Jean Clarieux
Also Known As: Gaston Kléber Chambon
Biography: Jean Clarieux (April 3, 1911 – February 11, 1970) was a French film and television actor. Generally a supporting actor appearing in smaller parts, he played a more substantial role in René Clément's 1946 resistance film The Battle of the Rails. His tone of voice as Parisian titi is very recognizable in many American films of the 1950s and 1960s where he lends his voice to complementary actors (especially in war films and westerns), but also to Anthony Quinn. He lends his voice to Captain Haddock in a cartoon series on the adventures of Tintin directed by Ray Goossens. Beyond the dubbing, his filmography is important: he notably plays a railwayman in La Bataille du rail by René Clément, and it is his weathered face that appears on the poster of the film. In Golden Helmet by Jacques Becker, he plays the role of Paul, alongside Raymond Bussières. He also acted for television in the 1960s, notably in the series Les Cinq Dernières Minutes by Claude Loursais and in Les Beaux Yeux d'Agatha by Bernard Hecht. Source: Article "Jean Clarieux" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: La Rochelle, Charente-Maritime, France
Adult: No
Birthday: April 03, 1911
Age: 114 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 11, 1970
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The Battle of the Rails
Overview: A 1946 war movie which tells the courageous efforts by French railway workers to sabotage Nazi reinforcement-troop trains.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-02-27
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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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Portrait of Innocence
Overview: A student from an elementary school accidentally breaks the glass roof of his school. His comrades decide to support it by working during the summer holidays in order to pay for reconstruction.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-12-02
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Coup de feu dans la nuit
Overview: A woman is accused of the murder of her husband, who was jealous and brutal. Her lawyer manages to get her acquitted and they get married in the end.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-03-03
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The Wicked Go to Hell
Overview: Making his directorial debut, Robert Hossein also assumes the leading role, playing an escaped convict. Hossein and his fellow escapees cross the path of Marina Vlady, with whom they all fall in love. Alas for our "heroes," Vlady intends to avenge the death of her sweetheart at the hands of Hossein and his confreres. Not only do these heels go to Hell, but they do so with a spectacular flourish. Les Salauds Vont en Enfer was adapted by Rene Wheeler from a play by Frederic Dard.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-07
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Happy Days
Overview: Five young people - brothers, sisters, cousins - are on vacation in the countryside. Pernette suggests to Marianne, who wants to be appreciated by her cousin Olivier, to make him jealous by inventing an aviator in love. At this announcement, Olivier bursts out laughing, but an airman knocks on their door, his private plane having had a breakdown. The mirage then becomes reality, and thanks to this unexpected visit many feelings will come to light.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-12-24
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Voyage Without Hope
Overview: Gohelle, escaped from prison, seeks to flee occupied France for Argentina. The captain of a cargo ship is willing to smuggle him out out France for a price but Gohelle has no money. His mistress, Marie-Angel tries to charm the money out of wealthy Alain Ginestier who seems the ideal pigeon but Marie-Angel falls in love with Ginestier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-12-15
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Cecile Is Dead
Overview: Cecile, a young girl who goes to the offices of the Judicial Police several times in a row to complain about nightly visits to the apartment she occupies with her aunt, is not taken seriously by the police until she the day she is found murdered.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-03-08
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Majestic Hotel Cellars
Overview: In my “cellar” where case workers all the people of a great hotel, the head of the café, Donge, finds the corpse of Mrs Petersen, a rich client. The investigation by Maigret allows him to rub the husband of the victim, a Swede, Teddy, Ms Petersen’s son, his housekeeper, a social dancer and Donge himself who is the natural father of Teddy. The child he will go to his real father or not he will leave the rich Petersen who adores? The murder mystery and enigma sentimental are resolved by Maigret.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-08-11
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Master Love
Overview: Director of a music hall, the dubious Ribero, to save himself from bankruptcy, only hopes for the victory of his horse. An English lord enlists his crack Master Love in the race. Ribero will try to prevent its departure. He is thwarted in his dark projects by the lord's daughter, captain of a troop of girls, and by a wise and determined sportsman who does not hesitate, for the occasion, to become a jockey. Master Love wins the race, Ribero is confused, a few weddings are celebrated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-07-24
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Lawless Paths
Overview: Inès, a gypsy, pregnant by a rich breeder who abandoned her, finds refuge with a band of smugglers and thieves, led by an old woman nicknamed "the Spider". It is among them that she raises her daughter, Dolores. But her past catches up with her when the wealthy landlord reappears in her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-06-17
