Michel Simon
Michel Simon (9 April 1895 – 30 May 1975) was a Swiss actor. He appeared in the notable films La Chienne (1931), Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932), L'Atalante (1934), Port of Shadows (1938), The Head (1959), and The Train (1964).
Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 1.597 |
Birthday | 1895-04-09 |
Place of Birth | Geneva, Switzerland |
Also Known As | Мишель Симон, Michel François Joseph Simon, François Joseph Simon, |
1958
It Happened in Broad Daylight
7.3/132
The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.
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It Happened in Broad Daylight
1964
The Train
7.5/311
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He...
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The Train
1975
The Red Ibis
5.4/15
A mentally disturbed man named Jérémie is scouring the area in search of women he can strangle with his scarf, which is embroidered with an ibis.
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The Red Ibis
1970
The House
0/0
Former professor of natural history, Louis Compiegne lives in retirement in a big house, with Pascal, his faithful servant. The arrival of a young Ame...
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The House
1931
La Chienne
7.3/117
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love,...
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La Chienne
1962
Emile's Boat
6.4/8
Charles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers, decides to return to La Rochelle, his hometown to die there. Forty years earlier he had been dr...
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Emile's Boat
1947
Panic
7.4/79
Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he fee...
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Panic
1934
L'Atalante
7.49/418
Capricious small-town girl Juliette and barge captain Jean marry after a whirlwind courtship, and she comes to live aboard his boat, L'Atalante. As th...
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L'Atalante
1939
The Last Turning
6.4/15
Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and m...
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The Last Turning
1967
The Two of Us
7.6/85
A story of the caring friendship formed between a crusty, old anti-Semite and an eight-year-old Jewish boy who goes to live with him during World War...
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The Two of Us
1933
High and Low
5/5
The intersecting lives of neighbors in a courtyard apartment building in Vienna,including a football player related to the concierge,a new blonde maid...
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High and Low
1939
Fric-Frac
6.2/29
An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.
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Fric-Frac
1938
Boys' School
7.3/47
In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them sees...
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Boys' School
1939
Extenuating Circumstances
6.6/13
Harsh Parisian judge Gaetan (known as Monsieur Maximum), chafing in the idleness of retirement, leaves for a seaside holiday. But Gabriel the chauffeu...
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Extenuating Circumstances
1939
Cocoanut
6.5/4
A small town gentleman learns that his prim and proper wife was once a showgirl, and that, even worse, he had enjoyed a one night stand with her in th...
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Cocoanut
1947
Not Guilty
7.5/13
An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. The episode triggers a sense of confidence and he...
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Not Guilty
1943
Vautrin the Thief
7.8/4
A famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin, escapes from prison. Chance makes him meet Lucien...
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Vautrin the Thief
1938
Port of Shadows
7.4/263
Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however...
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Port of Shadows
1925
The Late Mathias Pascal
6.9/24
Mathias Pascal, only son of a once-rich family, marries beautiful Romalinda, who has a terrible mother-in-law. She controls her daughter, and soon his...
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The Late Mathias Pascal
1951
Poison
7.066/68
Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each other without risk. After listening to a radio show, Pau...
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Poison
1943
Shop Girls of Paris
6.6/5
The struggles of a small business owner come to light in this film by director André Cayatte. The proprietor of a fabric shop, M. Baudu faces stiff co...
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Shop Girls of Paris
1957
Three Make a Pair
5.2/8
Jojo’s ambition is to become a gangster, but to be admitted into a gang he has to prove himself by committing a daring act. To that end, he kills some...
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Three Make a Pair
1953
Femmes de Paris
6.5/2
Professor Charles Buisson, astronomer and Nobel Prize winner, has just discovered a nova. He informs the other observatories by telephone. Just as he...
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Femmes de Paris
1932
Boudu Saved from Drowning
6.9/130
Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tramp who takes a suicidal plunge into the Seine and...
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Boudu Saved from Drowning
1952
Crimson Curtain
6.2/8
Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in which he was to play with Aurélia Nobli, his compani...
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Crimson Curtain
1953
The Virtuous Scoundrel
6.1/15
La Vie d'un honnête homme English: The Virtuous Scoundrel, is a French comedy drama film from 1953, directed by Sacha Guitry, written by Sacha Guitry,...
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The Virtuous Scoundrel
1960
The Battle of Austerlitz
6.7/28
Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.
