Georges Bever
Also Known As: Georges Van Bever
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: September 22, 1884
Deathday: January 14, 1973
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Ah ! Quelle gare !
Overview: A traveler without a ticket gets off the train he has stopped, becomes an occasional station master, fraternizes with the inspector who is chasing him, protects the loves of the wife of the real station master who has abandoned his post to make sure of his wife's fidelity, and takes the train back when everything is settled.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-08-31
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La Mascotte
Overview: The turkey keeper, Bettina, brings good luck to those who make her work. She becomes the mascot of the good King Laurent XVII whose finances are in bad shape. In order for her to retain her beneficial power, an attempt is made to separate her from her lover, but in vain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-06-26
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Good Lord Without Confession
Overview: Stuck in a loveless marriage, bourgeois industrialist Francois falls in love with Janine, another man's wife. Francois sets up Janine as his mistress, and she, mercenary soul that she is, likes the set-up so much that she continues the relationship even when her own husband returns from WW II. In the long run, however, Janine is the loser in the situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-10-09
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Spotlight on a Murderer
Overview: An old count hides just before he dies to annoy his heirs. The heirs search a manor for the count's body and are killed off one by one. Jean-Marie, his fiancée Micheline, and Edwige investigate the deaths and search for the count's body.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-31
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Poison
Overview: Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each other without risk. After listening to a radio show, Paul decides to go to Paris to meet a famous lawyer in the acquittal of the murderers. He tells the lawyer that he killed his wife. The lawyer asks Paul to reconstruct the circumstances of the drama. Without knowing it, he explains, in spite of himself, the way for Paul to murder his wife by putting the odds on his side to avoid death penalty or even be released...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-30
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Air of Paris
Overview: Victor Le Garrec, a former boxer, runs a gym in Paris while dreaming of finding an aspiring champion who will reach the goals he was never able to achieve.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-09-24
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Tu m'as sauvé la vie
Overview: A wealthy baron, without offspring, who knows death is approaching, wants to adopt a man who kept him alive a bit longer, when he was almost run over by a horse drawn cart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-20
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Deburau
Overview: Jean-Gaspard Deburau is a very successful mime, the most famous in his category. One day, he falls head over heels in love with Marie Duplessis, a courtesan better known as "La Dame aux Camélias". But he soon realizes that he is but a number in her long list of lovers. He will find comfort in devoting his time teaching his art to his son Charles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-06-29
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Aces of the Turf
Overview: Two friends win a large sum and become the owners of a splendid horse, which a band of adventurers tries to seize.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-03-24
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With Assurance
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-06-16
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Mister Albert
Overview: Monsieur Albert is a very elegant and much-appreciated butler. One day he falls in love with a client, Sylvia Robertson, and follows her to a winter sports resort. Sylvia does not recognize him and imagines that he is related to a king who goes incognito.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-07-02
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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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Sa meilleure cliente
Overview: It is one thing to open a beauty salon (which Edwige and her young lover Gaston have just done) but it is another to keep it on its feet.To best promote their speciality, fountain-of-youth treatments, Edwige decides to apply to the letter the old slogan "It pays to advertise" by posing as... Gaston's mother, a sixty-year-old woman, miraculously grown younger.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-12-16
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Gitanes
Overview: A gypsy and a boatman fall in love with each other. They do not understand each other and make each other suffer. When, at last, their hearts are confounded, the young girl’s father kills the young man, thus accomplishing the implacable Bohemian law.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-03-03
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The Delinquents
Overview: Jean-Pierre, who has escaped from prison, tries to reintegrate into society with the help of workers at a construction site.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-06-22
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Le mari garçon
Overview: Wanting to hide in the countryside, a young couple finds all the friends they were fleeing from.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-04-28
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Les Surprises du sleeping
Overview: Prince Philippe of Bracowa must join his fiancée by train. The young and pretty Gisèle is on the same train, for her too to join her fiancé.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-12-08
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C'était un musicien
Overview: When he is not conducting his orchestra, a talented young man invents a device to thwart car thieves. Associating himself with a rich Dutch baron, he falls in love with the baron's daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-05-11
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Le Gros Lot
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-08-01
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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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Midnight Prince
Overview: A record seller, and not very serious, Henry spends his nights in a cabaret where there is a Slavic prince in exile. His resemblance to the Prince of Palestria makes him designated to replace the young man who prefers to stay in Paris. And Henry takes with him the one he loves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-11-02
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Paris-Deauville
Overview: An aviator lands on the estate of a duchess, who has an attractive daughter. Will he overcome the obstacles that are put in his path?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-05-11
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Le Chéri de sa concierge
Overview: The young Eugène Crochard, whom his entourage believes to be a billionaire following a joke published in a newspaper, is pursued by a cohort of people including his very pretty concierge. Really become very rich, he will end up being loved by the young girl he was secretly in love with. He will become the darling of his concierge.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-08-10
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What a Funny Kid!
