Charles Vanel

Charles Vanel

Born: August 21, 1892
Died: April 15, 1989
in Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Charles-Marie Vanel, known as Charles Vanel (21 August 1892 in Rennes, France - 15 April 1989, in Cannes, France) was a French director and actor. He made his screen debut in 1912, in Robert Péguy's Jim Crow. His 77 year career comprised appearances in more than 200 films.

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The Seasons of Pleasure
Title: The Seasons of Pleasure
Character: Charles van Bert
Released: February 10, 1988
Type: Movie
Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and somewhat disturbed son-in-law, will be the butler.
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If the Sun Never Returns
Title: If the Sun Never Returns
Character: Anzevui
Released: September 2, 1987
Type: Movie
The residents of a remote Swiss mountain village come to believe an ancient oracle in this drama taken from the novel by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz. With news of the Spanish Civil War on the radio, the people begin to believe the sun will not return and the world will be forever darkened.
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Three Brothers
Title: Three Brothers
Character: Donato Giuranna
Released: March 19, 1981
Type: Movie
In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raffaele, a judge facing a political case for which he risks assassination; from Naples, the religious and ideological Rocco, a counselor at a correctional institute for boys; from Turin, Nicola, a factory worker involved in labor disputes. Once home, each encounters the past and engages in reveries of what may come.
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La Puce et le privé
Title: La Puce et le privé
Character: Mathieu Fortier
Released: March 11, 1981
Type: Movie
Val Brosse, a private detective, receives Françoise, who confesses to him that she murdered her husband. The story is false, but Val, intrigued, decides to investigate.
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The Lost Way
Title: The Lost Way
Character: Léon
Released: January 9, 1980
Type: Movie
While the Easter holidays are over, a young woman named Cécile and her brother Pierre return to the family home. There they meet their grandfather Léon, an old communist militant who has shaken Lenin's hand.
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Ne pleure pas
Title: Ne pleure pas
Character: Le grand-père
Released: March 15, 1978
Type: Movie
Marc Lafarge, 13, is idolized by his brother Thomas, 20, future veterinarian and amateur boxer. Thomas has a soul of justice. Thus, returning home with Marc after a fight, he hits a little thug who has just robbed an old lady.
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Alice or the Last Escapade
Title: Alice or the Last Escapade
Character: Henri Vergennes
Released: January 19, 1977
Type: Movie
One night Alice can't stand her husband anymore and she decides to leave him. It's a dark, rainy night and something smashes the windshield so Alice is forced to seek shelter in an old mansion. She is warmly welcomed but soon realises that strange things are happening. She tries to escape but it seems there's no way out.
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Golden Night
Title: Golden Night
Character: Charles Fournier
Released: October 1, 1976
Type: Movie
After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel returns from the dead and sets about getting revenge on his family members. He sends each one a voodoo doll, warning of their fate. Wandering over the streets of Paris, Michel is the haunted and hunted, as he himself hunts his villainous kin.
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Boomerang
Title: Boomerang
Character: Jean Ritter
Released: August 15, 1976
Type: Movie
A reformed gangster turns to his old associates for help after his son kills a police officer.
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Illustrious Corpses
Title: Illustrious Corpses
Character: Procurator Varga
Released: February 12, 1976
Type: Movie
A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.
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Title: 30 millions d'amis
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1976
Type: TV
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Seven Deaths by Prescription
Title: Seven Deaths by Prescription
Character: Pr Brézé
Released: December 3, 1975
Type: Movie
Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.
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Es herrscht Ruhe im Land
Title: Es herrscht Ruhe im Land
Character: Großvater Parra
Released: November 15, 1975
Type: Movie
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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The End of the Tether
Title: The End of the Tether
Character: Whalley
Released: August 15, 1973
Type: Movie
An experienced but aging captain in command of the Sofala must hide the fact that he is becoming blind.
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Le Reflet dans la mer
Title: Le Reflet dans la mer
Character: Baron Ucciani
Released: March 28, 1973
Type: Movie
Karl de Linken, an elegant young man, adventurous and unattached, arrives in the square of a small Corsican village perched in the mountains. His presence intrigues Baron Ucciani, who reigns supreme over Santa Lucia. The meeting with the baron and his young wife Maria could divert our hero from his original project: revenge ...
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The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
Title: The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
Character: Il Presidente
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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Camorra
Title: Camorra
Character: Don Mimo De Ritis
Released: August 30, 1972
Type: Movie
The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He will upgrade its rank till the maximum level of the "Family".
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La nuit bulgare
Title: La nuit bulgare
Character: Bohringer
Released: April 20, 1972
Type: Movie
A youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious Bulgarian industrialists who have come to his office. A government contract is being sought for a businessman who is in danger of bankruptcy.
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Le Père Goriot
Title: Le Père Goriot
Character: Father Goriot
Released: March 9, 1972
Type: Movie
Jean-Joachim Goriot, a merchant who got rich during the Revolution, is obsessed with the love of his two daughters, whose social promotion he wants. He endows them richly, ruins himself to pay their debts, but Delphine and Anastasie do not return his affection and abandon him at the time of his death to run to a big ball.
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Them
Title: Them
Released: November 18, 1970
Type: Movie
An artist grows hateful of commercial demands on his questionable talents when his friend and artist commits suicide. He puts the blame for his friend's death on an art critic and a shady art dealer. He is able to take out his frustrations on the pretentious critic at a party. When an elderly man moves into the boarding house, he brings a machine he invented that can make people realize their subconscious dreams...
