Jean Pignol
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: August 29, 1924
Deathday: January 30, 1990
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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A Cop
Overview: Georges, hunted by the Germans, had taken refuge with his brother, Commissioner PJ Paris. Once released, he teams up for the sake of a girl with the lackluster Zattore. A bank is robbed, but the police is fast and Georges will either lose his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-12-03
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Pontcarral, Empire Colonel
Overview: For 15 years after Waterloo, a baron refuses to accept the defeat. He reluctantly marries one of 2 Bourbon sisters but lands up dueling with the wife's former lover. Finally he gets a chance to prove himself again in battle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-01-02
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Fièvres
Overview: Despite a perfect marriage and a superb career as a singer, Jean Dupray cheats on his wife. She dies while listening to the song he dedicated to her, "Maria". He then retired to the south where he led a life in complete anonymity. But his best friend's fiancé recognizes him and seduces him. Following a fight with his best friend, he decides to return to order by becoming a monk.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-01-21
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Rapide de nuit
Overview: Duped by a pretty woman who uses him to smuggle a suitcase containing the proceeds of a theft through the station, an honest fellow understands everything and replaces the suitcase with a similar one. The police do not understand anything, but the pretty girl promises to become honest like the one who almost was her pigeon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-09-19
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Jo la Romance
Overview: For love, the singer Georges Hyverlin gives up his profession to work with his father-in-law in his car factory. When the passion for song takes him back, he manages to resume his career thanks to the support of his wife Martine.
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-03-04
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La Bataille du feu
Overview: Activities and exploits of firefighters in the context of a village then the capital and under the bombardments of the Second World War where the saving of lives was more important than that of factories.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-04-24
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Keep an Eye on Amelia
Overview: A young woman's comfortable life with her boyfriend is disrupted when he leaves for military duty, entrusting her to a playboy friend seeking a fake marriage for inheritance. Complications arise as a prince enters the scene, pursuing her romantically.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-16
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Last Hour, Special Edition
Overview: A journalist who deals with the column "courier du cœur" has the absurd idea of launching an investigation into the death of a pianist whom he claims to have been murdered. To dazzle his wife, a reporter for the newspaper, he disguises the facts in such a way that the police suspect him, then declare him guilty. It takes a number of adventures to get him out of this mess and get him back into his section.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-30
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Jamaican Man
Overview: Jacques Mervel, also known as "L'Homme de la Jamaïque" makes use of his talents as a gun runner in Tangiers, Morocco. After triumphing over a rival gang, he decides to quit the job and to start a new life with Vicky, a pretty young nurse. In Paris, a doctor lets him know that he is affected by leprosy. In desperation, Jacques runs away from Vicky to spare her. When she realizes the reason why Jacques has disappeared from her life, she joins him with a view to helping him fight the disease.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-22
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Branquignol
Overview: In this sketch comedy compared to the American film Hellzapoppin, a spectacle is put on to celebrate the wedding of a nobleman, but the results are disastrous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-16
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A Girl on the Road
Overview: To escape his female fans, Carlos Cortez makes for the Riviera. Along the way, he picks up a hitchhiker named Annabel who invites him to go camping with her friends. Living under his real name, the incognito star wins new friends. But a theft complicates things. Fortunately, Annabel is still around and Jacques can do no better than to marry her.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-03-28
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Serenade to the Executioner
Overview: Schomberg, an enigmatic psychiatrist runs a nursing home. He is forced to close his clinic and disappear to escape the police. But he wants revenge on his wife's lover, Didier Laurent, a former RAF fighter pilot. Didier meets a young trapeze artist, Paula, with whom he falls in love. The happiness of the two young people is disturbed by the assassination of Irene, strangled by Schomberg who casts suspicion on Didier. Fortunately for them Commissioner Ulysses knows the truth and forces Schomberg to commit suicide.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-31
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Boom on Paris
Overview: In the early 1950s, the popular radio show "La Kermesse aux Étoiles", hosted by the famous Jean Nohain, mixing lottery games and performances of various artists, will be disrupted by the adventures of a man and his fiancée seeking to recover a dangerous bottle of perfume (explosive) which was unfortunately mixed with the prizes to be won ...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-02-19
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Police Judiciaire
Overview: The detectives of the Paris Judicial Police, based at the Quai des Orfèvres, are mobilized by four criminal cases. A double murder, perpetrated in a hotel on the Place de Clichy, intrigues the investigators. The owner and a little maid were murdered in cold blood.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-02-28
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L'envolée belle
Overview: Two tourists in Provence meet an old naive peasant painter who tells them the extraordinary story that happened in the village in 1890: Amédée, the teacher, succeeded in stealing.
Genres: Romance Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-23
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The Two Girls
Overview: A famous singer disappears in a plane crash. Her two little girls are given a new home by their grandfather. Unfortunately the good man has an old housekeeper who goes out of her way to make their lives impossible. In desperation the two brats run away to Paris. Meanwhile, the girl's father manages to steal important documents. In the end, Gaby and Ginette track down their mother who had not got killed at all. All is well that ends well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-04-04
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L'Ampélopède
Overview: In a village located in the central French region of Sologne, a young girl notes the negative effects of urbanization on her environment; then she imagines the appearance of the Ampélopède, a strange creature living in the woods.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-09-25
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Explosive Vacation!
Overview: Arlette thinks she has made a wonderful gift to her daughter Sylvie, who has just married François Morel, a young journalist. And, to tell the truth, not everybody receives a posh little bar like the Royal Montmartre as a gift. The trouble is that Monsieur Jo, the former owner of the joint is also the boss of a gang of drug traffickers. And that he has managed to persuade the pair of naive lovebirds to drop a painting to a friend on their way to their honeymoon place. Now the picture is stuffed with drugs! The honeymoon trip promises to be eventful...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-08-09
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Tout Va Bien
Overview: A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-04-28
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Le Cercle Rouge
Overview: When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-19
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