Overview: Lucie turns the house of chic dandy Gaston upside down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-05-17
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A Bombshell Night
Overview: A banker threatened by gangsters is replaced by a tramp who is his perfect double. The gangsters arrest the fake banker and take him for a madman.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-12-13
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A Hen on a Wall
Overview: A little peasant girl claims to have been raped. The detective who arrives in the village discovers that it is a set-up, but at the same time reveals carefully hidden and very surprising truths about each.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-22
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Train de plaisir
Overview: Marguerite and Verdurin, both employed in l'Atout Prix, a store run by Prosper Biscoton, would like to take a vacation at the beach, but they need more money than they earn. They decide to trick their boss into paying for the trip by pretending Marguerite is interested in him. Biscoton falls in the trap and puts himself in a difficult position with his own wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-03-14
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Haut comme trois pommes
Overview: Madame Dupin is the most influential character in her village. She is at odds with her daughter because the latter married a showman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-03-06
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Une gueule en or
Overview: The Marquis de Barfleur, an unattractive man, decides to resort to plastic surgery to ensure the fidelity of Colette, his young mistress. Now endowed with a face to die for, he is about to achieve his goal. But the Marchioness de Barfleur, the Marquis' loving wife, does not hear it that way. She has her revenge claiming everywhere that her husband is... dead! An assertion people believe since they do not recognize the Marquis! When her vengeance has lasted long enough, she forgives the Marquis and husband and wife fall into each other's arms.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-06-16
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Seven Men, One Woman
Overview: At the urging of her childhood friend Brémontier, Lucie de Kéradec, a wealthy widowed countess who wishes to remarry, invites all of her seven suitors to her mansion. Her untold intention is to test them by claiming to be ruined. The experience is a success in that each of the potential husbands reveals his inner nature but a failure when it comes to finding a new life partner. None of the guests passes the test except - the eighth man, namely Brémontier who loved Lucie in secret but, being penniless, had not dared declare his flame to her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-08-28
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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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Prête-moi ta femme
Overview: Gontran is required to marry if he wants to benefit from his aunt's inheritance. To convince the latter in favor of a visit, he calls on the wife of a friend who will play the role of the future wife. This maneuver will cause many misunderstandings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-18
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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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Ménilmontant
Overview: Because they brought her back a lost piece of jewelry, a very rich lady accedes to the request of three old people and transforms a vacant lot into a park for the neighborhood children.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-11-20
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Mon député et sa femme
Overview: An outgoing deputy, put on ballot, experiences many political and marital difficulties before regaining his seat. Ultimately and without suspecting it, he owes his victory obtained by a withdrawal at the last minute, to his young wife who did not hesitate to seduce the opponent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-07-29
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Everything is Going Very Well Madame la Marquise
Overview: After he loses a servant job when his employer's mansion burns down, a yokel makes money entertaining tourists in Breton garb, lands up appearing in a Paris show ,and meets another property owning lady, this one of dubious reputation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-12-03
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Un scandale aux Galeries
Overview: The son of an industrialist is in love with a saleswoman employed by his father. The latter coos with an ingenue from whom he hides the age of his son. A department manager involved in all this has his sentimental disappointments. A double marriage puts a happy ending to the plot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-07-28
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The Bureaucrats
Overview: A comedy about the petty bureaucrats who need special leather props under their posteriors because of the long hours they spend sitting at their desks.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-12-15
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Les maris de ma femme
Overview: A poor boy, having consented to play the role of the victim in a fake car accident story, is also invited to marry in the place of his crush who wishes to keep his freedom.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-01-15
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Une femme qui se partage
Overview: Louis Cruciol, a married man, leads a double life: he maintains his mistress by taking the identity of one of his employees, Louis Cornette. A series of misunderstandings ensues.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-02-19
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In Venice, One Night
Overview: Mortal is ready to do anything to obtain a divorce from his wife Nadia. To compromise her, he needs to find her a lover. He thinks he has found the ideal candidate in the person of a manly private detective by the name of Robert Arnaud. But the experience gets out of Mortal's control as, on the one hand, Robert and Nadia fall in love for good, and, on the other hand, Robert, assisted by resourceful young Toto, manages to expose Mortal as the jewel thief he is.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-11-19
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Champs-Elysees
Overview: A reveler who has experienced setbacks tries to become unemployed without ever having worked.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-04-23
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Êtes-vous jalouse ?
