Jean Sylvain
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.5476 |
| Birthday | 1906-10-21 |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Also Known As | Sylvain, Sylvain Schenkel, |
1937
La Loupiote
7/1
Little Germaine Valcour, an adulterine child, is abandoned and taken in by a showman, Father Ballot. She becomes the consolation of the good man whose...
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La Loupiote
1938
Southern Bar
10/1
Baron Arnold, a businessman, takes his young wife to Africa where he instructs her to seduce Captain Olivier, an intelligence officer. But Olivier ill...
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Southern Bar
1938
La Glu
10/1
A young Breton sailor falls in love with a visiting stranger called 'La Glu'. He drops his betrothed, mother and friends so that he can live with her....
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La Glu
1938
Une de la cavalerie
7/1
The merry Vigoulette wants to escape the yoke of his wife and asks to be recalled to a barracks regiment in Nice. Every night, he and his friend Poupa...
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Une de la cavalerie
1938
Les Gaietés de l'exposition
8/1
Set against the backdrop of the 1937 Paris Exposition, a mistaken identity plot where a travel agent from Morocco is confused by the French police wit...
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Les Gaietés de l'exposition
1938
Troubled Heart
7/1
In 1914, students living in a boarding house are disturbed by a young woman. On the eve of being called up, one of them declares his love for her. She...
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Troubled Heart
1946
The Temptation of Barbizon
5.8/14
Daniel Gelin and Juliette Faber star as a blissfully happy honeymooning couple. They are so happy that they arouse the jealous attentions of Satan. Th...
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The Temptation of Barbizon
1948
Emile the African
6.333/3
Émile Boulard is a props man in a Paris movie studio. He has a wife, Suzanne. Or to be more accurate, let's say he HAD a wife since she left him fifte...
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Emile the African
1948
Femme sans passé
8/1
Caroline feels neglected by her husband, the businessman Lorin. She plans to have fun with an inventor but finds herself, following a combination of c...
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Femme sans passé
1950
Death Threat
8.5/2
André Garnier, a young pianist, who was sent to deportation following a denunciation, absolutely wants to find his informer. He falls in love with Hél...
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Death Threat
1950
Round of Hours
10/1
A singer who has become voiceless is forced to leave his wife and children. He will become famous again as a clown.
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Round of Hours
1948
The Execrable Fate of Guillemette Babin
7/0
Being born a witch's daughter did not bode well for your future in the Middle Ages. Guillaumette tries to stay on the straight and narrow with a littl...
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The Execrable Fate of Guillemette Babin
1950
Here Is the Beauty
7/1
Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success as a ballerina despite being wounded by him in a fit of...
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Here Is the Beauty
1950
Minne
6.125/4
Minne is a very imaginative young lady. She pretends to have had lovers and can't think of anything better to do other than... to tell Antoine, her hu...
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Minne
1950
Lady Paname
6.5/11
The evocation of Paris in the 1920s mingles with the rapid rise of the irresistible Caprice, a talented singer, and her tumultuous love affair with Je...
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Lady Paname
1949
L'échafaud peut attendre
8/1
A trio of criminals gradually become entangled in theft and crime. Serge is arrested, his mistress, Hélène, and his accomplice, Michel, both become lo...
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L'échafaud peut attendre
1950
Véronique
9/1
The king orders viscount Florestan to take mademoiselle de Solanges for his wife. But the viscount doesn't know the young lady at all. The latter deci...
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Véronique
1950
Justice Is Done
6.3/22
Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal...
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Justice Is Done
1950
Three Sinners
7/16
A man assists his gravely ill wife to die and wants to face justice for this, but his brothers try everything to keep the family's name clean.
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Three Sinners
1949
Night Round
9/1
During Christmas night, two police officers make their nocturnal rounds, in their round they meet tramps, brawlers in a café, a naked man, a concierge...
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Night Round
1950
Lawless Street
5.364/11
The eccentric characters of a street from the comic designs of Andre Dubout are brought to life with human performers instead of drawings.
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Lawless Street
1949
At the Grand Balcony
6.708/12
World War I aviator Carbot attempts to establish a commercial airline after the war, for the purpose of delivering the mail to the outermost regions o...
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At the Grand Balcony
1951
Without Leaving an Address
6.4/16
A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address.
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Without Leaving an Address
1951
Les Maîtres-nageurs
6/2
A married industrialist maintains three mistresses. On the instructions of his wife, the tax inspector seizes the small notebook where he records his...
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Les Maîtres-nageurs
1951
Dr. Knock
7.356/60
Saint-Maurice, an ordinary peaceful village, lived healthily so much so that the local doctor's practice was scant. But that was before Dr. Parpalaid...
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Dr. Knock
1953
Sins of Paris
3/4
Madeleine Lebeau, a woman who charges for her easy virtue, has a plan that has some of her customers paying more than others; she tells them she is pr...
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Sins of Paris
1952
Beauties of the Night
6.2/33
A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.
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Beauties of the Night
1951
Sins of Madeleine
6.667/3
Malou, a prostitute from Montmartre, and her pimp, have found a well laid scheme : whenever she (or he) wants to get rid of a lover, she announces to...
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Sins of Madeleine
1952
She and Me
6.357/7
You never can tell. Jean had always been one of the most confirmed bachelors that kept swearing to anyone that would listen he would never put a ring...
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She and Me
1954
The Contessa's Secret
8/2
The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life.
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The Contessa's Secret
1956
Les Lumières du soir
10/1
A young opera dancer tries to help her mother financially by performing in a dubious cabaret.
