Alain Bouvette
Also Known As: Maurice Alabouvette
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Pontarlier, Doubs, France
Birthday: August 10, 1924
Deathday: July 01, 2004
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Overview: Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the style they enjoy. However, Max confides the details of the theft to his younger mistress, Josey -- who has secretly taken up with ambitious young rival gangster Angelo. Angelo then has Riton kidnapped and demands the stash of gold as ransom, which threatens Max's dreams of the perfect retirement.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-03-17
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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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L'Homme aux mains d'argile
Overview: The fictionalized life, and interpreted by himself, of the popular boxing champion Marcel Cerdan. Training sessions, matches, victories, flight to the U.S.A. where the title of world champion is disputed, form the whole subject of the film.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-03
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Monte Carlo Baby
Overview: When a measles epidemic forces the temporary closing of a child care center, the son of a film star and her estranged husband, a concert pianist, is mistakenly delivered to a touring musician.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-22
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Alone in Paris
Overview: Henri and Jeannette Milliard, a newly married couple from Normandy arrive in Paris where they intend to spend their honeymoon. Unforfunately a wicket gate in the metro separates the couple. In panic, Henri looks for his wife across the capital. He ends up finding her at the hotel they were to put up. But it looks as if Jeannette has gone through some distressing adventure.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-28
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Le crime du Bouif
Overview: A poacher nicknamed "Le Bouif" is accused of having murdered his son-in-law, trainer of a horse stable in Maisons-Laffitte.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-03-05
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L'éternel espoir
Overview: The war will separate the members of the Valon family, two sons Alexandre and Antoine being prisoners, while the youngest Gilbert enters the secret army. Only their sister, Denise, will stay on the farm with her grandfather and grandmother. The Germans invade the free zone.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-06-24
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One Hundred Francs Per Second
Overview: Philippe, an employee at the Bourdinet firm, having been caught kissing Jacqueline, his boss's daughter, is fired. Some time later, Bourdinet launches a radio quiz show to boost his business. Philippe then decides to compete in the hope of telling the thousands of listeners what he thinks of the industrialist. A blow on the head having given him a gift of second sight, the competitor becomes impeccable and wins astronomical sums to the great despair of Bourdinet. Everything will work out in the end and Philippe will be able to marry Jacqueline.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-01-09
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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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The Mysteries of Paris
Overview: The Marquis Rodolphe de Sombrueil accidentally runs over a working man with his carriage and helps his widow -- unjustly accused of robbery -- to find her missing daughter.
Genres: History Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-10-04
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Me and the Colonel
Overview: Nazis are about to overrun France, and a Jewish man named Jacobowsky is stranded in Paris. He hitches a ride with reluctant Polish serviceman Colonel Prokoszny, who harbors a bias against Jews. They are soon joined by Prokoszny's bride-to-be, Suzanne, who takes an immediate liking to the engaging Jacobowsky. This furthers the hostility between Jacobowsky and Prokoszny, but they must put their differences aside to evade the Nazis trailing them.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1958-10-01
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The Beautiful Otero
Overview: An Italo-French biopic about one of the most famous women of Belle Époque, Spanish-born dancer and actress, star of Folies-Bèrgere: Carolina Otero.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-11-04
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Tartarin de Tarascon
Overview: A well-to-do bourgeois, Tartarin lives in Tarascon, a small southern town, among friends who, like him, love hunting "à la casquette", gossip, aperitifs and thought-provoking journeys. Imaginative like all his compatriots, Tartarin ended up believing he had once been to Shanghai, so fervently did he recount his illusory adventures. It was even rumored that Tartarin was about to leave for Africa to hunt wild beasts, and this was so insistent that the brave man, urged on by his friends, was forced "for the sake of honor" to embark. He arrives in Casablanca, surprised to discover a modern city and not a single lion. But a charming Moorish woman, Baïa, seduces him, and Tartarin indulges in the "delights of Capua". This euphoria is short-lived: Baïa disappears, a false prince, mostly a swindler, finds a replacement and sets off on a hunting expedition in southern Morocco, which will only earn Tartarin the loss of his savings and a blind old lion dragged along by two beggars.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-22
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Ladies First
Overview: An FBI agent works to arrest David Griffin, a murderous drug trafficker, and protect Juliette, the beautiful widow of Griffin's late partner.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-04-12
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Les pépées au service secret
Overview: Elvire, Nathalie and Christine, three young ladies with a proven track record, are called in by the Secret Service to retrieve coveted papers concerning a new explosive. Introduced to a fearsome environment thanks to a female helper, they face kidnappings, play a double game, toil endlessly, lend helicopters and finally triumph, smiling, after a breathtaking fight.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-08-10
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The Cage
Overview: An African physician returns home after studying medicine in Paris. He marries and settles down to life in the bucolic splendor of his native land. When he has a confrontation with a white plantation owner, the white man sees red and casts a spell on the African doctor. Although he realizes the curse is an ancient tribal superstition, he still is plagued by the ghost of his late first wife. The black doctor and the white man are assimilated into cultures in which neither of them were born in this vexing jungle tale.
