Acting

Gina Manès

Born — Died

1893-04-07 — 1989-09-06

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

61 titles

Gina Manès (born Blanche Moulin; 7 April 1893 – 6 September 1989) was a French film actress and a major star of French silent cinema. After an early appearance in a Louis Feuillade film, she had significant roles in films of Germaine Dulac and Jean Epstein, including Cœur fidèle.

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9.0

Produced for television by Claude-Jean Philippe, the « Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma », recounts the history of French cinema from its birth to the beginning of the 1960s. With commentary read by Jean Rochefort.

Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

1978

Napoleon poster
7.9

A biopic of former Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant 1797 invasion of Italy.

Napoleon

1927

The Count of Bragelonne poster
6.0

Raoul de Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin.

The Count of Bragelonne

1954

Napoléon Bonaparte poster
8.7

A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.

Napoléon Bonaparte

1935

A Man's Head poster
6.1

Willy Ferrière is a gambler living beyond his means, and his mistress is as greedy as he's dead broke. One day, he says out of loud in a a Montparnasse café that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt so he could claim his inheritance. Someone secretly lets Willy know it's a deal. The old lady is murdered, and a low-life criminal is manipulated to be the perfect suspect. But Superintendant Maigret feels something is wrong.

A Man's Head

1933

Pity for the Vamps poster
10.0

Paris, 1956. Three sisters, three actresses willing to do almost anything to make it big. Their lives, their loves, their dramas. A savory satire of the world of show business and cinema in particular.

Pity for the Vamps

1956

Film credits

1950s · 12 titles

The Count of Bragelonne poster
6.0

Raoul de Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin.

The Count of Bragelonne

1954

Pity for the Vamps poster
10.0

Paris, 1956. Three sisters, three actresses willing to do almost anything to make it big. Their lives, their loves, their dramas. A savory satire of the world of show business and cinema in particular.

Pity for the Vamps

1956

Fernandel the Dressmaker poster
6.3

A modest taylor the women found irresistible inherit a Maison de couture in financial difficulty. Decided to save it he prepare a great collection. But when his wife discovered his relations with one of the mannequin, how would he prevent the scandale without loosing... both of them?!

Fernandel the Dressmaker

1956

Premier mai poster
5.8

On this beautiful May 1st, Thérèse is about to give birth. Their presence at home is undesirable, so Jean, her husband, decides to take François, their little boy, to a soccer match. Their plans change when they meet a former factory mate who seems to have made a success of his life. This man, Blanchot, decides to return to Jean a sum of money he had once borrowed. Trusted, Jean is drawn into a clandestine circle, where his apparent luck delivers him without ulterior motive to Blanchot, who is one of the ringleaders. The police interrupt the dangerous game, putting Jean, who has no identity papers, in an awkward situation.

Premier mai

1958

Law of the Streets poster
7.5

Yves Tréguier, a young orphan, escapes from a reform school in Brittany to join "Dédé la Glace" in Paris, an old-timer with whom he has a sincere friendship. The love of Zette, a young girl he has met, and the benevolent friendship of Father Blain, the bistro owner, give him the desire for regular work. "Jo le Grec", a pimp jealous of Dédé's friendship with Yves, seduces Wanda, a prostitute he loves, and shoots Dédé dead. Blain prevents him from doing the same to Yves, and shoots him in turn. Yves can live an honest life with Zette and the baby she's expecting.

Law of the Streets

1956

Sister Angele's Secret poster
9.0

A young novitiate witnesses a murder. Later, she recognizes the culprit, who admits to the killing; the sister works to convince him to turn himself in to the police.

Sister Angele's Secret

1956

Les Lumières du soir poster
10.0

A young opera dancer tries to help her mother financially by performing in a dubious cabaret.

Les Lumières du soir

1956

Mimi Pinson poster
6.0

Dany Robin plays the title character in the French comedy Mimi Pinson. The plot is strictly formula stuff, with Mimi being thwarted on all sides by those who have designs on her money and her virtue. Happily, our heroine triumphs over her foes and predators, finding true romance in the arms of Raymond Pellegrin.

Mimi Pinson

1958

A Certain Mr. Jo poster
4.5

Jo Guardini, now the peaceful owner of a charming inn by the banks of the River Marne, once was a dreaded gangster. The respectful citizen does not want to have anything to do with the underworld any more. Unfortunately, two of his former accomplices kidnap a little girl and decide to hide her in his hotel. What will Jo do : side with the law in the person of inspector Loriot or have a relapse in crime?

