Jacques Varennes
Also Known As: Jacques Varenne, Louis-Henri André
Biography: Jacques Varennes (6 September 1894 – 8 November 1958) was a French film actor who appeared in around seventy films during his career. He appeared in Maurice Tourneur's 1938 historical film The Patriot. Source: Article "Jacques Varennes" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mantes-sur-Seine, Seine-et-Oise [now Mantes-la-Jolie, Yvelines], France
Adult: No
Birthday: November 08, 1894
Age: 130 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 06, 1958
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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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Brevet 95-75
Overview: Foreign spies are interested in plans for a device invented by a French aviator. They kidnap the young man but fail in their business thanks to the energy of his wife and the cunning of the mechanic.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-08-24
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Bouquets from Nicholas
Overview: A florist in a nightclub in Montmartre, a good, naive man is manipulated by a gang of gangsters who use him to smuggle drugs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-08
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Personal Column
Overview: To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienne Charpentier, friend of the latest missing person.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-12-05
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Poison
Overview: Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each other without risk. After listening to a radio show, Paul decides to go to Paris to meet a famous lawyer in the acquittal of the murderers. He tells the lawyer that he killed his wife. The lawyer asks Paul to reconstruct the circumstances of the drama. Without knowing it, he explains, in spite of himself, the way for Paul to murder his wife by putting the odds on his side to avoid death penalty or even be released...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-30
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La Malibran
Overview: On the death of the famous singer Maria Malibran, Countess Merlin retraces the main lines of the unusual destiny of this young woman entirely devoted to her art.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-05-03
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The 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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Shout It from the House Tops
Overview: The son of a rich soap manufacturer gets himself in predicaments trying to prove to his father that he's responsible enough for marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-08-12
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The Devil's Holiday
Overview: Betty marries rich Allan out of interest and drives a wedge between him and his family.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-03-27
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La maison du mystère
Overview: Julien Villandrit owns a textile factory whose manager, Henri Corrandi, is his childhood friend. Both love the same woman, Régine de Bettigny, who grants her hand to Villandrit. Mad with jealousy, Corradin will use all means to break up the couple: he does not hesitate to compromise Régine, to send Julien to prison for a crime he did not commit, to spread misfortune. But despite a long and painful separation, Julien and Régine will find each other, still bound by the same love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-06-08
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Le Bossu
Overview: Lagardère protects Aurore, the granddaughter of the Duke of Nevers whose deceitful Philippe de Gonzague covets the inheritance.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-12-28
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Le Petit Jacques
Overview: An honest worker is unjustly accused of murder. The culprit promises him to give his son a good education if he allows himself to be condemned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-12-21
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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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One of the Legion
Overview: Fernand Espitalion is miserable as totally whipped husband of a dragon 'passed on' -like cloths- by his late cousin. She often leaves him waiting outside like a dog when she does business. While she sees a notary about an inheritance, he's seduced to a bar by a shady man. The rogue gets Fernand drunk, knocks him out and switches costumes and papers. He's now Robert Durand, a voluntary Foreign legion recruit. After failed attempts to explain, he tastes military life and finds it less disciplined and more enjoyable then, marriage. But will that last when his wife tracks him and his unit is sent to action in tribal Algeria?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-10-02
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The Tower of Nesle
Overview: In the 13th century, lovers hurried to the door of Marguerite de Bourgogne. The aristocrat who every day was indulged in orgies that were famous throughout the country. What the suitors do not know is that they will inevitably be executed the day after these festivities and thrown to the Seine.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-07-30
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Courier of Lyons
Overview: A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of justice will lead an innocent person to the guillotine.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-11-10
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Le Fraudeur
Overview: Florimond, a dangerous smuggler, and his mistress Viviane try in vain to transfer illegal precious stones. When Viviane gets to know young Théo, a naive young peasant, she immediately capitalizes on the encounter. Thanks to her charm, she seduces him into becoming her accomplice. And, naturally, the operation is a success. Unfortunately for Florimond and Viviane, things soon go awry. Indeed, Théo's godfather, a customs officer, who has heard of the affair, lectures Théo and makes him become aware of the offense he has committed. The young man now wants to makes amends. Which is not to Florimond's liking.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-11-19
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Un meurtre a été commis
Overview: Inspector Doirel investigates the murder of a man whose servant was found tied up. He discovers very quickly that the servant has lied. The latter ends up denouncing his accomplice who is arrested when he was going to kill the informer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-13
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Gosse de riche
Overview: The daughter of an industrialist takes an interest in the workers and tries to improve their lot. She avoids a strike, and falls in love with an engineer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-06-07
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Wicked Duchess
Overview: Edwige Feuillère and Pierre Richard-Willm star in director Jacques de Baroncelli's adaptation of the Balzac novella The Duchesse de Langeais, which tells the tale of a Parisian socialite who is romantically pursued by a Napoleonic war hero. With a screenplay by Jean Giraudoux.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-03-27
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Saturnin de Marseille
