Albert Préjean
Also Known As: Альбер Прежан
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Albert Préjean (27 October 1894, Paris – 1 November 1979, Paris) was a French actor, primarily in film. He served in World War I, and was decorated with the Croix de Guerre and the Legion d'honneur. With Lysiane Rey, he was the father of Patrick Préjean, and grandfather of Laura Préjean. Description above from the Wikipedia article Albert Préjean , licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pantin, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France
Adult: No
Birthday: October 27, 1894
Age: 130 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: November 01, 1979
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Theodore and Company
Overview: Chénérol, a wealthy merchant, one day discovers that his wife is having an affair and that his nephew is playing with him. Indeed, the latter, Théodore, does not work but earns money by using a few dirty tricks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-04-01
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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 Slump Is Over
Overview: A provincial tour fails without money in an abandoned theater in the capital and puts on a review under the sign of optimism.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-10-05
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Shop Girls of Paris
Overview: The struggles of a small business owner come to light in this film by director André Cayatte. The proprietor of a fabric shop, M. Baudu faces stiff competition when a department store moves in across the street, the first of its kind in 1860s Paris. On top of the stresses associated with the rival retailer, Baudu’s niece and two nephews take up residence with him after recently being orphaned. The niece, Denise Baudu, sees the writing on the wall for her uncle’s business so she takes a job as a shop girl with his competitor and despite her success the decision does not register well with the family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-07-20
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The Crazy Ray
Overview: A night watchman on the Eiffel Tower wakes up to find the entire population of the city frozen in place.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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Alibi
Overview: Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool Callas, the police officer who investigates the murder. He hires one of his fellow officers in order to seduce Helene.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-12-22
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The Imaginary Voyage
Overview: In a strange bank, a young clerk, in love with a typist, gets asleep after a minor incident. His dream sarries him into the retirement house of old fairies, that he will manage to help to grow younger. He then lands on the towers of Notre-Dame, and into the Musée Grévin, where a revolutionary court is in the process of judging the lovers, one of them soon being changed into a dog. But it was just a dream, and the journey ends up well...
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-04-30
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A Son from America
Overview: An unemployed youth pretends to be the long lost son of an elderly industrialist but after helping the man with his business decides to confess his dishonesty and go away.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-05-30
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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 Joker
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-11-14
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Le Secret d'une nuit
Overview: A very nice young man, Sylvain Renaud is "surrounded" by two bad guys who want to drag him into some very dirty business.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-10-05
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L'Auberge du Petit-Dragon
Overview: Two horsemen are inseparable. One is smart and the other clumsy. A young girl is engaged to the clumsy but she falls in love with the smart one.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-12-14
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L'Or dans la rue
Overview: A young man is involved in a swindle to produce synthetic gold, but fortunately when the fakery is uncovered he still has his girlfriend and a ticket to America.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-12-28
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Paris-Camargue
Overview: In the Camargue, the rich owner Jules Fabregoul squanders all his fortune to please his mistress, a Parisian actress with luxury tastes. But he is not the only one to be in trouble. His niece is having sentimental problems: she thinks she is being cheated on by her fiance Gérard, a music-hall artist. She takes refuge with Jules's sister, Aunt Fabregoul, the director of a home for repentant young girls. But Gérard did not make a mistake and the reconciliation takes place during the recording of a radio program.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-09-06
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Moïse et Salomon parfumeurs
Overview: Brothers Moïse and Salomon run a modest bazaar near the Butte Montmartre, under the sign of "everything for nothing". There are office items, perfumes and leather goods. Their niece, the beautiful Lia, twenty years old, a graduate in synthetic chemistry, lives under their roof. She is less close to her pennies than the old grigous, and willingly visits the store "Aux femmes françaises", administered by the very Christian Valois family, where she hopes to place products. of its creation; perfumes, make-up and ointments of all kinds.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-13
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Lune de miel
Overview: Freshly married, Yvonne and Jacques discover on their return from their honeymoon that they are poor and that their respective parents have lied to them. They are going to have to work hard; but everything will work out eventually.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-13