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Title: Sébastien et la Mary-Morgane
Character: Louis Maréchal
Released: March 10, 1970
Type: TV
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Countdown to Vengeance
Title: Countdown to Vengeance
Character: Juliani
Released: January 29, 1970
Type: Movie
10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices after a break-in. During the fight with the police, Francois's brother was killed, and a cop disfigured by François. Now, François is back for revenge. As nobody knows who the traitor was, the former accomplices lose their head. The disfigured cop is also waiting for the right moment to take his revenge on François.
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Ballad for a Dog
Title: Ballad for a Dog
Released: January 25, 1969
Type: Movie
Remi is a man on the verge of old age who begins to have hallucinations. He believes he has found a dog, but the canine is just a product of his imagination. The man takes a turn for the worse when his only friend, his poet neighbor, moves. He is left alone with his hallucinations and tries in vain to separate fantasy from reality in this plodding, depressing feature.
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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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Woman in Chains
Title: Woman in Chains
Character: L'invité au vernissage (uncredited)
Released: November 20, 1968
Type: Movie
Gallery director Stanislas bolsters the development of modern art with his collection of surprising works. His newest acquisition is a sculpture by Gilbert, whose wife Josée is captivated by Stanislas. But unbeknownst to her, Stanislas is amassing photographs of a very perverse, disturbed nature.
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Shock Troops
Title: Shock Troops
Character: Passevin
Released: April 5, 1967
Type: Movie
A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is suspected of being an enemy spy.
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L'Arlésienne
Title: L'Arlésienne
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
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Song of the World
Title: Song of the World
Character: Marinau le matelot
Released: October 7, 1965
Type: Movie
In Haute-Provence, two rival farming clans clash over the four seasons of the year. A young lumberjack, who has gone up to Rebeillard country to fell trees, has not been heard from for several months. Concerned by his long absence, his father sets out to find him. Antonio, known as "Bouche d'or" (Golden Mouth), the man from the river, accompanied him out of friendship; the two of them toiled together for long days, but one night, at the edge of the wood, they discovered a blond woman lying on the ground, giving birth to a child: it was Clara, a young blind woman.
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Magnet of Doom
Title: Magnet of Doom
Character: Dieudonné Ferchaux
Released: September 25, 1963
Type: Movie
Young boxer Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager after a series of match defeats and is forced to look for a new job. He is engaged as secretary to a millionaire named Ferchaux who is in a hurry to flee the country when he discovers he has been implicated in a high-profile fraud.
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A King Without Distraction
Title: A King Without Distraction
Character: le procureur du roi
Released: August 30, 1963
Type: Movie
A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth century France. The second film directed by the man who played the admirable lead role in Robert Bresson's A Man Escaped is a stylized and intense adaptation of a novel by Jean Giono. This police investigation in a 19th century village combines visual beauty with the rigor of the mise-en-scène—the vertigo of the criminal motivations indivisible from the refined graphics of the images.
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Symphony for a Massacre
Title: Symphony for a Massacre
Character: Paoli
Released: August 2, 1963
Type: Movie
A band of gangsters devise a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug traffickers: the five fraudsters will face bigger problems than them.
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Rififi in Tokyo
Title: Rififi in Tokyo
Character: Van Hekken
Released: March 29, 1963
Type: Movie
Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuable diamond.
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Lo sgarro
Title: Lo sgarro
Released: February 6, 1963
Type: Movie
A young man joins a band of brigands, but, faced with their exactions, rebels against them.
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The Steppe
Title: The Steppe
Character: Pére Christophore
Released: March 6, 1962
Type: Movie
Based on a Anton Chekhov short story, this slight tale has some good moments as the drama of a young boy's journey unfolds. The lad comes from peasant stock, and one day his family decides it would be best for him to go live with his uncle in the city. The only problem is that the city is all the way across the Russian steppes, and at this time in history, that arduous journey could only be undertaken by horse and carriage. Reminiscent of the American pioneer wagon trains heading West, the tale lacks any attacks from hostile forces but is filled with charming vignettes. In one part of the journey, the boy comes across some fishermen along a river, harpooning their catch for the day. In another segment, he is entertained when some folk dancers do a lively show. But in general, it is too long and unmomentous a journey to hold attention well for nearly two hours.
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Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece
Title: Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece
Character: Father Alexandre
Released: December 6, 1961
Type: Movie
After the death of Captain Thémistocle Paparanic, Captain Haddock's old friend, he inherits a ship called the Golden Fleece. Once Tintin and the captain arrive in Istanbul, where the ship is anchored, they meet Mr. Karabine, a businessman who stubbornly insists on buying it even though it is in a dilapidated state.
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The Truth
Title: The Truth
Character: Maître Guérin
Released: November 2, 1960
Type: Movie
As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the two used to share.
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Gorilla's Waltz
Title: Gorilla's Waltz
Character: Le Vieux
Released: October 7, 1959
Type: Movie
This is the third feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of "The Gorilla," but unlike the earlier films, this time around Roger Hanin replaces Lino Ventura in the title role. A West German scientist has discovered a way to recover missiles shot into space, and the major Western powers are after his secret. Even though the scientist is willing to pass his discovery on to NATO, it is guarded by an elite, undercover West German police force. As foreign agents, including the Russians and Americans, try to get their hands on the secret, "The Gorilla" is forced into the affair by his surly, aging boss -- he has to make sure that the scientist's discovery ends up with NATO.
