Jacques Castelot
Also Known As: Jacques Storms
Biography: Jacques Castelot (born Jacques Marie Paul Éloi Storms) (11 July 1914 – 25 August 1989) was a French film actor. He appeared in 86 films between 1938 and 1982. His brother was the writer André Castelot and their father was the Symbolist painter Maurice Chabas. From 1940 to 1945 he was married to actress and theater director Héléna Bossis (pseudonym of Henriette Berthe Blanche Berriau). Source: Article "Jacques Castelot" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Anvers, Belgium
Birthday: July 11, 1914
Deathday: August 25, 1989
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Gender: Male
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Comment épouser un premier ministre
Overview: Philippe Lambert, an attractive young attaché to the Prime Minister's office, is a man of many female conquests. One of them, Madame Grandbourg, wife of a very influential man, sent him a passionate letter, which he lost at the theater. Marion, the usherette who found it, contacts him to ask him for a "favor" in exchange for its return: to avoid eviction from the family apartment, because of the father, who gardens in every room and constantly floods the downstairs neighbors. At first, Lambert refuses to give in to the "blackmail" and calls in the police to unmask the indelicate woman, but love soon gets in the way...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-11-11
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Falling Point
Overview: Three men kidnap a young girl and keep her in a small house on an isolated beach, waiting for her father to pay up the ransom. But the youngest one, in charge of watching her, let accidentally the girl see his face and it becomes no longer possible to return her alive...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-11
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Obsession
Overview: Hélène and Aldo Giovanni are a circus trapeze double act and a couple. Aldo is temporarily replaced by former-partner Alexandre when the former is injured. The two get into a fight and the following day Alexandre is discovered dead. Hélène suspects her husband is responsible for the murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-10-28
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One Bullet Is Enough
Overview: After leaving the prison where they have served their sentence, some criminals plan a new robbery.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1954-11-26
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The Truth About Bebe Donge
Overview: François Donge, a rich industrialist and womaniser, meets a girl nicknamed Bébé who he marries. Ten years later, poisoned by his wife and dying in hospital, he recalls his married life and understands how his wife who adored him suffered from his many affairs and indifference.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-02-13
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Impasse of Two Angels
Overview: Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present, Antoine gives his future wife a precious diamond necklace, which is coveted by a gang of crooks. Jean, one of them, is given the mission to approach Marianne and steal the necklace from her. The only trouble is that when he meets her, she recognizes him as the man she once loved.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-10-03
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Justice Is Done
Overview: Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads something different into the presented facts.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-20
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Topaze
Overview: Albert Topaze, sincere schoolteacher addicted to "rote" morality, works at a private school run by supremely money-grubbing M. Muche, whose daughter, also a teacher, makes cynical use of the knowledge that Topaze loves her. Alas, Topaze's naive honesty brings him unjust dismissal...and makes him fair game for the "aunt" of his private pupil, really the mistress of crooked politician Regis, who needs an honest-seeming "front man." Can artful Suzy Courtois keep Topaze on the string? With steadily escalating disillusion comes moral crisis...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-01-25
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La Malibran
Overview: On the death of the famous singer Maria Malibran, Countess Merlin retraces the main lines of the unusual destiny of this young woman entirely devoted to her art.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-05-03
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Overview: Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him...
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-01-14
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The Great Deception
Overview: Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to transmit his inheritance to his son Pascal. At least this is what he thinks, for Pascal has concealed from his father the fact that his son was ... a daughter, his eighth daughter! Well, enough is enough and Geneviève has no other choice but become a boy first, then a soldier and even the special envoy of Louis XV, King of France, to Catherine II, the Czarina of Russia.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-09-23
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In The Water... Which Makes Bubbles!
Overview: Paul fishes out of the water the body of his greatest enemy. To avoid accusations that he is a killer, taking steps that will clear his good name.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-10-25
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Cavalcade of Love
Overview: Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the walls of the Chateau de Champs. Legend has it that whoever marries in the Chateau is doomed to an unhappy life. This proves to be the case in 1639 and 1839, but the heroine of the 1939 segment, Corinne Luchaire, is determined to break the jinx. She is convinced that she will prove an unsuitable bride for Claude Dauphin, and he is likewise convinced that he will turn out to be an inadequate groom. But the couple's respective families will not be dissuaded, and the marriage takes place as scheduled? with unexpectedly happy results!