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The Spanking
Overview: A husband, exasperated by his wife, spanks her without paying attention to the open window in front of which he is. He is annoyingly surprised to discover the next day that the scene has been photographed by a neighbor, and that the image is circulating in Paris. A debate then ensues: is this an opportunity to call for revolt or a welcome manifestation of marital authority?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-11-10
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Under the Roofs of Paris
Overview: In the tenement slums of Paris between the world wars, impoverished street singer Albert yearns for beautiful Romanian immigrant Pola. Pola's boyfriend, local hoodlum Fred, grows jealous of Albert's constant attention to his woman and frames the hapless musician for one of his own petty crimes. But while Albert is in prison for Fred's misdeed, Pola ends up falling for Albert's faithful best friend, Louis.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-04-28
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Street Without Joy
Overview: Jeanne supports supports his family on his modest salary. Her boss is arrested for fraud. Jeanne is forced, out of poverty, in the street.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-13
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La Vie des artistes
Overview: Everything you wanted to know about your favorite circus, radio and movie stars. They tell you about their lives and likes and dislikes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-09-07
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Place de la Concorde
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-01-07
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The Woman of Monte Carlo
Overview: An adventuress serves as bait for a swindler, who robs the naive people she brings to him with poker. A childhood friend helps him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-07-28
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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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Strange Suzy
Overview: To prevent her husband from starting a divorce procedure, a wife simulates madness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-08-29
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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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La Justicière
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-09-18
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Le Bouif errant
Overview: Bicard nicknamed Le Bouif earns 1,000 francs for lending his body to the experiments conducted by Professor Caligari. Further adventures await him when he encounters Ladislas, a young reveler, who happens to be the crown prince of Corinthia. This one, who favors living it up over his royal duty, commissions Bicard to replace him on the throne.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-12-24
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Jenny
Overview: When her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Danielle leaves London and returns to her mother, Jenny, in Paris. With her business partner Benoît, Jenny runs what appears to be a respectable nightclub – it is in fact a place where wealthy men can buy the favours of attractive young women. Oblivious to her mother's professional and personal life, Danielle meets a handsome young man named Lucien, and falls in love with him – not realising that he is Jenny's lover...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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L'Homme de la nuit
Overview: A detective uncovers a crime. The suspects are numerous and it will take all the insight of a journalist to discover the culprit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-08-06
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Le Secret du Florida
Overview: Three friends vacationing on the French Riviera open a bar on a yacht and are mistaken by the police for drug traffickers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-03-06
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La Grande Volière
Overview: A young pilot, Martin, applies for the Ecole Militaire de Salon. He is accused of having caused the accident of one of his bosses, his career is then threatened.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-05-23
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Les Nouveaux Maîtres
Overview: Durand, a big industrialist, works with an international adventurer, Mr. Ernest, who covets Mrs. Durand and threatens to bankrupt her husband if she does not consent. She calls him a jerk. Mr. Ernest sets out to ruin the Durands, and leaves in the castle that they must sell their couple of servants, Victor and Marie, who become the new masters, at the same time as they serve as a screen for Ernest for his dubious business.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-05-10
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Piège à hommes
Overview: A gangster, arrested by the police, manages to escape during his transfer to Paris. He takes refuge in the suburbs where his accomplices and his mistress await him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-02-02
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Love and Desire
Overview: A French crew is working on location in Spain. But when they want to film a scene in which Gérardn the male star is supposed to be swimming across a river, the matinée idol proves water-shy and the director decides to double him. The one that replaces him is Antonio, a local fisherman. The latter does the job so well that he is chosen as a stunts man for the whole film. This does not please Lola,his fiancée; all the more as Antonio has fallen in love with Martine, the female star.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-10-09
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The Threepenny Opera
Overview: The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version.
