André Chanu
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: December 28, 1910
Age: 114 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 12, 2008
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The Wolf Farm
Overview: Bastien and Furet are a journalist and a photographer working together as a team on the newspaper 'L'Echo du Jour'. Just as they are about to go off on a weekend break with Micky, their boss's secretary, they are sent to a crime scene to report the murder of a Russian named 'le Moujik'.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-12-13
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Land Without Stars
Overview: Simon's life is troubled by images of a crime which happened in his family a hundred years ago. While traveling in south France, he finds the landscape familiar. That's when he meets Catherine and falls in love. But her lover comes back and his strong personality attracts her again.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-04-02
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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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Rendezvous in Paris
Overview: When she sets sail for Lisbon, Catherine Laurence, a famous classical singer has but one wish: to be left alone. Unfortunately she soon gets bothered by a rude, invading man. Later she gets to know him better and becomes susceptible to his charm. She realizes that Michel is in love with her and it is not long before she goes beyond her disastrous first impression. Although not quite sure he is a perfectly honest man she entrusts him with a delicate assignment: keep her precious pearl necklace coveted by Van Coolart, a fake Dutch diamond-merchant, and give it back to her in Paris. If he is a robber himself, so much the worse for her. But if Michel keeps the Paris rendezvous love is in store for both of them. Nevertheless there is a crucial factor she regrettably disregards, composer Raymond Aubour, a faithful friend who has been her suitor for ten years.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-03-12
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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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La Grande Volière
Overview: A young pilot, Martin, applies for the Ecole Militaire de Salon. He is accused of having caused the accident of one of his bosses, his career is then threatened.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-05-23
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Le dolmen tragique
Overview: Chatelard, one of Viscount de Kerlec's guests, has died in mysterious conditions. The police initiates an investigation and sends detective-inspector Pauc to de Kerlec's manor. Pauc decides to mingle with the viscount's guests , who are all likely to have committed the murder. Among them, there is Jacques Mauclerc, a naval officer, and a seedy character named Bartoli, in fact a spy in search of secret documents. Pauc will end up untangling the web during a dramatic séance.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-07-21
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Tête blonde
Overview: When he finds a package in the metro, given this period of restrictions, Mr. Truche thinks it may be a good deal, he takes it home but discovers a woman's head inside. A friend of Mr. Truche having just disappeared, the superintendent accuses her of having murdered her and discovers the head buried in his cellar. But the girlfriend, whom Mr. Truche loves platonically, returns from the countryside and at the same time we spot the assassin of the unknown woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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The Big Circus
Overview: During the second World War. The lives of three comrades fighting in the Forces Françaises Libres' flight. Pierre is a valiant pilot, afraid of nothing. Jean is reported missing during the Normandy landings. Jacques gets killed on the very last day of the conflict, leaving behind him a weeping widow.
Genres: War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-03-10
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Le Costaud des Batignolles
Overview: Jules, small and weak, dreams of becoming a formidable athlete. He strives every morning to practice physical culture exercises and takes comforting tablets, without success. But he meets Nénette, a woman who, when he kisses her, suddenly endows him with prodigious strength.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-04-30
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Love and Desire
Overview: A French crew is working on location in Spain. But when they want to film a scene in which Gérardn the male star is supposed to be swimming across a river, the matinée idol proves water-shy and the director decides to double him. The one that replaces him is Antonio, a local fisherman. The latter does the job so well that he is chosen as a stunts man for the whole film. This does not please Lola,his fiancée; all the more as Antonio has fallen in love with Martine, the female star.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-10-09
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Alone in the World
Overview: François wants to buy a house to help underprivileged children. He lacks money, but a generous donor allows him to realize this dream.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-07-11
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Le clochard milliardaire
Overview: Olivier Cabrol is an immature young reveler who lives from hand to mouth. One day he inherits a fabulous fortune from an eccentric uncle. But on the one condition to spend a certain amount of time as a tramp. Olivier accepts out of sheer greed but soon finds the experience rewarding. He finds himself as well as new friends (true ones this time) and even love in the person of Colette.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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Her Last Christmas
Overview: A very ill little girl having expressed the wish to live until Christmas, the whole neighborhood agrees to anticipate the celebration.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-12-12
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Deux de l'escadrille
Overview: During the Second World War, midshipman Dourdan, nicknamed 'Saucisse', distinguished himself by his clumsiness and his blunders. Charged with Lieutenant Goldfinch to convey an aircraft to Marrakech, he shot down an American bomber on the way, mistaken for a German plane.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-01-30
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Les Tripoteuses
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-10
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
Overview: Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-02-10
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L'oeil en coulisse
Overview: Wounded during a rugby match he'd come to Paris to play, Tonin Bonnafous, a thoroughbred southerner, settled in Paris with a former stalag mate he'd happily met. Tonin liked the asylum. His friends are charming, and there's a neighbor, Martine, a young cinema extra, whom Tonin finds to his liking. Through his electrician friend, Tonin gets a job on the radio, and through his young neighbor, he even gets a job as an extra in the cinema.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-07-19
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Too Many Lovers
Overview: The charming Lulu, a cabaret singer and dancer, has no shortage of admirers. When she decides to get married, she sets her heart on Robert, a young industrialist, but he is already married. Disappointed, she sets out in search of the ideal man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-12-11
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The Ragpickers of Emmaus
