Victor Francen

Victor Francen

Nascimento : 1888-08-05, Tirlemont, Belgium

Morte : 1977-11-18

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Victor Francen

Filmes

The Big Scare
Docteur Chabert
Two police inspectors Triquet and Vergus launch their investigations to arrest a dangerous escaped forger named Mickey Le Bénedictin.
Fanny
Panisse's older brother
Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is in love with him, and he discovers that he is in love with her. He must choose between an exciting life at sea, and a boring life with the woman he loves. And Fanny must choose between keeping the man she loves, and letting him live the life he seems to want.
Sepulcro Indiano
Penitent
Seetha and Harold Berger are rescued from the desert by a caravan and brought to a small village. However, the greedy owner of the house where they are lodged betrays the law of hospitality and reveals their location to Prince Ramigani. The couple tries to escape but is hunted and captured by Ramigani and his men. Meanwhile Irene Rhode and her husband Walter Rhode suspect that Maharaja Chandra is not telling the truth about Harold's destiny. The conspirator Ramigani forces Seetha to accept to get married with Chandra to provoke the wrath of the priests and get the alliance of Prince Padhu and his army. In the meantime, Harold succeeds in escaping from the dungeon and seeks out Seetha to save her.
Adeus às Armas
Colonel Valentini
Quando um voluntário do exército americano conhece uma enfermeira britânica na véspera de uma grande ofensiva nos Alpes, os dois rapidamente se apaixonam. A história de amor deles é ameaçada pela guerra e pela intromissão de um amigo invejoso.
Bedevilled
Father Du Rocher
A seminary student (Steve Forrest) helps a nightclub singer (Anne Baxter) sought by Paris police for killing her married lover.
Tormenta Sob os Mares
Prof. Montel
Um cientista com financiamento privado e seus colegas contratam um ex-oficial da Marinha para realizar uma expedição submarina ao Alasca a fim de impedir uma conspiração anti-americana da China Vermelha que pode levar à Terceira Guerra Mundial. Mistura trama adolescente com espetáculo submarino e heroísmo da guerra fria.
Aventuras do Capitão Fabian
Henri Brissac
It all begins with the discreet romance between the Creole maid Lea Mariotte and her young boss, George Brissac, an amoral bourgeois who plans to inherit his uncle's fortune and marry a young woman from a good family. After an incident where she kills a man, she is saved from the gallows by Fabian, a ship's captain, who has personal reasons for antagonizing the Brissacs. He takes care of her and falls in love with her, but doesn't tell her. She, in turn, takes the opportunity to return to her lover Brissac's arms, forcing him to marry her after seeing him murder his uncle.
La nuit s'achève
Dr. Coudray
Jean-Louis, Danielle's fiancé, a nurse, becomes blind following an explosion in the mine where he works. Coming from Lyon, Doctor Coudray, whose natural son Gilbert - who loves Danielle - dies while helping his father threatened by the person responsible for Jean-Louis' accident, will work to restore his sight.
Stolen Affections
Henri Dumières
The ordeal of Françoise who, deceived by her husband, sees her dying child. After a few events in the backdrop of a festival, the husband returns, she pushes him away, driving him to suicide. Another man she thinks she loves is already married.
To the Victor
Police Inspector Beauvais
An American serviceman remains in France after WWII and becomes a black marketeer.
O Fim ou o Princípio
Dr. Marre
The research, development, and deployment of the first atomic bomb, as well as the bombing of Hiroshima, are detailed in this docudrama.
The Beast with Five Fingers
Francis Ingram
Locals in an Italian village believe evil has taken over the estate of a recently deceased pianist where murder has taken place. The alleged killer: the pianist's severed hand.
Canção Inesquecível
Anatole Giron
Porter, um rico e sofisticado herdeiro, decide servir na Primeira Guerra Mundial como enfermeiro de ambulâncias. Lá ele encontra Linda Lee, que se tornará sua esposa, servindo como enfermeira. Depois da guerra, sua atividade na Broadway permite mostrar uma sequência de belas canções, como Just One of Those Things, You're the Top e a música título.