Genres: Music Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-06-08
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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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Picpus
Overview: Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed. Maigret tries to find the killer.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-02-12
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The New Gentlemen
Overview: The plot focuses on Gaillac (Albert Prejean), an electrician employed by the Paris Opera. In love with gorgeous ballerina Suzanne (Gaby Morlay), Gaillac must play second fiddle to Suzanne's wealthy "protector," powerful politician Count Montoire (Henry Roussell). When the Opera personnel go on strike, Gaillac is appointed leader of the strikers, doing his job so well that he is ultimately elected Secretary of Labor in the French cabinet. Now on equal footing with Montoire, Gaillac is at last a "worthy" suitor for Suzanne -- who can't make up her mind between her two well-connected admirers, leading to a political rivalry the likes of which Paris has never seen. This harmless political satire ended up being banned by the French government for undermining "the dignity of Parliament and its ministers". (moviefone.com)
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-11-20
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The Phantom of the Moulin-Rouge
Overview: A young man, unsuccessful in love, manages to leave his body and tours Paris, disembodied and invisible, playing practical jokes: a row of coats walks off from a hotel cloakroom; an unattended taxi drives itself away; a row of top hats appears on the pavement.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-03-13
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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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The Italian Straw Hat
Overview: On the day of Fadinard's wedding, his horse eats a lady's hat on a bush at the roadside, while the lady is hidden behind the bush with her lover Lieutenant Tavernier. Because she is married, she cannot return home hatless without being compromised, and Tavernier orders Fadinard to replace the hat with one exactly like it - or else he will wreck his new home. In an elaborate sequence of complications, Fadinard tries to find a hat while keeping to his marriage schedule
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-01-13
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Life of Pleasure
Overview: An aristocrat instigates divorce proceedings against his son-in-law, a commoner and the ex-owner of night club "La Vie de Plaisir".
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-05-16
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Bombs on Monte Carlo
Overview: In Monte Carlo, a captain tries to raise the money to pay his crew at the gaming table, and meets and falls in love with a Queen.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-03-11
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Vingt ans après
Overview: Charming Mimi-Trottin is in love with typographer Louis Chausson, nicknamed Godasse. She meets Doudou, actually a Vicomte, estranged with his parents who are rich automobile manufacturers. Godasse abandons Mimi because of his professional ambitions and Doudou rescues her from a suicide. After making peace with his parents, the young man has Mimi hired as a typist at the factory. After winning a race with one of his father's car, he soon wins the heart and the hand of Mimi.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1922-12-22
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S. S. Tenacity
Overview: Bastien and Ségard decide to leave France for Canada. They buy tickets aboard a rickety craft, the Tenacity, that never quite seems able to leave port. While stuck there they both fall for the innkeeper's daughter, which causes them to rethink their Canadian notions.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-04-01
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Princess Tam Tam
Overview: A French novelist passes off an African shepherdess as a princess.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-11-02
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What a Funny Kid!
Overview: Lucie turns the house of chic dandy Gaston upside down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-05-17
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Casse-cou, mademoiselle!
Overview: Working for a stock-car team, Robert dreams of becoming a racing driver himself. For a long time this is only a pipe dream until one day fortune smiles on him when he saves the life of a young woman. Gisèle, the young lady in question, happens to be the daughter of a car manufacturer. Robert and Gisèle fall for each other and decide to marry. They get on quite well except on one point: Gisèle does not want her husband to take part in car races. But passion is the strongest and, breaking the ban, Gilbert wins the La Baule car event. Overcoming her aversion, Gisèle finally allows her husband to pursue his brilliant career.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-03-01
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Chéri-Bibi
Overview: Chéri-Bibi is an ex-convict who undergoes plastic surgery in order to resemble his rival for the hand of Cecily. Once he emerges from the bandages, Cheri-Bibi is plunged into a series of melodramatic misadventures.
