Jacques Hilling
Also Known As: Jacques Hiling, Jacques Roger Hilling
Biography: Jacques Hilling (22 May 1926 – 16 February 1975) was a French film actor. He appeared in 95 films between 1949 and 1975. Source: Article "Jacques Hilling" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Randwick, Australia
Birthday: May 22, 1926
Deathday: February 16, 1975
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Elevator to the Gallows
Overview: A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-29
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Overview: Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside Cathedral Notre Dame. Among jugglers and other entertainers, Esmeralda, a sensuous gypsy, performs a bewitching dance in front of delighted spectators. From up in a tower of the cathedral, Frollo, an alchemist, gazes at her lustfully. Later in the night, Frollo orders Quasimodo, the deformed bell ringer and his faithful servant, to kidnap Esmeralda. But when the ugly freak comes close to her is touched by the young woman's beauty...
Genres: Drama History Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-12-19
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The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Overview: Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realizes that he knew far less about his son than he thought.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-16
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Emile's Boat
Overview: Charles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers, decides to return to La Rochelle, his hometown to die there. Forty years earlier he had been driven out by his father. Before passing away, the old eccentric announces that he has a hidden son, Émile, a fisherman to whom he wishes to bequeath his property. François, the younger brother, whom Charles-Edmond hates, is eyeing the inheritance to bail out the powerful family business, a veritable fishing trust, and will try to appropriate the affection and property of this inopportune heir. Émile, meanwhile, is too busy arguing with Fernande, a beugland singer, to suspect what awaits him...
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-03
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Thérèse Raquin
Overview: Star-crossed lovers Thérèse and Laurent think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's weakling husband "falls" from a speeding train. But when forced to contend with a blackmailer's demands and the mute accusations of Thérèse's mother-in-law, it's only a matter of time before the law, their passion or blind chance trips them up.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-11-06
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Let Joy Reign Supreme
Overview: A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-03-23
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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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Rendezvous in July
Overview: Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-06
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The Lovers of Bras-Mort
Overview: Jean Michaut is a bargeman who lives nearby an old barge cemetery named "Bras-Mort". He is in love with Monique, the daughter of a wealthy boat owner. The girl returns his affection but runs her head against the wall of her family's class prejudices. Her "nearest and dearest" prove indeed prepared to do everything to separate the two lovers. But Monique will not buy in. On the contrary, she leaves her intolerant family to live with Jean among simple, more tolerant bargemen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-17
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Good Enough to Eat
Overview: Rose Chaperon is asked by her confectioner mother Mathilde to bring jewels to her sick grandmother, Madame de Mergrand. But Hugues, the latter's brother, is prepared to do anything to get his hands on the loot. To this end he hires a villainous young man, Jean-Louis nicknamed Loup, to do the job. Will Loup engulf and devour Little "Rose "Riding Hood?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-06-08
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No Vacation for Mr. Mayor
Overview: Annie, the ward of Monsieur Joachim, a nightclub manager, has fallen in love with Philippe Lebon, a singer who could easily re-float her guardian's failing business. The trouble is that Joachim has already - and hurriedly - betrothed Annie to his business partner. To make matters worse the young lady suspects Philippe of being unfaithful. In order to thwart the wedding of Annie and his rival, Philippe hires two of his friends, the resourceful Beaudubec and Tracassin.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-04
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Lettre ouverte
Overview: Martial, Colette 's husband, is madly jealous. One day, he catches his wife writing a letter and he does want to know what this message contains, to no avail.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-03-11
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Too Small My Friend
Overview: Ticky Edriss, a dwarf, develops a scheme to avenge him on society and extort a bank.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-08-06
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Le naïf amoureux
Overview: Paul is an accomplished teacher at Janson-de-Sailly. A "good guy" who, having returned for the holidays to the provincial town where he was raised, finds Véronique, his childhood friend. He falls madly in love...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-06-26
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Agent 38-24-36
Overview: A Russian spy is sent out to steal sensitive information from NATO about military mobilization. Without much intelligence of his own, the distrusted agent of Soviet intelligence needs all the help he can get from his "talented" partner Penelope Lightfeather as they scatter around the French countryside for secret rendez-vous' while trying to avoid being caught by counter intelligence agents and distrustful communist operatives.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-03-12
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The Twelve Tasks of Asterix
Overview: Asterix and Obelix depart on an adventure to complete twelve impossible tasks to prove to Caesar that they are as strong as the Gods. You'll roar with laughter as they outwit, outrun, and generally outrage the very people who are trying to prove them "only human".
