Marthe Mercadier
Also Known As: Marthe Mercadié-Meyrat
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Adult: No
Birthday: October 23, 1928
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: September 15, 2021
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Girls in Uniform
Overview: In a strict Prussian boarding school for girls, sensitive student Manuela von Meinhardis develops a forbidden love to one of her teachers, the compassionate Elisabeth von Bernburg.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-07-07
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Obsession
Overview: Hélène and Aldo Giovanni are a circus trapeze double act and a couple. Aldo is temporarily replaced by former-partner Alexandre when the former is injured. The two get into a fight and the following day Alexandre is discovered dead. Hélène suspects her husband is responsible for the murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-10-28
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Secrets of the Satin Blues
Overview: A tale of sexual encounters of one woman and several friends, family members and acquaintances, as seen (and told) from the perspective of a pair of satin blue panties.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-08-11
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Once in Paris...
Overview: A subtle, down-to-earth and autobiographical depiction of an American screenwriter in Paris who befriends his chauffeur and has an affair with a British aristocrat.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1978-11-09
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In The Water... Which Makes Bubbles!
Overview: Paul fishes out of the water the body of his greatest enemy. To avoid accusations that he is a killer, taking steps that will clear his good name.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-10-25
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Le Tampon du capiston
Overview: Cochu, a peasant, is the whipping boy of his regimental comrades. He is called "buffer of the capiston", that is to say the captain's order. But he finds himself in the service of Hortense, the captain's sister.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-08-03
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Paris Incident
Overview: Story is primarily based on the adventures of Antoine, a young telegraph messenger on his second night of work. He is given three telegrams, one of which is for the president of the Camber of Deputies. Excited, Antoine runs his bicycle into a truck and loses the telegrams. What follows is an amusing and agonizing search for the missing messages. He is assisted first by a glum, wise-beyond-her-years little girl, Amelie; an off-duty police superintendent, a schoolmaster, a cookie-tin maker and a fireman. The harmonica musical theme is played by Flore Falvey.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-02
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Lost Souvenirs
Overview: Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide. -A funeral wreath lets us know how it caused a young woman to believe her lover dead. After having told their respective story, the objects return to their customary stillness.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-11
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Jamais deux sans trois
Overview: Father Benoît would like one of his twins to take over his inn, at 3 plates. But his ancillary ambitions are not commensurate with his last 3. Bernard is also in love with Hélène, daughter of Colonel Flouc de La Donzelle. He dreams of becoming an actor and goes to Paris to find a job. Difficult beginnings since from the theater, he goes to the cabaret, then to the radio, without success. In the final scene, the 3 brothers meet, which gives rise to a series of gags during the wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-22
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Rendezvous in Grenada
Overview: The love of a singer and his mistress suffers a setback.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-21
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The Night Is My Kingdom
Overview: After an accident, Raymond has gone blind. His family treats him like a child, but fortunately a nun comes to his rescue. She works in a center where blind people learn to read using the Braille alphabet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-08-09
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Good King Dagobert
Overview: Mr. Pelletan's rascal son Bébert son got another F for playing in class. His punishment is an essay on the Merovingian king Dagobert. All they know is he had eight wives and reunited Francia. The ignorant knave's irreverent imagination turns that into a harem and a ludicrous war without armies, loaded with anachronisms, in a race against rival king Charibert for the crown of Reims. The king's right hand, archbishop Eloi, the later patrons saint of carpentry, is portrayed as an inventor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-20
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The Prettiest Sin in the World
Overview: Zoé, a pretty penniless girl, decides on the advice of her neighbor to embark on gallantry. After a brief failure, she meets a young boy, Jacques Lebreton who is about to get married. After causing the failure of this arranged marriage, she will have to play the role of wife of Jacques with his family, until the arrival of the uncle from America.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-08-29
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Rooster in dough
Overview: A famous lawyer is irritated to see his fiancée spending her time trying to educate Languille, a tramp. Wanting to discourage his Saint-Bernard side, he asks a young engineer to introduce himself to her, under the guise of a tramp. But his plan turns against him, because the young man falls in love with his beautiful.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-06-02
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Rayés des vivants
Overview: With the help of a social worker and Isabelle, Pierre, a delinquent influenced by Marcelle, undertakes a slow and difficult reintegration.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-24
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Te marre pas... c'est pour rire !
