Robert Rollis

Robert Rollis

Born: March 14, 1921
Died: November 6, 2007
in Épinal, Vosges, France
Robert Rollis (16 March 1921 - 6 November 2007) was a French actor. He mainly starred as a film actor, but also appeared in television and also in theatre in the 1950s and early 1960s. Amongst many roles, he starred in Yves Robert's War of the Buttons (La Guerre des boutons) in 1962.

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Camping à la ferme
Title: Camping à la ferme
Character: le vieil agriculteur, surnommé « Monsieur 72 moissons »
Released: June 29, 2005
Type: Movie
Six jeunes en difficulté de la banlieue parisienne débarquent au fin fond de la campagne française, escortés par leur éducateur. Ils doivent montrer leur bonne volonté en effectuant des travaux d'intérêts généraux décidés par la pétillante juge d'application des peines, qui veut ainsi leur donner une dernière chance. Entre le portable vissé à l'oreille de l'un, le pit-bull de l'autre ou encore les prières musulmanes du troisième, ces adolescents vont bouleverser la vie paisible du petit village.
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Héloïse
Title: Héloïse
Character: Concierge
Released: January 23, 1991
Type: Movie
Photographer Maurice Martin turns into a woman named Héloïse every night at 8 p.m.
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The Secret of the Selenites
Title: The Secret of the Selenites
Character: (Voice)
Released: February 1, 1984
Type: Movie
The film follows the adventures of Baron Munchausen, who is prompted to travel to the moon by his cousin Sirius, an astrologer convinced that it is inhabited by an ancient race called the Selenites. The Selentites incidentally possess the secret of immortality. The Baron takes up his cousin's offer and travels to the moon using a tall masted ship pulled by three hot air balloons and he is aided by his super-ability friends (who are from the prequel to this film, The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen). When they reach the moon, they are initially placed in jeopardy as their craft lands in a crater and they fall into a subterranean sea inhabited by monsters...
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Père Noël et fils
Title: Père Noël et fils
Released: December 24, 1983
Type: Movie
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Te marre pas... c'est pour rire !
Title: Te marre pas... c'est pour rire !
Released: March 10, 1982
Type: Movie
A young astrology enthusiast inherits an industrial business. Before any decision, he carefully studies the sign of his interlocutors.
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Le jour se lève et les conneries commencent
Title: Le jour se lève et les conneries commencent
Character: Le campeur alcoolisé
Released: June 21, 1981
Type: Movie
Three thirty-year-old friends with a strong appetite for women and leisure life, supported by different people, live very well. Until one of them is forced to work. His two mates will do everything to free him from this calvary.
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Touch'pas à mon biniou
Title: Touch'pas à mon biniou
Character: Le patron du bistrot
Released: December 3, 1980
Type: Movie
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The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen
Title: The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen
Character: (Voice)
Released: October 24, 1979
Type: Movie
The Fabulous Adventures of the legendary Baron Munchausen is a French animated feature from Jean Image of 1978, inspired by the adventures of Baron Munchausen. Baron Munchausen is wont to bring his friends to tell them about his imaginary exploits.
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Général... nous voilà !
Title: Général... nous voilà !
Character: Baker
Released: October 18, 1978
Type: Movie
A comedy directed by Jacques Besnard.
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Stop Calling Me Baby!
Title: Stop Calling Me Baby!
Character: The neighbor
Released: October 26, 1977
Type: Movie
A man hires a P.I. to find a sexy woman he fell in love with. The woman lives with her underage teen sister who dreams about having sex for the first time, but wants a real man. That's when the P.I. shows up and stirs up the household.
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Dis bonjour à la dame !..
Title: Dis bonjour à la dame !..
Character: Bus driver
Released: March 30, 1977
Type: Movie
Robert Ferry, a PTT employee, is having problems with his two sons. The elder has impregnated his girlfriend, a young hippie, and the younger, Daniel, is said to have homosexual tendencies. Determined to put his son back on the straight and narrow, Robert decides to go against his principles and force a young girl on him...
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Le  Jour de gloire
Title: Le Jour de gloire
Character: Gaston Michu
Released: December 8, 1976
Type: Movie
In 1944, a retired German detachment found itself stranded in a French town. The inhabitants try to live in good harmony with the occupants. But one day kids, playing with a grenade, accidentally cause the death of an SS lieutenant.
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: M. Lebeau
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: TV
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
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The Seventh Company Has Been Found
Title: The Seventh Company Has Been Found
Character: Cornebu
Released: December 10, 1975
Type: Movie
The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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Title: Système 2
Character: Self
Released: January 19, 1975
Type: TV
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Impossible Is Not French
Title: Impossible Is Not French
Character: Le cycliste énervé
Released: December 11, 1974
Type: Movie
Antoine, an accountant by trade, becomes a private detective to support his family. His wanderings lead him to transport a cargo of malachite to Le Havre, in the hope of a large bonus. With the help of his family, and despite a few mishaps, Antoine achieves his goal.
