Lita Recio
Also Known As: Lita Reccio, Лита Рецио
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: October 30, 1906
Deathday: January 13, 2006
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Panic
Overview: Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town and discovers that his neighbors are only too ready to suspect the worst of him.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-01-15
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The Patron
Overview: Agnès de Louvigny, aviator, crashes with her plane on the villa of Martial Simonet, a fashion designer nicknamed La Patronne. But tourists are busy in front of the villa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-08-25
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Tomorrow We Get Divorced
Overview: Max and Colette often bother the lawyer Vermorel to initiate divorce proceedings, then everything calms down. An anonymous letter escalates the disputes, it borders on disaster but living together has obvious charms.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-02-02
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Flukt fra paradiset
Overview: Norwegian film's great charmer, Frank Robert, plays an associate professor and bachelor whose waking desire for life brings him to Paris, where he breaks free.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1953-12-26
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Shadow Dance
Overview: The French intelligence agency plants Xavier, a former militant leftist, into a fascist organisation called Janus, against whom Xavier bears an old grudge.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-08-31
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Céleste
Overview: Georges Cazenave, a " politically committed" French TV reporter leads a good life. Besides having a regular mistress in the person of Hélène, he is a ladies man with "a girl in every port". But this comfortable situation is challenged the day he hires Céleste as his housemaid. A Portuguese immigrant, she soon appears to be a Marxist-Leninist activist, engaged in political groups working against the regime of Salazar, the dictator of Portugal. Geoges and Céleste fall in love with each other, which brings adventure in the reporter's hitherto superficial life, upset by a breakup with Hélène, the interference of the French Secret Service and a touch of terrorism.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-12-10
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Rififi
Overview: Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-04-13
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A Loser
Overview: Granier, a former accountant imprisoned for financial embezzlement, is released from prison and decides to help his cellmate to escape...
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-04-18
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Line Up and Lay Down
Overview: Erotic comedy about an incorrigible womanizer whose lecherous love life becomes too much to handle. Things culminate when his jealous friends arrange for his fiancee and his mistresses to meet him at the same time.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-08-29
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Purely Coincidental
Overview: A handful of student revolutionaries from the Seventies meet up 30 years later to plan a robbery. This is not entirely correct, because they are friends, anyway, and always have been. They play cards together and go to each others’ birthday parties, have wives and children and probably mortgages. Romain Goupil’s film appears to be a throwback to the experimental days of cinema verite. Either that or it’s a home movie, shot with a video camera, to an improvised script or no script at all.
Genres: Comedy Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-17
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Ferraille et chiffons
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-11-03
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Comme une femme
Overview: A transsexual becomes a star of Paris and lives a crazy love story with the lover of a friend. But the young man comes to his senses and his bourgeois upbringing. A victim of prejudice, Vicky has no choice but to kill herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-01-30
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The Calculus Affair
Overview: Strange things are happening in the evening at the mansion: glass things break without any apparent reason. Professor Calculus, somewhat apathetic to the whole series of events, leaves the following day to attend a conference on nuclear physics in Geneva. Foreign powers get wind of his work and send their agents to investigate.
Genres: Animation Comedy Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Maman
Overview: Lulu is released from prison. Determined to fulfill her dream, find her kids, those of her best friend who remained locked up and go very far. The former inmate will do everything to carry out the "heist" that will get her the money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-02-14
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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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Et qu'ça saute !
Overview: A uranium deposit brings turmoil to the small South American republic of Guatalpa. Between two revolutions, the government tries unsuccessfully to decide whether the Americans, Soviets or Cubans will exploit the concession. Delegates from these nations spy on and betray each other to achieve their goal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-11
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Aladdin and His Magic Lamp
Overview: He travels to Aladdin's village, identified as being near the border with China, where he enlists Aladdin's help by pretending to be his long-lost uncle and offering to leave his wealth to Aladdin. At one point, the Magician character tells the story of his travels to China, India and Persia and we see a montage of these adventures and it's kind of interesting because of the way it invokes other cultures of the era. There is some unnecessary padding throughout as characters break into songs that do nothing but tell parts of Once upon a time, somewhere in Africa, a local magician dreamed of owning the Magic Lamp. Thanks to a Magic Ball he learned that the Lamp could be found in an Asian village and that only the innocent hand of a young person could snatch it. He traveled to the place, a village called Three Hill City, close to the Chinese border. There lived Aladdin
Genres: Animation Family Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-01-28
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