Overview: A student, who wishes to become an opera singer, is helped by a good boy, Saturnin, who improvises as a manager. The student succeeds and becomes famous, without ever forgetting little Denise whom he no longer believes worthy of his love. His guardian angel definitely fixes things.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-01-09
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Nadia la femme traquée
Overview: A group of political exiles conspire in France against their government. They are pursued by Daminoff, head of the intelligence service of the country of origin of the conspirators, who uses Nadia, a singer who soon betrays him by taking up the cause of his compatriots. Dramatic chases ensue until Daminoff, having tracked down Nadia and her friends, fires on Chief André and seizes the secret plans. But these are false. André, injured, is stricken with amnesia. Seeing Nadia again, he will become himself again and marry her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-12-20
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L'Ange Gardien
Overview: A former colonial official lives far from Paris with a dry cousin who pays attention to his heritage. He never took care of his son, married to a singer, even less of his granddaughter Colette. The chances of life mean that the grandfather is obliged to take in Colette for a while. This works wonders, unmasks the cousin conniving with cronies, unravels the intrigues, thwarts the machinations and reconciles all the members of the family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-07-03
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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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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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On Trial
Overview: Prosecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere presumptions. He then makes it a point of honor to trace the sources of the case to uncover the truth.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-06-04
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Monsieur des Lourdines
Overview: A young man from an aristocratic family tires of the country life and moves to Paris where he squanders his inheritance. Returning to his home with remorse, he reconciles with his father and becomes engaged to his true love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-06-09
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Vautrin the Thief
Overview: A famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin, escapes from prison. Chance makes him meet Lucien de Rubempré, an impetuous and eternal lover who, when he is dismissed, collapses. Moved by this fragility, he takes him under his wing, and will do everything possible to ensure that his creature reaches happiness, even if it means imagining the worst shenanigans and other scams, with the help of a band of clever villains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-12-13
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Finance noire
Overview: In Central Europe, an organization of counterfeiters is headed by Burcq. An Air France pilot introduces an intelligence agent to the principality. A woman, Helene, betrays them first, then in love with Francois, the pilot, helps the two friends to escape.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-11-24
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From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
Overview: Sitting at his desk, Guitry gives us a lecture on French history from Joan of Arc to the Occupation, with some focus on a number of its great writers and musicians.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-05-04
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Orpheus
Overview: A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet becomes obsessed and follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead.
Genres: Romance Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-29
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The Devil Who Limped
Overview: The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Constitutional Monarchy. Its title comes from one of the main historical nicknames for Talleyrand, that he shares with demon king Asmodeus and English poet Lord Byron.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-07-11
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The Spice of Life
Overview: A series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and leading actor, that examine the bores and pests of everyday life much like Pete Smith and Robert Benchley had done for years in American short subjects. Among those are the Practical Joker who will do anything for a laugh; the Party Entertainer who never stops singing; the Talkative Neigbor who forgets the time; the noisy neighbors who dance the tango all night; and women drivers, people who telephone at meal time, the friend you never saw before and amatuer medical experts. Much use of trick photography, montages, puppets and animation along with some adult Gallic wit and gentle satire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-11-26
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Le chemin de la drogue
Overview: A young customs officer is given an important mission: to investigate drug trafficking on the Belgian border. Incognito, he goes to the place where he easily spots the gangsters.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-06-05
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Jim la houlette
Overview: Famous author Bretonneau gets his ghost writer Moluchet to impersonate the notorious criminal Jim la Houlette and pretend to steal a manuscript to boost the sales of their novels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-11-01
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Three Sinners
Overview: A man assists his gravely ill wife to die and wants to face justice for this, but his brothers try everything to keep the family's name clean.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-10-10
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Mlle. Desiree
Overview: Julie and Désirée Clary are courted by the brothers Joseph and Napoleon Bonaparte. Joseph marries Julie and Napoleon is affianced to Désirée. When Napoleon breaks the engagement and marries Joséphine de Beauharnais, Désirée becomes involved with General Bernadotte.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-07-03
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The Eagle with Two Heads
Overview: Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face for the ten years since her husband's assassination, longing to join him in death. Stanislas, a poet whose pen name is Azrael, is a suicidal anarchist, his imagination haunted into hate by longing for this queen who's drawn apart. He enters her private quarters intent on killing her then himself, but they fall in love, in part because he looks like the king. Stanislas wants her to regain political power by appearing to the public, and she tries to convince him to find hope and escape. All the while, the queen's enemies plot to keep the lovers together but to thwart their plans.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-09-22
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Fra Diavolo
Overview: Italian-language version of the Germany-made DER TEUFELSBRUDER (FRA DIAVOLO), with different supporting cast and some scenes. Based on the Auber opera, but with generally original music by Dr. Giuseppe Becce.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1931-04-17