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Shut Up, Gulli
Title: Shut Up, Gulli
Character: The cul-de-jatte
Released: October 30, 1974
Type: Movie
A TV channel organizes a super-8 competition, and Kenavec family decides to film their small village in Brittany.
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Title: Un curé de choc
Character: Ludo
Released: July 22, 1974
Type: TV
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Le concierge
Title: Le concierge
Character: Le vendeur et réparateur de télévision
Released: August 23, 1973
Type: Movie
Christophe Merignac, a youngESCP graduate with a law degree but still unemployed, gets a job as a concierge in a luxury building. Using charm and cunning, he makes himself indispensable. He makes a fortune and marries a young, pretty and rich tenant, whom he happily deceives. The conclusion is bittersweet: he's "made it", but he doesn't love anyone. What's more, a young concierge who looks like a brother has just arrived in his building.
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The Right of the Maddest
Title: The Right of the Maddest
Character: Acteur
Released: March 27, 1973
Type: Movie
The guardian of a nursing home lends a compassionate ear to the complaints of two new pensioners who love each other and have only one dream: to see the sea. To help them realize their dream, the brave man steals the car of the director. She quickly discovers the crime and drags her pale husband to the pursuit of the trio, aboard a tanker truck...
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La Brune que voilà
Title: La Brune que voilà
Character: Micot
Released: September 17, 1970
Type: Movie
Germain, a great seducer, collects the mistresses. There are four, all brown, and all married. When the husband of one of them disembarks to threaten him with death, he must break up. But with which? The gouailleur Robert Lamoureux interprets this man who does not like to leave women.
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Frédéric
Title: Frédéric
Character: Rousseau
Released: March 19, 1970
Type: Movie
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Three Men on a Horse
Title: Three Men on a Horse
Released: December 12, 1969
Type: Movie
A man has found a way to win any bet he places on a horse. However, he himself must never be the person to place the bet.
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La Maison de campagne
Title: La Maison de campagne
Character: A painter
Released: November 10, 1969
Type: Movie
What to do, and what not to do, when one is building or renovating a house.
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The Scarlet Lady
Title: The Scarlet Lady
Released: May 14, 1969
Type: Movie
Comedy about a self-made woman in Paris contemplating the idea of suicide at first, then murder.
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Faites donc plaisir aux amis
Title: Faites donc plaisir aux amis
Character: Le barman de l'auberge
Released: February 5, 1969
Type: Movie
Jean-Louis, a garage worker and womanizer, asks his friend and boss to reverse roles for a while, to make his brother, who has just arrived from South America, believe he's not only the boss, but also his wife's husband.
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A Strange Kind of Colonel
Title: A Strange Kind of Colonel
Released: April 24, 1968
Type: Movie
Barton and Cutterfeet, two London mobsters, team up with stripper Marina to pull off the big jobs. But the arrival of a rival who signs his crimes "The Angel" takes away all their profits. The three friends hope to get their revenge when they steal a diamond.
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A Strange Kind of Colonel
Title: A Strange Kind of Colonel
Character: Le crieur vendeur de journaux
Released: April 24, 1968
Type: Movie
Barton and Cutterfeet, two London mobsters, team up with stripper Marina to pull off the big jobs. But the arrival of a rival who signs his crimes "The Angel" takes away all their profits. The three friends hope to get their revenge when they steal a diamond.
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The Little Bather
Title: The Little Bather
Character: Un marin
Released: March 22, 1968
Type: Movie
Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...
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The Gardener of Argenteuil
Title: The Gardener of Argenteuil
Character: Le facteur
Released: October 7, 1966
Type: Movie
Tulipe, is an old man who lives alone in an old railway carriage in the Argentueil region of Paris. His main passions are gardening and oil painting, but he also has a secret source of income. His godson discovers that Tulipe is actually a master forger, producing perfect copies of 10 franc notes. His godson’s girlfriend sees this as an opportunity to get very rich – but she must persuade Tulipe to forge 500 franc notes. Assuming Tulipe’s agreement, his godson and his girlfriend buy an expensive new car and luxury villa in provincial France – but there is a cruel turn of fate in store for them when Tulipe strikes up a friendship with a millionaire playboy.
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Rousseau
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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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Micot
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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Three Disordered Children
Title: Three Disordered Children
Character: Un fonctionnaire de la mairie
Released: June 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A man falsely recognize two teenagers and one child as his own children in order to avoid jail so his life becomes more and more chaotic.
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The Boss of Champignol
Title: The Boss of Champignol
Released: March 16, 1966
Type: Movie
Claudius finds a foal and takes it home to his boss. The men who stole the animal are looking for him. Claudius names him Champignol and trains him for racing. When he grows up, Champignol wins a regional race. But the thieves return, and Claudius is forced to do odd jobs to keep his horse.
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Under Your Hat
Title: Under Your Hat
Character: Le gendarme François-Joseph
Released: September 3, 1965
Type: Movie
An illegal gambling den where players can lose millions... and the owners make their fortune.
