Jean Parédès

Jean Parédès

Born: October 17, 1914
Died: July 13, 1998
in Pusignan, Rhône, France
Jean Parédès (1914–1998) was a French film actor.

Movies for Jean Parédès...

The Executioner of Hearts
Title: The Executioner of Hearts
Character: Max
Released: October 12, 1983
Type: Movie
While filming on location in Tahiti, a small-time actor seizes an opportunity to make it big, but the attention may be more than he bargained for.
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L'émir préfère les blondes
Title: L'émir préfère les blondes
Character: le propriétaire du cheval
Released: May 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Emir Fattal is on holiday in France, being pursued by an international criminal, MacGorell. He moved to a musical impresario, Sam Moreau, who did not like the presence of a squatter.
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Engrenage
Title: Engrenage
Character: Jacques Bhome
Released: December 2, 1980
Type: Movie
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Violette Nozière
Title: Violette Nozière
Character: Chanteur
Released: May 24, 1978
Type: Movie
Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.
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Title: D'Artagnan amoureux
Character: Pélisson de Pélissard
Released: September 30, 1977
Type: TV
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Monsieur seul
Title: Monsieur seul
Character: Le vendeur de pierres
Released: August 12, 1974
Type: Movie
No overview found.
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Clockwork Bananas
Title: Clockwork Bananas
Character: Le premier ministre
Released: August 9, 1974
Type: Movie
Gilles, who operates a money losing garage, teams up with his friends Max, who operates a scrap yard, and lawyer Xavier to open a brothel catering to women. They get the idea from Gilles' secretary Irma, a former prostitute. They are assisted in the implementation by Max's wife Juliette and Sabine who is mad for Gilles. Unfortunately Gilles has fallen for Florence the daughter of the conservative Prime Minister and his wife. When the Prime Minister tries to shut down the brothel Gilles decides to stand against him in the election.
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Title: Un curé de choc
Character: Le percepteur
Released: July 22, 1974
Type: TV
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La Tête des autres
Title: La Tête des autres
Character: Alessandrovici
Released: September 13, 1973
Type: Movie
Prosecutor Maillard can rejoice: he has just obtained the death sentence of an accused accused of murder. It is the third head he gets at the assizes. There followed an evening of rejoicing with his wife and friends, including the prosecutor Bertolier. The latter's wife is Maillard's mistress. The lovers left alone, the condemned man, Valorin, burst into the room. He managed to escape during his transfer to the remand center. Valorin immediately recognized Bertolier's wife. And for good reason: at the time of the crime, they were together in a brothel. Stunned by the miscarriage of justice he has just committed, Maillard then tries to rehabilitate Vallorin while trying to avoid a scandal in the judiciary. He then calls Bertolier to the rescue. Valorin is opportunely killed "accidentally" and ... everything will go back to "order".
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Papa, the Lil' Boats
Title: Papa, the Lil' Boats
Character: Police Commissioner Duvalier
Released: April 22, 1971
Type: Movie
In this whimsical French comedy, Cookie (aka Venus de Palma) is a tough, sweet little rich girl, and is rather smart, too. She's smart enough and charming enough to outwit her kidnappers by setting one against the other until they have all killed each other or died trying to prove thier worth to her.
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The Song of the Balalaika
Title: The Song of the Balalaika
Character: Patrick Tournon
Released: March 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Sasha Voronin, a famous singer about to marry supermodel Nathalie, falls victim to John Darow, who attempts to murder him by knocking him out and throwing him into the sea. Sacha is taken in by fishermen, but he has lost his memory and takes the name Samson. Samson's memory begins to awaken when he hears a familiar tune during a circus performance, and begins to sing. Deciding to leave with the circus troupe, he ends up being hired by the director of a radio station, who launches him on the air under the name of "unknown singer". Nathalie, meanwhile married to John, recognizes his voice and wants to find him; Sacha rejects her because he has fallen in love with Maria. John again tries to eliminate Sacha, then attempts to kidnap Maria. After a mad chase, Sacha defeats John, who is arrested by the police.
