Georges Vitray
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: February 29, 1888
Age: 137 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 08, 1960
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Marie of the Port
Overview: Henri Chatelard is well into his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciates women. When he meets Marie, an 18-ish strong-head who just lost her father in a small fishing village, it is not clear who is the hunter and who is the prey.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-02-27
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It's all arranged
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-07-03
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Without a Family
Overview: Rémy (Robert Lynen), a stolen child is adopted by a wandering singer. With him and his trained animals, Rémy travels the roads of France. But his adoptive father dies and Remy, who has knowledge of a boy who knows something of his history, sails for England to find his mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-11-26
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Vers l'abîme
Overview: The dramatic story of a military attaché, in a European embassy who will sign a fake check, in order to recover important secret documents that have been stolen from him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-07-13
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The Woman at the End of the World
Overview: A sailor falls in love with an innkeeper on a lost island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-19
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Rasputin
Overview: Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-28
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Hercule
Overview: Hercule, a young peasant, inherits a Parisian newspaper with a large circulation. The editor-in-chief, Vasco, takes advantage of his ignorance to make corruption prevail. But Hercules gradually realizes the role that we make him play.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-03-05
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La Symphonie fantastique
Overview: The film is biographical, telling the story of the life and artistic struggles of the French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz is shown as a recalcitrant medical student in an anatomy class dreaming of becoming a composer; at a demonstration during a performance at the Paris Opéra conducted by Habeneck; at supper with other young artists (Hugo, Janin, Dumas, Mérimée, Delacroix); and chasing after his future wife Harriet Smithson, after a performance of Hamlet. Also depicted are his life in a garret, while suffering from an illness due to an abscess in the throat; a visit from his mother who curses him; and the composition of the Symphonie fantastique. The film then shows his marital breakdown, the premiere of his opera Benvenuto Cellini, his travels throughout Europe, his second marriage to Marie Recio (called "Marie Martin" in the film), public acceptance in old age and reconciliation with his son.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock
Overview: The everyday life and activity of "La Dernière Heure", a major evening newspaper, seen through the eyes of Hélène Perrin, a cub reporter trained by Pierre Rabaud, a star in his field. Side by side they will investigate several events: an air show that ends tragically, the coming to France of a Hollywood actress, a lightship caught in a terrible storm...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-05-21
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L'homme qui joue avec le feu
Overview: A do gooder hopes to cure potential romantic partners of what he considers the disease of love, by putting them up in a property and having them watched over.Things do not turn out according to his plan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-08-05
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The World Will Shake
Overview: In this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die. Oddly enough, the people do not want to know and therefore begin to riot…
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-05-10
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Fromont Young and Risler Elder
Overview: An ambitious and perverse adventurer sows dissension and ruin in a wealthy family of industrialists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-10-08
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White Wings
Overview: A great disappointed love once encouraged the vocation of Sister Claire, who, however, forgot nothing. She follows in their daily life three young girls beloved and badly brought up by a widower, an artist with measured comicality. Sister Claire will save one of the sisters abandoned by her seducer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-03-10
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Carnival of Sinners
Overview: A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact, magically. But of course there is nothing free in this world, and after one year the devil comes and asks for his due.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-03-21
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Star Without Light
Overview: An aspiring singer tries to break into films during the early talkie era. She is hired to dub the singing and speaking voice of a silent-movie favorite. Sworn to secrecy, the fill-in must stand by in silence as the star receives all the praises and plaudits.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-04-03
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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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Devil and the Angel
Overview: The Director of an international banknote printing institute, mutilated by the face of the Great War, Frank Davres, falls in love with a young woman, Jeanne, admirably beautiful, but blind. He marries her. For her, he ruins himself and comes to issue counterfeit banknotes. The young woman does everything to make people forget her infirmity. One day, following an operation, she recovers her sight and notices the physical and moral ugliness of her husband. She hides her cure until the day when Frank, taken by the police, kills one of his accomplices and commits suicide. Jeanne leaves to join a friend with whom she was performing in a circus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-10-30
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L'Homme de la nuit
Overview: A detective uncovers a crime. The suspects are numerous and it will take all the insight of a journalist to discover the culprit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-08-06
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Si jeunesse savait...
