André Dumas
Also Known As: André Demas
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dannes, Pas-de-Calais, France
Adult: No
Birthday: August 03, 1921
Age: 103 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 27, 1995
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The Gardener of Argenteuil
Overview: Tulipe, is an old man who lives alone in an old railway carriage in the Argentueil region of Paris. His main passions are gardening and oil painting, but he also has a secret source of income. His godson discovers that Tulipe is actually a master forger, producing perfect copies of 10 franc notes. His godson’s girlfriend sees this as an opportunity to get very rich – but she must persuade Tulipe to forge 500 franc notes. Assuming Tulipe’s agreement, his godson and his girlfriend buy an expensive new car and luxury villa in provincial France – but there is a cruel turn of fate in store for them when Tulipe strikes up a friendship with a millionaire playboy.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-07
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Saint-Just and the Force of Things
Overview: Antoine Saint-Just, comrade of Robespierre and youngest member of the Committee of Public Safety, is drawn into the tempestuous political & military conflicts of France under the Terror.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Le Huguenot récalcitrant
Overview: A historical and tragic backdrop: the dragonnades, the persecution of Protestants after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. And a comic situation: an insubordinate singer who taunts Louis XIV's soldiers from the top of his rock, driving Marshal Boutre half mad.
Genres: Drama Comedy History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-06-14
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La parole est au témoin
Overview: Mustapha, a cab driver in Paris, charges a customer in a hurry, without realizing that he is in a hurry to escape his pursuers after robbing a jewelry store. The next day, reading the newspapers, Mustapha becomes aware of the role he has played in this affair, and would gladly assist the police if a fortuitous incident didn't make him fear the criminals' vengeance. It's a cruel dilemma in which he is both suspected by some and threatened by others. Weak but honest, he manages to get out of this predicament at the risk of his life!
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-17
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Le Cabaret du Grand Large
Overview: Superintendent Thomas is investigating a cabaret owner with suspicious actions.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-10-30
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Six Hours to Lose
Overview: A traveller is stuck in an unknown town because his connecting train will only arrive in six hours. He decides to kill time by taking a stroll. He is not prepared to get confused with somebody else. In fact the citizens are eagerly awaiting the visit of a famous man and the clueless traveller is his doppelgänger. Soon he experiences what that means.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-01-22
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Monsieur Vincent
Overview: The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-11-05
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Sending of Flowers
Overview: Envoi de Fleurs is based on incidents in the life of French composer Paul Delmet. Played by popular French singing star Tino Rossi, Delmet is depicted as a man all too willing to give up personal happiness in favor of blind ambition. After carrying on a romance by correspondence with beautiful young Suzanne (Micheline Francey), Delmet is on the verge of marrying the girl. Instead, he allows himself to be talked out of leaving France to further his own career, with disastrous results for all concerned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-05-26
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The Case Against X
Overview: Paul Dorgères, a wealthy industrialist, has been mysteriously murdered. The investigation is entrusted to the experienced Chief Inspector Bonnardel and his young rookie assistant, Inspector Richard. Suspicion turns to his mistress Catherine Villard, with whom he had just broken up on the night of the crime. She is soon arrested and charged. However, Inspector Richard discovers a button at the scene of the crime which could help him to trace the trail and confound the culprit(s).
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-06-11
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A Caprice of Darling Caroline
Overview: Caroline de Bienre, the 16-year-old daughter of French nobility, meets the handsome rogue, Gaston de Sallanches, who is expected to ask for the hand of her older, plainer sister in marriage. Gaston instead joins Caroline in her secret hiding place in the château's attic, where the infatuated Caroline begins an affair with him. Meanwhile, she is being courted by the dull, sincere Livio, but holds him off since she is in love with Gaston. When the revolution of 1789 breaks out Caroline is sent to a convent but her carriage is waylaid. She escapes and makes her way to Gaston's home, where she finds him in the arms of his mistress. She is angry and then agrees to marry Livio, now an out-of-favor revolutionary and a marked man, and Caroline is also now on the death list.
Genres: Romance War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-03-06
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Josepha
Overview: An acting couple is forced to assess their life together when the wife falls for a wealthy horse-breeder while shooting a film.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-03-10
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Happening
Overview: At a reception, the guests amuse themselves with cruel games.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-10-18
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The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
Overview: Part One, "The Last Christmas Dinner," is about the relationship between an old man and an old woman, both homeless. Part Two, "The Electric Floor Polisher," is an opera-like story of a woman who is obsessed with polishing her floors. Part Three is a musical interlude featuring Jeanne Moreau singing "When Love Dies." Part Four, "The Virtue of Tolerance," concerns an old man, his young wife, and how they come to terms when she has an affair with a man her own age.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-02
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Operation Abduction
Overview: The Secret Service abducts a "rocket scientist" to better protect him against gangsters acting for Chinese agents.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-10-08
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Les Violents
Overview: Pierre Tercelin who used to be a prosperous industrialist is now ruined and embittered, having become a mere lock keeper. A widower, he lives with his daughter Evelyne, a music-hall dancer. Claiming he is being persecuted by his cousin Edgar he gets in touch again with another cousin of his he hates, Bernard, a millionaire gun runner,who is also a victim of Edgar. It must be said that both Pierre and Bernard once caused Edgar to go bankrupt... Pierre offers Bernard to join efforts against Edgar. Soon after, Bernard dies of poison, which is only the first of a series of acts of violence. Tiercelin is shot at while going back home, Bernard's son is gunned down while his sister Luciane disappears. Chief-inspector Malouvier - who oddly enough looks very much like the suspect- investigates....
