Pierre Brasseur

Pierre Brasseur

Born: December 22, 1905
Died: August 16, 1972
in Paris, France
Pierre Brasseur, born Pierre-Albert Espinasse (22 December 1905, Paris – 16 August 1972, Bruneck, Italy) was a French actor.

He was the son of actor Georges Espinasse and actress Germaine Brasseur while the latter was married to Albert Brasseur. His grandfather, Jules Brasseur, was an actor as well. The family tradition of using the name Brasseur was continued by his son Claude and his grandson Alexandre.

Renowned for playing outsized characters, Brasseur is probably best known in the anglophone world for his (semi-fictionalised) portrayal of the actor Frédérick Lemaître in Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise, 1945) and as Docteur Génessier (more subdued) in the horror film Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux sans visage, 1960) co-starring with Alida Valli.

On May 30, 1927, Brasseur performed the spoken role of the Narrator in the world premiere of Igor Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus rex.

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The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
Title: The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
Character: La Brunetière
Released: December 22, 1972
Type: Movie
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. The men assemble to analyze Sordi's rise to power and his increasingly immoral behavior as he attained success, and the warped perceptions of right and wrong he has adopted to remain successful.
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The Married Couple of the Year Two
Title: The Married Couple of the Year Two
Character: Gosselin
Released: April 7, 1971
Type: Movie
Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others trying to woo her his own interest is rekindled.
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Macédoine
Title: Macédoine
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
The tale of a young pretty girl's rise to a top model and her finding of emptiness in her life after success.
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Un ange passe
Title: Un ange passe
Character: Florisse
Released: March 7, 1970
Type: Movie
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Un ange passe
Title: Un ange passe
Released: March 7, 1970
Type: Movie
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Goto, Island of Love
Title: Goto, Island of Love
Character: Le Gouverneur-Roi Goto III
Released: January 29, 1969
Type: Movie
In an isolated community on a mythical island, a pompous dictator holds public executions and lets criminals fight in the streets.
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À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
Title: À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Documentary about filmmaker Jean Grémillon.
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Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo
Title: Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo
Character: Faria
Released: December 11, 1968
Type: Movie
Edmond Dantès, who was active in the resistance against the Nazis, is accused for being a Nazi collaborator and is imprisoned in the fortress of Sisteron.
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Birds in Peru
Title: Birds in Peru
Character: Husband
Released: October 20, 1968
Type: Movie
A young woman, unsatisfied by her husband, searches for sex in the brothels of a seaside town.
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A Little Virtuous
Title: A Little Virtuous
Character: Jules Polnick
Released: February 21, 1968
Type: Movie
In Paris, the young photographer Ferdinand falls in love with Claire, a pickpocket. Shortly after, he is assaulted because he took pictures of the young woman with another man, Brady, his sponsor. The policeman Lorenzi is put on the case, but in love, Ferdinand does not want to denounce her. However, a stolen object that she offered him will allow his indictment: Claire will spend a year in prison. When she is released, Ferdinand marries her. Kerman, Ferdinand's new boss, employs Claire in his cabaret. She puts on a famous act during which she picks the pockets of the spectators, then gives the objects back at the end of the show. But Brady reappears, demanding 80% of the young woman's earnings, otherwise he will denounce Claire's bigamy, to whom he is still married! Ferdinand prepares to flee with his wife. When he finds her, he comes across the corpse of Brady, whom Claire has just killed.
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The Madman of Lab Four
Title: The Madman of Lab Four
Character: le Père Ballanchon
Released: November 29, 1967
Type: Movie
This talkative and unevenly paced feature finds Fou (Jean Lefebvre) the inventor of a gas that makes the users fall in love. He is chased by his boss, the police, and spies, who seek to secure the secret recipe for their own selfish purposes. A shadowy American underworld figure tries to intimidate the inventor. A half-hearted attempt at comedy tries to go along with the double dealing and trickery of the thin plot of the film.
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The Birth of Children of Paradise
Title: The Birth of Children of Paradise
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Documentary about the making of Marcel Carne's 1945 film Children of Paradise (France), interviewing the director, the actors and production designer, as well as other French directors.
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King of Hearts
Title: King of Hearts
Character: Le Général Géranium
Released: December 21, 1966
Type: Movie
An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache.
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Pas de panique
Title: Pas de panique
Character: Fernand Toussaint
Released: August 10, 1966
Type: Movie
A robbery of 10 billion is successfully carried out by a Corsican gang led by a man called Toussaint. The heist is also the start of a war with a rival gang.
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Un monde nouveau
Title: Un monde nouveau
Character: Le Grec
Released: March 25, 1966
Type: Movie
Anne, a beautiful free-lance photographer, meets with the French medical student Carlo and falls in love. After a passionate love affair Anne becomes pregnant. Now the formerly free-wheeling Carlo finds himself facing a difficult situation. Carlo decides that Anne should abort the child. To raise enough cash Carlo sleeps with a wealthy older woman. Then Ann decides to annul the abortion.
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A Matter of Resistance
Title: A Matter of Resistance
Character: Dimanche
Released: January 25, 1966
Type: Movie
In the countryside near Normandy's beaches lives Marie, unhappy. It's 1945, she's married to Jérôme, a somewhat fussy milquetoast, diffident to the war around him and unwilling to move his wife to Paris, where she longs to live, shop, and party. A German outfit is bivouacked at Jérôme and Marie's crumbling château because its commanding officer is pursuing Marie. She's also eyed by a French spy working with the Allies as they plan D-Day. He woos her (posing to the Germans as her brother) and, in his passion, forgets his mission. Heroics come from an unexpected direction, and Marie makes her choice.
