Gina Manès
Also Known As: Blanche Moulin
Biography: Gina Manès (born Blanche Moulin; 7 April 1893 – 6 September 1989) was a French film actress and a major star of French silent cinema. After an early appearance in a Louis Feuillade film, she had significant roles in films of Germaine Dulac and Jean Epstein, including Cœur fidèle.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: April 07, 1893
Deathday: September 06, 1989
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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A Man's Neck
Overview: Willy Ferrière is a gambler living beyond his means, and his mistress is as greedy as he's dead broke. One day, he says out of loud in a a Montparnasse café that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt so he could claim his inheritance. Someone secretly lets Willy know it's a deal. The old lady is murdered, and a low-life criminal is manipulated to be the perfect suspect. But Superintendant Maigret feels something is wrong.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-02-18
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Le sept de trèfle
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1921-09-16
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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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Die kleine Sklavin
Overview: Lili, an unfortunate foster child, has a series of near misses and falls in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-09-19
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Cœur fidèle
Overview: The good guys win out in this sweet tale about a young orphan who is abused for much of her life but who eventually finds happiness when she marries an honest man who extricates her from her situation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-11-23
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Under the Leather Helmet
Overview: Set in Rumania, the film focuses on a female secret agent who intends to use an airplane to fly behind enemy lines. While she awaits her flight to destiny, the girl spends several days with a French flying squadron. Her sexy presence causes the pilots to begin fighting among themselves, resulting in disaster for all concerned.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-04-27
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Pax
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-06-23
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The Shark
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-03-14
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The Pont-Biquet Family
Overview: The family Pont-Biquet is composed as follows: father, the judge, afflicted by deafness; authoritarian and irascible mother; funny son-in-law; an ingenious son who has a mistress.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-09-20
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La brigade en jupons
Overview: Two female police officers dismantle a network of drug traffickers.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-07-09
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Wolves Between Them
Overview: A Nazi spy has stolen a gas mask filter of formidable efficiency in Paris. Two agents from the 2nd office have the task of going to take him back to Berlin.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-03
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Maria de la nuit
Overview: A cabaret singer in Barcelona sacrifices her feelings for an exiled young Frenchman who had been falsely accused of a crime, when the sister of the real culprit seeks the exile out.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-07-29
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Temptation
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-07-26
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La Mystérieuse Lady
Overview: In India, a British detachment finds itself surrounded in a village by invisible enemies. An officer is assassinated, then another. The adversary seems very well informed. By who ? A group of twenty men who had gone to seek help were annihilated. An American reporter will force the mysterious spy to denounce himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-07-08
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Les Réprouvés
Overview: At the borders of the Saharan desert, the dramatic situation of a battalion of light infantry attacked by the enemy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-02-19
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Gosse de riche
Overview: The daughter of an industrialist takes an interest in the workers and tries to improve their lot. She avoids a strike, and falls in love with an engineer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-06-07
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Sirocco
Overview: Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the mistress and then wife of a wealthy archaeologist, and bears him Matteo's child, whom he believes to be his own. Complications arise years later when Matteo finds Safia, and a ring of blackmailers uncover her past and exposes her to her husband.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-09-22
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Fort Dolorès
Overview: Several men of different nationalities have decided to free themselves from the clutches of women and have vowed to help each other in case one of them might relapse. They find shelter in a hacienda on the pampas. They believe they are now safe from the evil influence of the fair sex. Unfortunately there is a farm nearby in which... a gorgeous woman is said to live. Great principles are short-lived, as they soon realize: lust, jealousy and hate set in at once.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-01
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Hatred
Overview: Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the victim of a malicious attack, he returns to his hometown of Dunkirk. Mollenard receives a frosty welcome from his wife Mathilde, who resents the way in which he has neglected his family for so many years. Mollenard’s only wish is to get back to sea as soon as he can, but a sudden heart-attack leaves him paralysed and entirely in his wife’s power...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-26
