Alfred Adam
Also Known As: Альфред Адам
Biography: Alfred Roger Adam (4 April 1908 – 7 May 1982) was a French stage and film character actor, who usually played weak or villainous roles. Source: Article "Alfred Adam" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Asnières, Seine [now Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine], France
Birthday: April 04, 1908
Deathday: May 07, 1982
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Lost Village
Overview: In the peaceful alpine village of Granges-de-Mortes, a tragedy has just taken place: Gustave Boeuf, the local Casanova, has mysteriously died at the foot of a wayside cross. Shortly afterwards, a peasant, who is suspected of having murdered him, hangs himself from a branch of the calvary. But was he the real culprit? Angélique Barrodet, an old maid , who had been Gustave's fiancée before he abandoned her on the very day of their wedding, leads the investigation in her own way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-11-26
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My Uncle Benjamin
Overview: Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the marriage contract, and marriage does not fit in with Benjamin's spirit of independence. For the same reason he resists the efforts of his sister Bettine to marry him off to Arabelle, the daughter of old Dr. Minxit. Benjamin does agree to go and meet the girl. But that evening his sister finds him at the inn together with Manette, who is arrested by her father. So she decides to go with Benjamin herself. But as result of an incident with the fat Marquis puts paid to the expedition. Benjamin is subjected by the Marquis to a humiliating practical joke. Benjamin is determined to got his revenge. He succeeds thanks to the gorgeous Vicomte Hector de Pont-Cassé, who also helps Manette with her problems against her father. But Benjamin is now arrested by the Marquis...
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-11-28
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The Witches of Salem
Overview: Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. A series of tragic trials soon befall Salem as fear and suspicion blur the lines of reality.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-04-26
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The Gardener of Argenteuil
Overview: Tulipe, is an old man who lives alone in an old railway carriage in the Argentueil region of Paris. His main passions are gardening and oil painting, but he also has a secret source of income. His godson discovers that Tulipe is actually a master forger, producing perfect copies of 10 franc notes. His godson’s girlfriend sees this as an opportunity to get very rich – but she must persuade Tulipe to forge 500 franc notes. Assuming Tulipe’s agreement, his godson and his girlfriend buy an expensive new car and luxury villa in provincial France – but there is a cruel turn of fate in store for them when Tulipe strikes up a friendship with a millionaire playboy.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-07
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Tides of Passion
Overview: In her small village in Vendée, Ludvine, an orphan, is in love with Jean-Pierre, but he is jealously guarded by her woman employer. On the day of the "Fair of Women", a traditional event where young men can choose the girl they fancy, Jean-Pierre picks out Ludvine.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-05-11
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We'll Grow Thin Together
Overview: Victor is a screenwriter whose last work about the Marechal Pétain is refused by his producer. To add insult to injury, he tells Victor he is paunchy. The unfortunate man becomes obsessed by his weight. He goes out of his way to lose pounds, abetted by his wife, Corinne, who puts him on a reducing diet. He must also go to a health center where he takes exercise. Nothing really works. And one day, in a brewery, he cannot withstand his diet anymore and he has a gastronomic meal. Desperate, he tries his luck at a weight watchers reunion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-08-15
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The Itchy Palm
Overview: A widow in her fifties,Madame Lacoste ,meets Jean when they both come to put their pussy in a cattery.The man borrows a hefty sum from her ,to send his sick young son to breathe the fresh air of the country ,or so he said;in fact there's no son at all.He gives the money to his mistress who claims she's pregnant by him and who wants to have an abortion.She lies too ,for she does not expect any child and she intends to help the young man she's in love with to buy a scooter.But the latter does not care about her either and intends to marry a "rich " girl ....who's actually the concierge's daughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-02-03
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The Stranger
Overview: Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-10-14
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Angel and Sinner
Overview: During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known as "Boule de Suif", renders these people a signal service, but comes up against their stupidity and their sufficiency. A little later, Boule de Suif assassinates the formidable Prussian lieutenant whom his friends had nicknamed Fifi and who shamelessly displayed his taste for pillage and his sadistic tendencies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-10-13
