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Le Bossu (1934)
Character: Monsieur de Peyrolles
Lagardère protects Aurore, the granddaughter of the Duke of Nevers whose deceitful Philippe de Gonzague covets the inheritance.
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Jérôme Perreau héros des barricades (1935)
Character: Conti
A hero of the Paris streets is recruited for a conspiracy against Mazarin in the court of the King, but he reveals the subversive plot to Anne of Austria.
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Mater Dolorosa (1933)
Character: N/A
One of the most popular melodrama films directed by Abel Gance. A paranoide, fanatical and obsessively jealous husband obducts his own son to bully his wife.
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La Porteuse de pain (1934)
Character: Castel
A brave woman is sentenced to prison on false testimony. She escapes twenty years later and takes refuge in Paris where she carries bread while looking for her children Georges and Lucie who will find her and exonerate her.
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Jocelyn (1933)
Character: Jocelyn
The youthful loves of a young seminarian Jocelyn and the young and gentle aristocrat Laurence, refugees in the mountains to escape the revolutionaries. Jocelyn's ordination will sacrifice her love to the bishop's wish.
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Roger la Honte (1933)
Character: Lucien de Noirville
1871. Roger Laroque accuses himself of a crime he did not commit to save his mistress, Julia de Noirville, from dishonor. He escapes from prison and is considered dead for fourteen years. Then he returns in the guise of a rich American in order to unmask the real murderer.
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Dorothée cherche l'amour (1945)
Character: Sylvain
To be able to win paradise, a selfish old billionaire, who has just died, must make someone happy. He will have to guide a young girl through the intricacies of love.
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Les clandestins (1946)
Character: Dr. Netter
A resistance leader is wounded when the Germans raid his underground print shop. He escapes to the home of a German-friendly Parisian and is helped by her son and daughter. A Jewish doctor also aids him. They all join him in his efforts against the Nazis and derail a munitions train.
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Tourbillon de Paris (1939)
Character: N/A
A gang of broke student musicians travel to Paris to take exams. But very quickly, the lack of money pushes young people to pass themselves off as professionals during the performance. They will then win the victory!
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Escale (1935)
Character: Dario
An officer of a passenger ship falls in love with the mistress of a Marseille racketeer, with unexpected results.
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Les Trois Mousquetaires (1932)
Character: Cardinal Richelieu
Young d'Artagnan leaves Gascony for Paris where he hopes to become a Musketeer of the Guard. He does meet three Musketeers, Athos, Porthos and Aramis, but totally by chance and for... a duel against them! But he soon befriends them and follows them in their adventures, notably on a secret mission to uncover a plot contrived against the Queen by Cardinal Richelieu.
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Il faut vivre dangereusement (1975)
Character: L'homme aux oiseaux
Richard is a private detective. He makes a good money from marital infidelity: the deceived husband and wife generously paid him for proof of their infidelity "halves"...
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Don Juan ou si Don Juan était une femme... (1973)
Character: N/A
Modern-day Don Juan-styled Jeanne prides herself in the destruction of men who have fallen for her charms, and reveals to a priest the murder she has committed and honestly details her past sexual encounters.
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Un linceul n'a pas de poches (1974)
Character: Gonzague
In the newspaper he has just founded, journalist Dolannes exposes all the wheeling and dealing and scandals that go on in his town.
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Charles et Lucie (1979)
Character: Le gobeur d'oeufs
An old and poor couple, Charles and Lucie, scrape by working as a concierge and an untalented antique dealer, respectively. But one day, their dreary daily routine is disrupted by the surprising news that they have inherited a luxurious house in the South of France.
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Si Versailles m'était conté (1953)
Character: Mazarin
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are pursued in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date.
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Providence (1977)
Character: Old Man
On the eve of his 78th birthday, ailing, alcoholic writer Clive Langham spends a painful and sleepless night mentally composing and recomposing scenes for a novel in which characters based on his own family are shaped by his fantasies and memories, alongside his caustic commentary on their behaviour.
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La vie est un roman (1983)
Character: Zoltán Forbek
In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school conference; and a fantasy sparked by F/X pioneer Georges Méliès.
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L'Animal (1977)
Character: Le vieux maquilleur
Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a stuntman who works with his girlfriend Jane (Raquel Welch). On their wedding day Mike and Jane are forced by producers to do a stunt for a film they are working on. Mike, annoyed doesn't look on the road and crashes the car causing them to end up in a hospital. After they come out Jane doesn't want to talk to Mike so he decides to get her a job in a film in which he is a stunt double for his double who is a star in action pictures but is in fact a wimp.
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La fin du monde (1931)
Character: Schomburg
The plot concerns a comet hurling toward Earth on a collision course and the different reactions to people on the impending disaster.
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Gangster malgré lui (1935)
Character: Marc
The crazy adventures of a character forced by circumstances to take on such dangerous professions as those of gangster, burglar, Chinese chiropodist and amateur detective.
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Amours sous la révolution: André Chénier et la jeune captive (1978)
Character: Petit rôle
After serving as an embassy secretary in London at the end of 1787, a position he didn't exactly enjoy, the poet André Chénier returns to Paris. When the Revolution breaks out, he becomes enthusiastic about it, and never ceases to express his love of liberty and high principles. But he also speaks out against excesses and troublemakers. For her part, the beautiful Aimée de Coigny, who has just divorced the Duc de Fleury, leads a dissolute life. In 1793, the Convention decides to put "the Terror on the agenda". Aimée de Coigny and her new lover, Casimir de Montrond, are arrested. At the Saint-Lazare prison, their life together is preserved. Six months later, Chénier is arrested and imprisoned. Dazzled by the young woman's beauty, the poet dedicates his most beautiful verses to her. But Aimée remains unmoved by his love.
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Stavisky... (1974)
Character: L'employé au fichier
Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent assist small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French politics. But when his great scam involving millions is exposed, he brings the government to the verge of collapse and the country to the brink of civil war.
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Retour à l'aube (1938)
Character: L'inspecteur Veber
Married to Karl Ammer, the station master of Thaya, a Hungarian quiet village, Anita is a pretty young peasant who feels deeply bored. She dreams of another life while watching the daily express trains to Budapest. An incident will force her to leave her province: she has to go to Budapest to attend the funeral of an aunt and receive a share of the inheritance. After completing the formalities, Anita misses the train to go back home and then she finds herself alone in the capital.
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