René Stern
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Matricule 33
Overview: In 1917, a French deserter entered the service of German counterintelligence, but Villard (number 33) was a real French spy. Discovered, he is saved by a German spy who betrays her country for love.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-09-29
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Cartouche
Overview: In 1721, at the end of his career as a bandit, Cartouche, touched by the grace of an honest young girl, and falling into the hands of justice under the charge of the father of his beloved, asks as a last resort, that the young girl may, before her execution, come and forgive her.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-09-28
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Le monde où l'on s'ennuie
Overview: Suzanne de Villiers, an illegitimate daughter of a noble family, has a lot of difficulty getting the people of the "high" to accept her feelings for her tutor, the Viscount of Ceran...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-01-18
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The Great Temptation
Overview: The son of a naval commander faces his first heartbreak when he falls for the young American woman who is destined to become his father's new wife.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-01-02
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I Accuse
Overview: After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in scientific research, seeking a machine to prevent war. He thinks he has succeeded, but the government subverts his discovery, and Europe slides with seeming inevitability toward World War II. In desperation, Diaz summons the ghosts of the war dead from the graves and fields of France to give silent, accusing protest.
Genres: War Drama Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-23
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Un meurtre a été commis
Overview: Inspector Doirel investigates the murder of a man whose servant was found tied up. He discovers very quickly that the servant has lied. The latter ends up denouncing his accomplice who is arrested when he was going to kill the informer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-13
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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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Comedy of Happiness
Overview: Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him committed to a mental hospital. But Jourdain manages to escape and decides to make everybody happy except... his heirs!
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-12-23
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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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Patricia
Overview: Mademoiselle Bressac is a bossy spinster who manages "Le Clos", her estate, with an iron hand. But is she really a bad person? Her manners are abrupt but they only hide a heart of gold. Doesn't she bring up four orphans, Dominique, Fabien, Chantal and Jean? And as if it were not enough, she has accepted to educate another child, her niece Patricia, entrusted to her care by her irresponsible father. Thanks to her, the five young people have grown up in harmony and now they are about to find their place in society. Two of them, Jean and Patricia, who love each other, live only for the estate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-10-27
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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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Adieu Léonard
Overview: A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the village idiot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-09-01
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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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Secrets of a Ballerina
Overview: In 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme discover within it the secret of a passionate love affaire that once took a macabre and sadly turn. it all began 50 years previously, when the wealthy landowner Gérard de Clergue fell madly in love with the beautiful young dancer Clara Biondi. In the course of the ensuing romance, Gérard remains blissfully ignorant of the fact that Clara had a previous lover, James de Poulay...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-11-25
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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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Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent
Overview: France under Louis XIII. 1615. The Duke of Angoulême is at the head of a group of gentlemen who are conspiring to drive the Florentines out of court, of whom Concini is the all-powerful leader. A cadet from Gascony, Adhémar de Capestang, who was later to become the Capitan, left his native province to come and try his luck in Paris. Along the way, he saves a young girl, Gisèle d'Angoulême, from a masked individual who wanted to kidnap her.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-03-27
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One Does Not Die That Way
Overview: In the studio where the famous director Eric Von Berg reigns, Pierre Vanier, the male star of the film and the lover of Berg's muse, dies while rehearsing a scene. Over the course of a tangled investigation, the culprit is unmasked. This honest dresser is the adoptive mother of Vanier's wife, too unhappy with such a husband. The inspector, moved, concludes a suicide.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-07-03
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Femme sans passé
Overview: Caroline feels neglected by her husband, the businessman Lorin. She plans to have fun with an inventor but finds herself, following a combination of circumstances, locked up in a psychiatric clinic. To get out of it, she is forced to take on the identity of the wife of a third man, whom she resembles.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-08-27
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Monsieur Vincent
Overview: The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-11-05
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Mandrin (1ère époque) Le libérateur
Overview: Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear and without reproach, puts himself out of the law by refusing to obey the local nobility. The public authorities are tearing their hair out because the man is elusive. Helped by his faithful friends and by two women in love, Mandrin will become a legend.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-11-15
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Mademoiselle Has Fun
Overview: Christine, the daughter of a rich American, acquires from her father the jazz band of Ray Ventura who will be made responsible for accompanying her from morning till evening wherever she goes. From an endless number of amusing situations, the fiancée of the girl despairs. But soon the musicians rebel in in the face of the requirements of their patroness. More than a job, it is for them misery. Christine excuses them and she goes back to America with her band. Things go bad, degenerate, but the kindness of the musicians and the firmness of the fiancée of Christine really quiet down the moods of the young woman .
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-01-30
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Five Red Tulips
Overview: During the Tour de France, five riders are found murdered with a red tulip near their bodies. A journalist and a police inspector lead the investigation to unmask the murderer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-03-23
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Du Guesclin
Overview: A chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th century.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-03
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L'Homme aux mains d'argile
Overview: The fictionalized life, and interpreted by himself, of the popular boxing champion Marcel Cerdan. Training sessions, matches, victories, flight to the U.S.A. where the title of world champion is disputed, form the whole subject of the film.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-03
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Rendezvous in July
Overview: Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-06
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The Ferret
Overview: A mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping them off about murders that are to be committed around Paris. Among those caught up in the police manhunt is a fraudulent clairvoyant.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-02-10
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Schubert's Serenade
Overview: Serenade represented the return to the screen of international favorite Lillian Harvey after an absence of two years. Based loosely on the life of composer Franz Schubert, the film casts Bernard Lancret as Schubert, Harvey as his dancer sweetheart, and Louis Jouvet as a possessive Baron who has his own designs on our heroine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-02-28
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Gaby Estrella: O Filme
Overview: When a new teen idol knocks Gaby off the pop charts, she decides to return to her country hometown where adventure, love and music await.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2018-01-18
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Sleeping Princess
Overview: A sheltered teenager discovers she's actually a princess from another country — and she could be in grave danger. Based on Paula Pimenta's novel.
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2024-08-15
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Liliom
Overview: Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a rascal who's a carousel barker, loved by the experienced merry-go-round owner and by a young, innocent maid. The maid, Julie, loses her job after going out with Liliom; he's fired by his jealous employer for going out with Julie. The two lovers move in with Julie's aunt; unemployment emasculates him and a local weasel tempts him with crime. Julie, now wan, is true to Liliom even in his bad temper. Meanwhile, a stolid widower, a carpenter, wants to marry Julie. Is there any future on this earth for Julie and Liliom, whose love is passionate rather than ideal?
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-05-15
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Michel Strogoff
Overview: The Czar charges a man to deliver a message to the Grand Duke behind enemy lines. On his way he encounters a number of adventures.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-03-10
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Not Any Weekend for Our Love
Overview: The announcement of the future marriage of Franck Reno, the star singer, causes considerable excitement around the world.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-01-23
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Antoine & Antoinette
Overview: 1947, in France, Antoine and Antoinette, a young couple living in Paris, lead a monotonous existence: he works in a print shop while she is a shop assistant. But one evening, they regain hope: Antoine finds a winning lottery ticket in his girlfriend's handbag. He decides to cash it in, but loses his wallet. What follows is a series of twists and turns that redefine the couple's priorities while forcing them to remain optimistic.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-09-27
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Mandrin (2ème époque) La Tragédie d'un siècle
Overview: Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear and without reproach, puts himself out of the law by refusing to obey the local nobility. The public authorities are tearing their hair out because the man is elusive. Helped by his faithful friends and by two women in love, Mandrin will become a legend.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-04-07
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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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