Camille Bert
Also Known As: Камиль Берт, Camille-Léon-Louis Bertrand
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Orléans, Loiret, France
Adult: No
Birthday: December 27, 1880
Age: 144 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 18, 1970
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Matricule 33
Overview: In 1917, a French deserter entered the service of German counterintelligence, but Villard (number 33) was a real French spy. Discovered, he is saved by a German spy who betrays her country for love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-09-29
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Brevet 95-75
Overview: Foreign spies are interested in plans for a device invented by a French aviator. They kidnap the young man but fail in their business thanks to the energy of his wife and the cunning of the mechanic.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-08-24
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Gigolette
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1921-05-20
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The Lower Depths
Overview: Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Kostyleva. One resident, young thief Wasska Pepel, ends his affair with the landlord's wife, Vassilissa, and takes up with her sister, Natacha. Pepel also befriends the baron, a former nobleman fallen on hard times, but Pepel's attempts at happiness are complicated when he's accused of murder by a spiteful Vassilissa.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-12-11
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Maurin of the Moors
Overview: Poacher, bon vivant and womanizer, Maurin falls in love with the fiancée of a policeman. And despite all the principles, he easily triumphs over his rival.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-12-02
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Pax
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-06-23
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Tu m'appartiens !
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-11-01
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The Two Orphans
Overview: A more small scale version of the story Griffin used for his epic Orphans Of The Storm: a doctor tries to reunite two sisters who have become separated from each other during the whirlwind of the French Revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-03-03
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La merveilleuse tragédie de Lourdes
Overview: A professor of philosophy, an atheist, converts to Catholicism following a miracle: his daughter, whose leg must be amputated, is taken to Lourdes by her very religious fiancé, and is cured there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-10-06
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The Little King
Overview: King Michel VIII is still a child, but when revolution threatens, the young monarch's entourage lies to him and even tries to get rid of him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-03-02
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Le rosaire
Overview: A beautiful and serious woman renounces the love that inspires her Gerard, a man younger than her. Later, Gerard having become blind, she takes the place of the nurse, then confesses her identity to the cripple who opens his arms to her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-10-26
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Sapho
Overview: During a transvestite ball, a young provincial meets Fanny Legrand. A great love is born between them. Later, the young man learns that Fanny was a great coquette. He leaves her, he comes back, he forgives. But when he embarks for America, Fanny does not follow him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-04-07
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Le Mystère Imberger
Overview: For sentimental reasons, Monsieur Imberger, a fifty-year-old, disappears. Everyone thinks he was murdered but repeatedly he reappears. Inspector Barfin takes care of this mystery...
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-04-12
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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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Le Clown Bux
Overview: Pierre Buxeuil is better known as the popular clown Bux. One day, he falls in love with Nicole, a romantic but whimsical young lady. He soon elopes her and the beautiful Nicole follows him, persuaded that she will love circus life. Unfortunately for Bux she does not and she leaves him as a result. After a few other disappointments due to false accusations, Bux finally marries a kind-hearted circus acrobat and pursues a successful career under the big top.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-03-17
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Varieté
Overview: Annabella, Jean Gabin and Fernand Gravey star as a trio of circus trapeze artists. Both Gabin and Gravey love Annabella, but she has eyes only for Gravey. Seething with jealousy, Gabin plots revenge against his rival. He "accidentally" drops Gravey into a net during rehearsal -- but does he plan to do the same during a performance, when the trio works without a net?
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1935-10-04
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Maria de la nuit
Overview: A cabaret singer in Barcelona sacrifices her feelings for an exiled young Frenchman who had been falsely accused of a crime, when the sister of the real culprit seeks the exile out.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-07-29
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Wolves Between Them
Overview: A Nazi spy has stolen a gas mask filter of formidable efficiency in Paris. Two agents from the 2nd office have the task of going to take him back to Berlin.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-03
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The Queen of Spades
Overview: Russia, 1835. Lieutenant Hermann, a compulsive gambler, is fascinated by an infallible martingale held by Countess Tomski, nicknamed The Queen of Spades. The day Hermann wants to wring the secret from her, the countess dies of fear. Following this tragic scene, Hermann sinks into dementia. Luckily, Lisa, his frail lover, brings him back to life and happiness.
