Marcel Dalio

Marcel Dalio

Birthday: 1899-11-23

Place of Birth: Paris, France

Biography: Marcel Dalio (born Israel Moshe Blauschild; 23 November 1899 in Paris – 18 November 1983) was a French character actor. He had major roles in two films directed by Jean Renoir, Grand Illusion (1937) and The Rules of the Game (1939).     

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Casablanca
Casablanca

In Casablanca, Morocco in December 1941, a cynical American expatriate meets a former lover, with un...

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La chatte sur un doigt brûlant
La chatte sur un doigt brûlant

A number of strange characters come to Corecheux, in France: the Lalyre famille, an homossexual nota...

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The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob

In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted Fren...

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How to Steal a Million
How to Steal a Million

A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries....

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Grand Illusion
Grand Illusion

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class Lieute...

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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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Trop c'est trop
Trop c'est trop

Philippe, Didier, Georges and Edina were born on the same day. The three boys have always been in lo...

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The Snows of Kilimanjaro
The Snows of Kilimanjaro

Writer Harry Street reflects on his life as he lies dying from an infection while on safari in the s...

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Pillow Talk
Pillow Talk

Playboy songwriter Brad Allen's succession of romances annoys his neighbor, interior designer Jan Mo...

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Sabrina
Sabrina

Linus and David Larrabee are the two sons of a very wealthy family. Linus is all work – busily runni...

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The List of Adrian Messenger
The List of Adrian Messenger

Adrian Messenger, a famous writer, asks his friend Anthony Gethryn, a former British agent, to help ...

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To Have and Have Not
To Have and Have Not

A Martinique charter boat skipper gets mixed up with the underground French resistance operatives du...

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Miarka
Miarka

Cattion d'Urville takes in a gypsy, Sarah, and her granddaughter Miarka, in an outbuilding of her ch...

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The Sun Also Rises
The Sun Also Rises

A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920'...

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Pépé le Moko
Pépé le Moko

Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He ...

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Lucky Me
Lucky Me

Three struggling theatrical performers meet a famous songwriter who is trying to convince a wealthy ...

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The Big Risk
The Big Risk

Two men pull off a daring daylight payroll heist in Milan, making a fast getaway. One is returning t...

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T'es fou Marcel
T'es fou Marcel

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Tonight We Raid Calais
Tonight We Raid Calais

A British commando is on a one-man raid to destroy a bomb factory in Nazi-occupied France. He must e...

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Cartouche
Cartouche

In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are to...

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On the Riviera
On the Riviera

In this fast-paced remake of the Maurice Chevalier vehicle Folies Bergère, talented Danny Kaye plays...

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Justine
Justine

In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewa...

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Lovely to Look At
Lovely to Look At

Broadway producers Tony Naylor, Al Marsh, and Jerry Ralby are having difficulty securing funds for t...

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Donovan's Reef
Donovan's Reef

After her great aunt's death, a high-society woman arrives on a Hawaiian island in search of the hei...

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Solemn Communion
Solemn Communion

In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three ge...

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The Beast
The Beast

The head of a failing French family thinks that fate has smiled down on him when the daughter of a w...

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Razzia
Razzia

Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, ...

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Naples Under the Kiss of Fire
Naples Under the Kiss of Fire

Mario Esposito, who sings in a Neapolitan restaurant, is in love with Assunta, the niece of Teresa, ...

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Sirocco
Sirocco

Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic...

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The 25th Hour
The 25th Hour

A Romanian peasant fights to get back to his family after he's imprisoned by the Nazis.The picture i...

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Portrait of a Murderer
Portrait of a Murderer

A circus daredevil is the next victim of a danger-seducing woman who tricks him into a potentially d...

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Stowaway Olive
Stowaway Olive

Charmed by a pretty girl, Olive follows her on board a dirigible. There, he discovers the belle, nam...

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The Night at the Hotel
The Night at the Hotel

In a palace on the Côte d'Azur, a whole fauna evolves: a colonel who cheats on his wife, the colonel...

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The Pearls of the Crown
The Pearls of the Crown

The story of the seven pearls of the English Crown, from Henry VIII to 1937 – three of them missing....

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Lady L
Lady L

Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and ...

