Pierre Larquey
Also Known As: Le Père Larquey, Pierre Raphaël Larquey
Biography: Pierre Larquey (10 July 1884 – 17 April 1962) was a French film actor. He appeared in 214 films between 1913 and 1962. Born in Cénac, Gironde, France, he died in Maisons-Laffitte at the age of 77. Source: Article "Pierre Larquey" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cénac, Gironde, France
Birthday: July 10, 1884
Deathday: April 17, 1962
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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The Witches of Salem
Overview: Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. A series of tragic trials soon befall Salem as fear and suspicion blur the lines of reality.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-04-26
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It Happened on the 36 Candles
Overview: Rejecting the union of her daughter Brigitte with a modest worker, Madame Magnin invents an adultery for the lover, then introduces Brigitte to a good-looking man working on the famous RTF entertainment show 36 Chandelles. The show ultimately seals the reunion of the two estranged young lovers. The story features a parade of music-hall stars from the era: Charles Trenet, Charles Aznavour, Georges Guétary, Juliette Gréco, Roger Pierre and Jean-Marc Thibault, Fernand Raynaud, Georges Ulmer and many more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-10-16
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Taras Bulba
Overview: In war against the Poles, the leader Cossack sees itself betrayed by one of his threads, been in love the girl of an enemy.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-03-05
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Le Corbeau
Overview: Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as letters accusing him of having an affair and performing unlawful abortions are mailed to village leaders. The mysterious writer, who signs each letter as "Le Corbeau" (The Raven) soon targets the whole town, exposing everyone's dark secrets.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-09-28
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Sylvia and the Ghost
Overview: A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her father hires three men who pretend to be the ghost of the suitor to entertain her. Little do they know, the ghost of the suitor himself is roaming the castle halls.
Genres: Fantasy Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-02-06
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Justin de Marseille
Overview: A respected gangster, Justin, finds himself in a deadly feud with his rival, the unscrupulous Esposito. The latter plans to steal a cargo of opium bound for China and to have Justin killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-04-05
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Hello Smile!
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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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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If Paris Were Told to Us
Overview: Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-01-27
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Jenny Lamour
Overview: Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical police inspector.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-10-04
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The disappearance from the elevator
Overview: A bank guard disappears from the elevator between the ground floor and the first floor. He was carrying a briefcase containing valuable documents. Tortoran, a young journalist, is responsible for following the case and unmask the ingenious acrobat who is the author.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-01-15
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Prisoner of My Heart
Overview: Having fallen madly in love with the daughter of a prison guard, Guignolet climbs the wall to free her. He falls into this prison yard where he ends up being a prisoner in the heart of the delicious daughter of the guard.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-04-22
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Vive la classe
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-05-27
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The Miracle Child
Overview: A widow named Blanche Montel endeavours to find a man with whom to produce a child so that she can pretend that the child was her late husband's and so inherit a fortune.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-06-05
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It's all arranged
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-07-03
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Mariage à responsabilité limitée
Overview: To come into possession of an inheritance, a young woman must marry a man she does not love and who does not love her either. But he falls in love and manages to conquer his wife by becoming a totally different character from the one he was at the time of the wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-01-19
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Casanova
Overview: Talkie remake of a 1927 silent about the adventures of the notorious womaniser and venetian adventurer Chevalier Giacomo Casanova. Action starts in Venice and then the plot takes Casanova to France and Russia.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-04-13
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We Are Not Children
Overview: In the spring of 1913, Jean Servin, a son of a family, became friends with Roberte, a little midinette. He leaves her a few months later to marry Cécile Breton. The years go by. Jean becomes an important businessman. One evening, he meets Roberte, who has become the wife of a wealthy American. She does not love her husband any more than he loves his wife. They recall their memories. They seem to still love each other. They plan to rebuild their lives. Together, they will spend a few days in Dieppe, as they did in the past after their first meeting. They feel so different from what they were twenty years ago that they understand that the past cannot live again.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-01-25
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Street Without a Name
Overview: The story focuses on a street in the Parisian banlieue where Italian and French workers live. Their neighborhood will soon be demolished and a mysterious character hides himself in this street.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-02-02
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A Fly in the Ointment
Overview: A young man drowning in debts must make a rich marriage to pay them off. But his friend compromises the plan until there is one that she likes and she herself has found a new protector.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-03-23
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La cinquième empreinte
Overview: Jacques de Nisson, a rich man, has a new mistress, Lucie Cavelier. Which does not prevent him from courting Florence, the wife of his lawyer friend Forestier. One day, Jacques is found murdered and chief-inspector Candély is sent on the spot to investigate. Jean, the victim's butler, Lucie as well as Florence are suspected in turns but the real murderer is finally identified thanks to his fingerprints.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-07-13
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Vive la compagnie
Overview: Thanks to an understanding and sympathetic regimental comrade, a shy young man, very passionate about astronomy, gradually becomes more confident and manages to tell his love to his beloved.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-03-16
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Poliche
Overview: Didier Méreuil, affectionately called Poliche, is in love with Rosine, a beautiful girl, so he does everything to please her. She does not love him, and accepts a seductive airplane pilot who proposes to her. One day, she discovers that the funny man is just a front behind which there is a serious Didier. She will try to make up and live with him - but the gap between them is already too large.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-07-27
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A Man and His Woman
Overview: An honest civil servant learns about his wife’s infidelity. He pretends not to be aware of it and decides to start a businessman career. He soon becomes extremely wealthy and thinks he can win her back.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-11-09
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3 of the navy
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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-10-19
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L'Or dans la rue
Overview: A young man is involved in a swindle to produce synthetic gold, but fortunately when the fakery is uncovered he still has his girlfriend and a ticket to America.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-12-28
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L'Auberge du Petit-Dragon
Overview: Two horsemen are inseparable. One is smart and the other clumsy. A young girl is engaged to the clumsy but she falls in love with the smart one.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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Gangster malgré lui
