Sinoël

Sinoël

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Cartouche, King of Paris
Title: Cartouche, King of Paris
Character: Old man
Released: August 2, 1950
Type: Movie
The romantic life of the head of a bandit gang, wanted by the police. Cartouche gets away with being deported to Louisiana after unmasking a plot by a Duke against the throne.
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Love and Companionship
Title: Love and Companionship
Character: The cashier
Released: January 27, 1950
Type: Movie
The accountant of an insurance company, rather eccentric and quick to push the song, is responsible for monitoring the actions of an alluring South American whose suicide would mean the collapse of the company. Finally, the accountant discovers an attempted insurance scam and marries the surly and charming interpreter who was the liaison between the South American and himself.
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Night Round
Title: Night Round
Character: Verger
Released: September 9, 1949
Type: Movie
During Christmas night, two police officers make their nocturnal rounds, in their round they meet tramps, brawlers in a café, a naked man, a concierge, a sexton, revelers in a nightclub, and end by signing in their report to the police station.
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Fantomas Against Fantomas
Title: Fantomas Against Fantomas
Character: Le petit vieux
Released: February 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Everyone in Paris thinks Fantomas is dead. A wave of extortion, blackmail and murder all point to the master criminal. Inspector Juve and his reporter friend Fandor set out to find the truth.
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Toute la famille était là!
Title: Toute la famille était là!
Character: Bris
Released: December 17, 1948
Type: Movie
Mr. Catignac, a pork butcher in Perigueux, plans to marry Victor, his son, to the daughter of a magistrate. What he does not know, for his son does it in hiding, is that Victor writes songs and has made his debut as a singer in a cabaret. To make matters worse, the young man has a mistress. When word of it leaks out, the whole family are outraged. One night, as Victor goes back home, they are all here, waiting for him.
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Impasse of Two Angels
Title: Impasse of Two Angels
Character: Sylvain, le coiffeur
Released: October 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present, Antoine gives his future wife a precious diamond necklace, which is coveted by a gang of crooks. Jean, one of them, is given the mission to approach Marianne and steal the necklace from her. The only trouble is that when he meets her, she recognizes him as the man she once loved.
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Si jeunesse savait...
Title: Si jeunesse savait...
Released: April 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Charles Vigne, a wealthy banker, frees Abdul, a good genius imprisoned in a vase. To thank him, Abdul grants his wish: to become a child again, while retaining the experience he has acquired. But the "disappearance" of the banker panics the financial markets and has disastrous consequences for the bank. Eventually, Charles Vigne will ask Abdul to give him back his real age.
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The Eleven O'Clock Woman
Title: The Eleven O'Clock Woman
Released: March 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving anonymous letters. And soon a mysterious murder is committed. SOS begins to investigate...
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Mort ou vif
Title: Mort ou vif
Released: February 18, 1948
Type: Movie
A friendly average Frenchman pretends to be a famous commissioner on vacation. He arrives in a castle converted into a boarding house where, after dinner, guests are invited to participate in a "murder-party". The so-called victim of this little game is really murdered and the fake commissioner must lead the investigation.
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Le voleur se porte bien
Title: Le voleur se porte bien
Character: The deaf magistrate
Released: January 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Hector Dumontier has had enough of his wife Noémie : she is always immersed in those detective stories he disapproves of. To teach her a lesson, Dumontier decides to simulate the burglary of their house, with the help of an alleged jewel thief masked by a hood. He creates many false leads and everybody in the house gets suspected, from Ernestine, the maid, to Cabassol, the chauffeur, to Rosine, the Dumontiers'daughter. The disorder is complete and the various police detectives in charge do not help much.
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One Night at the Tabarin
Title: One Night at the Tabarin
Character: Roupillac
Released: December 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Together with his uncompromising friend Marie Girard, André de Lurvire clamors for moral reasons for the closing of the Bal Tabarin, a famous Paris cabaret. So, imagine André's reaction when he... inherits the joint! But, following the seductive schemes of Cora, Tabarin's sultry star, Lurvire gradually lowers his guard, discovers the good life and abandons his wife.
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Jenny Lamour
Title: Jenny Lamour
Character: Old Journalist
Released: October 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical police inspector.
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Monsieur chasse
Title: Monsieur chasse
Released: June 1, 1947
Type: Movie
A husband covers his weekly infidelities with the pretext of hunting. His best friend intends to take advantage of the situation and makes an appointment with the outraged wife in a bachelor flat where the situation is resolved, not without morality being undermined.
