Jean-Jacques Delbo
Also Known As: Jacques Delbo, Jacques Delbò
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: January 10, 1909
Age: 116 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 20, 1996
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A Cop
Overview: Georges, hunted by the Germans, had taken refuge with his brother, Commissioner PJ Paris. Once released, he teams up for the sake of a girl with the lackluster Zattore. A bank is robbed, but the police is fast and Georges will either lose his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-12-03
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Carbon Copy
Overview: A smooth criminal, who turns to be Manuel Ismora, and his gang successfully and peacefully pull off con after heist. Elsewhere a timid office worker, Gabriel Dupon, is pressured by his boss...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-07-09
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Le Chant de l'exilé
Overview: In the French Basque Country, Ramon, the son of a farmer and fruit and vegetable merchant with a beautiful voice, has the good life. He is engaged to his charming cousin Maria. But his daily life is called into question when, during a fight, he believes he has killed a bad boy. He flees to Algeria where, with a friend, he joins the Saharan Pioneers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-04-21
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The Day the Sky Exploded
Overview: Scientists discover that a group of meteors are hurtling on a collison course with Earth, and if they hit, the planet will be destroyed.
Genres: Science Fiction Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-09-04
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L'Escalier sans fin
Overview: An untiring lady social worker, Émilienne, has as one of her charges a stableman who was wounded by his mistress. Unfortunately, Émilienne's young sister who was helping her at work decides to go away with the stableman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-08-25
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The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil
Overview: A banker who lost everything in the stock market is on the verge of committing suicide when the Devil appears to him and offers to give him a fortune every day on one condition: he must do evil things with the money! Will the banker keep his end of the deal...
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-09-20
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Their Last Night
Overview: Arriving in Paris, Madeleine Marsan rents a room in a guesthouse where she makes the acquaintance of Pierre Ruffin, a respectable municipal librarian. Through Pierre, Madeleine finds work as a schoolteacher and soon realises that she is in love with him. Then she discovers that Pierre is in truth the head of a band of crooks. Caught by the police after a failed robbery, Pierre manages to escape. With Madeleine’s help, he goes on the run.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-10-23
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Feu Nicolas
Overview: Nicolas, the owner of a small café, has had enough of his current life. Business-wise, customers are more and more scarce. As for the love side, the situation is not any better as Jacqueline, his charming wife, not content to be spendthrift, might well be cheating on him.. To escape this harrowing reality Nicolas decides to simulate his suicide and disappears. Lucky or unlucky draw? Both in fact as, on the one hand, Nicolas finds serenity but, on the other he wins a huge sum of money in a lottery. How will he manage to get the money now?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-11-17
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Gangster Boss
Overview: In Paris, two scoundrels kidnap a wealthy man's preteen son, disguised as Indians, only to find he's a savvy detective, making their ransom plan much more complicated.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-20
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Mademoiselle X
Overview: A famous writer takes in a young amnesiac who, thanks to his care, remembers having tried to kill her unfaithful lover. He will know how to console her and share with her a new happiness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-06-27
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The Last Metro
Overview: Leaving the station after having caught the last Paris Metro, a man comes to the rescue of a woman who is being assaulted and finds himself drawn into her affairs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-06-27
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Majestic Hotel Cellars
Overview: In my “cellar” where case workers all the people of a great hotel, the head of the café, Donge, finds the corpse of Mrs Petersen, a rich client. The investigation by Maigret allows him to rub the husband of the victim, a Swede, Teddy, Ms Petersen’s son, his housekeeper, a social dancer and Donge himself who is the natural father of Teddy. The child he will go to his real father or not he will leave the rich Petersen who adores? The murder mystery and enigma sentimental are resolved by Maigret.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-08-11
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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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One Does Not Die That Way
Overview: In the studio where the famous director Eric Von Berg reigns, Pierre Vanier, the male star of the film and the lover of Berg's muse, dies while rehearsing a scene. Over the course of a tangled investigation, the culprit is unmasked. This honest dresser is the adoptive mother of Vanier's wife, too unhappy with such a husband. The inspector, moved, concludes a suicide.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-07-03
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Judicial Error
Overview: After a banker is driven to suicide by his wife's reckless spending, an innocent cashier is wrongly implicated in a crime.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-04-07
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Sextette
Overview: A man remembers all the incredible stories that took place in his hotel.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-09-17
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Secret Cargo
Overview: In a Central American state, the owner of a dance hall and his sponsor engage in drug trafficking. Are involved in various intrigues, a gypsy orchestra, its singer, the sister of the conductor, some policemen. Imprisonment and death are at the end of the adventures.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-12-27
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The Little Rebels
Overview: Judge Julien Lamy regularly deals with the welfare of children, namely down on their luck delinquents. When an orphan named Alain Robert burns down a barn belonging to his abusive foster family, Judge Lamy has no choice but to send him to a juvenile jail. There he meets an older boy named Francis Lanoux, who is desperate to escape and be reunited with his girlfriend Sylvette. The boys eventually flee the institution, as Francis goes in search of his lost love and Alain continues looking for his parents. Unfortunately, the little rebels run into some big problems once on the outside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-10-21
