Charles Vanel
Also Known As: Charles-Henri Vanel, Шарль Ванель
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Charles-Marie Vanel, known as Charles Vanel (21 August 1892 in Rennes, France - 15 April 1989, in Cannes, France) was a French director and actor. He made his screen debut in 1912, in Robert Péguy's Jim Crow. His 77 year career comprised appearances in more than 200 films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Vanel, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Adult: No
Birthday: August 21, 1892
Age: 132 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: April 15, 1989
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The Wages of Fear
Overview: In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.
Genres: Drama Thriller Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-04-22
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To Catch a Thief
Overview: An ex-thief is accused of enacting a new crime spree, so to clear his name he sets off to catch the new thief, who’s imitating his signature style.
Genres: Mystery Romance Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-08-03
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Boomerang
Overview: A reformed gangster turns to his old associates for help after his son kills a police officer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-08-15
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Diabolique
Overview: The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-01-29
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Le Passager
Overview: At the time of the departure of a freighter, a man runs on the pier, begging that he be taken aboard. The captain agrees. The only passengers are the captain’s niece, Marie, accompanied by her baby boy. A radio message is received. It seems that a murderer has just escaped on a boat.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-10-17
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The Awakening
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-11-06
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Golden Night
Overview: After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel returns from the dead and sets about getting revenge on his family members. He sends each one a voodoo doll, warning of their fate. Wandering over the streets of Paris, Michel is the haunted and hunted, as he himself hunts his villainous kin.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-10-01
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Island Fishermen
Overview: Yan, captain of a fishing boat, falls in love with the daughter of his boss, to the great displeasure of Jenny, his jealous mistress.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-06-24
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Alice or the Last Escapade
Overview: One night Alice can't stand her husband anymore and she decides to leave him. It's a dark, rainy night and something smashes the windshield so Alice is forced to seek shelter in an old mansion. She is warmly welcomed but soon realises that strange things are happening. She tries to escape but it seems there's no way out.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-01-19
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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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Death in the Garden
Overview: In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local government undertakes a violent crackdown.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-09-21
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Savage Brigade
Overview: The duel between a Czarist general and a lieutenant, over the general's wife, is postponed with war approaching. Years later, the rivals meet again but the general realizes his wife has been faithful to him after all.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-26
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The Truth
Overview: As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the two used to share.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-11-02
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If the Sun Never Returns
Overview: The residents of a remote Swiss mountain village come to believe an ancient oracle in this drama taken from the novel by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz. With news of the Spanish Civil War on the radio, the people begin to believe the sun will not return and the world will be forever darkened.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-09-02
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Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece
Overview: After the death of Captain Thémistocle Paparanic, Captain Haddock's old friend, he inherits a ship called the Golden Fleece. Once Tintin and the captain arrive in Istanbul, where the ship is anchored, they meet Mr. Karabine, a businessman who stubbornly insists on buying it even though it is in a dilapidated state.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-06
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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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They Were Five
Overview: Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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Faubourg Montmartre
Overview: Two sisters struggle to stay on the straight and narrow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-10-02
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Les Misérables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-02-09
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
Overview: Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-02-10
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Magnet of Doom
Overview: Young boxer Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager after a series of match defeats and is forced to look for a new job. He is engaged as secretary to a millionaire named Ferchaux who is in a hurry to flee the country when he discovers he has been implicated in a high-profile fraud.