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The Battle of Austerlitz
1932
Baleydier
0/0
The attempt of a young hairdresser to act in a serious film with his chosen co star , recognized during the shooting as inept, is mistakenly taken by...
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Baleydier
1928
The Sad Sack
6.4/8
The tale of a rich, flaky poet and his servant who both join the army and wind up in the same barracks.
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The Sad Sack
1935
Le Bébé de l'escadron
0/0
A young woman is seduced by a soldier whose name she does not know. Pregnant, she asks the colonel to review the squadron in order to recognize him.
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Le Bébé de l'escadron
1936
Moutonnet
0/0
A crude countryman sells horses and ,thanks to an old war buddy who has now become a film star, has achieved some renown. Full of himself, he ventures...
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Moutonnet
1962
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
5.6/29
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Cha...
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The Devil and the Ten Commandments
1937
Boulot aviateur
0/0
An operetta baron has teamed up with a mechanic to carry out insurance scams. During one of their shots, they come up against Boulot, a drunken but cl...
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Boulot aviateur
1936
Girls of Paris
4/1
A few colorful characters, with very different social origins and whose destinies are not always glorious, will parade before our eyes, for our greate...
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Girls of Paris
1939
Deputy Eusèbe
0/0
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 Frazier,...
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Deputy Eusèbe
1952
Mister Taxi
6.111/9
An honest taxi driver gets into trouble by looking for a customer who left her purse full of cash in her vehicle.
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Mister Taxi
1939
The End of the Day
6.8/30
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
2021
René Clair, tout entre nous n'était qu'un jeu
0/0
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René Clair, tout entre nous n'était qu'un jeu
1954
Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
5.6/8
A terminally ill Mr. Bard, a casino bus driver forced to quit his job, miraculously wins a fortune playing roulette. Instantly becoming a millionaire,...
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Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
1950
The Beauty of the Devil
7.3/57
Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at the ravages of old age ... whereupon Mephistopheles...
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The Beauty of the Devil
1972
The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
7.3/53
A successful businessman whose destiny leads him to a secluded Swiss chalet where his life is put on trial by a group of retired law professionals. Th...
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The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
1937
Bizarre, Bizarre
6.892/60
A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanc...
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Bizarre, Bizarre
1952
The Road to Damascus
0/0
Saul De Tarse is a Roman soldier who is making rough all over. He arrives at the Golgotha when the apostles remove the cross. He ruthlessly persecutes...
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The Road to Damascus
1960
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
6.083/12
Charming and innocent, Candide is vigorously chased away by the Baron, for his close encounters with the pretty Cunégonde. World War II breaks out, an...
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Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
1955
The Impossible Mr. Pipelet
5.5/6
A story about a simple old man with a lot of love for his only daughter. She falls in love with a doctor's son and he don't understand why...
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The Impossible Mr. Pipelet
1953
Saadia
5/3
Saadia is a wild, strange Arab girl whose life has been dominated by a local sorceress, a vengeful outcast in the community, who has convinced her she...
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Saadia
1952
Hôtel des Invalides
5.7/21
A tour of the Hotel des Invalides, and more particularly of the Army Museum and the Saint Louis Chapel. From François I's armor to Guynemer's airplane...
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Hôtel des Invalides
1934
Ladies Lake
4.1/6
A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpine lake resort. He falls in love with a young heir...
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Ladies Lake
1931
Baby's Laxative
5.7/29
A little boy won't go to the bathroom, which leads to all sorts of complications for his parents and their friends.
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Baby's Laxative
1938
Mother Love
6.1/6
Gilbert Quercy, 18, tried to commit suicide after a heartache. At the hospital, three women try to cheer him up : the three former wives of his father...
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Mother Love
1939
Behind the Facade
7.8/6
In the elevator of two large Parisian buildings, a telegraph operator discovers the body of an elderly woman, Madame Mathieu, the owner of both buildi...
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Behind the Facade
1940
Comedy of Happiness
6.4/5
Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him co...
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Comedy of Happiness
1938
The Stream
7.5/2
When Paul, an officer, discovers Denise, a young orphan escaped from her orphanage, he takes advantage of his naivete to seduce her before changing he...
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The Stream
1972
Blanche
6.1/36
Blanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land. Every man is in love with her, including the King and his...
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Blanche
1947
The Crowned Fish Tavern
5.6/5
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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The Crowned Fish Tavern
1936
Under Western Eyes
6.2/10
Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes emb...