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The Figurehead
Overview: At sea, sailors have got to make do with what they have. François is in love with.... the figurehead, the bust of a gorgeous woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-06-16
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Amédée
Overview: Employed in a beauty salon, Amédée must undergo a pentothal injection. The dose is too strong; suddenly Amédée reveals the truth to everyone; to clients of the institute; to his cheating wife; to his boss that he robs; to the tax collector; etc. When the effects of the truth serum wear off, everyone returns contentedly to their little swamp.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-02-15
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Marie of the Port
Overview: Henri Chatelard is well into his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciates women. When he meets Marie, an 18-ish strong-head who just lost her father in a small fishing village, it is not clear who is the hunter and who is the prey.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-02-27
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Scandal
Overview: A young woman who inherits her uncle's nightclub, invents a gangster husband in order to gain respect.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-12-01
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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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La Ronde
Overview: An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-27
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Paris Incident
Overview: Story is primarily based on the adventures of Antoine, a young telegraph messenger on his second night of work. He is given three telegrams, one of which is for the president of the Camber of Deputies. Excited, Antoine runs his bicycle into a truck and loses the telegrams. What follows is an amusing and agonizing search for the missing messages. He is assisted first by a glum, wise-beyond-her-years little girl, Amelie; an off-duty police superintendent, a schoolmaster, a cookie-tin maker and a fireman. The harmonica musical theme is played by Flore Falvey.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-02
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Night Round
Overview: During Christmas night, two police officers make their nocturnal rounds, in their round they meet tramps, brawlers in a café, a naked man, a concierge, a sexton, revelers in a nightclub, and end by signing in their report to the police station.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-09
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Paris Still Sings!
Overview: A famous comedian decrees that his fortune will go to whoever collects as many pop star autographs as quickly as possible. When he dies, two cousins embark on the race for signatures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-28
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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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Duel à Dakar
Overview: Robert Vernier is assigned by the Secret Service to unmask a band of gangsters determined to get their hands on the plans for a new plane. They manage to steal part of it and kidnap Robert's fiancée, named Monique. Robert will manage to dismantle the gang and will be surprised to find that at the head there is a policeman...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-12-06
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Trafic sur les dunes
Overview: On the Franco-Belgian border, large and small traffickers engage in their illicit activities. For his part, a policeman is working to put an end to smuggling in the area.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-04-20
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The Lovers of Bras-Mort
Overview: Jean Michaut is a bargeman who lives nearby an old barge cemetery named "Bras-Mort". He is in love with Monique, the daughter of a wealthy boat owner. The girl returns his affection but runs her head against the wall of her family's class prejudices. Her "nearest and dearest" prove indeed prepared to do everything to separate the two lovers. But Monique will not buy in. On the contrary, she leaves her intolerant family to live with Jean among simple, more tolerant bargemen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-17
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The Night Is My Kingdom
Overview: After an accident, Raymond has gone blind. His family treats him like a child, but fortunately a nun comes to his rescue. She works in a center where blind people learn to read using the Braille alphabet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-08-09
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Run Away Mr. Perle
Overview: Modest fifty-something, Mr. Perle, is a baker in a small provincial town. He lives there with an authoritarian woman and her cousin, a parasite who poisons his existence. A Parisian notary writes to the hero to ask him to come and take possession of an inheritance. In Paris, Perle meets a pretty adventuress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-12-11
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Holiday for Henrietta
Overview: Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a comical path for their heroine, who is overcome with sentimental love for a young photographer on Bastille Day. The other has a more thrilling and dastardly fate in mind for her. Among the film's irresistible conceits is Hildegarde Neff as an oversexed circus bareback rider.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-12-17
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Double or Quits