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Island Fishermen
Title: Island Fishermen
Character: L'armateur Mével
Released: June 24, 1959
Type: Movie
Yan, captain of a fishing boat, falls in love with the daughter of his boss, to the great displeasure of Jenny, his jealous mistress.
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Prisoner of the Volga
Title: Prisoner of the Volga
Character: Ossip Semjonowitsch
Released: March 26, 1959
Type: Movie
A vicious play of intrigue, about love, desire and betrayal, in the dress of the military at the Cossacks around 1890.
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The Wreckers
Title: The Wreckers
Character: Marnez
Released: January 27, 1959
Type: Movie
In 1852, the famine on a desolate Britanny's island named Blaz-Mor, off the coast of Finistère. Some residents exalted hold responsible the young Moira, equivalent to a witch. The old Marnez, "head" of the island, is trying to restore calm and opposes Yann Le Heart, the fiancé of his daughter Louise Kermelen, who wants causing a shipwreck to save the island from famine.
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The Mask of the Gorilla
Title: The Mask of the Gorilla
Character: Colonel Berthomieu
Released: August 14, 1958
Type: Movie
Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must infiltrate a dangerous gang working for a foreign embassy as their leader, a spy enjoying diplomatic immunity, can't be arrested by regular police.
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No Escape
Title: No Escape
Character: Caillé
Released: June 25, 1958
Type: Movie
In Provence , Father Caillé runs a family pension backed by his daughter-in-law Cora and a maid. The old man persecutes Cora for her assiduity until the day when she, in a particularly violent confrontation, knocks him down before the eyes of Gino, an Italian pensioner of whom she is in love. The two accomplices will try to make up the murder.
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Sinners of Paris
Title: Sinners of Paris
Character: Léonce Pozzi, dit "Le Fondu"
Released: January 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that Vanel is too crafty and well-connected to ever stand trial for his crime, so he carefully lays a subtle trap for his adversary. Unfortunately, both Piccoli and Vanel are thwarted by a pair of scheming females.
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The Suspects
Title: The Suspects
Character: Le commissaire Perrache de la D.S.T.
Released: August 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Commissaire Perrache, the chief of the D.S.T., the French domestic intelligence service, tries to neutralize a group of terrorists named the Partisans de la Métropole. He sends one of his best agents, inspector Louis Vignon, incidentally the husband of his charming secretary Lucette, on the trail of an illegal transmitter. But Vignon gets kidnapped by the gang and held captive on a boat off the shores of Monaco...
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Burning Fuse
Title: Burning Fuse
Released: February 27, 1957
Type: Movie
Lola, the wife of arms dealer Pedro Wassewich, is attracted to Ludovic, a young painter who turns out to be the emissary of a notorious gangster. He claims to have been sent by the latter to pick up a shipment. In fact, it's the police who, behind the scenes, orchestrate the operation to catch Wassewich red-handed.
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Death in the Garden
Title: Death in the Garden
Character: Castin
Released: September 21, 1956
Type: Movie
In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local government undertakes a violent crackdown.
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Defend My Love
Title: Defend My Love
Character: Verdisio
Released: September 12, 1956
Type: Movie
As part of a story, a reporter goes to meet Elisa, a young woman he met a few years ago on a trial on which she was finally exonerated.
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Title: Cinépanorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1956
Type: TV
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A Missionary
Title: A Missionary
Character: Père Gauthier
Released: December 2, 1955
Type: Movie
Dreaming of heroic deeds, a young missionary soon becomes disillusioned.
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Native Drums
Title: Native Drums
Released: September 9, 1955
Type: Movie
A team of doctors sets out through a steamy African jungle to check an outbreak of sleeping sickness.
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To Catch a Thief
Title: To Catch a Thief
Character: Bertani
Released: August 3, 1955
Type: Movie
An ex-thief is accused of enacting a new crime spree, so to clear his name he sets off to catch the new thief, who’s imitating his signature style.
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Diabolique
Title: Diabolique
Character: Police Inspector Alfred Fichet
Released: January 29, 1955
Type: Movie
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly flaunts. The women become increasingly unhinged by a series of odd occurrences after Delassalle's corpse mysteriously disappears.
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The Cheerful Squadron
Title: The Cheerful Squadron
Character: Il capitano Hurluret
Released: December 5, 1954
Type: Movie
The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by movie stars like Paolo Stoppa, Vittorio De Sica, Alberto Sordi and Silvana Pampanini. Based on the military environment novel The Allegro Squadron by Georges Courteline (1886), this film presents a series of sketches on military life in the late nineteenth century.
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Maddalena
Title: Maddalena
Character: Giovanni Lamberti
Released: August 7, 1954
Type: Movie
The story takes plays during the annual Good Friday pageant in a tiny Italian village. Local priest Don Vincenzo faces a crisis when the girl selected to play the Virgin Mary shows up pregnant.
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On Trial
Title: On Trial
Character: Wolf Andergast
Released: June 4, 1954
Type: Movie
Prosecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere presumptions. He then makes it a point of honor to trace the sources of the case to uncover the truth.
