Charles Vanel
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Charles-Marie Vanel, known as Charles Vanel (21 August 1892 in Rennes, France - 15 April 1989, in Cannes, France) was a French director and actor. He made his screen debut in 1912, in Robert Péguy's Jim Crow. His 77 year career comprised appearances in more than 200 films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Vanel, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
To Catch a Thief
as BertaniAn ex-thief is accused of enacting a new crime spree, so to clear his name he sets off to catch...
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The Wages of Fear
as Mr. JoIn a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin...
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Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece
as Father AlexandreAfter the death of Captain Thémistocle Paparanic, Captain Haddock's old friend, he inherits a...
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Diabolique
as Police Inspector Alfred FichetThe cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an...
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Magnet of Doom
as Dieudonné FerchauxYoung boxer Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager after a series of match defeats and is forced...
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Illustrious Corpses
as Procurator VargaA detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.
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The Truth
as Maître GuérinAs Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different...
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Boomerang
as Jean RitterA reformed gangster turns to his old associates for help after his son kills a police officer.
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Les Misérables
as Inspector JavertIn 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a...
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The Mask of the Gorilla
as Colonel BerthomieuGéo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must...
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Alice or the Last Escapade
as Henri VergennesOne night Alice can't stand her husband anymore and she decides to leave him. It's a dark, rainy...
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Death in the Garden
as CastinIn a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local...
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Three Brothers
as Donato GiurannaIn a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome,...
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Shock Troops
as PassevinA French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but...
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Seven Deaths by Prescription
as Pr BrézéDr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their...
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
as Mr. de VergennesWitty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by...
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Woman in Chains
as L'invité au vernissage (uncredited)Gallery director Stanislas bolsters the development of modern art with his collection of...
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Camorra
as Don Mimo De RitisThe fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He...
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The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
as Il PresidenteA successful businessman whose destiny leads him to a secluded Swiss chalet where his life is...
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They Were Five
as Charles dit CharlotFive unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the...
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In the Name of the Law
as Massaro Turi PassalacquaA young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and...
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Wooden Crosses
as Caporal BrevalThe young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But...
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Symphony for a Massacre
as PaoliA band of gangsters devise a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug...
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The Seasons of Pleasure
as Charles van BertCharles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their...
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The Cheerful Squadron
as Il capitano HurluretThe Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted...
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In the Name of the Law
as LancelotThe story is about a drug ring and the finally successful efforts of the Paris police to break...
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Dainah the Mixed
as MichauxShades of Othello loom in this engrossing exploration of class, race, and murder set on an ocean...
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Hanged Man's Farm
as FrançoisA large farm in Vendée. The father is dying and the three brothers and sister swear not to marry...
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The Wreckers
as MarnezIn 1852, the famine on a desolate Britanny's island named Blaz-Mor, off the coast of Finistère....
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Il bivio
as LubianiAfter the war, Aldo and his men became gangster. But now the times are changing and Aldo decides...
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Cuori sul mare
as Nostromo NorusTwo young men from the Navy fall in love with an actress.
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Gringalet
as uncreditedA wealthy man has two sons,one of them is legitimate,the other is not.The first offspring has...
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Island Fishermen
as Shipowner MévelYan, captain of a fishing boat, falls in love with the daughter of his boss, to the great...
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Golden Night
as Charles FournierAfter his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel returns from the dead...
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If the Sun Never Returns
as AnzevuiThe residents of a remote Swiss mountain village come to believe an ancient oracle in this drama...
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Abused Confidence
as Jacques FerneyLydia (Danielle Darrieux) is a student, poor and orphaned, who pretends to be the daughter of a...
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Rififi in Tokyo
as Van HekkenVan Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very...
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Jenny
as BenoitWhen her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Danielle leaves London and returns to her mother,...
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Business Is Business
as Isidore LechatIsidore Lechat is a ruthless self-made man whose money allows him to humiliate the others,...
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Burning Fuse
as uncreditedLola, the wife of arms dealer Pedro Wassewich, is attracted to Ludovic, a young painter who...
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La nuit bulgare
as BohringerA youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious...
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Obsession
as PierreA man who suffers from the delirium of persecution and to the point of trying to strangle his...
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The Steppe
as Pére ChristophoreBased on a Anton Chekhov short story, this slight tale has some good moments as the drama of a...
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Sinners of Paris
as Léonce Pozzi, dit "Le Fondu"Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss...
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The Woman Who Dared
as Pierre GauthierThe strength of a couple's fascination with airplanes and flight is to the detriment of their family
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The Green Domino
as Nebel, a sculptorAfter his girlfriend is murdered, an art critic realizes that a wealthy heiress is falling in...
