Jean Lanier
Also Known As: J. Lanier, Jean Lannier, Jean Le Boulaire
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint-Ouen, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Adult: No
Birthday: August 02, 1913
Age: 111 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 09, 1999
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The Soft Skin
Overview: Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He starts a love affair with air hostess Nicole, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stay away from her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-04-20
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The Big Flag
Overview: For Naval officers duty comes first. Navy Lieutenant Favrel is one of these men. He has promised his wife Simone to stay with her all the time but a last mission aboard a training cruiser makes him realize that his life is tied to the sea. For his part, Navy cadet Pierre Hardouin understands that sailing is his vocation. The prospect of staying home alone while Pierre is on mission, frightens Madeleine, the girl of his heart. But the young woman ends up accepting the ordeal and marrying Pierre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-06-21
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The Ideal Couple
Overview: Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love with Diavalo. Diavalo is forced to wear a series of disguises to elude the police so he can attend a Gala for the President.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-05-31
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Hi-Jack Highway
Overview: A trucker encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death, and his new truck is impounded. To make matters worse, the man's widow accuses him of having robbed her husband, and a gang of sinister crooks are also harassing him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-10-18
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Alert Nights
Overview: Hélène, a young waitress working in a bar frequented by German soldiers, saves the life of Pierre, a Resistance fighter. Her jealous lover has her arrested first and then released. Later on, Hélène is wounded while walking in the streets. Pierre has her transported to friends with the hope of taking her to London with him. Unfortunately, owing to lack of space in the plane, Pierre has to fly alone. Hélène has to wait several weeks before being able to board a new plane. When the day comes at last, the Germans are waiting for the plane on the clandestine airfield.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-09-25
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L'entourloupe
Overview: Two little criminals without major, dream of adventure and easy life. They agree to go to work in the Poitou as representatives of musical encyclopedias luxury. But their friend Valerie arrive from Paris and just changes their life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-04-09
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Une Belle Garce
Overview: During a crossing, Professor Rabas, a famous tamer, meets a certain Raymonde whom he brings back with him to his circus. The presence of the young woman leads to disagreement between Rabas and his younger brother, Léo; she suggests to the latter to enter the cage of the untamed lions, where he is injured. Rabas and Leo understood the lesson; Raymonde is hunted like an evil beast, and calm returns to the circus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-11-21
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Secret Document: Vienna
Overview: During the Great War, in Austria, an officer was shot on the orders of his superior von Pennwitz. Out of revenge, his widow becomes a spy in the pay of France, preoccupied with removing the person responsible for her husband's death. In charge of a mission to von Pennwitz, she suddenly finds herself face to face with her husband, who is still alive. It was a ruse of war to deceive the enemy. It is only at the armistice that the couple will be able to live in peace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-08-08
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The Dream Vagabonds
Overview: The Dombreval troupe is the last vestige of an outdated form of entertainment: the traveling theatre. Mireille is the director, strong, courageous, but overwhelmed by the hardships and financial difficulties. Full of dignity, she refuses negotiations and compromises, confronting all with determination. The end is however near, Mireille is aware of it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-08-05
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Ève et le serpent
Overview: Georges, a medical student, falls in love with Louisette, his pretty neighbor, and gets engaged to her. They are as happy as Adam and Eve in the Garden of Eden. One small hitch is that Georges' father has serious money troubles and cannot support his son anymore. But what does it matter? Georges and Louisette just have to find work. The latter is hired by a rich tenant of the apartment building she lives in with her fiancé. Another hitch lies in the fact that Monsieur Grompat, her employer is a bit like the serpent in the Book of Genesis : he only aims to tempt her and to seduce her out of the arms of Georges. But Louisette is not Eve and she manages to emerge unscathed from the adventure. She will live happily with the man of her heart for the rest of her days.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-08
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Rayés des vivants
Overview: With the help of a social worker and Isabelle, Pierre, a delinquent influenced by Marcelle, undertakes a slow and difficult reintegration.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-24
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The Drunkard
Overview: Unfairly accused of her husband's murder, a woman is imprisoned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-02-27
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My New Partner
Overview: A streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt him...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-09-19
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The Twist
Overview: Claire de La Tour Picquet shares her life between her husband, the successful novelist William Brandeis, and her lover, Jacques Lalouet, William's publisher. Then she discovers that her lover has a mistress, Charlie, who is also that of her husband...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-06-23
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Provincial Chronicle