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Return to Paradise
Return to Paradise

Trying to acclimatize a group of overworked city dwellers from very different backgrounds to the ope...

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The Devil and the Ten Commandments
The Devil and the Ten Commandments

The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more ...

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Quand minuit sonnera
Quand minuit sonnera

A criminal is being blackmailed by his former accomplices. He does everything in his power to gain t...

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The Curtain Rises
The Curtain Rises

1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dr...

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A Man to Kill
A Man to Kill

Captain Benoit successfully completes a mission in Berlin, but when he returns to Paris he escapes a...

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The Monocle's Sour Laugh
The Monocle's Sour Laugh

A French agent goes after a gang of Asian terrorists who plan to blow up an American nuclear aircraf...

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Hatred
Hatred

Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful...

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Her Last Part
Her Last Part

An actress who has just played the part of an old lady says that she would like to grow old like tha...

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Judicial Error
Judicial Error

After a banker is driven to suicide by his wife's reckless spending, an innocent cashier is wrongly ...

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Unholy Partners
Unholy Partners

A crusading newsman starts up a tabloid with a gangster as his 50-50 partner....

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Oriental Port
Oriental Port

In Marseille, a customs inspector falls in love with a young woman involved in dubious traffic....

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Temptation Harbour
Temptation Harbour

The story of a harbor signalman who retrieves a suitcase full of money after witnessing a murder, fa...

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China Gate
China Gate

Near the end of the French phase of the Vietnam War, a group of mercenaries are recruited to travel ...

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The Damned
The Damned

A group of Nazis and sympathizers board a submarine bound for South America in the hopes of finding ...

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Dedee
Dedee

Dedee is a prostitute, working in Monsieur Rene's night club on Antwerp's harbour. The porter is Mar...

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Law of Men
Law of Men

After a planned robbery on an armoured car the investigating police officer encounters a female jour...

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Lovers' Net
Lovers' Net

Daniel Gelin plays a soldier who is acquitted after committing a crime of passion. Relocating to Lis...

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Marthe Richard
Marthe Richard

Fictionalized reconstruction of the life of the French spy Marthe Richard who decided to contact the...

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The Punishment
The Punishment

Britt, deluxe call-girl, is punished by the brothel owner because she was not accomodating enough to...

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Wicked City
Wicked City

A Canadian sailor becomes a fugitive for love after a night with a woman in Marseille....

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Les Affaires publiques
Les Affaires publiques

A slapstick comedy centered on two neighboring republics, Crogandia and Miremia, and the various dis...

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Thunder Over Paris
Thunder Over Paris

An international crook hunted by the police comes to Paris to save his daughter from the clutches of...

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Song Without End
Song Without End

The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to aban...

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Lafayette Escadrille
Lafayette Escadrille

A hotshot young flyer falls for a French prostitute during World War I....

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Rich, Young and Pretty
Rich, Young and Pretty

A rancher's daughter visits Paris to meet her mother and find love....

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La Mort amoureuse
La Mort amoureuse

A young woman, elegant, cold and inhuman, who is none other than Death, reigns over a universe domin...

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Snowbound
Snowbound

Good and bad characters are stuck in a ski chalet near buried Nazi gold in the Alps....

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Tip on a Dead Jockey
Tip on a Dead Jockey

Broke and about to divorce his wife, a pilot joins a smuggling scheme in postwar Madrid....

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Une page d'amour
Une page d'amour

François, a Jewish lad, works for an insurance company and is engaged to a Jewish girl. His world is...

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Made in Paris
Made in Paris

A pretty fashion buyer visiting Paris on business is courted by a famous designer. Boris Sagal's 196...

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Pétrus
Pétrus

Petrus, a Montmartre photographer, is accidentally wounded by Migo, a dancer at the Frou Frou night ...

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Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception
Jean Renoir, le patron, 3e partie: La règle et l'exception

In the third part of a Cinéastes triptych on Jean Renoir, the director sits alone in a cinema analyz...

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The Desert Song
The Desert Song

Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor...

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The Happy Time
The Happy Time

A violinist and his brother guide one's son through his crush on the family maid in 1920s Ottawa....