Overview: The crazy adventures of a character forced by circumstances to take on such dangerous professions as those of gangster, burglar, Chinese chiropodist and amateur detective.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-05-03
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The Rosière of Les Halles
Overview: Working as a cook for a Parisian household, a naive country girl finds some kind of love among vegetable traders, while reluctantly helping her boss with his new play and marital life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-10-11
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Second Bureau
Overview: Captain Benoît manages to take possession of the plans of a new German airplane. The German counter-espionage assigns one of their agents, beautiful Erna Fiedler, to seduce Benoît and to eliminate him. But the two spies fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-09-19
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Le Clown Bux
Overview: Pierre Buxeuil is better known as the popular clown Bux. One day, he falls in love with Nicole, a romantic but whimsical young lady. He soon elopes her and the beautiful Nicole follows him, persuaded that she will love circus life. Unfortunately for Bux she does not and she leaves him as a result. After a few other disappointments due to false accusations, Bux finally marries a kind-hearted circus acrobat and pursues a successful career under the big top.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-03-17
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Fanfare of Love
Overview: Two unemployed musicians dress up as women to be hired by an all -female orchestra "Tulips from Holland"; they fall in love with two gorgeous musicians.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-11-16
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Le chant de l'amour
Overview: A poor woman forced to sew in a brothel for a living, a museum guard whose daughters party, an old lady with a fiery heart, and a teacher whose daughter is dying of tuberculosis, live in the same building and everyone dreams of love.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-07-04
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Le Bébé de l'escadron
Overview: A young woman is seduced by a soldier whose name she does not know. Pregnant, she asks the colonel to review the squadron in order to recognize him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-06
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Ladies Only Compartment
Overview: On his wedding day, Robert confesses his father-in-law that twenty years ago, he seduced a lady in a sleeping car of a train. His mother-in-law overhears the conversation and convinces Robert that she was that lady and that makes Robert's bride also his daughter. The wedding is in danger of being annulled when the trickery is finally discovered.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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A Bombshell Night
Overview: A banker threatened by gangsters is replaced by a tramp who is his perfect double. The gangsters arrest the fake banker and take him for a madman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-13
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The Kiddos
Overview: Mr. Bouton, a modest carpenter from Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, widower and father of Pinpin, a little boy, marries Mrs. Colombe, mother of Ninette, a little girl. Soon deceived and abandoned, he raises the two children alone. As an adult, Pinpin falls in love with Ninette, but she is in love with Gérard Garnier, whom she soon marries. The children gone, Bouton finds himself alone and one Christmas evening meets Mrs. Marie, a mother who raises her two children alone.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-27
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La Mariée du régiment
Overview: Private Mamert is the heir to five million dollars. All his comrades borrow his identity to seduce girls.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-01-03
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La Petite Sauvage
Overview: The young Paulette is placed by her tutor in a boarding school in Lausanne. It is at the neighboring dance hall, by running away for a short time, that she will find love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-01-03
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A Hen on a Wall
Overview: A little peasant girl claims to have been raped. The detective who arrives in the village discovers that it is a set-up, but at the same time reveals carefully hidden and very surprising truths about each.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-22
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Disk 413
Overview: A secret message is on a recording, a man who had disappeared for a while may be trying to steal it.His wife, a singer, teams up with a spy chief she has met to confront her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-07-24
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The Seniors
Overview: A high school in the thirties: most of the students are leaving for the Easter holidays. However, one of them,Brassier, an A -student ,stays for sentimental reasons. He is desperately in love with the principal's wife who does not want to cheat on her husband, and, above all, does not want the young man to ruin his good prospects. On a night he calls on her, a theft is committed, in the principal's office. Although completely innocent, the good lad stands accused. He's got an alibi, but it would compromise the reputation of the woman he is in love with.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-29
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Prête-moi ta femme
Overview: Gontran is required to marry if he wants to benefit from his aunt's inheritance. To convince the latter in favor of a visit, he calls on the wife of a friend who will play the role of the future wife. This maneuver will cause many misunderstandings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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Le Club des Aristocrates
Overview: Serge loves living it up but painting the town red has a price... too high for him! What to do then? Alfred, his servant and former pickpocket, has the solution : steal of course! No sooner said than done ! Or rather: No sooner said than tried... For when Serge, assisted by his mistress Gloriane acting as bait, he tries to rob a jeweler on the Place Vendôme of a precious diamond bracelet, he realizes that a gang of thieves have preceded him. Later on, he will learn that the boss of the gang is a Polish noblewoman, Countess Waldapowska.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-09-02
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Un scandale aux Galeries
Overview: The son of an industrialist is in love with a saleswoman employed by his father. The latter coos with an ingenue from whom he hides the age of his son. A department manager involved in all this has his sentimental disappointments. A double marriage puts a happy ending to the plot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-07-28
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Romarin
Overview: Romarin and his friend Tonin are two brave Provençal poachers who are not afraid. Romarin spends most of his time in his shed or on his boat, protected from customs controls. Tonin, a handsome guy with a tanned complexion, has many romantic adventures. For the moment, he is interested in the daughter of Larquus, a grocer from Cassis, the pretty Nine, who also covets the shady customs brigadier, the Corsican Napoléon Orsini.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-01-01
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Trois artilleurs au pensionnat
Overview: Three happy reservists are doing a military period. One evening out and about, thinking they were going back to the barracks, they enter a boarding school for young girls. They exchange their uniforms for the dresses of three teachers, which launches them into a series of incredible adventures for a few days.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-03-12
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La griffe du hasard
Overview: A likeable young man, reduced to living by expediency, is launched in spite of himself into an adventure of stealing jewels. With the help of a brave, rough-looking but actually very clear-sighted policeman, the jewels are recovered, the stolen young woman is reassured and the main culprit is forced into exile.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-04-02
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Social Police
Overview: For years now, Chief inspector Gustave Picard has been trying to bring down Salviati, the dreadful leader of a drug-selling gang. Lucienne Préville, an informer who works for him, has infiltrated the gang but her position is dangerous. On the other hand, Scoppa, Salviati's former right-hand man, has started challenging his former boss. Will Salviati, the brutal public enemy, clear off at last?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-04-09
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The Ladies in the Green Hats
