Jean-François Martial
Also Known As: Martial, Martial Joseph Ghislain Fosseprez, J.F. Martial
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Adult: No
Birthday: September 12, 1891
Age: 133 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: October 18, 1977
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Mon Oncle
Overview: Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-05-10
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Fun in the Barracks
Overview: The life of disorderly soldiers in the barracks dealing with daily routines.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-09-18
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Le chemineau
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Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1926-12-17
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Mists of Paris
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-10-28
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The Two Orphans
Overview: A more small scale version of the story Griffin used for his epic Orphans Of The Storm: a doctor tries to reunite two sisters who have become separated from each other during the whirlwind of the French Revolution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-03-03
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The Yellow Captain
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-12-19
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Rio's yellow house
Overview: When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who looks like him, the staff and spectators at that night's show think the actor is giving an unusually good performance.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-03-20
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Bach millionnaire
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-12-22
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Gypsy Baron
Overview: An Hungarian young man hides his real identity as baron Barinkay until he returns to his birthplace and claims the family properties, now occupied by a clumsy pig dealer who has a beautiful daughter. The gypsy girl is not bad looking either, and the gypsies are willing to help him recover his home and fortune. French version of Der Zigeunerbaron based on the Strauss operetta, filmed at the same time with a different cast except for Wohlbrück.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-07-05
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Debout là-dedans !
Overview: A student monitor in a high school in the French provinces has no control over the pupils. He is in love with the caretaker's daughter but his superior, the Dean of Discipline, is also his love rival. Now, the two men are sent on military temporary duty and irony has it that in the Army the Dean is only a private whereas the mere supervisor's rank is ... corporal!
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-20
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Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
Overview: Mario Esposito, who sings in a Neapolitan restaurant, is in love with Assunta, the niece of Teresa, the owner of the place. He shares his apartment with Michel, his best friend. This one has fallen under the spell of Lolita, a gorgeous adventuress he met at the cathedral where he officiates as the organist. But things go awry as, while Michel intercedes with Aunt Teresa for Assunta's hand in his favor, Mario in turn falls in love with Lolita. On the very day of his wedding with Assunta, Mario runs away with Lolita, thus betraying both his love and his friend. But it does not take long before the young singer realizes the big mistake he has made.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-12-07
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Mélodie pour toi
Overview: Famous singer, René Sartène, falls in love with a young bourgeois, Marie. Irène, her stage partner and the director of the show combine their efforts to annihilate this budding happiness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-11-11
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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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La Justicière
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-09-18
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The Heart of a Nation
Overview: The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of the city by the Prussians during the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 to the invasion by the Germans in World War II.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-04-07
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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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The Clairvoyant
Overview: Jean is thrown out of the house by his father, a remarried politician, out of jealousy for his friendship with his mother-in-law. He finds refuge at an artist's apartment. In the same building lives a famous fortune teller that the mother-in-law just happens to consult. With her help, Jean will be able to marry his young sweetheart and his father will solve his political troubles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1924-10-31
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The Kids Are Leading the Investigation
Overview: When Monsieur Crauqual, the supervisor, is found hanging, all wonder why this rather rich person decided to kill himself. And when a pupil is found hanging too, François and his friends decide to investigate. They are certain there is a killer within the walls of Collège François 1er and determined to prevent him from going on running wild.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-06-25
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History of Singing
Overview: Gino Fabretti is a famous Italian tenor. During a tour in Nice, he begins a relationship with the wife of a renowned doctor. The doctor traps and drugs him and replaces his vocal cords with those of Robert, a delivery boy in a grocery store. Robert wakes up with the voice of Gino and Gino with that of Robert (including accents and mannerisms!). The unfaithful wife despises the tenor without his voice and becomes more interested in the grocer.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-02-19
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Le Secret du Florida
Overview: Three friends vacationing on the French Riviera open a bar on a yacht and are mistaken by the police for drug traffickers.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-03-06
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Woman of Evil
Overview: Laurent meets Louvaine and brings her back to his island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-09-23
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Si ça peut vous faire plaisir
Overview: Gonfaron is barking at the auction of Cassis. He accepted with good heart to believe that he was the proud custodian of the jackpot of the National Lottery , to avoid marital trouble his friend Viala, which is the real winner with his mistress Ginette . Millionaire become false as false Ginette lover until one day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-09-01
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Fandango
Overview: In the Basque Country, two friends, José and François, live a cheerful life. The two sly foxes use their wit to boost the business of an innkeeper they have a connection with. José is in love with Angélica, the innkeeper"s daughter, while François courts petite Annette. José also happens to have a beautiful voice and one day a night club manager hears him and wants to hire him. He will have to choose between Angelica, the inn, his roots... and a singing career in Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-12-03
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Madame and Her Redskins
Overview: After the exodus, a woman with a tidy life decides to take in the abandoned children; she meets a singer who knows how to make her see life with more poetry.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-09-02
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The Red Signal
Overview: A physician whose wife was killed when two trains collided has remained a tormented soul,In his mind,he can still hear his wife whisper "Stop the train! Stop it!" .
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-02-04
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56, rue Pigalle
Overview: Lucien Bonnet, Jean Vigneron's manservant, blackmails his boss, who is having an affair with Inès de Montalban, married to Ricardo. Vigneron pays the sum but Lucien is killed by an accomplice, Baruch. Everything seems to accuse Jean who, for fear of compromising Inès, prefers to keep mum. Fortunately, his innocence will be proved thanks to a surprise witness. The two lovers flee to Congo while the husband soon forgets them, finding comfort in debauchery.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-03-18
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We Request an Assassin
Overview: A son of a family in debt decides to put an end to his life and calls on a professional killer to do so, who promises to kill him within forty-eight hours. However the next day, money, luck and love smile at her again. Then can begin an infernal hide-and-seek between the assassin and his victim.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-10-20
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Guilty?
