Pierre-Louis
Also Known As: Pierre Amourdedieu, Pierre Louis
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Le Mans, Sarthe, France
Adult: No
Birthday: June 14, 1917
Age: 107 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 11, 1987
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Bethsabée
Overview: Danielle Darrieux stars as Arabella Delvaire in this baroque adaptation of Pierre Benoit's novel Bethshabee. Arabella is a woman of the world who arrives at a remote Foreign Legion outpost for a rendezvous with her current lover, Captain Duveuil. It so happens that one of Arabella's previous amours, Captain Somerville (Paul Meurisse), is also serving at the same post. So much for joining the Foreign Legion to forget. A climactic knife duel "solves" the film's various plot complications. Despite its Foreign Legion background, Bethsabee has next to no action, which must have made things difficult when the film was distributed to the U.S.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-11-21
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Kameradschaft
Overview: At a mine on the shared edge of France and Germany, an underground explosion leads to the entrapment of a group of French miners. In an effort to save the trapped Frenchmen, German miners Wittkopp and Kasper take it upon themselves to traverse a crumbling war tunnel leading down into the mines. Yet, though the workers harbor no political biases against one another, their callous, less tolerant bosses hope to halt this cross-cultural rescue mission.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1931-11-17
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Razzia
Overview: Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy preceding him, he sets himself to the task of knowing why the French operations were not so profitable - and soon he is master of all links of the organization. He can now get it honed to perfection - or destroy it. Only... the Police are following his every step.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-04-07
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The Eleven O'Clock Woman
Overview: Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving anonymous letters. And soon a mysterious murder is committed. SOS begins to investigate...
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-03-03
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The Seniors
Overview: A high school in the thirties: most of the students are leaving for the Easter holidays. However, one of them,Brassier, an A -student ,stays for sentimental reasons. He is desperately in love with the principal's wife who does not want to cheat on her husband, and, above all, does not want the young man to ruin his good prospects. On a night he calls on her, a theft is committed, in the principal's office. Although completely innocent, the good lad stands accused. He's got an alibi, but it would compromise the reputation of the woman he is in love with.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-29
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Hélène
Overview: Helene is based on Helene Wilfur, a novel by Vicki (Grand Hotel) Baum. Madeleine Renaud essays the title role, a young medical student in love with aspiring musician Pierre Regnier (Jean-Lous Barrault). Pierre's father, a noted surgeon, puts pressure on his son to give up music in favor of medicine. Unable to withstand his father's remonstrations, Pierre kills himself, prompting the grieving Madeleine to forget all about romance and dedicate her life to the cause of healing others. Wilfur avoids the usual soap-opera goo by offering realistic performances and credible dialogue (the English-language subtitles were composed by erudite film critic Herman G. Weinberg).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-10-17
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Les Deux Combinards
Overview: The first schemer, short of money, offers himself at a high price to facilitate the fantasies of the other, by playing the role of substitute. The second is an unscrupulous banker who sows ruin and grief but who is soon ruined and fooled in turn.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-02-04
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Box of Dreams
Overview: Nicole tries to seduce a young man who lead a bohemian life in an untidy flat with his three pals.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-07-11
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Sky Battalion
Overview: Film in two eras.1st era: They are not angels. Chronicle of a Free French parachute training camp during the Second World War. 2nd era: Terre de France. A group of paratroopers landed in Brittany sabotages the German installations.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-03-05
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Counter Investigation
Overview: Alain Marchal, wrongly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from prison the day before his execution. Before committing suicide, he contacts Monsieur Charles, a retired gangster, and asks him to investigate, find the real culprit and clear his name. Monsieur Charles accepts his request and along with his wife Ginette and two former accomplices, Paragraphe and Teddy Coffre fort, embarks on his counter-investigation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-03-21
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Nous avons tous fait la même chose
Overview: Rémi sees his marriage troubled by a scandal caused by his former mistress. He takes refuge with his godmother while his wife organizes her revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-03-20
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Voyage à trois
Overview: A couple and a friend find themselves on a desert island. The friend asks the husband to share his wife, the situation being very particular. But a friendly native and a typhoon will somewhat upset the organized life of the curious trio...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-05-12
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Bed for Two
Overview: Robert Bobin has been an assistant accountant for twenty years now and, although meek and obedient, is getting weary of his monotonous, limited life. He tries marriage but, unfortunately, Blanche, the nurse he marries, proves to be a shrew. One day, a miracle happens : Michèle, a young orphan and fellow-worker gradually develops tender feelings for him. But will Robert be able to overcome his mediocrity and grasp this unexpected opportunity to find happiness?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-08-23
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Firemen's Ball
Overview: 1944, France experiences its last days of German occupation. A microcosm representative of the various attitudes adopted during this troubled period, some heroic, others less brilliant, the Grégeois family, scattered by the war, will strengthen its ties according to the Allied advance on the territory and the liberation of Paris, with its joys but also its sorrows, because not all of its members will survive the relative chaos that will characterize this end of the world war.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-03-13
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Mon ami le cambrioleur
