Jules Berry

Jules Berry

Jules Berry (born Marie Louis Jules Paufichet; 9 February 1883 – 23 April 1951) was a French actor. Berry and his two brothers were born to parents who sold hardware and settled in Poitou. The family moved to Paris in 1888. Berry completed his studies at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand and then graduated from École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts. It was during his studies that Berry developed an interest in the theater. Following an audition, he was hired by the Théâtre Antoine-Simone Berriau to act in La Mort du duc d'Enghien by Léon Hennique, and Le Perroquet vert by Arthur Schnitzler. Later he performed at the Théâtre de l'Ambigu-Comique and the Théâtre de l'Athénée. During a tour in Lyon, he was noticed by Jean-François Ponson, who hired him for a period of 12 years at the Théâtre royal des Galeries Saint-Hubert in Brussels. Audiences in Brussels gave him a warm welcome, where he played in productions such as Le Mariage de mademoiselle Beulemans. Berry subsequently performed in 30 successful plays for Marcel Achard, Alfred Savoir, Louis Verneuil, and Roger Ferdinand. One of Berry's first movie roles was the silent film Oliver Cromwell (1911) directed by Henri Desfontaines. His first appearance in a talking picture was Mon coeur et ses millions (1931) with Suzy Prim. Over the course of his career, Berry acted in 89 motion pictures. Bombastic, extravagant, and whimsical, Berry was as flamboyant as any entertainer of the period, including Pierre Brasseur. Berry is often considered one of the greatest actors in the history of French cinema. Among Berry's best films are: The Crime of Monsieur Lange by Jean Renoir, Les Visiteurs du Soir by Marcel Carné, Le Jour Se Lève by Marcel Carné, Strange Inheritance by Louis Daquin, Baccara by Yves Mirande, 27 Rue de la Paix by Richard Pottier and L'Habit vert by Roger Richebé. Berry ended his film career in 1951 to interpret the texts of Jacques Prévert. Berry was romantically involved with actresses Jane Marken, Suzy Prim, and Josseline Gaël. He and Gaël had a daughter named Michelle in 1939. A compulsive gambler, Berry frequented casinos and horse races. In April 1951, Berry was admitted to the Hôpital Broussais, where he died of a heart attack caused by treatment for rheumatism. He is buried in the Père Lachaise Cemetery (division 80). Source: Article "Jules Berry" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Jules Berry
  • Popularity: 1.907
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1883-02-09
  • Place of Birth: Poitiers, Vienne, France
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  • Also Known As: Жюль Берри, Marie Louis Jules Paufichet
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Jules Berry Movies

  • 1939
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    Daybreak

    Daybreak

    7.6 1939 HD

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

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  • 1949
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    Strange Tales

    Strange Tales

    7.3 1949 HD

    A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse...

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  • 1942
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    The Devil's Envoys

    The Devil's Envoys

    6.9 1942 HD

    At the end of the 15th century, a man and a woman, posing as traveling minstrels, are sent by the Devil to a castle to seduce its inhabitants.

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  • 1936
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    Rigolboche

    Rigolboche

    4.3 1936 HD

    Lina Bourget, a realist singer, is forced to leave Dakar because of a murder she believes she has committed. Taking refuge in Paris, she unexpectedly...

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  • 1938
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    Café de Paris

    Café de Paris

    7.7 1938 HD

    This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed journalist and extortionist who is killed at his table in...

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  • 1949
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    Portrait of a Murderer

    Portrait of a Murderer

    5.7 1949 HD

    A circus daredevil is the next victim of a danger-seducing woman who tricks him into a potentially deadly stunt after he attempted to kill her.

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  • 1932
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    King of Hotels

    King of Hotels

    1 1932 HD

    A hotel worker who is really an aristocrat falls for a lady customer but instead of getting married he prefers to stay at work and get what female...

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  • 1936
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    The Crime of Monsieur Lange

    The Crime of Monsieur Lange

    7 1936 HD

    A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man from the police's description: his name is Amedee...

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  • 1934
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    Une femme chipée

    Une femme chipée

    1 1934 HD

    Hélène, married to Larsonnier, has developed a crush for Germont, her neighbor. One night, she is abducted and she discovers that her...

