Armand Bernard
Also Known As: Арман Бернар, Armand Joseph Bernard
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bois-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France
Birthday: February 05, 1895
Deathday: December 10, 1965
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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À la gare...
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Monsieur Gazon
Overview: Monsieur Gazon is not likely to win employee of the month: he is assuredly the worst salesman at the Galeries de Paris ! And, as the customers regularly complain he is regularly fired... and hired again ! This time, he has once again attracted the manager's attention by... courting his own fiancée!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-12-31
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Aux portes de Paris
Overview: A local man raised two boys. One is his son and the other is that of a rich industrialist, to get the bonus to the unhappy father, he gives his own son a lazy scoundrel, to the tearful father and decides to keep the other boy, but the truth does not soon to burst.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-03-22
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The Last Waltz
Overview: Count Dimitri is sentenced to death for hitting Prince Paul who was trying to steal a kiss from Countess Vera. Prince Paul pardons him because of a young girl who knew how to conquer his heart at the right time.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-01-01
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Le Million
Overview: Debt-ridden painter Michel is overcome with joy at discovering that he has just won 1 million florins in the Dutch lottery, but almost immediately, he discovers that his softhearted girlfriend, Béatrice, has given away his jacket containing the winning ticket to an elderly petty thief. Soon Michel, Beatrice and Michel's artistic rival, Prosper, are hurtling through the streets of Paris on the trail of the missing jacket.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-02-04
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Mandrin (1ère époque) Le libérateur
Overview: Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear and without reproach, puts himself out of the law by refusing to obey the local nobility. The public authorities are tearing their hair out because the man is elusive. Helped by his faithful friends and by two women in love, Mandrin will become a legend.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-11-15
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Boys' School
Overview: In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them sees a man coming out from a wall. The next day, after he talks about it, he disappears. Then, the second one vanishes. Are they gone to their dreams? That's when the art teacher is murdered. Suspicions now are too high so the third one decides to investigate.
Genres: Adventure Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-05
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Ladies Only Compartment
Overview: On his wedding day, Robert confesses his father-in-law that twenty years ago, he seduced a lady in a sleeping car of a train. His mother-in-law overhears the conversation and convinces Robert that she was that lady and that makes Robert's bride also his daughter. The wedding is in danger of being annulled when the trickery is finally discovered.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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My Dream Woman
Overview: A penniless young musician seduces a millionaire American widow, lives with her in her hotel for an entire day, spends lavishly, ridicules the suitors and lands an exceptional deal that finally allows him to marry her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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The Woman Dressed As a Man
Overview: Told that he is to take charge of his grandson, a misogynistic old nobleman is taken aback when he discovers that "he" is actually a "she." At first rejecting the girl, the old coot finally comes to love and accept her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-05-11
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Tu m'oublieras
Overview: Estelle de Pressendi, famous music-hall singer, was all the rage in the 1910s thanks to her two inseparable impresarios. Twenty years later, then on the verge of death, the singer wants to entrust her daughter Yvonne to them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-08-26
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The Miracle Child
Overview: A widow named Blanche Montel endeavours to find a man with whom to produce a child so that she can pretend that the child was her late husband's and so inherit a fortune.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-06-05
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Si tu veux
Overview: A novelist uses all means to curry favor with a particularly cantankerous engineer. After believing her to be selfish and despicable, the young man finally decides to marry her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-09-16
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Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
Overview: Two young lovers. An arranged marriage. An older groom. The lovers develop a plan to convince the groom that she is unworthy and also to discredit him. A surprise ending convinces the father that he should bless the lovers' marriage.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-10-16
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Typist
Overview: Simone finds work as a secretary in a bank whose chief of staff expects more than typed letters.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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It's all arranged
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-07-03
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Let's Touch Wood