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What's New Pussycat?
Title: What's New Pussycat?
Character: Car Renter
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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Les baratineurs
Title: Les baratineurs
Released: February 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A precious work of art from the Italian Renaissance is stolen and passes through many hands before ending up in the shed of the farmhouse of Mr. and Mrs. Dujardin, fishmongers, who are inaugurating their luxury fish shop that very day. But the antique dealers, the free-riders and the bargain-hunters are there. They are jealously careful not to pass on the fruit of their clever investigations to their rivals, for all of them, after a picturesque treasure hunt, know that the Dujardin family own the famous Duranti altarpiece. But where have they hidden it themselves?
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La Bonne Planque
Title: La Bonne Planque
Character: Émile alias Gustave
Released: December 31, 1964
Type: Movie
Émile and Fredo are two crooks who have just committed an armed robbery in a Paris bank. To escape the police, Émile, accompanied by his friend Lulu, takes refuge in the apartment of Antoine Perrin, a peaceful civil servant at the Ministry of Agriculture and amateur musician with the group Les Joyeux Colibris. Lulu offers to seduce him in order to prevent him from getting hit on the coffee pot.
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Weekend at Dunkirk
Title: Weekend at Dunkirk
Character: Le soldat à bicyclette
Released: December 18, 1964
Type: Movie
In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.
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Let the Shooters Shoot
Title: Let the Shooters Shoot
Character: The hitchhiker scout
Released: June 27, 1964
Type: Movie
A top-secret prototype is stolen from an American base. The man who stole it, Andersen, is murdered. The investigation is led by Jeff Gordon, who discovers in Andersen's papers a photo of a woman identified as Corinne Martin. Jeff Gordon escapes an assassination attempt on his way out of Martin's house and meets Corinne again, who denies any involvement in the robbery. Her husband, in the pay of foreign spies, is in possession of the "repeller". After several scuffles, Jeff Gordon arrests Martin and his accomplices. The prototype is returned to its base.
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The Reluctant Spy
Title: The Reluctant Spy
Character: The postman (uncredited)
Released: September 3, 1963
Type: Movie
Stanislas Dubois is the manager of a successful advertising agency. One day, he comes up against an imposing woman who foists on him a cumbersome painting by Cézanne.
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Strip-Tease
Title: Strip-Tease
Character: le photographe
Released: May 29, 1963
Type: Movie
Strip-tease has a pleasing Paris setting and a convincing strip club atmosphere, where a roster of exotic dancers do their thing. Making the club atmosphere work is the animated Dany Saval, as a charming gossip and outspoken cheerleader for the art of the strip-tease. Berthe encourages Ariane to loosen up and enjoy what she's doing.
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People in Luck
Title: People in Luck
Character: Lee chauffeur de taxi (« Le Gros Lot »)
Released: April 26, 1963
Type: Movie
A light French comedy of 5 segments.
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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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Les Culottes rouges
Title: Les Culottes rouges
Character: P'tit Louis, un prisonnier (non crédité)
Released: December 19, 1962
Type: Movie
Antoine Rossi, a recidivist prisoner of war in Germany, manages to escape with the cowardly Fendard. Fendard does everything in his power to help him even though he is wounded, but Antoine tries to get rid of him as he boards the train to freedom.
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War of the Buttons
Title: War of the Buttons
Character: Migue la lune's father
Released: April 18, 1962
Type: Movie
For generations, two rival French villages, Longueverne and Velrans, have been at war. But this is no ordinary conflict, for the on-going hostilities are between two armies of young schoolboys. When he is beaten by his father for having lost his buttons, the leader of the Longueverne army, Lebrac, has an idea which will give his side the advantage: next time, he and his brave soldiers will go in battle without their clothes...
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The Little Boy from the Lift
Title: The Little Boy from the Lift
Released: April 5, 1962
Type: Movie
A young boy is hired as a lift attendant in a grand hotel when his mother dies. To fulfill his dream, he takes part in a competition organized by the manager, and wins 1st prize: a two-day stay in one of the princely suites. He wants to share the experience with his young girlfriend, the florist, but discovers that she has betrayed him and returns to her elevator.
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All the Gold in the World
Title: All the Gold in the World
Character: Un automobiliste
Released: November 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Businessman Victor Hardy wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. He claims that he wants to return to nature, but he also intends to profit by selling the water from the village fountain, which is reputed to enhance longevity. However old farmer Mathieu and his sons don't want to sell...
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The American Beauty
Title: The American Beauty
Character: Maurice, le coiffeur, dit le 'Lapin'
Released: September 29, 1961
Type: Movie
Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more.