Genres: Drama Adventure Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-06-07
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The Murderer Is Not Guilty
Overview: In a film studio, several actors are the victims of attempted murders. Julien Brisseau, a writer, decides to use these facts as the backbone of his new novel. But while he is working on his detective story, young actors are actually killed. Julien thence gets suspected by police inspector Vétillard. To clear his name, Julien undertakes to investigate and find the killer on his own.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-07-29
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Métropolitain
Overview: A woman managed to leave the man she hated and finds its difficult to live without him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-02-08
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Paris Music Hall
Overview: The publicist Henri Michelin is looking for a new star for the review of Eden, a music hall led by Bendix.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-07-31
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The Chess Player
Overview: In 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame leads it to the court of the Russian empress.
Genres: Fantasy Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-05-17
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Volga in Flames
Overview: Lieutenant Orloff, a recently graduated Russian officier, is making his way across the snow-covered steppes to the garrison where he is to be stationed. He comes across a man who has lost his way in the blizzard and takes him to the safety of an inn. Arriving at the garrison, Orloff meets and falls immediately in love with Macha, the daughter of his commander. The town is suddenly attacked by a hoard of bandits who claims to be the true Tsar of Russia.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-02-09
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Angels Are Amongst Us
Overview: Doctor Rougel is so absorbed in his work that he neglects his wife Nadine, who is subjected to the advances of Gérard Bérault, an admirer. A series of unfortunate events leads the doctor to doubt the fidelity of his wife, and he shamelessly throws her out. Michèle, the Rougels' little daughter, sick from despair, will eventually reunite her estranged parents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-04-04
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Whims
Overview: Caprices tells the story of two young rich people. A famous actress poses as a poor florist, and a distinguished society man camouflages himself as forger and swindler. This game leads them to make close relations in a series of adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-02-16
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The Blue Ones of the Sky
Overview: An obscure mechanic falls in love with a an champion pilot.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-11-24
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Amour et carburateur
Overview: Alcide Darbois, a small-time garage owner, and his sister Ursule come into a fabulous inheritance and become powerful industrialists. The cars they make a re very successful on the French market. Now a bit of a snob, Alcide decides to marry his daughter Suzanne to Marquis Gaëtan de la Michodière, but the young lady is actually in love with Bégonia, her father's chief worker. A car racing event will resolve the situation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1925-10-09
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Une histoire pétillante
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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Toto
Overview: Escaping from a policeman who has caught h.im with a stolen dog, Toto (Albert Préjean), a petty crook, hides in the apartment of a typist, Ginette (Renée Saint-Cyr). The two quickly fall in love, and after a brief incarceration, Toto returns to her and schemes to have her win a beauty contest.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-09-21
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Inspector of the Red Cars
Overview: Bernard, Sleeper Coach conductor and automobile inventor, is confused to be the racing car company president, and falls in love with a countess, who is actually a slogan prize winner chorine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-02-16
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Dédé la musique
Overview: Dédé de Montmartre, former king of the accordion, has become a bad boy who lives off drug trafficking and prostitution. He sets his sights on a young girl, fresh and naive, Odette, saleswoman at Galeries Lafayette. But he is touched by the charm of this midinette.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-03-11
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Adorables démons
Overview: Annibal Onnis, a good man and major laundry manufacturer, has his wife's necklace stolen by a young starlet, Regina Rex, who has tried to seduce him. He hires two private detectives, Willis Sr. the father, and Willis Jr. the son, to track down the young woman. Tracking her down in La Baule at a beauty contest, Willis Jr. falls in love with Liliane, known as Régina Rex, and sets out to clear her name, convinced as he is of her innocence. After several comic twists and turns (including the temporary loss of the necklace), we learn that the starlet was hired by Mrs. Onnis to have her husband caught in the act of infidelity, a contract between the spouses stipulating that the unfaithful member of the household would pay 100 million francs to the other. Willis's dedication enables Annibal to catch his wife in the act. The Onnis are happily reunited, and Liliane and Willis Jr. look to the future with a smile.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-06-04
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Ils sont dans les vignes...