Genres: Family Animation Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-06-26
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The Blue Panther
Overview: Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin's place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger entrusts her with false jewels that contain a virus powerful enough to destroy all humankind.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-08-25
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Les bonnes manières
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-06-11
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The Virgins
Overview: The story of five girls that lose their virginity.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-22
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Rue de Paris
Overview: Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a dash of comedy. While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times but he also has a better side that will not stay buried. Since handling three children alone is no easy task, the single father has the choice of growing in the process or not.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-10-21
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Angelique: The Road To Versailles
Overview: Angelique is saved by the king of the cutthroats when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman.
Genres: Adventure Mystery Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-07-07
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Angelique
Overview: In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac out of convenience, but eventually, she falls in love with him. So when Jeoffray is arrested and then vanishes, she bravely sets out to find him. This is the first of many dramas based on Anne and Serge Golon's novels about strong-willed Angélique and her adventures during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King.
Genres: Adventure Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-08
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Angelique and the King
Overview: Soon after her latest husband death, the King himself (Louis XIV) meets with our heroine and begs her to help convince the Persian Ambassador to agree to a treaty. However, what they didn't realize was that the handsome Persian was in fact a sexual sadist. So, it is up to the King's half- brother, some Hungarian prince, to save Angélique from the evil troll's clutches.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-01-31
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A Girl in a Pocket
Overview: A professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his female lab assistant, when she drinks the liquid by accident and shrinks to 3 inches tall. The professor keeps her in his pocket until he can find an antidote. Sometimes she's naked, too.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-11-06
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The Annuity
Overview: In 1930, Louis Martinet, a peaceful sexagenarian, no longer has a long life to live according to the words of his doctor, Leon Galipeau, who sees to take advantage of the very interesting situation of the "future deceased". This one indeed has a small house in Saint-Tropez. Galipeau sniffs the windfall. Following his advice, Martinet agrees to give it in life to the brother of the doctor, Emile, and then rushes back to a health of iron. Worse, he even survives the war. Galipeau, exhausted, decide to use the great means to get rid of the importunce who persists in thwarting their project ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-01-19
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A Woman Like Satan
Overview: Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poor stock who taunts and degrades him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-12-19
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The Fighting Musketeers
Overview: D'Artagnan is back from England with a message for the queen. Buckingham has declared that he was ready to attack France to deliver Anne of Austria. D'Artagnan ends up arrested and thrown into prison. Musketeers wonder how to rescue their friend.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-10-04
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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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Men Think Only of That
Overview: Alfred is in love, but shy. Desperate not to have the audacity to express his passion to the woman of his dreams, Nicole, a young dairyman, he enthusiastically accepts the proposal of Don Juan to make his sentimental education.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-06-13
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La Madelon
Overview: 1914, a small village of the Marne. Charming and woken up, Madeleine, said the Madelon, who works in the coffee(café) of his father, Tourlourou, account of numerous pretenders. To the rich Antoine Pichot, she prefers corporal Beauguitte. When the war bursts, she(it) searches for the latter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-02
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We're Moving the Colonel
Overview: The dynamic Flora has decided to burglarize Colonel de la Ribodiere's apartment in the company of Romeo and Clotaire. The two men discover the old soldier lifeless on his bed. One after the other, the colonel's goddaughter Annette, the gendarmes and their brigadier, the Grivier cousins, who are sniffing out the inheritance, and the three thieves, who are hoping to get their way, pass by each other and avoid each other in the house. La Ribodière isn't dead, but he listens to what's being said, forms an opinion about everyone, ousts the Griviers, rewards Annette with a betrothal to Clotaire, and gives Flora and Roméo absolution.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-09
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The Big Bluff
Overview: A penniless adventurer, Eddie Morgan survives on his wits and good humor. He's a bluffer. To help the owner of an oil field, he launches a vast investment campaign, with the help of a few friends, to benefit the French people. A rival group, led by Serge Colonna and Dominique Ardan, tried to buy the land from him, because according to an expert, there was no oil to exploit. But the expert had lied, and Colonna had just signed the purchase contract. Eddie, with the help of Dominique, whom he has seduced in the meantime, snatches the famous paper from Colonna's hands. The oil can flow.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-05-14
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Sheep
Overview: Fernand, a simple employee at the Prefecture of Police, must serve as a "sheep" to extract confessions from a leader of organized crime, who has recently been in prison. But he managed to escape by taking Fernand hostage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-10-25
