Margo Lion

Acting

Margo Lion

Born 1899-02-28 · Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]

Acting credits

I Sing poster
6.0

Charles's uncle is the headmaster of a chic girls school .He is short of the readies and he has lots and lots of debts.

I Sing

1938

Lola poster
7.1

A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.

Lola

1961

The Big Attraction poster
7.0

Riccardo and his troupe travel around the world performing musical and dance numbers in vaudevillian and circus theaters. Dancer Kitty is so impressed when she hears him sing that she asks to enter the company, but is turned down by Riccardo. Then in the middle of a number at the Winter Garten she pops in and the audience loves it. Now she will try to win Riccardo's heart, although he has a secret from his past that might be an obstacle.

The Big Attraction

1931

Katia poster
6.4

Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and becomes his mistress. With the help of Katia, Alexandre prepares a liberal constitution, but these reforms make him hostile to the more privileged subjects without satirising the revolutionaries against the regime.

Katia

1959

Doctor Francoise Gailland poster
5.2

Dr. Françoise Gailland has a hectic schedule, which causes her to have little time to spend with her family, which consists of her husband Gérard, her pregnant teenager daughter Élisabeth, and her sullen son Julien. However, she does manage to find the time to spend with her lover, Daniel Letessier. While her life in such disarray, she learns that she has cancer. Françoise tries to put a brave face on it, and is determined to face the life-threatening disease with courage.

Doctor Francoise Gailland

1976

Liberty Bar poster
7.7

Superintendent Maigret is sent to Antibes to elucidate the murder of William Brown, a rich Australian who regularly disappeared to indulge in formidable drinking binges. In his footsteps, Maigret makes the rounds of bars until discovering the Liberty Bar, its welcoming patroness La Grosse Jaja and its equivocal clientele. It is without a doubt here that the key to the murder is to be found.

Liberty Bar

1960

Alibi poster
6.6

Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music hall, where he performs telepathy. He pays another artist, Helene, so that she tells the police they've spent the night together, which doesn't fool Callas, the police officer who investigates the murder. He hires one of his fellow officers in order to seduce Helene.

Alibi

1937

La Bandera poster
5.6

Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. So he joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. He meets there two fellow countrymen, Mulot and Lucas. He tries to forget his fault... but Lucas's friendship soon appears to be less unselfish...

La Bandera

1935

The Beast Is Loose poster
6.3

Paul Lamiani, a wizened mobster, is asked to return to duty following the disappearance of secret documents of extreme importance. It is assumed that they are in the hands of a friend of Paul. But the case becomes even more delicate when Lamiani's son is kidnapped.

The Beast Is Loose

1959

The Breach poster
6.1

An innocent woman falls prey to her abusive husband, his wealthy father and a shady family friend.

The Breach

1970

Noche de tormenta poster
9.0

An outsider seduces and deceives a small-town girl, taking advantage of her innocence, in order to kill her mother.

Noche de tormenta

1955

Coplan, Agent 005 poster
5.5

In a factory working for the National Defense, an employee steals a prototype. In charge of the investigation is Francis Coplan.

Coplan, Agent 005

1964

The Dialogue of the Carmelites poster
7.4

This drama about the Carmelite order of nuns is set during the French Revolution. A young woman seeks refuge with the Carmelites because she is terrified of dying during the upheaval. The longer she associates with the nuns the more she is transformed by their faith and devotion. 

The Dialogue of the Carmelites

1960

One Night at the Tabarin poster
10.0

Together with his uncompromising friend Marie Girard, André de Lurvire clamors for moral reasons for the closing of the Bal Tabarin, a famous Paris cabaret. So, imagine André's reaction when he... inherits the joint! But, following the seductive schemes of Cora, Tabarin's sultry star, Lurvire gradually lowers his guard, discovers the good life and abandons his wife.

One Night at the Tabarin

1947

Jusqu'à plus soif poster
4.3

A young teacher arrives in Normandy, where she intends to put an end to illegal alcohol trafficking and consumption.

Jusqu'à plus soif

1962

La Danseuse rouge poster
9.0

Tania, a young girl from Central Europe, leaves her home because of her abusive father. Trained, in spite of herself, in the nets of the secret services, she becomes a renowned dancer who travels the major capitals, in search of military information. In 1917, in Paris, she was arrested and sentenced to death. She will be executed despite the fervent defense of her lawyer who has fallen in love with her.

La Danseuse rouge

1937

Martin Roumagnac poster
6.7

The local building-contractor Martin Roumagnac is fascinated by the fashionable Blanche Ferrand. To impress Blache, Martin presents her with a villa. However, this ruins him financially. Despite Martin's many efforts for the now femme-fatal Blanche, she is not able to chose between him and the rich consul De Laubry.

Martin Roumagnac

1946

The Madman of Lab Four poster
6.0

This talkative and unevenly paced feature finds Fou (Jean Lefebvre) the inventor of a gas that makes the users fall in love. He is chased by his boss, the police, and spies, who seek to secure the secret recipe for their own selfish purposes. A shadowy American underworld figure tries to intimidate the inventor. A half-hearted attempt at comedy tries to go along with the double dealing and trickery of the thin plot of the film.

The Madman of Lab Four

1967

Dreaming Days poster
10.0

The Berger couple want to enjoy their vacation in the mountains, a break that they both deserve. Because Maya suffers from strong emotional swings and feels constrained by the concerns of her husband, who is successful in the hospitality industry. Things don't improve during the holidays, and tensions between the two even escalate when Maya gets involved with a mountain guide. But even this brief affair ends in tragedy: the lover is struck by lightning on a tour and falls to his death.

Dreaming Days

1951

No More Love poster
7.6

An American millionaire, who had always bad luck with women, bets that he can live without them for five years. But after four and a half years traveling around on his yacht, he rescues a lady from drowning in the English Channel.

No More Love

1931

Notre petite ville poster
4.0

When Grover's Corner, a small, uneventful American town, becomes a mirror to an entire society. This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic of American theater, adapted here for television, portrays the Gibbs and Webb families, captured in the immutability of their daily lives in the 20th century.

Notre petite ville

1959

The Demise of Father Mouret poster
4.3

Serge Mouret is a frail and devout young priest in a tough country parish. When he falls down and loses his memory, he is nursed back to health by Albine, the beautiful carefree niece of the outspoken atheist Jeanbernat. After Serge and Albine fall in love, Serge recovers his memory and realizes the grave sin he has committed.

The Demise of Father Mouret

1970

I Go Out and You Stay Here poster
8.0

Weimar era screwball comedy about a floor model who is required to go out evenings to escort VIPs while her boyfriend has to wait at home.

I Go Out and You Stay Here

1931

No artwork available
7.0

The singer Saltore is accused of the murder of his wife's lover, and is sentenced to ten years' hard labour. His daughter proves his innocence when she discovers the culprit to be his wife, who wanted to end an embarrassing love affair.

La Voix sans visage

1933