Genres: Crime Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-09-25
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La Flambée des rêves
Overview: Claire is married to the elderly owner of a brewery. She seeks excitement with her childhood friend René.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-10-03
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Gitanes
Overview: A gypsy and a boatman fall in love with each other. They do not understand each other and make each other suffer. When, at last, their hearts are confounded, the young girl’s father kills the young man, thus accomplishing the implacable Bohemian law.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-03-03
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L'Autre aile
Overview: Reymat is killed during an aerobatic exhibition in a plane. Hélène, his fiancée, to forget her grief, decides to become an aviator.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-11-30
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The Yellow Captain
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-12-19
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King of the Camargue
Overview: A gypsy has cast a spell on Livette, the fiancee of Renaud, the proud guardian nicknamed, King of the Camargue. Renaud wants to punish the witch who frightened Livette. But then, meeting the gypsy, he is taken under the strange spell that emanates from her. She arranges to meet him in an isolated hut in the middle of the muddy ponds. Livette, warned of her betrothed betrayal, goes to the place where she is to meet the infidel. But Renaud changed the stakes that line the only fordable passage. And Livette dies, even more from Renaud's betrayal.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-01-24
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L'Impossible Aveu
Overview: A cabaret singer incites the man who loves her to perpetrate a burglary to avenge the one she loves and to whom the first has wronged. The case goes wrong but its instigator has time to confess before dying.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-06-07
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The Flame
Overview: A woman of easy virtue rejects a proposal of marriage made to her by a rich lover. But when her son is taken from her to be brought up in the best conditions, she keeps thinking about him. When she finds him, twenty years later, she can not adapt to the environment to which he now belongs.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-08
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The Seniors
Overview: A high school in the thirties: most of the students are leaving for the Easter holidays. However, one of them,Brassier, an A -student ,stays for sentimental reasons. He is desperately in love with the principal's wife who does not want to cheat on her husband, and, above all, does not want the young man to ruin his good prospects. On a night he calls on her, a theft is committed, in the principal's office. Although completely innocent, the good lad stands accused. He's got an alibi, but it would compromise the reputation of the woman he is in love with.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-29
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Troïka sur la piste blanche
Overview: Wife of an arms trafficker in Poland, Georgina is forced to help him. She will only be able to regain her freedom - and love - after a troika chase during which the trafficker loses his life.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-06-18
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Social Police
Overview: For years now, Chief inspector Gustave Picard has been trying to bring down Salviati, the dreadful leader of a drug-selling gang. Lucienne Préville, an informer who works for him, has infiltrated the gang but her position is dangerous. On the other hand, Scoppa, Salviati's former right-hand man, has started challenging his former boss. Will Salviati, the brutal public enemy, clear off at last?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-04-09
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Legions of Honor
Overview: An officer is tried for self-inflicted injury.He is thrown out of the Foreign Legion .
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-02-17
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S.O.S. Sahara
Overview: At a North Africa desert outpost threatened by Arabs, the French commander has added trouble when his wife visits and is captivated by a younger officer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-08-17
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The Black Diamond
Overview: A wealthy man's wife dies in a car crash; she is survived by him and their daughter. The father learns that he's not her biological father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-06-25
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Promise to the Unknown One
Overview: A young woman is in love with a young writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt. Married to a banker, she must face her husband's anger and the blackmail of a former suitor.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-10-02
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Haut le vent
Overview: In 1906, François left the Basque country with his father, who had decided to settle in Argentina following an incident between him and Esteban. Having become a powerful industrialist, he returned to France in 1940 on the occasion of the signing of a contract. He learns that the Haut-le-Vent estate, occupied by his aunt Anna, is his. Greeted with mistrust by the villagers, he manages to make himself sympathetic and decides to stay on the estate with Gisèle, Esteban's daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-09-23
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On Trial
Overview: Prosecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere presumptions. He then makes it a point of honor to trace the sources of the case to uncover the truth.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-06-04
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Barocco
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-11-20
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Jenny
Overview: When her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Danielle leaves London and returns to her mother, Jenny, in Paris. With her business partner Benoît, Jenny runs what appears to be a respectable nightclub – it is in fact a place where wealthy men can buy the favours of attractive young women. Oblivious to her mother's professional and personal life, Danielle meets a handsome young man named Lucien, and falls in love with him – not realising that he is Jenny's lover...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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La Cabane aux souvenirs
Overview: Laurangeais stays in a nursing home after his wife dies following an accident caused by Terrian, his adopted son. When he leaves he finds Terrian who is going to get married. He drags his future wife into a cabin and kills her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-09-10
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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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The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
Overview: A successful businessman whose destiny leads him to a secluded Swiss chalet where his life is put on trial by a group of retired law professionals. The men assemble to analyze Sordi's rise to power and his increasingly immoral behavior as he attained success, and the warped perceptions of right and wrong he has adopted to remain successful.
