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Filmography
Mission in Tangier
5.7
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During the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret documents from Tangiers to London.The Scarlet Bazaar
NYR
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Agnès Bonnardet leaves her parents to marry Claude Sironi, a painter who becomes famous but loses his talent. Meanwhile Agnes acquires a style of her own as an artist, which makes Claude jealous of his young wife. One day, he sends one of his own paintings to the Bazar de la Charité, a very trendy Paris department store, instead of one of his wife's works as ordered. Afraid of her being mad at him, he locks her up in the cloak room. A dreadful fire suddenly breaks out and sets the building ablaze.The Man Who Seeks the Truth
NYR
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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.Comedy of Happiness
6.4
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Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him committed to a mental hospital. But Jourdain manages to escape and decides to make everybody happy except... his heirs!La Mode rêvée
NYR
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An American star, visiting Paris, falls asleep in the Louvre while a guide comments on Watteau's "Voyage à Cythère". She dreams that the painting's characters, beautiful ladies, escape, scattering across Paris after a tour of the fashion houses.Captain Blomet
NYR
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Returning from the cemetery where he has just buried his wife, Captain Blomet is on the point of committing suicide, when his valet reveals to him that the deceased had 17 lovers. Blomet undertakes to wash his honor in different ways according to his rivals.Cité de l'espérance
NYR
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The City of Hope is the place where left-behind artists subsist by scraping by. When one of them is accused of murder, all try to find the real culprit.Champions of France
NYR
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In the lead up to WWII, several escapist French films were made promoting health and sport among youth.In this one, we see the friendship of young males on a Marne river rowing team threatened by the presence of a typical femme fatale.Du Guesclin
5.1
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A chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th century.Le Bonheur
6.9
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Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation and curiosity to know his motives, pleads in his favour at his trial, but he rebuffs her pity. After he has served 18 months in prison, they meet and fall in love.Serge Panine
6
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A mother kills a very vile character, Prince Panin, with whom her adopted daughter has fallen in love and who has married, for her money, the natural daughter.Monsieur Hector
4.7
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In a palace in Nice, a modest valet is confused with his master, a viscount chased by a man-eater.Night Round
NYR
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During Christmas night, two police officers make their nocturnal rounds, in their round they meet tramps, brawlers in a café, a naked man, a concierge, a sexton, revelers in a nightclub, and end by signing in their report to the police station.Parisian Life
NYR
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A rich Brazilian, Mendoza, visited Paris in 1900 and was romantically involved with the star of Offenbach's 'La vie parisienne' which was playing at the time. Thirty five years later, he returns with his son and granddaughter, who is engaged to a young Frenchman. But Mendoza's puritanical son forbids the marriage. Mendoza and the actress's friends conspire to change his mind and convert him to 'Parisian life.'De man zonder hart
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When his colleague presents him with (forged) evidence of his wife Sylvette's unfaithfulness, factory owner Jean Sourdier kills him in a fit of rage. After fifteen years in prison he is determined to take revenge on his wife by killing Ninette, a daughter from her second marriage.The Threepenny Opera
6.6
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The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version.The Yellow Dog
6
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Maigret investigates in Concarneau where the passage of a yellow dog accompanies a series of murders, sowing terror in the population. The police seem helpless. It must be said that it has no significant evidence.Nadia la femme traquée
NYR
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A group of political exiles conspire in France against their government. They are pursued by Daminoff, head of the intelligence service of the country of origin of the conspirators, who uses Nadia, a singer who soon betrays him by taking up the cause of his compatriots. Dramatic chases ensue until Daminoff, having tracked down Nadia and her friends, fires on Chief André and seizes the secret plans. But these are false. André, injured, is stricken with amnesia. Seeing Nadia again, he will become himself again and marry her.Cordial Agreement
