Jean Murat
Also Known As: Jean Robert Édouard Murat
Biography: Jean Murat (13 July 1888 in Périgueux – 5 January 1968 in Aix-en-Provence) was a French actor. He was married to the French actress Annabella. He was one of the surviving passengers of the August 1923 Air Union Farman Goliath crash. Source: Article "Jean Murat" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Périgueux, Dordogne, France
Adult: No
Birthday: July 13, 1888
Age: 136 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 04, 1968
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Resurrection
Overview: Young Prince Nechljudov is summoned as a judge in a murder trial. A rich merchant was found dead in the room of the inn where he was staying and the prostitute Maslova was accused of the crime. Nechljudov recognizes in the woman the maid of the aunts he had seduced and abandoned years before and tries to convince the authorities of her of his innocence but to no avail. Convinced that he is responsible for her moral fall, he follows her to Siberia where she must serve her sentence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1958-10-21
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La fontaine des amours
Overview: A French film star visits Coimbra and it's old university, and breaks a poor local girl's heart, as her fiancee turns his attentions to the foreign girl. In a play within the story, one is told the sad love story of Don Pedro, king of Portugal, and Inês de Castro.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-08-29
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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
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-03-12
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Heimweh
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-10-21
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Carnival in Flanders
Overview: Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the annual local festivities when the arrival of the Duke of Olivares, who rules the country on behalf of the King Philip III of Spain, is announced. While the male citizens cowardly surrender to panic like rats on a sinking ship, the brave female citizens, led by the bold wife of the burgomaster, decide to become the best hosts the Spaniards can ever meet.
Genres: Comedy History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-03
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Bethsabée
Overview: Danielle Darrieux stars as Arabella Delvaire in this baroque adaptation of Pierre Benoit's novel Bethshabee. Arabella is a woman of the world who arrives at a remote Foreign Legion outpost for a rendezvous with her current lover, Captain Duveuil. It so happens that one of Arabella's previous amours, Captain Somerville (Paul Meurisse), is also serving at the same post. So much for joining the Foreign Legion to forget. A climactic knife duel "solves" the film's various plot complications. Despite its Foreign Legion background, Bethsabee has next to no action, which must have made things difficult when the film was distributed to the U.S.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-11-21
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On the Riviera
Overview: In this fast-paced remake of the Maurice Chevalier vehicle Folies Bergère, talented Danny Kaye plays both a performer and a heroic French military pilot.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-04-20
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Le secret des Woronzeff
Overview: Gravely ill, Prince Woronzeff asks a friend and look-alike, Franz von Naydeck, to replace him at the wedding of his daughter Nadia, whom he has just found, as the family covets the inheritance. Diane, who once loved the prince, doesn't betray the secret, because she now loves Franz and separates him from his pseudo-daughter, with whom he had begun to fall in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-02-01
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The Eternal Return
Overview: A retelling of Tristan and Isolde set in 1940s France.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-12-13
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Companion Wanted
Overview: Young love blossoms between a salesgirl and a handsome man on the French Riviera.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-02-19
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The Last Blow
Overview: The captain of a Marseille freighter suspects his wife of cheating on him with his childhood friend. The ulcerated wife decides to take a trip with her sister and this friend, and registers herself under a false name on her husband's boat. A disaster caused by the fog reveals to the household their love for each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-04-22
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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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A hole in the wall
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-06-06
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Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme
Overview: Josette needs to marry within a year to get her aunt's money.Her fiance,an Englishman, has gone away .After getting permission from her godfather to do a "white marriage," she realizes that she really loves the godfather instead.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-04-07
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Typist
Overview: Simone finds work as a secretary in a bank whose chief of staff expects more than typed letters.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-04-04
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La dactylo se marie
Overview: A former typist at a bank ,having married her elegant young boss and gone on a honeymoon, needs to return to work when the bank runs into trouble, and is separated for a while from her new husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-05-18