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Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-11-05
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Dr. Schweitzer
Overview: In 1912, the Alsatian Albert Schweitzer, missionary doctor and musician, goes to Gabon, a French colony, to fight malaria, which is ravaging the population. Administrator Leblanc takes a dim view of his arrival. But Albert can count on the devoted Marie Winter and Father Charles to assist him in his task.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-11-14
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The Toy
Overview: When Francois, a journalist, tours a big store for an article, he is chosen by the son of the newspaper's owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy. Needing money and unwilling to quit his job, Francois agrees to this ridiculous assignment. Gradually befriending the spoiled boy, he induces him to play at making a newspaper, unveiling publicly the tyrannical way of life of the father. The powerful emotional climax we experience with the child astonishes both men.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-12-08
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Quatrevingt-treize
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-29
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La cage aux souris
Overview: During the Occupation, a boarding school in Moulins was placed under the rule of a headmistress committed to collaboration. It is within these walls that Michel, Arthur and Franck, escaped prisoners seeking to cross the demarcation line, find themselves stranded. Three boarders, Manouche, Jo and La Tigresse, discreetly devote themselves to them. Until the day when, aware of the danger, they alert the Resistance through the intermediary of a warden. The three men cross into the free zone, and Michel promises to find Manouche.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-10-11
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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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Doctor Justice
Overview: Based on the title character, a World Health Organisation (WHO) doctor and martial arts expert who fights bad guys, created in 1970 by scriptwriter Jean Ollivier and artist Carlo Marcello for "Pif Gadget", a weekly kids' comic book magazine in France.
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-17
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Marie of the Isles
Overview: In 1635, Jacques du Parquet, the nephew of the well known explorer Belain d'Esnambic, enters a tavern in Dieppe, and falls in love with the daughter of the bartender, Marie Bonnard. He knows his noble family would disapprove such a marriage; besides, he is nominated for the post of governor in Martinica. He promised never to forget Marie, but as time goes by, she will accept to marry a rich and unscrupulous man, Monsieur de Saint-André. When her husband is appointed to serve in Martinica as General Commissioner, Marie demands to go with him. At her arrival, all sorts of trouble arrive: pirates take action against travelers and goods, rotten deals set the two officers against each other, and finally jealousy settles to make things worse. ~ Written by Artemis-9
Genres: Romance Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-01-15
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Women's Prison
Overview: Alice Rémon, a pharmacist, is a prostitute who managed to leave the streets by getting married. Her husband dies one day, poisoned. Her mother-in-law, who hates her, accuses her of murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-07-15
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The Wages of Sin
Overview: Bourgeois melodrama about the family of a wealthy businessman in La Rochelle, who dismisses the marriage of his only daughter with a journalist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-04-20
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The Sleeping Sentinel
Overview: In 1812, Napoleon I set off for the Russian Campaign and planned to spend a night in Châlons-sur-Marne. However, as the police were aware of a planned assassination attempt, the place of accommodation was changed at the last minute, and the house of Doctor Mathieu was requisitioned. But Doctor Mathieu was an opponent of the Emperor who had allied himself with the instigators of the attack. They decided to plant their bomb in the doctor's home, leaving his family in danger.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-01-21
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Font-aux-Cabres
Overview: Font-aux-cabres is the name of an Andalusian village, benefiting the Commander of the Order of Calatrava, who supports Juana Beltraneja, the pretender to the throne of Castile, against the Catholic Monarchs. The Commander's tyranny is felt throughout the country, subjecting village women and girls to his whims by threat or violence. Laurencia, who dares to refuse him, is kidnapped on her wedding day, and her fiancé Frondoso is imprisoned.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-13
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The Little Boy from the Lift
Overview: A young boy is hired as a lift attendant in a grand hotel when his mother dies. To fulfill his dream, he takes part in a competition organized by the manager, and wins 1st prize: a two-day stay in one of the princely suites. He wants to share the experience with his young girlfriend, the florist, but discovers that she has betrayed him and returns to her elevator.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-04-05
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Le Scorpion
Overview: Peter is commissioned by William to rob an Amsterdam bank. He wants to find out who li is working for. With the help of Corinne, a young prostitute, he investigates and approaches the bank.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-09-21
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Le bluffeur
Overview: Fredo, a former gangster nicknamed "The Bluffer", has just been released from prison and is now thinking of going into the legal world with a friend. But his ex-partners are desperate to find him, to punish him for operating without their cooperation. His fortune is stolen and he is accused of a diamond robbery perpetrated by the old gang.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-05-06
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Children of Paradise
Overview: In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: pretentious actor Frederick, conniving thief Lacenaire, and Count Edouard of Montray.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-03-15