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Under Western Eyes
1964
Cyrano and d'Artagnan
5.8/10
Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy against King Louis XIII of France.
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Cyrano and d'Artagnan
1966
Two Hours to Kill
6.45/10
In the waiting room of the Auvernaux station, the atmosphere is very lively. Several passengers, who have missed their train, are discussing the kille...
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Two Hours to Kill
1929
Pivoine
6.2/5
Pivoine, a tramp living on the docks near Notre Dame, Macaroni and Georgette are his companions in misfortune. Could no longer bear the insults of pas...
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Pivoine
1949
Fabiola
5.9/9
In ancient Rome a love story blossoms between Fabiola, daughter of a senator, and Rhual, a Gallic gladiator. After Fabiola's father is killed, the Rom...
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Fabiola
1925
The Vocation of André Carel
5.3/7
At the urging of his over-protective father, André Carel, a young bourgeois from Paris, travels to Lake Geneva to rejuvenate his health. There, he fal...
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The Vocation of André Carel
1934
Le Bonheur
6.9/17
Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation an...
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Le Bonheur
1946
A Friend Will Come Tonight
5.5/6
Commander Gerard and his band of guerrillas have found the ideal hideout: a nursing home in the Alps where, along with the mentally ill, are also hidi...
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A Friend Will Come Tonight
1942
Girl of the Golden West
6/1
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Girl of the Golden West
1937
La Bataille silencieuse
0/0
A young journalist who has gone reporting with the papers of a friend gets caught up in an arms smuggling operation. It is in this context that he mee...
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La Bataille silencieuse
1936
The Fleeing Dead
7.1/7
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
1940
Paris-New York
7/4
The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude Dauphin. When Preville disappears, Dauphin is accused of kid...
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Paris-New York
1952
Full House
6.6/8
Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution and Maigret.
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Full House
1958
A Certain Mr. Jo
1/1
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
1977
Journey Through History
0/0
A journey through history
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Journey Through History
1940
The Musicians of the Sky
6.7/3
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
1935
Lovers and Thieves
0/0
Claude, son of a ruined family, pretends to be a dangerous trickster in order to get credit from the guys in the middle. He is in charge of retrieving...
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Lovers and Thieves
1941
The King's Jester
0/0
Based on a Victor Hugo play, and scored with music from the later opera by Giuseppe Verdi, the film tells about a hunchbacked clown whose beautiful da...
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The King's Jester
1956
La joyeuse prison
0/0
Benoit, the head guard of Clouville Prison, prefers to be liked than feared. This basic principle transforms the jail-house into a joyful prison, wher...
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La joyeuse prison
1939
Cavalcade of Love
5.2/4
Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the walls of the Chateau de Champs. Legend has it that who...
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Cavalcade of Love
1935
A Bum Deal
0/0
In 1932, Michel Simon plays in "Boudu sauvé des eaux" under the direction of Jean Renoir. Three years later, he was again invited to don the clothes o...
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A Bum Deal
1970
Let's Have a Riot
6.9/4
Episodes centering on different aspects of early-1970s Italian life, set in a television studio, a factory, a university, and a Catholic parish.
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Let's Have a Riot
1975
The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
0/0
A butcher dreams of becoming a famous director. He hires stars that he begins to kill.
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2007
Arletty, Lady Paname
6/1
A biography of the French actress Arletty.
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Arletty, Lady Paname
1954
Hungarian Rhapsody
0/0
1847. Franz Liszt meets the beautiful princess Caroline von Sayn-Wittgenstein in Kiev. The two fall in love, but the princess is forced to marry an el...
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Hungarian Rhapsody
1928
The Passion of Joan of Arc
8/931
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'...
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The Passion of Joan of Arc
1967
Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
9/2
Second in the documentary trilogy from mastermind Jacques Rivette, featuring a conversation between Jean Renoir and Michel Simon, who celebrate their...
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Jean Renoir, le patron, 2e partie: La direction d'acteur
1936
Let's Make a Dream
7/15
A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, puzzled. He finds there, without knowing it, the lover of his wife, to w...
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Let's Make a Dream
1959
The Head
5/25
A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts of...
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The Head
1952
The Girl with the Whip
0/0
The daughter of a notorious smuggler is raised as a boy by her foster mother.
