Paulette Dubost

Paulette Dubost

Birthday: 1910-10-08

Place of Birth: Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Biography: Paulette Dubost (8 October 1910 – 21 September 2011) was a French actress who began her career at the age of 7 at the Paris Opera. She appeared in over 250 films and worked with directors such as Marcel Carné, Jean Renoir, Max Ophüls (Le Plaisir 1952 and Lola Montès, 1955) and François Truffaut. Her best-known role is as Lisette in Renoir's The Rules of the Game (La règle du jeu, 1939). Originally intended to be a small role offering only a couple of days' work, the extent of her part grew during the four-month shooting schedule. She died at age 100. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paulette Dubost, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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The Rules of the Game
The Rules of the Game

A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut bourgeois a...

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The Last Metro
The Last Metro

In occupied Paris, an actress wed to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis whil...

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May Fools
May Fools

During the events of May 1968 in France, different worldviews of conflicting relatives collide in th...

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The Other One's Mug
The Other One's Mug

Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a for...

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La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
La Barricade du Point-du-Jour

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Girls in Uniform
Girls in Uniform

A new student, Manuela, enters a strict girls' boarding school after her mother’s death, where she f...

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Jeunesse
Jeunesse

After being saved from suicide due to an unhappy marriage, Marie hesitates between two other men, bu...

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Viva Maria!
Viva Maria!

1907 Central America: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she ...

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The Itchy Palm
The Itchy Palm

A widow in her fifties,Madame Lacoste ,meets Jean when they both come to put their pussy in a catter...

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Taxi, Trailer and Bullfight
Taxi, Trailer and Bullfight

A chaotic family go on holiday to Spain and get mixed up with a gang of diamond thieves....

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Augustin, King of Kung-Fu
Augustin, King of Kung-Fu

The solitary and largely self-contained Augustin (Jean-Chretien Sibertin Blanc), on obscure young ac...

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Take It from the Top
Take It from the Top

Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilit...

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Hôtel du Nord
Hôtel du Nord

A young couple's suicide pact goes awry, leaving the woman to face her survival with a new admirer w...

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Sans famille
Sans famille

The Remi abandoned by his foster father sold to the troubadour Vasalis, in his living through the ru...

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Amourous Adventure
Amourous Adventure

When the husband of a rich lady is unfaithful, she plays the role of a chambermaid to a less promine...

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Un coup de téléphone
Un coup de téléphone

A man is engaged to be married.But after getting a phone call from a wronged woman who wants revenge...

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Service de nuit
Service de nuit

Théodore Beudraves works at night in a hotel and sleeps during the day. His salary allows him (unbek...

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The Regiment's Champion
The Regiment's Champion

Father Sourire, who came to the Château de Villetaneuse to ask for alms, was forced to put on the un...

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My Brother from Senegal
My Brother from Senegal

Jules Pinson, photographer in a small provincial village is in love with Annette, the daughter of th...

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En plein dans le mille
En plein dans le mille

Octave Laburette only makes blunders in his job with a backroom worker. He buys ten thousand shares ...

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L'enfant de ma soeur
L'enfant de ma soeur

Valerian writes his uncle, colonial millionaire, for money. He meets a quartermaster, Napoleon, who ...

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Paris-Soleil
Paris-Soleil

Comedy and misunderstandings around thwarted loves in Paris but which will end well in Provence....

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Fat Man's Worries
Fat Man's Worries

A young lady whose husband has been seeing someone else decides to make him jealous by flirting with...

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The Prom
The Prom

Two middle-class notions dealers live happily with their girl, but an inheritance turns these nice p...

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Les 28 jours de Clairette
Les 28 jours de Clairette

Clairette learns that Bérénice, a former mistress, is pursuing her husband in the army where he is r...

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Le Fakir du Grand Hôtel
Le Fakir du Grand Hôtel

Démonio the fakir has impressed a rich but weak-willed young man who hires him as an energy teacher....

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Maison hantée
Maison hantée

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Vive la compagnie
Vive la compagnie

Thanks to an understanding and sympathetic regimental comrade, a shy young man, very passionate abou...

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La cinquième empreinte
La cinquième empreinte

Jacques de Nisson, a rich man, has a new mistress, Lucie Cavelier. Which does not prevent him from c...

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L'Auberge du Petit-Dragon
L'Auberge du Petit-Dragon

Two horsemen are inseparable. One is smart and the other clumsy. A young girl is engaged to the clum...

