Robert Le Béal

Robert Le Béal

Born: March 2, 1915
Died: May 8, 1996
in Paris, France

Movies for Robert Le Béal...

A Star for Two
Title: A Star for Two
Released: August 10, 1991
Type: Movie
Love between a man and a woman that endures the ravages of time.
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Love Lies
Title: Love Lies
Released: March 19, 1983
Type: Movie
After a harrowing breakup, Marcel returns to his favorite hotel to find his room occupied by a journalist, whom he attempts to impress.
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The Party 2
Title: The Party 2
Character: Le docteur Colbert, président du jury, soutenance de François
Released: December 8, 1982
Type: Movie
A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.
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Bankers Also Have Souls
Title: Bankers Also Have Souls
Character: Pierrot
Released: March 24, 1982
Type: Movie
A bank clerk is given an unusual retirement gift, a high class call girl. Unaware that he has been 'set up' by colleagues the man goes with the girl to Venice where he enjoys his new found virility.
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The Party
Title: The Party
Character: Le docteur Colbert
Released: December 17, 1980
Type: Movie
A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
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You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
Title: You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
Character: Un homme distingué
Released: October 19, 1977
Type: Movie
Whilst King Gros Pif I amuses himself at debauched banquets, his musketeers pursue their tax-collecting duties with a malicious zeal. Goaded by the court jester (who is also the Queen’s lover), the ministers decide to put an end to this regime and have the King locked up. Hearing the news, the famous Chevalier Blanc comes to his rescue. Aided by the knight and his cousin Lucienne, the King flees to Flanders, where he devises a scheme to win him back the throne of France...
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L'amant de Madame Vidal
Title: L'amant de Madame Vidal
Character: Le baron
Released: January 13, 1975
Type: Movie
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Madame Sans-Gêne
Title: Madame Sans-Gêne
Character: Lauriston
Released: December 24, 1974
Type: Movie
Catherine Hubscher, laundress, saves the life of an Austrian nobleman with the complicity of her fiancé, Sergeant Lefebvre, the day when royalty collapses. And then the years pass ... Become Marshal of the Empire and Duke of Danzig, ex Sergeant Lefebvre always has for wife Catherine, the ex laundress; and this, in spite of the efforts made by the Emperor Napoleon to have him divorced, the Emperor blamed him strongly for the lack of distinction of Catherine. Faced with the Marshal's refusal, Catherine was summoned to the Emperor's house and the dialogue between them lacked heat to say the least, until the former lieutenant Bonaparte recognized in Maréchale Lefebvre, Catherine the laundress, who once , gave him credit for his laundering debts.
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Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
Title: Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
Character: Le père de Marie
Released: October 23, 1974
Type: Movie
Three friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who's blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money; his wife grows distant, even hostile. The charming Vincent, everyone's favorite, faces bankruptcy, his mistress leaves him, and his wife, from whom he's separated, wants a divorce. The strains on the men begin to show particularly in François and Paul's friendship and in Vincent's health. A younger man, Jack, becomes attractive to Lucie, François's wife. Another young friend, the boxer Jean, who's like a son to Vincent and whose girlfriend is pregnant, has taken a bout with a merciless slugger. Has happiness eluded this circle of friends?
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The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Title: The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Character: Wedding guest (uncredited)
Released: October 17, 1973
Type: Movie
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
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The Day of the Jackal
Title: The Day of the Jackal
Character: Secretary at Elysée Palace
Released: May 16, 1973
Type: Movie
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
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Cesar and Rosalie
Title: Cesar and Rosalie
Character: Mayor
Released: October 11, 1972
Type: Movie
Rosalie, a beautiful young woman gets involved with successful businessman Cesar. One day, Rosalie's former flame David appears and attempts to win her back. Cesar reacts with a jealous intensity never before seen by Rosalie, and because of that, she returns to David. She remains conflicted regarding her choice of partner, but eventually, one of the men does something which resolves the situation.
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Title: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Character: Couturier
Released: September 15, 1972
Type: Movie
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
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Delusions of Grandeur
Title: Delusions of Grandeur
Character: Chamberlain
Released: December 8, 1971
Type: Movie
Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.