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Cent ans de Folies Bergère
Title: Cent ans de Folies Bergère
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
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A Very Curious Girl
Title: A Very Curious Girl
Character: M. Paul
Released: December 3, 1969
Type: Movie
Treated as an outcast and exploited by the villagers of a small town, a young woman liberates herself through sex, which she uses as a tool of economic gain and an instrument of revenge against those who have wronged her.
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Asterix and Cleopatra
Title: Asterix and Cleopatra
Character: Jules César (voice)
Released: December 19, 1968
Type: Movie
Popular animated hero Asterix and his faithful sidekick Obelix travel to ancient Egypt to help Cleopatra build a new summer home. Cleopatra and Julius Caesar have made a bet, with Caesar wagering the project cannot be completed in a few weeks time. With the help of a magic potion, Asterix comes to the rescue of the Queen of the Nile as Caesar and an angry architect plot against them.
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Johnny Banco
Title: Johnny Banco
Character: L'Anchois
Released: August 10, 1967
Type: Movie
A hustler of humble origins steals $200,000 from a gangster and heads to Monte Carlo.
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Joseph
Released: July 21, 1966
Type: TV
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
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Angelique and the King
Title: Angelique and the King
Character: Saint-Amon
Released: January 31, 1966
Type: Movie
Soon after her latest husband death, the King himself (Louis XIV) meets with our heroine and begs her to help convince the Persian Ambassador to agree to a treaty. However, what they didn't realize was that the handsome Persian was in fact a sexual sadist. So, it is up to the King's half- brother, some Hungarian prince, to save Angélique from the evil troll's clutches.
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The Double Bed
Title: The Double Bed
Character: L'antiquaire (segment 3 "La répétition")
Released: August 6, 1965
Type: Movie
Various sketches centered on alcove stories.
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What's New Pussycat?
Title: What's New Pussycat?
Character: Marcel
Released: June 22, 1965
Type: Movie
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
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Circle of Love
Title: Circle of Love
Character: M. Albert
Released: October 16, 1964
Type: Movie
In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."
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Love Is a Ball
Title: Love Is a Ball
Character: Freddie
Released: April 24, 1963
Type: Movie
Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies. Millicent is now in his sights on the Riviera, and Grand Duke Gaspar is the bait. But what if Millicent starts to fancy planted chauffeur John instead, and Gaspar takes a shine to Etienne's secretary Janine?
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Chicken Feed for Little Birds
Title: Chicken Feed for Little Birds
Character: M. Fleurville
Released: February 15, 1963
Type: Movie
In a building close to the Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris, a tale of criss‑crossings in turn romantic, gourmet, interested or mystical, between an Italian gigolo and a nightclub hostess, a family of butchers and an apprentice rocker, a mystic tailor, a writer sending himself telegrams, an alert paralytic woman, a thoughtful concierge, a bird breeder and a just‑out‑of‑jail hooligan. Little by little each one discovers each other’s more or less troubled history… when a mysterious death introduces the Police within this huis clos, hastens disclosure of well‑kept secrets and ruffle this little World.
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The Crab Basket
Title: The Crab Basket
Released: May 20, 1960
Type: Movie
Charles is a student in Strasbourg. Abandoned by Liliane, his fiancée, who has inexplicably given up on marriage, he moves to Paris, where he decides to pursue a career in cinema. He founded a film club and became a journalist, then assistant to a famous director. Little by little, he came face to face with the various compromises inherent in this professional milieu. After writing a screenplay about his experiences, he enlists the help of Chantal, a young actress, to bring his film project to fruition.
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The Bureaucrats
Title: The Bureaucrats
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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Oh! What a Mambo
Title: Oh! What a Mambo
Character: Nikita
Released: May 13, 1959
Type: Movie
Miguel foils a bank robbery and becomes a successful nightclub singer, but he doesn't know that his wife is being courted by an Italian fitness instructor.