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Anne-Marie
Overview: Raymond Bernard’s film of a script by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince) about a young woman who aspires to become a pilot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-03-06
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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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Aloha, the Song of the Islands
Overview: During the London-Melbourne race, two aviators, one male (Guy,) the other female (Betty), are forced to land on a lost island in Polynesia. They learn to survive in difficult conditions and fall in love. Back in civilization, their union does not prove obvious. Pierre is already married to Ginette, a movie actress, and Betty is engaged to her cousin Edouard. Moreover, Lord Stanton, her rich father, will not hear of a marriage with Guy. Will love ultimately triumph in spite of everything?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-12-16
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A Man to Kill
Overview: Captain Benoit successfully completes a mission in Berlin, but when he returns to Paris he escapes attacks by German agents.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-02-25
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Nuits de princes
Overview: In the Parisian Russian émigré community, an attractive young woman, Hélène, is torn between her husband, her lover, and the love she feels for a new suitor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-27
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The Big Flag
Overview: For Naval officers duty comes first. Navy Lieutenant Favrel is one of these men. He has promised his wife Simone to stay with her all the time but a last mission aboard a training cruiser makes him realize that his life is tied to the sea. For his part, Navy cadet Pierre Hardouin understands that sailing is his vocation. The prospect of staying home alone while Pierre is on mission, frightens Madeleine, the girl of his heart. But the young woman ends up accepting the ordeal and marrying Pierre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-06-21
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Captain Benoit
Overview: An officer saves the life of a foreign prince who is in France to buy seaplanes, while pursued by his enemies.
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-30
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The Lost Woman
Overview: Marie, a young bourgeois and Jean, a cargo sailor have an affair, she becomes pregnant but he has to go back to the sea. Marie leaves for Paris where she meets Pierre and marries him. War breaks out, Jean and Pierre will befriend each other on the front.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-08-05
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La Chèvre d'or
Overview: Legend has it that in the village of PugetMaure, a mysterious goat is the guardian of a treasure once abandoned by the Saracens. Norette, the mayor's daughter, has a golden bell that would reveal the secret. A Parisian journalist is interested in the story. In front of the coalition of villagers, he abandons the treasure and marries Norette.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-03-31
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Christine se marie
Overview: In order to engage in life experiences, Christine takes the civil status of her three sisters to marry as many times.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-06-30
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Les Aventuriers de l'air
Overview: A pilot, hero of the war, finds himself implicated in spite of himself in a traffic. He is wanted by the police, but his former companions and an air hostess will help him prove his innocence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-10-20
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Rich, Young and Pretty
Overview: A rancher's daughter visits Paris to meet her mother and find love.
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-07-09
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The Winner
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-03-24
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L'Envie
Overview: Envious of a movie star who is staying at the hotel where she works, the waitress Rosette does everything she can to seduce the actress's lover. Some time later, after having realized her ambition, she returns to the hotel as a client. (Segment of "Les sept pêches capitaux")
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Overview: Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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The Gallery of Monsters
Overview: The whimsical Riquet's has kidnapped and married a well-born young girl, Ralda. They travel around Spain performing their act in a circus but Ralda's beauty arouses the director's lust. Furious at being rejected, he opens a lion's cage during Ralda's act, leaving her seriously injured. With Ralda's family on their trail, the young people set off to find a better life elsewhere.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-09-23
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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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77, rue Chalgrin
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Genres: Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-11-17
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I Was an Adventuress
Overview: Old friends of Vera Vronsky remind her of her past and try to blackmail her.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-21
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Carmen