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La peau de l'ours
Overview: A police commissioner lives with his two children, wife, mother-in-law and maid. But he discovers that he has been poisoned with arsenic, and that the culprit must be someone close to him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-08-30
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Meeting in Paris
Overview: A wealthy young American woman is suddenly cut off by her father while living in Paris. A philosopher, she tries to make a living as a guide in the capital. The Marquis de Cernay, who has his eye on Nancy's portfolio, engages Maurice, a hardworking writer, to follow the young woman. She learns from both of them that they are only interested in her fortune. However, when she learns of the deception, she returns to her usual social life. She will return to him when the Marquis de Cernay has betrayed himself once and for all.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-05-02
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French Cancan
Overview: Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-12-27
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Clara and the Villains
Overview: A rich kid, the daughter of an oil tycoon, lives a life of luxury. Bad guys kidnap the heiress.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-12-24
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Le roi du village
Overview: Moïse, a foundling, is raised by the inhabitants of a village and grows good and strong, well-liked by everyone, loved in silence by Agnese, a girl in the same conditions. One day, however, four graceful Parisians come to the village for a short vacation, and with their light-hearted behavior, they upset Moses and the villagers, who are quick to make the unwelcome guests return to the capital.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-06-22
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The Abominable Man of Customs
Overview: Two rival gangs fight over drug trafficking. An American killer named Timetti Le Muet arrives at Marseille airport to make a delivery to Arnakos' gang. He is denounced to the police, and the peaceful customs officer Camposantos is put in charge of his arrest. Following a mix-up, Camposantos is mistaken for the killer himself. Taken in by Arnakos' men, the innocent customs officer is forced to play a rather unexpected role.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-03-01
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The Fabiani Affair
Overview: The tale of the famous vendetta, vengeance over the years between two families. For nearly nothing at the start, as always with Sicilians or Corsican people, from the underworld or not...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-01-24
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Clash of Steel
Overview: In 16th-century France, the Chevalier de Pardaillan rescues the beautiful gypsy "Violetta", in reality Isabelle, daughter of the Comte d'Entraigues and prey of his sworn enemy, the Duke Henri de Guise. Pardaillan and Isabelle fall in love, and the valiant chevalier will not rest until the advent of King Henri IV.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-10-18
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Emile's Boat
Overview: Charles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers, decides to return to La Rochelle, his hometown to die there. Forty years earlier he had been driven out by his father. Before passing away, the old eccentric announces that he has a hidden son, Émile, a fisherman to whom he wishes to bequeath his property. François, the younger brother, whom Charles-Edmond hates, is eyeing the inheritance to bail out the powerful family business, a veritable fishing trust, and will try to appropriate the affection and property of this inopportune heir. Émile, meanwhile, is too busy arguing with Fernande, a beugland singer, to suspect what awaits him...
Genres: Comedy Drama Mystery Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-03
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Princess of Cleves
Overview: When a young teen marries the Prince of Cleves, more than twice her age, she automatically becomes an official Princess and takes her new position to heart. Although distracted by the elite entertainments found at court, the princess cannot help but mourn her impossible love for the dashing Duc de Nemours.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-22
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Your Turn, Darling
Overview: In this French espionage thriller, Eddie again plays the role that made him a star, Lemmy Caution. Lots of two fisted action.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-09-25
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L'or du duc
Overview: A young duke marries a girl, also penniless, and moves into a bus left him by an uncle, with their ten children. At last he finds the bus is made of solid gold.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-23
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Thank You, Natercia
Overview: A wealthy widow, Natercia, helps Alain, a poor young man, to put together the film he plans to make. They decide to pool their resources to make the project a reality. At the first screening, Natercia realizes that Alain no longer needs her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-11-02
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She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
Overview: Housemaid Georgette loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-04-17
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The Black Flag Waves Over the Scow
Overview: Victor, grocer and tyrannical boss, never stops telling his family about his seafaring past, although they never believe him. When his nephew wins a model-boat contest and is commissioned to build a full-scale boat, Victor tries to make his mark.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-10-13
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Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
Overview: Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-10
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Daisy Town
Overview: When the members of a caravan of pioneers find a daisy growing in the middle of the desert they decide to stop there and to build their town on this very spot. Houses soon spring up like mushrooms, immediately followed by a bank, a saloon, a prison, etc. Daisy Town is born. Unfortunately a city does not go without its bad boys and the peaceful place is soon turned into a lawless place. To restore law and order, a lawman is needed. Lucky Luke, the cowboy who shoots faster than his shadow, will be this man: all the villains had better watch out!
