Charles Vanel
Birthday: 1892-08-21
Place of Birth: Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Charles-Marie Vanel, known as Charles Vanel (21 August 1892 in Rennes, France - 15 April 1989, in Cannes, France) was a French director and actor. He made his screen debut in 1912, in Robert Péguy's Jim Crow. His 77 year career comprised appearances in more than 200 films. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Vanel, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Wages of Fear
In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into ...
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To Catch a Thief
When a string of jewel robberies hits the French Riviera, suspicion falls on retired thief John “The...
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Boomerang
A reformed gangster turns to his old associates for help after his son kills a police officer....
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Diabolique
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely...
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Le Passager
At the time of the departure of a freighter, a man runs on the pier, begging that he be taken aboard...
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Island Fishermen
Yan, captain of a fishing boat, falls in love with the daughter of his boss, to the great displeasur...
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Golden Night
After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel returns from the dead and...
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Alice or the Last Escapade
One night Alice can't stand her husband anymore and she decides to leave him. It's a dark, rainy nig...
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Wooden Crosses
The young and patriotic student Demachy joins the French army in 1914 to defend his country. But he ...
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Death in the Garden
In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local govern...
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Savage Brigade
The duel between a Czarist general and a lieutenant, over the general's wife, is postponed with war ...
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The Truth
As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witness...
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If the Sun Never Returns
In a remote Swiss mountain village, the self-proclaimed prophet and sorcerer Anzevui foretells that ...
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Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece
After the death of Captain Thémistocle Paparanic, Captain Haddock's old friend, he inherits a ship c...
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Le Bateau à soupe
Hervé is a tough sea captain in command of the "Duchesse Anne", a rum-trading ship. But the sea dog ...
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La Belle Équipe
Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, th...
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Les Misérables
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless po...
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocra...
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Magnet of Doom
Young boxer Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager after a series of match defeats and is forced to ...
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La Flambée des rêves
Claire is married to the elderly owner of a brewery. She seeks excitement with her childhood friend ...
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Gitanes
A gypsy and a boatman fall in love with each other. They do not understand each other and make each ...
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L'Autre aile
Reymat is killed during an aerobatic exhibition in a plane. Hélène, his fiancée, to forget her grief...
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King of the Camargue
A gypsy has cast a spell on Livette, the fiancee of Renaud, the proud guardian nicknamed, King of th...
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L'Impossible Aveu
A cabaret singer incites the man who loves her to perpetrate a burglary to avenge the one she loves ...
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The Flame
A woman of easy virtue rejects a proposal of marriage made to her by a rich lover. But when her son ...
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The Seniors
A high school in the thirties: most of the students are leaving for the Easter holidays. However, on...
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Troïka sur la piste blanche
Wife of an arms trafficker in Poland, Georgina is forced to help him. She will only be able to regai...
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Social Police
For years now, Chief inspector Gustave Picard has been trying to bring down Salviati, the dreadful l...
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Legions of Honor
An officer is tried for self-inflicted injury.He is thrown out of the Foreign Legion ....
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S.O.S. Sahara
At a North Africa desert outpost threatened by Arabs, the French commander has added trouble when hi...
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The Black Diamond
A wealthy man's wife dies in a car crash; she is survived by him and their daughter. The father lear...
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Promise to the Unknown One
A young woman is in love with a young writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt. Married to a banker, she ...
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Haut le vent
In 1906, François left the Basque country with his father, who had decided to settle in Argentina fo...
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On Trial
Prosecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere presumpt...
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Jenny
When her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Danielle leaves London and returns to her mother, Jenny...
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La Cabane aux souvenirs
Laurangeais stays in a nursing home after his wife dies following an accident caused by Terrian, his...
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The Woman I Murdered
During a singles meal, the phone rings. A woman claims a man, Jean-Louis. As a joke, the master of t...
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The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
A successful businessman whose destiny leads him to a secluded Swiss chalet where his life is put on...
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Seven Deaths by Prescription
Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector wi...
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Malaire
Noguère, an old patriarch, is about to die and decides to confess at last to a priest. He once lived...
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The Mask of the Gorilla
Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must infiltra...
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Burning Fuse
Lola, the wife of arms dealer Pedro Wassewich, is attracted to Ludovic, a young painter who turns ou...
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A King Without Distraction
A policeman and a serial killer play cat and mouse in an isolated mountain village in Nineteenth cen...