A Certain Mr. Jo

1958

La Danseuse de Marrakech poster
10.0

A little Métis girl, Kalina is saved from a massacre by Taraor, a black man from Sudan. Having become a great and beautiful dancer from the South, she meets Captain Portal, in garrison in Marrakech. This is the beginning of a great love story. But that's counting without Taraor's jealousy.

La Danseuse de Marrakech

1950

Sinners of Paris poster
5.5

Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that Vanel is too crafty and well-connected to ever stand trial for his crime, so he carefully lays a subtle trap for his adversary. Unfortunately, both Piccoli and Vanel are thwarted by a pair of scheming females.

Sinners of Paris

1958

Palace of Shame poster
4.8

Tongues start to wag after a famous Parisian music hall dancer is rushed to hospital after being found poisoned by arsenic at the Concert Mayol.

Palace of Shame

1954

1940s · 4 titles

1930s · 26 titles

Napoléon Bonaparte poster
8.7

A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound.

Napoléon Bonaparte

1935

A Man's Head poster
6.1

Willy Ferrière is a gambler living beyond his means, and his mistress is as greedy as he's dead broke. One day, he says out of loud in a a Montparnasse café that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt so he could claim his inheritance. Someone secretly lets Willy know it's a deal. The old lady is murdered, and a low-life criminal is manipulated to be the perfect suspect. But Superintendant Maigret feels something is wrong.

A Man's Head

1933

No artwork available
5.8

The Corpse tells the sordid tale of three brothers, odious and blind money-grabbers who murdered a young peasant for the tidy sum he had won in the lottery. An ageing whore discovers their secret and treacherously sets up between the two murderers a rivalry for her affections. They finish up each killing the other, whilst the idiot brother scatters to the four winds their ill-gotten gains.

The Corpse

1936

The Postmaster's Daughter poster
7.0

A small town postal official allows a military officer to sweep his lovely daughter away to St. Petersburg, assuming the man will do the right thing and marry her.Instead, a future of scandal and tragedy awaits her.

The Postmaster's Daughter

1938

Temptation poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Temptation

1936

Les Réprouvés poster
10.0

At the borders of the Saharan desert, the dramatic situation of a battalion of light infantry attacked by the enemy.

Les Réprouvés

1937

Sirocco poster
6.0

Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the mistress and then wife of a wealthy archaeologist, and bears him Matteo's child, whom he believes to be his own. Complications arise years later when Matteo finds Safia, and a ring of blackmailers uncover her past and exposes her to her husband.

Sirocco

1938

Mayerling poster
6.5

Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage to a Belgian princess. As he seeks to flee his stifling environment, he meets the beautiful Maria, and the two enter into a scandalous affair. Despite the interference of the Emperor, the couple refuse to give each other up.

Mayerling

1936

Pax poster
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

Pax

1933

The bewitchment of Seville poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

The bewitchment of Seville

1931

No artwork available
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Barcarolle

1935

Fort Dolorès poster
7.0

Several men of different nationalities have decided to free themselves from the clutches of women and have vowed to help each other in case one of them might relapse. They find shelter in a hacienda on the pampas. They believe they are now safe from the evil influence of the fair sex. Unfortunately there is a farm nearby in which... a gorgeous woman is said to live. Great principles are short-lived, as they soon realize: lust, jealousy and hate set in at once.

Fort Dolorès

1939

Under the Leather Helmet poster
7.0

Set in Rumania, the film focuses on a female secret agent who intends to use an airplane to fly behind enemy lines. While she awaits her flight to destiny, the girl spends several days with a French flying squadron. Her sexy presence causes the pilots to begin fighting among themselves, resulting in disaster for all concerned.

Under the Leather Helmet

1932

Hatred poster
7.3

Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the victim of a malicious attack, he returns to his hometown of Dunkirk. Mollenard receives a frosty welcome from his wife Mathilde, who resents the way in which he has neglected his family for so many years. Mollenard’s only wish is to get back to sea as soon as he can, but a sudden heart-attack leaves him paralysed and entirely in his wife’s power...

Hatred

1938

Maria de la nuit poster
4.7

A cabaret singer in Barcelona sacrifices her feelings for an exiled young Frenchman who had been falsely accused of a crime, when the sister of the real culprit seeks the exile out.

Maria de la nuit

1936

No artwork available
9.0

The family Pont-Biquet is composed as follows: father, the judge, afflicted by deafness; authoritarian and irascible mother; funny son-in-law; an ingenious son who has a mistress.

