Simone Renant
Also Known As: Marie-Thérèse Buigny, Georgette Buigny
Biography: Simone Renant (19 March 1911 – 29 March 2004) was a French film actress. She appeared in 43 films between 1934 and 1983. She was born in Amiens, France and died in Garches, France. Description above from the Wikipedia article Simone Renant, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Amiens, Somme, Picardie, France
Birthday: March 19, 1911
Deathday: March 29, 2004
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Gender: Female
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That Man from Rio
Overview: French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-02-05
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Dangerous Love Affairs
Overview: Juliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both have sexual affairs with others and share their experiences with one another. But there is one rule: never fall in love. But this time Valmont falls madly in love with a girl he meets at a ski resort, Marianne.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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Sans famille
Overview: The Remi abandoned by his foster father sold to the troubadour Vasalis, in his living through the rural villages the people to entertain, gehoplen his three dogs and a monkey. In the beginning Remi takes its new master, but a demanding and hard man, and the animals have not been too much with the clumsy boy. But gradually creates a bond between Remi and his new comrades, until their friendship is suddenly disrupted when Vasalis is arrested for vagrancy and sentenced. Then Remi, alone in the world, along with his animal friends in position to try to keep ...
Genres: Adventure Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Jenny Lamour
Overview: Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical police inspector.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-10-04
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The Mad Night
Overview: Antoine, is the brother of Clothilde, lady-in-waiting to gorgeous duchess Silvéri. Parzy falls in love with the duchess, but can't get anywhere near her thanks to the vigilance of the girl's duenna. In desperation, Parzy disguises himself in his sister's clothes and poses as a girl. This gains him entrance to the duchess' boudoir -- but now what does he do?
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-04-19
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L'École des journalistes
Overview: Fernand Dubreuil wants to be a journalist and agreed to do an interview with promising star Clara Sergy. He's accompanied by the jerk photographer, Alfred.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-29
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You Can't Fool Antoinette
Overview: Hubert has married a little provincial girl and, to disgust her with Parisian life, he takes her out every evening.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-20
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La Mystérieuse Lady
Overview: In India, a British detachment finds itself surrounded in a village by invisible enemies. An officer is assassinated, then another. The adversary seems very well informed. By who ? A group of twenty men who had gone to seek help were annihilated. An American reporter will force the mysterious spy to denounce himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-07-08
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L'Ange du foyer
Overview: Jacques de Chardin, runner of women, marries a rich and young American, Mary-Ann. He does not give up, however, his conquests and has an affair with Chouquette. His wife and her friend, Baron Sigismond, decide to fake an affair in order to get revenge.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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Wicked Duchess
Overview: Edwige Feuillère and Pierre Richard-Willm star in director Jacques de Baroncelli's adaptation of the Balzac novella The Duchesse de Langeais, which tells the tale of a Parisian socialite who is romantically pursued by a Napoleonic war hero. With a screenplay by Jean Giraudoux.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-03-27
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Threesome Romance
Overview: From three successive marriages, Loys Erland had three very different boys: Charles, a convinced sportsman, Marcel, who runs a bank and Pierre, a young composer. All three meet, then reunite with the lovely Huguette. Everyone is courting. Charles seems favored, but Huguette ultimately slips away. The three brothers will thus see their mutual friendship and trust strengthened.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-06-17
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Le Mystérieux Monsieur Sylvain
Overview: In an aero-naval base, a marine engineer who was about to deliver the name of a redoubtable spy is murdered. Shortly afterwards three different men appear on the crime scene, each of them claiming to be Monsieur Sylvain, the expected sleuth. But which of the three investigators is actually Sylvain? And what about this delightful young lady who arouses one of the police inspectors? Couldn't she be the murderous spy?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-04-16
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No Pity for Women
Overview: The wealthy industrialist Alain de Narbois has disappeared. Michel Dunant, an idle man who passed by and who looks exactly like the deceased, is taken for Alain by a young woman and her servant. He jumps at the chance but quickly realizes that, in this hushed little world, masters and servants play comedy and know very well that he is only a double of Alain. In fact, the industrialist was assassinated.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-08-30
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Nocturnal Uproar
Overview: Armand Varescot, a rich and tyrannical old man, is killed by his young and pretty secretary, Caroline, while he was trying to abuse her. To avoid scandal, his granddaughter Marie Varescot convinces Frank, his cousin, to take responsibility for this "accidental" death, he who is in love with Caroline. But Commissioner Legrand, who has designs on Marie, only agrees to close the affair if Marie marries her, and if Frank leaves with Caroline, abandoning his share of the inheritance. The arrangement is accepted and life goes on.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-29
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Son of the Hunchback
Overview: 20 years after the assassination of his father, the son of Lagardère seeks revenge.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1952-11-20
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Bedevilled
Overview: A seminary student (Steve Forrest) helps a nightclub singer (Anne Baxter) sought by Paris police for killing her married lover.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-04-28
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Not Delivered
Overview: After resolving to start a new life with his girlfriend Jacqueline, Bastien Sassey decides to give up working as a courier for drugs traffickers. So that he and Jacqueline can make a fresh start he agrees to take on one more job for a large sum of cash, but he betrays his employer.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-15
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Voyage Without Hope
Overview: Gohelle, escaped from prison, seeks to flee occupied France for Argentina. The captain of a cargo ship is willing to smuggle him out out France for a price but Gohelle has no money. His mistress, Marie-Angel tries to charm the money out of wealthy Alain Ginestier who seems the ideal pigeon but Marie-Angel falls in love with Ginestier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-12-15
