Germaine Stainval
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Department: Acting
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The Glass Castle
Overview: Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she must decide between telling her husband and continuing to see Rémy.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-16
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La Cité des lumières
Overview: The life of two students, Rodolphe and Madeleine. They love each other but he is rich and she has just lost her father and is forced to work in a nightclub. Rodolphe leaves her but quickly understands that he loves her and finds her.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-08
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La vie est magnifique
Overview: Two campers meet two young girls in the Landes. Love will bloom, with its heartbreaks.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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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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Love Letters
Overview: A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town’s class tensions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-12-23
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The Secret of Madame Clapain
Overview: Madame Clapain dies in dubious circumstances at the home of the Cadifon ladies, of which she was a tenant. A friendly inspector and Thérèse Cadifon each carry out their own investigation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-08-11
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Adieu Léonard
Overview: A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the village idiot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-09-01
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The House of the Seven Maidens
Overview: A widower is in trouble with money, and has seven daughters to marry. A creditor, a timid suitor, is unable to make up his mind.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-02-06
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Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent
Overview: France under Louis XIII. 1615. The Duke of Angoulême is at the head of a group of gentlemen who are conspiring to drive the Florentines out of court, of whom Concini is the all-powerful leader. A cadet from Gascony, Adhémar de Capestang, who was later to become the Capitan, left his native province to come and try his luck in Paris. Along the way, he saves a young girl, Gisèle d'Angoulême, from a masked individual who wanted to kidnap her.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-03-27
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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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Devil's Daughter
Overview: Pursued by the police, Saget usurps the identity of a man who was returning to his town after having made his fortune in the United States. Under this new name, he deceives his compatriots with the exception of a doctor and the savage Isabelle. During an explanation Saget understands that Isabelle secretly admires him. She denounces him and Saget surrenders without a fight. Thus he ruins all his prestige with the young Amazon.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-04-17
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Goodbye Darling
Overview: Chérie is a beautiful young woman who works as an escort girl. She meets a young and wealthy man who propose her to be his fictional wife so that his mother won't bother him anymore with this other girl, a rich one, she wants to see her son married to.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-04-26
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The Murderer Is Not Guilty
Overview: In a film studio, several actors are the victims of attempted murders. Julien Brisseau, a writer, decides to use these facts as the backbone of his new novel. But while he is working on his detective story, young actors are actually killed. Julien thence gets suspected by police inspector Vétillard. To clear his name, Julien undertakes to investigate and find the killer on his own.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-07-29
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The Woman in Red
Overview: Two paintings are stolen. Amateur private detective Roland Gautier investigates.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-05-21
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Square of Knaves
Overview: Summoned by his mother to plead, a very young lawyer has a trio of pathetic criminals acquitted. The daughter of one of them reveals to the lawyer that the three accomplices hoped to find food and board in prison. For the beautiful eyes of the young girl, Master of La Bastide attaches the three rogues to his service. Disasters, confusion, clumsiness follow one another until the planned wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-12-10
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Toute la famille était là!
Overview: Mr. Catignac, a pork butcher in Perigueux, plans to marry Victor, his son, to the daughter of a magistrate. What he does not know, for his son does it in hiding, is that Victor writes songs and has made his debut as a singer in a cabaret. To make matters worse, the young man has a mistress. When word of it leaks out, the whole family are outraged. One night, as Victor goes back home, they are all here, waiting for him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-12-17
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The Elders of Saint-Loup
Overview: Due to financial problems, the boarding-school of Saint-Loup is on the verge of closing its doors. In desperation, Jacquelin, the headmaster, has the idea to invite former students to a fund-raising reunion. Among the alumni, three men whose common point is to have been in love at the time with the headmaster's niece. One is a banker, the second a priest and the last one a globetrotter. All of a sudden, the peace of the assembly is disturbed: Jacquelin's niece has just been murdered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-08
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The Eleven O'Clock Woman
Overview: Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving anonymous letters. And soon a mysterious murder is committed. SOS begins to investigate...
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-03-03
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Between Eleven and Midnight
Overview: Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot whilst walking in a tunnel in Paris. The case is assigned to Inspector Carrel, who is Vidauban’s perfect double. Using his resemblance to the arch criminal, Carrel manages to infiltrate in Vidauban’s circle of acquaintances and contacts. He becomes embroiled in a bizarre web of intrigue and discovers no shortage of possible murder suspects, all of whom appear to be surprised to see him still alive.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-03-23
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Trois marins dans un couvent
Overview: In a small village, an abbot tries to take lightly the jokes of three men, recalcitrant to religion.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-10-13
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Scandal on the Champs-Élysées
Overview: In Paris, three models are murdered, being one of them the mistress of the fashion designer Dominique Airelle. It is the young inspector who is in charge of the affair.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-04-22
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Just Me
Overview: Maurice Vallier, nicknamed "Ma Pomme"(which means "myself" in slang), is a cheerful man, well aware that money does not make happiness and who, of all things, prices freedom. Which is why he has become a tramp and he has never regretted his choice of life. Things go smoothly until the day he inherits a huge amount of money. He first refuses it but changes his mind when he realizes that thanks to the inheritance he can help others. Even more enticing is the fact that he must share the big money with a charming air hostess. However once he deems he has done enough good he gives up the money left and resumes his old lifestyle singing along "Ma pomme c'est moi, j'suis plus heureux qu'un roi..."
