Paul Escoffier
Also Known As: Adolphe Jean-Marie Escoffier
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Cahors, France
Birthday: June 20, 1875
Deathday: July 19, 1941
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Pépé le Moko
Overview: Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.
Genres: Drama Crime Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-01-28
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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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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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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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The Slump Is Over
Overview: A provincial tour fails without money in an abandoned theater in the capital and puts on a review under the sign of optimism.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-10-05
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The Imperial Road
Overview: An indigenous uprising in British controlled Iraq threatens the route to India, as a lobe triangle develops among the expatriates.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-02-15
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Hélène
Overview: Helene is based on Helene Wilfur, a novel by Vicki (Grand Hotel) Baum. Madeleine Renaud essays the title role, a young medical student in love with aspiring musician Pierre Regnier (Jean-Lous Barrault). Pierre's father, a noted surgeon, puts pressure on his son to give up music in favor of medicine. Unable to withstand his father's remonstrations, Pierre kills himself, prompting the grieving Madeleine to forget all about romance and dedicate her life to the cause of healing others. Wilfur avoids the usual soap-opera goo by offering realistic performances and credible dialogue (the English-language subtitles were composed by erudite film critic Herman G. Weinberg).
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-10-17
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The Drunkard
Overview: A mother of three escapes the death sentence during her poisoning trial. After spending ten years in prison, she finds her children and rebuilds her family.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-02-19
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The Men Without Names
Overview: The life in Morocco of an officer of the Foreign Legion, Colonel de Joyeuse.
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-12-01
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Rasputin
Overview: Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-28
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Les Filles du Rhône
Overview: Frédérique, married to a brutal and vile being who dies tragically during a duel with the trident, falls in love with Jean, the fiancé of her younger sister Margarido. Both fight against their passion, to see it finally flourish because, to ensure their happiness, Margarido who has guessed everything, does not hesitate to sacrifice himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-20
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Bargekeepers Daughter
Overview: Prince Sacha studies in Paris and cares more for Marianne than about Silistrie, the country his family was exiled from. But Chautard, a French financier, who has business there (the country is rich in oil), wouldn't mind a little political stability. So why not restore the ancient royal family to the throne? But is Prince Sacha up to his role ? And will Marianne make a suitable princess?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-11
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Marked Girls
Overview: Juliette, an innocent woman, is wrongly sentenced to prison for attempted murder. After her release, she married an industrialist to whom she did not speak of her tumultuous past. But, victim of a rampant blackmail, she cannot continue to hide her prison past and the scandal breaks out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-12
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Katia
Overview: In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic girl from the provinces, unruly in character. He falls in love with her and tries to see her again.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-07
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Hangman's Noose
Overview: In England, a boxer is sentenced to death for a murder he does not seem to have committed.... Anthony Gethryn, who has just resigned from the police on the occasion of his marriage, has three days left to find the real killer.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-11-23
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Two Women
Overview: Considering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not allow her to turn to another man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-05-16
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Fort Dolorès
Overview: Several men of different nationalities have decided to free themselves from the clutches of women and have vowed to help each other in case one of them might relapse. They find shelter in a hacienda on the pampas. They believe they are now safe from the evil influence of the fair sex. Unfortunately there is a farm nearby in which... a gorgeous woman is said to live. Great principles are short-lived, as they soon realize: lust, jealousy and hate set in at once.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-01
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Visages de femmes
Overview: Georges Legrand is a young unscrupulous reveler. He seduces Fred, a woman doctor before shamelessly dumping her for Aline Ribourg, a tennis player. Soon fed up with his new conquest, he returns to Fred. But Aline is pregnant from him. Showing an admirable sense of self-sacrifice, Fred manages to persuade Georges to marry Aline.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-08
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Fromont Young and Risler Elder
Overview: An ambitious and perverse adventurer sows dissension and ruin in a wealthy family of industrialists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-10-08
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The Path of Honor
Overview: Two twin brothers have joined the army, Paul by vocation is a lieutenant of spahis and Georges to escape the police is a sergeant in the Foreign Legion. A snitch having informed the police of Georges' presence at the Legion, he must leave. In Casablanca, Paul helps his brother escape the police by taking his identity to allow him to regain his honor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-12-15
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Face au destin
Overview: Two modest young employees, Jean and Madeleine, dream of leading the way, but the experience turns out badly. Madeleine marries a German aristocrat who turns out to be a spy, and finds Jean who had joined the Legion.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-09-17
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The Man Who Seeks the Truth
Overview: Jean Vernet, an unselfish banker, feels fine : he has a charming mistress, Jacqueline ; a godson, Fernand, that he took in when he was a child and that he has brought up and cherished ever since ; a faithful friend, Lamblin ; and an adorable dog. But things are not so rosy as they look. Adrienne, Jean's sister, hates Jacqueline and is prepared to do everything to separate the couple. Worse, it looks as though Fernand has betrayed his godfather by sleeping with Jacqueline. To know more about those around him, Jean, a modern Volpone, decides to fake deafness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-03-20
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The Reign of Terror
Overview: The scene takes place in Paris in March 1793 during the Reign of Terror. The Knight of Maison-Rouge, posing as Citizen Morand, is organizing the escape of Queen Marie-Antoinette. He is assisted in his undertaking by Dixmer, a master tanner who passes himself off as an ardent revolutionary and his wife Geneviève, who also happens to be the Knight's sister. While on mission with her brother, she is saved from arrest thanks to the intervention of Lieutenant Maurice Lindey. Geneviève, who is married without love to Dixmer, falls for the young man, who requites her love. A tunnel is dug between a house rented by Dixmer and the Tower of the Temple but the various attempts to rescue the queen attempts fail. Marie-Antoinette risks the guillotine/ Moreover, Lindey finds himself involved in the plot...
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1914-02-27
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Germinal
Overview: Based on Emile Zola's novel, an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-10-03
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The Guilty One
Overview: Directed by René Leprince.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1911-01-02
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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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The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Overview: Silent mystery
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1913-04-11
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The End of the Day
Overview: Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-03-24
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Culprit
Overview: A man from a wealthy family falls in love with a florist, but the lover has to go to war and to leave his darling crying... and giving birth to a child.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-01-21
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Un soir au cocktail's bar
Overview: From 6 P.M. to 8 P.M., in a documentary fashion, the film shows different character types sitting, meeting, and working at a cocktail's bar.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1929-05-10
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