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Majestic Hotel Cellars
Overview: In my “cellar” where case workers all the people of a great hotel, the head of the café, Donge, finds the corpse of Mrs Petersen, a rich client. The investigation by Maigret allows him to rub the husband of the victim, a Swede, Teddy, Ms Petersen’s son, his housekeeper, a social dancer and Donge himself who is the natural father of Teddy. The child he will go to his real father or not he will leave the rich Petersen who adores? The murder mystery and enigma sentimental are resolved by Maigret.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-08-11
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Le Bateau à soupe
Overview: Hervé is a tough sea captain in command of the "Duchesse Anne", a rum-trading ship. But the sea dog hides a tender heart and he allows Marie-Douce, a poor slum girl who dreams of seeing the wide world,on board. To have her accepted by the crew, he passes her off as his niece. A seasoned master like him, wise enough to ban alcohol use on his ship, should have known better : a beautiful girl on the deck cannot but unleash the savage instincts of all those men without women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-02-19
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Daughter of the Sands
Overview: This Moroccan romance is a kind of Arab Tristan and Isolde: the heroine kills herself when she is convinced no one cares for her, the young nobleman she thought would love her is killed by a madwoman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-01-11
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S.O.S. Sahara
Overview: At a North Africa desert outpost threatened by Arabs, the French commander has added trouble when his wife visits and is captivated by a younger officer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-08-17
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La Danseuse de Marrakech
Overview: A little Métis girl, Kalina is saved from a massacre by Taraor, a black man from Sudan. Having become a great and beautiful dancer from the South, she meets Captain Portal, in garrison in Marrakech. This is the beginning of a great love story. But that's counting without Taraor's jealousy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-04-19
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Coral Reefs
Overview: The adventures of a sailor from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lonely girl.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-01
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Thérèse Raquin
Overview: A silent adaptation of the novel by French writer Émile Zola. Thérèse Raquin was shot in a German studio and featured Gina Manes in her greatest part. Zola’s sombre bourgeois tragedy was brought vividly to life. The details of the Raquin home, the human tensions, the unspoken words, and the looming shadows created an unforgettable effect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-11-04
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The Beautiful Otero
Overview: An Italo-French biopic about one of the most famous women of Belle Époque, Spanish-born dancer and actress, star of Folies-Bèrgere: Carolina Otero.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-11-04
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The Count of Bragelonne
Overview: Raoul de Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-12-09
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Palace of Shame
Overview: Tongues start to wag after a famous Parisian music hall dancer is rushed to hospital after being found poisoned by arsenic at the Concert Mayol.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-07-18
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Sin
Overview: A married writer's luck turns when he gets a play produced at Théâtre de Paris. He meets the femme fatale who should play the lead in his play. Passion and conflict occurs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1928-09-16
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Divine
Overview: A country girl (Simone Berriau) finds work as a chorus girl in Paris, gets embroiled with a bad egg, and then finds true love with a good-looking milkman.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-11-21
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Les Lumières du soir
Overview: A young opera dancer tries to help her mother financially by performing in a dubious cabaret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-11-07
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S.O.S. Schiff in Not
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Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-02-28
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La voie sans disque
Overview: Toward the close of World War I, European railroads in Djibouti are under siege by bands of indigenous warriors, while one of the white employees falls for a mysterious woman tied to the rebels.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-05-31
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Princely Nights
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-10-07
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The Man Without a Face
Overview: Without a job and no money to spend, Blanche Mery (Gina Manès) has to accept a job offered by Gunter (Édouard Mathé), a strange millionaire wearing the black mask.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1919-09-01
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Nights of Shame
Overview: Marie-Thérèse is firmly involved in a charity dedicated to the rehabilitation of prostitutes. She approaches Marcelle who, for the love of Pierre, an honest painter, hides her dishonorable profession, and she befriends Maria, in love with the gentle René. Marcelle's aunt is murdered, and her daughter arrested. Marie-Thérèse sets out to prove her innocence, but the two boys learn all about the two unfortunate women. Pierre is unforgiving. Happier, Maria will start a new life with René.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-08-04
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Pity for the Vamps
Overview: Paris, 1956. Three sisters, three actresses willing to do almost anything to make it big. Their lives, their loves, their dramas. A savory satire of the world of show business and cinema in particular.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-10-19
