Janine Darcey
Also Known As: Janine Darcy, Janine Renée Casaubon, Jeanine Darcey
Biography: Janine Darcey (14 January 1917 – 1 October 1993) was a French film actress. She appeared in 60 films between 1936 and 1993. Source: Article "Janine Darcey" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Asnières, Seine [now Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine], France
Birthday: January 14, 1917
Deathday: October 01, 1993
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Rififi
Overview: Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-04-13
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The Shanghai Drama
Overview: A Russian emigrant sings in a Shanghai nightclub under the assumed name of Kay Murphy. All she dreams of is a peaceful life with her daughter Vera. But this is only a pipe dream as she has been forced by her former lover Ivan to work for a secret criminal organization, "The Black Dragon". Vera, who studies in a Hong Kong boarding-school, knows nothing about her mother's past. When Ivan, who is also Vera's father, resurfaces and blackmails Kay, the young woman is determined to fight back...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-09-23
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The Curtain Rises
Overview: 1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique"). The first-year entrance exams are in full swing. Many applicants, few accepted. Isabelle (Janine Darcey) is one of the few chosen. She joins former students from the second and third years, including François (Claude Dauphin) and Cécilia (Odette Joyeux). They attend the drama class run by Professor Lambertin (Louis Jouvet). The young people, passionate and eager to become comedians, clash in tumultuous love affairs, because by dint of acting, they imagine that life is a farce. François, for example, is in love with Isabelle, who also loves him, but is pursued by Cecilia, his former mistress... "Put art in your life and life in your art!"
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-06
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Assault
Overview: Alexandre Mérital, the leader of a political party, finds himself under attack from Frépeau, one of his opponents. The latter has indeed discovered that Mérital committed a theft in his youth. But Mérital will not be intimidated by his adversary's move. In his turn, he discovers that Frépeau was once involved in a financial scandal, which forces the plaintiff to discontinue the prosecution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-12-31
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La Loupiote
Overview: Little Germaine Valcour, an adulterine child, is abandoned and taken in by a showman, Father Ballot. She becomes the consolation of the good man whose daughter has gone wrong. Madame Vaulcour died of grief while her lover, after many bad blows, takes justice into his own hands. The girl stays with her adoptive parents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-01-22
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Franco de port
Overview: Monsieur Fred is a friendly Southerner who recruits pretty girls down on their luck to send to South America. After some dramatic incidents and an eventful chase, a policeman manages to lock up the gang he runs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-05-14
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Three Artillerymen on the Move
Overview: During a leave, three merry soldiers experience a series of incredible adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-24
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I Sing
Overview: Charles's uncle is the headmaster of a chic girls school .He is short of the readies and he has lots and lots of debts.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-30
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Cap au large
Overview: Father Boquet, old and sad, hopes that François, his son, will be a fisherman like him. Alas, François follows his evil genius Simon to town and succumbs to the charms of the great Lisa. The wise village teacher sets out to find him when his father is ill, and brings François back in a violent storm. Love is on the way
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-09-25
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Parade in 7 Nights
Overview: In the pound, Pipo the dog recounts his adventures to his fellow inmates.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-09-24
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Little Nothings
Overview: Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have often changed their lives. Each of these stories told will prove that a tiny detail in life can change an entire destiny.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-12-16
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Sixième étage
Overview: The joys and miseries of the inhabitants of a building in a Parisian district.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-09-02
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L'Auberge de l'abîme
Overview: At the end of the last century, in the Cévennes, a valiant officer was taken for a brigand. Brought to defend himself, he kills one of his attackers and seeks refuge in caves where he hides and from which he no longer dares to come out. The devotion of a doctor saves him and he marries the daughter of this one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-02-24
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The Lucky Star
Overview: Auguste, a somewhat simple-minded Provençal fisherman, loves and admires Mireille. This concerns only Maurice, son of an important wholesaler, whom scruples do not stifle. Seduced and abandoned, Mireille moves Auguste who tries to mend his poor happiness. The local priest, with wise words, leads Mireille to offer her hand to Auguste.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-03-23
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Le Dessous des cartes
Overview: Claude Géraudy, a banker responsible for a financial scandal, is forced to flee and hides in the mountains with the help of Manu, a young smuggler. Florence, his wife, refuses to join him. Desperate Claude commits suicide, Florence then decides to pass her suicide off as murder in order to receive her late husband's life insurance.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-09-22
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Return to Life
Overview: In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-14
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Witness in the City
Overview: Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife's murderer, who has been acquitted by justice.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-05-06