Overview: In 1935, in the Burgundian village of Valromey, Commissioner Desbordes was the very unpopular leader of the anti-alcoholic league. His own brother, Pimpin, is an unconditional defender of the vineyard. Pierre Moreau is, for his part, the representative of a hygienic drink, the "Koku-Kolu". The cafe owner's daughter, Rose, will find the man very to her liking and will manage to seduce him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-31
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: A 14-episode silent adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1921-10-13
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Madame Has an Exit
Overview: When the husband of a rich lady is unfaithful, she takes a job as a chambermaid to a less prominent man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-12-14
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Cristobal's Gold
Overview: Dupuy, the first officer of the Cristobal, a French merchant ship, is informed by cabaret dancer La Rubia that the Cristobal carries a priceless secret cargo of gold. Based on the novel by Albert t'Serstevens.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-04-22
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The Italian Straw Hat
Overview: On the day of Fadinard's wedding, his horse eats a lady's hat on a bush at the roadside, while the lady is hidden behind the bush with her lover Lieutenant Tavernier. Because she is married, she cannot return home hatless without being compromised, and Tavernier orders Fadinard to replace the hat with one exactly like it - or else he will wreck his new home. In an elaborate sequence of complications, Fadinard tries to find a hat while keeping to his marriage schedule
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-01-13
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Dragnet Night
Overview: A sailor, who meets a lovely music hall singer during a police raid, falls in love. In a contest at a fair, he defeats a former boxing champ. The ex-champ trains the sailor to become a boxer. After he wins the French championship, the sailor is swayed by easy money and a sultry coquette. The singer goes on a singing tour, and the sailor falls into decadence. He enters the European championship spiritually empty and in bad condition.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-07-09
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Good Luck, Charlie
Overview: Charlie Pattison, a wealthy American, lands at Athens airport, where he has just received an emergency phone call from his friend Maurice. The two men met in prison camps and have vowed to track down a certain Nazi doctor, Hermann Geiss, a connoisseur of masterpieces who is guilty of criminal experiments on prisoners. But Maurice doesn't show up. As soon as he arrives, Charlie investigates his friend's disappearance. He ends up meeting a painting dealer, Cardin, whose client Geiss is said to have been.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-07-11
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Dédé
Overview: Dédé is a young wealthy man who buys a shoe store, owned by his friend Robert, in order to receive more conveniently his mistress. Everything seems fine and Dédé seems to be enjoying all of this. But the man barely knew that he would fall in love with one of the many pretty vendors of his new "acquisition", favoring this new girl over the previous one.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-12-20
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À rebrousse-poil
Overview: Two scientists have invented a kindness serum which can turn the fiercest human being into the sweetest kindest person. Testing the product on a wild lion proves successful. The "vaccination " becomes compulsory in the whole France, then in Europa. Mrs Durand ,who was a sour-tempered shrew, becomes tender and pampers her husband, happy as he has never been. The bossy colonel of the fourth floor surrounds his neighbors with attentions .But new problems appear, caused by this universal goodness:for instance, Mr Durand's boss's lover does not want to tell him she does not love him anymore for fear he may be grieved.Besides, a country in which people were not inoculated against nastiness becomes aggressive.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-02-08
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Miracle of the Wolves
Overview: King Louis XI tries to unify France by all means fair or foul, which does not please his powerful rival Charles the Bold. It is against this troubled backdrop that the loves of the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois and the king's god-daughter Jeanne Fouquet and knight Robert Cottereau unfurl in spite of all the obstacles in their way. One of these being a pack of hungry wolves trying to stop Jeanne from carrying out an important mission assigned to her by the king himself.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-11-13
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Neuf de trèfle
Overview: Miche Doulin is a wife who like to spend. Her husband Henri, who is a diplomat and worried about several large bills, wins an unexpected gain at play. He hides his luck and invents an incredible burglary. His wife to repay the imaginary theft will commit a big imprudence, when she learns the truth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-05
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Caprice de princesse
Overview: Princess Isabelle is in love with the young man in charge of her library. But André is looking for a simple woman without money. He falls in love with a shopgirl who could be the Princess' sister. It's up to Isabelle come up with a scheme to find love...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Jim Bougne, boxeur
