Henri Rollan
Also Known As: Анри Роллан
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: March 23, 1888
Age: 137 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 23, 1967
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Marie des angoisses
Overview: A neglected young woman comes up against the equivocal feelings of a steward.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-07-24
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Fan-Fan the Tulip
Overview: Fanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage because a gypsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as a wife. But the gypsy girl was in fact Adeline, the daughter of the recruiting officer. Once he has discovered the stratagem, Fanfan refuses to forget this dream and decides to fulfill the destiny of the fake prediction.
Genres: Romance Adventure Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-03-20
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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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Primerose
Overview: Primerose loves her childhood friend, Pierre, but this one, ruined, refuses her love. Desperate, Primerose enters the convent, but soon the order is dissolved and Pierre, who finds his young friend, finally lets his heart speak...
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-02-23
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La flambée
Overview: A commander who had devised helpful defenses for his country kills a spy who'd tried to entrap him.The officer's young wife who had been thinking of leaving him for a minister, rallies to his side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-11-16
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Le Clown Bux
Overview: Pierre Buxeuil is better known as the popular clown Bux. One day, he falls in love with Nicole, a romantic but whimsical young lady. He soon elopes her and the beautiful Nicole follows him, persuaded that she will love circus life. Unfortunately for Bux she does not and she leaves him as a result. After a few other disappointments due to false accusations, Bux finally marries a kind-hearted circus acrobat and pursues a successful career under the big top.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-03-17
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The Phantom Gondola
Overview: A femme fatale falls in love with a Venetian count, implacable enemy of Selim, who pursues his sister with his diligence. This one makes stop and condemn to death the count who made an attempt on his life. Then he offers the woman her father's salvation in exchange for her favors. A snake kills him, the count is shot and the woman finally takes the veil.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-02-07
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Sous la Terreur
Overview: During the French Revolution in 1793, a member of the Convention, seduced by the Comtesse de Beaulieu, helps her to discover the truth about the relationship between Agnès de Fitz-James and the count who was guillotined.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-22
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Femmes
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-07-09
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The Black Angels
Overview: Two brothers-in-law hate each other but, for business interests, they want their respective son and daughter to marry. The young fiancées are not in agreement, as the boy has a happy relationship with a woman, and the girl is in an isolation mood. A crime happens, and the relations amongst this sad family become even worse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-10-28
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Temptation
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-07-26
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Troubled Heart
Overview: In 1914, students living in a boarding house are disturbed by a young woman. On the eve of being called up, one of them declares his love for her. She abandons herself to someone who may not come back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-06-01
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Coup de feu dans la nuit
Overview: A woman is accused of the murder of her husband, who was jealous and brutal. Her lawyer manages to get her acquitted and they get married in the end.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-03-03
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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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Le cas du docteur Galloy
Overview: Madame Guérin, who has been suffering from cancer, benefits from a period of remission and she tries to regain health at any price. That is why she decides to consult a healer. But when her friend, also affected by cancer, is saved by an operation, she hesitates between traditional and parallel medicine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-06-20
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Bluebeard
Overview: Just before wowing international critics and moviegoers with his adventure romp Fanfan la Tulipe, director Christian-Jaque dashed off the lampoonish Barbe-Bleue. Ostensibly the story of the famed wife-killing potentate Bluebeard (Pierre Brasseur), this lighthearted costumer begins as the title character is poised to march down the matrimonial aisle for the eighth time. Barbe-Bleue's newest spouse Aline (Cécile Aubry) is kept in line by her husband's claims of murdering her predecessors. But when Aline opens the famous locked door to the equally famous hidden room, both she and the audience are in for quite a surprise. The frivolous nature of Barbe-Bleue is underlined by its pleasing utilization of the French Gezacolor process.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-09-27
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Buridan, hero of the tower of Nesle
Overview: In Paris in 1314, the knight Jean Buridan is in love with Mirtille but the young woman is already coveted by the king's brother.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-24
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Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur
Overview: Tartuffe, a hypocritical man confided in false devotion, monopolizes the confidence of Orgon, a wealthy bourgeois and undertakes to seduce his wife Elmire. Having been unmasked by the latter, he strives to precipitate the ruin of his benefactor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-07-05
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The Reign of Terror
Overview: The scene takes place in Paris in March 1793 during the Reign of Terror. The Knight of Maison-Rouge, posing as Citizen Morand, is organizing the escape of Queen Marie-Antoinette. He is assisted in his undertaking by Dixmer, a master tanner who passes himself off as an ardent revolutionary and his wife Geneviève, who also happens to be the Knight's sister. While on mission with her brother, she is saved from arrest thanks to the intervention of Lieutenant Maurice Lindey. Geneviève, who is married without love to Dixmer, falls for the young man, who requites her love. A tunnel is dug between a house rented by Dixmer and the Tower of the Temple but the various attempts to rescue the queen attempts fail. Marie-Antoinette risks the guillotine/ Moreover, Lindey finds himself involved in the plot...