Overview: Arlette, a young orphan girl, is taken in by four spinster cousins, the eldest of whom, Telcide, is very authoritarian. Arlette befriends Marie, and arranges her sentimental affairs, which were at an impasse.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-12-15
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Champs-Elysees
Overview: A reveler who has experienced setbacks tries to become unemployed without ever having worked.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-04-23
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The Citadel of Silence
Overview: During the students ' rebellion against Nicholas the Second in Russia, Viana tries to kill the governor but it's her lover who is arrested and sent to a sinister fortress : hence the title. To help the prisoner,Vania marries the officer who commands the place. There the convicts have really a bad time, but Vania manages to communicate with her dear captive. But beware of informers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-06-03
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Le Monsieur de 5 heures
Overview: A wealthy banker who takes his accountant's name after multiple incidents is forced to pass off his girlfriend as his daughter. But the truth is coming out. The banker's wife then favors the marriage of the young girl, which creates a new intimacy in her household.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-05-09
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Titin from Martigues
Overview: In Paris, at the Foire du Trône, the showman Titin from Martigues spins the perfect love with the pretty Yvette, which arouses the jealousy of his rival Dix-de-Der who will cause his downfall. Without this affecting his Provençal joviality, Titin will try his hand at various odd jobs without ceasing to push the song.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-02-09
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Nuits de princes
Overview: In the Parisian Russian émigré community, an attractive young woman, Hélène, is torn between her husband, her lover, and the love she feels for a new suitor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-27
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Ça... c'est du sport
Overview: Trapon, a bank employee, is in love with Mrs. Lavator, who wants to marry off her two daughters before marrying her. As one of the two fiancés of his daughters has no money, Trapon begins to embezzle sums of money in his cash box.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-08-18
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Un soir à Marseille
Overview: The wife of a Marseille industrialist is murdered. An inspector and a young journalist investigate together, and suspect the husband, then the lover, before finding the real culprit.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-03-30
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Three Artillerymen on the Move
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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Les Filles du Rhône
Overview: Frédérique, married to a brutal and vile being who dies tragically during a duel with the trident, falls in love with Jean, the fiancé of her younger sister Margarido. Both fight against their passion, to see it finally flourish because, to ensure their happiness, Margarido who has guessed everything, does not hesitate to sacrifice himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-20
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Clodoche
Overview: An adventurer poses as a prince and tries to take rich and pretty Dolly away from the man she loves by stirring up trouble.Heartbroken, Dolly is ready to drown herself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-07-20
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Pension Jonas
Overview: A tramp has taken up residence in the belly of a museum whale.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-03-06
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Adrienne Lecouvreur
Overview: Adrienne Lecouvreur is an acclaimed actress who falls in love with Polish prince Maurice de Saxe, only to be poisoned by a jealous rival while Maurice is away at war. The film was a co-production between the two countries, and was made at UFA's Berlin Studios. It was based on the 1849 play Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé about the life of the eighteenth century actress Adrienne Lecouvreur.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-28
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Un fichu métier
Overview: Because of the escapades of Alexis, the Crown Prince of Vodenia, the kingdom is likely to lose the loan lent to them by a rich foreign banker. Baron Patcheff, a minister, decides then to replace the Prince by a double. The man chosen is Castin, a Parisian haberdasher, who looks like Alexis feature for feature.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-05
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La Cité des lumières
Overview: The life of two students, Rodolphe and Madeleine. They love each other but he is rich and she has just lost her father and is forced to work in a nightclub. Rodolphe leaves her but quickly understands that he loves her and finds her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-08
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Moulin Rouge
Overview: A poor wretch, who has just been hired as a music-hall artist, in spite of himself becomes the tenant of a particular Parisian building.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-12-08
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The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock
Overview: The everyday life and activity of "La Dernière Heure", a major evening newspaper, seen through the eyes of Hélène Perrin, a cub reporter trained by Pierre Rabaud, a star in his field. Side by side they will investigate several events: an air show that ends tragically, the coming to France of a Hollywood actress, a lightship caught in a terrible storm...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-05-21
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The Lover of Borneo
Overview: Lucien Mazerand, a bookseller from Châteauroux, goes to Paris to spend a few days in the French capital. At the music-hall, he discovers Stella Losange, a singer who literally enthralls him. Determined to seduce her, he is aware that a mere bookseller from the provinces stands no chance. So he resorts to a stratagem: posing for a globe-trotter who has gone through millions of adventures. The scheme works but the lady wants more : why doesn't he take her along with him so that she can share his dangerous life?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-05-28
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Un gosse en or
Overview: Two villagers have adopted a child abandoned on the road. A jealous kid drags him away from the village. He is collected by a traveling circus where his kindness attracts him the affection of all and especially that of the animals. One day he finds his mother and his two adopted fathers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-02-01
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Fort Dolorès
Overview: Several men of different nationalities have decided to free themselves from the clutches of women and have vowed to help each other in case one of them might relapse. They find shelter in a hacienda on the pampas. They believe they are now safe from the evil influence of the fair sex. Unfortunately there is a farm nearby in which... a gorgeous woman is said to live. Great principles are short-lived, as they soon realize: lust, jealousy and hate set in at once.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-01
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Soyez les bienvenus
Overview: Before the war. Mr. and Mrs. Boisleroi, well off, lived in their castle while their son Jacques courted Geneviève, the manager's daughter. On mobilization, the manager becomes flight captain, Boisleroi a simple waykeeper and Jacques wants to enlist. Refugees arrive: an actress, a player, an old marquis, former owner of the castle and who will die there. All this life together culminates in the marriage of Jacques and Geneviève.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-07-08
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The Four-Poster Bed
Overview: In his prison cell, the composer Remi Bonvent composed an opera, The columns bed. The director of the prison, Porey Cave, succeeds made believe he is the author of this work. The death of the two protagonists will prevent the discovery of the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-07-09
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The Marriage of Chiffon
Overview: Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow, her mother (Suzanne Dantes) would like to remarry a rich noble. Without realizing it, Chiffon is in love with her uncle, a ruined pioneer of aviation ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-08-06
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Grand-père
Overview: Trouble is started by one of the unfortunate girls, ensconced in a chateau by a generous lady so they can recuperate,but a grandfather and a teacher cause the little drama to be soon forgotten.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-27
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Hopes ...
