Léon Mathot

Léon Mathot

Léon Mathot (5 March 1886, Roubaix, Nord-Pas-de-Calais - 6 March 1968, in Paris) was a French film actor and film director best known perhaps for playing Edmond Dantes in The Count of Monte Cristo film serial in 1918. He appeared in the 1923 silent film Coeur fidèle, directed by Jean Epstein. He starred in some 60 films mostly in silent film between 1906 and 1939. He turned director in 1927 whilst still appearing in several films and retired in 1953 directing well over 20 films.

  • Title: Léon Mathot
  • Popularity: 6.536
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1886-03-05
  • Place of Birth: Roubaix, Nord, France
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  • Also Known As: Léon Désiré Joseph Mathot
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Léon Mathot Movies

  • 1906
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    The Wig Chase

    The Wig Chase

    1 1906 HD

    Child prank causes chase for few ballons and one lady's wig

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  • 1923
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    Cœur fidèle

    Cœur fidèle

    7.1 1923 HD

    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...

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  • 1930
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    Instinct

    Instinct

    1 1930 HD

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  • 1930
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    The house of La Fleche

    The house of La Fleche

    1 1930 HD

    After a rich English lady is killed in a Dijon house, the only person there who doesn't have a solid alibi is about to be arrested.Will a detective...

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  • 1939
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    Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur

    Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur

    1 1939 HD

    In 1917, in a small village in the North, Abbe Gaillard is suspected by the Germans of facilitating the escape of French and Belgian soldiers. A...

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  • 1917
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    Barberousse

    Barberousse

    5 1917 HD

    A journalist attempt to stop a mysterious criminal : "Barbe rousse".

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  • 1912
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    Joachim Goethal and the Secret of Steel

    Joachim Goethal and the Secret of Steel

    4.5 1912 HD

    A steel worker is told by his girl friend, that she only wants to marry a rich man. A foreign spy hears this and offers him money if he gives him the...

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  • 1923
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    Vent debout

    Vent debout

    1 1923 HD

    Jacques Averil leads an idle life which plunges him into weariness and melancholy. When he learns of the suicide of his father, a banker ruined by...

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  • 1928
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    In the Shadow of the Harem

    In the Shadow of the Harem

    7 1928 HD

    An emir wants revenge on a secretary who posed as a rival to a beautiful woman. He holds in his palace which refers to himself as a trap, the wife of...

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  • 1920
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    Work

    Work

    1 1920 HD

    Luc Froment, a reform-minded engineer, starts working at a steel mill in a small town. There he founds small groups of workers (and their families)...

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  • 1917
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    Will

    Will

    1 1917 HD

    The story takes place in the Parisian "High Society" of the time. Two long-time friends become enemies because of a beautiful girl.

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  • 1925
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    The Devil in the City

    The Devil in the City

    5 1925 HD

    The story is about a superstitious village, where the mayor has sold a tower to an unknown, who is soon suspected of being the devil.

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  • 1912
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    Dramatic Passion of Algabert and Elisberth of Rodembourg

    Dramatic Passion of Algabert and Elisberth of Rodembourg

    4.5 1912 HD

    Prince Algabert, upholding the traditions of his forefathers, wages a ceaseless feud against the house of Rodembourg, whose reigning lord has one...

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  • 1917
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    The Right to Life

    The Right to Life

    1 1917 HD

    A young girl marries a financier knowing he has only a short time to live, so she can inherit his money.Her lover, who has made a fortune away in...

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  • 1916
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    The Tragic Mill

    The Tragic Mill

    5 1916 HD

    Propaganda spy-movie, Belgian-French production, directed by Honoré and Georges Lainé. A village girl repels the advances of the...

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  • 1918
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    The Count of Monte Cristo

    The Count of Monte Cristo

    6 1918 HD

    Le comte de Monte Cristo (15 Episodes). Monte Cristo, based upon Alexandre Dumas' novel of the same name, tells the story of Edmond Dantès, an...

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  • 1931
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    Passport 13.444

    Passport 13.444

    4 1931 HD

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  • 1920
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    The Empire of Diamonds

    The Empire of Diamonds

    1 1920 HD

    Shot on location in Paris, Monte Carlo and the Riviera with both American and French actors. When Matthew Versigny discovers that the jewels his...

