Georges Marchal
Also Known As: Жорж Маршаль
Biography: Georges Marchal was one of the most important lead actors in French cinema in the '50s, together with Jean Marais. He was the lead in various costume dramas and swashbuckling films before taking part in some of the films of Luis Buñuel, a close friend of his
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
Birthday: January 10, 1920
Deathday: November 28, 1997
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Belle de Jour
Overview: Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-05-24
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A Captain's Honor
Overview: During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the methods of Captain Caron, killed in action in 1957. The widow of the captain, Patricia, decided to file a defamation suit.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-12-29
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The Island of Thirty Coffins
Overview: The story takes place in 1917. Véronique is a young woman of 35 years, nurse at the military hospital of Besançon. She suddenly learns of the murder of her husband, the mysterious Count Vorski, whom she has not seen for fourteen years. Her research will also lead her to the track of her father and son whom she believed to have died in a shipwreck, already a long time ago. From clue to clue, here we are in Brittany, on this island with a name so ill-fitting... Brutal deaths, enigmatic words written... by whom? A frightening prophecy, the superstitious terror of the island's inhabitants, and suddenly, Veronica d'Hergemont can no longer leave this island. She's stuck alone. Almost alone...
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-09-21
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Bethsabée
Overview: Danielle Darrieux stars as Arabella Delvaire in this baroque adaptation of Pierre Benoit's novel Bethshabee. Arabella is a woman of the world who arrives at a remote Foreign Legion outpost for a rendezvous with her current lover, Captain Duveuil. It so happens that one of Arabella's previous amours, Captain Somerville (Paul Meurisse), is also serving at the same post. So much for joining the Foreign Legion to forget. A climactic knife duel "solves" the film's various plot complications. Despite its Foreign Legion background, Bethsabee has next to no action, which must have made things difficult when the film was distributed to the U.S.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-11-21
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The Milky Way
Overview: Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-02-28
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Death in the Garden
Overview: In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local government undertakes a violent crackdown.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-09-21
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La Soupe à la grimace
Overview: Frank Keany is the chief engineer of a uranium mine located under the overwhelming sun of New Mexico and owned by a woman, Moira Warden. She suspects her ex-husband want to take possession of the mine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-12-12
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The Colossus of Rhodes
Overview: While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to overthrow the tyrannical king, one from Rhodian patriots and the other from sinister Phoenician agents.
Genres: Adventure Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-06-15
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Summer Light
Overview: A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragicomic tapestry about an obsessive love pentangle, whose principals range from an artist to a hotel manager to a dam worker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-03-26
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Thirst of Men
Overview: The establishment of a French family who came to cultivate vines in Algeria.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-03-31
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Vautrin the Thief
Overview: A famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin, escapes from prison. Chance makes him meet Lucien de Rubempré, an impetuous and eternal lover who, when he is dismissed, collapses. Moved by this fragility, he takes him under his wing, and will do everything possible to ensure that his creature reaches happiness, even if it means imagining the worst shenanigans and other scams, with the help of a band of clever villains.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-12-13
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At the Grand Balcony
Overview: World War I aviator Carbot attempts to establish a commercial airline after the war, for the purpose of delivering the mail to the outermost regions of France.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-11-30
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The Battle of Austerlitz
Overview: Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-06-17
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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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Cinq-Mars
Overview: In the 17th century, under Louis XIII, the policy of Cardinal de Richelieu aimed at the definitive establishment of a monarchic power, and gave rise to a struggle against the great feudal lords, who favored a weak central power. Numerous conspiracies against the Cardinal were led by the high nobility. The one led by Henri Coiffier de Ruzé d'Effiat, marquis de Cinq-Mars, was the last and most famous of them.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-16
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L'homme qui joue avec le feu
Overview: A do gooder hopes to cure potential romantic partners of what he considers the disease of love, by putting them up in a property and having them watched over.Things do not turn out according to his plan.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-08-05