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
Title: Royal Affairs in Versailles
Character: M. de Vergennes
Released: February 10, 1954
Type: Movie
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
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The Wages of Fear
Title: The Wages of Fear
Character: Mr. Jo
Released: April 22, 1953
Type: Movie
In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.
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Malaire
Title: Malaire
Released: January 14, 1952
Type: Movie
Noguère, an old patriarch, is about to die and decides to confess at last to a priest. He once lived alone with his son Juste, who helped him to farm the Mauvents land. One night Noguère fired at a couple of trespassers, hurting the girl and killing her fiancé. Giving Catoune, the girl, the shelter of his home, Noguère was forced - however reluctantly it may have been - to break the bad news to the fiancée. For all that Catoune recovered, settled down and later married Juste. After a while Juste left for the war and was soon reported missing. Noguère comforted the distressed young woman so well that she became her mistress. But Juste had not been killed.
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The Last Sentence
Title: The Last Sentence
Character: Judge Marco Valsetti
Released: November 15, 1951
Type: Movie
Piero is the leader of a group of university students who lead a carefree life. Finding himself in trouble and in need of money, he turns to criminal means—receiving aid from Daniela, the daughter of a rigid magistrate.
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Incantesimo tragico
Title: Incantesimo tragico
Character: Bastiano
Released: October 13, 1951
Type: Movie
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Il bivio
Title: Il bivio
Character: Lubiani
Released: March 19, 1951
Type: Movie
After the war, Aldo and his men became gangster. But now the times are changing and Aldo decides to became a policeman to help better his men in crime. He meets Giovanna and falls for her. But he begins liking his new job and after their first robbery, Aldo tries to leave his old accomplices...
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Cuori sul mare
Title: Cuori sul mare
Character: Nostromo Norus
Released: November 9, 1950
Type: Movie
Two young men from the Navy fall in love with an actress.
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The Fighting Men
Title: The Fighting Men
Released: November 1, 1950
Type: Movie
Saverio Luparello is the manager of Sicilian baron Occipinti's estate. The cunning greedy man intentionally lets the land turn into a wasteland, hoping that his employer, discouraged by its low returns, will sell his earth to him for next to nothing. His plans are thwarted by a share cropper, Diego Costa, who farms his lot zealously and to good results.
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In the Name of the Law
Title: In the Name of the Law
Character: Massaro Turi Passalacqua
Released: March 13, 1949
Type: Movie
A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the mafia.
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The Woman I Murdered
Title: The Woman I Murdered
Released: November 26, 1948
Type: Movie
During a singles meal, the phone rings. A woman claims a man, Jean-Louis. As a joke, the master of the house replies that he is gone forever and advises him to take the plunge. But she obeys and the suicide appears in the newspapers. Tested, the master of the house takes in the child of the unfortunate woman.
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Woman of Evil
Title: Woman of Evil
Character: Laurent
Released: September 23, 1947
Type: Movie
Laurent meets Louvaine and brings her back to his island.
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La Cabane aux souvenirs
Title: La Cabane aux souvenirs
Released: September 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Laurangeais stays in a nursing home after his wife dies following an accident caused by Terrian, his adopted son. When he leaves he finds Terrian who is going to get married. He drags his future wife into a cabin and kills her.
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Le Bateau à soupe
Title: Le Bateau à soupe
Character: Le capitaine Hervé
Released: February 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Hervé is a tough sea captain in command of the "Duchesse Anne", a rum-trading ship. But the sea dog hides a tender heart and he allows Marie-Douce, a poor slum girl who dreams of seeing the wide world,on board. To have her accepted by the crew, he passes her off as his niece. A seasoned master like him, wise enough to ban alcohol use on his ship, should have known better : a beautiful girl on the deck cannot but unleash the savage instincts of all those men without women.
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Gringalet
Title: Gringalet
Released: November 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A wealthy man has two sons,one of them is legitimate,the other is not.The first offspring has had a life of luxury and he has become a lazy good for nothing whereas the youthful indiscretion has turned into an artist.He is nicknamed "Gringalet" .Now his father wants him to meet his half-brother ,his mother-in-law and the rest of the family. Gringalet will turn this bourgeois family upside down:they become nice,the big brother becoming a perfect businessman who stops scouring nightclubs to spend most of his time with his fiancee Josette.There's the rub,cause Gringalet is also in love with her.
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Hanged Man's Farm
Title: Hanged Man's Farm
Character: François
Released: December 5, 1945
Type: Movie
A large farm in Vendée. The father is dying and the three brothers and sister swear not to marry not to break up the field. Months pass. Francis, the eldest, took things in hand. For him, the promise to their father is sacred. So he does everything for his brothers and his sister Amanda are not tempted. However, the latter lets himself courted by a young man from the neighboring village ...
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L'Enquête du 58
Title: L'Enquête du 58
Character: Bernard - le mécanicien
Released: November 4, 1945
Type: Movie
A train driver has not slowed down at a signal and caused an accident whose victim is a gatekeeper. Two inspectors come to investigate the affair. During his interrogation, the driver refuses to provide an explanation for his action and is charged with malpractice. The only one he will tell the truth to is the gatekeeper's wife.
