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For the arch-criminal Fantômas, no crime is too daring, too adventurous. A master of disguise, he has no trouble relieving the Princess Danidoff of her priceless pearl necklace at the Royal Palace Hotel. Inspectator Juve is determined to capture Fantômas and put an end to his limitless villainy. Whilst investigating the disappearance of Lord Beltham...
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When a disfigured body of a woman is found in the lodgings of Dr Chaleck, Inspector Juve immediately suspects this to be the work of his arch-enemy, the master criminal Fantômas. He and his journalist friend, Fandor, trail Chaleck across Paris. They see him being handed a note by a girl called Joséphine whom Fandor pursues while Juve continues following Chaleck...
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Miraculously, the journalist Fandor has survived his latest confrontation with the villainous master criminal Fantômas. His friend and collaborator Inspector Juve is less fortunate – it appears that he was crushed to death in the explosion at Lady Bentham’s house. Fandor returns to work and immediately engages himself in another bizarre case...
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After his failed attempts to capture the ruthless crook and serial murderer Fantômas, Inspecteur Juve becomes the victim of a virulent press campaign which accuses him of being Fantômas himself. Whilst Juve languishes in a prison cell, his friend, the journalist Fandor, attempts to clear his name by tracking the real Fantômas...
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Paris is in the grip of an unseen, nameless, terror, against which the police are powerless to act. A criminal organisation known as the Vampires create fear and mayhem, killing, looting, abducting – no crime is too daring, or too despicable. Little is known about the gang of villains except that they are led by the Grand Vampire and his seductive partner...
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Five disparate friends take a boat to Morocco for what they hope will be a relaxing sightseeing holiday. They arrive in the midst of a religious festival and immediately provoke the wrath of an old man when they try to remove the veil of his young female companion. The old man reveals that he is a sorcerer and promptly puts a curse on the five men...
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Inspector Maigret investigates the mysterious murder of a Dutch diamond dealer, found dead in a stolen car. The car belongs to an insurance agent, Michonnet, and has been abandoned in the garage belonging to Carl Andersen. Carl’s sister, Else, is not what she seems, but is linked to a gang of ruthless crooks......
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Whilst performing his famous mind-reading act at a Parisian nightclub, Professor Winckler recognises his most hated enemy in the audience. After the show, he pursues the man, an American gangster named Gordon, and shoots him dead. He then bribes Hélène, a young woman who works in the nightclub, to give him an alibi for the killing...
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Pépé le Moko has gained a reputation as the most notorious crook in Algiers, loyally served by his band of armed criminals. The police are determined to bring him to book, but every attempt so far to lure him out of the Casbah where he is safely in hiding has failed. One day, Pépé meets up with a beautiful Parisian tourist...
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In the college of St-Agil, three boys, Baume, Sorgue and Macroix, form a secret society "Les Chiche-capons", meeting in the science room each night to plan a clandestine voyage to America. One day, Sorgue mysteriously disappears and a fortnight later his friends receive a postcard from America in his handwriting. Baume and Macroix decide that they must follow him to America...
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When 11 young Parisian women mysteriously disappear, the police recruit Adrienne Charpentier, the friend of the latest victim, to investigate. The only thing which seems to link the disappearances is that each of the victims replied to a small ad in the newspapers. In answering a number of ads herself, Adrienne meets some suspicious individuals...
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In a small mountain village in the Savoie, the inhabitants busily prepare for Christmas. The toy-maker Cornusse is occupied making presents for the children of the village, unaware that his beautiful young daughter, Catherine, is being courted by a mysterious baron. Having just returned to the village after an absence of several years...
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Having won some money in a bet, six men agree to a strange pact. They will separate for five years, each attempting to build a fortune from his portion of the winnings. After five years, they will meet up and share between them the wealthy they have accumulated. Five years later, two of the men are killed just before the six can meet up to conclude the pact...
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Inspector Wens is on the trail of a serial killer who has committed four street killings in the space of a few months. The only clue is a visitor’s card signed "Monsieur Durand" found at the scene of each murder. Wens receives an unexpected tip-off that the murderer is living in a boarding house. Disguised as a cleric...
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In a remote village, a family of hard-working country folk known as the ’Goupis’ live at an inn, proud of their history and distrusting of all outsiders. The youngest member of the Goupi clan, Goupi-Monsieur, now lives in Paris, but he is summoned to the Goupi’s home by his father, who is planning to marry him to the young Goupi-Mugeut...
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The peace of a small French village is mysteriously shattered by an outbreak of poison pen letters, signed "Le Corbeau" (the Raven), which create suspicion and misery. The prime target of these scandalous letters is Dr Germain, who is accused of having an affair with the wife of one of his colleagues and of practising abortion...
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Whilst moving into her new apartment in the rue Picpus, Paris, Madame Dumont discovers a dead body in her wardrobe. Inspector Maigret is called into investigate. A blind neighbour and possible witness to the killing has also been shot dead, then a mysterious near-sighted man, Mascouvin, warns Maigret that another murder is about to take place...
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A wealthy young man, Pierre Trévoux, is tired of his dull life and yearns for adventure. After spending an evening in a night-club where is inspired by the singer Adria-Adria, he gets the better of a pickpocket, Roulet, forcing him to give him his ill-gotten gains for that evening. These include a woman’s purse containing an ornamental locket...
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Convinced that her life is in danger, Cécile appeals to the police to help her. She insists that a mysterious stranger has already made a number of nocturnal intrusions into the apartment where she lives with her bullying aunt. But no one, not even the great Inspector Maigret, takes her claims seriously – until she is murdered......
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Madame Petersen, the wife of a wealthy industrialist, is murdered at the Majestic Hotel and Inspector Maigret is called in to investigate. Suspicion falls on the dead woman’s one-time secret lover, Arthur Donge. Maigret is doubtful but then he discovers that before she died Madame Petersen was being blackmailed by someone with the initials "A.D." Clearly...
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