Pierre Blanchar
Also Known As: Gustave Pierre Blanchard
Biography: Pierre Blanchar (30 June 1892 – 21 November 1963) was a French actor. He appeared in more than 50 films between 1922 and 1961. Blanchar was married to actress Marthe Vinot, with whom he had a daughter, actress Dominique Blanchar. He played Napoleon in the 1938 British film A Royal Divorce alongside Ruth Chatterton as Josephine. He later appeared alongside Michèle Morgan in the 1946 film Pastoral Symphony. Source: Article "Pierre Blanchar" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Philippeville, Constantine, France [now Skikda, Algeria]
Birthday: June 30, 1892
Deathday: November 21, 1963
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Gender: Male
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Wooden Crosses
Overview: The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, endless trench war in Champagne, where more and more wooden crosses have to be erected for this cannon fodder.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-03-17
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Secrets of a Ballerina
Overview: In 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme discover within it the secret of a passionate love affaire that once took a macabre and sadly turn. it all began 50 years previously, when the wealthy landowner Gérard de Clergue fell madly in love with the beautiful young dancer Clara Biondi. In the course of the ensuing romance, Gérard remains blissfully ignorant of the fact that Clara had a previous lover, James de Poulay...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-11-25
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Crime and Punishment
Overview: Pierre Chenal's adaptation of Dostoyevsky's novel, starring Pierre Blanchar and Harry Baur. Bears the influence of German Expressionism and serves as an early forerunner of poetic realism.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-05-17
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Courier of Lyons
Overview: A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of justice will lead an innocent person to the guillotine.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-11-10
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Life Dances On
Overview: After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she had a stronger inclination. To overcome these dreary thoughts, she decides to find out about him and the other men who danced with her during a ball that was a turning point in her life, many years ago. She pays a visit to those forgotten acquaintances one after the other; Christine is not only surprised to see how they have fared, but also discovers the impact she had, unknowingly, on the feelings and the destiny of these persons.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-09-09
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La valse de l'adieu
Overview: The life of composer Frédéric Chopin through his youthful love for Maria Wodzińska, a young Polish aristocrat he was unable to marry because of his own situation, considered too modest by the girl's family. On the threshold of death, Chopin remembered his beloved and the piece he composed when he left her: La Valse de l'adieu.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-10-13
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Street of Shadows
Overview: A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, a French military officer.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-04-13
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Le Journal de la Résistance
Overview: Shot primarily by twelve French cameramen (led by filmmakers Jean Painlevé and Jean Grémillon), in August 1944, this film captures the final French insurrection in German-occupied Paris, the surrender of the Germans, and the mass celebration in the streets. (There is an English-language version narrated by Noel Coward.)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-01-01
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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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The Beautiful Sailor
Overview: A barge captain saves Marinette from drowning and soon marries her. On the wedding day, Sylvestre, the captain’s best friend, falls in love with Marinette.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-12-02
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Pastoral Symphony
Overview: A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-09-26
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The Strange Monsieur Victor
Overview: Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and considerate to all who know him. However, beneath this veneer of respectability hides a notorious receiver of stolen goods, who trades with hardened criminals. Victor manages to keep up his double life without any difficulty until the fateful day when one of his partners in crime threatens to expose him. Fearing a scandal, Victor kills the crook in a moment of panic, using a shoemaker's tool. Naturally, the murder is blamed on a local shoemaker, who is sentenced to ten years' hard labour. Seven years later, the former shoemaker reappears in Toulon, having escaped from prison. The first person to recognise him is Monsieur Victor...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-05-04
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The Mistress of Atlantis
Overview: Antinea, the Queen of Atlantis, rules her secret kingdom hidden beneath the Sahara Desert. One day two lost explorers stumble into her kingdom, and soon realize that they haven't really been saved-- Antinea has a habit of taking men as lovers, then when she's done with them, she kills them and keeps them mummified.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-06-09
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Riff Raff Girls
Overview: Vicky de Berlin, a female gangster, haunted by wartime memories , runs a floating night-club in Brussel. Marcel, her partner and lover, is in charge of the banknotes forgery manufacture concealed in the bottom of the boat. He decides to rob the Bank of Belgium and exchange a huge sum of counterfeit money for its equivalent in genuine one. But things get complicated when Yoko, the she leader of another gang and her lover The Bug interfere...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-05-20
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Katia
Overview: Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and becomes his mistress. With the help of Katia, Alexandre prepares a liberal constitution, but these reforms make him hostile to the more privileged subjects without satirising the revolutionaries against the regime.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-12-22
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The Queen of Spades
Overview: Russia, 1835. Lieutenant Hermann, a compulsive gambler, is fascinated by an infallible martingale held by Countess Tomski, nicknamed The Queen of Spades. The day Hermann wants to wring the secret from her, the countess dies of fear. Following this tragic scene, Hermann sinks into dementia. Luckily, Lisa, his frail lover, brings him back to life and happiness.
