Robert Seller

Robert Seller

Born: August 1, 1889
Died: August 17, 1967
in Paris 11 France

Movies for Robert Seller...

How to Succeed in Love
Title: How to Succeed in Love
Released: November 16, 1962
Type: Movie
Bernard, a young, serious publisher of religious books, finds himself embroiled in amusing and eventful adventures with Sophie, a wacky twist dancer. Having lost his own situation, he joins Editions du Soleil thanks to his friend Marcel's manuscript "Comment réussir en amour". Freed of his shyness, he succeeds brilliantly in his career; and having put to good use the teachings of the manuscript, Bernard ends up marrying Sophie. But he soon finds himself confronted by the impetuous young woman's fantasies.
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A Kiss for a Killer
Title: A Kiss for a Killer
Released: November 27, 1957
Type: Movie
In Nice, the wealthy widow Betty Farnwell falls for the charms of a handsome young man, Philippe Delaroche. Mrs Farnwell is so taken with Philippe that she persuades her bank to allow him to manage her financial affairs. Philippe, an unscrupulous opportunist, is not slow to turn the situation to his advantage and within no time he is married to his wealthy benefactor. Philippe has barely grown accustomed to wearing a wedding ring when he begins a romantic liaison with his wife’s attractive secretary, Eva. It soon transpires that Eva is even more ruthless than Philippe.
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A Night at the Moulin Rouge
Title: A Night at the Moulin Rouge
Released: August 7, 1957
Type: Movie
An uncle in America wants to endow his nieces with a dowry, provided they succeed in making a name for themselves one night at the Moulin Rouge, where one of them is already performing. Everyone's pulling out all the stops to help the girls put on an act, dupe the theater manager and win the dowry - which will be doubled if they manage to marry, as their uncle is marrying the star of the show.
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Élisa
Title: Élisa
Released: March 8, 1957
Type: Movie
Recently released from reform school, Élisa works at Madame Irma's before moving to Paris, where her success is growing. On a trip to the provinces, she meets Bernard, a blind man. They soon fall in love, but Élisa hides her activities from him. When he finds out, he hits her. The situation quickly degenerates.
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Le colonel est de la revue
Title: Le colonel est de la revue
Character: L'oncle
Released: March 1, 1957
Type: Movie
To spice up a life that's too quiet, a couple of friends play at being gangsters, but end up meeting some real hoodlums.
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Soupçons
Title: Soupçons
Character: Edouard
Released: November 23, 1956
Type: Movie
"Poisoner" - After her fiancé is arrested Claire finds herself alone and forced to find work. She is hired by a country squire, Etienne de Montenoy, as the tutor of his goddaughter. It does not take long before Montenoy falls for her but a little longer before the young woman, reluctant at first, understands Etienne loves her truly and then requites his love. Etienne lives so happily with her that he decides to make her his heir. Shortly after, he is murdered by poison...
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Les Duraton
Title: Les Duraton
Character: Le comte de Kerfelus
Released: March 2, 1956
Type: Movie
Jules Duraton is the headmaster of Chatelbourg's high school. He is happily married, has a teenage daughter named Solange, and everything would be for the best of all possible worlds if he and his family were not the namesakes of the protagonists of a famous comic series broadcast every day on Radio Monde "La Famille Duraton". Day after day, the real-life Duratons are made fun of because of their surname and Jules just can't take it any more. That is why he decides to sue the radio station responsible for his misfortune.
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Pleasures and Vices
Title: Pleasures and Vices
Released: September 2, 1955
Type: Movie
He was nicknamed Gueule d'ange (Angel's Face) because of his good looks, which enabled him to make a certain amount of money from wealthy ladies. Having given up on touching little Marie, he fell into the clutches of fashionable decorator Loina. Both love money, both go for it. Their characters bind them together. So much so that when Loina falls on hard times, Gueule d'ange would fly to help her. A loyal friend stops him. Loina leaves. Distraught, the handsome boy looks inward. It's time for him to settle down.
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Nights of Montmartre
Title: Nights of Montmartre
Released: August 8, 1955
Type: Movie
Bobby earns his living in Montmartre by duping naïve provincials, along with his pal Julien, as well as crooks and drug dealers, replaced by bicarbonate. His friend Monique, who dances at Le Paradou, is frightened by such a life. A crime of which he is not guilty occurs while he is robbing drug dealer Mureau. Bobby flees, but prefers to let himself be imprisoned. A serious accident is avoided. The brave Inspector Doirel is determined to set the boy straight. Monique will do her bit too.