Overview: Charles Vigne, a wealthy banker, frees Abdul, a good genius imprisoned in a vase. To thank him, Abdul grants his wish: to become a child again, while retaining the experience he has acquired. But the "disappearance" of the banker panics the financial markets and has disastrous consequences for the bank. Eventually, Charles Vigne will ask Abdul to give him back his real age.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-04-30
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Triple enquête
Overview: Commissioner Thomas simultaneously investigates the actions of an oil company, a theft and an assassination, and the kidnapping of a child with look-alikes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-06-30
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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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Mandrin (1ère époque) Le libérateur
Overview: Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear and without reproach, puts himself out of the law by refusing to obey the local nobility. The public authorities are tearing their hair out because the man is elusive. Helped by his faithful friends and by two women in love, Mandrin will become a legend.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-11-15
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Piège à hommes
Overview: A gangster, arrested by the police, manages to escape during his transfer to Paris. He takes refuge in the suburbs where his accomplices and his mistress await him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-02-02
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The Naked Woman
Overview: Having become famous, a painter marries his model whom he soon brings to despair by deceiving her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-02
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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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The Big Meeting
Overview: One of the first victories against the Nazis in World War II is when Parisians help allied forces drive the enemy out of occupied French Algeria.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-02-10
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The Road to Damascus
Overview: Saul De Tarse is a Roman soldier who is making rough all over. He arrives at the Golgotha when the apostles remove the cross. He ruthlessly persecutes the Christians, even though they are his own friends.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-12-05
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Un trésor de femme
Overview: Francois is engaged to Isabelle. While going to buy the engagement ring, he meets Sophie, who puts the ring on her finger and does not manage to remove it. Francois follows in the footsteps of Sophie, who is married to an important merchant, in order to recover his property.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-02-11
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Happy Hearts
Overview: A silent film theater projectionist is kidnapped by a gangster group, so he can show them footage of a Dutch jewel dealer they want to steal from. The head gangster's sister helps foil their plan.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-12-02
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The Beautiful Otero
Overview: An Italo-French biopic about one of the most famous women of Belle Époque, Spanish-born dancer and actress, star of Folies-Bèrgere: Carolina Otero.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-11-04
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Flesh and the Woman
Overview: In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village beauty who is the exact double of his true-love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-06-08
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Sinners of Paris
Overview: Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that Vanel is too crafty and well-connected to ever stand trial for his crime, so he carefully lays a subtle trap for his adversary. Unfortunately, both Piccoli and Vanel are thwarted by a pair of scheming females.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-15
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Inspecteur Grey
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Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-10-20
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The Novel of Werther
Overview: Herr Werther, a new magistrate to the Grand Duchy of Walheim who is a violinist and poet, seems to have fate on his side as he meets and pursues a beautiful local woman, Charlotte. But as Werther sets to propose marriage, Charlotte reluctantly tells him she has been promised to another, Werther's superior, Judge Hochstätten. Werther and Charlotte decide to keep their romance from the judge and each descends into depression. Will they be able to keep their feelings a secret?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-14
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The Marriage of Chiffon
Overview: Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow, her mother (Suzanne Dantes) would like to remarry a rich noble. Without realizing it, Chiffon is in love with her uncle, a ruined pioneer of aviation ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-08-06
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Hatred
Overview: Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the victim of a malicious attack, he returns to his hometown of Dunkirk. Mollenard receives a frosty welcome from his wife Mathilde, who resents the way in which he has neglected his family for so many years. Mollenard’s only wish is to get back to sea as soon as he can, but a sudden heart-attack leaves him paralysed and entirely in his wife’s power...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-26
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Girls in Distress
Overview: Somewhat reminiscent of 'Mädchen in Uniform' (1931), the story is set in a private girl's school, populated almost exclusively by children from broken homes. Among the few students who can claim family stability is Micheline Presle, but even her happiness is threatened when her lawyer father Andre Luguet inaugurates an affair with stage actress Jacqueline Debulac. With the help of Debulac's daughter Louisa Carletti, Presle is able to break up her father's romance and deliver him into the open arms of her mother Marcelle Chantal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-01-10
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The Tender Enemy
Overview: Line, Annette's daughter, is about to marry a man she's not in love with. At the engagement party three ghosts revisit their disastrous relationships with Annette and decide to take action to help Line.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-10-24
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Forty Little Mothers
Overview: After finding and adopting a child, a man gets a job at an all-girls school which doesn't allow families. Once the girls find the baby, they become his forty little mothers. At the same time, the child's true mother searches for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-11-05
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Mysteries of Paris
Overview: Towards the end of the 19th century, the Duke of Gerolstein traveled to Paris. Sixteen years earlier he had a daughter who was taken from him by her mother who was chased out of the palace. After many dramatic adventures, the Duke finds his daughter in the person of Fleur de Marie, martyred throughout her childhood by the Owl and the schoolmaster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-10-13
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Si j'étais le patron
Overview: An intelligent young worker, enterprising but boastful, repeats to all the winds that, if he were the boss, we would see what we would see. One of the main shareholders of the factory takes him at his word for twenty-four hours.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-10-25
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Port-Royal
Overview: 1661, the Assemblée du Clergé de France obliged all clergy to sign a form testifying to their submission to the decisions of the Holy See. In 1664, the Archbishop of Paris wanted to impose this decision on the nuns of Port-Royal. Among them was Sister Angélique de Saint Jean, admired by the very young Sister Françoise, who looked to her for comfort.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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Ultimatum
Overview: About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-27
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The Secret of Monte-Cristo
Overview: One of Alexandre Dumas's most popular adventure novels is "The Count of Monte-Cristo". What is little known is that the famous writer made up neither its plot nor its characters. Dumas actually heard the true story of a man named François Picault during a stay at a private mansion and only adapted it into the novel everybody knows . Picault (who in the book would become Edmond Dantès) was about to marry the beautiful Marguerite (Mercédès in the novel) when he was denounced by three jealous friends who falsely accused him of being a spy for England. Picault was placed under a form of house arrest. In his prison, he made friends with an Italian abbot. When the man died, he left his fortune to Picault whom he had begun to treat as a son. On his release, Picault, who had become wealthy, was able to pursue his ruthless revenge on the three men who were responsible for his misfortune.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-09-17
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Mandrin (2ème époque) La Tragédie d'un siècle
Overview: Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear and without reproach, puts himself out of the law by refusing to obey the local nobility. The public authorities are tearing their hair out because the man is elusive. Helped by his faithful friends and by two women in love, Mandrin will become a legend.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-04-07
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Trial at the Vatican
Overview: In 19th-century France, a little girl follows her two sisters into a Carmelite monastery with the goal of becoming a saint.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-08-29
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The Earrings of Madame de...
Overview: In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off her secret debts, then claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, and her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-09-16
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Double Destiny
Overview: A soldier fighting for France loses his memory and has a second career as a national leader, but in Germany.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1954-11-12
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