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Sister Angele's Secret
Overview: A poor wop entrusts his savings to an antique dealer's care. Bad idea. When he comes back to claim his dough,the villain acts as if they've never met. And the poor Italian immigrant kills him.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-03-21
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Law of the Streets
Overview: Yves Tréguier, a young orphan, escapes from a reform school in Brittany to join "Dédé la Glace" in Paris, an old-timer with whom he has a sincere friendship. The love of Zette, a young girl he has met, and the benevolent friendship of Father Blain, the bistro owner, give him the desire for regular work. "Jo le Grec", a pimp jealous of Dédé's friendship with Yves, seduces Wanda, a prostitute he loves, and shoots Dédé dead. Blain prevents him from doing the same to Yves, and shoots him in turn. Yves can live an honest life with Zette and the baby she's expecting.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-04-25
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Sinners of Paris
Overview: Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that Vanel is too crafty and well-connected to ever stand trial for his crime, so he carefully lays a subtle trap for his adversary. Unfortunately, both Piccoli and Vanel are thwarted by a pair of scheming females.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-15
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Premier mai
Overview: On this beautiful May 1st, Thérèse is about to give birth. Their presence at home is undesirable, so Jean, her husband, decides to take François, their little boy, to a soccer match. Their plans change when they meet a former factory mate who seems to have made a success of his life. This man, Blanchot, decides to return to Jean a sum of money he had once borrowed. Trusted, Jean is drawn into a clandestine circle, where his apparent luck delivers him without ulterior motive to Blanchot, who is one of the ringleaders. The police interrupt the dangerous game, putting Jean, who has no identity papers, in an awkward situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-03-25
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Bonaparte et la révolution
Overview: Abel Gance's 1971 sound edition of his epic 1927 'Napoleon', which contains much of the silent original, with new material shot and added in both 1965 and 1971, and with sound synchronization from both the 1932 reissue and this version.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-11-24
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The Red Inn
Overview: Two young doctors, surprised by the storm, take refuge in an inn. A diamond broker joins them and, for lack of space, shares their room. At dawn he is found dead. A few years later justice is done.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-09-27
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Mayerling
Overview: Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage to a Belgian princess. As he seeks to flee his stifling environment, he meets the beautiful Maria, and the two enter into a scandalous affair. Despite the interference of the Emperor, the couple refuse to give each other up.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-01-31
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Barcarolle
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-03-26
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A Beautiful Woman
Overview: Father-and-son lion tamers, Rabbas and Léo share a mistress - Rosita, the " lovely bitch " of the film's title. She is as wild as their lionesses and, in a single night the father is injured and the son attempts suicide. Only when Rosita leaves the circus can things get back to normal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-12-19
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Le bonheur est pour demain
Overview: Alain is a young man who has just left his parents and finds himself lost in Saint-Nazaire, a French coastal town whose main industry is shipbuilding. Alain arrives just as the liner SS France is under construction and he soon strikes up lasting friendships with dockyard workers. It is here that he also gets to meet the love of his life...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-06-03
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The Postmaster's Daughter
Overview: A small town postal official allows a military officer to sweep his lovely daughter away to St. Petersburg, assuming the man will do the right thing and marry her.Instead, a future of scandal and tragedy awaits her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-03-03
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La dame de Monsoreau
Overview: The film based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Duma, is concerned with fraternal royal strife at the court of Henri III. Tragically caught between the millstones of history are the gallant Count de Bussy and the woman he adores, la Dame de Monsoreau.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-26
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Mädchenschicksale
Overview: About exciting and everyday stories and dreams in the life of young and inexperienced girls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-08-08
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Heart of an Actress
Overview: Desire brings out the worst in an actress' suitors-- One a well-to-do patron of London's theatre set, the other a lovestruck loner on the verge of penning a play dedicated to her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-10-07
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The Saint and Her Fool
Overview: Agnes Günther’s heart-rending fairy tale dazzled turn-of-the-century German audiences and sold hundreds of thousands of copies before being adapted into this tale of timeless passion, the beautiful The Saint and the Fool. The unapologetically sentimental classic was directed by Wilhelm Dieterle, who launched a successful career in Weimar cinema before becoming known for romantic, lush melodramas and technicolor extravaganzas, including 1945′s Marlene Dietrich unforgettable Love Letters. The dashing Dieterle himself plays Harrogate, Earl of Torstein, whose star-crossed love for the luminous Rosemarie of Brauneck (Lien Deyers, discovered by Fritz Lang) is further doomed by royal heroes and villains, the requisite evil stepmother, and fantastical elements that channel the intoxicating romance of Camille through the magic of the Brothers Grimm.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-10-03
