Acting
Annabella
Born July 14, 1907 · Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Died September 18, 1996 · aged 89
Annabella (born Suzanne Georgette Charpentier; 14 July 1907 - 18 September 1996) was a French actress.
Known For
The Baroness and the Butler · 1938The Baroness and the Butler
★ 5.31938
MovieComedyDrama
A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
Tonight We Raid Calais · 1943Tonight We Raid Calais
★ 5.81943
MovieWarDrama
A British commando is on a one-man raid to destroy a bomb factory in Nazi-occupied France. He must enlist the aid of French farmers to complete his mission.
Last Love · 1949Last Love
★ 7.51949
MovieDrama
Hélène has an affair with Alain for ten years, but does not want to divorce her husband. Alain receives one letter from a girl Michelle one day. Hélène, who is very jealous, receives that letter by chance and interprets it incorrectly.
Hôtel du Nord · 1938Hôtel du Nord
★ 7.21938
MovieRomanceDrama
On the meandering Canal St. Martin, at the Parisian Hôtel du Nord, a nearly fatal gunshot separates a dejected young couple. But, amid a sad but beautiful panorama of lively characters, love has the final say. Can life be a fairy tale?
Romance to the unknown · 1931Romance to the unknown
★ 8.01931
MovieDrama
An idealistic youth finds sincere love after having been toyed with by several frivolous women who were not serious.
Varieté · 1935Varieté
★ 6.51935
MovieRomanceDrama
Annabella, Jean Gabin and Fernand Gravey star as a trio of circus trapeze artists. Both Gabin and Gravey love Annabella, but she has eyes only for Gravey. Seething with jealousy, Gabin plots revenge against his rival. He "accidentally" drops Gravey into a net during rehearsal -- but does he plan to do the same during a performance, when the trio works without a net?
Lusitanian Illusion · 2010Lusitanian Illusion
★ 6.42010
MovieDocumentaryHistory
Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguised their Nazi inclinations just enough to play its neutral role in international politics.
The Barcarolle of Love · 1930The Barcarolle of Love
★ 8.01930
Movie
A young singer at the Opera finds out who really loves her, when the theater catches fire on the opening night of the performance.
Movies
The Baroness and the Butler · 1938The Baroness and the Butler
★ 5.31938
MovieComedyDrama
A Butler gets elected to the Hungarian parliament where he opposes his master's government.
Tonight We Raid Calais · 1943Tonight We Raid Calais
★ 5.81943
MovieWarDrama
A British commando is on a one-man raid to destroy a bomb factory in Nazi-occupied France. He must enlist the aid of French farmers to complete his mission.
Last Love · 1949Last Love
★ 7.51949
MovieDrama
Hélène has an affair with Alain for ten years, but does not want to divorce her husband. Alain receives one letter from a girl Michelle one day. Hélène, who is very jealous, receives that letter by chance and interprets it incorrectly.
Hôtel du Nord · 1938Hôtel du Nord
★ 7.21938
MovieRomanceDrama
On the meandering Canal St. Martin, at the Parisian Hôtel du Nord, a nearly fatal gunshot separates a dejected young couple. But, amid a sad but beautiful panorama of lively characters, love has the final say. Can life be a fairy tale?
Romance to the unknown · 1931Romance to the unknown
★ 8.01931
MovieDrama
An idealistic youth finds sincere love after having been toyed with by several frivolous women who were not serious.
Varieté · 1935Varieté
★ 6.51935
MovieRomanceDrama
Annabella, Jean Gabin and Fernand Gravey star as a trio of circus trapeze artists. Both Gabin and Gravey love Annabella, but she has eyes only for Gravey. Seething with jealousy, Gabin plots revenge against his rival. He "accidentally" drops Gravey into a net during rehearsal -- but does he plan to do the same during a performance, when the trio works without a net?
Lusitanian Illusion · 2010Lusitanian Illusion
★ 6.42010
MovieDocumentaryHistory
Images and sounds expose the duality of Portugal during the days of WW2: a peaceful, god-loving, rural country, providing an escape route for over one hundred thousand European refugees to the Americas; and a political and cultural elite that disguised their Nazi inclinations just enough to play its neutral role in international politics.
The Barcarolle of Love · 1930The Barcarolle of Love
★ 8.01930
Movie
A young singer at the Opera finds out who really loves her, when the theater catches fire on the opening night of the performance.
La bataille · 1934La bataille
1934
MovieDramaWar
During the Russo-Japanese War, an English officer on the ship of the Japanese falls in love with the wife of the commander.
Sacrifice of Honor · 1935Sacrifice of Honor
★ 8.01935
MovieWarDrama
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.
