Mona Goya
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mexico City - Mexico
Adult: No
Birthday: November 25, 1909
Age: 115 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: October 08, 1961
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The Old Guard
Overview: Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-09-02
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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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Jenny Lind
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-09-28
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Forbidden to Love
Overview: An unconsummated marriage to fool the father who wants his heir to be wed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-10-30
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La Malibran
Overview: On the death of the famous singer Maria Malibran, Countess Merlin retraces the main lines of the unusual destiny of this young woman entirely devoted to her art.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-05-03
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Bouboule's Gang
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-12-18
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French Leave
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-12-31
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Buridan's Donkey
Overview: Georges is a lover of women, of all women, without exception. One fine day, a young girl like no other, a savage, will come into his life. Will Georges fall in love and experience the joys of marriage despite his love of women?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-12-23
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Hard guys
Overview: Mailman Biscot decides to run the Tour de France bike race to impress a lovely swimming champion.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-11-07
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Un tour de cochon
Overview: A rich old man wants to give a good lesson to his niece and his nephew, who are very full of themselves. He pretends to be dead, after having put as a testamentary clause, so that they touch his fabulous inheritance, that our two "stylists" marry respectively the servant and the cook of the philosopher character...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-06-22
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Trois cents à l'heure
Overview: In the eyes of his wife, whom he is cheating on with an actress, Count Adrien passes himself off as the famous mask racer who has won countless car races. Chance forces him to really run and he is replaced by a drunken mechanic who wins. The mechanic uses blackmail and takes the count's place with his wife and his mistress.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-03-08
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Vous seule que j'aime
Overview: After the death of her trapeze artist father, a little girl is taken in by two clowns.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-06-29
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Captain Fracasse
Overview: Out of love for an actress, Isabelle, the Baron de Sigognac joins a traveling troop en route to Paris. When an actor dies, he takes over his role: that of Captain Fracasse.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-06-19
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My Love is Near You
Overview: An opera singer is stricken with amnesia and, on the evening of a premiere (in his stage costume which is that of a tramp), he goes to wander with real tramps.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-09-29
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Vingt-quatre heures de perm'
Overview: Two friends, mobilized together and idle, send their photos to two young workers. The photos are inverted, resulting in a real sentimental imbroglio which finds its best conclusion in the context of the Théâtre aux Armées.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-01-10
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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: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-08-13
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My Aunt from Honfleur
Overview: A young man leads a happy life in Paris, while making his aunt believe that he is continuing his studies, while she supports him financially.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-08-31
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Ernest the Rebel
Overview: In South America anything can happen: the consul might give you as a snack to the sharks, you can wind up as a working man (slave) in a banana plantation or as a recruit in the governor's navy. And there's always a fire squad waiting for you so you 'd better start a revolution! It takes all Fernandel's talent to go through this eventful journey.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-09-23
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Jamais deux sans trois
Overview: Father Benoît would like one of his twins to take over his inn, at 3 plates. But his ancillary ambitions are not commensurate with his last 3. Bernard is also in love with Hélène, daughter of Colonel Flouc de La Donzelle. He dreams of becoming an actor and goes to Paris to find a job. Difficult beginnings since from the theater, he goes to the cabaret, then to the radio, without success. In the final scene, the 3 brothers meet, which gives rise to a series of gags during the wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-22
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Forbidden to the Public
Overview: Hervé Montagne, a famous but awfully self-satisfied playwright, is furious when he learns that the actress signed to lead in his latest play will not be able to play the part on account of pregnancy. All the more as no other great actress is available. Well, in fact there IS one, Gabrielle Tristan, a great name of the French stage. The only trouble is that she is Hervé's ex-wife and that they have not been on speaking terms for ten tears.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-02
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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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A Night at a Honeymoon
Overview: Gaston wants more than anything to marry the naive Simone. But where he is, there is Sidonie, a local singer romantically pursued by the police commissionaire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-02-08
