Sylviane de Castillo
Actor
Movies15
Movie6.4HistoryCrimeIn 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Les Misérables
1925 · 8 votes
Movie7.0DramaA mother sells a photo of her daughter to the press for publicity, and a daughter suddenly dies leaving the mother desperate surrounding by portraits of her daughter all around town.
- Movie7.0RomanceComedy
This French film confection directed by Henry Roussell concerns two young Parisian beauties in love with same fellow (Fernand Fabre). When one of the girls (Suzy Vernon) goes to America, the one who stays home (Esther Kiss) thinks shes triumphed. But when the traveler returns and the guy goes for her new-found sophistication, the competition continues- including the hilariously mock-heroic duel we see in this four-sheet design.
Paris' Girls
1929 · 1 votes
- Movie7.0DramaComedy
Colette, an engineer in a car factory, loves Jean, her colleague, who only sees her as a friend. Jean's childhood friend soon makes them fall in love.
Virages
1930 · 1 votes
Movie8.0AdventureMysteryBelphégor deals with a series of mysterious appearances by a masked-and-robed figure in the Louvre; a security guard is murdered, and a later police trap is foiled when the phantom—“Belphégor” (the name of a legendary demon)—uses knock-out gas. Journalist Jacques Bellegarde of “Le Petit Parisien” (the real-life newspaper which published the original story in serial installments), investigates, and eventually discovers famous detective Chantecoq and his vivacious daughter Colette are also on the case.
Belphégor
1927 · 4 votes
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Cléo d'Aubigny, a music-hall star, once had a love affair with the rich Lord Sedley and had a son from him. But Cléo, putting her career first, has always neglected little Hugues, letting Lord Sedley take him with him and educate him. Now she feels terribly guilty and tries to resume contact with her son.
Movie6.2DramaGribiche, 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.
Gribiche
1926 · 13 votes
Movie7.5DramaThe Bread Peddler is a 1923 French silent drama film directed by René Le Somptier and starring Suzanne Desprès, Gabriel Signoret and Geneviève Félix. It is based on Xavier de Montépin's novel of the same title.
Movie9.0- Movie10.0
Pierre Laurier is under the thumb of a dangerous woman. He considers committing suicide but would like to bequeath his soul to his best friend. Good people save him from death, but his friend falls prey to the bad woman. Pierre then does all he can to remove him from this evil influence. He eventually succeeds and finds serenity with a faithful and pure young girl.
L'âme de Pierre
1929 · 1 votes
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La chanson du lin
1931 · 1 votes
Movie7.0La grande amie
1927 · 1 votes
- Movie9.0Horror
The red night was set within the space of a few hours and in two locations - the rich madam Lesparre's old castle (where celebrations are underway to mark the marriage of her daughter Ginette to the handsome Robert) and the sinister mill 'Moulin-Maudit'. The young couple leave to their honeymoon driven by a mysterious chauffeur. Following a breakdown in open country they are forced to seek refuge in the mill, where untold horrors wait: blood oozing from the ceiling, a body wrapped in a tarpaulin, a menacing dumb figure and an old woman, etc.
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Movie7.0DramaDuring a trip to Naples, a young French man falls in love with a fisherman's granddaughter, Graziella. They are separated when he must return to France, and Graziella soon dies.
Graziella
1926 · 1 votes