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Pluck the Hen
Title: Pluck the Hen
Released: May 28, 1947
Type: Movie
A young student on vacation falls in love with the daughter of his hostess. The father, who has come to put an end to the beginning idyll, falls in love with the young girl's mother, but she refuses to marry him. He will end up, despite his disappointment, giving his consent to his son's marriage.
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Mystery Tour
Title: Mystery Tour
Character: Grandfather Piuff
Released: May 21, 1947
Type: Movie
The basic premise: A retired bus driver fulfills his lifelong dream of providing an extended "voyage surprise" (the title is translated as "Mystery Tour") for unsuspecting vacationers. They soon realize, while riding in the old man's home-made bus, that he hasn't bothered to plan any kind of itinerary. As a result, they end up in completely preposterous situations, of course. Voyage surprise!
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Télévision, œil de demain
Title: Télévision, œil de demain
Released: January 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Télévision, oeil de demain predicted smartphones and video calling. The film was based on a premise from the science fiction author René Barjavel, called Cinema Total, 1944.
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Dropped from Heaven
Title: Dropped from Heaven
Character: The owner of the bookstore
Released: November 20, 1946
Type: Movie
Gaby, the singer of the "Raymond's Jazz" band, leads Maurice, one of the musicians, to believe that, following a night he spent with her in the hay, he is the father of her child. In fact, the baby is neither his nor hers. He is the son of Madeleine, a young war widow who has entrusted him to her friend Gaby until she is allotted a flat. One day, Maurice happens to meet Madeleine and falls in love with her but he does not dare to confess his "paternity" to her. Fortunately the misunderstanding is clarified and Maurice can at the same time marry Madeleine and adopt her kid.
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The Revenge of Roger
Title: The Revenge of Roger
Released: October 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Roger Laroque is now a rich man. He returns to France under the name of William Farnell. There, he discovers that on the one hand his wife has died of a broken heart and on the other that his daughter Suzanne is in love with Raymond de Noirville, the son of his former mistress. With the help of a few friends, Roger coldly prepares his revenge.
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The Murderer Is Not Guilty
Title: The Murderer Is Not Guilty
Character: Film producer
Released: July 29, 1946
Type: Movie
In a film studio, several actors are the victims of attempted murders. Julien Brisseau, a writer, decides to use these facts as the backbone of his new novel. But while he is working on his detective story, young actors are actually killed. Julien thence gets suspected by police inspector Vétillard. To clear his name, Julien undertakes to investigate and find the killer on his own.
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One Does Not Die That Way
Title: One Does Not Die That Way
Character: Marcel
Released: July 3, 1946
Type: Movie
In the studio where the famous director Eric Von Berg reigns, Pierre Vanier, the male star of the film and the lover of Berg's muse, dies while rehearsing a scene. Over the course of a tangled investigation, the culprit is unmasked. This honest dresser is the adoptive mother of Vanier's wife, too unhappy with such a husband. The inspector, moved, concludes a suicide.
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The Ideal Couple
Title: The Ideal Couple
Character: Castellan
Released: May 31, 1946
Type: Movie
Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love with Diavalo. Diavalo is forced to wear a series of disguises to elude the police so he can attend a Gala for the President.
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The King of Dodgers
Title: The King of Dodgers
Character: Elevator operator
Released: December 21, 1945
Type: Movie
Mimile is a street singer and also a very inventive free rider. With his friend Georges, a musician in the same orchestra, they meet Arlette Sicleton and Lulu. Arlette is the sister of Sicleton, a sports event organizer and Lulu is the daughter of Ledoux, the supervisor in charge of tracking down free riders. After many misunderstandings, love will triumph.
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The Bellman
Title: The Bellman
Character: Marie-Thérèse, the old woman
Released: December 4, 1945
Type: Movie
The bell ringer at a way station in the French Alps, murders a passing horse trader with a thrown rock and relieves him of his bankroll, in order to bribe the daughter of his only friend, a head injury victim considered the village simpleton, into marrying him, despite her love for a lowly woodsman who is, in turn, being cajoled into marriage by the daughter of the wealthy innkeeper.
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The Bohemian Life
Title: The Bohemian Life
Character: Barbemuche
Released: October 17, 1945
Type: Movie
Four young friends share the carefree, cheerfulness, laughter and dances of Bohemian life. Rodolphe the painter, Alexandre Chaunard the composer, Colline the philosopher, as well as Marcel and his friend Musette. Mimi, a romantic young girl, falls in love with Rodolphe.