Overview: Charles Walter, a forestry contractor, has helped Noël Portal to start a new life. When Victor, the new foreman and Charles'wife's lover, is found murdered, everything points to the guilt of the deceived husband. To save his benefactor, Noël decides to accuse himself of the the crime. He is condemned to death.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-06-29
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The Drop Of Blood
Overview: The film, shot in Nice, was started by Jean Epstein, and the editing finished by Maurice Mariaud, who had just shot The Adventurer
Genres: Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1924-09-26
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Loyalty
Overview: Kaatje, the daughter of the miller Schoonejans, and Jef, a little shepherd, who live near Delft, are happy together. In a floral parade, the carriage the two children have decorated with tulips wins the first prize. The next day, during a thunderstorm, lightning destroys the mill and kills Schoonejans. A life of misery starts for his widow and daughter. Remembering how the theatre manager Boolmans had applauded the dancing of Kaatje and Jef at the floral parade, the widow takes her daughter to Amsterdam, where Boolmans engages Kaatje. The years pass, and Kate has become a famous dancer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1914-04-23
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Wooden Crosses
Overview: The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, endless trench war in Champagne, where more and more wooden crosses have to be erected for this cannon fodder.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-03-17
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The Last Turning
Overview: Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and mercenary woman half his age. Frank, although not a fan of hard work, accepts Nick's offer to work for him. Of course, it is not for Nick's sake that the young man becomes his attendant, but for the love of Cora under whose spell he has fallen at once. It does not take long before Cora, who despises her husband, asks her lover to help her get rid of him. Frank is reluctant at first but ...
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-05-17
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Lady Killer
Overview: Lucien Bourrache, a good looking non-commissioned officer at the Spahis, is used to charm many women. He met Madeleine Courtois at Cannes. She is beautiful and lives in luxury. He lends her a large amount of money, which she loses gambling. Then she drops him. But Lucien is now in love, and once demobilized, he goes to Paris to find her again. But he's not so sexy without his uniform, and Madeleine and him do not belong to the same milieu.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-09-15
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Pas de grisbi pour Ricardo
Overview: Ricardo will try his luck in the capital after winning an amateur singing contest. He has many adventures. Kidnapped by gangsters, he is only freed by the intervention of his fiancée. Finally, the director of the "Folies Parisiennes" presents him with a contract.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-06-26
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Accused, Stand Up!
Overview: Paris, 30's declared professional rivalry between two stars of the musical, Yvonne and Gaby leads to dire consequences. Yvonne's body is found in the theater. Gaby's future is threatened against the judgment to which it is subjected, with a probable prison sentence.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-09-12
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Sacred Fire
Overview: A young woman from the countryside travels to Paris to become an actress. Despite all kinds of difficulties, affronts and emotional adventures, she succeeded in gaining a place in the world of entertainment and becomes a great movie star.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-11-12
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Bagarres
Overview: A proud femme fatale who works at a mountainous farm property manages, after being prodded by her lover, to become the heiress, but she plays the rival men against each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-11-05
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Blind Venus
Overview: Vénus aveugle (Blind Venus) is a 1941 French film melodrama, directed by Abel Gance, and one of the first films to be undertaken in France during the German occupation. Although the film is not set in any specified period, Gance wanted it to be seen as relevant to the contemporary situation in France. He wrote, "...La Vénus aveugle is at the crossroads of reality and legend... The heroine ... gradually sinks deeper and deeper into despair. Only when she has reached the bottom of the abyss does she encounter the smile of Providence that life reserves for those who have faith in it, and she can then go serenely back up the slope towards happiness. If I have been able to show in this film that elevated feelings are the only force that can triumph over Fate, then my efforts will not have been in vain."
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-09-14
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Dawn Devils
Overview: A lieutenant, at the head of a commando ready to land in France, finds among his men a maquisard who had tried to kill him in the past.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-11-20
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Fantômas
Overview: A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits crimes while eluding Inspector Juve's tireless persecution.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-05-09
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Easy Come Easy Go
Overview: Édouard and Félix, two inseparable friends, live off the times and do odd jobs, sharing a tiny apartment in Montmartre with Laurence, Félix's sister, a model in a fashion house who alone supports the trio.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-05-26
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Yvette
Overview: Paris 1883. Yvette is the daughter of a courtesan who serves men of wealth and status. She is unaware of how her mother makes money and why they are always in the presence of princes, dukes and barons. Only when Yvette goes away on a holiday she realizes that the Banker Saval is engaging her mother in such activities, she suddenly feels dirty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-12-30
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Gaëtan ou le commis audacieux
Overview: "Be bold, young man, be bold!" repeats Judge Barbachon to his clerk Belhomme. Putting the precepts of his boss into practice, Belhomme first tries to seduce Madame Barbachon, and is thrown out of the house. Moving on to the capital of the region to look for another job, Belhomme meets a charming young lady on the tramway. He continues to follow the advice of Judge Barbachon...
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1922-02-17
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The Wagon Child
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1914-03-21
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Panic
Overview: Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town and discovers that his neighbors are only too ready to suspect the worst of him.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-01-15
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Mysteries of Paris
Overview: Paris, 1830. Fleur de Marie is rescued from poverty by the mysterious Rodolphe, who is in fact the Grand Duke of Gérolstein, who has gone incognito in search of an illegitimate child he once had. Which is not at all to the taste of Sarah Mac Gregor, her current mistress who kidnaps Fleur and has her locked up in Saint-Lazare prison.
Genres: Drama Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-09-08
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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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Sans famille
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-03-19
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The Devil in the City
Overview: The story is about a superstitious village, where the mayor has sold a tower to an unknown, who is soon suspected of being the devil.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-01-30
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