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Paul Frankeur (29 June 1905 - 27 October 1974) was a French actor who appeared in films by Jacques Tati (Jour de fête) and Luis Buñuel (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Phantom of Liberty). He was sometimes credited as Paul Francoeur.
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21 March 1947
Alain Marchal, wrongly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from prison the day before his execution.
29 July 1962
During World War II, an innkeeper vows to abstain from alcohol for the sake of his family. Years later, as they thrive in Normandy, his resolve is tested by a charming advertising professional who loves to drink.
16 June 1964
Didier Formenter, the French scientist, has just put the final touch on an invention that will be able to destroy to destroy any sort of flying apparatus.
28 November 1969
Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the marriage contract, and marriage does not fit in with Benjamin's spirit of independence.
19 April 1942
Robert and Françoise Monier make a hot air balloon to fly to the stratosphere. After a visit to Venus, they return home, but have only aged 15 days whereas 25 years have passed on Earth.
14 July 1959
Oscar, a shy lifeguard, flees the wrath of his boss following the disaster caused by the water purification machine he has developed.
27 February 1953
While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier recalls two of his most celebrated cases. The first involves duplicitous moneylender Olga.
26 October 1949
A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse in the floor, and a wine aficionado who buries his friend alive.
10 March 1970
In a small Italian village live a group of men, each as miscreant as the next. Among them is the baker, violent and miserly.
31 May 1966
In June 1944, a young doctor, Chevalier, under the threat of guns, is forced to treat a wounded man in a camp of resistance fighters (maquisards).
26 February 1954
The title of this French "reality" drama, which translates to Before the Deluge, is a play on Louis XVI's famous prognostication, "Apres moi, le deluge.
01 February 1966
A thief falls in love with a maid and goes on the run after stealing Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa"
31 May 1946
Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love with Diavalo.
14 May 1958
Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky (Najda Tiller), whom he considers to be more victim than criminal.
15 March 1945
In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actress Garance.
15 September 1972
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
10 September 1974
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel.
11 April 1967
A survivor of the Spanish Civil War who had been in French internment camps takes refuge with a family of winegrowers in the Jura.
26 July 1955
In Paris during the Second Empire, Count Muffat, despite his prejudices against loose women, falls madly in love with Nana, a young kept woman and star of the Théâtre des Variétés.
20 September 1950
Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads something different into the presented facts.
17 March 1954
Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the style they enjoy.
12 April 1957
Louis Bertain is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his accomplices are careful to keep up a civic veneer by day, indulging in criminal activities only when "the red light is on" at night.
20 August 1956
François Cardinaud is one of the richest shipowners in the region. But this success arouses resentment and jealousy.
08 April 1959
Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.
10 July 1942
Denis, a poor student in philosophy, works as a night porter in the Paris market of Les Halles in order to pay for his studies.
02 September 1959
Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the request of the Countess of Saint-Fiacre, who has received a disturbing anonymous letter.
19 March 1961
In a small circus campaign, the act of Valentine, the dwarf, is one of the highlights of the show. But then one night, he grew suddenly and turns into a handsome young man of six feet tall.
28 February 1969
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way from France to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way, they meet a vast assortment of characters—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
07 April 1955
Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer.
18 September 1963
Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help land an influential mobster in jail.
06 November 1953
Star-crossed lovers Thérèse and Laurent think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's weakling husband "falls" from a speeding train.
16 March 1950
Au p'tit Zouave, a café, sees a colorful clientele from working-class Paris. An assassin will shake up the daily life of the regulars.
21 September 1951
An unhappy wife who has had a child by her lover lives a daily drama under the watchful eye of her husband who hates them both.
03 October 1962
The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive characters.
22 December 1954
The scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first, the group fails to comprehend where they are or why they're there.
06 September 1968
Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge.
21 October 1959
While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away, and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone.
01 November 1966
A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.
18 December 1959
The wife of an accused murderer embarks on a dangerous masquerade to find the real culprit behind a dancer's death.
02 August 1961
Richard killed his wife out of jealousy, but was acquitted. During the vacations, he meets a young girl and decides to start a new life with her.
21 May 1952
Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former lawyer who detested France's execution system.
01 September 1943
A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the village idiot.
13 June 1961
The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys out his other relatives in order to gain full control over the dead man's property.
15 February 1956
During a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman Clothilde who works there.
24 April 1959
A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin.
04 January 1954
A terminally ill Mr. Bard, a casino bus driver forced to quit his job, miraculously wins a fortune playing roulette.
03 February 1944
The strength of a couple's fascination with airplanes and flight is to the detriment of their family.
06 April 1949
In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up and prepare for a new day at work.
21 January 1959
Paul Lamiani, a wizened mobster, is asked to return to duty following the disappearance of secret documents of extreme importance.
06 September 1945
In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of his boarding school director.
28 March 1951
Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.
03 April 1946
An aspiring singer tries to break into films during the early talkie era. She is hired to dub the singing and speaking voice of a silent-movie favorite.
13 September 1957
In North Africa, an anguished husband tests the character of the doctor he believes is responsible for his wife’s death.
04 August 1965
Arthur can no longer stand married life. He wants to get rid of his wife and live with his mistress. In doing so, he makes a mistake and kills his mistress Clara.
16 December 1949
Louis Mennechain is a modest locksmith. So imagine his amazement when Professor Piétrefond approaches him and tells him he recognizes in him a descendant of the kings of France, more precisely of Louis XVII (the king who never reigned).
11 May 1949
Jour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French mailman who frequently interrupts his duties to converse with the local inhabitants, as well as inspect the traveling fair that has come to his small community.
26 November 1948
A series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and leading actor, that examine the bores and pests of everyday life much like Pete Smith and Robert Benchley had done for years in American short subjects.
20 May 1960
Charles is a student in Strasbourg. Abandoned by Liliane, his fiancée, who has inexplicably given up on marriage, he moves to Paris, where he decides to pursue a career in cinema.
