Philippe Richard
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint-Etienne, Loire, Rhône-Alpes, France
Birthday: June 24, 1891
Deathday: December 24, 1973
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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Savage Brigade
Overview: The duel between a Czarist general and a lieutenant, over the general's wife, is postponed with war approaching. Years later, the rivals meet again but the general realizes his wife has been faithful to him after all.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-04-26
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The Devil Who Limped
Overview: The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Constitutional Monarchy. Its title comes from one of the main historical nicknames for Talleyrand, that he shares with demon king Asmodeus and English poet Lord Byron.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-07-11
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Fantômas
Overview: The Marquise de Langrune invites her friends at her castle in Beaulieu. Among them is Lord Beltham who also came to bring her a significant sum of money. The mysterious Fantômas kills the Marquise during the night. Inspector Juve is sent on his trail.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-05-20
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Danger in the Middle East
Overview: A criminal making plans to pull off one big score before he retires, comes into possession of secret papers worth a fortune, but dies while attempting the hit. His wife takes those papers for herself, while discovering there are rival criminals, a powerful organization and a sleazy blackmailer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-09-02
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Les Amours de Pergolese
Overview: In Italy, in 1736, Pergolese is in love with Maria. But Maria's brother, Count Raniero, forbids his sister to marry a modest composer. Pergolese kidnaps the young girl, but they are caught. Maria is locked up in her castle while Pergolese dies in the convent that takes him in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-02-24
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La merveilleuse tragédie de Lourdes
Overview: A professor of philosophy, an atheist, converts to Catholicism following a miracle: his daughter, whose leg must be amputated, is taken to Lourdes by her very religious fiancé, and is cured there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-10-06
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L'Agonie des aigles
Overview: Under the regime of Louis XVIII. Years after Waterloo, Napoleon's loyal officers live in retirement on half-pay. Useless and idle, they have lost their prestige and keep meeting in the hope of the Emperor’s return. When Napoleon dies, they decide to plot the rise to power of Napoleon II.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-11-24
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Le Scandale
Overview: A woman suffers ill repute when she deserts her husband for a fling with an adventurer and gives the lover jewelry to pay the hotel bill. Will the husband be understanding and forgive her?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-02-03
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The Accomplice
Overview: A young woman loves a thief and follows him in all his bad tricks. Tired of this life, she leaves him the day she meets a young man with whom she falls in love. But she learns that he is a policeman and desperate, tries to commit suicide.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-07-14
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La cinquième empreinte
Overview: Jacques de Nisson, a rich man, has a new mistress, Lucie Cavelier. Which does not prevent him from courting Florence, the wife of his lawyer friend Forestier. One day, Jacques is found murdered and chief-inspector Candély is sent on the spot to investigate. Jean, the victim's butler, Lucie as well as Florence are suspected in turns but the real murderer is finally identified thanks to his fingerprints.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1934-07-13
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Gypsy Baron
Overview: An Hungarian young man hides his real identity as baron Barinkay until he returns to his birthplace and claims the family properties, now occupied by a clumsy pig dealer who has a beautiful daughter. The gypsy girl is not bad looking either, and the gypsies are willing to help him recover his home and fortune. French version of Der Zigeunerbaron based on the Strauss operetta, filmed at the same time with a different cast except for Wohlbrück.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-07-05
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Sous la Terreur
Overview: During the French Revolution in 1793, a member of the Convention, seduced by the Comtesse de Beaulieu, helps her to discover the truth about the relationship between Agnès de Fitz-James and the count who was guillotined.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-22
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L'Argent
Overview: Ruined by his competitor, the banker Saccard decides to set up a new business.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-05-25
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In the Service of the Tsar