Overview: Feyder's scenario very closely follows Don José's own account of his story and his fatal relation with the gypsy Carmen in the third chapter of Mérimée's short novel.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-01-01
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L'Eau du Nil
Overview: Wirsoq, who belongs to the type of cosmopolitan financier, gets into his power a young French aristocrat, Arthur de Sorgepois, and insists that the boy's sister should marry him. The girl is in love with a young artist, Pierre Levannier, who secretly returns her affection, but does not declare himself at this critical moment because he is not rich enough to support a wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1928-10-18
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The Race for Love
Overview: In 1925 what may have been the first cycling film was made, Le Roi de la Pédale starring the popular comedy actor Biscot, and with scenes shot on the Tour de France and also with Henri Decoin as a screenwriter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-10-16
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Stupéfiants
Overview: When an up-and-coming singer's career is jeopardized by morphine addiction, her brother takes on the ruthless dope pushers who are intent on keeping her hooked.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-12-16
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The Scar
Overview: Six-episode film Directed by Maurice Champreux and Louis Feuillade.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-01-02
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Time Bomb
Overview: Plotters decide to scuttle a ship for the insurance money, but things go wrong.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-01-20
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The crazy adventure
Overview: Fred, a journalist, faces an international intrigue to protect the mysterious Nelly.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-03-13
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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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Lady Chatterley's Lover
Overview: Based on D. H. Lawrence’s 1928 novel of the same name, Lady Chatterley’s Lover stars Danielle Darrieux, Leo Genn, and Erno Crisa in this controversial tale of adultery! After her husband is paralyzed from fighting in WWI, Lady Chatterley feels a loss of intimacy between her husband and herself, and decides to have an affair with the gamekeeper, a man of a lower class.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-07
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Three of the Canebière
Overview: Toinet, Girelle and Pénible fish for sardines in Marseille. To dazzle their conquests, they present themselves as rich can manufacturers, while the little flower girls play movie stars. A ridiculous suitor wants to discuss a business deal, a potential sponsor appears and the whole tohu-bohu reclaims the songs of Vincent Scotto.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-21
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Clandestine Paris
Overview: In the elegant nightclub of Corsican Luciano, known as Lucky, "Les Naturistes", big sums are gambled at the Longchamp races. Lucky not only "welcomes" the new dancers, he also collects the stakes entrusted to him and personally plays the horses recommended to him by Max, a former convict. But Bramati, Lucky's ex-partner, doesn't forgive Max for double-crossing him and has him shot.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-10-11
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The Lady of Lebanon
Overview: The French and the English spy on each other, in this adventure set in post World War I colonial Syria.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-01-01
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The Man with the Hispano
Overview: The almost financially ruined French gentleman Gaston Dewalter spends several days in Biarritz before going off in the Hispano-Suiza, a luxe car which was a present from his friends. George becomes the lover of Lady Stéphane Oswill pretending he is wealthy. Then Stéphane spends the remaining funds with which the now desperate George hoped to rebuild his fortune in Senegal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-03-24
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No Exit
Overview: The scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first, the group fails to comprehend where they are or why they're there. When the horrible truth dawns upon them, they carp and snipe at one another, blaming everyone but themselves for their dismal fate.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-12-22
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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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Sex
Overview: A Broadway actress uses her sex appeal to ruin a marriage only to dump her lover for a richer prospect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1920-03-29
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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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Das Karussell des Todes
Overview: a silent movie by Heinz Paul
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-04-03
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The love market
Overview: a silent movie by Heinz Paul
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1930-03-05
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The Fox of Paris
Overview: Paris, 1944. With France under Nazi occupation, General Quade entrusts an important mission to Furstenwerth, the commander of the Wermacht: to secretly transmit secret documents to the Allies. While carrying out this mission, the commander falls under the spell of a young French resistance fighter, Yvonne. He is discovered and arrested by the Gestapo. Yvonne and her group of resistance fighters will do everything to free him.