Overview: A young astrology enthusiast inherits an industrial business. Before any decision, he carefully studies the sign of his interlocutors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-03-10
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Sweet Madness
Overview: Passing for crazy and locked up, the CEO of a company escapes from the asylum and claims that he is the captain of a troop of pirates. To the disappointment of the director of the company and in the company of three employees, he accomplishes many extravagances which will be beneficial for his acolytes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-07-04
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Beru and These Women
Overview: Inspector Bérurier, having inherited a mansion three years earlier, comes to collect rent from the tenant when the latter is murdered under mysterious circumstances. Béru calls Commissaire San Antonio to the rescue, and the two men discover that Laurenzi's hotel is home to a "brothel" whose director, Madame Albertine, soon reveals to the two policemen that Laurenzi was having an ongoing relationship with Helga, one of the boarders, and Mr. Max, a regular guest of the house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-10-23
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La Puce et le privé
Overview: Val Brosse, a private detective, receives Françoise, who confesses to him that she murdered her husband. The story is false, but Val, intrigued, decides to investigate.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-03-11
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Act of Love
Overview: An American soldier romances a beautiful Parisian during the final days of World War II.
Genres: Drama War Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-12-17
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L'Hôtel du libre échange
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-12-31
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The Wicked Go to Hell
Overview: Making his directorial debut, Robert Hossein also assumes the leading role, playing an escaped convict. Hossein and his fellow escapees cross the path of Marina Vlady, with whom they all fall in love. Alas for our "heroes," Vlady intends to avenge the death of her sweetheart at the hands of Hossein and his confreres. Not only do these heels go to Hell, but they do so with a spectacular flourish. Les Salauds Vont en Enfer was adapted by Rene Wheeler from a play by Frederic Dard.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-07
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A Caprice of Darling Caroline
Overview: Caroline de Bienre, the 16-year-old daughter of French nobility, meets the handsome rogue, Gaston de Sallanches, who is expected to ask for the hand of her older, plainer sister in marriage. Gaston instead joins Caroline in her secret hiding place in the château's attic, where the infatuated Caroline begins an affair with him. Meanwhile, she is being courted by the dull, sincere Livio, but holds him off since she is in love with Gaston. When the revolution of 1789 breaks out Caroline is sent to a convent but her carriage is waylaid. She escapes and makes her way to Gaston's home, where she finds him in the arms of his mistress. She is angry and then agrees to marry Livio, now an out-of-favor revolutionary and a marked man, and Caroline is also now on the death list.
Genres: Romance War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-03-06
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Paris Vice Squad
Overview: Identite Judiciare stars Raymond Souplex as wily French police inspector Basquier. The villain is Berthet (Jean Debucourt), a high-ranking government official. Basquier suspects that Berthet is a vicious murderer, but is unable to prove anything thanks to bureaucratic interference. Thus, the good inspector plays a waiting game a la Columbo, hoping for that one fatal slip on the part of the killer. Certain portions of Identite Judiciare proved a bit too intense for American audiences, and were accordingly snipped by the censors.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-04-18
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Explosive Vacation!
Overview: Arlette thinks she has made a wonderful gift to her daughter Sylvie, who has just married François Morel, a young journalist. And, to tell the truth, not everybody receives a posh little bar like the Royal Montmartre as a gift. The trouble is that Monsieur Jo, the former owner of the joint is also the boss of a gang of drug traffickers. And that he has managed to persuade the pair of naive lovebirds to drop a painting to a friend on their way to their honeymoon place. Now the picture is stuffed with drugs! The honeymoon trip promises to be eventful...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-08-09
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La chasse à l'homme
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-14
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The Flea in the Ear
Overview: Raymonde Chandebise suspects her husband Victor-Emmanuel of cheating on her. She received a package from the hotel "Le minet galant". The package contained a pair of suspenders belonging to her husband. Her best friend, Lucienne, advises her to find out for sure and to use a stratagem. They both send him a fake, passionate letter, written by a beautiful stranger, asking him to meet her at the "Minet Galant"! But little do they know that the hotel's simpleton bellboy is a look-alike of poor Victor-Emmanuel!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-09-22
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Le Tombeur !!!