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Two Hours to Kill
Title: Two Hours to Kill
Character: Laurent
Released: January 14, 1966
Type: Movie
In the waiting room of the Auvernaux station, the atmosphere is very lively. Several passengers, who have missed their train, are discussing the killer of young girls who is rampant in the region. While the criminal might be in the vicinity, pursued by the police, a journalist leads the investigation inside the station.
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Fortuna
Title: Fortuna
Character: Nissim Buzaglo
Released: January 2, 1966
Type: Movie
Directed by Menahem Golan.
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Cloportes
Title: Cloportes
Character: Tonton
Released: October 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years. When he's released, he's out for revenge.
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L'or du duc
Title: L'or du duc
Character: Le Maharadjah (l'oncle)
Released: September 23, 1965
Type: Movie
A young duke marries a girl, also penniless, and moves into a bus left him by an uncle, with their ten children. At last he finds the bus is made of solid gold.
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Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
Title: Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
Released: August 13, 1965
Type: Movie
Rosa, a housekeeper in a NATO office in Paris, steals a micro film for her lover whom she hopes to marry.
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Black Humor
Title: Black Humor
Character: Le guérisseur - segment 1 'La Bestiole'
Released: April 12, 1965
Type: Movie
A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus, trapeze artist Wilma is going to get rid of a rival during a "magic act" performed by an amateur. A strange widow comes to inquire about the services of a new marriage agency. A peasant woman tormented by a bug in her ear barges into a healer's house.
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The Circular Triangle
Title: The Circular Triangle
Character: Georges Richter
Released: December 17, 1964
Type: Movie
Business tycoon dies in plane crash. Suspected, Georg, his main partner, Alain, a young Turkish finance, and Anna Maria, the group's proxy, are all seeking his succession.
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Lucky Jo
Title: Lucky Jo
Character: Loudéac
Released: November 12, 1964
Type: Movie
Lucky Jo and his three friends are little criminals, who try to live from small burglaries. But they never have luck - ever so often something inpredictable happens to Jo and gets one of them arrested. While Jo is in prison once again, they decide they'd better do without him in future. He decides to help them secretly...and unfortunately.
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A Very Handy Man
Title: A Very Handy Man
Character: Simone Palumbo
Released: January 23, 1964
Type: Movie
In late 19th century Sicily, handsome free-spirit Liolà wanders into town, where he encounters an old flame now married to a wealthy landowner.
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Josefa's Loot
Title: Josefa's Loot
Character: Mayor
Released: August 22, 1963
Type: Movie
Justin, a lyricist by trade, and his friend Pierre, a composer, lead a bohemian life in Paris. Justin thinks his mother Josefa is richer than she appears, and decides to swindle her out of three million centimes by using Pierre as an intermediary in a case involving an insolvent check. Josefa uncovers the ruse and refuses to help her son. However, Pierre has discovered the identity of his friend's father, who had been unknown to him for twenty years. With the help of Justin's mother, the two friends do everything they can to extort the son's missing three million centimes from his ashamed and repentant father.
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Agent of Doom
Title: Agent of Doom
Character: Charlèz
Released: July 31, 1963
Type: Movie
Scientist André Ségonne hits the headlines with his discovery of anti-matter. On his way to a few days' vacation, he is involved in a motorcycle accident. Rescued by Piort and Florence, a strange couple, André is taken to their equally peculiar house: an inexplicable power seems to emanate from it.
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Don't Tempt the Devil
Title: Don't Tempt the Devil
Character: Me Charles Cassidi, avocat de Mme Dupré
Released: April 17, 1963
Type: Movie
A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection.
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The Abominable Man of Customs
Title: The Abominable Man of Customs
Character: Russian killer
Released: March 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Two rival gangs fight over drug trafficking. An American killer named Timetti Le Muet arrives at Marseille airport to make a delivery to Arnakos' gang. He is denounced to the police, and the peaceful customs officer Camposantos is put in charge of his arrest. Following a mix-up, Camposantos is mistaken for the killer himself. Taken in by Arnakos' men, the innocent customs officer is forced to play a rather unexpected role.
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Crime Does Not Pay
Title: Crime Does Not Pay
Character: Martin Fenayrou
Released: July 6, 1962
Type: Movie
Husband try to kill his wife with a help of the plan he saw in a film. But reality is not a film.
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Hitch-Hike
Title: Hitch-Hike
Character: Achille Pipermint, l'homme d'affaires radin à Orly
Released: March 16, 1962
Type: Movie
Agathe, 18, dreams of change. Gone are her vacations on the rainy beaches of Belgium! She decides to hitchhike down to the South of France, where she'll have many happy and less happy encounters. On the way to Paris, men of various ages offer to shorten her wait by the roadside. Some try to take advantage of her, while another, in a fit of madness, tries to stab her. Despite these assaults, Agathe continues her journey, heading for Valence and then Aix-en-Provence.
