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| The House | Louis Compiegne | 1970-08-26 | Former professor of natural history, Louis Compiegne lives in retirement in a big house, with Pascal, his faithful servant. The arrival of a young Ame… |
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| La Chienne | Maurice Legrand | 1931-11-20 | Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, “Lulu”, and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love,… |
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| Panic | Monsieur Hire | 1947-01-15 | Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he fee… |
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| L’Atalante | Le père Jules | 1934-04-24 | Capricious small-town girl Juliette and barge captain Jean marry after a whirlwind courtship, and she comes to live aboard his boat, L’Atalante. As th… |
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| The Two of Us | Pépé | 1967-03-08 | A story of the caring friendship formed between a crusty, old anti-Semite and an eight-year-old Jewish boy who goes to live with him during World War … |
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| Cocoanut | Josserand | 1939-02-17 | A small town gentleman learns that his prim and proper wife was once a showgirl, and that, even worse, he had enjoyed a one night stand with her in th… |
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| Poison | Paul Louis Victor Braconnier | 1951-11-30 | Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each other without risk. After listening to a radio show, Pau… |
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| Femmes de Paris | Professeur Charles Buisson | 1953-05-17 | … |
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| Three Make a Pair | Commissaire Bernard | 1957-04-10 | Jojo’s ambition is to become a gangster, but to be admitted into a gang he has to prove himself by committing a daring act. To that end, he kills so… |
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| Shop Girls of Paris | Baudu | 1943-07-20 | The struggles of a small business owner come to light in this film by director André Cayatte. The proprietor of a fabric shop, M. Baudu (Michel Simon… |
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| Boudu Saved from Drowning | Priape Boudu | 1932-11-11 | Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and … |
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| The Virtuous Scoundrel | Albert et Alain Ménard-Lacoste | 1953-02-18 | La Vie d’un honnête homme English: The Virtuous Scoundrel, is a French comedy drama film from 1953, directed by Sacha Guitry, written by Sacha Guitry… |
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| Mister Taxi | Pierre Verger | 1952-09-03 | An honest taxi driver gets into trouble by looking for a customer who left her purse full of cash in her vehicle…. |
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| The Beauty of the Devil | Mephistopheles / Elderly Henri Faust | 1950-03-17 | Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at the ravages of old age … whereupon Mephistopheles… |
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| Strange Desire of Mr. Bard | Auguste Bard | 1954-01-04 | A terminally ill Mr. Bard, a casino bus driver forced to quit his job, miraculously wins a fortune playing roulette. Instantly becoming a millionaire,… |
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| The Impossible Mr. Pipelet | Maurice Martin, concierge d’immeuble | 1955-06-26 | A story about a simple old man with a lot of love for his only daughter. She falls in love with a doctor’s son and he don’t understand why…… |
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| Hôtel des Invalides | Récitant / Narrator (voice) | 1952-12-31 | A tour of the Hotel des Invalides, and more particularly of the Army Museum and the Saint Louis Chapel. From François I’s armor to Guynemer’s airplan… |
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| Mother Love | Michel Quercy | 1938-11-03 | Gilbert Quercy, 18, tried to commit suicide after a heartache. At the hospital, three women try to cheer him up : the three former wives of his father… |
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| Comedy of Happiness | Monsieur Jourdain | 1940-12-23 | Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him co… |
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| Blanche | Master | 1972-01-26 | Blanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land. Every man is in love with her, including the King and his … |
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| The Crowned Fish Tavern | Captain Palmer | 1947-09-19 | Captain Palmer’s daughter, Maria, is neglected by her husband, the cynical Leo, who lives with the beautiful Sylvia. To defeat his son-in-law, Palmer … |
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| Full House | Le commissaire Jules Maigret | 1952-10-10 | Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmu Caution and Maigret…. |
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| A Friend Will Come Tonight | Michel Lemaret | 1946-04-09 | Commander Gerard and his band of guerrillas have found the ideal hideout: a nursing home in the Alps where, along with the mentally ill, are also hidi… |
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| Un certain Monsieur Jo | Joseph “Jo” Guardini | 1958-04-16 | Jo Guardini, now the peaceful owner of a charming inn by the banks of the River Marne, once was a dreaded gangster. The respectful citizen does not wa… |
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| The King’s Jester | Rigoletto | 1941-04-01 | Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful da… |