Overview: When Nadia, his unfaithful mistress, breaks up with him, Patrick Lambert decides to kill himself. But before he reaches the point of no return he is stopped in the act by Camille, a burglar who has just broken into his house. Thanks to him and also to Rosita, Camille's girlfriend who falls for him, Patrick forgets his gloomy thoughts. It is the beginning of a series of crazy misunderstandings and adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-10-30
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Five Red Tulips
Overview: During the Tour de France, five riders are found murdered with a red tulip near their bodies. A journalist and a police inspector lead the investigation to unmask the murderer.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-03-23
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The Unknown N° 13
Overview: While investigating the world of Parisian tramps, journalist René Savary, himself disguised as a poor beggar, notices the strange behavior of a little boy. He follows the brat after he has sneaked out of a barge, catches up with him and takes him to his home. There, the kid tells him about himself : his name is Jean, his mother has disappeared and since then he has been left to fend for himself. Moved by the lot of the wretched boy, Savary, with the aid of his friend Pierrot, undertakes to solve the mystery.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-21
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The Cow and I
Overview: In 1942, a French prisonner of war in Germany decide to escape to France using a cow hold by a lunge as a decoy. He cross all Germany in this way.
Genres: War Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-12-16
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Fortuné de Marseille
Overview: A rich businessman, threatened by his pregnant mistress, decides to make him marry a man who falls in love with his daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-06-13
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Trafic sur les dunes
Overview: On the Franco-Belgian border, large and small traffickers engage in their illicit activities. For his part, a policeman is working to put an end to smuggling in the area.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-04-20
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La danseuse nue
Overview: Colette gives up her studies to become a cabaret dancer. She breaks with her fiance who does not approve of her choice.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-08
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Hotbed of Sin
Overview: A couple of dancers performs in a night club. The man is jealous of Gina, his partner,and keeps making scenes to her, going as far as bullying her on the stage during their act. A man gets killed. The dancer is suspected for being jealous of all the other men. Another potential culprit could the father of Gina since he overprotected his daughter. The real culprit will be unmasked after the police detective finds the murder has something to with the Occupation period.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-07-20
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Moumou
Overview: A merchant, without audacity with women, is dragged by a friend into the worst marital complications. His setbacks will ultimately pay him off.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-10-26
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Bon appétit monsieur
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-03-10
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Sweet Madness
Overview: Passing for crazy and locked up, the CEO of a company escapes from the asylum and claims that he is the captain of a troop of pirates. To the disappointment of the director of the company and in the company of three employees, he accomplishes many extravagances which will be beneficial for his acolytes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-07-04
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Tourbillon
Overview: Taking advantage of the shooting of a film, gangsters stage a hold -up. A black man, Selim, is unfairly accused.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-10-02
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Abused Confidence
Overview: Lydia (Danielle Darrieux) is a student, poor and orphaned, who pretends to be the daughter of a famous writer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-11-29
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Love and the Frenchwoman
Overview: The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-09-16
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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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Too Late to Love
Overview: Walter, a reporter and photographer, meets Catherine in a train. The young lawyer recently gained an acquittal for a man who killed his alcoholic father to save his mother. Campaigning against alcoholism, she asks Walter to help her unmask a wine merchant engaged in shady practices.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-05-05
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Mandat d'amener
Overview: Appointed public prosecutor in a small provincial town, Gérard Latour befriends Delanglade, whose young wife becomes his mistress. Shortly afterwards, a fire ravages Delanglade's factory. During the ensuing investigation, the Public Prosecutor discovers the troubled past of the industrialist and his front man, Jacques Perthuis, an ex-convict. They themselves set fire to the factory to collect the insurance premium. Gérard Latour, suspecting his mistress of complicity in her husband's machinations, leaves her after a stormy argument.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-08-02
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Five Million in Cash
Overview: Philémon De Montfilet came first in his year in the prestigious engineering school "Poly Art Technique" because of an epidemic which brought all the other examination candidates down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-04-11
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Burning Fuse
Overview: Lola, the wife of arms dealer Pedro Wassewich, is attracted to Ludovic, a young painter who turns out to be the emissary of a notorious gangster. He claims to have been sent by the latter to pick up a shipment. In fact, it's the police who, behind the scenes, orchestrate the operation to catch Wassewich red-handed.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-02-27
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Overview: In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three new public channels but autonomous and competing. It is a race for the audience which is engaged then, and from now on the channels will make the war! This competition will give birth to a real golden age for television programs, with variety shows in the forefront. The stars of the song are going to invade the living rooms of the French for their biggest pleasure. This unedited documentary tells the story of the metamorphosis of this television of the early 1970s, between freedom of tone, scandals, political intrigues and programs that have become mythical.
