Movies: Henri Rollan
- 1952
Fan-Fan the Tulip (1952)
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Fanfan is a young handsome peasant. He joins the army to escape marriage because a gypsy girl predicted he will get glory and the king's daughter as a wife. But the gypsy girl was in fact Adeline, the daughter of the recruiting officer. Once he has d...
- 1925
The Crazy Ray (1925)
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A night watchman on the Eiffel Tower wakes up to find the entire population of the city frozen in place....
- 1957
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin (1957)
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Arsène Lupin is extremely popular among the population, because he allows the needy to share in his acquired wealth. Before entering the service of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, he removes his vault in Alsace, steals two paintings of old masters, st...
- 1921
The Three Musketeers (1921)
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A 14-episode silent adaptation of Alexandre Dumas' The Three Musketeers....
- 1952
Buridan, hero of the tower of Nesle (1952)
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In Paris in 1314, the knight Jean Buridan is in love with Mirtille but the young woman is already coveted by the king's brother....
- 1950
Les Nouveaux Maîtres (1950)
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Durand, a big industrialist, works with an international adventurer, Mr. Ernest, who covets Mrs. Durand and threatens to bankrupt her husband if she does not consent. She calls him a jerk. Mr. Ernest sets out to ruin the Durands, and leaves in the ca...
- 1933
The Ironmaster (1933)
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A young noblewoman is unhappy about needing to marry the village ironmaster for financial reasons, but later comes to appreciate her husband....
- 1951
Bluebeard (1951)
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Just before wowing international critics and moviegoers with his adventure romp Fanfan la Tulipe, director Christian-Jaque dashed off the lampoonish Barbe-Bleue. Ostensibly the story of the famed wife-killing potentate Bluebeard (Pierre Brasseur), th...
- 1964
Le cardinal d'Espagne (1964)
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This play by Henry de Montherland, takes place in 1517 and depicts the Cardinal de Cisneros, an authoritarian man approaching his end, regent of the throne of Spain oscillating between his desire for power and his tendency to inaction. Thinking himse...
- 1936
The Tomboy (1936)
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The eponymous garçonne or flapper is Monique Lerbier, an emancipated French woman who leaves home to escape a marriage of convenience to a man she does not love which her parents have forced on her. She then falls into all sorts of carnal temptations...
- 1934
The Adventurer (1934)
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A scandalised Frenchman returns from Africa where he has been involved in illegal trading of mines (resulting in the deaths of many African miners). His bourgeois family are wary of the shame that he will bring so he must try to redeem himself and hi...
- 1937
The Black Angels (1937)
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Two 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 ...
- 1934
Le Scandale (1934)
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A woman suffers ill repute when she deserts her husband for a fling with an adventurer and gives the lover jewelry to pay the hotel bill. Will the husband be understanding and forgive her?...
- 1932
Moonlight (1932)
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While sailing on a yacht off the French Riviera a shy young man and the owner's daughter are shipwrecked on an island....
- 1954
Les amoureux de Marianne (1954)
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Gaston Duboutois and Catherine Berton love each other, and are about to play Romeo and Juliet in their small provincial town. The industrialist Duboutois is opposed to his accountant Berton, both of whom are running for parliament. Tempers flare and ...
- 1938
The Life of Giuseppe Verdi (1938)
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The great Italian opera composer recalls his eventful life on his deathbed: his childhood in Busseto, his studies in Milan, his first opera "Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio", the death of his wife and his children killed by smallpox....
- 1914
The Reign of Terror (1914)
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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 escape of Queen Marie-Antoinette. He is assisted in his undertaking by Dixmer, a master tanner who passes...
- 1950
The Gamblers (1950)
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Adaptation of classical Russian Nikolai Gogol's comedy....
- 1960
Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur (1960)
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Tartuffe, a hypocritical man confided in false devotion, monopolizes the confidence of Orgon, a wealthy bourgeois and undertakes to seduce his wife Elmire. Having been unmasked by the latter, he strives to precipitate the ruin of his benefactor....
- 1960
Port-Royal (1960)
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1661, the Assemblée du Clergé de France obliged all clergy to sign a form testifying to their submission to the decisions of the Holy See. In 1664, the Archbishop of Paris wanted to impose this decision on the nuns of Port-Royal. Among them was Siste...