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| A Bum Deal | Boudu | 1935-01-01 | In 1932, Michel Simon plays in “Boudu sauvé des eaux” under the direction of Jean Renoir.Three years later, he was again invited to don the clothes o… |
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| The Girl with the Whip | Le tuteur | 1952-09-25 | The daughter of a notorious smuggler is raised as a boy by her foster mother…. |
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| Mirages | Michel | 1938-01-28 | A star of Les Folies Bergères has to choose between her career and her love for an engineer…. |
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| Mémoires d’un flic | Principal Commissioner Henri Dominique | 1955-12-27 | In Marseille, crime squad captain Dominique fights against racketeers and tries to put a young man back on the right track…. |
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| The Merchant of Venice | Shylock | 1953-07-12 | A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he’s in love with Portia. Portia’s fath… |
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| At the Order of the Czar | Prince de Sayn-Wittgenstein | 1954-06-18 | At the Order of the Czar… |
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| The Marriage Came Tumbling Down | Le vieux Jéricho | 1968-06-07 | Jacques spends his summer vacation with his grandfather, Jericho, in the company of his wife Marie. The malicious ancestor quickly realizes that his g… |
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| Pete the Tender | Pierrot | 1960-11-30 | In this crime drama, Michel Simon is cast as Pierrot, an elderly gangster who does not fit the stereotype — he is soft-hearted. After a petty crimina… |
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| Jean de la Lune | Jean de la Lune | 1931-02-27 | Marceline, the young wife of the florist Jean, can’t help flirting with other men, but her brother Clo-Clo takes the poor husband’s side against his s… |
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| Léopold le bien-aimé | | 1934-02-16 | Away in the colonies for 15 years after his girlfriend has jilted him, Leopold returns to his village to resume involvement with women ,hopefully with… |
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| Beautiful Star | Léon | 1938-11-24 | Meg decides to commit suicide to escape the marriage to which her father intends her. She is saved by Jean-Pierre, another candidate for suicide, and … |
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| La Carcasse et le Tord-cou | Joseph Ferdinand Anselme Midot,aka ‘Le tord-cou’ | 1948-04-30 | La Carcasse, an obtuse peasant, lives with his wife Lucie and his father-in-law Tord-cou. At odds with his son-in-law, the Tord-cou takes it into his … |
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| Le choc en retour | Laverdac | 1937-03-24 | A rich sugar factory manager wants to marry his daughter to an aristocrat, while the young girl is in love with an engineer, employed in a rival compa… |
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| Baleydier | | 1932-01-15 | The attempt of a young hairdresser to act in a serious film with his chosen co star , recognized during the shooting as inept, is mistakenly taken by … |
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| Le bébé de l’escadron | | 1935-12-06 | A young woman is seduced by a soldier whose name she does not know. Pregnant, she asks the colonel to review the squadron in order to recognize him…. |
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| Girls of Paris | | 1936-11-09 | A few colorful characters, with very different social origins and whose destinies are not always glorious, will parade before our eyes, for our greate… |
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| Deputy Eusèbe | Eusèbe Bonbonneau | 1939-03-09 | Eusèbe Bonbonneau, a solicitor’s clerk, learns one day that a candidate bearing his name runs for election as a member of parliament. In fact Frazier… |
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| The Road to Damascus | Caïphe | 1952-12-05 | Saul De Tarse is a Roman soldier who is making rough all over. He arrives at the Golgotha when the apostles remove the cross. He ruthlessly persecutes… |
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| Girl of the Golden West | Butler | 1942-02-09 | … |
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| The Last Turning | Nick Marino | 1939-05-17 | Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and m… |
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| Boys’ School | Lemel, le professeur de dessin | 1938-04-05 | In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective – going to America. One night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them sees… |
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| Extenuating Circumstances | M. Gaetan, “Le Sentencier” | 1939-07-26 | Harsh Parisian judge Gaetan (known as Monsieur Maximum), chafing in the idleness of retirement, leaves for a seaside holiday. But Gabriel the chauffeu… |
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| Vautrin the Thief | Vautrin | 1943-12-13 | A famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin, escapes from prison. Chance makes him meet Lucien… |
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| Not Guilty | Docteur Ancelin | 1947-01-01 | An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. The episode triggers a sense of confidence and he … |
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| Port of Shadows | Zabel | 1938-05-17 | Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however… |
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| The Sad Sack | Joseph Turlot | 1928-07-18 | The tale of a rich, flaky poet and his servant who both join the army and wind up in the same barracks…. |