Genres: History Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-01-07
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Tender and Violent Elisabeth
Overview: In L'Alpe d'Huez, Élisabeth falls in love with Christian, who refuses to marry her, claiming that marriage is a crime against love. When she finds him in the company of another woman, Élisabeth breaks up with the young man. Later, she meets him again and becomes pregnant.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-04-29
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The Other Truth
Overview: Middle-aged attorney Pierre falls for a young woman who dances in a discotheque to work her way through medical school. The lovestruck lawyer can't bring himself to leave his wife over the young woman. When the dancer's wealthy suitor is murdered, Pierre is accused of the crime.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-04-19
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The Strollers
Overview: Jean-Louis forgets to use the pedestrian crossing;Who could have believed then where it would lead the unfortunate guy to?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-25
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Sins of Madeleine
Overview: Malou, a prostitute from Montmartre, and her pimp, have found a well laid scheme : whenever she (or he) wants to get rid of a lover, she announces to him in a tearful voice that she is pregnant. The reaction of the fall guy-is invariable: he gives her compensation money and disappears. But there is always an exception to the rule. And, as it happens, the exception is a widowed insurer, Monsieur Archibald. Indeed when he is told by Malou that he is going to be a father, he is...elated!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-08-09
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At the End of the World
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Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-03-30
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Welcome
Overview: The leading coach the company of Jean Nohain make a program fails in a small village. The people immobilize the troops to force him to do the show there.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-07-09
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A Martian in Paris
Overview: The title role in the French comedy-fantasy A Martian in Paris is filled by Darry Cowl. The higher-ups in Mars want to learn all about that strange commodity, peculiar to the planet Earth, known as "Love". Darry soon figures out what makes the world go 'round when he meets the gorgeous Nicole Mirel. A Martian in Paris was obviously inspired by the 1960 American comedy A Visit to a Small Planet, which starred Jerry Lewis. Darry Cowl's imitation of Lewis is passable, but it certainly didn't fool the "Le Roi Crazy Jerry" idolators at Cahiers du Cinema and Positif magazine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-01
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Anyone Can Kill Me
Overview: The holdup of the bank is a success. All happened according to plan. Now, Cyril Gad and his four accomplices must secure an alibi. What better place than a prison cell? As a result the five gangsters have themselves arrested on minor charges and start waiting until they are released. Unfortunately three of them die mysteriously, another one is openly murdered. The only man still alive, Tony, is scared. Easy to understand why...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-12-06
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Happy Days
Overview: Sylvie, a rich girl, learns at the same time the death and the ruin of her father. Forced to find work in Paris, she is given shelter by a medical student who soon falls for her. Another young man falls in love with her. When her benefactor gets ill and finally dies, Sylvie refuses to give the other man her heart out of faithfulness for the dearly departed. But youth commands and after a time love -but not oblivion - triumphs.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-11-08
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Une femme coupée en morceaux
Overview: Four men in love with the same woman put on a music-hall show and travel the world in search of the beauty. They will find success and fortune, but their sentimental quest will be a failure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-05-29
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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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L'Ombre
Overview: Suspected of murder, a man disappears under mysterious conditions, which only increases the charges against him.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-06-23
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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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