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Angel and Sinner
Title: Angel and Sinner
Released: October 17, 1945
Type: Movie
During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known as "Boule de Suif", renders these people a signal service, but comes up against their stupidity and their sufficiency. A little later, Boule de Suif assassinates the formidable Prussian lieutenant whom his friends had nicknamed Fifi and who shamelessly displayed his taste for pillage and his sadistic tendencies.
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La Grande Marnière
Title: La Grande Marnière
Character: Chassevent
Released: March 23, 1945
Type: Movie
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.
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Lucrèce
Title: Lucrèce
Character: Le premier commanditaire
Released: December 15, 1943
Type: Movie
Lucrèce, a famous actress, is bothered first, then flattered by the passionate testimonies of love given to her by François, a 12th grade student infatuated with her. Taking pity on the boy, Lucrèce decides to heal him of his madness and with this in mind she invites him for a working holiday on her farm. Instead, she falls in love with the cherub. At a time, her young lover grows so jealous of her that he attempts suicide. The mature actress then understands that their love story is going nowhere. She will remain alone while François will forget her.
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The Inevitable Mr. Dubois
Title: The Inevitable Mr. Dubois
Character: Honoré
Released: September 22, 1943
Type: Movie
With a hand of steel, Hélène efficiently runs a big luxury perfume factory in Grasse. There is no room for fun in her dull businesswoman's life. Then, a car accident drops Claude Dubois, a painter, into her lap. But the artist will have to deploy all his subtle wiles and clever tricks to rouse Hélène's feelings and get her to enjoy the cozy life of a cherished wife.
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Fou d'amour
Title: Fou d'amour
Character: Old customer
Released: June 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Claude, who temporarily replaces his father at the head of a department store, falls in love at first sight with a pretty female customer. He finds out that she is named Solange and that she is the goddaughter of Professor Hauteclerc, who runs a private psychiatric hospital. To come closer to the girl of his dreams, Claude has a crazy idea: he pretends to be mad so as to be placed in Hauteclerc's institution.
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Mademoiselle Béatrice
Title: Mademoiselle Béatrice
Character: Dagobert
Released: May 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A law student passed his exam in his first B.A. year in Paris ;he is in love with a girl who is not from the bourgeoisie and the boy is afraid his father might not approve of their union.
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Immortal France
Title: Immortal France
Character: (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1943
Type: Movie
The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of the city by the Prussians during the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 to the invasion by the Germans in World War II.
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White Wings
Title: White Wings
Character: Hyacinthe
Released: March 10, 1943
Type: Movie
A great disappointed love once encouraged the vocation of Sister Claire, who, however, forgot nothing. She follows in their daily life three young girls beloved and badly brought up by a widower, an artist with measured comicality. Sister Claire will save one of the sisters abandoned by her seducer.
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The Honorable Catherine
Title: The Honorable Catherine
Character: Guest
Released: February 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Catherine's technique to sell her clocks is to blackmail illegitimate couples such as Jacques and Gisèle. However when Gisèle's husband Pierre walks in on them, Catherine pretends to be Jacques's lover to save the day. Jacques then gets caught up in her schemes when the next couple she deals with turn out to be jewel thieves who kidnap them.
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Pension Jonas
Title: Pension Jonas
Released: March 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A tramp has taken up residence in the belly of a museum whale.
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Whims
Title: Whims
Released: February 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Caprices tells the story of two young rich people. A famous actress poses as a poor florist, and a distinguished society man camouflages himself as forger and swindler. This game leads them to make close relations in a series of adventures.
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Stormy Waters
Title: Stormy Waters
Character: L'armateur
Released: November 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.
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Who Killed Santa Claus?
Title: Who Killed Santa Claus?
Character: Old Man at Tavern
Released: October 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A village in the French Alps is rocked by a series of crimes, including the theft of a sacred ring and the murder of a man dressed as Père Noël (Father Christmas).
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Hopes ...
Title: Hopes ...
Released: March 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Grigou owns a patch of land between farmers Martin's and Aubert's fields. Both covet this plot.As Grigou has lost the title deed,the mayor of the village decides to sell it.After an interminable auction sale, Aubert carries the day .To add insult to injury,shortly after, Martin is expelled from his farm,and becomes an innkeeper (a doomed inn where the former owner hanged himself). Ten years after, Aubert's daughter falls in love with Martin's son.Their fathers being deadly enemies, their marriage seems impossible.