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Love Me Strangely
Title: Love Me Strangely
Character: Le juge
Released: February 10, 1971
Type: Movie
Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window. Enlisting the help of an equally perverse casual acquaintance, Dino, the "handsome brute" proceeds to emotionally torture his second wife, Nathalie. The sadistic plan is picked up on by Officer Leroy who suspects the truth. Will he be able to snatch the unfortunate woman from the evil Alain's clutches?
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The Gendarme Takes Off
Title: The Gendarme Takes Off
Character: Minister
Released: October 28, 1970
Type: Movie
The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.
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Atlantic Wall
Title: Atlantic Wall
Character: Un officier du Q.G. britannique
Released: October 14, 1970
Type: Movie
1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance when a British pilot is shot down and hides in his attic and, through a series of mishaps, he accidentally steals the plans for Hitler's V1 missiles.
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Ces messieurs de la gâchette
Title: Ces messieurs de la gâchette
Character: Le patron de Gabriel
Released: April 8, 1970
Type: Movie
Gabriel Pelletier's life is no bed of roses. Not because of his job: he is a successful sales manager. But on account of the various wrongdoings committed by his kin. First, there is his daughter Nicole, who has just developed an infatuation with a young man who is not only a revolutionary student but the the son of a Sicilian mobster as well. Then he has to cope with Bernard, his brother-in-law, a ladies'man who has been vamped by one of the sexy daughters of the Sicilian. Let's not forget Albert, his own brother, an avant-garde filmmaker also in trouble with Lombardi, the omnipresent gangster. To crown it all, Maryse, his domestic worker, is a Maoist militant!... In the end, poor Gabriel can't take it anymore. He hits the road and calls it quits.
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Bruno: Sunday's Child
Title: Bruno: Sunday's Child
Released: June 6, 1969
Type: Movie
The weekend of August 15th gives the opportunity to Michel Fauvet, a recently divorced father, to spend two full days with Bruno, his thirteen-year-old son, that he can normally see only one Sunday a month. Feeling guilty, he tries to compensate for the trauma inflicted to Bruno by giving him presents. This time around, Michel has decided to treat him to a nice trip to Bruges and the Belgian Coast. Which will not prevent Bruno from asking his father disturbing questions.
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Title: Aglaé et Sidonie
Character: Agénor, le coq (voix parlée)
Released: March 24, 1969
Type: TV
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Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo
Title: Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo
Character: l'officier au procès
Released: December 11, 1968
Type: Movie
Edmond Dantès, who was active in the resistance against the Nazis, is accused for being a Nazi collaborator and is imprisoned in the fortress of Sisteron.
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Aglaë et Sidonie
Title: Aglaë et Sidonie
Character: Agenor
Released: December 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Aglaë the sow and Sidonie the goose are living in a farm. Their world is made of only 2 characters: Agénor the rooster and Croquetout the fox, always trying to make a good meal of them. Sidonie is naïve, always fooled by Croquetout costumes: cinema director, policeman, ... Happily enough, Aglaë or Agenor are there to rescue Sidonie.
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I Killed Rasputin
Title: I Killed Rasputin
Character: Dovenko
Released: May 3, 1967
Type: Movie
Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia's Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir to the throne. However as war breaks out, Rasputin's enemies see him as a cause and plot fatal revenge against the Russian mystic.
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Two for the Road
Title: Two for the Road
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1967
Type: Movie
On the way to a party, a British couple dissatisfied with their marriage recall the gradual dissolution of their relationship.
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The Men in the Family
Title: The Men in the Family
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Gabriel Pelletier, sales manager for a major industrial firm, would be the happiest of men if he didn't have a family of rare originality. The day Gabriel Pelletier is asked by the firm's management to welcome and accommodate an important American industrialist who has come to Paris to handle a major contract, he realizes the difficulties that lie ahead. How will Mr. Strumberger, who has the reputation of a fierce puritan, react to the behavior of the various members of the family?
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Sale temps pour les mouches
Title: Sale temps pour les mouches
Released: December 23, 1966
Type: Movie
Renowned atomic scientists are kidnapped on French soil. Inspector San-Antonio and his loyal deputy Bérurier infiltrate a gang suspected of involvement in the case, in order to trace the trail.
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Triple Cross
Title: Triple Cross
Character: Lieutenant Cameron
Released: December 9, 1966
Type: Movie
A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.
