Marcelle Monthil
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Department: Acting
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The Land That Dies
Overview: In Vendée, an old farmer is gradually abandoned by his family who do not see their future in the fields. Only a cripple in love and abandoned remain at his side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-04-24
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Pitiless Gendarme
Overview: The police superintendent may be good-natured but he has got a lot on his plate with all the witnesses that come to make a statement before him. They are all crazier than the others and although the superintendent is not too bad at keeping his self-control, he might well go nuts after all with this bunch of lunatics!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-01-01
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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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To have known
Overview: An opinionated and cocky bookkeeper is certain he can rum his employer's business better than his employer can. The latter dive the bookkeeper a chance to demonstrate his management ability and skills, and promptly makes an unmitigated mess.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-09-01
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That scoundrel Morin
Overview: Life is so dull in a quiet little neighborhood that gossips, eager for some kind of scandal to brighten things up, imagine their haberdasher has been having quite a raunchy sex life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-12-30
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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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Roger la Honte
Overview: 1871. Roger Laroque accuses himself of a crime he did not commit to save his mistress, Julia de Noirville, from dishonor. He escapes from prison and is considered dead for fourteen years. Then he returns in the guise of a rich American in order to unmask the real murderer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-03-10
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We Are Not Children
Overview: In the spring of 1913, Jean Servin, a son of a family, became friends with Roberte, a little midinette. He leaves her a few months later to marry Cécile Breton. The years go by. Jean becomes an important businessman. One evening, he meets Roberte, who has become the wife of a wealthy American. She does not love her husband any more than he loves his wife. They recall their memories. They seem to still love each other. They plan to rebuild their lives. Together, they will spend a few days in Dieppe, as they did in the past after their first meeting. They feel so different from what they were twenty years ago that they understand that the past cannot live again.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-01-25
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Crainquebille
Overview: Crainquebille, merchant of four seasons, is sentenced to fifteen days in prison for having insulted a police officer. When he leaves, his clientele moves away from him and Crainquebille thinks of suicide, when the affection of a kid from Montmartre makes him change his mind.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-03-16
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The Spanking
Overview: A husband, exasperated by his wife, spanks her without paying attention to the open window in front of which he is. He is annoyingly surprised to discover the next day that the scene has been photographed by a neighbor, and that the image is circulating in Paris. A debate then ensues: is this an opportunity to call for revolt or a welcome manifestation of marital authority?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-11-10
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A Picnic on the Grass
Overview: A rich young woman asks a poor man to play for her the role of a generous friend. He ends up falling in love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-12-09
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La Symphonie fantastique
Overview: The film is biographical, telling the story of the life and artistic struggles of the French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz is shown as a recalcitrant medical student in an anatomy class dreaming of becoming a composer; at a demonstration during a performance at the Paris Opéra conducted by Habeneck; at supper with other young artists (Hugo, Janin, Dumas, Mérimée, Delacroix); and chasing after his future wife Harriet Smithson, after a performance of Hamlet. Also depicted are his life in a garret, while suffering from an illness due to an abscess in the throat; a visit from his mother who curses him; and the composition of the Symphonie fantastique. The film then shows his marital breakdown, the premiere of his opera Benvenuto Cellini, his travels throughout Europe, his second marriage to Marie Recio (called "Marie Martin" in the film), public acceptance in old age and reconciliation with his son.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-04-01
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The Blue Veil
Overview: In 1914, in the first months of World War I, Louise Jarraud loses her husband, killed on the front. Shortly after, she gives birth to a baby, who soon dies. Devastated by this double misfortune, Louise decides to dedicate her life to caring for the children of others. She becomes a nurse with several employers, giving her affection to little boys or girls. A widower and another man propose to her but she refuses twice determined as she is to live only for the children in her charge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-11-18
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Sins of Youth
Overview: A rich businessman living alone is deprived of the nephew he was to have brought up decides on his doctor's advice to search for the four illegitimate children he once fathered, which leads him to accept responsibility for his actions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-11-16
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The Benefactor
Overview: A kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence and carries out dishonest activities.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-12-11
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Threats
Overview: "Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel :t he fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-01-11
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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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Carnival of Sinners
Overview: A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact, magically. But of course there is nothing free in this world, and after one year the devil comes and asks for his due.
