Georges Lannes
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: October 27, 1895
Age: 129 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 08, 1983
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Cocoanut
Overview: A small town gentleman learns that his prim and proper wife was once a showgirl, and that, even worse, he had enjoyed a one night stand with her in the Orient.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-02-17
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Monte Carlo Baby
Overview: When a measles epidemic forces the temporary closing of a child care center, the son of a film star and her estranged husband, a concert pianist, is mistakenly delivered to a touring musician.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-22
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André Cornelis
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Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1927-11-25
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L'âme de Pierre
Overview: Pierre Laurier is under the thumb of a dangerous woman. He considers committing suicide but would like to bequeath his soul to his best friend. Good people save him from death, but his friend falls prey to the bad woman. Pierre then does all he can to remove him from this evil influence. He eventually succeeds and finds serenity with a faithful and pure young girl.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-09-06
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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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Alexis gentleman chauffeur
Overview: Alexis, a former war pilot, attempted the Paris-Tokyo raid and failed. He became a taxi driver. The film actress, Margot Fontane, forgets her bag in the taxi and Alexis thus meets her. He goes to see the great actress shoot, he is hired for a small role as an aviator, and to simulate a take-off, he flies to Tokyo. It is the signal of happiness for the two lovers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-07-22
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S.O.S. Sahara
Overview: At a North Africa desert outpost threatened by Arabs, the French commander has added trouble when his wife visits and is captivated by a younger officer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-08-17
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Gambling Hell
Overview: In Macao, where places of pleasure and arms trafficking are concentrated, a tragedy opposes an adventurer and his daughter whom he has brought up in ignorance of his profession. She is torn from her environment and saved from tragedy by a young journalist who loves her.
Genres: Adventure Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-04-11
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Hangman's Noose
Overview: In England, a boxer is sentenced to death for a murder he does not seem to have committed.... Anthony Gethryn, who has just resigned from the police on the occasion of his marriage, has three days left to find the real killer.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-11-23
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Fric-Frac
Overview: An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-06-15
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Départ à zéro
Overview: Two young people, cousins to each other, inherit a domain where three comrades come to camp. The castle serves as a reserve for a black market band whose leader will do his best to clear out the new occupants. An inventor, an archaeologist, an inspector and a goatherd enter the circle...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-02-23
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La Croisée des chemins
Overview: A prestigious Paris doctor is tempted by a woman he knew in his youth, whose politician husband has neglected her.But will he in turn neglect his duties toward work and family?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-12-02
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Extenuating Circumstances
Overview: Harsh Parisian judge Gaetan (known as Monsieur Maximum), chafing in the idleness of retirement, leaves for a seaside holiday. But Gabriel the chauffeur has his mind on his girl, not the car; Gaetan and wife Nathalie are stranded in the country, where they find shelter in a low class bistro patronized by cheerful jail birds. Once the ice is broken, they have a wonderful time, but as the judge tries to trick his new friends into reforming, inevitable exposure approaches...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-07-26
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The Emigrant
Overview: Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-01-29
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Narcisse
Overview: To inherit from his late uncle, Narcisse Pigeon is obliged to pass his pilot's license.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-02-10
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Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
Overview: A scientist who have discovered how to turn salt water into petrol dies before he has revealed his formula. By mistake it's assumed that his assistant knows it although he does not.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-07-14
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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 mort ne reçoit plus
Overview: In his will, the late Jérôme Armandy has expressed the wish to have all the surviving members of his family summoned to the Château de l'Etang, in Provence. Firmin, Jérôme's servant, asks Claude, a Montmartre artist, to organize the reunion, to find the sum of 17 million francs which is hidden there (as a child he had been told by Armandy where the hiding place was) and to divide the amount between the different heirs. But a series of odd facts occur: Claude is knocked unconscious as he is busy opening the hiding place door; one of the heirs gets killed; and even more astounding, the dead man reappears and... asks his money back!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-07-07
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The Hunchback
Overview: The knight Henri de Lagardère wants to avenge the death of his friend, the duke Philippe de Nevers assassinated by the prince de Gonzague, a few years before.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-12-26