Misdeal · 1928Misdeal
★ 7.51928
MovieDrama
Maldone is a canal worker, happy with his life after running away from his family estate. He falls in love with Zita, a young gypsy girl, during a local fete. However, after his brother dies, Maldone is called back to manage the estate. There, he takes up the life of a landowner and marries a neighbor's daughter. Years later Maldone is still restless on the estate, and becomes obsessed with Zita, after meeting her by chance one evening.
Three Naked Flappers · 1929Three Naked Flappers
★ 9.01929
Movie
Spring Shower · 1932Spring Shower
★ 6.01932
MovieDrama
It tells the story of Marie, an austerely beautiful young peasant girl played by the French star, Annabella. She is seduced beneath a flowering tree by the admirer of one of the daughters of the prosperous family for whom she works, becomes pregnant and is cast out.
Napoleon · 1927Napoleon
★ 7.81927
MovieDramaHistory
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball fight is staged like a military campaign) to his flight from Corsica, through the French Revolution (where a real storm is intercut with a political storm) and the Terror, culminating in his triumphant invasion of Italy in 1797.
Gardez le sourire · 1934Gardez le sourire
★ 6.31934
MovieDrama
A young woman full of despair comforts a lonely unemployed man who was going to drown himself.Together they find ways to make money and they become a couple.
The Man Who Returns from Afar · 1950The Man Who Returns from Afar
★ 9.01950
MovieCrimeDrama
A man, after a fight, believes he has killed his cousin, and hides the body. The dead man had only passed out, but when he regained consciousness, he became amnesiac. When she sees him again, the woman who loved him takes him for a ghost.
Companion Wanted · 1932Companion Wanted
★ 9.01932
MovieComedy
Young love blossoms between a salesgirl and a handsome man on the French Riviera.
Don Juan · 1950Don Juan
★ 6.81950
MovieAdventureComedy
Don Juan leaves Venice and gets back to Seville, his home city. When he arrives there, he learns that his father is dead and has left all his properties to him, on codition that he marries Doña Inés. Don Juan makes up a former marriage, but when he meets her he becomes fascinated by her beauty.
13 Rue Madeleine · 194713 Rue Madeleine
★ 6.11947
MovieThrillerWar
Bob Sharkey, an instructor of would-be spies for the Allied Office of Strategic Services, becomes suspicious of one of the latest batch of students, Bill O'Connell, who is too good at espionage. His boss, Charles Gibson confirms that O'Connell is really a top German agent, but tells Sharkey to pass him, as they intend to feed the mole false information about the impending D-Day invasion.
Twice twenty years · 1931Twice twenty years
★ 8.01931
Movie
Men including younger ones flock around a seductive older woman of mixed race, so that she forgets her age.Will she choose the one rightly destined for her?
First Love · 1932First Love
★ 6.51932
MovieDrama
Simultaneously filmed Romanian language version of Marie, Legende Hongroise: a peasant girl is cast out of her society after a man,who really loves the daughter of her employer, gets her pregnant.
Moscow Nights · 1934Moscow Nights
★ 4.81934
MovieWarDrama
During the First World War, the Russian officer Captain Ivan Ignatoff falls in love with his nurse, Natasha Kovrin. But she is subject to an upcoming marriage of family convenience to Brioukow, a wealthy industrialist of peasant stock. Brioukow is unjustifiably jealous, since Natasha has not betrayed him. He forces Ignatoff into his debt as a means of humiliating him. When Ignatoff's new friend, Madame Sabline, offers to pay his debt, preventing his ruin, Ignatoff comes quickly to realize that Madame Sabline has an ulterior motive, one that could prove dangerous to more lives than just Ignatoff's.
Suez · 1938Suez
★ 5.51938
MovieDramaHistory
Ferdinand de Lesseps, disappointed in love, is sent as a junior diplomat to the Isthmus of Suez, and realizes it's just the place for a canal.
Bomber's Moon · 1943Bomber's Moon
★ 6.51943
MovieDramaWar
An American pilot swears to get revenge on the German ace who shot his brother in this war movie set in war-torn Europe. Montgomery is the pilot. After he sees his brother die while trying to parachute to safety, Montgomery's plane is shot down over Germany. He is placed in a POW camp. There he meets a Russian medic and a Czech. Together the trio escapes.
TV Shows
Sacrée soirée · 1987Sacrée soirée
★ 5.71987
Series
The Oscars · 1953The Oscars
★ 7.01953
Series
An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy of a statuette, officially the Academy Award of Merit, that is better known by its nickname Oscar.
Suspense · 1949Suspense
★ 5.11949
SeriesDrama
An anthology series adapted from the radio program of the same name. Like the radio program, many scripts were adaptations of literary classics by well-known authors. Classic authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Agatha Christie, and Charles Dickens all had stories adapted for the series, while contemporary authors such as Roald Dahl and Gore Vidal also contributed.