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La tare (1911)
Character: Anna Moulin, dite Nana
LA TARE is about Anna, a woman who is rescued from a Parisian dance hall to work in a charitable hospital. Over the years, she rises to become the head of the institution, but when an old habitué of the dance hall recognizes her picture, he attempts to blackmail her.
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Un monsieur qui a mangé du taureau (1935)
Character: N/A
In 1907, the Gaumont Films company in France made a slapstick comedy (silent, of course) with a title that would translate from the French as 'A gentleman who ate some bull'. Eugene Deslow got hold of that film and added an introduction plus a soundtrack, the latter consisting of commentary narrated by the single-named actor Bétove.
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Les vipères (1911)
Character: N/A
Directed by Louis Feuillade. Part of the 'Life As It Is' series.
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La maison des lions (1912)
Character: N/A
Madam Berre, the widow of an African traveler, has a lion and two lionesses in her conservatory. Fred, a servant who abuses her beasts, is sent away by her. Under the pretense of haven forgotten his hat, he comes back while Mrs. Berre receives guests that evening and takes his revenge.
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Les couronnes - I - La couronne de ronces (1909)
Character: N/A
Framed in a wreath of roses we see a lithe Creek dancer, who sways and postures before an epicurean party of ancients, followed by a laurel wreath and encircling a scene showing school children of 1830 receiving their marks of diligence at a distribution of rewards: then the wreath of bay tendered by the Human Senators to Caesar on the culmination of his career; now a beggar receives a loaf called a "crown" from a charitable passerby: Christ is shown crowned with thorns by the rabble; following the divine drama we see the old comedian's wreath presented him at a performance. The next view shows the Emperor Charlemagne crowning his son Lewis. The film closes with the wreath of orange blossoms encircling a bridal party.
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Le calvaire (1914)
Character: Mme de Moranges
A French silent film directed by Louis Feuillade.
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Le diamant du sénéchal (1914)
Character: N/A
A prominent woman has a very valuable diamond for which she accepts an offer from a jeweler. Two scoundrels plot to rob her of the diamond before she can part with it. They waylay her and carry her off to a house where they demand from her the diamond. With a smile she shows them the receipt for a registered package as she had deemed it safer to send it by this means. Later she takes them off their guard and escapes. An exciting automobile chase now takes place, ending with the car in which the would-be diamond robbers are seated being hurled over the cliff to destruction.
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L’aventurière (1910)
Character: N/A
Having faked an automobile accident, an adventuress is taken into the home of a "ganadero" (a landowner of the Camargue), whom she seduces. Her intention is to steal, with the aid of an accomplice, a cheque which represents the proceeds of a sale of cattle. Her plan is foiled however, thanks to the dedication of the ganadero’s young secretary. Entirely shot on location in the Camargue, this is one of the earliest of Feuillade’s surviving films clearly to demonstrate his predilection for systematically mixing documentary and fiction — though the idea seems already to have been evident in the films he shot in Britanny during the summer of 1909, for example La Légende des phares. Unfortunately none of these films has survived complete.
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L'accident (1912)
Character: N/A
On his way to visit his mistress, a man has a serious car accident. His wife cares for him with such devotion that he rediscovers his love for her.
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Severo Torelli (1914)
Character: Dona Pia
Pisa, 1494. Young Severo, who has sworn to stab the tyrant in his town, learns that it is his own father.
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Le Nain (1912)
Character: La mère
A manuscript delivered to a playhouse is eventually turned into a major hit with critics and audience alike. The only problem is that no one knows who wrote it. The actress of the play receives a call from the author and the two quickly becomes friends, but the man won't give any details about himself- He has a secret.
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La Hantise (1912)
Character: Mme Trévoux
A mother (Renee Carl) goes to see a palm reader who informs her that a loved one is about to die. The woman doesn't know if it's her son or her husband (Rene Navarre) but history buffs will know who it is as it's April 10, 1912 and the husband is about to board the Titanic.
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Possession de l'enfant (1909)
Character: Mother
Melodrama about a rich father who gains custody of his child while the mother goes off in tears. Of course, the child is miserable even though he has everything in the world but after a weekend trip at his poor mother's house, the child realizes that money isn't everything and he has to convince the father that his money is evil.
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La nativité (1910)
Character: N/A
A silent French film depicting the story of the nativity.
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L'Oubliette (1912)
Character: N/A
A newly married couple moves into a house. But the bride disappears.
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La vengeance du sergent de la ville (1913)
Character: N/A
A police sergeant’s late night horn playing dismays neighbors in his apartment house, leading to marital discord, hysteria and a bizarre form of psycho-therapy involving a body double.
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La Course aux millions (1912)
Character: N/A
If an old man's niece does not claim her inheritance at the notary's office by the appointed time, his fortune will go to his housekeeper.
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La Garçonne (1923)
Character: Mme. Ambrat
Monique is an ingenue, a clueless girl who believes in true love. A marriage is the only thing a decent girl must long for. When she discovers that her future husband has a lover, she rebels against her bourgeois family.
