André Marnay
Also Known As: Paul André Rigoult
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Levallois-Perret, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Birthday: November 14, 1877
Deathday: May 23, 1964
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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L'instinct
Overview: Between the feelings of the man who believes himself to be deceived and of the surgeon's instinct, it is the latter which triumphs in Doctor Bernon, who saves the man presumed to be his wife's lover. He then realizes that this is not the case and that she is still worthy of him.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-04-04
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A whim of the Pompadour
Overview: Gaston de Méville has written a libel against Madame de Pompadour and her Royal Lover, King Louis XV. But the Marchioness is all the less mad at Garston as she has fallen for him and she does all she can to save him from the punishment he normally deserves. One night, while is performing in a play at the Palace, he is denounced. But the King is merciful to Gaston and his content to banish him to Canada.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-05-08
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Passport 13.444
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-07-08
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Bagnes d'enfants
Overview: A boy is sent to a reformatory for a small fault. He runs away and tries to kill himself when the gendarmes want to catch him. His parents arrive in time and the disaster is avoided.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-07-21
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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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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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Street Singer
Overview: A father allows himself to be accused of the murder of a blackmailer to save his son who is the real murderer. But he is forced to confess, and commits suicide in his cell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-28
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Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
Overview: In 1917, in a small village in the North, Abbe Gaillard is suspected by the Germans of facilitating the escape of French and Belgian soldiers. A false alibi makes him innocent and he can thus continue his mission, thanks to the devotion of an Alsatian who, in enemy uniform, obscurely serves his country.
Genres: War Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-06-07
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L'âge d'or
Overview: Véra, a vivacious woman, and her alleged brother Boris, are both hired by the Dubelairs as their chambermaid and caretaker. But Dubelair has done bad business while his wife Juliette plays at the races and... loses ! So when it comes to paying their domestics wages, Dubelair gives them lottery tickets. Chance has it that one of them is winning...!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-01-28
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Mermoz
Overview: Biography and apology of the famous pilot, nicknamed by some the Archangel, who organized the airmail network of South America, flew the first over the Andes Cordillera, maintained the mystique of the South Atlantic, militated in the Crosses of Fire and perished at the controls of "La Croix du Sud" during its twenty-fourth crossing.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-11-03
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Father Goriot
Overview: An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Paris. In after Balzac.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-03-22
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Mensonges
Overview: Marie Leroux, who is married to Charles, an honest, understanding country doctor, lives an uneventful, rather monotonous life.Her husband is a kind man but he does not give her any thrill or excitement. One day, Marie meets Olivier Dumas-Beaulieu, a handsome industrialist, who is in the process of leaving his fiancée Corinne, despite her being pregnant by him. It is easy for the confirmed womanizer he is, to seduce Marie, who very foolishly thinks she has found true love. Shortly afterward Charles is shot dead by Olivier while the two men were having a quarrel about Marie. The latter, who finds the corpse, believes her husband has committed suicide. Which is not the police's opinion and Marie is arrested and condemned to ten years in prison. Annihilated by such unfair treatment and, worse, by the separation from her beloved eight-year-old daughter, she still manages to survive and to serve her sentence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-07-25
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Pas un mot à la reine mère
Overview: The young King Boris of Neustria, who has followed his family in their exile in London, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy American businessman. The latter, however, will only approve the union if Boris gives up royalty for the business world.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-11-01
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Emile the African
Overview: Émile Boulard is a props man in a Paris movie studio. He has a wife, Suzanne. Or to be more accurate, let's say he HAD a wife since she left him fifteen years before, allegedly ... to go buy a post stamp. But now that their daughter Martine , who lives with her, is old enough to marry, she resurfaces. She confesses that, in order to explain his absence, she has told Martine her father was a great explorer and lion hunter in Africa. Not to disappoint his daughter, Émile accepts to pose as the adventurer he is supposed to be. At the same time he will help Daniel, Martine's bashful fiancé, not to become a henpecked husband like him.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-05-19
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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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Du Guesclin