Overview: In Bourganeuf, an old maid, Charlotte Bourdier, confesses to Marie Chassagne that she has forged a sentimental intrigue by correspondence with the presenter of the Radio Circus, Zappy Max. Marie agrees to meet him when he comes, but she in turn falls in love with him, who confesses his love to her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-12-31
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J'y suis, j'y reste
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-07-21
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The Count of Bragelonne
Overview: Raoul de Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-12-09
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Judgement of God
Overview: Bavaria, 1433. Reason of state rules that Prince Albert is to marry Princess Bertha of Wurtemberg. But the fine-looking young man is loath to become the husband of a woman with pimples,flat feet and no breast. Nevertheless, he has to obey his authoritarian father, Duke Ernest, and accompanied by faithful Count Törring, he mounts his steed and sets out for Würtemberg. Stopping in Augsburg, he falls in love with the daughter of a local barber-surgeon, pure and beautiful Agnès Bernauer. The couple is soon secretly married and both take refuge at the castle of Margravine Josepha, Albert's aunt, waiting for Ernest's consent. Unluckily Albert's father will not accept his son's union with a commoner and Albert, supported by Josepha and an army of common people, declares war on the Duke. They seem about to be victorious when Brother Enrique, a monk formerly in the Holy Inquisition, finds a way to reverse the situation: accusing Agnès of witchcraft...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-08-20
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Casque d'Or
Overview: At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal gang.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-03-13
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If All the Guys in the World...
Overview: A distress call from a trawler leads various people to come to the crew's aid.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-02-24
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Meurtre au ralenti
Overview: Berthon, racing driver, is committed to the 24 Hours of Le Mans while Genevieve, his wife, has been trying for years to convince him to retire. Desperate, she became the mistress of his brother, always jealous of his elder.
Genres: TV Movie Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-01-13
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La fille perdue
Overview: Marguerite Le Goff has a sad destiny. Daughter-mother to a holidaymaker at the age of sixteen, she tried to earn a living in Nantes, but succumbed to the promises of the disreputable Pierre who had found her in a sailors' box. Deprived of her child, what would she do if good people didn't sympathize and her childhood friend Jean-Marie didn't take her with him?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-01-29
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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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Nights of Montmartre
Overview: Bobby earns his living in Montmartre by duping naïve provincials, along with his pal Julien, as well as crooks and drug dealers, replaced by bicarbonate. His friend Monique, who dances at Le Paradou, is frightened by such a life. A crime of which he is not guilty occurs while he is robbing drug dealer Mureau. Bobby flees, but prefers to let himself be imprisoned. A serious accident is avoided. The brave Inspector Doirel is determined to set the boy straight. Monique will do her bit too.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-08-08
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On the Bench
Overview: La Hurlette and Carmen are a pair of philosophical tramps who enjoy simple pleasures in the company of the cheerful Sosthène. As in the fairy tales, La Hurlette learns that he has just inherited a tidy fortune, provided he can find a job. By dint of hard work, he manages to do so, and a banquet brings together his disinherited friends. Determined to live the high life, La Hurlette and Carmen lose all their inheritance at the Cabourg casino, and end up as philosophical as ever on their favorite bench.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-12-06
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The Ragpickers of Emmaus
Overview: The Emmaüs community opened and functioned thanks to the generous impetus of Abbé Pierre Groues, bringing together a cross-section of the underprivileged: unemployed truck drivers, former paratroopers, young people leaving prison, etc., and underprivileged families. The "ragpickers" manage to make a bit of money by practicing the art of "chine", while the abbé tries his hand at winning radio games. The accident and death of one of them will unite the Emmaus companions even more.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-02-23
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L'irrésistible Catherine
Overview: A legionnaire, Georges, promised his friend, who died of a snake-bite, to marry Catherine, the girl with whom he had a child. Back in France, the young soldier goes in search of Catherine. The girl he finds is a dumb puritan; in spite of his disappointment, he keeps his promise and asks for her hand. At the last moment, in the town-hall, he discovers the girl he is to marry is not the true Catherine. So he leaves his fiancee and heads for Paris where the true girl works as a cabaret dancer. But the deserted fiancee is not prepared to accept it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-05-10
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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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The Empire of Night
Overview: Usually cast as secret agent/private eye Lemmy Caution, Eddie Constantine plays "Eddie" in The Empire of Night. This time, Constantine is a cabaret singer at odds with a criminal gang. When the villains try to take over every nightclub in town for their own nefarious purposes, Eddie sings a new tune with his fists. The story takes several unexpected turns, but Constantine remains in charge throughout.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-05