Genres: Horror Drama History Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-07-01
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La terre promise
Overview: In a small east-european ghetto, the Jewish family is celebrating Easter. The fraternal dissonance between the Sigoulim brothers pretty accurately mirrors the strife between the two powers, one surrounding Samuel, a devoted rabbi, and the other around Moïse, a talented money lender. Moïse becomes the king of petrol and ships to London with his niece Lia. Conflict continues and leads to the violent strike by oilworkers...
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-01-23
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Geneviève
Overview: Geneviève is an orphan child and living with her little sister Josette. Because of her economic situation, she cancels marriage with an honest and respectful man. Josette, after a short and tremendous love affair, dies leaving a little baby boy. Due to this incident, Geneviève is convicted and imprisoned. Wandering from town to town, village to village, she finally manages to get to her ancient fiance's house.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-01-01
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Pontcarral, Empire Colonel
Overview: For 15 years after Waterloo, a baron refuses to accept the defeat. He reluctantly marries one of 2 Bourbon sisters but lands up dueling with the wife's former lover. Finally he gets a chance to prove himself again in battle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-01-02
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Sky Battalion
Overview: Film in two eras.1st era: They are not angels. Chronicle of a Free French parachute training camp during the Second World War. 2nd era: Terre de France. A group of paratroopers landed in Brittany sabotages the German installations.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-03-05
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Captain Fracasse
Overview: A nobleman decides to join a traveling group of actors to be with a girl he admires, but ultimately must rescue her from bandits
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-02-15
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The Hunchback
Overview: The knight Henri de Lagardère wants to avenge the death of his friend, the duke Philippe de Nevers assassinated by the prince de Gonzague, a few years before.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-12-26
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Dr. Laennec
Overview: Breton doctor René Laennec fights tooth and nail against consumption, all the more desperately as his brother Michaud has just died of it.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-17
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Lovers and Thieves
Overview: Claude, son of a ruined family, pretends to be a dangerous trickster in order to get credit from the guys in the middle. He is in charge of retrieving compromising letters from a woman whose lover fears blackmail. But before arriving there, Claude fortunately meets love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-11-15
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The Man from Nowhere
Overview: Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely lucky at several gambling resorts. He returns home and discovers that a drowned man, fished out of the river, bears an uncanny likeness to him and is being buried by his family as him. This, to him, is a pleasant turn of events and he goes to Rome, where he falls in love with Louise Paleari. Count Papiano, a jealous suitor of Louise's, threatens him with arrest unless he produces credentials to prove his identity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-02-18
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Night in December
Overview: In 1919, Pierre Darmont, a handsome, much-loved piano virtuoso, falls in love with Anne Morris, a young woman who shares his tender feelings. But, quite inexplicably, after an unforgettable night, Anne vanishes without trace. Twenty years later, Pierre, at the peak of his glory, has become embittered. Unable to recover his unhappy love affair, he has collected women without ever committing himself to any. Until some night he meets the eyes of a beautiful young lady, who happens to be the spitting image of his great love...
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-02-27
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The Liberation of Paris
Overview: French Resistance's documentary during the liberation of Paris in August 1944.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-08-26
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Turandot, princesse de Chine
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-02-14
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Le Joueur
Overview: Drama in a small German water town where various characters clash against a backdrop of money, gambling and love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-09-06
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The Old Devil
Overview: Vautier, a wealthy surgeon in his fifties, falls in love with Hélène, a young woman from a modest background. He allows her to have a string of short-lived lovers - but when Jean Trapeau, an old boyfriend, resurfaces, things get complicated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-01-01
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Culprit
Overview: A man from a wealthy family falls in love with a florist, but the lover has to go to war and to leave his darling crying... and giving birth to a child.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-01-21
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Homeland
Overview: Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occupiers. Led by Count de Rysoor, the revolt against the ruthless Duke of Alba, is meant to help Prince William of Orange to get into the city and come to power. Now, the count's lieutenant, has an affair with Elisabeth, Rysoor's wife. For the time being, the count, who thinks of his homeland first, turns a blind eye. But such a relationship might well undermine the whole rebellion movement.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-10-22
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At the End of the World
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-03-30
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After Love
Overview: Betrayed by his wife, a teacher proceeds to have an affair with a young and pretty student. The two women both find themselves expecting a child. The girl dies during childbirth. In a spirit of revenge and to keep his real son, the scorned husband exchanges the babies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-01-22
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Heritage
Overview: There is a rivalry between the top part and the lower part of the village of Murcie because of water. Pancho, Maria del Carmen's fiancé, hurts Xavier, son of the rich Domingo, so he has to leave the country. Maria proposes to take care of Xavier in exchange for Pancho's freedom. Unfortunately, Xavier falls in love with her and Domingo forces her to marry his son. Pancho reappears, ready to defy Xavier, but the two overhear a conversation and learn that Xavier's days are numbered. So he asks Pancho to elope with Maria.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-10-19
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Georges Méliès
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
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Iris perdue et retrouvée
Overview: To save her brother compromised in a case of forgery in writing, Iris agrees to marry a shady financier, lover of her sister-in-law. A young painter, in love with her, persuades her to flee with him, but tired of the life of an artist, Iris returns to her family....