Devoção
Constantin Heger
In Victorian England, literary siblings Emily and Charlotte Brontë vie for the affection of the Rev. Arthur Nicholls. Along with their sister Anne, Emily and Charlotte also try to help their tormented brother Branwell, a gifted artist whose life is being destroyed by alcohol.
Santo Antônio - Cidade Sem Lei
Legare
1877, sudoeste do Texas. Milhares de cabeças de gado eram empurradas para o norte do estado, sem que haja controle algum. Os ladrões de gado perceberam isto e viram que era uma forma de roubar muitas cabeças com certa facilidade, matando quem entrasse no caminho deles. Um criador de gado, Clay Hardin (Errol Flynn), quase se tornou outra vítima e, apesar de ter sido baleado várias vezes, conseguiu ir para o México para se recuperar. Lá, além de se recobrar, achou uma forte prova que implica Roy Stuart (Paul Kelly), o proprietário do saloon de San Antonio, como sendo o maior de todos os ladrões de gado. Agora Clay prepara a sua volta para se vingar, apesar do temor de Charlie Bell (John Litel), seu melhor amigo, pois os capangas de Stuart estão esperando-o para "terminar o serviço".
Confidential Agent
Licata
During the Spanish Civil War, an agent on a mission to purchase coal meets with murder and counterspies.
Um Sonho em Hollywood
Self
Two soldiers on leave spend three nights at a club offering free of charge food, dancing, and entertainment for servicemen on their way overseas. Club founders Bette Davis and John Garfield give talks on the history of the place.
The Conspirators
Hugo Von Mohr
A guerilla leader falls in love with a mysterious woman in World War II Lisbon.
The Mask of Dimitrios
Wladislaw Grudek
A mystery writer is intrigued by the tale of notorious criminal Dimitrios Makropolous, whose body was found washed up on the shore in Istanbul. He decides to follow the career of Dimitrios around Europe, in order to learn more about the man. Along the way he is joined by the mysterious Mr. Peters, who has his own motivation.
Viveremos Outra Vez
Count Pawel Orwid
It is early 1939 in Poland when Mrs. Bromley and Jennifer come to buy antiques for her business in London. Jennifer meets Count Stephen and they wine, dine and see the sights though out the city. He wishes to marry, but his family is against plain Jennifer. When she tries to leave, he catches her at the train station and they are married. To be self sufficient, they modernize the family farm with tractors and increase production, but then Germany starts the war.
Passagem Para Marselha
Captain Patain Malo
Cinco condenados patrióticos são ajudados a escapar da prisão na Ilha do Diabo para que possam lutar junto as forças francesas livres contra os nazistas. Com as tripulações franceses dos bombardeiros se preparando para um ataque aéreo a partir de uma base na Inglaterra, conheceremos a história de Matrac, um jornalista francês que se opôs ao Pacto de Munique. Acusado de assassinato e enviado para a Ilha do Diabo, ele e outros quatro escaparam. Eles estão num navio com destino a Marselha, quando então a França se rende e o simpatizante fascista Major Duval tenta confiscar o navio para o governo de Vichy.
A Canção do Deserto
Caid Yousseff
Paul Hudson, leads a group of desert bandits against some Nazis, who want to use them as cheap labor for their railroad.
Madame Curie
President of University
Poor physics student Marie is studying at the Sorbonne in 1890s Paris. One of the few women studying in her field, Marie encounters skepticism concerning her abilities, but is eventually offered a research placement in Pierre Curie's lab. The scientists soon fall in love and embark on a shared quest to extract, from a particular type of rock, a new chemical element they have named radium. However, their research puts them on the brink of professional failure.
Missão em Moscou
Vyshinsky, chief trial prosecutor
Ambassador Joseph Davies is sent by FDR to Russia to learn about the Soviet system and returns to America as an advocate of Stalinism.
