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Tuesday, July 15, 2025

Le bonheur AKA Happiness AKA Passion (1934) - lesser known French drama directed by Marcel L'Herbier, starring Gaby Morlay, Charles Boyer, Paulette Dubost and Michel Simon

Rating 7.0/10
Runtime: 111 min
Language: French
Country: France
Directed by: Marcel L'Herbier
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0145682/

Cast

Gaby Morlay ... Clara Stuart
Charles Boyer ... Philippe Lutcher
Paulette Dubost ... Louise
Michel Simon ... Noël Malpiaz
Jean Toulout ... Maître Balbant
Georges Mauloy ... Le président des Assises
Léon Arvel ... L'avocat général

Description: Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but only wounds her. The star, through affectation and curiosity to know his motives, pleads in his favour at his trial, but he rebuffs her pity. After he has served 18 months in prison, they meet again...

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Download link (torrent file):

https://workupload.com/file/AuensYGeLu5

Video and audio information:

Video : 4.04 GB, 5221 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 792x576 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 78 MB, 96 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 1 channel, 0x55 = AAC, CBR

Subtitles (English and French hearing impaired closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and separate English, Spanish, French, Arabic) posters and screenshots included

Saturday, September 24, 2022

Hôtel du Nord (1938) - classic French drama directed by Marcel Carné, starring Annabella, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Louis Jouvet, Arletty, Paulette Dubost and Andrex

Rating 7.6/10
Runtime: 95 min
Language: French
Country: France
Directed by: Marcel Carné
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030252/

Cast

Annabella ... Renée
Jean-Pierre Aumont ... Pierre
Louis Jouvet ... Monsieur Edmond
Arletty ... Raymonde
Paulette Dubost ... Ginette
Andrex ... Kenel
André Brunot ... Emile Lecouvreur
Henri Bosc ... Nazarède

Description: On the mournful bank of the meandering Canal St. Martin, at the cheap Parisian Hôtel du Nord, the dejected young lovers, Pierre and Renée, take a room, bent on fulfilling an unholy pact. Then, in the dead of night, a nearly fatal gunshot chills the bone to the marrow, splitting the couple, apparently, forever. However--amid a sad but beautiful panorama of streetwise prostitutes; hard-as-nails procurers in impeccable suits; forlorn survivors; murderous former companions, and the police--unfulfilled desires, secret passions, and a dangerous romantic triangle have the final say. Now, in love's name, high expectations for a fresh start and a deadly semi-automatic pistol separate hope from despair. Can life be as easy as a fairy tale?

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Download link (torrent file):

https://ufile.io/pgv0kl6d

Also a set of nice extras included:

* Documentary from 1994 on the life and career of director Marcel Carne
* Television program from 1972 on the making of the film
* The poetic vision of Marcel Carne - A conversation between filmmaker Jean-Pierre Jeunet (Amelie) and journalist Philippe Morisson
* Trailer

Video and audio information:

Video : 2.05 GB, 3026 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 656x480 (1.37:1), V_MPEG4/ISO/AVC x264 core 164
Audio : 80 MB, 116 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AAC, CBR

Subtitles (English closed captions embedded in a movie, to play them choose Subtitle=>Sub Track in VLC Player and English, Spanish, Portuguese-Brazilian, Greek, Italian) posters and screenshots included

Saturday, May 16, 2009

The rules of the game aka La règle du jeu (1939) - Jean Renoir

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 102 min
Language: French
Country: France
Directed by: Jean Renoir
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031885/

Cast

Nora Gregor .... Christine de la Cheyniest (as Nora Grégor)
Paulette Dubost .... Lisette, sa camériste
Mila Parély .... Geneviève de Marras
Odette Talazac .... Madame de la Plante
Claire Gérard .... Madame de la Bruyère
Anne Mayen .... Jackie, nièce de Christine
Lise Elina .... Radio-Reporter (as Lise Élina)
Marcel Dalio .... Robert de la Cheyniest (as Dalio)

Description: Widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, Jean Renoir’s masterpiece The Rules of the Game ('La Règle du jeu') is a scathing critique of corrupt French society cloaked in a comedy of manners. At a weekend hunting party, amorous escapades abound among the aristocratic guests and are mirrored by the activities of the servants downstairs. The refusal of one of the guests to play by society’s rules sets off a chain of events that ends in tragedy. Poorly received upon its release in 1939, the film was severely re-edited, and the original negative was destroyed during World War II. Only in 1959 was the film fully reconstructed and embraced by audiences and critics who now see the film as a timeless representation of a vanishing way of life.

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