René Sarvil
Also Known As: René Ernest Antoine Crescenzo
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Toulon, Var, France
Adult: No
Birthday: January 18, 1901
Age: 124 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 31, 1975
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Clochard
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-02-17
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Au pays du soleil
Overview: Life is good in the port of Marseille but Titin is accused of murder!! ... His girlfriend is very unhappy and does not know what to do to prove her innocence .
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-02-02
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Le Billet de mille
Overview: The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-01-11
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L'École des journalistes
Overview: Fernand Dubreuil wants to be a journalist and agreed to do an interview with promising star Clara Sergy. He's accompanied by the jerk photographer, Alfred.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-29
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Symphonie D'Amour
Overview: A ten-year old film when it was first released in the USA as "Symphonie D'Amour" in 1946. Panard (Fernand Gravet) is a talented composer who is having little success in his musical career. He is reduced to hiring out as a sandwich-board man to advertise what proves to be his own show. His girl, Jacqueline Francell, interests a Marquis in backing the show. She and Panard are happily reunited after the successful opening of his operetta.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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Un de la Canebière
Overview: They are three fishermen from the Old Port: Toinet, Pénible and Girelle. Two of them are in love with two pretty merchants. Not confident in their natural seduction, they decide to use drastic measures to be sure to attract and sustain the attention of these young ladies. This is how they approach them by posing as wealthy industrialists. But now the young girls, not to be outdone, present themselves as film actresses.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-09-22
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Titin from Martigues
Overview: In Paris, at the Foire du Trône, the showman Titin from Martigues spins the perfect love with the pretty Yvette, which arouses the jealousy of his rival Dix-de-Der who will cause his downfall. Without this affecting his Provençal joviality, Titin will try his hand at various odd jobs without ceasing to push the song.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-02-09
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Une de la cavalerie
Overview: The merry Vigoulette wants to escape the yoke of his wife and asks to be recalled to a barracks regiment in Nice. Every night, he and his friend Poupardin have a great time. But one evening, he is missing. Fortunately his wife, who had arrived to spy on him, takes her place in the bedroom.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-13
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Andorra or The Bronze Men
Overview: A man is killed smuggling contraband through the Pyrenees Alps. He leaves behind a pregnant woman who must go on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-07-27
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Fromont Young and Risler Elder
Overview: An ambitious and perverse adventurer sows dissension and ruin in a wealthy family of industrialists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-10-08
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La Bataille du feu
Overview: Activities and exploits of firefighters in the context of a village then the capital and under the bombardments of the Second World War where the saving of lives was more important than that of factories.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-04-24
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Oriental Port
Overview: In Marseille, a customs inspector falls in love with a young woman involved in dubious traffic.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-06
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In the Land of the Sun
Overview: A band of Marseilles, lazy and happy to live, are involved in trafficking; Titin, put in prison for a while, is finally released and can marry Miette.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-12-26
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House on the Waterfront
Overview: Martine is searching for her sister that disappeared mysteriously. Lequévic agrees to help her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-04-15
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Manon of the Spring
Overview: Marcel Pagnol's adaptation of his own novel Manon des sources, the story of a shepherdess who exacts her revenge on the townsfolk she blames for killing her father, in two parts: Manon des sources and Ugolin.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-01-16
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Une fille dans le soleil
Overview: The young mayor of Fontenac, Virgile, is much loved by his constituents who appreciate the improvements he has made in their peaceful village. This beautiful harmony is disturbed by the arrival of a young platinum pin-up, Maggy, alleged pupil of the lord, in truth his mistress.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-01-14
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What the East Wind Saw
Overview: Clarisse cheats on her husband with a vain insurance agent. Zamore, the cuckold (and a magician) wouldn't let his wife be stolen so easily. Poiret and Serrault play the rivals in this twisted love story. A poetic absurd fantasy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-05-02
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Sergil Among the Girls
Overview: The maid of a clandestine brothel in Marseille is found murdered. The inspector Sergil, in charge of the investigation will employ somewhat particular methods in order to unmask the assassin.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-06-06
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Ugolin
Overview: Manon has blocked the spring that feeds the village, whose inhabitants she hates. They gradually become aware of the evil they have done to her and try to obtain her forgiveness…
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-01-16
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Three of the Canebière
