
Acting
Émile Saint-Ober
Born 1882-10-06 · La Madeleine, Nord, France
Acting credits
6.2The film tells the story of Frau Conch, a "fille perdue", a lost girl with no feelings or scruples, toying with men as she pleases. These are the kind of wicked girls that usually are invited to enjoy the soirées at the Schloss. She is without mercy, respect or loyalty.
Une Femme a Passé
1928
6.7Harsh Parisian judge Gaetan (known as Monsieur Maximum), chafing in the idleness of retirement, leaves for a seaside holiday. But Gabriel the chauffeur has his mind on his girl, not the car; Gaetan and wife Nathalie are stranded in the country, where they find shelter in a low class bistro patronized by cheerful jail birds. Once the ice is broken, they have a wonderful time, but as the judge tries to trick his new friends into reforming, inevitable exposure approaches...
Extenuating Circumstances
1939
5.3A woman enters a police station at night to ask the commissioner to help her get rid of her dead lover's body to protect her honor.
Night attack
1931
6.7In Granada in Spain, Sibilla works as a dancer in a squalid cabaret called El Dorado, struggling to earn enough to care for her sick child. The boy's father Estiria, a prominent citizen, refuses them both help and recognition, fearful of jeopardising the engagement of his adult daughter Iliana to a wealthy nobleman. Iliana however slips away from her engagement party to meet her real lover Hedwick, a Swedish painter. Sibilla, in desperation after a further rejection by Estiria, sees an opportunity to blackmail him by locking the lovers overnight in their meeting-place in the Alhambra.
El Dorado
1921
7.0A young American lady has certain prejudices against the people in France, but comes there to find a lover.She causes nothing but trouble.
American Love
1931
8.0The late Toupinel, a merry fellow, kept a legitimate wife in Paris, and a mistress who passed for his wife in the provinces. When he died, the two widows remarried. A former lover of the mistress comes to confuse everything because he is the real widow's friend.
Feu Toupinel
1934
10.0Directed by Henri Fescourt.
Mandrin
1924
7.0A very shy person inherits a traveling circus on the express condition that he manages to present a number on the ring.
The Tamer
1938
On the eve of getting married by order of his mother to a wealthy American heiress, Leon learns that his former friend just had a child. She cannot keep him, however, being in poverty.
A Father Without Knowing It
1932
6.3A hawker, pursued by the law, finds refuge in a garage and finds there a former comrade who has become a mechanic. As he looks like a car driver, he finds himself forced to sit behind the wheel of a car to participate in a race, but not knowing how to drive, he finds himself dead last.
The Golden Can
1932
8.0Valerian writes his uncle, colonial millionaire, for money. He meets a quartermaster, Napoleon, who pretends to be a doctor of law. They become friends.
L'enfant de ma soeur
1933
5.8Blaireau, a poacher, is imprisoned for an offense he didn't commit. An ambitious lawyer tries to exculpate and glorify him. But, once he's released, this major philosopher destroys in just a few hours the prestige painstakingly built by his liberator.
The Blaireau Case
1932
8.0The story of Charles de Foucauld, born September 15, 1858 in Strasbourg (France) and died December 1, 1916 in Tamanrasset in Algeria during the French colonial period, was a cavalry officer of the French army who became an explorer and geographer, then Catholic religious, priest, linguist and hermit in the Hoggar desert in Algeria.
The Call
1936
8.0Suzette and Jack form a very nice and rather well-matched couple. The latter is the partner of the new clown Teddy who seems to please the young lady a lot.
Âme de clown
1933
7.0No synopsis available yet.
La grande amie
1927
9.0An honest but naive young man is manipulated by a gang of crooks who use him as as a cover for their misdeeds. His honesty will be rewarded though and he will find the way to the heart of his beloved.
All for Nothing
1933
6.5A poor wretch, who has just been hired as a music-hall artist, in spite of himself becomes the tenant of a particular Parisian building.
Moulin Rouge
1940
No synopsis available yet.
La Dame de bronze et le monsieur de cristal
1929
Rose is a young factory worker, seduced and abandoned by her lover. She feels compelled to abandon her baby, who will grow up in a rich family, with problems of its own. Rose lives through plenty of adventures, always repenting for leaving her child, until one day.
La Clé de voûte
1925
5.3A woman's marriage is on the rocks ; to avenge herself, she decides to take a lover for one night .So she buys all his stock from a balloon man and flies them through the Parisian sky ; all her balloons carry a message :"I will be alone after midnight" (hence the title); a lot a suitors comme to the rendezvous : a fisherman, a soldier, a traveler , a gentleman cambrioleur (a nod to Arsène Lupin?) and others ,much to Michel, a young man in love with her's displeasure.
I'll Be Alone After Midnight
1931
9.0A man is engaged to be married.But after getting a phone call from a wronged woman who wants revenge on her husband, he lands up consoling her in bed, and then consoling the mistress of the husband as well.
Un coup de téléphone
1932
A young woman whose family doesn't want her to marry is taken by her lover to a seance, where before the eyes of her parents she is conjured away. Her man awaits on the other side.
La Femme invisible
1933
7.6A kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence and carries out dishonest activities.
The Benefactor
1942
10.0Madame Leclerc, concierge of a beautiful place on Montmartre, has three daughters who are ready to get married - but things do not always go as planned.
The Daughters of the Concierge
1934