Overview: At the turn of the last century, a beautiful spy takes advantage of a handsome officer to get across the Russian border without her passport. They fall in love. But the Grand Duke also falls in love with the young woman, who has in fact been assigned to kill him. A jealous mistress kills the spy before she can commit the crime.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-11-13
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27, rue de la Paix
Overview: A young woman wishing to divorce, promises money to her husband's ex-mistress to obtain her testimony on her behalf. But the same evening, the corpse of the young woman is found in the Seine. Everything seems to confirm the husband's guilt, however a journalist disappears with the evidence.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-11-11
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Le Club des Aristocrates
Overview: Serge loves living it up but painting the town red has a price... too high for him! What to do then? Alfred, his servant and former pickpocket, has the solution : steal of course! No sooner said than done ! Or rather: No sooner said than tried... For when Serge, assisted by his mistress Gloriane acting as bait, he tries to rob a jeweler on the Place Vendôme of a precious diamond bracelet, he realizes that a gang of thieves have preceded him. Later on, he will learn that the boss of the gang is a Polish noblewoman, Countess Waldapowska.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-09-02
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Nitchevo
Overview: A commander suspects his wife of infidelity, when she turns to a subordinate officer to help her against someone threatening to blackmail her about her troubled past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-12-18
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Port-Arthur
Overview: French-language remake of Port Arthur (1936): espionage, action and romance in the Russo-Japanese War, as the conflict threatens Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky and his Japanese wife Youki.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-12-11
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Social Police
Overview: For years now, Chief inspector Gustave Picard has been trying to bring down Salviati, the dreadful leader of a drug-selling gang. Lucienne Préville, an informer who works for him, has infiltrated the gang but her position is dangerous. On the other hand, Scoppa, Salviati's former right-hand man, has started challenging his former boss. Will Salviati, the brutal public enemy, clear off at last?
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-04-09
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The Citadel of Silence
Overview: During the students ' rebellion against Nicholas the Second in Russia, Viana tries to kill the governor but it's her lover who is arrested and sent to a sinister fortress : hence the title. To help the prisoner,Vania marries the officer who commands the place. There the convicts have really a bad time, but Vania manages to communicate with her dear captive. But beware of informers.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-06-03
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Alibi
Overview: Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool Callas, the police officer who investigates the murder. He hires one of his fellow officers in order to seduce Helene.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-12-22
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The Woman at the End of the World
Overview: A sailor falls in love with an innkeeper on a lost island.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-01-19
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The West
Overview: The film portrays the relationship between a female Moroccan student, who has been forced to leave her studies at the Sorbonne for financial reasons and works as a dancer in a Paris nightclub, and a French naval officer. However, on returning to Casablanca she is tricked into believing that he had the led attack on her village that wiped out her family. She begins to plot her revenge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-02-16
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L'ange que j'ai vendu
Overview: Baronski has had enough of being a small-time merchant and decides, aided by his daughter Esther, to try his hand at big business. Why not be a film producer for instance? But it is easier said than done and he is soon relieved of 100,000 francs by a crook. Undaunted, he produces a film written by a young scriptwriter, Maurice Rogier, discovered by his daughter but does not believe it could become a success. Esther, for her part, decides to have "L'ange que j'ai vendu" shown in a local movie theater and the film immediately proves a hit. All is well that ends well, Esther marrying Maurice into the bargain.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-06-08
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Wicked Duchess
Overview: Edwige Feuillère and Pierre Richard-Willm star in director Jacques de Baroncelli's adaptation of the Balzac novella The Duchesse de Langeais, which tells the tale of a Parisian socialite who is romantically pursued by a Napoleonic war hero. With a screenplay by Jean Giraudoux.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-03-27
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Café de Paris
Overview: This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed journalist and extortionist who is killed at his table in the cafe. Though the prime suspects are gathered together( including his wife and her lover, the gun-runner, the creditor, and a playboy) and all of them have motives, none of them did it. So whodunit?