Overview: Germaine Moreuil's insane jealousy triggers such violent marital quarrels that the spouses file for divorce. When Germaine's parents find out, they sham a fierce spat to disgust their daughter and her husband with the pathetic spectacle of a couple at loggerheads. But just as their farce is on the brink of becoming a tragedy, events combined with the blunders of all four happily reconcile everyone.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-05
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The Beauty of Montparnasse
Overview: Mr. Pontbichot has long dreamed of cheating on his wife. To achieve his goals, he looks for a son-in-law who could help him, and finds him in the person of a young painter, who pleases his daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-06-11
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The West
Overview: The film portrays the relationship between a female Moroccan student, who has been forced to leave her studies at the Sorbonne for financial reasons and works as a dancer in a Paris nightclub, and a French naval officer. However, on returning to Casablanca she is tricked into believing that he had the led attack on her village that wiped out her family. She begins to plot her revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-02-16
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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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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 Glu
Overview: A young Breton sailor falls in love with a visiting stranger called 'La Glu'. He drops his betrothed, mother and friends so that he can live with her. La Glu is murdered. Who did it? Relatives and friends are all suspects.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-27
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Golden Venus
Overview: La Venus D'Or (Golden Venus) was based on Business, a play by Pierre Sabatier. Mirielle Balin stars as Judith, the mistress of ruthless oil magnate Harfstrong (Jacques Copeau). What Harfstrong doesn't know is that Judith is a spy for his hated business rival. When he does find out, he cannot get rid of her because she knows too much about his own crooked dealings. After several more reels of mutual betrayal and recriminations, the story suddenly shifts to the "good" characters, clean-limned young pilot Andre (Daniel Lecourtois) and his sweetheart Michelle (Andree Giuze). Set up as a fall guy for the villains, Andre somehow emerges from the experience none the worse for wear.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-05-13
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Alexis gentleman chauffeur
Overview: Alexis, a former war pilot, attempted the Paris-Tokyo raid and failed. He became a taxi driver. The film actress, Margot Fontane, forgets her bag in the taxi and Alexis thus meets her. He goes to see the great actress shoot, he is hired for a small role as an aviator, and to simulate a take-off, he flies to Tokyo. It is the signal of happiness for the two lovers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-07-22
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The Midnight Airplane
Overview: During a stopover, Morel, an airline pilot and Colette spin the perfect love. She hides from him that she is compromised in the actions of a band of criminals. She manages to escape her dangerous friends while a shootout wipes them all out.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-08-04
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Pension Jonas
Overview: A tramp has taken up residence in the belly of a museum whale.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-03-06
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Hangman's Noose
Overview: In England, a boxer is sentenced to death for a murder he does not seem to have committed.... Anthony Gethryn, who has just resigned from the police on the occasion of his marriage, has three days left to find the real killer.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-11-23
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Prince de mon cœur
Overview: One of the subjects of the Prince of Slopoldavia, followed him to Paris, not out of love but to take revenge for the monarch's betrayal of one of his friends. Involuntary architect of a plot, she forces the prince to return to the throne and agrees to share the burdens of power with him.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-17
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I Sing
Overview: Charles's uncle is the headmaster of a chic girls school .He is short of the readies and he has lots and lots of debts.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-30
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Vacances payées
Overview: Prosper, the accountant of a fashion house, takes a vacation to Monte Carlo without his wife Sabine. And if he goes alone it is for a very good reason: he has a rendezvous with Olga, a beautiful woman. Once in Monte Carlo, he wins a large sum of money at the casino. Unfortunately for him he immediately becomes the prey of three gangsters who proceed to relieve him of his newly acquired fortune.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-14
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Moulin Rouge
Overview: A poor wretch, who has just been hired as a music-hall artist, in spite of himself becomes the tenant of a particular Parisian building.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-12-08
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Le Prince Bouboule
Overview: Bouboule is a taxi driver. A Russian princess wishing to acquire French nationality offers to marry her to divorce a few months later. After incredible adventures, Bouboule manages to save the inheritance of his wife, divorces and finds his sweet Lucette.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-01-11