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-12-22
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Seven Deaths by Prescription
Overview: Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-03
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Malaire
Overview: Noguère, an old patriarch, is about to die and decides to confess at last to a priest. He once lived alone with his son Juste, who helped him to farm the Mauvents land. One night Noguère fired at a couple of trespassers, hurting the girl and killing her fiancé. Giving Catoune, the girl, the shelter of his home, Noguère was forced - however reluctantly it may have been - to break the bad news to the fiancée. For all that Catoune recovered, settled down and later married Juste. After a while Juste left for the war and was soon reported missing. Noguère comforted the distressed young woman so well that she became her mistress. But Juste had not been killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-01-14
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The Mask of the Gorilla
Overview: Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must infiltrate a dangerous gang working for a foreign embassy as their leader, a spy enjoying diplomatic immunity, can't be arrested by regular police.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-08-14
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Burning Fuse
Overview: Lola, the wife of arms dealer Pedro Wassewich, is attracted to Ludovic, a young painter who turns out to be the emissary of a notorious gangster. He claims to have been sent by the latter to pick up a shipment. In fact, it's the police who, behind the scenes, orchestrate the operation to catch Wassewich red-handed.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-02-27
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A King Without Distraction
Overview: A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France. The second film directed by the man who played the admirable lead role in Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped is a stylized and intense adaptation of a novel by Jean Giono. This police investigation in a 19th century village combines visual beauty with the rigor of the mise-en-scène—the vertigo of the criminal motivations indivisible from the refined graphics of the images.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-08-30
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Le Père Goriot
Overview: Jean-Joachim Goriot, a merchant who got rich during the Revolution, is obsessed with the love of his two daughters, whose social promotion he wants. He endows them richly, ruins himself to pay their debts, but Delphine and Anastasie do not return his affection and abandon him at the time of his death to run to a big ball.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-03-09
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Dainah the Mixed
Overview: After three weeks and a long, hot voyage across the Pacific, an ocean liner finally arrives at its destination, Ecuador. That evening, the event is marked by a masked ball and a magic show.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-08-19
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Le Reflet dans la mer
Overview: Karl de Linken, an elegant young man, adventurous and unattached, arrives in the square of a small Corsican village perched in the mountains. His presence intrigues Baron Ucciani, who reigns supreme over Santa Lucia. The meeting with the baron and his young wife Maria could divert our hero from his original project: revenge ...
Genres: TV Movie Crime Thriller Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-28
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The Woman Who Dared
Overview: The strength of a couple's fascination with airplanes and flight is to the detriment of their family
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-02-03
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Gorilla's Waltz
Overview: This is the third feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of "The Gorilla," but unlike the earlier films, this time around Roger Hanin replaces Lino Ventura in the title role. A West German scientist has discovered a way to recover missiles shot into space, and the major Western powers are after his secret. Even though the scientist is willing to pass his discovery on to NATO, it is guarded by an elite, undercover West German police force. As foreign agents, including the Russians and Americans, try to get their hands on the secret, "The Gorilla" is forced into the affair by his surly, aging boss -- he has to make sure that the scientist's discovery ends up with NATO.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-05-01
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La Puce et le privé
Overview: Val Brosse, a private detective, receives Françoise, who confesses to him that she murdered her husband. The story is false, but Val, intrigued, decides to investigate.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-03-11
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In the Night
Overview: A quarry worker gets married and lives his marital bliss, until an explosion at his workplace, a mine, disfigures him...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-05-16
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Sinners of Paris
Overview: Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that Vanel is too crafty and well-connected to ever stand trial for his crime, so he carefully lays a subtle trap for his adversary. Unfortunately, both Piccoli and Vanel are thwarted by a pair of scheming females.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-15
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L'Enquête du 58
Overview: A train driver has not slowed down at a signal and caused an accident whose victim is a gatekeeper. Two inspectors come to investigate the affair. During his interrogation, the driver refuses to provide an explanation for his action and is charged with malpractice. The only one he will tell the truth to is the gatekeeper's wife.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-11-04
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In the Name of the Law
Overview: A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1949-03-13
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Maddalena
Overview: The story takes plays during the annual Good Friday pageant in a tiny Italian village. Local priest Don Vincenzo faces a crisis when the girl selected to play the Virgin Mary shows up pregnant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-08-07
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The Seasons of Pleasure
Overview: Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and somewhat disturbed son-in-law, will be the butler.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-02-10
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Rififi in Tokyo
Overview: Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuable diamond.
