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Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Birthday: July 11, 1887
Deathday: December 04, 1959
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Gender: Male
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Overview: After being saved from suicide due to an unhappy marriage, Marie hesitates between two other men, but lands up rejoining her husband in the colonies as she now expects a baby.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-05-25
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Overview: Two hitch-hikers are on the way to Marseilles pursued by her husband.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-08-29
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Overview: Debt-ridden painter Michel is overcome with joy at discovering that he has just won 1 million florins in the Dutch lottery, but almost immediately, he discovers that his softhearted girlfriend, Béatrice, has given away his jacket containing the winning ticket to an elderly petty thief. Soon Michel, Beatrice and Michel's artistic rival, Prosper, are hurtling through the streets of Paris on the trail of the missing jacket.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-02-04
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Overview: A Prime Minister kidnaps three comedians from Paris to make a frowning princess smile for a royal photo, all while secretly dealing with a prisoner hunger strike. The King remains unaware of his mischievous plan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-02-29
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Overview: Victor Le Garrec, a former boxer, runs a gym in Paris while dreaming of finding an aspiring champion who will reach the goals he was never able to achieve.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-09-24
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Overview: A jeweler's clerk accidentally swallows a pearl worth three million. The jeweler accepts his marriage to his daughter if the clerk agrees to have the operation. The adventures follow one another until the day when the clerk admits that he has not swallowed the pearl, but as he has become a famous man, the jeweler accepts him as his son-in-law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-07-29
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Overview: An opinionated and cocky bookkeeper is certain he can rum his employer's business better than his employer can. The latter dive the bookkeeper a chance to demonstrate his management ability and skills, and promptly makes an unmitigated mess.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-09-01
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Overview: Duparquet is the controller of Les Halles, and plays matchmaker between the young farm-girl Ciboulette and Antonin, a young spoiled aristocrat.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-11-10
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Overview: A very nice young man, Sylvain Renaud is "surrounded" by two bad guys who want to drag him into some very dirty business.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-10-05
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Overview: The sentimental and comic adventures of three sailors, during a stopover of their ship in Toulon, are grafted onto a story of stolen documents, which allows the three friends to turn into amateur detectives.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-10-19
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Overview: Claude, son of a ruined family, pretends to be a dangerous trickster in order to get credit from the guys in the middle. He is in charge of retrieving compromising letters from a woman whose lover fears blackmail. But before arriving there, Claude fortunately meets love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-11-15
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Overview: Two bank employees like Lucie, their colleague. They steal money from the cash register to gamble. Jean wins and Paul ends up in prison for five years. When he leaves, he discovers that Jean has become a businessman and that he has married Lucie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-03-26
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Overview: An innocent young man, burglar Cheri-Bibi, and his gangsters are sent to a penal colony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-03-02
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Overview: During a leave, three merry soldiers experience a series of incredible adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-24
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Overview: The daughter of an industrialist takes an interest in the workers and tries to improve their lot. She avoids a strike, and falls in love with an engineer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-06-07
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Overview: Meg decides to commit suicide to escape the marriage to which her father intends her. She is saved by Jean-Pierre, another candidate for suicide, and Léon, a tramp who was just trying to reason with him. The trio then becomes inseparable and organizes a new life based on friendship and freedom.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-24
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Overview: In a camp of sailors, the suicidal and solitary life of Greta, which makes men lose their heads.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-12-13
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Overview: A very shy person inherits a traveling circus on the express condition that he manages to present a number on the ring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-14
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Overview: Jules Vachon, a pharmacist, has two sons, Gabriel, a steady-minded young man dedicated to his job in the pharmacy, and Gaston, a good for nothing whose only talent is to seduce rich women and take money from their pockets. But it is Gaston who is hailed as a great man when he returns to his native village thanks to his deep pockets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-12
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Overview: The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-20
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Overview: An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-06-15
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Overview: In September 1938, an American diplomat negotiated in London the peace of Munich, rather than rush to Paris where his wife, a famous film actress, is about to fall into the arms of a young first. He gains peace but loses his happiness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-06-15
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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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Overview: In 1919, Pierre Darmont, a handsome, much-loved piano virtuoso, falls in love with Anne Morris, a young woman who shares his tender feelings. But, quite inexplicably, after an unforgettable night, Anne vanishes without trace. Twenty years later, Pierre, at the peak of his glory, has become embittered. Unable to recover his unhappy love affair, he has collected women without ever committing himself to any. Until some night he meets the eyes of a beautiful young lady, who happens to be the spitting image of his great love...
