
Annabella
Actor · 1907 – 1996 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Annabella (born Suzanne Georgette Charpentier; 14 July 1907 - 18 September 1996) was a French actress.
Movies23
Movie7.8DramaHistoryA biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to 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.
Movie7.1RomanceDramaOn the meandering Canal St. Martin, at the Parisian Hôtel du Nord, a nearly fatal gunshot separates a dejected young couple. But, amid a sad but beautiful panorama of lively characters, love has the final say. Can life be a fairy tale?
Hôtel du Nord
1938 · 162 votes
Movie6.5RomanceDramaAnnabella, Jean Gabin and Fernand Gravey star as a trio of circus trapeze artists. Both Gabin and Gravey love Annabella, but she has eyes only for Gravey. Seething with jealousy, Gabin plots revenge against his rival. He "accidentally" drops Gravey into a net during rehearsal -- but does he plan to do the same during a performance, when the trio works without a net?
Varieté
1935 · 2 votes
Movie5.3ComedyDramaA Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
The Baroness and the Butler
1938 · 16 votes
Movie5.6DramaRomancePierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. So he joins the Spanish Foreign Legion. He meets there two fellow countrymen, Mulot and Lucas. He tries to forget his fault... but Lucas's friendship soon appears to be less unselfish...
La Bandera
1935 · 24 votes
Movie6.1ThrillerWarBob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, Bill O'Connell, who is too good at espionage. His boss, Charles Gibson confirms that O'Connell is really a top German agent, but tells Sharkey to pass him, as they intend to feed the mole false information about the impending D-Day invasion.
13 Rue Madeleine
1947 · 39 votes
Movie6.4DocumentaryHistoryImages and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguised their Nazi inclinations just enough to play its neutral role in international politics.
Movie7.5DramaMaldone 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.
Movie6.0DramaIt tells the story of Marie, an austerely beautiful young peasant girl played by the French star, Annabella. She is seduced beneath a flowering tree by the admirer of one of the daughters of the prosperous family for whom she works, becomes pregnant and is cast out.
Movie5.8WarDramaA British commando is on a one-man raid to destroy a bomb factory in Nazi-occupied France. He must enlist the aid of French farmers to complete his mission.
Tonight We Raid Calais
1943 · 6 votes
Movie5.5DramaHistoryFerdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
Suez
1938 · 17 votes
Movie6.5DramaSimultaneously filmed Romanian language version of Marie, Legende Hongroise: a peasant girl is cast out of her society after a man,who really loves the daughter of her employer, gets her pregnant.
Movie6.2RomanceDramaA beautiful Gypsy girl falls in love with a horse trainer.
Wings of the Morning
1937 · 10 votes
Movie6.8AdventureRomanceIn 1620s France, dreaded swordsman Gil de Berault returns from carrying out a mission for Cardinal Richelieu, and finds the Cardinal worried about growing opposition from the Huguenots in the south. The Cardinal also warns de Berault that dueling has been outlawed, and will henceforth be punishable by death. Gil, however, promptly disobeys the law and is indeed sentenced to death. The Cardinal offers to cancel the sentence if de Berault is able to capture the duke who is organizing plans for an uprising. Gil travels to the duke's castle and is allowed to stay as a guest, but the duke's wife and sister immediately suspect that he is a spy. He and his servant still make good progress, until he falls in love with the duke's sister, which complicates everything.
Under the Red Robe
1937 · 8 votes
MovieDramaWarDuring the Russo-Japanese War, an English officer on the ship of the Japanese falls in love with the wife of the commander.
La bataille
1934
Movie6.2DramaRaymond Bernard’s film of a script by Antoine de Saint-Exupery (The Little Prince) about a young woman who aspires to become a pilot.
Anne-Marie
1936 · 6 votes
Movie9.0ComedyYoung love blossoms between a salesgirl and a handsome man on the French Riviera.
Movie5.4RomanceComedyA carefree playboy with an aversion to marriage falls for a lass he meets in the French Alps.
Bridal Suite
1939 · 7 votes
Movie7.5DramaHélène has an affair with Alain for ten years, but does not want to divorce her husband. Alain receives one letter from a girl Michelle one day. Hélène, who is very jealous, receives that letter by chance and interprets it incorrectly.
Movie6.8AdventureComedyDon Juan leaves Venice and gets back to Seville, his home city. When he arrives there, he learns that his father is dead and has left all his properties to him, on codition that he marries Doña Inés. Don Juan makes up a former marriage, but when he meets her he becomes fascinated by her beauty.
Don Juan
1950 · 4 votes
Movie6.5DramaWarAn American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set in war-torn Europe. Montgomery is the pilot. After he sees his brother die while trying to parachute to safety, Montgomery's plane is shot down over Germany. He is placed in a POW camp. There he meets a Russian medic and a Czech. Together the trio escapes.
Bomber's Moon
1943 · 4 votes
Movie5.8MysteryRomanceThe daughter of a murdered financier works as a jewelry salesperson while she tracks her father's colleagues who plotted against him.
Dinner at the Ritz
1937 · 5 votes
Movie6.1DramaA young woman full of despair comforts a lonely unemployed man who was going to drown himself.Together they find ways to make money and they become a couple.
Gardez le sourire
1934 · 6 votes
Series3
TV5.7Talk ShowSacrée soirée
1987 · 5 votes
TV7.0An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
The Oscars
1953 · 84 votes
TV5.1DramaAn anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by well-known authors. Classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens all had stories adapted for the series, while contemporary authors such as Roald Dahl and Gore Vidal also contributed.
Suspense
1949 · 12 votes