Overview: Grigou owns a patch of land between farmers Martin's and Aubert's fields. Both covet this plot.As Grigou has lost the title deed,the mayor of the village decides to sell it.After an interminable auction sale, Aubert carries the day .To add insult to injury,shortly after, Martin is expelled from his farm,and becomes an innkeeper (a doomed inn where the former owner hanged himself). Ten years after, Aubert's daughter falls in love with Martin's son.Their fathers being deadly enemies, their marriage seems impossible.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-03-19
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His Uncle from Normandy
Overview: A young American businessman, tired of his hectic life, makes an unexpected inheritance which leads him to Normandy. There he discovers, with the discomfort of an old dusty century-old house, the sweetness of life, the love of a beautiful girl and the pleasure of doing nothing.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-06-08
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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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Fromont Young and Risler Elder
Overview: An ambitious and perverse adventurer sows dissension and ruin in a wealthy family of industrialists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-10-08
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A Hand Hit
Overview: The wife of a stable manager will try everything to clear her husband, a very violent being, accused of the assassination of a trainer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-07-19
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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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The Murderer Lives at Number 21
Overview: Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-08-07
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The President
Overview: At 73, a former President of the French Council reflects on his political career while writing his memoirs, delving into his relationships with key figures, including the one set to become the next President.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-01
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The Emigrant
Overview: Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-01-29
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Sixième étage
Overview: The joys and miseries of the inhabitants of a building in a Parisian district.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-09-02
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Des jeunes filles dans la nuit
Overview: Six young boarding girls return home unexpectedly after their college has been destroyed by fire. Their unexpected presence arouses melodramatic reactions.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-04-14
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The Secret of Madame Clapain
Overview: Madame Clapain dies in dubious circumstances at the home of the Cadifon ladies, of which she was a tenant. A friendly inspector and Thérèse Cadifon each carry out their own investigation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-08-11
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The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil
Overview: A banker who lost everything in the stock market is on the verge of committing suicide when the Devil appears to him and offers to give him a fortune every day on one condition: he must do evil things with the money! Will the banker keep his end of the deal...
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-09-20
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Angel of the Night
Overview: A young sculptor presides over the destinies of a student club where a miserable young girl ends up one evening. The treasurer of the association falls in love with the young girl who returns the favor. The war. The sculptor comes back blind. Out of gratitude, the young girl marries him and restores his confidence in his talent; out of discretion, the treasurer steps aside.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-01-19
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La Rabouilleuse
Overview: 1824 in Issoudun. A bourgeois, Rouget, lives as a husband and wife, La Rabouilleuse, who holds him in her power. The old man's nephew, ex-Colonel Philippe Bridau of the Imperial Guard, swears to hunt the intruder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-02-02
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The Ménard Collection
Overview: Renée Ménard, a young mixed-race Indochinese, arrives in France to find her French father, whom she only knows is called Paul Ménard. In the hope of identifying her father, she meets a series of men with that name.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-04-12
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Faut ce qu'il faut
Overview: In 1939, in a maternity ward, a young man visits his mistress who has just given birth to a little girl. He tells her that he is married and that for him the outcome of this adventure was not really planned. The mobilization separates them but the young man will end up divorcing and with the relentless help of a friend, will find his mistress and his child and will be able to marry her in spite of the chaos of the war.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-02-12
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Song of the Clouds
Overview: Sylvio, a successful singer, has found a way to take a peaceful vacation, safe from his female adulators: to travel incognito. He puts up at an old castle whose landlord, Count Fabrice, a ruined nobleman, seeks a hidden treasure. Posing as the nephew of the castle gardener, Sylvio enjoys happy days and even finds the time to fall in love with Gracieuse, the count's daughter. Unfortunately for him, his impresario ends up locating him...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-03-06
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Goodbye Darling
Overview: Chérie is a beautiful young woman who works as an escort girl. She meets a young and wealthy man who propose her to be his fictional wife so that his mother won't bother him anymore with this other girl, a rich one, she wants to see her son married to.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-04-26
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Murderers and Thieves
Overview: A man becomes the lover of his former persecutor's wife.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-10-24
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La Nuit de Sybille
Overview: Two burglars enter a house where a young woman has illegally settled. In exchange for her silence, she asks them to play the role of her parents so that she can welcome her lover.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-03-05
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Anger of the Gods
Overview: Sylvain, sentenced to death, assures the visiting priest that his life could have been completely different, and invents different situations.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-04-09
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The Woman in Red
Overview: Two paintings are stolen. Amateur private detective Roland Gautier investigates.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-05-21
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La Cabane aux souvenirs
Overview: Laurangeais stays in a nursing home after his wife dies following an accident caused by Terrian, his adopted son. When he leaves he finds Terrian who is going to get married. He drags his future wife into a cabin and kills her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-09-10
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No More Vacation for the Good Lord
Overview: Montmartre in the summertime. A group of street urchins idles outside while the other kids of the neighborhood are away on holiday.To keep the gang busy, Pivolo, their leader, has an idea : they are going to kidnap Aunt Faguet's doggy. Just for the fun of it. A few days pass after the crime is accomplished and one of them suddenly realizes that a reward is being offered by the aunt to anyone who would bring her her pet back. Mademoiselle Hélène, the kind-hearted social worker, does it for them and gives them the reward money, which is instantly exchanged for lollipops, nougat and merry-go-round and cinema tickets. So, why not continue? That's what they do, abducting several dogs, until they realize they are becoming ... too rich! They can't buy themselves luxurious gifts or else their parents are bound to suspect something. Instead, they decide to do good by helping poor people around them. One day, Pierrot, a member of the gang, gets run down by a cyclist and becomes blind.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-04-12
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Gold Smugglers
Overview: A band of traffickers seeks to infiltrate among smugglers on the Franco-Belgian border. Josée, a superb girl, is the mistress of Gueule en or, one of the smugglers.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-01-11
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The Woman I Murdered
Overview: During a singles meal, the phone rings. A woman claims a man, Jean-Louis. As a joke, the master of the house replies that he is gone forever and advises him to take the plunge. But she obeys and the suicide appears in the newspapers. Tested, the master of the house takes in the child of the unfortunate woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-11-26
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The Elders of Saint-Loup
Overview: Due to financial problems, the boarding-school of Saint-Loup is on the verge of closing its doors. In desperation, Jacquelin, the headmaster, has the idea to invite former students to a fund-raising reunion. Among the alumni, three men whose common point is to have been in love at the time with the headmaster's niece. One is a banker, the second a priest and the last one a globetrotter. All of a sudden, the peace of the assembly is disturbed: Jacquelin's niece has just been murdered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-08
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La Bataille du feu
Overview: Activities and exploits of firefighters in the context of a village then the capital and under the bombardments of the Second World War where the saving of lives was more important than that of factories.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-04-24
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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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Mammy