Overview: Auguste Chantilly leads a well-regulated life in the countryside, watching over his ward, the young Arlette. But in the city, he becomes Hubert, and leads a much happier life. Arlette is very keen to get to know this Hubert whom she thinks is her tutor's brother, and things get complicated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-03-31
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Les 28 jours de Clairette
Overview: Clairette learns that Bérénice, a former mistress, is pursuing her husband in the army where he is recalled. She puts on the sergeant's uniform and after a few entanglements reconciles with her husband while Bérénice consoles herself with the captain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-05-10
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The Burning Mountains
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-11-13
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La Margoton du bataillon
Overview: Désiré Chopin, hunter on foot and friend of François de Crecy, uses a thousand tricks to encourage the love between François and Gaby. Little Margoton is in love with Désire who disdains her. She becomes the darling of the battalion.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-06-09
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Le Fakir du Grand Hôtel
Overview: Démonio the fakir has impressed a rich but weak-willed young man who hires him as an energy teacher. Demonio drags out the businesses of the shy lover, but his partner arranges everything and the finally satisfied lover endows the two accomplices who renounce fakirism.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-01-05
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La dactylo se marie
Overview: A former typist at a bank ,having married her elegant young boss and gone on a honeymoon, needs to return to work when the bank runs into trouble, and is separated for a while from her new husband.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-05-18
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Flofloche
Overview: The pharmacist Floche who was once the merry Flofloche, had a daughter by a dancer. He wants his daughter to become a pharmacist, but of course all she thinks about is dancing. And she dances while Mr. Floche finds happiness with a musichall star.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-07-27
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Le Secret d'une nuit
Overview: A very nice young man, Sylvain Renaud is "surrounded" by two bad guys who want to drag him into some very dirty business.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-10-05
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3 of the navy
Overview: The sentimental and comic adventures of three sailors, during a stopover of their ship in Toulon, are grafted onto a story of stolen documents, which allows the three friends to turn into amateur detectives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-10-19
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Paris-Deauville
Overview: An aviator lands on the estate of a duchess, who has an attractive daughter. Will he overcome the obstacles that are put in his path?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-05-11
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Le Billet de mille
Overview: The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-01-11
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A Night at a Honeymoon
Overview: The maid and the driver of Sidonie de Valpurgis have the absurd idea of subletting the hotel of their boss during her absence, and precisely to Sidonie's ex-friend, who wants to spend his wedding night there.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-08-30
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The Pont-Biquet Family
Overview: The family Pont-Biquet is composed as follows: father, the judge, afflicted by deafness; authoritarian and irascible mother; funny son-in-law; an ingenious son who has a mistress.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-09-20
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Sacré Léonce
Overview: Léonce Vavin, an entomologist, marries Cecile Debienne, but the parents of the bride quickly realize that he's not just ugly but also a complete ignorant of all sexual matters.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-01-17
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You Can't Fool Antoinette
Overview: Hubert has married a little provincial girl and, to disgust her with Parisian life, he takes her out every evening.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-20
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L'École des journalistes
Overview: Fernand Dubreuil wants to be a journalist and agreed to do an interview with promising star Clara Sergy. He's accompanied by the jerk photographer, Alfred.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-29
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Œil de lynx, détective
Overview: Marc Lanterne and Monsieur Smith investigate the home of a castellan who is the victim of jealousy, justified by the way, of his wife. Monsieur Dunoyau wants to know the author of the anonymous letters he receives. After a whole series of extraordinary adventures, the truth comes out and Dunoyau is reconciled with his wife.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-08-28
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Le Club des Aristocrates
Overview: Serge loves living it up but painting the town red has a price... too high for him! What to do then? Alfred, his servant and former pickpocket, has the solution : steal of course! No sooner said than done ! Or rather: No sooner said than tried... For when Serge, assisted by his mistress Gloriane acting as bait, he tries to rob a jeweler on the Place Vendôme of a precious diamond bracelet, he realizes that a gang of thieves have preceded him. Later on, he will learn that the boss of the gang is a Polish noblewoman, Countess Waldapowska.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-09-02
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Les Gaietés du palace
