Charles Vissières
Also Known As: Charles Vissiere, Charles Vissière
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Caen, Calvados, France
Adult: No
Birthday: October 30, 1880
Age: 144 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 13, 1960
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Le Plaisir
Overview: Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-02-29
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Clockface Cafe
Overview: Julien Couturier and his wife Louise, a young couple from Auvergne who have come to Paris to try their luck for the first time in their lives, become the owners of the "Café du Cadran" ("Clockface Cafe"). On opening day, they meet the people who will become their clientele. It's a busy place, with regular customers served by two waiters, Jules and Victor. While Julien is comfortable in his role as boss, Louise doesn't quite get used to this urban world, where everything moves faster, especially human feelings. She often misses Marcenait, the village in Auvergne where she and her husband ran the "Café du Commerce". Mr. Luigi, a café customer and violinist who performs at the "Café de Paris", has undertaken Louise's cultural education. He teaches her how to dress and do her hair, while recounting his musical successes and travels, skilfully playing on his undeniable seductiveness...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-06-27
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Annette and the Blonde Woman
Overview: A scatterbrained girl harasses a lawyer in Cannes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-03-16
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Strangers in the House
Overview: Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the brilliant lawyer has sunk into alcoholism and his relationship with his daughter is virtually non-existent. However, one day the corpse of a stranger is discovered in the residence of Loursat. Nicole, who frequents a gang of young people who escape boredom by stealing cars and other objects, is immediately suspected.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-05-16
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Cordial Agreement
Overview: The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-20
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Cavalcade of Love
Overview: Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the walls of the Chateau de Champs. Legend has it that whoever marries in the Chateau is doomed to an unhappy life. This proves to be the case in 1639 and 1839, but the heroine of the 1939 segment, Corinne Luchaire, is determined to break the jinx. She is convinced that she will prove an unsuitable bride for Claude Dauphin, and he is likewise convinced that he will turn out to be an inadequate groom. But the couple's respective families will not be dissuaded, and the marriage takes place as scheduled? with unexpectedly happy results!
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-11-06
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Sacred Woods
Overview: Despite her success, writer Francine Margerie is let down to see that she is not nominated for the Legion of Honor award. One solution could be to sleep with Champmorel, the Director of Fine Arts and one of the judges for the awarding of the coveted medal.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-11-26
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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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The Phantom Baron
Overview: Elfy, Countess of Saint-Hélié's daughter, was brought up with her foster sister Anne, in an old dilapidated castle whose landlord, Baron Julius Carol, disappeared mysteriously some day. The two girls had a playmate, Hervé, the son of the gamekeeper. Now that they are adult, Anne is in love with Hervé while Elfy thinks she loves the young man. One day, the baron's mummified body is found in an oubliette and the secret of the estate is revealed...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-06-16
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My Love is Near You
Overview: An opera singer is stricken with amnesia and, on the evening of a premiere (in his stage costume which is that of a tramp), he goes to wander with real tramps.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-09-29
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Douce
Overview: In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager of the estate. However she cannot hope to marry him because of their class difference. Douce's widowed father, the Count de Bonafé, has a wooden leg, and is infatuated with Irène. Douce discovers that Fabien is planning to flee to Quebec with Irène, and also finds out that the Count has asked Irène to marry him. So Douce tells Fabien this and convinces him to run away with her, causing consternation in the family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-11-09
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Good Evening Ladies, Good Evening Gentlemen
Overview: To teach a lesson to his young wife who dreams of the famous "voiceless singer", a husband enters a radio station and manages to make people appreciate his voice.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-02-16
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L'Enfant de l'amour
Overview: This woman's melodrama pivots around a child that a famous actress had in her youth, but whom she has concealed from the wealthy businessman she is now with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-07-13
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Roger the Disgrace
Overview: Roger Laroque, an honest industrialist, is the victim of a criminal machination by Julia de Noirville, his possessive and jealous mistress allied to the perfidious Paul Luversan, meant to make Roger take responsibility for the crime he himself committed. Laroque is sent to prison, from where he escapes by sea. When he is reported missing, it looks like he drowned. But he reappears with revenge as his objective. He also wants his daughter Suzanne back. For his wife, it's too late, she died of grief.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-03-13
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L'ange qu'on m'a donné
Overview: During the 1940 exodus, a young girl takes in a baby to whom she becomes deeply attached.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-03-27
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Strange Fate