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The Lovers of Bras-Mort
Overview: Jean Michaut is a bargeman who lives nearby an old barge cemetery named "Bras-Mort". He is in love with Monique, the daughter of a wealthy boat owner. The girl returns his affection but runs her head against the wall of her family's class prejudices. Her "nearest and dearest" prove indeed prepared to do everything to separate the two lovers. But Monique will not buy in. On the contrary, she leaves her intolerant family to live with Jean among simple, more tolerant bargemen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-17
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Not So Stupid
Overview: Léon Ménard, a farmer and an apparently simple man of the country, is invited to visit his uncle Henri Ménard, a prosperous industrialist. He encounters a number of people scheming to marry into the Ménard family for the sake of money. Ménard discovers and thwart the plots and manages to unite a young couple who truly are in love. The romantic comedy ends happily with a double marriage. Henri's daughter Nicole marries Didier, and Ménard marries his new-found love Rosine. It turns out that Léon is "not so stupid" after all.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-07-19
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Francis the First
Overview: Honorin is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition is to once play the role of the cavalier in the opera "Francis I, or the Loves of the Beautiful Ferroniere". A hypnotist puts him to sleep and in his dreams he is transplanted to the days of the Renaissance. There, among other items, he is made a Duke by Henri VIII, fights a duel and survives a series of medieval tortures, while also bestowing some 20th century blessings on the court of Francis I.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-02-17
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The Messenger
Overview: Nick, a Parisian businessman, divorces his rich American wife, marries his new secretary Marie, but is prevented from success in France so travels without his wife to an African outpost. He tells his young assistant Gilbert about his wife. When Gilbert takes sick and returns to Paris, he begins to fall in love with Marie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-09-02
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Gigolo
Overview: Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, he fell into misery when he left it. His only asset was his good looks, which did not escape the attention of Madame Alice, a shady woman who persuaded him to pose for pornographic photos meant for lonely aging women. Marceau also served as a gigolo before the war and captivity put an end to this juicy business. Now he wants to start a new life, all the more as ha has found love in the person of a pure young lady named Dominique. But Madame Alice won't hear of it...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-08
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White as Snow
Overview: Naive and good-hearted Léon Ménard arrives in Paris, determined to find work in the capital. In a café, he meets Bob, a seedy guy, who helps him to get a job. On cloud nine, the ingenuous young man, does is unaware of how Bob manipulates him. Having become the night concierge of a hotel, the thankful Léon lets Bob and his accomplices get into the pace. Jewels are stolen as a result.When he is accused, Leon refuses to incriminate his "friend". Fortunately, Charlotte, Léon's fiancé, manages to find evidence of Bob's guilt and thanks to a premium paid by the diamond dealer the two lovebirds can buy a grocer's shop and tie the knot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-04-28
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La Banque Némo
Overview: The rise of a crooked employee of a bank and the attempt of a former co-worker to bring him down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-07-23
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My Last Mistress
Overview: A renowned sculptor aged about fifty years, François Bressolles falls for the young Catherine Collet whom he convinces without difficulty to pose for him. Complications ensue when he starts to go blind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-11-24
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I Was an Adventuress
Overview: Old friends of Vera Vronsky remind her of her past and try to blackmail her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-21
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The Lady from the Sea
Overview: Handsome young fisherman Tom Roberts is among the crew of a lifeboat that rescues Frenchwoman Claire le Grange, sole survivor of a shipwreck on the treacherous Goodwin Sands. Tom's marriage to his own sweetheart, Mary, is postponed owing to injuries he sustained in the dramatic rescue, and during his convalescence he falls for the charms of the flirtatious Claire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-05-01
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Rayon de soleil
Overview: Jean Gourguet's 1928 49-minute silent feels like a French precursor to Siodmak's 1930 "Menschen am Sonntag". It shows us how Parisians of the 1920s spent their Sundays, by following the progress of four young people on their day off - a girl, her beau, and his two rivals. The film is at turns comic, wistful and romantic.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-04-26
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Whirlwind of Paris
Overview: A gang of broke student musicians travel to Paris to take exams. But very quickly, the lack of money pushes young people to pass themselves off as professionals during the performance. They will then win the victory!
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-12-15
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The Flame of Love
Overview: A Chinese troupe star and the Grand Duke's adjutant fall in love, to tensions from both sides' respective comrades.
Genres: Music Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-03-07
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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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This Man in Paris
Overview: A British reporter and his wife, on vacation in Paris, run into a gang of counterfeiters.