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Le Père Goriot
Jean-Joachim Goriot, a merchant who got rich during the Revolution, is obsessed with the love of his...
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Dainah the Mixed
After three weeks and a long, hot voyage across the Pacific, an ocean liner finally arrives at its d...
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Le Reflet dans la mer
Karl de Linken, an elegant young man, adventurous and unattached, arrives in the square of a small C...
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The Woman Who Dared
The strength of a couple's fascination with airplanes and flight is to the detriment of their family...
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Gorilla's Waltz
This is the second feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of "The Gorilla,...
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La Puce et le privé
Val Brosse, a private detective, receives Françoise, who confesses to him that she murdered her husb...
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In the Night
A quarry worker gets married and lives his marital bliss, until an explosion at his workplace, a min...
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Sinners of Paris
Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Cha...
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L'Enquête du 58
A train driver has not slowed down at a signal and caused an accident whose victim is a gatekeeper. ...
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In the Name of the Law
A young, by-the-book judge is appointed to a Sicilian village controlled by corrupt leaders and the ...
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Maddalena
The story takes plays during the annual Good Friday pageant in a tiny Italian village. Local priest ...
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The Seasons of Pleasure
Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their produc...
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Rififi in Tokyo
Van Hekken, an old gangster, arrives in Tokyo to direct a bank hold-up in order to get a very valuab...
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Flight Into Darkness
During the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon (Jean-Pierre A...
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Crossroads
A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then appears a...
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Camorra
The fast career of a young Neapolitan among contraband, gambling dens, bribes and illegality. He wil...
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Abused Confidence
Lydia (Danielle Darrieux) is a student, poor and orphaned, who pretends to be the daughter of a famo...
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Tillers of the Soil
One of two peasant brothers in love with the same woman escapes his grim country life and pursues a ...
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Hanged Man's Farm
A large farm in Vendée. The father is dying and the three brothers and sister swear not to marry not...
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Iceland Fisherman
Faithfully reproduced observations of Breton fisherfolk in story of the man a local woman really lov...
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The House of Mystery
Julien Villandrit is the owner of the estate of Les Basses-Bruyères and its textile factory, where t...
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Business Is Business
Isidore Lechat is a ruthless self-made man whose money allows him to humiliate the others, particula...
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Prisoner of the Volga
A vicious play of intrigue, about love, desire and betrayal, in the dress of the military at the Cos...
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The Last Sentence
Piero is the leader of a group of university students who lead a carefree life. Finding himself in t...
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The Flame
Cléo d'Aubigny, a music-hall star, once had a love affair with the rich Lord Sedley and had a son fr...
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Dance House
Three men vie for a pretty young lady in a small Spanish port town: The boss of a dance hall who enc...
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Rio's yellow house
When a criminal named King Fu who has terrorized a city substitutes himself for a stage actor who lo...
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Il bivio
After the war, Aldo and his men became gangster. But now the times are changing and Aldo decides to ...
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The Suspects
Commissaire Perrache, the chief of the D.S.T., the French domestic intelligence service, tries to ne...
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The Green Domino
After his girlfriend is murdered, an art critic realizes that a wealthy heiress is falling in love w...
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The Great Game
Pierre , a young lawyer, has enormous debts due to his mistress Florence and her whims of luxury li...
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Accused, Stand Up!
Paris, 30's declared professional rivalry between two stars of the musical, Yvonne and Gaby leads to...
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Ne pleure pas
Marc Lafarge, 13, is idolized by his brother Thomas, 20, future veterinarian and amateur boxer. Thom...
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Defend My Love
As part of a story, a reporter goes to meet Elisa, a young woman he met a few years ago on a trial o...
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Lo sgarro
A young man joins a band of brigands, but, faced with their exactions, rebels against them....
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The Prey of the Wind
A pilot crashes and a beautiful countess of a castle nearby nurses him to health....
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Them
An artist grows hateful of commercial demands on his questionable talents when his friend and artist...
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Song of the World
In Haute-Provence, two rival farming clans clash over the four seasons of the year. A young lumberja...
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Shock Troops
A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently t...
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In the Name of the Law
The story is about a drug ring and the finally successful efforts of the Paris police to break it up...
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Ballad for a Dog
Remi is a man on the verge of old age who begins to have hallucinations. He believes he has found a ...
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The Wonderful Night
A couple of refugees arrives in a village: he is a cabinet maker, she's pregnant and the innkeeper r...