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Title: Discorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1959
Type: TV
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King on Horseback
Title: King on Horseback
Character: Taupin
Released: February 28, 1958
Type: Movie
Henri La Tour, a strolling player, is also a daring adventurer. So, when, after accomplishing a brilliant feat, he is awarded a title by King Louis XV, the Duke of Saint-Sever takes offense at it and challenges Henri to a duel. However, while they fight, a group of Austrian soldiers appear suddenly and the two rivals instantly unite to repel their enemies. Unfortunately, Saint-Sever is mortally wounded and, feeling he is about to die, he entreats his new friend to offer protection to Toinon, his natural daughter, whose life is being threatened...
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Filous et compagnie
Title: Filous et compagnie
Released: November 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Marianne, whose past is not beyond reproach, runs a real estate agency, to whose customers Mr. Donzin grants high-interest mortgages. Donzin provides high-interest mortgages. Mr. Donzin has just executed a charming victim who, unable to repay her loan after her husband's death, has had her business confiscated. Marianne is dreaming of a vigilante when her ex-husband, Alfredo, pardoned from prison, reappears. When he finds out, he sees in Mr. Donzin a "pigeon" worthy of attention.
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Love Is at Stake
Title: Love Is at Stake
Character: De Bérimont
Released: September 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Bob, a talented draftsman, and his young wife Marie-Blanche, a young antique dealer, adore their only son Gégé. But for the most trivial of pretexts, the couple often quarrel. A more serious quarrel leads to separation and divorce proceedings. Gégé spends a week with one of them, and a week with the other, each vying with the other for the little one's affection. But Gégé realizes that he can perhaps initiate a reconciliation.
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La Garçonne
Title: La Garçonne
Character: Edgar Lair
Released: April 5, 1957
Type: Movie
La Garçonne is a 1957 French film directed by Jacqueline Audry. It follows Monique, an ingenue and a clueless girl who believes in true love. When she discovers her future husband has a lover, she rebels against her bourgeois life:s he will lead a free and wild life and she will live like a man. Soon she becomes the toast of Gay Paris, sleeping with all the men around, and even with a woman.
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Michael Strogoff
Title: Michael Strogoff
Character: Alcide Jolivet
Released: December 14, 1956
Type: Movie
When Emir Feofar Khan, leader of the Tartar hordes, takes up arms and invades the steppes of Eastern Siberia, Czar Alexander II of Russia entrusts the brave officer Michael Strogoff with a dangerous mission.
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If Paris Were Told to Us
Title: If Paris Were Told to Us
Character: Un Médecin
Released: January 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.
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French Cancan
Title: French Cancan
Character: Coudrier
Released: April 27, 1955
Type: Movie
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.
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Cadet Rousselle
Title: Cadet Rousselle
Character: Le général
Released: October 20, 1954
Type: Movie
The Adventures of Cadet Rousselle that on the French Revolution left his hometown in search of fortune. He thinks he knows love with Violeta, a dancer in a band of comedians but ends up involved in a monarchist plot.
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Madame du Barry
Title: Madame du Barry
Character: Lebel
Released: October 13, 1954
Type: Movie
The daughter of a seamstress, Jeanne Bécu could hardly imagine she would later become one of the most influential women of the Kingdom of France...
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Air of Paris
Title: Air of Paris
Character: Jean-Marc
Released: September 24, 1954
Type: Movie
Victor Le Garrec, a former boxer, runs a gym in Paris while dreaming of finding an aspiring champion who will reach the goals he was never able to achieve.
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After You, Duchess
Title: After You, Duchess
Released: May 20, 1954
Type: Movie
When she married her snobbish lawyer husband a woman hid her family's modest background from him. Her father, who is in fact a plumber dresses up as a duchess in order to fool him.