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Prisoner of the Volga
as Ossip SemjonowitschA vicious play of intrigue, about love, desire and betrayal, in the dress of the military at the...
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Le soleil a toujours raison
as L'homme du masTonio, pretty Micheline's fiance, meets Georgia ,a gypsy who makes advances to him.
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Yamilé Under the Cedars
as Rachid El HameA Lebanese Christian girl of European origin is attracted to a visiting Muslim chief and rides...
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In the Night
as L'ouvrier carrierA quarry worker gets married and lives his marital bliss, until an explosion at his workplace, a...
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A King Without Distraction
as le procureur du roiA policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth...
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Countdown to Vengeance
as Juliani10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices...
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No Escape
as CailléIn Provence , Father Caillé runs a family pension backed by his daughter-in-law Cora and a maid....
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Gorilla's Waltz
as Le VieuxThis is the third feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of "The...
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Le Bateau à soupe
as Le capitaine HervéHervé is a tough sea captain in command of the "Duchesse Anne", a rum-trading ship. But the sea...
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La Puce et le privé
as Mathieu FortierVal Brosse, a private detective, receives Françoise, who confesses to him that she murdered her...
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Crossroads
as Roger de VétheuilA wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then...
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Heart of an Actress
as uncreditedDesire brings out the worst in an actress' suitors-- One a well-to-do patron of London's theatre...
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Southern Carrier
as HerlinA pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief...
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On Trial
as Wolf AndergastProsecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere...
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Song of the World
as Marinau the sailorIn Haute-Provence, two rival farming clans clash over the four seasons of the year. A young...
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Law of the North
as DalrympleRobert Shaw slaughters his wife's lover and runs away with his secretary Jacqueline. Helped by a...
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The Last Sentence
as Judge Marco ValsettiPiero is the leader of a group of university students who lead a carefree life. Finding himself...
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Flight Into Darkness
as Le lieutenant MauryDuring the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon...
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Woman of Evil
as LaurentLaurent meets Louvaine and brings her back to his island.
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The Child of the Carnival
as uncreditedA foundling is left in front of the home of a rich aristocratic bachelor during the Nice...
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The Great Game
as ClementPierre , a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence and her whims of...
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Maddalena
as Giovanni LambertiThe story takes plays during the annual Good Friday pageant in a tiny Italian village. Local...
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Waterloo
as NapoleonThis presentation of 'Waterloo', a film by Karl Grune about the last hurrah of Napoleon, is a...
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Cristobal's Gold
as Le Coronel - le chef de la policeDupuy, the first officer of the Cristobal, a French merchant ship, is informed by cabaret dancer...
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Defend My Love
as VerdisioAs part of a story, a reporter goes to meet Elisa, a young woman he met a few years ago on a...
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Iceland Fishermen
as YannFaithfully reproduced observations of Breton fisherfolk in story of the man a local woman really...
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The Fighting Men
as Don Salvatore SparainoSaverio Luparello is the manager of Sicilian baron Occipinti's estate. The cunning greedy man...
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Michel Strogoff
as uncreditedThe Czar charges a man to deliver a message to the Grand Duke behind enemy lines. On his way he...
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The Wonderful Night
as le fermierA couple of refugees arrives in a village: he is a cabinet maker, she's pregnant and the...
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Lo sgarro
as uncreditedA young man joins a band of brigands, but, faced with their exactions, rebels against them.
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La Cabane aux souvenirs
as uncreditedLaurangeais stays in a nursing home after his wife dies following an accident caused by Terrian,...
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Them
as uncreditedAn artist grows hateful of commercial demands on his questionable talents when his friend and...
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A Missionary
as Père GauthierDreaming of heroic deeds, a young missionary soon becomes disillusioned.
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Southern Bar
as Captain OlivierBaron Arnold, a businessman, takes his young wife to Africa where he instructs her to seduce...
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The Woman at the End of the World
as Durc, l'Officier MécanicienA sailor falls in love with an innkeeper on a lost island.
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The West
as Jean CadièreThe film portrays the relationship between a female Moroccan student, who has been forced to...
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The Fear
as Robert SylvainA lady who had a secret affair lives in fear.
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Accused, Stand Up!
as Henri LapalleParis, 30's declared professional rivalry between two stars of the musical, Yvonne and Gaby...
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The Roquevillards
as François RoquevillardFrance, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family...
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Ne pleure pas
as Le grand-pèreMarc Lafarge, 13, is idolized by his brother Thomas, 20, future veterinarian and amateur boxer....