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Mademoiselle from Paris
Title: Mademoiselle from Paris
Released: June 28, 1955
Type: Movie
Micheline Bertier is as wise as she is graceful, and is the perfect assistant to her boss, couturier Maurice Darnal. Darnal's business is faltering and he has to close down. Micheline's family is also in trouble. Her crazy-headed sister is about to steal her fiancé away from her. At the suggestion of singer Jacqueline François, Micheline goes on tour as an accompanist, and meets up with Darnal in Nice, full of projects he wants to involve her in. Micheline, who arrives in time to save her sister from a suicide attempt, will know how to run the new fashion house.
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Obsession
Title: Obsession
Character: Le caissier (uncredited)
Released: October 28, 1954
Type: Movie
Hélène and Aldo Giovanni are a circus trapeze double act and a couple. Aldo is temporarily replaced by former-partner Alexandre when the former is injured. The two get into a fight and the following day Alexandre is discovered dead. Hélène suspects her husband is responsible for the murder.
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Cadet Rousselle
Title: Cadet Rousselle
Character: Le seigneur
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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The Secrets of the Bed
Title: The Secrets of the Bed
Character: L'ami riche
Released: May 19, 1954
Type: Movie
Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural background take refuge in a cabin after being sidetracked by bad weather on their way to conference.
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The Secret of Helene Marimon
Title: The Secret of Helene Marimon
Released: May 13, 1954
Type: Movie
At the end of the Great War, the wounded Jacques Taillandier is cared for by the beautiful Hélène Marimon and becomes her lover. He hides from her the fact that her husband is a comrade from the trenches, and only reveals the truth when he learns of Marimon's death. Outraged, Hélène drives him away. After many years, Jacques reappears to learn that Hélène had once given him a daughter. Hélène, unwilling to reveal anything to young Dominique, forces the man she loves to leave her country. Dominique not only gets her mother to talk, but also reunites those separated by fate.
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Boom on Paris
Title: Boom on Paris
Character: Professor Sestrières
Released: February 19, 1954
Type: Movie
In the early 1950s, the popular radio show "La Kermesse aux Étoiles", hosted by the famous Jean Nohain, mixing lottery games and performances of various artists, will be disrupted by the adventures of a man and his fiancée seeking to recover a dangerous bottle of perfume (explosive) which was unfortunately mixed with the prizes to be won ...
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La dame aux camélias
Title: La dame aux camélias
Character: Maître d'hôtel
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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My Childish Father
Title: My Childish Father
Released: July 8, 1953
Type: Movie
A middle-aged man, an architect by trade, decides to make an end run around getting married. He marries a charming young woman, tenderly in love, who proves incapable of holding him back and, above all, of making him work. But a young American arrives in Paris and reveals that he is the architect's natural son. At first reluctant, the latter and his young wife quickly adapt to the new situation, until the son, a businessman through and through, wants to share with his father his ideas on life, which can be summed up in one sentence: hard work, with no time for pleasure. The father is quick to balk, and the son is forced to unwillingly participate in the fickle architect's nightlife. Eventually, the father is able to settle down, while the son, having acquired a taste for love, has a good time.
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The Lovers of Midnight
Title: The Lovers of Midnight
Character: Le dîneur (uncredited)
Released: April 1, 1953
Type: Movie
Marcel, rich and alone for Christmas, invite Françoise to celebrate whim him. Soon, the fairy tale turns into a bad dream.
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Un trésor de femme
Title: Un trésor de femme
Character: Joseph
Released: February 11, 1953
Type: Movie
Francois is engaged to Isabelle. While going to buy the engagement ring, he meets Sophie, who puts the ring on her finger and does not manage to remove it. Francois follows in the footsteps of Sophie, who is married to an important merchant, in order to recover his property.
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Run Away Mr. Perle
Title: Run Away Mr. Perle
Character: Le docteur Berthier
Released: December 11, 1952
Type: Movie
Modest fifty-something, Mr. Perle, is a baker in a small provincial town. He lives there with an authoritarian woman and her cousin, a parasite who poisons his existence. A Parisian notary writes to the hero to ask him to come and take possession of an inheritance. In Paris, Perle meets a pretty adventuress.
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Ils sont dans les vignes...
Title: Ils sont dans les vignes...
Released: October 31, 1952
Type: Movie
In 1935, in the Burgundian village of Valromey, Commissioner Desbordes was the very unpopular leader of the anti-alcoholic league. His own brother, Pimpin, is an unconditional defender of the vineyard. Pierre Moreau is, for his part, the representative of a hygienic drink, the "Koku-Kolu". The cafe owner's daughter, Rose, will find the man very to her liking and will manage to seduce him.
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Jupiter
Title: Jupiter
Released: August 27, 1952
Type: Movie
A provincial chemist's daughter is to marry her cousin Gilbert.The day before he arrives, a stranger, who has just escaped from an insane asylum, claims he is the famous cousin.