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The Law of Spring
Overview: The children born from a first marriage of a widower and a widower who have remarried do not get along. Frequent quarrels break out in the household which finally finds calm thanks to the presence of a new little girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-05-20
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Behind the Facade
Overview: In the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an elderly woman, Madame Mathieu, the owner of both buildings. Boucheron, the local superintendent, is dispatched to investigate, along with his rival, Inspector Lambert of the "Sûreté". To solve the enigma, they scour staircases and corridors, visiting every floor of both buildings, courtyard and facade. Their gruff rivalry allows them to complement each other in discovering who committed the crime among a gallery of characters, humble or rich, who all have something to be ashamed of... A rare, fast-paced, picturesque comedy set against the backdrop of a police mystery.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-14
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The Fatted Calf
Overview: Jules Vachon, a pharmacist, has two sons, Gabriel, a steady-minded young man dedicated to his job in the pharmacy, and Gaston, a good for nothing whose only talent is to seduce rich women and take money from their pockets. But it is Gaston who is hailed as a great man when he returns to his native village thanks to his deep pockets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-12
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Her First Affair
Overview: Micheline Chevassu is a young, naive woman living in an orphanage. Through classified ads, she has a date with an unknown man. She escapes from the orphanage to go to it, dreaming of the Prince Charming. But comes Nicolas Rougemont, an unattractive middle-aged man... He pretends not to be the author of the letters, who could not come...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-08-14
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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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Paris Romance
Overview: Georges Gauthier is an electrician who lives with his mother and his sister Madeleine. He is the son of a womanizing singer who made his mother miserable. For all that, Georges is attracted to show business all the more as he falls in love with Jeanne, the daughter of singer Lormel. Georges is spotted by Cartier, the manager of the Folies Concert and makes his debut as a singer under the assumed name of Jean Papillon.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-10-03
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Le valet maître
Overview: Some, like Ravier de l'Orne are born... masters, but ,like him, do not live up to their rank. Others, like Gustave Morillon, are... born masters, even if, like him, they are valets. Morillon will indeed prove better at bridge than his master and will eventually win the affection of Antonia, a lively foreigner Ravier also coveted.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-10-30
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Pontcarral, Empire Colonel
Overview: For 15 years after Waterloo, a baron refuses to accept the defeat. He reluctantly marries one of 2 Bourbon sisters but lands up dueling with the wife's former lover. Finally he gets a chance to prove himself again in battle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-01-02
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Vous seule que j'aime
Overview: After the death of her trapeze artist father, a little girl is taken in by two clowns.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-06-29
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Extenuating Circumstances
Overview: Harsh Parisian judge Gaetan (known as Monsieur Maximum), chafing in the idleness of retirement, leaves for a seaside holiday. But Gabriel the chauffeur has his mind on his girl, not the car; Gaetan and wife Nathalie are stranded in the country, where they find shelter in a low class bistro patronized by cheerful jail birds. Once the ice is broken, they have a wonderful time, but as the judge tries to trick his new friends into reforming, inevitable exposure approaches...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-07-26
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Love Marriage
Overview: Pierre, who is a Fine Arts student, and Denise, who is a chemistry student, work for a department store where, wearing wedding suits, they distribute flyers to passers-by. The store manager, Bernard, falls in love with Denise and arranges to take her to an inn not far from Paris, run by the handsome Robert. This one opens Denise's eyes who ends up returning to her home. After a fight between Pierre and Bernard, Denise ends up choosing to stay with Pierre.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-12-23
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Maxim's Porter
Overview: The hunter at Maxim's, whose family is unaware of the profession, turns around and plans to marry his daughter to a marquis when he recognizes a regular in this nobility. Everyone meets at Maxim's where, unmasked, the hunter agrees to marry his daughter to the reveler but repentant Marquis.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-11-10
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Whirlwind of Paris
Overview: A gang of broke student musicians travel to Paris to take exams. But very quickly, the lack of money pushes young people to pass themselves off as professionals during the performance. They will then win the victory!