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Those of the Sky
Title: Those of the Sky
Released: March 5, 1941
Type: Movie
An airplane manufacturer asks his son-in-law to try out the prototypes he builds. This one ends up having an accident because of fatigue, and pushes the sacrifice to help his rival.
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Comedy of Happiness
Title: Comedy of Happiness
Character: Le général
Released: December 23, 1940
Type: Movie
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 committed to a mental hospital. But Jourdain manages to escape and decides to make everybody happy except... his heirs!
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Le Roi des galéjeurs
Title: Le Roi des galéjeurs
Released: April 24, 1940
Type: Movie
Because the shiner Titin has fallen in love with a singer, he braves the latter's protector, the baron, and passes himself off as an insurer in connection with a pearl necklace that is circulating. Bitters get involved, Titin kidnaps the beauty and leaves the pearls to the baron.
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The Duraton Family
Title: The Duraton Family
Released: March 6, 1940
Type: Movie
Unbeknownst to the members of a French family, a radio announcer makes them the subject of a broadcast.
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Whirlwind of Paris
Title: Whirlwind of Paris
Character: Director (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A gang of broke student musicians travel to Paris to take exams. But very quickly, the lack of money pushes young people to pass themselves off as professionals during the performance. They will then win the victory!
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Nine Bachelors
Title: Nine Bachelors
Character: Amédée
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Nine Bachelors is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Sacha Guitry and starring Guitry, Max Dearly and Elvire Popesco.[1] An opportunist dreams up a new scheme to make money when the French government passes a law forbidding foreigners from living in France. It's French title is Ils étaient neuf célibataires.
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A Hand Hit
Title: A Hand Hit
Released: July 19, 1939
Type: Movie
The wife of a stable manager will try everything to clear her husband, a very violent being, accused of the assassination of a trainer.
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Ma tante dictateur
Title: Ma tante dictateur
Character: The notary
Released: July 13, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man who wishes to launch his girlfriend in the theater, borrows money from his aunt, making her believe that he wants to buy groceries. His aunt arrives and then wishes to visit “her” grocery store; to save the day he borrows the store of a credulous grocer.
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Le Paradis des voleurs
Title: Le Paradis des voleurs
Released: June 15, 1939
Type: Movie
A fairground boss is ruined. He steals his aunt's jewelry, but being chased he gives the jewelry to a couple of dancers. They are mistaken for the Morton Sisters and perform in the Folies Parisiennes with the jewels, with enormous success.
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Cordial Agreement
Title: Cordial Agreement
Character: Le concierge
Released: April 20, 1939
Type: Movie
The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.
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The Mayor's Dilemma
Title: The Mayor's Dilemma
Character: Le père Labiche (uncredited)
Released: March 23, 1939
Type: Movie
At the beginning of World War I in a village in the country of La Marne, two families are against the marriage of their children. The war changes the positions.
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Feux de joie
Title: Feux de joie
Released: February 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Once their military service is over, the instrumentalists of a regimental orchestra find themselves in civilian life and decide to run a hotel themselves on the Côte d'Azur.
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Girls in Distress
Title: Girls in Distress
Character: Le concierge du théâtre
Released: January 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Jeune Filles en Detresse (Young Girls in Distress) was director G. W. Pabst's last French production before his (ill-timed) return to Nazi-occupied Austria in 1941. Somewhat reminiscent of Maedchen in Uniform, the story is set in a private girl's school, populated almost exclusively by children from broken homes. Among the few students who can claim family stability is Micheline Presle, but even her happiness is threatened when her lawyer father Andre Luguet inaugurates an affair with stage actress Jacqueline Debulac. With the help of Debulac's daughter Louisa Carletti, Presle is able to break up her father's romance and deliver him into the open arms of her mother Marcelle Chantal. On the whole, the performance by the younger cast members are more convincing than those rendered by the film's so-called adults.
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Bossemans et Coppenolle
Title: Bossemans et Coppenolle
Character: L'ami de Violette
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
The story is a comedy about two dimwitted men from Brussels, Bossemans and Coppenolle. Much of the comedy comes from the fact that the characters all speak in the local Brussels dialect, which added to its popularity in Brussels and Wallonia. The plot broadly parodies Romeo & Juliet, with the contending families on opposite side of the contemporary Brussels football rivalry between Daring Club de Bruxelles and Union Saint-Gilloise.