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Le Bateau à soupe
Overview: Hervé is a tough sea captain in command of the "Duchesse Anne", a rum-trading ship. But the sea dog hides a tender heart and he allows Marie-Douce, a poor slum girl who dreams of seeing the wide world,on board. To have her accepted by the crew, he passes her off as his niece. A seasoned master like him, wise enough to ban alcohol use on his ship, should have known better : a beautiful girl on the deck cannot but unleash the savage instincts of all those men without women.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-02-19
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The Fugitive
Overview: Fred Maubert, an innocent convicted of a crime he did not commit, escapes from prison and goes in search of the real culprit. He begins by looking for his former mistress, Simone, who has since married Doctor Bréville and lives in Canada.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-02-07
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125 rue Montmartre
Overview: Desperate, Didier throws himself out in the Seine. Pascal, a newsboy, jumps and saves him. It’s the beginning of the friendship between them.Once, as Pascal helps Didier, he finds himself involved in a murder. Only the superintendent believes in his innocence…
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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Carom Shots
Overview: Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he wants, he begins plotting the demise of the head of the company. The company itself specializes in holiday travel and unscrupulously brutalizes its customers for maximum profit, spending more thought on publicity gimmicks than customer service...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-17
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In the Service of the Tsar
Overview: At the turn of the last century, a beautiful spy takes advantage of a handsome officer to get across the Russian border without her passport. They fall in love. But the Grand Duke also falls in love with the young woman, who has in fact been assigned to kill him. A jealous mistress kills the spy before she can commit the crime.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-11-13
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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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My Wife Is Formidable
Overview: Raymond Corbier, a sculptor, has a wonderful wife, Sylvia, whom he adores. To save a passionate admirer who simulates suicide because she does not respond to her advances, Sylvia, an irreproachable wife, is forced to lie for the first time to Raymond.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-12-05
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La Glu
Overview: A young Breton sailor falls in love with a visiting stranger called 'La Glu'. He drops his betrothed, mother and friends so that he can live with her. La Glu is murdered. Who did it? Relatives and friends are all suspects.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-27
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The Woman I Loved the Most
Overview: Claude is a young man whose girlfriend has just broken up with him. Feeling unable to overcome the pain, Claude has no other idea than to end his life. Back home, he finds five middle-aged or elderly men sitting at the dinner table but he refuses to join the guests and goes upstairs to his bedroom. The worst is prevented thanks to a servant who has caught sight of Claude's revolver. Claude 's uncle joins his nephew and manages to persuade him not to take action. He takes him downstairs to the dining room where each in turn, the five guests start telling their own story. For it happens that they too once had their heart broken and that they too once wanted to die for love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-03-20
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Sideral Cruises
Overview: Robert and Françoise Monier make a hot air balloon to fly to the stratosphere. After a visit to Venus, they return home, but have only aged 15 days whereas 25 years have passed on Earth.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-04-19
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Sur le plancher des vaches
Overview: A little bank employee wins a plane in the lottery and amazes his companions with his audacity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-02-28
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The Chain Breaker
Overview: Antoine Mouret, an authoritarian restaurateur, is the head of a large family where, for reasons of interest, people only marry cousins. But some have other plans, Marcus especially when he meets a passing circus girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-12-23
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The President
Overview: At 73, a former President of the French Council reflects on his political career while writing his memoirs, delving into his relationships with key figures, including the one set to become the next President.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-01
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Homeport
