Georges Marchal

Georges Marchal

Birthday: 1920-01-10

Place of Birth: Nancy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France

Biography: Georges Marchal was one of the most important lead actors in French cinema in the '50s, together with Jean Marais. He was the lead in various costume dramas and swashbuckling films before taking part in some of the films of Luis Buñuel, a close friend of his

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Belle de Jour
Belle de Jour

Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyd...

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The Island of Thirty Coffins
The Island of Thirty Coffins

The story takes place in 1917. Véronique is a young woman of 35 years, nurse at the military hospita...

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A Captain's Honor
A Captain's Honor

During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the met...

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Bethsabée
Bethsabée

Danielle Darrieux stars as Arabella Delvaire in this baroque adaptation of Pierre Benoit's novel Bet...

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The Milky Way
The Milky Way

Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way...

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Death in the Garden
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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La Soupe à la grimace
La Soupe à la grimace

Frank Keany is the chief engineer of a uranium mine located under the overwhelming sun of New Mexico...

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The Colossus of Rhodes
The Colossus of Rhodes

While on holiday in Rhodes, Athenian war hero Darios becomes involved in two different plots to over...

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Summer Light
Summer Light

A shimmering glass hotel at the top of a remote Provençal mountain provides the setting for a tragic...

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Vautrin the Thief
Vautrin the Thief

A famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin,...

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Thirst Of Men
Thirst Of Men

During the colonial period in Algeria, Sergeant Bouvard helps Broussole and his two daughters, Alise...

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At the Grand Balcony
At the Grand Balcony

World War I aviator Carbot attempts to establish a commercial airline after the war, for the purpose...

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The Battle of Austerlitz
The Battle of Austerlitz

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802....

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The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers

The umpteenth adaptation of Dumas' novel finds d'Artagnan and his friends promoting the love affairs...

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Cinq-Mars
Cinq-Mars

In the 17th century, under Louis XIII, the policy of Cardinal de Richelieu aimed at the definitive e...

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L'homme qui joue avec le feu
L'homme qui joue avec le feu

A do gooder hopes to cure potential romantic partners of what he considers the disease of love, by p...

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Her First Affair
Her First Affair

Micheline Chevassu is a young, naive woman living in an orphanage. Through classified ads, she has a...

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Sign of the Gladiator
Sign of the Gladiator

Zenobia, Queen of Palmira, revolts against Rome and defeats the Roman troops, but she makes a big mi...

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Blondine
Blondine

Blondine, the daughter of a poor fisherman, marries the Prince of the Mountain. Brune, her sister, e...

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The Figurehead
The Figurehead

At sea, sailors have got to make do with what they have. François is in love with.... the figurehead...

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The Passenger
The Passenger

When her godmother dies, Nicole's happiness collapses and her fiancé leaves her because she is ruine...

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The Unexpected Voyager
The Unexpected Voyager

Marc, a photographer, works out of love to help Dany, a car thief, to get back on the right track: h...

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Jupiter
Jupiter

A provincial chemist's daughter is to marry her cousin Gilbert.The day before he arrives, a stranger...

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Winter Holidays
Winter Holidays

Alberto Moretti arrives in Cortina D'Ampezzo, with daughter Marcella,who has just won a TV contest, ...

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The Prettiest Sin in the World
The Prettiest Sin in the World

Zoé, a pretty penniless girl, decides on the advice of her neighbor to embark on gallantry. After a ...

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The Warrior and the Slave Girl
The Warrior and the Slave Girl

Marcus Numidius, a Roman tribune sent to Armenia to put down a gladiators' revolt, captures the rebe...

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Ulysses Against the Son of Hercules
Ulysses Against the Son of Hercules

Ulysses offends the gods so they send Hercules to capture him and bring him to them....

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That Is the Dawn
That Is the Dawn

A generous doctor is aghast that the population of a small island is being oppressed and mistreated,...

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Gigolo
Gigolo

Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, h...

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Legions of the Nile
Legions of the Nile

Octavio secretly sent his consul Curridio to Alexandria in a final attempt to reach peace. In the ci...

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The Dirty Game
The Dirty Game

A U.S. intelligence general recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet, French and Italian spies....

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Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
Faustine and the Beautiful Summer

Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother,...

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Girls of the Night
Girls of the Night

In Marseille Father Hermann has created a home for the ex-prostitutes to accommodate a new start to ...