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La dame aux camélias
Title: La dame aux camélias
Character: Count Varville
Released: November 6, 1953
Type: Movie
Young and handsome Armand Duval falls in love with Marguerite Gautier, a 'demi-mondaine'. He manages to persuade her to give up her life as a courtesan and they both settle down in the country. Tthe beginning of their idyll is like a dream but a short-lived one as their relationship is considered scandalous by Armand's family. During a secret visit to Marguerite, Armand's father convinces her to leave his son, which she does broken-heartedly but out of love for Armand. Her end will be doubly tragic; not only does she suffer from terminal tuberculosis but she is abandoned by everyone, including by Armand, who believes she has betrayed her. At long last, learning the truth, Armand rushes to her bedside and Marguerite has the joy to breathe her last in his arms.
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Lightly and Shortly Dressed
Title: Lightly and Shortly Dressed
Character: Gaétan
Released: November 6, 1953
Type: Movie
Jacqueline and Jacques, newlyweds, are in frequent discussions. The cause is Jacqueline's flirtatious nature, which she has not been able to shake off despite her marriage. One of her tennis partners, Pierre, declares his love for her, but Jacqueline advises him to marry Simone instead. Meanwhile, the husband is approached by an unsympathetic character who suggests that Jacqueline is his mistress.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Le comte de Wardes
Released: October 7, 1953
Type: Movie
The umpteenth adaptation of Dumas' novel finds d'Artagnan and his friends promoting the love affairs of Anne of Austria and the Duke of Buckingham, incurring the wrath of the Cardinal and exposing themselves to the cold cruelty of Milady de Winter. Also featured are the tender Mme Bonacieux, the hilarious Planchet, the Queen's ferrets and Bethune's executioner, against a backdrop of clanging swords.
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The Happiest of Men
Title: The Happiest of Men
Character: François Lombard
Released: November 26, 1952
Type: Movie
An industrialist who prefers painting to business is cheated on by his wife with a painter who prefers business to painting.
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Pleasures of Paris
Title: Pleasures of Paris
Character: Albert
Released: November 21, 1952
Type: Movie
Jean-Pierre, a pianist, is also the composer of a revue he would very much like Maroni, a famous theater producer, to put on. Maroni is not interested. All he wants at the moment is to impose Violette, a pretty young singer whose career he supervises. He has her dressed up as a flower seller. When he meets her, Jean-Pierre, who does not realize that she is in disguise, falls in love with her at first sight.
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Beauties of the Night
Title: Beauties of the Night
Character: Paul
Released: November 14, 1952
Type: Movie
A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.
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Woman Are Angels
Title: Woman Are Angels
Character: Philogène
Released: September 3, 1952
Type: Movie
In order to inherit her husband's old aunt more quickly, a greedy peasant woman engages in various dishonest maneuvers.
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Fan-Fan the Tulip
Title: Fan-Fan the Tulip
Character: Le capitaine de la Houlette
Released: March 20, 1952
Type: Movie
Fanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage because a gypsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as a wife. But the gypsy girl was in fact Adeline, the daughter of the recruiting officer. Once he has discovered the stratagem, Fanfan refuses to forget this dream and decides to fulfill the destiny of the fake prediction.
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Adorable Creatures
Title: Adorable Creatures
Character: The Butler (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1952
Type: Movie
Andre Noblet, a 21-year-old French artist falls madly in love with Christine, the mother of two children. He tells Chistine he will tell all to her husband and demand her freedom. Christine learns that her husband has been carrying on a romance of his own and they have a meeting.
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Les deux Monsieur de Madame
Title: Les deux Monsieur de Madame
Character: Adolphe Gatouillat
Released: December 27, 1951
Type: Movie
Adolphe is in serious financial difficulties and the extravagances of his wife do not help to fix things.
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Good Enough to Eat
Title: Good Enough to Eat
Character: Crazy (uncredited)
Released: June 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Rose Chaperon is asked by her confectioner mother Mathilde to bring jewels to her sick grandmother, Madame de Mergrand. But Hugues, the latter's brother, is prepared to do anything to get his hands on the loot. To this end he hires a villainous young man, Jean-Louis nicknamed Loup, to do the job. Will Loup engulf and devour Little "Rose "Riding Hood?
