
Acting
Rolla Norman
Born 1889-06-24 · Paris, France
Acting credits
9.0The story takes place in Corsica, where a young business woman (Jacqueline Forzane) tries to construct an electric system for her steel plant. But this project is not welcomed by everyone...
L'Ile enchantée
1927
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Adieu Vienne
1939
7.0Based on the historical novel by Flaubert, "Salammbo" tells the story of the Mercenary War between Carthage and the Barbarians in the third century BC.
Salammbô
1926
6.8Exiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge on the Queen. One day he meets Ruy Blas, a young student who happens to be a lookalike of Don Cesar, his nephew. Salluste disguises Ruy Blas and presents him as Don Cesar. It doesn't take long before Ruy Blas, intelligent, virtuous and generous as he is becomes popular and the Queen, who has fallen in love with him, appoints him Prime Minister. All seems for the best in the best of worlds but Salluste has not forgotten his revenge, far from that ...
The Queen's Lover
1948
8.3Alain's uncle sends him to France to toughen him with his aviator friend Pierre. He meets Suzanne on the voyage and fights for her love against José in an airplane.
The Aviator
1931
No synopsis available yet.
La veine
1928
8.0Pierre Buxeuil is better known as the popular clown Bux. One day, he falls in love with Nicole, a romantic but whimsical young lady. He soon elopes her and the beautiful Nicole follows him, persuaded that she will love circus life. Unfortunately for Bux she does not and she leaves him as a result. After a few other disappointments due to false accusations, Bux finally marries a kind-hearted circus acrobat and pursues a successful career under the big top.
Le Clown Bux
1935
8.5During the lead up to a second World War, one of several French films hoping for peace,specifically between Germany and France as shown by a border family in Alsace trying to resolve their differences.
Peace on the Rhine
1938
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Der Bastard
1925
6.2Gribiche, a young boy whose mother is a war widow, gets adopted by a rich woman. She wants to turn him into a perfect gentleman, but soon he feels unhappy.
Gribiche
1926
No synopsis available yet.
Louis XI
1909
5.4The film portrays the events on the day King Henri III of France arranged for Duke Henri de Guise to be murdered.
The Assassination of the Duke de Guise
1908
No synopsis available yet.
Héliogabale
1909
9.0Two modest young employees, Jean and Madeleine, dream of leading the way, but the experience turns out badly. Madeleine marries a German aristocrat who turns out to be a spy, and finds Jean who had joined the Legion.
Face au destin
1941
8.5The film based on the novel of the same name by Alexandre Dumas, is concerned with fraternal royal strife at the court of Henri III. Tragically caught between the millstones of history are the gallant Count de Bussy and the woman he adores, la Dame de Monsoreau.
The Countess of Monsoreau
1923
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Rocambole
1933
9.0Dixie, a young Broadway dancer, leaves her fiancé Jimmy to go into the movies.
Le Masque d'Hollywood
1930
10.0Towards the end of the 19th century, the Duke of Gerolstein traveled to Paris. Sixteen years earlier he had a daughter who was taken from him by her mother who was chased out of the palace. After many dramatic adventures, the Duke finds his daughter in the person of Fleur de Marie, martyred throughout her childhood by the Owl and the schoolmaster.
Mysteries of Paris
1935
6.5After his engagement party with beautiful Aline, Claude, a struggling writer, meets his two closest friends. The trio sets up a daring publicity stunt, involving a fake murder. The scheme backfires as the fake victim gets really dead.
Checkmate
1931
8.0This is a love story, a story of rivalry and revenge but, above all, a story about sport. The great passion is about union rugby.
La Grande Passion
1928
8.0This is the French-language version of Buster Keaton's 1931 comedy Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931). This film is presumed to be lost.
Buster se marie
1931
8.0The young Edward V, King of England, enters London where he is crowned. But the king's uncle, the Duke of Gloucester, eager to come to the throne, contemplates the loss of the young king and his brother. He therefore had them declared bastards and locked them up in the Tower of London. The Duke of Buckingham and the king's supporters help the two prisoners escape. They are recaptured and delivered to the assassins. Gloucester usurps the crown. But mortally wounded in the war, he succumbs, prey to the remorse awakened in his conscience by the vision of his victims.
The Children of Edward IV
1909
The Count of Kerlor, to chastise his wife whom he believes to be unfaithful, entrusts his son to a couple of scoundrels. When he repents and wants to find the child, the carnies make their nephew sick. But the other little boy, in search of his comrade, is recognized by his reconciled parents.
The Two Boys
1936
10.0No synopsis available yet.
L'Éternel féminin
1921