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Daggers Drawn
Daggers Drawn

Via Something Weird: "Four men representing the world’s great criminal organizations unite to locate...

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Jump Into Hell
Jump Into Hell

Arriving in IndoChina by parachute, Captain Guy Bertrand and his comrades make a courageous stand ag...

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The Phoney
The Phoney

While the President of a West African Republic arrives in France to sell uranium to the State, spies...

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The Man Who Understood Women
The Man Who Understood Women

A film director turns his actress wife into a star, leading to marital problems....

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The Perfect Furlough
The Perfect Furlough

A love-starved soldier stationed at an Arctic base wins a furlough in Paris, but a pretty, no-nonsen...

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Paris After Dark
Paris After Dark

Andre Marbel is the upper-class doctor who is able to continue his practice above suspicion even tho...

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How Sweet It Is!
How Sweet It Is!

All-American couple who try to bridge the generation gap with their free-spirited son on a trip, fri...

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The Life and Loves of Beethoven
The Life and Loves of Beethoven

Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist....

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The Wing or the Thigh?
The Wing or the Thigh?

Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war a...

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Flight to Tangier
Flight to Tangier

At the Tangier airport, a group of people await the arrival of a mysterious plane from behind the Ir...

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Tender Scoundrel
Tender Scoundrel

Tony Maréchal is a professional seducer. Having conquered countless women, proclaims that there is n...

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Wilson
Wilson

The political career of Woodrow Wilson is chronicled, beginning with his decision to leave his post ...

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The Abominable Man of Customs
The Abominable Man of Customs

Two rival gangs fight over drug trafficking. An American killer named Timetti Le Muet arrives at Mar...

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Surprise Sock
Surprise Sock

Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhil...

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The Pied Piper
The Pied Piper

Englishman Mr. Howard is on a fishing holiday in eastern France when the Germans invade in 1940. Set...

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The Great White Hope
The Great White Hope

A black champion boxer and his white female companion struggle to survive while the white boxing est...

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Black Jack
Black Jack

A man who lost everything in the war now smuggles contraband into and out of Spain, but the law's cl...

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The Song of Bernadette
The Song of Bernadette

In 1858 Lourdes, France, adolescent peasant Bernadette has a vision of "a beautiful lady" in the Mas...

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La patrouille des sables
La patrouille des sables

Three adventurers, Pierre, an engineer, Mailard, an escaped convict and Luis, a guitarist, are in se...

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The Little Boy from the Lift
The Little Boy from the Lift

A young boy is hired as a lift attendant in a grand hotel when his mother dies. To fulfill his dream...

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The Eyes Closed
The Eyes Closed

Protagonist is the young actor Yvan. During a tour, he witnesses the inexplicable suicide of one of ...

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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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The Man You Loved to Hate
The Man You Loved to Hate

The Man You Loved To Hate blends revealing interviews, rare photographs, and clips from von Stroheim...

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The Golem
The Golem

The Golem, a giant creature created out of clay by a rabbi, comes to life in a time of trouble to pr...

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La Pomme de son œil
La Pomme de son œil

What father doesn't care for his daughter unconditionally? It's a real question for Roland de Mailly...

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The Shanghai Gesture
The Shanghai Gesture

A gambling queen uses blackmail to stop a British financier from closing her Chinese clip joint....

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Sacred Woods
Sacred Woods

Despite her success, writer Francine Margerie is let down to see that she is not nominated for the L...

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The White of the Eyes
The White of the Eyes

A César award nominated short feature....

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Wild and Wonderful
Wild and Wonderful

Cognac, a pampered poodle and popular star on French television, creates marital problems for his pr...

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Male Companion
Male Companion

A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only ...

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Jessica
Jessica

When the men of a Sicilian village start obsessing over ravishing blonde midwife Jessica, angry fema...

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Maya
Maya

Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance...

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Can-Can
Can-Can

A Parisian nightclub owner known for her performances of the can-can attracts the ire of a self-righ...

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The Oldest Profession
The Oldest Profession

A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages....

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Flight Lieutenant
Flight Lieutenant

A disgraced pilot determines to regain the respect of both his son, now a test pilot for the Army, a...

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The Paradise of Riches
The Paradise of Riches

During a trip organized by a municipality to cheer up the loneliness of the elderly in summer, seven...