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À belles dents
Title: À belles dents
Released: July 5, 1966
Type: Movie
An orphaned young woman goes to Paris looking for work and love. Working as an au-pair, she is discovered by a fashion photographer and becomes a model. She falls in love with an architect but leaves him to marry a rich man.
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Fantomas Unleashed
Title: Fantomas Unleashed
Character: Le ministre
Released: December 8, 1965
Type: Movie
In the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand with the aim to develop a super weapon that will enable him to menace the world. Fantômas is also planning to abduct a second scientist, professor Lefebvre.
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The Vampire of Dusseldorf
Title: The Vampire of Dusseldorf
Character: Schroeder
Released: April 7, 1965
Type: Movie
A true story of Peter Kurten, a serial killer who committed nine murders and many other offenses in Dusseldorf during the Great Depression era.
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The Sword and the Balance
Title: The Sword and the Balance
Released: February 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pasts are questionable, riddled with violence and controversy. Neither the police nor the court can decide how to solve that puzzle.
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La salamandre d'or
Title: La salamandre d'or
Released: December 31, 1962
Type: Movie
In 1525, on the evening of the Battle of Pavia, François 1er was taken prisoner by the armies of Charles-Quint, with the Constable de Bourbon on their side. His mother, regent of the kingdom, commissioned the king's loyal equerry, Antoine de Montpezat, to raise a ransom of two million ecus and send it to Madrid. Despite the treachery of Vandoeuvre, governor of Languedoc and supporter of the connétable de Bourbon, who has his eye on the French throne, Montpezat accomplishes his mission and is reunited with his fiancée, who had almost married the traitor Vandoeuvre.
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The Iron Mask
Title: The Iron Mask
Released: October 26, 1962
Type: Movie
The story of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, and the imprisonment in an iron mask of the identical twin of the King of France, Louis XIV.
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The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Title: The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Character: Le metteur en scène
Released: September 14, 1962
Type: Movie
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.
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Les Bras de la nuit
Title: Les Bras de la nuit
Character: Etienne Garnier
Released: November 29, 1961
Type: Movie
Police inspector, Landais is caught in a tough situation. Daniele has murdered her husband, yet after the inspector starts investigating the case, he is completely overcome by her. Her obvious attractions have him in thrall and eventually he realizes he will do anything not to lose her. His solution is to cover up for her crime, after which things begin to go poorly.
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Man Wants to Live
Title: Man Wants to Live
Released: November 6, 1961
Type: Movie
Professor Chardin has just killed a man. Before calling the police to turn himself in, he burns some leaves and a notebook in the fireplace. Secret agents in the street with listening devices flee when the police arrive. The professor refuses to be defended by a lawyer and to explain himself, but his friend Professor Carter and his wife come to his support and he agrees to explain his crime of inventing the H-bomb, the secret of which was stolen from him by his collaborator Rossi at the very moment when he had given up his research, convinced by Albert Einstein's pacifist plea and other personal circumstances.
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Auguste
Title: Auguste
Character: Director of Le Figaro (uncredited)
Released: October 24, 1961
Type: Movie
Auguste is about an eponymous bank clerk who finds fame and fortune. Auguste happens to be in the right place at the right time to save young starlet Francine from killing herself -- or more accurately, pretending to kill herself. His supposed heroism hits the news, and before Auguste knows what is happening, a Machiavellian publicist is using him for his own ends. The bank clerk is no fool and soon thinks of a way to come out on top.
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The Nina B. Affair
Title: The Nina B. Affair
Released: June 6, 1961
Type: Movie
A businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.
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A Martian in Paris
Title: A Martian in Paris
Character: The Commissioner of Police (uncredited)
Released: March 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The title role in the French comedy-fantasy A Martian in Paris is filled by Darry Cowl. The higher-ups in Mars want to learn all about that strange commodity, peculiar to the planet Earth, known as "Love". Darry soon figures out what makes the world go 'round when he meets the gorgeous Nicole Mirel. A Martian in Paris was obviously inspired by the 1960 American comedy A Visit to a Small Planet, which starred Jerry Lewis. Darry Cowl's imitation of Lewis is passable, but it certainly didn't fool the "Le Roi Crazy Jerry" idolators at Cahiers du Cinema and Positif magazine.