Overview: A discharged seaman winds up on an old man's farm: his children left the place for the broader horizons of the evil city; the walls are near decay ,the fields lie fallow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-02-10
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Rue de Paris
Overview: Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a dash of comedy. While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times but he also has a better side that will not stay buried. Since handling three children alone is no easy task, the single father has the choice of growing in the process or not.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-10-21
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The Most Wanted Man
Overview: A nearsighted clerk gets fired after embarrassing mishaps. He mistakenly takes a gangster's raincoat, finds a gun inside, and is arrested as Public Enemy No. 1. Chaos erupts as both the police and the mob pursue him.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-12-02
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Farandole
Overview: A ruined banker is abandoned by his mistress. He commits suicide after entrusting a prostitute with twenty-thousand francs. The money changes hands. A crook is arrested in the house of an an actress he had fooled. In a luxury hotel, a typist kills her lover's wife. The trial of the murderer is followed by the bankruptcy of another financier and the money finally returns to the mistress of a suicide in the restaurant in which she had first appeared.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-02-10
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Let Joy Reign Supreme
Overview: A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-03-23
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Quartier chinois
Overview: In a Far Eastern town, a settling of accounts between Western and Asian opium traffickers draws the attention of the police.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-03-07
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The Beautiful Days of King Murat
Overview: For the past few weeks, revolt has been brewing in the Kingdom of Naples. The handsome Castelli is at the head of the conspiracy that wants to put an end to the reign of King Murat. To carry out his plan, he decides to infiltrate the court in order to become an intimate of the king. But his ploy works too well: he manages to enter the court thanks to his talents as a singer and very quickly seduces Queen Geneviève. But this imprudence costs him a lot. He is soon arrested by the king's men and immediately condemned to death.
Genres: Drama History Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-05-13
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Femme sans passé
Overview: Caroline feels neglected by her husband, the businessman Lorin. She plans to have fun with an inventor but finds herself, following a combination of circumstances, locked up in a psychiatric clinic. To get out of it, she is forced to take on the identity of the wife of a third man, whom she resembles.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-08-27
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Gold Smugglers
Overview: A band of traffickers seeks to infiltrate among smugglers on the Franco-Belgian border. Josée, a superb girl, is the mistress of Gueule en or, one of the smugglers.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-01-11
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L'Homme aux mains d'argile
Overview: The fictionalized life, and interpreted by himself, of the popular boxing champion Marcel Cerdan. Training sessions, matches, victories, flight to the U.S.A. where the title of world champion is disputed, form the whole subject of the film.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-03
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All the Gold in the World
Overview: Businessman Victor Hardy wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. He claims that he wants to return to nature, but he also intends to profit by selling the water from the village fountain, which is reputed to enhance longevity. However old farmer Mathieu and his sons don't want to sell...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-01
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The Wizard of Heaven
Overview: The Wizard of Heaven tells the compelling and remarkable story of St. John Marie Baptist Vianney, the humble pastor of Ars, France, who battled with the devil himself, not only for the faith of his parish, but even for that of his country. Starting with the Saint's arrival at Ars, this film brings to life the hardships, indifference, ridicule and opposition he encountered, as well as the zeal with which he strove to overcome them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-01-11
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The Case Against X
Overview: Paul Dorgères, a wealthy industrialist, has been mysteriously murdered. The investigation is entrusted to the experienced Chief Inspector Bonnardel and his young rookie assistant, Inspector Richard. Suspicion turns to his mistress Catherine Villard, with whom he had just broken up on the night of the crime. She is soon arrested and charged. However, Inspector Richard discovers a button at the scene of the crime which could help him to trace the trail and confound the culprit(s).