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  • 1922
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    L'Empereur des pauvres

    L'Empereur des pauvres

    1 1922 HD

    Marc Anavan, a rich young man, leads a profligate life and when he understands his fortune is about to evaporate he decides to change his life, to...

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  • 1923
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    The Red Inn

    The Red Inn

    5.5 1923 HD

    Two young doctors, surprised by the storm, take refuge in an inn. A diamond broker joins them and, for lack of space, shares their room. At dawn he...

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  • 1916
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    Deadly Gas

    Deadly Gas

    5 1916 HD

    Hopson, a prestigious scientist, studies the effect of snake venom to cure many diseases of mankind. His son enlists in the army when the Great War...

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  • 1925
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    Der Maler und sein Modell

    Der Maler und sein Modell

    1 1925 HD

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  • 1916
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    Nemrod et compagnie

    Nemrod et compagnie

    1 1916 HD

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  • 1930
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    The mystery of the pink villa

    The mystery of the pink villa

    1 1930 HD

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  • 1917
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    La zone de la mort

    La zone de la mort

    1 1917 HD

    Film by Abel Gance.

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  • 1926
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    The Cradle of God

    The Cradle of God

    1 1926 HD

    A young intellectual, J. Powers, loses his faith in God after the untimely death of his wife. He devotes his great talents to writing a shockingly...

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  • 1914
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    The Bridge That Failed

    The Bridge That Failed

    1 1914 HD

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  • 1920
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    L'Ami Fritz

    L'Ami Fritz

    1 1920 HD

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  • 1922
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    Être ou ne pas être

    Être ou ne pas être

    1 1922 HD

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  • 1921
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    Blanchette

    Blanchette

    1 1921 HD

    Blanchette, whose parents have sacrificed to give her an education, has received her teaching diploma, but is unable to find work. A dispute with her...

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  • 1927
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    Yasmina

    Yasmina

    1 1927 HD

    Yasmina, a rich Tunisian Princess, daughter of a French lady and a Muslim gentleman, is betrothed by a father to a rich fifty year old man named...

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  • 1935
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    Count Obligado

    Count Obligado

    1 1935 HD

    Antoine, elevator operator of a haute couture house, takes advantage of an inheritance to lead the high life for three days by pretending to be a...

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  • 1928
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    In the Shadow of the Harem

    In the Shadow of the Harem

    7 1928 HD

    An emir wants revenge on a secretary who posed as a rival to a beautiful woman. He holds in his palace which refers to himself as a trap, the wife of...

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  • 1935
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    La Mascotte

    La Mascotte

    1 1935 HD

    The turkey keeper, Bettina, brings good luck to those who make her work. She becomes the mascot of the good King Laurent XVII whose finances are in...

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  • 1931
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    Passport 13.444

    Passport 13.444

    4 1931 HD

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  • 1939
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    Sacred Woods

    Sacred Woods

    1 1939 HD

    Despite her success, writer Francine Margerie is let down to see that she is not nominated for the Legion of Honor award. One solution could be to...

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  • 1945
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    La Route du bagne

    La Route du bagne

    1 1945 HD

    Paris, 1865. In a music-hall Manon accidentally kills her partner who was trying take sexual advantage of her. She is condemned to twenty years of...

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  • 1938
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    Chéri-Bibi

    Chéri-Bibi

    4.5 1938 HD

    An innocent young man, burglar Cheri-Bibi, and his gangsters are sent to a penal colony.

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  • 1936
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    Wolves Between Them

    Wolves Between Them

    1 1936 HD

    A Nazi spy has stolen a gas mask filter of formidable efficiency in Paris. Two agents from the 2nd office have the task of going to take him back to...

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  • 1939
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    Immediate Call

    Immediate Call

    1 1939 HD

    In September 1938, an American diplomat negotiated in London the peace of Munich, rather than rush to Paris where his wife, a famous film actress, is...

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  • 1938
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    The Rebel

    The Rebel

    1 1938 HD

    Pimaï, the strong-headed anarchist, joined the navy out of bravado. But the sweet influence of a young girl leads him to prove that he is worthy...

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  • 1937
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    Aloha, the Song of the Islands

    Aloha, the Song of the Islands

    1 1937 HD

    During the London-Melbourne race, two aviators, one male (Guy,) the other female (Betty), are forced to land on a lost island in Polynesia. They...

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  • 1937
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    A Man to Kill

    A Man to Kill

    1 1937 HD

    Captain Benoit successfully completes a mission in Berlin, but when he returns to Paris he escapes attacks by German agents.

