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Cagliostro
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyParis, France, 1784. After living many tribulations, Joseph Balsamo, known as Count Cagliostro, an infamous adventurer, enigmatic magician and necromancer, experienced physician and ruthless swordsman, triumphs among the members of the decadent French aristocracy. But a bold foretelling about a very prominent noblewoman causes his fall in disgrace… (Partially lost film.)
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The Return of the Rat
🇫🇷 FranceThe rich, amoral Zelie is married to Pierre Boucheron, "The Rat" - but her interest in another man is an open secret. Forced to defend his honour, the Rat takes refuge in his old domain of the Paris underworld. But even here he has a rival - and when murder is afoot, the sinister Morel's ambition threatens to cost the Rat dear....
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Pavement Butterfly
🇫🇷 FranceIn this, her second silent film with Eichberg, Wong plays Princess Butterfly, an exotic Parisian fan dancer whose “death leap through a circle of naked swords” act goes tragically wrong. Blamed for the impalement of a fellow performer, she runs away and takes shelter with a handsome but starving painter who she brings luck.
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Week-End Wives
🇫🇷 FranceA lawyer spends the weekend with a married actress at the same hotel as his wife and her lover. This British silent film exists in an abridged 2-reel (32-min) format.
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The Broken Melody
🇫🇷 FranceAn exiled Prince living in Paris, begins a dalliance with an opera singer before returning to his wife.
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Adieu Mascotte
🇫🇷 FranceBased on a story by Michael Linsky, Adieu Mascotte revolves around an artist's model named Mascotte (Harvey) who ekes out a hand-to-mouth existence in the Parisian art colony. In dire need of money to finance a friend's operation, Mascotte auctions herself off at an artist's ball. She is "bought" by a novelist named Jean (Harry Halm), who merely wants to teach his flirtatious wife a lesson. Discreetly keeping his distance, Jean persuades Mascotte to pose as his mistress so that his wife will become jealous and return to his arms. Of course, things don't go as planned, and before long Jean and Mascotte have fallen in love.
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Latin Quarter
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Kitty
🇫🇷 France The 1910sA shopgirl loves a paralysed amnesiac and kidnaps him from his interfering mother.
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Seven Faces
🇫🇷 FranceA 1929 American pre-Code drama film with fantasy elements that was released by Fox Film Corporation in the Fox Movietone sound-on-film system on December 1, 1929.
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L'Argent
🇫🇷 France The 1920sAdapted from the novel L'Argent by Émile Zola, the film portrays the world of banking and the stock market in Paris in the 1920s.
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A Girl in Every Port
🇫🇷 FranceYou'll Like This One!---It's a rollicking, jolly, happy picture---a laugh all the way. — Two sailors with a rivalry over chasing women become friends. But when one decides to finally settle down, will this mysterious young women come between them?
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Misdeal
🇫🇷 FranceMaldone is a canal worker, happy with his life after running away from his family estate. He falls in love with Zita, a young gypsy girl, during a local fete. However, after his brother dies, Maldone is called back to manage the estate. There, he takes up the life of a landowner and marries a neighbor's daughter. Years later Maldone is still restless on the estate, and becomes obsessed with Zita, after meeting her by chance one evening.
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A Blonde for a Night
🇫🇷 FranceAfter an argument, a newlywed decides to test her husband's fidelity by disguising herself as a blonde.
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Riley the Cop
🇫🇷 FranceIn this early comedy from John Ford, Riley is a New York Irish cop sent to Germany to track down a young man who stole money from a local bakery.
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Parisiennes
🇫🇷 FranceA house in Paris happens to have two families living there with the same last name. In one apartment lives opera singer Gambetta Duval with his two daughters, Jeanne and Nita. In the second apartment lives old lady Duval with her grandchild Philippa and an her lodger, the physician Leon Monnier. Jeanne is secretly in love with Dr. Monnier who is secretly in love with Nita, who is secretly having an affair with the great playwright Armand de Marny.
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Dream of Love
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyA duke has deposed Prince Mauritz's father, so Mauritz spends his time in affairs with a countess, the duke's wife and a gypsy girl Adrienne. Years later she is a famous actress in a play resembling the sad story of their earlier relationship. He falls in love with her again. The jealous duchess and the duke arrange to have him shot by firing squad but revolutionaries save him and make him King.
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The Secret Courier
🇫🇷 France The 1820sA silent adventure based on the classic novel by Stendhal "The Red and the Black".
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The Amateur Adventure
🇫🇷 Francea silent movie by Robert Wiene
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The Woman on the Rack
🇫🇷 Francea silent movie by Robert Wiene
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Dry Martini
🇫🇷 FranceIt's Naughty But It's Nice — Upon hearing that his daughter Elizabeth, is coming from America to visit him in Paris, wealthy Willoughby Quimby, decides to give up dry martinis and women. However, Elizabeth seeks a wild time and ends up leaving France with her father's drinking buddy, Freddie, and Willoughby goes back to his dry martinis.
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Paradise
🇫🇷 FranceThe daughter of a poor clergyman wins £500 and goes to find happiness on the Riviera.
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Adam's Apple
🇫🇷 FranceAn American on his honeymoon in Paris, organises the kidnapping of his interfering mother-in-law.
