La vie pour de vrai

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poster Elvis Lives!

Elvis Lives!

82mn - Comedy, Drama, Thriller

Elvis Presley must fake his own death to protect his family from the mob after helping the FBI bust a crime syndicate, leading to a secret new life far from Graceland.

poster Mark's Secret to Eternal Life

Mark's Secret to Eternal Life

76mn - Drama, Sci-Fi

An 18-year-old awakens in a parallel world where nobody recognizes him, and must absorb the life force of the dead to prevent everyone he loves from dying horrific deaths.

poster A Life for a Life

A Life for a Life

Wealthy Mrs. Khromova has a natural daughter, Musya, and an adopted daughter, Nata. The merchant Zhurov is in love with Nata, and hopes to marry her, but she is non-committal.

poster Cœur fidèle

Cœur fidèle

87mn - Drama, Romance

The good guys win out in this sweet tale about a young orphan who is abused for much of her life but who eventually finds happiness when she marries an honest man who extricates her from her situation.

poster A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate

78mn - Drama, Romance

When 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 …

poster The Naked Street

The Naked Street

84mn - Thriller, Drama

To make an honest woman of his pregnant sister, Rosalie, callous New York mobster Phil Regal intimidates witnesses and bribes a store clerk to get Rosalie’s condemned boyfriend, Nicky Bradna, out of priso…

poster Wiretapper

Wiretapper

A cash-strapped electrical engineer with a criminal past vows to go straight when he marries his longtime girlfriend, but he has second thoughts when the mob offers big money for his wiretapping services.

poster Buried Alive

Buried Alive

62mn - Crime, Drama, Romance

A prison trustee rescues a despondent executioner from a bar-room brawl, and is blamed for the fight by a tabloid reporter who actually started it, and loses parole, becomes embittered, and gets blamed fo…

poster Nursing a Viper

Nursing a Viper

During the French Revolution, a wealthy couple lives safely by professing republican beliefs. When a mob attacks a nearby chateau an aristocrat bursts into the couple's home. They save his life by disguis…

poster Life's an Itch

Life's an Itch

94mn - Comedy, Romance

A married man reaches the point where he questions everything: career, creativity and even his marriage. Hilarious complications and temptations arise when his wife invites her open-minded (and very sexy)…

poster A Dog's Life

A Dog's Life

33mn - Comedy, Drama

The Tramp and his dog companion struggle to survive in the inner city.

poster The Last Time I Saw Paris

The Last Time I Saw Paris

116mn - Romance, Drama

Reporter Charles Wills, in Paris to cover the end of World War II, falls for the beautiful Helen Ellswirth following a brief flirtation with her sister, Marion. After he and Helen marry, Charles pursues h…

poster Chained for Life

Chained for Life

A Siamese twin kills the husband who left her. The courts have to decide if she is convicted of murder, how can they punish her sister, who had nothing to do with the crime?

poster My Wife's Relations

My Wife's Relations

Buster and a woman are mistakenly married and her initially unfriendly family begins to treat him nicely when they come to believe he has a large inheritance awaiting him.

poster Mademoiselle de La Seiglière

Mademoiselle de La Seiglière

87mn - Family, Drama

The Marquis de la Seiglière returns to France once the Revolution is over. His possessions, which had been sold as material properties, had been purchased by Stamply, a farmer. The latter restores them to…

poster Le goûter des bébés

Le goûter des bébés

1mn - Documentary

poster Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire

Genuine: The Tragedy of a Vampire

Since completing a portrait of Genuine, a high priestess, Percy becomes irritable and withdrawn. He loses interest in painting and refuses to see his friends, preferring to spend his time alone with the p…

The Lie

64mn - Short, Drama, Mystery

A man who owns a diamond importing business goes out for a night on the town with his girlfriend, her brother and her brother’s fiancé. The group stops by a circus to see the act of a trapeze artist who’s…

poster The Reign of Terror

The Reign of Terror

102mn - History, Drama

The scene takes place in Paris in March 1793 during the Reign of Terror. The Knight of Maison-Rouge, posing as Citizen Morand, is organizing the escape of Queen Marie-Antoinette. He is assisted in his und…

poster Âme belge

Âme belge

Espionage movie about a German-Belgian family in occupied Brussels, and besides, an ode to the heroîsm of the Belgian soldier.

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