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Love Is Not a Sin
Title: Love Is Not a Sin
Character: (uncredited)
Released: June 27, 1952
Type: Movie
A building, a landing, two tenants: he, Jacques Loursier, is president of the U.R.A.F (Union and Resistance Anti-Woman); she, Eliane Cahuzac, is president of the Association for the Triumph and Independence of Women. Unaware of each other until then, a cold war begins between the two parties. An attempt at conciliation fails then, after many adventures, love triumphs.
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L'éternel espoir
Title: L'éternel espoir
Released: June 24, 1952
Type: Movie
The war will separate the members of the Valon family, two sons Alexandre and Antoine being prisoners, while the youngest Gilbert enters the secret army. Only their sister, Denise, will stay on the farm with her grandfather and grandmother. The Germans invade the free zone.
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This Rascal of Anatole
Title: This Rascal of Anatole
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 14, 1952
Type: Movie
Anatole, quivering nostrils and greedy lips, is the resourceful clerk of Mrs. Paufilat, a butcher. It takes a fancy to take on the identity of the Paufilat son, Paul. He must then undergo the assaults of the tumultuous Germaine, exhilarated by the money of Paul Paufilat.
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A Girl on the Road
Title: A Girl on the Road
Character: Joseph, the valet
Released: March 28, 1952
Type: Movie
To escape his female fans, Carlos Cortez makes for the Riviera. Along the way, he picks up a hitchhiker named Annabel who invites him to go camping with her friends. Living under his real name, the incognito star wins new friends. But a theft complicates things. Fortunately, Annabel is still around and Jacques can do no better than to marry her.
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Le crime du Bouif
Title: Le crime du Bouif
Character: The count
Released: March 5, 1952
Type: Movie
A poacher nicknamed "Le Bouif" is accused of having murdered his son-in-law, trainer of a horse stable in Maisons-Laffitte.
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Adorable Creatures
Title: Adorable Creatures
Character: Valet (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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Gigolo
Title: Gigolo
Character: Un client (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, he fell into misery when he left it. His only asset was his good looks, which did not escape the attention of Madame Alice, a shady woman who persuaded him to pose for pornographic photos meant for lonely aging women. Marceau also served as a gigolo before the war and captivity put an end to this juicy business. Now he wants to start a new life, all the more as ha has found love in the person of a pure young lady named Dominique. But Madame Alice won't hear of it...
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Monsieur Octave
Title: Monsieur Octave
Released: November 7, 1951
Type: Movie
Monsieur Octave, a good man who has retired from the French national railway company, wants to have his house built. To this end he contacts a loan company. They ask him to credit them with 100,000 francs. Which he does. From then on, Octave starts waiting, waiting, waiting...
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Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
Title: Adhémar or the Toy of Destiny
Character: Le premier conseiller
Released: September 14, 1951
Type: Movie
Is it because his father was a groom that Adhémar Pomme has a long horse head and a horse- toothed smile? Maybe but the fact is that his head has invariably caused laughter whatever the circumstances, which is the tragedy of his life. After having worked as an undertaker, a theater prompter, a casino bouncer, and so on, and failing at each job, he applies out of desperation to an institution where those rejected for physical reasons can hide and live together. But Adhémar immediately starts... laughing at them and gets kicked out as a result! In the end though, he finds his way as a circus artist.
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Deburau
Title: Deburau
Released: June 29, 1951
Type: Movie
Jean-Gaspard Deburau is a very successful mime, the most famous in his category. One day, he falls head over heels in love with Marie Duplessis, a courtesan better known as "La Dame aux Camélias". But he soon realizes that he is but a number in her long list of lovers. He will find comfort in devoting his time teaching his art to his son Charles.
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Dear Caroline
Title: Dear Caroline
Character: Un commissaire
Released: February 28, 1951
Type: Movie
France, July 1782. During her birthday, the beautiful young Marchioness Caroline meets the attractive soldier Gaston. It's love at first sight but Gaston does not wish to make a commitment because a military career waits for him. Caroline marries then a politician but the French Revolution bursts and Caroline has to run away to escape the guillotine. By running away she meets Gaston again who decides to help her.
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La Rosière de Gonfalon
Title: La Rosière de Gonfalon
Released: January 1, 1951
Type: Movie
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Lost Souvenirs
Title: Lost Souvenirs
Character: Un ami (uncredited)
Released: November 11, 1950
Type: Movie
Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide. -A funeral wreath lets us know how it caused a young woman to believe her lover dead. After having told their respective story, the objects return to their customary stillness.
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Caught in the Foreign Legion
Title: Caught in the Foreign Legion
Character: James, le maître d'hôtel
Released: November 8, 1950
Type: Movie
André Duroc pretends to be a duke in order to extort money from Aunt Solange. But his trickery is discovered, he must flee and, thanks to a uniform, takes part in the great maneuvers.