Genres: Horror Drama History Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-07-01
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La rose effeuillée
Overview: A washerwoman works so long for the same bosses that she gets to like their young son very much. One day she is unjustly accused of robbery, and dismissed. She suffers in her loneliness, until the day she hears that the boy is terminally ill, and there's no medical hope for him. She comes back and sits by him, praying to Saint Thérèse de Lisieux - and the miracle happens.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-06-18
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La Fille de la Madelon
Overview: The widow of a soldier in the 1914-1918 war, running an inn called "Au rendez-vous des veterans", is happy to see her daughter in love with an officer whose father was once in love with La Madelon.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-10-13
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Feu!
Overview: During the Rif War, a lieutenant commands a torpedo boat. He finds in an abandoned yacht, a beautiful portrait of a woman, and soon meets this one who is married to a brutal and jealous baron.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-10-29
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Paris
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-01-15
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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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Monsieur Bégonia
Overview: A young man who applies for the position of general manager in a fashion house has not reached the desired age. Thanks to a skilful make-up, he gives himself the required appearance and under the name of Monsieur Bégonia, now presides over the destinies of the house.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-12-22
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Le Chemin de lumière
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-11-03
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Tamara la complaisante
Overview: A man, enthralled by a peasant woman he encounters in Siberia, forgets his fiancee, turns to crime, and brings about ruin.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-02-17
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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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Ceux De Demain
Overview: Jean is ten years old and imagines that he is the cause of the misunderstanding that occurred between his parents. He leaves the military institute where he studies and becomes the protégé of an opera singer at whose house, one day, he surprises a thief who blesses him. His parents reconcile at the foot of his hospital bed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-08-24
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Saint Theresa of Lisieux
Overview: The life of Thérèse Martin, who entered the Carmel at the age of 15, in 1888, under the name of Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus, died nine years later, and canonized in 1925.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-21
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Heroes of the Marne
Overview: Bernard Lefrancois is a prosperous farmer on the River Marne, while his neighbor is impoverished. Lefrancois objects strongly to the romance between his son and the neighbor's daughter, but it continues in secret. WWI begins and the son becomes an aviator with the French army, and the unwed girl presents Lefrancois with an unexpected grandchild. The German army occupies the area, and the girl is serving France as a spy and securing information needed by the French to drive out the Germans. While his son is engaged in air-combat against the Germans, and the unwed mother of his grandchild is serving as a spy against their country's enemy, Lefrancois also joins the battle as a soldier.
Genres: War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-30
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La Cité des lumières
Overview: The life of two students, Rodolphe and Madeleine. They love each other but he is rich and she has just lost her father and is forced to work in a nightclub. Rodolphe leaves her but quickly understands that he loves her and finds her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-08
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Champions of France
Overview: In the lead up to WWII, several escapist French films were made promoting health and sport among youth.In this one, we see the friendship of young males on a Marne river rowing team threatened by the presence of a typical femme fatale.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-21
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The Blue Veil
Overview: In 1914, in the first months of World War I, Louise Jarraud loses her husband, killed on the front. Shortly after, she gives birth to a baby, who soon dies. Devastated by this double misfortune, Louise decides to dedicate her life to caring for the children of others. She becomes a nurse with several employers, giving her affection to little boys or girls. A widower and another man propose to her but she refuses twice determined as she is to live only for the children in her charge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-11-18
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L'Esprit de Sidi-Brahim
Overview: In the thirties, a Chasseur Alpin commander is accused of spying and sentenced to death. At the last minute, he is saved from the firing squad by a female spy's confession.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-07-28
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Le Soleil de minuit
Overview: Going to take up his post in Moukden, the forest engineer finds in a trainer from the cabaret "the midnight sun" a Russian princess, Armide, whom he once loved. He had met her in 1917 when the princess and her father were driven from their domain. Prince Ireniev is a gambler, a trickster, a matchmaker. Out of love for Armide, Forestier flew, and yet when he finds the two wrecks, he cannot resist. Abandoning everything, his position and his honor, he leaves with the woman of his destiny.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-06-30
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Mermoz
Overview: Biography and apology of the famous pilot, nicknamed by some the Archangel, who organized the airmail network of South America, flew the first over the Andes Cordillera, maintained the mystique of the South Atlantic, militated in the Crosses of Fire and perished at the controls of "La Croix du Sud" during its twenty-fourth crossing.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-11-03
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Finance noire
Overview: In Central Europe, an organization of counterfeiters is headed by Burcq. An Air France pilot introduces an intelligence agent to the principality. A woman, Helene, betrays them first, then in love with Francois, the pilot, helps the two friends to escape.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-11-24
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Special Mission
Overview: The exploits of Chief Police Inspector Chabrier, first before the invasion of France in May 1940 as he fights against spies preparing the coming the Germans, particularly Emmy de Welder, the alleged manager of the Rouen hospital. Later, Chabrier and his men go underground and resist the occupiers whatever the price to pay. When the Liberation comes Chabrier resumes his activities at the French National Police.