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The Woman Who Dared
Title: The Woman Who Dared
Character: Pierre Gauthier
Released: February 3, 1944
Type: Movie
The strength of a couple's fascination with airplanes and flight is to the detriment of their family
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The Roquevillards
Title: The Roquevillards
Character: François Roquevillard
Released: July 28, 1943
Type: Movie
France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that prides itself on its impeccable morals. Francois's world rapidly begins to fall apart when his son Maurice elopes to Italy with Edith Frasne, the wife of an esteemed notary.
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Le soleil a toujours raison
Title: Le soleil a toujours raison
Character: L'homme du mas
Released: January 27, 1943
Type: Movie
Tonio, pretty Micheline's fiance, meets Georgia ,a gypsy who makes advances to him.
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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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Haut le vent
Title: Haut le vent
Character: François Ascarra
Released: September 23, 1942
Type: Movie
In 1906, François left the Basque country with his father, who had decided to settle in Argentina following an incident between him and Esteban. Having become a powerful industrialist, he returned to France in 1940 on the occasion of the signing of a contract. He learns that the Haut-le-Vent estate, occupied by his aunt Anna, is his. Greeted with mistrust by the villagers, he manages to make himself sympathetic and decides to stay on the estate with Gisèle, Esteban's daughter.
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Business Is Business
Title: Business Is Business
Character: Isidore Lechat
Released: September 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Isidore Lechat is a ruthless self-made man whose money allows him to humiliate the others, particularly a ruined noble: he wants his daughter to marry this marquis's son but the girl is in love with a young scientist.
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The Black Diamond
Title: The Black Diamond
Character: François Mitry
Released: June 25, 1941
Type: Movie
A wealthy man's wife dies in a car crash; she is survived by him and their daughter. The father learns that he's not her biological father.
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The Wonderful Night
Title: The Wonderful Night
Character: le fermier
Released: December 24, 1940
Type: Movie
A couple of refugees arrives in a village: he is a cabinet maker, she's pregnant and the innkeeper refuses to give them a room; they wind up in the cowshed of a farm where she gives birth to her baby, the very night of Christmas.
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Cristobal's Gold
Title: Cristobal's Gold
Character: Le Coronel - le chef de la police
Released: April 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Dupuy, the first officer of the Cristobal, a French merchant ship, is informed by cabaret dancer La Rubia that the Cristobal carries a priceless secret cargo of gold. Based on the novel by Albert t'Serstevens.
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Law of the North
Title: Law of the North
Character: Dalrymple
Released: September 4, 1939
Type: Movie
Robert Shaw slaughters his wife's lover and runs away with his secretary Jacqueline. Helped by a French trapper who takes them for film-makers, they hide in Northern Canada.
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Yamilé Under the Cedars
Title: Yamilé Under the Cedars
Character: Rachid El Hame
Released: June 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A Lebanese Christian girl of European origin is attracted to a visiting Muslim chief and rides off with him.When her Christian fiance brings her back,she is punished for her transgression.
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Savage Brigade
Title: Savage Brigade
Character: Général Kalitjeff
Released: April 26, 1939
Type: Movie
The duel between a Czarist general and a lieutenant, over the general's wife, is postponed with war approaching. Years later, the rivals meet again but the general realizes his wife has been faithful to him after all.
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S.O.S. Sahara
Title: S.O.S. Sahara
Released: August 17, 1938
Type: Movie
At a North Africa desert outpost threatened by Arabs, the French commander has added trouble when his wife visits and is captivated by a younger officer.
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Southern Bar
Title: Southern Bar
Character: Le capitaine Olivier
Released: March 23, 1938
Type: Movie
Baron Arnold, a businessman, takes his young wife to Africa where he instructs her to seduce Captain Olivier, an intelligence officer. But Olivier illuminates the baroness on the unsavory activities of her husband as a weapons dealer and entrepreneur of revolutions.
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Legions of Honor
Title: Legions of Honor
Character: Captain Dabrau
Released: February 17, 1938
Type: Movie
An officer is tried for self-inflicted injury.He is thrown out of the Foreign Legion .
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The West
Title: The West
Character: Jean Cadière
Released: February 16, 1938
Type: Movie
The film portrays the relationship between a female Moroccan student, who has been forced to leave her studies at the Sorbonne for financial reasons and works as a dancer in a Paris nightclub, and a French naval officer. However, on returning to Casablanca she is tricked into believing that he had the led attack on her village that wiped out her family. She begins to plot her revenge.
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Rail Pirates
Title: Rail Pirates
Character: Henri Pierson
Released: January 19, 1938
Type: Movie
Henri Pierson, the chief engineer of a railway line crossing Yunnan in China, must prevent the incessant attacks of a gang of looters.
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The Woman at the End of the World
Title: The Woman at the End of the World
Character: Durc, l'Officier Mécanicien
Released: January 19, 1938
Type: Movie
A sailor falls in love with an innkeeper on a lost island.
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Crossroads
Title: Crossroads
Character: Roger de Vétheuil
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then appears a blackmailer who accuses him of being a usurper, actually called Jean Pelletier, a mobster well known to police. Vetheuil, judging himself slandered, refuses to listen to his tormentor and goes to the police. The man speaks. The scandal is public soon ...
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Abused Confidence
Title: Abused Confidence
Character: Jacques Ferney
Released: November 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Lydia (Danielle Darrieux) is a student, poor and orphaned, who pretends to be the daughter of a famous writer.
