Viviane Romance
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Biography: Viviane Romance (July 4, 1912 – September 25, 1991) was a French actress. Born Pauline Ronacher Ortmanns in Roubaix, France, Romance began her career as a dancer at the Moulin Rouge in Paris and was elected Miss Paris of 1930 before she made her film debut in 1931 with a cameo role in La Chienne. Romance caused a small scandal winning Miss Paris because she had a child. She appeared in several films over the next few years before making a strong impression in La belle équipe (1936). From this time to the late 1950s she was regarded as one of France's leading cinematic actresses and played dozens of femme fatales, fallen women (with hearts of gold) and vamps. Her acting roles after 1956 were few, and she retired in 1974.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Roubaix, Nord, France
Adult: No
Birthday: July 04, 1912
Age: 112 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: September 25, 1991
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Pity for the Vamps
Overview: Paris, 1956. Three sisters, three actresses willing to do almost anything to make it big. Their lives, their loves, their dramas. A savory satire of the world of show business and cinema in particular.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-10-19
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Any Number Can Win
Overview: Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-03-19
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Panic
Overview: Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town and discovers that his neighbors are only too ready to suspect the worst of him.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-01-15
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Sirocco
Overview: Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the mistress and then wife of a wealthy archaeologist, and bears him Matteo's child, whom he believes to be his own. Complications arise years later when Matteo finds Safia, and a ring of blackmailers uncover her past and exposes her to her husband.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-09-22
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They Were Five
Overview: Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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Carmen
Overview: Carmen is a French-Italian musical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Viviane Romance, Jean Marais, and Lucien Coëdel. It is a version of the famous opera.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-08-08
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The Case of Poisons
Overview: Madame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King set eyes on a younger beauty, Marie-Angélique Scorailles. Having had enough of the situation, the rejected mistress decides to visit La Voisin, a woman known as a fortune teller, a doctor, a midwife and who is also said to arrange black masses and sell poisons. Some time later Marie-Angélique, now Duchess of Fontanges, dies mysteriously aged only twenty...
Genres: History Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-11-04
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Mam'zelle Nitouche
Overview: Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of Floridor. One day, the Mother Superior asks him to chaperone one of the boarders, Denise de Flavigny, who is returning home to get married. Now, Denise, for all her goody goody looks, soon proves as saucy as can be. Things get even more complicated when Célestin starts courting Corinne, the star of his operetta, to the great displeasure of a commander of dragons, the young woman's lover. Worse, the latter is none other than the Mother Superior's brother... To say nothing of Lieutenant Fernand de Champlatreux, who happens to fall in love with Denise, his fiancée that he has never seen before...!
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-10-09
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The Hawk
Overview: The wife of a Hungarian gentleman tires of helping him cheat and becomes the mistress of a diplomat.When she re-encounters her husband he is enfeebled and ill, so she takes pity on him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-11-17
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Ciboulette
Overview: Duparquet is the controller of Les Halles, and plays matchmaker between the young farm-girl Ciboulette and Antonin, a young spoiled aristocrat.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-11-10
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N'aimer que toi
Overview: A great singer eager to know the love of a sincere woman, in love with him and not with his glory, disguises himself as a worker. He meets the girl of his dreams. A commitment takes her away, she tries to kill herself but he comes back in time and they can love each other without constraint.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-10-26
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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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Return to Paradise
Overview: Trying to acclimatize a group of overworked city dwellers from very different backgrounds to the open air and work in the fields, such is the unusual challenge that an original practitioner, the curious doctor Bouvard, is attempting. The trial, which involves many risks, gives unexpected but not disappointing results.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-11-15
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Une gueule en or
Overview: The Marquis de Barfleur, an unattractive man, decides to resort to plastic surgery to ensure the fidelity of Colette, his young mistress. Now endowed with a face to die for, he is about to achieve his goal. But the Marchioness de Barfleur, the Marquis' loving wife, does not hear it that way. She has her revenge claiming everywhere that her husband is... dead! An assertion people believe since they do not recognize the Marquis! When her vengeance has lasted long enough, she forgives the Marquis and husband and wife fall into each other's arms.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-29
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Le Club des Aristocrates