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The Pavements of Paris
Title: The Pavements of Paris
Released: February 19, 1961
Type: Movie
Arlette has too provincial parents to whom she announces her plan about own independence. After her departure, Marc, her absent fiance seek for her in vain in Paris until he discovers her picture on the magazine cover.
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The Baron of the Locks
Title: The Baron of the Locks
Character: Golf player (uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1960
Type: Movie
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for more attractive scenery offered by a wealthy local man. Meanwhile, there is a certain charming cafe owner that the Baron finds irresistible -- at least for awhile.
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Premeditated
Title: Premeditated
Character: The inspector
Released: April 8, 1960
Type: Movie
Bernard Sommet has killed his wife and her lover and he declares that was a crime of passion. Sylvie Foucot, his court-appointed attorney, not only believes him but falls in love with him. But the examination magistrate is not convinced. For his part, he leans towards premeditation. Whether Sommet premeditated his act or acted out of anger and jealousy will be up to the court to decide.
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Katia
Title: Katia
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 22, 1959
Type: Movie
Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and becomes his mistress. With the help of Katia, Alexandre prepares a liberal constitution, but these reforms make him hostile to the more privileged subjects without satirising the revolutionaries against the regime.
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Double Agents
Title: Double Agents
Character: Le colonel anglais
Released: September 9, 1959
Type: Movie
Robert Hossein, Marina Vlady, Robert Le Beal. A brilliant "little" spy film. Hossein and Vlady play mysterious characters who meet up one night in a lonely cabin in the wilds of Normandy. They are both spies, but whom do they work for-the Allies or the Nazis.
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A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
Title: A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
Character: Mr. Geoffrain
Released: November 19, 1958
Type: Movie
Back from Indochina, Tony and Dick, two French soldiers, are now in possession of more than 20 million, entrusted by a trafficker. They buy a nightclub in the district of Montparnasse but are soon hunted by the thug who wants to recover his money.
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Every Day Has Its Secret
Title: Every Day Has Its Secret
Character: Le directeur de France-Europe
Released: June 11, 1958
Type: Movie
Given up for dead three years ago in a plane crash in the Amazon rainforest, a young woman arrives in Paris to find her eminent ethnologist husband. She learns of his death in obscure circumstances, having remarried in the meantime. She sets out to unravel the mystery surrounding her husband's death.
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Back to the Wall
Title: Back to the Wall
Character: Me Lombard, l'avocat
Released: March 7, 1958
Type: Movie
Rich industrialist Jacques Decret learns his wife Gloria is having an affair with a young actor. For revenge, he bombards her with anonymous letters, convincing her that her lover is the culprit while Gloria desperately seeks a way out.
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In Six Easy Lessons
Title: In Six Easy Lessons
Released: February 26, 1958
Type: Movie
A bossy count has trouble marrying off any of his six sons. When one of them, Adam, finally makes wedding arrangements, something happens to his bride to be: she develops amnesia after an accident.
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Quelle sacrée soirée
Title: Quelle sacrée soirée
Character: The Minister
Released: September 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Jean Duclos has extraordinary adventures after taking the train and mistakenly taking the luggage of a young dancer, Lola Wanda. An oil tycoon appoints him as a proxy for his future company, and then he marries his beautiful cousin, Suzy.
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Miss Catastrophe
Title: Miss Catastrophe
Released: April 24, 1957
Type: Movie
A talented but crazy painter, Elvire Mercier agrees to sell one of her canvases to Pierre Leroy, a rich heir. But after a string of misunderstandings, she hands her painting over to a swindler. And her problems have only just begun.
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Les lumières du soir
Title: Les lumières du soir
Character: Le détective privé
Released: November 7, 1956
Type: Movie
A young opera dancer tries to help her mother financially by performing in a dubious cabaret.
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Les pépées au service secret
Title: Les pépées au service secret
Character: Gauthier
Released: August 10, 1956
Type: Movie
Elvire, Nathalie and Christine, three young ladies with a proven track record, are called in by the Secret Service to retrieve coveted papers concerning a new explosive. Introduced to a fearsome environment thanks to a female helper, they face kidnappings, play a double game, toil endlessly, lend helicopters and finally triumph, smiling, after a breathtaking fight.
