Martial Rèbe
Also Known As: Martial Rebe, Martial Rebbe, Martial Rèbes, Alfred Martial Alexandre Reeb
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Sèvres, Seine-et-Oise [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Birthday: September 04, 1888
Deathday: February 09, 1978
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Strange Tales
Overview: A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse in the floor, and a wine aficionado who buries his friend alive.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-10-26
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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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Le Père Lampion
Overview: How a simple sewer, a perfect look-alike of the president of the council, manages to reform a country and make himself loved by his fellow citizens.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-12-21
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Rasputin
Overview: Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-28
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La Symphonie fantastique
Overview: The film is biographical, telling the story of the life and artistic struggles of the French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz is shown as a recalcitrant medical student in an anatomy class dreaming of becoming a composer; at a demonstration during a performance at the Paris Opéra conducted by Habeneck; at supper with other young artists (Hugo, Janin, Dumas, Mérimée, Delacroix); and chasing after his future wife Harriet Smithson, after a performance of Hamlet. Also depicted are his life in a garret, while suffering from an illness due to an abscess in the throat; a visit from his mother who curses him; and the composition of the Symphonie fantastique. The film then shows his marital breakdown, the premiere of his opera Benvenuto Cellini, his travels throughout Europe, his second marriage to Marie Recio (called "Marie Martin" in the film), public acceptance in old age and reconciliation with his son.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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Sirocco
Overview: Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the mistress and then wife of a wealthy archaeologist, and bears him Matteo's child, whom he believes to be his own. Complications arise years later when Matteo finds Safia, and a ring of blackmailers uncover her past and exposes her to her husband.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-09-22
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Comedy of Happiness
Overview: Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him committed to a mental hospital. But Jourdain manages to escape and decides to make everybody happy except... his heirs!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-12-23
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Immediate Call
Overview: In September 1938, an American diplomat negotiated in London the peace of Munich, rather than rush to Paris where his wife, a famous film actress, is about to fall into the arms of a young first. He gains peace but loses his happiness.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-06-15
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Portrait of Innocence
Overview: A student from an elementary school accidentally breaks the glass roof of his school. His comrades decide to support it by working during the summer holidays in order to pay for reconstruction.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-12-02
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Mermoz
Overview: Biography and apology of the famous pilot, nicknamed by some the Archangel, who organized the airmail network of South America, flew the first over the Andes Cordillera, maintained the mystique of the South Atlantic, militated in the Crosses of Fire and perished at the controls of "La Croix du Sud" during its twenty-fourth crossing.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-11-03
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L'Enfant de l'amour
Overview: This woman's melodrama pivots around a child that a famous actress had in her youth, but whom she has concealed from the wealthy businessman she is now with.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-07-13
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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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Halte... Police!
Overview: Darrac, a reporter for Paris-Inter, and Nicole, a journalist for Le Soir-Express, know each other, compete and end up falling in love over the three police investigations they follow for their newspapers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-07-09
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Man to Men
Overview: The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red Cross, and who was offered the first Nobel Peace Prize.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-10-01
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Marie of the Port
Overview: Henri Chatelard is well into his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciates women. When he meets Marie, an 18-ish strong-head who just lost her father in a small fishing village, it is not clear who is the hunter and who is the prey.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-02-27
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The Hell of Lost Pilots
Overview: A plane flying to Dakar is caught in a storm and has to land in the desert. Deprived of a radio, he is unable to give his position and the water reserves are limited to two days. Each, among the military crew and the civilian passengers, experiences the ordeal according to his character.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-08-18
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Les Arnaud
Overview: In the sunny landscapes of Provence, Henri Arnaud is a conscientious law student who's got a lovely girlfriend, Tina. The person who used to pay for his studies dies and the poor young man's disposable funds are low. He asks an antique dealer if he can lend him some money. This shady guy agrees, but in return for homosexual relations. Henri kills him and runs away. Fortunately, a good judge, who bears the same name as him, comes to his rescue.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-10-12
