Fransined
Also Known As: Francis Laurent Contandin, Francined, Francis Contandin, Francinet, Fransinet, Sined
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Marseille, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France
Birthday: October 21, 1914
Deathday: October 17, 2012
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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Heroes of the Marne
Overview: Bernard Lefrancois is a prosperous farmer on the River Marne, while his neighbor is impoverished. Lefrancois objects strongly to the romance between his son and the neighbor's daughter, but it continues in secret. WWI begins and the son becomes an aviator with the French army, and the unwed girl presents Lefrancois with an unexpected grandchild. The German army occupies the area, and the girl is serving France as a spy and securing information needed by the French to drive out the Germans. While his son is engaged in air-combat against the Germans, and the unwed mother of his grandchild is serving as a spy against their country's enemy, Lefrancois also joins the battle as a soldier.
Genres: War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-30
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Chambre 13
Overview: On a Marseille film set, a street urchin who has been hired as an actor is suspected when both a star and a baroness are robbed.With the help of the boy's neer do well friend the real crooks are tracked down.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-01-31
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The Grand Hotel Affair
Overview: In Marseilles, the fisherman Tonin closely monitors the actions of the wreckage workers led by a certain Mr. Léon. Could these bizarre individuals have something to do with the double murder at the Grand Hotel?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-03-29
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Le gardian
Overview: The guardian is engaged to a girl from a good family, but the intervention of a gypsy will make his heart lean. This one comes in fact to take revenge and will try to kill him.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-05-15
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Inspector Sergil
Overview: Inspector Sergil is a detective comedy. Sergil, inspector of the P.J., investigates three crimes, helped by two pretty women, Bijou and Nadège.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-01-15
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Here Is the Beauty
Overview: Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success as a ballerina despite being wounded by him in a fit of jealousy. His career as a sculptor is stymied when he is arrested.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-04-21
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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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In the Land of the Sun
Overview: A band of Marseilles, lazy and happy to live, are involved in trafficking; Titin, put in prison for a while, is finally released and can marry Miette.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-12-26
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Duel à Dakar
Overview: Robert Vernier is assigned by the Secret Service to unmask a band of gangsters determined to get their hands on the plans for a new plane. They manage to steal part of it and kidnap Robert's fiancée, named Monique. Robert will manage to dismantle the gang and will be surprised to find that at the head there is a policeman...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-12-06
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Savage Triangle
Overview: Based on the novel of the same name by writer Edouard Peisson, this Jean Delannoy film display one boy’s unconditional love for his mother, despite her tragic mistreatment of him. After being raised by a shepherd for the past 12 years, Simon (Pierre-Michel Beck) is reunited with his mother Marie (Madeleine Robinson). Marie is a prostitute in Marseilles and is now stable enough to welcome Simon back into her life. Unaware of her profession at first, Simon is happy to have his mom back, but in time he learns how she makes her living. This troubles Simon but he continues to love her, despite not loving her chosen profession. His anger toward this issue gets directed toward Marie’s louse of a boyfriend, Paul (Frank Villard), and the result is a heartfelt tale about love and family.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-09-26
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Musique en tête
Overview: Jacques Hélian, an attractive charm singer, too stifled by the jealousy of the radio director's niece, flees with his orchestra, on the advice of his secretary Bob. They fail in a small village, where there is a boarding school for young girls. Bob responds to the love letters the teacher sends to the handsome singer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-01
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Visa to Hell
Overview: The action takes place on the coast of the eastern Pyrenees near the Spanish border. Mario Balducci escaped from prison, after settling his account with his former accomplice who had given him away, he joins his ex-mistress, Mado, a bellowing singer who he asks to help him get to Spain.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-05-24
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There Once Was a Cop
Overview: Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving husband with child - something that is not so easy for a confirmed single like Campana. Unfortunately American killers chase behind the Nice mafia clan too, in order to get control of French drug trades to USA.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-02-11