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Foreign Intrigue
Title: Foreign Intrigue
Character: Charles
Released: July 1, 1956
Type: Movie
Millionaire Victor Danemore, living on the French Riviera, dies suddenly of a heart attack. His secretary, Dave Bishop, wants to know more about his employer's life. Surprisingly, not even his young wife knows anything about her husband's background or how he earned his fortune. Clues lead Bishop to Vienna and Stockholm, where he learns that Danemore was blackmailing people who cooperated with the Nazis during World War II.
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Tonight the Skirts Fly
Title: Tonight the Skirts Fly
Character: Le majordome de Madame de Septeuil
Released: June 14, 1956
Type: Movie
At Christmastime, the love affairs of five clothing models working for Pierre Roussel, a renowned Paris fashion designer. Marlène hesitates between two suitors. Blanche, who loves Jean, Roussel's son, wants him to talk to his father about their relationship. Catherine learns that her lover has a wife and two kids. Jeannette throws herself into the arms of an Oriental prince. In despair the fifth one attempts to commit suicide...
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Une fille épatante
Title: Une fille épatante
Character: Richardson
Released: December 6, 1955
Type: Movie
Dominique is a pretty, vivacious girl. When she witnesses a car theft, she throws herself and her bicycle under the vehicle. Jacques Mareuil, whom she then blackmails, pays her a sum to cover her debts. In reality, Mareuil, a policeman, is keeping an eye on Atcheminov, the owner of the car, but, wanting to prove that he is an unscrupulous trafficker, he comes up against Dominique's impetuosity time and again. It all ends up like in a good comedy.
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The Grand Manoeuvre
Title: The Grand Manoeuvre
Character: Un officier
Released: October 25, 1955
Type: Movie
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.
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Cherchez la femme
Title: Cherchez la femme
Released: August 26, 1955
Type: Movie
Barbara Van Looren is the lively, clever daughter of the well-known shipowner. For her, life is a breeze, even when she's kidnapped by Mike Cortez's men. A young journalist, Mercier, who tried to defend her and was forced to follow her, doesn't share her optimism and manages to escape. Barbara is sequestered because her father has caught wind of a diamond deal. If he renounces the customs action, his daughter will be returned to him. Mercier, with the help of a couple of loyal friends, discovers the instigator of the traffic, a member of the board of directors, and finds Barbara, still as petulant as ever.
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La rue des bouches peintes
Title: La rue des bouches peintes
Released: July 22, 1955
Type: Movie
An English governor in India, deceived by his wife, proposes to him either to accuse the lover of embezzlement, or to condemn her to end her days as a prostitute in the rue des Bouches Peintes. She chooses the second solution...
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Le Crâneur
Title: Le Crâneur
Released: May 10, 1955
Type: Movie
A singer tries to rescue a man drawn into the drug trade.
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Price of Love
Title: Price of Love
Released: January 5, 1955
Type: Movie
Because he loved a trainer named Suzy too much, honest Pierre Menard wasted his life and died. Innocent, but implicated in the ransacking of a jewelry store, he receives a five-year residence ban, which he ignores, only to find himself reduced to joining Paulo's sinister gang. The police finally arrest him and force him to become an informer if he doesn't want to leave Paris. He accepts and signs his death warrant.
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Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
Title: Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
Character: L'amateur
Released: November 26, 1954
Type: Movie
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Mademoiselle Nitouche
Title: Mademoiselle Nitouche
Character: an actor
Released: April 21, 1954
Type: Movie
Celestin works as an organist at a girl's school. By day, Celestin is the meek and mild target of the girls' incessant practical jokes. By night, however, he is the celebrated composer of popular operas -- and the romantic vis-à-vis of a celebrated stage star. When schoolgirl Denise stumbles onto Celestin's secret, she threatens to tell all -- but only if Celestin refuses to escort her to the opening night of his latest opera. As a result, Denise falls in love with a handsome young soldier, while Celestin is accidentally shipped off to an army camp. A series of silly coincidences brings happiness to all concerned by fade-out time.