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-12-15
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The Man Who Seeks the Truth
Overview: Jean Vernet, an unselfish banker, feels fine : he has a charming mistress, Jacqueline ; a godson, Fernand, that he took in when he was a child and that he has brought up and cherished ever since ; a faithful friend, Lamblin ; and an adorable dog. But things are not so rosy as they look. Adrienne, Jean's sister, hates Jacqueline and is prepared to do everything to separate the couple. Worse, it looks as though Fernand has betrayed his godfather by sleeping with Jacqueline. To know more about those around him, Jean, a modern Volpone, decides to fake deafness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-03-20
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The White Truck
Overview: A young mechanic is given a strange job: to convey the king of the gypsies' embalmed dead body on a very long route.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-03-24
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Fièvres
Overview: Despite a perfect marriage and a superb career as a singer, Jean Dupray cheats on his wife. She dies while listening to the song he dedicated to her, "Maria". He then retired to the south where he led a life in complete anonymity. But his best friend's fiancé recognizes him and seduces him. Following a fight with his best friend, he decides to return to order by becoming a monk.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-01-21
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Children of Chaos
Overview: An officer, two of his comrades and a social worker want to create the "Carrefour", a place for lost children and teens to give them a chance not to fall by the wayside and spend most of their life in jail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-04-26
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The Ménard Collection
Overview: Renée Ménard, a young mixed-race Indochinese, arrives in France to find her French father, whom she only knows is called Paul Ménard. In the hope of identifying her father, she meets a series of men with that name.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-04-12
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The White Blackbird
Overview: Jules Leroy, an industrial shoe polish manufacturer, on his deathbed reveals to his son Achille that the family fortune originates from an inheritance stolen 23 years earlier. The one who should have inherited is one of the factory employees, Hyacinthe Camusset. The latter is also one of the lovers of Lucienne Leroy, the daughter of the family, who has a penchant for Jean Bernon, a boy who dedicates verses to her. Hyacinthe is unaware that he has been robbed but the Leroy family, who are not sure, try to woo him. The family, Hyacinthe, Jean and Lucienne meet at the castle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-12-06
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Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent
Overview: France under Louis XIII. 1615. The Duke of Angoulême is at the head of a group of gentlemen who are conspiring to drive the Florentines out of court, of whom Concini is the all-powerful leader. A cadet from Gascony, Adhémar de Capestang, who was later to become the Capitan, left his native province to come and try his luck in Paris. Along the way, he saves a young girl, Gisèle d'Angoulême, from a masked individual who wanted to kidnap her.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-03-27
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Blind Desire
Overview: A violinist passes on to his daughter three rings which represent three passions of his romantic past, and urges her to save each for men who truly deserve one.She squanders them all on one man who is undeserving.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-12-07
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The King of Dodgers
Overview: Mimile is a street singer and also a very inventive free rider. With his friend Georges, a musician in the same orchestra, they meet Arlette Sicleton and Lulu. Arlette is the sister of Sicleton, a sports event organizer and Lulu is the daughter of Ledoux, the supervisor in charge of tracking down free riders. After many misunderstandings, love will triumph.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-12-21
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Back Streets of Paris
Overview: Madame Rose runs a seedy hotel in a suburb of Paris. Strong-minded but without the least moral scruple, she once killed her husband whose honesty was a hindrance to her business. Under a suspended sentence, she now indulges in smuggling. One day, Victor, one of her former accomplices hounded by the police, finds sanctuary with her. During a drinking spree, he has the bad idea to entrust to her a suitcase filled with bank notes, a loot with which Victor hopes to rebuild his life in South America. But Rose, lured by temptation, betrays Victor, who is arrested by the police. However, he manages to escape with only one thing in mind, to take revenge on Rose...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-11-27
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Martin Roumagnac
Overview: The local building-contractor Martin Roumagnac is fascinated by the fashionable Blanche Ferrand. To impress Blache, Martin presents her with a villa. However, this ruins him financially. Despite Martin's many efforts for the now femme-fatal Blanche, she is not able to chose between him and the rich consul De Laubry.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-12-18
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Silence Is Golden
Overview: Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting a tour through France. Emile falls in love with her. Problems starts when his younger friend Jacques come back from military service and after complaining his misfortune with women, follows Emile's advice in starting affairs with women and he meets Lucette.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-05-21
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Le charcutier de Machonville
Overview: In a town on the banks of the Saône1 Grasalard, a butcher, likes to feast and play boules with his friends. Although married, he falls in love with another woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-06-18
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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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Miquette
Overview: A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater, only to become entangled in relationships with a lecherous aristocrat, his starry-eyed nephew, and an old ham actor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-04-14
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Les Nouveaux Maîtres
Overview: Durand, a big industrialist, works with an international adventurer, Mr. Ernest, who covets Mrs. Durand and threatens to bankrupt her husband if she does not consent. She calls him a jerk. Mr. Ernest sets out to ruin the Durands, and leaves in the castle that they must sell their couple of servants, Victor and Marie, who become the new masters, at the same time as they serve as a screen for Ernest for his dubious business.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-05-10
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One Night at the Tabarin
Overview: Together with his uncompromising friend Marie Girard, André de Lurvire clamors for moral reasons for the closing of the Bal Tabarin, a famous Paris cabaret. So, imagine André's reaction when he... inherits the joint! But, following the seductive schemes of Cora, Tabarin's sultry star, Lurvire gradually lowers his guard, discovers the good life and abandons his wife.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-12-19
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Wear His Heart on His Sleeve
Overview: Léon Ménard, the village verger, is a decent young man whose hobby is to play the accordion. One day he is fired for having accompanied Mary Pinson, a singer deemed scandalous by the right-minded parishioners. Blinded by his love for Mary, Léon follows her to Paris where he becomes her plaything. With Mary's complicity, a gang of swindlers make him the puppet proprietor of a night club. But Léon can't live in a fool's paradise forever and soon finds himself on the street, forsaken and desperate. Luckily, the manager of a circus notices him while he is busking and he hires Léon at once. Not only will success come to him but he will win the love of sweet Solange.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-28
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L’atomique Monsieur Placido
Overview: A gangster, thief of atomic formulas, has a double in the person of a naive musician. A music hall artist who makes eyes at the musician is deceived by the gangster who also takes advantage of the resemblance to track down a band of thugs who are chasing him. Virtue is ultimately rewarded.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-07-05
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The Treasure of Cantenac
Overview: While he was about to end his life, Baron de Cantenac wanted to return one last time to the land of his ancestors. He then discovers a treasure that he will strive to use to revive his village.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-06
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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 Private Life of an Actor
