Jacques Provins
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Department: Acting
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Saint-Just and the Force of Things
Overview: Antoine Saint-Just, comrade of Robespierre and youngest member of the Committee of Public Safety, is drawn into the tempestuous political & military conflicts of France under the Terror.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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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: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-07-05
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Paris Incident
Overview: Story is primarily based on the adventures of Antoine, a young telegraph messenger on his second night of work. He is given three telegrams, one of which is for the president of the Camber of Deputies. Excited, Antoine runs his bicycle into a truck and loses the telegrams. What follows is an amusing and agonizing search for the missing messages. He is assisted first by a glum, wise-beyond-her-years little girl, Amelie; an off-duty police superintendent, a schoolmaster, a cookie-tin maker and a fireman. The harmonica musical theme is played by Flore Falvey.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-02
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Les deux Monsieur de Madame
Overview: Adolphe is in serious financial difficulties and the extravagances of his wife do not help to fix things.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-12-27
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Over the waves
Overview: Panorama of the programs and hosts who made the heyday of radio in the 1950s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-11
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La Mandarine
Overview: Paris, seventies. In a hotel in the glittering Rue de Rivoli an English boy falls in love with the two young grandchildren of the owner. Based on the novel "La Mandarine" by Christine de Rivoyre.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-03-17
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L'oeil en coulisse
Overview: Wounded during a rugby match he'd come to Paris to play, Tonin Bonnafous, a thoroughbred southerner, settled in Paris with a former stalag mate he'd happily met. Tonin liked the asylum. His friends are charming, and there's a neighbor, Martine, a young cinema extra, whom Tonin finds to his liking. Through his electrician friend, Tonin gets a job on the radio, and through his young neighbor, he even gets a job as an extra in the cinema.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-07-19
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Les mains liées
Overview: François Jauréguy is a young Basque who would love to devote his life to God. But meeting Maïté and the example of the worker priests makes him doubt the wisdom of his choice. Marie-Jeanne, his mother, suffers from this situation. She knew a man, Jean Etchandy, who renounced the priesthood out of love for her. François supports him in his final moments, and celebrates his first mass before his mother's tender eyes.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-04-27
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Requiem pour un caïd
Overview: Police officer Antoine Delille is in charge of putting an end to the activities of a "kingpin", Jo Pinelli, trafficker, racketeer and pimp. He has three women working for him, including Eva and Jeannette, and is currently "conditioning" a charming, naive Orly employee, with whom he poses as an honorable businessman. Inspector Delille's plan is to arrest Jo for some crime and, while he's being held at the P.J., to delve into his other criminal activities and confound him.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-07-25
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Franz
Overview: In a French seaside town, at a boarding house for civil servants recovering from surgery and maladies, the six male residents' lives change dramatically when two women arrive: Catherine, lively, sexually liberated, willing to kiss, dance, and sleep with the men, and Leonie, reserved, formal, conservative. Leonie finds herself attracted to Leon, a Belgian who was a mercenary in Katanga in 1964, wounded and carrying psychological scars as well. The other men continually play practical jokes on Leon, some of them cruel. As Leon courts Leonie, his horrid mother brings him emotional distress as do his memories of war. Can the two of them get past these obstacles?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-02-07
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Monelle
Overview: A beautiful young pianist falls for her mentor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-09-15
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