A simple young woman helps eccentric old countess deal with her old age and she introduces the young woman to a world of upper class society.
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97m
A swindler's activity indirectly caused a political crisis in France in the last years before World War II.
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120m
While escaping war-torn China, a group of Europeans crash in the Himalayas, where they are rescued and taken to the mysterious Valley of the Blue Moon, Shangri-La.
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150m
Nice, eccentric, idealistic and slightly mad Countess Aurelia, who believes that the good must prevail over evil, decides to stand up to corrupt powerful leaders of Paris by putting them on trial with 'unwashed masses' as the jury.
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132m
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A married man enters his boss' apartment to sign papers for a promotion and finds a party of 200 instead. He doesn't fit in, leaves with a woman, spends all night with her, falls in love with her and finds out she's his boss' wife.
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95m
Le rouble à deux faces
The most ultra-secret telephone number of all is that of the "Hot'Line' that links the heads of state of the United States and Moscow. A conniving double agent manages to steal the top secret phone number and then begins to implement chaos by phoning Washington and Moscow, telling the two powers that their respective spy chiefs are traitors. It's spy versus spy, agent versus double agent, counter spy against counter-counter spy in a rapidly increasing international crisis that finds its solution on the stage of Chinese theater in Barcelona, Spain as the spy leaders, the traitorous agent, a beautiful girl, three old ladies, a young man caught up in the chain of events and a troupe of acrobats collide head on in battle.
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96m
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In an early spy spoof, aging Sir James Bond comes out of retirement to take on SMERSH.
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Paul, a conservative young lawyer, marries the vivacious Corie. Their highly passionate relationship descends into comical discord in a five-flight New York City walk-up apartment.
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106m
Paris brûle-t-il?
August 1944. The Allies are approaching Paris and residence groups within the city start to plan an uprising against the Germans. However, Hitler wants the city destroyed if it looks like the Allies will take it.
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175m
The daughter of an art forger teams up with a burglar to steal one of her father's forgeries and protect his secret.
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123m
A rich man asks a womanizing playboy to marry his daughter and make a grandson for him.
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105m
On the French Riviera, a professional matchmaker assisted by an American adventurer arranges for convenience marriages between titled impoverished aristocratic men and rich low-bred women.
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111m
Julia, Du bist zauberhaft
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A successful and married, although not quite young, actress at a London theatre, falls for a young man, only a little older than her son, involved with a young actress who uses him to advance her career and upstage the leading lady.
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97m
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In Argentina, one daughter of patriarch Madariaga is married to a Frenchman while the other is married to a German thus leading to a crisis when Nazi Germany occupies France and some Madariaga family members fight on opposite sides.
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153m
A love triangle featuring a young woman, a rich 60-something man, and an aspiring sailor set in early-20th-century Marseilles.
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134m
In the early 1900s, a down-and-out French nobleman gets involved in romantic matchmaking that backfires in his favor.
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124m
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During the war of 1812, Louisiana buccaneer Jean Lafitte assists the Americans in defending New Orleans against the attacking British war fleet.
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119m
Une parisienne
Set against the picturesque springtime in Paris, the prime minister's daughter marries a buttoned down cabinet official, but when her new husband starts stepping out behind her back, the young bride takes of for the Riviera.
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86m
La fortuna di essere donna
A photographer named Corrado snaps a picture of Antonietta. When it shows up on the front page of a magazine, she wants to take him to court over it.
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100m
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A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.
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175m
At a private psychiatric clinic, the daily dramas and interactions between the doctors, nurses, administrators, benefactors and patients are accentuated by the personal and family crises of these individuals.
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134m
The amorous career of a courtesan and how she met her death at the hands of a rejected lover.
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120m
In the early 1950s, the popular radio show "La Kermesse aux Étoiles", hosted by the famous Jean Nohain, mixing lottery games and performances of various artists, will be disrupted by the adventures of a man and his fiancée seeking to recover a dangerous bottle of perfume (explosive) which was unfortunately mixed with the prizes to be won ...
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95m
Madame de...
In France of the late 19th century, the wife of a wealthy general, the Countess Louise, sells the earrings her husband gave her on their wedding day to pay off debts; she claims to have lost them. Her husband quickly learns of the deceit, which is the beginning of many tragic misunderstandings, all involving the earrings, the general, the countess, & her new lover, the Italian Baron Donati.
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105m
In 1947, in an independent India, Europeans are scrambling to evacuate Ghandahar which is besieged by a local warlord but sought-after by an American arms dealer.
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97m
A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa.
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94m
Father Fulton prepares to abandon his vocation despite pleas from Father Arnoux. Then a series of seemingly miracles occur including to the young Terri. Fulton has his doubts and wonders about the role of Dr. Morrell.
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86m
Respectable citizens receive anonymous letters revealing their adulterous relationships.
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85m
Illegal refugees lead dark lives in pre-World War II Paris.
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120m
A cheating husband is charged in the poisoning death of his invalid wife, in spite of other women and suicide also being suspected.
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96m
A free-spirited parlor maid and a Czech refugee surprise an English village with their unconventional ways.
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100m
La bataille du rail
This movie is a story about French railroad workers who were part of organized resistance during the German WW2 occupation.