Genres: Fantasy Drama Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-03-21
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Vingt-cinq ans de bonheur
Overview: Comedy about an older man wanting to marry a younger woman who must make sure first that the woman is not by chance his own daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-05-25
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Whims
Overview: Caprices tells the story of two young rich people. A famous actress poses as a poor florist, and a distinguished society man camouflages himself as forger and swindler. This game leads them to make close relations in a series of adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-02-16
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The White Waltz
Overview: Bernard Lampré, a young composer, is engaged to Hélène Madelin, a gifted intern. Jealous of Professor d'Esperel, the great surgeon she proudly assists, Bernard, goes out and wanders in the rain all night long. He catches cold, falls ill and is sent to a sanitarium. There he meets again Jacqueline, a girl who studied music with him at the Conservatoire. Learning that she is dying, Bernard decides to play the comedy of love to soften her last moments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-12-15
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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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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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Vingt-quatre heures de perm'
Overview: Two friends, mobilized together and idle, send their photos to two young workers. The photos are inverted, resulting in a real sentimental imbroglio which finds its best conclusion in the context of the Théâtre aux Armées.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-01-10
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Secret Documents
Overview: An adventure between rival spies about documents concerning the process for extracting fuel from seawater. A love story that threatens to turn tragic, since the young woman enlisted by force in the network of doctor Morenius falls in love of her rival before returning, triumphant, to her fiancé.
Genres: Comedy Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-05-30
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The Bride of Darkness
Overview: Sylvie, a young woman who believes to be cursed, lives in the town of Carcassonne with her guardian, Mr. Toulzac. He is a retired teacher who wishes to discover the secret of the Cathars, a Christian sect of the Middle Ages that glorified death over life. Sylvie meets Roland, a composer who instills new hope into her troubled mind. Mr. Toulzac then asks her then to renounce the world and go down a secret tomb he has just found.
Genres: Crime Horror Drama Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-03-22
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Alert Nights
Overview: Hélène, a young waitress working in a bar frequented by German soldiers, saves the life of Pierre, a Resistance fighter. Her jealous lover has her arrested first and then released. Later on, Hélène is wounded while walking in the streets. Pierre has her transported to friends with the hope of taking her to London with him. Unfortunately, owing to lack of space in the plane, Pierre has to fly alone. Hélène has to wait several weeks before being able to board a new plane. When the day comes at last, the Germans are waiting for the plane on the clandestine airfield.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-09-25
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The London Man
Overview: Maloin, a maritime station guard, spends his nights at the port signal box. One night, he becomes the witness of a murder: for a simple suitcase smuggled, the altercation between the two men turns to drama. While the first falls and drowns, the second flees. Maloin, instead of warning the police, decides to dive in and recover the suitcase...which contains more than 3 million in small denominations! That's when the trouble begins...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-06-09
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Last Refuge
Overview: Philippe and Sylvie have to do with Alvarez, a dangerous gang leader. They break up with him and commit robbery and murder. Sylvie suggests that Philippe take refuge in his quiet family. His younger sister Antoinette attracts and charms Philippe and excites the jealousy of Sylvie who informs Alvarez. The police get involved and Philippe is killed during a merciless fight.