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Emile's Boat
Title: Emile's Boat
Character: François Larmentiel
Released: March 3, 1962
Type: Movie
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 driven out by his father. Before passing away, the old eccentric announces that he has a hidden son, Émile, a fisherman to whom he wishes to bequeath his property. François, the younger brother, whom Charles-Edmond hates, is eyeing the inheritance to bail out the powerful family business, a veritable fishing trust, and will try to appropriate the affection and property of this inopportune heir. Émile, meanwhile, is too busy arguing with Fernande, a beugland singer, to suspect what awaits him...
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Rencontres
Title: Rencontres
Character: Carl Krasner
Released: February 16, 1962
Type: Movie
Bella Krastner is sunbathing on a beach on the Côte d'Azur when she attracts the attention of an attractive younger man, Ralph Scaffari. It is the start of a whirlwind romance which looks like it might last beyond the end of the summer. Unfortunately, Bella is already married, to Carl Krastner, a once renowned pianist who has become bitter and reclusive after a car accident that irreparably damaged one of his hands. Krastner no longer has any zest for living. He tyrannises both his wife and his sister Laurence and divides his time between scuba diving and gambling. After ratcheting up a small fortune in gambling debts, Krastner decides to fake his own death so that he can claim on his life insurance.
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Famous Love Affairs
Title: Famous Love Affairs
Character: le grand duc Ernest
Released: November 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
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The Nina B. Affair
Title: The Nina B. Affair
Character: Berrera
Released: June 6, 1961
Type: Movie
A businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.
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Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Title: Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Character: Le connétable de Montmorency
Released: April 4, 1961
Type: Movie
Henri IV falls in love with the young Charlotte de Montmorency, 40 years his junior. The king decided to marry her off to his nephew, Henri de Condé, so that he could later make her his mistress.
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Spotlight on a Murderer
Title: Spotlight on a Murderer
Character: Comte de Keraudren
Released: March 31, 1961
Type: Movie
An old count hides just before he dies to annoy his heirs. The heirs search a manor for the count's body and are killed off one by one. Jean-Marie, his fiancée Micheline, and Edwige investigate the deaths and search for the count's body.
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Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Title: Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Character: Pangloss
Released: December 16, 1960
Type: Movie
Charming and innocent, Candide is vigorously chased away by the Baron, for his close encounters with the pretty Cunégonde. World War II breaks out, and when he is drafted and taken prisoner, he is forced to take German nationality and ends up guarding the camp where he was imprisoned. He crossed into Switzerland, but as he had no bank account, he was incarcerated for eight days for trespassing. Hunted by the Gestapo, he kills two men to free Cunégonde, who has finally been found. They both flee to Argentina, and their world tour begins. In Paris, Moscow, New York, Borneo and Alexandria. They try to follow Dr. Pangloss' optimistic rule of life. Tossed about, separated, they find themselves grown old and wiser, thinking only of cultivating their garden on the shores of the Mediterranean.
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The Dialogue of the Carmelites
Title: The Dialogue of the Carmelites
Character: Le commissaire du peuple
Released: June 1, 1960
Type: Movie
This drama about the Carmelite order of nuns is set during the French Revolution. A young woman seeks refuge with the Carmelites because she is terrified of dying during the upheaval. The longer she associates with the nuns the more she is transformed by their faith and devotion. 
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Handsome Antonio
Title: Handsome Antonio
Character: Alfio Magnano
Released: March 4, 1960
Type: Movie
Problems arise for Antonio Magnano when he is unable to consummate his marriage to the beautiful Barbara Puglisi and his virility is called into question. Despite the fact that he loves his beautiful wife and they have otherwise been happily married for a year, his problem becomes a source of contention for all concerned.
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Carthage in Flames
Title: Carthage in Flames
Character: Sidone
Released: January 29, 1960
Type: Movie
Historical drama depicting the last of the Punic Wars between the Roman Republic and Carthage.
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Eyes Without a Face
Title: Eyes Without a Face
Character: Doctor Génessier
Released: January 11, 1960
Type: Movie
Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane's.
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The Bureaucrats
Title: The Bureaucrats
Character: Monsieur Nègre
Released: June 30, 1959
Type: Movie
The gifts and bequests department is particularly eccentric, including Lahrier, a fervent absentee and songwriter in his spare time.
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Head Against the Wall
Title: Head Against the Wall
Character: Dr. Varmont
Released: March 20, 1959
Type: Movie
An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.
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The Law
Title: The Law
Character: Don Cesare
Released: January 25, 1959
Type: Movie
A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game.
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The Possessors
Title: The Possessors
Character: Lucien Maublanc, le cousin oisif
Released: November 19, 1958
Type: Movie
Noël Schoudler, founder of an empire built on three foundations - sugar, banking and the press - reigns like an absolute sovereign over his business and his family. But someone is about to challenge this authority: his son François...
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Life Together
Title: Life Together
Character: Pierre Carreau
Released: September 24, 1958
Type: Movie
The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on the loving relationships of four couples. Now he's setting up his will and wants to leave his wealth to the couples among the four, which are still as deeply in love - if any: else, his companions get the money. He sends them out to visit the couples and test their love.
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Sans famille
Title: Sans famille
Character: Jeroboam Driscoll
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
The Remi abandoned by his foster father sold to the troubadour Vasalis, in his living through the rural villages the people to entertain, gehoplen his three dogs and a monkey. In the beginning Remi takes its new master, but a demanding and hard man, and the animals have not been too much with the clumsy boy. But gradually creates a bond between Remi and his new comrades, until their friendship is suddenly disrupted when Vasalis is arrested for vagrancy and sentenced. Then Remi, alone in the world, along with his animal friends in position to try to keep ...