Genres: Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-03-29
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Flight Into Darkness
Overview: During the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon (Jean-Pierre Aumont) has a liaison with Helene (Annabella), a married woman. The young man discovers that his mistress is none other than the wife of Maury (Charles Vanel), an aviator friend.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-10-22
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Crossroads
Overview: A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then appears a blackmailer who accuses him of being a usurper, actually called Jean Pelletier, a mobster well known to police. Vetheuil, judging himself slandered, refuses to listen to his tormentor and goes to the police. The man speaks. The scandal is public soon ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-01
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Camorra
Overview: The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He will upgrade its rank till the maximum level of the "Family".
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-30
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Abused Confidence
Overview: Lydia (Danielle Darrieux) is a student, poor and orphaned, who pretends to be the daughter of a famous writer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-11-29
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Tillers of the Soil
Overview: One of two peasant brothers in love with the same woman escapes his grim country life and pursues a career as a Parisian sculptor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-01-02
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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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Iceland Fishermen
Overview: Faithfully reproduced observations of Breton fisherfolk in story of the man a local woman really loves who will not at first give himself to her because of his fondness for the sea that takes him away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-10-10
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The House of Mystery
Overview: An imaginative wedding scene shot in silhouette, begins a tale of murder blackmail and romance covering a period of about 18 years, ending around 1923. Film composed of 10 episodes: 1.- L'Ami felon. 2.- Le secret de L'etang. 3.- L'Ambition au service de la haine. 4.- L'Implacable verdict. 5.- Le Pont vivant. 6.- La Voix du sang. 7.- Les Caprices du destin. 8.- En Champ clos. 9.- Les Angoisses de Corradin. 10.- Le Triomphe de L'amour.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-01-02
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Business Is Business
Overview: Isidore Lechat is a ruthless self-made man whose money allows him to humiliate the others, particularly a ruined noble: he wants his daughter to marry this marquis's son but the girl is in love with a young scientist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-09-10
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Prisoner of the Volga
Overview: A vicious play of intrigue, about love, desire and betrayal, in the dress of the military at the Cossacks around 1890.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-03-26
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The Last Sentence
Overview: Piero is the leader of a group of university students who lead a carefree life. Finding himself in trouble and in need of money, he turns to criminal means—receiving aid from Daniela, the daughter of a rigid magistrate.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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The Flame
Overview: Cléo d'Aubigny, a music-hall star, once had a love affair with the rich Lord Sedley and had a son from him. But Cléo, putting her career first, has always neglected little Hugues, letting Lord Sedley take him with him and educate him. Now she feels terribly guilty and tries to resume contact with her son.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-01-15
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Rio's yellow house
Overview: When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who looks like him, the staff and spectators at that night's show think the actor is giving an unusually good performance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-03-20
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Dance House
Overview: Three men vie for a pretty young lady in a small Spanish port town: The boss of a dance hall who encourages her aspirations at performing, a married fisherman, and that man's unmarried younger brother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-01-09
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Il bivio
Overview: After the war, Aldo and his men became gangster. But now the times are changing and Aldo decides to became a policeman to help better his men in crime. He meets Giovanna and falls for her. But he begins liking his new job and after their first robbery, Aldo tries to leave his old accomplices...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-03-19
