Gabrielle Fontan
Gabrielle Fontan (16 April 1873 – 8 September 1959) was a French film actress. She appeared in more than 120 films between 1927 and 1959.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5884 |
| Birthday | 1873-04-16 |
| Place of Birth | Bordeaux, Gironde, France |
| Also Known As | Fontan, Gabrielle Marie Joséphine Pène-Castel, Габриель Фонтан, Габриэль Фонтан, |
1932
For One Cent's Worth of Love
6.75/2
A millionaire,in love with an innocent girl,does not want to be loved for his money.So he asks his secretary to take his place and together they go to...
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For One Cent's Worth of Love
1958
Les Misérables
7.18/122
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...
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Les Misérables
1946
Gates of the Night
7.09/39
In post-Liberation Paris, a man reunites with a friend and meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover her brother's dark past.
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Gates of the Night
1946
Sylvia and the Ghost
6.854/24
A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her father h...
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Sylvia and the Ghost
1946
A Day in the Country
7.291/213
The family of a Parisian shop-owner spends a day in the country. The daughter falls in love with a man at the inn, where they spend the day.
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A Day in the Country
1942
Strangers in the House
7.024/21
Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abandoned for nearly twenty years by his wife, the brill...
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Strangers in the House
1929
The Lighthouse Keepers
7.444/18
In a lighthouse off the coast of Brittany, a young man slowly goes mad following a bite by a rabid dog while his father looks on helplessly. Thwarted...
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The Lighthouse Keepers
1950
Marie of the Port
5.675/20
Henri Chatelard is well into his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciates women. When he meets Marie, an 18-ish strong-hea...
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Marie of the Port
1957
The Gates of Paris
6.569/36
Juju, a drunken oaf who feels the need of being important to someone---anyone---and his friend The Artist are forced at gunpoint to house a fugitive,...
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The Gates of Paris
1931
Coquecigrole
9/1
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Coquecigrole
1929
Ces dames aux chapeaux verts
7/1
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Ces dames aux chapeaux verts
1929
The crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
7/1
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The crime of Sylvestre Bonnard
1931
My Friend Victor
9.5/2
A poor youth of noble birth needs to marry. Will the cynical, calculating upstart who wants to set him on the right course be able to help?
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My Friend Victor
1931
Make a living
10/1
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Make a living
1934
L'Or dans la rue
8/1
A young man is involved in a swindle to produce synthetic gold, but fortunately when the fakery is uncovered he still has his girlfriend and a ticket...
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L'Or dans la rue
1955
Black Dossier
6.286/14
In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential notable during an investigation into a suspicious de...
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Black Dossier
1936
La Petite Sauvage
8/1
The young Paulette is placed by her tutor in a boarding school in Lausanne. It is at the neighboring dance hall, by running away for a short time, tha...
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La Petite Sauvage
1936
Pluie d'or
5/3
Abandoned kids are taken in by a rather sleazy character who owns a shoe store and practices wear. The children grow up, the man dies and leaves them...
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Pluie d'or
1937
The Ladies in the Green Hats
10/1
Arlette, a young orphan girl, is taken in by four spinster cousins, the eldest of whom, Telcide, is very authoritarian. Arlette befriends Marie, and a...
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The Ladies in the Green Hats
1938
The Time of the Cherries
9/1
A poor peasant family, a failed cabinet maker and an unemployed worker struggle in contrast to crooked rich businessmen. nearby.A Communist meeting gi...
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The Time of the Cherries
1938
Titin from Martigues
9/1
In Paris, at the Foire du Trône, the showman Titin from Martigues spins the perfect love with the pretty Yvette, which arouses the jealousy of his riv...
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Titin from Martigues
1938
Ramuntcho
9/1
Ramuntcho is a young man who has fallen in with a gang of smugglers, led by Itchoua, who carry their contraband across the border into Spain. He is in...
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Ramuntcho
1940
Two Women
7/2
Considering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not allow her to turn to another man.
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Two Women
1941
The Duel
9/1
A widow is loved by a doctor whose brother, an ecclesiastic unconsciously in love with the young woman, persuades her to enter a convent. Brought bac...
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The Duel
1942
Twisted Mistress
6.563/8
Guy Carbonnel, a rich industrialist, has more eyes for rugby than for his wife Hélène. René Rivals, his long-time pal, takes advantage of it to court...
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Twisted Mistress
1939
Cordial Agreement
6/6
The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and Franc...