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Confetti
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Napoleon
🇫🇷 France The 18th Century The 1800sA massive 5 1/2 hour biopic of Napoleon, tracing his career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign), his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797 (the film stops there because it was intended to be part one of six, but director Abel Gance never raised the money to make the other five). The film's legendary reputation is due to the astonishing range of techniques that Gance uses to tell his story, culminating in the final twenty-minute triptych sequence, which alternates widescreen panoramas with complex multiple- image montages projected simultaneously on three screens.
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Downhill
🇫🇷 FranceA College Hero round whom is woven a picture of Love and Treachery. — Roddy, first son of the rich Berwick family, is expelled from school when he takes the blame for his friend Tim's charge. His family sends him away and all of his friends leave him alone. Roddy decides to go to Paris where he spends what little money he has and starts working as a dancer. He soon becomes a victim of alcoholism. Roddy manages to move to England's colonies but some sailors send him back to his rich family hoping for a reward.
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7th Heaven
🇫🇷 France The 1910sA dejected Parisian sewer worker feels his prayers have been answered when he falls in love with a street waif.
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The Beloved Rogue
🇫🇷 France The 15th CenturyFrançois Villon, in his lifetime the most renowned poet in France, is also a prankster, an occasional criminal, and an ardent patriot.
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When a Man Loves
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyTo love her meant-disaster...he fought the world and wrecked his life! — A nobleman studying for the priesthood abandons his vocation in 18th Century France when he falls in love with a beautiful, but reluctant, courtesan.
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The Love of Jeanne Ney
🇫🇷 FranceIn the Crimea, the Reds and the Whites aren't done fighting, and Jeanne discovers that the man she loves is a Bolshevik (when he kills her father). Penniless, she returns to Paris where she works for her uncle. Soon after, her lover Andreas is in France to organize the sailors in Toulon. So also is a thief, traitor, and libertine, Khalibiev, who wants to seduce Jeanne. His schemes, Jeanne and Andreas's naivete, and a lost diamond bring the lovers to the brink of tragedy.
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Marquitta
🇫🇷 FranceThe tumultuous relationship between a street singer and a prince.
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Blighty
🇫🇷 France The 1910sA chauffeur becomes an officer and later cares for his master's widow and child.
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Dr. Bessels Verwandlung
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Die Frauen von Folies Bergères
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Maxim's Porter
🇫🇷 FranceA man lives a normal family life during the day, but late evening he becomes a different person, taken to night-clubs and their attractions of songs and bohemia.
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Ham and Eggs at the Front
🇫🇷 France The 1910sFifi, a dusky, sultry Senegalese spy, uses her wiles to get information out of two American army soldiers, Ham and Eggs, in France during World War I.
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Roses of Picardy
🇫🇷 France The 1910sIn France, and ex-lieutenant returns to find his sweetheart is caring for a baron's blinded son.
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A Kiss in a Taxi
🇫🇷 FranceBebe Daniels was at the peak of her silent stardom when she appeared in this comedy, which was really more slapstick than farce. Ginette (Daniels) is a waitress at Pierre's café. She is in love with Lucien (Douglas Gilmore) and hates getting attention from anyone else. Whenever another man tries to kiss her, she angrily starts throwing glassware. The restaurant's patrons find this amusing, and Leon Lambert (Henry Kolker) makes a bet that he will be able to kiss her. (Janiss Garza)
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Spuds
🇫🇷 France The 1910sIn France during World War I, an army payroll car containing $250,000 turns up missing. A GI, nicknamed "Spuds" because of his prowess at peeling potatoes, discovers that it was stolen by German spies, and--since his captain was responsible for the car and will be in big trouble if it's not recovered--goes behind the enemy lines to retrieve both the car and the $250,000 payroll.
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The Magician
🇫🇷 FranceTHEY FOUGHT FOR A GIRL'S SOUL! — A young woman, Margaret Dauncey, is caught between the forces of a charlatan magician, Oliver Haddo, whom she is unable to resist, and the love of a handsome surgeon, Arthur Burdon, who has saved her from being a helpless cripple by performing a delicate operation on her spine.
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So This Is Paris
🇫🇷 FrancePaul and Suzanne Giraud are happily married and living in a quiet neighborhood. When Suzanne notices that their new neighbors are expressive dancers in revealing outfits, she demands Paul speak to them about their lack of morality. Paul discovers that the woman is Georgette Lalle, an old flame... - Based on the 1872 stage play Le Reveillon by Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halevy.
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The Temptress
🇫🇷 FranceA seductive woman forsakes her husband and lover to pursue a young engineer.
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La Bohème
🇫🇷 France The 1830sIt is 1830 in Paris and the rent is due, but the money is not there. An article here, a painting there and a monkey with a cup gives them enough money for the rent, but not for food. Fortunately, Musette from downstairs has enough food for everyone including Mimi - the poor little waif from next door who Rodolphe has met. But Count Paul also has his lusting eye on Mimi and uses her embroidery to get close to her. Rodolphe and Mimi fall in love and Mimi works endlessly to support Rodolphe who is writing his play with a new found passion. He does not know that he has been discharged from writing for 'Dog and Cat Fanciers'. Mimi wants to get his play produced and Count Paul offers to help, but there is a terrible fight when Rodolphe thinks that Mimi is faithless to him with Count Paul. After the fight, he seeks out a doctor as she is sick, but she has left when Rodolphe returns and will stay away until his play is finished.
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Bardelys the Magnificent
🇫🇷 France The 17th CenturyThe screen's great lover in a dashing role! — Rafael Sabatini's story of the swashbuckling era and of Bardeleys, the handsome courtier who could win any woman he set his mind to...and was not above boasting about it to all who would listen.
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