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-09-28
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Adrienne Lecouvreur
Overview: Adrienne Lecouvreur is an acclaimed actress who falls in love with Polish prince Maurice de Saxe, only to be poisoned by a jealous rival while Maurice is away at war. The film was a co-production between the two countries, and was made at UFA's Berlin Studios. It was based on the 1849 play Adrienne Lecouvreur by Eugène Scribe and Ernest Legouvé about the life of the eighteenth century actress Adrienne Lecouvreur.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-28
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Monsieur Hector
Overview: In a palace in Nice, a modest valet is confused with his master, a viscount chased by a man-eater.
Genres: Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-12-13
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Le Prince Bouboule
Overview: Bouboule is a taxi driver. A Russian princess wishing to acquire French nationality offers to marry her to divorce a few months later. After incredible adventures, Bouboule manages to save the inheritance of his wife, divorces and finds his sweet Lucette.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-01-11
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The Law of Spring
Overview: The children born from a first marriage of a widower and a widower who have remarried do not get along. Frequent quarrels break out in the household which finally finds calm thanks to the presence of a new little girl.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-05-20
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Vie privée
Overview: Beautiful and adored by the public, the great actress Florence once faulted with Remi, a disreputable individual. A little girl was born who lives in the countryside. Dorcier, the director, would like to marry Florence and wonders about her private life and her past existence. A jealous rival unleashes slander.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-05-29
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Le valet maître
Overview: Some, like Ravier de l'Orne are born... masters, but ,like him, do not live up to their rank. Others, like Gustave Morillon, are... born masters, even if, like him, they are valets. Morillon will indeed prove better at bridge than his master and will eventually win the affection of Antonia, a lively foreigner Ravier also coveted.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-10-30
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La Grande Marnière
Overview: A rich peasant, Carvajan, seeks revenge on the castellan, Clairefont, with whom he had a serious conflict. Their respective children, Antoinette and Pascal, meet and fall in love with each other. Robert de Clairefont, Antoinette's brother, unjustly accused of murder, is defended and saved by Pascal. Finally, love, by uniting the son of one to the daughter of the other, will appease souls and reconcile families.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-03-23
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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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Ce n'est pas moi
Overview: Cambo, a banker, has been in trouble since a certain Parizot has tried to extort stocks from him. Following the advice of his friend Quincampoix, Cambo decides to trade places with Bardac, a painter, who happens to be his lookalike. Bardac slips into Cambo's shoes with delight although he does not really live up to his task. But Cambo, who manages to ruin Parizot, makes a 100% profit on the situation. There are of course some misunderstandings when one man is mistaken for the other, notably as concerns Lulu and Geneviève, respectively Bardac's and Cambo's sweethearts, but things finally return to their initial state.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-12-23
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The Emigrant
Overview: Fearing a gangster's vengeance,his moll sails away to South Africa ,where many emigrants intend to work in the mines there.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-01-29
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Paris - New-York
Overview: The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of kidnapping by the girl's snobbish father Rene Alexander. By the time the Normandie reaches New York, however, the "mystery" is solved and all misunderstandings blithely swept away.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-04-03
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L'Homme de la nuit
Overview: A detective uncovers a crime. The suspects are numerous and it will take all the insight of a journalist to discover the culprit.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-08-06
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Triple enquête
Overview: Commissioner Thomas simultaneously investigates the actions of an oil company, a theft and an assassination, and the kidnapping of a child with look-alikes.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-06-30
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Mandrin (1ère époque) Le libérateur
Overview: Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear and without reproach, puts himself out of the law by refusing to obey the local nobility. The public authorities are tearing their hair out because the man is elusive. Helped by his faithful friends and by two women in love, Mandrin will become a legend.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-11-15
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The Woman I Murdered
Overview: During a singles meal, the phone rings. A woman claims a man, Jean-Louis. As a joke, the master of the house replies that he is gone forever and advises him to take the plunge. But she obeys and the suicide appears in the newspapers. Tested, the master of the house takes in the child of the unfortunate woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-11-26
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Piège à hommes
Overview: A gangster, arrested by the police, manages to escape during his transfer to Paris. He takes refuge in the suburbs where his accomplices and his mistress await him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-02-02
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Véronique