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My Wife Is a Panther
Title: My Wife Is a Panther
Released: September 7, 1961
Type: Movie
During an evening in a bar, Roger, a friendly cognac salesman and connoisseur, overhears a telephone conversation that intrigues him, then worries him: "... a few bullets to the head and she'll be dead in a minute...". Distraught, Roger follows the stranger who has taken his car. A relentless pursuit ensues. Roger arrives at a mysterious property where the "assassin" disappears to commit his crime. Knocked unconscious by the killer he fought and prevented from carrying out his crime, Roger regains his senses, comfortably installed in the living-room of an old colonel, Colonel Van Booren.
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Panurge's Sheep
Title: Panurge's Sheep
Character: (uncredited)
Released: July 5, 1961
Type: Movie
Charles and Jeanne Renard live with their young kids in a dormitory town. Everyday train and metro,work and return by train and metro to the dormitory town (the famous french sentence "Métro,boulot,dodo"). But how fragile is marital bliss ?
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Quai Notre-Dame
Title: Quai Notre-Dame
Released: June 9, 1961
Type: Movie
Eloi is a twenty-year-old secondhand goods dealer who does his job without particular enthusiasm. He has a girlfriend, Nénette, but immature as he is, he feels just as happy in the company of Fortunée, his young sister, whose little girl's games he shares as often as he can. The three of them live with Eloi and Fortunée's grandmother, nicknamed by all the "Queen of the Flea Market". In possession of a mirror of Venice, Eloi decides to present it to Dormoy, an antique dealer who keeps up shop in the fashionable districts of Paris. On that occasion Eloi meets and falls in love at first sight with Dormoy's rich mistress. The latter, half-moved, half-consenting, does not discourage him.
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Paris Loves
Title: Paris Loves
Released: February 10, 1961
Type: Movie
Les amours de Paris focuses on three disparate couples and their problems in the arena of romantic love. One couple is comprised of a faithful husband and a sick wife whose stay in the hospital is not so bad because she has taken a sudden interest in her doctor. In the second pairing, a womanizer comes to see that the model who is in love with him is worth more than yet another conquest. And to complete the trio, two zany people finally realize they are a couple.
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The Fenouillard Family
Title: The Fenouillard Family
Released: January 4, 1961
Type: Movie
The Fenouillards (Sophie Desmarets and Jean Richard are the parents, Annie Sinigalia and Marie-José Ruíz are the daughters) are shopkeepers with higher aspirations. The Monsieur wants to run for mayor of their town, but the family acknowledges he has little experience of the real world -- and so they all take off to experience it together. After starting out by getting lost, the family goes through an odyssey that takes them to Brazil, the Antarctic, and Japan in a series of episodic adventures.
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Small Local Trains
Title: Small Local Trains
Character: Ernest
Released: December 30, 1960
Type: Movie
Émile Durand, an insecticide manufacturer, is appalled to learn that his son Gérard has fallen in love with Suzy, the daughter of a travelling theatre company. Realising his father will never favour the union, Gérard joins the company on their next tour. In an attempt to heal the rift, Durand’s wife goes after Gérard and ends up performing in their next play…
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Ravishing
Title: Ravishing
Character: Homme qui renseigne Thierry (uncredited)
Released: December 14, 1960
Type: Movie
A womanizing pilot who is asked by a friend to intervene in one of the friend's romantic tangles. The pilot is quite willing to help out but then a confusion about the woman who is the target of the intervention causes a series of unexpected circumstances.
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Ladies Man
Title: Ladies Man
Released: November 16, 1960
Type: Movie
Sentimental events of a rich industrialist which turn to the criminal case.
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Love and the Frenchwoman
Title: Love and the Frenchwoman
Character: Un spectateur de la partie de ping-pong (La Fermme seule)
Released: September 16, 1960
Type: Movie
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.
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Without Trumpet or Drum
Title: Without Trumpet or Drum
Released: December 22, 1959
Type: Movie
Summer 1870. Following the French defeat at Sedan. Léon, a soldier in a detachment isolated in the Ardennes forest, is sent in search of water. When he discovers the most peaceful of rivers, he decides to undress and bathe in it. At bend of the river he catches sight of another naked swimmer. It's a Prussian! Both men start bickering a bit: aren't they supposed to be arch enemies? But they soon fraternize. Unfortunately the patrol has not vanished in the haze and they hear it coming. Each man gets hold of his uniform and runs away in two opposite directions. The only trouble is that Fritz the Prussian has donned the French uniform and Leon the Prussian one!
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Signed, Arsène Lupin
Title: Signed, Arsène Lupin
Released: November 11, 1959
Type: Movie
At the end of the Great War, Arsène Lupin resumed his adventurous life. Theft of three paintings committed by an adversary leads him to the treasure of the Golden Fleece.
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The Indestructible
Title: The Indestructible
Released: April 29, 1959
Type: Movie
Augustin Robustal and his wife Lilane run the riverside café "Au joyeux gardon" and if the "gardon" (roach) is happy, the owners of the establishment are not as business is bad. Indeed the place is almost deserted except by four faithful patrons, Francis, a garage owner, Pivois, a man with a modest private income, Loulou, a radio technician and Boudoux, an undertaker. Now, the Robustals employ a fanciful but gifted waiter, Hippolyte. This one happens to be infatuated with Liliane, so much so that one day he takes out a life insurance in her favor. The four regulars' reaction is instant: they offer Robustal to execute Hippolyte, in exchange for a commission. But the trouble (at least for them!) is that Hippolyte is indestructible.