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  • 1935
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    Jeunes filles à marier

    Jeunes filles à marier

    1 1935 HD

    Well-to-do Simone replaces her music-hall friend Yahne when her wealthy uncle visits from America.

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  • 1935
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    Touche-à-tout

    Touche-à-tout

    1 1935 HD

    A young supervisor is expelled from his high school after misleading his students during an outing. He made his fortune and basked on the Côte...

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  • 1935
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    Et moi, j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait de l'oeil

    Et moi, j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait de l'oeil

    1 1935 HD

    When a young woman named Aurélie throws a fit of jealousy at her husband and her lover, daily life becomes more complicated.

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  • 1936
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    A Hen on a Wall

    A Hen on a Wall

    6 1936 HD

    A little peasant girl claims to have been raped. The detective who arrives in the village discovers that it is a set-up, but at the same time...

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  • 1936
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    Disk 413

    Disk 413

    1 1936 HD

    A secret message is on a recording, a man who had disappeared for a while may be trying to steal it.His wife, a singer, teams up with a spy chief she...

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  • 1936
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    Wolves Between Them

    Wolves Between Them

    1 1936 HD

    A Nazi spy has stolen a gas mask filter of formidable efficiency in Paris. Two agents from the 2nd office have the task of going to take him back to...

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  • 1937
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    Le Club des Aristocrates

    Le Club des Aristocrates

    1 1937 HD

    Serge loves living it up but painting the town red has a price... too high for him! What to do then? Alfred, his servant and former pickpocket, has...

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  • 1937
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    La Bête aux sept manteaux

    La Bête aux sept manteaux

    1 1937 HD

    An English gentleman himself causes his own burglary to better suppress the formidable gang which, after having murdered his brother, is now...

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  • 1937
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    A Man to Kill

    A Man to Kill

    1 1937 HD

    Captain Benoit successfully completes a mission in Berlin, but when he returns to Paris he escapes attacks by German agents.

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  • 1937
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    Champs-Elysees

    Champs-Elysees

    5.7 1937 HD

    A reveler who has experienced setbacks tries to become unemployed without ever having worked.

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  • 1937
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    Balthazar

    Balthazar

    1 1937 HD

    Following a slight accident, a stranger appears in a Provençal village and knocks at the door of the Philippes'villa, asking them for help....

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  • 1938
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    Les Deux Combinards

    Les Deux Combinards

    1 1938 HD

    The first schemer, short of money, offers himself at a high price to facilitate the fantasies of the other, by playing the role of substitute. The...

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  • 1938
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    The West

    The West

    1 1938 HD

    The film portrays the relationship between a female Moroccan student, who has been forced to leave her studies at the Sorbonne for financial reasons...

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  • 1938
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    The Woman Thief

    The Woman Thief

    1 1938 HD

    The woman thief evades a young lady who is onto his game, but then tries his wiles elsewhere on a married woman by attempting to compromise and ruin...

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  • 1938
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    Clodoche

    Clodoche

    1 1938 HD

    An adventurer poses as a prince and tries to take rich and pretty Dolly away from the man she loves by stirring up trouble.Heartbroken, Dolly is...

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  • 1941
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    L'An 40

    L'An 40

    1 1941 HD

    Félix Raffut, a Périgord squire terrified by the German invasion, carries out the exodus of his family and his furniture towards...

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  • 1942
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    Soyez les bienvenus

    Soyez les bienvenus

    1 1942 HD

    Before the war. Mr. and Mrs. Boisleroi, well off, lived in their castle while their son Jacques courted Geneviève, the manager's daughter. On...

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  • 1939
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    Deputy Eusèbe

    Deputy Eusèbe

    1 1939 HD

    Eusèbe Bonbonneau, a solicitor's clerk, learns one day that a candidate bearing his name runs for election as a member of parliament. In fact...

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  • 1942
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    La Symphonie fantastique

    La Symphonie fantastique

    5.7 1942 HD

    The film is biographical, telling the story of the life and artistic struggles of the French composer Hector Berlioz. Berlioz is shown as a...