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-03-08
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The Fan
Overview: Martine is a lonely girl in an exclusive boarding school who conjures up a glamorous existence in order to make her dull life tolerable and to impress the other girls. One of her flights of fancy is a love affair with Brevannes, a famous composer. She leaves the school and goes to the French Alps to find the life she's only dreamed about, where she meets Brevannes and a December-May romance develops until she meets a young mountain guide, Henri Vidal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-06-18
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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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The Vocation of André Carel
Overview: At the urging of his over-protective father, André Carel, a young bourgeois from Paris, travels to Lake Geneva to rejuvenate his health. There, he falls in love with Reine, the beautiful daughter of a simple boatsman. In order to impress her solely through his personality and character, he conceals his wealthy origins and, disguising himself as a migrant laborer, takes up work on board her father's ship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-01-01
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Vent debout
Overview: Jacques Averil leads an idle life which plunges him into weariness and melancholy. When he learns of the suicide of his father, a banker ruined by dark speculation in Icelandic minerals, he decides to take charge. An old friend of his father offers him the opportunity to join as a sailor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-09-17
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Tarakanova
Overview: Tarakanova is a 1930 French historical drama film directed by Raymond Bernard and starring Édith Jéhanne, Paule Andral and Olaf Fjord. It depicts the life of Princess Tarakanoff, the pretender to the throne of Catherine II in Eighteenth Century Russia.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-03-18
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La voie sans disque
Overview: Toward the close of World War I, European railroads in Djibouti are under siege by bands of indigenous warriors, while one of the white employees falls for a mysterious woman tied to the rebels.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-05-31
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The Chess Player
Overview: In 1776, an inventor conceals a Polish nobleman in his chess-playing automaton, a machine whose fame leads it to the court of the Russian empress.
Genres: Fantasy Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-05-17
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Mateo Falcone
Overview: Shot in experimental "Keller-Dorian", Mateo Falcone was the first attempt at a french feature film in color. Shown once in incomplete form and then, to today's best understanding, never completed. A 10 minutes fragment is all that is known today.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-04-13
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Haceldama, or The Price of Blood
Overview: Mr. Landry Smith, a secretive man, lives in Corrèze with his ward Minnie. Two strangers arrive to Smith's country estate-- each of them with a possibly sinister plot in mind.