Overview: Whoever brings the Countess back her stolen necklace will receive a bonus of ten thousand francs. Honoré, the vagabond, who involuntarily finds himself in possession of the jewel, offers it to a little peasant girl who had been charitable towards him and with a touch of melancholy, resumes his journey.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-12-11
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The Spanking
Overview: A husband, exasperated by his wife, spanks her without paying attention to the open window in front of which he is. He is annoyingly surprised to discover the next day that the scene has been photographed by a neighbor, and that the image is circulating in Paris. A debate then ensues: is this an opportunity to call for revolt or a welcome manifestation of marital authority?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-11-10
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La Peau d'un autre
Overview: The very chic Parisian couturier Jean Granet has trouble with the police, and will find himself imprisoned for two weeks, in the provinces, for speeding. He manages to get himself replaced by his friend Lambelin who, for a fee, will serve the sentence in his place. This is the beginning of a series of misunderstandings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-01-08
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Pantins d'amour
Overview: A rich, idle young man falls in love with a cabaret singer. Very skilful, she pretends to remain insensitive to this love, thus hoping to better achieve her ambitious ends.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-04-23
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Le Monsieur de 5 heures
Overview: A wealthy banker who takes his accountant's name after multiple incidents is forced to pass off his girlfriend as his daughter. But the truth is coming out. The banker's wife then favors the marriage of the young girl, which creates a new intimacy in her household.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-05-09
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Place de la Concorde
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-01-07
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Ma tante dictateur
Overview: A young man who wishes to launch his girlfriend in the theater, borrows money from his aunt, making her believe that he wants to buy groceries. His aunt arrives and then wishes to visit “her” grocery store; to save the day he borrows the store of a credulous grocer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-07-13
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Sacred Woods
Overview: Despite her success, writer Francine Margerie is let down to see that she is not nominated for the Legion of Honor award. One solution could be to sleep with Champmorel, the Director of Fine Arts and one of the judges for the awarding of the coveted medal.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-11-26
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Ils étaient cinq permissionnaires
Overview: Four French conscripts are going to go on leave with their godmother, in Provence, in the company of a comrade from the British army. But, in the absence of the godmother, the five leavers end up at a mineral water merchant.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-07-18
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Father Serge
Overview: An accomplished young man, Prince Stéphane is destined for a brilliant future but when he finds out that Marie, his beloved fiancée, has had an affair with the man he respects the most, Tsar Nicolas 1er in person, the shock is terrible. Unable to recover, he chooses religion and becomes a monk and a hermit. He becomes known as a healer and worshiped as a saint, although he himself is aware of his many weaknesses. The day he learns Marie is seriously ill Le père Serge formerly known as Prince Stéphane leaves sanctity behind and hits the road for Saint Petersburg.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-09-04
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Destiny
Overview: This is the story of two brothers: the good one, the virtuous gent, an acclaimed singer, and the bad one who leads a wild life.
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-12-18
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Impeccable Henri
Overview: Henri, a basically honest fellow, accepts to work for a gang of burglars only to revenge himself on Fournier-Salville, a wealthy businessman who once ruined him. His role will be to become Fournier-Saville's majordomo and at the same time to inform the burglars so as to facilitate their work. But once in the house he performs his task so well and so stylishly that he becomes indispensable. Moreover, Eve, the businessman's capricious daughter, does not remain insensible to his charms.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-08-13
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The Woman I Murdered
Overview: During a singles meal, the phone rings. A woman claims a man, Jean-Louis. As a joke, the master of the house replies that he is gone forever and advises him to take the plunge. But she obeys and the suicide appears in the newspapers. Tested, the master of the house takes in the child of the unfortunate woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-11-26
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Lost Souvenirs
Overview: Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide. -A funeral wreath lets us know how it caused a young woman to believe her lover dead. After having told their respective story, the objects return to their customary stillness.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-11
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Raphaël le tatoué