Overview: Patrica is the wife of Alain de Saulieu, a handsome engineer. She unfortunately loses her husband, who is killed in action during a battle of the First World War. At least, this is only the official truth, for Alain is not dead. Patricia indeed recognizes him one day. But the inverse does not work the other way around: Alain has become amnesiac and he does not remember her. And worst of all, he lives in a conjugal relationship with Germaine, his dedicated nurse, who is now pregnant by him. What has the future in store then for the three (not to say four) of them?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-06-05
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A Cage of Nightingales
Overview: In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of his boarding school director.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-09-06
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Resistance
Overview: An Alsatian, head of a section of the Gestapo, is actually spying on behalf of the French and dismantling a Nazi network. His activities are brought to light by the Germans and he owes his life only to the intervention of a young woman.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-10-31
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The Idiot
Overview: Muichkine, a young Russian prince, returns home to St. Petersburg from a mental institution, determined to spread decency and kindness in the harsh and cruel world. He becomes betrothed to an innocent young girl while trying to save a less-innocent woman from her own travail, but jealousy and his own naivete conjoin to bring about unimaginable tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-06-07
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Gringalet
Overview: A wealthy man has two sons,one of them is legitimate,the other is not.The first offspring has had a life of luxury and he has become a lazy good for nothing whereas the youthful indiscretion has turned into an artist.He is nicknamed "Gringalet" .Now his father wants him to meet his half-brother ,his mother-in-law and the rest of the family. Gringalet will turn this bourgeois family upside down:they become nice,the big brother becoming a perfect businessman who stops scouring nightclubs to spend most of his time with his fiancee Josette.There's the rub,cause Gringalet is also in love with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-11-20
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The Kids Are Leading the Investigation
Overview: When Monsieur Crauqual, the supervisor, is found hanging, all wonder why this rather rich person decided to kill himself. And when a pupil is found hanging too, François and his friends decide to investigate. They are certain there is a killer within the walls of Collège François 1er and determined to prevent him from going on running wild.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-06-25
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Not Guilty
Overview: An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. The episode triggers a sense of confidence and he resolves to correct the miseries of his life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-09-24
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The Lost Village
Overview: In the peaceful alpine village of Granges-de-Mortes, a tragedy has just taken place: Gustave Boeuf, the local Casanova, has mysteriously died at the foot of a wayside cross. Shortly afterwards, a peasant, who is suspected of having murdered him, hangs himself from a branch of the calvary. But was he the real culprit? Angélique Barrodet, an old maid , who had been Gustave's fiancée before he abandoned her on the very day of their wedding, leads the investigation in her own way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-11-26
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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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La Ronde
Overview: An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an affair with a young lady, who becomes a maid and does similarly with the young man of the house. The young man seduces a married woman. On and on, spinning on the gay carousel of life.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-27
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Manon
Overview: Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis, and Robert, a freedom fighter who saved her from reprisals, tell the captain about the many challenges they have had to face in order to survive.
Genres: Drama Adventure Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-03-09
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Lost Souvenirs
Overview: Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide. -A funeral wreath lets us know how it caused a young woman to believe her lover dead. After having told their respective story, the objects return to their customary stillness.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-11
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Suzanne and Her Brigands
Overview: Suzanne is a lawyer, she's just got her degree and she is married to a cop. We follow her through three investigations.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-15
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Dr. Laennec
Overview: Breton doctor René Laennec fights tooth and nail against consumption, all the more desperately as his brother Michaud has just died of it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-17
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Mademoiselle de la Ferté
Overview: Anne seeks revenge on Jacques who betrayed her trust. She decides to poison him and the people close to him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-10-19
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Under the Paris Sky
Overview: Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-03-28
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Rue des Saussaies
Overview: The brother of Jeanne Masson, a young nightclub singer, has been murdered by Brasier, a criminal who pretends to be a respectable man. Jeanne has resolved to avenge her brother but she just cannot take action herself. The way she finds is to ask police detective Pierre Leblanc to help her do it. Pierre gives his agreement and starts following the trail. He soon finds out that Brasier belongs to a gang whose boss, Cortedani, has ordered the murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-03-23
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The Case Against X
Overview: Paul Dorgères, a wealthy industrialist, has been mysteriously murdered. The investigation is entrusted to the experienced Chief Inspector Bonnardel and his young rookie assistant, Inspector Richard. Suspicion turns to his mistress Catherine Villard, with whom he had just broken up on the night of the crime. She is soon arrested and charged. However, Inspector Richard discovers a button at the scene of the crime which could help him to trace the trail and confound the culprit(s).