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  • 1937
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    L'Ange du foyer

    L'Ange du foyer

    1 1937 HD

    Jacques de Chardin, runner of women, marries a rich and young American, Mary-Ann. He does not give up, however, his conquests and has an affair with...

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  • 1933
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    Naked as a Worm

    Naked as a Worm

    1 1933 HD

    A very rich businessman, knight of the Legion of Honor, bets that he can start his career from scratch. After all kinds of adventures, he climbs the...

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  • 1934
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    Bouboule 1er, roi nègre

    Bouboule 1er, roi nègre

    1 1934 HD

    Georges Vinot nicknamed Bouboule, a colorful but naive Parisian, falls prey to a gang of diamond thieves. Not only do they manipulate him into...

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  • 1930
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    Instinct

    Instinct

    1 1930 HD

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  • 1929
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    L'appassionata

    L'appassionata

    1 1929 HD

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  • 1931
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    The shelter

    The shelter

    1 1931 HD

    A young Corsican is obliged by a tradition of vendetta for his late father, to kill the uncle of a girl he loves, because that man was the murderer....

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  • 1931
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    Bouboule's Gang

    Bouboule's Gang

    1 1931 HD

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  • 1932
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    Kiss Me

    Kiss Me

    1 1932 HD

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  • 1927
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    Celle qui domine

    Celle qui domine

    1 1927 HD

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  • 1928
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    In the Shadow of the Harem

    In the Shadow of the Harem

    7 1928 HD

    An emir wants revenge on a secretary who posed as a rival to a beautiful woman. He holds in his palace which refers to himself as a trap, the wife of...

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  • 1940
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    Hangman's Noose

    Hangman's Noose

    1 1940 HD

    In England, a boxer is sentenced to death for a murder he does not seem to have committed.... Anthony Gethryn, who has just resigned from the police...

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  • 1942
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    Cartacalha, reine des gitans

    Cartacalha, reine des gitans

    1 1942 HD

    The gypsy dancer Cartacalha is elected queen of the gypsies. She loves a horse breeder, the Galejon, but following misunderstandings and perfidy, she...

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  • 1941
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    Fromont Young and Risler Elder

    Fromont Young and Risler Elder

    6 1941 HD

    An ambitious and perverse adventurer sows dissension and ruin in a wealthy family of industrialists.

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  • 1942
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    Forte tête

    Forte tête

    1 1942 HD

    René, a bank employee, is suspected of theft and fired from his job. It borders on the worst by following in the footsteps of a misfit,...

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  • 1943
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    L'homme sans nom

    L'homme sans nom

    1 1943 HD

    Monsieur Vincent is the respected healer of a Basque village. But nobody knows that Vincent Berteaux used to be a surgeon in Paris. When Assomption,...

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  • 1946
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    Alert Nights

    Alert Nights

    1 1946 HD

    Hélène, a young waitress working in a bar frequented by German soldiers, saves the life of Pierre, a Resistance fighter. Her jealous...

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  • 1947
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    La dernière chevauchée

    La dernière chevauchée

    1 1947 HD

    A jealous wealthy landlord intercepts a letter to his wife written by her cousin. He decides to take revenge by drugging the young man's horse, but...

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  • 1948
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    Le dolmen tragique

    Le dolmen tragique

    6 1948 HD

    Chatelard, one of Viscount de Kerlec's guests, has died in mysterious conditions. The police initiates an investigation and sends detective-inspector...

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  • 1949
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    L'Homme aux mains d'argile

    L'Homme aux mains d'argile

    1 1949 HD

    The fictionalized life, and interpreted by himself, of the popular boxing champion Marcel Cerdan. Training sessions, matches, victories, flight to...

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  • 1950
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    La Danseuse de Marrakech

    La Danseuse de Marrakech

    1 1950 HD

    A little Métis girl, Kalina is saved from a massacre by Taraor, a black man from Sudan. Having become a great and beautiful dancer from the...

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  • 1953
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    My Childish Father

    My Childish Father

    1 1953 HD

    A middle-aged man, an architect by trade, decides to make an end run around getting married. He marries a charming young woman, tenderly in love, who...

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  • 1978
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    Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

    Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma

    1 1978 HD

    Produced for television by Claude-Jean Philippe, the « Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma », recounts the history of...

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