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Tu m'as sauvé la vie
Title: Tu m'as sauvé la vie
Character: le commissaire Leblondinay
Released: September 20, 1950
Type: Movie
A wealthy baron, without offspring, who knows death is approaching, wants to adopt a man who kept him alive a bit longer, when he was almost run over by a horse drawn cart.
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The Treasure of Cantenac
Title: The Treasure of Cantenac
Character: Isidore
Released: September 6, 1950
Type: Movie
While he was about to end his life, Baron de Cantenac wanted to return one last time to the land of his ancestors. He then discovers a treasure that he will strive to use to revive his village.
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Le tampon du capiston
Title: Le tampon du capiston
Character: General Fénouil de Sainte-Fenouil
Released: August 3, 1950
Type: Movie
Cochu, a peasant, is the whipping boy of his regimental comrades. He is called "buffer of the capiston", that is to say the captain's order. But he finds himself in the service of Hortense, the captain's sister.
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Three Feet in a Bed
Title: Three Feet in a Bed
Character: Dr. Labrousse
Released: April 19, 1950
Type: Movie
In spite of his failures as a peddler, Casimir guaranteed his fiance that this time the vacuum cleaners will work for good. But he's still unsuccessful until he go to the appartment of Paul-Andre, a painter who was engaged by correspondence to a rich south-American woman. That's exactly when she arrive armed with a gun infuriated after she had received a rupture letter from the man she had never seen. She mistakenly took Casimir as her painter lover. Casimir his ready to flee until he learned she owned many hotels, a thousand rooms in fact. "A thousand rooms, a thousand vacuum cleaners", he suddenly think.
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The Crime of the Just
Title: The Crime of the Just
Character: Albin
Released: April 19, 1950
Type: Movie
Arnal, nicknamed 'Counselor' is the head of a family held in high esteem by the people of a Cevennes village. Now, the dignified man, who is the respected arbitrator of local disputes, has adopted Clémence, a deaf-mute girl. The day when Maurice, Arnal's son, starts a love affair with his stepsister, trouble begins...
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Toâ
Title: Toâ
Character: Fernand de Calas
Released: October 27, 1949
Type: Movie
Michel Desnoyer has turned his private life into a comic stage play. But the volcanic Ecaterina is not at all pleased to find out that Michel's sister is the mistress of the man she loves.
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Tabusse
Title: Tabusse
Released: September 28, 1949
Type: Movie
In the Cévennes, Tabusse is a figure of the village. Angry and but also in love, he goes through many adventures.
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Two Doves
Title: Two Doves
Character: Charles, son valet
Released: July 27, 1949
Type: Movie
A man remarried his wife's sister whom he believes died in a fire. The alleged deceased reappears and sows trouble and discord in the new household.
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The Execrable Fate of Guillemette Babin
Title: The Execrable Fate of Guillemette Babin
Character: Louis Le Noble
Released: October 14, 1948
Type: Movie
Being born a witch's daughter did not bode well for your future in the Middle Ages. Guillaumette tries to stay on the straight and narrow with a little help from a priest she visits.
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The Devil Who Limped
Title: The Devil Who Limped
Character: Le prince de Polignac (non crédité)
Released: July 11, 1948
Type: Movie
The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Constitutional Monarchy. Its title comes from one of the main historical nicknames for Talleyrand, that he shares with demon king Asmodeus and English poet Lord Byron.
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Judicial Error
Title: Judicial Error
Character: Monsieur de Berville
Released: April 7, 1948
Type: Movie
After a banker is driven to suicide by his wife's reckless spending, an innocent cashier is wrongly implicated in a crime.
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The Private Life of an Actor
Title: The Private Life of an Actor
Character: l'acteur médiocre
Released: February 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Biography of Lucien Guitry, stage comedian, by his son, movie director, and a poetic reflection on the passionate love of both men for their chosen art forms.
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L'Homme de la nuit
Title: L'Homme de la nuit
Released: August 6, 1947
Type: Movie
A detective uncovers a crime. The suspects are numerous and it will take all the insight of a journalist to discover the culprit.
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Carbon Copy
Title: Carbon Copy
Character: Investigating judge
Released: July 9, 1947
Type: Movie
A smooth criminal, who turns to be Manuel Ismora, and his gang successfully and peacefully pull off con after heist. Elsewhere a timid office worker, Gabriel Dupon, is pressured by his boss...
