René Génin

Born: 1890-01-25


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The Big Risk

as M. Chapuis
Released: 1960-03-23

On crowded Milan streets, two men execute a split-second payroll heist-in broad daylight-then...

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Eyes Without a Face

as Emile Tessot
Released: 1960-01-11

Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his...

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Port of Shadows

as The Doctor
Released: 1938-05-17

Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking...

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Daybreak

as Le concierge
Released: 1939-06-09

After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events the...

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Judex

as Pierre Kerjean
Released: 1963-12-04

Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent...

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Fric-Frac

as Blain
Released: 1939-06-15

An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.

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The Lower Depths

as Lukas, le philosophe
Released: 1936-12-11

Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the...

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The Murderer Lives at Number 21

as Alfred
Released: 1942-08-07

Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place.

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A Cage of Nightingales

as Le père Maxence
Released: 1945-09-06

In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the...

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The Sheep Has Five Legs

as Le maire
Released: 1954-09-24

A publicity-minded French mayor reunites quintuplets and their earthy father, all six played by...

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The Law Is the Law

as Donadieu
Released: 1958-09-17

Assola is an imaginary village on the border between Italy and France and the borderline crosses...

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The Wild Oat

as Arnaud, le secrétaire de mairie
Released: 1953-02-27

A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant,...

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It Happened at the Inn

as Goupi-Dicton
Released: 1943-04-14

An old woman living in an inn is killed and her family members seem like the likely culprits.

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Boys' School

as Donnadieu, prof. de musique
Released: 1938-04-05

In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One...

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Bizarre, Bizarre

as le balayeur
Released: 1937-10-20

A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they...

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Bizarre, Bizarre

as Le balayeur
Released: 1937-10-20

A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they...

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The Crime of Monsieur Lange

as A Client at the Auberge
Released: 1936-01-24

A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the...

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Un carnet de bal

as L'adjoint du maire
Released: 1937-09-09

After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying...

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The Passenger

as Firmin
Released: 1949-11-04

When her godmother dies, Nicole's happiness collapses and her fiancé leaves her because she is...

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The Lovers of Verona

as uncredited
Released: 1949-03-07

Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist...

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Juliette, or Key of Dreams

as Le père Lajeunesse & le greffier
Released: 1951-05-18

Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail....

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Croesus

as Burie
Released: 1960-09-21

Jules is a shepherd who lives a humble and solitary life in rural Provence. From time to time,...

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Pierre and Jean

as Pascaud
Released: 1943-12-29

Alice, an unhappy young woman in the household, is the mother of a little boy, Pierre. She falls...

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God Needs Men

as Le père d'Yvon
Released: 1950-10-03

The inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany follow...

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Forbidden Fruit

as Le docteur Marchandeau
Released: 1952-09-19

A doctor, leading an agreed life of the provincial petty bourgeoisie, falls in love with a young...

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Ernest the Rebel

as uncredited
Released: 1938-11-08

In South America anything can happen: the consul might give you as a snack to the sharks, you...

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Black Dossier

as Le greffier
Released: 1955-05-10

In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an...

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Full House

as Le concierge
Released: 1952-10-10

Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution...

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Nights of Princes

as (uncredited)
Released: 1938-01-27

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Jenny

as le pêcheur du bistrot
Released: 1936-09-18

When her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Danielle leaves London and returns to her mother,...

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Ramuntcho

as Vicar
Released: 1938-02-24

Ramuntcho is a young man who has fallen in with a gang of smugglers, led by Itchoua, who carry...

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Under the Paris Sky

as The coachman
Released: 1951-03-28

Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of...

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Raphaël le tatoué

as Roméo
Released: 1939-02-09

Modeste is a timid watchman at an automobile factory which is run with an iron hand by its...

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Patricia

as Jouset
Released: 1942-10-27

Mademoiselle Bressac is a bossy spinster who manages "Le Clos", her estate, with an iron hand....

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Last Desire

as Il padrone della pensione
Released: 1939-08-28

Caesar, a senior French colonist returned home after many years of absence, knows a girl,...

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The Hunting Ground

as le curé
Released: 1951-10-10

In Cantagrel, Urbain Coindet, a farmer and town councilor in his forties, finds his wife hanging...

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The Lovers of Bras-Mort

as Camille
Released: 1951-05-10

Jean Michaut is a bargeman who lives nearby an old barge cemetery named "Bras-Mort". He is in...