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85m
In 1937, agents from the opposing sides of the Spanish Civil War travel to the neutral UK to secure coal contracts and to undermine each other's efforts.
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118m
A prim and proper widow who has succeeded him as mayor of a provincial Vermont town hires a worldly New York sculptor for her husband's statue.
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93m
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Years after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman moves back into the house with her new husband. However, he has a secret that he will do anything to protect, even if it means driving his wife insane.
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114m
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An anthology of three loosely connected occult tales, with ironic and romantic twists.
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94m
The daughter of a musical mentor is hopelessly in love with her cousin's husband, a handsome composer.
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112m
Untel père et fils
The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of the city by the Prussians during the Franco-Prussian War of 1871 to the invasion by the Germans in World War II.
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113m
A formal tailcoat that gets passed from one owner to another affects each life in a significant way.
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118m
Stopped in Mexico by U.S. Immigration, Georges Iscovescu hopes to get into the country by marrying a citizen.
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116m
Five years after meeting and falling in love with a banker, a willful shop girl decides to become his mistress upon learning he has since gotten married and had a son.
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89m
Charming Andre Cassil woos physician Jane Alexander and the two impulsively get married. The honeymoon ends very quickly when Jane voices her progressive views on marriage which include the two having separate apartments. Andre then tries to make his wife jealous in order to lure her into his bedroom.
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89m
A duchess' irrational behavior toward her children's governess triggers tragic events that will change her family's lives forever.
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141m
A concert pianist unhappily married to a mentally ill woman falls in love with a waitress.
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90m
A French playboy and an American former nightclub singer fall in love aboard a ship.
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88m
Orage
The mistress of an engineer meets the man's pregnant wife and decides to give up the liaison.
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98m
Beautiful Gaby meets a romantic jewel thief in the mysterious Casbah.
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96m
After the Russian revolution, a married Russian couple of nobility must take up jobs in Paris in order to survive.
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98m
A wealthy divorcée falls for a charming Parisian, but her insanely jealous ex-husband will do anything to get her back.
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97m
A Polish countess becomes Napoleon Bonaparte's mistress at the urging of Polish leaders, who feel she could influence him to make Poland independent.
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113m
Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage to a Belgian princess. As he seeks to flee his stifling environment, he meets the beautiful Maria, and the two enter into a scandalous affair. Despite the interference of the Emperor, the couple refuse to give each other up.
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96m
The star-crossed desert romance of a cloistered woman and a renegade monk.
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79m
Le bonheur
Injured by anarchist Philippe Lucher, film actress Clara Stuart falls in love with her attacker and decides to plead in his favor at his trial.
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98m
A New York socialite travels to Shanghai to visit her ailing aunt and falls in love with a Russian banker, who harbors a family secret.
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75m
At the Brentwood Asylum for the mentally ill, psychiatrist partners Jane Everest and Alex MacGregor are broken up by the new superintendent, Dr. Charles Monet, who has a low regard for women physicians. Jane and Charles clash on patient treatment, and Jane learns that Charles has a sister, Claire, with a mysterious past.
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84m
Constance, a poor but aspiring composer, meets the great conductor, Franz, through their old music teacher. They fall in love, despite Constance knowing about Franz's weakness for pretty women.
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78m
Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a rascal who's a carousel barker, loved by the experienced merry-go-round owner and by a young, innocent maid. The maid, Julie, loses her job after going out with Liliom; he's fired by his jealous employer for going out with Julie. The two lovers move in with Julie's aunt; unemployment emasculates him and a local weasel tempts him with crime. Julie, now wan, is true to Liliom even in his bad temper. Meanwhile, a stolid widower, a carpenter, wants to marry Julie. Is there any future on this earth for Julie and Liliom, whose love is passionate rather than ideal?
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118m
Member of royal family is forced to marry a vagabond.
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101m
La bataille
During the Russo-Japanese War, an English officer on the ship of the Japanese falls in love with the wife of the commander.Also made in a British version, Thunder In the East.
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90m
Fresh out of prison a small-time crook finds his girlfriend's dropped him, which sends him into a murderous rage.
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92m
Lillian relentlessly attempts to seduce a married man.
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79m
A woman whose husband never came home from World War I finds herself in love with her doctor. She travels with him to Switzerland, and as they check into the hotel there, she is astounded to see her supposedly dead husband.
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71m
Révolte dans la prison
French-language version of "The Big House" (MGM, 1930), with Charles Boyer in Chester Morris's role, filmed by MGM parallel to the English-speaking version, at a time when good subtitles weren't yet in use.
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95m
A nightclub singer, taking pity on a blind soldier, pretends that she is the woman he once loved before he was wounded.
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81m
Women from various backgrounds volunteer as nurses in France at the outbreak of World War I.
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81m
Le capitaine Fracasse
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A nobleman decides to join a traveling group of actors to be with a girl he admires, but ultimately must rescue her from bandits
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92m
L'homme du large
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Nolff, a tough Breton fisherman is happy: his wife has just given birth to a son, Michel. His only wish is to make him a fisherman like him. But when he becomes a man, Michel becomes a good-for-nothing who spends his time in taverns.