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Troïka sur la piste blanche
Title: Troïka sur la piste blanche
Released: June 18, 1937
Type: Movie
Wife of an arms trafficker in Poland, Georgina is forced to help him. She will only be able to regain her freedom - and love - after a troika chase during which the trafficker loses his life.
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Social Police
Title: Social Police
Character: Salviati
Released: April 9, 1937
Type: Movie
For years now, Chief inspector Gustave Picard has been trying to bring down Salviati, the dreadful leader of a drug-selling gang. Lucienne Préville, an informer who works for him, has infiltrated the gang but her position is dangerous. On the other hand, Scoppa, Salviati's former right-hand man, has started challenging his former boss. Will Salviati, the brutal public enemy, clear off at last?
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Southern Carrier
Title: Southern Carrier
Character: Herlin
Released: January 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief romance with his distressed cousin before he returns to the call of duty, and the rebels in the desert.
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Assault
Title: Assault
Character: Alexandre Mérital
Released: December 31, 1936
Type: Movie
Alexandre Mérital, the leader of a political party, finds himself under attack from Frépeau, one of his opponents. The latter has indeed discovered that Mérital committed a theft in his youth. But Mérital will not be intimidated by his adversary's move. In his turn, he discovers that Frépeau was once involved in a financial scandal, which forces the plaintiff to discontinue the prosecution.
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Port-Arthur
Title: Port-Arthur
Character: Commander Vassidloff
Released: December 11, 1936
Type: Movie
French-language remake of Port Arthur (1936): espionage, action and romance in the Russo-Japanese War, as the conflict threatens Russian naval officer Boris Ranewsky and his Japanese wife Youki.
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The Seniors
Title: The Seniors
Character: Henri Lormier
Released: September 29, 1936
Type: Movie
A high school in the thirties: most of the students are leaving for the Easter holidays. However, one of them,Brassier, an A -student ,stays for sentimental reasons. He is desperately in love with the principal's wife who does not want to cheat on her husband, and, above all, does not want the young man to ruin his good prospects. On a night he calls on her, a theft is committed, in the principal's office. Although completely innocent, the good lad stands accused. He's got an alibi, but it would compromise the reputation of the woman he is in love with.
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Jenny
Title: Jenny
Character: Benoit
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
When her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Danielle leaves London and returns to her mother, Jenny, in Paris. With her business partner Benoît, Jenny runs what appears to be a respectable nightclub – it is in fact a place where wealthy men can buy the favours of attractive young women. Oblivious to her mother's professional and personal life, Danielle meets a handsome young man named Lucien, and falls in love with him – not realising that he is Jenny's lover...
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They Were Five
Title: They Were Five
Character: Charles dit Charlot
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.
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The Flame
Title: The Flame
Released: May 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman of easy virtue rejects a proposal of marriage made to her by a rich lover. But when her son is taken from her to be brought up in the best conditions, she keeps thinking about him. When she finds him, twenty years later, she can not adapt to the environment to which he now belongs.
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The Fear
Title: The Fear
Character: Robert Sylvain
Released: April 10, 1936
Type: Movie
A lady who had a secret affair lives in fear.
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Michel Strogoff
Title: Michel Strogoff
Released: March 10, 1936
Type: Movie
The Czar charges a man to deliver a message to the Grand Duke behind enemy lines.On his way he encounters a number of adventures.
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The Green Domino
Title: The Green Domino
Character: Nebel, a sculptor
Released: December 27, 1935
Type: Movie
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Flight Into Darkness
Title: Flight Into Darkness
Character: Le lieutenant Maury
Released: October 22, 1935
Type: Movie
During the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon (Jean-Pierre Aumont) has a liaison with Helene (Annabella), a married woman. The young man discovers that his mistress is none other than the wife of Maury (Charles Vanel), an aviator friend.
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Les Bateliers de la Volga
Title: Les Bateliers de la Volga
Released: July 5, 1935
Type: Movie
In 1912, a Russian officer is wrongly accused of having stolen important papers. His only alibi being to have spent the night with the wife of a colonel, he allows himself to be condemned so as not to compromise the latter. He manages to escape and hides in the guise of a poor boatman. One day, the truth comes out, the colonel commits suicide and the lovers are finally reunited.
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L'Impossible Aveu
Title: L'Impossible Aveu
Released: June 7, 1935
Type: Movie
A cabaret singer incites the man who loves her to perpetrate a burglary to avenge the one she loves and to whom the first has wronged. The case goes wrong but its instigator has time to confess before dying.
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King of the Camargue
Title: King of the Camargue
Character: Rampal
Released: January 24, 1935
Type: Movie
A gypsy has cast a spell on Livette, the fiancee of Renaud, the proud guardian nicknamed, King of the Camargue. Renaud wants to punish the witch who frightened Livette. But then, meeting the gypsy, he is taken under the strange spell that emanates from her. She arranges to meet him in an isolated hut in the middle of the muddy ponds. Livette, warned of her betrothed betrayal, goes to the place where she is to meet the infidel. But Renaud changed the stakes that line the only fordable passage. And Livette dies, even more from Renaud's betrayal.