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-11-06
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Monsieur des Lourdines
Overview: A young man from an aristocratic family tires of the country life and moves to Paris where he squanders his inheritance. Returning to his home with remorse, he reconciles with his father and becomes engaged to his true love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-06-09
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The Island of Love
Overview: A Corsican fisherman is the victim of a vendetta, when he was wrong to date the niece of a businessman proposing to create a seaside resort, much to the anger of the islanders.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-05-23
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Passionnelle
Overview: Thérèse kills her lover during the very night of her wedding to the count of Vétheul. To gain a night with her, a modest local worker agrees to bury the body.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-05-14
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Captain Blomet
Overview: Returning from the cemetery where he has just buried his wife, Captain Blomet is on the point of committing suicide, when his valet reveals to him that the deceased had 17 lovers. Blomet undertakes to wash his honor in different ways according to his rivals.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-12-10
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Paris Waltz
Overview: A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-05-05
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Road Blocked
Overview: Jacques Audoin falls in love with a pianist, Evelyne Clery, and marries her. In reality, he had wanted to approach her, because he imagined that she had witnessed the murder of the lover of his first wife. Evelyne learns what has happened and, revolted by what she thinks is her husband's plot, commits suicide. Jacques confesses his crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-01-21
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Cartouche, King of Paris
Overview: The romantic life of the head of a bandit gang, wanted by the police. Cartouche gets away with being deported to Louisiana after unmasking a plot by a Duke against the throne.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-08-02
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No Pity for Women
Overview: The wealthy industrialist Alain de Narbois has disappeared. Michel Dunant, an idle man who passed by and who looks exactly like the deceased, is taken for Alain by a young woman and her servant. He jumps at the chance but quickly realizes that, in this hushed little world, masters and servants play comedy and know very well that he is only a double of Alain. In fact, the industrialist was assassinated.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-08-30
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Marlène
Overview: Returning from South America, a singer is hired by an old pal who runs a detective agency to use a perch as a night club performer to be an investigator.The amateur sleuth then falls for a girl whose brother is a jewel thief.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-02
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The Big Meeting
Overview: One of the first victories against the Nazis in World War II is when Parisians help allied forces drive the enemy out of occupied French Algeria.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-02-10
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The Baron of the Locks
Overview: The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for more attractive scenery offered by a wealthy local man. Meanwhile, there is a certain charming cafe owner that the Baron finds irresistible -- at least for awhile.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-04-13
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Forbidden Fruit
Overview: A doctor, leading an agreed life of the provincial petty bourgeoisie, falls in love with a young woman. As their relationship deepens, he becomes violently jealous and blames her for her dating and friendships.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-09-19
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Les Petites Cardinal
Overview: Napoleon III, the Commune, the third Republic in the background. In the foreground, two pretty, talented sisters, Virginie and Pauline Cardinal. They are ballerinas at the Opera de Paris and very much courted by wealthy, elegant men. They will manage to climb in the society of their time, despite parents set on respectability but also attracted by money.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-06-22
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My Husband Is Marvelous
Overview: A young journalist, Sylvia, has to interview a writer, Claude Chatel, whose success is due to his misogyny.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-04-29
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The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Overview: In order to please Martineau, a wealthy industrialist, cynical Gabory accepts to organize a rigged beauty contest whose winner will be Françoise, Martineau's young mistress. However, there are other comely contestants among whom Christiane, the daughter of a general, Jackie, an unemployed actress, Colette, the daughter of a distiller and Marie, a secretary engaged to serious-minded construction foreman Robert. So, will things turn out exactly the way Martineau and Gabory want them...?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-10-31
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Desert Assault
Overview: Allied and German forces are stranded in desert during WW II and attempt to surrender each other.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-07-30
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Why America
Overview: A film about America between the world wars that attempts to capture and interpret the vital moving forces in American society that caused the United States to emerge by the end of World War II as a dominant world power.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-04-08
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Victor
Overview: Secretly in love with Françoise, the companion of his best friend Marc, Victor decides to go to prison in his place.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-06-13
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The Lovers of Manon Lescaut
Overview: In the reign of king Louis XV,a handsome student,Des Grieux, meets his charming cousin,Manon,just when she goes to the convent of Amiens,to take the veil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-28
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She's a girl from Paris