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The Suspects
Overview: Commissaire Perrache, the chief of the D.S.T., the French domestic intelligence service, tries to neutralize a group of terrorists named the Partisans de la Métropole. He sends one of his best agents, inspector Louis Vignon, incidentally the husband of his charming secretary Lucette, on the trail of an illegal transmitter. But Vignon gets kidnapped by the gang and held captive on a boat off the shores of Monaco...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-08-20
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The Green Domino
Overview: After his girlfriend is murdered, an art critic realizes that a wealthy heiress is falling in love with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-27
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Woman of Evil
Overview: Laurent meets Louvaine and brings her back to his island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-09-23
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The Great Game
Overview: Pierre , a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence and her whims of luxury life. Pierre has gone too far and put the family firm in jeopardy. They ask him to expatriate. To avoid scandal, Pierre joins the Foreign Legion. In Morocco, near the desert, Pierre goes with his comrades of the Legion to a bar-restaurant-brothel, owned by a shady character, Mr. Clement . Clement lives more or less with Ms.Blanche who is a fortune teller with cards, as a hobby. But Clement is also after his girls now and then. Pierre is still obsessed with Florence but he meets Irma , one of Clement's girls, who is the double of Florence except for hair color. Irma has had an accident and has lost part of her memory at a certain point of her recent past, and Pierre slowly persuades himself she is Florence, but cannot remember it. Advised by Ms.Blanche, Irma finally accepts to act as if she was Florence because she is falling in love with Pierre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-05-02
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Accused, Stand Up!
Overview: Paris, 30's declared professional rivalry between two stars of the musical, Yvonne and Gaby leads to dire consequences. Yvonne's body is found in the theater. Gaby's future is threatened against the judgment to which it is subjected, with a probable prison sentence.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-09-12
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Ne pleure pas
Overview: Marc Lafarge, 13, is idolized by his brother Thomas, 20, future veterinarian and amateur boxer. Thomas has a soul of justice. Thus, returning home with Marc after a fight, he hits a little thug who has just robbed an old lady.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-03-15
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Defend My Love
Overview: As part of a story, a reporter goes to meet Elisa, a young woman he met a few years ago on a trial on which she was finally exonerated.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-09-12
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Lo sgarro
Overview: A young man joins a band of brigands, but, faced with their exactions, rebels against them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-02-06
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The Prey of the Wind
Overview: A pilot crashes and a beautiful countess of a castle nearby nurses him to health.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-05-12
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Them
Overview: An artist grows hateful of commercial demands on his questionable talents when his friend and artist commits suicide. He puts the blame for his friend's death on an art critic and a shady art dealer. He is able to take out his frustrations on the pretentious critic at a party. When an elderly man moves into the boarding house, he brings a machine he invented that can make people realize their subconscious dreams...
Genres: Crime Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-11-18
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Song of the World
Overview: In Haute-Provence, two rival farming clans clash over the four seasons of the year. A young lumberjack, who has gone up to Rebeillard country to fell trees, has not been heard from for several months. Concerned by his long absence, his father sets out to find him. Antonio, known as "Bouche d'or" (Golden Mouth), the man from the river, accompanied him out of friendship; the two of them toiled together for long days, but one night, at the edge of the wood, they discovered a blond woman lying on the ground, giving birth to a child: it was Clara, a young blind woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-10-07
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Shock Troops
Overview: A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is suspected of being an enemy spy.