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The Great Game
Title: The Great Game
Character: Clement
Released: May 2, 1934
Type: Movie
Pierre , a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence and her whims of luxury life. Pierre has gone too far and put the family firm in jeopardy. They ask him to expatriate. To avoid scandal, Pierre joins the Foreign Legion. In Morocco, near the desert, Pierre goes with his comrades of the Legion to a bar-restaurant-brothel, owned by a shady character, Mr. Clement . Clement lives more or less with Ms.Blanche who is a fortune teller with cards, as a hobby. But Clement is also after his girls now and then. Pierre is still obsessed with Florence but he meets Irma , one of Clement's girls, who is the double of Florence except for hair color. Irma has had an accident and has lost part of her memory at a certain point of her recent past, and Pierre slowly persuades himself she is Florence, but cannot remember it. Advised by Ms.Blanche, Irma finally accepts to act as if she was Florence because she is falling in love with Pierre.
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At the End of the World
Title: At the End of the World
Character: Geroges Laudy
Released: March 30, 1934
Type: Movie
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Obsession
Title: Obsession
Character: Pierre
Released: March 23, 1934
Type: Movie
A man who suffers from the delirium of persecution and to the point of trying to strangle his wife is interned. His brother, needing his signature for his own business, gets him out of the asylum with the complicity of a false magistrate and against the advice of the doctor.
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Les Misérables
Title: Les Misérables
Character: Inspector Javert
Released: February 9, 1934
Type: Movie
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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Gitanes
Title: Gitanes
Released: March 3, 1933
Type: Movie
A gypsy and a boatman fall in love with each other. They do not understand each other and make each other suffer. When, at last, their hearts are confounded, the young girl’s father kills the young man, thus accomplishing the implacable Bohemian law.
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Case closed
Title: Case closed
Released: September 16, 1932
Type: Movie
The owner of a fairground shooting gallery, haunted by the crime he committed ten years before with the complicity of his friend and associate, is ridden with guilt. One day, as he is under the influence of alcohol, he confesses his crime. In vain, for nobody, including the police, wants to believe him...
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Dainah the Mixed
Title: Dainah the Mixed
Character: Michaux
Released: August 19, 1932
Type: Movie
Shades of Othello loom in this engrossing exploration of class, race, and murder set on an ocean liner. Young Dainah encounters an engineer onboard who mistakes pleasantries for flirtation. When she disappears the next day, suspicion spreads not only to the engineer but also to Dainah's husband.
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In the Name of the Law
Title: In the Name of the Law
Character: Lancelot
Released: April 15, 1932
Type: Movie
The story is about a drug ring and the finally successful efforts of the Paris police to break it up. A young detective goes into a den in Paris' Chinatown, following a clue, and that is the last seen of him until his body is found floating in the Seine several days later. The only clue is a woman's glove. The dead man's friends on the force vow to avenge him, and receive information leading them to suspect one Sandra, a beautiful foreigner, played by the stunning Marcelle Chantal.
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Wooden Crosses
Title: Wooden Crosses
Character: Caporal Breval
Released: March 17, 1932
Type: Movie
The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he and his comrades soon experience the terrifying, endless trench war in Champagne, where more and more wooden crosses have to be erected for this cannon fodder.
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Faubourg Montmartre
Title: Faubourg Montmartre
Character: André Marco, dit Dédé
Released: October 2, 1931
Type: Movie
Two sisters struggle to stay on the straight and narrow.
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Rio's yellow house
Title: Rio's yellow house
Released: March 20, 1931
Type: Movie
When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who looks like him, the staff and spectators at that night's show think the actor is giving an unusually good performance.
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Dance House
Title: Dance House
Character: Ramon
Released: January 9, 1931
Type: Movie
Three men vie for a pretty young lady in a small Spanish port town: The boss of a dance hall who encourages her aspirations at performing, a married fisherman, and that man's unmarried younger brother.
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The Yellow Captain
Title: The Yellow Captain
Released: December 19, 1930
Type: Movie
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L'Arlésienne
Title: L'Arlésienne
Character: Gardian Mitifio
Released: September 19, 1930
Type: Movie
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Accused, Stand Up!
Title: Accused, Stand Up!
Character: Henri Lapalle
Released: September 12, 1930
Type: Movie
Paris, 30's declared professional rivalry between two stars of the musical, Yvonne and Gaby leads to dire consequences. Yvonne's body is found in the theater. Gaby's future is threatened against the judgment to which it is subjected, with a probable prison sentence.
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In the Night
Title: In the Night
Character: L'ouvrier carrier
Released: May 16, 1930
Type: Movie
A quarry worker gets married and lives his marital bliss, until an explosion at his workplace, a mine, disfigures him...
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Chic
Title: Chic
Character: Fernand (François)
Released: February 14, 1930
Type: Movie
An American couple, Douglas and Mary, are in the nightclub 'La Vache Rose'. When Julot and Nini are performing 'La Danse Apache', Douglas thinks that Nini is being abused and he comes to her defense. He doesn't know that it's all part of the dance. "Chiqué" is the first French talking picture produced in France.
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Waterloo
Title: Waterloo
Character: Napoleon
Released: November 7, 1929
Type: Movie
This presentation of 'Waterloo', a film by Karl Grune about the last hurrah of Napoleon, is a fascinating companion to the Abel Gance epic 'Napoleon'. 'Waterloo' presents a tale of several people involved in the final battle. Napoleon and Wellington, of course, but also the Austrian general Blutcher (who is seen as a ladies' man - his scene with a flirty Countess about halfway through the film is priceless; as are his touching scenes with his plain wife (who he imagines to be a young and nubile girl when they get romantic) and some people within his regiment. Not simply a film of war, 'Waterloo' is a story of people, of lovers, of lost opportunities.
