René Alié
Also Known As: René Pierre Alié
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France
Adult: No
Birthday: September 03, 1932
Age: 92 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 26, 1992
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Hôtel du Nord
Overview: A young couple's suicide pact goes awry, leaving the woman to face her survival with a new admirer while pining for her lost love.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-17
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A Hen on a Wall
Overview: A little peasant girl claims to have been raped. The detective who arrives in the village discovers that it is a set-up, but at the same time reveals carefully hidden and very surprising truths about each.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-22
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Le Monsieur de 5 heures
Overview: A wealthy banker who takes his accountant's name after multiple incidents is forced to pass off his girlfriend as his daughter. But the truth is coming out. The banker's wife then favors the marriage of the young girl, which creates a new intimacy in her household.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-05-09
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Golden Venus
Overview: La Venus D'Or (Golden Venus) was based on Business, a play by Pierre Sabatier. Mirielle Balin stars as Judith, the mistress of ruthless oil magnate Harfstrong. What Harfstrong doesn't know is that Judith is a spy for his hated business rival. When he does find out, he cannot get rid of her because she knows too much about his own crooked dealings. After several more reels of mutual betrayal and recriminations, the story suddenly shifts to the "good" characters, clean-limned young pilot Andre and his sweetheart Michelle. Set up as a fall guy for the villains, Andre somehow emerges from the experience none the worse for wear.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-05-13
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Marked Girls
Overview: Juliette, an innocent woman, is wrongly sentenced to prison for attempted murder. After her release, she married an industrialist to whom she did not speak of her tumultuous past. But, victim of a rampant blackmail, she cannot continue to hide her prison past and the scandal breaks out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-12
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Moulin Rouge
Overview: A poor wretch, who has just been hired as a music-hall artist, in spite of himself becomes the tenant of a particular Parisian building.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-12-08
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Notre-Dame de la Mouise
Overview: Father Vincent is trying to build a church in the California neighborhood. Greeted by stones, he must face a sinister band of deviants excited by a shady cabaret performer. The abbot resists, gradually builds his church and regenerates all the wretches with whom he lives and especially the hardest, Bibi.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-04-11
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Le soleil a toujours raison
Overview: Tonio, pretty Micheline's fiance, meets Georgia ,a gypsy who makes advances to him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-01-27
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After the Storm
Overview: René Sabin, engineer, disappointed by failures, leaves his village in the South to go to Paris with friends. In the capital, he befriends dubious people, in particular Alex Krakow who does not disdain shady business. Then comes the war. René is mobilized then returns to the country, and finds with joy his fiancée.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-01-02
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Threats
Overview: "Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel :t he fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-01-11
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La parole est au témoin
Overview: Mustapha, a cab driver in Paris, charges a customer in a hurry, without realizing that he is in a hurry to escape his pursuers after robbing a jewelry store. The next day, reading the newspapers, Mustapha becomes aware of the role he has played in this affair, and would gladly assist the police if a fortuitous incident didn't make him fear the criminals' vengeance. It's a cruel dilemma in which he is both suspected by some and threatened by others. Weak but honest, he manages to get out of this predicament at the risk of his life!