Overview: Serge loves living it up but painting the town red has a price... too high for him! What to do then? Alfred, his servant and former pickpocket, has the solution : steal of course! No sooner said than done ! Or rather: No sooner said than tried... For when Serge, assisted by his mistress Gloriane acting as bait, he tries to rob a jeweler on the Place Vendôme of a precious diamond bracelet, he realizes that a gang of thieves have preceded him. Later on, he will learn that the boss of the gang is a Polish noblewoman, Countess Waldapowska.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-09-02
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La Bandera
Overview: Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. So he joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. He meets there two fellow countrymen, Mulot and Lucas. He tries to forget his fault... but Lucas's friendship soon appears to be less unselfish...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-09-25
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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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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.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-02-26
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Cartacalha, reine des gitans
Overview: The gypsy dancer Cartacalha is elected queen of the gypsies. She loves a horse breeder, the Galejon, but following misunderstandings and perfidy, she leaves for Paris, invited by a playwright who predicts a total success on stage. Having become a star, she returns to the Camargue where, still abused, she tries to commit suicide.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-01-21
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Anger of the Gods
Overview: Sylvain, sentenced to death, assures the visiting priest that his life could have been completely different, and invents different situations.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-04-09
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Heart of the Casbah
Overview: Maria-Pilar is the new wife of an Algerian gangster whom the police have just arrested. The son of a first marriage arrives in Algiers from which he has remained far away for a long time. His stepmother, charmed by the teenager, gradually experiences a devouring passion, against which Michel tries in vain to fight: he loves a young girl, Sylvie. Mad with jealousy, his stepmother singles him out for his father's vengeance by distorting the truth. Michel does not escape his father's fury, but when the woman's deception becomes known, Maria-Pilar is strangled to death.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-01-24
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Woman Are Angels
Overview: In order to inherit her husband's old aunt more quickly, a greedy peasant woman engages in various dishonest maneuvers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-09-03
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Street of Shadows
Overview: A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in Greece and becomes involved with a man on the other side, a French military officer.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-04-13
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Passion
Overview: An unhappy wife who has had a child by her lover lives a daily drama under the watchful eye of her husband who hates them both.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-09-21
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The Strange Monsieur Victor
Overview: Outwardly, Monsieur Victor would appear to be the model citizen. A respectable Toulon shopkeeper, he has a devoted wife and is courteous and considerate to all who know him. However, beneath this veneer of respectability hides a notorious receiver of stolen goods, who trades with hardened criminals. Victor manages to keep up his double life without any difficulty until the fateful day when one of his partners in crime threatens to expose him. Fearing a scandal, Victor kills the crook in a moment of panic, using a shoemaker's tool. Naturally, the murder is blamed on a local shoemaker, who is sentenced to ten years' hard labour. Seven years later, the former shoemaker reappears in Toulon, having escaped from prison. The first person to recognise him is Monsieur Victor...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-05-04
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Flesh and Desire
Overview: Giuseppe is accused of killing his employer Matthias who is actually in a hospital with amnesia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-06-18
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Man, Beast and Virtue
Overview: Paolino, a teacher at an elementary school near Naples, appears nervous for a few days and his friends do not know why. The man is the lover of Assunta, the mother of one of his pupils, and he discovers that she has become pregnant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-05-09
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Le Plus Bel Homme du monde
Overview: Documentary about the bodybuilding competition held in the south of France, in Cannes. Composed of 2 parts filmed on August 15, 1948 (11 minutes - selection of the French champion) and August 16 (9 minutes - selection of the most handsome man in the world). These short reports were broadcast in French cinemas from August 23, 1948 and present the athletes' journey, the joys of physical culture in the gym and on the beach, starlets in bikinis and a moment of wrestling between athletes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-08-26
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Blind Venus
Overview: Vénus aveugle (Blind Venus) is a 1941 French film melodrama, directed by Abel Gance, and one of the first films to be undertaken in France during the German occupation. Although the film is not set in any specified period, Gance wanted it to be seen as relevant to the contemporary situation in France. He wrote, "...La Vénus aveugle is at the crossroads of reality and legend... The heroine ... gradually sinks deeper and deeper into despair. Only when she has reached the bottom of the abyss does she encounter the smile of Providence that life reserves for those who have faith in it, and she can then go serenely back up the slope towards happiness. If I have been able to show in this film that elevated feelings are the only force that can triumph over Fate, then my efforts will not have been in vain."
