Jeanne Brindeau
Also Known As: Jane Brindeau
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: October 22, 1860
Age: 164 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: April 06, 1946
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The End of the World
Overview: The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-01-23
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Ramuntcho
Overview: Ramuntcho, a young smuggler, loves Gracieuse and the two would like to get married, but Gracieuse's mother Dolorès won't hear of it. Ramuntcho goes to America to seek fortune. On his return, Ramuntcho learns that Gracieuse, forced by her mother, became a nun. He decides to take her away but when he sees her kneeling in prayer, renounces to carry out his plan and leaves.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1919-01-31
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The house of La Fleche
Overview: After a rich English lady is killed in a Dijon house, the only person there who doesn't have a solid alibi is about to be arrested.Will a detective from Paris be able to help?
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-12-12
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La cavalcata ardente
Overview: In Naples in 1860, a girl named Grazia, a strongly pro-Flobonic Montechiaro, is betrothed to the general of Santafè. She is secretly in love with John, a patriot and revolutionary.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1925-05-28
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L'infirmière
Overview: L'infirmière is a 1914 silent film.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1914-01-01
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Michel Strogoff
Overview: Adapted from Jules Verne's 1876 novel Michael Strogoff, the film tells the tale of a Russian courier named Michael Strogoff who has to dash across Russia with a vital message for the tsar's brother, wrestling with bears and fighting off ferocious Tatar rebels along the way. Captured by the Tatars, he is brought before their leader and blinded with a red hot sword by the executioner.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-06-30
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Belphégor
Overview: Belphégor deals with a series of mysterious appearances by a masked-and-robed figure in the Louvre; a security guard is murdered, and a later police trap is foiled when the phantom—“Belphégor” (the name of a legendary demon)—uses knock-out gas. Journalist Jacques Bellegarde of “Le Petit Parisien” (the real-life newspaper which published the original story in serial installments), investigates, and eventually discovers famous detective Chantecoq and his vivacious daughter Colette are also on the case.
Genres: Adventure Mystery Crime Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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The Escape from the Tuileries
Overview: The Count of Champcenetz is governor of the Palace of the Tuileries. His mistress Grace Elliott, a young widow, begs him not to go the Palace where he must defend King Louis XVI, who is threatened by the Revolution. After a few hours fight, in spite of the Count's best efforts, the crowd captures the King, the Queen, their children and their are taken to the prison of the Temple. Champcenetz, wounded, escapes and, disguised as a sans-culotte, walks back to Mrs. Elliott's. He leaves out of the country with her and marries her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1910-07-01
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La Légende de sœur Béatrix
Overview: Based on the short story by Nodier and the play by Maeterlinck.
Genres: Drama History Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-12-28
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Paris' Girls
Overview: This French film confection directed by Henry Roussell concerns two young Parisian beauties in love with same fellow (Fernand Fabre). When one of the girls (Suzy Vernon) goes to America, the one who stays home (Esther Kiss) thinks shes triumphed. But when the traveler returns and the guy goes for her new-found sophistication, the competition continues- including the hilariously mock-heroic duel we see in this four-sheet design.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1929-08-16
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Maryse
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1917-03-17
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Three Naked Flappers
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-01-18
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La dame masquée
Overview: A young woman, forced into a loveless marriage, takes a lover.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-04-01
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The Death of the Sun
Overview: A young doctor is asked by her husband to choose between her profession and her family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1922-01-02
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Malencontre
Overview: An orphan falls for the son of her benefactor, and decides to poison her rival for his affections.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1920-11-26
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Enemies of Women
Overview: The dashing but arrogant Prince Michael Fedor Lubimoff has to flee Tsarist Russia after falling into disgrace and settles in Monte Carlo, where he resumes his life of debauchery while World War I ravages the fields of Europe… (Partially lost film; reels 3 and 9 of a total of 11 are missing.)
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-15
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Dark Eyes
Overview: In 1913, in Russia, a widower hides from his daughter that he is a butler in a meeting restaurant. She meets a banker who is trying to seduce her and takes her to this restaurant. The father, knowing the decadent life of this client, immediately sends his daughter home. The pure love that her piano teacher devotes to her will allow the young girl to console herself for her disappointments...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-09-05
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Le devoir d'abord
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1917-07-30
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La momie
Overview: A young English lord, who has been excavating in Egypt, finds a mummy of a beautiful Egyptian princess, more than 5,000 years old. So well has the Egyptian embalmer done his work that the face is perfect in all its beauty, and the susceptible young man falls deeply in love with this belle of old Egypt, takes the mummy home to his estate in England and there it occupies his whole mind, to the exclusion of all else. Even the proposed visit of a beautiful American girl does not arouse his interest.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1911-02-24
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A Thief of Hearts
Overview: The life of the rich Pierre de Brézieux is turned upside down when he meets Ida Bianca, famous for her bewitching dance.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-01-02
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Gossette
Overview: In Gossette (1923), Dulac experimented with and designed a number of special lenses and prisms to produce a variety of effects and multiply the expressive means which translate the characters' visions and mental states. She also reversed class and gender roles, as she made the female character Gossette come to the aid of Phillipe de Savières, falsely accused of murder, in order to save his name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-12-21
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