Overview: Lyane is a singer and daughter of the producer of the operetta: "C'est une fille de Paris". She convinces the composer of the music, Jacques Kellermann, whom she loves, to sign her piece. The famous composer Jean Paget, who cannot put the work to his advantage, declares to Jacques that Lyane had a child by him. Shocked, Jacques breaks with the singer who soon knows the celebrity. Finally, he realizes that happiness is ready to be seized, because the beauty still loves him...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-09-25
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Dirty Hands
Overview: A young intellectual, Hugo, joins the Communist Party out of a sense of idealism, only to see his principles manipulated by party leaders. He is given the assignment of killing Professor Hoederer, a party deviationist. However, he grows to admire the man and begins to have doubts about morals and revolutionary politics. But jealousy - Hugo thinks Hoederer has made love to his wife, Jessica - takes matters out of the political realm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-08-09
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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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Marie of the Isles
Overview: In 1635, Jacques du Parquet, the nephew of the well known explorer Belain d'Esnambic, enters a tavern in Dieppe, and falls in love with the daughter of the bartender, Marie Bonnard. He knows his noble family would disapprove such a marriage; besides, he is nominated for the post of governor in Martinica. He promised never to forget Marie, but as time goes by, she will accept to marry a rich and unscrupulous man, Monsieur de Saint-André. When her husband is appointed to serve in Martinica as General Commissioner, Marie demands to go with him. At her arrival, all sorts of trouble arrive: pirates take action against travelers and goods, rotten deals set the two officers against each other, and finally jealousy settles to make things worse. ~ Written by Artemis-9
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-01-15
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Casta diva
Overview: As soon as he graduated from the Naples Conservatory, Vincenzo Bellini meets Maddalena Fumaroli and immediately falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-27
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Other Side of Paradise
Overview: Complicated intrigues fester in the warmth of Segnac, a charming village on the Cô te d'Azur. The hô teliers' daughter, Violaine, has only a few months to live and loves Blaise d'Orliac, who is closely watched by his mistress Michèle. Old O'Hara is platonically in love with Violaine and encourages Blaise's meetings with the young girl. Michèle interferes. Blaise kills her. O'Hara believes Violaine is guilty and wants to accuse himself. Violaine, on the verge of death, exonerates Blaise. M. Dautrand, who was playing the part of a holiday painter but is really a police officer, decides after reading the girl's diary to leave Blaise in peace. Violaine dies happily.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-07-19
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Angelique
Overview: In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac out of convenience, but eventually, she falls in love with him. So when Jeoffray is arrested and then vanishes, she bravely sets out to find him. This is the first of many dramas based on Anne and Serge Golon's novels about strong-willed Angélique and her adventures during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King.
Genres: Adventure Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-08
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Don Juan's Night of Love
Overview: Mandrin, the French army deserter, becomes the leader of a gang of smugglers in Piedmont. He is loved by the beautiful innkeeper Rosetta but draws attention to the Marquise de Montbricourt, favorite of the king, who comes from Versailles just to see him. She will saved his life and allow him to marry Rosetta.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-03-08
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The Other Truth
Overview: Middle-aged attorney Pierre falls for a young woman who dances in a discotheque to work her way through medical school. The lovestruck lawyer can't bring himself to leave his wife over the young woman. When the dancer's wealthy suitor is murdered, Pierre is accused of the crime.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-04-19
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The Two Orphans
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Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-16
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Fatal Affair
Overview: Didier's wife is ill, and he does the best he can to take care of her. But he's often absent and he has casual love affairs. But Leone he meets in Bruxelles wants to become his one and only mistress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-04-09
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L'aventurière du Tchad
Overview: Alain de Blomette, a family man, is in danger of becoming a deviant under the influence of his mistress Fanny Lacourt. He steals a bracelet, loses at gambling and contemplates suicide. His family intervenes and sends him to Equatorial Africa. Fanny, stubborn, joins him there, stirring up trouble on the plantation. The guns start talking. Alain's rival collapses and Fanny is mortally wounded. More devious than ever, Alain indulges in regrettable excesses. A fatherly inspector finally intervenes to instill in him a sense of honor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-11-06
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An Evening at the Music Hall
Overview: A GI on furlough attends a Folies-Bergères show. He falls in love with a dancer, Claudie, the star of the theater.
Genres: Romance Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-11-19
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Le souffle du désir
Overview: Daniel Bellanger, a night-club crooner, is a basically straight,honest man. He has just married Christiane, a cashier in a Montmartre hotel and his main objective in life is to live happily with his wife and Pierrot, the son she had of a former union. Unfortunately Daniel accepts the offer of his old friend Freddy to run a gambling den. The place is frequented by a host of dubious guys, among whom a hood named Mario. The latter finds Christiane to his liking and soon shows he is prepared to do anything to take her away from Daniel, including kidnapping little Pierrot.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-04-09
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The Adventures of Gil Blas
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-04-06
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Love Me Strangely
Overview: Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window. Enlisting the help of an equally perverse casual acquaintance, Dino, the "handsome brute" proceeds to emotionally torture his second wife, Nathalie. The sadistic plan is picked up on by Officer Leroy who suspects the truth. Will he be able to snatch the unfortunate woman from the evil Alain's clutches?