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-02-27
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Overview: Returning from America where he received a large inheritance, Alaric would like to have a wedding before returning to the family home where his sister, who is as cantankerous as she is uncompromising on principles, awaits him. He asks a “porter” from the station who looks like him to replace him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-12-21
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Overview: Superintendent Thomas is investigating a cabaret owner with suspicious actions.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-10-30
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Overview: La Carcasse, an obtuse peasant, lives with his wife Lucie and his father-in-law Tord-cou. At odds with his son-in-law, the Tord-cou takes it into his head to marry Thérésa, the daughter of their neighbor Casimir. But the Carcass, too, feels attracted to the young woman...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-04-30
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Overview: Captain Palmer's daughter, Maria, is neglected by her husband, the cynical Leo, who lives with the beautiful Sylvia. To defeat his son-in-law, Palmer has the idea of putting Sylvia back in the presence of Pierre, her first love. Leo takes revenge by creating many difficulties for Palmer who retaliates by starting a violent fight where Leo is killed. Everything seems to point to Pierre, but...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-09-19
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Overview: Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear and without reproach, puts himself out of the law by refusing to obey the local nobility. The public authorities are tearing their hair out because the man is elusive. Helped by his faithful friends and by two women in love, Mandrin will become a legend.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-11-15
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Overview: Everyone in Paris thinks Fantomas is dead. A wave of extortion, blackmail and murder all point to the master criminal. Inspector Juve and his reporter friend Fandor set out to find the truth.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-02-08
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Overview: A trio of criminals gradually become entangled in theft and crime. Serge is arrested, his mistress, Hélène, and his accomplice, Michel, both become lovers, try to exonerate him and use false fingerprints first, then after Serge's conviction, gloves covered with the same fingerprints of the prisoner.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-02-09
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Overview: At the Vélodrome d'Hiver, at the height of the sports competitions, the director of the house is found murdered. We also stole the recipe for the show. A swarm of private detectives, second-hand sleuths, embark on the most diverse tracks. Arrests pile up and the chase continues amid the non-stop games. The culprit will however be caught, red-handed, by a young inspector wearing a handsome mask.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-11-16
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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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Overview: A typographer makes a mistake by printing the winning number of the national lottery. Many people believe they have won the jackpot. Pursued by his newspaper editor, the worker appears in court where all mystified people are invited to testify.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-13
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Overview: Adolphe is in serious financial difficulties and the extravagances of his wife do not help to fix things.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-12-27
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Overview: Two murders are committed in an inn for the possession of a bag containing a fortune.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-15
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Overview: A young girl marries a man she doesn't love and delights in humiliating him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-07-30
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Overview: A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-11-14
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Overview: Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in which he was to play with Aurélia Nobli, his companion and Ludovic Arn, her lover. The police arrive on the scene and the investigation begins. Suspicion first falls on Sigurd, an old actor who had threatened Bertal. But parallels appear between the characters in the play and the actors who play them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-11-14
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Overview: While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier recalls two of his most celebrated cases. The first involves duplicitous moneylender Olga. The second concerns the brutal broad daylight murder of innocent young Yvonne.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-02-27
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Overview: Banker Jules Taffard, a true financier, is a shrewd money-handler. Imprisoned for an alleged swindle, his trial seems to be upsetting those in the government, who may not be so far removed from Taffard's affairs (Affaire Alexandre Stavisky). He escapes from La Santé prison without any difficulty, and the authorities don't seem to be doing anything to find him... Under the false name of Gédéon, he becomes a modest handyman in a corset shop run by Madame Génissier, whose morality is as pious as it is legendary. Her son, Hector Génissier, is a foolish young man with no ambition, much to the regret of his young wife, Fernande Génissier. But it won't be long before Gédéon shows his skills in expanding the modest family business. How far can Gédéon's ascent go before Taffard's voice resounds through Gédon?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-03-23
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Overview: During the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon (Jean-Pierre Aumont) has a liaison with Helene (Annabella), a married woman. The young man discovers that his mistress is none other than the wife of Maury (Charles Vanel), an aviator friend.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-10-22
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Overview: In this classic French satire, Louis, a convict, escapes from prison and takes on legitimate work, making his way up in the business world. Eventually becoming the head of a successful factory, Louis opts to modernize his company with mechanical innovations. But when his friend Émile finally leaves jail years later and reunites with Louis, the past catches up with them. The two, worried about being apprehended by police, long to flee the confines of industry.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-12-18
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Overview: Appointed public prosecutor in a small provincial town, Gérard Latour befriends Delanglade, whose young wife becomes his mistress. Shortly afterwards, a fire ravages Delanglade's factory. During the ensuing investigation, the Public Prosecutor discovers the troubled past of the industrialist and his front man, Jacques Perthuis, an ex-convict. They themselves set fire to the factory to collect the insurance premium. Gérard Latour, suspecting his mistress of complicity in her husband's machinations, leaves her after a stormy argument.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-08-02
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Overview: Alfred is in love, but shy. Desperate not to have the audacity to express his passion to the woman of his dreams, Nicole, a young dairyman, he enthusiastically accepts the proposal of Don Juan to make his sentimental education.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-06-13
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Overview: Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-10-26
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Overview: In the tenement slums of Paris between the world wars, impoverished street singer Albert yearns for beautiful Romanian immigrant Pola. Pola's boyfriend, local hoodlum Fred, grows jealous of Albert's constant attention to his woman and frames the hapless musician for one of his own petty crimes. But while Albert is in prison for Fred's misdeed, Pola ends up falling for Albert's faithful best friend, Louis.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-04-28
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Overview: An obscure mechanic falls in love with a an champion pilot.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-11-24
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Overview: A journalist takes command of a ship after the crew mutiny against the brutal captain. It was an adaptation of the novel The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-02-29
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Overview: Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear and without reproach, puts himself out of the law by refusing to obey the local nobility. The public authorities are tearing their hair out because the man is elusive. Helped by his faithful friends and by two women in love, Mandrin will become a legend.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-04-07
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Overview: Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever after if the housing crisis did not force them to live together with Gabrielle and Fernand, Robert's parents. For, despite the good will on either side, tension soon arises. What else to expect when there is too little space in their Montmartre apartment for four people (then for six then eight, the couple having... two pairs of twins!) ; the continued presence there of Fernand (who loves peace and quiet) after he is driven to retirement ; the difficult beginnings of Robert as a lawyer in a room of the apartment, etc... Other troubles follow and the harried family is on the verge of implosion...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-10-18
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Overview: Bastien and Ségard decide to leave France for Canada. They buy tickets aboard a rickety craft, the Tenacity, that never quite seems able to leave port. While stuck there they both fall for the innkeeper's daughter, which causes them to rethink their Canadian notions.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-04-01
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