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Les Lumières du soir
1956
Mon bébé
6.5/2
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Mon bébé
1953
Captain Slipper
6.429/7
A bank clerk is bored to death with his nine-to-five work under his boss ' watchful eye. His missus is a pain in the neck and his in-laws are not bett...
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Captain Slipper
1954
Le Rouge et le Noir
6.2/39
It's no holds barred for Julian in pursuit of upward mobility. Although expected to channel career aspirations into the Church of the post-Napoleonic...
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Le Rouge et le Noir
1956
Les Duraton
7/4
Jules Duraton is the headmaster of Chatelbourg's high school. He is happily married, has a teenage daughter named Solange, and everything would be for...
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Les Duraton
1939
The Phantom Wagon
7.2/6
French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a poor sinner who only realizes what misery he's wr...
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The Phantom Wagon
1955
Headlines of Destruction
7/5
Released from prison after two years, Michel Gérard sets out to find his wife Alice. Alice, luxuriously maintained by her lover, Jacques Rupert, edito...
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Headlines of Destruction
1954
Nights of Shame
5.5/4
Marie-Thérèse is firmly involved in a charity dedicated to the rehabilitation of prostitutes. She approaches Marcelle who, for the love of Pierre, an...
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Nights of Shame
1954
Men Think Only of That
6.25/10
Alfred is in love, but shy. Desperate not to have the audacity to express his passion to the woman of his dreams, Nicole, a young dairyman, he enthusi...
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Men Think Only of That
1954
On the Bench
5.833/3
La Hurlette and Carmen are a pair of philosophical tramps who enjoy simple pleasures in the company of the cheerful Sosthène. As in the fairy tales, L...
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On the Bench
1950
Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil!
2.5/4
André Courvalin, a merry bachelor, considers marrying, but not his exuberant mistress Aurélie. He would much rather wed sweet Suzanne. Trouble is that...
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Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil!
1953
Naked in the Wind
9/1
Smalltown confectioner Lespinasse, hopeful of being reelected as chief councillor, is opposed by Darcepoil, the local druggist. Darcepoil arranges for...
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Naked in the Wind
1959
Asphalt
7.6/5
Françoise Arnould plays here a married woman who decides one day to get away from her husband and return to her childhood place, where she meets all h...
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Asphalt
1960
The Heirs
7/2
Rival brother and sister Gaëtan and Chantal, the last heirs of the late billionaire financier Omar Porassis, use every trick in the book to try and cl...
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The Heirs
1963
A Blonde Like That
8.25/4
Myra, daughter of the circus king, has been kidnapped in South America. Or so her father believes. In reality, Miss Shumway has escaped into the India...
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A Blonde Like That
1961
Princess of Cleves
5.8/23
A teen marries the Prince of Clèves, more than twice her age, which makes her an official Princess, a position she takes to heart. Although distracted...
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Princess of Cleves
1965
Killer Spy
6/2
The most secret agent Stanislas Dubois, tired of saving the world alone decides to retire and to start writing his memoirs. The enemies of humanity, p...
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Killer Spy
1940
Beating Heart
6.261/23
Tells the story of a young woman escaping from reform school who tries to steal a foreign ambassador's watch but ends up falling in love with him.
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Beating Heart
1939
Four Flights to Love
6.4/17
In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for des...
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Four Flights to Love
1958
Hardboiled Egg Time
5.5/4
A shy, penniless employee of the garage owner Grillot, the gentle Louis wins $10 million in the lottery. Flitting along the banks of the Seine, he tak...
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Hardboiled Egg Time
1966
King of Hearts
6.953/86
An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistan...
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King of Hearts
1964
Male Companion
5.333/15
A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself.
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Male Companion
1964
Male Hunt
6.5/36
A few stories about marriage and its problems. Antoine is about to marry Gisèle. His friend Julien, an established bachelor, desperately tries to conv...
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Male Hunt
1948
The Murdered Model
5.667/3
Commissioner Malaise investigates a strange crime: a mannequin, stolen from the window of a tailor, is found stabbed... But his face of wax has the fe...
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The Murdered Model
1950
Lawless Street
5.364/11
The eccentric characters of a street from the comic designs of Andre Dubout are brought to life with human performers instead of drawings.
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Lawless Street
1951
The Bonnadieu House
4.444/9
Felix is a middle-aged bourgeois husband. Much to his discomfort, he learns that his wife Gabrielle is carrying on with a young man--a very young man...
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The Bonnadieu House
1947
Panic
7.3/93
Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he fee...
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Panic
1948
The Loves of Colette
8.125/4
François, a young student at a provincial college, likes Colette, the daughter of the headmaster. Turlot his colleague, who commits suicide, left a di...
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The Loves of Colette
1955
Girl on the Third Floor
5.833/6
A Parisian reporter tries to exonerate a fugitive neighbor of charges he murdered his wife.
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Girl on the Third Floor
1949
Dark Sunday
7/1
Shortly before the War, Jan Lazlo, a Hungarian musician who has emigrated to France, falls for a young woman. Alas, the lady forsakes him and the poor...
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Dark Sunday
1957
The Gates of Paris
6.608/37
Juju, a drunken oaf who feels the need of being important to someone---anyone---and his friend The Artist are forced at gunpoint to house a fugitive,...
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The Gates of Paris
1947
Monsieur Badin
9.5/2
Based on the short story by Georges Courteline. The story of Monsieur Badin, a model employee who can't bring himself to go to the office and suffers...
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