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Crainquebille
Title: Crainquebille
Released: April 19, 1954
Type: Movie
In the Mouffetard district of Paris, Jérôme Crainquebille, an affable four-season merchant, is stopped by a police officer and taken to the station, unjustly accused of shouting "Mort aux vaches!" ("Death to the cows!"). When he returns to work after a fortnight's detention, he is ostracized by his neighbors. Lonely, Crainquebille sank into despair and alcoholism. His life in prison seemed sweeter, and his attempts to return were in vain. He owes his salvation to the affection of a local kid.
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The Rebels of Lomanach
Title: The Rebels of Lomanach
Character: Martilier
Released: April 6, 1954
Type: Movie
A young woman has a perilous affair with a General from the opposing side during the Revolutionary war.
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A Day to Remember
Title: A Day to Remember
Character: Monsieur Berthier (uncredited)
Released: November 10, 1953
Type: Movie
Based on The Hand and the Flower, a novel by Jerrard Tickell, A Day to Remember stars Stanley Holloway as Charley Porter, captain of London darts team. When the team travels to the French town of Boulogne for the annual darts tournament, a good time is had by all--and more besides. Jim Carver one of the team's members, is reunited with a little French girl he'd befriended during the war, who has now developed into a beautiful young woman. And Fred Collins makes a poignant journey to the hotel where he'd honeymooned with his late wife. The film works best as a low-key comedy-drama; it is least successful when it ventures into O. Henry territory and strains for "surprise" story twists. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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The Sword and the Rose
Title: The Sword and the Rose
Character: Royal Physician
Released: July 23, 1953
Type: Movie
Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She tries to flee to America with her love but is captured when she is "un-hatted" on board ship. In return for her consent to the marriage with France, Henry agrees to let her choose her second husband. When King Louis of France dies, Mary is kidnaped by the Duke of Buckingham. He tries to force her to marry him but she is rescued by her love in an exciting battle on the beach.
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Follow That Man
Title: Follow That Man
Character: Un inspecteur (non crédité)
Released: February 27, 1953
Type: Movie
While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier recalls two of his most celebrated cases. The first involves duplicitous moneylender Olga. The second concerns the brutal broad daylight murder of innocent young Yvonne.
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Her Last Christmas
Title: Her Last Christmas
Character: Le professeur étranger (uncredited)
Released: December 12, 1952
Type: Movie
A very ill little girl having expressed the wish to live until Christmas, the whole neighborhood agrees to anticipate the celebration.
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Crimson Curtain
Title: Crimson Curtain
Character: An actor
Released: November 14, 1952
Type: Movie
Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in which he was to play with Aurélia Nobli, his companion and Ludovic Arn, her lover. The police arrive on the scene and the investigation begins. Suspicion first falls on Sigurd, an old actor who had threatened Bertal. But parallels appear between the characters in the play and the actors who play them.
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Matrimonial Agency
Title: Matrimonial Agency
Character: The barren father
Released: May 21, 1952
Type: Movie
Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it.
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Duel à Dakar
Title: Duel à Dakar
Character: Max
Released: December 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Robert Vernier is assigned by the Secret Service to unmask a band of gangsters determined to get their hands on the plans for a new plane. They manage to steal part of it and kidnap Robert's fiancée, named Monique. Robert will manage to dismantle the gang and will be surprised to find that at the head there is a policeman...
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Young Love
Title: Young Love
Character: An inspector (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1951
Type: Movie
Catherine, 18, loved Jean, a young accountant, who loved her in return. And yet, one morning, two policemen find their dead bodies on a stretch of waste ground. The case is obvious: the two young people have killed themselves. But why? Chief Inspector Ernest Plonche, feeling upset, decides to investigate personally.
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Dirty Hands
Title: Dirty Hands
Character: Louis
Released: August 9, 1951
Type: Movie
A young intellectual, Hugo, joins the Communist Party out of a sense of idealism, only to see his principles manipulated by party leaders. He is given the assignment of killing Professor Hoederer, a party deviationist. However, he grows to admire the man and begins to have doubts about morals and revolutionary politics. But jealousy - Hugo thinks Hoederer has made love to his wife, Jessica - takes matters out of the political realm.