Overview: Yes, Doudou (or, more respectfully, Edouard Doucin) is both heir to a big sugar refinery and its managing director but he is also an incorrigibly bashful bachelor, which just exasperates his aunt Agatha. Summoned to marry as soon as possible, Doudou is fortunate enough to meet Babette , an elegant young lady who wishes to introduce him to her parents. When he comes to visit them, he mistakes the floor out of nervousness. In fact,he finds himself at the Lautiers' not the Olivaros'. Now, chance has it that this couple of shopkeepers also have a marriageable daughter. And as Poupette is romantic, passionate and adorable, Doudou can't find the nerve to disappoint her. As a result the young man gets engaged...twice ! How the devil will he cope ?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-07-02
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Le Braconnier de Dieu
Overview: A monk for thirty-seven years, Brother Gregory could not resist the temptation. Leaving the monastery for the first time to fulfill his duty as a voter, he catches up with pastis and women.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-05
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Captain Slipper
Overview: A bank clerk is bored to death with his nine-to-five work under his boss ' watchful eye. His missus is a pain in the neck and his in-laws are not better.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-07-31
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Valparaiso, Valparaiso
Overview: Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend. Then Edwarda (Bernadette Lafont), who is active in the political underground, comes into his life. From that point on, he begins to act on his beliefs. Edwarda's underground political action group stages a little drama to test Balthazar's commitment and reliability, putting him through an interrogation by what appear to him to be French secret police. Having passed this test, he is given a real assignment. This film is a comedy with elements of satire, and it explores the humor to be found in left-wing pretentiousness of all kinds. - Rovi
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-31
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Venetian Honeymoon
Overview: There is a lot of excitement in the high society of Venice: An Arab prince, who always travels incognito, is said to be in the city. By chance, the elegant Isabella gets to know the handsome heir to the throne - and it does not take long for her to fall madly in love with him. Isabella has no idea that her dream man is really the impostor Gérard, who looks remarkably like the prince and was hounded by the sleazy crook Alfredo on Isabella to steal their precious jewelry.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-02-27
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Élisa
Overview: Recently released from reform school, Élisa works at Madame Irma's before moving to Paris, where her success is growing. On a trip to the provinces, she meets Bernard, a blind man. They soon fall in love, but Élisa hides her activities from him. When he finds out, he hits her. The situation quickly degenerates.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-03-08
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Burning Fuse
Overview: Lola, the wife of arms dealer Pedro Wassewich, is attracted to Ludovic, a young painter who turns out to be the emissary of a notorious gangster. He claims to have been sent by the latter to pick up a shipment. In fact, it's the police who, behind the scenes, orchestrate the operation to catch Wassewich red-handed.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-02-27
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Casse-cou, mademoiselle!
Overview: Working for a stock-car team, Robert dreams of becoming a racing driver himself. For a long time this is only a pipe dream until one day fortune smiles on him when he saves the life of a young woman. Gisèle, the young lady in question, happens to be the daughter of a car manufacturer. Robert and Gisèle fall for each other and decide to marry. They get on quite well except on one point: Gisèle does not want her husband to take part in car races. But passion is the strongest and, breaking the ban, Gilbert wins the La Baule car event. Overcoming her aversion, Gisèle finally allows her husband to pursue his brilliant career.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-03-01
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The Adventures of Gil Blas
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-04-06
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The Outcasts
Overview: Damien and his friends are garbage collectors in a small provincial town. One day, Damien finds a decomposing corpse in the dump where he works, but also a knife that turns out to be his. Because of his personal and social environment (an omnipresent mother, humiliating friends, an unenviable situation) and because he arrives at a moment in his life when he realizes that he is nothing to anyone, Damien wants to prove that he is capable of doing something with his life, of becoming someone, by finding the murderer who is prowling around the dump. In the course of his investigation, he meets Julie, a young divorced woman who is a little lost and who moves in across the street from him. But as his investigations progress, Damien wonders if he is not the killer he is looking for.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-24
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Aux frais de la princesse
Overview: The Eloi family, who have just won the "model family" competition, set off for winter sports. Also on the trip are Aunt Gabrielle and Dagobert, the village warden. For the eccentric little group, the initiation to the joys of skiing begins with a lot of excitement. The vacation gets complicated when a Hindu prince has a precious diamond stolen from the local hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-07-04
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Women Are Talkative
Overview: Sentimental marivaudage between Nicole, her husband Christian, her friend Alexandre and a provincial girl, Marie-Josèphe, who marries Alexandre after arousing Nicole's jealousy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-06-04
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La poule aux oeufs d'or
Overview: Lazy and inveterate player, a French aristocrat has lost everything and his family is ruined. His wife still believes in a miracle. Will this come from their eldest daughter who has developed a gift of double vision since she was pregnant?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-02-01
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The Fighting Cock
Overview: A sleeping car employee seeking a well-deserved rest is prevented from doing so by the crowing of his neighbor's rooster. Just as he's about to settle the score, he's presented with a gift: a rubber band around the annoying bird's beak temporarily puts an end to its vocalizations. But the animal can't be left alone, and Pierre has to take it with him on his nocturnal journeys: you can imagine the disturbance it can cause when, after being thrown out of a wagon window, it lands in the next van full of pheasants. The whole little world spills out onto the train, and the conductor is not at all pleased! Pierre manages to get a young passenger to assume ownership of the rooster, but not for long. Every time Pierre tries to get rid of it, it somehow comes back to him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-05-30