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The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent
Overview: An international intrigue with terrorists threatening to blow up the presidents of the most powerful countries.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-11-28
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Queen Margot
Overview: Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officially, it's a rapprochement between the League and the Huguenots. In fact, it was an opportunity to bring all the Huguenots to Paris and kill them all at once. King Charles IX fails in his attempt on Coligny's life. Queen Margot tries to save her husband from the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre by preventing the annulment of his marriage, forcing Henri to share her bed. Two knights from opposing camps are wounded and, saved în extremis, are hidden together by the queen and her cousin. Margot falls in love with one of them, but has to run to warn her husband of a new attack and cannot prevent the two knights from being beheaded.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-11-25
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Dr. Laennec
Overview: Breton doctor René Laennec fights tooth and nail against consumption, all the more desperately as his brother Michaud has just died of it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-17
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L'homme fragile
Overview: A middle class leftist man of the Seventies decade, starting to show signs of aging and a loss of identity, runs away from his commitments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-04-21
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The Irony of Chance
Overview: A series of events beginning during the German occupation of France showing what might have happened if one thing had gone differently. The premise concerns the assassination of a German officer by a young member of the Resistance.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-04-30
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Fleur de cactus
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-03-07
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Cartouche
Overview: In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, acting under the name of Cartouche, making audacious robberies of the rich people, and even distributing the takings with the poor. Thus, cartouche attracts the people's sympathies, Venus's love, and hate from the Police and Malichot... Cartouche can escape all the traps they set at him - except the entrapments of love. Eventually, he will be saved by a woman, at her own cost.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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Lancelot of the Lake
Overview: This story is set in the 13th century, in Britain, where Lancelot, who was raised by Vivian, the Lady of the Lake, becomes one the Knight of the Round Tables and falls secretly in love with Guinevere, the wife of King Arthur, for whom he wants to accomplish many deeds.
Genres: Drama Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-12-25
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Blood on His Sword
Overview: Charles le Temeraire asks in marriage Jeanne de Beauvais, daughter of King Louis XI, wishing to get her valuable lands in dowry. The King is wise to this, and since his daughter does not feel inclined to accept, he refuses. Charles sets up a plan to abduct the prince, in a way that the suspicions will fall upon Robert de Neuville, a noble enamoured of the princess. Robert manages to free her from the castle where she was being kept. Charles keeps setting traps, and managing people to perjure against Jeanne, and the King himself. Finally, Jeanne escapes alive from a pack of wolves, who set watching the lady alone in the snow covered woods, instead of attacking her. Charles does yet accuse her of being a witch - wishing to have her dead rather than being the wife of Robert... Robert will be her champion in a Judgement of God. Will the 'miracle of the wolfs' repeat itself, or fearless Charles defeat Robert in the sword duel?
Genres: Adventure Romance Action Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-06
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Last Year at Marienbad
Overview: In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-05-25
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The Possessors
Overview: Noël Schoudler, founder of an empire built on three foundations - sugar, banking and the press - reigns like an absolute sovereign over his business and his family. But someone is about to challenge this authority: his son François...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-11-19
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Pardon Mon Affaire
Overview: On an otherwise normal day, Étienne, a happily married man and a good father, sees something that stops him dead in his tracks: a gorgeous woman in a billowing red dress. Long after she has left his vision, her memory continues to haunt his mind. He falls instantly in love with her and tries everything to get to know her better. Helping Étienne snare his elusive lady in red are his three bumbling buddies, which all have secret affairs and/or cheat on their wives.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-22
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The Call of Destiny
Overview: Young conductor Roberto Lombardini has never known his father who is actually a former musician, a failed piano player who has sunk into alcoholism.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-02-15
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The Lovers of Montparnasse
Overview: Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial help. Modigliani worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-04-04
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Rasputin
Overview: Gregory Iefommovich Raspoutine is a monk with healing powers and a liking for debauchery who manages to insinuate himself into the court of the Romanoffs thanks to Princess Dikvona. Being the only person able to heal he son of Czar Nicolas II and Czarina Alexandra from his hemophilia, he becomes a very powerful man, which infuriates many.A group of nobles, determined to save the monarchy, start conspiring to murder him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-07-19
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Charles Clément, canut de Lyon
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Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-11-20
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