Marseilles in the 1930s. A respected gangster, Justin, finds himself in a deadly feud with his rival, the unscrupulous Esposito. The latter plans to steal a cargo of opium bound for China and to have Justin killed. The scheme backfires, and Justin and his cohorts flee with the stolen drugs. Later, Justin saves a young woman, Totone, from drowning, and she is easily seduced by his charms. Her jealous lover, Sylvio, tries to kill Justin, but again the murder attempt is thwarted. Justin decides it is time for a final showdown with Esposito…

Justin.de.Marseille.1935.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 39 min
Size: 	2.23 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	788x576 
Aspect ratio:  	4:3
Frame rate: 	23.976 fps
Bit rate: 	3 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.276
Audio
#1:  	French 1.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/9726C8606195478/Justin.de.Marseille.1935.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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Synopsis
Set during the mid-19th century, the film dwells upon the foredoomed romance between Russian princess Katia (Danielle Darrieux) and the married Czar Alexander II (John Loder). Impressed by her forthrightness and courage, Alexander finds Katia a breath of fresh air when compared with the usual obsequious noblemen who nip at his heels. When their love affair becomes public during a state ball, the ensuing scandal forces Katia to flee to Paris…

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File Size (in bytes): 1,175,150,592
Duration (hh:mm:ss): 1:25:36

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https://nitro.download/view/C0A87134F55C1BE/Katia.1938.TVRip.XviD.avi

Language(s):French
Subtitles:None

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In CÉCILE IS DEAD! (1944) Santa Relli (Jour de Fête) plays a young woman named Cécile, who keeps coming to Quai des Orfèvres to see Inspector Maigret about disturbing events in her household. The esteemed detective and his colleagues are annoyed…until Cécile winds up dead. Maigret must crack the mystery in this stylish film noir from director Maurice Tourneur (Lorna Doone).

Cecile.is.Dead.1944.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 22 min
Size: 	1.84 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	790x576 
Aspect ratio:  	1.372
Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	3 000 kb/s
BPP: 	0.275
Audio
#1:  	French 1.0ch AC-3 @ 192 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/0E40E74EF4D3481/Cecile.is.Dead.1944.BDRIP.576p.x264.AC3.KJNU.mkv

Language(s):French
Subtitles:English

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On the eve of the French Revolution, two orphan girls, Henriette and Louise, make their way to Paris…

There are so many unforgettable scenes:
– Louise singing in the streets, Henriette and the Countess trying to reach her.
The police and the Count stopping them. Countess’ silent despair and Henriette’s screams.
– All the sequences with Pierre and Louise.
– The Marquis’ costume orgy, masterfully filmed.
– And, above all, Yvette Guilbert cradling her son with a song… an immense moment of cinema.
Paul Vecchiali – L’encinéclopédie – cinéastes français des années 1930 et leur oeuvre

Les Deux Orphelines (1933) 24FPS.mkv

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Container:  	Matroska
Runtime: 	1 h 42 min
Size: 	1.78 GiB
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Codec: 	x264
Resolution: 	688x544 ~> 750x544
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Frame rate: 	24.000 fps
Bit rate: 	2 100 kb/s
BPP: 	0.234
Audio
#1:  	French 2.0ch AC-3 @ 384 kb/s

https://nitro.download/view/E2A1C8276EE8579/Les_Deux_Orphelines_(1933)_24FPS.mkv
https://nitro.download/view/493EEC5A104A30C/Les_Deux_Orphelines_(1933)_24FPS.srt

Language(s):French
Subtitles:French,English

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Quote:
Gwen’s family is rich, but her parents ignore her and most of the servants push her around, so she is lonely and unhappy. Her father is concerned only with making money, and her mother cares only about her social position. But one day a servant’s irresponsibility creates a crisis that causes everyone to rethink what is important to them.

3 audio tracks including commentary and spoken intertitles

950MB | 1h 1.16m | 640×480 | mkv

https://nitroflare.com/view/8A7ADDA2BE0F31E/The_Poor_Little_Rich_Girl.mkv
https://nitroflare.com/view/36CE41C96223272/Dailies_from_Home.mkv

Language(s):Silent 3 audio tracks
Subtitles:English intertitles

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Quote:
Wildly inventive and effortlessly enchanting, Maurice Tourneur’s legendary 1918 fantasy The Blue Bird combines spectacular costumes, lavish sets, ingenious camera effects and disarmingly naturalistic performances in a wholly original American silent film masterpiece. Tourneur’s extravagant vision anticipates the spellbinding German Expressionism of The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, made the following year, while affectionately evoking the whimsical theatricality of Georges Méliès’s pioneering cinematic genius.

Based upon Nobel Prize-winner Maurice Maeterlinck’s play, The Blue Bird takes two young children on an allegorical voyage that bridges the chasm between the conscious and the unconscious. Joined by magically humanized pets and living household objects, brother and sister Mytyl and Tyltyl travel through a series of dream worlds on a quest for the elusive Blue Bird of Happiness.

699MB | 1h 21mn | 512×384 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/AEF14EDB76B52F5/The_Blue_Bird.avi

Language(s):English
Subtitles:None

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AMG wrote:
According to film historian William K. Everson, to offer a fully detailed synopsis of Maurice Tourneur’s delightful period piece The Wishing Ring “would do a disservice to its charm.” Suffice to say that the film’s wide-eyed heroine Vivian Martin comes into possession of a ring which she believes to have magical powers. Armed with this belief alone, the girl is able to change the course of her entire life. Adapted from a play by Owen Davis Sr., the film opens and closes theatrically, with a group of giggling young maidens opening and closing a proscenium curtain but is otherwise thoroughly and gloriously “cinematic.” Such is the skill of director Tourneur that many people have been led to believe that the film, shot in its entirety in New Jersey, was actually produced in England (even the New Jersey Palisades seem convincingly “British!”). Rediscovered almost by accident by movie archivist Kevin Brownlow, The Wishing Ring may well be the best of Maurice Tourneur’s pre-1916 films and is also a testament to the talent of his cameraman John Van Den Broek.

699MB | 1h 00m | 640 x 480 | avi

https://nitro.download/view/3A5D3982629E28C/1914_The_Wishing_Ring.avi

Language(s):Silent, English intertitles
Subtitles:None

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