Overview: Modeste is a timid watchman at an automobile factory which is run with an iron hand by its owner, Roger Drapeau. One evening, Modeste leaves his post to visit a fairground, where he meets the attractive Aline. Having glimpsed his employer, Modeste makes a hasty return to the factory. When Monsieur Drapeau appears, Modeste explains that it must have been his twin brother that his boss saw at the fairground, a nasty piece of work named Raphaël. Not only does Drapeau fail to see through this unconvincing lie, but it gives him an idea to win a marathon car race. Modeste and Raphaël will take alternate turns in the stages of the race and, because they are so similar, no one will be any the wiser. Unable to admit that he has no brother but afraid of losing his job, Modeste allows himself to be coerced into taking part in the race...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-02-09
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We Request an Assassin
Overview: A son of a family in debt decides to put an end to his life and calls on a professional killer to do so, who promises to kill him within forty-eight hours. However the next day, money, luck and love smile at her again. Then can begin an infernal hide-and-seek between the assassin and his victim.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-10-20
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This Rascal of Anatole
Overview: Anatole, quivering nostrils and greedy lips, is the resourceful clerk of Mrs. Paufilat, a butcher. It takes a fancy to take on the identity of the Paufilat son, Paul. He must then undergo the assaults of the tumultuous Germaine, exhilarated by the money of Paul Paufilat.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-05-14
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Les deux Monsieur de Madame
Overview: Adolphe is in serious financial difficulties and the extravagances of his wife do not help to fix things.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-12-27
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Les Maîtres-nageurs
Overview: A married industrialist maintains three mistresses. On the instructions of his wife, the tax inspector seizes the small notebook where he records his illegal dealings. After a stormy marital explanation, the industrialist decides to reduce his costs by getting rid of his mistresses and expresses the intention of returning to legality. But he realizes that everyone, even his wife, prefers the old situation, fraud and mistresses, thanks to which everyone found his little profit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-01-19
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Tomorrow We Get Divorced
Overview: Max and Colette often bother the lawyer Vermorel to initiate divorce proceedings, then everything calms down. An anonymous letter escalates the disputes, it borders on disaster but living together has obvious charms.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-02-02
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Trois vieilles filles en folie
Overview: A marquis organizes a matrimonial contest with the aim of enriching three spinsters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-03-21
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Rooster in dough
Overview: A famous lawyer is irritated to see his fiancée spending her time trying to educate Languille, a tramp. Wanting to discourage his Saint-Bernard side, he asks a young engineer to introduce himself to her, under the guise of a tramp. But his plan turns against him, because the young man falls in love with his beautiful.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-06-02
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The World Will Shake
Overview: In this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die. Oddly enough, the people do not want to know and therefore begin to riot…
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-05-10
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Des quintuplés au pensionnat
Overview: In a girls boarding-school run by Madame Piégeois, young Gisèle meets, at night, the count of Champrès' son.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-05-08
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Fra Diavolo
Overview: Italian-language version of the Germany-made DER TEUFELSBRUDER (FRA DIAVOLO), with different supporting cast and some scenes. Based on the Auber opera, but with generally original music by Dr. Giuseppe Becce.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1931-04-17
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Boom on Paris
Overview: In the early 1950s, the popular radio show "La Kermesse aux Étoiles", hosted by the famous Jean Nohain, mixing lottery games and performances of various artists, will be disrupted by the adventures of a man and his fiancée seeking to recover a dangerous bottle of perfume (explosive) which was unfortunately mixed with the prizes to be won ...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-02-19
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Vingt ans après
Overview: Charming Mimi-Trottin is in love with typographer Louis Chausson, nicknamed Godasse. She meets Doudou, actually a Vicomte, estranged with his parents who are rich automobile manufacturers. Godasse abandons Mimi because of his professional ambitions and Doudou rescues her from a suicide. After making peace with his parents, the young man has Mimi hired as a typist at the factory. After winning a race with one of his father's car, he soon wins the heart and the hand of Mimi.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1922-12-22
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Le Petit Café
Overview: Max is a millionaire who is forced to lead a double-life as a waiter, the result of having lost a wager.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1919-01-02
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The Merry Monarch
Overview: Good King Pausole selects a wife for every day in the year, but one protests when he spends her day searching for young Princess Aline who has eloped with Giglio, a visiting airman stranded in the kingdom. Giglio comes from a modern and different world and this gives Queen for a Day some ideas about how to make her title a lasting one.
