
Birthday:
08-09-1861
Deathday:
06-28-1941 (79 years)
Birthplace:
Paris, Ile-de-France, France
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Mater Dolorosa
event1933
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One of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and obsessively jealous husband obducts his own son to bully his wife.
My Father Was Right
Act like Adolphe Bellanger, son père
event1936 star_border 5.9
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After being left for another man by his wife, Charles Bellanger raises his only son to fear and suspect women. Years later, such an education is bearing fruit.
Nine Bachelors
Act like Antonin Rousselier
event1939 star_border 6.4
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Nine Bachelors is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Sacha Guitry and starring Guitry, Max Dearly and Elvire Popesco.[1] An opportunist dreams up a new scheme to make money when the French government passes a law forbidding foreigners from living in France. It's French title is Ils étaient neuf célibataires.
A Son from America
event1932
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An unemployed youth pretends to be the long lost son of an elderly industrialist but after helping the man with his business decides to confess his dishonesty and go away.
A Gentleman of the Ring
Act like Count Brodelet de Surville
event1932
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Chouchou leads a happy life between his comrades and his fiancée. But his father wants him to marry a rich American in love with him. Chouchou refuses and looks for work in order to be independent and to marry the one he loves.
Once Upon a Time
Act like Parker
event1933
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A poor disgraced girl, belonging to a gang of criminals, is morally transformed by a cosmetic operation that makes her beautiful.
La Robe rouge
event1933
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The error of an examining magistrate forever tears apart a happy and united family.
N'aimer que toi
Act like Le chanteur des rues
event1934
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A great singer eager to know the love of a sincere woman, in love with him and not with his glory, disguises himself as a worker. He meets the girl of his dreams. A commitment takes her away, she tries to kill herself but he comes back in time and they can love each other without constraint.
Dawn Over France
event1935 star_border 7.7
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The gratuitous murder of his father and the misery of the people, aggravated by a succession of bad harvests, lead Gaspard, a great admirer of Mandrin and blacksmith by profession, to revolt. With his companion Samplan, he finds himself at the head of a handful of soldiers dissatisfied with their fate and a band of brigands. They steal money from the rich to give it to the poor, like highwaymen, vindicators with a big heart. In their eyes, things cannot go on like this, in this country which seems given over to the decadence of the nobility and the whims of an indolent king. Gaspard and his troupe are responsible for making it known.
The Secret of Polichinelle
event1936
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Secret de Polichinelle roughly translates as Open Secret. The "secret" in question is an illegitimate child, the offspring of young-and-foolish Henri (Bernard Lacret). The baby is adopted by its grandparents, Monsieur and Madame Jouvenol (Raimu and Francoise Rosay). At first taking charge of the child because it is their duty, the Jouvenols come to love the little nipper as if he were their own son. At this point, the film threatens to drown in a morass of sentiment, but the actors and the director manage to stem the bathos with some first-rate comedy vignettes revolving around the care and feeding of the bouncing baby boy.
The New Rich
event1938 star_border 7
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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 industry. Happy in business, they soon find themselves at the head of a fortune. But their characters are very different. Legendre, who is brave and honest, narrowly escapes the malevolence of a couple of harlots. Martinet, his former work companion, has become a crooked and formidable financier. Both will face each other in court, the honesty of the first finally triumphing over the greed of the second.
Deputy Eusèbe
Act like The notary
event1939
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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, a crooked businessman, has urged an accomplice to impersonate Eusèbe, in order to obtain, through this straw man, authorizations for the creation of a casino in Sanceau-les-Nains and to make big money out of it. Eusébe decides to go to Paris to investigate. In the capital he meets Mariska, an exuberant actress who encourages him to try to get elected. As a result, thanks to her the true Bonbonneau becomes a member of parliament and the crook's accomplice is arrested. But Frazier is not impressed and, changing tactics, he starts manipulating Eusèbe.
Dainah the Mixed
Act like Le commandant
event1932 star_border 6.5
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Shades of Othello loom in this engrossing exploration of class, race, and murder set on an ocean liner. Young Dainah encounters an engineer onboard who mistakes pleasantries for flirtation. When she disappears the next day, suspicion spreads not only to the engineer but also to Dainah's husband.
The Guilty One
event1911
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Directed by René Leprince.
The Pearls of the Crown
Act like Le grand-duc
event1937 star_border 6.2
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The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing.
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Act like Anton Schindler
event1937 star_border 6.9
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Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
L'Aristo
event1934
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Nicknamed "the Aristo", a friendly tramp, once a very rich and influential man, will one fine day rediscover the splendor of his past...
From Mayerling to Sarajevo
Act like Le comte Chotek
event1940 star_border 7
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Franz Ferdinand, heir to the throne of Austria-Hungary, is kept absent from the royal court due to his dangerous political ideas. Sent on a tour of inspections and inaugurations, he falls in love with Countess Sophie Chotek.
The King
Act like L'évêque
event1936
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King John IV of Cerdania, who knows monarchs are a vanishing race but who plays his royalty role in state council or boudoir to the hilt, is in Paris to sign a treaty, and becomes enmeshed in intrigue with an actress, Therese Mannix and involved in a bit of cuckoldry with YouYou Bourdier, the ex-seamstress wife of a French senator, who is un-awed by money, power or the King's kisses. For his part, her husband, Senator Bourdier, is glad to use his wealth, wife and collectivist ideals for social position, in spite of his democratic posing.
Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre
Act like Le vieux domestique
event1935 star_border 6.6
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Maxime de Champcey, a bankrupt marquis, is hired by the wealthy Laroque and falls for his daughter Marguerite. She loves him too but rejects him under the belief he's a fortune hunter.
What for?
event1926
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Céleste Noménoé, a provincial actor, comes to Paris for an inheritance. He also gets a part in a movie. The managers of a music-hall notice him. He takes the stage name of Grock.
Pasteur
Act like President of the Academy of Medicine
event1935 star_border 5
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Guitry reprises his role as Pasteur which he played successfully at the Vaudeville Theatre in 1919.
Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
Act like L'Abbé Maudoux
event1938 star_border 5.7
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The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.
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