Michel Duran
Also Known As: Michel Durand, Michel Mourguet
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Writing
Place of Birth: Lyon, France
Birthday: April 22, 1900
Deathday: February 18, 1994
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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To the Polls, Citizens
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-03-11
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Bad Seed
Overview: A young man-about-Paris, cut off from his father's money, falls in with a picaresque gang of car thieves.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-07-05
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Mam'zelle Nitouche
Overview: Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of Floridor. One day, the Mother Superior asks him to chaperone one of the boarders, Denise de Flavigny, who is returning home to get married. Now, Denise, for all her goody goody looks, soon proves as saucy as can be. Things get even more complicated when Célestin starts courting Corinne, the star of his operetta, to the great displeasure of a commander of dragons, the young woman's lover. Worse, the latter is none other than the Mother Superior's brother... To say nothing of Lieutenant Fernand de Champlatreux, who happens to fall in love with Denise, his fiancée that he has never seen before...!
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-10-09
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Le Chemin du bonheur
Overview: Three friends, Fred, singer, Claude, painter and André, extra, live in the same studio and share everything, even their girlfriend. Fred falls in love with a young girl but leaves her when he learns that she is rich. The two friends will try to fix this problem.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-01-05
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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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Twisted Mistress
Overview: Guy Carbonnel, a rich industrialist, has more eyes for rugby than for his wife Hélène. René Rivals, his long-time pal, takes advantage of it to court her but Guy is becoming suspicious so René has to find a way to deflect his friend's suspicion. He finally has an idea: he asks Lilian, a circus acrobat, to pose as his mistress. Lilian accepts and they embark on a series of eventful moments.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-08-14
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Night at the Crossroads
Overview: A gang of thieves utilize a cross-road garage as their hideaway; after accidentally murdering a jewel thief, the heat is on.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-04-18
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The Gallery of Monsters
Overview: The whimsical Riquet's has kidnapped and married a well-born young girl, Ralda. They travel around Spain performing their act in a circus but Ralda's beauty arouses the director's lust. Furious at being rejected, he opens a lion's cage during Ralda's act, leaving her seriously injured. With Ralda's family on their trail, the young people set off to find a better life elsewhere.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1924-09-23
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The Woman from Nowhere
Overview: A fifty year old woman, scarred by a life of disillusionment and regret, returns to the place where she lived twenty years before, to rekindle happier memories. She meets a young woman, the daughter of the current owners of the property, who is on the point of abandoning her home – just as she did, all those years ago...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1922-07-26
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El Dorado
Overview: In Granada in Spain, Sibilla works as a dancer in a squalid cabaret called El Dorado, struggling to earn enough to care for her sick child. The boy's father Estiria, a prominent citizen, refuses them both help and recognition, fearful of jeopardising the engagement of his adult daughter Iliana to a wealthy nobleman. Iliana however slips away from her engagement party to meet her real lover Hedwick, a Swedish painter. Sibilla, in desperation after a further rejection by Estiria, sees an opportunity to blackmail him by locking the lovers overnight in their meeting-place in the Alhambra.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1921-10-28
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Don Juan et Faust
Overview: Crazy scientist Faust tries to take Don Juan's lover away.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1922-10-07
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1940: Taking over French Cinema
Overview: Paris, 1940. German occupation forces create a new film production company, Continental, and put Alfred Greven – producer, cinephile, and opportunistic businessman – in charge. During the occupation, under Joseph Goebbels’s orders, Greven hires the best artists and technicians of French cinema to produce successful, highly entertaining films, which are also strategically devoid of propaganda. Simultaneously, he takes advantage of the confiscation of Jewish property to purchase film theaters, studios and laboratories, in order to control the whole production line. His goal: to create a European Hollywood. Among the thirty feature films thus produced under the auspices of Continental, several are, to this day, considered classics of French cinema.
Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-05-19
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