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Paris, Palace Hôtel
Overview: On Christmas Eve, a manicurist pretends to be a wealthy man's daughter after meeting a young garage worker who falsely claims to own a luxury car. Their deceptions intertwine as they grow closer.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-10-18
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More Whiskey for Callaghan
Overview: Valuable documents have been stolen from a British laboratory. Slim Callaghan is sent to investigate the theft. But his tracks soon lead him to the welcoming skies of the Côte d'Azur. There, he decides to infiltrate a network of aristocratic spies.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-07
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Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Overview: Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the style they enjoy. However, Max confides the details of the theft to his younger mistress, Josey -- who has secretly taken up with ambitious young rival gangster Angelo. Angelo then has Riton kidnapped and demands the stash of gold as ransom, which threatens Max's dreams of the perfect retirement.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-03-17
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Diabolique
Overview: The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-01-29
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Le Long des trottoirs
Overview: A girl surviving on public welfare, fall into a life of prostitution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-05-17
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The Postmaster's Daughter
Overview: A small town postal official allows a military officer to sweep his lovely daughter away to St. Petersburg, assuming the man will do the right thing and marry her.Instead, a future of scandal and tragedy awaits her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-03-03
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The Calculus Affair
Overview: Strange things are happening in the evening at the mansion: glass things break without any apparent reason. Professor Calculus, somewhat apathetic to the whole series of events, leaves the following day to attend a conference on nuclear physics in Geneva. Foreign powers get wind of his work and send their agents to investigate.
Genres: Animation Comedy Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Rendezvous
Overview: In France, during the Second World War, journalist Paul Roy is a member of the Resistance, while his colleague and friend Jacques Médina is a collaborator. But it's thanks to Jacques that Paul is able to remain free, as he shelters him in his home after a roundup. The two friends co-wrote various Nazi propaganda articles, which appeared under Jacques' byline. The situation becomes complicated when Paul becomes the lover of Jacques' wife.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-07-13
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Le Secret d'une mère
Overview: After his wife's death, a man discovers that his daughter may not be his.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-24
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Juliette, or Key of Dreams
Overview: Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One night, while sleeping in his cell, he wakes up all of a sudden, the gates open and he finds himself in a strange village where all the inhabitants have lost their memory. There, meets Juliette again who seems to agree to marry a powerful man, who might well be Bluebeard...
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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The Milky Way
Overview: Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-02-28
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The Fugitives
Overview: During the Second World War, in 1943, two French prisoners, François and Michel, escape from Stalag B377 in northern Germany near the Baltic Sea. They meet another escaped compatriot, Pierre, who has donned the uniform of a German officer and joins them. Their goal: to reach neutral Sweden. To get there, they'll have to walk part of the way, then take a train to the coast and, from there, find a way to cross the sea to the shores of Sweden.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-05-10
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Maid in Paris
Overview: Penelope Benson, known as Penny, is both romantic and determined. Put in a select boarding school by her mother, she takes advantage of a trip to Paris to get away from it all and live her own life. That's how she meets Antoine du Merlet, whom she takes for a young hoodlum when in fact he's a police superintendent. She spends the night at his place, which leads to a number of setbacks for poor Antoine, who is stigmatized by the headmistress, abandoned by his mistress and has to face a strip-tease session starring the unconscious Penny... But Penny's a spicy one and Antoine's a nice guy, so... !
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-01-20
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Illicit Motherhood
Overview: A group of drifting youngsters train to commit petty thefts. A certain André puts them on the trail of a real hold-up. They might carry it out if a suicide attempt didn't stop them. A young woman throws herself into the river. They save her, comfort her, learn that she's pregnant. They surround her with their friendship. When André reappears and seizes Lucienne to throw her on the pavement, everyone unites to save her, and the kind-hearted Maurice offers to be the baby's loving father.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-10-09
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