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Cab No. 13
🇫🇷 FranceThe film starts with a woman on the run from her millionaire husband giving birth to a daughter in the home of a washerwoman. The woman dies in childbirth, but the baby survives. The washerwoman leaves the baby in a horsedrawn Parisian taxicab (No. 13). The paperwork of the birth is lost in a huge tome. Sixteen years pass. The tome is bought by a poor student. One day his bookshelf collapses, and the tome opens at the page where the paperwork has been hidden. The student realises that the paperwork relates to a millionaire who has spent the last sixteen years looking for his pregnant wife. The student traces the washerwoman, and he tricks her into confessing what she has done with the baby. Meanwhile, the baby has been adopted by the cab driver and his wife, and has grown into Lili Damita.
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Kiki
🇫🇷 FranceKiki, a poor young woman who sells newspapers on the street corners of Paris, is able to land a job singing and dancing at a nearby theater. While she is there, she invites herself into the life of the revue's manager, with whom she has fallen in love.
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Gribiche
🇫🇷 FranceGribiche, a young boy whose mother is a war widow, gets adopted by a rich woman. She wants to turn him into a perfect gentleman, but soon he feels unhappy.
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Jean Chouan
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyThis 8 chapter serial drama tells the story of a resistance movement led by Jean "Chouan" Cottereau against the Republicans in Western France starting in 1793.
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The Triumph of the Rat
🇫🇷 FrancePierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' and a former underworld notoriety, is now living the high life as the kept man of Zelie de Chaumet. But when she learns he is planning to marry another woman, her vengeance pursues him into the murkiest depths of Paris...
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Die Königin von Moulin Rouge
🇫🇷 Francea silent movie by Robert Wiene
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Young April
🇫🇷 FranceYoung orphan Victoria Sax becomes a grand duchess and is summoned to a remote kingdom.
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The Only Way
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyA dissolute English advocate goes to the guillotine in place of his aristocratic double.
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Private Izzy Murphy
🇫🇷 France The 1910sIsadore "Izzy" Goldberg changes his name to I. Patrick Murphy because his store is in an Irish-neighborhood in New York City. He meets Eileen Cohannigan, the daughter of a meat-packer, and he tells her he is Irish and a romance begins. When America enters World War I, "Izzy" enlists, is sent to France, and is wounded while engaged in a heroic rescue during a big battle. While recovering in an overseas hospital, he writes Eileen and tells her he is Jewish and not Irish. Returning home, he is parading with his regiment and he sees Eileen with Robert O'Malley, his old rival. He thinks she has thrown him over because he is Jewish. An Irish lodge comes to bestow an honor on the man they think is Patrick Murphy, an Irish hero. But O'Malley tells them his real name is Goldberg. But Eileen tels him it is he she loves, and they head for the marriage-license bureau.
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Paris
🇫🇷 France The 1900sAll the mystery, the glamour, the romance that stalk on every side when the clocks strike midnight in gay Paree. — The power of love in the violent underground world of the Apaches in Paris in the early 20th century.
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Mademoiselle from Armentieres
🇫🇷 France The 1910sA French girl meets her captured British lover whilst acting as a spy.
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Mons
🇫🇷 France The 1910sA reconstruction of the arrival of the British Army in France in August 1914, and of the retreat from Mons.
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Stranded in Paris
🇫🇷 FranceAmerican shop-girl Julie McFadden, wins a free passage to Paris; en route she meets Robert Van Wye, who has to kiss her when she loses a sack race. In Paris, Julie finds her proposed residence destroyed, and while waiting for Bob her purse is snatched; in the ensuing chase she gets lost and enters a dressmaker shop, where the two owners are in dire need of an English-speaking girl to deliver some gowns. Accidentally she is given free entry to the apartment of Countess Pasada and is shown to her rooms; the count is in his pajamas when she emerges from her bath, and she locks him in the bathroom.
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The Phantom of the Opera
🇫🇷 FranceThe greatest horror film of modern cinema! — A grotesquely disfigured composer known as "The Phantom" haunts Paris' opera house, where he's secretly grooming Christine Daae to be an opera diva. Luring her to his remote underground lair, The Phantom declares his love. But Christine loves Raoul de Chagny and plans to elope with him. When The Phantom learns this, he abducts Christine.
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The Big Parade
🇫🇷 France The 1910sThe epic of the American doughboy! — The story of an idle rich boy who joins the US Army's Rainbow Division and is sent to France to fight in World War I, becomes friends with two working class men, experiences the horrors of trench warfare, and finds love with a French girl.
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The Phantom of the Moulin-Rouge
🇫🇷 FranceA young man, unsuccessful in love, manages to leave his body and tours Paris, disembodied and invisible, playing practical jokes: a row of coats walks off from a hotel cloakroom; an unattended taxi drives itself away; a row of top hats appears on the pavement.
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The Rat
🇫🇷 FranceWhen bored courtesan Zelie de Chaumet begs her lover, the corrupt and powerful Stetz, to take her slumming, the pair encounter Pierre Boucheron, alias 'The Rat' , boy-king of the Paris underworld, and the innocent Odile. Love, life and jewels are risked and lost in this powerful romantic melodrama as the four characters' lives are changed by this chance encounter for ever.
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The Apache
🇫🇷 FranceIn Paris an Apache dancer weds his ex-fiancée's sister for revenge but learns to love.
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The Dressmaker from Paris
🇫🇷 FranceAn American soldier falls in love with a French maiden but their romance is thwarted when the Yanks return home. Years later she comes to America to put on a fashion show and find her long lost lover.
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Fifty-Fifty
🇫🇷 FranceAN HILARIOUS COMEDY OF INDESCRETIONS PROVING WHAT'S SAUCE FOR THE GOOSE IS SPICE FOR THE GANDER — Shortly after his marriage, a millionaire begins an affair with another woman. His wife tries to win him back by starting an affair herself.