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The Gates of Paris
Title: The Gates of Paris
Character: Juju
Released: September 27, 1957
Type: Movie
Juju, a drunken oaf who feels the need of being important to someone---anyone---and his friend The Artist are forced at gunpoint to house a fugitive, Pierre Barbier, in Juju's broken-down home. The urge for being needed is such in Juju that he gives up drinking and takes care of Pierre. But one day Juju finds out that Pierre has been making love to his girl Maria...
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Title: Cinépanorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1956
Type: TV
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Napoleon
Title: Napoleon
Character: Barras
Released: March 25, 1955
Type: Movie
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
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Tower of Lust
Title: Tower of Lust
Character: Jehan Buridan
Released: March 18, 1955
Type: Movie
France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are invited. The young men were brought blindfolded, and after a night of love they were killed and their corpses thrown into the river, because the queen was afraid that her husband would learn about her adventures. One of her lovers managed to escape death. He knows the secrets of the queen, knows that she once gave birth to a son from him, claims that he has evidence that Margarita wanted to kill her father and blackmails her.
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Oasis
Title: Oasis
Character: Antoine Vallin
Released: March 18, 1955
Type: Movie
Two female agents from a rival gang are sent to disrupt the operations of a gold-smuggler's caravan in Africa.
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Rasputin
Title: Rasputin
Character: Gregory Iefimovich Raspoutine
Released: July 19, 1954
Type: Movie
Gregory Iefommovich Raspoutine is a monk with healing powers and a liking for debauchery who manages to insinuate himself into the court of the Romanoffs thanks to Princess Dikvona. Being the only person able to heal he son of Czar Nicolas II and Czarina Alexandra from his hemophilia, he becomes a very powerful man, which infuriates many.A group of nobles, determined to save the monarchy, start conspiring to murder him.
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Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
Title: Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances
Character: Self
Released: April 15, 1954
Type: Movie
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Clothing the Naked
Title: Clothing the Naked
Character: Console Grotti
Released: February 25, 1954
Type: Movie
Ersilia Drei, after a suicide attempt recounts her vicissitudes: hired as governess to the daughter of Consul Grotti she is wooed by Franco but soon after seduced by the very consul who drives her away after his daughter loses her life due to Ersilia's distraction. Because of economic difficulties she falls lower and lower until she meets Ludovico with whom she can perhaps hope for sincere love again. The consul's return, however, will lead her toward a tragic ending.
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The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
Title: The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
Character: L'Oiseau (voice)
Released: May 29, 1953
Type: Movie
A chimney sweep and his beloved shepherdess are aided by Wonderbird in their escape from a ruthless dictator
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The Drunkard
Title: The Drunkard
Character: Maître Pierre Renneville
Released: February 27, 1953
Type: Movie
Unfairly accused of her husband's murder, a woman is imprisoned.
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Crimson Curtain
Title: Crimson Curtain
Character: Ludovic Arn / Macbeth
Released: November 14, 1952
Type: Movie
Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in which he was to play with Aurélia Nobli, his companion and Ludovic Arn, her lover. The police arrive on the scene and the investigation begins. Suspicion first falls on Sigurd, an old actor who had threatened Bertal. But parallels appear between the characters in the play and the actors who play them.
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Le Plaisir
Title: Le Plaisir
Character: Julien Ledentu
Released: February 29, 1952
Type: Movie
Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death.
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Torticola contre Frankensberg
Title: Torticola contre Frankensberg
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
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Bluebeard
Title: Bluebeard
Character: Amédée de Salfère dit Barbe-Bleue
Released: September 27, 1951
Type: Movie
Just before wowing international critics and moviegoers with his adventure romp Fanfan la Tulipe, director Christian-Jaque dashed off the lampoonish Barbe-Bleue. Ostensibly the story of the famed wife-killing potentate Bluebeard (Pierre Brasseur), this lighthearted costumer begins as the title character is poised to march down the matrimonial aisle for the eighth time. Barbe-Bleue's newest spouse Aline (Cécile Aubry) is kept in line by her husband's claims of murdering her predecessors. But when Aline opens the famous locked door to the equally famous hidden room, both she and the audience are in for quite a surprise. The frivolous nature of Barbe-Bleue is underlined by its pleasing utilization of the French Gezacolor process.
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Dirty Hands
Title: Dirty Hands
Character: Hoederer
Released: August 9, 1951
Type: Movie
A young intellectual, Hugo, joins the Communist Party out of a sense of idealism, only to see his principles manipulated by party leaders. He is given the assignment of killing Professor Hoederer, a party deviationist. However, he grows to admire the man and begins to have doubts about morals and revolutionary politics. But jealousy - Hugo thinks Hoederer has made love to his wife, Jessica - takes matters out of the political realm.
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Skipper Next to God
Title: Skipper Next to God
Character: Captain Joris KnAipper
Released: March 2, 1951
Type: Movie
Captain Joris Kniper believes so strongly that he is "skipper next to God" that he is used to playing God on his ship. Tough and bossy, he gives orders which are not to be discussed. But, some day, he is driven to accept on board several German Jews fleeing the nazis and who are refused asylum everywhere. He gradually realizes that skipper he is, but next to God only.The Bible will help him to find the way to self-questioning, awareness and charity.