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L'anglais tel qu'on le parle
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-01-01
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Diable d'homme
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-11-12
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Camp de Thiaroye
Overview: A Senegalese platoon of soldiers from the French Free Army are returned from combat in France and held for a temporary time in a military encampment with barbed wire fences and guard towers in the desert. Among their numbers are Sergeant Diatta, the charismatic leader of the troop who was educated in Paris and has a French wife and child, and Pays, a Senegalese soldier left in a state of shock from the war and concentration camps and who can only speak in guttural screams and grunts.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-09-06
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La chambre mandarine
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-07-05
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Chérie Noire
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-27
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Treize à table
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Ah! La police de Papa
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-09-04
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Les Voisins du dessus
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-09-28
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Tout bascule
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-01-27
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Interdit au public
Overview: Backstage at a Paris theater, a famous, exasperatingly fatuous playwright learns that the actress who was to play the lead in his play is expecting a child. No great actress is available to take on the role. Except the famous actress Gabrielle Tristan, to whom he was married for ten years and to whom he no longer speaks. But their love of theater and their playfulness outweigh all their grudges, and Gabrielle takes on her ex-husband's play.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-12-22
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Les enfants d'Édouard
Overview: A woman, believed to be the widow of a certain Edouard, finds herself urged to reveal to her 3 children some very embarrassing news, but not without importance. The many consequences that result will not disturb their respective betrothal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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La bonne Anna
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-12-24
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Lorsque l'enfant parait
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-10-10
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Each in turn
Overview: Robert Montfort, happily married to Solange, is his parents-in-law's pet aversion though. To them he is a punk, a good for nothing, a small-time, untalented poet! Robert, who is more gifted than what they think, manages, following a workmate's recommendation, to debut as an entertainer in a nightclub and -even better- to please the audience. Not daring tell the truth to Solange he starts leading a double life, being Robert Montfort in the daytime and Jean Rigobert at night. Of course his wife wonders what is going on and worries about his regular night outings. Only too happy, her parents incite her to have a divorce. Fortunately, all comes right in the end.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-16
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The Case Against X
Overview: Paul Dorgères, a wealthy industrialist, has been mysteriously murdered. The investigation is entrusted to the experienced Chief Inspector Bonnardel and his young rookie assistant, Inspector Richard. Suspicion turns to his mistress Catherine Villard, with whom he had just broken up on the night of the crime. She is soon arrested and charged. However, Inspector Richard discovers a button at the scene of the crime which could help him to trace the trail and confound the culprit(s).
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-06-11
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Les Quatre Vérités
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Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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Les Compagnes de la nuit
Overview: Three events that seemingly nothing related, namely the murder of a truck driver, the discovery of the corpse of a vitriolic young woman, and the death of another who was crushed, will launch the Inspector Maréchal on the trail of a prostitution network. The girl-mother Olga, a friend of the trucker, confesses her the underwear of the women's exploitation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-07-28
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M'sieur la Caille
Overview: Pépé la Vache, who coveted Fernande's love, denounced her protector: Dominique le Corse, who was arrested. But Fernande was attracted by Jesus the Quail, a guy of dubious manners. Intimidated by Pépé, the Quail moved away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-08-16
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Marriage Episodes
Overview: Three old friends meet again. They compare their marriages and tell each other stories which illustrate why they complain about their wives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-08-16
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Belles, blondes et bronzées
Overview: Mistaken for bank robbers, two friends stumble into a group of beautiful girls and follow them to Morocco for a dance show.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-09-23
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Les enquiquineurs
Overview: Monsieur Eloy, his wife and their ten-year-old son, Zizi, are off to their country home for the weekend. When they arrive, the two men settle into the garden, while Madame gets down to her cooking. When an embassy official and his wife invite themselves for lunch, the whole household is in an uproar.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-11-09
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Les petits oiseaux
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-11-25
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The Bonnadieu House
Overview: Felix is a middle-aged bourgeois husband. Much to his discomfort, he learns that his wife Gabrielle is carrying on with a young man--a very young man. Rather than express outrage, Felix decides that there's something lacking in him. He spends the rest of the picture trying to keep his wife by altering his own personality and outlook.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-27
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The Fugitives
Overview: During the Second World War, in 1943, two French prisoners, François and Michel, escape from Stalag B377 in northern Germany near the Baltic Sea. They meet another escaped compatriot, Pierre, who has donned the uniform of a German officer and joins them. Their goal: to reach neutral Sweden. To get there, they'll have to walk part of the way, then take a train to the coast and, from there, find a way to cross the sea to the shores of Sweden.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-05-10
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Trompe qui peut
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-12-22
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