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Napoleon Road
Overview: A greedy advertising executive wants to attract the tourists into a small village:he claims Napoleon slept in the local inn on his was back from Elbe island.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-10-14
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Mr. Scrupule, Gangster
Overview: Mr. Scrupule is a mild-mannered smuggler operating on the coast of Nice. If it hadn't been for an unexpected encounter, he'd probably have gone on for a long time in a trade that earned him the esteem of the bourgeoisie. An attractive young woman, Rolande, leads him to new ambitions and soon to dangerous adventures where he risks losing his skin.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-08-12
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Le club des 400 coups
Overview: An orphan's grandmother dies. Alone in the world,he is going to be confided to the health and social security services. His pals decide to kidnap him so that he can stay with them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-07-22
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Three of the Canebière
Overview: Toinet, Girelle and Pénible fish for sardines in Marseille. To dazzle their conquests, they present themselves as rich can manufacturers, while the little flower girls play movie stars. A ridiculous suitor wants to discuss a business deal, a potential sponsor appears and the whole tohu-bohu reclaims the songs of Vincent Scotto.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-21
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La môme aux boutons
Overview: The Count De Rochambeau wants to marry Mireille but she likes Etienne. The sister of Etienne, nicknamed "the girl with buttons" schemed with a friend to pose as a Russian princess to seduce the count and allow the marriage of his brother with Mireille.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-10-22
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Clandestine Paris
Overview: In the elegant nightclub of Corsican Luciano, known as Lucky, "Les Naturistes", big sums are gambled at the Longchamp races. Lucky not only "welcomes" the new dancers, he also collects the stakes entrusted to him and personally plays the horses recommended to him by Max, a former convict. But Bramati, Lucky's ex-partner, doesn't forgive Max for double-crossing him and has him shot.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-10-11
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Pas de grisbi pour Ricardo
Overview: Ricardo will try his luck in the capital after winning an amateur singing contest. He has many adventures. Kidnapped by gangsters, he is only freed by the intervention of his fiancée. Finally, the director of the "Folies Parisiennes" presents him with a contract.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-06-26
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Happy Arenas
Overview: A watchman with a sensitive heart, Fernand falls in love with Violette and Pervenche, two of the daughters of his boss, Maître Arno. At a bullfight starring three attractive Spaniards, the girls and their sister Marguerite - with whom Fernand's companion Rémy is in love - compete in charm, to the despair of both suitors. Followed by Marina, a pretty girl who seems to take a keen interest in Fernand, the two friends decide to retire to Les Martigues, far from their belles. But soon annoyed by Marina's insistence, Fernand returns to Maître Arno's manade, while Rémy decides to become a bullfighter to win back Marguerite.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-08-13
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Naked in the Wind
Overview: Smalltown confectioner Lespinasse, hopeful of being reelected as chief councillor, is opposed by Darcepoil, the local druggist. Darcepoil arranges for the incumbent's defeat by having Pantaflon, a nightclub singer, lure him to the nudist camp on the Isle of Levant, where Lespinasse is photographed surrounded by half-naked women. At home, he is berated by his wife and thrown out of office; but he returns to Levant with the penitent Pantaflon and is welcomed by the nudists and voted camp president. His forgiving wife follows him and herself becomes a nudist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-04-29
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The Great Java
Overview: Five friends come to the city Brizul. Here they want to find Mr Auguste Kougloff who owns them money, namely 20 million.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-01-13
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Manon of the Spring
Overview: In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men who greedily conspired to acquire her father's land years earlier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-11-19
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Jean de Florette
Overview: In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts, they think only of getting the water.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-08-27
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The Moment of Truth
Overview: After attending to a suicidal young man, Dr Richard learns that his wife has been unfaithful for years. This comes as a shock after 10 years of supposedly happy marriage. Back home, he demands answers from Madeleine. A long night of explanations ensues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-22
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Borsalino
Overview: In 1930s Marseilles two small-time crooks decide to join forces when they meet while brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and boxing matches, they soon find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-05-19
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