Genres: Drama Mystery Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1919-12-12
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Yoshiwara
Overview: Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in the Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer, and a rickshaw man.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-06-23
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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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The Tender Enemy
Overview: Line, Annette's daughter, is about to marry a man she's not in love with. At the engagement party three ghosts revisit their disastrous relationships with Annette and decide to take action to help Line.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-10-24
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David Golder
Overview: David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris, only to have his selfish and demanding wife squander his fortune.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-03-06
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Peace on the Rhine
Overview: During the lead up to a second World War, one of several French films hoping for peace,specifically between Germany and France as shown by a border family in Alsace trying to resolve their differences.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-10
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Miss Bonaparte
Overview: Cora Pearl, a demi-mondaine under the Second Empire, falls in love with a legitimist while she is the mistress of Jérôme Bonaparte, the cousin of Napoleon III.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-01-16
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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 Cavalry
Overview: A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1914-01-01
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La Grande Marnière
Overview: A rich peasant, Carvajan, seeks revenge on the castellan, Clairefont, with whom he had a serious conflict. Their respective children, Antoinette and Pascal, meet and fall in love with each other. Robert de Clairefont, Antoinette's brother, unjustly accused of murder, is defended and saved by Pascal. Finally, love, by uniting the son of one to the daughter of the other, will appease souls and reconcile families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-03-23
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La nuit s'achève
Overview: Jean-Louis, Danielle's fiancé, a nurse, becomes blind following an explosion in the mine where he works. Coming from Lyon, Doctor Coudray, whose natural son Gilbert - who loves Danielle - dies while helping his father threatened by the person responsible for Jean-Louis' accident, will work to restore his sight.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-06
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Itto
Overview: Filmed in French Morocco, Itto's dialogue is spoken primarily in the tribal Chleuh language. The jingoistic story concerns a series of clashes between French occupational forces and a rebellious Chleuh chieftain. Itto (Simone Berriau), chief's daughter, becomes embroiled in a romance with a Moroccan tribesman who has gone over to the French side. It is implied in Itto that it's okay to betray one's own people if it will preserve French colonialism in Africa. To modern viewers, the rampant chauvinism in Itto is a difficult pill to swallow.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-12-31
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My Priest Among the Rich
Overview: A deceived husband asks his priest to bring back the frivolous wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-04-29
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The Crew
Overview: First adaptation of Joseph Kessel World War I novel, in which an aviator falls in love with a woman who turns out to be the wife of one of his flying comrades.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-03-30
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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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Bonjour jeunesse
Overview: After her mother's death, Liselotte is taken in by an old sculptor, but some distant cousins, brutal farmers, obtain guardianship of the young girl. Unhappy, she flees and finds refuge with a young shepherd living on alms.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-07-19
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Cette nuit-là
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-12-29
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Il était une fois trois amis
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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Gardez le sourire
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-03-28
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Work
Overview: Luc Froment, a reform-minded engineer, starts working at a steel mill in a small town. There he founds small groups of workers (and their families) under miserable conditions. Under the influence of Fourier's ideas, Froment tries to turn the mill into a workers' co-operative.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1920-01-16
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The Thruster
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-09-19
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Yasmina
Overview: Yasmina, a rich Tunisian Princess, daughter of a French lady and a Muslim gentleman, is betrothed by a father to a rich fifty year old man named Afsen. She reluctantly accept the marriage but soon becomes ill from boredom and she falls in love with the French doctor called from Tunis to take care of her, Hector Grandier, who also happens to be a childhood friend. Her husband finds out and Yasmina sticks a knife in her own bosom in a middle of a fight. The Princess's maid, Athima, accuses the old husband of attempting to kill the girl and he is sentenced to death. Hector rescues him from his fate and the two lovers are free to love each other in the eyes of the law.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-02-11
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Sisters-in-Arms
Overview: During the war from '14-'18, two women travel by foot in the North of France and Belgium to aid an organization to provide information to the English
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-12-02
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S'Waisechind vo Engelberg
Overview: The sculptor Andreas promised his seriously ill childhood friend before her death that he would take care of her daughter Heidemarie. While his application for custody is going through the authorities, the young girl comes to her uncle and his wife. Both treat Heidemarie badly so she spends most of the time with Andreas and the hunchback beggar boy Peter. Finally, the time has come: Andreas is granted custody and also takes Peter in with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1956-09-01
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La Réponse du destin
Overview: Leopoldo Quintana is a lawyer who, determined to reach power and capable of anything to get what he wants, uses blackmail and shady maneuvers to be appointed congressman for the Balearic Islands, then minister, and finally President of the Council of Ministers of the Spanish Government.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-03-01
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Princesse Lulu
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-08-14
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