apartment and seizes his furniture on behalf of Raymond Sauvaget, his landlord, a rich food industrialist. But far from resenting Sauvaget's act of hostility, Michel ... becomes his friend. Now Raymond, although prosperous, does not know how to handle women. That is why he asks Michel, a regular Casanova, to give him lessons in seduction.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-11-24
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Return to Life
1949-09-14
Return to Life
Overview: In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-14
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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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Against the Wind
1948-02-01
Against the Wind
Overview: A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who is being interrogated by the Germans for vital information.
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1948-02-01
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