Clary Monthal
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montreuil, Seine [now Seine-Saint-Denis], France
Adult: No
Birthday: November 16, 1883
Age: 141 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 18, 1975
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La Femme invisible
Overview: A young woman whose family doesn't want her to marry is taken by her lover to a seance, where before the eyes of her parents she is conjured away. Her man awaits on the other side.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-06-02
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Bibi-la-Purée
Overview: Through the fault of the Leech, Bibi la Puree and her friend Bob find themselves involved in a crime. The judge in charge of the investigation discovers in Bob a relative. He does not send them to prison and welcomes them to his property.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-02-22
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Vaccin 48
Overview: Professor Poponof, an old scientist, has just discovered a truth serum. Amédée, a burglar who has been surprised in his apartment, will become the perfect guinea-pig for testing the prof's last find. And it works well. Too well in fact, for if Amédée tells the truth he tells it to everybody and in every circumstance, thus causing disasters around him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-04-12
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Saint Theresa of Lisieux
Overview: The life of Thérèse Martin, who entered the Carmel at the age of 15, in 1888, under the name of Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus, died nine years later, and canonized in 1925.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-21
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Forte tête
Overview: René, a bank employee, is suspected of theft and fired from his job. It borders on the worst by following in the footsteps of a misfit, Alexandre. A series of circumstances lead him to save little Gérard, the bank manager's grandson, from a fire. The child becomes attached to René, who manages to discover the real culprit of the theft.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-06-10
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Vidocq
Overview: A film based upon the life of Vidocq, the famous adventurer, who, after numerous prison escapes ceased being a crook, a thief and a counterfeiter, and was employed by Pasquier’s government’istry as director of the crime-fighting Sûreté Nationale.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-18
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The Lost Woman
Overview: Marie, a young bourgeois and Jean, a cargo sailor have an affair, she becomes pregnant but he has to go back to the sea. Marie leaves for Paris where she meets Pierre and marries him. War breaks out, Jean and Pierre will befriend each other on the front.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-08-05
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Sins of Youth
Overview: A rich businessman living alone is deprived of the nephew he was to have brought up decides on his doctor's advice to search for the four illegitimate children he once fathered, which leads him to accept responsibility for his actions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-11-16
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Bach en correctionnelle
Overview: A parodic trial, in which one sees a merry luron, tried for trifles, rallying the whole court to him as soon as one learns that he inherits a large fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-08-31
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Carnival of Sinners
Overview: A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact, magically. But of course there is nothing free in this world, and after one year the devil comes and asks for his due.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-03-21
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Voyage Without Hope
Overview: Gohelle, escaped from prison, seeks to flee occupied France for Argentina. The captain of a cargo ship is willing to smuggle him out out France for a price but Gohelle has no money. His mistress, Marie-Angel tries to charm the money out of wealthy Alain Ginestier who seems the ideal pigeon but Marie-Angel falls in love with Ginestier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-12-15
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Coup de tête
Overview: A sporty and chivalrous young man creates, with some comrades, a society whose goal is to protect honest people against rogues. He finds himself thrown into unforeseen adventures, at the end of which he will discover love.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-10-12
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Special Mission
Overview: The exploits of Chief Police Inspector Chabrier, first before the invasion of France in May 1940 as he fights against spies preparing the coming the Germans, particularly Emmy de Welder, the alleged manager of the Rouen hospital. Later, Chabrier and his men go underground and resist the occupiers whatever the price to pay. When the Liberation comes Chabrier resumes his activities at the French National Police.
Genres: Drama War Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-03-08
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Impasse
Overview: A student, Gabriel, comes to the aid of Gisèle, a young manicurist wrongfully arrested, by helping her escape. As a result, Gabriel must serve three months in prison. His sentence served, unable to continue his studies, he collaborates with a gang of crooks. Gisèle, in turn, will save him from this bad situation by taking him away from his overeager associates.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-05-15
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Quadrille
Overview: The battle of the sexes as drawing room social satire. Philippe, a middle-aged newspaper editor, has lived for six years with Paulette, a successful stage actress. He tells her friend Claudine, a realistic and enterprising reporter, that he's thinking of proposing. Into the mix steps Carl Erickson, a charming Hollywood matinée idol in Paris briefly. He meets Paulette, sees her act (his box seat compliments of Philippe), and sets out to seduce her. The next two days bring talk, tears, separation, despair, surprises, and, perhaps, reconciliation as characters speak "exactly half the truth." It's a quadrille of changing partners.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-29
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The Crowned Fish Tavern
Overview: Captain Palmer's daughter, Maria, is neglected by her husband, the cynical Leo, who lives with the beautiful Sylvia. To defeat his son-in-law, Palmer has the idea of putting Sylvia back in the presence of Pierre, her first love. Leo takes revenge by creating many difficulties for Palmer who retaliates by starting a violent fight where Leo is killed. Everything seems to point to Pierre, but...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-09-19
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Desperate Decision
Overview: Ireland, 1922. In the midst of a national uprising, Catherine, a young orphan employed in household chores, goes in search of her brother whom she has heard in a dream calling for help.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-01
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Crimson Dynasty
Overview: Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa Landi, John Lodge and Pierre Fresnay. The film is based on the novel Koenigsmark by Pierre Benoît. It's sets were designed by the art director Lucien Aguettand. The film was known in the United States as Crimson Dynasty.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-04
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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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Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
Overview: The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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