Seis Destinos
Arturo Bellini - Symphony conductor
Breves histórias ligadas por um casaco azarado, uma boa oportunidade para ver algumas grandes estrelas no seu auge. A primeira história é um triângulo amoroso com Charles Boyer, Rita Hayworth, e Thomas Mitchell. O casaco vai para outro proprietário, um conto fantasioso com Henry Fonda, Ginger Rogers, e Cesar Romero. Em seguida é comprado por Elsa Lanchester para seu marido (da vida real), Charles Laughton, dando má sorte ao músico e compositor. Depois ele vai para as mãos de um advogado expulso, Edward G. Robinson, que encontra um colega de classe, George Sanders, em uma muito elegante reunião da faculdade. O casaco é levado por dois bandidos que o perdem e então é encontrado pelos mais pobres dos pobres da comunidade negra na depressão de 1930, interpretados pelo famoso cantor Paul Robeson e a grande Ethel Waters, que vão ao seu pastor, Eddie "Rochester" Anderson, para quem o casaco finalmente traz algo de bom.
Ten Gentlemen from West Point
Florimond Massey
This historical drama tells the story of the first class to graduate from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point. In the early 19th Century, Congress appropriated the money to build the school, but opponents who believed it to be an illegitimate expansion of the powers of the federal government decided to sabotage the school. They put the hard-as-nails Major Sam Carter in charge of the academy, and he ruthlessly put the recruits through grueling training -- until only ten prospective soldiers remained. They include Dawson, a patriotic farm boy and Howard Shelton, a selfish playboy who has come to West Point only because of its prestige. The two vie for Carolyn Bainbridge, while they, along with the other eight, try convince Carter that the school is worth keeping.
The Tuttles of Tahiti
Dr. Blondin
After a long absense from the island, Chester Tuttle returns to Tahiti to find that little has changed. His large family, particularly his scheming Uncle Jonas, would rather dance and romance than earn a living. When Jonas loses the family plantation in a cockfight, Chester saves the day by towing in a large ship abandoned at sea and claiming the salvage. But opening a joint bank account in the name of the Tuttle clan may not have been a wise decision.
A Porta de Ouro
Van Den Luecken
Romanian-French gigolo Georges Iscovescu wishes to enter the USA. Stopped in Mexico by the quota system, he decides to marry an American, then desert her and join his old partner Anita, who's done likewise. But after sweeping teacher Emmy Brown off her feet, he finds her so sweet that love and jealousy endanger his plans.
African Diary
Le commandant Bréval
During a French construction project in the Sudan, a military doctor fights against leprosy and the natives seek protection against witch doctors.
Cordial Agreement
Edouard VII, Prince and King
The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordiale creating an alliance between Britain and France and ending their historic rivalry. It was based on the book King Edward VII and His Times by André Maurois. It was made with an eye to its propaganda value, following the Munich Agreement of September 1938 and in anticipation of the outbreak of a Second World War which would test the bonds between Britain and France in a conflict with Nazi Germany.
The End of the Day
Marny
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.
A Foolish Maiden
Marcel Armaury
A middle-aged Parisian lawyer meets a young girl and falls in love with her. The girl's mother discovers the affair and the couple must flee.
Tamara la complaisante
A man, enthralled by a peasant woman he encounters in Siberia, forgets his fiancee, turns to crime, and brings about ruin.
I Accuse
Jean Diaz
After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces love and personal pleasure to immerse himself in scientific research, seeking a machine to prevent war. He thinks he has succeeded, but the government subverts his discovery, and Europe slides with seeming inevitability toward World War II. In desperation, Diaz summons the ghosts of the war dead from the graves and fields of France to give silent, accusing protest.
Forfaiture
Pierre Moret
Denise Moret joins her husband, Pierre, in Mongolia where he works as a civil engineer. One night she loose a lot of money ont eh roulette and therefore is forced to borrow money from Prince Lee-Lang. The Prince immediately begins to flirt and make advances towards Denise. Advances she rejects.
Feu!
During the Rif War, a lieutenant commands a torpedo boat. He finds in an abandoned yacht, a beautiful portrait of a woman, and soon meets this one who is married to a brutal and jealous baron.
Double Crime in the Maginot Line
le capitaine Bruchot
Commander d'Espinac is found murdered. Having argued the day before the murder with Captain Bruchot, he is accused. The captain will have to conduct his own investigation if he wants to clear himself. His suspicions will fall on one of the three officers attached to his unit.
The Call of Life
Professor Rougeon
A love between a teacher and his assistant is thwarted, because of their too great age difference.
