Marcel Loche
Also Known As: Marcel Paul Eugène Loche
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dreux, Eure-et-Loir, France
Adult: No
Birthday: September 08, 1886
Age: 138 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 17, 1970
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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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Bach the Detective
Overview: Narcisse is a doorman for a jeweler but dreams of becoming a private detective. The Criminas agency hires him and he comes to the aid of his former boss's nephew, accused of stealing jewelry. He first passes for the accomplice of the young man but soon discovers the culprit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-11-20
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Chipée
Overview: A businessman, Masson, who likes to party, wants to force his partner, Chabrat, a hard worker on whom the success of their fashion store depends, not to leave Paris. For this, he agrees with a young cabaret dancer, Zizi so that she pretends, for a fee, to fall in love with Chabrat who, more than anything, wants to be loved for himself. But Zizi soon finds herself in her own trap: she is “snatched”.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-02-10
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Street Singer
Overview: A father allows himself to be accused of the murder of a blackmailer to save his son who is the real murderer. But he is forced to confess, and commits suicide in his cell.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-28
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A Foolish Maiden
Overview: A middle-aged Parisian lawyer meets a young girl and falls in love with her. The girl's mother discovers the affair and the couple must flee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-24
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Business Is Business
Overview: Isidore Lechat is a ruthless self-made man whose money allows him to humiliate the others, particularly a ruined noble: he wants his daughter to marry this marquis's son but the girl is in love with a young scientist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-09-10
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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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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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La Femme fatale
Overview: Fanny Le Doublond has a lover, Jean, and her husband is beginning to have suspicion. To calm him down she makes him believe that Jean dies of love for another woman and wants to commit suicide if his love is not returned. The two accomplices select a young creature named Claire Coussol for the (unwitting role)of the "beloved". As for Jean, he plays the suicidal man to perfection. But what the two lovers had not planned at all is that Claire, deeply moved by Jean's "act of desperation", starts growing fond of him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-04-12
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The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
Overview: The novelist Suzanne Delmont creates a character, "The Uncatcable Frédéric", a sort of Arsène Lupin. A mysterious stranger launches a press campaign accusing him of having a harmful influence on young people...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-07-15
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Pas un mot à la reine mère
Overview: The young King Boris of Neustria, who has followed his family in their exile in London, falls in love with the daughter of a wealthy American businessman. The latter, however, will only approve the union if Boris gives up royalty for the business world.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-11-01
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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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Mirror
Overview: Portrait of a two-faced man. By day he is rich, brilliant and respectable financial officer Lussac; at night, he becomes "Mirror", a ruthless gang leader in Marseilles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-05-02
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Man to Men
Overview: The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross, and who was offered the first Nobel Peace Prize.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-08-29
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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 Cupboard Was Bare
Overview: The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver, not wishing to be bothered by a police interrogation, hides her corpse in a cupboard before notifying Alfred. But the van is stolen. Alfred, being the heir of a rich lady, begins a frantic search to locate the missing van and the cupboard because one can't claim an inheritance if there is no 'corpus delecti.' In his search, he gets caught up in an underworld web and finds the body of a murdered gangster in his room. He finally locates the cupboard but promptly loses it again. But, wait, it isn't "finis' time, yet.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-10-29
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Mademoiselle Has Fun
Overview: Christine, the daughter of a rich American, acquires from her father the jazz band of Ray Ventura who will be made responsible for accompanying her from morning till evening wherever she goes. From an endless number of amusing situations, the fiancée of the girl despairs. But soon the musicians rebel in in the face of the requirements of their patroness. More than a job, it is for them misery. Christine excuses them and she goes back to America with her band. Things go bad, degenerate, but the kindness of the musicians and the firmness of the fiancée of Christine really quiet down the moods of the young woman .
