Gina Manès

Bonaparte et la révolution (1972)

Abel Gance's 1971 sound edition of his epic 1927 'Napoleon', which contains much of the silent original, with new material shot and added in both 1965 and 1971, and with sound synchronization from both the 1932 reissue and this version. ...

Pas de panique (1966)

A robbery of 10 billion is successfully carried out by a Corsican gang led by a man called Toussaint. The heist is also the start of a war with a rival gang. ...

Le bonheur est pour demain (1961)

Alain is a young man who has just left his parents and finds himself lost in Saint-Nazaire, a French coastal town whose main industry is shipbuilding. Alain arrives just as the liner SS France is under construction and he soon strikes up lasting friendship ...

Mimi Pinson (1958)

Dany Robin plays the title character in the French comedy Mimi Pinson. The plot is strictly formula stuff, with Mimi being thwarted on all sides by those who have designs on her money and her virtue. Happily, our heroine triumphs over her foes and predator ...

A Certain Mr. Jo (1958)

Jo Guardini, now the peaceful owner of a charming inn by the banks of the River Marne, once was a dreaded gangster. The respectful citizen does not want to have anything to do with the underworld any more. Unfortunately, two of his former accomplices kidna ...

Premier mai (1958)

On this beautiful May 1st, Thérèse is about to give birth. Their presence at home is undesirable, so Jean, her husband, decides to take François, their little boy, to a soccer match. Their plans change when they meet a former factory mate who seems to h ...

Sinners of Paris (1958)

Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Charles Vanel. The inspector knows full well that Vanel is too crafty and well-connected to ever stand trial for his crime, so he carefully lays a subtle trap ...

Les Lumières du soir (1956)

A young opera dancer tries to help her mother financially by performing in a dubious cabaret. ...

Pity for the Vamps (1956)

Paris, 1956. Three sisters, three actresses willing to do almost anything to make it big. Their lives, their loves, their dramas. A savory satire of the world of show business and cinema in particular. ...

Law of the Streets (1956)

Yves Tréguier, a young orphan, escapes from a reform school in Brittany to join "Dédé la Glace" in Paris, an old-timer with whom he has a sincere friendship. The love of Zette, a young girl he has met, and the benevolent friendship of Father Blain, the ...

Fernandel the Dressmaker (1956)

A modest taylor the women found irresistible inherit a Maison de couture in financial difficulty. Decided to save it he prepare a great collection. But when his wife discovered his relations with one of the mannequin, how would he prevent the scandale with ...

Sister Angele's Secret (1956)

A young novitiate witnesses a murder. Later, she recognizes the culprit, who admits to the killing; the sister works to convince him to turn himself in to the police. ...

The Count of Bragelonne (1954)

Raoul de Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin. ...

The Beautiful Otero (1954)

An Italo-French biopic about one of the most famous women of Belle Époque, Spanish-born dancer and actress, star of Folies-Bèrgere: Carolina Otero. ...

Nights of Shame (1954)

Marie-Thérèse is firmly involved in a charity dedicated to the rehabilitation of prostitutes. She approaches Marcelle who, for the love of Pierre, an honest painter, hides her dishonorable profession, and she befriends Maria, in love with the gentle Renà ...

Palace of Shame (1954)

Tongues start to wag after a famous Parisian music hall dancer is rushed to hospital after being found poisoned by arsenic at the Concert Mayol. ...

La Danseuse de Marrakech (1950)

A little Métis girl, Kalina is saved from a massacre by Taraor, a black man from Sudan. Having become a great and beautiful dancer from the South, she meets Captain Portal, in garrison in Marrakech. This is the beginning of a great love story. But that's ...

Daughter of the Sands (1949)

This Moroccan romance is a kind of Arab Tristan and Isolde: the heroine kills herself when she is convinced no one cares for her, the young nobleman she thought would love her is killed by a madwoman. ...

Le Bateau à soupe (1947)

Hervé is a tough sea captain in command of the "Duchesse Anne", a rum-trading ship. But the sea dog hides a tender heart and he allows Marie-Douce, a poor slum girl who dreams of seeing the wide world,on board. To have her accepted by the crew, he passes ...

Majestic Hotel Cellars (1945)

Maigret is called to the high-class Hotel Majestic to investigate a body. The wife of a wealthy American has been killed - but to Maigret's surprise she has a gun in her purse. He begins to follow up the handful of clues that could explain her secret life ...