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La caserne en folie
La caserne en folie

Following a misunderstanding, a young servant is mistaken for the rich heir that the owner of a fash...

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The Rosière of Les Halles
The Rosière of Les Halles

Working as a cook for a Parisian household, a naive country girl finds some kind of love among veget...

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Ferdinand the Roisterer
Ferdinand the Roisterer

Ferdinand is an honest and almost prude chemist at the Fourageot laboratories. His boss, Mr Fourageo...

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Le Bébé de l'escadron
Le Bébé de l'escadron

A young woman is seduced by a soldier whose name she does not know. Pregnant, she asks the colonel t...

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La Petite Sauvage
La Petite Sauvage

The young Paulette is placed by her tutor in a boarding school in Lausanne. It is at the neighboring...

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Le Prince des Six Jours
Le Prince des Six Jours

How a simple fellow who took on the identity of a famous cyclist manages to win the famous Six Days ...

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La brigade en jupons
La brigade en jupons

Two female police officers dismantle a network of drug traffickers....

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Rookies Run Amok 2
Rookies Run Amok 2

The sequel of a successful French comedy "Rookies Run Amok" (1971) again with "Les Charlots" group....

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La Reine des resquilleuses
La Reine des resquilleuses

A young unemployed girl pretends to be a boy and gets a job as a car washer....

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Titin from Martigues
Titin from Martigues

In Paris, at the Foire du Trône, the showman Titin from Martigues spins the perfect love with the pr...

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Barnabé
Barnabé

Barnabé, an occasional flutist, goes to Mme Petit-Durand to organize her daughter's 20 years. But he...

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L'ange que j'ai vendu
L'ange que j'ai vendu

Baronski has had enough of being a small-time merchant and decides, aided by his daughter Esther, to...

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Le Paradis des voleurs
Le Paradis des voleurs

A fairground boss is ruined. He steals his aunt's jewelry, but being chased he gives the jewelry to ...

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Maigret Sees Red
Maigret Sees Red

Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help lan...

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Et dix de der
Et dix de der

A police inspector tries to capture international robbers who are actually also police....

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Pluck the Hen
Pluck the Hen

A young student on vacation falls in love with the daughter of his hostess. The father, who has come...

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Ploum, ploum, tra-la-la
Ploum, ploum, tra-la-la

A shy but resourceful seller of corks helps a young man get married by passing himself off as a weal...

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Le 84 prend des vacances
Le 84 prend des vacances

Gaston Bernod is a Parisian bus driver. Honest, upright and hard-working, he is held in high esteem ...

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My Aunt from Honfleur
My Aunt from Honfleur

A young man leads a happy life in Paris, while making his aunt believe that he is continuing his stu...

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The Chocolate Girl
The Chocolate Girl

Benjamine, the daughter of the chocolate maker Lapistole, has broken down in her car, spends a night...

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Adrien
Adrien

Adrien Moulinet, a modest encashing agent in the Nortier bank, is also an inventor in his spare time...

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The Clear Eyes
The Clear Eyes

Fanny is a schizophrenic woman in her early thirties living under the care of her brother Gabriel, a...

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Cherished by her concierge
Cherished by her concierge

Eugène, who works for Radio-Europe, is a bit dim-witted. He lives in a block of flats whose caretake...

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Come Down, Someone Wants You
Come Down, Someone Wants You

Sylvette welcomes three soldiers on the eve of Saint-Jean 1945. Each claims that she promised him fi...

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Holiday for Henrietta
Holiday for Henrietta

Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a co...

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Germinal
Germinal

Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Vo...

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The Mysteries of Paris
The Mysteries of Paris

The Marquis Rodolphe de Sombrueil accidentally runs over a working man with his carriage and helps h...

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Le naïf amoureux
Le naïf amoureux

Paul is an accomplished teacher at Janson-de-Sailly. A "good guy" who, having returned for the holid...

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L'Envie
L'Envie

Envious of a movie star who is staying at the hotel where she works, the waitress Rosette does every...

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The Seven Deadly Sins
The Seven Deadly Sins

Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic ...

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White as Snow
White as Snow

Naive and good-hearted Léon Ménard arrives in Paris, determined to find work in the capital. In a ca...

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Georges et Georgette
Georges et Georgette

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La vie continue
La vie continue

Jeanne, mother of two children, loses her husband. She meets Pierre, abandoned by his wife....