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One Does Not Die That Way
Overview: In the studio where the famous director Eric Von Berg reigns, Pierre Vanier, the male star of the film and the lover of Berg's muse, dies while rehearsing a scene. Over the course of a tangled investigation, the culprit is unmasked. This honest dresser is the adoptive mother of Vanier's wife, too unhappy with such a husband. The inspector, moved, concludes a suicide.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-07-03
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Master Love
Overview: Director of a music hall, the dubious Ribero, to save himself from bankruptcy, only hopes for the victory of his horse. An English lord enlists his crack Master Love in the race. Ribero will try to prevent its departure. He is thwarted in his dark projects by the lord's daughter, captain of a troop of girls, and by a wise and determined sportsman who does not hesitate, for the occasion, to become a jockey. Master Love wins the race, Ribero is confused, a few weddings are celebrated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-07-24
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As Long As I Live
Overview: Following a trivial road accident, Ariane, an international adventuress, falls in love with Bernard Fleuret, a young artist-painter with diseased lungs. Being pursued by the police, she chooses to hide in the sanatorium where the young man is treated. Ariane proves so smitten by love that she finally changes her ways: she decides to let herself be arrested, sure as she is she will be reunited with her loved one later on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-01-21
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The Sea Rose
Overview: Jérôme owns a boat with his crook of an uncle, La Rose de la Mer. They sail with a band of crooks hired by the uncle to scuttle the ship and collect the insurance premium.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-09-11
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The Fugitive
Overview: Fred Maubert, an innocent convicted of a crime he did not commit, escapes from prison and goes in search of the real culprit. He begins by looking for his former mistress, Simone, who has since married Doctor Bréville and lives in Canada.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-02-07
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The Case of Dr. Laurent
Overview: Le Cas Du Dr. Laurent (The Case of Dr. Laurent) stars Jean Gabin as a Paris-based doctor who tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth. Working in a cloistered rural community, Gabin runs up against the stone walls of fear and prejudice. His theories are proven sound when unwed mother Nicole Courcel gives birth within Gabin's methodology. The childbirth sequence is filmed straight-on with a delicate combination of taste and frankness. Nonetheless, the lurid ad campaign of Cas Du Dr. Laurent sensationalized this sequence all out of proportion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-04-03
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Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Overview: "Le Tambourin", a Montmartre nightclub, is on its way down. Although it can boast great performances by the alluring Les Bluebell Girls and by Jacques Hélian's lively Big Band the venue does not attract people anymore. Nightclub patrons now prefer the jazz cellars of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Taking this new taste into account, the staff of the "Tambourin" and Jacques Hélian decide to set up their own club, "La Pivoine Ecarlate". They are joined by Pâquerette, a flower vendor and amateur singer, and by Jean-Pierre Francis, an existentialist poet...
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-08
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Jamais deux sans trois
Overview: Father Benoît would like one of his twins to take over his inn, at 3 plates. But his ancillary ambitions are not commensurate with his last 3. Bernard is also in love with Hélène, daughter of Colonel Flouc de La Donzelle. He dreams of becoming an actor and goes to Paris to find a job. Difficult beginnings since from the theater, he goes to the cabaret, then to the radio, without success. In the final scene, the 3 brothers meet, which gives rise to a series of gags during the wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-22
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We Will All Go to Paris
Overview: The film tells the story of three presenters on Radio X, an amateur clandestine radio station.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-02-08
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The Night Is My Kingdom
Overview: After an accident, Raymond has gone blind. His family treats him like a child, but fortunately a nun comes to his rescue. She works in a center where blind people learn to read using the Braille alphabet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-08-09
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Mr. Peek-a-Boo
Overview: A simple civil servant Léon, who has the unusual ability to walk through walls, falls madly in love with a hotel thief by the name of Susan. He poses as Garou-Garou, a dangerous gangster to attempt to woo her affections, but is arrested and sent to jail. While in jail he annoys the guards by walking in and out of his cell, and keeps persuading Susan to cease her criminal way of life. As fundamentally being an honest and law-abiding citizen, he eventually handles back everything he has stolen, is acquitted by the court, and becomes famous and respected. When he learns that Susan is planning to return to England and start a new life, he decides to confess to her his emotions. However, the couple is interrupted by a sudden rush of journalists. Trying to escape in a building, they get cornered on a corridor, and Léon pushes Susan through a nearby wall. But by doing this, he loses his own wall-walking ability, and the film concludes.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-04-06
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French Touch