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Cordial Agreement
1942
Eight Men in a Castle
8/1
The Paladines write crime novels together. In a cinema, they happen to see a report on the consequences of a shipwreck in which Lieutenant Dupuis tell...
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Eight Men in a Castle
1941
Sins of Youth
5.714/7
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...
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Sins of Youth
1940
The Musicians of the Sky
7.5/4
A would be blind hoodlum redeems himself in the Salvation Army just for a lovely lieutenant.
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The Musicians of the Sky
1943
Picpus
5.278/9
Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed. Maigret tries to find the killer.
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Picpus
1939
The End of the Day
6.73/37
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 ha...
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The End of the Day
1943
À la Belle Frégate
8/1
It's a sailors' story; they often sail away and when they return, the first thing they do is searching girls in the harbor. One of them -Jean- is shy...
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À la Belle Frégate
1943
Carnival of Sinners
6.688/88
A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact, magica...
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Carnival of Sinners
1943
Madame et le mort
9/1
A person who had usurped the identity of a famous writer of detective stories was killed in the train. Why and by whom?
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Madame et le mort
1943
Mademoiselle Béatrice
8/2
A law student passed his exam in his first B.A. year in Paris ;he is in love with a girl who is not from the bourgeoisie and the boy is afraid his fat...
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Mademoiselle Béatrice
1943
The Roquevillards
9/1
France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that prides itself on its impeccable morals. Francois's...
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The Roquevillards
1943
L'Escalier sans fin
9/1
An untiring lady social worker, Émilienne, has as one of her charges a stableman who was wounded by his mistress. Unfortunately, Émilienne's young sis...
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L'Escalier sans fin
1942
Le moussaillon
10/1
The son of a sailor, who seduced and abandoned the mother, doesn't get along with the new man, a clockmaker, the woman weds. He turns to delinquent be...
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Le moussaillon
1943
Ceux du rivage
9/1
In the oyster and fishing town of Arcachon, one man doesn't want his adopted son to get married to the daughter of his rival, and he suspects a dark u...
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Ceux du rivage
1943
Secrets of a Ballerina
6.25/4
In 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme discover within it the secret of a passionate love affaire...
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Secrets of a Ballerina
1944
The Traveler Without Luggage
7.333/3
Having lost his memory due to serving in World War I, Gaston has spent the past 15 years in a psychiatric hospital. Due to his large disability pensio...
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The Traveler Without Luggage
1944
The Ménard Collection
8/1
Renée Ménard, a young mixed-race Indochinese, arrives in France to find her French father, whom she only knows is called Paul Ménard. In the hope of i...
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The Ménard Collection
1944
The White Blackbird
7/1
Jules Leroy, an industrial shoe polish manufacturer, on his deathbed reveals to his son Achille that the family fortune originates from an inheritance...
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The White Blackbird
1946
Behind These Walls
6.429/7
June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by the resistance, the inhabitants who listen to Eng...
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Behind These Walls
1945
Majestic Hotel Cellars
5.3/10
Maigret is called to the high-class Hotel Majestic to investigate a body. The wife of a wealthy American has been killed - but to Maigret's surprise s...
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Majestic Hotel Cellars
1945
Angel and Sinner
5.375/12
During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known as "Boule de Suif", renders these people a signal s...
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Angel and Sinner
1946
The J3
8/1
During the Second World War, in occupied Paris, a group of high school students is more active at selling cigarettes and silk stockings than at studyi...
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The J3
1946
Strange Fate
7/1
Patrica is the wife of Alain de Saulieu, a handsome engineer. She unfortunately loses her husband, who is killed in action during a battle of the Firs...
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Strange Fate
1946
Her Last Part
7/2
An actress who has just played the part of an old lady says that she would like to grow old like that character did.Sadly, she will not get her wish b...
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Her Last Part
1946
Pétrus
6/8
Petrus, a Montmartre photographer, is accidentally wounded by Migo, a dancer at the Frou Frou night club, when she is trying to shoot her faithless lo...
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Pétrus
1946
Destiny
7/1
This is the story of two brothers: the good one, the virtuous gent, an acclaimed singer, and the bad one who leads a wild life.
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Destiny
1956
Deadlier Than the Male
7.269/67
In the heart of Paris, a restaurateur's mundane life is disrupted by the arrival of his ex-wife's daughter, who claims to be in need after her mother'...
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Deadlier Than the Male
1947
Anger of the Gods
9/1
Sylvain, sentenced to death, assures the visiting priest that his life could have been completely different, and invents different situations.
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Anger of the Gods
1947
Pluck the Hen
8/1
A young student on vacation falls in love with the daughter of his hostess. The father, who has come to put an end to the beginning idyll, falls in lo...