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Clockface Cafe
Title: Clockface Cafe
Character: Biscarra , un journaliste
Released: June 27, 1947
Type: Movie
Julien Couturier (Bernard Blier) and his wife Louise (Blanchette Brunoy), a young couple from Auvergne who have come to Paris to try their luck for the first time in their lives, become the owners of the "Café du Cadran" ("Clockface Cafe"). On opening day, they meet the people who will become their clientele. It's a busy place, with regular customers served by two waiters, Jules (Robert Le Fort) and Victor (Charles Vissières). While Julien is comfortable in his role as boss, Louise doesn't quite get used to this urban world, where everything moves faster, especially human feelings. She often misses Marcenait, the village in Auvergne where she and her husband ran the "Café du Commerce". Mr. Luigi (Aimé Clariond), a café customer and violinist who performs at the "Café de Paris", has undertaken Louise's cultural education. He teaches her how to dress and do her hair, while recounting his musical successes and travels, skilfully playing on his undeniable seductiveness...
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The Fan
Title: The Fan
Character: Monsieur Dupont
Released: June 18, 1947
Type: Movie
Martine is a lonely girl in an exclusive boarding school who conjures up a glamorous existence in order to make her dull life tolerable and to impress the other girls. One of her flights of fancy is a love affair with Brevannes, a famous composer. She leaves the school and goes to the French Alps to find the life she's only dreamed about, where she meets Brevannes and a December-May romance develops until she meets a young mountain guide, Henri Vidal.
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Endless Night
Title: Endless Night
Character: The doctor
Released: June 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Fleeing Paris where he killed, Olivier takes refuge in the Giraud farm and falls in love with his daughter, to the chagrin of her suitor, a man named Joseph. When the latter is found dead, Olivier is accused and the young woman will arrive too late to clear him, the poor man having fallen into a ravine while trying to flee.
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Six Hours to Lose
Title: Six Hours to Lose
Character: Le bourgmestre
Released: January 22, 1947
Type: Movie
A traveller is stuck in an unknown town because his connecting train will only arrive in six hours. He decides to kill time by taking a stroll. He is not prepared to get confused with somebody else. In fact the citizens are eagerly awaiting the visit of a famous man and the clueless traveller is his doppelgänger. Soon he experiences what that means.
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Le destin s'amuse
Title: Le destin s'amuse
Character: Gabrielle's father
Released: December 13, 1946
Type: Movie
A guardian, abusing his prerogatives, imposes on a young girl the husband he has chosen for her. On the very day of the wedding ceremony, the bride fled. She is picked up on the road by four bandits who are going on a business expedition. After many adventures, each as implausible as the next, the heroine will marry the man of her choice.
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Happy Go Lucky
Title: Happy Go Lucky
Character: Benjamin
Released: May 15, 1946
Type: Movie
After lovers fight, the boy leaves for the Riviera. On her way to rejoin him, the girl meets a distinguished but embittered novelist and decides to spend time comforting him.Which is not going to help when she returns to her boyfriend.
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Goodbye Darling
Title: Goodbye Darling
Released: April 26, 1946
Type: Movie
Chérie is a beautiful young woman who works as an escort girl. She meets a young and wealthy man who propose her to be his fictional wife so that his mother won't bother him anymore with this other girl, a rich one, she wants to see her son married to.
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Devil's Daughter
Title: Devil's Daughter
Character: The Mayor
Released: April 17, 1946
Type: Movie
Pursued by the police, Saget usurps the identity of a man who was returning to his town after having made his fortune in the United States. Under this new name, he deceives his compatriots with the exception of a doctor and the savage Isabelle. During an explanation Saget understands that Isabelle secretly admires him. She denounces him and Saget surrenders without a fight. Thus he ruins all his prestige with the young Amazon.
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Behind These Walls
Title: Behind These Walls
Character: Lucien Sampet
Released: March 13, 1946
Type: Movie
June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by the resistance, the inhabitants who listen to English radio are rounded up by the Germans in a prison and considered as hostages. In one of the cells are found men from all walks of life: an aristocrat, the Viscount of Saint-Leu, Doctor Noblet, a resistance fighter, Béquille the wanderer with a wooden leg, and a strange character nicknamed "Black Market". The latter arouses mistrust among the prisoners, because it could well have been introduced by the enemy.
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Special Mission
Title: Special Mission
Character: Le directeur du 'Critérion' (uncredited)
Released: March 8, 1946
Type: Movie
The exploits of Chief Police Inspector Chabrier, first before the invasion of France in May 1940 as he fights against spies preparing the coming the Germans, particularly Emmy de Welder, the alleged manager of the Rouen hospital. Later, Chabrier and his men go underground and resist the occupiers whatever the price to pay. When the Liberation comes Chabrier resumes his activities at the French National Police.
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Volpone
Title: Volpone
Character: Le chef des sbires
Released: May 10, 1941
Type: Movie
Volpone, an elderly Venetian, connives with his money-crazed servant to convince his greedy friends that he is dying, knowing that each will try to curry favor with him in order to be named his heir. He is inundated with valuable gifts, and soon finds himself entangled deeper and deeper in a web of lies.