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-17
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L'Escalier sans fin
Overview: An untiring lady social worker, Émilienne, has as one of her charges a stableman who was wounded by his mistress. Unfortunately, Émilienne's young sister who was helping her at work decides to go away with the stableman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-08-25
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Arlette et l'Amour
Overview: Madame Millois, an ambitious mother, thinks she has found the perfect match for her daughter Arlette, Count de Tremblay-Matour. Alas, the ideal husband happens to be a crook. On the night of the wedding, the fake nobleman robs his wife and abandons her. While the outraged Madame Millois looks for the real Count de Tremblay, Arlette seeks consolation with Maxime, a childhood friend. At last, the real count is found. Unsurprisingly, he is furious to learn that, legally, he is Arlette's husband. After a while though, he mellows and accepts to "remain" Arlette's husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-09-22
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Adrien
Overview: Adrien Moulinet, a modest encashing agent in the Nortier bank, is also an inventor in his spare time. His latest revolutionary creation is the motorized roller skate. His problem is to be able to market them. Jules Petitpas, a jobless adman, is the right man for that.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-12-22
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120, rue de la Gare
Overview: On the verge of death, a man entrusts Inspector Burma with an address. Burma conducts a difficult investigation with many twists and turns, which takes him from Lyon to Paris, following in the footsteps of the members of a mysterious business firm.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-02-06
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Mademoiselle X
Overview: A famous writer takes in a young amnesiac who, thanks to his care, remembers having tried to kill her unfaithful lover. He will know how to console her and share with her a new happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-06-27
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Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent
Overview: France under Louis XIII. 1615. The Duke of Angoulême is at the head of a group of gentlemen who are conspiring to drive the Florentines out of court, of whom Concini is the all-powerful leader. A cadet from Gascony, Adhémar de Capestang, who was later to become the Capitan, left his native province to come and try his luck in Paris. Along the way, he saves a young girl, Gisèle d'Angoulême, from a masked individual who wanted to kidnap her.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-03-27
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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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The Inheritor
Overview: After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...
Genres: Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-22
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Sky Battalion
Overview: Film in two eras.1st era: They are not angels. Chronicle of a Free French parachute training camp during the Second World War. 2nd era: Terre de France. A group of paratroopers landed in Brittany sabotages the German installations.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-03-05
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Si jeunesse savait...
Overview: Charles Vigne, a wealthy banker, frees Abdul, a good genius imprisoned in a vase. To thank him, Abdul grants his wish: to become a child again, while retaining the experience he has acquired. But the "disappearance" of the banker panics the financial markets and has disastrous consequences for the bank. Eventually, Charles Vigne will ask Abdul to give him back his real age.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-04-30
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No More Vacation for the Good Lord
Overview: Montmartre in the summertime. A group of street urchins idles outside while the other kids of the neighborhood are away on holiday.To keep the gang busy, Pivolo, their leader, has an idea : they are going to kidnap Aunt Faguet's doggy. Just for the fun of it. A few days pass after the crime is accomplished and one of them suddenly realizes that a reward is being offered by the aunt to anyone who would bring her her pet back. Mademoiselle Hélène, the kind-hearted social worker, does it for them and gives them the reward money, which is instantly exchanged for lollipops, nougat and merry-go-round and cinema tickets. So, why not continue? That's what they do, abducting several dogs, until they realize they are becoming ... too rich! They can't buy themselves luxurious gifts or else their parents are bound to suspect something. Instead, they decide to do good by helping poor people around them. One day, Pierrot, a member of the gang, gets run down by a cyclist and becomes blind.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-04-12
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Road Blocked
Overview: Jacques Audoin falls in love with a pianist, Evelyne Clery, and marries her. In reality, he had wanted to approach her, because he imagined that she had witnessed the murder of the lover of his first wife. Evelyne learns what has happened and, revolted by what she thinks is her husband's plot, commits suicide. Jacques confesses his crime.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-01-21
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L’atomique Monsieur Placido
Overview: A gangster, thief of atomic formulas, has a double in the person of a naive musician. A music hall artist who makes eyes at the musician is deceived by the gangster who also takes advantage of the resemblance to track down a band of thugs who are chasing him. Virtue is ultimately rewarded.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-07-05
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Jo la Romance
Overview: For love, the singer Georges Hyverlin gives up his profession to work with his father-in-law in his car factory. When the passion for song takes him back, he manages to resume his career thanks to the support of his wife Martine.