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The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Overview: A young reporter solves a mystery crime. The fictional reporter is Joseph Rouletabille. He works on a complex, and seemingly impossible, crime in which the criminal appears to disappear from a locked room.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-15
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French Without Tears
Overview: It is based on the popular West End stage comedy by Terrence Rattigan. It all begins when Diana (Ellen Drew), the sister of a British boy studying in France, arrives in town to flirt with all of her brothers' schoolmates. Alan (Ray Milland), one of the students, successfully resists Diana's charms-meaning of course that Alan and Diana will be in each other's arms by fadeout time. (AllMovie)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1940-02-02
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Children of Chaos
Overview: An officer, two of his comrades and a social worker want to create the "Carrefour", a place for lost children and teens to give them a chance not to fall by the wayside and spend most of their life in jail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-04-26
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Hothead
Overview: François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-02-14
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Moitié-moitié
Overview: A man and a woman quarrel over an old building, a heritage they share. Their opposing characters make the situation conflictual.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-02-22
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Le Bon Plaisir
Overview: Claire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter, he urges his pregnant mistress to have an abortion. Claire immediately alerts the President's men. From that moment, the machinery of state swings into action.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-01-18
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Yoshiwara
Overview: Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in the Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer, and a rickshaw man.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-06-23
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Children of Love
Overview: In a maternity hospital, young single mothers are accompanied by social worker Hélène Lambert, who tries to make them aware of their new responsibilities, while Dr. Baurain stresses the importance of their moral and sexual education. They come to the aid of several young women: one who would like to give up her child to a couple applying for adoption, another who, after the death of her first baby in dramatic circumstances, is expecting a second, and many others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-11-10
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Délit mineur
Overview: A teenager named Guillaume admits to being guilty of his father's murder in order to protect his dear mother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-03-23
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Cavalcade of Love
Overview: Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the walls of the Chateau de Champs. Legend has it that whoever marries in the Chateau is doomed to an unhappy life. This proves to be the case in 1639 and 1839, but the heroine of the 1939 segment, Corinne Luchaire, is determined to break the jinx. She is convinced that she will prove an unsuitable bride for Claude Dauphin, and he is likewise convinced that he will turn out to be an inadequate groom. But the couple's respective families will not be dissuaded, and the marriage takes place as scheduled? with unexpectedly happy results!
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-11-06
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A Man and Two Women
Overview: The film is a wonderfully accurate portrayal of the three stories: The stories are tied together with original dialogue and scenes by Martha / Anne / Freda / Judith (Valérie Stroh) and René Feret which follow a Golden Notebook/Anna Wulf theme: she is "writing" the stories and has a boyfriend named Paul who is a psychiatrist. A Man and Two Women: Anne, a young woman, a slightly bohemian painter: "in love" with her newborn, she abandons her husband while Isabelle, her best friend, attracted by to him and becomes little by little her rival. Each Other:Fréda finds her brother every morning in the secret of her bedroom,they leave themselves and incestuous effective becomes the only possible relationship for both. Our Friend Judith: Judith, a cold and warm intellectual, secret and complex - Beautiful, Judith is careful not to show it, she knows interment and that is enough. Intelligent, she does not bend to the rules of fashion nor seduction.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-10-30
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L'Apprentissage de la ville
Overview: Reduced to poverty, a young man is taken in by a rich lady who asks him for some dangerous services in exchange.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-03
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The Sword and the Balance
Overview: Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pasts are questionable, riddled with violence and controversy. Neither the police nor the court can decide how to solve that puzzle.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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The Tender Enemy
Overview: Line, Annette's daughter, is about to marry a man she's not in love with. At the engagement party three ghosts revisit their disastrous relationships with Annette and decide to take action to help Line.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-10-24
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The Straight Line
Overview: Amputated of a hand during the war, traumatized and having given up on a career as a runner, Stéphane has become a newspaper salesman. Heckel, his former trainer, finds him by chance and persuades him to resume his sporting activities. Stéphane starts competing again. His meeting with Gordon, a black American runner, was to prove decisive.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-11-24
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La 99ème Minute
Overview: Death live! In the middle of filming a detective drama, the main actor Gérard Gérard dies from a gunshot. This returning star was hated by her partners... So, suicide, accident or crime? The investigation takes place before our eyes until the 99th minute. Let the masks fall!
