Gabriel Signoret
Also Known As: Signoret
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Marseille, Bouches du Rhône, France
Birthday: November 15, 1878
Deathday: March 16, 1937
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Sacrifice of Honor
Overview: Before the Battle is the English-language title of this espionage melodrama. The first half of the film takes place aboard a French cruising ship, steaming through dangerous waters during WWI. Among the passengers is heroine Jeanne (Annabella), who was once in love with first-officer D'Artelles (Robert Vidalin) but he now seems strangely preoccupied. It turns out that the ship is on a secret mission, which ultimately dooms the vessel to a Lusitania-like death. After the sinking, Captain De Corlaix (Victor Francen) faces a court-martial, and it is at this point that the film clarifies several baffling plot points. Despite its complexity, the story is fairly believable, with the exception of the grafted-on romantic subplot.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-01-04
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Le Père Goriot
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1922-01-01
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Le Billet de mille
Overview: The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-01-11
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Trois pour cent
Overview: Small rentiers do not want their son to marry a young rich girl. They hijack letters and prevent meetings. But love wins. Defeated, the parents accept this union which shocked their petty bourgeois but honest spirit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-02-03
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Bourrachon
Overview: The pharmacist Bourrachon learns that his wife Adrienne deceives him with Dr. Rigal, whose specialties he sells in his pharmacy. His sister, the authoritarian Mrs. Bruneau, urged him to divorce and introduced Geneviève to substitute Adrienne. But after five months of marriage, Geneviève gives birth to a child whose real father turns out to be Henri, the salesman of the Bourrachon pharmacy. Mrs Bruneau will then try to persuade her brother to bring an action disavowal of paternity for the honor of the family and especially to protect the inheritance of his own daughters. But Bourrachon will eventually become attached to the child and endorse his paternity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-11-20
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The Flame
Overview: A woman of easy virtue rejects a proposal of marriage made to her by a rich lover. But when her son is taken from her to be brought up in the best conditions, she keeps thinking about him. When she finds him, twenty years later, she can not adapt to the environment to which he now belongs.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-08
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Symphonie D'Amour
Overview: A ten-year old film when it was first released in the USA as "Symphonie D'Amour" in 1946. Panard (Fernand Gravet) is a talented composer who is having little success in his musical career. He is reduced to hiring out as a sandwich-board man to advertise what proves to be his own show. His girl, Jacqueline Francell, interests a Marquis in backing the show. She and Panard are happily reunited after the successful opening of his operetta.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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27, rue de la Paix
Overview: A young woman wishing to divorce, promises money to her husband's ex-mistress to obtain her testimony on her behalf. But the same evening, the corpse of the young woman is found in the Seine. Everything seems to confirm the husband's guilt, however a journalist disappears with the evidence.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-11-11
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The New Men
Overview: Dedicated to men, natives and French, which under the leadership of General Lyautey, made modern Morocco. After a historical prologue where we see Clemenceau yield to the entreaties of Lyautey, we are witnessing the arrival of settlers on Moroccan soil with the rapid rise of one of them: the ambitious Bourron. Similarly it has conquered the land from scratch, Bourron could conquer a woman, Christiane, who followed him not without confessing his love for another man. It is this love that Bourron will use later to acquire a forest of olive trees, which he believed to be the symbol of its success. Christiane accept but never forgive her husband...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-03-04
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Nights of Fire
Overview: 19th Century Russia. State prosecutor Fedor Andreiev is presiding over the trial of a man who murdered his wife's lover. Despite a robust defence from the brilliant young lawyer Serge Rostoff, the accused man is found guilty and will be deported to Siberia. Having spoken to the condemned man, Fedor Andreiev sees a disturbing parallel with his own life...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-04-16
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Infatuation
Overview: Flora Nys, a poor flower girl of Paris faces hard times. Her rent overdue, Le Baron, the landlord, oppresses her and puts before her a shady proposition. Indignantly she orders him out of her room. When she takes up her flowers, preparatory to going forth to sell them, she discovers that Le Baron has trampled on them. Tempted by her poverty she steals a fur in a department store.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1918-12-01
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Prometheus, Banker
Overview: A vamp seduces a banker and breaks with him when she's obtained all that she wanted.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1921-05-11
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Le Noël du poilu
Overview: A soldier during World War 1 wants to be reunited with his family for Christmas.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1915-12-16
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The Blindness of Youth
Overview: "A charming story of a young society girl and the pathetic love of a youth..." Considered a lost film.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1917-11-30
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Mothers of France
Overview: A mother loses first her son and then her husband in the trenches of France during the First World War. She devotes herself to the French cause and to helping those wounded in the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1916-01-02
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Arsène Lupin, Detective
Overview: Arsène Lupin decides to run a detective agency in addition to being a gentleman thief. As a detective he happens to cooperate with police in order to unveil the criminal activities of a villain. When he succeeds the villain returns the favour. The unmasked Arsène Lupin manages to escape with the villain's gangster moll as his new companion.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-04-30
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The King of Prison
Overview: Fernand Pradier (Gabriel Signoret) is an honest merchant and a simple person at heart who tries to make her daughter Germaine (Gabrielle Robinne) happy. She is engaged to a rich banker St-Bris (René Alexandre). However, the fiance once belonged to a criminal organization and, despite his efforts of rehabilitation, one of his ancient accomplices makes their engagement impossible. Eventually imprisoned, she escapes with the help of a beautiful typist (Stacia Napierkowska)...