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-06-11
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The Tiger Attacks
Overview: Paul Lamiani, a wizened mobster, is asked to return to duty following the disappearance of secret documents of extreme importance. It is assumed that they are in the hands of a friend of Paul. But the case becomes even more delicate when Lamiani's son is kidnapped.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-01-21
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The Fighting Drummer
Overview: The rivalry between Albert Gambier, head of the municipal brass band, and the jazz band, led by Jacques Hélian, provokes many comic adventures in this small provincial town. Everything will end in songs, thanks to the love uniting Jimmy, the band's composer, and Nicole, Gambier's daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-12-12
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The Drunkard
Overview: Unfairly accused of her husband's murder, a woman is imprisoned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-02-27
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Dear Caroline
Overview: France, July 1782. During her birthday, the beautiful young Marchioness Caroline meets the attractive soldier Gaston. It's love at first sight but Gaston does not wish to make a commitment because a military career waits for him. Caroline marries then a politician but the French Revolution bursts and Caroline has to run away to escape the guillotine. By running away she meets Gaston again who decides to help her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-02-28
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A Little Virtuous
Overview: In Paris, the young photographer Ferdinand falls in love with Claire, a pickpocket. Shortly after, he is assaulted because he took pictures of the young woman with another man, Brady, his sponsor. The policeman Lorenzi is put on the case, but in love, Ferdinand does not want to denounce her. However, a stolen object that she offered him will allow his indictment: Claire will spend a year in prison. When she is released, Ferdinand marries her. Kerman, Ferdinand's new boss, employs Claire in his cabaret. She puts on a famous act during which she picks the pockets of the spectators, then gives the objects back at the end of the show. But Brady reappears, demanding 80% of the young woman's earnings, otherwise he will denounce Claire's bigamy, to whom he is still married! Ferdinand prepares to flee with his wife. When he finds her, he comes across the corpse of Brady, whom Claire has just killed.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-02-21
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Under the Sign of the Bull
Overview: In this film, Albert is an eccentric inventor of missiles who comes under fire from his investors when his first prototype explodes. Even his sympathetic mistress has her doubts, as Albert lashes out in a verbal tirade condemning those of little faith in his genius.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-03-28
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I Sing
Overview: Charles's uncle is the headmaster of a chic girls school .He is short of the readies and he has lots and lots of debts.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-30
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The Duraton Family
Overview: Unbeknownst to the members of a French family, a radio announcer makes them the subject of a broadcast.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-03-06
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Tartarin de Tarascon
Overview: A well-to-do bourgeois, Tartarin lives in Tarascon, a small southern town, among friends who, like him, love hunting "à la casquette", gossip, aperitifs and thought-provoking journeys. Imaginative like all his compatriots, Tartarin ended up believing he had once been to Shanghai, so fervently did he recount his illusory adventures. It was even rumored that Tartarin was about to leave for Africa to hunt wild beasts, and this was so insistent that the brave man, urged on by his friends, was forced "for the sake of honor" to embark. He arrives in Casablanca, surprised to discover a modern city and not a single lion. But a charming Moorish woman, Baïa, seduces him, and Tartarin indulges in the "delights of Capua". This euphoria is short-lived: Baïa disappears, a false prince, mostly a swindler, finds a replacement and sets off on a hunting expedition in southern Morocco, which will only earn Tartarin the loss of his savings and a blind old lion dragged along by two beggars.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-22
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The Glorious Avenger
Overview: Il Cavaliere di Maison Rouge is an Italian adventure film directed by Vittorio Cottafavi based on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-04-24
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Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's
Overview: The love story like no other of an aristocrat with the daughter of the bellboy at Chez Maxim's restaurant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-04-14
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La Comédie avant Molière
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-01-01
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Le Prussien
Overview: A German prisoner of wars stays in France after the armistice with the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-11-29
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The Flea in the Ear
Overview: Raymonde Chandebise suspects her husband Victor-Emmanuel of cheating on her. She received a package from the hotel "Le minet galant". The package contained a pair of suspenders belonging to her husband. Her best friend, Lucienne, advises her to find out for sure and to use a stratagem. They both send him a fake, passionate letter, written by a beautiful stranger, asking him to meet her at the "Minet Galant"! But little do they know that the hotel's simpleton bellboy is a look-alike of poor Victor-Emmanuel!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-09-22