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-10
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Les gros bras
Overview: Madame Andromèze's diamond bracelet has been stolen from the plane taking Nicole from Rome to Paris. Slipped by the thief into her bag, the bracelet undergoes many vicissitudes... Found and appraised, it is declared a fake! Nicole's brother and fiancé chase after the real bracelet, disrupting the life of a grand palace. Finally, Madame Andromèze finds her bracelet, which has been declared genuine. The original thief resurfaces and steals the jewel again.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-12-31
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Trouble Among Widows
Overview: When Guillaume Valmont dies in a car accident, the only thing he leaves his wife Isabelle is his pharmacy. She never loved her older husband and she regards his death as a deliverance. At the funeral, she meets Judith, widow too, and she soon realises that her husband had been leading a double life. A short while later, the pharmacy is broken into, but nothing is stolen. Police Inspector Laforêt is put in charge of the case. Isabelle becomes suspicious when Judith offers to buy the pharmacy.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-04-15
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Brigade Anti Gangs
Overview: The struggle between a ruthless leader of a bank robbers and the cops who are determined to put him in jail for long.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-08-18
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The Two Orphans
Overview: A story about two girls who grew up as sisters, were separated and finally met again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-05-24
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Children of Paradise
Overview: In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: pretentious actor Frederick, conniving thief Lacenaire, and Count Edouard of Montray.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-03-15
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December
Overview: In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most violent methods to make the prisoners speak. The use of torture poses a conscience problem for a French officer. Playing shot-reverse-shot, between the tortured and his torturer, in a suffocating camera, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina approaches torture by drawing inspiration from the story of his father, who died of abuse.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-01-02
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Convicted
Overview: After losing her only child and falling for another man, a wife no longer loves her husband, but he thinks if he takes her back to some of the places they enjoyed in earlier years, it might rekindle their doomed marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-04-13
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Maya
Overview: Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance) who is all things to all men. No matter what sort of woman her client wants, she will become that woman -- at least for the night. When a middle-aged man named Jean insists that Bella is his long-lost sweetheart, she plays along, hoping to escape her sordid lifestyle. The emotional tragedy that follows is meant to explain how Bella became "Maya," the living embodiment of Lost Souls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-09
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Misdeal
Overview: A musician named Jacques Christens, is given a proposition by an old man. For ten million Francs he is asked to impersonate a certain Paul de Baer – a man who is supposedly exiled in the Amazone. Christens is told this scheme will save Mr. Baer from ruin. An adaptation of Boileau and Narcejac's "D'entre les Morts".
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-04-30
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Vertigo For A Killer
Overview: Jean-Pierre Desagnat's Vertige pour un tueur involves Marc as a hood hunted down by his boss when he fails to execute a man who happens to be his friend. He is hidden by a woman whose husband has murdered his business associate and wants Marc to take the rap for the crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-08-05
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Dishonorable Discharge
Overview: Burt Brickford, a deserted U.S. Navy captain stranded in a South American port, rents out his services to survive. Perez, a drug trafficker, calls on him to command Henry's yacht, on which a group of would-be treasure seekers are embarking.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-22
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La Garçonne
Overview: La Garçonne is a 1957 French film directed by Jacqueline Audry. It follows Monique, an ingenue and a clueless girl who believes in true love. When she discovers her future husband has a lover, she rebels against her bourgeois life:s he will lead a free and wild life and she will live like a man. Soon she becomes the toast of Gay Paris, sleeping with all the men around, and even with a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-04-05
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The Invincible
Overview: In addition to his passion for red roses, Count Henri de Verlaine adores wooing all the women he meets.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-05-20
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Meeting in Paris
Overview: A wealthy young American woman is suddenly cut off by her father while living in Paris. A philosopher, she tries to make a living as a guide in the capital. The Marquis de Cernay, who has his eye on Nancy's portfolio, engages Maurice, a hardworking writer, to follow the young woman. She learns from both of them that they are only interested in her fortune. However, when she learns of the deception, she returns to her usual social life. She will return to him when the Marquis de Cernay has betrayed himself once and for all.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-05-02
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Repeated Absences
Overview: François Naulet turns his bedroom into an island of drugs, loneliness and despair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-11-01