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Faubourg Montmartre
as André Marco, dit DédéTwo sisters struggle to stay on the straight and narrow.
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Promise to the Unknown One
as uncreditedA young woman is in love with a young writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt. Married to a banker,...
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Native Drums
as uncreditedA team of doctors sets out through a steamy African jungle to check an outbreak of sleeping...
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Malaire
as uncreditedNoguère, an old patriarch, is about to die and decides to confess at last to a priest. He once...
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Port-Arthur
as Commander VassidloffFrench-language remake of Port Arthur (1936): espionage, action and romance in the...
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Phroso
as DimitriAn Englishman, Lord Wheatley, purchases an island over which reigns the supremely beautiful...
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The Black Diamond
as François MitryA wealthy man's wife dies in a car crash; she is survived by him and their daughter. The father...
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Rail Pirates
as Henri PiersonHenri Pierson, the chief engineer of a railway line crossing Yunnan in China, must prevent the...
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King of the Camargue
as RampalA gypsy has cast a spell on Livette, the fiancee of Renaud, the proud guardian nicknamed, King...
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The Flame
as uncreditedA woman of easy virtue rejects a proposal of marriage made to her by a rich lover. But when her...
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Assault
as Alexandre MéritalAlexandre Mérital, the leader of a political party, finds himself under attack from Frépeau, one...
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The Woman I Murdered
as uncreditedDuring a singles meal, the phone rings. A woman claims a man, Jean-Louis. As a joke, the master...
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The Lost Way
as LéonWhile the Easter holidays are over, a young woman named Cécile and her brother Pierre return to...
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Social Police
as SalviatiFor years now, Chief inspector Gustave Picard has been trying to bring down Salviati, the...
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The House of Mystery
as Henri CorradinAn imaginative wedding scene shot in silhouette, begins a tale of murder blackmail and romance...
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Troïka sur la piste blanche
as uncreditedWife of an arms trafficker in Poland, Georgina is forced to help him. She will only be able to...
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Le Père Goriot
as Father GoriotJean-Joachim Goriot, a merchant who got rich during the Revolution, is obsessed with the love of...
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L'Enquête du 58
as Bernard - le mécanicienA train driver has not slowed down at a signal and caused an accident whose victim is a...
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S.O.S. Sahara
as uncreditedAt a North Africa desert outpost threatened by Arabs, the French commander has added trouble...
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Dance House
as RamonThree men vie for a pretty young lady in a small Spanish port town: The boss of a dance hall who...
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Savage Brigade
as Général KalitjeffThe duel between a Czarist general and a lieutenant, over the general's wife, is postponed with...
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Chic
as Fernand (François)An American couple, Douglas and Mary, are in the nightclub 'La Vache Rose'. When Julot and Nini...
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L'Autre aile
as uncreditedReymat is killed during an aerobatic exhibition in a plane. Hélène, his fiancée, to forget her...
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An Ideal Woman
as Angel CallBased on a novel by José Pérez de Rozas. In Seville, Angel Caal, a Parisian businessman, escapes...
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Ballad for a Dog
as ViachetRemi is a man on the verge of old age who begins to have hallucinations. He believes he has...
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Le Reflet dans la mer
as Baron UccianiKarl de Linken, an elegant young man, adventurous and unattached, arrives in the square of a...
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Les Bateliers de la Volga
as uncreditedIn 1912, a Russian officer is wrongly accused of having stolen important papers. His only alibi...
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Mister Mustard's Millions
as John DurandWhen bored American billionaire Charles Vanel is amused by the happiness of poor railroad man...
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The End of the Tether
as WhalleyAn experienced but aging captain in command of the Sofala must hide the fact that he is becoming...
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Haut le vent
as François AscarraIn 1906, François left the Basque country with his father, who had decided to settle in...
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The Prey of the Wind
as Pierre VignalA pilot crashes and a beautiful countess of a castle nearby nurses him to health.
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Le juge et son bourreau
as Le commissaire BairelardThe body of a young man in a dress suit is found on a country road by Lake Biel in Switzerland....
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Gitanes
as uncreditedA gypsy and a boatman fall in love with each other. They do not understand each other and make...
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The Seniors
as Henri LormierA high school in the thirties: most of the students are leaving for the Easter holidays....
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Legions of Honor
as Captain DabrauAn officer is tried for self-inflicted injury.He is thrown out of the Foreign Legion .
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La Flambée des rêves
as uncreditedClaire is married to the elderly owner of a brewery. She seeks excitement with her childhood...
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