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Jamaican Man
Title: Jamaican Man
Character: Jacques Mervel
Released: December 22, 1950
Type: Movie
Jacques Mervel, also known as "L'Homme de la Jamaïque" makes use of his talents as a gun runner in Tangiers, Morocco. After triumphing over a rival gang, he decides to quit the job and to start a new life with Vicky, a pretty young nurse. In Paris, a doctor lets him know that he is affected by leprosy. In desperation, Jacques runs away from Vicky to spare her. When she realizes the reason why Jacques has disappeared from her life, she joins him with a view to helping him fight the disease.
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Lost Souvenirs
Title: Lost Souvenirs
Character: Philippe
Released: November 11, 1950
Type: Movie
Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide. -A funeral wreath lets us know how it caused a young woman to believe her lover dead. After having told their respective story, the objects return to their customary stillness.
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Julie de Carneilhan
Title: Julie de Carneilhan
Character: Hubert Espivant
Released: April 21, 1950
Type: Movie
A penniless aristocrat is fooled by her ex-husband, a crook.
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Millionaires for One Day
Title: Millionaires for One Day
Character: Francis
Released: December 13, 1949
Type: Movie
A typographer makes a mistake by printing the winning number of the national lottery. Many people believe they have won the jackpot. Pursued by his newspaper editor, the worker appears in court where all mystified people are invited to testify.
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Portrait of a Murderer
Title: Portrait of a Murderer
Character: Fabius / Jean
Released: November 25, 1949
Type: Movie
A circus daredevil is the next victim of a danger-seducing woman who tricks him into a potentially deadly stunt after he attempted to kill her.
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The Lovers of Verona
Title: The Lovers of Verona
Character: Raffaele
Released: March 7, 1949
Type: Movie
Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist magistrate, are chosen to be the stand-ins for the stars of a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" being shot on location in Venice and Verona. It is not long before they fall in love and their romance parallels that of Shakespeare's timeless heroes. Indeed their union is threatened by the schemings of Raffaele, the Maglia family's dubious tout...
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The Secret of Monte-Cristo
Title: The Secret of Monte-Cristo
Character: François Picault
Released: September 17, 1948
Type: Movie
One of Alexandre Dumas's most popular adventure novels is "The Count of Monte-Cristo". What is little known is that the famous writer made up neither its plot nor its characters. Dumas actually heard the true story of a man named François Picault during a stay at a private mansion and only adapted it into the novel everybody knows . Picault (who in the book would become Edmond Dantès) was about to marry the beautiful Marguerite (Mercédès in the novel) when he was denounced by three jealous friends who falsely accused him of being a spy for England. Picault was placed under a form of house arrest. In his prison, he made friends with an Italian abbot. When the man died, he left his fortune to Picault whom he had begun to treat as a son. On his release, Picault, who had become wealthy, was able to pursue his ruthless revenge on the three men who were responsible for his misfortune.
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La Nuit blanche
Title: La Nuit blanche
Character: Pierre Taverny
Released: September 3, 1948
Type: Movie
A father wants to try by all means to avenge the death of his son, a test pilot, whose responsible is the attractive female star of a Parisian cabaret.
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Cruise for the Unknown One
Title: Cruise for the Unknown One
Character: Emile Fréchisse
Released: September 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Kohlman, the attorney for the Fournil bank, diverts money from the institution. To hide his malpractices, he imagines to remove the director, the young and overconfident Clement Fournil, during a cruise at sea on the yacht Emile Frechisse.
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The Revenge of Baccarat
Title: The Revenge of Baccarat
Character: Rocambole
Released: April 23, 1948
Type: Movie
In Paris, in the middle of the 19th century, the Comte de Chamery died of poisoning, leaving a considerable fortune to his long-dead son. Sir William, the count's murderer, hires a young rogue, Rocambole, to pretend to be the deceased's son. The two accomplices have the Count's fortune handed over to them. But their trickery is discovered by an intriguer, Baccarat, who finds the real Count of Chamery, a young painter without fortune, in love with Carmen de Montevecchio. Rocambole, who stops at nothing, kills Sir William, gets rid of Armand and makes Carmen love him. But Baccarat is determined not to let him continue his villainies.
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Rocambole
Title: Rocambole
Character: Rocambole
Released: April 8, 1948
Type: Movie
In the 19th century, a thug from the slums of Paris pretends to be a young aristocrat, but is unmasked by a demi-mondaine, from the same background as him.
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Love Around the House
Title: Love Around the House
Released: August 27, 1947
Type: Movie
In an isolated house, in Brittany, live two sisters around whom gravitate a whole series of strange characters. Between the eruption of the vagrant voyeur and that of the couple in love, the youngest kills her eldest and goes mad.
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Noah's Ark
Title: Noah's Ark
Character: Bitru
Released: August 20, 1947
Type: Movie
Bitru is a carefree fellow who, one day, decides to buy a houseboat on the River Seine. He moves there and starts living surrounded by a circle of colorful friends. Among them, the daughter of an auto maker but also a group of scientists who have developed "Aqua Simplex", a device that could enable motorists to fill their tanks with... water ! Panic sets in in the automobile industry and Bitru is appointed his friends' middle man to represent them on the various car makers directors' boards.