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-06-15
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A Missionary
Overview: Dreaming of heroic deeds, a young missionary soon becomes disillusioned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-02
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Amourous Adventure
Overview: When the husband of a rich lady is unfaithful, she plays the role of a chambermaid to a less prominent man.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-01-15
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Sailor's Song
Overview: Georget is a happy-go-luck seafarer who'd rather sing than work -- or be faithful to his wife. Together with his sailor pal Marius, they decide to cheat on their spouses by frequenting the dives and joints in every town where their ship drops anchor. The boys are certain, however, that their wives would never behave in a similar fashion. Upon returning home, of course, they discover that their better halves are just as sexually irresponsible as their hubbies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-01-14
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Le circuit de minuit
Overview: This is the the sad story of a car manufacturer, short of the readies, who asks his wife for money (for she owns the fortune). She refuses for her dad bankrupted himself and she would not be able to stand poverty again. He contemplates suicide but someone comes to his rescue and there's still hope: they can win the "Circuit De Minuit", a motor race. Besides, there's a another woman who cares for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-11-13
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Pour le maillot jaune
Overview: The romantic relationship between a sports journalist and a cyclist during the Tour de France.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-10-23
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Honeymoon Trip
Overview: The new bride of a young Viennese is so demanding about her career that she lets him go on the honeymoon solo so she can do an engagement.Left on his own,he finds an unpretentious young lady who suits him better.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-01-06
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The Bouquinquant Brothers
Overview: A provincial, Julie Moret, is hired as a servant in a Parisian bourgeois residence. She is courted by one of the Bouquinquant brothers, Léon, who does not take long to ask her to marry him. Alas, Léon turns out to be violent, alcoholic and lazy. Faced with her misfortune, Julie gets closer to her brother-in-law Pierre, the opposite of Léon, serious and hardworking, and they become lovers. The drama will rush when Julie becomes pregnant with Pierre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-01-11
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The Idol
Overview: A young woodcutter turned into a boxer, learns the sad fact that some of his triumphs have been stage managed, and confronts his nasty manager.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-02-13
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The Southern Trail
Overview: As Hélène is conveying her husband's body across the Sahara, her convoy is attacked by looters. The young widow survives only to be taken to a remote desert village called Tirzit amidst a band of lonely, ailing men. She meets her husband's partner who tries to kill her. Hélène does not report him to the police but is curious to learn the reasons for his action. Before dying of a terrible fever, the man confesses that he murdered her husband.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-09-07
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Education of a Prince
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-08-15
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In Venice, One Night
Overview: Mortal is ready to do anything to obtain a divorce from his wife Nadia. To compromise her, he needs to find her a lover. He thinks he has found the ideal candidate in the person of a manly private detective by the name of Robert Arnaud. But the experience gets out of Mortal's control as, on the one hand, Robert and Nadia fall in love for good, and, on the other hand, Robert, assisted by resourceful young Toto, manages to expose Mortal as the jewel thief he is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-11-19
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Verdun: Visions of History
Overview: A dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and German soldiers, shot on site of the actual battle.
Genres: War Drama Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-11-08
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Bad Boy
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-02-09
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L'Affaire de la rue de Lourcine
Overview: Back from an alcohol-fueled evening, two former high school friends wake up and find they may have murdered a female coal-dealer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-10-23
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Gonzague
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-01-23
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Lovers' Net
Overview: Daniel Gelin plays a soldier who is acquitted after committing a crime of passion. Relocating to Lisbon, and still feeling remorse over his impulsive killing of his faithless wife, Gelin manages to find love in the form of gorgeous widow Francoise Arnoul. Alas, it turns out that Arnoul has a sordid past of her own, leaving our hero sadder but wiser.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-01-18
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