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The Girl with the Whip
1938
The New Rich
7/1
The workers Legendre and Martinet have won a large sum in the national lottery. Instead of squandering it, they had the good idea to invest it in indu...
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The New Rich
1947
The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
6.6/7
On the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and incidentally a poacher - lives out of wedlock with Vic...
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The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
1941
Tosca
5.3/3
Non-musical account of Puccini's opera: Tosca and Cavaradossi are in love, but the tyrant Scarpia desires Tosca and oppresses Cavaradossi who is fight...
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Tosca
1935
Adémaï au Moyen Âge
0/0
Joan Of Arc has just released Orléans (1429)but the English are still here to stay . The fortress of Châteauneuf is hold by Lord Pickwickdam
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Adémaï au Moyen Âge
Les Deux Réalités
6.3/3
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Les Deux Réalités
1956
Mémoires d'un flic
0/0
In Marseille, crime squad captain Dominique fights against racketeers and tries to put a young man back on the right track.
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Mémoires d'un flic
1954
The Anatomy of Love
6.4/14
Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
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The Anatomy of Love
1938
Mirages
7/1
A star of Les Folies Bergères has to choose between her career and her love for an engineer.
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Mirages
2001
Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé
7/2
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Jean Vigo : le son retrouvé
1936
The Twins of Brighton
7/2
Slapstick inheritance comedy based on the confusion between twin brothers, both played by the great Raimu who also plays their father.
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2012
Cinéastes de notre temps : Jean Vigo
7.3/3
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1953
The Merchant of Venice
5/2
A rich merchant, Antonio is depressed for no good reason, until his good friend Bassanio comes to tell him how he's in love with Portia. Portia's fath...
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The Merchant of Venice
1934
Miquette and Her Mother
7/1
The irresistible rise of a young provincial, Miquette, who, having risen to Paris, will experience success in the theater and love in Hollywood with a...
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Miquette and Her Mother
1965
Cinéastes de notre temps : Sacha Guitry
0/0
Documentary about French playwright and film director Sacha Guitry.
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Cinéastes de notre temps : Sacha Guitry
1954
At the Order of the Czar
0/0
Carolyn de Sayn was married at the age of sixteen, against her will, to the Prince of Wittgenstein, much older than herself. A few years later, she me...
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At the Order of the Czar
1951
The Two Truths
9/1
The young Loris is undergoing a trial for killing his girlfriend Maria Luce. According to the reconstruction of the facts, the young man would shoot h...
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The Two Truths
1968
The Marriage Came Tumbling Down
5.9/4
Jacques spends his summer vacation with his grandfather, Jericho, in the company of his wife Marie. The malicious ancestor quickly realizes that his g...
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The Marriage Came Tumbling Down
1963
Ecco
5/5
A documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavior. Included are a tour of the Grand Guignol theat...
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Ecco
1960
Pete the Tender
5.5/3
In this crime drama, Michel Simon is cast as Pierrot, an elderly gangster who does not fit the stereotype -- he is soft-hearted. After a petty crimina...
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Pete the Tender
1931
Jean of the Moon
6/1
Marceline, the young wife of the florist Jean, can't help flirting with other men, but her brother Clo-Clo takes the poor husband's side against his s...
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Jean of the Moon
1930
Illegitimate Child
6/1
The illegitimate son of a music-hall star and an ambitious politician has grown up to become a journalist. He decides to get back at his father by usi...
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Illegitimate Child
1934
Léopold le bien-aimé
0/0
Away in the colonies for 15 years after his girlfriend has jilted him, Leopold returns to his village to resume involvement with women ,hopefully with...
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Léopold le bien-aimé
1938
Beautiful Star
8/2
Meg decides to commit suicide to escape the marriage to which her father intends her. She is saved by Jean-Pierre, another candidate for suicide, and...
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Beautiful Star
1948
La Carcasse et le Tord-cou
0/0
La Carcasse, an obtuse peasant, lives with his wife Lucie and his father-in-law Tord-cou. At odds with his son-in-law, the Tord-cou takes it into his...
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La Carcasse et le Tord-cou
1937
Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
3.875/4
Mario Esposito, who sings in a Neapolitan restaurant, is in love with Assunta, the niece of Teresa, the owner of the place. He shares his apartment wi...
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Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
1937
Le Choc en retour
0/0
A rich sugar factory manager wants to marry his daughter to an aristocrat, while the young girl is in love with an engineer, employed in a rival compa...
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