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Her First Affair
Overview: Micheline Chevassu is a young, naive woman living in an orphanage. Through classified ads, she has a date with an unknown man. She escapes from the orphanage to go to it, dreaming of the Prince Charming. But comes Nicolas Rougemont, an unattractive middle-aged man... He pretends not to be the author of the letters, who could not come...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-08-14
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Sign of the Gladiator
Overview: Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops, but she makes a big mistake when she falls in love with enemy officer Marco Valerio.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1959-03-05
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Blondine
Overview: Blondine, the daughter of a poor fisherman, marries the Prince of the Mountain. Brune, her sister, envies Blondine her happiness and tells her that a secret lies hidden in her husband's name. Blondine tries to discover it but, before she does, the Prince is imprisoned by an ogre. Blondine must face goblins, imps, and the water djinni before she can deliver her captive Prince.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-05-16
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The Figurehead
Overview: At sea, sailors have got to make do with what they have. François is in love with.... the figurehead, the bust of a gorgeous woman.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-06-16
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The Passenger
Overview: When her godmother dies, Nicole's happiness collapses and her fiancé leaves her because she is ruined.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-11-04
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The Unexpected Voyager
Overview: Marc, a photographer, works out of love to help Dany, a car thief, to get back on the right track: he offers her to work with him, as a model. But the former accomplices of the young woman compromise this action.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-01-13
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Jupiter
Overview: A provincial chemist's daughter is to marry her cousin Gilbert.The day before he arrives, a stranger, who has just escaped from an insane asylum, claims he is the famous cousin.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-08-27
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Winter Holidays
Overview: Alberto Moretti arrives in Cortina D'Ampezzo, with daughter Marcella,who has just won a TV contest, the prize of which is a free stay in a luxury hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-06-18
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The Prettiest Sin in the World
Overview: Zoé, a pretty penniless girl, decides on the advice of her neighbor to embark on gallantry. After a brief failure, she meets a young boy, Jacques Lebreton who is about to get married. After causing the failure of this arranged marriage, she will have to play the role of wife of Jacques with his family, until the arrival of the uncle from America.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-08-29
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The Warrior and the Slave Girl
Overview: Marcus Numidius, a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators' revolt, captures the rebels' popular leader, Aselepius. Princess Amira, with ambitions of being Queen and jealous of Asclepius' popularity, plans his death in the arena by substituting a lion for his human opponent
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1958-10-12
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Ulysses Against the Son of Hercules
Overview: Ulysses offends the gods so they send Hercules to capture him and bring him to them.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-02-03
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That Is the Dawn
Overview: A generous doctor is aghast that the population of a small island is being oppressed and mistreated, but is seemingly unable to do anything about it, until the arrival of a young woman and the death of one of his friends prompts him into action.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-05-09
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Gigolo
Overview: Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, he fell into misery when he left it. His only asset was his good looks, which did not escape the attention of Madame Alice, a shady woman who persuaded him to pose for pornographic photos meant for lonely aging women. Marceau also served as a gigolo before the war and captivity put an end to this juicy business. Now he wants to start a new life, all the more as ha has found love in the person of a pure young lady named Dominique. But Madame Alice won't hear of it...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-08
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Legions of the Nile
Overview: Octavio secretly sent his consul Curridio to Alexandria in a final attempt to reach peace. In the city, he meets Berenice, a mysterious and beautiful dancer who falls in love. Actually, the dancer is the queen Cleopatra who leads a double life using this name.
Genres: History Drama Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-11-27
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The Dirty Game
Overview: A U.S. intelligence general recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet, French and Italian spies.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-23
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Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
Overview: Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two brothers live in the large house. One is divorced and one has recently remarried, both of them live there with their teenaged and adult children. Though the boys of the household are drawn to Faustine, she grows ever more smitten with the divorced older man...