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Follow Me Young Man
Title: Follow Me Young Man
Character: Un amoureux de Françoise
Released: December 3, 1958
Type: Movie
Françoise, a charming young saleswoman for a leading jeweller, is being courted in vain by a billionaire shipowner. He attributes her failure to the existence of a rival, and decides to have her followed by a private detective. Françoise, commissioned by her boss to transport a valuable necklace to Cannes, is accompanied by a bodyguard charged with her safety. Françoise, the bodyguard and the detective meet on the train and a series of misunderstandings ensue.
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A Legitimate Defense
Title: A Legitimate Defense
Character: un journaliste au tribunal
Released: June 11, 1958
Type: Movie
Two friends from the last war, Pierrot, a bar owner, and Gustave, a police inspector, are in contact with a notorious gang of racketeers in Montmartre. Tired of putting up with Albert the King's demands, Pierrot kills the gangster during a bar brawl. His first instinct is to flee, but on Gustave's advice, he turns himself in to the law. All things considered, he'll be safer in prison than exposed to the reprisals of the "underworld". Pierrot goes to trial. He was acquitted as having acted in self-defense. But his release leaves him open to the vengeance of Bob, one of Albert's accomplices. Pierrot narrowly escapes an ambush, but is finally able to rid himself of the threat hanging over him, thanks to the friendship of Inspector Gustave, and finally reunites with the companion of his life, Dora, who has never stopped trembling for him.
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Three Days to Live
Title: Three Days to Live
Character: Lucien Morisot
Released: March 12, 1958
Type: Movie
Struggling actor Simon witnesses a murder; he didn't see the killer, but that doesn't stop him from claiming that he did in order to get his name into the papers. Sure enough, the murderer targets him as his next victim. Our hero is temporarily rescued by Jeanne, a fellow aspiring actress who has always had a crush on him.
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There Is the Brunette
Title: There Is the Brunette
Character: Un mécano
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
Germain Vignon is a used car dealer whose eloquence is such that he could sell the lousiest banger to a guy that does not even have a driver's license. He is not bad either at chatting up girls. Indeed, since his blonde wife left him, Germain has seduced no fewer than four brunettes. And as, besides being a ladies'man, he has a heart of gold, Germain is unable to break up with any of them, hence a complicated sentimental life. But this delicate balance is threatened the day an outraged stranger comes to him and orders him to leave his wife alone. One small problem is that the man has forgotten to specify the name of the lady in question. So, which of his four mistresses - Christine, Sophie, Anne-Marie or Sonia - should he leave?
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Love Is at Stake
Title: Love Is at Stake
Character: The doorman
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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We at Champignol
Title: We at Champignol
Character: Milou
Released: August 1, 1957
Type: Movie
A turf war between two French villages against a soccer backdrop... Claudius, goalkeeper for Fouzy's team, is traded for a cow and becomes Champignol's new goalkeeper. During the final, he is transformed by the appearance of the beautiful Solange. He wins the cup single-handed.
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Mr. Steve
Title: Mr. Steve
Released: June 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Georges Villard, a minor bank employee, is won over by Mr Steve who does him favours, treats him to the high life and introduces him to his wife Florence, with whom he falls in love. Georges is unaware that these generous gifts will cost him dearly.
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The Big Bluff
Title: The Big Bluff
Released: May 14, 1957
Type: Movie
A penniless adventurer, Eddie Morgan survives on his wits and good humor. He's a bluffer. To help the owner of an oil field, he launches a vast investment campaign, with the help of a few friends, to benefit the French people. A rival group, led by Serge Colonna and Dominique Ardan, tried to buy the land from him, because according to an expert, there was no oil to exploit. But the expert had lied, and Colonna had just signed the purchase contract. Eddie, with the help of Dominique, whom he has seduced in the meantime, snatches the famous paper from Colonna's hands. The oil can flow.
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Life is beautiful
Title: Life is beautiful
Character: L'Ecossais
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: Movie
Paris, 1956. Everything is going smoothly for Roger, married to Denise, and Paul, married to Monique, until the day they win a house in a radio contest. The difficulties of living together and the intrusion of their parents-in-law lead to a falling out.
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That Naughty Girl
Title: That Naughty Girl
Character: Gendarme
Released: April 10, 1956
Type: Movie
Nightclub entertainer Jean Clery discovers too late that the 'baby' he agreed to take care of is a wild, shapely sex kitten.
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Les Duraton
Title: Les Duraton
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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La Madelon
Title: La Madelon
Released: December 2, 1955
Type: Movie
1914, a small village of the Marne. Charming and woken up, Madeleine, said the Madelon, who works in the coffee(café) of his father, Tourlourou, account of numerous pretenders. To the rich Antoine Pichot, she prefers corporal Beauguitte. When the war bursts, she(it) searches for the latter.