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Intermediate Landing in Paris
Overview: Michèle, an employee at the airport, is in love with American pilot Eddie Miller who regularly flies the route from New York to Paris, but problems arise when he is transferred to the Tokyo route. Meanwhile Michèle's uncle Albert who works in the freight department sets out to tackle a drug trafficking outfit.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-03-16
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Love Letters
Overview: A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town’s class tensions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-12-23
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Dear Inspector
Overview: When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy of the National Assembly has been murdered. She has a suspect, another Deputy, and must track him while deflecting Antoine's eye from her vocation. All roads in the inquiry lead to Christine Vallier, the dead Deputy's mistress, a beguiling 22-year-old whose mother ran the Assembly's snack bar. When more deputies die and Antoine learns Lise's identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-01-18
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Love Is a Funny Thing
Overview: A composer and a French film star, both of whom are married to others, meet and fall in love while shooting a film in the United States.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-12
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The Pearls of the Crown
Overview: The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-05-12
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Love and the Frenchwoman
Overview: The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-09-16
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The Ostrich Has Two Eggs
Overview: A father discovers one day that one of his sons is a homosexual and the other, is the "gigolo" of a Japanese countess. He is first horrified, but finally accepts the situation because it brings him economical advantages.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-08-29
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The Night Is Ours
Overview: Alain Brécourt, a former pilot who distinguished himself during the war, meets Françoise Clozat, a test pilot. They become lovers, but Françoise learns that Alain is married to a singer. Françoise despairs, but Alain proves to her that he has been living away from his wife for some time. She meets the singer, no longer believes Alain, and attempts suicide during a flight. Her instinct for self-preservation saves her. Alain is the first to turn his attention to her: when she opens her eyes again, she receives the assurance of his love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-05-14
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Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Overview: Henri IV falls in love with the young Charlotte de Montmorency, 40 years his junior. The king decided to marry her off to his nephew, Henri de Condé, so that he could later make her his mistress.
Genres: History Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-04-04
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Domino
Overview: Domino has only a wooden statuette, a typical piece of African art, to show for his trip. Arriving in Paris, Domino phones the famous Heller galleries to try to sell his statuette. He gets Heller’s wife, who uses him to deflect the suspicions of her jealous husband: she had an affair before their marriage. Domino gets carried away and persuades the young woman to go away with him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-07-28
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They Were Twelve Women
Overview: Early in the war, a group of women decide to help the soldiers in the war front. They enlist the help of the wealthy Madame Marion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-04-16
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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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Three Men to Destroy
Overview: A man helps the victim of an auto accident, not realizing that the man has actually been shot. The men who shot him are now after the man who helped him, in order to eliminate him as a potential witness. Soon they are killing everyone he even comes in contact with in order to get him.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-10-31
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The Temptation of Barbizon
Overview: Daniel Gelin and Juliette Faber star as a blissfully happy honeymooning couple. They are so happy that they arouse the jealous attentions of Satan. The Dark Prince sends an emissary to beak up the romance, but his advocate is promptly challenged by a representative from "up above."
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-03-13
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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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Les oeufs de l'autruche
Overview: In one shocking moment, a conservative bigot finds out that one of his adult sons is gay and the other is the kept "boy toy" of a wealthy Japanese widow. Predictably, his first reaction is overreaction.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-09-17
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Le Système Ribadier
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-04-10
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Women Are Weak
Overview: A playboy is pursued by three women seeking romance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-02-11
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L'ange qu'on m'a donné
Overview: During the 1940 exodus, a young girl takes in a baby to whom she becomes deeply attached.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-03-27
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After Love
Overview: Betrayed by his wife, a teacher proceeds to have an affair with a young and pretty student. The two women both find themselves expecting a child. The girl dies during childbirth. In a spirit of revenge and to keep his real son, the scorned husband exchanges the babies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-01-22
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Cadavres en vacances
Overview: The holidays at a pension in Touquet (North-Western France) are marred by a series of tragic disappearances.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-08-21
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Escale
Overview: An officer of a passenger ship falls in love with the mistress of a Marseille racketeer, with unexpected results.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-05-24
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L'homme de joie
Overview: A boudoir adventure during which the seductive Madame Jolivet, shocked by the behavior of her husband who appears with an actress, calls on the services of a young man, known as "the man of joy".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-08
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The Cupid Club
Overview: Isabelle is a lawyer who has Flip, a private detective, convicted of speeding. But shortly after, a murder is committed of which Isabelle's best friend is suspected. To save her, Isabelle is forced, despite her reluctance, to ask Flip for help, who agrees to look for the culprit.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-05-18
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If Paris Were Told to Us
Overview: Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-01-27
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