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-01-12
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Girls of the Night
Overview: In Marseille Father Hermann has created a home for the ex-prostitutes to accommodate a new start to a better life. But it does not take long to arouse the anger of the pimps, and especially of Charly, one of the "bosses" who uses are criminal means to convince those that dare to fight his rules and territory. But several of the girls and women are not afraid of Charly and his gang. They have all been to the bottom of existence. But father Hermann is running out of resources.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-04-16
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Theodora, Slave Empress
Overview: Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes the throne as Empress of Rome. But the divide between nobility and slave is too great. Teodora seeks justice for her people, and revolution and armed conflict erupt in both Byzantium and Rome.
Genres: History Romance Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-07-02
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The Contessa's Secret
Overview: The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-09-26
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Fatal Affair
Overview: Didier's wife is ill, and he does the best he can to take care of her. But he's often absent and he has casual love affairs. But Leone he meets in Bruxelles wants to become his one and only mistress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-04-09
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Check on the King
Overview: Jeanne De Pincret refuses to marry Viscount Haussy De Villefort, having discovered his frivolity. After a duel against the Duke De Montgobert, whom Louis XIV recommended to Jeanne, the king forced De Villefort to marry Jeanne, then sent her to war. Separated from her husband, Jeanne discovers that she loves him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-05-15
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Cherchez la femme
Overview: Barbara Van Looren is the lively, clever daughter of the well-known shipowner. For her, life is a breeze, even when she's kidnapped by Mike Cortez's men. A young journalist, Mercier, who tried to defend her and was forced to follow her, doesn't share her optimism and manages to escape. Barbara is sequestered because her father has caught wind of a diamond deal. If he renounces the customs action, his daughter will be returned to him. Mercier, with the help of a couple of loyal friends, discovers the instigator of the traffic, a member of the board of directors, and finds Barbara, still as petulant as ever.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-08-26
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The Adventures of Gil Blas
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-04-06
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The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue
Overview: Having been warned in dreams that Snow White is in danger, the Seven Dwarfs set out to rescue the princess from the evil Prince of Darkness.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-29
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The Secret Mark of D'Artagnan
Overview: D' Artagnan and Porthos received the order of Richelieu, which protrudes as a powerful figure of the French church, a plot against the King of France Louis XIII. uncover. Disguised as a monk enters D' Artagnan the Church, in which the conspirators act. D' Artagnan, however, exposee and can only escape with the help of Porthos . Meanwhile the Duke of Montresant tried to force his ward to overwrite all their possessions to him, so that he can support the Flemish troops. The Duchess refused and is sent with her maid to Brescon. D' Artagnan and Porthos decide to follow the women…
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-08-24
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Girl Merchants
Overview: A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp for women by a sadistic gangster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-09-13
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The Dam on the Yellow River
Overview: Anti-Communist propaganda film, in which the victory of Mao Tse-Tung's People's Liberation Army is seen through the eyes of an American journalist reporting from the Nationalists' side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-03-25
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When Will it Strike Noon
Overview: The small South American republic of Guadalarma is under the rule of despot Don Salvador, surrounded by a civil guard, his mistress (La Morenita), his henchman (Don Ramón) and the fortress governor (the venal Don Gaspar). One morning, the city's French jeweler Michel Dumartin receives a visit from a client named José Llanos, one of the regime's fiercest opponents. Llanos is soon denounced and shot dead by Salvador's men. At the same time, Dumartin was accused of complicity with the rebels. Arrested and imprisoned in the fortress, he is ripe for the death penalty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-05-06
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Il naufrago del Pacifico
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-09-30
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The Dacians
Overview: The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to keep the integrity of his people. His own son, Cotyso, is given to the god Zamolxis to the dismay of the King and his daughter Meda. Septimius Severus, a young Roman devoted to his adopted country, must make the choice between his blood origins and the culture he was introduced to.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 1967-05-31
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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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Closet Children
Overview: A young man who seems lost, Nicolas, has an appointment with her sister Juliette. They are bound by a heavy childhood secret: their mother committed suicide when their father had instructed Nicolas to keep it. Since the father chased him and forbade Juliette to see him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-10-12
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Dawn Devils
Overview: A lieutenant, at the head of a commando ready to land in France, finds among his men a maquisard who had tried to kill him in the past.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-11-20
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The Last Days of Pompeii
Overview: In Pompeii in the year 79, Lycias and Helen fall in love. Helen's guardian, the high priest of Isis, wants to separate them. To do so, he tries to make Lycias drink a love potion, but a young slave threatens to reveal everything. The high priest, unable to silence her, kills her and arranges to have Lycias accused...