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1914-02-27
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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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Mimi-Trottin
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: Drama Comedy
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1922-04-21
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Les Trois masques
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1921-01-04
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The Absentee
Overview: Dries, a farmer and a widower, lives with his mother-in-law Grietje and his son Peter. He falls in love with Minna, a widow, and marries her despite the opposition of his family and friends. In anger his son Peter leaves home to enlist, while Grietje takes up her residence in another cottage. Six years pass, during which Grietje becomes acquainted with Minna's daughter Dina. Peter falls ill in Sumatra, but after falling in love with Dina, through the medium of photographs, he recovers and is drafted home again to Holland. He meets Dina and the two find that they truly love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1913-05-02
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Les amoureux de Marianne
Overview: Gaston Duboutois and Catherine Berton love each other, and are about to play Romeo and Juliet in their small provincial town. The industrialist Duboutois is opposed to his accountant Berton, both of whom are running for parliament. Tempers flare and invective quickly escalates. In the end, Duboutois wins and Berton loses his position. Although futile and foolish, it's the excellent Mme Duboutois who brings peace to the situation, brings about reconciliation and helps the two children to unite.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-12-20
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Le cardinal d'Espagne
Overview: This play by Henry de Montherland, takes place in 1517 and depicts the Cardinal de Cisneros, an authoritarian man approaching his end, regent of the throne of Spain oscillating between his desire for power and his tendency to inaction. Thinking himself invulnerable, he awaits the arrival of young Charles on the throne, but his beliefs will be shaken.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-11-24
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The Gamblers
Overview: Adaptation of classical Russian Nikolai Gogol's comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-20
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The Adventurer
Overview: A scandalised Frenchman returns from Africa where he has been involved in illegal trading of mines (resulting in the deaths of many African miners). His bourgeois family are wary of the shame that he will bring so he must try to redeem himself and his family's name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-12-28
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: Young d'Artagnan leaves Gascony for Paris where he hopes to become a Musketeer of the Guard. He does meet three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, but totally by chance and for... a duel against them! But he soon befriends them and follows them in their adventures, notably on a secret mission to uncover a plot contrived against the Queen by Cardinal Richelieu.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-12-09
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Alone
Overview: A prominent chanteuse on a world tour meets a young fellow European in Singapore, a soldier of fortune who becomes obsessed with listening to her voice on a recording.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-02-13
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The Ironmaster
Overview: A young noblewoman is unhappy about needing to marry the village ironmaster for financial reasons, but later comes to appreciate her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-11-30
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The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
Overview: The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox.
Genres: Music Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1938-08-01
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Mysteries of Paris
Overview: Towards the end of the 19th century, the Duke of Gerolstein traveled to Paris. Sixteen years earlier he had a daughter who was taken from him by her mother who was chased out of the palace. After many dramatic adventures, the Duke finds his daughter in the person of Fleur de Marie, martyred throughout her childhood by the Owl and the schoolmaster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-10-13
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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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Port-Royal
Overview: 1661, the Assemblée du Clergé de France obliged all clergy to sign a form testifying to their submission to the decisions of the Holy See. In 1664, the Archbishop of Paris wanted to impose this decision on the nuns of Port-Royal. Among them was Sister Angélique de Saint Jean, admired by the very young Sister Françoise, who looked to her for comfort.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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Le Scandale
Overview: A woman suffers ill repute when she deserts her husband for a fling with an adventurer and gives the lover jewelry to pay the hotel bill. Will the husband be understanding and forgive her?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-02-03
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The Tomboy
Overview: The eponymous garçonne or flapper is Monique Lerbier, an emancipated French woman who leaves home to escape a marriage of convenience to a man she does not love which her parents have forced on her. She then falls into all sorts of carnal temptations and artificial pleasures previously unknown to her. These include her being seduced into a lesbian love affair by a chanteuse.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-02-21
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The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
Overview: Arsène Lupin is extremely popular among the population, because he allows the needy to share in his acquired wealth. Before entering the service of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, he removes his vault in Alsace, steals two paintings of old masters, steals valuable gems and calls out to the police prefect to avoid his arrest. But this time he risks being seriously recognized. Lupin must once again use his fine intellect to deftly escape the situation.
Genres: Crime Comedy Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-03-22
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Moonlight
Overview: While sailing on a yacht off the French Riviera a shy young man and the owner's daughter are shipwrecked on an island.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-11-14
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Petite peste
Overview: Marceline, a fearless 17-year-old girl, is expelled from her boarding school. Her adoptive parents then sent her to a stricter school.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-02-22
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La marche nuptiale
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-01-11
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