Genres: Adventure Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-06-08
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La Polka des menottes
Overview: Elisabeth is persuaded to have killed her noisy upstairs neighbor, scientist Charles Magne. To save her, Mr. Matheu, Elisabeth's father, accuses himself while Pierrot, Elisabeth's fiancé gets rid of the body in order to save father and daughter. For his part, a gangster also believes he has killed the scientist but he gets shot down by a taxidermist, who runs for life. The girl, her daddy and her boyfriend also run away. But Magne is not dead. A bum is mistaken for him and a police inspector makes everyone believe that he is the one who shot the gangster. At the end of this crazy chain of events all the protagonists are reunited at the station house and everybody dances to express their relief.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-09-04
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Black Dossier
Overview: In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential notable during an investigation into a suspicious death. His perseverance to get to the truth will cause a huge scandal.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-05-10
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The Tricyclist
Overview: Antoine Peyralout is baker Mouillefarine's tricycle delivery man. Comical and stuttering, Antoine shows more interest in the local soccer team than in professional integrity. A wedding cake pays the price for it and the young man is dismissed. Not dispirited in the least, Antoine decides to go to Nice, where his favorite team will play the final of the Cup. On his merry (and eventful) way, he has the opportunity to save a pretty camper, Popeline, with whom he falls in love. Once in Nice, he discovers that Dabek, the brilliant goal-keeper is not up to his task following bad news...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-12-04
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Love and the Frenchwoman
Overview: The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-09-16
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The River of Three Junks
Overview: In Saigon, the heads of the French counter-espionage network replace the secretary of dangerous traffickers with one of their agents to uncover a trade in bacteriological bombs.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-01-25
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Virgile
Overview: Sweet Virgil believes himself to be a victim of the same bad luck that has pursued parents, grandparents and ancestors before him. Terribly complexed by this misfortune, he nevertheless awkwardly tries his hand at journalism, supported by a charming editor. By chance, he comes face to face with the thundering gangster Esposito. In this cat-and-mouse struggle, the mouse wins. Esposito is arrested and Virgil is rid of his inhibitions forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-11-18
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
Overview: Based on D. H. Lawrence’s 1928 novel of the same name, Lady Chatterley’s Lover stars Danielle Darrieux, Leo Genn, and Erno Crisa in this controversial tale of adultery! After her husband is paralyzed from fighting in WWI, Lady Chatterley feels a loss of intimacy between her husband and herself, and decides to have an affair with the gamekeeper, a man of a lower class.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-07
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After You, Duchess
Overview: When she married her snobbish lawyer husband a woman hid her family's modest background from him. Her father, who is in fact a plumber dresses up as a duchess in order to fool him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-05-20
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Nights of Montmartre
Overview: Bobby earns his living in Montmartre by duping naïve provincials, along with his pal Julien, as well as crooks and drug dealers, replaced by bicarbonate. His friend Monique, who dances at Le Paradou, is frightened by such a life. A crime of which he is not guilty occurs while he is robbing drug dealer Mureau. Bobby flees, but prefers to let himself be imprisoned. A serious accident is avoided. The brave Inspector Doirel is determined to set the boy straight. Monique will do her bit too.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-08-08
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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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Clandestine Paris
Overview: In the elegant nightclub of Corsican Luciano, known as Lucky, "Les Naturistes", big sums are gambled at the Longchamp races. Lucky not only "welcomes" the new dancers, he also collects the stakes entrusted to him and personally plays the horses recommended to him by Max, a former convict. But Bramati, Lucky's ex-partner, doesn't forgive Max for double-crossing him and has him shot.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-10-11
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Amour, autocar et boîtes de nuit
Overview: A young girl, Christiane, leaves her family to join friends with whom she intends to "make a life". Two boys, Jo and Paul, look after the heroine, whose relations seem rather shady. Jo, a guide in a tourist agency specializing in nightlife in Paris, has a "shadow" of his own in the scatterbrained Annette, who is determined to marry him. While touring the capital's cabarets, Jo meets a model, Jacynthe, and her photographer, Daniel, as well as a star, Jackie, and her manager, Helios. The latter organizes a mock jewel robbery for publicity purposes, with Jackie as the victim. But contrary to expectations, the robbery takes place.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-08-17
