Maurice Lagrenée
Also Known As: Maurice-Jules Guichard
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sivry-Courtry, Seine-et-Marne, France
Birthday: July 01, 1893
Deathday: May 23, 1955
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Night at the Hotel
Overview: In a palace on the Côte d'Azur, a whole fauna evolves: a colonel who cheats on his wife, the colonel's daughter who flirts with Fred, Fred's friend, Emmanuel, who is in love with Marion, and Marion who kills himself. believing that Emmanuel does not forgive him for having, out of idleness, yielded to Fred one day.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-05-15
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La treizième enquête de Grey
Overview: Grey, an elite detective, has the mission to investigate the assassination, in Paris, of a great Hollywood star. There is no real motive, and yet the suspects are numerous. The investigation promises to be long and difficult.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-07-28
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Pension Mimosas
Overview: Mr. and Mrs. Noblet run a boarding house on the French Riviera. One day, they are led by circumstances to welcome a little boy Pierre, whose father is in jail, into their home. Which makes Louise Noblet all the happier as she can't have children herself. But, after a while, Pierre's father is released from prison and reclaims his son... Time passes and Pierre, now a young adult, lives in Paris more or less on the wrong side of the law. He has a mistress, Nelly, who does not say no to other men's money... Louise, who still loves Pierre as her own son, wants only one thing - to help him get by.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-01-16
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Le Secret de l'émeraude
Overview: In a small hotel on an English beach, an agent from the Intelligence Service is responsible for finding an important stolen document. At night, a theft of jewelry, including a superb emerald, complicates the investigation. The search for the double culprit proves to be difficult.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-08-28
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Inspecteur Grey
Overview: A crime has been committed. Two police officers with very different personalities are in charge of the investigation. This one turns out to be complicated, the culprit being almost unsuspected.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-22
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Les hommes de proie
Overview: A blackmailer is murdered. Vauzelle, the lover of the beautiful Michelle Korany, is suspected because he was the one who was being blackmailed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-07-02
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À minuit, le 7
Overview: A young journalist hungry for scoop lets himself be suspected of a crime to write a report.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-01-15
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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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Les Rois de la flotte
Overview: Cruchadouze and Castaniet are two inseparable friends. One day they decide to leave Arcachon to try the adventure in Bordeaux. After various odd jobs, they come into contact with Betty Florent, the banker's wife. This one has just been contacted by a former accomplice who blackmails him by offering him an insurance scam. A big bonus on the head of a simpleton. Cruchadouze was passing by.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-19
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Deux de la réserve
Overview: The farmer Remy has just invented a new fertilizer and spies are trying to seize his documents, taking him for the famous Remy, inventor of a device of interest to national defence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-19
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Vidocq
Overview: A film based upon the life of Vidocq, the famous adventurer, who, after numerous prison escapes ceased being a crook, a thief and a counterfeiter, and was employed by Pasquier’s government’istry as director of the crime-fighting Sûreté Nationale.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-18
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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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Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
Overview: In 1917, in a small village in the North, Abbe Gaillard is suspected by the Germans of facilitating the escape of French and Belgian soldiers. A false alibi makes him innocent and he can thus continue his mission, thanks to the devotion of an Alsatian who, in enemy uniform, obscurely serves his country.
Genres: War Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-06-07
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Grey contre X
Overview: Grey conducts a triple murder investigation, the last murder committed gives him some clues to the murderer and that the victim may have known his killer. He devises a plan to identify the guilty party, who is a scary psycho and he is captured.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-02-25
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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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Special Mission
Overview: The exploits of Chief Police Inspector Chabrier, first before the invasion of France in May 1940 as he fights against spies preparing the coming the Germans, particularly Emmy de Welder, the alleged manager of the Rouen hospital. Later, Chabrier and his men go underground and resist the occupiers whatever the price to pay. When the Liberation comes Chabrier resumes his activities at the French National Police.
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-03-08
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La Route du bagne
Overview: Paris, 1865. In a music-hall Manon accidentally kills her partner who was trying take sexual advantage of her. She is condemned to twenty years of hard labor first and then to be deported to marry a released convict. On the ship where she sails with her female fellow-sufferers she gets to know a young doctor and helps to suppress a revolt. Once arrived at her destination, Manon hesitates between her official fiancé and the doctor whose household she does not want to break...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-10-16
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The Faceless Enemy
Overview: Professor Artus, a scientist specializing in artificial life, wants to try an experiment on an automaton; he is entrusted with a death row inmate. The professor is soon found murdered. It is Inspector Wens, helped by a journalist, who must solve the case. Franck Villard in the role of Wens succeeds Fresnay.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-11-20
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L'Homme de la nuit
Overview: A detective uncovers a crime. The suspects are numerous and it will take all the insight of a journalist to discover the culprit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-08-06
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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: 1947-09-22
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Triple enquête
Overview: Commissioner Thomas simultaneously investigates the actions of an oil company, a theft and an assassination, and the kidnapping of a child with look-alikes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-06-30
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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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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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Skipper Next to God
Overview: Captain Joris Kniper believes so strongly that he is "skipper next to God" that he is used to playing God on his ship. Tough and bossy, he gives orders which are not to be discussed. But, some day, he is driven to accept on board several German Jews fleeing the nazis and who are refused asylum everywhere. He gradually realizes that skipper he is, but next to God only.The Bible will help him to find the way to self-questioning, awareness and charity.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-03-02
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Boom on Paris
Overview: In the early 1950s, the popular radio show "La Kermesse aux Étoiles", hosted by the famous Jean Nohain, mixing lottery games and performances of various artists, will be disrupted by the adventures of a man and his fiancée seeking to recover a dangerous bottle of perfume (explosive) which was unfortunately mixed with the prizes to be won ...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-02-19
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Mimi-Trottin
Overview: Charming Mimi-Trottin is in love with typographer Louis Chausson, nicknamed Godasse. She meets Doudou, actually a Vicomte, estranged with his parents who are rich automobile manufacturers. Godasse abandons Mimi because of his professional ambitions and Doudou rescues her from a suicide. After making peace with his parents, the young man has Mimi hired as a typist at the factory. After winning a race with one of his father's car, he soon wins the heart and the hand of Mimi.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1922-04-21
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Jean Chouan
Overview: This 8 chapter serial drama tells the story of a resistance movement led by Jean "Chouan" Cottereau against the Republicans in Western France starting in 1793.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-01-22
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La Bandera
Overview: Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. So he joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. He meets there two fellow countrymen, Mulot and Lucas. He tries to forget his fault... but Lucas's friendship soon appears to be less unselfish...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-09-25
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Süss, the Jew
Overview: Nazi historical drama about Duke Karl Alexander of Württemberg and his treasurer Süß Oppenheimer.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1940-09-24
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Les mutinés de l'Elseneur
Overview: A journalist takes command of a ship after the crew mutiny against the brutal captain. It was an adaptation of the novel The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-02-29
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The Child of Paris
Overview: The young daughter of an army captain missing in action runs away from school and is kidnapped by Parisian lowlifes. When the kidnapper flees to Nice with the child, the kind-hearted employee of one of his accomplices sets off in pursuit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-09-17
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L'empreinte rouge
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Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-03-19
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The Barcarolle of Love
Overview: A young singer at the Opera finds out who really loves her, when the theater catches fire on the opening night of the performance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-10-10
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Le crime d'une sainte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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