Genres: Mystery Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1939-07-01
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Babette Goes to War
Overview: Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into German-occupied France to help kidnap an important German general. She bungles through to a heroic finish of plot and counter-plot.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-09-18
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Juggernaut
Overview: An evil doctor and the greedy wife of a rich man plot to poison him so they can get their hands on his money.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1936-09-08
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Annette and the Blonde Woman
Overview: A scatterbrained girl harasses a lawyer in Cannes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-03-16
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The Queer Assignment
Overview: A young man, Robert Dupont, with suicidal tendencies and a bit stupid to boot, is saved by a stranger who pretends to be a well-known banker. This stranger then entrusts him with a suitcase full of mysterious documents, which he asks him to take with him to Indochina. But in reality, the suitcase is stuffed with banknotes from a scam.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-10-03
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His Father's Portrait
Overview: Paul has to leave his country home to collect his father's inheritance of a department store. A natural-born son, Paul's stepmother gives him a cold reception, and he's appalled by the behavior of his half-sister Dominique, an existentialist of the highest order. Paul's gumption restores the Galeries Parisiennes to its former glory, and he gives a farewell present to a more subdued Dominique. He returns to his village, arm in arm with the wise Marie-Louise, ex-saleswoman at the Grand Magasin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-10-29
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The Wonderful Day
Overview: An assistant pharmacist in the South of France , Blaise works for Mrs. Pinède, a well-endowed hot-blooded woman who has developed a crush on him, and her husband ... who hasn't! One day, Blaise meets Felloux, a rich man who is convalescing in Cassis. Felloux takes a liking to Blaise and decides to offer him a perfect day in Juan-les-Pins. Gambling in the casino, Blaise wins an astronomical sum. A new life seems to open to him but not for long. Indeed he loses all, but not before he has given a beautiful necklace to a young woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-11-23
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Not So Quiet on the Western Front
Overview: A musical comedy directed by Monty Banks. A cook recalls a night spent in a French estaminet in 1915.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-05-01
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The Price of Things
Overview: Courtenay John Dayre is drugged by a jealous spy on the night before his loveless marriage to Anthea. His twin, John Courtenay Dayre, reluctantly agrees to impersonate his brother at the wedding, only to discover a genuine affection for his accidental wife. Meanwhile, Courtenay begins to understand the price of things when he realises that his affair has allowed a valuable military secret to be stolen.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1930-07-02
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Feux de joie
Overview: Once their military service is over, the instrumentalists of a regimental orchestra find themselves in civilian life and decide to run a hotel themselves on the Côte d'Azur.
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-02-01
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The Lovers of Tomorrow
Overview: A man throws a revolver in the Seine and checks into a hotel run by an unhappy Turkish couple. The wife falls for the mysterious guest, and kills her husband to prevent him from the turning the man in to the police.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-08-26
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Meeting in Paris
Overview: A wealthy young American woman is suddenly cut off by her father while living in Paris. A philosopher, she tries to make a living as a guide in the capital. The Marquis de Cernay, who has his eye on Nancy's portfolio, engages Maurice, a hardworking writer, to follow the young woman. She learns from both of them that they are only interested in her fortune. However, when she learns of the deception, she returns to her usual social life. She will return to him when the Marquis de Cernay has betrayed himself once and for all.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-05-02
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The Big House
Overview: French-language version of "The Big House" (MGM, 1930), with Charles Boyer in Chester Morris's role, filmed by MGM parallel to the English-speaking version, at a time when good subtitles weren't yet in use.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-05-14
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Princesse Mandane
Overview: Brazen embrace of fashionable costume and glamour creates a witty celebration of Orientalism and cinema itself.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-11-23
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Ladies Hairdresser
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-05-19
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The Desert of Pigalle
Overview: A young priest works as a barman in a Pigalle cafe in Paris. He tries to prevent the women there to prostitute themselves....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-04-02
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Springtime in Paris
Overview: On her way to Paris, Gisèle meets a young motorist who offers to be her guide. Gisèle, suspicious, refuses and disappears. But Pierre finds her and takes her to dinner at Saint-Germain-des-Prés. On the other hand, Gisèle, out of jealousy, goes off on her own to visit "Paris by Night", showing us some of the attractions of the "Moulin Rouge", "Naturistes", "Rock and Roll", etc., etc., etc. Pierre pursues her and eventually discovers her hotel. The next day, he takes her for a walk around Paris. They dine at an inn where a supposed car breakdown forces them to spend the night. There was only one room, but the virtuous Gisèle locked Pierre in the bathroom. All ends in the most honest engagement in the world.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-03-08
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Miss Pigalle
Overview: A young woman has been run over by the car of Carlos, a brilliant embassy attaché. Feeling sorry for her, Carlos drives her to his place and decides to take her in. The young lady accepts his offer but refuses to tell Carlos her name, wanting to be called Miss Pigalle, after the Paris district where she was born. It does not take long before Yvonne (Miss Pigalle's true name) and Carlos fall in love. Life is like a dream and, when Yvonne gets pregnant, their happiness is at their peak. Unfortunately, a revolution breaks out and Carlos returns to his country in secret. Feeling forsaken and at a loss, Yvonne, who is now penniless, has no other solution but prostitute herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-07-25
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Mam'zelle Spahi
Overview: Two mistresses snubbed by their respective lovers crash a military ball and their lovers then resort to an unusual strategy to win them back.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-11-09
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Jonny, haute-couture
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-04-12
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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 Bread Peddler
Overview: A brave woman is sentenced to prison on false testimony. She escapes twenty years later and takes refuge in Paris where she carries bread while looking for her children Georges and Lucie who will find her and exonerate her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-03-23
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Sweetheart
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Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-12-24
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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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Let Us Be Gay
Overview: This is the French-language version produced by MGM of Let Us Be Gay (1930))
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-04-17
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Les époux célibataires
Overview: A mix-up between a young lord and a music hall singer gives rise to multiple complications that begin on board an ocean liner, continue in the salons of the English aristocracy and end in the wings of a spectacular revue, and in the film studios.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-07-19
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