Marthe Mellot
Also Known As: Marthe Paula Geneviève Mellot, Mathe Meliot
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cosne-Cours-sur-Loire, Nièvre, France
Birthday: February 16, 1876
Deathday: August 13, 1947
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Madame Bovary
Overview: Soon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country doctor in Normandy, marries Emma Rouault. In her new home, Emma finds conflict with her mother-in-law, a husband uninterested in the social whirl, and general discontentment; thereby proving an easy conquest for philanderer Rodolphe. Other lovers follow. Does tragedy await?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-01-04
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That scoundrel Morin
Overview: Life is so dull in a quiet little neighborhood that gossips, eager for some kind of scandal to brighten things up, imagine their haberdasher has been having quite a raunchy sex life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-12-30
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The Two Orphans
Overview: A more small scale version of the story Griffin used for his epic Orphans Of The Storm: a doctor tries to reunite two sisters who have become separated from each other during the whirlwind of the French Revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-03-03
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L'Assommoir
Overview: Young Gervaise has been very unhappy since her friend abandoned her. The man named Coupeau, a sympathetic roofing worker, takes her under his protection and tries to make her forget her dramatic breakup. But Coupeau is unable to free himself from alcoholism and soon Gervaise finds herself on the street.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-06-23
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La Robe rouge
Overview: The error of an examining magistrate forever tears apart a happy and united family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-11-24
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Woman of Malacca
Overview: Unhappy with her humdrum life as a provincial schoolteacher, Audrey Greenwood marries Major Carter, an officer in the British Army whom she does not love. Not long after the wedding Carter is on his way to Malaysia, accompanied by his wife, to take up a post in the British colony. During the long sea voyage, Audrey becomes acquainted with the handsome Prince Selim, the heir to the Malaysian throne. Life in the province of Malacca soon proves disagreeable to the free-spirited Englishwoman and she becomes a social outcast when her amorous affair with the prince is discovered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-10-06
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The Last Waltz
Overview: Count Dimitri is sentenced to death for hitting Prince Paul who was trying to steal a kiss from Countess Vera. Prince Paul pardons him because of a young girl who knew how to conquer his heart at the right time.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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The Citadel of Silence
Overview: During the students ' rebellion against Nicholas the Second in Russia, Viana tries to kill the governor but it's her lover who is arrested and sent to a sinister fortress : hence the title. To help the prisoner,Vania marries the officer who commands the place. There the convicts have really a bad time, but Vania manages to communicate with her dear captive. But beware of informers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-06-03
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Wicked Duchess
Overview: Edwige Feuillère and Pierre Richard-Willm star in director Jacques de Baroncelli's adaptation of the Balzac novella The Duchesse de Langeais, which tells the tale of a Parisian socialite who is romantically pursued by a Napoleonic war hero. With a screenplay by Jean Giraudoux.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-03-27
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Katia
Overview: In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic girl from the provinces, unruly in character. He falls in love with her and tries to see her again.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-07
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Saint Theresa of Lisieux
Overview: The life of Thérèse Martin, who entered the Carmel at the age of 15, in 1888, under the name of Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus, died nine years later, and canonized in 1925.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-21
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Hangman's Noose
Overview: In England, a boxer is sentenced to death for a murder he does not seem to have committed.... Anthony Gethryn, who has just resigned from the police on the occasion of his marriage, has three days left to find the real killer.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-11-23
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L'homme qui joue avec le feu
Overview: A do gooder hopes to cure potential romantic partners of what he considers the disease of love, by putting them up in a property and having them watched over.Things do not turn out according to his plan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-08-05
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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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The Blue Veil
Overview: In 1914, in the first months of World War I, Louise Jarraud loses her husband, killed on the front. Shortly after, she gives birth to a baby, who soon dies. Devastated by this double misfortune, Louise decides to dedicate her life to caring for the children of others. She becomes a nurse with several employers, giving her affection to little boys or girls. A widower and another man propose to her but she refuses twice determined as she is to live only for the children in her charge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-11-18
