Piéral
Also Known As: Pieral, Pierre Piéral
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Levallois-Perret, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Adult: No
Birthday: November 22, 1923
Age: 101 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 22, 2003
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The Devil's Envoys
Overview: At the end of the 15th century, a man and a woman, posing as traveling minstrels, are sent by the Devil to a castle to seduce its inhabitants.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-12-05
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Blondine
Overview: Blondine, the daughter of a poor fisherman, marries the Prince of the Mountain. Brune, her sister, envies Blondine her happiness and tells her that a secret lies hidden in her husband's name. Blondine tries to discover it but, before she does, the Prince is imprisoned by an ogre. Blondine must face goblins, imps, and the water djinni before she can deliver her captive Prince.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-05-16
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Hoboes in Paradise
Overview: In a Provençal village, two jolly good fellows, Boule and Pons, decide to dress as Saint Anthony and Saint Nicholas for the distribution of presents to the children on the feast of Saint Nicholas. They unfortunately get killed by a cart and find themselves in Hell where Lucifer and his demons duly torment them. They are saved by a prayer which helps them to climb the stairway to Paradise. Saint Peter, taken in by the applicants' disguise, lets them in. When the two true Saints show up, trouble follows. Luckily, thanks to the intervention of the Virgin Mary, the two friends are acquitted at their celestial trial and allowed to return to Earth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-07-15
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Mystery Tour
Overview: The basic premise: A retired bus driver fulfills his lifelong dream of providing an extended "voyage surprise" (the title is translated as "Mystery Tour") for unsuspecting vacationers. They soon realize, while riding in the old man's home-made bus, that he hasn't bothered to plan any kind of itinerary. As a result, they end up in completely preposterous situations, of course. Voyage surprise!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-05-21
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Danger of Death
Overview: Loiseau the pharmacist mistakenly mixes potassium cyanide into a batch of cough syrup and sells five bottles. With horror he discovers his mistake and sets out to find the buyers. He finds only four. The fifth, not a regular customer, comes back to the pharmacy...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-12-17
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy, performs a bewitching dance in front of delighted spectators. From up in a tower of the cathedral, Frollo, an alchemist, gazes at her lustfully. Later in the night, Frollo orders Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer and his faithful servant, to kidnap Esmeralda. But when the ugly freak comes close to her is touched by the young woman's beauty...
Genres: Drama History Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-12-19
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Docile Night
Overview: Jean is a successful painter who leaves his mistress, though he stops intermittently to phone her with explanations. Sometimes she is responsive but other times hangs up on him. Meanwhile, a 16-year-old male prostitute with whom Jean had a brief homosexual affair stalks the painter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-11-25
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Le Crime d'amour
Overview: To emerge from anonymity, a young man assumes responsibility for a crime he did not commit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-11-24
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Captain Blood
Overview: Le capitan is a 1960 French-Italian swashbuckler film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli and Lise Delamare. It is based on a novel by Michel Zévaco.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-10-03
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Princess of Cleves
Overview: When a young teen marries the Prince of Cleves, more than twice her age, she automatically becomes an official Princess and takes her new position to heart. Although distracted by the elite entertainments found at court, the princess cannot help but mourn her impossible love for the dashing Duc de Nemours.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-22
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The Eternal Return
Overview: A retelling of Tristan and Isolde set in 1940s France.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-12-13
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That Obscure Object of Desire
Overview: After dumping a bucket of water on a beautiful young woman from the window of a train car, wealthy Frenchman Mathieu, regales his fellow passengers with the story of the dysfunctional relationship between himself and the young woman in question, a fiery 19-year-old flamenco dancer named Conchita. What follows is a tale of cruelty, depravity and lies -- the very building blocks of love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-08-17
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Zoo zéro
Overview: Eva is a singer in a Noah's Ark themed nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She is approached by a stranger who claims to know her and to remember her singing Mozart.
Genres: Science Fiction Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-05-09
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Lucrèce Borgia
Overview: In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his sister Lucrèce. In a ruthless power play, César plots to have his sister’s husband murdered. But without her brother’s knowledge, Lucrèce has taken a strong lover who will challenge the Borgias.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-10-23
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La isla de las cabezas
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1979-03-01
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Spermula
Overview: The story is based around "spermulites", the alien inhabitants of a dying planet. The only way they can save their planet is by sucking the men of planet earth dry of sperm, kind of like horny vampires.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-07-07
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Black Crown
Overview: A woman suffers from amnesia after killing her husband, who was just about to demand a divorce for having found her engaging in an affair with a lover, who is only interested in her to find where some precious jewels are hidden.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-05-23
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Bobosse
Overview: Bobosse is increasingly immersing himself into the world of theater and experiencing his role as an actor more intensively. He plays in a piece where a man is abandoned by his wife and processes this philosophically. When his wife actually abandons him, he becomes embarrassed and plans to kill her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-18
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