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-09-14
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The Puritan
Overview: A religious fanatic finds his entire life and philosophy turned upside-down as he falls in love with a girl and kills her in a jealous rage. His search is for peace of mind and a desire to justify the murder of the girl to himself. His mind becomes distraught as he gropes trying to rationalize his deed and his world falls apart around him. A police inspector patiently and tirelessly stays on Barrault's trail, without putting him under arrest, though convinced he is the murderer, and waiting for the moment when he feels Barrault will break under the strain of his own religious fanaticism.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-13
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Princess Tam Tam
Overview: A French novelist passes off an African shepherdess as a princess.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-11-02
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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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Gibraltar
Overview: A British officer poses as a traitor in order to infiltrate a team of terrorists who are sabotaging ships, while a seductive cabaret dancer is working for the mysterious genius who runs the enemy spy ring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-01
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Overview: A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-03-27
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L'inspecteur connaît la musique
Overview: Harry Louis is a jazz clarinetist, obsessed by his art: he would like to match Sidney Bechet; the famous musician tries to give a piece of advice to his fan who, accidentally, kills him in a fit of anger. With the help of his mistress, Muriel, who has witnessed the scene, Harry does away with Bechet's dead body. But, during this gruesome trip, Muriel is accused of being responsible of a road accident. The insurance company sends a young man, Laurent, to investigate.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-02-15
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A Woman in the Night
Overview: A theater troupe is touring Manon Lescaut, starring Denise, whose husband is a sick alcoholic. Tired of his violent outbursts, and wanting to rebuild her life, she runs away and finds refuge with a doctor who hires her as a nurse in his clinic. However, another jealous nurse commissions a detective to investigate, and ends up uncovering Denise's past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-01-13
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Maya
Overview: Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance) who is all things to all men. No matter what sort of woman her client wants, she will become that woman -- at least for the night. When a middle-aged man named Jean insists that Bella is his long-lost sweetheart, she plays along, hoping to escape her sordid lifestyle. The emotional tragedy that follows is meant to explain how Bella became "Maya," the living embodiment of Lost Souls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-09
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Marked Girls
Overview: Juliette, an innocent woman, is wrongly sentenced to prison for attempted murder. After her release, she married an industrialist to whom she did not speak of her tumultuous past. But, victim of a rampant blackmail, she cannot continue to hide her prison past and the scandal breaks out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-12
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Crossroads of Passion
Overview: Lisbon, the capital of Neutral Portugal, is a hotbed of spies. Mario, a cabaret singer working for the Allies is responsible for the death of an Italian agent. His widow Irène heads to Portugal and in her desire for revenge she agrees to work for the Nazis.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1948-08-04
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Justin de Marseille
Overview: A respected gangster, Justin, finds himself in a deadly feud with his rival, the unscrupulous Esposito. The latter plans to steal a cargo of opium bound for China and to have Justin killed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-04-05
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La Chienne
Overview: Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love with Dede, her pimp. She only accepts Legrand to satisfy Dede's needs of money.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-11-01
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La Route du bagne
Overview: Paris, 1865. In a music-hall Manon accidentally kills her partner who was trying take sexual advantage of her. She is condemned to twenty years of hard labor first and then to be deported to marry a released convict. On the ship where she sails with her female fellow-sufferers she gets to know a young doctor and helps to suppress a revolt. Once arrived at her destination, Manon hesitates between her official fiancé and the doctor whose household she does not want to break...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-10-16
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Le Joueur
Overview: Drama in a small German water town where various characters clash against a backdrop of money, gambling and love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-09-06
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Sacred Fire
Overview: A young woman from the countryside travels to Paris to become an actress. Despite all kinds of difficulties, affronts and emotional adventures, she succeeded in gaining a place in the world of entertainment and becomes a great movie star.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-11-12
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The House Under the Sea
Overview: A stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband Lucien. But she suddenly experiences a passionate love, taking refuge with Constant in a cave they call “home under the sea.”