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Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
Title: Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
Character: Un Ouvrier (uncredited)
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.
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Peace on the Rhine
Title: Peace on the Rhine
Character: Jean, le vieux domestique
Released: November 10, 1938
Type: Movie
During the lead up to a second World War, one of several French films hoping for peace,specifically between Germany and France as shown by a border family in Alsace trying to resolve their differences.
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Les rois de la flotte
Title: Les rois de la flotte
Released: October 19, 1938
Type: Movie
Cruchadouze and Castaniet are two inseparable friends. One day they decide to leave Arcachon to try the adventure in Bordeaux. After various odd jobs, they come into contact with Betty Florent, the banker's wife. This one has just been contacted by a former accomplice who blackmails him by offering him an insurance scam. A big bonus on the head of a simpleton. Cruchadouze was passing by.
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Sirocco
Title: Sirocco
Character: Antonin Robillard
Released: September 22, 1938
Type: Movie
Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the mistress and then wife of a wealthy archaeologist, and bears him Matteo's child, whom he believes to be his own. Complications arise years later when Matteo finds Safia, and a ring of blackmailers uncover her past and exposes her to her husband.
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Gargousse
Title: Gargousse
Character: Le facteur
Released: July 27, 1938
Type: Movie
The peace of Trépigny is shattered when the new mayor Lebrennois sets out to modernise the little village and make it more attractive to tourists. Opposed to his schemes is the village's stationmaster Gargousse, a free-spirited soul who poaches in his spare time and has no time for Lebrennois's grand ambitions. Relations between Gargousse and the mayor are further strained when the former's goddaughter Antoinette begins an affair with the latter's nephew Allain. The mayor insists that the railway line is out-dated and should be replaced with a more efficient coach service. By taking up Lebrennois's offer of a duel, Gargousse has one last chance to save his job and discredit the unpopular mayor...
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Un soir à Marseille
Title: Un soir à Marseille
Released: March 30, 1938
Type: Movie
The wife of a Marseille industrialist is murdered. An inspector and a young journalist investigate together, and suspect the husband, then the lover, before finding the real culprit.
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Hercule
Title: Hercule
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Hercule, a young peasant, inherits a Parisian newspaper with a large circulation. The editor-in-chief, Vasco, takes advantage of his ignorance to make corruption prevail. But Hercules gradually realizes the role that we make him play.
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The Postmaster's Daughter
Title: The Postmaster's Daughter
Character: Doctor
Released: March 3, 1938
Type: Movie
A small town postal official allows a military officer to sweep his lovely daughter away to St. Petersburg, assuming the man will do the right thing and marry her.Instead, a future of scandal and tragedy awaits her.
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Êtes-vous jalouse ?
Title: Êtes-vous jalouse ?
Character: Toulinguet
Released: January 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Germaine Moreuil's insane jealousy triggers such violent marital quarrels that the spouses file for divorce. When Germaine's parents find out, they sham a fierce spat to disgust their daughter and her husband with the pathetic spectacle of a couple at loggerheads. But just as their farce is on the brink of becoming a tragedy, events combined with the blunders of all four happily reconcile everyone.
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Bizarre, Bizarre
Title: Bizarre, Bizarre
Character: Le gardien de prison
Released: October 20, 1937
Type: Movie
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 sanctimonious cousin – an Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against such writing.
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La fille de la Madelon
Title: La fille de la Madelon
Released: October 13, 1937
Type: Movie
The widow of a soldier in the 1914-1918 war, running an inn called "Au rendez-vous des veterans", is happy to see her daughter in love with an officer whose father was once in love with La Madelon.
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Mon député et sa femme
Title: Mon député et sa femme
Released: July 29, 1937
Type: Movie
An outgoing deputy, put on ballot, experiences many political and marital difficulties before regaining his seat. Ultimately and without suspecting it, he owes his victory obtained by a withdrawal at the last minute, to his young wife who did not hesitate to seduce the opponent.
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Boulot aviateur
Title: Boulot aviateur
Released: July 16, 1937
Type: Movie
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 clever driver, who ends up having them arrested after revealing their ride.
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Franco de port
Title: Franco de port
Character: Monseigneur
Released: May 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Monsieur Fred is a friendly Southerner who recruits pretty girls down on their luck to send to South America. After some dramatic incidents and an eventful chase, a policeman manages to lock up the gang he runs.
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Champs-Elysees
Title: Champs-Elysees
Character: Inventor
Released: April 23, 1937
Type: Movie
A reveler who has experienced setbacks tries to become unemployed without ever having worked.