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The Men in the Family
Overview: Gabriel Pelletier, sales manager for a major industrial firm, would be the happiest of men if he didn't have a family of rare originality. The day Gabriel Pelletier is asked by the firm's management to welcome and accommodate an important American industrialist who has come to Paris to handle a major contract, he realizes the difficulties that lie ahead. How will Mr. Strumberger, who has the reputation of a fierce puritan, react to the behavior of the various members of the family?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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There's a Bone in the Mill
Overview: Two unemployed actors accept what they believe to be an acting job from a wealthy man without realizing that he needs two real private detectives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-06-20
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Sinners of Paris
Overview: Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that Vanel is too crafty and well-connected to ever stand trial for his crime, so he carefully lays a subtle trap for his adversary. Unfortunately, both Piccoli and Vanel are thwarted by a pair of scheming females.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-15
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Incognito
Overview: Bob Stanley was an American secret agent during World War II in France. After the war Stanley returns to France as a consul. In reality, he works for the FBI, to roll up the organization that manufactures fake U.S. dollars. A violent confrontation is insurmountable.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-04-09
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The Indiscreet
Overview: A dying man entrusts 25 million to a young girl's care, but she's afraid of being suspected of theft.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-03-16
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The Hideout
Overview: Set during World War II in France, the story begins when a resistance fighter is given shelter in an asylum by a friend who manages the institution. Soon after, the manager is arrested by the Gestapo, which gets the resistance fighter involved. He finds the informer who set his friend up and kills him. But then no one will believe his story about the informer and he becomes desperate enough to start losing his own mental balance. A young doctor and the daughter of one of the inmates help him keep it together, but he knows he cannot continue like this for long.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-09-21
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Monsieur
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-04-22
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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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Faithful in My Fashion
Overview: Thanks to the complicity of his friend Laura, Jo, sentenced to 20 years in prison, escapes from the central prison. Hiding in an old disused mill, Jo sends his young friend to a certain Freddy, gangster and nightclub owner in Pigalle, who owes his freedom to Jo's silence. But Freddy sends two of his henchmen to the mill where Jo is hiding, to kill her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-01-21
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Rififi
Overview: Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-04-13
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La tuile à loups
Overview: Winter 1970, France. In a small village covered in snow, an outcast bonesettler starts predicting the return of wolves in the area, but nobody wants to believe his superstitious omens. Until one day, a young man is attacted by a wolf.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-06-24
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Ces messieurs de la gâchette
Overview: Gabriel Pelletier's life is no bed of roses. Not because of his job: he is a successful sales manager. But on account of the various wrongdoings committed by his kin. First, there is his daughter Nicole, who has just developed an infatuation with a young man who is not only a revolutionary student but the the son of a Sicilian mobster as well. Then he has to cope with Bernard, his brother-in-law, a ladies'man who has been vamped by one of the sexy daughters of the Sicilian. Let's not forget Albert, his own brother, an avant-garde filmmaker also in trouble with Lombardi, the omnipresent gangster. To crown it all, Maryse, his domestic worker, is a Maoist militant!... In the end, poor Gabriel can't take it anymore. He hits the road and calls it quits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-04-08
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: The umpteenth adaptation of Dumas' novel finds d'Artagnan and his friends promoting the love affairs of Anne of Austria and the Duke of Buckingham, incurring the wrath of the Cardinal and exposing themselves to the cold cruelty of Milady de Winter. Also featured are the tender Mme Bonacieux, the hilarious Planchet, the Queen's ferrets and Bethune's executioner, against a backdrop of clanging swords.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-10-07
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Babette Goes to War
Overview: Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into German-occupied France to help kidnap an important German general. She bungles through to a heroic finish of plot and counter-plot.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-09-18