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Naples au baiser de feu
Overview: A beggar and a singer are in love with the same woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-11-13
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Mimi Pinson
Overview: Dany Robin plays the title character in the French comedy Mimi Pinson. The plot is strictly formula stuff, with Mimi being thwarted on all sides by those who have designs on her money and her virtue. Happily, our heroine triumphs over her foes and predators, finding true romance in the arms of Raymond Pellegrin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-07-22
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Love's Springtime
Overview: Clothilde, taken out of her convent to marry the Marquis, refuses to recognize her new husband.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1927-11-24
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Retour au bonheur
Overview: Wanting to complete the research of her doctor husband, a former actress returns to the stage and therefore abandons her home. Badly supervised, her little boy runs away. We find him ill in the Alps. He is saved by his father and the parents' union is sealed again.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-04-09
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Le mariage de Véréna
Overview: Verena, a farm servant, gives birth to a little girl and for the happiness of her child, tries for nearly twenty years to bend the selfishness of the seducer who did not marry her. When she returns to the village, she has worn herself out at work, but she has the consolation of seeing her daughter's future assured.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-19
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Latin Quarter
Overview: A wealthy man pretends to be a starving artist to gain the affections of a young painter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-05-10
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Un soir au cocktail's bar
Overview: From 6 P.M. to 8 P.M., in a documentary fashion, the film shows different character types sitting, meeting, and working at a cocktail's bar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-05-10
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Mam'zelle Spahi
Overview: Two mistresses snubbed by their respective lovers crash a military ball and their lovers then resort to an unusual strategy to win them back.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-11-09
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Train Without Eyes
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-02-01
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Napoléon Bonaparte
Overview: A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-11-05
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The Man with Three Masks
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1921-04-22
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The Hand That Has Killed
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-10-23
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Somersault
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-05-29
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The bewitchment of Seville
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-10-26
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Le diable en bouteille
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-04-05
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Looping the Loop
Overview: Botto the Clown is in love with the much younger Blanche but she is in love with the handsome daredevil acrobate Andre.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-09-15
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Sables
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-06-03
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A Certain Mr. Jo
Overview: Jo Guardini, now the peaceful owner of a charming inn by the banks of the River Marne, once was a dreaded gangster. The respectful citizen does not want to have anything to do with the underworld any more. Unfortunately, two of his former accomplices kidnap a little girl and decide to hide her in his hotel. What will Jo do : side with the law in the person of inspector Loriot or have a relapse in crime?
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-04-16
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L'amour qu'il faut aux femmes
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-03-02
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The Red Night
Overview: The red night was set within the space of a few hours and in two locations - the rich madam Lesparre's old castle (where celebrations are underway to mark the marriage of her daughter Ginette to the handsome Robert) and the sinister mill 'Moulin-Maudit'. The young couple leave to their honeymoon driven by a mysterious chauffeur. Following a breakdown in open country they are forced to seek refuge in the mill, where untold horrors wait: blood oozing from the ceiling, a body wrapped in a tarpaulin, a menacing dumb figure and an old woman, etc.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-04-25
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Fernandel the Dressmaker
Overview: A modest taylor the women found irresistible inherit a Maison de couture in financial difficulty. Decided to save it he prepare a great collection. But when his wife discovered his relations with one of the mannequin, how would he prevent the scandale without loosing... both of them?!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-04-13
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Pas de panique
Overview: A robbery of 10 billion is successfully carried out by a Corsican gang led by a man called Toussaint. The heist is also the start of a war with a rival gang.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-08-10
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