Jo Dest
Also Known As: Jodest, Albert Jodest
Biography: Jo Dest is known for The Wages of Fear (1953), The Damned (1947) and Flesh and the Woman (1954).
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: Not available
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Gender: Male
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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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Good Lord Without Confession
Overview: Stuck in a loveless marriage, bourgeois industrialist Francois falls in love with Janine, another man's wife. Francois sets up Janine as his mistress, and she, mercenary soul that she is, likes the set-up so much that she continues the relationship even when her own husband returns from WW II. In the long run, however, Janine is the loser in the situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-10-09
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Behind These Walls
Overview: June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by the resistance, the inhabitants who listen to English radio are rounded up by the Germans in a prison and considered as hostages. In one of the cells are found men from all walks of life: an aristocrat, the Viscount of Saint-Leu, Doctor Noblet, a resistance fighter, Béquille the wanderer with a wooden leg, and a strange character nicknamed "Black Market". The latter arouses mistrust among the prisoners, because it could well have been introduced by the enemy.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-03-13
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Resistance
Overview: An Alsatian, head of a section of the Gestapo, is actually spying on behalf of the French and dismantling a Nazi network. His activities are brought to light by the Germans and he owes his life only to the intervention of a young woman.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-10-31
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A Friend Will Come Tonight
Overview: Commander Gerard and his band of guerrillas have found the ideal hideout: a nursing home in the Alps where, along with the mentally ill, are also hiding a Jewish girl and a Swiss doctor who might be a spy for the Germans ...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-04-09
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Mr. Orchid
Overview: This character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the chief of the underground who uses his hobby of growing orchids to hide his radio equipment.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-04-30
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Sky Battalion
Overview: Film in two eras.1st era: They are not angels. Chronicle of a Free French parachute training camp during the Second World War. 2nd era: Terre de France. A group of paratroopers landed in Brittany sabotages the German installations.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-03-05
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Man to Men
Overview: The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross, and who was offered the first Nobel Peace Prize.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-10-01
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The Sharks of Gibraltar
Overview: In order for important British admiralty papers to pass into the hands of the Germans, the spy Gordon has the ingenious idea of transforming a lamentable drunkard into a Lady, haughty but submissive to his orders. Stella's transformation is complete, the success extraordinary. Why must a French officer touching the heart of the former pochard bring down the fragile edifice? A submarine is about to blow up, Gordon is shot down and a confessed Stella returns to her horrible taverns to drown her sorrows in alcohol for good.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-11-14
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Firemen's Ball
Overview: 1944, France experiences its last days of German occupation. A microcosm representative of the various attitudes adopted during this troubled period, some heroic, others less brilliant, the Grégeois family, scattered by the war, will strengthen its ties according to the Allied advance on the territory and the liberation of Paris, with its joys but also its sorrows, because not all of its members will survive the relative chaos that will characterize this end of the world war.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-03-13
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Return to Life
Overview: In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-14
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The Glass Castle
Overview: Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she must decide between telling her husband and continuing to see Rémy.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-16
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Farewell Mister Grock
Overview: The life of Adrien Wettach, famous in the annals of the circus under the name of Grock, world famous Swiss clown. A series of images from Épinal, retracing the career of a European artist, within the framework of world history. Lots of children, wars, an eccentric Russian countess, Countess Barinoff, who grows old admiring the clown, and a very long quibble about a party wall, all serve to highlight the star's final number.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-01-19
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The Big Meeting
Overview: One of the first victories against the Nazis in World War II is when Parisians help allied forces drive the enemy out of occupied French Algeria.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-02-10
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Rue des Saussaies
Overview: The brother of Jeanne Masson, a young nightclub singer, has been murdered by Brasier, a criminal who pretends to be a respectable man. Jeanne has resolved to avenge her brother but she just cannot take action herself. The way she finds is to ask police detective Pierre Leblanc to help her do it. Pierre gives his agreement and starts following the trail. He soon finds out that Brasier belongs to a gang whose boss, Cortedani, has ordered the murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-03-23
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The Damned
Overview: A group of Nazis and sympathizers board a submarine bound for South America in the hopes of finding shelter.
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-09-19
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Full House
Overview: Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution and Maigret.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-10
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The Contessa's Secret
Overview: The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-09-26
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Flesh and the Woman
Overview: In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village beauty who is the exact double of his true-love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-06-08
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Poison Ivy
Overview: FBI Agent Lemmy Caution is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss mistress Carlotta plays both sides of the law.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-05-26
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Stain on the Snow
Overview: La neige était sale is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon. Upon learning that his mother was a prostitute, Frank (Daniel Gelin) dejectedly vows that he, too, will live a life of debauchery. Part of his self-degradation program is to kill someone, and since the story takes place during the Nazi occupation of France, he chooses a German officer as his victim. His steady descent into psychosis and depravity becomes his ultimate undoing.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-02-19
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Mission in Tangier
Overview: During the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret documents from Tangiers to London.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-06
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