Robert Blome
Also Known As: Robert Blomé
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Schaarbeek, Belgium
Adult: No
Birthday: April 25, 1905
Age: 120 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 01, 2003
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Carom Shots
Overview: Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he wants, he begins plotting the demise of the head of the company. The company itself specializes in holiday travel and unscrupulously brutalizes its customers for maximum profit, spending more thought on publicity gimmicks than customer service...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-17
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Le 84 prend des vacances
Overview: Gaston Bernod is a Parisian bus driver. Honest, upright and hard-working, he is held in high esteem by his superiors. Gaston has always pampered "his" bus, going as far as to equip it with a fuel-saving device of his invention. Very close to his vehicle, he may have somewhat neglected his wife Paulette, who lets herself got round by the smooth words of Pierrot. The gigolo has indeed managed to persuade her to follow him to the Mont Saint-Michel, "a wonderful nest for their burgeoning love" as he says. The trouble is that Gaston, while driving his dear 84, catches sight of the car, and suddenly aware of his misfortune, sees red. He immediately sets off in pursuit of the culprits, involving his load of helpless passengers in the chase.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-02-22
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Secret Cargo
Overview: In a Central American state, the owner of a dance hall and his sponsor engage in drug trafficking. Are involved in various intrigues, a gypsy orchestra, its singer, the sister of the conductor, some policemen. Imprisonment and death are at the end of the adventures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-12-27
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Sending of Flowers
Overview: Envoi de Fleurs is based on incidents in the life of French composer Paul Delmet. Played by popular French singing star Tino Rossi, Delmet is depicted as a man all too willing to give up personal happiness in favor of blind ambition. After carrying on a romance by correspondence with beautiful young Suzanne (Micheline Francey), Delmet is on the verge of marrying the girl. Instead, he allows himself to be talked out of leaving France to further his own career, with disastrous results for all concerned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-05-26
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Five Red Tulips
Overview: During the Tour de France, five riders are found murdered with a red tulip near their bodies. A journalist and a police inspector lead the investigation to unmask the murderer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-03-23
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Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Overview: "Le Tambourin", a Montmartre nightclub, is on its way down. Although it can boast great performances by the alluring Les Bluebell Girls and by Jacques Hélian's lively Big Band the venue does not attract people anymore. Nightclub patrons now prefer the jazz cellars of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Taking this new taste into account, the staff of the "Tambourin" and Jacques Hélian decide to set up their own club, "La Pivoine Ecarlate". They are joined by Pâquerette, a flower vendor and amateur singer, and by Jean-Pierre Francis, an existentialist poet...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-08
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L'Homme aux mains d'argile
Overview: The fictionalized life, and interpreted by himself, of the popular boxing champion Marcel Cerdan. Training sessions, matches, victories, flight to the U.S.A. where the title of world champion is disputed, form the whole subject of the film.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-03
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Under the Paris Sky
Overview: Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-03-28
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Over the waves
Overview: Panorama of the programs and hosts who made the heyday of radio in the 1950s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-11
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Potatoes
Overview: In a village in the Ardennes, during the German occupation, finding rations is becoming almost impossible. Clovis, an ordinary labourer, decides to cross the occupied zone to bring back enough potatoes to feed his family. His plan is a success but Clovis rapidly becomes obsessed with storing the precious tubers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-11-22
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A Girl in a Pocket
Overview: A professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his female lab assistant, when she drinks the liquid by accident and shrinks to 3 inches tall. The professor keeps her in his pocket until he can find an antidote. Sometimes she's naked, too.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-11-06
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Seventh Heaven
Overview: "Le septième ciel" became Raymond Bernard's last film; a black comedy about a female brewery owner who donates vast amounts of money to charitable causes. The funds to do this, she raises through her liaisons with wealthy gentlemen... who just "happen" to end up dead!
