Michel François
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nice, France
Birthday: July 04, 1929
Deathday: October 19, 2010
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Woman Who Dared
Overview: The strength of a couple's fascination with airplanes and flight is to the detriment of their family
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-02-03
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The Mischief Makers
Overview: A group of young boys develops a crush on a girl, leading to jealousy toward her boyfriend. They scheme to disrupt their relationship, and when the boyfriend catches one of them spying, he punishes him harshly. In retaliation, the boys attempt to make the girl doubt her boyfriend's love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-11-14
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Deburau
Overview: Jean-Gaspard Deburau is a very successful mime, the most famous in his category. One day, he falls head over heels in love with Marie Duplessis, a courtesan better known as "La Dame aux Camélias". But he soon realizes that he is but a number in her long list of lovers. He will find comfort in devoting his time teaching his art to his son Charles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-06-29
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The Bear Cage
Overview: In the Brussells suburb known as "Bear Cage," a poor grocer is at odds with his sexually hyperactive and fashionably Maoist son, who is also a college student. When the students at the college stage a protest in which his son is involved, his exasperation mounts.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-06-04
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Rose
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-02-21
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Courier of Lyons
Overview: A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of justice will lead an innocent person to the guillotine.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-11-10
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The Lover of Borneo
Overview: Lucien Mazerand, a bookseller from Châteauroux, goes to Paris to spend a few days in the French capital. At the music-hall, he discovers Stella Losange, a singer who literally enthralls him. Determined to seduce her, he is aware that a mere bookseller from the provinces stands no chance. So he resorts to a stratagem: posing for a globe-trotter who has gone through millions of adventures. The scheme works but the lady wants more : why doesn't he take her along with him so that she can share his dangerous life?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-05-28
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Patricia
Overview: Mademoiselle Bressac is a bossy spinster who manages "Le Clos", her estate, with an iron hand. But is she really a bad person? Her manners are abrupt but they only hide a heart of gold. Doesn't she bring up four orphans, Dominique, Fabien, Chantal and Jean? And as if it were not enough, she has accepted to educate another child, her niece Patricia, entrusted to her care by her irresponsible father. Thanks to her, the five young people have grown up in harmony and now they are about to find their place in society. Two of them, Jean and Patricia, who love each other, live only for the estate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-10-27
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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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Sins of Youth
Overview: A rich businessman living alone is deprived of the nephew he was to have brought up decides on his doctor's advice to search for the four illegitimate children he once fathered, which leads him to accept responsibility for his actions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-11-16
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Threats
Overview: "Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel :t he fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-01-11
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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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The Last Vacation
Overview: A schoolboy remembers his last holiday in the big house of his family in the country, before it was sold.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-03-24
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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 Rebels of Lomanach
Overview: A young woman has a perilous affair with a General from the opposing side during the Revolutionary war.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-04-06
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I Was an Adventuress
Overview: Old friends of Vera Vronsky remind her of her past and try to blackmail her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-21
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There's No Tomorrow
Overview: Evelyne, a woman of bourgeois origin, now reduced to dancing in a sleazy nightclub, is reunited with her first love, who has become a successful doctor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-03-22
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The Phantom Wagon
Overview: French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he's wrought when he dies on New Year's Eve and is collected by Death in his carriage.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-09-07
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La cage aux souris
Overview: During the Occupation, a boarding school in Moulins was placed under the rule of a headmistress committed to collaboration. It is within these walls that Michel, Arthur and Franck, escaped prisoners seeking to cross the demarcation line, find themselves stranded. Three boarders, Manouche, Jo and La Tigresse, discreetly devote themselves to them. Until the day when, aware of the danger, they alert the Resistance through the intermediary of a warden. The three men cross into the free zone, and Michel promises to find Manouche.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-10-11
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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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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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The Best Part
Overview: Philippe Perrin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in the High Alps. Like all the men who work on the building site, he gives the best part of himself. Unfortunately, his health deteriorates but he refuses to follow the doctor's orders as well as the advice of Micheline, a young nurse who has fallen in love with him. However, driven by the evolution of his illness, Philippe finally makes up his mind to go down to the valley for a treatment. On the very day of his departure though, a young Arab worker gets killed in a rock crusher...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-30
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Who Killed Santa Claus?
Overview: A village in the French Alps is rocked by a series of crimes, including the theft of a sacred ring and the murder of a man dressed as Père Noël (Father Christmas).
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-10-16
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Isabelle Is Afraid of Men
Overview: During a summer spent with her cousins, whose freedom and incessant flirting at first surprised her, young Isabelle met a charming playmate whom her mother and aunt, worried about this tender friendship, forbade her to see again. This doesn't stop Isabelle from meeting Yves and learning that friendship and love are not the same thing: the sweet little friend is left alone with his dreams and the memory of a too-pretty girlfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-10-30
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Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
Overview: Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho version and the American King of the Monsters! in a unique assemblage exclusive to the Francophone market. Released by Les Films du Verseau.
Genres: Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-03-14
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If Paris Were Told to Us
Overview: Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-01-27
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Clara de Montargis
Overview: Renaud, a young student who is camping alone at the moment, has a dream one night, in which the woman of his dreams appears. When he wakes up the next morning, he cannot believe his eyes: the creature of the dream is there by the side of the road, in the flesh! The woman accepts to drive Renaud to Montargis but it is only after she has dropped him off there that he realizes that what he experienced for her was love at first sight. He then decides not to return to Paris but to try and find the wonderful stranger in Montargis. He discovers that the woman's name is Clara and that she is the member of a drama company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-06-20
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