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The Tale of the Fox
Title: The Tale of the Fox
Character: Cock
Released: April 10, 1941
Type: Movie
In the kingdom of animals, Master Fox is used to trick and fool everyone. So the King, the Lion, receives more and more complaints about him. He orders that Master Fox is arrested and brought to him.
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The Man Who Seeks the Truth
Title: The Man Who Seeks the Truth
Character: Auguste
Released: March 20, 1940
Type: Movie
Jean Vernet, an unselfish banker, feels fine : he has a charming mistress, Jacqueline ; a godson, Fernand, that he took in when he was a child and that he has brought up and cherished ever since ; a faithful friend, Lamblin ; and an adorable dog. But things are not so rosy as they look. Adrienne, Jean's sister, hates Jacqueline and is prepared to do everything to separate the couple. Worse, it looks as though Fernand has betrayed his godfather by sleeping with Jacqueline. To know more about those around him, Jean, a modern Volpone, decides to fake deafness.
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Personal Column
Title: Personal Column
Character: Carioni
Released: December 5, 1939
Type: Movie
To try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the services of Adrienne Charpentier, friend of the latest missing person.
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Nine Bachelors
Title: Nine Bachelors
Character: Nicolas, valet
Released: September 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Nine Bachelors is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Sacha Guitry and starring Guitry, Max Dearly and Elvire Popesco.[1] An opportunist dreams up a new scheme to make money when the French government passes a law forbidding foreigners from living in France. It's French title is Ils étaient neuf célibataires.
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Law of the North
Title: Law of the North
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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Nightclub Hostess
Title: Nightclub Hostess
Character: Loiseau
Released: June 2, 1939
Type: Movie
The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one night she gets propositions from a rich widower who would like to have her as his girlfriend, Suzy wishes to leave this place, where she has no future, for a better one. Abandoned by her protector, a young hoodlum named Robert, she gets the occasion to get away from it. She decides to go on vacation on the Riviera and stay at the Chateau des Cedres, the former residence of a noble family that has been transformed into a bourgeois guest house by the baroness Saint-Leu. Shy and elegant, in her modest suit, Suzy stays there under the name of Suzanne Michelet and soon makes new friends among the young people of very wealthy families.
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Le père Lebonnard
Title: Le père Lebonnard
Character: Grignolino
Released: March 29, 1939
Type: Movie
Father Lebonnard, a former watchmaker who made a fortune, remains simple while his wife is only dreaming of worldly affairs and pushes his son Freddy to marry Bianca, the daughter of the Marquis de Rocafort, their neighbor. She feeds a similar project for her daughter Mariella.
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Deputy Eusèbe
Title: Deputy Eusèbe
Character: The actor
Released: March 9, 1939
Type: Movie
Eusèbe Bonbonneau, a solicitor's clerk, learns one day that a candidate bearing his name runs for election as a member of parliament. In fact Frazier, a crooked businessman, has urged an accomplice to impersonate Eusèbe, in order to obtain, through this straw man, authorizations for the creation of a casino in Sanceau-les-Nains and to make big money out of it. Eusébe decides to go to Paris to investigate. In the capital he meets Mariska, an exuberant actress who encourages him to try to get elected. As a result, thanks to her the true Bonbonneau becomes a member of parliament and the crook's accomplice is arrested. But Frazier is not impressed and, changing tactics, he starts manipulating Eusèbe.
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Le Prince Bouboule
Title: Le Prince Bouboule
Character: Notary
Released: January 11, 1939
Type: Movie
Bouboule is a taxi driver. A Russian princess wishing to acquire French nationality offers to marry her to divorce a few months later. After incredible adventures, Bouboule manages to save the inheritance of his wife, divorces and finds his sweet Lucette.
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Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
Title: Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
Character: Charles X et un Client
Released: December 2, 1938
Type: Movie
The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.
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I Sing
Title: I Sing
Character: The inspector
Released: November 30, 1938
Type: Movie
Charles's uncle is the headmaster of a chic girls school .He is short of the readies and he has lots and lots of debts.
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Katia
Title: Katia
Character: Un consommateur
Released: November 7, 1938
Type: Movie
In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic girl from the provinces, unruly in character. He falls in love with her and tries to see her again.
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Clodoche
Title: Clodoche
Released: July 20, 1938
Type: Movie
An adventurer poses as a prince and tries to take rich and pretty Dolly away from the man she loves by stirring up trouble.Heartbroken, Dolly is ready to drown herself.
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Le Patriote
Title: Le Patriote
Released: June 5, 1938
Type: Movie
The reign of Tsar Paul I and the intrigues of his friend, Governor Pahlen, to rid the country of the mad despot by plotting to have him murdered.