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-06-11
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L'éternel espoir
Overview: The war will separate the members of the Valon family, two sons Alexandre and Antoine being prisoners, while the youngest Gilbert enters the secret army. Only their sister, Denise, will stay on the farm with her grandfather and grandmother. The Germans invade the free zone.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-06-24
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Paris Vice Squad
Overview: Identite Judiciare stars Raymond Souplex as wily French police inspector Basquier. The villain is Berthet (Jean Debucourt), a high-ranking government official. Basquier suspects that Berthet is a vicious murderer, but is unable to prove anything thanks to bureaucratic interference. Thus, the good inspector plays a waiting game a la Columbo, hoping for that one fatal slip on the part of the killer. Certain portions of Identite Judiciare proved a bit too intense for American audiences, and were accordingly snipped by the censors.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-04-18
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Woman Are Angels
Overview: In order to inherit her husband's old aunt more quickly, a greedy peasant woman engages in various dishonest maneuvers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-09-03
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Rooster in dough
Overview: A famous lawyer is irritated to see his fiancée spending her time trying to educate Languille, a tramp. Wanting to discourage his Saint-Bernard side, he asks a young engineer to introduce himself to her, under the guise of a tramp. But his plan turns against him, because the young man falls in love with his beautiful.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-06-02
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The Road to Damascus
Overview: Saul De Tarse is a Roman soldier who is making rough all over. He arrives at the Golgotha when the apostles remove the cross. He ruthlessly persecutes the Christians, even though they are his own friends.
Genres: No genres available
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: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-04-29
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Midnight... Quai de Bercy
Overview: Having recently moved into her new apartment, Irène Cazenave, the widow of a well-known police officer, is forced by one of her husband's colleagues to take part in an investigation. The building's provocative concierge has been found murdered. We watch a parade of suspects, only to learn at the end that Irène killed the janitor under blackmail. She kills herself.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-05-21
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The Rebels of Lomanach
Overview: A young woman has a perilous affair with a General from the opposing side during the Revolutionary war.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-04-06
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The Little World of Don Camillo
Overview: In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-03-28
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The Return of Don Camillo
Overview: Energetic priest Don Camillo returns to the town of Brescello for more political and personal duels with Communist mayor Peppone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-06-05
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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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Convicted
Overview: After losing her only child and falling for another man, a wife no longer loves her husband, but he thinks if he takes her back to some of the places they enjoyed in earlier years, it might rekindle their doomed marriage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-04-13
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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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The Last One of the Six
Overview: Paris, France. Commissaire Wens is put in charge of the investigation into the murder of one of six friends who, in the past, made a very profitable promise.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-09-16
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The Magic of the Kite
Overview: Come fly with Peter and Nicole and the Chinese wizard on an exciting adventure to the ends of the earth.
Genres: Family Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-12-17
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Such a Pretty Little Beach
Overview: During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains open. His arrival arouses curiosity and a degree of suspicion, as people note that he appears to know the area, yet gives no explanation for his presence at that bleak time of year in the dead-end town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-01-19
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Endless Horizons
Overview: The life story of famed French aviatrix Helene Boucher is detailed in Horizons sans fin (Endless Horizons). Giselle Pascal stars as Boucher, who is first seen in 1930, leaving her millinery shop behind in favor of the wild blue yonder. Though the world of aviation was still essentially an all-male one (despite England's Amy Johnson and America's Amelia Earhart), Boucher perseveres, eventually breaking all existing male and female speed and height records. A bit slow on the uptake in the dramatic scenes, the film soars (no pun intended) during the aerial sequences. Horizons san Fin was the winner of the Catholic Award at the 1953 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-04-26
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Devil in the Flesh
Overview: In France during World War I, Marthe waits for her husband, Jacques, while he fights on the front lines. Marthe then begins a tempestuous affair with 17-year-old François, with whom she had a dalliance before marrying Jacques. Jealous François struggles with the fact that Marthe is married, while she tries to prove her devotion to her young, hotheaded lover. Things become even more complex when Marthe becomes pregnant with Jacques' baby.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-09-12
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Antoine & Antoinette
Overview: 1947, in France, Antoine and Antoinette, a young couple living in Paris, lead a monotonous existence: he works in a print shop while she is a shop assistant. But one evening, they regain hope: Antoine finds a winning lottery ticket in his girlfriend's handbag. He decides to cash it in, but loses his wallet. What follows is a series of twists and turns that redefine the couple's priorities while forcing them to remain optimistic.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-09-27
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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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Impasse of Two Angels
Overview: Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present, Antoine gives his future wife a precious diamond necklace, which is coveted by a gang of crooks. Jean, one of them, is given the mission to approach Marianne and steal the necklace from her. The only trouble is that when he meets her, she recognizes him as the man she once loved.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-10-03
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Monelle
Overview: A beautiful young pianist falls for her mentor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-09-15
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Pasteur
Overview: Guitry reprises his role as Pasteur which he played successfully at the Vaudeville Theatre in 1919.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-09-20
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