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La Souris blanche (1911)
Character: N/A
Part of the series La Vie telle qu'elle est that Feuillade did in which people were shown as they really are and not as they ought to have been. This one is about Hypocrisy
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Une dame vraiment bien (1908)
Character: La dame vraiment bien
Renée Carl stars in this lively slapstick silent short as a beautiful lady who causes distractions and accidents among the male population as she walks though the streets of Paris.
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Bébé apache (1910)
Character: N/A
Bébé's father is attacked by the "apaches", a group of hooligans. Bébé and his sister decide to avenge him by gaining the group's trust and bringing them into a trap.
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Bout-de-Zan et le cheminot (1913)
Character: N/A
One night, Bout-de-Zan finds a wanderer and shares his bed to him. The next morning there is a general panic among the servants...
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Le monsieur qui a mangé du taureau (1909)
Character: N/A
At a dinner party, a hostess serves her guests a dish made using meat from a bull. While most of them enjoy the meal, one man has a strange reaction: Taking a set of horns off the wall, he attaches them to his head and sets off on a rampage. After destroying the house and terrifying his hostess, her guests, maid, and neighbours, he takes to the streets. The police sends a telegraph to Spain asking for help, and in response a parade of matadors arrive in Paris, ready to slay the crazy beast-man. However, soon after the man-bull fight begins, the errant guest comes to his senses and is taken into custody by waiting policemen.
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Bout-de-Zan et le crime au téléphone (1914)
Character: N/A
Some amateur players rehearse a crime play in the apartment of one of the company. Bout-de-Zan connects the telephone to the room of the concierge, who thinks that a crime is being committed in her lodging house.
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André Chénier (1910)
Character: N/A
The life of French poet André Chénier, precursor of the Romantic movement, who was guillotined during the Revolution aged only 31.
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L'agonie de Byzance (1913)
Character: The Wife of Emperor Constantine
The fall of Constantinople to the Ottoman Turks, an event that marked the end of the Byzantine Empire.
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Pâques rouges (1914)
Character: N/A
When a bandit captures a medieval Italian city, he imprisons and threatens to execute the betrothed of the city's absent ruler, who must return in time to rescue his beloved and save the city.
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Les Misérables (1925)
Character: La Thénardier
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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Le récit du colonel (1907)
Character: N/A
This short film consists of a crazy old colonel being asked to entertain party guests about his exploits of daring. However, being a totally insane old coot, he runs amok acting out his war-time heroics--smashing and throwing everything in the room!
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L'hôtel du silence (1908)
Character: N/A
A haunted-hotel film, reviving a joke from a 1900 comic strip showing a sleeper being ejected from an electric bed.
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Bout-de-Zan vole un éléphant (1913)
Character: Charitable lady
Bout de Zan is a young boy by description and a petty thief by vocation. In this short, he does indeed steal an elephant from a circus, parading it around town and using it to beg for money. Due to their rambunctiousness, Bout de Zan and the elephant (!) need saving from the authorities.
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Le gardian de Camargue (1910)
Character: N/A
This charming short film was shot in the Camargue, probably in the same place where Jean Durand filmed his cowboy movies. The plot is very simple. A guardian falls in love with a Parisian. Desperate, he commits suicide when she returns to the capital. But, as always with Perret, we appreciate the framing, the skilful use of the exteriors and the documentary side of life of the time. We see the young Arlesianas in traditional dress go out to collect almonds and return with their baskets to the city. The actor in the role of the guardian overreacts, imitating bombastic despair. But the finale, in which he rides a horse through the waves to find the rest of death, preserves its charm intact. Perret knows how to set the rhythm of a sequence and give it the necessary atmosphere.
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Les Larmes de Colette (1926)
Character: N/A
After the divorce of her parents, Colette gets sent to her grandfather's who she never really knows. Mrs. Lapierre, her new governess is very severe indeed. Later, due to their disputes, Colette runs away from home and gets sick.
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L'Intruse (1913)
Character: La Breschard
A child is kidnapped and forced to sell flowers on the street.
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Fantômas (1913)
Character: Lady Beltham
A French silent film serial which follows the exploits of the archvillain Fantômas, who commits crimes while eluding Inspector Juve's tireless persecution.
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Pépé le Moko (1937)
Character: La Mère Tarte
Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.
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Le cœur et l'argent (1912)
Character: Madame Mauguiot
The innkeeper's daughter is in love, but her mother has already decided that she is going to be married to another man.
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La légende de la fileuse (1908)
Character: N/A
The goddess Minerva is jealous of the young Arachne who is more clever it in weaving. Out of spite, Arachne Minerva rushed into hell, then transforms into a spider that will forever spinning its web.
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La légende de la fileuse (1908)
Character: La Muse
The goddess Minerva is jealous of the young Arachne who is more clever it in weaving. Out of spite, Arachne Minerva rushed into hell, then transforms into a spider that will forever spinning its web.
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