Movies: Léon Arvel
- 1951
Diary of a Country Priest (1951)
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An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bibl...
- 1937
Yoshiwara (1937)
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Based on a novel by Maurice Dekobra, the film is set in the Yoshiwara, the red-light district of Tokyo, in the nineteenth century. It depicts a love triangle between a high-class prostitute, a Russian naval officer, and a rickshaw man....
- 1948
The Eleven O'Clock Woman (1948)
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Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving anonymous letters. And soon a mysterious murder is committed. SOS begins to investigate......
- 1936
With a Smile (1936)
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A tramp learns that even honesty won't help him overcome his struggles to prosper. After a man tells him that he needs to smile in order to succeed, he turns his attitude around and he becomes successful....
- 1954
Papa, Mama, the Maid and I (1954)
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- 1934
Liliom (1934)
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Two 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 goi...
- 1937
Sisters-in-Arms (1937)
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During the war from '14-'18, two women travel by foot in the North of France and Belgium to aid an organization to provide information to the English...
- 1934
Le Bonheur (1934)
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Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation and curiosity to know his motives, pleads in his favour at his trial, but he rebuffs her pity. After h...
- 1947
The Scarlet Bazaar (1947)
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Agnès Bonnardet leaves her parents to marry Claude Sironi, a painter who becomes famous but loses his talent. Meanwhile Agnes acquires a style of her own as an artist, which makes Claude jealous of his young wife. One day, he sends one of his own pai...
- 1937
La Chanson du Souvenir (1937)
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A French-language remake of Douglas Sirk's "The Court Concert" (1936)....
- 1931
David Golder (1931)
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David is a poor but ambitious Polish Jew who reinvents himself as a powerful New York business magnate. After gaining wealth, he relocates to Paris, only to have his selfish and demanding wife squander his fortune....
- 1934
Itto (1934)
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Filmed in French Morocco, Itto's dialogue is spoken primarily in the tribal Chleuh language. The jingoistic story concerns a series of clashes between French occupational forces and a rebellious Chleuh chieftain. Itto (Simone Berriau), chief's daught...
- 1936
Mister Flow (1936)
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While still behind bars, a crook manages several schemes including one that almost gets his penniless young lawyer into trouble.The crook's mistress, married to a rich man, then becomes attracted to the lawyer....
- 1948
In the Eyes of Memory (1948)
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Director Jean Delannoy's immediate followup to his brilliant Les Jeux sont Faits was the more conventional Aux Yeux du Souvenir (aka Souvenir and To the Eyes of Memory). The film is based on a true story, wherein an France airliner managed to survive...
- 1935
Baccara (1935)
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A rich banker is actually a crook. His mistress, an alien, wants to become French and the only way is to marry a Frenchman....
- 1939
Cordial Agreement (1939)
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The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by Andr...
- 1937
Blanchette (1937)
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Blanchette, unable to find a job, prostitutes herself in Paris. She then finds the man she loves when her morale is at its lowest....
- 1935
Flight Into Darkness (1935)
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During the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon (Jean-Pierre Aumont) has a liaison with Helene (Annabella), a married woman. The young man discovers that his mistress is none other than the wife of Maury (Charles...
- 1931
Circulate! (1931)
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- 1934
S. S. Tenacity (1934)
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Bastien and Ségard decide to leave France for Canada. They buy tickets aboard a rickety craft, the Tenacity, that never quite seems able to leave port. While stuck there they both fall for the innkeeper's daughter, which causes them to rethink their ...