Genres: Drama Comedy Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-08-26
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Mort ou vif
Overview: A friendly average Frenchman pretends to be a famous commissioner on vacation. He arrives in a castle converted into a boarding house where, after dinner, guests are invited to participate in a "murder-party". The so-called victim of this little game is really murdered and the fake commissioner must lead the investigation.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-02-18
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Le diamant de cent sous
Overview: For fun and to dazzle his wife, the novelist Morgan steals a ring and gets rid of it in the costume jewelry section of a supermarket. Sophie buys the diamond, which forces the novelist to embark on crazy adventures to recover the jewel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-01-07
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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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Girl from Maxim's
Overview: After a crazy night spent at Maxim's, Doctor Montgicourt returns home with the Môme Shrimp. General Petypon invites her to his castle for the engagement of his niece and Lieutenant Corrignon, the kid's lover. The reception is likely to be very busy...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-15
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Marlène
Overview: Returning from South America, a singer is hired by an old pal who runs a detective agency to use a perch as a night club performer to be an investigator.The amateur sleuth then falls for a girl whose brother is a jewel thief.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-02
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The Curtain Rises
Overview: 1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique"). The first-year entrance exams are in full swing. Many applicants, few accepted. Isabelle (Janine Darcey) is one of the few chosen. She joins former students from the second and third years, including François (Claude Dauphin) and Cécilia (Odette Joyeux). They attend the drama class run by Professor Lambertin (Louis Jouvet). The young people, passionate and eager to become comedians, clash in tumultuous love affairs, because by dint of acting, they imagine that life is a farce. François, for example, is in love with Isabelle, who also loves him, but is pursued by Cecilia, his former mistress... "Put art in your life and life in your art!"
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-06
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Two Little Jesus'
Overview: Abandoned by the father of her child, the begging young mother desperately seeks refuge in a monastery church....
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1910-07-22
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Lucrèce
Overview: Lucrèce, a famous actress, is bothered first, then flattered by the passionate testimonies of love given to her by François, a 12th grade student infatuated with her. Taking pity on the boy, Lucrèce decides to heal him of his madness and with this in mind she invites him for a working holiday on her farm. Instead, she falls in love with the cherub. At a time, her young lover grows so jealous of her that he attempts suicide. The mature actress then understands that their love story is going nowhere. She will remain alone while François will forget her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-12-15
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Children of Paradise
Overview: In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: pretentious actor Frederick, conniving thief Lacenaire, and Count Edouard of Montray.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-03-15
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Beating Heart
Overview: Tells the story of a young woman escaping from reform school who tries to steal a foreign ambassador's watch but ends up falling in love with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-02-01
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Miquette and Her Mother
Overview: The irresistible rise of a young provincial, Miquette, who, having risen to Paris, will experience success in the theater and love in Hollywood with a very attractive tennis player.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-03-23
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Who Killed Santa Claus?
Overview: A village in the French Alps is rocked by a series of crimes, including the theft of a sacred ring and the murder of a man dressed as Père Noël (Father Christmas).
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-10-16
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Love Songs
Overview: To protect the honor of a married lady, a grammar professor pretends to be a singing teacher and falls in love with the real professor's daughter.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1930-11-21
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Last Love
Overview: Hélène has an affair with Alain for ten years, but does not want to divorce her husband. Alain receives one letter from a girl Michelle one day. Hélène, who is very jealous, receives that letter by chance and interprets it incorrectly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-02-06
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The Last Vacation
Overview: A schoolboy remembers his last holiday in the big house of his family in the country, before it was sold.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-03-24
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Le Trésor des Pieds-Nickelés
Overview: Although suspected and hunted down by policeman Sherlock Coco and inspector Hector, the Pieds Nickelés (Croquignol, Filochard and Ribouldingue) manage to save the legacy of Monsieur Miradoux, who will be very grateful to them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-03-08
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The Cupboard Was Bare
Overview: The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The driver, not wishing to be bothered by a police interrogation, hides her corpse in a cupboard before notifying Alfred. But the van is stolen. Alfred, being the heir of a rich lady, begins a frantic search to locate the missing van and the cupboard because one can't claim an inheritance if there is no 'corpus delecti.' In his search, he gets caught up in an underworld web and finds the body of a murdered gangster in his room. He finally locates the cupboard but promptly loses it again. But, wait, it isn't "finis' time, yet.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-10-29
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When Love Is Over
Overview: An art historian has an affair with a young saleslady while his disaffected wife cheats on him in turn.Both illicit relationships end in little boys being born around the same time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1931-12-04
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Le Voleur
Overview: A woman steals to have enough money to please her husband. Her nephew, madly in love with her, reports this to a detective who catches her red handed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-12-01
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