Overview: Mammy has a grandson she adores even though he is a good for nothing. One day Maurice disappears and Mammy becomes blind. When Maurice finally announces his return the fond old lady is overjoyed. Unfortunately, Maurice's plane crashes and catches fire. The young man is reported missing, presumably dead. Pierre, Mammy's husband, can't bring himself to announce such a shocking news. Desperate, he finds no other solution than subterfuge : he will ask a young couple to pass themselves off as Maurice and his girlfriend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-28
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Et ta soeur
Overview: In order to escape the police, a man takes the place of his missing sister, who was clairvoyant.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-30
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Sorceror
Overview: A young rogue kills an old lady to rob her. Arrested, he believes it is for this crime, hides nothing from his lawyer, who soon tells him that he is only accused of another theft prior to his crime. Sentenced to six months suspended prison sentence, he will also have to answer for the crime of the old lady.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-01-27
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The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans
Overview: Suzanne Beulemans's fiancé, Séraphin Meulenmeester, once tells her that he has... a mistress and a... son! The bad news falls rather well though given that Suzanne has developed a fondness for Albert Delpierre, a young Frenchman who has come to Brussels to study the brewing methods of her father. She decides to break up amicably but Séraphin does not dare admit it to his father, who becomes angry with the Beulemanses. Suzanne's uncle, a vicar, tries to settle the whole thing but the coronation of King Albert I gives rise to renewed resentment. Suzanne finally finds the way to solve the problem: she takes Meulenmeester apart, reminds him of his own misconduct when he was a young man, asks him to forgive Séraphin while her own father accepts Albert as his son-in-law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-02-02
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Trois vieilles filles en folie
Overview: A marquis organizes a matrimonial contest with the aim of enriching three spinsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-03-21
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Mr. Leguignon Lampiste
Overview: A railway worker, Leguignon, and his wife are forced to move into a house located in a shaggy part of town. What Leguignon doesn't know is that a group of children have discovered a treasure and keeps it stored in the house. Trouble ensues when he discovers the cache and tries to claim it as his own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-05-08
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Carrot Top
Overview: As the red headed boy writes in his school book, a family is a group living under the same roof who can't stand each other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-05-28
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The Lafleur Cavalryman
Overview: The reservist Lafleur, having a wife, a mistress and still running after the first petticoat that comes along, his namesake, an active soldier, finds himself embroiled in the vengeance or intrigues that all these women are plotting. Eventually, the entanglements will unravel in a final party.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-12-20
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La danseuse nue
Overview: Colette gives up her studies to become a cabaret dancer. She breaks with her fiance who does not approve of her choice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-08
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The Beautiful Image
Overview: One day, Raoul Cérusier realizes with amazement that his face has changed. With the exception of an old uncle, no one, not even his wife, recognizes him. From an ordinary, rather ugly man, he has become a charming young man on whom the prettiest girls turn, including his wife whom he seduces. Fortunately, he regains his old face in time and Madame Cérusier, losing a lover, finds her husband again.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-30
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Crazy for Love
Overview: A comedy about a dimwitted man who must obtain a high-school diploma before he can inherit an inn.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-11-07
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Le Passage de Vénus
Overview: Yesterday night, Lazare Chantoiseau painted the town red. This morning he wakes up with a very unsettling idea in mind: he is sure to have stolen and raped a strange woman in the Luxembourg Gardens, so he decides to give himself up. On that occasion he gets to know his victim, Hortense, as well as her husband, an astronomer. Lazare realizes he is innocent, which does not prevent from becoming... Hortense's lover!
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-08-30
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Grand gala
Overview: An officer brings to him in Morocco a dancer he loves.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-12-05
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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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Mother Love
Overview: Gilbert Quercy, 18, tried to commit suicide after a heartache. At the hospital, three women try to cheer him up : the three former wives of his father, an archaeologist and an egyptologist, whom Gilbert called his "mothers". These women show a lot of willingness, but soon will become intrusive.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-03
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The Free Trade Hotel
Overview: There's never a dull moment at the Hôtel du Libre Echange. Deceptions, hitches and other misunderstandings make a few people mingle whereas, for their own sake, they should not. An example among others: an expert who has come to the hotel for professional reasons had better not meet his wife, who is there to cheat on him with his best friend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-11-10
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Trois artilleurs à l'opéra
Overview:
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-05-10
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Behind These Walls
Overview: June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by the resistance, the inhabitants who listen to English radio are rounded up by the Germans in a prison and considered as hostages. In one of the cells are found men from all walks of life: an aristocrat, the Viscount of Saint-Leu, Doctor Noblet, a resistance fighter, Béquille the wanderer with a wooden leg, and a strange character nicknamed "Black Market". The latter arouses mistrust among the prisoners, because it could well have been introduced by the enemy.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-03-13
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Father Goriot
Overview: An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Paris. In after Balzac.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-03-22
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Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's
Overview: Julien Pauphilat is the doorman at the famous restaurant, Maxim's and is also the confidant of many of his customers. As a consequence, in this post, he has managed to make a comfortable living and even acquire a country mansion. Retirement beckons and he is going to be able to enjoy the quiet life at last. The wedding of his daughter, Genevieve with Andre du Velin, a well born playboy is going to endanger this dream, for Genevieve is ignorant of her father's job. However, her fiance doesn't see any problem with this.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-08-14
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The Ferret
Overview: A mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping them off about murders that are to be committed around Paris. Among those caught up in the police manhunt is a fraudulent clairvoyant.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-02-10
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The Marriage of Chiffon
Overview: Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow, her mother (Suzanne Dantes) would like to remarry a rich noble. Without realizing it, Chiffon is in love with her uncle, a ruined pioneer of aviation ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-08-06
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La P..... sentimentale
Overview: A high school boy falls for a prostitute he has met on the notorious "Rue Des Patures".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-10-24
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The Bureaucrats
Overview: A comedy about the petty bureaucrats who need special leather props under their posteriors because of the long hours they spend sitting at their desks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-12-15
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L'Habit vert
Overview:
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-02-09
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Ménilmontant
Overview: Because they brought her back a lost piece of jewelry, a very rich lady accedes to the request of three old people and transforms a vacant lot into a park for the neighborhood children.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-11-20
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La Madelon
Overview: 1914, a small village of the Marne. Charming and woken up, Madeleine, said the Madelon, who works in the coffee(café) of his father, Tourlourou, account of numerous pretenders. To the rich Antoine Pichot, she prefers corporal Beauguitte. When the war bursts, she(it) searches for the latter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-02
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The Great Game
Overview: Pierre , a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence and her whims of luxury life. Pierre has gone too far and put the family firm in jeopardy. They ask him to expatriate. To avoid scandal, Pierre joins the Foreign Legion. In Morocco, near the desert, Pierre goes with his comrades of the Legion to a bar-restaurant-brothel, owned by a shady character, Mr. Clement . Clement lives more or less with Ms.Blanche who is a fortune teller with cards, as a hobby. But Clement is also after his girls now and then. Pierre is still obsessed with Florence but he meets Irma , one of Clement's girls, who is the double of Florence except for hair color. Irma has had an accident and has lost part of her memory at a certain point of her recent past, and Pierre slowly persuades himself she is Florence, but cannot remember it. Advised by Ms.Blanche, Irma finally accepts to act as if she was Florence because she is falling in love with Pierre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-05-02