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Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
Title: Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
Character: Léon « Alibi », ami de Robert
Released: October 18, 1955
Type: Movie
Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever after if the housing crisis did not force them to live together with Gabrielle and Fernand, Robert's parents. For, despite the good will on either side, tension soon arises. What else to expect when there is too little space in their Montmartre apartment for four people (then for six then eight, the couple having... two pairs of twins!) ; the continued presence there of Fernand (who loves peace and quiet) after he is driven to retirement ; the difficult beginnings of Robert as a lawyer in a room of the apartment, etc... Other troubles follow and the harried family is on the verge of implosion...
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The Fugitives
Title: The Fugitives
Character: Un prisonnier
Released: June 17, 1955
Type: Movie
During the Second World War, in 1943, two French prisoners, François and Michel, escape from Stalag B377 in northern Germany near the Baltic Sea. They meet another escaped compatriot, Pierre, who has donned the uniform of a German officer and joins them. Their goal: to reach neutral Sweden. To get there, they'll have to walk part of the way, then take a train to the coast and, from there, find a way to cross the sea to the shores of Sweden.
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Black Dossier
Title: Black Dossier
Character: Félix
Released: May 10, 1955
Type: Movie
In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential notable during an investigation into a suspicious death. His perseverance to get to the truth will cause a huge scandal.
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Magic Village
Title: Magic Village
Released: March 22, 1955
Type: Movie
Robert and his fiancée Lucienne were due to go on vacation together to a tented village in Sicily. Robert is forced to postpone his trip and only joins Lucienne a few days later, taking advantage of the departure of a following group. During the train journey, he befriends Thérèse, a young Sicilian living in Paris, who wants to make a pilgrimage to the land of her ancestors. Lucienne is away from the camp when Robert arrives, so he can continue to see Thérèse, and little by little they discover that they love each other. When Lucienne returns, an explanation and reconciliation take place, then Robert changes his mind and, with the vacations over, leaves Lucienne alone to live in Sicily with Thérèse, who wants to stay in her family's homeland.
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Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
Title: Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
Character: Léon « Alibi », ami de Robert
Released: November 26, 1954
Type: Movie
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Trust Me!
Title: Trust Me!
Character: Cliquet
Released: May 17, 1954
Type: Movie
Max, an illusionist as unlucky as he is skilled, would like to marry his boss's daughter, but his boss won't hear of marriage and even threatens to fire him if he doesn't come up with an interesting act. A supplier of magic items comes to Marx's rescue, handing over his "magic clock". Marx locks himself in to experiment with it and, unable to get out, falls asleep... He has a dream in which, with the power to make false things true, he becomes the hero of extraordinary adventures that take him to an Eastern country where he is made Emperor. He calls Helen to marry him, but the deposed Emperor takes revenge by having the usurper locked up in a sarcophagus.
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Une vie de garçon
Title: Une vie de garçon
Released: February 3, 1954
Type: Movie
Determined to marry, but without enthusiasm, Bernard chose Lysiane Laborie. To bid a fitting farewell to his wild youth, he buried his bachelorhood. Then his friend Bobby, with Lysiane's consent, persuades Bernard that he's marrying not a candid young girl, but Lily the Strychnine, a volcanic creature. The future husband discovers the joke and responds by introducing himself as a notorious gangster. Confrontations with thugs lead them all to the station. Bernard and Lysiane fall into each other's arms.
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His Father's Portrait
Title: His Father's Portrait
Character: Ferdinand, le vendeur du rayon Installation Ménagère
Released: October 29, 1953
Type: Movie
Paul has to leave his country home to collect his father's inheritance of a department store. A natural-born son, Paul's stepmother gives him a cold reception, and he's appalled by the behavior of his half-sister Dominique, an existentialist of the highest order. Paul's gumption restores the Galeries Parisiennes to its former glory, and he gives a farewell present to a more subdued Dominique. He returns to his village, arm in arm with the wise Marie-Louise, ex-saleswoman at the Grand Magasin.
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L'oeil en coulisse
Title: L'oeil en coulisse
Released: July 19, 1953
Type: Movie
Wounded during a rugby match he'd come to Paris to play, Tonin Bonnafous, a thoroughbred southerner, settled in Paris with a former stalag mate he'd happily met. Tonin liked the asylum. His friends are charming, and there's a neighbor, Martine, a young cinema extra, whom Tonin finds to his liking. Through his electrician friend, Tonin gets a job on the radio, and through his young neighbor, he even gets a job as an extra in the cinema.
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L'Incantevole nemica
Title: L'Incantevole nemica
Character: (Non crédité)
Released: June 14, 1953
Type: Movie
The owner of a cheese factory fears communists and mistakes a meek youth who works for him for one of them. He invites him to his house to win his confidence and the youth falls in love with his daughter.