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  • 1939
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    Cas de conscience

    Cas de conscience

    1 1939 HD

    A doctor passionate about research leaves an uncle with an inheritance to die, knowing that he is the legatee. His work succeeds, but overcome by...

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  • 1939
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    His Uncle from Normandy

    His Uncle from Normandy

    1 1939 HD

    A young American businessman, tired of his hectic life, makes an unexpected inheritance which leads him to Normandy. There he discovers, with the...

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  • 1941
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    Parade in 7 Nights

    Parade in 7 Nights

    4.5 1941 HD

    In the pound, Pipo the dog recounts his adventures to his fellow inmates.

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  • 1942
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    The Big Fight

    The Big Fight

    1 1942 HD

    The formidable K.O. Bouillon killed trainer Victor's colt during a boxing fight. Strongly affected, Victor returns to the south to find his wife and...

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  • 1941
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    After the Storm

    After the Storm

    5 1941 HD

    René Sabin, engineer, disappointed by failures, leaves his village in the South to go to Paris with friends. In the capital, he befriends...

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  • 1941
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    Face au destin

    Face au destin

    1 1941 HD

    Two modest young employees, Jean and Madeleine, dream of leading the way, but the experience turns out badly. Madeleine marries a German aristocrat...

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  • 1943
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    Le Soleil de minuit

    Le Soleil de minuit

    1 1943 HD

    Going to take up his post in Moukden, the forest engineer finds in a trainer from the cabaret "the midnight sun" a Russian princess, Armide, whom he...

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  • 1942
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    Chambre 13

    Chambre 13

    1 1942 HD

    On a Marseille film set, a street urchin who has been hired as an actor is suspected when both a star and a baroness are robbed.With the help of the...

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  • 2018
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    The Image Book

    The Image Book

    6.393 2018 HD

    In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, television archives, etc.), quotes excerpts...

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  • 1944
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    Le mort ne reçoit plus

    Le mort ne reçoit plus

    1 1944 HD

    In his will, the late Jérôme Armandy has expressed the wish to have all the surviving members of his family summoned to the...

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  • 1945
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    Dorothy Looks for Love

    Dorothy Looks for Love

    1 1945 HD

    To be able to win paradise, a selfish old billionaire, who has just died, must make someone happy. He will have to guide a young girl through the...

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  • 1946
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    La Troisième Dalle

    La Troisième Dalle

    1 1946 HD

    A historian seeks to clarify the mysterious death of Sire de Malvaleix and will find himself involved in the murder of the current descendant.

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  • 1947
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    Dreams of Love

    Dreams of Love

    1 1947 HD

    Paris, 1833. The famous composer Franz Liszt is friends with Chopin who introduces him to Countess Marie d'Agout. Very quickly Liszt falls in love...

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  • 1948
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    Si jeunesse savait...

    Si jeunesse savait...

    1 1948 HD

    Charles Vigne, a wealthy banker, frees Abdul, a good genius imprisoned in a vase. To thank him, Abdul grants his wish: to become a child again, while...

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  • 1947
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    Distress

    Distress

    1 1947 HD

    Martine discovers, on the eve of her wedding, that her mother, whom she believed to be dead, leads an adventurous life. Pierre, her fiancé,...

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  • 1943
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    The London Man

    The London Man

    5.9 1943 HD

    Maloin, a maritime station guard, spends his nights at the port signal box. One night, he becomes the witness of a murder: for a simple suitcase...

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  • 1950
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    Without Trumpet or Drum

    Without Trumpet or Drum

    3 1950 HD

    For the Marquis Barbezieux de Saint-Rosay, nobility is important. If anything can comfort her, it's her family tree. In order to erase any doubt he...

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  • 1950
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    Tête blonde

    Tête blonde

    3 1950 HD

    When he finds a package in the metro, given this period of restrictions, Mr. Truche thinks it may be a good deal, he takes it home but discovers a...

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  • 1950
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    The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang

    The Rear-Wheel Drive Gang

    4 1950 HD

    The manager of a firm has a very unusual idea : asking his employees to pose as gangsters and to hold up a bank before returning the stolen money and...