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-01-01
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The Cigarette
Overview: A Parisian museum director believes his wife is cheating on him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk, thus allowing chance to decide the moment of his death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1919-10-10
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Struggle for Life
Overview: An honest worker is made redundant, but he will solve his problems by marrying the employer's daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1914-02-20
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Jocaste
Overview: Following her father's advice, Hélène Haviland (Sandra Milovanoff) accepts the marriage proposal of Fellaire de Sizac (Abel Tarride). Later she finds Dr. Groult (Henri Fabert), one of their friends, trying to kill her husband by poisoning slowly over a long period of time. It's painful but she keeps silence...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-05-15
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The Story of Midinette
Overview: During the WWI, Jeannette (Musidora) finds refuge in the South France, among other women. She starts the correspondence with a soldier of the front line and sends him a parcel.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1915-05-01
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Asile de nuit
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-04-04
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The Bureaucrats
Overview: A comedy about the petty bureaucrats who need special leather props under their posteriors because of the long hours they spend sitting at their desks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-12-15
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Ménilmontant
Overview: Because they brought her back a lost piece of jewelry, a very rich lady accedes to the request of three old people and transforms a vacant lot into a park for the neighborhood children.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-11-20
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The King of the Sea
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Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1917-10-21
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Let's Make a Dream
Overview: A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, puzzled. He finds there, without knowing it, the lover of his wife, to whom he confesses his infidelity.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-12-31
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The Secret of Lone Star
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1920-05-14
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Culprit
Overview: A man from a wealthy family falls in love with a florist, but the lover has to go to war and to leave his darling crying... and giving birth to a child.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-01-21
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The New Men
Overview: Dedicated to men, natives and French, which under the leadership of General Lyautey, made modern Morocco. After a historical prologue where we see Clemenceau yield to the entreaties of Lyautey, we are witnessing the arrival of settlers on Moroccan soil with the rapid rise of one of them: the ambitious Bourron. Similarly it has conquered the land from scratch, Bourron could conquer a woman, Christiane, who followed him not without confessing his love for another man. It is this love that Bourron will use later to acquire a forest of olive trees, which he believed to be the symbol of its success. Christiane accept but never forgive her husband...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-03-04
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Roger la Honte
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1922-09-22
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L'enfant des halles
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-04-11
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Le Rêve
Overview: During this harsh winter, as Christmas approaches, Angélique, a poor child, is found by an old couple, Hubertine and Hubert. But this couple is not the richest, and the life of this small family is hard and laborious. Angélique likes to escape to the city, to dream. One day, she meets Félicien, with whom she falls in love. But she is told that this handsome man is the bishop's son, so marrying him is impossible.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1921-04-15
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Le secret de Polichinelle
Overview: Based on the play by Pierre Wolff.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-11-02
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Tears of Forgiveness
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1919-10-22
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L'étoile du génie
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1914-06-05
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Flipotte
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1920-11-19
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The Cradle of God
Overview: A young intellectual, J. Powers, loses his faith in God after the untimely death of his wife. He devotes his great talents to writing a shockingly blasphemous book, debunking all religion, and then embarks on a trip to Jerusalem. Far from reconciling him to God, the sight of all the different sects worshipping in that ancient city only serves to embitter him and deepen his unbelief. One day, wandering in the country, he loses his way and stops to ask directions at a small house. The inhabitants are a poor but devout family whose daughter, Ruth, revives his broken heart. At the risk of losing her, he confesses to her his loss of faith, and she gently declares that meditation on the Gospels will heal him. He sorrowfully tells her that he wishes he could believe as she does, but it is impossible.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1926-06-04
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L'ornière
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-01-16
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The Bread Peddler
Overview: The Bread Peddler is a 1923 French silent drama film directed by René Le Somptier and starring Suzanne Desprès, Gabriel Signoret and Geneviève Félix. It is based on Xavier de Montépin's novel of the same title.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-09-14
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Le silence
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1920-09-24
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She Played and Paid
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1920-04-16
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Rival de son père
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Original Language: fr
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