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Gates of the Night
Title: Gates of the Night
Character: Georges
Released: December 3, 1946
Type: Movie
Paris, during the winter after its Liberation: Jean Diego meets up with his friend Raymond Lecuyer again. A tramp predicts Jean will meet the most beautiful girl in the world, and that same evening Jean meets Malou. But he soon discovers that her brother Guy was the one that gave his friend Raymond away to the Gestapo...
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Pétrus
Title: Pétrus
Character: Rodrigue
Released: October 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Petrus, a Montmartre photographer, is accidentally wounded by Migo, a dancer at the Frou Frou night club, when she is trying to shoot her faithless lover Rodrigue, a counterfeiter. Though Petrus tries to reconcile the lovers, Migo lands up with him after Rodrigue is finally killed by another jealous dancer.
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La Femme fatale
Title: La Femme fatale
Character: Jean Pleyard
Released: April 12, 1946
Type: Movie
Fanny Le Doublond has a lover, Jean, and her husband is beginning to have suspicion. To calm him down she makes him believe that Jean dies of love for another woman and wants to commit suicide if his love is not returned. The two accomplices select a young creature named Claire Coussol for the (unwitting role)of the "beloved". As for Jean, he plays the suicidal man to perfection. But what the two lovers had not planned at all is that Claire, deeply moved by Jean's "act of desperation", starts growing fond of him.
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Land Without Stars
Title: Land Without Stars
Character: Jean-Thomas Pellerin / François-Charles Talacayud
Released: April 2, 1946
Type: Movie
Simon's life is troubled by images of a crime which happened in his family a hundred years ago. While traveling in south France, he finds the landscape familiar. That's when he meets Catherine and falls in love. But her lover comes back and his strong personality attracts her again.
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Behind These Walls
Title: Behind These Walls
Character: Jean-César Morin
Released: March 13, 1946
Type: Movie
June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by the resistance, the inhabitants who listen to English radio are rounded up by the Germans in a prison and considered as hostages. In one of the cells are found men from all walks of life: an aristocrat, the Viscount of Saint-Leu, Doctor Noblet, a resistance fighter, Béquille the wanderer with a wooden leg, and a strange character nicknamed "Black Market". The latter arouses mistrust among the prisoners, because it could well have been introduced by the enemy.
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Children of Paradise
Title: Children of Paradise
Character: Frédérick Lemaître
Released: March 15, 1945
Type: Movie
In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance. But Garance, in turn, is loved by three other men: pretentious actor Frederick, conniving thief Lacenaire, and Count Edouard of Montray.
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Adieu Léonard
Title: Adieu Léonard
Character: Prosper Bonenfant
Released: September 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the village idiot.
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Summer Light
Title: Summer Light
Character: Roland
Released: March 26, 1943
Type: Movie
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.
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Two Shy Ones
Title: Two Shy Ones
Character: Vancouver
Released: March 3, 1943
Type: Movie
Jules Frémissin is shy and in love. The father of the object of his flame is also shy. The marriage proposal is very laborious, because before marrying Cécile Thibaudier, Jules must fight a duel with the arrogant Vancouver, convinced that all this eager and awkward courtship was intended for his own wife, also named Cécile.
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Le soleil a toujours raison
Title: Le soleil a toujours raison
Character: Gabriel
Released: January 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Tonio, pretty Micheline's fiance, meets Georgia ,a gypsy who makes advances to him.
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La Croisée des chemins
Title: La Croisée des chemins
Released: December 2, 1942
Type: Movie
A prestigious Paris doctor is tempted by a woman he knew in his youth, whose politician husband has neglected her.But will he in turn neglect his duties toward work and family?
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Promise to the Unknown One
Title: Promise to the Unknown One
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
A young woman is in love with a young writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt. Married to a banker, she must face her husband's anger and the blackmail of a former suitor.
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Three Argentines in Montmartre
Title: Three Argentines in Montmartre
Released: January 14, 1941
Type: Movie
The guitarist Moncho, singer Roberto and their impresario, arrive in Paris to find the fortune and the celebrity. They live in Montmartre in a pension that receives an impressive sampling of circus artists and music halls. They meet Maria-Rosa with whom they make a number, and this is glory.
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Tobie Is an Angel
Title: Tobie Is an Angel
Released: November 3, 1940
Type: Movie
Tobie is a hopeless daydreamer. He always has his head in the clouds, and this inevitably gets him into trouble with his employer. In the end, Tobie loses his job as a fairground performer and sinks into a state of abject despair.
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Sixième étage
Title: Sixième étage
Character: Jonval, the young cynic
Released: September 2, 1940
Type: Movie
The joys and miseries of the inhabitants of a building in a Parisian district.
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The Path of Honor
Title: The Path of Honor
Character: Philippe
Released: March 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Two twin brothers have joined the army, Paul by vocation is a lieutenant of spahis and Georges to escape the police is a sergeant in the Foreign Legion. A snitch having informed the police of Georges' presence at the Legion, he must leave. In Casablanca, Paul helps his brother escape the police by taking his identity to allow him to regain his honor.
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Last Desire
Title: Last Desire
Character: Frossard
Released: August 28, 1939
Type: Movie
Caesar, a senior French colonist returned home after many years of absence, knows a girl, Marcella, who is in full depression because she was abandoned by her lover. Caesar welcomes her into his home and surrounds her with paternal attention so that he can quickly forget the past. Slowly his feeling turns into a love that Marcella seems to reciprocate. However, when Cesare realizes that the girl feels only gratitude for him and is in love with a younger man, he loses control. Blinded by jealousy, he plans to kill Marcella's lover but, in the face of the girl's vulgarity and indifference, he realizes that he has been teased and turns his anger towards her.