Nights of Fire
Fedor Andreiev
19th Century Russia. State prosecutor Fedor Andreiev is presiding over the trial of a man who murdered his wife's lover. Despite a robust defence from the brilliant young lawyer Serge Rostoff, the accused man is found guilty and will be deported to Siberia. Having spoken to the condemned man, Fedor Andreiev sees a disturbing parallel with his own life...
The King
Le roi Jean IV de Cerdagne
King John IV of Cerdania, who knows monarchs are a vanishing race but who plays his royalty role in state council or boudoir to the hilt, is in Paris to sign a treaty, and becomes enmeshed in intrigue with an actress, Therese Mannix and involved in a bit of cuckoldry with YouYou Bourdier, the ex-seamstress wife of a French senator, who is un-awed by money, power or the King's kisses. For his part, her husband, Senator Bourdier, is glad to use his wealth, wife and collectivist ideals for social position, in spite of his democratic posing.
The Great Temptation
The son of a naval commander faces his first heartbreak when he falls for the young American woman who is destined to become his father's new wife.
The Open Road
Le Chemineau
A tramp, a vagrant, returns twenty years later to the village where he had seduced a young girl. He forces her father to marry her off.
Sacrifice of Honor
Capitaine de Corlaix
Before the Battle is the English-language title of this espionage melodrama. The first half of the film takes place aboard a French cruising ship, steaming through dangerous waters during WWI. Among the passengers is heroine Jeanne (Annabella), who was once in love with first-officer D'Artelles (Robert Vidalin) but he now seems strangely preoccupied. It turns out that the ship is on a secret mission, which ultimately dooms the vessel to a Lusitania-like death. After the sinking, Captain De Corlaix (Victor Francen) faces a court-martial, and it is at this point that the film clarifies several baffling plot points. Despite its complexity, the story is fairly believable, with the exception of the grafted-on romantic subplot.
The Adventurer
Étienne Ranson
A scandalised Frenchman returns from Africa where he has been involved in illegal trading of mines (resulting in the deaths of many African miners). His bourgeois family are wary of the shame that he will bring so he must try to redeem himself and his family's name.
Le Voleur
Richard Voisin
A woman steals to have enough money to please her husband. Her nephew, madly in love with her, reports this to a detective who catches her red handed.
Les Ailes brisées
Fabrège
Fabrège is a ladies' man. His friend Pascal, at the circle, evokes these conquests, among others Denise Lamblin for whom he fought a duel and this other woman for whom he stayed an entire night, in the pouring rain, under his windows. While the next day they have to take the train together, at the sight of a female figure on the station platform, Fabrège changes trains and sets out to conquer the beautiful stranger. Arrived in Cannes, they go down to the Miramar hotel and their idyll begins.
The Dreamy Mouth
Marcel, l'amant
The story begins at a concert during which Beethoven's Concerto in D major for violin and orchestra is performed. Romaine, a mysterious woman, is in the concert hall. Pierre, her husband, is first violin of the Orchester Colonne. That evening, she discovers Marcel, a brilliant concerto soloist, and falls in love with him. Pierre and Marcel are friends, which complicates the situation. Pierre invites his friend to the house, without suspecting what will happen. The young woman, trying to find a clever pretext for a one-on-one meeting, quickly reveals her feelings to Marcel.
Ariane, Russian Maid
Constantin
Arianne, a young Russian maid living in France, meets a man twice her age she falls in love with.
When Love Is Over
Pierre Meyran
An art historian has an affair with a young saleslady while his disaffected wife cheats on him in turn.Both illicit relationships end in little boys being born around the same time.
The Eagle
Flambeau
An adaptation of the play L'Aiglon by Edmond Rostand, which portrays the life of Napoleon I.
O Fim do Mundo
Martial Novalic
Jean e Martial Novalic são dois irmão divididos pelo amor à mesma mulher, Genevieve. O primeiro é um poeta obcecado com a morte; o segundo, um astrônomo que descobre um cometa em rota de colisão com a Terra. A notícia de que a humanidade tem apenas mais uma centena de dias antes da destruição do planeta gera o caos, mas também acirra o triângulo amoroso entre os irmãos Novalic, que têm reações bastante diversas sobre a tragédia iminente.