Genres: Romance Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-12-15
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Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-12-25
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Les dieux s'amusent
Overview: Alternate-language version of Amphitryon (1935).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-09-12
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My Childish Father
Overview: A middle-aged man, an architect by trade, decides to make an end run around getting married. He marries a charming young woman, tenderly in love, who proves incapable of holding him back and, above all, of making him work. But a young American arrives in Paris and reveals that he is the architect's natural son. At first reluctant, the latter and his young wife quickly adapt to the new situation, until the son, a businessman through and through, wants to share with his father his ideas on life, which can be summed up in one sentence: hard work, with no time for pleasure. The father is quick to balk, and the son is forced to unwillingly participate in the fickle architect's nightlife. Eventually, the father is able to settle down, while the son, having acquired a taste for love, has a good time.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-07-08
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La môme aux boutons
Overview: The Count De Rochambeau wants to marry Mireille but she likes Etienne. The sister of Etienne, nicknamed "the girl with buttons" schemed with a friend to pose as a Russian princess to seduce the count and allow the marriage of his brother with Mireille.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-10-22
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White Smoke
Overview: Sophie Mallet is the lively manager of a detective agency, assisted by Emile Gachit, her conscientious but not very effective right-hand man. One day a fellow named David entrusts her a pack of cigarettes that she is supposed to hand over to a certain John Smith. But David soon disappears while John Smith is murdered. Moreover, a lot of dubious characters prove "very interested" in the pack of cigarettes... Which will keep Sophie and Emile for some time...!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-11-01
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Pas de grisbi pour Ricardo
Overview: Ricardo will try his luck in the capital after winning an amateur singing contest. He has many adventures. Kidnapped by gangsters, he is only freed by the intervention of his fiancée. Finally, the director of the "Folies Parisiennes" presents him with a contract.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-06-26
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L'Oncle de Pékin
Overview: In this musical comedy, all the heirs of a recently deceased uncle must stay in his chateau until they find a buyer for it.If no one is found or if any of them leave, the place will be left to its Chinese servants, who devise tricks to cheat the heirs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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Naked in the Wind
Overview: Smalltown confectioner Lespinasse, hopeful of being reelected as chief councillor, is opposed by Darcepoil, the local druggist. Darcepoil arranges for the incumbent's defeat by having Pantaflon, a nightclub singer, lure him to the nudist camp on the Isle of Levant, where Lespinasse is photographed surrounded by half-naked women. At home, he is berated by his wife and thrown out of office; but he returns to Levant with the penitent Pantaflon and is welcomed by the nudists and voted camp president. His forgiving wife follows him and herself becomes a nudist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-04-29
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Miss Catastrophe
Overview: A talented but crazy painter, Elvire Mercier agrees to sell one of her canvases to Pierre Leroy, a rich heir. But after a string of misunderstandings, she hands her painting over to a swindler. And her problems have only just begun.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-01-25
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The Chess Player
Overview: In 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame leads it to the court of the Russian empress.
Genres: Fantasy Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-05-17
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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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Noah's Ark
Overview: Bitru is a carefree fellow who, one day, decides to buy a houseboat on the River Seine. He moves there and starts living surrounded by a circle of colorful friends. Among them, the daughter of an auto maker but also a group of scientists who have developed "Aqua Simplex", a device that could enable motorists to fill their tanks with... water ! Panic sets in in the automobile industry and Bitru is appointed his friends' middle man to represent them on the various car makers directors' boards.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-08-20
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Noah's Ark
Overview: Bitru is a carefree fellow who, one day, decides to buy a houseboat on the River Seine. He moves there and starts living surrounded by a circle of colorful friends. Among them, the daughter of an auto maker but also a group of scientists who have developed "Aqua Simplex", a device that could enable motorists to fill their tanks with... water ! Panic sets in in the automobile industry and Bitru is appointed his friends' middle man to represent them on the various car makers directors' boards.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-08-20
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The place is good!