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The Mad Dancer
🇫🇷 FranceThe UCLA Film And Television Archive and the George Eastman Museum hold complete copies.
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Her Dancing Partner
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Parisian Nights
🇫🇷 FranceAmerican sculptress Adele La Rue, working in Paris, lacks the inspiration to create a masterpiece, until Jean Ballard, a wild apache leader, takes refuge from the police in her apartment.
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The Crazy Ray
🇫🇷 FranceA night watchman on the Eiffel Tower wakes up to find the entire population of the city frozen in place.
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Monsieur Beaucaire
🇫🇷 France The 18th CenturyThe Duke of Chartres is in love with Princess Henriette, but she seemingly wants nothing to do with him. Eventually he grows tired of her insults and flees to England when Louis XV insists that the two marry. He goes undercover as Monsieur Beaucaire, the barber of the French Ambassador, and finds that he enjoys the freedom of a commoner’s life. After catching the Duke of Winterset cheating at cards, he forces him to introduce him as a nobleman to Lady Mary, with whom he has become infatuated. When Lady Mary is led to believe that the Duke of Chartres is merely a barber she loses interest in him. She eventually learns that he is a nobleman after all and tries to win him back, but the Duke of Chartres opts to return to France and Princess Henriette who now returns his affection.
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Beau Brummel
🇫🇷 France The 1810s The 18th Century...the Most Beautiful Romance in all History — George Bryan Brummel, a British military officer, loves Lady Margery, the betrothed of Lord Alvanley. Despite her own desperate love for Brummel, she submits to family pressure and marries Lord Alvanley. Brummel, broken-hearted, embarks upon a life of revelry.
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Shadows of Paris
🇫🇷 FranceA young woman rises from an apache dancer to become a wealthy woman in post-WW1 Paris.
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Human Desires
🇫🇷 FranceIn Paris an actress divorces a jealous impresario and weds the officer who once saved from from suicide.
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Mimi Pinson
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The Lover of Camille
🇫🇷 France The 1840sThe Lover of Camille was a 1924 American silent romantic drama film directed by Harry Beaumont, and starring Monte Blue. The film was based on the French novel Deburau by Sacha Guitry, which was also adapted into a Broadway play by Harley Granville-Barker.
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
🇫🇷 France The 15th CenturyIn 15th century France, a gypsy girl is framed for murder by the infatuated Chief Justice, and only the deformed bellringer of Notre Dame Cathedral can save her.
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A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
🇫🇷 FranceWhen Marie St. Clair believes she has been jilted by her artist fiance Jean, she decides to leave for Paris on her own. After spending a year in the city as a mistress of the wealthy Pierre Revel, she is reunited with Jean by chance. This leaves her with the choice between a glamorous life in Paris, and the true love she left behind.
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Scaramouche
🇫🇷 FranceA law student becomes an outlaw French revolutionary when he decides to avenge the unjust killing of his friend. To get close to the aristocrat who has killed his friend, the student adopts the identity of Scaramouche the clown.
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Zaza
🇫🇷 France The 1890sZaza is an actress and the favorite at an open-air theater in a small French town. When diplomat Bernard Dufresne comes to the village, he stays away for fear he will fall for her. But during one performance, while Zaza is singing on a swing, her rival cuts the rope and she falls. Zaza is badly injured and she makes Dufresne's acquaintance. A romance quickly springs up and he installs her in a villa. Their happiness is marred, however, when his wife appears.
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Ashes of Vengeance
🇫🇷 France The 16th CenturyThis historical piece, set in the Huguenot days of France, is Norma Talmadge's 37th feature film and the longest to date at two hours. The plot involves a man forced into servitude who falls in love with the sister of his persecutor. It was Ms. Talmadge's fourth involvement with director, Frank Lloyd and the cast included future star, Wallace Beery.
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Violettes impériales
🇫🇷 France The 1850sThis historical melodrama (later remade by Henry Roussel himself in 1932 and Richard Pottier in 1952) set during the reign of Napoleon III of France. Here, Raquel Meller plays a Spanish flower girl who saves the life of the French empress Eugenie de Montijo (played by Suzanne Blanchetti), by taking her place in her carriage. When the carriage is overthrown by the anarchist's bomb, the girl survives because of the masses of violets in the imperial carriage, the empress' favorite flowers.
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Die Flamme
🇫🇷 France The 19th CenturyIn 19th century Paris a hedonistic woman marries an aristocrat but has trouble keeping faithful to him.
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Woman to Woman
🇫🇷 FranceDavid Compton leaves his expecting French girl-friend Louise Boucher, a dancer at the Moulin Rouge, for the war where he looses his memory. Building a new life from scratch after the war, he gets married in London. Louise, now a mother, thinks him dead. She becomes a famous dancer under the name Deloryse but falls gravely ill. One night, as David is in the audience of her show, he recovers his memory. When she learns that David is married to another woman, Louise turns her son in the care of David's new wife and accepting a dancing job at a party, she dies there of exhaustion and sorrow.
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The Countess of Paris
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Tragedy of Love
🇫🇷 France1923 German silent film directed by Joe May and starring Mia May, Emil Jannings, and Marlene Dietrich. A 16mm acetate positive print held by the George Eastman Museum.
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The King of Paris
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Slave of Desire
🇫🇷 FrancePoet Raphael de Valentin is down on his luck until a friend introduces him into society. He meets the Countess Fedora, and after she reads his poems, his work becomes an overnight sensation.
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Beyond the Rocks
🇫🇷 FranceA young woman marries an older millionaire and then falls in love with a handsome nobleman on her honeymoon.
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