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Le Rouge et le Noir
Overview: It's no holds barred for Julian in pursuit of upward mobility. Although expected to channel career aspirations into the Church of the post-Napoleonic era, his intensely romantic liaisons propel him forward at a pace he cannot control.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-10-29
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L'Assommoir
Overview: Everyman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful Virginie. Based on Zola's novel, Capellani's film is about the free fall of a group of working-class French folk into degradation and tragedy due to carelessness, jealousy, and alcohol abuse. At the time of its release, L'Assommoir was hugely successful.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1908-12-21
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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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Check on the King
Overview: Jeanne De Pincret refuses to marry Viscount Haussy De Villefort, having discovered his frivolity. After a duel against the Duke De Montgobert, whom Louis XIV recommended to Jeanne, the king forced De Villefort to marry Jeanne, then sent her to war. Separated from her husband, Jeanne discovers that she loves him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-05-15
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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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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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Quai des illusions
Overview: Lise is bored with her parents and gets a job as a waitress. She meets a sailor, Fausto, who leaves her to escape from the police. Nevertheless, she gives birth to a baby who dies shortly afterwards. Distraught, she steals a parentless child from a maternity hospital. Arrested and tried, she is acquitted, only to find Fausto innocent.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-01-21
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Fric-Frac
Overview: An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-06-15
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Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
Overview: A scientist who have discovered how to turn salt water into petrol dies before he has revealed his formula. By mistake it's assumed that his assistant knows it although he does not.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-07-14
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The Strange Mr. Steve
Overview: Georges Villard, a minor bank employee, is won over by Mr Steve who does him favours, treats him to the high life and introduces him to his wife Florence, with whom he falls in love. Georges is unaware that these generous gifts will cost him dearly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-06-26
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Antoinette
Overview: Ruined by her banker, Antoinette becomes her driver. She signs a contract which assures her of the reimbursement of her fortune if she manages to support the banker for three months. She wins his bet, but falling in love with him, she tears up the check and marries him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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A Night of Madness
Overview: Jacqueline took one of her friends to a place where tourists, informants, girls, pimps and Apaches rub shoulders. Her husband, who watches over her, after having corrected Julot and Frize, is considered an ace at the Bal des Terreurs. He thus finds the love of his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-04-27
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The Roquevillards
Overview: France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that prides itself on its impeccable morals. Francois's world rapidly begins to fall apart when his son Maurice elopes to Italy with Edith Frasne, the wife of an esteemed notary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-07-28
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Le Patriote
Overview: The reign of Tsar Paul I and the intrigues of his friend, Governor Pahlen, to rid the country of the mad despot by plotting to have him murdered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-06-05
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The Lovers of Midnight
Overview: A bank employee who stole money at work falls in the hands of a dangerous escaped convict whose girlfriend is going to help him out of this mess.
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-01-16
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Dear Caroline
Overview: France, July 1782. During her birthday, the beautiful young Marchioness Caroline meets the attractive soldier Gaston. It's love at first sight but Gaston does not wish to make a commitment because a military career waits for him. Caroline marries then a politician but the French Revolution bursts and Caroline has to run away to escape the guillotine. By running away she meets Gaston again who decides to help her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-02-28
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Paméla
Overview: During the Directory, a handful of royalists tried to get the Dauphin Louis XVII to escape from the Temple.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-05-02
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Chansons de Paris
Overview: A street singer becomes the star of the circus but his pal Armand shows him who his real friends are.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-06-14
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Enfants de Paris
Overview: Ginette, daughter of a foreman of an automobile factory, and Claude, son of the director of this company, love each other, but the father of the young man refuses the marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-04-23
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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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Le Prince Bouboule
Overview: Bouboule is a taxi driver. A Russian princess wishing to acquire French nationality offers to marry her to divorce a few months later. After incredible adventures, Bouboule manages to save the inheritance of his wife, divorces and finds his sweet Lucette.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-01-11
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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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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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Une fille épatante
Overview: Dominique is a pretty, vivacious girl. When she witnesses a car theft, she throws herself and her bicycle under the vehicle. Jacques Mareuil, whom she then blackmails, pays her a sum to cover her debts. In reality, Mareuil, a policeman, is keeping an eye on Atcheminov, the owner of the car, but, wanting to prove that he is an unscrupulous trafficker, he comes up against Dominique's impetuosity time and again. It all ends up like in a good comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-06
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When Love Is Over
Overview: An art historian has an affair with a young saleslady while his disaffected wife cheats on him in turn.Both illicit relationships end in little boys being born around the same time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-12-04
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