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Pluck the Hen
1947
Torrents
6.7/5
Sigrid and Yann are cousins, and in love with each other. A medical student, Jean marries Léna, who gives him a child, but he dies accidentally. Despe...
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Torrents
1947
Monsieur Vincent
6.6/44
The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders.
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Monsieur Vincent
1947
Vertiges
10/1
A specialist in the fight against cancer, a young doctor finds himself suffering from a terrible illness.
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Vertiges
1948
Le Dessous des cartes
5.938/8
Claude Géraudy, a banker responsible for a financial scandal, is forced to flee and hides in the mountains with the help of Manu, a young smuggler. Fl...
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Le Dessous des cartes
1950
Julie de Carneilhan
9/1
A penniless aristocrat is fooled by her ex-husband, a crook.
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Julie de Carneilhan
1948
Rapide de nuit
7/1
Duped by a pretty woman who uses him to smuggle a suitcase containing the proceeds of a theft through the station, an honest fellow understands everyt...
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Rapide de nuit
1950
The Strollers
5.4/10
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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The Strollers
1949
La Bataille du feu
7/1
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 savi...
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La Bataille du feu
1952
Desperate Decision
5.5/8
Ireland, 1922. In the midst of a national uprising, Catherine, a young orphan employed in household chores, goes in search of her brother whom she has...
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Desperate Decision
1958
Premier mai
5.75/6
On this beautiful May 1st, Thérèse is about to give birth. Their presence at home is undesirable, so Jean, her husband, decides to take François, thei...
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Premier mai
1951
Life in a Song
6/2
The cinematographic illustration of fifteen cheerful, tender or ferocious songs that made the success of the songwriter of the comedian Noël-Noël. Aft...
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Life in a Song
1951
Two Pennies Worth of Violets
4.667/3
Thérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to conspire against her, whether her petty Paris family, or her...
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Two Pennies Worth of Violets
1932
Dainah the Mixed
6.733/15
After three weeks and a long, hot voyage across the Pacific, an ocean liner finally arrives at its destination, Ecuador. That evening, the event is ma...
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Dainah the Mixed
1951
Juliette, or Key of Dreams
6.975/20
Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One night, while sleeping in his cell, he wakes up all...
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Juliette, or Key of Dreams
1954
Flesh and the Woman
4.222/9
In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his faithless love. While in the desert he espies a village beauty...
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Flesh and the Woman
1956
Bold Adventure
5.833/12
In the 16th century, as Flanders is invaded by the Spanish, Till the Mischievous uses stratagems to enter the service of Ferdinand Alvare de Toledo, D...
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Bold Adventure
1959
Julie la rousse
5/2
The artist Edouard Lavigne falls in love with a young girl but must quickly leave her because her parents are opposed to this relationship. Edourd's s...
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Julie la rousse
1939
Daybreak
7.588/251
After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.
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Daybreak
1958
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
5.533/30
A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up with a gang of jewel smugglers, and decides on a life of crime. However, she fa...
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Be Beautiful and Shut Up
1938
The Curtain Rises
7.841/22
1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique"). The first-year entrance exams are in f...
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The Curtain Rises
1957
Love Is at Stake
5/2
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,...
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Love Is at Stake
1954
Men Think Only of That
6.25/10
Alfred is in love, but shy. Desperate not to have the audacity to express his passion to the woman of his dreams, Nicole, a young dairyman, he enthusi...
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Men Think Only of That
1956
My Priest Among the Poor
5.5/2
Abbé Pellegrin, parish priest of Sableuse, sells an ancient Christ to an unknown man, M. de Saint Preux. Summoned to the bishop's palace, he learns th...
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My Priest Among the Poor
1958
My Darned Father
10/1
Roger, editor of a women's magazine, meets Roberte, his friend Jean's former mistress, at a major couturier's during a collection presentation. Robert...
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My Darned Father
1941
Premier bal
6.875/4
Two country sisters are rivals for the love of the doctor. He marries one, but regrets it and is rescued by the other.
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Premier bal
1928
Misdeal
7.5/12
Maldone is a canal worker, happy with his life after running away from his family estate. He falls in love with Zita, a young gypsy girl, during a loc...
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Misdeal
1960
The Versailles Affair
8/1
Suzuki, a Japanese secret agent, is sent to Versailles to unmask a certain Klauss, who is to receive stolen documents from Saudi Arabia.
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The Versailles Affair
1949
Manon
6.85/60
Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collabo...
