Claude Génia
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vetluga, Russian Empire [now Nizhny Novgorod Oblast, Russia]
Birthday: March 04, 1913
Deathday: May 18, 1979
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Ankle Bone
Overview: While escaping from prison to be with her lesbian friend, a 19-year-old girl breaks her ankle and is picked up by an ex-con, with whom she begins a passionate affair. She finally turns to prostitution and robbery to support herself.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-12-19
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Dracula and Son
Overview: With angry villagers driving them away from their castle in Transylvania, Dracula and his son Ferdinand head abroad. Dracula ends up in London, England where he becomes a horror movie star exploiting his vampire status. His son, meanwhile, is ashamed of his roots and ends up a night watchman in Paris, France where he falls for a girl. Naturally, tensions arise when father and son are reunited and both take a liking to the same girl.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-14
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The Truth About Bebe Donge
Overview: François Donge, a rich industrialist and womaniser, meets a girl nicknamed Bébé who he marries. Ten years later, poisoned by his wife and dying in hospital, he recalls his married life and understands how his wife who adored him suffered from his many affairs and indifference.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-02-13
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Overview: Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him...
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-01-14
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The Honorable Catherine
Overview: Catherine's technique to sell her clocks is to blackmail illegitimate couples such as Jacques and Gisèle. However when Gisèle's husband Pierre walks in on them, Catherine pretends to be Jacques's lover to save the day. Jacques then gets caught up in her schemes when the next couple she deals with turn out to be jewel thieves who kidnap them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-02-04
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L'Enfant de l'amour
Overview: This woman's melodrama pivots around a child that a famous actress had in her youth, but whom she has concealed from the wealthy businessman she is now with.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-07-13
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Girl with Grey Eyes
Overview: A village lost in the mountains where Catherine called L'Airelle's love affair takes place with a young doctor. Catherine's father is the local bonesetter whose wife threw herself into a glacier out of despair of love and whose body reappears intact twenty years later. In addition, the pharmacist of the country is accused of having seduced a young girl who is avenged by her mother. The bonesetter also dies, the village fortunately continues to live.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-11-24
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The Beautiful Days of King Murat
Overview: For the past few weeks, revolt has been brewing in the Kingdom of Naples. The handsome Castelli is at the head of the conspiracy that wants to put an end to the reign of King Murat. To carry out his plan, he decides to infiltrate the court in order to become an intimate of the king. But his ploy works too well: he manages to enter the court thanks to his talents as a singer and very quickly seduces Queen Geneviève. But this imprudence costs him a lot. He is soon arrested by the king's men and immediately condemned to death.
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-05-13
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Carrefour du crime
Overview: Suffering from mental disorders, a detective is trapped by his own associate who compromises him in a heinous crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-06-16
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La louve
Overview: A chronicler gets himself hired as a gamekeeper in Monsieur De Saint-Ricquier's mansion where he lives with his stepdaughter, Henriette, everybody considers insane .
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-07-13
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Life of Pleasure
Overview: An aristocrat instigates divorce proceedings against his son-in-law, a commoner and the ex-owner of night club "La Vie de Plaisir".
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-05-16
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Father Goriot
Overview: An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Paris. In after Balzac.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-03-22
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Monsieur des Lourdines
Overview: A young man from an aristocratic family tires of the country life and moves to Paris where he squanders his inheritance. Returning to his home with remorse, he reconciles with his father and becomes engaged to his true love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-06-09
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Escapade
Overview: Some gangsters use a young girl to get to a recently released convict who hid $10 million from a robbery just before he was caught.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-06-07
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Les Rosenberg ne doivent pas mourir
Overview: A French film about a famous American trial - that of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who became the first people in American history to receive the death penalty for espionage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-05-24
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Ballad for a Dog
Overview: Remi is a man on the verge of old age who begins to have hallucinations. He believes he has found a dog, but the canine is just a product of his imagination. The man takes a turn for the worse when his only friend, his poet neighbor, moves. He is left alone with his hallucinations and tries in vain to separate fantasy from reality in this plodding, depressing feature.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-01-25
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Misdeal
Overview: A musician named Jacques Christens, is given a proposition by an old man. For ten million Francs he is asked to impersonate a certain Paul de Baer – a man who is supposedly exiled in the Amazone. Christens is told this scheme will save Mr. Baer from ruin. An adaptation of Boileau and Narcejac's "D'entre les Morts".
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-04-30
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The Farm of Seven Sins
Overview: In 1825, Paul-Louis Courier, a Republican writer known for publishing pamphlets against the French monarchy, was killed in the farm where he had retired. Was it a political assassination or a vicious crime? Those who have known him loved him or hated him are interrogated by the police. Will the guilty person(s) be ferreted out?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-16
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Huit femmes
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-02-07
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Repeated Absences
Overview: François Naulet turns his bedroom into an island of drugs, loneliness and despair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-11-01
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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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I Killed Rasputin
Overview: Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia's Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir to the throne. However as war breaks out, Rasputin's enemies see him as a cause and plot fatal revenge against the Russian mystic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-05-03
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Le Capitan (2ème époque) Le Chevalier du roi
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Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-03-27
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