Maurice Devienne
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Birthday: February 20, 1892
Deathday: May 27, 1979
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Second Bureau
Overview: Captain Benoît manages to take possession of the plans of a new German airplane. The German counter-espionage assigns one of their agents, beautiful Erna Fiedler, to seduce Benoît and to eliminate him. But the two spies fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-09-19
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L'Argent
Overview: Ruined by his competitor, the banker Saccard decides to set up a new business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-25
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La brigade en jupons
Overview: Two female police officers dismantle a network of drug traffickers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-07-09
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Disk 413
Overview: A secret message is on a recording, a man who had disappeared for a while may be trying to steal it.His wife, a singer, teams up with a spy chief she has met to confront her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-07-24
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Troïka sur la piste blanche
Overview: Wife of an arms trafficker in Poland, Georgina is forced to help him. She will only be able to regain her freedom - and love - after a troika chase during which the trafficker loses his life.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-06-18
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A Man to Kill
Overview: Captain Benoit successfully completes a mission in Berlin, but when he returns to Paris he escapes attacks by German agents.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-02-25
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La Bête aux sept manteaux
Overview: An English gentleman himself causes his own burglary to better suppress the formidable gang which, after having murdered his brother, is now attacking his fortune.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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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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A Picnic on the Grass
Overview: A rich young woman asks a poor man to play for her the role of a generous friend. He ends up falling in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-12-09
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Rasputin
Overview: Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-28
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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 (Jacques Copeau). 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 (Daniel Lecourtois) and his sweetheart Michelle (Andree Giuze). 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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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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Le Patriote
Overview: The reign of Tsar Paul I and the intrigues of his friend, Governor Pahlen, to rid the country of the mad despot by plotting to have him murdered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-06-05
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Nord-Atlantique
Overview: Barnes, the mate of the 'Portland', is the object of the hate of the whole ship's crew. His mistress is murdered shortly before the departure and suspicion naturally falls on him. Some time later, Jeff Cooper, the skipper, falls to his death in the middle of the night. Once again Barnes is suspected and the mate has to resort to force to maintain his authority on board. During the stopover, Barnes is interrogated and finally cleared. He is even appointed captain of the 'Portland' in replacement of Jeff and can marry his best friend's daughter.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-13
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The Trump Card
Overview: A man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country. Clarence and Montès, two inspector students, must solve this murder, but they don't know that dead guy is the USA public enemy No.1.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-09-02
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Mlle. Desiree
Overview: Julie and Désirée Clary are courted by the brothers Joseph and Napoleon Bonaparte. Joseph marries Julie and Napoleon is affianced to Désirée. When Napoleon breaks the engagement and marries Joséphine de Beauharnais, Désirée becomes involved with General Bernadotte.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-07-03
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Le Soleil de minuit
Overview: Going to take up his post in Moukden, the forest engineer finds in a trainer from the cabaret "the midnight sun" a Russian princess, Armide, whom he once loved. He had met her in 1917 when the princess and her father were driven from their domain. Prince Ireniev is a gambler, a trickster, a matchmaker. Out of love for Armide, Forestier flew, and yet when he finds the two wrecks, he cannot resist. Abandoning everything, his position and his honor, he leaves with the woman of his destiny.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-06-30
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Colonel Chabert
Overview: The story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years later to a very different France, both on a political and personal level. The film is based on the novel Colonel Chabert by Honoré de Balzac.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-12-01
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The Ménard Collection
Overview: Renée Ménard, a young mixed-race Indochinese, arrives in France to find her French father, whom she only knows is called Paul Ménard. In the hope of identifying her father, she meets a series of men with that name.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-04-12
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Father Goriot
Overview: An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Paris. In after Balzac.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-03-22
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Special Mission
Overview: The exploits of Chief Police Inspector Chabrier, first before the invasion of France in May 1940 as he fights against spies preparing the coming the Germans, particularly Emmy de Welder, the alleged manager of the Rouen hospital. Later, Chabrier and his men go underground and resist the occupiers whatever the price to pay. When the Liberation comes Chabrier resumes his activities at the French National Police.
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-03-08
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Devil and the Angel
Overview: The Director of an international banknote printing institute, mutilated by the face of the Great War, Frank Davres, falls in love with a young woman, Jeanne, admirably beautiful, but blind. He marries her. For her, he ruins himself and comes to issue counterfeit banknotes. The young woman does everything to make people forget her infirmity. One day, following an operation, she recovers her sight and notices the physical and moral ugliness of her husband. She hides her cure until the day when Frank, taken by the police, kills one of his accomplices and commits suicide. Jeanne leaves to join a friend with whom she was performing in a circus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-10-30
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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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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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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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Stolen Affections
Overview: The ordeal of Françoise who, deceived by her husband, sees her dying child. After a few events in the backdrop of a festival, the husband returns, she pushes him away, driving him to suicide. Another man she thinks she loves is already married.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-11-05
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Southern Carrier
Overview: A pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief romance with his distressed cousin before he returns to the call of duty, and the rebels in the desert.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-01-22
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Le Cercle vicieux
Overview: A young artist, an occasional gigolo, marries an older woman for her dough; however, he has not broken with his younger lover.
Genres: Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-04-27
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Parisian Life
Overview: A rich Brazilian, Mendoza, visited Paris in 1900 and was romantically involved with the star of Offenbach's 'La vie parisienne' which was playing at the time. Thirty five years later, he returns with his son and granddaughter, who is engaged to a young Frenchman. But Mendoza's puritanical son forbids the marriage. Mendoza and the actress's friends conspire to change his mind and convert him to 'Parisian life.'
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-28
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