Genres: Animation Comedy Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-11-01
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Catherine
Overview: Paris, 1418. The city is occupied by the Armagnacs, besieged by Philip of Burgundy. Caboche, a butcher's guild member and supporter of the Burgundians, wants to marry a young woman. To do so, he denounces his father, who is soon after murdered. The Grand Conétable of Burgundy also has his eye on Catherine, but will not be able to take her because Duke Philippe has fallen in love with her.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-08-08
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Two for the Road
Overview: On the way to a party, a British couple dissatisfied with their marriage recall the gradual dissolution of their relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-04-27
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Diabolique
Overview: The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.
Genres: Horror Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-01-29
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Babette Goes to War
Overview: Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into German-occupied France to help kidnap an important German general. She bungles through to a heroic finish of plot and counter-plot.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-09-18
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Ladies' Man
Overview: A famous FBI agent's vacation is interrupted by murder. His investigation leads him on the trail of three women of the local upper middle class.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-21
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Mum's the Word
Overview: Martin is a nurse in a private clinic in Paris. The victim of a serious concussion, an unidentified casualty, arrives in the emergency room one night. He is operated on immediately. When he wakes up, half-unconscious, he tells Martin a confused story about stealing jewels from a maharajah visiting Marseille... before falling into total amnesia. Real and fake policemen interrogate Martin, gangsters kidnap him to get him to reveal precious information, but... the nurse keeps his mouth shut!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-04-26
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The Red Rose
Overview: The Jacques Brothers, their temporary replacements, Yves Gérard and his troupe, as well as a famous movie star looking for a new partner, Evelyne Dorsey, are causing disruption at the "La Rose rouge" cabaret, the most famous cellar in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, to the delight of regulars.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-02-06
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Que les hommes sont bêtes
Overview: Sylvie is a young cashier in a Montmartre café, "le bar des Philosophes", owned and run by Monsieur Marcel, a former safe cracker. One day, the pretty creature accepts to give a helping hand to two regulars, Francis and Josélito. But what the naive girl does not know is that the two men are gangsters and that they plan to steal 50 million francs deposited in the safe of Maître Roland Devert, a charming young notary. Actually things do not go according to plan all the more as a love story between the notary and Sylvie was not at all on the two gangsters' agenda.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-03-29
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Cartouche
Overview: In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, acting under the name of Cartouche, making audacious robberies of the rich people, and even distributing the takings with the poor. Thus, cartouche attracts the people's sympathies, Venus's love, and hate from the Police and Malichot... Cartouche can escape all the traps they set at him - except the entrapments of love. Eventually, he will be saved by a woman, at her own cost.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Romance Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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La Joconde, histoire d'une obsession
Overview: This is the story of an obsession. Mona Lisa keeps smiling quizzically while our poor hero is pursued by her representation in all its forms, in all places. She smiles at him in a museum, at a bookseller along the banks of the Seine, in the streets, at a café. Enough to drive him up the wall!