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Hotbed of Sin
Title: Hotbed of Sin
Character: Evelyne's friend
Released: July 20, 1951
Type: Movie
A couple of dancers performs in a night club. The man is jealous of Gina, his partner,and keeps making scenes to her, going as far as bullying her on the stage during their act. A man gets killed. The dancer is suspected for being jealous of all the other men. Another potential culprit could the father of Gina since he overprotected his daughter. The real culprit will be unmasked after the police detective finds the murder has something to with the Occupation period.
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The Red Needle
Title: The Red Needle
Released: June 7, 1951
Type: Movie
A young woman, Maya, is treated in a mountain hotel, where her husband joins her every Saturday. She falls in love with an attractive lawyer, who has come to this hotel in Savoie to successfully climb the Aiguille Rouge. The lawyer rejects Maya at first, but ends up becoming her lover and promises to run away with her... once the Aiguille Rouge has been climbed. But a storm breaks out during the ascent, and the lawyer dies, struck down.
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The Strollers
Title: The Strollers
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Jean-Louis forgets to use the pedestrian crossing;Who could have believed then where it would lead the unfortunate guy to?
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Beware of Blondes
Title: Beware of Blondes
Character: The second killer
Released: November 24, 1950
Type: Movie
Back from a stay in the Far East, a woman who knew the names of the chiefs of a drug ring is murdered. Georges Masse, the famous reporter, decides to investigate, accompanied by his faithful photographer P'tit Louis. He will come across some unappetizing characters like M. Dubois, a killer, Luigi Costelli, a dangerous trafficker and a beautiful but dubious lady, Suzanne Wilson. After being himself suspected, Masse will make the truth triumph.
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Secret Document: Vienna
Title: Secret Document: Vienna
Character: An officer
Released: August 8, 1950
Type: Movie
During the Great War, in Austria, an officer was shot on the orders of his superior von Pennwitz. Out of revenge, his widow becomes a spy in the pay of France, preoccupied with removing the person responsible for her husband's death. In charge of a mission to von Pennwitz, she suddenly finds herself face to face with her husband, who is still alive. It was a ruse of war to deceive the enemy. It is only at the armistice that the couple will be able to live in peace.
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Here Is the Beauty
Title: Here Is the Beauty
Character: Party Guest (uncredited)
Released: April 21, 1950
Type: Movie
Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success as a ballerina despite being wounded by him in a fit of jealousy. His career as a sculptor is stymied when he is arrested.
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Keep an Eye on Amelia
Title: Keep an Eye on Amelia
Released: December 16, 1949
Type: Movie
Young Amélie is currently enjoying life as the kept woman of her reasonably well off boyfriend Étienne. But when Étienne is called off for military duty, he enlists his playboy friend Marcel to keep an eye on her....something of a problem seeing that he is currently looking for a woman with which to create a sham marriage so he can quickly inherit a large sum of money from his father. Then suddenly the Prince of Palestra enters into the picture and boldly asks for Étienne's romantic favors to assess whether or not he would consider taking her as his bride. What's a free-spirited girl to do?
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Rendezvous in July
Title: Rendezvous in July
Character: Jean Bonnard (uncredited)
Released: December 6, 1949
Type: Movie
Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.
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Judicial Error
Title: Judicial Error
Character: Gauthier-Duvergne
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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Monsieur Vincent
Title: Monsieur Vincent
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 5, 1947
Type: Movie
The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders.
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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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Dreams of Love
Title: Dreams of Love
Character: Major Pictet
Released: January 29, 1947
Type: Movie
Paris, 1833. The famous composer Franz Liszt is friends with Chopin who introduces him to Countess Marie d'Agout. Very quickly Liszt falls in love and she, who is already married and has two children, abandons honor and reputation to follow him. They leave to live a great passion in Italy. Then, Franz Liszt gives concerts, the triumph awaits him everywhere. Little by little the fame of the composer will move the two lovers away.
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The Last Judgment
Title: The Last Judgment
Released: December 8, 1945
Type: Movie
In Central Europe, resistance to the Germans in growing. But the partisan leader is denounced and killed. His daughter and the son of the traitor love each other. Condemned by his comrades, the informer commits suicide in front of the young couple.
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The Devil's Envoys
Title: The Devil's Envoys
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 5, 1942
Type: Movie
At the end of the 15th century, a man and a woman, posing as traveling minstrels, are sent by the Devil to a castle to seduce its inhabitants.