Genres: Drama Thriller War
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-11-13
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Un certain monsieur Grant
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-08-12
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The Divine Voyage
Overview: A girl in search of sailors lost in the Pacific.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-06-13
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Lawless Paths
Overview: Inès, a gypsy, pregnant by a rich breeder who abandoned her, finds refuge with a band of smugglers and thieves, led by an old woman nicknamed "the Spider". It is among them that she raises her daughter, Dolores. But her past catches up with her when the wealthy landlord reappears in her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-06-17
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Bagarres
Overview: A proud femme fatale who works at a mountainous farm property manages, after being prodded by her lover, to become the heiress, but she plays the rival men against each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-11-05
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Les mutinés de l'Elseneur
Overview: A journalist takes command of a ship after the crew mutiny against the brutal captain. It was an adaptation of the novel The Mutiny of the Elsinore by Jack London.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-02-29
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Dishonorable Discharge
Overview: Burt Brickford, a deserted U.S. Navy captain stranded in a South American port, rents out his services to survive. Perez, a drug trafficker, calls on him to command Henry's yacht, on which a group of would-be treasure seekers are embarking.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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La Sonnette d'alarme
Overview: Middle-aged Parisian Bobby, following an attack of gout, is forced to give up his previous merry life. Above all this Bobby falls in love with his niece Genevieve, abandoned by her husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-05-30
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Generals Without Buttons
Overview: Separated by an ancestral hatred, two small villages of the South see their infant population engaging in war, while the teacher of the first village and the mayor of the second love each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-10-27
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La Femme d'une nuit
Overview: A lieutenant of the French navy, ready to kill himself in despair, renounces his project after spending a night with a beautiful stranger, the Princess of Lystrie.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-06-16
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Men Without Fear
Overview: 1895. Discovery of X-rays. Researchers and scholars are true martyrs, because they do not know how to protect themselves against radiation dermatitis. Professor Belcour has to have one hand amputated, his assistant Henri Vermont, aware of the danger, has the courage to break up with his fiancée. Withdrawn to the countryside, they eventually recover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-10-07
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Le père Lebonnard
Overview: Father Lebonnard, a former watchmaker who made a fortune, remains simple while his wife is only dreaming of worldly affairs and pushes his son Freddy to marry Bianca, the daughter of the Marquis de Rocafort, their neighbor. She feeds a similar project for her daughter Mariella.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-29
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Six Little Girls in White
Overview: On his fiftieth birthday, Serge Charan, a large industrialist overloaded with activities, decides to leave everything to go on an adventure. In a train heading for the Côte d'Azur, he meets six young girls returning to their boarding school. Arrived at their destination, Serge Charan rents, under an assumed name, a villa with a view of the garden of the boarding school. His presence arouses questions and the interest of young girls who are sensitive to his charm. But one of them, Simone, falls completely in love and runs away from boarding school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-11-21
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Vénus
Overview: A Princess learns that the captain of a ship she owns has struck a passenger, indirectly causing the passenger's death. The Captain is immediately sacked without realising that his action was in defence of her honour. Later, in Cyprus, the Princess meets a handsome man and they're mutually attracted. Only when he expresses contempt for the name of Princess Beatrice Doriani for costing him his job does she realise that this is the same Captain whom she had sacked.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-09-29
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Trois de la marine
Overview: Antonin, Honoré and Papillote are sailors on the ship "L'Invincible". The three friends are in love with three pretty girls in Toulon: Honoré is in love with Mireille who, as for her, loves Antonin, and Papillote only has eyes for Angèle who, after a fifteen-month-long cruise,presents him a newborn baby that she claims is their son! A new woman appears: Patricia, as sexy as she is mysterious. Antonin, although disconcerted, falls under her spell. What he does not know is that Patricia is not a journalist as she says she is but a secret service agent who has been assigned the mission to investigate Eric Bergen, a shady fellow the trio meets everyday at Arsène's Café.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-07-05
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L'évadée
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-08-16
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Der Anwalt des Herzens
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1927-11-07
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Os Olhos da Alma