Genres: Animation Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-04-30
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Mam'zelle Souris
Overview: Based on Coq's press cartoons, this series of 16 sketches (2'30" each) is packed with gags and twists of all kinds. The series features the character of Mam'zelle Souris, played by Annie Fratellini, against a backdrop of family vacation scenes in Brittany, on the beach and by the sea.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-06-01
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Port of Point-du-Jour
Overview: Emile is a steelworker in a car factory ;a confirmed bachelor going on fifty, he leads a peaceful life .One night, he is woken up by a burst of machine gun fire. The cafe in the corner of the street has been burglarized.A distraught young girl rushes into his apartment building and hides in his room .When the police make a search, he makes her out to be his lover for the night.Madeleine tells her about her sad past : she has severed all links with her parents ,she's an unwed mother and in the underworld's clutches. Emile sends his protegee to old mommy Dupont's place ,in the suburbs of Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-04-13
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The Tricyclist
Overview: Antoine Peyralout is baker Mouillefarine's tricycle delivery man. Comical and stuttering, Antoine shows more interest in the local soccer team than in professional integrity. A wedding cake pays the price for it and the young man is dismissed. Not dispirited in the least, Antoine decides to go to Nice, where his favorite team will play the final of the Cup. On his merry (and eventful) way, he has the opportunity to save a pretty camper, Popeline, with whom he falls in love. Once in Nice, he discovers that Dabek, the brilliant goal-keeper is not up to his task following bad news...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-12-04
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The Day of the Jackal
Overview: An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-16
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The Baron of the Locks
Overview: The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for more attractive scenery offered by a wealthy local man. Meanwhile, there is a certain charming cafe owner that the Baron finds irresistible -- at least for awhile.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-04-13
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The Gallant Musketeer
Overview: Set against the troubled period of the Wars of Religion in France, at a time when the three Henries (Henri III, Henri de Guise and Henri de Béarn) vied for the the throne, these new adventures of Pardaillan have the gallant musketeer defend the rightful king Henri III.Jean gives his full to thwart the Duke of Guise's attempts to have the king assassinated. A heartthrob more than ever, Pardaillan will awake serious interest in many a girl, at times becoming their prey like with Bianca Farnese, De Guise's agent.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-02-21
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Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
Overview: Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has received a disturbing anonymous letter.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-09-02
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The Passion of Slow Fire
Overview: Stéphane Blanchon lives a quiet life in Switzerland with his wife, Christine, until a young American boarder named Belle, who was living with them, is found murdered. Despite Stéphane's innocence, the evidence points to him, and he learns that Belle harbored romantic feelings for him. Suspicions mount against him; even Christine thinks he is the culprit. Stéphane's sanity begins to crumble, and he lashes out in unprecedented ways.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-02
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OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok
Overview: A secret agent sets out to stop an evil scientist who is about to unleash on the world a virulent biological strain he has developed during experiments on rats.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-06-12
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Please, Not Now!
Overview: A sexy model pretends to have a new boyfriend in a wacky plan to make her ex-lover jealous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-04-19
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Guinguette
Overview: Renée dite Guinguette, a former prostitute, has earned enough money on the Parisian sidewalk to buy her dream: a waterfront guinguette. Her new lover, Marco, offers her the use of an unused adjoining barn to store the second-hand cars he trades in. But the "used" cars are actually stolen, and the charming Marco is a bad boy. After a few deaths and various vicissitudes, love finally triumphs.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-04
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In Six Easy Lessons
Overview: A bossy count has trouble marrying off any of his six sons. When one of them, Adam, finally makes wedding arrangements, something happens to his bride to be: she develops amnesia after an accident.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-12-06
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People in Luck
Overview: A light French comedy of 5 segments.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-04-26
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The Truth
Overview: As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the two used to share.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-11-02
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The Respectful Prostitute
Overview: Fred, the nephew of a senator,has murdered a Black man on a train. The two only witnesses are Lizzie McKay, a prostitute from New York, and Sidney, a colored man. Fred decides to seduce Lizzie in order to make her give false evidence according to which Sidney has attempted to rape her. The uncle also puts pressure on the young woman. After much hesitation, Lizzie finally accepts but Sidney, who has nearly got lynched, takes refuge at her home...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-07
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Terreur en Oklahoma
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Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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Elena and Her Men
Overview: Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy Elena and her Men stars a radiant Ingrid Bergman as a beautiful, but impoverished, Polish princess who drives men of all stations to fits of desperate love. When Elena elicits the fascination of a famous general, she finds herself at the center of romantic machinations and political scheming, with the hearts of several men—as well as the future of France—in her hands.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-09-12
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Dangerous Love Affairs
Overview: Juliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both have sexual affairs with others and share their experiences with one another. But there is one rule: never fall in love. But this time Valmont falls madly in love with a girl he meets at a ski resort, Marianne.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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Bobosse
Overview: Bobosse is increasingly immersing himself into the world of theater and experiencing his role as an actor more intensively. He plays in a piece where a man is abandoned by his wife and processes this philosophically. When his wife actually abandons him, he becomes embarrassed and plans to kill her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-18
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