Overview: Toinet, Girelle and Pénible fish for sardines in Marseille. To dazzle their conquests, they present themselves as rich can manufacturers, while the little flower girls play movie stars. A ridiculous suitor wants to discuss a business deal, a potential sponsor appears and the whole tohu-bohu reclaims the songs of Vincent Scotto.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-21
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Happy Arenas
Overview: A watchman with a sensitive heart, Fernand falls in love with Violette and Pervenche, two of the daughters of his boss, Maître Arno. At a bullfight starring three attractive Spaniards, the girls and their sister Marguerite - with whom Fernand's companion Rémy is in love - compete in charm, to the despair of both suitors. Followed by Marina, a pretty girl who seems to take a keen interest in Fernand, the two friends decide to retire to Les Martigues, far from their belles. But soon annoyed by Marina's insistence, Fernand returns to Maître Arno's manade, while Rémy decides to become a bullfighter to win back Marguerite.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-08-13
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The Innocent with Forty Children
Overview: Jean-François Robignac, a teacher, arrives at a provincial college to teach literature to ninth-graders. He quickly wins over the children with his youthful way with words. But his parents want to have him expelled when they learn that Jean-François uses slang words to rejuvenate writers' texts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-12-20
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Jeunes mariés
Overview: Jacques and Gisèle, who are just married, are starting their honeymoon. But at nightfall, on their way to marital bliss, their car chooses to break down and the lovebirds find themselves stranded in the village of Montigny. And instead of bathing in ecstasy as expected, Jacques and Gisèle become unwillingly entangled in the conflict that tears the villagers apart : should they continue to tolerate the presence of an American Army unit on municipal territory ?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-06-03
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Seul... à corps perdu
Overview: An unscrupulous reporter investigates the discovery of a corpse in the trunk of a car stolen by his young brother, a petty criminal.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-03-20
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Les impures
Overview: When Mario, a bad boy, is released from prison, he plans to live honestly with his wife Geneviève. But the latter has not waited for him and Mario, out of spite, accepts to work as a tout for Mr. Charlie, the boss of a white slave trade gang. His first assignment consists in seducing Michèle, a Montmartre nightclub singer and hostess, into signing a contract for Tangier. The young woman, however, who does this job only to support her young sister Danièle, falls for him and he for her. From then on Mario, without betraying himself, does his utmost to save Michèle -and Danièle for that matter - from the clutches of the gang...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-04-07
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The Two Girls
Overview: A famous singer disappears in a plane crash. Her two little girls are given a new home by their grandfather. Unfortunately the good man has an old housekeeper who goes out of her way to make their lives impossible. In desperation the two brats run away to Paris. Meanwhile, the girl's father manages to steal important documents. In the end, Gaby and Ginette track down their mother who had not got killed at all. All is well that ends well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-04-04
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Overview: Cyrano, poet and cadet from Gascony, is afflicted with an excessively long nose which makes the beauties smile. He is no less in love with his cousin Roxane.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-08-29
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Notre-Dame de la Mouise
Overview: Father Vincent is trying to build a church in the California neighborhood. Greeted by stones, he must face a sinister band of deviants excited by a shady cabaret performer. The abbot resists, gradually builds his church and regenerates all the wretches with whom he lives and especially the hardest, Bibi.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-04-11
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Marius and Olive in Paris
Overview: Parisian adventures of a fearless couple of friends and their return to their home in Marseille after a happy double marriage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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Les fortiches
Overview: During a bus tour of Marseille, a hold-up takes place in front of the passengers. Odette, a journalist and herself a passenger, decides to report on the pegre scene by meeting the man responsible for the hold-up. After a great deal of peripety, she manages to make her report.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-01-04
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The American Beauty
Overview: Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-29
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Trois de la marine
Overview: Antonin, Honoré and Papillote are sailors on the ship "L'Invincible". The three friends are in love with three pretty girls in Toulon: Honoré is in love with Mireille who, as for her, loves Antonin, and Papillote only has eyes for Angèle who, after a fifteen-month-long cruise,presents him a newborn baby that she claims is their son! A new woman appears: Patricia, as sexy as she is mysterious. Antonin, although disconcerted, falls under her spell. What he does not know is that Patricia is not a journalist as she says she is but a secret service agent who has been assigned the mission to investigate Eric Bergen, a shady fellow the trio meets everyday at Arsène's Café.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-07-05
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Le Roi des galéjeurs
Overview: Because the shiner Titin has fallen in love with a singer, he braves the latter's protector, the baron, and passes himself off as an insurer in connection with a pearl necklace that is circulating. Bitters get involved, Titin kidnaps the beauty and leaves the pearls to the baron.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-04-24
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Les Gangsters du château d'If
Overview: Sentimental and emotional problems for a certain Jean Mariole who can hardly really position himself between two mistresses.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-02-22
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