5.4
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The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.Le diamant de cent sous
NYR
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For fun and to dazzle his wife, the novelist Morgan steals a ring and gets rid of it in the costume jewelry section of a supermarket. Sophie buys the diamond, which forces the novelist to embark on crazy adventures to recover the jewel.Special Mission
5
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The exploits of Chief Police Inspector Chabrier, first before the invasion of France in May 1940 as he fights against spies preparing the coming the Germans, particularly Emmy de Welder, the alleged manager of the Rouen hospital. Later, Chabrier and his men go underground and resist the occupiers whatever the price to pay. When the Liberation comes Chabrier resumes his activities at the French National Police.Return at Dawn
7
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Married to Karl Ammer, the station master of Thaya, a Hungarian quiet village, Anita is a pretty young peasant who feels deeply bored. She dreams of another life while watching the daily express trains to Budapest. An incident will force her to leave her province: she has to go to Budapest to attend the funeral of an aunt and receive a share of the inheritance. After completing the formalities, Anita misses the train to go back home and then she finds herself alone in the capital.Le droit de l'enfant
NYR
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Jacques Herbelin is the faithful husband of Louise and the proud father of Cécile, a kind little girl. But Louise does not reciprocate her husband's affection and prefers to cheat on him in the arms of Marquis de Condottier. The latter is a sinister character who, not satisfied with being Herbelin's wife's lover, sets his heart on their daughter, who has now become a pretty young lady. Jacques can't take it anymore.La Bataille du feu
NYR
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Activities and exploits of firefighters in the context of a village then the capital and under the bombardments of the Second World War where the saving of lives was more important than that of factories.False Identity
8
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A man who has just deposited a will with a notary is run over by a car. As his overcoat bears the name and address of Emile Blondin on a label, the police go there and discover that the dead man is not Emile Blondin. But this one is soon discovered murdered. The police then became interested in Georges Blondin, the victim's brother, whose goddaughter, Juliette, was also the notary's secretary.Behind These Walls
5.8
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June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by the resistance, the inhabitants who listen to English radio are rounded up by the Germans in a prison and considered as hostages. In one of the cells are found men from all walks of life: an aristocrat, the Viscount of Saint-Leu, Doctor Noblet, a resistance fighter, Béquille the wanderer with a wooden leg, and a strange character nicknamed "Black Market". The latter arouses mistrust among the prisoners, because it could well have been introduced by the enemy.Acting
1950La montagne est verte as Le gouverneur de la Martinique
1950Death Threat as Manager
1950The Ferret as Malmandier
1949Night Round as English
1949The Red Angel as Unknown
1949Mission in Tangier as British Colonel
1949Du Guesclin as Unknown
1949La Bataille du feu as German officer
1949Le droit de l'enfant as Bowell
1948Cité de l'espérance as Smith
1948Colomba as Unknown
1948La Renégate as Chief of Police
1948Le diamant de cent sous as Simson
1947Captain Blomet as Unknown
1947False Identity as Bank manager
1947The Woman in Red as The Auctioneer (uncredited)
1947The Scarlet Bazaar as Unknown
1946Master Love as Unknown
1946Behind These Walls as Unknown
1946Special Mission as (uncredited)
1942Retour au bonheur as Unknown
1940Comedy of Happiness as (uncredited)
1940Nadia la femme traquée as Head of the Second Bureau
1940Monsieur Hector as Un client (uncredited)
1940Hangman's Noose as Unknown
1940The Man Who Seeks the Truth as Unknown
1940My Crimes After Mein Kampf as General Kurt von Schleicher
1940La Mode rêvée as Unknown
1940Threats as Le Hollandais
1939Cordial Agreement as Ambassador
1939The Five Cents of Lavarede as Officer of the Normandie
1939Un gosse en or as Crawford
1939Serge Panine as Lord Harton
1939Place de la Concorde as President of the jury
1938Champions of France as Chartrier
1938Return at Dawn as A friend of Osten
1938Ultimatum as Le général serbe
1938Satan's Paradise as Sir Nicholas
1938Gibraltar as Unknown
1938Neuf de trèfle as Unknown
1937De man zonder hart as Unknown
1935Parisian Life as Unknown
1935Crimson Dynasty as Unknown
1935Monsieur Sans-Gêne as Unknown
1934Le Bonheur as (uncredited)
1933Colomba as Unknown
1933Bariole as Unknown
1932Candy Apple as Baron de Granville
1932The Regiment's Champion as Unknown
1932The Yellow Dog as le Pommeret
1931The Threepenny Opera as Tiger Brown
1930The Knights of the Mountain as Unknown
1930Nos maîtres les domestiques as Inspector Lerand
1930The mystery of the pink villa as Le juge d'instruction