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-08-20
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Queen's Necklace
Overview: The adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France Henri II, and who claims to be "Countess de la Motte", imagines a tortuous plan to steal a magnificent diamond necklace that the queen Marie-Antoinette refused to buy from the jewelers Boehmer and Bassange.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-09-14
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He Is Charming
Overview: A French musical comedy film, one of the many operetta films made in the 1930s. Rejected for the law after cheating with his fellow students, a frivolous youth gets a job as a notary in the provinces where he hires his girlfriend and they have a fine musical time.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-02-25
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Liliom
Overview: Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a rascal who's a carousel barker, loved by the experienced merry-go-round owner and by a young, innocent maid. The maid, Julie, loses her job after going out with Liliom; he's fired by his jealous employer for going out with Julie. The two lovers move in with Julie's aunt; unemployment emasculates him and a local weasel tempts him with crime. Julie, now wan, is true to Liliom even in his bad temper. Meanwhile, a stolid widower, a carpenter, wants to marry Julie. Is there any future on this earth for Julie and Liliom, whose love is passionate rather than ideal?
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-05-15
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Pasha's Wives
Overview: Mireille, a Frenchwoman, marries a westernized Turkish diplomat and, thinking that she will live a dream life in an Arabian Nights setting, follows him back to his native country, only to discover that, in a staunchly traditional society, she will not be a free woman there any longer.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-02-18
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Box of Dreams
Overview: Nicole tries to seduce a young man who lead a bohemian life in an untidy flat with his three pals.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-07-11
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Dangerous Turning
Overview: The adventures of Daniele as he tries to find love with Lucienne despite being framed for murder and cocaine smuggling.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-12-28
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Mam'zelle Spahi
Overview: Two mistresses snubbed by their respective lovers crash a military ball and their lovers then resort to an unusual strategy to win them back.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-11-09
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La Tradition de minuit
Overview: Five people are gathered in a cafe because of a phone call they have all received. The plot thickens when they discover a dead body in a bedroom upstairs.The five people all become suspects.
Genres: Crime Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-22
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Pleasures and Vices
Overview: He was nicknamed Gueule d'ange (Angel's Face) because of his good looks, which enabled him to make a certain amount of money from wealthy ladies. Having given up on touching little Marie, he fell into the clutches of fashionable decorator Loina. Both love money, both go for it. Their characters bind them together. So much so that when Loina falls on hard times, Gueule d'ange would fly to help her. A loyal friend stops him. Loina leaves. Distraught, the handsome boy looks inward. It's time for him to settle down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-09-02
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The Nada Gang
Overview: Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They kidnap the American ambassador after one of his regular visits to an exclusive brothel. The gang starts to quarrel amongst themselves as to the diplomat's fate, while the police purge suspects in their attempts to destroy the Nada faction. As the violence escalates on both sides, the States and the terrorists are forced to use one another's methods in an increasingly desperate and relentless conflict.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-02-06
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Dark Eyes
Overview: In 1913, in Russia, a widower hides from his daughter that he is a butler in a meeting restaurant. She meets a banker who is trying to seduce her and takes her to this restaurant. The father, knowing the decadent life of this client, immediately sends his daughter home. The pure love that her piano teacher devotes to her will allow the young girl to console herself for her disappointments...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-09-05
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Blood Red Rose
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-09-26
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Trouble for the Legion
Overview: Alberto Gherardi, a sailor is wrongly suspected of murder, flied and enroll into the Foreign Legion. His unfaithful fiancee Irene goes to look for him with his young brother Enrico, but the latter is killed. Will she still manage to free her lover?
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-08-27
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Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
Overview: Mario Esposito, who sings in a Neapolitan restaurant, is in love with Assunta, the niece of Teresa, the owner of the place. He shares his apartment with Michel, his best friend. This one has fallen under the spell of Lolita, a gorgeous adventuress he met at the cathedral where he officiates as the organist. But things go awry as, while Michel intercedes with Aunt Teresa for Assunta's hand in his favor, Mario in turn falls in love with Lolita. On the very day of his wedding with Assunta, Mario runs away with Lolita, thus betraying both his love and his friend. But it does not take long before the young singer realizes the big mistake he has made.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-12-07
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