Overview: Mario, a bumptious sheep-shearer, discovers he has a inimtable touch that makes women, as well as sheep, swoon at his professional caress. He is soon the most sought-after hairdresser in France and is awarded the Legion of Honor...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-05-09
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Sins of Paris
Overview: Madeleine Lebeau, a woman who charges for her easy virtue, has a plan that has some of her customers paying more than others; she tells them she is pregnant and, to avoid complications, the men pay her money and don't hang around for the birth. Yves Furet, a shiftless gambler, who not only encourages her in her business ventures but is also her fiancée, shares the fruit of her non-labor. She latches onto a wealthy widower, Henri Vilbert, who throws her a curve-ball when, after she tells him she is pregnant, he is overjoyed as he has fallen in love with her and is looking forward to becoming a father. She plays along for a while, but becomes ashamed when she sees how Vilbert is devoting his whole life to a child that she isn't carrying. She fakes a miscarriage and his kindness makes her feel guilty and she confesses, but he doesn't believe her. So she tries another plan.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-04-17
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The Secrets of the Bed
Overview: Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural background take refuge in a cabin after being sidetracked by bad weather on their way to conference.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-05-19
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Le Crâneur
Overview: A singer tries to rescue a man drawn into the drug trade.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-05-10
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Abused Confidence
Overview: Lydia (Danielle Darrieux) is a student, poor and orphaned, who pretends to be the daughter of a famous writer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-11-29
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Les Duraton
Overview: Jules Duraton is the headmaster of Chatelbourg's high school. He is happily married, has a teenage daughter named Solange, and everything would be for the best of all possible worlds if he and his family were not the namesakes of the protagonists of a famous comic series broadcast every day on Radio Monde "La Famille Duraton". Day after day, the real-life Duratons are made fun of because of their surname and Jules just can't take it any more. That is why he decides to sue the radio station responsible for his misfortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-03-02
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Moulin Rouge
Overview: In 1890 Paris, Moulin Rouge is a nightclub where crippled artist Toulouse-Lautrec feels like he fits in. In the following years, he meets two women who provide an opportunity for him to find true love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1952-12-23
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Maigret Sets a Trap
Overview: Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret pieces the clues together, he comes to realize that for the elusive man that he suspects to be unmasked, he has to set him a trap.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-29
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The Contessa's Secret
Overview: The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-09-26
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There's No Tomorrow
Overview: Evelyne, a woman of bourgeois origin, now reduced to dancing in a sleazy nightclub, is reunited with her first love, who has become a successful doctor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-03-22
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Nights of Montmartre
Overview: Bobby earns his living in Montmartre by duping naïve provincials, along with his pal Julien, as well as crooks and drug dealers, replaced by bicarbonate. His friend Monique, who dances at Le Paradou, is frightened by such a life. A crime of which he is not guilty occurs while he is robbing drug dealer Mureau. Bobby flees, but prefers to let himself be imprisoned. A serious accident is avoided. The brave Inspector Doirel is determined to set the boy straight. Monique will do her bit too.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-08-08
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Bonjour jeunesse
Overview: After her mother's death, Liselotte is taken in by an old sculptor, but some distant cousins, brutal farmers, obtain guardianship of the young girl. Unhappy, she flees and finds refuge with a young shepherd living on alms.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-07-19
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Pas de souris dans le business
Overview: Without seeming to touch it, journalist Trupeau is interested in the doings of Mireille, a jewelry store saleswoman. A certain Jojo is hanging around the young girl, and not for the right reasons, but to pull off a "heist". Although one of his men betrays him and has to be shot, Jojo succeeds. The police investigate, question and pursue Mireille. Exasperated and disillusioned, the pretty salesgirl shoots Jojo. Fortunately, the journalist is there to prove that she's as white as an ermine. And the ch timents rain down on the culprits.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-04-08
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Une vie de garçon
Overview: Determined to marry, but without enthusiasm, Bernard chose Lysiane Laborie. To bid a fitting farewell to his wild youth, he buried his bachelorhood. Then his friend Bobby, with Lysiane's consent, persuades Bernard that he's marrying not a candid young girl, but Lily the Strychnine, a volcanic creature. The future husband discovers the joke and responds by introducing himself as a notorious gangster. Confrontations with thugs lead them all to the station. Bernard and Lysiane fall into each other's arms.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-12-04
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OSS 117 Is Not Dead
Overview: OSS 117 is asked for help by a female acquaintance Muriel Rousset. She beseeches him to retrieve secret documents which have been stolen from Sir Anthony Lead, the father of Anita and Marion. He complies with her wish and no obstacle or danger can hinder him from meeting her expectations.
