Hélène Robert
Also Known As: Helène-Élise Robert
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tours, France
Birthday: January 27, 1910
Deathday: December 29, 1981
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Mr. Marshal
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-10-30
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Orange Blossom
Overview: Not content to be an austere judge, M. de Méricourt is also a domestic tyrant. He terrorizes his son René to such an extent that the young man has dared not confess to him that he has married. As can be guessed, a lot of confusion ensues.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-10-17
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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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Le rosaire
Overview: A beautiful and serious woman renounces the love that inspires her Gerard, a man younger than her. Later, Gerard having become blind, she takes the place of the nurse, then confesses her identity to the cripple who opens his arms to her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-10-26
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Midnight, Place Pigalle
Overview: After retiring as a butler in a nightclub where he made his fortune, Prosper decides to return to his job after the death of his wife. Now ruined, he only finds a job as a dishwasher.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-10-15
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The Barber of Seville
Overview: Based on an opera by Rossini and an opera by Mozart, taken from the work of Beaumarchais.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-12-29
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Le Clown Bux
Overview: Pierre Buxeuil is better known as the popular clown Bux. One day, he falls in love with Nicole, a romantic but whimsical young lady. He soon elopes her and the beautiful Nicole follows him, persuaded that she will love circus life. Unfortunately for Bux she does not and she leaves him as a result. After a few other disappointments due to false accusations, Bux finally marries a kind-hearted circus acrobat and pursues a successful career under the big top.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-03-17
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La Fille de la Madelon
Overview: The widow of a soldier in the 1914-1918 war, running an inn called "Au rendez-vous des veterans", is happy to see her daughter in love with an officer whose father was once in love with La Madelon.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-10-13
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Courier of Lyons
Overview: A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of justice will lead an innocent person to the guillotine.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-11-10
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The West
Overview: The film portrays the relationship between a female Moroccan student, who has been forced to leave her studies at the Sorbonne for financial reasons and works as a dancer in a Paris nightclub, and a French naval officer. However, on returning to Casablanca she is tricked into believing that he had the led attack on her village that wiped out her family. She begins to plot her revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-02-16
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Un gosse en or
Overview: Two villagers have adopted a child abandoned on the road. A jealous kid drags him away from the village. He is collected by a traveling circus where his kindness attracts him the affection of all and especially that of the animals. One day he finds his mother and his two adopted fathers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-02-01
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Sa meilleure cliente
Overview: It is one thing to open a beauty salon (which Edwige and her young lover Gaston have just done) but it is another to keep it on its feet.To best promote their speciality, fountain-of-youth treatments, Edwige decides to apply to the letter the old slogan "It pays to advertise" by posing as... Gaston's mother, a sixty-year-old woman, miraculously grown younger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-12-16
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The King
Overview: King John IV of Cerdania, who knows monarchs are a vanishing race but who plays his royalty role in state council or boudoir to the hilt, is in Paris to sign a treaty, and becomes enmeshed in intrigue with an actress, Therese Mannix and involved in a bit of cuckoldry with YouYou Bourdier, the ex-seamstress wife of a French senator, who is un-awed by money, power or the King's kisses. For his part, her husband, Senator Bourdier, is glad to use his wealth, wife and collectivist ideals for social position, in spite of his democratic posing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-10-29
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Le Vagabond bien-aimé
Overview: Gaston, an artist in love with an upper class English girl, accepts to stay away from her when a wealthy rival offers to pay her father's heavy debt. Broken-hearted, he leaves for France with his young servant. They join a young girl as popular musicians and tour the countryside in their way to Paris, where his former love reappears.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-08
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Departure
Overview: An opera singer travelling with her company on a passenger ship encounters a mysterious young man who she falls in love with.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-09-13
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Into the Blue
Overview: A recent rediscovery, master cinematographer Schüfftan’s only film as a director is a free-spirited, fast-paced ode to being young, free, hopeful... and completely broke.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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The King of the Gate Crashers
Overview: The film is the first of a series of films containing the character of "Bouboule", created by the singer Milton and comprising La Bande à Bouboule (1931), directed by Léon Mathot, Le Roi du cirage (1931), directed by Pierre Colombier, Bouboule Ier, roi des Nègres (1933), directed by Léon Mathot, and Prince Bouboule, directed by Jacques Houssin (1939).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-11-14
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Crying Out
Overview: A young man feels compelled to travel with his grand-father. The young man wants to find his father who ran away with the corpse of his ex-wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-09-24
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As Long as You're Near Me
Overview: An actress used to playing only bit parts becomes the center of attention when a movie director buys her life story as a film project, she is now faced with a psychological crisis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1953-08-27
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