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-15
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Marlène
Overview: Returning from South America, a singer is hired by an old pal who runs a detective agency to use a perch as a night club performer to be an investigator.The amateur sleuth then falls for a girl whose brother is a jewel thief.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-02
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Return to Life
Overview: In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-14
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Lost Souvenirs
Overview: Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide. -A funeral wreath lets us know how it caused a young woman to believe her lover dead. After having told their respective story, the objects return to their customary stillness.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-11
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Young Love
Overview: Catherine, 18, loved Jean, a young accountant, who loved her in return. And yet, one morning, two policemen find their dead bodies on a stretch of waste ground. The case is obvious: the two young people have killed themselves. But why? Chief Inspector Ernest Plonche, feeling upset, decides to investigate personally.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-14
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Alone in Paris
Overview: Henri and Jeannette Milliard, a newly married couple from Normandy arrive in Paris where they intend to spend their honeymoon. Unforfunately a wicket gate in the metro separates the couple. In panic, Henri looks for his wife across the capital. He ends up finding her at the hotel they were to put up. But it looks as if Jeannette has gone through some distressing adventure.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-28
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The Glass Castle
Overview: Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she must decide between telling her husband and continuing to see Rémy.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-16
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Without Leaving an Address
Overview: A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-01-17
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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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Matrimonial Agency
Overview: Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-05-21
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Three Women
Overview: The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s, thanks in great part to the Max Ophuls production Le Plaisir. In Trois Femmes, three De Maupassant stories are dramatized, each conveying the central theme of women falling in love. In the first, a black female carnival entertainer causes an uproar when she falls in love with a white soldier. In the second, a young bride is pressured into having a baby to collect a huge inheritance. And in the final episode, a pregnant girl is "adopted" and protected by a small circle of friends. In standard De Maupassant fashion, each of the three stories in Trois Femmes is capped by a surprise twist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-08-13
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Drôle de noce
Overview: Mr and Mrs Barbezat,Concierges are to marry their only daughter to a butcher's boy. Both the in-laws and the groom have an obsession: come what may, they are keen on honoring their engagements: promises are made to be kept is their motto. And when, on the wedding day, the unfortunate parents cannot provide the newly weds with...the "Mérinos" mattress which is part of the bride's Trousseau ,they are desperate. The husband will spend the whole wedding festivities trying to keep his word.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-09-10
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She and Me
Overview: You never can tell. Jean had always been one of the most confirmed bachelors that kept swearing to anyone that would listen he would never put a ring on a female finger. But that was before he met Juliette, a capricious but irresistibly lovely young woman. Well, what else can you do when you fall dead in love with a creature of the kind? And too bad if their honeymoon proved catastrophic. To say nothing of their housing problems : what to do when neither husband nor wife has any money? How to build one's love nest when the housing crisis rages? How to get by when your wife has luxury tastes?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-12-31
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Girls in Distress
Overview: Jeune Filles en Detresse (Young Girls in Distress) was director G. W. Pabst's last French production before his (ill-timed) return to Nazi-occupied Austria in 1941. Somewhat reminiscent of Maedchen in Uniform, 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. On the whole, the performance by the younger cast members are more convincing than those rendered by the film's so-called adults.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-01-10
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Between Eleven and Midnight
Overview: Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot whilst walking in a tunnel in Paris. The case is assigned to Inspector Carrel, who is Vidauban’s perfect double. Using his resemblance to the arch criminal, Carrel manages to infiltrate in Vidauban’s circle of acquaintances and contacts. He becomes embroiled in a bizarre web of intrigue and discovers no shortage of possible murder suspects, all of whom appear to be surprised to see him still alive.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-03-23
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Not Any Weekend for Our Love
Overview: The announcement of the future marriage of Franck Reno, the star singer, causes considerable excitement around the world.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-01-23
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Diary of a Country Priest
Overview: An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-02-07
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Un revenant
Overview: A ballet producer returns to his native town and schemes to avenge himself on the family who tried to murder him 20 years before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-10-18
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The Earrings of Madame de...
Overview: In France of the late 19th century, the wife of a wealthy general, the Countess Louise, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off debts; she 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, & her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-09-16
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