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Monsieur Breloque a disparu
Title: Monsieur Breloque a disparu
Released: March 30, 1938
Type: Movie
The brave Monsieur Breloque has a friend, Pierre Martel, a private detective. When the latter asks him to replace him for a while, Breloque, although having no competence in the matter, accepts. He anticipates adventures and misadventures but also happy surprises.
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Hercule
Title: Hercule
Character: Doorman (uncredited)
Released: March 5, 1938
Type: Movie
Hercule, a young peasant, inherits a Parisian newspaper with a large circulation. The editor-in-chief, Vasco, takes advantage of his ignorance to make corruption prevail. But Hercules gradually realizes the role that we make him play.
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Hatred
Title: Hatred
Character: Le préfet
Released: January 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the victim of a malicious attack, he returns to his hometown of Dunkirk. Mollenard receives a frosty welcome from his wife Mathilde, who resents the way in which he has neglected his family for so many years. Mollenard’s only wish is to get back to sea as soon as he can, but a sudden heart-attack leaves him paralysed and entirely in his wife’s power...
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Bouquets from Nicholas
Title: Bouquets from Nicholas
Released: January 8, 1938
Type: Movie
A florist in a nightclub in Montmartre, a good, naive man is manipulated by a gang of gangsters who use him to smuggle drugs.
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Monsieur Bégonia
Title: Monsieur Bégonia
Released: December 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A young man who applies for the position of general manager in a fashion house has not reached the desired age. Thanks to a skilful make-up, he gives himself the required appearance and under the name of Monsieur Bégonia, now presides over the destinies of the house.
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The Green Dress
Title: The Green Dress
Released: October 27, 1937
Type: Movie
Count Hubert de Latour Latour is the lover of the Duchess de Maulévrier. The day he is surprised by the Duke in the company of his wife and... in a rather compromising situation, Hubert resorts to a subterfuge, claiming that he has come to see the Duchess to seek support to be elected at the Institut de France, whose chairman is precisely her husband. The latter takes him at his word and Hubert becomes... a member of the French Academy! Which just shows that everything leads to everything.
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Double Crime in the Maginot Line
Title: Double Crime in the Maginot Line
Character: le médecin légiste
Released: September 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Commander d'Espinac is found murdered. Having argued the day before the murder with Captain Bruchot, he is accused. The captain will have to conduct his own investigation if he wants to clear himself. His suspicions will fall on one of the three officers attached to his unit.
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The Pearls of the Crown
Title: The Pearls of the Crown
Character: Le prisonnier Français en Abyssinie
Released: May 12, 1937
Type: Movie
The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing.
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Armchair 47
Title: Armchair 47
Released: January 1, 1937
Type: Movie
A young man marries the daughter of a famous actress, but is visibly more attracted to his stepmother. She manages, not without difficulty, to reconnect the bonds of a vacillating household.
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Let's Make a Dream
Title: Let's Make a Dream
Character: Un Maître d'Hôtel
Released: December 31, 1936
Type: Movie
A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, puzzled. He finds there, without knowing it, the lover of his wife, to whom he confesses his infidelity.
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My Father Was Right
Title: My Father Was Right
Character: Emile Perducay - son serviteur
Released: November 27, 1936
Type: Movie
After being left for another man by his wife, Charles Bellanger raises his only son to fear and suspect women. Years later, such an education is bearing fruit.
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Adventure in Paris
Title: Adventure in Paris
Character: le vicomte de Joymont
Released: November 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Michel Levasseur is a joyous reveler who does not care about the next day. So much so that one day a bailiff bursts into his Paris apartment and seizes his furniture on behalf of Raymond Sauvaget, his landlord, a rich food industrialist. But far from resenting Sauvaget's act of hostility, Michel ... becomes his friend. Now Raymond, although prosperous, does not know how to handle women. That is why he asks Michel, a regular Casanova, to give him lessons in seduction.
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Ménilmontant
Title: Ménilmontant
Released: November 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Because they brought her back a lost piece of jewelry, a very rich lady accedes to the request of three old people and transforms a vacant lot into a park for the neighborhood children.
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L'Amant de Madame Vidal
Title: L'Amant de Madame Vidal
Released: October 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Catherine Vidal is a featherbrained wife who imagines that her husband cheats on her. To wash away the alleged stigma, Catherine hires a young man who will pose as her lover. The (double) trouble is that not only is Catherine's husband innocent but that Catherine and her "employee" fall in love for good as well.
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The Two Boys
Title: The Two Boys
Character: Firmin
Released: September 8, 1936
Type: Movie
The Count of Kerlor, to chastise his wife whom he believes to be unfaithful, entrusts his son to a couple of scoundrels. When he repents and wants to find the child, the carnies make their nephew sick. But the other little boy, in search of his comrade, is recognized by his reconciled parents.