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Cocagne

as Self
Released: 1961-03-08

As the driver of a garbage truck in Arles, Marc-Antoine leads a quiet life with his wife,...

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The Moment of Truth

as Le gardien de l'église d'Assy
Released: 1952-10-22

After attending to a suicidal young man, Dr Richard learns that his wife has been unfaithful for...

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The Burning Court

as Frédéric Henderson
Released: 1962-03-30

A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an...

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Paméla

as Gourlet
Released: 1945-05-02

During the Directory, a handful of royalists tried to get the Dauphin Louis XVII to escape from...

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L'Enquête du 58

as Simon l'aiguilleur
Released: 1945-11-04

A train driver has not slowed down at a signal and caused an accident whose victim is a...

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The Red Needle

as uncredited
Released: 1951-06-07

A young woman, Maya, is treated in a mountain hotel, where her husband joins her every Saturday....

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Savage Triangle

as Le premier client de Marie
Released: 1951-09-26

Based on the novel of the same name by writer Edouard Peisson, this Jean Delannoy film display...

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The Phantom Wagon

as Le père Éternel
Released: 1939-09-07

French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom,...

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Les Gaîtés de la finance

as L'aubergiste
Released: 1936-02-07

The banker Marivol looks like a tailor, Lambinet. Gangsters threaten the first, who hires the...

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The Traveler Without Luggage

as Le curé
Released: 1944-02-23

Having lost his memory due to serving in World War I, Gaston has spent the past 15 years in a...

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La salamandre d'or

as uncredited
Released: 1962-12-31

In 1525, on the evening of the Battle of Pavia, François 1er was taken prisoner by the armies of...

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Cadet Rousselle

as Le curé
Released: 1954-10-20

The Adventures of Cadet Rousselle that on the French Revolution left his hometown in search of...

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François 1er

as Cascaroni / L'aubergiste
Released: 1937-02-17

Honorin is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition...

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Nightclub Hostess

as Le vieux professeur
Released: 1939-06-02

The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one...

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Immortal France

as le père de Gabrielle
Released: 1943-04-07

The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege...

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The Lucky Star

as Le curé Agnel
Released: 1943-03-23

Auguste, a somewhat simple-minded Provençal fisherman, loves and admires Mireille. This concerns...

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Confessions of a Newlywed

as Le second du professeur
Released: 1937-02-26

A timid young man marries the daughter of the entomologist he works for. On the train for their...

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Second Childhood

as Guesthouse Proprietor
Released: 1939-01-10

Middle-aged Georges of the "old school" who offers shelter and comfort to Marcelle. Despite his...

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Sexpot

as uncredited
Released: 1957-10-23

Coveted by many of the men around her, the sensual Nathalie is a magnet for passion. After many...

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Le Secret d'une mère

as Father with dogs
Released: 1952-10-24

After his wife's death, a man discovers that his daughter may not be his.

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The Twins of Brighton

as l'encaustiqueur
Released: 1936-10-29

Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the...

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The Twins of Brighton

as uncredited
Released: 1936-10-29

Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the...

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The King of Dodgers

as Ernest
Released: 1945-12-21

Mimile is a street singer and also a very inventive free rider. With his friend Georges, a...

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Tête blonde

as The gravedigger
Released: 1950-09-01

When he finds a package in the metro, given this period of restrictions, Mr. Truche thinks it...

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Behind These Walls

as Camille Duroc
Released: 1946-03-13

June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks...

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Orage

as uncredited
Released: 1938-04-28

The mistress of an engineer meets the man's pregnant wife and decides to give up the liaison.

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L'Accroche-cœur

as Le contrôleur
Released: 1938-08-31

A seasoned con-man devises an elaborate plan to relieve a rich socialite of a hefty chunk of her...

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Les vagabonds du rêve

as uncredited
Released: 1949-08-05

The Dombreval troupe is the last vestige of an outdated form of entertainment: the traveling...

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The Law of Spring

as Firmin
Released: 1942-05-20

The children born from a first marriage of a widower and a widower who have remarried do not get...

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L'aventure est au coin de la rue

as Louis
Released: 1944-02-18

A rich young man, Pierre Trévoux, has a desire for adventure and boasts of his courage. While he...

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Casse-cou, mademoiselle!

as uncredited
Released: 1955-03-01

Working for a stock-car team, Robert dreams of becoming a racing driver himself. For a long time...

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The Lost Village

as Toubredin
Released: 1947-11-26

In the peaceful alpine village of Granges-de-Mortes, a tragedy has just taken place: Gustave...