Overview: Biography of Lucien Guitry, stage comedian, by his son, movie director, and a poetic reflection on the passionate love of both men for their chosen art forms.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-02-26
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Lost Souvenirs
Overview: Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide. -A funeral wreath lets us know how it caused a young woman to believe her lover dead. After having told their respective story, the objects return to their customary stillness.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-11
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La louve
Overview: A chronicler gets himself hired as a gamekeeper in Monsieur De Saint-Ricquier's mansion where he lives with his stepdaughter, Henriette, everybody considers insane .
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-07-13
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Return to Life
Overview: In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-14
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The Farm of Seven Sins
Overview: In 1825, Paul-Louis Courier, a Republican writer known for publishing pamphlets against the French monarchy, was killed in the farm where he had retired. Was it a political assassination or a vicious crime? Those who have known him loved him or hated him are interrogated by the police. Will the guilty person(s) be ferreted out?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-16
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The Turkey
Overview: Paris at the Belle Epoque. Monsieur de Pontagnac, a perfect honest man, loves pretty women too much and that plays him many tricks. What need does he have to follow the pretty Lucienne Vatelin, home, to find himself in the presence of the husband, the notary Vatelin, who is part of his circle? From there, many characters will meet, avoid each other, find each other. Adultery, domestic scenes and reconciliation will be their lot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-21
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Poison
Overview: Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each other without risk. After listening to a radio show, Paul decides to go to Paris to meet a famous lawyer in the acquittal of the murderers. He tells the lawyer that he killed his wife. The lawyer asks Paul to reconstruct the circumstances of the drama. Without knowing it, he explains, in spite of himself, the way for Paul to murder his wife by putting the odds on his side to avoid death penalty or even be released...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-30
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Les Maîtres-nageurs
Overview: A married industrialist maintains three mistresses. On the instructions of his wife, the tax inspector seizes the small notebook where he records his illegal dealings. After a stormy marital explanation, the industrialist decides to reduce his costs by getting rid of his mistresses and expresses the intention of returning to legality. But he realizes that everyone, even his wife, prefers the old situation, fraud and mistresses, thanks to which everyone found his little profit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-01-19
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Love and Companionship
Overview: The accountant of an insurance company, rather eccentric and quick to push the song, is responsible for monitoring the actions of an alluring South American whose suicide would mean the collapse of the company. Finally, the accountant discovers an attempted insurance scam and marries the surly and charming interpreter who was the liaison between the South American and himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-01-27
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Une enfant dans la tourmente
Overview: Lily Ferronais can't stand her husband who, out of weakness, has let himself be led down the wrong road. She flees with her little Jeannette, whom she makes believe in the death of her father. Hired by the restaurateur Jean Garaud, the latter falls in love with her, to the chagrin of his mistress Hélène.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-07-23
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Drôle de noce
Overview: Mr and Mrs Barbezat,Concierges are to marry their only daughter to a butcher's boy. Both the in-laws and the groom have an obsession: come what may, they are keen on honoring their engagements: promises are made to be kept is their motto. And when, on the wedding day, the unfortunate parents cannot provide the newly weds with...the "Mérinos" mattress which is part of the bride's Trousseau ,they are desperate. The husband will spend the whole wedding festivities trying to keep his word.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-09-10
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Beauties of the Night
Overview: A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-11-14
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Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
Overview: Is it because his father was a groom that Adhémar Pomme has a long horse head and a horse- toothed smile? Maybe but the fact is that his head has invariably caused laughter whatever the circumstances, which is the tragedy of his life. After having worked as an undertaker, a theater prompter, a casino bouncer, and so on, and failing at each job, he applies out of desperation to an institution where those rejected for physical reasons can hide and live together. But Adhémar immediately starts... laughing at them and gets kicked out as a result! In the end though, he finds his way as a circus artist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-09-14
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Her Last Christmas
Overview: A very ill little girl having expressed the wish to live until Christmas, the whole neighborhood agrees to anticipate the celebration.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-12-12
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Double or Quits
Overview: In Bourganeuf, an old maid, Charlotte Bourdier, confesses to Marie Chassagne that she has forged a sentimental intrigue by correspondence with the presenter of the Radio Circus, Zappy Max. Marie agrees to meet him when he comes, but she in turn falls in love with him, who confesses his love to her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-12-31
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Musique en tête
Overview: Jacques Hélian, an attractive charm singer, too stifled by the jealousy of the radio director's niece, flees with his orchestra, on the advice of his secretary Bob. They fail in a small village, where there is a boarding school for young girls. Bob responds to the love letters the teacher sends to the handsome singer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-01
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The Lottery of Happiness
Overview: Mr Lucas, a grocer, wants to attract the clientele; he imagines a lottery; every week, you can win a bike. It's a big success.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-02-15
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The Virtuous Scoundrel
Overview: La Vie d'un honnête homme English: The Virtuous Scoundrel, is a French comedy drama film from 1953, directed by Sacha Guitry, written by Sacha Guitry, starring Michel Simon and Louis de Funès.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-02-18
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Le Père Goriot
Overview: Jean-Joachim Goriot, a merchant who got rich during the Revolution, is obsessed with the love of his two daughters, whose social promotion he wants. He endows them richly, ruins himself to pay their debts, but Delphine and Anastasie do not return his affection and abandon him at the time of his death to run to a big ball.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-03-09
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Trois artilleurs à l'opéra
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-05-10
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Erotissimo
Overview: Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner and general manager of a dynamic company. Under the deluge of sexy Swedish movies, sexy advertising on the streets, sexy intimate clothing in ladies' shops, and even talks about sex and marital infidelity with her mother and female friends, Annie starts feeling left aside by her husband, and trying to attract in a number of ways - and failing. It's not the all-purpose secretary at the office that is keeping him late, it's a tax expert that, asking the most innocent questions, is finding out how Philippe can manage a company without profits, and still manage a home, may be two... with high quality levels.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-06-07
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Le Roman d'un spahi
Overview: The spahi Jean Peyral is very in love with the flirtatious Cora. When he realizes that she betrays him, he tries to kill himself. He is saved by the tenderness of a young native, Fatou.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-03-27
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The Marriage of Figaro
Overview: Comedy in five acts by Beaumarchais, filmed by Marcel Bluwal in studio and on location. The cast, in accordance with Marcel Bluwal's wishes, is in keeping with the age and character of the characters, to give it rhythm. At once "a comic baroque play, a bourgeois drama, a chansonnier's number, a social satire, a farce and a very pretty love story" according to Marcel Bluwal, it can also be summed up, according to Beaumarchais, as "the most bantering of intrigues".