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The Sex Clinic
Overview: To improve their sex life, a married couple check themselves into a sex clinic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-07-03
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Sundays and Cybele
Overview: The tragic story of a young orphan girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the French Indochina War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-12
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The Upper Hand
Overview: In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. And an undercover US Treasury Department agent is trying to infiltrate the smuggling business.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-03-02
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La dragée haute
Overview: Taking the place of the police, whom he finds neither fast nor efficient enough, a journalist named Hugo sets out to find the perpetrator of a murder. Suffocating in the small town where he plies his trade, he is eager to seize the opportunity that will make him a great reporter. The discovery of a murdered young woman - a high-fashion model - puts him on the trail of diamond smugglers. Despite the cautious advice of the newspaper editor and the pleas of his wife, who senses the dangers threatening them, Hugo forges ahead, plunging headlong into the labyrinth where gangsters are luring him to disappear. He finally unmasks the murderer. He finally gets his sensational story - but through his own carelessness, another girl falls victim to the gang. At the last second, the wife he thought he'd lost through his stubborn, madly clumsy attitude is still there, ready to comfort him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-07-27
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Girl on the Third Floor
Overview: A Parisian reporter tries to exonerate a fugitive neighbor of charges he murdered his wife.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-08-02
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Tout chante autour de moi
Overview: Georges works in a small-town drugstore. Passionate about music, he writes songs. When Anne-Marie, whom he loves, loses her parents, he leaves with her for Paris, protecting her because she is blind. His friends Paul and Marthe put them up in the vacant apartment of the publisher Recordier. When he returns, he's irritated, but Anne-Marie sings Georges' songs so well that he makes her a radio star. Georges flies into a rage, slamming doors. An upset Anne-Marie has an accident. Operation restores her sight. All that's left for good Paul to do is reunite the brave Georges with the sweet Anne-Marie.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-11-01
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Shock Patrol
Overview: During the Indochina War, Lieutenant Perrin and his men, French soldiers, hold a remote post. They lived in harmony with the local population. Over time, they have managed to forge a peaceful relationship with the villagers. The French have built a school and a dispensary. But all their efforts are suddenly wiped out when Viet Minh resistance fighters storm their post.
Genres: War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-07-11
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The Fugitives
Overview: During the Second World War, in 1943, two French prisoners, François and Michel, escape from Stalag B377 in northern Germany near the Baltic Sea. They meet another escaped compatriot, Pierre, who has donned the uniform of a German officer and joins them. Their goal: to reach neutral Sweden. To get there, they'll have to walk part of the way, then take a train to the coast and, from there, find a way to cross the sea to the shores of Sweden.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-05-10
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Mission to Caracas
Overview: Special agent Becker is after a briefcase that rather cleverly disguises some secret documents.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-10-06
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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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The Four Truths
Overview: "Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all loosely parodying fables from the 17th-century French poet Jean de la Fontaine. The US cut usually features only 3 segments.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-21
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Hi Doc
Overview: 24 hours in the life of a humble general practitioner. A very busy life to say the least... Like every other day, Dr. Forget works from morning till dusk (and even later). He sees patients in his consulting room or visits them either on house calls or at the hospital. But is today just another day? Not quite since on this very day, Junior, Dr. Forget's son, will know if he has passed or not his exam at the faculty of medicine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-03-06
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The Valley Without Spring
Overview: Two men living in a snow-bound town in the mountains fall in love with the same girl
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-14
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The Black Monocle
Overview: The Marquis de Villemaur reunite strange visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the Third Reich. There is an Italian fascist, Heinrich; a German, Matthias; a Russian; and Dromard, a blind French war hero with a black monocle.
Genres: Crime Thriller Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-08-29
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