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-04-05
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In the Name of the Law
Overview: The story is about a drug ring and the finally successful efforts of the Paris police to break it up. A young detective goes into a den in Paris' Chinatown, following a clue, and that is the last seen of him until his body is found floating in the Seine several days later. The only clue is a woman's glove. The dead man's friends on the force vow to avenge him, and receive information leading them to suspect one Sandra, a beautiful foreigner, played by the stunning Marcelle Chantal.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-04-15
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Ballad for a Dog
Overview: Remi is a man on the verge of old age who begins to have hallucinations. He believes he has found a dog, but the canine is just a product of his imagination. The man takes a turn for the worse when his only friend, his poet neighbor, moves. He is left alone with his hallucinations and tries in vain to separate fantasy from reality in this plodding, depressing feature.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-01-25
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The Wonderful Night
Overview: A couple of refugees arrives in a village: he is a cabinet maker, she's pregnant and the innkeeper refuses to give them a room; they wind up in the cowshed of a farm where she gives birth to her baby, the very night of Christmas.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-12-24
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Three Brothers
Overview: In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a correctional institute for boys; from Turin, Nicola, a factory worker involved in labor disputes. Once home, each encounters the past and engages in reveries of what may come.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-03-19
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La séparation
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-09-17
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Es herrscht Ruhe im Land
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-11-15
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Illustrious Corpses
Overview: A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-02-12
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Waterloo
Overview: This presentation of 'Waterloo', a film by Karl Grune about the last hurrah of Napoleon, is a fascinating companion to the Abel Gance epic 'Napoleon'. 'Waterloo' presents a tale of several people involved in the final battle. Napoleon and Wellington, of course, but also the Austrian general Blutcher (who is seen as a ladies' man - his scene with a flirty Countess about halfway through the film is priceless; as are his touching scenes with his plain wife (who he imagines to be a young and nubile girl when they get romantic) and some people within his regiment. Not simply a film of war, 'Waterloo' is a story of people, of lovers, of lost opportunities.
Genres: War Thriller History
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-11-07
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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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Drei Tage auf Leben und Tod - aus dem Logbuch der U.C.1
Overview: a silent war movie by Heinz Paul
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1929-01-01
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Le juge et son bourreau
Overview: The body of a young man in a dress suit is found on a country road by Lake Biel in Switzerland. The victim happens to be none other than Schmied, the new police inspector who had just been appointed to replace Baerlach, the old police captain.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-11-08
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Obsession
Overview: A man who suffers from the delirium of persecution and to the point of trying to strangle his wife is interned. His brother, needing his signature for his own business, gets him out of the asylum with the complicity of a false magistrate and against the advice of the doctor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-03-23
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The Roquevillards
Overview: France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that prides itself on its impeccable morals. Francois's world rapidly begins to fall apart when his son Maurice elopes to Italy with Edith Frasne, the wife of an esteemed notary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-07-28
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Southern Carrier
Overview: A pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief romance with his distressed cousin before he returns to the call of duty, and the rebels in the desert.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-01-22
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Rail Pirates
Overview: Henri Pierson, the chief engineer of a railway line crossing Yunnan in China, must prevent the incessant attacks of a gang of looters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-19
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No Escape
Overview: In Provence , Father Caillé runs a family pension backed by his daughter-in-law Cora and a maid. The old man persecutes Cora for her assiduity until the day when she, in a particularly violent confrontation, knocks him down before the eyes of Gino, an Italian pensioner of whom she is in love. The two accomplices will try to make up the murder.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-06-25
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Le soleil a toujours raison
Overview: Tonio, pretty Micheline's fiance, meets Georgia ,a gypsy who makes advances to him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-01-27
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The Steppe
Overview: Based on a Anton Chekhov short story, this slight tale has some good moments as the drama of a young boy's journey unfolds. The lad comes from peasant stock, and one day his family decides it would be best for him to go live with his uncle in the city. The only problem is that the city is all the way across the Russian steppes, and at this time in history, that arduous journey could only be undertaken by horse and carriage. Reminiscent of the American pioneer wagon trains heading West, the tale lacks any attacks from hostile forces but is filled with charming vignettes. In one part of the journey, the boy comes across some fishermen along a river, harpooning their catch for the day. In another segment, he is entertained when some folk dancers do a lively show. But in general, it is too long and unmomentous a journey to hold attention well for nearly two hours.