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Le Roi Pandore
Le Roi Pandore

A policeman receives a fabulous inheritance. Thanks to this, he conquers the heart of Queen Marika. ...

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The Comedy of Work
The Comedy of Work

Sylvain Berg, a "professional" unemployed who spends his time hiking and mountain climbing, and "mod...

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Nationale 6
Nationale 6

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Le Bonheur
Le Bonheur

Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but...

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Dear Inspector
Dear Inspector

When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before w...

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The Hunchback of Paris
The Hunchback of Paris

Duke Philippe de Nevers is an influential and popular man who is married to a beautiful wife called ...

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Jupiter's Thigh
Jupiter's Thigh

Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a ...

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That Tender Age
That Tender Age

Antoine and Marie decided to introduce their parents before the wedding. Summer vacation looks like ...

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The Sheep Has Five Legs
The Sheep Has Five Legs

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

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Le Plaisir
Le Plaisir

Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep ...

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Caught in the Foreign Legion
Caught in the Foreign Legion

André Duroc pretends to be a duke in order to extort money from Aunt Solange. But his trickery is di...

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Banana Peel
Banana Peel

Two scoundrels cheat a millionaire out of a huge bankroll on the French Riviera....

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The King of the Champs-Élysées
The King of the Champs-Élysées

In Paris, a stage-struck would-be actor is mistaken for an escaped convict....

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Women and War
Women and War

In 1944, in a small village in Calvados, just as the Allies landed, a British plane was shot down. T...

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Charlots' Connection
Charlots' Connection

Three friends begin to work the rent collectors. Fee collection goes with a lot of comic episodes......

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An Angel on Wheels
An Angel on Wheels

Heralded racing driver Pierre Chaillot has never noticed the pretty young flight attendant who dotes...

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Der 10. Mai
Der 10. Mai

Der 10. Mai (The Tenth of May) was the date in 1940 that Hitler invaded the Low Countries: Belgium, ...

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Love and the Frenchwoman
Love and the Frenchwoman

The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty w...

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Cent francs l'amour
Cent francs l'amour

Jeremy, a young art photographer, needs money to finance an exhibition of his work. He turns to Mau...

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The French, They Are a Funny Race
The French, They Are a Funny Race

An Englishman tries to adapt to life in France...

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L'oeil en coulisse
L'oeil en coulisse

Wounded during a rugby match he'd come to Paris to play, Tonin Bonnafous, a thoroughbred southerner,...

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These Sacred Holidays
These Sacred Holidays

Georges Pinson, who wants to spend his holidays on the riviera with his wife and his two kids,buys a...

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La joyeuse prison
La joyeuse prison

Benoit, the head guard of Clouville Prison, prefers to be liked than feared. This basic principle tr...

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Maigret Sets a Trap
Maigret Sets a Trap

Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't mole...

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Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II
Jean Renoir: Part One - From La Belle Époque to World War II

Part one of a BBC documentary about Jean Renoir....

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Soupe au lait
Soupe au lait

Roland Lasserre is a shy boy, which would be nothing if he weren't also prone to the violent tantrum...

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Chance at Love
Chance at Love

Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love....

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Tender and Violent Elisabeth
Tender and Violent Elisabeth

In L'Alpe d'Huez, Élisabeth falls in love with Christian, who refuses to marry her, claiming that ma...

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Juliette et Juliette
Juliette et Juliette

Juliette Vidal is a journalist in Paris who works for the glamorous magazine "Pénélope". Uninspired,...

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Seul... à corps perdu
Seul... à corps perdu

An unscrupulous reporter investigates the discovery of a corpse in the trunk of a car stolen by his ...

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L'assassin viendra ce soir
L'assassin viendra ce soir

A woman's father, a scientist, receives repeated death threats and eventually ends up dead. Receivin...

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Why Paris?
Why Paris?

Monique, a Belgian girl, comes to Paris to learn painting and become an artist. She took courses at ...

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Song of the Streets
Song of the Streets

A gang of poverty-ridden juvenile delinquents progress from petty theft to hard crime, but a kindly ...

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Louis et Réjane
Louis et Réjane

A widow in her sixties fall in love with a single retiree....

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I have something to tell you
I have something to tell you

A man who claims to be the lover of a married woman goes to find the husband and reveals to him that...

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Firemen's Ball
Firemen's Ball

1944, France experiences its last days of German occupation. A microcosm representative of the vario...