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Corsican Brothers
Title: Corsican Brothers
Character: Tonio
Released: May 3, 1939
Type: Movie
Siamese twins, separated at birth, maintain a psychic knowledge of each other's dire fates.
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Le père Lebonnard
Title: Le père Lebonnard
Character: Alfredo Lebonnard
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Father Lebonnard, a former watchmaker who made a fortune, remains simple while his wife is only dreaming of worldly affairs and pushes his son Freddy to marry Bianca, the daughter of the Marquis de Rocafort, their neighbor. She feeds a similar project for her daughter Mariella.
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Visages de femmes
Title: Visages de femmes
Released: March 8, 1939
Type: Movie
Georges Legrand is a young unscrupulous reveler. He seduces Fred, a woman doctor before shamelessly dumping her for Aline Ribourg, a tennis player. Soon fed up with his new conquest, he returns to Fred. But Aline is pregnant from him. Showing an admirable sense of self-sacrifice, Fred manages to persuade Georges to marry Aline.
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Second Childhood
Title: Second Childhood
Character: Frossard
Released: January 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Middle-aged Georges of the "old school" who offers shelter and comfort to Marcelle. Despite his own reservations, Georges falls in love with the much-younger girl, remaining faithful to her even after he realizes that she cares only for his money.
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Café de Paris
Title: Café de Paris
Character: Le Rec
Released: September 28, 1938
Type: Movie
This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed journalist and extortionist who is killed at his table in the cafe. Though the prime suspects are gathered together( including his wife and her lover, the gun-runner, the creditor, and a playboy) and all of them have motives, none of them did it. So whodunit?
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The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
Title: The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
Character: Alexandre Dumas figlio
Released: August 1, 1938
Type: Movie
The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox.
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Gosse de riche
Title: Gosse de riche
Character: Pierre Mougins
Released: June 7, 1938
Type: Movie
The daughter of an industrialist takes an interest in the workers and tries to improve their lot. She avoids a strike, and falls in love with an engineer.
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Port of Shadows
Title: Port of Shadows
Character: Lucien
Released: May 17, 1938
Type: Movie
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, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.
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Grisou
Title: Grisou
Character: Hagnauer
Released: May 11, 1938
Type: Movie
Femme fatale Madeleine Robinson is married to Raymond Aimos, a coal miner with a face like a pickled walnut and a libido to match. She wants some action, and what she can’t get from her impotent husband, she looks for elsewhere, first with his best friend Pierre Brasseur, then with his boss Lucien Gallas, who is also dating Brasseur’s kid sister Odette Joyeux.
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Heartbeat
Title: Heartbeat
Released: April 15, 1938
Type: Movie
A pompous grocer’s assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank him with a phony acting contract; believing it to be real, the “schpountz” heads to Paris for his new career.
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Hercule
Title: Hercule
Character: Bastien
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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Claudine at School
Title: Claudine at School
Character: monsieur Dubois
Released: December 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Poorly educated by her father, a wacky researcher, Claudine is a teenager full of life who loves her small village school run by Miss Sergeant. A new teacher, Aimée Lanthenay, arrives at the school. Seemingly awkward, she is actually an arrivist who manages to get the departure of Miss Sergeant.
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The Virgin Bride
Title: The Virgin Bride
Character: Georges Letournel, le fils du mari de Jacqueline
Released: August 6, 1937
Type: Movie
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La Reine des resquilleuses
Title: La Reine des resquilleuses
Released: March 12, 1937
Type: Movie
A young unemployed girl pretends to be a boy and gets a job as a car washer.
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Confessions of a Newlywed
Title: Confessions of a Newlywed
Character: Edmond Trivelin
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
A timid young man marries the daughter of the entomologist he works for. On the train for their honeymoon, he takes his young wife in his arms when a customs officer suddenly enters the compartment. The groom is now inhibited.
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Une femme qui se partage
Title: Une femme qui se partage
Released: February 19, 1937
Type: Movie
Louis Cruciol, a married man, leads a double life: he maintains his mistress by taking the identity of one of his employees, Louis Cornette. A series of misunderstandings ensues.
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Le Mari rêvé
Title: Le Mari rêvé
Released: December 25, 1936
Type: Movie
A shy young composer gets a job as musical director, under a false name, at a music publisher. The editor has two charming daughters, one falls in love with the composer, and the other with the musical director, two people who are only one man... Complications, misunderstandings and a happy ending.
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Prête-moi ta femme
Title: Prête-moi ta femme
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Gontran is required to marry if he wants to benefit from his aunt's inheritance. To convince the latter in favor of a visit, he calls on the wife of a friend who will play the role of the future wife. This maneuver will cause many misunderstandings.
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Passé à vendre
Title: Passé à vendre
Character: Bob
Released: September 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Maryse blackmails her former lovers by threatening to mention their names in her memoirs. But a real blackmailer appears and cashes the checks for him.
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Jeunesse d'abord
Title: Jeunesse d'abord
Released: June 5, 1936
Type: Movie
Two different young couples marry, despite the wishes to the contrary of their parents.
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Valse éternelle
Title: Valse éternelle
Released: April 3, 1936
Type: Movie
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Quadrille d'amour
Title: Quadrille d'amour
Released: December 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Irene, a young Hungarian becomes an elegant and brilliant Parisian for the love of a car racer. Her transformation earns her the heart of her beloved.