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| The End of the Day | Cabrissade, l’éternelle doublure | 1939-03-24 | 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 ha… |
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| Behind the Facade | Picking | 1939-03-14 | The owner of an apartment building is found murdered. Two rival policemen, Boucheron and Lambert, investigate the matter and get into the private live… |
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| The Stream | le comte Edouard de Bourgogne | 1938-10-29 | When Paul, an officer, discovers Denise, a young orphan escaped from her orphanage, he takes advantage of his naivete to seduce her before changing he… |
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| Under Western Eyes | Lespara | 1936-03-20 | Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes emb… |
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| Deux heures à tuer | L’employé de la consigne | 1966-01-14 | … |
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| Paris-New York | Le commissaire Boucheron | 1940-04-03 | The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of kid… |
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| The Musicians of the Sky | Le capitaine Simon | 1940-04-10 | A would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant…. |
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| Lovers and Thieves | Doizeau | 1935-11-15 | Claude, son of a ruined family, pretends to be a dangerous trickster in order to get credit from the guys in the middle. He is in charge of retrieving… |
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| Cavalcade of Love | Diogène, Monseigneur de Beaupré & Lacouret | 1939-11-06 | Cavalcade D’Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the walls of the Chateau de Champs. Legend has it that who… |
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| The Head | Prof. Dr. Abel | 1959-07-24 | A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog’s head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts of… |
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| Jean Renoir le patron, 2e partie: La direction d’acteur | Self – Interviewee | 1967-01-01 | Second in the documentary trilogy from mastermind Jacques Rivette, featuring a conversation between Jean Renoir and Michel Simon… |
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| The New Rich | Martinet | 1938-06-15 | The workers Legendre and Martinet have won a large sum in the national lottery. Instead of squandering it, they had the good idea to invest it in indu… |
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| The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean | Alcide Garonne | 1947-12-23 | On the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l’Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman – and incidentally a poacher – lives out of wedlock with Vi… |
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| Tosca | Il barone Scarpia | 1941-01-31 | … |
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| Adémaï au Moyen Âge | Lord Pickwickdam | 1935-01-01 | Joan Of Arc has just released Orléans (1429)but the English are still here to stay . The fortress of Châteauneuf is hold by Lord Pickwickdam… |
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| The Fleeing Dead | Achille Baluchet | 1936-01-02 | Two second-rate, hammy actors, Hector Trignol and Achille Baluchet, come up with a fake murder story to draw attention to themselves. Baluchet is to k… |
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| The Twins of Brighton | Labrosse | 1936-10-29 | Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the great Raimu who also plays their father…. |
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| Cinéastes de notre temps: Sacha Guitry | Self – Interviewee | 1965-05-20 | Documentary about French playwright and film director Sacha Guitry…. |
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| Naples Under the Kiss of Fire | Michel | 1937-12-07 | Mario Esposito, who sings in a Neapolitan restaurant, is in love with Assunta, the niece of Teresa, the owner of the place. He shares his apartment wi… |
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| René Clair, tout entre nous n’était qu’un jeu | Lui-même | 2021-02-09 | … |
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| Fric-Frac | Jo | 1939-06-15 | An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store…. |
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| Baby’s Laxative | Chouilloux | 1931-06-21 | A little boy won’t go to the bathroom, which leads to all sorts of complications for his parents and their friends…. |
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| Fabiola | Senator Fabius Severus | 1949-03-03 | In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. After Fabiola’s father is killed, the Rom… |
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| The Vocation of André Carel | Gaston Lebeau | 1925-01-01 | At the urging of his over-protective father, André Carel, a young bourgeois from Paris, travels to Lake Geneva to rejuvenate his health. There, he fa… |
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| La bataille silencieuse | Sauvin | 1937-09-09 | A young journalist who has gone reporting with the papers of a friend gets caught up in an arms smuggling operation. It is in this context that he mee… |
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| Miquette and Her Mother | Monchablon, un médiocre acteur de tournées, qui fait la cour à Miquette | 1934-03-23 | 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… |
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| The Two Truths | Cidoni | 1952-10-13 | The young Loris is undergoing a trial for killing his girlfriend Maria Luce. According to the reconstruction of the facts, the young man would shoot h… |
