
Acting
Florelle
Born 1898-08-09 · Les Sables-d'Olonne, Vendée, France
Florelle was a French film actress.
Acting credits
6.7Gervaise Macquart is a beautiful Parisian laundress and mother whose lover, Lantier, walks out on her. She eventually marries Henri Coupeau, a roofer who has an unfortunate accident. As her now crippled husband descends into alcoholism, Gervaise tries to make ends meet on her own. Life becomes even more complicated when Lantier returns and befriends Henri. Meanwhile, the man she really loves is sent to prison.
Gervaise
1956
9.0Two female agents from a rival gang are sent to disrupt the operations of a gold-smuggler's caravan in Africa.
Oasis
1955
7.9In 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.
Les Misérables
1934
8.0Poor Arlette is married off by her well meaning mother to a supposed count who turns out to be a fake and a crook.Arlette seeks out the real count, to whom in name technically she is married.
Hearts Are Trumps
1931
10.0The simultaneously filmed French language version of the 1930 German film The Other. A psychological drama based on the popular Jekyll and Hyde theme involving a strict legal official.
The Prosecutor Hallers
1930
10.0The joys and miseries of the inhabitants of a building in a Parisian district.
Sixième étage
1940
5.0Two brothers-in-law hate each other but, for business interests, they want their respective son and daughter to marry. The young fiancées are not in agreement, as the boy has a happy relationship with a woman, and the girl is in an isolation mood. A crime happens, and the relations amongst this sad family become even worse.
The Black Angels
1937
10.0A jealous American, Mr Stevenson, travels to France with his very pretty young wife Kitty. He tries all sorts of subterfuges so that the charming young woman does not attract the attention of men. But she did not escape the gaze of a certain Robert Perceval.
Passionately
1932
9.0No synopsis available yet.
The Joker
1930
9.0Back from an alcohol-fueled evening, two former high school friends wake up and find they may have murdered a female coal-dealer.
L'Affaire de la rue de Lourcine
1923
1.0Nouveau riche Isidore Lechat, who lives in a castle in the south of France, believes that business is the most important thing, but remains attached to his children. Lechat, who does not let his wife appear at banquets because of her slovenly appearance, begins an affair in Paris with Celeste St. Jean, a friend of his dissolute son Xavier. Lechat offers to pay Xavier's debts if he gets his friend's father, the Minister of War, to lift restrictions on the operation of a mine in French Africa which Lechat optioned.
Business Is Business
1915
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
6.3François Cardinaud is one of the richest shipowners in the region. But this success arouses resentment and jealousy. When Marthe, his wife, leaves the home without warning, Cardinaud sees her life cracking little by little.
Blood to the Head
1956
6.5Two women love the same man in a world of few prospects. In Budapest, Liliom is a "public figure," a rascal who's a carousel barker, loved by the experienced merry-go-round owner and by a young, innocent maid. The maid, Julie, loses her job after going out with Liliom; he's fired by his jealous employer for going out with Julie. The two lovers move in with Julie's aunt; unemployment emasculates him and a local weasel tempts him with crime. Julie, now wan, is true to Liliom even in his bad temper. Meanwhile, a stolid widower, a carpenter, wants to marry Julie. Is there any future on this earth for Julie and Liliom, whose love is passionate rather than ideal?
Liliom
1934
Roger Latour introduces himself to Wilky Studios as the famous thief Silver Jim, and offers to fulfill the role of king of the slums for whom the producer is still looking for an actor. Wilky, impressed, hires him.
The Big Bluff
1933
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Make a living
1931
8.5In 1842, during the conquest of Algeria Sidonie Panache disguised as a Soave runs away with her lover who is doing his military service there.
Sidonie Panache
1934
7.0Claude, son of a ruined family, pretends to be a dangerous trickster in order to get credit from the guys in the middle. He is in charge of retrieving compromising letters from a woman whose lover fears blackmail. But before arriving there, Claude fortunately meets love.
Lovers and Thieves
1935
Because he spent his youth with a gang of thugs, a tennis champion is forced to help his former comrades rob his mistress's house. He opposes it and is seriously injured the day before a match, he loses it. The one he loves learns the truth and keeps her love for him.
La dernière nuit
1934
5.3Maigret is called to the high-class Hotel Majestic to investigate a body. The wife of a wealthy American has been killed - but to Maigret's surprise she has a gun in her purse. He begins to follow up the handful of clues that could explain her secret life and her demise.
Majestic Hotel Cellars
1945
10.0The maid and the driver of Sidonie de Valpurgis have the absurd idea of subletting the hotel of their boss during her absence, and precisely to Sidonie's ex-friend, who wants to spend his wedding night there.
A Night at a Honeymoon
1935
9.0To come into possession of an inheritance, a young woman must marry a man she does not love and who does not love her either. But he falls in love and manages to conquer his wife by becoming a totally different character from the one he was at the time of the wedding.
Mariage à responsabilité limitée
1934
10.0No synopsis available yet.
Jim Bougne, boxeur
1923
6.9The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German version.
The Threepenny Opera
1931