Germaine Dermoz
Also Known As: Mlle. Dermoz, Mme. Dermoz
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: July 30, 1888
Deathday: November 06, 1966
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Smiling Madame Beudet
Overview: An unhappily married woman devises a scheme to get rid of her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1923-11-09
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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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Le crime du chemin rouge
Overview: A great provincial lawyer is found murdered with a revolver shot in the red path that leads to his mistress's home. The Advocate General accuses his own wife who was a betrayed mistress and whom he assumes guilty out of spite. But the accused's daughter finds the real culprit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-02-10
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Bagnes d'enfants
Overview: A boy is sent to a reformatory for a small fault. He runs away and tries to kill himself when the gendarmes want to catch him. His parents arrive in time and the disaster is avoided.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-07-21
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Moscow Nights
Overview: During the First World War, the Russian officer Captain Ivan Ignatoff falls in love with his nurse, Natasha Kovrin. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjustifiably jealous, since Natasha has not betrayed him. He forces Ignatoff into his debt as a means of humiliating him. When Ignatoff's new friend, Madame Sabline, offers to pay his debt, preventing his ruin, Ignatoff comes quickly to realize that Madame Sabline has an ulterior motive, one that could prove dangerous to more lives than just Ignatoff's.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-11-21
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Caroline and the Rebels
Overview: A swashbuckling heritage reveals itself as the adopted son of 19th-century Spaniards develops into a suave lady-killer.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-03-11
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Heroes of the Marne
Overview: Bernard Lefrancois is a prosperous farmer on the River Marne, while his neighbor is impoverished. Lefrancois objects strongly to the romance between his son and the neighbor's daughter, but it continues in secret. WWI begins and the son becomes an aviator with the French army, and the unwed girl presents Lefrancois with an unexpected grandchild. The German army occupies the area, and the girl is serving France as a spy and securing information needed by the French to drive out the Germans. While his son is engaged in air-combat against the Germans, and the unwed mother of his grandchild is serving as a spy against their country's enemy, Lefrancois also joins the battle as a soldier.
Genres: War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-30
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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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Monsieur des Lourdines
Overview: A young man from an aristocratic family tires of the country life and moves to Paris where he squanders his inheritance. Returning to his home with remorse, he reconciles with his father and becomes engaged to his true love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-06-09
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Monsieur Vincent
Overview: The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-11-05
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Carrot Top
Overview: As the red headed boy writes in his school book, a family is a group living under the same roof who can't stand each other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-05-28
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Madame de Langeais
Overview: The beautiful and flirtatious Duchess of Langeais has set her sights on General de Meyran, a straight and serious man, and manages to invite him to her place alone. When the General declares his love for her, the Duchess's friends, informed, burst in. The General, thus demeaned, leaves, swearing that he will never see her again. However, the Duchess, who had fallen in love with the General, writes him many letters asking for his forgiveness but nothing happened. Years pass. The General is called to Spain by Ferdinand VII. And while he visited a Carmelite convent in Formentera, he recognized the Duchess as one of the nuns. The same evening, he tries to abduct her, to unexpected consequences.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1910-10-15
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The Prize
Overview: Madame Husson and her circle of holier-than-thou ladies (including an old maid Madame Cadenas)are looking for a chaste and pure girl who will win a hefty sum.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-20
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Petit ange
Overview: A misunderstanding, due to five-year-old Régine's innocent games, causes the Chambrys to split up. They send the child to pastor Crokfield, an old friend of the family, to be taken care of. Petit Ange (Little Angel), as little Régine is nicknamed, wishes to see her mom and dad together at he same time. The pastor helps her to achieve her goal.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1920-12-24
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The Absentee
Overview: Dries, a farmer and a widower, lives with his mother-in-law Grietje and his son Peter. He falls in love with Minna, a widow, and marries her despite the opposition of his family and friends. In anger his son Peter leaves home to enlist, while Grietje takes up her residence in another cottage. Six years pass, during which Grietje becomes acquainted with Minna's daughter Dina. Peter falls ill in Sumatra, but after falling in love with Dina, through the medium of photographs, he recovers and is drafted home again to Holland. He meets Dina and the two find that they truly love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1913-05-02
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Zaza
Overview: Early film version of the famous play.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1913-04-11
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Children of Love
Overview: In a maternity hospital, young single mothers are accompanied by social worker Hélène Lambert, who tries to make them aware of their new responsibilities, while Dr. Baurain stresses the importance of their moral and sexual education. They come to the aid of several young women: one who would like to give up her child to a couple applying for adoption, another who, after the death of her first baby in dramatic circumstances, is expecting a second, and many others.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-11-10
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The Prom
Overview: Two middle-class notions dealers live happily with their girl, but an inheritance turns these nice people into snob Nouveaux Riches. Although the aristocracy invites them, the 'Tout-Paris' laughs behind their back. When they invite their would be new friends for a ball in their desirable new mansion, their daughter, sick and tired of being abandoned by her once loving parents, throws the invitations into the Seine.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-09-11
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The Dream
Overview: In the snow as bells toll, a hooded figure makes its way through the streets to a church.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-07-22
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The Black Angels
Overview: Two brothers-in-law hate each other but, for business interests, they want their respective son and daughter to marry. The young fiancées are not in agreement, as the boy has a happy relationship with a woman, and the girl is in an isolation mood. A crime happens, and the relations amongst this sad family become even worse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-10-28
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The Murdered Model
Overview: Commissioner Malaise investigates a strange crime: a mannequin, stolen from the window of a tailor, is found stabbed... But his face of wax has the features of a certain Gilbert, who died a year earlier in a family, all of whose members will become more or less suspicious to the Commissioner. He thinks that, in spite of Dr. Furnelle's conclusions, Gilbert's death was not natural. But finding the cause of death and the identity of the possible culprit will require more than a mere intuition.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-03-10
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The Mystery of Notre-Dame de Paris
Overview: Drama in which the love between Claude and Germaine is tested when Claude is falsely accused and Germaine's father doesn't approve of their relationship.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1912-05-13
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Eugénie Grandet
Overview: Eugenie Grandet has discovered where her father, a miserable old miser, keeps his treasure. Eugenie's cousin, Charles, is the bearer of a letter from his father to his uncle, Eugenie's father. The letter informs the miser that Charles' father, his only brother, is reduced to a state of utter ruin, and unless he can obtain immediate help, he contemplates suicide.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1910-05-26
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La vie est magnifique
Overview: Two campers meet two young girls in the Landes. Love will bloom, with its heartbreaks.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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The Bread Peddler
Overview: A brave woman is sentenced to prison on false testimony. She escapes twenty years later and takes refuge in Paris where she carries bread while looking for her children Georges and Lucie who will find her and exonerate her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-03-23
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L'Arlésienne
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-09-19
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If Paris Were Told to Us
Overview: Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-01-27
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La course du flambeau
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1925-11-20
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