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  • 1951
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    Les Maîtres-nageurs

    Les Maîtres-nageurs

    4 1951 HD

    A married industrialist maintains three mistresses. On the instructions of his wife, the tax inspector seizes the small notebook where he records his...

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  • 1935
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    Baccara

    Baccara

    7.6 1935 HD

    A rich banker is actually a crook. His mistress, an alien, wants to become French and the only way is to marry a Frenchman.

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  • 1939
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    Behind the Facade

    Behind the Facade

    7.8 1939 HD

    In the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an elderly woman, Madame Mathieu, the owner of both...

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  • 1946
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    Star Without Light

    Star Without Light

    5.4 1946 HD

    An aspiring singer tries to break into films during the early talkie era. She is hired to dub the singing and speaking voice of a silent-movie...

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  • 1947
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    The Crowned Fish Tavern

    The Crowned Fish Tavern

    5.6 1947 HD

    Captain Palmer's daughter, Maria, is neglected by her husband, the cynical Leo, who lives with the beautiful Sylvia. To defeat his son-in-law, Palmer...

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  • 1940
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    The Duraton Family

    The Duraton Family

    4.7 1940 HD

    Unbeknownst to the members of a French family, a radio announcer makes them the subject of a broadcast.

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  • 1940
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    The Mondesir Heir

    The Mondesir Heir

    3.5 1940 HD

    Bienaimé, a modest postman, in love with Janine, the village postmistress, does not know that he is the illegitimate son of the old Baron de...

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  • 1936
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    Adventure in Paris

    Adventure in Paris

    6 1936 HD

    Michel Levasseur is a joyous reveler who does not care about the next day. So much so that one day a bailiff bursts into his Paris apartment and...

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  • 1943
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    Marie-Martine

    Marie-Martine

    6.75 1943 HD

    The novelist Loïc Limousin knew the turbulent past of Marie-Martine and he extracted the material for a novel from which the young girl risks...

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  • 1937
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    The Kings of Sport

    The Kings of Sport

    6.3 1937 HD

    Jules and Fernand are two boys from the Café des sports in Marseille who take part in their corporation's annual race.

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  • 1936
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    27, rue de la Paix

    27, rue de la Paix

    5 1936 HD

    A young woman wishing to divorce, promises money to her husband's ex-mistress to obtain her testimony on her behalf. But the same evening, the corpse...

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  • 1937
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    French White Cargo

    French White Cargo

    4 1937 HD

    Two journalists from different papers are looking for the same story. They want to know, who a group of gangsters getting young women from Europe to...

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  • 1950
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    Not Any Weekend for Our Love

    Not Any Weekend for Our Love

    4.2 1950 HD

    The announcement of the future marriage of Franck Reno, the star singer, causes considerable excitement around the world.

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  • 1938
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    Crossroads

    Crossroads

    5.4 1938 HD

    A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then appears a blackmailer who accuses him of being a usurper,...

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  • 1937
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    Arsène Lupin, Detective

    Arsène Lupin, Detective

    5.5 1937 HD

    Arsène Lupin decides to run a detective agency in addition to being a gentleman thief. As a detective he happens to cooperate with police in...

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  • 1943
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    Le Voyageur de la Toussaint

    Le Voyageur de la Toussaint

    7.1 1943 HD

    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...

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  • 1936
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    The Fleeing Dead

    The Fleeing Dead

    7.1 1936 HD

    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...

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  • 1946
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    Mr. Gregoire Runs Away

    Mr. Gregoire Runs Away

    5.6 1946 HD

    Alex Grégoire is a timid insurance company clerk who shares his uneventful life between his wife Angèle, his colleagues and his passion...

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  • 1940
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    Paris-New York

    Paris-New York

    7 1940 HD

    The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of...

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  • 1936
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    Mr. Nobody

    Mr. Nobody

    7.5 1936 HD

    For some time, the police have been on the trail of a mysterious burglar who has evaded capture whilst executing one daring robbery after another. No...

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  • 1957
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    Stars Never Die

    Stars Never Die

    1 1957 HD

    For Les étoiles ne meurent jamais, director/archivist Max De Vaucorbeil has assembled precious film clips of such Gallic greats as Louis...