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Four in a Jeep
Four in a Jeep

Soviet, British, French and American allies patrol post-war Vienna....

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Enough Rope
Enough Rope

Two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives. Based on Patricia Highsmith's 1...

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The Revenge of Roger
The Revenge of Roger

Roger Laroque is now a rich man. He returns to France under the name of William Farnell. There, he d...

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The Orderly
The Orderly

Philippe, the order of an old colonel, surprises the wife of his boss in the arms of a young lieuten...

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Six Hours to Lose
Six Hours to Lose

A traveller is stuck in an unknown town because his connecting train will only arrive in six hours. ...

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I Am with You
I Am with You

A young woman has doubts about her husband's fidelity. She pretends a trip, but settles in a hotel w...

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The Sad Sack
The Sad Sack

Thanks to a bit of string-pulling by his aunt, Jean du Bois d'Ombelles, a young recruit who has blue...

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Playtime
Playtime

A young American girl at a French boarding school develops a crush on an egotistical sculptor living...

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Black Humor
Black Humor

A unique black comedy consisting of three episodes on the same theme: death. In a circus, trapeze ar...

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Epiphany Sunday
Epiphany Sunday

Three old sisters get together every Sunday. For Epiphany Sunday, the program is busy: eating at the...

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To Be Loved
To Be Loved

Gérard d'Ormoise, a young millionaire tired of the easy loves that his income earned him, takes the ...

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Bécassine
Bécassine

A little Breton tries to save her boss's daughter an unhappy marriage....

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Roger the Disgrace
Roger the Disgrace

Roger Laroque, an honest industrialist, is the victim of a criminal machination by Julia de Noirvill...

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The Drifting
The Drifting

In the 1960s, Jacquie, a rebellious young woman, turns her back on her family to accompany an itiner...

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The Sunday of Life
The Sunday of Life

After five years in the army, Valentin Brû marry a haberdasher. They move to Paris, where Valentin s...

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Lola Montès
Lola Montès

Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after ha...

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Seventeenth Heaven
Seventeenth Heaven

The brave and moody François, a window washer by trade, has fallen head over heels in love with a de...

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The Lie of Nina Petrovna
The Lie of Nina Petrovna

Nina Petrovna is a Russian beauty claimed by two Austrian officers....

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Le Roi de Paris
Le Roi de Paris

Victor Derval is returning home after a performance when he is hailed by Lisa, a young Hungarian wom...

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Workers for the Good Lord
Workers for the Good Lord

After his wife leaves him, Fred goes on a cross-country crime spree in this dark but dreamy French c...

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The Naked Woman
The Naked Woman

Having become famous, a painter marries his model whom he soon brings to despair by deceiving her....

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Vous serez ma femme
Vous serez ma femme

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Le dolmen tragique
Le dolmen tragique

Chatelard, one of Viscount de Kerlec's guests, has died in mysterious conditions. The police initiat...

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La dernière chevauchée
La dernière chevauchée

A jealous wealthy landlord intercepts a letter to his wife written by her cousin. He decides to take...

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Way of Youth
Way of Youth

This movie is a Marcel Aymé adaptation and it deals with the not-so-glorious side of the Occupation:...

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A Dog That Pays Off
A Dog That Pays Off

Josyane Plaisir, a rather idle singer, who is waiting for the man of her heart,handsome and rich if ...

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Opéra-musette
Opéra-musette

The itinerant musician Lampluche, having found a musical score on the banks of a river and a full wa...

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Count Obligado
Count Obligado

Antoine, elevator operator of a haute couture house, takes advantage of an inheritance to lead the h...

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Une fois dans la vie
Une fois dans la vie

One weekend an office worker is stuck with five million francs that he is temporarily unable to depo...

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Happy Go Lucky
Happy Go Lucky

After lovers fight, the boy leaves for the Riviera. On her way to rejoin him, the girl meets a disti...

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Farandole
Farandole

A ruined banker is abandoned by his mistress. He commits suicide after entrusting a prostitute with ...

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Les Mamies
Les Mamies

When 12 year old Alex runs away, his grandmother ask her 6 friends for help and follow the kid from ...

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Feu sur le candidat
Feu sur le candidat

Robert Cavaillon is the king of the pet food industry. After he sold the factory to his workers, he ...

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Un chantage en or
Un chantage en or

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Le Billet de mille
Le Billet de mille

The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through doz...

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