The Pont-Biquet Family

1935

Gosse de riche poster
10.0

The daughter of an industrialist takes an interest in the workers and tries to improve their lot. She avoids a strike, and falls in love with an engineer.

Gosse de riche

1938

Coral Reefs poster
6.6

The adventures of a sailor from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lonely girl.

Coral Reefs

1939

The Devil in the Bottle poster
9.0

If a sailor uses a magic bottle he found that grants whatever he desires, will his soul be lost to the Devil?

The Devil in the Bottle

1935

Le Mariage de Véréna poster
6.0

Verena, a farm servant, gives birth to a little girl and for the happiness of her child, tries for nearly twenty years to bend the selfishness of the seducer who did not marry her. When she returns to the village, she has worn herself out at work, but she has the consolation of seeing her daughter's future assured.

Le Mariage de Véréna

1938

La brigade en jupons poster
10.0

Two female police officers dismantle a network of drug traffickers.

La brigade en jupons

1936

Wolves Between Them poster
10.0

A Nazi spy has stolen a gas mask filter of formidable efficiency in Paris. Two agents from the 2nd office have the task of going to take him back to Berlin.

Wolves Between Them

1936

Divine poster
7.0

A country girl finds work as a chorus girl in Paris, gets embroiled with a bad egg, and then finds true love with a good-looking milkman.

Divine

1935

S.O.S. Sahara poster
7.0

At a North Africa desert outpost threatened by Arabs, the French commander has added trouble when his wife visits and is captivated by a younger officer.

S.O.S. Sahara

1938

No artwork available
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

L'amour qu'il faut aux femmes

1934

La Mystérieuse Lady poster
10.0

In India, a British detachment finds itself surrounded in a village by invisible enemies. An officer is assassinated, then another. The adversary seems very well informed. By who ? A group of twenty men who had gone to seek help were annihilated. An American reporter will force the mysterious spy to denounce himself.

La Mystérieuse Lady

1936

1920s · 15 titles

Napoleon poster
7.9

A biopic of former Emperor of France, Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant 1797 invasion of Italy.

Napoleon

1927

Un soir au cocktail's bar poster
3.7

From 6 P.M. to 8 P.M., in a documentary fashion, the film shows different character types sitting, meeting, and working at a cocktail's bar.

Un soir au cocktail's bar

1929

Looping the Loop poster
8.5

Botto the Clown is in love with the much younger Blanche but she is in love with the handsome daredevil acrobate Andre.

Looping the Loop

1928

Thérèse Raquin poster
5.2

Thérèse Raquin, an unhappily married woman, aided by her lover Laurent, drowns her husband Michaud, only to find the guilt of her actions intolerable.

Thérèse Raquin

1928

No artwork available
8.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Man with Three Masks

1921

Le sept de trèfle poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le sept de trèfle

1921

Sin poster
6.1

A married writer's luck turns when he gets a play produced at Théâtre de Paris. He meets the femme fatale who should play the lead in his play. Passion and conflict occurs.

Sin

1928

The Hand That Has Killed poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

The Hand That Has Killed

1924

No artwork available
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Sables

1928

No artwork available
8.0

A beggar and a singer are in love with the same woman.

Naples au baiser de feu

1925

The Countess of Monsoreau poster
8.5

The 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

Mädchenschicksale poster
8.0

About exciting and everyday stories and dreams in the life of young and inexperienced girls.

Mädchenschicksale

1928

Heart of an Actress poster
7.0

Desire brings out the worst in an actress' suitors-- One a well-to-do patron of London's theatre set, the other a lovestruck loner on the verge of penning a play dedicated to her.

Heart of an Actress

1924

The Saint and Her Fool poster
9.0

Agnes Günther’s heart-rending fairy tale dazzled turn-of-the-century German audiences and sold hundreds of thousands of copies before being adapted into this tale of timeless passion, the beautiful The Saint and the Fool. The unapologetically sentimental classic was directed by Wilhelm Dieterle, who launched a successful career in Weimar cinema before becoming known for romantic, lush melodramas and technicolor extravaganzas, including 1945′s Marlene Dietrich unforgettable Love Letters. The dashing Dieterle himself plays Harrogate, Earl of Torstein, whose star-crossed love for the luminous Rosemarie of Brauneck (Lien Deyers, discovered by Fritz Lang) is further doomed by royal heroes and villains, the requisite evil stepmother, and fantastical elements that channel the intoxicating romance of Camille through the magic of the Brothers Grimm.

The Saint and Her Fool

1928

Princely Nights poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Princely Nights

1929

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