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-01-30
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Une femme par jour
Overview: Following a winning game, a young man finds himself at the head of the harem of an oriental prince who has seven wives. One of them escapes, replaced by the young girl her family wants the young partygoer to marry. Everything ends in songs and as desired.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-02-23
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Le Tampon du capiston
Overview: Cochu, a peasant, is the whipping boy of his regimental comrades. He is called "buffer of the capiston", that is to say the captain's order. But he finds himself in the service of Hortense, the captain's sister.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-08-03
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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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The Prize
Overview: Madame Husson and her circle of holier-than-thou ladies (including an old maid Madame Cadenas)are looking for a chaste and pure girl who will win a hefty sum.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-20
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Between Eleven and Midnight
Overview: Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot whilst walking in a tunnel in Paris. The case is assigned to Inspector Carrel, who is Vidauban’s perfect double. Using his resemblance to the arch criminal, Carrel manages to infiltrate in Vidauban’s circle of acquaintances and contacts. He becomes embroiled in a bizarre web of intrigue and discovers no shortage of possible murder suspects, all of whom appear to be surprised to see him still alive.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-03-23
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Five Red Tulips
Overview: During the Tour de France, five riders are found murdered with a red tulip near their bodies. A journalist and a police inspector lead the investigation to unmask the murderer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-03-23
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Paris Incident
Overview: Story is primarily based on the adventures of Antoine, a young telegraph messenger on his second night of work. He is given three telegrams, one of which is for the president of the Camber of Deputies. Excited, Antoine runs his bicycle into a truck and loses the telegrams. What follows is an amusing and agonizing search for the missing messages. He is assisted first by a glum, wise-beyond-her-years little girl, Amelie; an off-duty police superintendent, a schoolmaster, a cookie-tin maker and a fireman. The harmonica musical theme is played by Flore Falvey.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-02
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The King of the Bla Bla Bla
Overview: Prosper Bourrache, who has the gift of the gab, is natural born street vendor. Due to a mistake he gets involved in the burglary of a shady banker's house. In fact, the whole operation is a setup. But Prosper will finally get away with it, have the crooked financier arrested and pinch his girlfriend away from him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-08
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La Veuve et l'innocent
Overview: Nicole, a spirited lawyer, must defend, for her debut in the courtroom, the accused Panoyau. It is a failure, the death sentence. Furious, Nicole proclaims to Claude, her fiance, that the marriage is canceled as long as Panoyau is threatened. Claude manages to steal the guillotine and the couple go on a trip and discover the real assassin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-08-24
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The Naked Woman
Overview: Having become famous, a painter marries his model whom he soon brings to despair by deceiving her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-02
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Beware of Blondes
Overview: Back from a stay in the Far East, a woman who knew the names of the chiefs of a drug ring is murdered. Georges Masse, the famous reporter, decides to investigate, accompanied by his faithful photographer P'tit Louis. He will come across some unappetizing characters like M. Dubois, a killer, Luigi Costelli, a dangerous trafficker and a beautiful but dubious lady, Suzanne Wilson. After being himself suspected, Masse will make the truth triumph.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-24
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The Heroic Mr. Boniface
Overview: A simple man gets involved in an implausible story of gangsters in the wake of the discovery of a criminal's dead body in his own bed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-10-19
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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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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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The Bonnadieu House
Overview: Felix is a middle-aged bourgeois husband. Much to his discomfort, he learns that his wife Gabrielle is carrying on with a young man--a very young man. Rather than express outrage, Felix decides that there's something lacking in him. He spends the rest of the picture trying to keep his wife by altering his own personality and outlook.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-27
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One Hundred Francs Per Second
Overview: Philippe, an employee at the Bourdinet firm, having been caught kissing Jacqueline, his boss's daughter, is fired. Some time later, Bourdinet launches a radio quiz show to boost his business. Philippe then decides to compete in the hope of telling the thousands of listeners what he thinks of the industrialist. A blow on the head having given him a gift of second sight, the competitor becomes impeccable and wins astronomical sums to the great despair of Bourdinet. Everything will work out in the end and Philippe will be able to marry Jacqueline.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-01-09