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-03-02
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The Man Who Laughs
Overview: A three part film, based on the novel of the same title by Victor Hugo, telling of the adventures of two children, a blind girl and a badly scared boy, who are rescued and looked after by a vagabond.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-11-08
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The French Way
Overview: Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-06-27
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The Affairs of Messalina
Overview: A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress Messalina, the wife of the Roman Emperor Claudius, and her eventual hounding to death.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-12-04
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Torrents
Overview: Sigrid and Yann are cousins, and in love with each other. A medical student, Jean marries Léna, who gives him a child, but he dies accidentally. Desperate, Yann finds Sigrid in their childhood home in Savoy. Afraid of seeing their passion revive, he decides to leave with Léna for Africa.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-12-10
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Napoléon II, the Eagle
Overview: The story of Napoleon 1st's long-awaited son, born in 1911. He spent his childhood in the Tuileries, before being separated from his father and taken in and raised by his grandfather, Emperor Francis, who made him an Austrian prince.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-01
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Wild Cats on the Beach
Overview: Various short stories. Giovanna arrives from Rome with her husband Alberto for a film audition. The journalist Gino comes to interview the great industrial Signore Carsoli. The famous American actress Rita is in search of her umpteenth husband. Leopoldo and Angelina from Sicily are on vacation in Rome where they meet the street smart Nicola.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1959-05-05
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The Count of Bragelonne
Overview: Raoul de Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-12-09
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Paméla
Overview: During the Directory, a handful of royalists tried to get the Dauphin Louis XVII to escape from the Temple.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-05-02
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Prisoner of the Jungle
Overview: The survivors of a forced landing progress in a hostile African bush.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-02-24
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Le lys dans la vallée
Overview: Félix de Vandenesse's youthful love for the beautiful, inaccessible Madame de Mortsauf, who devotes her life to a half-mad husband and two fragile children. Madame de Mortsauf maintains a friendly, tender relationship. But when she learns of the young man's affair with an Englishwoman, she dies of jealousy and regret.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-05-16
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Charter 2020
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-04-19
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The Seventh Door
Overview: An old man about to die gives all his fortune to a young beggar he meets in an Arabian town. He takes him to his house (now the poor man's property) and he strongly advises him not to open one of the doors, the seventh door. "I could throw the key into the sea" says the young lad" No use, you'd dive to get it back". The young man is curious and he cannot resist temptation: he opens the forbidden door. A strange world is waiting for him where a girl, Leila, will be his guide .
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-09-27
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Sept hommes en enfer
Overview: As the outbreak of the Third World War commences, government members of France start hiding in a bunker.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-01-01
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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 Four-Poster Bed
Overview: In his prison cell, the composer Remi Bonvent composed an opera, The columns bed. The director of the prison, Porey Cave, succeeds made believe he is the author of this work. The death of the two protagonists will prevent the discovery of the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-07-09
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Her First Affair
Overview: Micheline Chevassu is a young, naive woman living in an orphanage. Through classified ads, she has a date with an unknown man. She escapes from the orphanage to go to it, dreaming of the Prince Charming. But comes Nicolas Rougemont, an unattractive middle-aged man... He pretends not to be the author of the letters, who could not come...
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-08-14
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Dix-huit heures d'escale
Overview: Out of love for a beautiful passenger he met on a crossing, journalist Robert Vitrac agrees to deliver a letter to a man named Pablo. A dangerous mission, since the beautiful Manuela has had in her possession the proceeds of a robbery, which she must forward to the fence. In this game, Vitrac would lose his honor and perhaps his life if Inspector Berio's friendship didn't protect him. Manuela, who seemed sincerely in love with the journalist, falls victim to the bandits.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-05-27
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