Overview: A maid applies to a good position at the Dutilleul's, but she wouldn't know how good it was to be until people starts taking her for the lady of the house...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-12-31
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Tumultes
Overview: Fresh out of prison a small-time crook finds his girlfriend's dropped him, which sends him into a murderous rage.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-04-21
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Antoinette
Overview: Ruined by her banker, Antoinette becomes her driver. She signs a contract which assures her of the reimbursement of her fortune if she manages to support the banker for three months. She wins his bet, but falling in love with him, she tears up the check and marries him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-11-18
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Conflit
Overview: Claire Buisson becomes enamored with Gerard and soon afterwords she becomes pregnant. Gerard advises her to abort the child but, at the last moment, Claire decides to keep her child and leaves for her sister's place in the province.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-21
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L'École des contribuables
Overview: A bureaucrat, tax assessor, specialized in tax return and fraud, complains about his son-in-law's inactivity. He'd rather have thought twice before urging him to work...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-04-23
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Paris by night
Overview: The young Countess Rita wishes to visit the slums of Paris. A matchmaker decides to arrange for her a little staging that allows the young dazed to believe that she has really spent an evening among the men in the middle. Things go wrong through the fault of a genuine apache.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-12-26
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Cœur-sur-Mer
Overview: Endive-Meunier, a prosperous silk dealer from Lyon has an affair with his secretary he tries hard to keep secret. One day, he nevertheless accepts to accompany her to the seaside resort of Coeur-sur-Mer. Unfortunately for him, once there, he finds himself in the presence of Claudius Paquito, the popular barman of a fashionable club. The trouble is that the man is no other than one of his former employees he once fired for insolence...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-03-02
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We're Moving the Colonel
Overview: The dynamic Flora has decided to burglarize Colonel de la Ribodiere's apartment in the company of Romeo and Clotaire. The two men discover the old soldier lifeless on his bed. One after the other, the colonel's goddaughter Annette, the gendarmes and their brigadier, the Grivier cousins, who are sniffing out the inheritance, and the three thieves, who are hoping to get their way, pass by each other and avoid each other in the house. La Ribodière isn't dead, but he listens to what's being said, forms an opinion about everyone, ousts the Griviers, rewards Annette with a betrothal to Clotaire, and gives Flora and Roméo absolution.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-09
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Le colonel est de la revue
Overview: To spice up a life that's too quiet, a couple of friends play at being gangsters, but end up meeting some real hoodlums.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-03-01
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Hoboes in Paradise
Overview: In a Provençal village, two jolly good fellows, Boule and Pons, decide to dress as Saint Anthony and Saint Nicholas for the distribution of presents to the children on the feast of Saint Nicholas. They unfortunately get killed by a cart and find themselves in Hell where Lucifer and his demons duly torment them. They are saved by a prayer which helps them to climb the stairway to Paradise. Saint Peter, taken in by the applicants' disguise, lets them in. When the two true Saints show up, trouble follows. Luckily, thanks to the intervention of the Virgin Mary, the two friends are acquitted at their celestial trial and allowed to return to Earth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-07-15
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: A 14-episode silent adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1921-10-13
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The Fatted Calf
Overview: Jules Vachon, a pharmacist, has two sons, Gabriel, a steady-minded young man dedicated to his job in the pharmacy, and Gaston, a good for nothing whose only talent is to seduce rich women and take money from their pockets. But it is Gaston who is hailed as a great man when he returns to his native village thanks to his deep pockets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-12
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Piédalu à Paris
Overview: Piedalu is an ordinary villager, who comes to the capital to present his financial plan to the Minister of Renovation, and finds it difficult to find someone to listen to him. He meets an actress in Paris, whom he takes for a girl from his country.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-10-12
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Trois jours de bringue à Paris
Overview: A group of inhabitants from Ferté-sous-Jouarre decide to spend their jackpot on a three day trip to Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-05-14
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A Night at the Moulin Rouge
Overview: An uncle in America wants to endow his nieces with a dowry, provided they succeed in making a name for themselves one night at the Moulin Rouge, where one of them is already performing. Everyone's pulling out all the stops to help the girls put on an act, dupe the theater manager and win the dowry - which will be doubled if they manage to marry, as their uncle is marrying the star of the show.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-08-07
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Miracle of the Wolves