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Hard Love
Hard Love

Walter Petit is the laughing stock of the secretaries at the office....

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I, Dalio
I, Dalio

The great French actor, Marcel Dalio, who has the lead role in Jean Renoir's THE RULES OF THE GAME, ...

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Turandot, princesse de Chine
Turandot, princesse de Chine

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Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes

Lorelei Lee is a beautiful showgirl engaged to be married to the wealthy Gus Esmond, much to the dis...

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Conflit
Conflit

Claire Buisson becomes enamored with Gerard and soon afterwords she becomes pregnant. Gerard advises...

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Rail Pirates
Rail Pirates

Henri Pierson, the chief engineer of a railway line crossing Yunnan in China, must prevent the inces...

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Tales of Manhattan
Tales of Manhattan

Ten screenwriters collaborated on this series of tales concerning the effect a tailcoat cursed by it...

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Miracle in the Rain
Miracle in the Rain

Wartime romance about a lonely man and woman who meet one rainy afternoon in New York....

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Monte Carlo Baby
Monte Carlo Baby

When a measles epidemic forces the temporary closing of a child care center, the son of a film star ...

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Chéri-Bibi
Chéri-Bibi

An innocent young man, burglar Cheri-Bibi, and his gangsters are sent to a penal colony....

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Anything Goes
Anything Goes

Bill Benson and Ted Adams are to appear in a Broadway show together and, while in Paris, each 'disco...

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Action in Arabia
Action in Arabia

Reporter Michael Gordon uncovers intrigue in Damascus, where the Allies and Nazis struggle for contr...

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As Far as Love Can Go
As Far as Love Can Go

The boyfriend of Isabelle has just committed suicide. Therefore Isabelle roams the streets of Paris ...

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French White Cargo
French White Cargo

Two journalists from different papers are looking for the same story. They want to know, who a group...

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Pasha's Wives
Pasha's Wives

Mireille, a Frenchwoman, marries a westernized Turkish diplomat and, thinking that she will live a d...

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The Lovers of Verona
The Lovers of Verona

Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist magi...

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The Merry Widow
The Merry Widow

Marshovia, a small European kingdom, is on the brink of bankruptcy but the country may be saved if t...

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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 Constant Nymph
The Constant Nymph

The daughter of a musical mentor adores a promising composer, who is quite fond of the adolescent. W...

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Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad
Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad

In a cul-de-sac in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Leon shares two rooms with his sister Marie. In one, ...

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Catch-22
Catch-22

A WWII military pilot makes a valiant effort to be certified insane in order to be excused from flyi...

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Death Threat
Death Threat

André Garnier, a young pianist, who was sent to deportation following a denunciation, absolutely wan...

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A Bell for Adano
A Bell for Adano

Major Joppolo and his men are assigned to restore order to the war-torn Italian town of Adano. He ha...

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La Tradition de minuit
La Tradition de minuit

Five people are gathered in a cafe because of a phone call they have all received. The plot thickens...

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Dark Sunday
Dark Sunday

Shortly before the War, Jan Lazlo, a Hungarian musician who has emigrated to France, falls for a you...

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The Necklace
The Necklace

A professional female thief figures out an original way to steal a precious necklace: she takes a gu...

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The four legs
The four legs

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Tres hombres van a morir
Tres hombres van a morir

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Sarati the Terrible
Sarati the Terrible

In Algiers, Cesar Sarati who grudges the dockers, is, without realizing it, in love with his niece. ...

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Ten Thousand Bedrooms
Ten Thousand Bedrooms

In this musical-comedy, Dean Martin plays an American hotel mogul who becomes smitten with a young I...

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Papa, the Lil' Boats
Papa, the Lil' Boats

In this whimsical French comedy, Cookie (aka Venus de Palma) is a tough, sweet little rich girl, and...

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American in Paris
American in Paris

The owner of a travel agency in Paris tries to help fellow Americans in trouble....

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Shadow of the Castles
Shadow of the Castles

In the north of France, the life of a nice family of marginalized....

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Let Joy Reign Supreme
Let Joy Reign Supreme

A look at 18th-century France, when the depravity of the authorities contributed to social oppressio...

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