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-10
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Tonight We Kill
Overview: In Antwerp, Belgium, in 1959, a succession of Interpol agents are gunned down without obtaining what they're looking for: a list of all the influential crooks. Only one remains, Larry Laine, who is about to show them what he's made of.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-09-15
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Daniella by Night
Overview: Daniella, a fashion model, goes to Rome to replace a model who's been murdered. Once there, she meets two men, Count Castellani, whose clothes she'll model, and Karl Bauer, a reporter in the hotel room next to hers. Castellani gives Daniella the spotlight, which prompts jealousy from another model. Is he merely trying to seduce her? It's soon apparent that he has other plans as well: the line of clothes is a cover for smuggling and perhaps espionage. Daniella may be in danger - one model is dead already. Is Bauer to be her protector, or is he after something too? Is anyone who they seem?
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-04-28
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Rock or the Curse
Overview: A stranger arrives in a small town and soon the locals suspect that he might be a sorcerer.
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-02-06
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That Night
Overview: Jean, who is the artistic director of a fashion magazine, is married to a very pretty cover girl, Sylvie. They both work for André Reverdy, a very cynical man, who openly covets Sylvie.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-09-11
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Every Day Has Its Secret
Overview: Given up for dead three years ago in a plane crash in the Amazon rainforest, a young woman arrives in Paris to find her eminent ethnologist husband. She learns of his death in obscure circumstances, having remarried in the meantime. She sets out to unravel the mystery surrounding her husband's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-06-11
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Que personne ne sorte
Overview: Set between Christmas and New Year, the film told the story of six criminals who kidnap an ambassador's daughter and await the ransom; enter Monsieur Wens, who infiltrates their hideout using various comic disguises, bumps them off one by one and rescues the little girl.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-07-29
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L'Exécution
Overview: Paris, at the start of the German Occupation, five men plan to sabotage a factory.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-01-29
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The Immoral Moment
Overview: Michel Jussieu, a film producer, returns one morning to the cabaret where he forgot his sweater. He discovers the corpse of an extreme right-wing journalist, but immediately he is knocked out. He wakes up in the police station ...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-07-18
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Bells Without Joy
Overview: In November 1942, American troops landed in Tunisia. German paratroopers were immediately launched and occupied Tunis. A French squadron of chasseurs d'Afrique was sent to Medjez-el Bab with the mission of occupying the bridge over the Medjerda. But the captain is mute and the cavalrymen don't know whether the operation is being prepared against the Germans or the Allies. The first hypothesis inflames Maréchal des Logis Bourgeon and his friend Maurice, who have not forgotten the defeat of '40. In the village, Maurice meets up with his friend Léa, a refugee, and discovers with fury that she is Jewish, because he doesn't like Jews any more than he likes English or Germans! The hunters set up camp on the bridge. Soon, a German column appears and demands passage. The captain refuses, awaiting orders from Vichy. But in Tunis, confusion reigns. Finally, the captain himself takes the initiative to oppose the passage of the German troops...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-04-20
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Sahara on Fire
Overview: A young engineer, Lucien Rombeau, is sent to the Sahara by the oil company that employs him, which wants to put an end to drilling that it considers unproductive. He ends up agreeing with the chief prospector, who refuses to stop the work and is convinced that prospecting will not be in vain.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-01-18
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Diary of a Suicide
Overview: On a Mediterranean cruise, a young man hired as a tour guide is intrigued by the beauty of a female interpreter hiding behind her sunglasses. He makes advances to her by venturing into a series of strange stories.
Genres: Drama Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-22
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La Femme de paille
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-12-03
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The Four Charlots Musketeers 2
Overview: This French slapstick comedy stars the musician/comedian foursome Les Charlots, as valets to the Four Musketeers. One of the film's highlights is a mutual kicking session between Cardinal Richelieu, the King, and a monk. This comedy foursome was enormously popular in 1970s France, and they made a huge number of films during that period.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-13
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Recourse in Grace
Overview: Mario di Donati, a deserter from the Italian army, lives in Paris under a false name with Germaine, his French lover. When the latter learns about his hidden past, she feels hurt by Mario's lack of trust in her and she distances herself from him. In despair, Mario surrenders to the law but, at the time of trial, he runs away to join the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-05-19
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Farewell, Friend
Overview: After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways. Later, they are reunited and become involved with a caper involving millions in a high-security safe. The two men become locked in during a holiday weekend as they attempt to crack the safe's combination.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-08-14
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Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
Overview: In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply.
Genres: Comedy Crime Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-03-16
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The Taking of Power by Louis XIV
Overview: Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the treasury and wants to be prime minister. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand by offering a bribe to Louis' mistress to be his ally. She reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt, the urban poor working and fed, and peasants untaxed.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-08
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Womanlight
Overview: Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-08-29
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Strange Game
Overview: In 1944, in Paris, the leader of a resistance network is looking for the traitor who gave away a radio operator.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-04-05
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Tout le monde peut se tromper
Overview: A young woman, employed in a jewelry store, decides to take advantage of the heist she witnesses. She shoots down one of the burglars; the other will pursue her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-02-10
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Sous le soleil de Satan
Overview: 1971 TV movie based on the novel by Georges Bernanos.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-22
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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 History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-10-20
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