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  • 1943
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    T'amerò sempre

    T'amerò sempre

    7 1943 HD

    Seduced by count Diego and then abandoned, Adriana finds a job at a large hairdresser shop, so she can lead a dignified life together with her...

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  • 1944
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    Behold Beatrice

    Behold Beatrice

    6 1944 HD

    The belated and revolting passion of a famous surgeon for a young orphan whom he once took in. He goes so far as to dishonor her to prevent her...

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  • 1946
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    The Murderer Is Not Guilty

    The Murderer Is Not Guilty

    8.3 1946 HD

    In a film studio, several actors are the victims of attempted murders. Julien Brisseau, a writer, decides to use these facts as the backbone of his...

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  • 1943
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    The White Truck

    The White Truck

    1 1943 HD

    A young mechanic is given a strange job: to convey the king of the gypsies' embalmed dead body on a very long route.

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  • 1938
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    Hercule

    Hercule

    6 1938 HD

    Hercule, a young peasant, inherits a Parisian newspaper with a large circulation. The editor-in-chief, Vasco, takes advantage of his ignorance to...

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  • 1937
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    The Green Dress

    The Green Dress

    6.1 1937 HD

    Count Hubert de Latour Latour is the lover of the Duchess de Maulévrier. The day he is surprised by the Duke in the company of his wife and......

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  • 1937
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    A Picnic on the Grass

    A Picnic on the Grass

    1 1937 HD

    A rich young woman asks a poor man to play for her the role of a generous friend. He ends up falling in love.

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  • 1928
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    L'Argent

    L'Argent

    6.9 1928 HD

    Adapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.

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  • 1938
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    Final Accord

    Final Accord

    9 1938 HD

    A famous violinist enlists in a music school in order to woo one of the students.

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  • 1931
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    My Heart and Its Millions

    My Heart and Its Millions

    1 1931 HD

    Franck Crighton is a millionaire who is fed up with his hectic life. To have a bit of peace and quiet he has found the winning formula, passing...

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  • 1946
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    Messieurs Ludovic

    Messieurs Ludovic

    6 1946 HD

    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...

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  • 1941
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    L'Embuscade

    L'Embuscade

    7 1941 HD

    A young man is hired by an industrialist, while a secret hangs over his birth. His boss's wife turns out to be his mother, who hides the truth from...

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  • 1934
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    Arlette et ses papas

    Arlette et ses papas

    4.5 1934 HD

    Arlette was born in 1918. Her mother made her lover and godchild named Pierre believe that he was the father of this child. Having become a beautiful...

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  • 1938
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    The Midnight Airplane

    The Midnight Airplane

    1 1938 HD

    During a stopover, Morel, an airline pilot and Colette spin the perfect love. She hides from him that she is compromised in the actions of a band of...

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  • 1932
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    Quick

    Quick

    1 1932 HD

    A woman staying at a health spa (Lillian Harvey, goes to the theater every night to see "Quick" a comic performer, who wears clown make-up. She meets...

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  • 1942
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    Retour au bonheur

    Retour au bonheur

    8 1942 HD

    Wanting to complete the research of her doctor husband, a former actress returns to the stage and therefore abandons her home. Badly supervised, her...

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  • 1943
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    Tristi amori

    Tristi amori

    1 1943 HD

    Emma, who is married to lawyer Giulio Scarli, is secretly in love with Fabrizio Arcieri, who works with her husband.

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  • 1938
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    The Woman of Monte Carlo

    The Woman of Monte Carlo

    1 1938 HD

    An adventuress serves as bait for a swindler, who robs the naive people she brings to him with poker. A childhood friend helps him.

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  • 1942
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    L'assassin a peur la nuit

    L'assassin a peur la nuit

    6.7 1942 HD

    Having pulled off a robbery with his friend Maurice, Olivier leaves his mistress Lola and hides out in a small village in the country. He finds work,...

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  • 1942
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    Little Nothings

    Little Nothings

    7 1942 HD

    Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have...

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  • 1978
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    Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

    Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

    1 1978 HD

    Produced for television by Claude-Jean Philippe, the « Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma », recounts the history of...

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