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Pontcarral, Empire Colonel
Overview: For 15 years after Waterloo, a baron refuses to accept the defeat. He reluctantly marries one of 2 Bourbon sisters but lands up dueling with the wife's former lover. Finally he gets a chance to prove himself again in battle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-01-02
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The Chain Breaker
Overview: Antoine Mouret, an authoritarian restaurateur, is the head of a large family where, for reasons of interest, people only marry cousins. But some have other plans, Marcus especially when he meets a passing circus girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-12-23
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Adémaï bandit d'honneur
Overview: Ademaï is very happy to spend a vacation month in Corsica, invited by his family; when he arrives, much to his surprise, all the male relatives have just been shot.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-09-01
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The Traveler Without Luggage
Overview: Having lost his memory due to serving in World War I, Gaston has spent the past 15 years in a psychiatric hospital. Due to his large disability pension fund, several families claim him as their missing son. Gaston is introduced to the Renaud family by the Duchess Dupont-Dufort and her lawyer. The Renaud family attempt to revive Gaston's memory with stories of his past, but he is apalled by some of the things he hears and dislikes the man he is supposed to be.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-02-23
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Raboliot
Overview: Happily married to Sandrine, Pierre Fouques also known as Raboliot is the father of two young children. He would live a steady life hadn't he a passion for poaching, which gets him into a lot of trouble. Because of the nastiness of Bourrel, the gamekeeper, of the jealousy of other poachers, he becomes a hunted man who, in order to defend himself, is driven to commit a crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-01-30
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Land Without Stars
Overview: Simon's life is troubled by images of a crime which happened in his family a hundred years ago. While traveling in south France, he finds the landscape familiar. That's when he meets Catherine and falls in love. But her lover comes back and his strong personality attracts her again.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-04-02
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The Scarlet Bazaar
Overview: Agnès Bonnardet leaves her parents to marry Claude Sironi, a painter who becomes famous but loses his talent. Meanwhile Agnes acquires a style of her own as an artist, which makes Claude jealous of his young wife. One day, he sends one of his own paintings to the Bazar de la Charité, a very trendy Paris department store, instead of one of his wife's works as ordered. Afraid of her being mad at him, he locks her up in the cloak room. A dreadful fire suddenly breaks out and sets the building ablaze.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-04-23
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Devil in the Flesh
Overview: In France during World War I, Marthe waits for her husband, Jacques, while he fights on the front lines. Marthe then begins a tempestuous affair with 17-year-old François, with whom she had a dalliance before marrying Jacques. Jealous François struggles with the fact that Marthe is married, while she tries to prove her devotion to her young, hotheaded lover. Things become even more complex when Marthe becomes pregnant with Jacques' baby.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-09-22
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Torrents
Overview: Sigrid and Yann are cousins, and in love with each other. A medical student, Jean marries Léna, who gives him a child, but he dies accidentally. Desperate, Yann finds Sigrid in their childhood home in Savoy. Afraid of seeing their passion revive, he decides to leave with Léna for Africa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-12-10
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Monsieur Vincent
Overview: The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-11-05
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Vertiges
Overview: A specialist in the fight against cancer, a young doctor finds himself suffering from a terrible illness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-10-22
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The Lost Village
Overview: In the peaceful alpine village of Granges-de-Mortes, a tragedy has just taken place: Gustave Boeuf, the local Casanova, has mysteriously died at the foot of a wayside cross. Shortly afterwards, a peasant, who is suspected of having murdered him, hangs himself from a branch of the calvary. But was he the real culprit? Angélique Barrodet, an old maid , who had been Gustave's fiancée before he abandoned her on the very day of their wedding, leads the investigation in her own way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-11-26
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Marthe Richard
Overview: Fictionalized reconstruction of the life of the French spy Marthe Richard who decided to contact the secret services during the First World War.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-04-20
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Les Deux Gosses
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1896-01-01
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The Last Billionaire
Overview: The Last Billionaire is a 1934 French comedy film directed by René Clair and starring Max Dearly, Marthe Mellot and Renée Saint-Cyr. The film is based on a fictional small European kingdom which is on the verge of going broke. Its French title is Le dernier milliardaire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-10-16