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An Ideal Woman
Title: An Ideal Woman
Character: Angel Call
Released: July 5, 1929
Type: Movie
Based on a novel by José Pérez de Rozas. In Seville, Angel Caal, a Parisian businessman, escapes blindness after a car accident, thanks to the dedicated care of Mercédès, intended for the convent. They fall in love and Mercedes soon discovers the temptations of Paris.
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Drei Tage auf Leben und Tod - aus dem Logbuch der U.C.1
Title: Drei Tage auf Leben und Tod - aus dem Logbuch der U.C.1
Character: Der Steuermann
Released: January 1, 1929
Type: Movie
a silent war movie by Heinz Paul
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Le Passager
Title: Le Passager
Released: October 17, 1928
Type: Movie
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Apaches of Paris
Title: Apaches of Paris
Released: December 17, 1927
Type: Movie
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Die weisse Sklavin
Title: Die weisse Sklavin
Released: September 22, 1927
Type: Movie
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Feu!
Title: Feu!
Released: May 29, 1927
Type: Movie
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The Prey of the Wind
Title: The Prey of the Wind
Released: May 12, 1927
Type: Movie
A pilot crashes and a beautiful countess of a castle nearby nurses him to health.
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Nitchevo
Title: Nitchevo
Released: December 20, 1926
Type: Movie
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Mister Mustard's Millions
Title: Mister Mustard's Millions
Character: John Durand
Released: July 2, 1926
Type: Movie
When bored American billionaire Charles Vanel is amused by the happiness of poor railroad man Nicolas Koline, he offers him a wager: if Koline and his family can spend 20,000 francs a day (about $11,000 in current American money) for a year, then he'll give him a nice pension. The rest of the movie is about the poor man and his family's efforts to win the bet.
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The Flame
Title: The Flame
Released: January 15, 1926
Type: Movie
Cléo d'Aubigny, a music-hall star, once had a love affair with the rich Lord Sedley and had a son from him. But Cléo, putting her career first, has always neglected little Hugues, letting Lord Sedley take him with him and educate him. Now she feels terribly guilty and tries to resume contact with her son.
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Barocco
Title: Barocco
Released: November 20, 1925
Type: Movie
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The Awakening
Title: The Awakening
Released: November 6, 1925
Type: Movie
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Iceland Fishermen
Title: Iceland Fishermen
Character: Yann
Released: October 10, 1924
Type: Movie
Faithfully reproduced observations of Breton fisherfolk in story of the man a local woman really loves who will not at first give himself to her because of his fondness for the sea that takes him away.
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Heart of an Actress
Title: Heart of an Actress
Released: October 7, 1924
Type: Movie
Desire brings out the worst in an actress' suitors-- One a well-to-do patron of London's theatre set, the other a lovestruck loner on the verge of penning a play dedicated to her.
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La Flambée des rêves
Title: La Flambée des rêves
Released: October 3, 1924
Type: Movie
Claire is married to the elderly owner of a brewery. She seeks excitement with her childhood friend René.
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Calvaire d'amour
Title: Calvaire d'amour
Released: December 5, 1923
Type: Movie
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L'Autre aile
Title: L'Autre aile
Released: November 30, 1923
Type: Movie
Reymat is killed during an aerobatic exhibition in a plane. Hélène, his fiancée, to forget her grief, decides to become an aviator.
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Tillers of the Soil
Title: Tillers of the Soil
Released: January 2, 1923
Type: Movie
One of two peasant brothers in love with the same woman escapes his grim country life and pursues a career as a Parisian sculptor.
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The House of Mystery
Title: The House of Mystery
Character: Henri Corradin
Released: January 2, 1923
Type: Movie
Film composed of 10 episodes: 1.- L'Ami felon. 2.- Le secret de L'etang. 3.- L'Ambition au service de la haine. 4.- L'Implacable verdict. 5.- Le Pont vivant. 6.- La Voix du sang. 7.- Les Caprices du destin. 8.- En Champ clos. 9.- Les Angoisses de Corradin. 10.- Le Triomphe de L'amour.
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Tempêtes
Title: Tempêtes
Character: Raoul Mauduit
Released: June 9, 1922
Type: Movie
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Phroso
Title: Phroso
Character: Dimitri
Released: January 13, 1922
Type: Movie
An Englishman, Lord Wheatley, purchases an island over which reigns the supremely beautiful Phroso, thus disposessing her of her land. Revolted, the islanders, supported by an adventurer who desires Phroso, rise against the new master. The English are saved by the British governor, also under the spell of gorgeous Phroso. The latter, for her part, is not wholly insensitive to Lord Wheatley's distinction. The imbroglio still worsens with the meddling of a dark horse : the neighboring sultan.
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The Child of the Carnival
Title: The Child of the Carnival
Released: July 29, 1921
Type: Movie
A foundling is left in front of the home of a rich aristocratic bachelor during the Nice carnival. The marquis adopts the child but soon finds that he cannot cope, so he employs a nanny who turns out to be the child's real mother. Just as the two have fallen in love and there is a happy ending in sight, the woman's husband - long thought dead - turns up.