Overview: King Louis XI tries to unify France by all means fair or foul, which does not please his powerful rival Charles the Bold. It is against this troubled backdrop that the loves of the daughter of a wealthy bourgeois and the king's god-daughter Jeanne Fouquet and knight Robert Cottereau unfurl in spite of all the obstacles in their way. One of these being a pack of hungry wolves trying to stop Jeanne from carrying out an important mission assigned to her by the king himself.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-11-13
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Chansons de Paris
Overview: A street singer becomes the star of the circus but his pal Armand shows him who his real friends are.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-06-14
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Michel Strogoff
Overview: The Czar charges a man to deliver a message to the Grand Duke behind enemy lines. On his way he encounters a number of adventures.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-03-10
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Quick
Overview: A woman staying at a health spa (Lillian Harvey, goes to the theater every night to see "Quick" a comic performer, who wears clown make-up. She meets him off stage, without make-up and doesn't recognize him. He courts her, hoping she'll like him for himself but she maintains her crush on "Quick."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-08-23
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Calais-Douvres
Overview: French language version of Nie wieder Liebe! (1931) Disgusted with love, a man bets 500,000 that he can live 5 years without a woman, joins a band of fellow women-haters, and manages to make it through 4 until he meets a troublesome young lady.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-09-18
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Caprice de princesse
Overview: Princess Isabelle is in love with the young man in charge of her library. But André is looking for a simple woman without money. He falls in love with a shopgirl who could be the Princess' sister. It's up to Isabelle come up with a scheme to find love...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Bichon
Overview: Augustin, the bashful but model secretary of Fontange,a tyrannical industrialist, is desperately in love with Christiane,his boss's daughter. Of course Daddy will never allow. On the contrary he wants to force his daughter to marry his business partner, a single man, whose money would be a welcome help. To escape such an unfortunate lot, Christiane must find a subterfuge. The solution is Bichon, the baby that Jacques, her younger brother, is supposed to have had from a certain Loulou. By claiming that the baby is hers and that Augustin is the father, she hopes to compel her father not to marry a man she does not love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-05-21
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Radio Surprises
Overview: The Bontemps family, like all the inhabitants of the village of Coussy la Chapelle, are passionate about radio. Coco, the fiancé of Jacqueline Bontemps, participates in all the contests and under the name of Mr. Bontemps wins a beautiful Sunday. All arrive in Paris and in the premises of the Parisian Post Office attend popular broadcasts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-05-08
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Mandrin (2ème époque) La Tragédie d'un siècle
Overview: Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear and without reproach, puts himself out of the law by refusing to obey the local nobility. The public authorities are tearing their hair out because the man is elusive. Helped by his faithful friends and by two women in love, Mandrin will become a legend.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-04-07
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The Black Diamond
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1922-09-29
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Les Mémoires de la vache Yolande
Overview: A drama teacher works as an extra in the cinema: he has to milk a cow. Left alone with the animal in the studio, he is forced to bring it up to his apartment. The police, the Humane Society and the government get involved.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-02
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Education of a Prince
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-08-15
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Hard Knock Out
Overview: A trio of seedy gangsters, Gigi, Totor and Jo, manage to snatch a suitcase of diamonds, which they promptly lose. The precious luggage is recovered by Ernest Mamourette, a distracted salesman. The police suspect him of being behind the hold-up and the safe. Gigi reappears under the identity of a certain Countess Olga and expresses her desire to marry Mamourette, who is released from prison, and is drawn into a burglary at the home of the real Countess, who, on the point of committing suicide, is reunited with Ernest, her beloved husband, whom she thought had disappeared.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-07-04
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Clingy Women
Overview: Babinois courts all the women he meets. He has a mistress, Gladys. He would like to marry the Bourillon's daughter, Monique. His maid, Rose, claims to marry him; Héloïse, a young widow, is madly in love with him. Babinois, not knowing how to refuse women anything, promises marriage to all. The fatal day arrives. The four women show up at the town hall in bridal costume and while the other three are doing their buns, Babinois marries Monique.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-28
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In Six Easy Lessons
Overview: A bossy count has trouble marrying off any of his six sons. When one of them, Adam, finally makes wedding arrangements, something happens to his bride to be: she develops amnesia after an accident.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-12-06
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Rue de la Paix
Overview: A designer is in love with a model, who ends up creating her own fashion house, with the help of a millionaire who is also in love with her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-10-21
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Un fil à la patte
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-04-24
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