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Le Bébé de l'escadron
Title: Le Bébé de l'escadron
Character: Max
Released: December 6, 1935
Type: Movie
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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Little One
Title: Little One
Character: Georges Darnetal
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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A Rare Bird
Title: A Rare Bird
Character: Jean Berthier
Released: June 6, 1935
Type: Movie
A wealthy businessman joins his servant, who has won a winter getaway, on the trip, but at the hotel where they stay the servant is mistaken for the master.
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Jonny, haute-couture
Title: Jonny, haute-couture
Character: Jonny
Released: April 12, 1935
Type: Movie
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Le Miroir aux alouettes
Title: Le Miroir aux alouettes
Character: Jean Forestier
Released: April 5, 1935
Type: Movie
From Constantinople to Marseilles, aboard a cargo ship, an intrigue full of adventures brings together a courageous young girl and a young risk-taker who succeeds in thwarting a series of long-planned crimes.
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Caravane
Title: Caravane
Character: Lt. de Tokay
Released: October 25, 1934
Type: Movie
Princess Wilma is forced to wed by midnight or lose her inheritance. She impulsively chooses gypsy vagabond Latzi, offering him a huge sum of money if he'll consent. Swallowing his pride, Latzi agrees to the marriage, but soon the coy Countess falls in love with young Lieutenant de Tokay, who is himself in love with Latzi's gypsy sweetheart Tinka.
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The Amorous Garrison
Title: The Amorous Garrison
Character: (Pierre, un "deuxième classe")
Released: March 24, 1934
Type: Movie
In a small provincial town, the new colonel of the dragoon regiment consigns all his men. Three soldiers defy orders and jump the wall. But the colonel becomes indulgent thanks to the intervention of the general who did not remain insensitive to the charm of a young American.
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Incognito
Title: Incognito
Released: March 2, 1934
Type: Movie
A restaurant waiter and the telephone operator at the Palace of Cap Martin sympathize without ever being able to go out together, because their day off is not the same. In the meantime, the disappearance of the Prince of Roumelia, whom no one knows, is announced. The boy, with the complicity of the young girl, pretends to be the Prince. They have a happy day. But the deception is quickly discovered, they are fired. Fortunately, the real prince arrives and asks for their forgiveness.
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L'Oncle de Pékin
Title: L'Oncle de Pékin
Released: January 1, 1934
Type: Movie
In this musical comedy, all the heirs of a recently deceased uncle must stay in his chateau until they find a buyer for it.If no one is found or if any of them leave, the place will be left to its Chinese servants, who devise tricks to cheat the heirs.
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Tell Me Tonight
Title: Tell Me Tonight
Character: Koretzky
Released: February 3, 1933
Type: Movie
Opera singer Enrico Ferraro, tired of his too many engagements, jumps off the train escaping from his manager and changes to another going to the Riviera. He makes a friend and stops at a village, where (it seems) he can at last have some well deserved holidays, with the added interest of meeting a beautiful girl in the surroundings.
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Honeymoon Trip
Title: Honeymoon Trip
Character: Rudi
Released: January 6, 1933
Type: Movie
The new bride of a young Viennese is so demanding about her career that she lets him go on the honeymoon solo so she can do an engagement.Left on his own,he finds an unpretentious young lady who suits him better.
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Le sexe faible
Title: Le sexe faible
Character: Jimmy
Released: January 1, 1933
Type: Movie
The story of Madame Leroy-Gomez, a wealthy divorcee living in Paris. Together with her servant Antoine she schemes to marry off her unmarried children and fix any issues that arise for those already married.
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Une faim de loup
Title: Une faim de loup
Released: November 18, 1932
Type: Movie
René is hungry and has no money. He returns home, where only bills await him. Her neighbor Lulu is a film actress. She tries to get him hired as an extra on the set where she herself works. It is a film about gastronomy. He thinks he can finally get his fill of food, but bad luck, he plays the role of an old man who pushes her away. At the end of the day, he returns home and, passing in front of his landlady who receives, goes to mime them all that is supposed to have taken place during the filming by eating all the food offered to his appetite. After this meal, he will invite his neighbor Lulu to come to his place.
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Quick
Title: Quick
Character: Maxime
Released: August 23, 1932
Type: Movie
A woman staying at a health spa (Lillian Harvey, goes to the theater every night to see "Quick" a comic performer, who wears clown make-up. She meets him off stage, without make-up and doesn't recognize him. He courts her, hoping she'll like him for himself but she maintains her crush on "Quick."
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A Father Without Knowing It
Title: A Father Without Knowing It
Character: Jean
Released: April 10, 1932
Type: Movie
On the eve of getting married by order of his mother to a wealthy American heiress, Leon learns that his former friend just had a child. She cannot keep him, however, being in poverty.
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The Winner
Title: The Winner
Character: Hunter
Released: March 24, 1932
Type: Movie
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Circulate!
Title: Circulate!
Released: November 20, 1931
Type: Movie
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My Friend Victor
Title: My Friend Victor
Released: January 9, 1931
Type: Movie
A poor youth of noble birth needs to marry. Will the cynical, calculating upstart who wants to set him on the right course be able to help?
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Feu!
Title: Feu!
Released: May 29, 1927
Type: Movie