Émile Genest
Also Known As: Emile Genest
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Québec City, Québec, Canada
Adult: No
Birthday: July 27, 1921
Age: 103 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 19, 2003
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The Cincinnati Kid
Overview: An up-and-coming poker player tries to prove himself in a high-stakes match against a long-time master of the game.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-10-15
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The Hell with Heroes
Overview: In 1946 North Africa, two former US Air Force pilots are forced to work for an international smuggler to get money needed for their return to civilian life after fighting in World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-08-28
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Lord Durham
Overview: This short drama is a portrait of colonial administrator, Governor General and statesman Lord Durham (1792-1840). When Durham recommended self-government in Canada, he closed the door on his own political success. But in the end, the policies he declared for Canada became the pattern for self-rule in the rest of the Commonwealth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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Nikki, Wild Dog of the North
Overview: A family film about Nikki, a half-wolf, half-dog raised in the Yukon during the gold rush era. After being separated from her master, Nikki must fend for herself amidst bears, the harsh Yukon weather, and a trapper who wants her skin.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-07-12
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The Plouffe Family
Overview: The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-04-07
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Us Two
Overview: Françoise has gone into business seducing men whose wives want to divorce them, and who need incriminating evidence against them. In addition, she has a little blackmail operation going on on the side with politicians who can't afford a scandal. She got started on this business after she was raped, and hasn't looked back since. Now the police are on her trail, and she avails herself of the services of a couple who make a profession of hiding wanted criminals. At the hideout, she meets Simon, a second-generation mobster. As the police close in, Françoise and Simon go on the run together, pulling off occasional heists for operating money. Before long, they have also fallen in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-05-23
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The Art of Love
Overview: Struggling artist fakes his own death so his works will increase in value.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-30
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Kit Carson and the Mountain Men
Overview: The legendary frontiersman and hero of boyhood paperbacks joins forces with Captain John Fremont as chief scout on a secret expedition to Mexico. The disobedient Randy tries to rejoin his friends but only succeeds in putting them all in jeopardy.
Genres: Western TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-09
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Big Red
Overview: Wealthy sportsman James Haggin (Walter Pidgeon) lives on a Quebec estate called Wintapi. Émile Fornet (Émile Genest), handler of Haggin's hunting dogs, and Émile's wife Therese (Janette Bertrand), Haggin's cook and housekeeper, live in a separate house on the estate. To start a line of top show dogs, Haggin purchases the winner of the Montreal Kennel Club show, an Irish setter named Red.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-06
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The King's Pirate
Overview: Handsome British officer, Lt. Brian Fleming is sent undercover to infiltrate a lively band of pirates.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-07-20
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Don't Just Stand There
Overview: In exchange for helping writer-adventurer Lawrence Colby smuggle 300 watch parts into Paris from Switzerland, Martine Randall asks Colby to help solve a complicated situation involving her friend Sabine Manning, a well-known author of sex novels.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-09-03
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The Scorpio Letters
Overview: A spy thriller involving an American who is enlisted by British intelligence to replace one of its recently murdered agents and smash a ring of blackmailers -- James Bond style -- headed by a nefarious figure known as Scorpio.
Genres: Action Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-01
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The Incredible Journey
Overview: The story of three pets, a cat and two dogs, who lose their owners when they are all on vacation. Can they find their way home?
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-11-20
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Rampage
Overview: In colonial Malaysia, British big game-hunter Otto Abbot and American trapper Harry Stanton clash over the ethics of catching versus killing animals and over Abbot's mistress, Anna.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-09
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Dubois et fils
Overview: A health problem causes a business leader to think about what will happen to his company after his death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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In Enemy Country
Overview: Wartime secret agents are on a mission to destroy a deadly new type of torpedo, hidden in a Nazi stronghold in France.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-07-01
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Kamouraska
Overview: A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-07-18
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Istanbul Express
Overview: An art dealer on a special mission is pulled into dangerous intrigue while railway detective Cheval tries to help and pursues criminals on the Istanbul Express.
Genres: Action Adventure TV Movie Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-03-07
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Frankenstein and Me
Overview: Earl Williams is a dreamer teenager obsessed with monsters, who fantasizes his life as if he were living in the world of the monsters of Universal Studios. Although being an excellent student, his intolerant and nasty school teacher Mrs. Perdue does not like him and punishes him for any minor fault. His supportive father Les Williams is also a dreamer, who has never been successful in life. When his father dies, his mother becomes lost with two boys, and tries to change the behavior of Earl. One day, the boy finds the "true Frankenstein" lost by a Carnival, and decides to bring the monster back to life.
Genres: Fantasy Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-07-12
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