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Maigret at the Pigalle
Overview: Maigret is about to leave for the holidays but a colleague asks him for help in investigating the mysterious murder of a stripper and a noblewoman, both of which took place in Pigalle.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-12-30
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Hanged Man's Farm
Overview: A large farm in Vendée. The father is dying and the three brothers and sister swear not to marry not to break up the field. Months pass. Francis, the eldest, took things in hand. For him, the promise to their father is sacred. So he does everything for his brothers and his sister Amanda are not tempted. However, the latter lets himself courted by a young man from the neighboring village ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-12-05
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How to Kill 400 Duponts
Overview: Dorellik, an Italian contract killer that lives on the French Riviera, accepts a job to kill everyone with the surname Dupont that lives in France for a rich customer which supposedly would allow him to obtain a large inheritance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-03-07
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Speedway
Overview: Bill Whipple is a happy-go-lucky mechanic for MacDonald who thinks that he is the worlds greatest driver and lover. Mac has treated Bill like a son since he took him in. One day at the track, Bill sees Pat Bannon, and tries his best to impress her, but to no avail. On his way to catch a flight, he tricks Pat into taking him to the airport and she gets even by taking him up in a plane. He hates to fly, but will not show her that he is afraid and when the plane breaks up, he is a hero for rescuing her. This gets him publicity and Renny offers him his car to drive in the Indianapolis 500. Bill breaks with Mac to drive the car and puts it on the pole for the race. Then Renny double crosses Bill and plans to drive the car himself since Bill has tuned it so well.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-10-07
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The Wreckers
Overview: In 1852, the famine on a desolate Britanny's island named Blaz-Mor, off the coast of Finistère. Some residents exalted hold responsible the young Moira, equivalent to a witch. The old Marnez, "head" of the island, is trying to restore calm and opposes Yann Le Heart, the fiancé of his daughter Louise Kermelen, who wants causing a shipwreck to save the island from famine.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-01-27
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Love and the Frenchwoman
Overview: The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-09-16
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Les joueurs
Overview: Ikhariev is a professional gambler who made his fortune by cheating. Having just won eighty thousand roubles, he comes to try his luck again at a new inn. He is accosted by three men, also cheaters, who offer to join forces with him to ruin their new prey: young Glov, heir to a rich landed estate.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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A Kiss for a Killer
Overview: In Nice, a wealthy widow is charmed by a young man who marries her and manages her finances. He soon starts an affair with her secretary, who proves to be even more ruthless than he is.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-11-27
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Juliette et Juliette
Overview: Juliette Vidal is a journalist in Paris who works for the glamorous magazine "Pénélope". Uninspired, she decides to take an interest in the life of a department store saleswoman Juliette Rozenec.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-02-27
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The Lace Wars
Overview: In the 18th century, as the army of Prince De Beaulieu lays siege on the fortress of Marechal D'Allenberg, a young princess sends a soldier out of the fortress to go find her lover.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-12-01
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The Boss of Champignol
Overview: Claudius finds a foal and takes it home to his boss. The men who stole the animal are looking for him. Claudius names him Champignol and trains him for racing. When he grows up, Champignol wins a regional race. But the thieves return, and Claudius is forced to do odd jobs to keep his horse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-03-16
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The Lace Wars
Overview: In the 18th century, as the army of Prince De Beaulieu lays siege on the fortress of Marechal D'Allenberg, a young princess sends a soldier out of the fortress to go find her lover.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-12-01
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Vivre Sa Vie
Overview: Twelve episodic tales in the life of a Parisian woman and her slow descent into prostitution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-09-20
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Women Are Like That
Overview: American FBI agent Lemmy Caution arrives in France to track down a dangerous spy.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-09-20
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At Your Command, Madam