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-08-23
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To Kill a Priest
Overview: A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
Genres: Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-07
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The Wonderful Night
Overview: A couple of refugees arrives in a village: he is a cabinet maker, she's pregnant and the innkeeper refuses to give them a room; they wind up in the cowshed of a farm where she gives birth to her baby, the very night of Christmas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-12-24
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Out of It
Overview: The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-10-10
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The Little Thing
Overview: Now that their parents are ruined, Jacques Eyssette and his younger brother Daniel, are driven to fend for themselves. Jacques becomes the secretary of a marquis who exploits him by making him work so hard that his health gets damaged. Daniel, on his part, is hired as a supervisor and Latin teacher in a school in the province. It soon happens that he is in a bad situation too as, after being subjected to repeated harassment, he ends up being fired. Daniel then decides to join Jacques in Paris, hoping to embark on a literary career. Unfortunately, Irma Borel, an actress, sets her sight on him and drags him into a life of vice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-05-31
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American Dreamer
Overview: American housewife Cathy Palmer loses her memory on a trip to Paris after being hit by a car. She wakes up in the hospital believing she's the fictional international spy, Rebecca Ryan.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-26
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Old Bill and Son
Overview: Old Bill has grumbled his way through the trenches of the First World War. Now it is the Second and, envious of his son, Young Bill, he decides to enlist. He finally enters the Pioneer Corps, which is based near his son. When Young Bill goes missing during a raid, Old Bill shows that there's still life in the old dog yet!
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1941-03-01
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Forty Little Mothers
Overview: After finding and adopting a child, a man gets a job at an all-girls school which doesn't allow families. Once the girls find the baby, they become his forty little mothers. At the same time, the child's true mother searches for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-11-05
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The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
Overview: A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds himself doing a voice track for a porno movie with Natasha Richardson. Hoskins finds his model for Jesus in Jeff Goldblum and a romantic triangle begins in which Goldblum finds adoring crowds believing him to be Jesus and then begins to believe it himself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-01
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Men Without Fear
Overview: 1895. Discovery of X-rays. Researchers and scholars are true martyrs, because they do not know how to protect themselves against radiation dermatitis. Professor Belcour has to have one hand amputated, his assistant Henri Vermont, aware of the danger, has the courage to break up with his fiancée. Withdrawn to the countryside, they eventually recover.
Genres: Drama Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-10-07
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Six Little Girls in White
Overview: On his fiftieth birthday, Serge Charan, a large industrialist overloaded with activities, decides to leave everything to go on an adventure. In a train heading for the Côte d'Azur, he meets six young girls returning to their boarding school. Arrived at their destination, Serge Charan rents, under an assumed name, a villa with a view of the garden of the boarding school. His presence arouses questions and the interest of young girls who are sensitive to his charm. But one of them, Simone, falls completely in love and runs away from boarding school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-11-21
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Cordial Agreement
Overview: The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-20
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Tobie Is an Angel
Overview: Tobie is a hopeless daydreamer. He always has his head in the clouds, and this inevitably gets him into trouble with his employer. In the end, Tobie loses his job as a fairground performer and sinks into a state of abject despair.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-11-03
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Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
Overview: The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
Overview: An American billionaire who travels incognito falls in love with a blind shepherdess whose twin sister will take the place on the wedding day.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-08-03
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Double Crime in the Maginot Line
Overview: Commander d'Espinac is found murdered. Having argued the day before the murder with Captain Bruchot, he is accused. The captain will have to conduct his own investigation if he wants to clear himself. His suspicions will fall on one of the three officers attached to his unit.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-09-24
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Où sont-elles donc ?
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Une époque formidable
Overview: Michel Berthier, cadre supérieur d'une entreprise de matelasserie, vient d'être licencié. Comme il n'ose pas avouer la vérité à Juliette, sa compagne, il s'endette pour maintenir le niveau de la famille qu'il couvre de cadeaux. Mais il ne peut bientôt plus mentir et il décide alors de quitter la maison. Après avoir perdu son argent, sa voiture et ses chaussures, il rencontre Toubib, Mimosa et Crayon, trois «Sans Domicile Fixe» qui font leur toilette dans les lavabos de la gare de l'Est. Ils le prennent sous leur aile et l'entraînent à aller cambrioler son ancienne entreprise afin de se munir de duvets et de lits
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-06-19
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Sisters-in-Arms
Overview: During the war from '14-'18, two women travel by foot in the North of France and Belgium to aid an organization to provide information to the English
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-12-02
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The Adolescent
Overview: In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-24
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