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The Late Mathias Pascal
Overview: Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his home life becomes a nightmare. His only moments of lights are his mother and baby, but both die on the same day. Shocked, he leaves his hometown and goes to Monte Carlo, where he wins a fortune at the casino. Returning home, he reads his own obituary in a paper. They have found a corpse in a creek and connected it with his disappearance. Mathias, noticing that he is now free from all ties to his old life, decides to start a new one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-07-02
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The Puritan
Overview: A religious fanatic finds his entire life and philosophy turned upside-down as he falls in love with a girl and kills her in a jealous rage. His search is for peace of mind and a desire to justify the murder of the girl to himself. His mind becomes distraught as he gropes trying to rationalize his deed and his world falls apart around him. A police inspector patiently and tirelessly stays on Barrault's trail, without putting him under arrest, though convinced he is the murderer, and waiting for the moment when he feels Barrault will break under the strain of his own religious fanaticism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-13
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Justin de Marseille
Overview: A respected gangster, Justin, finds himself in a deadly feud with his rival, the unscrupulous Esposito. The latter plans to steal a cargo of opium bound for China and to have Justin killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-04-05
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Schubert's Serenade
Overview: Serenade represented the return to the screen of international favorite Lillian Harvey after an absence of two years. Based loosely on the life of composer Franz Schubert, the film casts Bernard Lancret as Schubert, Harvey as his dancer sweetheart, and Louis Jouvet as a possessive Baron who has his own designs on our heroine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-02-28
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Girls in Distress
Overview: Jeune Filles en Detresse (Young Girls in Distress) was director G. W. Pabst's last French production before his (ill-timed) return to Nazi-occupied Austria in 1941. Somewhat reminiscent of Maedchen in Uniform, the story is set in a private girl's school, populated almost exclusively by children from broken homes. Among the few students who can claim family stability is Micheline Presle, but even her happiness is threatened when her lawyer father Andre Luguet inaugurates an affair with stage actress Jacqueline Debulac. With the help of Debulac's daughter Louisa Carletti, Presle is able to break up her father's romance and deliver him into the open arms of her mother Marcelle Chantal. On the whole, the performance by the younger cast members are more convincing than those rendered by the film's so-called adults.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-01-10
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Barcarolle
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-03-26
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Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre
Overview: Maxime de Champcey, a bankrupt marquis, is hired by the wealthy Laroque and falls for his daughter Marguerite. She loves him too but rejects him under the belief he's a fortune hunter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-02-21
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Miquette and Her Mother
Overview: The irresistible rise of a young provincial, Miquette, who, having risen to Paris, will experience success in the theater and love in Hollywood with a very attractive tennis player.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-03-23
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Hanged Man's Farm
Overview: A large farm in Vendée. The father is dying and the three brothers and sister swear not to marry not to break up the field. Months pass. Francis, the eldest, took things in hand. For him, the promise to their father is sacred. So he does everything for his brothers and his sister Amanda are not tempted. However, the latter lets himself courted by a young man from the neighboring village ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-12-05
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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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La Grande Marnière
Overview: A rich peasant, Carvajan, seeks revenge on the castellan, Clairefont, with whom he had a serious conflict. Their respective children, Antoinette and Pascal, meet and fall in love with each other. Robert de Clairefont, Antoinette's brother, unjustly accused of murder, is defended and saved by Pascal. Finally, love, by uniting the son of one to the daughter of the other, will appease souls and reconcile families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-03-23
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Antoine & Antoinette
Overview: 1947, in France, Antoine and Antoinette, a young couple living in Paris, lead a monotonous existence: he works in a print shop while she is a shop assistant. But one evening, they regain hope: Antoine finds a winning lottery ticket in his girlfriend's handbag. He decides to cash it in, but loses his wallet. What follows is a series of twists and turns that redefine the couple's priorities while forcing them to remain optimistic.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-09-27
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A Cage of Nightingales
Overview: In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of his boarding school director.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-09-06
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Le Pavillon de la folle
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-11-28
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