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Nights of Fire
Title: Nights of Fire
Released: April 16, 1937
Type: Movie
19th Century Russia. State prosecutor Fedor Andreiev is presiding over the trial of a man who murdered his wife's lover. Despite a robust defence from the brilliant young lawyer Serge Rostoff, the accused man is found guilty and will be deported to Siberia. Having spoken to the condemned man, Fedor Andreiev sees a disturbing parallel with his own life...
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L'Homme sans cœur
Title: L'Homme sans cœur
Released: March 4, 1937
Type: Movie
Sentenced to 20 years after killing a colleague for revealing that his wife was unfaithful, Sourdier escapes hoping to kill the woman as well.He learns she was true to him and has had a little girl who thinks the father is dead.
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L'Ange du foyer
Title: L'Ange du foyer
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Jacques de Chardin, runner of women, marries a rich and young American, Mary-Ann. He does not give up, however, his conquests and has an affair with Chouquette. His wife and her friend, Baron Sigismond, decide to fake an affair in order to get revenge.
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Gigolette
Title: Gigolette
Released: February 19, 1937
Type: Movie
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The Man from Nowhere
Title: The Man from Nowhere
Character: Henri Paleari
Released: February 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely lucky at several gambling resorts. He returns home and discovers that a drowned man, fished out of the river, bears an uncanny likeness to him and is being buried by his family as him. This, to him, is a pleasant turn of events and he goes to Rome, where he falls in love with Louise Paleari. Count Papiano, a jealous suitor of Louise's, threatens him with arrest unless he produces credentials to prove his identity.
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Trois... six... neuf
Title: Trois... six... neuf
Released: January 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Pierre loves Agnès who prefers Clément, an aviator. Out of desperation, he will commit suicide. Agnès then concludes a pact with him. During the three months that Clément will be absent, Pierre will be able to see her as much as he wants. She thinks that this time will be enough for the young man to realize that she is not the ideal woman for him.
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J'arrose mes galons
Title: J'arrose mes galons
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
The son of a ruined family transforms into a castellan following an inheritance, becomes a parachutist champion in spite of himself, and becomes famous.
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Everything is Going Very Well Madame la Marquise
Title: Everything is Going Very Well Madame la Marquise
Released: December 3, 1936
Type: Movie
After he loses a servant job when his employer's mansion burns down, a yokel makes money entertaining tourists in Breton garb, lands up appearing in a Paris show ,and meets another property owning lady, this one of dubious reputation.
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The Terrible Lovers
Title: The Terrible Lovers
Released: August 21, 1936
Type: Movie
After a year of turbulent marriage Annette and Daniel get a divorce, and each marries again. However, they meet again on the French Riviera and are tempted to give in to their old passion...
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Pluie d'or
Title: Pluie d'or
Released: May 22, 1936
Type: Movie
Abandoned kids are taken in by a rather sleazy character who owns a shoe store and practices wear. The children grow up, the man dies and leaves them his fortune The heirs who only got the store, watch over them, which forces them to lead a double life.
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A Hen on a Wall
Title: A Hen on a Wall
Released: May 22, 1936
Type: Movie
A little peasant girl claims to have been raped. The detective who arrives in the village discovers that it is a set-up, but at the same time reveals carefully hidden and very surprising truths about each.
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The Two Girls
Title: The Two Girls
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
Two girls, Ginette and Gaby, have just run away, outraged by the mistreatment of their governess. After many adventures, they will find their father, who has become a thug, and their mother who had disappeared in a shipwreck.
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Coup de vent
Title: Coup de vent
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
In Pisa, chance forces an old bookseller out of his isolation. He unleashes the fury of the tenants of his building, he undergoes the rigors of the law and he is involved in the adventure of two lovers whose marriage he arranges.
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Haut comme trois pommes
Title: Haut comme trois pommes
Released: March 6, 1936
Type: Movie
Madame Dupin is the most influential character in her village. She is at odds with her daughter because the latter married a showman.
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Mais n'te promène donc pas toute nue
Title: Mais n'te promène donc pas toute nue
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
A deputy with higher political aspirations is annoyed that, as visitors come to see him, his wife insists on staying in her nightie because it is such a hot day.