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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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The King of the Bla Bla Bla
Overview: Prosper Bourrache, who has the gift of the gab, is natural born street vendor. Due to a mistake he gets involved in the burglary of a shady banker's house. In fact, the whole operation is a setup. But Prosper will finally get away with it, have the crooked financier arrested and pinch his girlfriend away from him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-08
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Erik the Conqueror
Overview: In the 9th Century, two Viking children, separated since their early childhood with one raised by the British and the other by Vikings, meet after nearly 20 years as rivals as war breaks out between Britian and the Vikings for control of England.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-07
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The Impossible Mr. Pipelet
Overview: A story about a simple old man with a lot of love for his only daughter. She falls in love with a doctor's son and he don't understand why...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-06-26
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Midnight... Quai de Bercy
Overview: Having recently moved into her new apartment, Irène Cazenave, the widow of a well-known police officer, is forced by one of her husband's colleagues to take part in an investigation. The building's provocative concierge has been found murdered. We watch a parade of suspects, only to learn at the end that Irène killed the janitor under blackmail. She kills herself.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-05-21
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Devil and the Angel
Overview: The Director of an international banknote printing institute, mutilated by the face of the Great War, Frank Davres, falls in love with a young woman, Jeanne, admirably beautiful, but blind. He marries her. For her, he ruins himself and comes to issue counterfeit banknotes. The young woman does everything to make people forget her infirmity. One day, following an operation, she recovers her sight and notices the physical and moral ugliness of her husband. She hides her cure until the day when Frank, taken by the police, kills one of his accomplices and commits suicide. Jeanne leaves to join a friend with whom she was performing in a circus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-10-30
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That Is the Dawn
Overview: A generous doctor is aghast that the population of a small island is being oppressed and mistreated, but is seemingly unable to do anything about it, until the arrival of a young woman and the death of one of his friends prompts him into action.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-05-09
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The Blonde from Peking
Overview: Spies from several countries try to find out what secrets are hidden in the mind of a young amnesiac girl who has appeared in Paris.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-08-25
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Lulu
Overview: Lulu models for a young painter who tries to seduce her. When her husband enters the room he dies from a heart attack. Lulu marries the painter, who commits suicide when he finds out that she has been having a long standing affair with Dr Schon and whose son gives her a job. Lulu kills Dr Schon and goes to London to live with his son. Eventually, she becomes a prostitute and dies a victim of Jack the Ripper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-03-01
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Grand Hotel
Overview: Based on a book by Vicki Baum, all of the action takes place in one day in a luxury hotel in Berlin. Grusinkaya is a ballerina staying at the hotel, other guests include Baron von Gaigern a sophisticated thief, Otto Klingelein a dying man, Preysing a businessman, and a stenographer. Events intertwine the lives of these strangers, bringing them together for some dramatic moments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-09-23
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The Ferret
Overview: A mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping them off about murders that are to be committed around Paris. Among those caught up in the police manhunt is a fraudulent clairvoyant.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-02-10
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The Babes Make the Law
Overview: When Nathalie, a shoe seller, is abducted, her mother Flora wastes no time taking matters into her own hands. Reluctant to call in the police, she galvanizes her three other daughters into action.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-03-29
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Mademoiselle and Her Gang
Overview: Author of the best-selling crime novel Le Poulet se mange froid (Chicken Eats Cold) under the pseudonym Sam O'Connor, Inspector Bourdieux's daughter, Agnès, is unwillingly drawn into the gangster ring by two small-minded young misfits, Dédé and Juju. She's not insensitive to the charms of M. Paul, a false kingpin who is in fact a son of a good family and a thrill-seeker. Planning a heist at the home of one of Paul's snobbish friends, she arrests the real Sam O'Connor, an escaped convict, with the help of her father. Then she and Paul confess their love for each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-07-11
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No Big Deal for Johnny
Overview: Robert Lanier, a man with a doubtful past, disembarks clandestinely in Le Havre decided to rebuild his life. Johnny, an orphaned young acrobat, takes him for his father and presents him to the seductive Gaby, his best friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-05-04
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La Soupe à la grimace
Overview: Frank Keany is the chief engineer of a uranium mine located under the overwhelming sun of New Mexico and owned by a woman, Moira Warden. She suspects her ex-husband want to take possession of the mine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-12-12
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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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En bordée
Overview: The two merrymakers Cartahu and Bailladrisse sail together on a cargo ship. When customs officers come aboard to conduct a search, Cartahu is unaware of a drug dealer's accomplice, who hides the box of narcotics in Cartahu's bag, which has already been visited. Unsuspecting, the two comrades go ashore, taking the precious box with them. At the hotel, by mistake, their luggage is given to another person. To recover the merchandise, the traffickers pursue the two friends, who nevertheless manage to have the whole gang arrested; and, after being tempted by pretty women to live with them, prefer to set sail for new adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-09-10
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Riviera-Story