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Mandat d'amener
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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-08-02
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Le Petit Jacques
Overview: Noël Rambert is overwhelmed by fate. Marthe, his wife, has left him. His son, little Jacques, sickly and touching, has psychic gifts. Life is not a happy one. A crime is committed. Poor Rambert is unjustly suspected. A good-looking man convinces him to confess his guilt. In doing so, he secures his child's future. Resigned to everything, the sad Rambert is ready for the scaffold. The little medium brings the truth to light and Mme Mortal denounces her husband, Daniel Mortal, the man behind the despicable bargain, as the murderer. Happiness returns with a bang, as the repentant Marthe Rambert continues to watch over little Jacques during the ordeal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-09-03
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La Famille Cucuroux
Overview: An aristocrat short of the readies, Gontran, is to marry a wealthy girl of common birth; but he has to get rid of his lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-12-25
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Minuit... Champs-Elysées
Overview: A burglar, Bob Duchemin, is charged with murder following a mysterious settling of accounts. Suspicion also falls on the manager of a cabaret on the Champs-Elysées, as well as the owner of the establishment, Enrico. But Bob is also found guilty and sentenced to twenty years' hard labor. Soon abandoned by his fiancée, Lili, Bob learns that she has become Enrico's mistress, one of the attractions at the Tipico. The young singer's affair quickly makes her an international star. For his part, Bob escapes and seeks revenge. He meets a young pure freak who dissuades him from carrying out his murder plans. Bob kills Enrico anyway, but in self-defense. Afterwards, having been found innocent, he will be able to "remake his life" with the pure young girl.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-01-29
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Tabor
Overview: An evocation of the wartime exploits of the Moroccan "Tabors" in Tunisia, Italy, the French campaign and Germany. During the landings in Corsica, a light-hearted love affair develops between Adjutant Lenoir and a nurse. Fights, escapes and heroic actions lead to victory.
Genres: War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-02-22
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My Darned Father
Overview: Roger, editor of a women's magazine, meets Roberte, his friend Jean's former mistress, at a major couturier's during a collection presentation. Roberte, who now lives in Florence with her niece Maria, asks Roger to arrange a student exchange so that Maria can come to Paris to perfect her French. Roger approaches Jean's son Philippe, a student at the Beaux-Arts, who agrees to go to Florence. Maria and Philippe meet on the platform at Pisé station. They miss their respective trains and take a walk together. A flirtation begins, then each goes back to the other. Jean finds Maria charming and, like an unrepentant Don Juan, decides to win her over, but thanks to his old maid, his intrigues come to nothing and Maria can marry Philippe.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-06-25
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It Only Happens to the Living
Overview: A young garage owner, Henri, whose business is not going well, fixes the lovely Gloria's car on the road. She suggests he let part of his garage to her friends.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-05-06
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Zouzou
Overview: Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-12-21
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The Land That Dies
Overview: In Vendée, an old farmer is gradually abandoned by his family who do not see their future in the fields. Only a cripple in love and abandoned remain at his side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-04-24
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Monsieur Coccinelle
Overview: An average worker who feels downtrodden at work and home, dreams of becoming a dictator. His aunt has her own fantasy that the love-of-her-life, a fairground magician, will return to her once more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-02
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Soupe au lait
Overview: Roland Lasserre is a shy boy, which would be nothing if he weren't also prone to the violent tantrums that have earned him his nickname "Soupe au lait". It's when Francine announces her engagement that he decides to declare his love for her. Francine is not at all keen on the husband her parents are forcing on her - a wealthy record manufacturer - but she gives in under their pressure and asks Roland to give her up. But fate has other plans. A car accident provokes the young man's anger, and with Francine on board, he chases after the hit-and-run driver and ends up in a ditch, luckily undamaged, 50 km from Paris. Torrential rain, lack of transport, welcoming hostelry. All Roland and Francine have to do is confess their guilt, and for the sake of honor, get married... All would be well were it not for René, the neglected fiancé, who provokes "Soupe au lait" and triggers a scandal during the ceremony.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-07-01
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La Traversée de la Loire
Overview: June 1940, near Saumur. During the exodus, the bridges having been destroyed, a group of refugees, brought together by the chance of fleeing the advancing German troops, build a raft to cross the Loire to evacuate a sick little girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-01-31
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Monsieur Octave
Overview: Monsieur Octave, a good man who has retired from the French national railway company, wants to have his house built. To this end he contacts a loan company. They ask him to credit them with 100,000 francs. Which he does. From then on, Octave starts waiting, waiting, waiting...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-07
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Cab Number 13
Overview: To secure her fortune with Monsieur Vaudieu de la Tour, the Machiavellian Claudia kills her lover's elder brother and steals his child. The boy is adopted by a coachman, and later, as secretary to the Minister of Justice, discovers the truth, punishes the bad guys, rewards the good ones and marries the daughter of another innocent man, unjustly accused by Claudia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-02-28
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The Virgin Bride
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-08-06
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The Congress of Mother-in-Laws
Overview: The Baroness de Courtebise presides over an association of mothers-in-law with grievances against their sons-in-law. Armed with her prerogatives, she forbids the marriage of her daughter-in-law to the mayor's nephew, especially as an inheritance is in doubt. The ladies kidnap, the men kidnap, the election campaign turns sour and the Baroness must capitulate. She takes revenge by falling into the mayor's arms.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-12-15
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The Benefactor
Overview: A kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence and carries out dishonest activities.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-12-11
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The Green Dress
Overview: Count Hubert de Latour Latour is the lover of the Duchess de Maulévrier. The day he is surprised by the Duke in the company of his wife and... in a rather compromising situation, Hubert resorts to a subterfuge, claiming that he has come to see the Duchess to seek support to be elected at the Institut de France, whose chairman is precisely her husband. The latter takes him at his word and Hubert becomes... a member of the French Academy! Which just shows that everything leads to everything.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-10-27
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
Overview: Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-02-10
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Le Nabab
Overview: Bernard Jeansoulet supports his brother Louis and his mother through his work. Louis finds a job in Paris, where he gets carried away by the intoxicating atmosphere, and ends up in prison... An adaptation of Alphonse Daudet's work by one of the pioneers of cinema.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-05-23
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Topaze
Overview: A tale of a socially inept schoolmaster who must confront his own principles.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-01-06
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The Parish Priest of Saint-Amour
Overview: The Marquise de Saint-Ange wants to marry her niece Nicole, but the young girl, put off by the chosen suitor, flees with her friend Jacques.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-11-14
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Square of Knaves
Overview: Summoned by his mother to plead, a very young lawyer has a trio of pathetic criminals acquitted. The daughter of one of them reveals to the lawyer that the three accomplices hoped to find food and board in prison. For the beautiful eyes of the young girl, Master of La Bastide attaches the three rogues to his service. Disasters, confusion, clumsiness follow one another until the planned wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-12-10
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The Spies
Overview: A doctor at a run-down psychiatric hospital is offered a large sum of money to shelter a new patient. Soon the place is full of suspicious and secretive characters, all apparently international secret agents trying to find out who and what the patient is.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-10-10
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The Temptation of Barbizon
Overview: Daniel Gelin and Juliette Faber star as a blissfully happy honeymooning couple. They are so happy that they arouse the jealous attentions of Satan. The Dark Prince sends an emissary to beak up the romance, but his advocate is promptly challenged by a representative from "up above."