Genres: Action Adventure Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-08-14
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Man and Child
Overview: Fred Barker, an unmarried American who remained in France after heroically defending the country during the Second World War, runs the perfume factory in Grasse of his friend Carlo Ferelli, whose life he saved during the conflict. Fred has since adopted a little girl, Cathy. One day, he receives a visit from Félix Mercier, an old man who informs him that he has taken Cathy into his custody and that he will return her to him when Fred finds his granddaughter Hélène, a 17-year-old teenager who accuses the factory of being a front for white slavery. Fred, dumbfounded, sets out to find Hélène, so he can quickly get Cathy back.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-11-28
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A Kiss for a Killer
Overview: In Nice, a wealthy widow is charmed by a young man who marries her and manages her finances. He soon starts an affair with her secretary, who proves to be even more ruthless than he is.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-11-27
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Intermediate Landing in Paris
Overview: Michèle, an employee at the airport, is in love with American pilot Eddie Miller who regularly flies the route from New York to Paris, but problems arise when he is transferred to the Tokyo route. Meanwhile Michèle's uncle Albert who works in the freight department sets out to tackle a drug trafficking outfit.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-03-16
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Danger of Death
Overview: Loiseau the pharmacist mistakenly mixes potassium cyanide into a batch of cough syrup and sells five bottles. With horror he discovers his mistake and sets out to find the buyers. He finds only four. The fifth, not a regular customer, comes back to the pharmacy...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-12-17
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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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Nightclub Hostess
Overview: The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one night she gets propositions from a rich widower who would like to have her as his girlfriend, Suzy wishes to leave this place, where she has no future, for a better one. Abandoned by her protector, a young hoodlum named Robert, she gets the occasion to get away from it. She decides to go on vacation on the Riviera and stay at the Chateau des Cedres, the former residence of a noble family that has been transformed into a bourgeois guest house by the baroness Saint-Leu. Shy and elegant, in her modest suit, Suzy stays there under the name of Suzanne Michelet and soon makes new friends among the young people of very wealthy families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-06-02
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Mademoiselle Has Fun
Overview: Christine, the daughter of a rich American, acquires from her father the jazz band of Ray Ventura who will be made responsible for accompanying her from morning till evening wherever she goes. From an endless number of amusing situations, the fiancée of the girl despairs. But soon the musicians rebel in in the face of the requirements of their patroness. More than a job, it is for them misery. Christine excuses them and she goes back to America with her band. Things go bad, degenerate, but the kindness of the musicians and the firmness of the fiancée of Christine really quiet down the moods of the young woman .
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-01-30
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The Unfrocked One
Overview: Pierre Fresnay plays the title character in Le Defroque (The Defrocked One). Cast out by his church, former priest Maurice (Fresnay) delights in mocking the traditions and credos of Catholicism. Even so, young Gerard (Pierre Trabaud) becomes convinced that Maurice has never truly lost his calling. Becoming a priest himself, Gerard devotes his life to bringing Maurice back into the fold. Things don't turn out quite as Gerard hopes, however; he has not reckoned with the possibility that Maurice may have been driven into insanity by his raging self-hatred.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-02-26
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Le roi Pandore
Overview: A policeman receives a fabulous inheritance. Thanks to this, he conquers the heart of Queen Marika. But crooks deprive him of his financial means
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-03-31
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The Queen's Necklace
Overview: Adaptation of Alexandre Dumas's novel 'The Queen's Necklace' which portrays the Affair of the Diamond Necklace which occurred before the French Revolution.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-10-21
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Overview: Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmund of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmund escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmund must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-06
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Más allá de la muerte
Overview: Raimundo Davidson is a young man in love with Florence, the niece of Dr. Belforger, master of hypnotics, who takes advantage of this faculty to intervene in a series of illegal business with his friend Burner. Aware of the fortune of Davidson, they accelerate their marriage with Florence to obtain it through the girl. Davidson is put on notice of Belforger's activities by an insurance firm. Discovered and stopped by the doctor, Davidson finally meets with Florence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1924-10-15
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: The Three Musketeers (French: Les trois mousquetaires) is a 1959 French TV film based on a play adaptation of the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is notable for featuring Jean Paul Belmondo in the lead.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-12-25
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Resistance