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-01-12
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Jocelyn
Overview: Adaptation of a romantic Lamartine poem. A youth leaves a monastery where he has stayed, after the anti-religious terror of the Revolution. He befriends a youth who turns out to be a girl. But his former bishop calls Jocelyn back to duty.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1922-11-03
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The Dreamy Mouth
Overview: The story begins at a concert during which Beethoven's Concerto in D major for violin and orchestra is performed. Romaine, a mysterious woman, is in the concert hall. Pierre, her husband, is first violin of the Orchester Colonne. That evening, she discovers Marcel, a brilliant concerto soloist, and falls in love with him. Pierre and Marcel are friends, which complicates the situation. Pierre invites his friend to the house, without suspecting what will happen. The young woman, trying to find a clever pretext for a one-on-one meeting, quickly reveals her feelings to Marcel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-10-20
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Wedding March
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-03-15
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Les Bateliers de la Volga
Overview: In 1912, a Russian officer is wrongly accused of having stolen important papers. His only alibi being to have spent the night with the wife of a colonel, he allows himself to be condemned so as not to compromise the latter. He manages to escape and hides in the guise of a poor boatman. One day, the truth comes out, the colonel commits suicide and the lovers are finally reunited.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-07-05
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A Woman of No Importance
Overview: A young lord who has abandoned his pregnant mistress hires his son, twenty years later, as secretary. He will try to fix his mistake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-03-05
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My Friend Sainfoin
Overview: The honeymoon in Italy of Guillaume and Eugénie de Puycharmois escorted by friend Sainfoin, a second-hand driver. Sainfoin's humor displeases Eugenie. Guillaume takes the wheel in such a way that it is necessary to hire a "driver", Yolande. Jealous, Eugenie asks Sainfoin to conquer Yolande. In the working car, two happy couples drive through the Italian landscapes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-05-10
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The Thruster
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-09-19
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Secrets
Overview: A penniless private tutor is hired by a wealthy family in Provence. The brat is a reluctant pupil, but Michel, without any magic power, turns out to be a wonderful teacher and he wins them all over,not only the student but everyone, from the grumpy dowager to the clueless gorgeous blonde girl. But the best is yet to come:the boy's mother -a married woman- falls in love with the newcomer. And she becomes jealous of her young blonde goddaughter who has a romance with Michel
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-03-17
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The Cupid Club
Overview: Isabelle is a lawyer who has Flip, a private detective, convicted of speeding. But shortly after, a murder is committed of which Isabelle's best friend is suspected. To save her, Isabelle is forced, despite her reluctance, to ask Flip for help, who agrees to look for the culprit.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-05-18
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The Black Monocle
Overview: The Marquis de Villemaur reunite strange visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the Third Reich. There is an Italian fascist, Heinrich; a German, Matthias; a Russian; and Dromard, a blind French war hero with a black monocle.
Genres: Crime Thriller Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-08-29
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A Royal Divorce
Overview: The love affair between the French Emperor Napoleon and the lady Josephine leads through Napoleon's rise to power and their eventual divorce.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1938-09-21
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Le diable en bouteille
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-04-05
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Two Women
Overview: Considering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not allow her to turn to another man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-05-16
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L’or
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Genres: Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-06-01
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La Neige sur les pas
Overview: Abandoned by her husband Marc, Thérèse Romanay cheats on him with André Norans. When Romanay finds out, he drives her away. She runs away with her lover. But, during a mountain excursion, Norans is killed and Thérèse is herself seriously injured. But she recovers. The husband then forgives the unfaithful wife, and the couple reunites.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-06-03
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La Prière aux étoiles
Overview: Pierre and Florence meet at the fair in Paris. They vow eternal love and go to Cassis, under the Southern sun. But Florence has a burdensome past: before meeting Pierre she was a kept woman. Her chivalrous lover, Dominique, chooses to set her free. But Pierre is an uncompromising man and, furious with Florence, threatens to leave her...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-01-01
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