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Lafayette
Overview: The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-02-16
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Soupçons
Overview: "Poisoner" - After her fiancé is arrested Claire finds herself alone and forced to find work. She is hired by a country squire, Etienne de Montenoy, as the tutor of his goddaughter. It does not take long before Montenoy falls for her but a little longer before the young woman, reluctant at first, understands Etienne loves her truly and then requites his love. Etienne lives so happily with her that he decides to make her his heir. Shortly after, he is murdered by poison...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-11-23
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Sappho
Overview: Françoise Legrand, better known as "Sappho", attractive young woman of the Parisian bourgeoisie, flits from man to man with the consent of Maurice Duran-Vior, his rich protector, a renowned financier. At a social gathering, she meets Lionel de Lancey, younger than she, a cool diplomat, and, as usual, she spends the night with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-03-24
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Paméla
Overview: During the Directory, a handful of royalists tried to get the Dauphin Louis XVII to escape from the Temple.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-05-02
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La Cousine Bette
Overview: Élisabeth Fischer, a farmer's daughter and cousin of Adeline Fischer, now Baroness Hulot d'Ervy, has been furiously jealous of the latter since their early childhood. After arriving in Paris as a passementerie worker, she set out to harm the Hulot d'Ervy family by any means necessary. She pushed the Baron into debauchery and tried to destroy the relationship between his niece Hortense Hulot and Wenceslas Steinbock. But her schemes bring her no satisfaction, and she dies of rage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-11-03
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The Murdered Model
Overview: Commissioner Malaise investigates a strange crime: a mannequin, stolen from the window of a tailor, is found stabbed... But his face of wax has the features of a certain Gilbert, who died a year earlier in a family, all of whose members will become more or less suspicious to the Commissioner. He thinks that, in spite of Dr. Furnelle's conclusions, Gilbert's death was not natural. But finding the cause of death and the identity of the possible culprit will require more than a mere intuition.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-03-10
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Nana
Overview: Nana or Nanà is a French-Italian film by Christian-Jaque starring Charles Boyer. It is an adaptation of Émile Zola's novel Nana.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-07-26
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Before the Deluge
Overview: The title of this French "reality" drama, which translates to Before the Deluge, is a play on Louis XVI's famous prognostication, "Apres moi, le deluge." Set in 1950, the film concentrates on five Parisian adolescents. Certain that the next war will herald the apocalypse, the youngster make plans to run off to a desert island and set up a new society. This, however, will require money, which is why the boys decide to pull off a "necessary" robbery. Idealism collapses in the face of cold reality, as the five youths suffer from the consequences of their actions. Avant le Deluge was one of a group of films cowritten by director Andre Cayatte and Charles Spaak which endeavored to explore the touchy social issues of the day: others in the Cayatte-Spaak canon include the euthanasia-themed Justice est Faite and the capital-punishment tract Nous sommes tous des assassins.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-02-26
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Time of the Wolves
Overview: Patterning himself after the American gangster John Dillinger, the criminal (Robert Hossein) is tracked by the inspector (Charles Aznavour), a former childhood friend. Plenty of gunplay and psychology is used to trap the killer. His only tender moments are spent with his girlfriend Stella (Virna Lisi). Dillinger is cornered by the police and kills several innocent victims in a crowd during the shootout. The mob decides to take things into their own hands as they approach the doomed man with a noose when he runs out of bullets.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-01-21
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The Gallant Musketeer
Overview: Set against the troubled period of the Wars of Religion in France, at a time when the three Henries (Henri III, Henri de Guise and Henri de Béarn) vied for the the throne, these new adventures of Pardaillan have the gallant musketeer defend the rightful king Henri III.Jean gives his full to thwart the Duke of Guise's attempts to have the king assassinated. A heartthrob more than ever, Pardaillan will awake serious interest in many a girl, at times becoming their prey like with Bianca Farnese, De Guise's agent.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-02-21
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La Marseillaise
Overview: A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course, the king Louis XVI, each showing their own small problems.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-02-10
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Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
Overview: A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they were music hall artists, "entertainers". But because he's the sole legatee of an uncle's fortune, his relatives become friendly with him.. at least for a while.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-04-08
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The Mysteries of Paris
Overview: Paris 1838, Prince Rodolphe vows on the deathbed of his friend Matilde to find Germain, the woman's son kidnapped by his father at birth. Disguised as a tramp, he wanders the city's slums encountering various characters who either help or hinder him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-08-21
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