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-25
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It's the Paris Life
Overview: In 1906, Viscount Paul de Barfleur fell in love with Cri-Cri delagrange, a singer at the cabaret "La vie parisienne". But the young man's father separated the lovers, who then married, each on his own... Forty-seven years later, in 1953, Cri-Cri and Paul's respective granddaughter and grandson meet by chance and fall in love with each other. The girl's father disapproves of the affair and is about to put an end to it. But the old Vicomte de Barfleur, who has never been consoled by not marrying Cri-Cri, intervenes in time to save the couple's happiness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-05-28
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Le Voyage de monsieur Perrichon
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-12-25
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La Traversée de Paris
Overview: Two unlikely companions must smuggle four suitcases filled with contraband pork across Nazi-occupied Paris.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-10-26
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Fire Under Her Skin
Overview: Thérèse, who has come from the city, has married the sad Louis Raboux, a violent peasant who dies under unclear circumstances. Thérèse stays at the farm with Célestin, who loves her, but dares not say it out of shyness. The arrival of Pierre, who knew Louis and has something to hide, complicates the situation. Célestin's jealousy, which the maid Julia tries to console. Thérèse and Pierre's passionate love. The police arrest the young man and Célestin chases Thérèse, who falls from the roof. Célestin throws the body into an abyss, only to see Pierre reappear. In a rage, he too rushes into the ravine, from which Thérèse emerges, a new miracle-worker, ready to throw herself into the arms of her lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-06-01
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Piédalu député
Overview: In the 1953 elections, Piédalu was elected mayor of Marboue-Chambourcy. The esteem of his fellow citizens won him popularity, but he had to reckon with the wiles of his political opponents if he ran for deputy. The support of the son of one of his rivals, who loves Françoise Piédalu, and above all his stubborn common sense and natural malice, help him to overcome all obstacles.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-01-20
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On the Bench
Overview: La Hurlette and Carmen are a pair of philosophical tramps who enjoy simple pleasures in the company of the cheerful Sosthène. As in the fairy tales, La Hurlette learns that he has just inherited a tidy fortune, provided he can find a job. By dint of hard work, he manages to do so, and a banquet brings together his disinherited friends. Determined to live the high life, La Hurlette and Carmen lose all their inheritance at the Cabourg casino, and end up as philosophical as ever on their favorite bench.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-12-06
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Love Descends from the Sky
Overview: Pau is home to the famous "Red Berets". Four of them have forged close friendships: Dominique, a Corsican with the rank of master sergeant; Julien, a peasant; Dédé, a wild Parisian; Jean, a shy provincial. On free evenings, the four friends meet in a bar where Dominique is interested in the waitress and Dédé is in love with Paulette, the owner's daughter. One day, a car breakdown brings Jean into contact with a young girl from Paris: Brigitte. But Brigitte leaves again and Jean can't stop thinking about her. Because of their good behavior, the battalion to which the four men belong is chosen to represent their arm at the July 14th parade in Paris. In the capital, each of them tries to find their loved ones.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-04-03
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The Inspector Likes a Fight
Overview: To protect him, Georges takes the place of his twin brother, Jacques, suspected of murdering an aircraft manufacturer and stealing the plans for a revolutionary engine. He sets out to compromise the police investigation and the actions of the document smugglers seeking to recover the plans.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-06-12
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They Were Five
Overview: Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-09-01
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Quai des illusions
Overview: Lise is bored with her parents and gets a job as a waitress. She meets a sailor, Fausto, who leaves her to escape from the police. Nevertheless, she gives birth to a baby who dies shortly afterwards. Distraught, she steals a parentless child from a maternity hospital. Arrested and tried, she is acquitted, only to find Fausto innocent.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-01-21
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Josefa's Loot
Overview: Justin, a lyricist by trade, and his friend Pierre, a composer, lead a bohemian life in Paris. Justin thinks his mother Josefa is richer than she appears, and decides to swindle her out of three million centimes by using Pierre as an intermediary in a case involving an insolvent check. Josefa uncovers the ruse and refuses to help her son. However, Pierre has discovered the identity of his friend's father, who had been unknown to him for twenty years. With the help of Justin's mother, the two friends do everything they can to extort the son's missing three million centimes from his ashamed and repentant father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-08-22
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Dossier AST-555
Overview: A cabaret is used as a cover for drug trafficking, but the police are unable to uncover the means used to smuggle the opium. It turns out that one of the accomplices is repatriating the bodies of her compatriots who have died abroad and smuggling the drugs. A race is waged between the police and the culprits: the law triumphs.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-11-25
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Monsieur Octave
Overview: Monsieur Octave, a good man who has retired from the French national railway company, wants to have his house built. To this end he contacts a loan company. They ask him to credit them with 100,000 francs. Which he does. From then on, Octave starts waiting, waiting, waiting...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-07
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Killer Spy
Overview: The most secret agent Stanislas Dubois, tired of saving the world alone decides to retire and to start writing his memoirs. The enemies of humanity, progress and peace in the world found out about it and created an international network of espionage "13 columns". Unfortunately they platted a slot in the good old France. They should think better...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-23
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Schubert's Serenade
Overview: Serenade represented the return to the screen of international favorite Lillian Harvey after an absence of two years. Based loosely on the life of composer Franz Schubert, the film casts Bernard Lancret as Schubert, Harvey as his dancer sweetheart, and Louis Jouvet as a possessive Baron who has his own designs on our heroine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-02-28
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The Grand Manoeuvre
Overview: Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-10-26
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We ask for an employee
Overview: A misunderstanding between two candidates for an open position take each other to the boss.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-11-30
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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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Bearer Check
Overview: Returning from America where he received a large inheritance, Alaric would like to have a wedding before returning to the family home where his sister, who is as cantankerous as she is uncompromising on principles, awaits him. He asks a “porter” from the station who looks like him to replace him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-12-21
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Douce
Overview: In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien, the handsome manager of the estate. However she cannot hope to marry him because of their class difference. Douce's widowed father, the Count de Bonafé, has a wooden leg, and is infatuated with Irène. Douce discovers that Fabien is planning to flee to Quebec with Irène, and also finds out that the Count has asked Irène to marry him. So Douce tells Fabien this and convinces him to run away with her, causing consternation in the family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-11-09
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The Lovers of Tomorrow
Overview: A man throws a revolver in the Seine and checks into a hotel run by an unhappy Turkish couple. The wife falls for the mysterious guest, and kills her husband to prevent him from the turning the man in to the police.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-08-26
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Hanged Man's Farm
Overview: A large farm in Vendée. The father is dying and the three brothers and sister swear not to marry not to break up the field. Months pass. Francis, the eldest, took things in hand. For him, the promise to their father is sacred. So he does everything for his brothers and his sister Amanda are not tempted. However, the latter lets himself courted by a young man from the neighboring village ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-12-05
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The Deserter
Overview: During WW1, a train is stopped by a bombing, a young soldier takes advantage of the opportunity to go to his native village to connect with his love and his family. As WW2 began in the real world, this film was rereleased later in ‘39 under the revised title Je t'attendrai (I Will Wait for You).