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Les Dents longues
Title: Les Dents longues
Character: Bob, le barman de la discothèque
Released: March 15, 1953
Type: Movie
A young, talented and ambitious journalist, Louis heads off to try his luck in Paris. He's spotted by Walter, editor-in-chief for a major daily newspaper, who takes to him and furthers his career. What he doesn't realise is that Louis is ready to betray anyone to achieve his ends...
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Wonderful Mentality
Title: Wonderful Mentality
Character: Press photographer
Released: March 14, 1953
Type: Movie
Honoré, a valet, has an extremely logical mind and is unable to tell a lie. This comes in very fortunate for the family he works for.
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Drôle de noce
Title: Drôle de noce
Released: September 10, 1952
Type: Movie
Mr and Mrs Barbezat,Concierges are to marry their only daughter to a butcher's boy. Both the in-laws and the groom have an obsession: come what may, they are keen on honoring their engagements: promises are made to be kept is their motto. And when, on the wedding day, the unfortunate parents cannot provide the newly weds with...the "Mérinos" mattress which is part of the bride's Trousseau ,they are desperate. The husband will spend the whole wedding festivities trying to keep his word.
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Hello… I love you
Title: Hello… I love you
Character: Calinot
Released: May 8, 1952
Type: Movie
Since he met Odette, Pierre thinks only of her. Every day, he calls her saying only "Hello...I love you". Then he manages to get hired in the factory where Odette works...
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The House on the Dune
Title: The House on the Dune
Character: The sailor
Released: February 29, 1952
Type: Movie
A tough customs man, out to get a youth smuggling tobacco into France across the Belgium border, falls for the jaded ex bar hostess the smuggler lives with.Meanwhile the young man is intrigued by another, more innocent girl.
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Adorable Creatures
Title: Adorable Creatures
Character: Bob
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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The Bonnadieu House
Title: The Bonnadieu House
Character: Monsieur Mercadier - un habitué de la brasserie
Released: November 27, 1951
Type: Movie
Felix is a middle-aged bourgeois husband. Much to his discomfort, he learns that his wife Gabrielle is carrying on with a young man--a very young man. Rather than express outrage, Felix decides that there's something lacking in him. He spends the rest of the picture trying to keep his wife by altering his own personality and outlook.
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Jamais deux sans trois
Title: Jamais deux sans trois
Character: Cellarman
Released: November 22, 1951
Type: Movie
Father Benoît would like one of his twins to take over his inn, at 3 plates. But his ancillary ambitions are not commensurate with his last 3. Bernard is also in love with Hélène, daughter of Colonel Flouc de La Donzelle. He dreams of becoming an actor and goes to Paris to find a job. Difficult beginnings since from the theater, he goes to the cabaret, then to the radio, without success. In the final scene, the 3 brothers meet, which gives rise to a series of gags during the wedding.
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Each in turn
Title: Each in turn
Character: Benoît
Released: November 16, 1951
Type: Movie
Robert Montfort, happily married to Solange, is his parents-in-law's pet aversion though. To them he is a punk, a good for nothing, a small-time, untalented poet! Robert, who is more gifted than what they think, manages, following a workmate's recommendation, to debut as an entertainer in a nightclub and -even better- to please the audience. Not daring tell the truth to Solange he starts leading a double life, being Robert Montfort in the daytime and Jean Rigobert at night. Of course his wife wonders what is going on and worries about his regular night outings. Only too happy, her parents incite her to have a divorce. Fortunately, all comes right in the end.
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Good Enough to Eat
Title: Good Enough to Eat
Character: A student
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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Le Roi des camelots
Title: Le Roi des camelots
Character: Fil de fer
Released: January 11, 1951
Type: Movie
How Robert, who does not manage to impose himself in the representation, sees his life turned upside down when he begins a career as a street vendor, which, thanks to his resourcefulness, turns out to be more and more brilliant.
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Justice Is Done
Title: Justice Is Done
Character: Le garçon d'hôtel (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads something different into the presented facts.
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The Chocolate Girl
Title: The Chocolate Girl
Character: Paul's colleague
Released: March 3, 1950
Type: Movie
Benjamine, the daughter of the chocolate maker Lapistole, has broken down in her car, spends a night at Paul Norman's, imposes herself casually and causes the break-up of the engagement of this peaceful civil servant with the daughter of his department head. A friend maintains contact between Paul and Benjamine, becomes the head of publicity at Lapistole and when Norman is dismissed through Benjamine's fault, brings his two friends closer and proves to them that they are made for each other.
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The Story of Dr. Louise
Title: The Story of Dr. Louise
Character: Eugène
Released: December 12, 1949
Type: Movie
The struggle of a female doctor against superstition and healers.
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The Naked Woman
Title: The Naked Woman
Character: The carpenter
Released: September 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Having become famous, a painter marries his model whom he soon brings to despair by deceiving her.