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| Moutonnet | Frècheville | 1936-07-10 | A crude countryman sells horses and ,thanks to an old war buddy who has now become a film star, has achieved some renown. Full of himself, he ventures… |
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| Boulot aviateur | | 1937-07-16 | An operetta baron has teamed up with a mechanic to carry out insurance scams. During one of their shots, they come up against Boulot, a drunken but cl… |
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| It Happened in Broad Daylight | Jacquier | 1958-06-09 | The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession…. |
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| The Red Ibis | Zizi | 1975-05-21 | A mentally disturbed man named Jérémie is scouring the area in search of women he can strangle with his scarf, which is embroidered with an ibis…. |
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| Emile’s Boat | Charles-Edmond Larmentiel | 1962-03-03 | Charles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers, decides to return to La Rochelle, his hometown to die there. Forty years earlier he had been dr… |
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| Crimson Curtain | Lucien Bertal / Léonard, his understudy / Banquo | 1952-11-14 | Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in which he was to play with Aurélia Nobli, his compan… |
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| Drôle de Drame | Irwin Molyneux, alias Félix Chapel | 1937-10-20 | A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanc… |
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| Saadia | Bou Rezza | 1953-12-01 | Saadia is a wild, strange Arab girl whose life has been dominated by a local sorceress, a vengeful outcast in the community, who has convinced her she… |
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| Ladies Lake | Oscar Lyssenhop | 1934-05-18 | A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpine lake resort. He falls in love with a young heir… |
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| Hungarian Rhapsody | General von Sayn-Wittgenstein | 1954-04-14 | … |
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| Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee | Bürgermeister | 1952-09-26 | Pietro Ponz lives a happy life in the mountains on the Swiss-Italian border with his mother Lamberta. No one but his mother knows that Pietro is a gir… |
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| Ecco | Self | 1963-11-15 | A documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavior. Included are a tour of the Grand Guignol theat… |
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| The Train | Papa Boul | 1964-09-24 | As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France’s greatest paintings to Germany. He… |
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| The Devil and the Ten Commandments | Jérôme Chambard | 1962-09-14 | The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Ch… |
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| The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life | Attorney Zorn | 1972-12-22 | A successful businessman whose destiny leads him to a secluded Swiss chalet where his life is put on trial by a group of retired law professionals. Th… |
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| Le bonheur | Noël Malpiaz | 1934-09-15 | Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation an… |
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| Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century | Colonel Nanar, du cadre de réserve | 1960-12-16 | The film is a 20th-century adaptation of Voltaire’s 1759 social satire novel Candide, ou l’Optimisme…. |
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| Let’s Have a Riot | Cavazza | 1970-03-19 | … |
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| Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé | Le père Jules (archive footage) | 2001-12-04 | … |
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| Cyrano and d’Artagnan | Le Grognard | 1964-10-22 | Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d’Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy against King Louis XIII of France…. |
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| The Passion of Joan of Arc | Jean Lemaître | 1928-04-21 | A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she’… |
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| Illegitimate Child | Lorédan | 1930-02-03 | … |
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| The Late Mathias Pascal | Jérôme Pomino | 1925-07-02 | Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his… |
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| Let’s Make a Dream | Un Invité (Prologue) | 1936-12-31 | A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, puzzled. He finds there, without knowing it, the lover of his wife, to w… |
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| Austerlitz | Alboise | 1960-06-17 | Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802…. |
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| Cinéastes de notre temps: Jean Vigo | Self | 2012-10-08 | … |
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| High and Low | M. Bodeletz | 1933-12-08 | The intersecting lives of neighbors in a courtyard apartment building in Vienna,including a football player related to the concierge,a new blonde maid… |
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| A Slice of Life | Padre Silvio | 1954-03-16 | Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom…. |
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