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Manon
1955
The Grand Manoeuvre
6.125/40
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 nothi...
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The Grand Manoeuvre
1943
Valley of Hell
7.2/5
Noël Bienvenu, owner of a career, is a widower and lives with his parents. His son Bastien, whom he despises, was sentenced to six months in prison fo...
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Valley of Hell
1956
Crime and Punishment
7.036/14
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police,...
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Crime and Punishment
1933
Toto
6/5
Escaping from a policeman who has caught h.im with a stolen dog, Toto (Albert Préjean), a petty crook, hides in the apartment of a typist, Ginette (R...
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Toto
1947
The House Under the Sea
6/1
A stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband Lucien. But she suddenly experiences a passionate love,...
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The House Under the Sea
1946
The Last Penny
6.75/4
Pierre risks being taken advantage of by an agency that sets up financial scams, he escapes thanks to Marcelle, the secretary of the director of the a...
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The Last Penny
1938
The Little Thing
8/1
Now that their parents are ruined, Jacques Eyssette and his younger brother Daniel, are driven to fend for themselves. Jacques becomes the secretary o...
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The Little Thing
1946
Messieurs Ludovic
7/2
Anne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different character than the other two. The young woman will fin...
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Messieurs Ludovic
1936
The Fleeing Dead
7.125/8
Two second-rate, hammy actors, Hector Trignol and Achille Baluchet, come up with a fake murder story to draw attention to themselves. Baluchet is to k...
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The Fleeing Dead
1943
Douce
7.167/15
In Paris in 1887, Irène works as a governess to Douce, the grand-daughter of the dowager Countess de Bonafé. Douce believes she is in love with Fabien...
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Douce
1959
The Lovers of Tomorrow
4.833/6
A man throws a revolver in the Seine and checks into a hotel run by an unhappy Turkish couple. The wife falls for the mysterious guest, and kills her...
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The Lovers of Tomorrow
1954
La Belle au bois dormant
5/2
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La Belle au bois dormant
1939
The Fatted Calf
6.667/6
Jules Vachon, a pharmacist, has two sons, Gabriel, a steady-minded young man dedicated to his job in the pharmacy, and Gaston, a good for nothing whos...
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The Fatted Calf
1949
Such a Pretty Little Beach
6.792/36
During the cold and rainy off-season a man arrives in a seaside town and, giving his name only as Pierre, checks into the only hotel which remains ope...
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Such a Pretty Little Beach
1948
After Love
5.333/3
Betrayed by his wife, a teacher proceeds to have an affair with a young and pretty student. The two women both find themselves expecting a child. The...
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After Love
1955
Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
5.944/18
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...
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Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
1944
Night Shift
8/1
A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.
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Night Shift
1945
François Villon
7/1
An episode in the life of the tumultuous poet who murdered his rival, in love with Catherine de Vauselles.
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François Villon
1958
The Magic of the Kite
7.2/5
Come fly with Peter and Nicole and the Chinese wizard on an exciting adventure to the ends of the earth.
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The Magic of the Kite
1959
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
6.951/91
Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has re...
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Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
1936
Life Is Ours
6.429/14
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.
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Life Is Ours
1943
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
7.444/9
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his -now dead - parents because they...
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Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
1946
Lunegarde
4.5/2
A drifting woman hangs out in the suburbs of Marseille. A young engineer picks her up drunk and takes her to the hospital. He does not know then that...
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Lunegarde
1958
Love Is My Profession
6.366/67
Married French lawyer Andre defends succesfully the case of Yvette, who committed a robbery. He falls in love with her, but she isn't true to him.
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Love Is My Profession
1958
A Certain Mr. Jo
4.5/2
Jo Guardini, now the peaceful owner of a charming inn by the banks of the River Marne, once was a dreaded gangster. The respectful citizen does not wa...
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A Certain Mr. Jo
1957
Hi Doc
5.5/2
24 hours in the life of a humble general practitioner. A very busy life to say the least... Like every other day, Dr. Forget works from morning till d...
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Hi Doc
1956
L'homme au parapluie
0/0
A heart stops beating and two others no longer dare to face each other. While an old lady is found poisoned, the two main suspects in the investigatio...
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L'homme au parapluie
1957
Lovers of Paris
6.04/25
Young, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the belles of the capital.
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Lovers of Paris
1948
Vertigine d'amore
7/1
Italian movie inspired by "Le pain des pauvres".
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Vertigine d'amore
1937
Life Dances On
6.986/35
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she...
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Life Dances On
Opération Jericho
0/0
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