Retour au bonheur (1942)

Wanting to complete the research of her doctor husband, a former actress returns to the stage and therefore abandons her home. Badly supervised, her little boy runs away. We find him ill in the Alps. He is saved by his father and the parents' union is seal ...

Coral Reefs (1939)

The adventures of a sailor from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lonely girl. ...

Fort Dolorès (1939)

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 them might relapse. They find shelter in a hacienda on the pampas. They believe they are now safe from the ev ...

Le Mariage de Véréna (1938)

Verena, a farm servant, gives birth to a little girl and for the happiness of her child, tries for nearly twenty years to bend the selfishness of the seducer who did not marry her. When she returns to the village, she has worn herself out at work, but she ...

Sirocco (1938)

Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic in the native quarter of Sirocco. She flees to France, first as the mistress and then wife of a wealthy archaeologist, and bears him Matteo's child, whom h ...

S.O.S. Sahara (1938)

At a North Africa desert outpost threatened by Arabs, the French commander has added trouble when his wife visits and is captivated by a younger officer. ...

Gosse de riche (1938)

The daughter of an industrialist takes an interest in the workers and tries to improve their lot. She avoids a strike, and falls in love with an engineer. ...

The Postmaster's Daughter (1938)

A small town postal official allows a military officer to sweep his lovely daughter away to St. Petersburg, assuming the man will do the right thing and marry her.Instead, a future of scandal and tragedy awaits her. ...

Hatred (1938)

Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the victim of a malicious attack, he returns to his hometown of Dunkirk. Mollenard receives a frosty welcome f ...

Les Réprouvés (1937)

At the borders of the Saharan desert, the dramatic situation of a battalion of light infantry attacked by the enemy. ...

Wolves Between Them (1936)

A Nazi spy has stolen a gas mask filter of formidable efficiency in Paris. Two agents from the 2nd office have the task of going to take him back to Berlin. ...

Maria de la nuit (1936)

A cabaret singer in Barcelona sacrifices her feelings for an exiled young Frenchman who had been falsely accused of a crime, when the sister of the real culprit seeks the exile out. ...

Temptation (1936)

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La brigade en jupons (1936)

Two female police officers dismantle a network of drug traffickers. ...

La Mystérieuse Lady (1936)

In India, a British detachment finds itself surrounded in a village by invisible enemies. An officer is assassinated, then another. The adversary seems very well informed. By who ? A group of twenty men who had gone to seek help were annihilated. An Americ ...

Mayerling (1936)

Rudolf, the only heir to Emperor Franz Josef of Austria-Hungary, is trapped in a loveless marriage to a Belgian princess. As he seeks to flee his stifling environment, he meets the beautiful Maria, and the two enter into a scandalous affair. Despite the in ...

Divine (1935)

A country girl finds work as a chorus girl in Paris, gets embroiled with a bad egg, and then finds true love with a good-looking milkman. ...

Napoléon Bonaparte (1935)

A second version of Gance's Napoléon, with sound. ...

The Pont-Biquet Family (1935)

The family Pont-Biquet is composed as follows: father, the judge, afflicted by deafness; authoritarian and irascible mother; funny son-in-law; an ingenious son who has a mistress. ...

The Devil in the Bottle (1935)

If a sailor uses a magic bottle he found that grants whatever he desires, will his soul be lost to the Devil? ...

Barcarolle (1935)

Mam'zelle Spahi (1934)

Two mistresses snubbed by their respective lovers crash a military ball and their lovers then resort to an unusual strategy to win them back. ...

L'amour qu'il faut aux femmes (1934)

Pax (1933)

La voie sans disque (1933)

Toward the close of World War I, European railroads in Djibouti are under siege by bands of indigenous warriors, while one of the white employees falls for a mysterious woman tied to the rebels. ...

A Man's Head (1933)

Willy Ferrière is a gambler living beyond his means, and his mistress is as greedy as he's dead broke. One day, he says out of loud in a a Montparnasse café that he would give 100,000 francs to get rid of his wealthy aunt so he could claim his inheritanc ...

Under the Leather Helmet (1932)

Set in Rumania, the film focuses on a female secret agent who intends to use an airplane to fly behind enemy lines. While she awaits her flight to destiny, the girl spends several days with a French flying squadron. Her sexy presence causes the pilots to b ...

The bewitchment of Seville (1931)

Somersault (1931)

French language version. ...