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Three Brothers
In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raff...
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Es herrscht Ruhe im Land
A fictitious country in South America: the military has taken power in the state and rules with an i...
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Illustrious Corpses
A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges....
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Waterloo
This presentation of 'Waterloo', a film by Karl Grune about the last hurrah of Napoleon, is a fascin...
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The Wreckers
In 1852, the famine on a desolate Britanny's island named Blaz-Mor, off the coast of Finistère. Some...
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Le juge et son bourreau
The body of a young man in a dress suit is found on a country road by Lake Biel in Switzerland. The ...
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Obsession
A man who suffers from the delirium of persecution and to the point of trying to strangle his wife i...
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The Roquevillards
France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that ...
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Southern Carrier
A pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief romance w...
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Rail Pirates
Henri Pierson, the chief engineer of a railway line crossing Yunnan in China, must prevent the inces...
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No Escape
In Provence , Father Caillé runs a family pension backed by his daughter-in-law Cora and a maid. The...
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Le soleil a toujours raison
Tonio, pretty Micheline's fiance, meets Georgia ,a gypsy who makes advances to him....
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The Steppe
Based on a Anton Chekhov short story, this slight tale has some good moments as the drama of a young...
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La nuit bulgare
A youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious Bulga...
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Assault
Alexandre Mérital, the leader of a political party, finds himself under attack from Frépeau, one of ...
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Countdown to Vengeance
10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices after a ...
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Heart of an Actress
Desire brings out the worst in an actress' suitors-- One a well-to-do patron of London's theatre set...
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Gringalet
A wealthy man has two sons,one of them is legitimate,the other is not.The first offspring has had a ...
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Symphony for a Massacre
A band of gangsters devise a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug trafficke...
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Law of the North
Robert Shaw slaughters his wife's lover and runs away with his secretary Jacqueline. Helped by a Fre...
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Cristobal's Gold
Dupuy, the first officer of the Cristobal, a French merchant ship, is informed by cabaret dancer La ...
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Port Arthur
French-language version of Port Arthur (1936), a German language film (q.v.) co-produced by German, ...
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Native Drums
A team of doctors sets out through a steamy African jungle to check an outbreak of sleeping sickness...
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Mister Mustard's Millions
When bored American billionaire Charles Vanel is amused by the happiness of poor railroad man Nicola...
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Phroso
An Englishman, Lord Wheatley, purchases an island over which reigns the supremely beautiful Phroso, ...
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The Child of the Carnival
A foundling is left in front of the home of a rich aristocratic bachelor during the Nice carnival. T...
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Michel Strogoff
The Czar charges a man to deliver a message to the Grand Duke behind enemy lines. On his way he enco...
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The Woman at the End of the World
A sailor falls in love with an innkeeper on a lost island....
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Les Bateliers de la Volga
In 1912, a Russian officer is wrongly accused of having stolen important papers. His only alibi bein...
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Chic
An American couple, Douglas and Mary, are in the nightclub 'La Vache Rose'. When Julot and Nini are...
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The West
The film portrays the relationship between a female Moroccan student, who has been forced to leave h...
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Yamilé Under the Cedars
A Lebanese Christian girl of European origin is attracted to a visiting Muslim chief and rides off w...
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An Ideal Woman
Based on a novel by José Pérez de Rozas. In Seville, Angel Caal, a Parisian businessman, escapes bli...
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The Cheerful Squadron
The Cheerful Squadron is a 1954 Italian war-comedy film directed by Paolo Moffa and Interpreted by m...
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Case closed
The owner of a fairground shooting gallery, haunted by the crime he committed ten years before with ...
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The End of the Tether
An experienced but aging captain in command of the Sofala must hide the fact that he is becoming bli...
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The Lost Way
While the Easter holidays are over, a young woman named Cécile and her brother Pierre return to the ...
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Southern Bar
Baron Arnold, a businessman, takes his young wife to Africa where he instructs her to seduce Captain...
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The Fighting Men
Saverio Luparello is the manager of Sicilian baron Occipinti's estate. The cunning greedy man intent...
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Woman in Chains
Gallery director Stanislas bolsters the development of modern art with his collection of surprising ...
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Miarka, la fille à l'ourse
Miarka is to marry a gypsy chief - whereabouts unknown. She and her tame bear live upon the estate o...
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