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Cherished by her concierge
Title: Cherished by her concierge
Released: May 9, 1951
Type: Movie
Eugène, who works for Radio-Europe, is a bit dim-witted. He lives in a block of flats whose caretaker is Madame Motte, and the lady is in love with the young man. Just for laughs, Eugène's friends circulate on the air the rumor that Eugène has inherited millions of francs. It does not take long before a swarm of 'friends' start mixing with him. After a while, considering that the joke has lasted long enough, the jokers reveal the truth. Eugène immediately loses all his 'friends' but not he girl he loves. Even better, Eugène actually inherits a big sum of money. He who laughs last laughs best!
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Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil!
Title: Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil!
Character: Yves Ploumanach
Released: December 20, 1950
Type: Movie
André Courvalin, a merry bachelor, considers marrying, but not his exuberant mistress Aurélie. He would much rather wed sweet Suzanne. Trouble is that Suzanne is already engaged to Yves, one of his friends. But every problem has its solution. Accordingly, André finalizes a cynical stratagem. He sends Yves to negotiate his own breakup with Aurélie while he warns Aurélie's husband about Yves' presence by her side.All goes according to plan : Yves is mistakenly taken for Aurélie's husband.
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The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang
Title: The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang
Character: Ernest Michaux
Released: November 24, 1950
Type: Movie
The manager of a firm has a very unusual idea : asking his employees to pose as gangsters and to hold up a bank before returning the stolen money and pocketing the reward. But things do not go according to plan and the phony thieves get stolen in their turn. They have no other choice than turning into amateur detectives to be able to pay back the stolen dough.
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Without Trumpet or Drum
Title: Without Trumpet or Drum
Character: Le fou échappé de l'asile
Released: June 13, 1950
Type: Movie
For the Marquis Barbezieux de Saint-Rosay, nobility is important. If anything can comfort her, it's her family tree. In order to erase any doubt he invites in his castle a cousin of his established in Scotland, whom he instructs to bring him his titles of nobility. A first person introduces himself, calling himself his cousin, but it's not him. Then one, then two, then three false cousins ​​appear in turn. Will the real Saint-Rosay of Scotland eventually present itself?
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Le Trésor des Pieds-Nickelés
Title: Le Trésor des Pieds-Nickelés
Character: Filochard
Released: March 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Although suspected and hunted down by policeman Sherlock Coco and inspector Hector, the Pieds Nickelés (Croquignol, Filochard and Ribouldingue) manage to save the legacy of Monsieur Miradoux, who will be very grateful to them.
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A Night at a Honeymoon
Title: A Night at a Honeymoon
Released: February 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Gaston wants more than anything to marry the naive Simone. But where he is, there is Sidonie, a local singer romantically pursued by the police commissionaire.
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The Inn of Sin
Title: The Inn of Sin
Character: Jacques
Released: December 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Two murders are committed in an inn for the possession of a bag containing a fortune.
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Mademoiselle de la Ferté
Title: Mademoiselle de la Ferté
Character: Barradère
Released: October 19, 1949
Type: Movie
Anne seeks revenge on Jacques who betrayed her trust. She decides to poison him and the people close to him.
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My Aunt from Honfleur
Title: My Aunt from Honfleur
Character: Adolphe
Released: August 31, 1949
Type: Movie
A young man leads a happy life in Paris, while making his aunt believe that he is continuing his studies, while she supports him financially.
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Scandal on the Champs-Élysées
Title: Scandal on the Champs-Élysées
Character: Étienne
Released: April 22, 1949
Type: Movie
In Paris, three models are murdered, being one of them the mistress of the fashion designer Dominique Airelle. It is the young inspector who is in charge of the affair.
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Toute la famille était là!
Title: Toute la famille était là!
Character: Victor Catignac
Released: December 17, 1948
Type: Movie
Mr. Catignac, a pork butcher in Perigueux, plans to marry Victor, his son, to the daughter of a magistrate. What he does not know, for his son does it in hiding, is that Victor writes songs and has made his debut as a singer in a cabaret. To make matters worse, the young man has a mistress. When word of it leaks out, the whole family are outraged. One night, as Victor goes back home, they are all here, waiting for him.
