Léon Courtois
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Birthday: January 24, 1878
Deathday: July 18, 1941
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Sergeant X
Overview: A military wife remarries after she thinks her Russian husband has died in battle, and when he returns alive he enlists in the Foreign Legion rather than disrupt her new happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-03-25
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Un coup de téléphone
Overview: A man is engaged to be married.But after getting a phone call from a wronged woman who wants revenge on her husband, he lands up consoling her in bed, and then consoling the mistress of the husband as well.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-03-25
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Fun in the Barracks
Overview: The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-09-18
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That scoundrel Morin
Overview: Life is so dull in a quiet little neighborhood that gossips, eager for some kind of scandal to brighten things up, imagine their haberdasher has been having quite a raunchy sex life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-12-30
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Rio's yellow house
Overview: When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who looks like him, the staff and spectators at that night's show think the actor is giving an unusually good performance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-03-20
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The Midnight Gentleman
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-08-17
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English as it is spoken
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-06-12
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White as snow
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-07-31
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The Darling of Paris
Overview: In order not to compromise the great music hall star with whom he spent the night, a man is accused of a murder he did not commit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-10-09
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Naked as a Worm
Overview: A very rich businessman, knight of the Legion of Honor, bets that he can start his career from scratch. After all kinds of adventures, he climbs the ladder of society and, having become rich again, finds love and a new fortune.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-05-05
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L'Agonie des aigles
Overview: Under the regime of Louis XVIII. Years after Waterloo, Napoleon's loyal officers live in retirement on half-pay. Useless and idle, they have lost their prestige and keep meeting in the hope of the Emperor’s return. When Napoleon dies, they decide to plot the rise to power of Napoleon II.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-11-24
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Les Bateliers de la Volga
Overview: In 1912, a Russian officer is wrongly accused of having stolen important papers. His only alibi being to have spent the night with the wife of a colonel, he allows himself to be condemned so as not to compromise the latter. He manages to escape and hides in the guise of a poor boatman. One day, the truth comes out, the colonel commits suicide and the lovers are finally reunited.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-07-05
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À nous deux, madame la vie
Overview: Two bank employees like Lucie, their colleague. They steal money from the cash register to gamble. Jean wins and Paul ends up in prison for five years. When he leaves, he discovers that Jean has become a businessman and that he has married Lucie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-03-26
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Captain Fracasse
Overview: A nobleman decides to join a traveling group of actors to be with a girl he admires, but ultimately must rescue her from bandits
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-02-15
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À Nous la Liberté
Overview: In this classic French satire, Louis, a convict, escapes from prison and takes on legitimate work, making his way up in the business world. Eventually becoming the head of a successful factory, Louis opts to modernize his company with mechanical innovations. But when his friend Émile finally leaves jail years later and reunites with Louis, the past catches up with them. The two, worried about being apprehended by police, long to flee the confines of industry.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-12-18
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Crimson Dynasty
Overview: Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is based on the novel Koenigsmark by Pierre Benoît. It's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. The film was known in the United States as Crimson Dynasty.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-04
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Under the Roofs of Paris
Overview: In the tenement slums of Paris between the world wars, impoverished street singer Albert yearns for beautiful Romanian immigrant Pola. Pola's boyfriend, local hoodlum Fred, grows jealous of Albert's constant attention to his woman and frames the hapless musician for one of his own petty crimes. But while Albert is in prison for Fred's misdeed, Pola ends up falling for Albert's faithful best friend, Louis.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-04-28
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Fleur d'amour
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-12-09
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Napoleon
Overview: A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-01-10
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La gitanilla
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-04-18
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Le Prince charmant
Overview: Unkwown to the vast majority, Count Patrice is the crown prince of Simenia. One day he sails for the East on his yacht "Bengal" in the company of Christiane, a beautiful princess, in love with him. Chance has it that Patrice sets Anar, an Oriental beauty, free from the harem where she is held captive. Love is born between the two young people, which infuriates Christiane. Mad with jealousy, the vexed woman sets about preventing Patrice and Anar from marrying... by all means fair or foul!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-03-27
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Sans famille
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-03-19
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