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Love Letters
Overview: A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town’s class tensions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-12-23
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21
Overview: Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-08-07
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Yoshiwara
Overview: Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in the Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer, and a rickshaw man.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-06-23
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La Soupe à la grimace
Overview: Frank Keany is the chief engineer of a uranium mine located under the overwhelming sun of New Mexico and owned by a woman, Moira Warden. She suspects her ex-husband want to take possession of the mine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-12-12
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The Virtuous Bigamist
Overview: The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his quarrelsome wife for his weekly round. On the train he meets a young woman, Marie, who looks a little lost. No wonder. Marie is pregnant but lacks the customary husband. She's returning to her village but is not exactly looking forward to the confrontation with her parents and the villagers, all pretty conservative people. After getting to know Paul a little better (for which there is ample time during the trip by train and bus) Marie decides to ask Paul to act as her husband, just to allay the suspicions of her family. After some hesitating Paul accepts, charmed by the girl and unaware of the complications such is bound to cause to his own life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-20
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Dans la vie tout s'arrange
Overview: A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a widower with five messy children, who have no regard for private property rights.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-08-01
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The Country I Come From
Overview: One Christmas Eve, a carefree young man, Eric, arrives in a small provincial town. Here, he meets Julien, a bar pianist who is his exact double. Julien is in love with Marinette, a pretty waitress, but he is too shy to make any romantic overtures. Eric decides to give the course of true love a helping hand by pretending to be Julien. Meanwhile, Eric’s fabulously wealthy uncle has sent his minions out to bring him back home, so that he may celebrate Christmas in the bosom of his family.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-10-19
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Boys' School
Overview: In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them sees a man coming out from a wall. The next day, after he talks about it, he disappears. Then, the second one vanishes. Are they gone to their dreams? That's when the art teacher is murdered. Suspicions now are too high so the third one decides to investigate.
Genres: Adventure Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-05
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The End of the Day
Overview: Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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The False Step
Overview: During a walk along the cliffs not far from Marseille, Elisa Langerot sees her husband slip and fall to his death. Inexplicably, Elisa flees the scene of the accident, stops a passing driver and tells him a made-up story about a stolen car, concealing her husband's death. Feeling sorry for the girl, the driver, Philippe Morçot, gives her a lift and later lets her stay at his house. The good deed, however, doesn't go unpunished, and soon Philippe is drawn into Elisa's twilight world of fantasies, lies and paranoia.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-01-20
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Pardon My French
Overview: A Boston school teacher fights with a group of impoverished Frenchmen for possession of an inherited château. Elizabeth Rockwell is indignant when she finds her château filled with squatters, a widower with five messy children, who have no regard for private property rights.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-08-10
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The Lafarge Case
Overview: Based on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this is the story of a wife who might have poisoned her husband .
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-03-08
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Forfaiture
Overview: Denise Moret joins her husband, Pierre, in Mongolia where he works as a civil engineer. One night she loose a lot of money on the roulette and therefore is forced to borrow money from Prince Lee-Lang. The Prince immediately begins to flirt and make advances towards Denise. Advances she rejects.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-11-24
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Port of Shadows
Overview: Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-05-17
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Juliette, or Key of Dreams
Overview: Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One night, while sleeping in his cell, he wakes up all of a sudden, the gates open and he finds himself in a strange village where all the inhabitants have lost their memory. There, meets Juliette again who seems to agree to marry a powerful man, who might well be Bluebeard...
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
Overview: A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they were music hall artists, "entertainers". But because he's the sole legatee of an uncle's fortune, his relatives become friendly with him.. at least for a while.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-04-08
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S. S. Tenacity
Overview: Bastien and Ségard decide to leave France for Canada. They buy tickets aboard a rickety craft, the Tenacity, that never quite seems able to leave port. While stuck there they both fall for the innkeeper's daughter, which causes them to rethink their Canadian notions.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-04-01
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