Overview: A chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th century.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-03
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Oaths
Overview: In the eighteenth century, during a revolution in Karelia, an aristocrat, Armas de Murnau, fought alongside the revolutionaries. Captured, sentenced to death, he will try everything to see the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-10-23
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Méphisto
Overview: On his wedding night with Hilda Bergmann, the daughter of a swedish chemist, the young and rich american Willy Keanton is stabbed by an unidentified masked man. He kidnaps the young woman, who is found later on by the count Robert d'Arbel. The detective Jacques Miral, nicknamed « the pointed tower's ferret » is put in charge of the case. Soon, he discovers that an international bandit, Méphisto, seeks to seize the formula of a process against asphyxiating gas, invented by professor Bergmann. The struggle is tough between Miral and the uncatchable Méphisto. Monique Aubray, Keanton's secretary and engaged to the detective, the Nostradamus stallholders and the « mastiff of Bordeaux », and the famous novelist Fortuné Bidon are also involved in the case...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-04-17
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The Count of Monte Cristo Part 2 - The Retaliation
Overview: Having found the fabulous treasure of which Abbé Faria had spoken to him, Dantès has only one idea left: revenge. He will succeed patiently, but will not however have the heart to break the poor Mercedes. Then he will leave for the East, accompanied by a lovely Levantine, Haydé, who served him to accomplish his revenge.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-02-24
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Princesse Masha
Overview: A baby is abandoned near the Neva in St. Petersburg 1890. A teacher picks it up and takes the little girl. 20 years pass, Masha (Claudia Victrix) flee Russia because her father conspired against the Tsarist regime and is in the attention of the dangerous General Bourgassoff (Jean Toulout) . She goes to study medicine in Paris....
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-04-08
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Flanders under Philip II
Overview: Concepcion de la Playa Setta, an Andalusian noblewoman, the daughter of the provost marshall of Flanders, is in love with the Duke Philippe de Hornes. He is a Brussels gentleman in revolt against her people, the Spanish occupiers. When her rebellious lover is hurt during an uprising against the troops of Philip II, Concepcion takes him in in her house. And she personally defends him when, at his trial. Condemned to be hanged through the intervention of the Duke of Alba, de Hornes is eventually reprieved by the new governor and set free. The two lovers meet again and can live happily from now on.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Le Juif Errant
Overview: Guilty of insulting Christ Ahasverus became forever eternity the wandering Jew. On 13 February 1682, during a night of pogrom in the Warsaw ghetto a Frenchman married to a Polish Jew is assassinated by members of a secret society.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-12-24
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Three Naked Flappers
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-01-18
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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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Mysteries of Paris
Overview: Towards the end of the 19th century, the Duke of Gerolstein traveled to Paris. Sixteen years earlier he had a daughter who was taken from him by her mother who was chased out of the palace. After many dramatic adventures, the Duke finds his daughter in the person of Fleur de Marie, martyred throughout her childhood by the Owl and the schoolmaster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-10-13
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Madame Sans-Gêne
Overview: A French washerwoman becomes a duchess and a friend of Napoleon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1925-01-02
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The Lady of Lebanon
Overview: The French and the English spy on each other, in this adventure set in post World War I colonial Syria.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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The Miraculous Life of Teresa of Lisieux
Overview: A chronicling of the life of Saint Therese of the Child Jesus and the Holy Face, a Catholic nun who died of tuberculosis at age 24.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-11-08
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The Two Worlds
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-09-12
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La dette
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Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1920-10-22
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L'aiglonne
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1922-02-17
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The Man with Three Masks
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1921-04-22
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My Kid of a Father
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-05-01
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Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
Overview: The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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La course du flambeau
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-11-20
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Pasteur
Overview: Guitry reprises his role as Pasteur which he played successfully at the Vaudeville Theatre in 1919.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-09-20
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