Overview: The king orders viscount Florestan to take mademoiselle de Solanges for his wife. But the viscount doesn't know the young lady at all. The latter decides to seduce her future husband by introducing herself to him with the name Veronique...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-01
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Les Aventuriers de l'air
Overview: A pilot, hero of the war, finds himself implicated in spite of himself in a traffic. He is wanted by the police, but his former companions and an air hostess will help him prove his innocence.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-10-20
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Utopia
Overview: Stan and Ollie are marooned on an atoll. This was their last film together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-17
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A Night at a Honeymoon
Overview: Gaston wants more than anything to marry the naive Simone. But where he is, there is Sidonie, a local singer romantically pursued by the police commissionaire.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-02-08
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Heart of the Casbah
Overview: Maria-Pilar is the new wife of an Algerian gangster whom the police have just arrested. The son of a first marriage arrives in Algiers from which he has remained far away for a long time. His stepmother, charmed by the teenager, gradually experiences a devouring passion, against which Michel tries in vain to fight: he loves a young girl, Sylvie. Mad with jealousy, his stepmother singles him out for his father's vengeance by distorting the truth. Michel does not escape his father's fury, but when the woman's deception becomes known, Maria-Pilar is strangled to death.
Genres: Drama Romance Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-01-24
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Overview: A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-03-27
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Cherished by her concierge
Overview: Eugène, who works for Radio-Europe, is a bit dim-witted. He lives in a block of flats whose caretaker is Madame Motte, and the lady is in love with the young man. Just for laughs, Eugène's friends circulate on the air the rumor that Eugène has inherited millions of francs. It does not take long before a swarm of 'friends' start mixing with him. After a while, considering that the joke has lasted long enough, the jokers reveal the truth. Eugène immediately loses all his 'friends' but not he girl he loves. Even better, Eugène actually inherits a big sum of money. He who laughs last laughs best!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-09
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Beauties of the Night
Overview: A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-11-14
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Le clochard milliardaire
Overview: Olivier Cabrol is an immature young reveler who lives from hand to mouth. One day he inherits a fabulous fortune from an eccentric uncle. But on the one condition to spend a certain amount of time as a tramp. Olivier accepts out of sheer greed but soon finds the experience rewarding. He finds himself as well as new friends (true ones this time) and even love in the person of Colette.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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The Night Is My Kingdom
Overview: After an accident, Raymond has gone blind. His family treats him like a child, but fortunately a nun comes to his rescue. She works in a center where blind people learn to read using the Braille alphabet.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-08-09
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The Happiest of Men
Overview: An industrialist who prefers painting to business is cheated on by his wife with a painter who prefers business to painting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-11-26
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The Sheep Has Five Legs
Overview: A publicity-minded French mayor reunites quintuplets and their earthy father, all six played by Fernandel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-09-24
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The Novel of Werther
Overview: Herr Werther, a new magistrate to the Grand Duchy of Walheim who is a violinist and poet, seems to have fate on his side as he meets and pursues a beautiful local woman, Charlotte. But as Werther sets to propose marriage, Charlotte reluctantly tells him she has been promised to another, Werther's superior, Judge Hochstätten. Werther and Charlotte decide to keep their romance from the judge and each descends into depression. Will they be able to keep their feelings a secret?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-14
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Les Lumières du soir
Overview: A young opera dancer tries to help her mother financially by performing in a dubious cabaret.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-11-07
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Eau vive
Overview: The inhabitants of a poor village want to sell their houses and their land. One day, a woman breaks down in her car while crossing the village. Helped by the villagers, she explains to them the development that water could give to the village
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-01
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
Overview: Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-02-10
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The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Overview: Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
Genres: Drama Music History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-01-15
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Yoshiwara
Overview: Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in the Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer, and a rickshaw man.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-06-23
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The Phantom Wagon
Overview: French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he's wrought when he dies on New Year's Eve and is collected by Death in his carriage.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-09-07
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La cage aux souris