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-03-04
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Les deux Monsieur de Madame
Overview: Adolphe is in serious financial difficulties and the extravagances of his wife do not help to fix things.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-12-27
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The Damned Lovers
Overview: A waiter, Paul, likes detective novels as he identifies with the characters, before becoming a sought-after offender himself. He flees with his group and his girlfriend Jackie
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-03-12
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Cherished by her concierge
Overview: Eugène, who works for Radio-Europe, is a bit dim-witted. He lives in a block of flats whose caretaker is Madame Motte, and the lady is in love with the young man. Just for laughs, Eugène's friends circulate on the air the rumor that Eugène has inherited millions of francs. It does not take long before a swarm of 'friends' start mixing with him. After a while, considering that the joke has lasted long enough, the jokers reveal the truth. Eugène immediately loses all his 'friends' but not he girl he loves. Even better, Eugène actually inherits a big sum of money. He who laughs last laughs best!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-09
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Head Against the Wall
Overview: An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-20
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L'aventure est au coin de la rue
Overview: A rich young man, Pierre Trévoux, has a desire for adventure and boasts of his courage. While he is staying with friends in the countryside, his hosts, to play a trick on him, organize a fake burglary, but he discovers the hoax. When he returns home, he finds his house broken into. Convinced that the game continues, he does not understand that he is dealing with real gangsters. His recklessness allows him to rout the criminals.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-02-18
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Too Many Lovers
Overview: The charming Lulu, a cabaret singer and dancer, has no shortage of admirers. When she decides to get married, she sets her heart on Robert, a young industrialist, but he is already married. Disappointed, she sets out in search of the ideal man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-12-11
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The Boss of Champignol
Overview: Claudius finds a foal and takes it home to his boss. The men who stole the animal are looking for him. Claudius names him Champignol and trains him for racing. When he grows up, Champignol wins a regional race. But the thieves return, and Claudius is forced to do odd jobs to keep his horse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-03-16
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Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ?
Overview: To replace Hector Grofenol, the tyrannical boss of the "Tout pour le camping" factory, who has been put out of action, a group of employees call on his cousin Achille, a Provençal shepherd, thinking they can use him. But Achille is quick to take his role as CEO seriously, and becomes very enterprising. Fortunately, young secretary Martine uses her charms to calm this man with a thirst for power.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-05-21
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Ultimatum
Overview: About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-27
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Min vän Oscar
Overview: Hans Lövgren happens to win a seal on a lottery during a trip to France. Terrified, he brings the seal home to his Paris apartment and tries to function together with the charming but barking guest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1951-01-20
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Berlingot and Company
Overview: François and Victor sell hard candy at the fun fair. They also bring up Gisèle, a one-year-old child they found by the side of the road. Although the two men are often at each other's throats they are the best friends, getting on well with the other fairground people. But when they defend Lisa, the fortune teller's daughter against Dédé, a thug who pesters her, they provoke his anger. Dédé sets fire to the two friends' stand and they are forced to take the road.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-27
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Scandal on the Champs-Élysées
Overview: In Paris, three models are murdered, being one of them the mistress of the fashion designer Dominique Airelle. It is the young inspector who is in charge of the affair.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-04-22
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The Associate
Overview: An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father -- although no one has ever seen him. To regain control, the man decides to "kill" his imaginary partner and is arrested for the murder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-08-22
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My Seal and Them
Overview: A diplomat and fast liver, François lives the good life until, one day, he is unfortunate enough to win...a seal in a raffle. From this day on his everyday life becomes complicated, to say nothing of his sentimental life. Gabrielle, his all too serious girlfriend, can't stand the heat and calls it quits. But English girls like charming Diana don't mind seals...!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-03-23
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Because, Because of a Woman
Overview: A young man is a collector of feminine conquests. One morning, leaving one of his mistresses he is addressed by one of his past flirts. As revenge, she denounces him later to the police as the murderer of her fiance who was found dead the same morning. With the help of his mistresses and some new ones he makes on the road, the young man goes in search of the man he thinks is the killer, then his blond consort with whom he fell in love at the first sight the evening before.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-08-17
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Razzia
Overview: Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy preceding him, he sets himself to the task of knowing why the French operations were not so profitable - and soon he is master of all links of the organization. He can now get it honed to perfection - or destroy it. Only... the Police are following his every step.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-04-07
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