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Arènes joyeuses
Title: Arènes joyeuses
Released: December 20, 1935
Type: Movie
Cabissol, the Mayor of Martigues, a town in the South of France, wishes to organize a bullfight as part of the coming festivities. But that is not counting on Escopette, an opponent of bullfighting, who kidnaps the bulls. What further complicates things is that the appointed bullfighter, Chico de Granada, takes the French leave with Violette, one of Cabissol's daughters. As a measure of retaliation, Cabissol decides to force Escopette to replace Chico in the arena. Fortunately, Rémy, the head herdsman, comes to his rescue. Finally, everything goes well and Cabissol is so happy that he gives Rémy the hand of Marguerite, his other daughter.
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A Bombshell Night
Title: A Bombshell Night
Character: Doctor
Released: December 13, 1935
Type: Movie
A banker threatened by gangsters is replaced by a tramp who is his perfect double. The gangsters arrest the fake banker and take him for a madman.
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Lune de miel
Title: Lune de miel
Released: December 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Freshly married, Yvonne and Jacques discover on their return from their honeymoon that they are poor and that their respective parents have lied to them. They are going to have to work hard; but everything will work out eventually.
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Happy Days
Title: Happy Days
Character: Gardener
Released: November 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Sylvie, a rich girl, learns at the same time the death and the ruin of her father. Forced to find work in Paris, she is given shelter by a medical student who soon falls for her. Another young man falls in love with her. When her benefactor gets ill and finally dies, Sylvie refuses to give the other man her heart out of faithfulness for the dearly departed. But youth commands and after a time love -but not oblivion - triumphs.
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La fille de Madame Angot
Title: La fille de Madame Angot
Character: The mayor
Released: October 11, 1935
Type: Movie
Under the Directory, Clairette is in love with the chansonnier Ange Pitou, while the hairdresser Pomponnet is destined for her as a husband. But Ange Pitou is flighty and lets herself be seduced by Mademoiselle Lange who wanted to know the author of seditious couplets.
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Varieté
Title: Varieté
Released: October 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Annabella, Jean Gabin and Fernand Gravey star as a trio of circus trapeze artists. Both Gabin and Gravey love Annabella, but she has eyes only for Gravey. Seething with jealousy, Gabin plots revenge against his rival. He "accidentally" drops Gravey into a net during rehearsal -- but does he plan to do the same during a performance, when the trio works without a net?
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Little One
Title: Little One
Character: L'adjoint sourd
Released: August 22, 1935
Type: Movie
Mister Darnétal is invited by his nephew Georges to the premiere of his extravaganza in Paris;but his partner (he did not marry her,even after all those years)is not prepared to accept it and he uses his best friend as an alibi ;the two pals intend to live a wild life in the capital where there are plenty of lovely girls.But the uncle discovers that his dear nephew has a fiancee ,actually an unwed mother for she's got a little kid.The young man has fallen for the star of his variety show,a coquette fickle Chanteuse who ,in the end ,only has eyes for her co-star in the show .Uncle gets angry ,threatens to disinherit this infamous nephew and marries the young mom ,unbeknown to his fifty-something partner who has come to meet him in Paris.
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Aux portes de Paris
Title: Aux portes de Paris
Character: Father Dicard
Released: March 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A local man raised two boys. One is his son and the other is that of a rich industrialist, to get the bonus to the unhappy father, he gives his own son a lazy scoundrel, to the tearful father and decides to keep the other boy, but the truth does not soon to burst.
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Turandot, princesse de Chine
Title: Turandot, princesse de Chine
Character: L'empereur
Released: February 14, 1935
Type: Movie
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Jeanne
Title: Jeanne
Character: Mr. Vieuville
Released: November 30, 1934
Type: Movie
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Famille nombreuse
Title: Famille nombreuse
Character: Old fairground
Released: October 26, 1934
Type: Movie
Follenfant, father of a large family, completed late military service. He looks a lot like the commander who is shy and thanks to this resemblance, Follenfant who is also a ventriloquist, makes his superior and his own happy by marrying the widowed seamstress and mother, too, of a large family.
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The Last Billionaire
Title: The Last Billionaire
Character: Le premier ministre
Released: October 16, 1934
Type: Movie
The Last Billionaire is a 1934 French comedy film directed by René Clair and starring Max Dearly, Marthe Mellot and Renée Saint-Cyr. The film is based on a fictional small European kingdom which is on the verge of going broke. Its French title is Le dernier milliardaire.
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Dernière heure
Title: Dernière heure
Released: September 28, 1934
Type: Movie
A young woman flees with her lover, after having killed her brutal husband; hoping to live a few hours of happiness, before his arrest...