Overview: In a small fishermen's village love affairs are in turmoil, amidst political meetings and revolutionary activities. Nature adds drama to the human passions with its wind- and sea-storms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1923-12-11
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Operation Thunder
Overview: The inhabitants of a small provincial town are requisitioned to take part in the French army's major maneuvers. A foreign spy takes advantage of these maneuvers to steal secret documents. The pursuit and capture of the spy and his accomplices are successfully carried out by all those taking part in the maneuvers.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-06-13
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Flucht aus der Hölle
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1928-04-23
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La nuit est à nous
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Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-01-10
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Les fiançailles rouges
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-02-11
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The Possessors
Overview: Noël Schoudler, founder of an empire built on three foundations - sugar, banking and the press - reigns like an absolute sovereign over his business and his family. But someone is about to challenge this authority: his son François...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-11-19
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Captain Craddock
Overview: The mystery passenger on Craddock's ship is his country's queen.When he loses money she's entrusted to him at roulette, he threatens to bomb Monte Carlo unless his loss is restored.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-12-04
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Second Bureau
Overview: Captain Benoît manages to take possession of the plans of a new German airplane. The German counter-espionage assigns one of their agents, beautiful Erna Fiedler, to seduce Benoît and to eliminate him. But the two spies fall in love.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-09-19
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The Red Cloak
Overview: Cosimo de' Bardi is assassinated by a gentleman called the Flemish. Time passes and at some point a masked knight wearing a red cloak enters the scene. He is the son of the killed. These and the Flemish are also rivals in love. In the final duel the Flemish will be eliminated.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1955-09-17
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It Happened in Athens
Overview: In 1896 it is announced that the Olympic Games will be revived in Athens. A young shepherd, Spiridon Loues, decides to enter the 26-mile marathon. Once in Athens, he meets Christina Gratsos, a young woman from his hometown who is now the personal maid of Eleni Costa, Greece's most glamorous actress. Though he has arrived after the qualification date, Spiridon's athletic prowess so impresses Coach Graham of the American team that he is permitted to enter the contest. Eleni informs the press that she will marry the victor, confident it will be her lover, Lieutenant Vinardos.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-20
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Mademoiselle Swing
Overview: Stuck in Angoulême between her uncle, who composes classical music, and her aunt, who is a fan of contemporary music, young Irène finds life boring. Fortunately, there is swing music which illuminates her days. So when, one day, Raymond Serre and his swing orchestra come to Angoulême, she seizes the opportunity to slip the copy of a song she has written into the pocket of one of the musicians. The trouble is that while she is doing so, the train she has boarded pulls out.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-06-12
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I piaceri del sabato notte
Overview: Behind the facade of a fashionable Milanese home, headed by Arabella, lies an efficient ring of high prostitution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-05-04
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Paris Holiday
Overview: Comedian Bob Hunter is aided by his French counterpart Fernydel and two beautiful blondes when he is targeted for death by a powerful European counterfeiting ring.
Genres: Romance Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-04-05
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The Avenger of Venice
Overview: Rolando, who was close to marrying the daughter of the Doge, is condemned after a highly unfair judicial process and locked up in Venice. Digging a tunnel with the aid of his cellmate, Rolando succeeds to escape.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-03-16
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The Duel
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-02-01
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The Healer
Overview: Pierre Laurent, a former doctor, has established himself as a renowned healer in Brittany. A young girl, Isabelle, who follows his results with admiration, declares her love for him and becomes engaged. The reactions of his former colleagues bring Pierre before the courts. A misunderstanding with Isabelle thwarts the wedding plans. Later, the young girl, suffering from a brain tumor, allows herself to be cured by the healer. Pierre does not cure her, but leads her to her death without suffering.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-12-06
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The Soul of France
Overview: This film follows Jean, a young French soldier who is physically and mentally scarred by his experiences on the front lines. He struggles to readjust to civilian life, and his family soon realizes the extent of his trauma. Jean's childhood sweetheart, Madeleine, is now married to his friend and fellow soldier, Pierre. Jean's family fears he will succumb to his despair, and they desperately search for ways to help him find peace.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1928-04-26
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