
January 23, 1898 · 128 years old
Marcel Pérès (1898–1974) was a French film actor who acted prolifically during his long career. He was a character actor often playing smaller, supporting roles. Source: Article "Marcel Pérès (actor)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

A surgeon causes a car accident which leaves his daughter disfigured and goes to extreme lengths to give her a new face.

The theatrical life of a beautiful courtesan in 1830s Paris and the four men who love her.

A military deserter finds love and trouble (and a small dog) in a foggy, French port city.

In this classic adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, a tortured train engineer falls in love with a troubled married woman who has helped her husband commit a murder.

After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led him to the killing.

A US Army colonel in France tries to track down an escaped sex maniac.

After an elderly maid is murdered, opinions are manipulated, evidence is planted, violence erupts, and panic ensues.

Police inspector Léonetti, a tough, efficient policeman, has been sent to a second-rate police station after being reprimanded. There he is given a partner, young and beautiful Jeanne Dumas. The duo are soon assigned a very diffic...

The captain of the tugboat Cyclone, André Laurent, rushes off to save the Mirva. He abandons his sick wife Yvonne and the couple celebrating their marriage. In the early morning, the Cyclone tugs the Mirva ashore with Catherine ab...

The Countess de Saint-Fiacre, having received a terrible anonymous letter predicting her imminent death, summons Commissioner Maigret in the hope that he can protect her and save her from a secret ill-wisher.

In a lost French village, an old woman is killed and her savings stolen. Several members of her family, all called "Goupi", are suspected.

A young woman named Marie, facing oppression and exploitation, begins selling her body, shaking the male-dominated capitalist society of Tellier.

St. Vincent de Paul struggles to bring about peace and harmony among peasants and nobles in the midst of the Black Death in Europe, carrying on his charitable work in the face of all obstacles.

The story concerns an old globe-maker who is mysteriously killed while going through the town portraying Pere Noel ("Father Christmas" aka Santa Claus).

Two police inspectors Triquet and Vergus launch their investigations to arrest a dangerous escaped forger named Mickey Le Bénedictin.

American actor, Bob Hunter, travels to Paris to purchase the rights to a highly sought-after script, and meets his French counterpart Fernydel along the way, but a sinister organization seems to be targeting Hunter for a mysteriou...

Story of a French woman doctor who admits to mercifully killing her lover, also a doctor who has cancer.

Henri La Tour, a strolling player, is also a daring adventurer. So, when, after accomplishing a brilliant feat, he is awarded a title by King Louis XV, the Duke of Saint-Sever takes offense at it and challenges Henri to a duel. Ho...

Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving anonymous letters. And soon a mysterious murder is committed. SOS begins to invest...

A French officer and his sister develop an inappropriate attraction, leading to comical misadventures and an unexpected twist that brings them closer despite their forbidden desire.

François is a vet surgeon on the Noirmoutier island. He is married to Catherine. One day, he is called by a mysterious attractive woman, Myriam, whose leopard is sick. They become lovers. But Myriam lived in Africa for years and s...

Lionel Fribourg, a great composer (at least that's what HE thinks) has a problem with his noisy environment: he can't complete his unfinished symphony. Of course there is a market for unfinished symphonies but, for all he knows, o...