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-03-05
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Feeling Good
Overview: Short film by Pierre Etaix, edited out from the anthology film As Long as You've Got Your Health (1966).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-02-25
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Law of the Streets
Overview: Yves Tréguier, a young orphan, escapes from a reform school in Brittany to join "Dédé la Glace" in Paris, an old-timer with whom he has a sincere friendship. The love of Zette, a young girl he has met, and the benevolent friendship of Father Blain, the bistro owner, give him the desire for regular work. "Jo le Grec", a pimp jealous of Dédé's friendship with Yves, seduces Wanda, a prostitute he loves, and shoots Dédé dead. Blain prevents him from doing the same to Yves, and shoots him in turn. Yves can live an honest life with Zette and the baby she's expecting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-04-25
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L'Homme aux clés d'or
Overview: Antoine Fournier, a language teacher at a secondary school in Lille, was disgraced by four young men he had caught stealing money from a charity collection. Dismissed from the teaching profession, Fournier found a job as a porter in a Monte Carlo palace through his wartime friend Ansaldi. A few years later, when he became the first concierge, the "man with the golden keys", chance brought him into the presence of the young men, married but as Machiavellian as ever. He won't take revenge on them, but their baser instincts will.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-11-07
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Happy Anniversary
Overview: Heureux Anniversaire is a 1962 French short comedy film directed by Pierre Étaix. While his wife impatiently waits and gets drunk, a husband tries to get the appropriate anniversary gifts and fight his way home through traffic in time for their celebratory lunch. It won an Oscar in 1963 for Best Short Subject.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-02-28
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Port of Point-du-Jour
Overview: Emile is a steelworker in a car factory ;a confirmed bachelor going on fifty, he leads a peaceful life .One night, he is woken up by a burst of machine gun fire. The cafe in the corner of the street has been burglarized.A distraught young girl rushes into his apartment building and hides in his room .When the police make a search, he makes her out to be his lover for the night.Madeleine tells her about her sad past : she has severed all links with her parents ,she's an unwed mother and in the underworld's clutches. Emile sends his protegee to old mommy Dupont's place ,in the suburbs of Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-04-13
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Until the Last One
Overview: Just released from prison after serving a six-month sentence, Fernand Bastia goes into hiding. He has indeed double-crossed his gang by keeping part of the product of a robbery for himself. Thanks to his sister Marcella, Fernand has taken refuge in a small circus where she works. There, he falls in love with Gina but also arouses the jealousy of Quedchi, a fairground stall-holder who has seen him hiding the stolen money. After a while, Fredo Riccioni, the boss of the gang and his men, manage to trace him...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-03-20
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Objective: 500 Million
Overview: Reichau, a former army captain, is back in France after serving three years in prison for belonging to the OAS (Secret Armed Organization), a dissident paramilitary group during the Algerian War. Marked by his past, he does not believe in the values of his country any more. At a loss to know what to do with his life, he agrees one day to take part in a heist set up by Pierre, a pilot, the very man who gave him away in Oran. The operation, in which Yo, a gorgeous woman, participates, consists in stealing a bag containing 55 million francs during a Paris-Bordeaux flight...
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-06-29
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King of Hearts
Overview: An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-12-21
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As Long as You've Got Your Health
Overview: An anthology film consisting of four stories. (1) A man reads a Dracula novel while in bed, but cannot seem to tell the novel from reality, causing sleep troubles. (2) A man cannot escape the absurd ads he saw at the movie theater that day. (3) A polluted and construction-ridden town keeps everybody on edge, sending one man to the doctor. (4) A hunter, a farmer and a couple on a picnic unknowingly cause continuous trouble for one another.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-02-25
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Drôles de phénomènes
Overview: Since the day their mother Aline remarried, Patrice and Eric, a joyful pair of twins, have been very happy. Indeed, François Chantour, their stepfather, is very kind and behaves like a big brother to them. Even if they are not very rich, the four of them live a cheerful life in their charming house. The trouble is that, in Lyon, the family on the boys'father's side are worried, especially the twins' grandmother, who fears Patrice and Eric are given a bad education. She therefore brings them to her big house in the hope of their improving their manners. A very unfortunate decision indeed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-04
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Male Companion
Overview: A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-11-04
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Male Hunt
Overview: A few stories about marriage and its problems. Antoine is about to marry Gisèle. His friend Julien, an established bachelor, desperately tries to convince him not to do it, recounting his own painful experiences.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-09-18
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Last Love
Overview: Hélène has an affair with Alain for ten years, but does not want to divorce her husband. Alain receives one letter from a girl Michelle one day. Hélène, who is very jealous, receives that letter by chance and interprets it incorrectly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-02-06
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Cherchez l'idole
Overview: After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning to the music shop he discovers that the precious instrument has just been sold! The problem is complicated by the fact that five stars all bought the same model that morning...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-02-26
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The Suitor
Overview: Absent-minded yet cultured, Pierre answers his parents demands to wed by ignoring both astronomy and the housemaid, instead falling head-over-heels for rich damsels.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-12
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That Man from Rio
Overview: French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-02-05
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Le Doulos
Overview: Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-13
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