Germaine Kerjean
Also Known As: Жермен Кержан
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Le Havre, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France
Birthday: July 22, 1893
Deathday: May 06, 1975
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Femmes de Paris
Overview: Professor Charles Buisson, astronomer and Nobel Prize winner, has just discovered a nova. He informs the other observatories by telephone. Just as he thinks one of them is calling back, he finds himself on the line with a young woman threatening suicide at the Ruban Bleu cabaret, if her lover hasn't joined her by midnight. Intrigued, the professor decides to go and prevent the unfortunate woman from committing suicide. One of his students, who earns her living as an understudy in a knife act, helps him in his investigation, while the school principal and a policeman suspect him of being a prankster or even of selling drugs. For the scientist, it's an opportunity to discover a world of music-hall that he'd never known before: "I thought I knew the sky chart by heart, but there's one planet that was totally unknown to me: Earth. I'll be back!
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-05-17
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The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Overview: The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-09-14
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Illegal Cargo
Overview: A female journalist beats two male rivals to a scoop by exposing a white slave racket going on right in 50s Paris.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-02-28
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L'homme qui joue avec le feu
Overview: A do gooder hopes to cure potential romantic partners of what he considers the disease of love, by putting them up in a property and having them watched over.Things do not turn out according to his plan.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-08-05
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It Happened at the Inn
Overview: An old woman living in an inn is killed and her family members seem like the likely culprits.
Genres: Drama Mystery Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-04-14
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As Long As I Live
Overview: Following a trivial road accident, Ariane, an international adventuress, falls in love with Bernard Fleuret, a young artist-painter with diseased lungs. Being pursued by the police, she chooses to hide in the sanatorium where the young man is treated. Ariane proves so smitten by love that she finally changes her ways: she decides to let herself be arrested, sure as she is she will be reunited with her loved one later on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-01-21
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Deadlier Than the Male
Overview: In the heart of Paris, a restaurateur's mundane life is disrupted by the arrival of his ex-wife's daughter, who claims to be in need after her mother's death. After marrying her, tensions rise when she becomes involved with a young student, leading to betrayal and murder. As secrets unfold, he uncovers the truth about her past and her manipulative nature.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-04-13
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Anger of the Gods
Overview: Sylvain, sentenced to death, assures the visiting priest that his life could have been completely different, and invents different situations.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-04-09
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The Scarlet Bazaar
Overview: Agnès Bonnardet leaves her parents to marry Claude Sironi, a painter who becomes famous but loses his talent. Meanwhile Agnes acquires a style of her own as an artist, which makes Claude jealous of his young wife. One day, he sends one of his own paintings to the Bazar de la Charité, a very trendy Paris department store, instead of one of his wife's works as ordered. Afraid of her being mad at him, he locks her up in the cloak room. A dreadful fire suddenly breaks out and sets the building ablaze.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-04-23
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The Execrable Fate of Guillemette Babin
Overview: Being born a witch's daughter did not bode well for your future in the Middle Ages. Guillaumette tries to stay on the straight and narrow with a little help from a priest she visits.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-10-14
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Three Sinners
Overview: A man assists his gravely ill wife to die and wants to face justice for this, but his brothers try everything to keep the family's name clean.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-10-10
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French Touch
Overview: Mario, a bumptious sheep-shearer, discovers he has a inimtable touch that makes women, as well as sheep, swoon at his professional caress. He is soon the most sought-after hairdresser in France and is awarded the Legion of Honor...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-05-09
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The Cupboard Was Bare
Overview: The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver, not wishing to be bothered by a police interrogation, hides her corpse in a cupboard before notifying Alfred. But the van is stolen. Alfred, being the heir of a rich lady, begins a frantic search to locate the missing van and the cupboard because one can't claim an inheritance if there is no 'corpus delecti.' In his search, he gets caught up in an underworld web and finds the body of a murdered gangster in his room. He finally locates the cupboard but promptly loses it again. But, wait, it isn't "finis' time, yet.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-10-29
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St. Val's Mystery
Overview: Désiré Le Sec has just won the "amateur policeman contest" and he is so glad he 's telling all the people around.He is an insure agent ,and his boss,his uncle,is annoyed :a man took out a big life insurance and died soon afterward.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-09-19
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Nana
Overview: Nana or Nanà is a French-Italian film by Christian-Jaque starring Charles Boyer. It is an adaptation of Émile Zola's novel Nana.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-07-26