Genres: Family Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-03-06
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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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La nuit bulgare
Overview: A youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious Bulgarian industrialists who have come to his office. A government contract is being sought for a businessman who is in danger of bankruptcy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-04-20
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Assault
Overview: Alexandre Mérital, the leader of a political party, finds himself under attack from Frépeau, one of his opponents. The latter has indeed discovered that Mérital committed a theft in his youth. But Mérital will not be intimidated by his adversary's move. In his turn, he discovers that Frépeau was once involved in a financial scandal, which forces the plaintiff to discontinue the prosecution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-12-31
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Countdown to Vengeance
Overview: 10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices after a break-in. During the fight with the police, Francois's brother was killed, and a cop disfigured by François. Now, François is back for revenge. As nobody knows who the traitor was, the former accomplices lose their head. The disfigured cop is also waiting for the right moment to take his revenge on François.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-01-29
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Heart of an Actress
Overview: Desire brings out the worst in an actress' suitors-- One a well-to-do patron of London's theatre set, the other a lovestruck loner on the verge of penning a play dedicated to her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-10-07
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Gringalet
Overview: A wealthy man has two sons,one of them is legitimate,the other is not.The first offspring has had a life of luxury and he has become a lazy good for nothing whereas the youthful indiscretion has turned into an artist.He is nicknamed "Gringalet" .Now his father wants him to meet his half-brother ,his mother-in-law and the rest of the family. Gringalet will turn this bourgeois family upside down:they become nice,the big brother becoming a perfect businessman who stops scouring nightclubs to spend most of his time with his fiancee Josette.There's the rub,cause Gringalet is also in love with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-11-20
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Symphony for a Massacre
Overview: A band of gangsters devise a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug traffickers: the five fraudsters will face bigger problems than them.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-04-23
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Law of the North
Overview: Robert Shaw slaughters his wife's lover and runs away with his secretary Jacqueline. Helped by a French trapper who takes them for film-makers, they hide in Northern Canada.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-09-04
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Cristobal's Gold
Overview: Dupuy, the first officer of the Cristobal, a French merchant ship, is informed by cabaret dancer La Rubia that the Cristobal carries a priceless secret cargo of gold. Based on the novel by Albert t'Serstevens.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-04-22
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Port-Arthur
Overview: French-language remake of Port Arthur (1936): espionage, action and romance in the Russo-Japanese War, as the conflict threatens Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky and his Japanese wife Youki.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-12-11
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Incantesimo tragico
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1951-10-13
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L'Arlésienne
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Native Drums
Overview: A team of doctors sets out through a steamy African jungle to check an outbreak of sleeping sickness.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-09
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Mister Mustard's Millions
Overview: When bored American billionaire Charles Vanel is amused by the happiness of poor railroad man Nicolas Koline, he offers him a wager: if Koline and his family can spend 20,000 francs a day (about $11,000 in current American money) for a year, then he'll give him a nice pension. The rest of the movie is about the poor man and his family's efforts to win the bet.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-07-02
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Phroso
Overview: An Englishman, Lord Wheatley, purchases an island over which reigns the supremely beautiful Phroso, thus disposessing her of her land. Revolted, the islanders, supported by an adventurer who desires Phroso, rise against the new master. The English are saved by the British governor, also under the spell of gorgeous Phroso. The latter, for her part, is not wholly insensitive to Lord Wheatley's distinction. The imbroglio still worsens with the meddling of a dark horse : the neighboring sultan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1922-01-13
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À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
Overview: Documentary about filmmaker Jean Grémillon.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Child of the Carnival
Overview: A foundling is left in front of the home of a rich aristocratic bachelor during the Nice carnival. The marquis adopts the child but soon finds that he cannot cope, so he employs a nanny who turns out to be the child's real mother. Just as the two have fallen in love and there is a happy ending in sight, the woman's husband - long thought dead - turns up.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1921-07-29
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Tempêtes
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1922-06-09
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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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Apaches of Paris