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Double or Quits
Overview: In Bourganeuf, an old maid, Charlotte Bourdier, confesses to Marie Chassagne that she has forged a sentimental intrigue by correspondence with the presenter of the Radio Circus, Zappy Max. Marie agrees to meet him when he comes, but she in turn falls in love with him, who confesses his love to her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-12-31
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Clémentine chérie
Overview: Gaston Bellus, is the director of a textile house, and the research laboratory makes a sensational discovery: the elastic fabric. This new discovery is used to manufacture new modern stretchable bathing suits. His daughter Clementine, enters the beauty pageant to represent France for the swimsuit launch. But scandal ensues when the public soon discover, the photos of the event in which this new revolutionary material is completely invisible on photographs & live television.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-08-03
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The Sheep Has Five Legs
Overview: A publicity-minded French mayor reunites quintuplets and their earthy father, all six played by Fernandel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-09-24
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Les Lumières du soir
Overview: A young opera dancer tries to help her mother financially by performing in a dubious cabaret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-11-07
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A Woman Like Satan
Overview: Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poor stock who taunts and degrades him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-12-19
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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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White Smoke
Overview: Sophie Mallet is the lively manager of a detective agency, assisted by Emile Gachit, her conscientious but not very effective right-hand man. One day a fellow named David entrusts her a pack of cigarettes that she is supposed to hand over to a certain John Smith. But David soon disappears while John Smith is murdered. Moreover, a lot of dubious characters prove "very interested" in the pack of cigarettes... Which will keep Sophie and Emile for some time...!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-11-01
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The Bear
Overview: A mild-mannered zookeeper has to contend with his tyrannical boss and a talking lovesick bear.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-12-14
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Hardboiled Egg Time
Overview: A shy, penniless employee of the garage owner Grillot, the gentle Louis wins $10 million in the lottery. Flitting along the banks of the Seine, he takes in Raoul Grandvivier, an unknown, untalented painter who has just botched a spectacular suicide intended to draw attention to himself. Raoul takes him back to his studio, where he meets his charming daughter Lucie. In order to see Lucie again, with whom he is in love, Louis offers to sell the paintings. In reality, he's the one paying for them, to make it look like a wealthy art lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-03-19
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Three Boys, One Girl
Overview: A seemingly united family is suddenly shaken by the turmoil caused by the discovery of a letter from the father. He announces his intention to divorce. The children immediately mobilize to preserve the nest, they just manage to do so. The family building will be consolidated.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-10-04
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Premeditated
Overview: Bernard Sommet has killed his wife and her lover and he declares that was a crime of passion. Sylvie Foucot, his court-appointed attorney, not only believes him but falls in love with him. But the examination magistrate is not convinced. For his part, he leans towards premeditation. Whether Sommet premeditated his act or acted out of anger and jealousy will be up to the court to decide.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-04-08
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Auguste
Overview: Auguste is about an eponymous bank clerk who finds fame and fortune. Auguste happens to be in the right place at the right time to save young starlet Francine from killing herself -- or more accurately, pretending to kill herself. His supposed heroism hits the news, and before Auguste knows what is happening, a Machiavellian publicist is using him for his own ends. The bank clerk is no fool and soon thinks of a way to come out on top.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-10-24
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The Bonnadieu House
Overview: Felix is a middle-aged bourgeois husband. Much to his discomfort, he learns that his wife Gabrielle is carrying on with a young man--a very young man. Rather than express outrage, Felix decides that there's something lacking in him. He spends the rest of the picture trying to keep his wife by altering his own personality and outlook.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-27
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Frou-Frou
Overview: A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-06-19
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Diamond Machine
Overview: A group of bandits conspire to kidnap a scientist who can help them manufacture diamonds.Unbeknownst to them , the FBI is already on their case.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-29
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The Truth
Overview: As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the two used to share.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-11-02
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The Desert of Pigalle
Overview: A young priest works as a barman in a Pigalle cafe in Paris. He tries to prevent the women there to prostitute themselves....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-04-02
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