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Passion de femmes (1955)
Character: N/A
Nicole Montigny leaves her husband, surgeon Paul, to live with her lover in Canada. Anna, her husband's assistant, thinks she can take advantage of the situation to console the man she loves. She convinces Nicole to fake an accident. However, Paul starts seeing his wife's twin sister, Mireille. Anna, mad with jealousy, brings Nicole back and tries to break up the new couple by blackmail. Nicole decides to eliminate Anna.
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The Reluctant Widow (1950)
Character: Lord Nivelle
A young governess becomes embroiled in French spy intrigue, in this adaptation of a Georgette Heyer novel.
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Son copain (1950)
Character: Paul Laforêt
Pierre Chambrac, a French industrialist, and Canadian Paul Laforêt, two former brothers in arms, meet again by chance in Paris five years after the end of World War II. Pierre is engaged to a beautiful foreign young lady by the name of Helen Bering. He introduces her to his friend, which seems to trouble him. To his amazement, Helen and Paul disappear without notice. Pierre, who was beginning to feel jealous, sees his suspicion confirmed. He decides to fly to Montreal where he thinks the couple has taken refuge. Once there, he learns that his dear Helen is actually a criminal and that Paul is a policeman whose duty was to arrest her.
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Étienne Brûlé gibier de potence (1952)
Character: Étienne Brûlé
An explorer is tasked by Samuel de Champlain to learn the language and culture of the Hurons. Étienne Brûlé subsequently adopts their culture. By his mistakes, he causes the fall of the city of Québec, conquered by the English. Declared a traitor, he returns to live within the Hurons.
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Against the Wind (1948)
Character: Jacques Picquart
A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an office containing important Nazi records and to rescue a prominent S.O.E. agent, who is being interrogated by the Germans for vital information.
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Johnny Frenchman (1945)
Character: Yan Kervarec
The fisherman from a Cornish village have a friendly rivalry with the fishermen (and one formidable woman) from a French port. Then war comes and they must all rethink their petty differences.
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Tit-Coq (1953)
Character: Padre
After returning home from war, an ill-tempered young soldier must deal with his sweetheart having married another man.
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The Romantic Age (1949)
Character: Henri Sinclair
Arlette is a malicious schoolgirl who uses her feminine charms to attract, and then destroy, every man gullible enough to respond to her flirtations. She sets her cap for the art professor and very nearly does him in... but his loving wife and daughter help the deluded man escape the seductive mantrap.
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Napoléon (1955)
Character: Neipperg
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
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Madness of the Heart (1949)
Character: Paul de Vandiere
A blind Englishwoman weds a French nobleman and moves into his family's chateau, but she quickly realizes someone there wants her out of the way.
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The White Unicorn (1947)
Character: Paul
In a home for delinquent girls, the worst offender exchanges reminiscences with the warden.
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Les pépées font la loi (1955)
Character: Masson
When Nathalie, a shoe seller, is abducted, her mother Flora wastes no time taking matters into her own hands. Reluctant to call in the police, she galvanizes her three other daughters into action.
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La forteresse (1947)
Character: Michel Lacoste
After hearing that a famous actress is dying in a hospital after being hit by a car, a reporter goes to the hospital to interview the actress. She then tells the reporter that her wealthy fiance, who was killed in an accident several years before, was actually murdered. Before long the reporter finds herself in a web of corruption, mental illness and murder.
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Yellow Canary (1943)
Character: Intelligence Officer
In 1940 Sally Maitland is forced to leave England, ostracised as a Nazi sympathiser by everyone including her well-to-do family. On the ship to Halifax, Canada, she is courted by Polish aristocrat Jan Orloch and by awkward British navel intelligence officer Jimmy Garrick. She shows herself somewhat more amenable to Orloch's advances, and agrees to meet his mother in Halifax. Once there however, it becomes clear no-one is really who they say they are.
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Passport to Pimlico (1949)
Character: Duke of Burgundy
When an unexploded WWII bomb is accidentally detonated in Pimlico, it reveals a treasure trove and documents proving that the region is in fact part of Burgundy, France and thus foreign territory. The British government attempts to regain control by setting up border controls and cutting off services to the area.
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