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Cease Firing
Title: Cease Firing
Character: Administrator
Released: June 1, 1934
Type: Movie
When the war is over, a captain finds it very difficult to reintegrate into civilian life. Nothing happens, neither in journalism nor in insurance.
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Chourinette
Title: Chourinette
Character: Pêchelune
Released: March 2, 1934
Type: Movie
When Vernonet learns that Chourinette is to marry another man, he is so upset that he decides to commit suicide on her wedding day. The young woman gets wind of his intention and is so moved by his act of love that she drops everything and runs away with Vernonet. But the groom's family and hers are on their trail to settle a few scores.
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The Princess's Whim
Title: The Princess's Whim
Character: Marin
Released: January 19, 1934
Type: Movie
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An Ideal Woman
Title: An Ideal Woman
Released: January 19, 1934
Type: Movie
Grégoire Vachette is a bashful librarian, forced to listen to the daily boasting of his colleague Courgéan, a great seducer according to what he says. But when, while on holiday, Grégoire meets beautiful Madeleine, the shy young man becomes fired up. Back to his place of work, he can't help communicating his enthusiasm for Madeleine, so much so that he too is taken for a Don Juan. But Madeleine is not for him. Nevertheless, his unexpected change of attitude will have helped him to conquer the heart of Denise, a typist who loved him in secret.
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Bach millionnaire
Title: Bach millionnaire
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
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L'illustre Maurin
Title: L'illustre Maurin
Released: December 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Maurin, an accomplished lady seducer, has acknowledged Césariot as his son. Tonia, Maurin's mistress, is jealous of his love for the boy and follows him one night as he attempts to protect Césariot from the customs officers. But Maurin is shot and dies in Tonia's arms. Based on Jean Aicard's novel.
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Étienne
Title: Étienne
Released: December 15, 1933
Type: Movie
Étienne, a very sensitive being, watches helplessly as his mother suffers from his father's infidelities. He tries to seduce his father's next conquest without his knowledge.
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Faut réparer Sophie
Title: Faut réparer Sophie
Released: December 1, 1933
Type: Movie
Sophie is the daughter of the concierge of a large building. One day, her father surprises her tenderly embraced by the viscount who is going to see his fiancee on the fifth floor. The concierge demands compensation but Sophie's fiance reclaims his beloved with authority.
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All for Nothing
Title: All for Nothing
Character: The innkeeper
Released: October 15, 1933
Type: Movie
An honest but naive young man is manipulated by a gang of crooks who use him as as a cover for their misdeeds. His honesty will be rewarded though and he will find the way to the heart of his beloved.
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La Femme invisible
Title: La Femme invisible
Released: June 2, 1933
Type: Movie
A young woman whose family doesn't want her to marry is taken by her lover to a seance, where before the eyes of her parents she is conjured away. Her man awaits on the other side.
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The 1002nd Night
Title: The 1002nd Night
Released: May 19, 1933
Type: Movie
An Arabian prince falls in with a group of downtrodden rebels and faces the wrath of an unsympathetic sultan whose wife he is also romancing.
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A Weak Woman
Title: A Weak Woman
Released: March 20, 1933
Type: Movie
Arlette Morand, a rich and pretty young widow, would like to remarry. She hesitates between Henri, the athlete, and Serge, the artist. She grants her favors to Henri, for whom it is only an adventure. She realizes that she doesn't love him and goes to join Serge on the boat that takes him to England...
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Baby
Title: Baby
Character: César
Released: January 13, 1933
Type: Movie
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Pour vivre heureux
Title: Pour vivre heureux
Released: December 16, 1932
Type: Movie
After he is thought dead, a painter who had no success before suddenly becomes a man of repute, and a statue is even prepared in his honor.
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Kiss Me
Title: Kiss Me
Released: October 15, 1932
Type: Movie
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The Little One of Montparnasse
Title: The Little One of Montparnasse
Character: L'huissier
Released: March 25, 1932
Type: Movie
A count's son has a place to meet his poor Parisian girlfriend and even work they can share to make a few bucks, but the father prefers he marry someone else.
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Captain Craddock
Title: Captain Craddock
Released: December 4, 1931
Type: Movie
The mystery passenger on Craddock's ship is his country's queen.When he loses money she's entrusted to him at roulette, he threatens to bomb Monte Carlo unless his loss is restored.
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Make a living
Title: Make a living
Released: October 9, 1931
Type: Movie