Jeanne Marie-Laurent
Also Known As: Jeanne Micheline Marie Quillevere, Жанна Мари-Лоран
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: September 01, 1877
Deathday: April 07, 1964
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Pavements of Paris
Overview: Early Gaumont short by an unknown director.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-12-31
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Verdun, memories of history
Overview: A visitor from the western front tells young children, in a sober commentary, about the battle of Verdun.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-11-06
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The Slump Is Over
Overview: A provincial tour fails without money in an abandoned theater in the capital and puts on a review under the sign of optimism.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-10-05
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The Bread Peddler
Overview: A brave woman is sentenced to prison on false testimony. She escapes twenty years later and takes refuge in Paris where she carries bread while looking for her children Georges and Lucie who will find her and exonerate her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-03-23
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La rose effeuillée
Overview: A washerwoman works so long for the same bosses that she gets to like their young son very much. One day she is unjustly accused of robbery, and dismissed. She suffers in her loneliness, until the day she hears that the boy is terminally ill, and there's no medical hope for him. She comes back and sits by him, praying to Saint Thérèse de Lisieux - and the miracle happens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-06-18
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À nous deux, madame la vie
Overview: Two bank employees like Lucie, their colleague. They steal money from the cash register to gamble. Jean wins and Paul ends up in prison for five years. When he leaves, he discovers that Jean has become a businessman and that he has married Lucie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-03-26
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Tamara la complaisante
Overview: A man, enthralled by a peasant woman he encounters in Siberia, forgets his fiancee, turns to crime, and brings about ruin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-02-17
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Gosse de riche
Overview: The daughter of an industrialist takes an interest in the workers and tries to improve their lot. She avoids a strike, and falls in love with an engineer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-06-07
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The Hunted Beast
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1923-03-09
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Coup de feu dans la nuit
Overview: A woman is accused of the murder of her husband, who was jealous and brutal. Her lawyer manages to get her acquitted and they get married in the end.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-03-03
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Faces of Children
Overview: A young boy living in the Swiss Alps struggles to come to terms with his mother's death and his father's remarriage which brings a new mother and step-sister into his family.
Genres: Drama Family Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-01-24
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Le portrait de Mireille
Overview: Le portrait de Mireille is a 1909 short film
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1909-01-01
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Molière
Overview: A film about the life of Molière (1622-1673).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1910-09-10
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The Winner
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-03-24
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La Brière
Overview: In the lands of Brière a bitter dispute broke out over the draining of marshes for brick making. An old man, Aoustin, leads the resistance and refuses to give the hand of his daughter Théotiste to a young peasant, Jeannin, who supports it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-01-02
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Paris' Girls
Overview: This French film confection directed by Henry Roussell concerns two young Parisian beauties in love with same fellow (Fernand Fabre). When one of the girls (Suzy Vernon) goes to America, the one who stays home (Esther Kiss) thinks shes triumphed. But when the traveler returns and the guy goes for her new-found sophistication, the competition continues- including the hilariously mock-heroic duel we see in this four-sheet design.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-16
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The Race for Love
Overview: In 1925 what may have been the first cycling film was made, Le Roi de la Pédale starring the popular comedy actor Biscot, and with scenes shot on the Tour de France and also with Henri Decoin as a screenwriter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-10-16
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Les Misérables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-11-24
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Stupéfiants
Overview: When an up-and-coming singer's career is jeopardized by morphine addiction, her brother takes on the ruthless dope pushers who are intent on keeping her hooked.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-12-16
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The Gambler's Ruin
Overview: An unidentified (and unfortunately incomplete) exotic melodrama, tends towards De Mille's The Cheat. Considered by specialists as a German film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-10-16
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Thérèse Raquin
Overview: A silent adaptation of the novel by French writer Émile Zola. Thérèse Raquin was shot in a German studio and featured Gina Manes in her greatest part. Zola’s sombre bourgeois tragedy was brought vividly to life. The details of the Raquin home, the human tensions, the unspoken words, and the looming shadows created an unforgettable effect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-11-04
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Three Naked Flappers
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-01-18
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The Kidnapping
Overview: Hans has killed the dog of Firmin, a shepherd. Wild with rage, Firmin kidnaps Elsi, Hans' fiancée and locks her up at his home. Hans, a peddler, vows to find the missing girl. This is what he does and he manages, with the help of Mânu, the village idiot, to give Elsi a letter. On seeing her, the changeling falls in love at first sight with the young woman. Elsi soon realizes that Mânu can become her instrument of vengeance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-11-23
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The Fear
Overview: French horror short from 1913.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-01-01
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A Drama of the Air
Overview: An aging engineer pursues a scheme to build a flying machine at the expense of his family's health. When his daughter falls ill, he enters a flying competition to win money for her treatment, even though his design is dangerously untested.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-12-31
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Jephté's Daughter
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1910-07-15
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The Living Dead
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-02-23
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The Child of Paris
Overview: The young daughter of an army captain missing in action runs away from school and is kidnapped by Parisian lowlifes. When the kidnapper flees to Nice with the child, the kind-hearted employee of one of his accomplices sets off in pursuit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-09-17
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The Oval Portrait
Overview: Pierre,a marquis, is madly in love with his dear wife Jeanne whose picture he is painting; one day while hunting in the woods, the husband accidentally kills his beloved one. He's desperate to finish the portrait so he uses other models but none of them can touch his late wife's beauty. Six months later he meets Madeleine who resembles his dear departed. It's not long before she understands her rival is a picture and she tries more and more to look like Jeanne.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1910-12-31
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Mylord l'Arsouille
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-04-24
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The Vampires or, The Arch Criminals of Paris
Overview: Paris is prey to an invisible terror against which the police can do nothing: a sinister organization that sows chaos and death. The intrepid journalist Philippe Guérande and his partner embark on a long crusade to put an end to the crimes of the Great Vampire and Irma Vep, his dangerous accomplice. (A ten episode movie serial.)
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1915-11-13
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Jeunes filles d'hier et d'aujourd'hui
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1915-01-01
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The Barcarolle of Love
Overview: A young singer at the Opera finds out who really loves her, when the theater catches fire on the opening night of the performance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-10-10
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Halfway Up the Sky
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-06-12
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Ça aussi !... c'est Paris
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-04-04
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A Spiritualistic Seance
Overview: M. Instead, is a spiritualist and decides to invite some friends to a seance. His daughter, Lucy, however, is much more interested in a certain young man, and when papa goes out to send telegrams to his guests she proceeds to entertain her admirer. Unfortunately papa returns with some of his friends, and the young man balances a table on his back while the tablecloth hides him from the view of all. The guests come in, and tea is put on the table. The poor young man under it is in a very uncomfortable position, and sends all the tea-things flying. The ladies shriek, and the men climb on chairs, for they think it is spirits, and Lucy seizes the opportunity to join him under the table. Papa Insteade lifts up the corner of the tablecloth, and reveals the two enjoying themselves. The pair are so obviously in love that he relents, and gives the necessary consent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1911-01-05
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Verdun: Visions of History
Overview: A dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and German soldiers, shot on site of the actual battle.
Genres: War Drama Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-11-08
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Sisters-in-Arms
Overview: During the war from '14-'18, two women travel by foot in the North of France and Belgium to aid an organization to provide information to the English
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-12-02
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The Call
Overview: The story of Charles de Foucauld, born September 15, 1858 in Strasbourg (France) and died December 1, 1916 in Tamanrasset in Algeria during the French colonial period, was a cavalry officer of the French army who became an explorer and geographer, then Catholic religious, priest, linguist and hermit in the Hoggar desert in Algeria.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-01
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