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Train de plaisir
Title: Train de plaisir
Character: Traveler
Released: March 14, 1936
Type: Movie
Marguerite and Verdurin, both employed in l'Atout Prix, a store run by Prosper Biscoton, would like to take a vacation at the beach, but they need more money than they earn. They decide to trick their boss into paying for the trip by pretending Marguerite is interested in him. Biscoton falls in the trap and puts himself in a difficult position with his own wife.
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Bichon
Title: Bichon
Released: March 13, 1936
Type: Movie
Around a baby whose paternity is disputed, the members of a bourgeois family are agitated: the irascible father, the whining mother, the modern young girl, the good-for-nothing son, a secretary in love with the young girl, an associate and the importunate old aunt who smooths things over.
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Meet Miss Mozart
Title: Meet Miss Mozart
Character: Monsieur Lecourtois
Released: January 17, 1936
Type: Movie
This French musical comedy was based on the stage play Mademoiselle Mozart, written by Yvan Noe, who also directed and produced the screen version. Danielle Darrieux plays Denise, the owner of a music shop that is facing closure. Wealthy young Maxime (Pierre Mingand) falls in love with Denise but knows full well that she despises rich folks and would refuse to accept his charity. Thus, Maxime arranges to secretly buy the store then takes a job with the establishment as a humble sheet-music salesman. When Denise finds out that her new employee is actually her boss, she is furious, but rest assured that Love Will Find a Way. The lovely Danielle Darrieux is permitted to sing on several occasions, which she does enthusiastically if not altogether expertly.
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The Queen and the Cardinal
Title: The Queen and the Cardinal
Released: November 22, 1935
Type: Movie
A hero of the Paris streets is recruited for a conspiracy against Mazarin in the court of the King, but he reveals the subversive plot to Anne of Austria.
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Dora Nelson
Title: Dora Nelson
Released: November 8, 1935
Type: Movie
Dora Nelson, a famous actress, leaves both her husband Philippe de Moreuil and the role she was playing in a movie directed by Nivert, to follow her lover Santini in Italy. But she soon realizes that Santini deceives her with a girl named Elsa. In vexation she decides to return to her husband and to her career. Unfortunately for her, Suzanne Verdier, a little working girl, has in the meantime replaced her not only in the film she had left unfinished but in her husband's heart as well. Dora eventually understands she must step aside.
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Paris, mes amours
Title: Paris, mes amours
Released: July 30, 1935
Type: Movie
A freedom-loving man has found a way in the midst of loan sharks and apaches to get it almost totally with a minimum of work, needs and connections. After a few misadventures, he continues to wander in Paris whose streets he loves more than anything in the world.
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Gangster malgré lui
Title: Gangster malgré lui
Released: May 3, 1935
Type: Movie
The crazy adventures of a character forced by circumstances to take on such dangerous professions as those of gangster, burglar, Chinese chiropodist and amateur detective.
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Count Obligado
Title: Count Obligado
Released: February 1, 1935
Type: Movie
Antoine, elevator operator of a haute couture house, takes advantage of an inheritance to lead the high life for three days by pretending to be a rich count.
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Le Père Lampion
Title: Le Père Lampion
Character: Dubul
Released: December 21, 1934
Type: Movie
How a simple sewer, a perfect look-alike of the president of the council, manages to reform a country and make himself loved by his fellow citizens.
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Âme de clown
Title: Âme de clown
Released: October 13, 1933
Type: Movie
Suzette and Jack form a very nice and rather well-matched couple. The latter is the partner of the new clown Teddy who seems to please the young lady a lot.
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Chotard and Co.
Title: Chotard and Co.
Character: le Commandant
Released: June 22, 1933
Type: Movie
François Chotard, wholesale grocer, gives his daughter in marriage to Julien Collinet, a writer who prefers dreaming to working, a situation conducive to quarrels between the son and the father- in-law. Until the day when Julien receives the Prix Goncourt, prestigious literary award. Chotard has a sudden change of heart.
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Love and Luck
Title: Love and Luck
Released: December 23, 1932
Type: Movie
A gambler has the same name as a billionaire. Suddenly he gets lucky, finds love and wins 24 million.
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Bric a Brac and Company
Title: Bric a Brac and Company
Character: Félix
Released: April 14, 1931
Type: Movie
If Fernandel did not appear in a supporting part ,another short (by E.Chotin who made dozens of them)which would not have been restored.But Fernandel is here ,playing a street pedlar selling luxury (sic) clothes on the flea market with a gorgeous girl as a model.This is a rather desultory script but Fernandel's presence makes the short worthwhile.He sings one song: "le Père Lapuce". A wealthy antique dealer, having started in the flea market in the past, settles his son there, an unrepentant nuke, to teach him how to work. There he meets a treasure: his future wife.