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Cité de l'espérance
Title: Cité de l'espérance
Character: Albaric
Released: October 27, 1948
Type: Movie
The City of Hope is the place where left-behind artists subsist by scraping by. When one of them is accused of murder, all try to find the real culprit.
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Le diamant de cent sous
Title: Le diamant de cent sous
Character: Charles
Released: January 7, 1948
Type: Movie
For fun and to dazzle his wife, the novelist Morgan steals a ring and gets rid of it in the costume jewelry section of a supermarket. Sophie buys the diamond, which forces the novelist to embark on crazy adventures to recover the jewel.
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One Night at the Tabarin
Title: One Night at the Tabarin
Character: Jean
Released: December 19, 1947
Type: Movie
Together with his uncompromising friend Marie Girard, André de Lurvire clamors for moral reasons for the closing of the Bal Tabarin, a famous Paris cabaret. So, imagine André's reaction when he... inherits the joint! But, following the seductive schemes of Cora, Tabarin's sultry star, Lurvire gradually lowers his guard, discovers the good life and abandons his wife.
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Coïncidences
Title: Coïncidences
Released: October 15, 1947
Type: Movie
A rich girl is in love with her father-in-law 's librarian. The wealthy man wants her to marry a military man but she's not prepared to accept it. She rebels and marries the poor guy. This young man has a cousin, who seems secretly in love with him but in fact we 'll never know what she feels. This mysterious sad woman, always dressed in black, gives her relative a strange box which seems to be a bad luck charm. The hand of fate seems on the newlyweds now:the husband involuntarily causes a car crash: his wife is killed.
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The Village of Wrath
Title: The Village of Wrath
Character: Mascaret
Released: May 7, 1947
Type: Movie
A young man and an alleged witch get married despite the prejudices of their fellow citizens.
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Thirty and Forty
Title: Thirty and Forty
Character: Monsieur Leprince
Released: July 3, 1946
Type: Movie
The scene is set during the Second Empire. Captain Bitterlin watches jealously over his lovely daughter Madeleine but he cannot prevent nature from demanding its rights and Madeleine soon finds herself a suitor in the person of Mario, a dashing young songwriter. Bitterlin, who wishes his daughter to "evade the grip" of the young man, takes her away to Monte Carlo. There, the captain does what he had sworn he would never do, he gambles in a casino. And even more upsetting: Mario might well be hereabouts...
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120, rue de la Gare
Title: 120, rue de la Gare
Released: June 6, 1946
Type: Movie
On the verge of death, a man entrusts Inspector Burma with an address. Burma conducts a difficult investigation with many twists and turns, which takes him from Lyon to Paris, following in the footsteps of the members of a mysterious business firm.
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The Bohemian Life
Title: The Bohemian Life
Character: The Viscount
Released: October 17, 1945
Type: Movie
Four young friends share the carefree, cheerfulness, laughter and dances of Bohemian life. Rodolphe the painter, Alexandre Chaunard the composer, Colline the philosopher, as well as Marcel and his friend Musette. Mimi, a romantic young girl, falls in love with Rodolphe.
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The Queer Assignment
Title: The Queer Assignment
Character: Hippolyte Castrito
Released: October 3, 1945
Type: Movie
A young man, Robert Dupont, with suicidal tendencies and a bit stupid to boot, is saved by a stranger who pretends to be a well-known banker. This stranger then entrusts him with a suitcase full of mysterious documents, which he asks him to take with him to Indochina. But in reality, the suitcase is stuffed with banknotes from a scam.
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L'aventure est au coin de la rue
Title: L'aventure est au coin de la rue
Character: Paul Roulet
Released: February 18, 1944
Type: Movie
A rich young man, Pierre Trévoux, has a desire for adventure and boasts of his courage. While he is staying with friends in the countryside, his hosts, to play a trick on him, organize a fake burglary, but he discovers the hoax. When he returns home, he finds his house broken into. Convinced that the game continues, he does not understand that he is dealing with real gangsters. His recklessness allows him to rout the criminals.