Overview: Relations between middle-aged businessman Arthur Dahlberg and his young wife Anja are not at their best. So it occurred to them to leave their Hamburg home and go on vacation to the Côte d'Azur to revitalize their relationship. But Arthur Dahlberg, even on vacation, is obsessed with running his business. Meanwhile, Anya meets the young writer Roy Benter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1961-12-07
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La bande à Bobo
Overview: In Castallet, a village in Provence, cats are swarming and disturbing the peace and quiet of the inhabitants. The municipality decides to get rid of these invasive felines, but a group of children nicknamed "la bande à Bobo" (Bobo's gang) comes to their defense.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-12-11
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Song of the World
Overview: In Haute-Provence, two rival farming clans clash over the four seasons of the year. A young lumberjack, who has gone up to Rebeillard country to fell trees, has not been heard from for several months. Concerned by his long absence, his father sets out to find him. Antonio, known as "Bouche d'or" (Golden Mouth), the man from the river, accompanied him out of friendship; the two of them toiled together for long days, but one night, at the edge of the wood, they discovered a blond woman lying on the ground, giving birth to a child: it was Clara, a young blind woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-10-07
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The Biggest Bundle of Them All
Overview: A kidnapped mobster persuades his captors to help him rob platinum ingots from a train.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-01-17
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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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Perched on a Tree
Overview: Henry Roubier, a French promoter, and Enrico Mazzini, an Italian, have signed an agreement guaranteeing them a stranglehold on European highways. While driving on the roads of the south, Roubier takes two young hitchhikers, but an unfortunate swerve the car rushes by Henri and its occupants on the top of a pine tree onto the side of a cliff.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-12
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Six Hours to Lose
Overview: A traveller is stuck in an unknown town because his connecting train will only arrive in six hours. He decides to kill time by taking a stroll. He is not prepared to get confused with somebody else. In fact the citizens are eagerly awaiting the visit of a famous man and the clueless traveller is his doppelgänger. Soon he experiences what that means.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-01-22
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The Two Girls
Overview: A famous singer disappears in a plane crash. Her two little girls are given a new home by their grandfather. Unfortunately the good man has an old housekeeper who goes out of her way to make their lives impossible. In desperation the two brats run away to Paris. Meanwhile, the girl's father manages to steal important documents. In the end, Gaby and Ginette track down their mother who had not got killed at all. All is well that ends well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-04-04
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Bernadette of Lourdes
Overview: This modest, unpretentious French film is a streamlined version of the true story previously cinematized as The Song of Bernadette (1943). Daniele Ajort plays the simple 19th-century French peasant girl who insists that she has experienced a vision of the Virgin Mary. Once this sighting becomes common knowledge, Bernadette's very existence becomes a religious and political hot potato. Thousands of people flock to the grotto at Lourdes where Bernadette claims she has seen the Holy Mother, believing that the waters therein contain recuperative powers. Bernadette dies under a cloud of controversy, but is ultimately elevated to sainthood by the Vatican.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Overview: Edmund 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 Edmund 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 Edmund escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmund 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: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-06
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Lafayette
Overview: The story of Lafayette, the 19 year old pacifist who takes the side of the Colonials during the American war of Independence.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-02-16
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Without Apparent Motive
Overview: A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-15
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All Mad About Him
Overview: Mathieu is a mild-mannered man engaged to a woman whose father is involved in running a house of prostitution. When the father dies, Mathieu inherits the bordello and is unprepared for his new position. He overcomes his shyness and becomes a sexual dynamo when his workers feed him some powerful amphetamines.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-05-24
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Une femme coupée en morceaux
Overview: Four men in love with the same woman put on a music-hall show and travel the world in search of the beauty. They will find success and fortune, but their sentimental quest will be a failure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-05-29
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The Thousand Eyes of Dr. Mabuse
Overview: A reporter is murdered while driving to his job. The Police are contacted by a clairvoyant who saw the death in a vision, but some dark force is preventing him from seeing the man behind the crime...
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-09-13
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Highway Pick-Up
Overview: An escaped convict makes a remote gas station his safe haven. But soon the cunning, devious wife of the owner seeks a chance to use him to get what she wants.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-13
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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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Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-04-15
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The Attic
Overview: In the 1960s, Silvana, a beautiful girl from the countryside, decides to spend the night in Rome after missing the last bus home. Without a place to stay, she seeks refuge in an under-construction attic. There, she meets a young man, leading to a short-lived romance. He opens her eyes to the wonders of the economic boom shaping the capital in those years. Despite the chaos of buses, protests, and big stores, Silvana chooses to make Rome her home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-03-29
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Any Number Can Win
Overview: Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-03-19
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