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-18
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À la culotte de zouave
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-15
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Trois jours de bringue à Paris
Overview: A group of inhabitants from Ferté-sous-Jouarre decide to spend their jackpot on a three day trip to Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-05-14
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Hello-Goodbye
Overview: A car salesman journeys to France and encounters an apparently lonely woman. He immediately begins to successfully woo her only to learn that she is actually a baron's wife. Fortunately, the baron believes in open marriages and winds up hiring the Englishman to teach his son (from an earlier marriage) everything about automobiles. Meanwhile the car salesman finds himself falling seriously in love with the wife. The baron really doesn't mind as he himself is involved with another.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-07-12
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The Little Bather
Overview: Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-03-22
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Le Secret d'une mère
Overview: After his wife's death, a man discovers that his daughter may not be his.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-24
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Mam'zelle Spahi
Overview: Two mistresses snubbed by their respective lovers crash a military ball and their lovers then resort to an unusual strategy to win them back.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-11-09
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Beauty Cult
Overview:
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-01-02
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The Gambler
Overview: In 1866, a young Muscovite named Alexei Ivanovitch arrives in Baden Baden, then the gambling capital of Austria, and is soon engaged by General Zagorianski to look after his children. Alexei discovers that his employer is a compulsive gambler who has been almost ruined by his addiction. The only money the General has is provided by the Marquis de Grieux, an adventurer who intends to marry Zagorianski’s sister, Pauline. In doing so, de Grieux hopes to profit from the vast inheritance that will come the General’s way from his Aunt Antonina, who is presently very ill. Alexei is appalled by this society which lives only for money. He loves Pauline and wants to take her to a healthier place, but when she refuses to marry him, he begins to gamble at the casino…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-10-26
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The Necklace
Overview: A professional female thief figures out an original way to steal a precious necklace: she takes a gullible jeweler to a psychiatrist, poses as his wife and passes him off as a lunatic. Dr. Schwartz falls into the trap and has the poor jeweler committed to a mental hospital. Meanwhile, the thief lays hands on the necklace and vanishes into thin air.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-06-01
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The Moment of Truth
Overview: After attending to a suicidal young man, Dr Richard learns that his wife has been unfaithful for years. This comes as a shock after 10 years of supposedly happy marriage. Back home, he demands answers from Madeleine. A long night of explanations ensues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-22
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The Little Rebels
Overview: Judge Julien Lamy regularly deals with the welfare of children, namely down on their luck delinquents. When an orphan named Alain Robert burns down a barn belonging to his abusive foster family, Judge Lamy has no choice but to send him to a juvenile jail. There he meets an older boy named Francis Lanoux, who is desperate to escape and be reunited with his girlfriend Sylvette. The boys eventually flee the institution, as Francis goes in search of his lost love and Alain continues looking for his parents. Unfortunately, the little rebels run into some big problems once on the outside.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-10-21
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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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I'll Be Alone After Midnight
Overview: A woman's marriage is on the rocks ; to avenge herself, she decides to take a lover for one night .So she buys all his stock from a balloon man and flies them through the Parisian sky ; all her balloons carry a message :"I will be alone after midnight" (hence the title); a lot a suitors comme to the rendezvous : a fisherman, a soldier, a traveler , a gentleman cambrioleur (a nod to Arsène Lupin?) and others ,much to Michel, a young man in love with her's displeasure.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-08-21
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Jonny, haute-couture
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-04-12
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The Gates of Paris
Overview: Juju, a drunken oaf who feels the need of being important to someone---anyone---and his friend The Artist are forced at gunpoint to house a fugitive, Pierre Barbier, in Juju's broken-down home. The urge for being needed is such in Juju that he gives up drinking and takes care of Pierre. But one day Juju finds out that Pierre has been making love to his girl Maria...
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-09-27
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Adventure in Paris
Overview: Michel Levasseur is a joyous reveler who does not care about the next day. So much so that one day a bailiff bursts into his Paris apartment and seizes his furniture on behalf of Raymond Sauvaget, his landlord, a rich food industrialist. But far from resenting Sauvaget's act of hostility, Michel ... becomes his friend. Now Raymond, although prosperous, does not know how to handle women. That is why he asks Michel, a regular Casanova, to give him lessons in seduction.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-11-24
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Une femme a menti
Overview: Robert Chapelain, a renowned lawyer, loves Annette Rollan, a salesgirl. When his children Jean and Jacqueline witness their uncle telling their father that the woman is no good for him, they invite Annette to ask her to leave Robert.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-07-04
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Un homme en habit
Overview: Completely ruined, André is left with nothing more than the clothes on his back. He is hired as a controller in a small theater and there meets his wife, from whom he is in the process of divorcing. She tells him that he has just recieved an inheritance and that she still loves him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-06-26
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Quand te tues-tu?
Overview: Leon lives with Gaby. One of their friends, Xavier, is determined to kill himself. But Leon will inherit several millions if he marries a widow, so he gives Gaby in marriage to Xavier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-11-20
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