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Good Evening Ladies, Good Evening Gentlemen
Title: Good Evening Ladies, Good Evening Gentlemen
Released: February 16, 1944
Type: Movie
To teach a lesson to his young wife who dreams of the famous "voiceless singer", a husband enters a radio station and manages to make people appreciate his voice.
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The White Truck
Title: The White Truck
Released: March 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A young mechanic is given a strange job: to convey the king of the gypsies' embalmed dead body on a very long route.
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The White Truck
Title: The White Truck
Character: Ernest
Released: March 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A young mechanic is given a strange job: to convey the king of the gypsies' embalmed dead body on a very long route.
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Love Letters
Title: Love Letters
Character: Désiré Ledru
Released: December 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town’s class tensions.
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Signé illisible
Title: Signé illisible
Character: Robert Bigard
Released: July 17, 1942
Type: Movie
Strange things are happening in the small town of Breuil-le-Château. Provisions from the black market are stolen regularly and wealthy young men, including the squire's son, start vanishing... Ransom demands are sent but with an illegible signature. The investigation is trusted to Ducreux, the local police brigadier. He is assisted by Carlier, a film director in search of locations for his next movie, who has been mistaken for a police inspector from Paris. The two men will have more than their share of surprises.
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Fantastic Night
Title: Fantastic Night
Released: July 10, 1942
Type: Movie
Denis, a poor student in philosophy, works as a night porter in the Paris market of Les Halles in order to pay for his studies. Constantly weary, he falls asleep and dreams of a beautiful girl in white, Irène, with whom he falls in love.
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Whims
Title: Whims
Released: February 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Caprices tells the story of two young rich people. A famous actress poses as a poor florist, and a distinguished society man camouflages himself as forger and swindler. This game leads them to make close relations in a series of adventures.
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Who Killed Santa Claus?
Title: Who Killed Santa Claus?
Character: Kappel, the sexton
Released: October 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A village in the French Alps is rocked by a series of crimes, including the theft of a sacred ring and the murder of a man dressed as Père Noël (Father Christmas).
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Her First Affair
Title: Her First Affair
Character: Max de Vatremont
Released: August 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Micheline Chevassu is a young, naive woman living in an orphanage. Through classified ads, she has a date with an unknown man. She escapes from the orphanage to go to it, dreaming of the Prince Charming. But comes Nicolas Rougemont, an unattractive middle-aged man... He pretends not to be the author of the letters, who could not come...
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The Musicians of the Sky
Title: The Musicians of the Sky
Character: (uncredited)
Released: April 10, 1940
Type: Movie
A would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant.
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Night in December
Title: Night in December
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 29, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1919, Pierre Darmont, a handsome, much-loved piano virtuoso, falls in love with Anne Morris, a young woman who shares his tender feelings. But, quite inexplicably, after an unforgettable night, Anne vanishes without trace. Twenty years later, Pierre, at the peak of his glory, has become embittered. Unable to recover his unhappy love affair, he has collected women without ever committing himself to any. Until some night he meets the eyes of a beautiful young lady, who happens to be the spitting image of his great love...
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The Phantom Wagon
Title: The Phantom Wagon
Character: Un salutiste
Released: September 7, 1939
Type: Movie
French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he's wrought when he dies on New Year's Eve and is collected by Death in his carriage.
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Three from St. Cyr
Title: Three from St. Cyr
Character: Bréval
Released: August 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Three students from Saint-Cyr are sent to Syria to fight the rebels in the desert.
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The Fatted Calf
Title: The Fatted Calf
Released: April 12, 1939
Type: Movie
Jules Vachon, a pharmacist, has two sons, Gabriel, a steady-minded young man dedicated to his job in the pharmacy, and Gaston, a good for nothing whose only talent is to seduce rich women and take money from their pockets. But it is Gaston who is hailed as a great man when he returns to his native village thanks to his deep pockets.