Paul Escoffier
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1875-06-20
Locus Natus: Cahors, France
Et ut: Adolphe Jean-Marie Escoffier
Pépé le Moko
Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for...
release : 1937.01.28popularis : 5.308
Bad Seed
A young man-about-Paris, cut off from his father's money, falls in with a picaresque gang of car thieves.
release : 1934.07.05popularis : 4.539
Roger la Honte
1871. Roger Laroque accuses himself of a crime he did not commit to save his mistress, Julia de Noirville, from dishonor. He escapes from prison and...
release : 1933.03.10popularis : 0.595
Moscow Nights
During the First World War, the Russian officer Captain Ivan Ignatoff falls in love with his nurse, Natasha Kovrin. But she is subject to an upcoming...
release : 1934.11.21popularis : 0.441
The Slump Is Over
A provincial tour fails without money in an abandoned theater in the capital and puts on a review under the sign of optimism.
release : 1934.10.05popularis : 1.504
The Imperial Road
An indigenous uprising in British controlled Iraq threatens the route to India, as a lobe triangle develops among the expatriates.
release : 1935.02.15popularis : 0.338
Hélène
Helene is based on Helene Wilfur, a novel by Vicki (Grand Hotel) Baum. Madeleine Renaud essays the title role, a young medical student in love with...
release : 1936.10.17popularis : 0.57
The Drunkard
A mother of three escapes the death sentence during her poisoning trial. After spending ten years in prison, she finds her children and rebuilds her...
release : 1937.02.19popularis : 0.675
The Men Without Names
The life in Morocco of an officer of the Foreign Legion, Colonel de Joyeuse.
release : 1937.12.01popularis : 1.936
Rasputin
Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last Russian czar, Nicholas.
release : 1938.01.28popularis : 1.282
Les Filles du Rhône
Frédérique, married to a brutal and vile being who dies tragically during a duel with the trident, falls in love with Jean, the...
release : 1938.04.20popularis : 0.484
Bargekeepers Daughter
Prince Sacha studies in Paris and cares more for Marianne than about Silistrie, the country his family was exiled from. But Chautard, a French...
release : 1938.10.11popularis : 0.632
Marked Girls
Juliette, an innocent woman, is wrongly sentenced to prison for attempted murder. After her release, she married an industrialist to whom she did not...
release : 1938.10.12popularis : 0.811
Katia
In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic girl from the provinces, unruly in character. He...
release : 1938.11.07popularis : 1.949
Hangman's Noose
In England, a boxer is sentenced to death for a murder he does not seem to have committed.... Anthony Gethryn, who has just resigned from the police...
release : 1940.11.23popularis : 0.602
Two Women
Considering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not allow her to turn to another man.
release : 1940.05.16popularis : 0.613
Fort Dolorès
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...
release : 1939.03.01popularis : 0.552
Visages de femmes
Georges Legrand is a young unscrupulous reveler. He seduces Fred, a woman doctor before shamelessly dumping her for Aline Ribourg, a tennis player....
release : 1939.03.08popularis : 0.851
Fromont Young and Risler Elder
An ambitious and perverse adventurer sows dissension and ruin in a wealthy family of industrialists.
release : 1941.10.08popularis : 0.988
The Path of Honor
Two twin brothers have joined the army, Paul by vocation is a lieutenant of spahis and Georges to escape the police is a sergeant in the Foreign...
release : 1940.03.09popularis : 0.783
Face au destin
Two modest young employees, Jean and Madeleine, dream of leading the way, but the experience turns out badly. Madeleine marries a German aristocrat...
release : 1941.09.17popularis : 0.567
The Man Who Seeks the Truth
Jean Vernet, an unselfish banker, feels fine : he has a charming mistress, Jacqueline ; a godson, Fernand, that he took in when he was a child and...
release : 1940.03.20popularis : 0.683
The Reign of Terror
The scene takes place in Paris in March 1793 during the Reign of Terror. The Knight of Maison-Rouge, posing as Citizen Morand, is organizing the...
release : 1914.02.27popularis : 1.196
Germinal
Based on Emile Zola's novel, an uncompromisingly harsh and realistic story of a coalminers' strike in northern France in the 1860s.
release : 1913.10.03popularis : 2.052
The Curtain Rises
1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique"). The first-year entrance exams...
release : 1938.10.06popularis : 3.424
The End of the Day
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he...
release : 1939.03.24popularis : 3.535
Culprit
A man from a wealthy family falls in love with a florist, but the lover has to go to war and to leave his darling crying... and giving birth to a...
release : 1937.01.21popularis : 0.392
Un soir au cocktail's bar
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.
release : 1929.05.10popularis : 0.405