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-03-13
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One Only Loves Once
Overview: Although they have loved each other since childhood without admitting it, a surgeon and a young woman see their love thwarted by life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-06-09
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A Rare Bird
Overview: A wealthy businessman joins his servant, who has won a winter getaway, on the trip, but at the hotel where they stay the servant is mistaken for the master.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-06-06
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L'École des contribuables
Overview: A bureaucrat, tax assessor, specialized in tax return and fraud, complains about his son-in-law's inactivity. He'd rather have thought twice before urging him to work...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-04-23
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Alone
Overview: A prominent chanteuse on a world tour meets a young fellow European in Singapore, a soldier of fortune who becomes obsessed with listening to her voice on a recording.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-02-13
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Kindergarten
Overview: 1948. Madeleine is the headmistress of a kindergarten in Ménilmontant. Dr Libois, the school doctor, is very close to her heart. When Rose, a new helper comes to the school, Libois is impressed at once by her understanding of the little ones and her dedication to them. Little by little, Libois grows fond of Rose while becoming estranged from Madeleine. He eventually marries Rose.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-05-20
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Prince de mon cœur
Overview: One of the subjects of the Prince of Slopoldavia, followed him to Paris, not out of love but to take revenge for the monarch's betrayal of one of his friends. Involuntary architect of a plot, she forces the prince to return to the throne and agrees to share the burdens of power with him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-17
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Six Hours to Lose
Overview: A traveller is stuck in an unknown town because his connecting train will only arrive in six hours. He decides to kill time by taking a stroll. He is not prepared to get confused with somebody else. In fact the citizens are eagerly awaiting the visit of a famous man and the clueless traveller is his doppelgänger. Soon he experiences what that means.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-01-22
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The Big Circus
Overview: During the second World War. The lives of three comrades fighting in the Forces Françaises Libres' flight. Pierre is a valiant pilot, afraid of nothing. Jean is reported missing during the Normandy landings. Jacques gets killed on the very last day of the conflict, leaving behind him a weeping widow.
Genres: War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-03-10
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Over the Wall
Overview: Simone and Jean have just married and, looking for a home in the Paris region, are lucky enough to find a house with a garden in a residential suburb. Expecting their first child, the young couple began to observe how the parents of neighboring families were raising theirs.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-08-22
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The Turkey
Overview: Paris at the Belle Epoque. Monsieur de Pontagnac, a perfect honest man, loves pretty women too much and that plays him many tricks. What need does he have to follow the pretty Lucienne Vatelin, home, to find himself in the presence of the husband, the notary Vatelin, who is part of his circle? From there, many characters will meet, avoid each other, find each other. Adultery, domestic scenes and reconciliation will be their lot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-21
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Millionaires for One Day
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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Secret File 1413
Overview: A detective investigates a murder and gets caught up in spy shenanigans.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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Le Roman d'un spahi
Overview: The spahi Jean Peyral is very in love with the flirtatious Cora. When he realizes that she betrays him, he tries to kill himself. He is saved by the tenderness of a young native, Fatou.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-03-27
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Carnival of Sinners
Overview: A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact, magically. But of course there is nothing free in this world, and after one year the devil comes and asks for his due.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-03-21
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Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
Overview: "Everybody is ill: you just don't know it yet". Knock, a newly arrived physician takes over a small town through fear and authority. NB : this is a different movie from the 1951 version where Louis Jouvet also plays Dr Knock.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-11-03
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La Grande Marnière
Overview: A rich peasant, Carvajan, seeks revenge on the castellan, Clairefont, with whom he had a serious conflict. Their respective children, Antoinette and Pascal, meet and fall in love with each other. Robert de Clairefont, Antoinette's brother, unjustly accused of murder, is defended and saved by Pascal. Finally, love, by uniting the son of one to the daughter of the other, will appease souls and reconcile families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-03-23
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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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Si j'étais le patron
Overview: An intelligent young worker, enterprising but boastful, repeats to all the winds that, if he were the boss, we would see what we would see. One of the main shareholders of the factory takes him at his word for twenty-four hours.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-10-25
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Seven Men, One Woman
Overview: At the urging of her childhood friend Brémontier, Lucie de Kéradec, a wealthy widowed countess who wishes to remarry, invites all of her seven suitors to her mansion. Her untold intention is to test them by claiming to be ruined. The experience is a success in that each of the potential husbands reveals his inner nature but a failure when it comes to finding a new life partner. None of the guests passes the test except - the eighth man, namely Brémontier who loved Lucie in secret but, being penniless, had not dared declare his flame to her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-08-28
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Le Scandale
Overview: A woman suffers ill repute when she deserts her husband for a fling with an adventurer and gives the lover jewelry to pay the hotel bill. Will the husband be understanding and forgive her?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-02-03
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Trois jours de bringue à Paris
Overview: A group of inhabitants from Ferté-sous-Jouarre decide to spend their jackpot on a three day trip to Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-05-14
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Les Bras de la nuit
Overview: Police inspector, Landais is caught in a tough situation. Daniele has murdered her husband, yet after the inspector starts investigating the case, he is completely overcome by her. Her obvious attractions have him in thrall and eventually he realizes he will do anything not to lose her. His solution is to cover up for her crime, after which things begin to go poorly.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-29
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La Renégate
Overview: In a small town in Spanish Morocco, old Ricardo, who runs a café, lives with his daughter, Conchita. She believes that Ricardo is her father. In reality, he took her in at the age of eighteen months in a douar abandoned during the conquest. One day a Berber chief, Tamar, sees Conchita, tells her that she is from his tribe and wants to take her away. She rejects it, then accepts later to find that Muslim civilization is incompatible with the Christian training she received. She escapes and succeeds in obtaining forgiveness from Tamar. A French officer from the Intelligence Service offers to collect it.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-04-09
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La Loupiote