Overview: The Emmaüs community opened and functioned thanks to the generous impetus of Abbé Pierre Groues, bringing together a cross-section of the underprivileged: unemployed truck drivers, former paratroopers, young people leaving prison, etc., and underprivileged families. The "ragpickers" manage to make a bit of money by practicing the art of "chine", while the abbé tries his hand at winning radio games. The accident and death of one of them will unite the Emmaus companions even more.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-02-23
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Le souffle du désir
Overview: Daniel Bellanger, a night-club crooner, is a basically straight,honest man. He has just married Christiane, a cashier in a Montmartre hotel and his main objective in life is to live happily with his wife and Pierrot, the son she had of a former union. Unfortunately Daniel accepts the offer of his old friend Freddy to run a gambling den. The place is frequented by a host of dubious guys, among whom a hood named Mario. The latter finds Christiane to his liking and soon shows he is prepared to do anything to take her away from Daniel, including kidnapping little Pierrot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-04-09
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Girl Merchants
Overview: A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp for women by a sadistic gangster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-09-13
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The Crab Basket
Overview: Charles is a student in Strasbourg. Abandoned by Liliane, his fiancée, who has inexplicably given up on marriage, he moves to Paris, where he decides to pursue a career in cinema. He founded a film club and became a journalist, then assistant to a famous director. Little by little, he came face to face with the various compromises inherent in this professional milieu. After writing a screenplay about his experiences, he enlists the help of Chantal, a young actress, to bring his film project to fruition.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-05-20
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Love Me Strangely
Overview: Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window. Enlisting the help of an equally perverse casual acquaintance, Dino, the "handsome brute" proceeds to emotionally torture his second wife, Nathalie. The sadistic plan is picked up on by Officer Leroy who suspects the truth. Will he be able to snatch the unfortunate woman from the evil Alain's clutches?
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-10
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Minute papillon
Overview: Oscar, a shy lifeguard, flees the wrath of his boss following the disaster caused by the water purification machine he has developed. In his haste, he accidentally grabs a gangster's car containing the plans for a super satellite. A wild chase ensues.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-07-14
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Seul... à corps perdu
Overview: An unscrupulous reporter investigates the discovery of a corpse in the trunk of a car stolen by his young brother, a petty criminal.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-03-20
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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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Thank You, Natercia
Overview: A wealthy widow, Natercia, helps Alain, a poor young man, to put together the film he plans to make. They decide to pool their resources to make the project a reality. At the first screening, Natercia realizes that Alain no longer needs her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-11-02
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Les jouisseuses
Overview: Carol runs a hotel where one of the guests, her lover Mathias is a scientist who has invented a pill which can induce instant euphoria and sexual stimulation. Claude is keen to market the pill, but while Mathias is considering this proposition, he finds Carol making love to Lucy, and in his anger, he destroys the formula.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-02
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Auguste
Overview: Auguste is about an eponymous bank clerk who finds fame and fortune. Auguste happens to be in the right place at the right time to save young starlet Francine from killing herself -- or more accurately, pretending to kill herself. His supposed heroism hits the news, and before Auguste knows what is happening, a Machiavellian publicist is using him for his own ends. The bank clerk is no fool and soon thinks of a way to come out on top.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-10-24
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Anyone Can Kill Me
Overview: The holdup of the bank is a success. All happened according to plan. Now, Cyril Gad and his four accomplices must secure an alibi. What better place than a prison cell? As a result the five gangsters have themselves arrested on minor charges and start waiting until they are released. Unfortunately three of them die mysteriously, another one is openly murdered. The only man still alive, Tony, is scared. Easy to understand why...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-12-06
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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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Nathalie, l'amour s'éveille
Overview: Two sisters, Nathalie and Elsa, go on vacation. Returning to Paris by hitchhiking, Elsa meets several men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-07-10
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The Story of Dr. Louise
Overview: The struggle of a female doctor against superstition and healers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-12
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Love Is Not a Sin
Overview: A building, a landing, two tenants: he, Jacques Loursier, is president of the U.R.A.F (Union and Resistance Anti-Woman); she, Eliane Cahuzac, is president of the Association for the Triumph and Independence of Women. Unaware of each other until then, a cold war begins between the two parties. An attempt at conciliation fails then, after many adventures, love triumphs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-06-27
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The Moment of Truth
Overview: After attending to a suicidal young man, Dr Richard learns that his wife has been unfaithful for years. This comes as a shock after 10 years of supposedly happy marriage. Back home, he demands answers from Madeleine. A long night of explanations ensues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-04-22
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Last Love
Overview: Hélène has an affair with Alain for ten years, but does not want to divorce her husband. Alain receives one letter from a girl Michelle one day. Hélène, who is very jealous, receives that letter by chance and interprets it incorrectly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-02-06
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Full House
Overview: Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution and Maigret.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-10
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If Paris Were Told to Us
Overview: Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-01-27
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Trial at the Vatican
Overview: In 19th-century France, a little girl follows her two sisters into a Carmelite monastery with the goal of becoming a saint.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-08-29
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Thank Heaven for Small Favors
Overview: Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family to do strange work.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-08-28
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