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Fièvres

as Louis Martet
Released: 1942-01-21

Despite a perfect marriage and a superb career as a singer, Jean Dupray cheats on his wife. She...

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Le Bateau à soupe

as Kerroët
Released: 1947-02-19

Hervé is a tough sea captain in command of the "Duchesse Anne", a rum-trading ship. But the sea...

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Jaloux comme un tigre

as uncredited
Released: 1964-06-16

Henri has a beautiful wife, Sophie. Unfortunately, suffering from an unhealthy jealousy, he...

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The Man Who Seeks the Truth

as Specialist
Released: 1940-03-20

Jean Vernet, an unselfish banker, feels fine : he has a charming mistress, Jacqueline ; a...

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The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean

as uncredited
Released: 1947-12-23

On the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and...

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The Farm of Seven Sins

as Le maire d'Azay
Released: 1949-09-16

In 1825, Paul-Louis Courier, a Republican writer known for publishing pamphlets against the...

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Mon oncle et mon curé

as Le curé
Released: 1939-03-09

Reine, a young woman, meets for the first time a cousin of hers, Paul. She falls in love with...

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Le vertige

as le deuxième valet
Released: 1935-02-21

General Mikailoff once killed a lieutenant he mistakenly believed to be his wife's lover....

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The House Under the Sea

as Le capitaine
Released: 1947-08-20

A stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband...

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The Lafleur Cavalryman

as Le maréchal des logis Bellare
Released: 1934-12-20

The reservist Lafleur, having a wife, a mistress and still running after the first petticoat...

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Bouquets from Nicholas

as uncredited
Released: 1938-01-08

A florist in a nightclub in Montmartre, a good, naive man is manipulated by a gang of gangsters...

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The Treasure of Cantenac

as le maire et le curé
Released: 1950-09-06

While he was about to end his life, Baron de Cantenac wanted to return one last time to the land...

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Mademoiselle Swing

as Durieu
Released: 1942-06-12

Stuck in Angoulême between her uncle, who composes classical music, and her aunt, who is a fan...

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The Eleventh Hour Guest

as Calixte
Released: 1945-08-15

An inventor has just developed an extraordinary machine, a disintegrating ray and thought...

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Les Dieux du dimanche

as Doctor Schaefer
Released: 1949-02-09

A soccer enthusiast like his father, Martin Lambert is the (gifted) goalkeeper of the local...

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27, rue de la Paix

as Jules Fouillard
Released: 1936-11-11

A young woman wishing to divorce, promises money to her husband's ex-mistress to obtain her...

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Le clochard milliardaire

as uncredited
Released: 1951-05-18

Olivier Cabrol is an immature young reveler who lives from hand to mouth. One day he inherits a...

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The Rose of the Sea

as Néel
Released: 1946-09-11

Jérôme owns a boat with his crook of an uncle, La Rose de la Mer. They sail with a band of...

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Les mutinés de l'Elseneur

as Le cabaretier
Released: 1936-02-29

A journalist takes command of a ship after the crew mutiny against the brutal captain. It was an...

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The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock

as Bedu
Released: 1942-05-21

The everyday life and activity of "La Dernière Heure", a major evening newspaper, seen through...

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How Not to Rob a Department Store

as uncredited
Released: 1965-02-25

Bandits see the fruits of their theft fall into the hands of black jackets.

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Napoleon Road

as Le curé
Released: 1953-10-14

A greedy advertising executive wants to attract the tourists into a small village:he claims...

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Fromont Young and Risler Elder

as Delobelle
Released: 1941-10-08

An ambitious and perverse adventurer sows dissension and ruin in a wealthy family of industrialists.

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Quand te tues-tu ?

as uncredited
Released: 1953-07-10

A viscount is ruined and wants to commit suicide. A young noceur pursued by his creditors is to...

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La fusée

as L'huissier
Released: 1933-05-01

The rise of a canning maker and then his abandonment of the factory because his ideal of social...

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The London Man

as Maënnec
Released: 1943-06-09

Maloin, a maritime station guard, spends his nights at the port signal box. One night, he...

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Cab Number 13

as uncredited
Released: 1948-02-28

To secure her fortune with Monsieur Vaudieu de la Tour, the Machiavellian Claudia kills her...

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The Beautiful Trip

as The owner of the lingerie store
Released: 1947-06-26

She dragged out a more than mediocre life in the port of Antwerp; he is a renowned...