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Theodora, Slave Empress
Theodora, Slave Empress

Teodora, a Roman courtesan and former slave girl, marries the Roman emperor Justinian and assumes th...

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The Contessa's Secret
The Contessa's Secret

The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's li...

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Fatal Affair
Fatal Affair

Didier's wife is ill, and he does the best he can to take care of her. But he's often absent and he ...

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Check on the King
Check on the King

Jeanne De Pincret refuses to marry Viscount Haussy De Villefort, having discovered his frivolity. Af...

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Cherchez la femme
Cherchez la femme

Barbara Van Looren is the lively, clever daughter of the well-known shipowner. For her, life is a br...

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The Adventures of Gil Blas
The Adventures of Gil Blas

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The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue
The Seven Dwarfs to the Rescue

Having been warned in dreams that Snow White is in danger, the Seven Dwarfs set out to rescue the pr...

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The Secret Mark of D'Artagnan
The Secret Mark of D'Artagnan

D' Artagnan and Porthos received the order of Richelieu, which protrudes as a powerful figure of the...

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Girl Merchants
Girl Merchants

A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp...

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The Dam on the Yellow River
The Dam on the Yellow River

Anti-Communist propaganda film, in which the victory of Mao Tse-Tung's People's Liberation Army is s...

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When Will It Strike Noon
When Will It Strike Noon

The small South American republic of Guadalarma is under the rule of despot Don Salvador, surrounded...

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The Dacians
The Dacians

The great King of Dacia, Decebal (Decebalus), is disposed to make the ultimate sacrifice in order to...

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Il naufrago del Pacifico
Il naufrago del Pacifico

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Royal Affairs in Versailles
Royal Affairs in Versailles

Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocra...

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Closet Children
Closet Children

A young man who seems lost, Nicolas, has an appointment with her sister Juliette. They are bound by ...

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Dawn Devils
Dawn Devils

A lieutenant, at the head of a commando ready to land in France, finds among his men a maquisard who...

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The Last Days of Pompeii
The Last Days of Pompeii

In Pompeii in the year 79, Lycias and Helen fall in love. Helen's guardian, the high priest of Isis,...

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The Man Who Laughs
The Man Who Laughs

A three part film, based on the novel of the same title by Victor Hugo, telling of the adventures of...

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The French Way
The French Way

Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud....

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The Affairs of Messalina
The Affairs of Messalina

A story, set in Rome of 44 A.D., concerning the amorous and political intrigues of the evil Empress ...

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Torrents
Torrents

Sigrid and Yann are cousins, and in love with each other. A medical student, Jean marries Léna, who ...

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Napoléon II, the Eagle
Napoléon II, the Eagle

The story of Napoleon 1st's long-awaited son, born in 1911. He spent his childhood in the Tuileries,...

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Wild Cats on the Beach
Wild Cats on the Beach

Various short stories. Giovanna arrives from Rome with her husband Alberto for a film audition. The...

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The Count of Bragelonne
The Count of Bragelonne

Raoul de Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Ca...

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Paméla
Paméla

During the Directory, a handful of royalists tried to get the Dauphin Louis XVII to escape from the ...

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Prisoner of the Jungle
Prisoner of the Jungle

The survivors of a forced landing progress in a hostile African bush....

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Le lys dans la vallée
Le lys dans la vallée

Félix de Vandenesse's youthful love for the beautiful, inaccessible Madame de Mortsauf, who devotes ...

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Charter 2020
Charter 2020

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The Seventh Door
The Seventh Door

An old man about to die gives all his fortune to a young beggar he meets in an Arabian town. He take...

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Sept hommes en enfer
Sept hommes en enfer

As the outbreak of the Third World War commences, government members of France start hiding in a bun...

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Last Love
Last Love

Hélène has an affair with Alain for ten years, but does not want to divorce her husband. Alain recei...

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Her First Affair
Her First Affair

Micheline Chevassu is a young, naive woman living in an orphanage. Through classified ads, she has a...

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The Four-Poster Bed
The Four-Poster Bed

In his prison cell, the composer Remi Bonvent composed an opera, The columns bed. The director of th...

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Dix-huit heures d'escale
Dix-huit heures d'escale

Out of love for a beautiful passenger he met on a crossing, journalist Robert Vitrac agrees to deliv...

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