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Firemen's Ball
Title: Firemen's Ball
Character: Raymond
Released: March 13, 1949
Type: Movie
1944, France experiences its last days of German occupation. A microcosm representative of the various attitudes adopted during this troubled period, some heroic, others less brilliant, the Grégeois family, scattered by the war, will strengthen its ties according to the Allied advance on the territory and the liberation of Paris, with its joys but also its sorrows, because not all of its members will survive the relative chaos that will characterize this end of the world war.
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The Lovers of Verona
Title: The Lovers of Verona
Released: March 7, 1949
Type: Movie
Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist magistrate, are chosen to be the stand-ins for the stars of a film version of "Romeo and Juliet" being shot on location in Venice and Verona. It is not long before they fall in love and their romance parallels that of Shakespeare's timeless heroes. Indeed their union is threatened by the schemings of Raffaele, the Maglia family's dubious tout...
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Tous les deux
Title: Tous les deux
Character: Boy
Released: February 25, 1949
Type: Movie
Jean and Claude - he a car builder, she a model - loved each other, then separated because of Jean's despotic affections. Claude has retired with her child and a friend to a farm she can't manage. Wearily, the friend alerts Jean who, in the twinkling of an eye, erases the difficulties. Claude also learns that the child has been recognized and that his father has always looked after him. The two reconcile and embark on a journey for better or for worse.
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White as Snow
Title: White as Snow
Character: A buddy
Released: April 28, 1948
Type: Movie
Naive and good-hearted Léon Ménard arrives in Paris, determined to find work in the capital. In a café, he meets Bob, a seedy guy, who helps him to get a job. On cloud nine, the ingenuous young man, does is unaware of how Bob manipulates him. Having become the night concierge of a hotel, the thankful Léon lets Bob and his accomplices get into the pace. Jewels are stolen as a result.When he is accused, Leon refuses to incriminate his "friend". Fortunately, Charlotte, Léon's fiancé, manages to find evidence of Bob's guilt and thanks to a premium paid by the diamond dealer the two lovebirds can buy a grocer's shop and tie the knot.
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Dawn Devils
Title: Dawn Devils
Character: Blot
Released: November 20, 1946
Type: Movie
A lieutenant, at the head of a commando ready to land in France, finds among his men a maquisard who had tried to kill him in the past.
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Loves, Delights and Organs
Title: Loves, Delights and Organs
Character: Robinot
Released: June 25, 1946
Type: Movie
The head of a school in a little French country town encourages the playful romances between his young students, as well as a love of jazz music.
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Les Cadets de l'océan
Title: Les Cadets de l'océan
Character: Cazalet
Released: November 14, 1945
Type: Movie
In the harbor of Toulon, on the “Ocean” training ship, the apprenticeship of the cabin boys and experts of the Navy is punctuated by permissions in town, friendships, bullying, and loves.
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Annette and the Blonde Woman
Title: Annette and the Blonde Woman
Character: The Bellhop (uncredited)
Released: March 16, 1942
Type: Movie
A scatterbrained girl harasses a lawyer in Cannes.
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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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Sins of Youth
Title: Sins of Youth
Character: The bellhop (uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A rich businessman living alone is deprived of the nephew he was to have brought up decides on his doctor's advice to search for the four illegitimate children he once fathered, which leads him to accept responsibility for his actions.
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Her First Affair
Title: Her First Affair
Character: A college student (uncredited)
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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Notre-Dame de la Mouise
Title: Notre-Dame de la Mouise
Released: April 11, 1941
Type: Movie
Father Vincent is trying to build a church in the California neighborhood. Greeted by stones, he must face a sinister band of deviants excited by a shady cabaret performer. The abbot resists, gradually builds his church and regenerates all the wretches with whom he lives and especially the hardest, Bibi.
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L'Enfer des anges
Title: L'Enfer des anges
Released: February 13, 1941
Type: Movie
Abandoned children, left to their own devices and a life of danger, are adopted by a kind man.
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The Man Who Seeks the Truth
Title: The Man Who Seeks the Truth
Character: Tire delivery man (uncredited)
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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The End of the Day
Title: The End of the Day
Released: March 24, 1939
Type: Movie
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.
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Boys' School
Title: Boys' School
Character: Un élève
Released: April 5, 1938
Type: Movie
In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them sees a man coming out from a wall. The next day, after he talks about it, he disappears. Then, the second one vanishes. Are they gone to their dreams? That's when the art teacher is murdered. Suspicions now are too high so the third one decides to investigate.
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La Marseillaise
Title: La Marseillaise
Released: February 10, 1938
Type: Movie
A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of Marseille, counts in German exile and, of course, the king Louis XVI, each showing their own small problems.
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Crossroads
Title: Crossroads
Character: Un élève
Released: January 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then appears a blackmailer who accuses him of being a usurper, actually called Jean Pelletier, a mobster well known to police. Vetheuil, judging himself slandered, refuses to listen to his tormentor and goes to the police. The man speaks. The scandal is public soon ...