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Naïs
Overview: Toine, the local hunchback, works at the tile manufacturing plant, but during the summer, he gives a hand to Micoulin, the farmer, thereby being able to spend more time close to Nais, Micoulin's daughter. That summer, the estate owner's son, Frederic Rostaing, decides to rest on the farm during his vacation from Law school. But his real motives are to seduce young Nais, whom he knows from their childhood days, after having seen her in town. Who will win the power struggle between the possessive father, the naive daughter, the vile student and the golden-hearted cripple?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-11-17
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Cecile Is Dead
Overview: Cecile, a young girl who goes to the offices of the Judicial Police several times in a row to complain about nightly visits to the apartment she occupies with her aunt, is not taken seriously by the police until she the day she is found murdered.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-03-08
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Les Célibataires
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-10-23
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Fra Diavolo
Overview: Italian-language version of the Germany-made DER TEUFELSBRUDER (FRA DIAVOLO), with different supporting cast and some scenes. Based on the Auber opera, but with generally original music by Dr. Giuseppe Becce.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1931-04-17
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Monte Cristo
Overview: This epic adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo was directed by Henri Fescourt, and stars Jean Angelo, Lil Dagover, Pierre Batcheff, the beautiful Marie Glory, and Bernhard Goetzke as the Abbé Faria.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-04-30
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Women's Prison
Overview: Alice Rémon, a pharmacist, is a prostitute who managed to leave the streets by getting married. Her husband dies one day, poisoned. Her mother-in-law, who hates her, accuses her of murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-07-15
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The Good Lady
Overview: A kind old lady is not all that she seems to be, and gets more than she bargained for when she rents out a room to a handsome young student.
Genres: Horror Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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God Needs Men
Overview: The inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany follow their own religion without need for clergy, but as strangers arrive, their faith and beliefs face a deep crisis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-10-03
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Dear Caroline
Overview: France, July 1782. During her birthday, the beautiful young Marchioness Caroline meets the attractive soldier Gaston. It's love at first sight but Gaston does not wish to make a commitment because a military career waits for him. Caroline marries then a politician but the French Revolution bursts and Caroline has to run away to escape the guillotine. By running away she meets Gaston again who decides to help her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-02-28
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Forbidden
Overview: Don Paolo, a young parson troubled by his love for Agnese, tries to make peace in a little village in Sardinia where two families are at war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-23
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Codine
Overview: An ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Bucharest. Codine is the thug who served 10 years for murdering a friend. He returns home to his miserly mother, whose penny-pinching ways infuriate her son. A young boy looks up to Codine, and through the man's eyes he sees the economic and social injustices from an adult perspective. When Codine kills another man who violated his trust, his mother becomes more unhinged and paranoid. Thinking her son will steal her hoarded money, she plots to kill her only son. The impressionable child watches in horror and amazement at the cruel machinations of the adult work that surrounds him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1963-05-15
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Crime on a Summer Morning
Overview: An ill-assorted group of international criminals executes a tightly-planned ransom sting in Spain. Things go along swimmingly until various tensions within the group come to the fore.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-02-17
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Mysteries of Paris
Overview: Paris, 1830. Fleur de Marie is rescued from poverty by the mysterious Rodolphe, who is in fact the Grand Duke of Gérolstein, who has gone incognito in search of an illegitimate child he once had. Which is not at all to the taste of Sarah Mac Gregor, her current mistress who kidnaps Fleur and has her locked up in Saint-Lazare prison.
Genres: Drama Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-09-08
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Gypsy Law
Overview: The idyllic life of a beautiful gypsy girl is shattered when she runs away from a pre-arranged marriage to a member of her tribe. Away from the safety of her people, she encounters bigotry against her kind. A little girl feels sorry for the missing gypsy beauty and searches for a magic root that can cure the wandering gypsy from her wanderlust and bring her home again. Music, dance, ancient gypsy rituals, and colorful European scenery highlight this feature which takes a decidedly jaundiced view of the racial indignities suffered by the heroine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-24
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The Affairs of Messalina
Overview: A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-12-04
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One Morning in June 1940
Overview: 18 June 1940: German troops sweep through France. The cavalry school at Saumer is ordered to withdraw, but the director resolves to stop the enemy on a 25km front with his students.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-06-29
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