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-12-17
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Cuori sul mare
Overview: Two young men from the Navy fall in love with an actress.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-11-09
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The Woman at the End of the World
Overview: A sailor falls in love with an innkeeper on a lost island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-19
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A Missionary
Overview: Dreaming of heroic deeds, a young missionary soon becomes disillusioned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-02
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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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Die weisse Sklavin
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-09-22
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The Fear
Overview: A lady who had a secret affair lives in fear.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-04-10
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Calvaire d'amour
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-12-05
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Chic
Overview: An American couple, Douglas and Mary, are in the nightclub 'La Vache Rose'. When Julot and Nini are performing 'La Danse Apache', Douglas thinks that Nini is being abused and he comes to her defense. He doesn't know that it's all part of the dance. "Chiqué" is the first French talking picture produced in France.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-02-14
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The West
Overview: The film portrays the relationship between a female Moroccan student, who has been forced to leave her studies at the Sorbonne for financial reasons and works as a dancer in a Paris nightclub, and a French naval officer. However, on returning to Casablanca she is tricked into believing that he had the led attack on her village that wiped out her family. She begins to plot her revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-02-16
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L'Arlésienne
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-09-19
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Yamilé Under the Cedars
Overview: A Lebanese Christian girl of European origin is attracted to a visiting Muslim chief and rides off with him.When her Christian fiance brings her back,she is punished for her transgression.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-06-01
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An Ideal Woman
Overview: Based on a novel by José Pérez de Rozas. In Seville, Angel Caal, a Parisian businessman, escapes blindness after a car accident, thanks to the dedicated care of Mercédès, intended for the convent. They fall in love and Mercedes soon discovers the temptations of Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-07-05
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The Cheerful Squadron
Overview: The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by movie stars like Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Pampanini. Based on the military environment novel The Allegro Squadron by Georges Courteline (1886), this film presents a series of sketches on military life in the late nineteenth century.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-05
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Feu!
Overview:
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-05-29
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Case closed
Overview: The owner of a fairground shooting gallery, haunted by the crime he committed ten years before with the complicity of his friend and associate, is ridden with guilt. One day, as he is under the influence of alcohol, he confesses his crime. In vain, for nobody, including the police, wants to believe him...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-09-16
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The Lost Way
Overview: While the Easter holidays are over, a young woman named Cécile and her brother Pierre return to the family home. There they meet their grandfather Léon, an old communist militant who has shaken Lenin's hand.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-01-09
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The End of the Tether
Overview: An experienced but aging captain in command of the Sofala must hide the fact that he is becoming blind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-08-15
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Nitchevo
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-12-20
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Southern Bar
Overview: Baron Arnold, a businessman, takes his young wife to Africa where he instructs her to seduce Captain Olivier, an intelligence officer. But Olivier illuminates the baroness on the unsavory activities of her husband as a weapons dealer and entrepreneur of revolutions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-03-23
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The Fighting Men
Overview: Saverio Luparello is the manager of Sicilian baron Occipinti's estate. The cunning greedy man intentionally lets the land turn into a wasteland, hoping that his employer, discouraged by its low returns, will sell his earth to him for next to nothing. His plans are thwarted by a share cropper, Diego Costa, who farms his lot zealously and to good results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1950-11-01
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A Night of Romance
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1925-09-04
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Woman in Chains
Overview: Gallery director Stanislas bolsters the development of modern art with his collection of surprising works. His newest acquisition is a sculpture by Gilbert, whose wife Josée is captivated by Stanislas. But unbeknownst to her, Stanislas is amassing photographs of a very perverse, disturbed nature.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-11-20
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Vertigine d'amore
Overview: Italian movie inspired by "Le pain des pauvres".
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-01-01
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