Overview: An Alsatian, head of a section of the Gestapo, is actually spying on behalf of the French and dismantling a Nazi network. His activities are brought to light by the Germans and he owes his life only to the intervention of a young woman.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-10-31
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Over the Wall
Overview: Simone and Jean have just married and, looking for a home in the Paris region, are lucky enough to find a house with a garden in a residential suburb. Expecting their first child, the young couple began to observe how the parents of neighboring families were raising theirs.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-08-22
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The Chocolate Girl
Overview: Benjamine, the daughter of the chocolate maker Lapistole, has broken down in her car, spends a night at Paul Norman's, imposes herself casually and causes the break-up of the engagement of this peaceful civil servant with the daughter of his department head. A friend maintains contact between Paul and Benjamine, becomes the head of publicity at Lapistole and when Norman is dismissed through Benjamine's fault, brings his two friends closer and proves to them that they are made for each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-03-03
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L'assommoir
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1921-12-30
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Sénéchal the Magnificent
Overview: Sénéchal, an actor touring the provinces with the "Tournées Carlini" does not meet the success he thinks he deserves. One night in Dreux, he finds himself without his luggage and dressed up as a Foreign Legion officer, he is invited to a party thrown by a colonel. He creates a sensation there and does not leave the colonel's wife ... indifferent! Back in Paris, Sénéchal goes through a similar experience. This time around, wearing tuxedo and top hat, he gets mistaken for a diplomat and charms the guests of a wedding party. Arrested by the police, he chooses to do without an attorney at his trial and his brilliant eloquence has him acquitted. A question remains unanswered though : will all those people who give an ovation in real life ever go to see him on stage ?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-05-24
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The Stream
Overview: When Paul, an officer, discovers Denise, a young orphan escaped from her orphanage, he takes advantage of his naivete to seduce her before changing her mind and sending her to live with her mother while sailing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-29
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The Whole Town Accuses
Overview: François is the benefactor of the town; but later on, all the inhabitants turn against him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-05-23
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L'Abbé Constantin
Overview: Poor abbé Contantin, he is devastated at the news: to think that two American ladies have bought the local manor where he has always been welcome! Worse, Mrs. Scott and her cousin Bettina are protestant. But the good priest soon realizes there is no cause for alarm. The two ladies are charming and open-minded. They insist on Constantin sticking to his old habits and he gladly resumes his visits to the manor. Paul,his nephew, will even fall in love with Bettina and the priest will unite the two young people in the village of mirth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-10-09
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The Barton Mystery
Overview: Following the assassination of a financier, several people who had an interest in seeing him disappear are suspected.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-08-19
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Comment j'ai tué mon enfant
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Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1925-10-24
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La Neige sur les pas
Overview: Abandoned by her husband Marc, Thérèse Romanay cheats on him with André Norans. When Romanay finds out, he drives her away. She runs away with her lover. But, during a mountain excursion, Norans is killed and Thérèse is herself seriously injured. But she recovers. The husband then forgives the unfaithful wife, and the couple reunites.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-06-03
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Beautiful Star
Overview: Meg decides to commit suicide to escape the marriage to which her father intends her. She is saved by Jean-Pierre, another candidate for suicide, and Léon, a tramp who was just trying to reason with him. The trio then becomes inseparable and organizes a new life based on friendship and freedom.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-08-05
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L'assassin a peur la nuit
Overview: Having pulled off a robbery with his friend Maurice, Olivier leaves his mistress Lola and hides out in a small village in the country. He finds work, thanks to a young man named Gilbert, who introduces him to his sister, Monique. Once the robbery has been all but forgotten, Olivier intends to head back to Paris, but before he goes, he steals money from his employer. In Paris, Olivier wants to say a proper goodbye to Lola, but she is being blackmailed by Jérôme, an antique dealer who has recognized a necklace stolen by Olivier. Before returning to Monique, Olivier calls on Jérôme to recover the necklace.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-09-02
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Cendrillon
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Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1922-03-18
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Mademoiselle Josette, ma femme
Overview: Josette needs to marry within a year to get her aunt's money but her fiance has left.After getting permission from her godfather for a "white wedding, " she realizes she loves the godfather instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-20
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On demande un bandit
Overview: The tribulations of Onésime Ballotin, the insurance broker from L'Art d'être courtier, this time parachuted into the ruthless world of Corsican banditry!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-01-05
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