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Sur le plancher des vaches

as Boisselot
Released: 1940-02-28

A little bank employee wins a plane in the lottery and amazes his companions with his audacity.

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Pour le maillot jaune

as Milou
Released: 1940-10-23

The romantic relationship between a sports journalist and a cyclist during the Tour de France.

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The Ménard Collection

as Tramp
Released: 1944-04-12

Renée Ménard, a young mixed-race Indochinese, arrives in France to find her French father, whom...

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Majestic Hotel Cellars

as Ramuel
Released: 1945-08-11

In my “cellar” where case workers all the people of a great hotel, the head of the café, Donge,...

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Love and Companionship

as Duchemin
Released: 1950-01-27

The accountant of an insurance company, rather eccentric and quick to push the song, is...

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My Love is Near You

as 'La Coule'
Released: 1943-09-29

An opera singer is stricken with amnesia and, on the evening of a premiere (in his stage costume...

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Le Choc en retour

as A laborer
Released: 1937-03-24

A rich sugar factory manager wants to marry his daughter to an aristocrat, while the young girl...

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Piédalu à Paris

as Le curé
Released: 1951-10-12

Piedalu is an ordinary villager, who comes to the capital to present his financial plan to the...

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A Foolish Maiden

as uncredited
Released: 1938-11-24

A middle-aged Parisian lawyer meets a young girl and falls in love with her. The girl's mother...

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Satan's Paradise

as Le prêtre
Released: 1938-09-03

Driven by necessity, Jean Larcher, a young agricultural engineer, accepts the degrading mission...

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Girls in Distress

as Le concierge du ministère
Released: 1939-01-10

Jeune Filles en Detresse (Young Girls in Distress) was director G. W. Pabst's last French...

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L’atomique Monsieur Placido

as uncredited
Released: 1950-07-05

A gangster, thief of atomic formulas, has a double in the person of a naive musician. A music...

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The Kids Are Leading the Investigation

as Belleu
Released: 1947-06-25

When Monsieur Crauqual, the supervisor, is found hanging, all wonder why this rather rich person...

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Le moussaillon

as uncredited
Released: 1942-02-06

The son of a sailor, who seduced and abandoned the mother, doesn't get along with the new man, a...

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Tu m'as sauvé la vie

as Victor
Released: 1950-09-20

A wealthy baron, without offspring, who knows death is approaching, wants to adopt a man who...

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Comedy of Happiness

as uncredited
Released: 1940-12-23

Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what...

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The Last Penny

as Perrin
Released: 1946-01-23

Pierre risks being taken advantage of by an agency that sets up financial scams, he escapes...

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The Last Penny

as uncredited
Released: 1946-01-23

Pierre risks being taken advantage of by an agency that sets up financial scams, he escapes...

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La chèvre d'or

as uncredited
Released: 1943-03-31

Legend has it that in the village of PugetMaure, a mysterious goat is the guardian of a treasure...

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Glamador

as The grandfather (voice)
Released: 1958-03-05

Fafai, a young boy, lives with his grandfather on the island of Glamador in the Camargue. To...

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Le valet maître

as uncredited
Released: 1941-10-30

Some, like Ravier de l'Orne are born... masters, but ,like him, do not live up to their rank....

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La Danseuse rouge

as uncredited
Released: 1937-05-21

Tania, a young girl from Central Europe, leaves her home because of her abusive father. Trained,...

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Retour au bonheur

as uncredited
Released: 1942-04-09

Wanting to complete the research of her doctor husband, a former actress returns to the stage...

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L'inconnu d'un soir

as uncredited
Released: 1949-04-08

Edith, a young orphan, is exploited as a waitress and bullied by her adoptive father. But she...

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À la Belle frégate

as uncredited
Released: 1943-04-01

It's a sailors' story; they often sail away and when they return, the first thing they do is...

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My Uncle from Texas

as uncredited
Released: 1962-09-28

In 1911, Arnolphe Combalette left his corner of Provence to seek his fortune in the Americas....

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Sommes-nous défendus?

as uncredited
Released: 1938-11-09

In a café, sitting around a table, a journalist is explaining to three fellow-compatriots what...

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Le chemin de la drogue

as uncredited
Released: 1953-06-05

A young customs officer is given an important mission: to investigate drug trafficking on the...

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Au pays des cigales

as uncredited
Released: 1946-02-27

A song editor from Marseille meets the daughter of a showman whom a competitor wants to ruin to...

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Le Dernier Preux

as uncredited
Released: 1933-10-30

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