Overview: Hector and Odette Dupuis' car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, but not far from a luxury hotel. The couple are well off but, being miserly, Odette is determined to keep her budget tight. Fortunately for her, the hotel offers rooms for domestics costing only 35 francs, so she decides to pass her husband as her chauffeur. As far as she is concerned, Odette presents herself as Baroness de Garches and takes a 250 franc room. But their stay soon becomes complicated. For instance, Palureau, a widower with five daughters who is planning to remarry, starts courting the 'baroness'. And that is not all since at the same time Angèle, a chambermaid, makes advances to Hector ! To make matters worse, Ferdinand, Angèle's boyfriend, decides to get even with Hector, his 'rival'. The jealous guy steals a jewel from a guest and has poor Hector accused of the theft.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-10-16
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Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc
Overview: The story of the couple from the very first meeting to break up told from a view of a man, Jean-Marc. The film shares the same plot with "Françoise ou La vie conjugale", that tells the same story from another perspective.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-01-31
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The Farm of Seven Sins
Overview: In 1825, Paul-Louis Courier, a Republican writer known for publishing pamphlets against the French monarchy, was killed in the farm where he had retired. Was it a political assassination or a vicious crime? Those who have known him loved him or hated him are interrogated by the police. Will the guilty person(s) be ferreted out?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-16
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The Gendarme of Champignol
Overview: Claudius Binoche, brigadier de gendarmerie in Champignol, is about to marry Suzette, the post office maid, when she disappears, called to the village of Buzy by a mysterious telegram. The brigadier is transferred to Buzy to investigate, but Buzy is not Champignol, and Captain Raspec is an irascible superior. Suzette is nowhere to be found, and Binoche can't think of anything better than organizing robberies under the name of "Bandit de la colline aux oiseaux". This bandit does exist and is on the rampage. His name is Vittorio. Binoche, eager to prove herself, earns the respect of the locals and the friendship of Vittorio, Suzette's own brother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-05-26
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La Main passe
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-12-31
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A Royal Affair
Overview: Mme Beaudrier, the wife of a Parliamentary Senator, hurls a pastry at visiting King Joan IV of Cerdagne, sparking off a series of farcical events involving all levels of the government and their mistresses.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-14
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Cadet Rousselle
Overview: The Adventures of Cadet Rousselle that on the French Revolution left his hometown in search of fortune. He thinks he knows love with Violeta, a dancer in a band of comedians but ends up involved in a monarchist plot.
Genres: Comedy History Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-10-20
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The American Beauty
Overview: Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-29
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Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise
Overview: The story of the couple from the very first meeting to break up told from a view of a woman, Francoise. The film shares the same plot with "Jean-Marc ou La vie conjugale", that tells the same story from another perspective.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-01-31
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Carnival in Flanders
Overview: Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the annual local festivities when the arrival of the Duke of Olivares, who rules the country on behalf of the King Philip III of Spain, is announced. While the male citizens cowardly surrender to panic like rats on a sinking ship, the brave female citizens, led by the bold wife of the burgomaster, decide to become the best hosts the Spaniards can ever meet.
Genres: Comedy History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-03
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The Straw Lover
Overview: The wife of gunsmith Gaston Sarazin cheats on him with his salesman. The husband, informed, wants revenge. The culprits try to divert suspicion on the dashing Stanislas. The husband forces the straw lover to live with him. Stanislas then brings the spouses together and makes the business of the gunsmith prosper.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-01-05
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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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Caroline and the Rebels
Overview: A swashbuckling heritage reveals itself as the adopted son of 19th-century Spaniards develops into a suave lady-killer.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-11
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The Bohemian Life
Overview: Four young friends share the carefree, cheerfulness, laughter and dances of Bohemian life. Rodolphe the painter, Alexandre Chaunard the composer, Colline the philosopher, as well as Marcel and his friend Musette. Mimi, a romantic young girl, falls in love with Rodolphe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-10-17
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Jo la Romance
Overview: For love, the singer Georges Hyverlin gives up his profession to work with his father-in-law in his car factory. When the passion for song takes him back, he manages to resume his career thanks to the support of his wife Martine.
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-03-04
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Death, Where Is Your Victory?
Overview: Feeling complicit in a heinous act of her husband, a woman sinks into decay, then recovers and becomes a nun
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-01-10
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