René Fluet
Also Known As: André René Grossriether, Fluet
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Adult: No
Deathday: March 17, 1955
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La Symphonie fantastique
Overview: The film is biographical, telling the story of the life and artistic struggles of the French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz is shown as a recalcitrant medical student in an anatomy class dreaming of becoming a composer; at a demonstration during a performance at the Paris Opéra conducted by Habeneck; at supper with other young artists (Hugo, Janin, Dumas, Mérimée, Delacroix); and chasing after his future wife Harriet Smithson, after a performance of Hamlet. Also depicted are his life in a garret, while suffering from an illness due to an abscess in the throat; a visit from his mother who curses him; and the composition of the Symphonie fantastique. The film then shows his marital breakdown, the premiere of his opera Benvenuto Cellini, his travels throughout Europe, his second marriage to Marie Recio (called "Marie Martin" in the film), public acceptance in old age and reconciliation with his son.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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Forte tête
Overview: René, a bank employee, is suspected of theft and fired from his job. It borders on the worst by following in the footsteps of a misfit, Alexandre. A series of circumstances lead him to save little Gérard, the bank manager's grandson, from a fire. The child becomes attached to René, who manages to discover the real culprit of the theft.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-06-10
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The Big Fight
Overview: The formidable K.O. Bouillon killed trainer Victor's colt during a boxing fight. Strongly affected, Victor returns to the south to find his wife and adopted daughter. He discovers in the person of Bernard a seed of champion which he ensures the training in secret...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-12-23
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Homeport
Overview: A discharged seaman winds up on an old man's farm: his children left the place for the broader horizons of the evil city; the walls are near decay ,the fields lie fallow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-02-10
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The Inevitable Mr. Dubois
Overview: With a hand of steel, Hélène efficiently runs a big luxury perfume factory in Grasse. There is no room for fun in her dull businesswoman's life. Then, a car accident drops Claude Dubois, a painter, into her lap. But the artist will have to deploy all his subtle wiles and clever tricks to rouse Hélène's feelings and get her to enjoy the cozy life of a cherished wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-09-22
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Angel of the Night
Overview: A young sculptor presides over the destinies of a student club where a miserable young girl ends up one evening. The treasurer of the association falls in love with the young girl who returns the favor. The war. The sculptor comes back blind. Out of gratitude, the young girl marries him and restores his confidence in his talent; out of discretion, the treasurer steps aside.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-01-19
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Le bal des passants
Overview: Fabienne believes herself to be cheated on by her husband Claude and divorces her. He leaves for America and does not return until eight years later. He then meets his daughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-04-01
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Coup de tête
Overview: A sporty and chivalrous young man creates, with some comrades, a society whose goal is to protect honest people against rogues. He finds himself thrown into unforeseen adventures, at the end of which he will discover love.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-10-12
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Christine se marie
Overview: In order to engage in life experiences, Christine takes the civil status of her three sisters to marry as many times.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-06-30
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The Black Rider
Overview: In Flanders in the eighteenth century, Ramon de Ortila, a young lord who has been dispossessed of property has turned into a gentleman brigand. His main target is Monsieur de Saint-Brissac, the salt tax farmer. But Solange, his daughter, sets a trap and lures the young man to her father's manor. Little does she know that love is at the rendezvous.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-03-31
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St. Val's Mystery
Overview: Désiré Le Sec has just won the "amateur policeman contest" and he is so glad he 's telling all the people around.He is an insure agent ,and his boss,his uncle,is annoyed :a man took out a big life insurance and died soon afterward.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-09-19
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Goodbye Darling
Overview: Chérie is a beautiful young woman who works as an escort girl. She meets a young and wealthy man who propose her to be his fictional wife so that his mother won't bother him anymore with this other girl, a rich one, she wants to see her son married to.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-04-26
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Le destin s'amuse
Overview: A guardian, abusing his prerogatives, imposes on a young girl the husband he has chosen for her. On the very day of the wedding ceremony, the bride fled. She is picked up on the road by four bandits who are going on a business expedition. After many adventures, each as implausible as the next, the heroine will marry the man of her choice.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-12-13
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The Scarlet Bazaar
Overview: Agnès Bonnardet leaves her parents to marry Claude Sironi, a painter who becomes famous but loses his talent. Meanwhile Agnes acquires a style of her own as an artist, which makes Claude jealous of his young wife. One day, he sends one of his own paintings to the Bazar de la Charité, a very trendy Paris department store, instead of one of his wife's works as ordered. Afraid of her being mad at him, he locks her up in the cloak room. A dreadful fire suddenly breaks out and sets the building ablaze.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-04-23
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Fort De La Solitude
Overview: On the borders of the desert, Péhu, a rather blunt creature on the verge of death, confesses to Charles Sigouane that some time before he stole and killed for the sake of a woman named Marie. Péhu recovers against all odds and returns to France with a view to finding Marie and to retrieve a loot he has hidden somewhere.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-02-13
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Beauties of the Night
Overview: A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-11-14
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La Lumière du Rocher
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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À l'Assaut de la Tour Eiffel
Overview: Four experienced mountaineers climb the three floors of the Eiffel Tower through the pillars of the building. A police officer, overwhelmed by the events, does not succeed in arresting the intrepid who reach the summit with agility under the stunned eyes of tourists. They then abseil and happily throw themselves into the Seine to celebrate the feat.
Genres: Documentary Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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Bibi Fricotin
Overview: To find the heritage of his friend Catherine's ancestors, the leaping Bibi Fricotin, helped by the seer Fatma, goes through a thousand funny or comical adventures, thanks to multiple means of transport, ranging from the bicycle to the helicopter. Despite the pitfalls sown in her path by the young girl's uncle and aunt, the Tartazans, the inheritance will be found with a museum curator.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-01-03
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Monsieur Coccinelle
Overview: An average worker who feels downtrodden at work and home, dreams of becoming a dictator. His aunt has her own fantasy that the love-of-her-life, a fairground magician, will return to her once more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-02
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