Overview: During the Occupation, a boarding school in Moulins was placed under the rule of a headmistress committed to collaboration. It is within these walls that Michel, Arthur and Franck, escaped prisoners seeking to cross the demarcation line, find themselves stranded. Three boarders, Manouche, Jo and La Tigresse, discreetly devote themselves to them. Until the day when, aware of the danger, they alert the Resistance through the intermediary of a warden. The three men cross into the free zone, and Michel promises to find Manouche.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-10-11
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Sidi-Bel-Abbès
Overview: Alain, a doctor, has had his life turned upside down by a family tragedy. To forget, Alain joins the Foreign Legion. With the support of his captain, he wins the trust of the caïd Ben Hadj, heals and saves the latter's son, and falls in love with Kadidja, whom the caïd has entrusted to his care. Ben Hadj fights against the rebels, but sees his friend Alain die. Kadidja emerges to avenge him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-04-30
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Le Tunnel
Overview: An engineer is hired to plan and oversee the construction of a undersea tunnel between Europe and the US. However, certain interests don't want to see the tunnel built and use every means at their disposal, including sabotage and murder, to stop its construction. French-language version of the 1933 German DER TUNNEL, q.v.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-12-15
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From Mayerling to Sarajevo
Overview: Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, is kept absent from the royal court due to his dangerous political ideas. Sent on a tour of inspections and inaugurations, he falls in love with Countess Sophie Chotek.
Genres: Romance History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-10-10
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Schubert's Serenade
Overview: Serenade represented the return to the screen of international favorite Lillian Harvey after an absence of two years. Based loosely on the life of composer Franz Schubert, the film casts Bernard Lancret as Schubert, Harvey as his dancer sweetheart, and Louis Jouvet as a possessive Baron who has his own designs on our heroine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-02-28
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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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Mister Flow
Overview: While still behind bars, a crook manages several schemes including one that almost gets his penniless young lawyer into trouble.The crook's mistress, married to a rich man, then becomes attracted to the lawyer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1936-12-02
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Turandot, princesse de Chine
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-02-14
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Barcarolle
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1935-03-26
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Conflit
Overview: Claire Buisson becomes enamored with Gerard and soon afterwords she becomes pregnant. Gerard advises her to abort the child but, at the last moment, Claire decides to keep her child and leaves for her sister's place in the province.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-21
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La dame de Monsoreau
Overview: The film based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Duma, is concerned with fraternal royal strife at the court of Henri III. Tragically caught between the millstones of history are the gallant Count de Bussy and the woman he adores, la Dame de Monsoreau.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1923-04-26
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When You Read This Letter
Overview: After a novice nun learns of the sudden death of her parents, she leaves the convent to manage the family business and look after her teenage sister. Both of them fall prey to a womanizing mechanic with psychopathic tendencies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-07-26
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It's in the Bag
Overview: Benjamin Déboisé, a hatter, his salesman and a young man want to kidnap an American millionaire, put him in a bag and hold him to ransom. But they make a mistake: the fellow they find in the bag is not the millionaire himself, but his son...!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1932-11-25
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The Call of Destiny
Overview: Young conductor Roberto Lombardini has never known his father who is actually a former musician, a failed piano player who has sunk into alcoholism.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-02-15
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Gibraltar
Overview: A British officer poses as a traitor in order to infiltrate a team of terrorists who are sabotaging ships, while a seductive cabaret dancer is working for the mysterious genius who runs the enemy spy ring.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-04-01
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Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
Overview: The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.
Genres: Comedy Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-12-02
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Mandrin (2ème époque) La Tragédie d'un siècle
Overview: Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear and without reproach, puts himself out of the law by refusing to obey the local nobility. The public authorities are tearing their hair out because the man is elusive. Helped by his faithful friends and by two women in love, Mandrin will become a legend.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-04-07
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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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Koenigsmark
Overview: A young French, Vignerte, is hired in the court of Lautenberg, an imaginary land, as the young Prince's private teacher and as the Grand Duchess' reader.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-04-04
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