Movies: Léon Mathot

  • 1926
    The Cradle of God

    The Cradle of God (1926)

    The Cradle of God

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    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 blasphemous book, debunking all religion, and then embarks on a trip to Jerusalem. Far from reconciling...

    The Cradle of God
  • 1940
    Hangman's Noose

    Hangman's Noose (1940)

    Hangman's Noose

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    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 on the occasion of his marriage, has three days left to find the real killer....

    Hangman's Noose
  • 1946
    Alert Nights

    Alert Nights (1946)

    Alert Nights

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    Hélène, a young waitress working in a bar frequented by German soldiers, saves the life of Pierre, a Resistance fighter. Her jealous lover has her arrested first and then released. Later on, Hélène is wounded while walking in the streets. Pierre has ...

    Alert Nights
  • 1920
    The Empire of Diamonds

    The Empire of Diamonds (1920)

    The Empire of Diamonds

    01920HD

    Shot on location in Paris, Monte Carlo and the Riviera with both American and French actors. When Matthew Versigny discovers that the jewels his diamond company has been buying are fake, he travels to Europe to track down the counterfeiter. With him ...

    The Empire of Diamonds
  • 1928
    In the Shadow of the Harem

    In the Shadow of the Harem (1928)

    In the Shadow of the Harem

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    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 the secretary, and thinks of becoming her lover. The charm and nobility of the young woman end up so...

    In the Shadow of the Harem
  • 1948
    Le dolmen tragique

    Le dolmen tragique (1948)

    Le dolmen tragique

    61948HD

    Chatelard, one of Viscount de Kerlec's guests, has died in mysterious conditions. The police initiates an investigation and sends detective-inspector Pauc to de Kerlec's manor. Pauc decides to mingle with the viscount's guests , who are all likely to...

    Le dolmen tragique
  • 1939
    Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur

    Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur (1939)

    Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur

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    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 false alibi makes him innocent and he can thus continue his mission, thanks to the devotion of an Alsatia...

    Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
  • 1923
    Vent debout

    Vent debout (1923)

    Vent debout

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    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 dark speculation in Icelandic minerals, he decides to take charge. An old friend of his father offers h...

    Vent debout
  • 1916
    Deadly Gas

    Deadly Gas (1916)

    Deadly Gas

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    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 breaks out. A series of circumstances will lead the scientist to change his way of thinking about valu...

    Deadly Gas
  • 1937
    L'Ange du foyer

    L'Ange du foyer (1937)

    L'Ange du foyer

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    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 Chouquette. His wife and her friend, Baron Sigismond, decide to fake an affair in order to get reveng...

    L'Ange du foyer
  • 1918
    The Count of Monte Cristo

    The Count of Monte Cristo (1918)

    The Count of Monte Cristo

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    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 innocent man jailed for 14 years after being wrongfully convicted. He succeeds to escape prison, finds a tr...

    The Count of Monte Cristo
  • 1917
    Barberousse

    Barberousse (1917)

    Barberousse

    51917HD

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

    Barberousse
  • 1947
    La dernière chevauchée

    La dernière chevauchée (1947)

    La dernière chevauchée

    01947HD

    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 it is his own son who will be the victim of the accident....

    La dernière chevauchée
  • 1942
    Forte tête

    Forte tête (1942)

    Forte tête

    01942HD

    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, Alexandre. A series of circumstances lead him to save little Gérard, the bank manager's grandson, from a fire. The...

    Forte tête
  • 1930
    The mystery of the pink villa

    The mystery of the pink villa (1930)

    The mystery of the pink villa

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    The mystery of the pink villa
  • 1930
    L'instinct

    L'instinct (1930)

    L'instinct

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    Between the feelings of the man who believes himself to be deceived and of the surgeon's instinct, it is the latter which triumphs in Doctor Bernon, who saves the man presumed to be his wife's lover. He then realizes that this is not the case and tha...

    L'instinct
  • 1917
    The Right to Life

    The Right to Life (1917)

    The Right to Life

    01917HD

    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 America, returns and wants to hasten the financier's death....

    The Right to Life
  • 1920
    Work

    Work (1920)

    Work

    01920HD

    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) under miserable conditions. Under the influence of Fourier's ideas, Froment tries to turn the mill int...

    Work
  • 1916
    Nemrod et compagnie

    Nemrod et compagnie (1916)

    Nemrod et compagnie

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    Nemrod et compagnie
  • 1925
    The Devil in the City

    The Devil in the City (1925)

    The Devil in the City

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    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....

    The Devil in the City