
Acting
Nadia Sibirskaïa
Born 1901-09-11 · Redon, France
French actress. Born Germaine Marie Josèphe Lebas.
Acting credits
6.3Denise, an orphaned girl, moves to Paris where she hopes to find work at her uncle's store. But the glamorous department store 'Aux Bonheur des Dames' across the street crushes all the little businesses around. She finds a position there.
Au Bonheur des Dames
1930
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Jeanne
1934
6.9Hans has killed the dog of Firmin, a shepherd. Wild with rage, Firmin kidnaps Elsi, Hans' fiancée and locks her up at his home. Hans, a peddler, vows to find the missing girl. This is what he does and he manages, with the help of Mânu, the village idiot, to give Elsi a letter. On seeing her, the changeling falls in love at first sight with the young woman. Elsi soon realizes that Mânu can become her instrument of vengeance.
The Kidnapping
1934
6.8The early days of the French Revolution, as seen through the eyes of the ordinary citizens in Marseille and the royal court, including King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
La Marseillaise
1938
9.0During a transvestite ball, a young provincial meets Fanny Legrand. A great love is born between them. Later, the young man learns that Fanny was a great coquette. He leaves her, he comes back, he forgives. But when he embarks for America, Fanny does not follow him.
Sapho
1934
7.4A pair of sisters leave the country for the city after their parents are slaughtered in a mysterious axe murder.
Ménilmontant
1926
No synopsis available yet.
Sables
1928
No synopsis available yet.
Scrupule
1935
8.0Dédé is a young wealthy man who buys a shoe store, owned by his friend Robert, in order to receive more conveniently his mistress. Everything seems fine and Dédé seems to be enjoying all of this. But the man barely knew that he would fall in love with one of the many pretty vendors of his new "acquisition", favoring this new girl over the previous one.
Dédé
1934
6.4A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat against the capitalists.
Life Is Ours
1936
7.1Mild-mannered novelist of Western fiction, Amédée Lange, and his colleagues take over a publishing house after their exploitative boss disappears, only for the superior to return and try to reclaim the profits from their successful cooperative.
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
1936
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
8.0A rich man's son has lived a dissipated life and has joined a circus where he shares the courageous and perilous lives of its artists. He falls in love with a young dancer and is loved in return by her. But their passion goes through many vicissitudes.
The Magnificent Wanderers
1931
8.0An American billionaire who travels incognito falls in love with a blind shepherdess whose twin sister will take the place on the wedding day.
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
1938
8.0Monsieur Fred is a friendly Southerner who recruits pretty girls down on their luck to send to South America. After some dramatic incidents and an eventful chase, a policeman manages to lock up the gang he runs.
Franco de port
1937
In a slum set to be demolished, dramas are played out among the picturesque slum dwellers, including a young couple who, denounced by the police, are forced to leave home.
Sunless Neighborhood
1946
6.4An early impressionist short featuring a woman who dreams of, and escapes into, an autumn forest.
Autumn Mists
1929
8.0A chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.
Blighty
1927
No synopsis available yet.
Destin
1927
7.5The niece of a shady tavern-keeper of Port Said, surrounded by dangerous men who haunt the ports, meets a man whom she will love and with whom she flees.
Nights in Port Said
1932
5.5A few colorful characters, with very different social origins and whose destinies are not always glorious, will parade before our eyes, for our greatest pleasure. Turning among characters such as : an alcoholic bum, a rich banker, an eccentric old lady, a working class girl, a poor lover, and a hypocritical bourgeois.
Girls of Paris
1936
5.7Victor Berthier, a good man but also a very jealous one, killed his wife in a fit of jealousy. After serving a few years in a chain gang, he is released for good behavior. He feels very happy to be able to return to Paris and to meet Lise, his daughter, again. But, to his dismay, he finds that Lise, through the fault of André, her lover and pimp, has unwillingly committed a murder.
Little Lise
1930
9.0No synopsis available yet.
Irony of Fate
1924
A short video that reworks a single sequence from the silent film Ménilmontant (Dimitri Kirsanoff, 1926). It was digitised from a knackered, toned print lent by an archive, and enhanced with various AI tools.
Voilà la vérité
2022