Overview: Little Germaine Valcour, an adulterine child, is abandoned and taken in by a showman, Father Ballot. She becomes the consolation of the good man whose daughter has gone wrong. Madame Vaulcour died of grief while her lover, after many bad blows, takes justice into his own hands. The girl stays with her adoptive parents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-01-22
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Happy Days
Overview: Sylvie, a rich girl, learns at the same time the death and the ruin of her father. Forced to find work in Paris, she is given shelter by a medical student who soon falls for her. Another young man falls in love with her. When her benefactor gets ill and finally dies, Sylvie refuses to give the other man her heart out of faithfulness for the dearly departed. But youth commands and after a time love -but not oblivion - triumphs.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-11-08
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Le mariage de Véréna
Overview: Verena, a farm servant, gives birth to a little girl and for the happiness of her child, tries for nearly twenty years to bend the selfishness of the seducer who did not marry her. When she returns to the village, she has worn herself out at work, but she has the consolation of seeing her daughter's future assured.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-19
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The Secret of Monte-Cristo
Overview: One of Alexandre Dumas's most popular adventure novels is "The Count of Monte-Cristo". What is little known is that the famous writer made up neither its plot nor its characters. Dumas actually heard the true story of a man named François Picault during a stay at a private mansion and only adapted it into the novel everybody knows . Picault (who in the book would become Edmond Dantès) was about to marry the beautiful Marguerite (Mercédès in the novel) when he was denounced by three jealous friends who falsely accused him of being a spy for England. Picault was placed under a form of house arrest. In his prison, he made friends with an Italian abbot. When the man died, he left his fortune to Picault whom he had begun to treat as a son. On his release, Picault, who had become wealthy, was able to pursue his ruthless revenge on the three men who were responsible for his misfortune.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-09-17
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La Nuit blanche
Overview: A father wants to try by all means to avenge the death of his son, a test pilot, whose responsible is the attractive female star of a Parisian cabaret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-09-03
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Antonia
Overview: The famous singer Antonia left the stage to marry a country gentleman. She goes alone one day to Budapest to see again the operetta which revealed her and outlines a flirtation with an aviator engaged to her niece. The presence of mind of the latter pleasantly closes the adventure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-01-25
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Death Threat
Overview: André Garnier, a young pianist, who was sent to deportation following a denunciation, absolutely wants to find his informer. He falls in love with Hélène, the mistress of a wealthy industrialist, Bernier, in whom he soon discovers the man who once sold him to the Gestapo. Bernier is soon found murdered. André deflects suspicion on Jacques, the victim's secretary. Hélène and André's affair ends up being discovered by the police, who seem to see in it the motive for the crime. André surrenders to justice.
Genres: Comedy Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-02-22
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Trust Me!
Overview: Max, an illusionist as unlucky as he is skilled, would like to marry his boss's daughter, but his boss won't hear of marriage and even threatens to fire him if he doesn't come up with an interesting act. A supplier of magic items comes to Marx's rescue, handing over his "magic clock". Marx locks himself in to experiment with it and, unable to get out, falls asleep... He has a dream in which, with the power to make false things true, he becomes the hero of extraordinary adventures that take him to an Eastern country where he is made Emperor. He calls Helen to marry him, but the deposed Emperor takes revenge by having the usurper locked up in a sarcophagus.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-05-17
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La joueuse d'orgue
Overview: Robert Bernier murdered his brother with the complicity of a worker. The only witness to the tragedy, Veronique was injured while rescuing her boss and remains blind. Later, cured by an operation, she denounces the criminal whose voice she recognized and who had taken over the factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-07-29
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La Tradition de minuit
Overview: Five people are gathered in a cafe because of a phone call they have all received. The plot thickens when they discover a dead body in a bedroom upstairs.The five people all become suspects.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-22
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La Peau d’un homme
Overview: Simone's friend is murdered and the young woman is implicated. A journalist, Bernard Landry, succeeds in proving her innocence before being himself unmasked by an investigator.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-03-09
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The Elders of Saint-Loup
Overview: Due to financial problems, the boarding-school of Saint-Loup is on the verge of closing its doors. In desperation, Jacquelin, the headmaster, has the idea to invite former students to a fund-raising reunion. Among the alumni, three men whose common point is to have been in love at the time with the headmaster's niece. One is a banker, the second a priest and the last one a globetrotter. All of a sudden, the peace of the assembly is disturbed: Jacquelin's niece has just been murdered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-08
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Madame Bovary
Overview: Soon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country doctor in Normandy, marries Emma Rouault. In her new home, Emma finds conflict with her mother-in-law, a husband uninterested in the social whirl, and general discontentment; thereby proving an easy conquest for philanderer Rodolphe. Other lovers follow. Does tragedy await?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-01-04
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A Star to the Sun
Overview: Martine, who has become a major star of the song in Paris, wants to return to visit her hometown. Confronted with Merlerault, a very haughty and noble character who wants to teach her how to live, she succumbs after a time of anger, to the charms of the gentleman. They get married but she forgot to tell her husband that her father is in fact the most famous poacher in the area.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-02-24
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Two Women
Overview: Considering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not allow her to turn to another man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-05-16
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Les Gangsters du château d'If
Overview: Sentimental and emotional problems for a certain Jean Mariole who can hardly really position himself between two mistresses.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-02-22
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Case closed
Overview: The owner of a fairground shooting gallery, haunted by the crime he committed ten years before with the complicity of his friend and associate, is ridden with guilt. One day, as he is under the influence of alcohol, he confesses his crime. In vain, for nobody, including the police, wants to believe him...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-09-16
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The Mayor's Dilemma
Overview: At the beginning of World War I in a village in the country of La Marne, two families are against the marriage of their children. The war changes the positions.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-23
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Sins of Youth
Overview: A rich businessman living alone is deprived of the nephew he was to have brought up decides on his doctor's advice to search for the four illegitimate children he once fathered, which leads him to accept responsibility for his actions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-11-16
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S. S. Tenacity
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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Monsieur le directeur
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-01-23
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