Michel François

Michel François

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The Bear Cage
Title: The Bear Cage
Released: June 4, 1974
Type: Movie
In the Brussells suburb known as "Bear Cage," a poor grocer is at odds with his sexually hyperactive and fashionably Maoist son, who is also a college student. When the students at the college stage a protest in which his son is involved, his exasperation mounts.
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The Mischief Makers
Title: The Mischief Makers
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 14, 1957
Type: Movie
A group of young boys have a collective crush on Bernadette. As a result of this, they have an unreasoning jealousy of Gérard, and do everything they can to disrupt their relationship. When Gérard catches one of the young boys spying on them, he thrashes him severely. In retaliation, the children try to inspire Bernadette to doubt Gérard’s love.
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Isabelle Is Afraid of Men
Title: Isabelle Is Afraid of Men
Character: Yves
Released: October 30, 1957
Type: Movie
During a summer spent with her cousins, whose freedom and incessant flirting at first surprised her, young Isabelle met a charming playmate whom her mother and aunt, worried about this tender friendship, forbade her to see again. This doesn't stop Isabelle from meeting Yves and learning that friendship and love are not the same thing: the sweet little friend is left alone with his dreams and the memory of a too-pretty girlfriend.
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Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
Title: Godzilla, the Monster of the Pacific Ocean
Character: Unidentified Character (voice)
Released: March 15, 1957
Type: Movie
Obscure French version of the original Godzilla. The film combines elements of the original Toho version and the American King of the Monsters! in a unique assemblage exclusive to the Francophone market. Released by Les Films du Verseau.
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If Paris Were Told to Us
Title: If Paris Were Told to Us
Character: Le Deuxième Visiteur
Released: January 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.
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The Best Part
Title: The Best Part
Character: Doctor Molinier
Released: December 30, 1955
Type: Movie
Philippe Perrin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in the High Alps. Like all the men who work on the building site, he gives the best part of himself. Unfortunately, his health deteriorates but he refuses to follow the doctor's orders as well as the advice of Micheline, a young nurse who has fallen in love with him. However, driven by the evolution of his illness, Philippe finally makes up his mind to go down to the valley for a treatment. On the very day of his departure though, a young Arab worker gets killed in a rock crusher...
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La cage aux souris
Title: La cage aux souris
Released: October 11, 1954
Type: Movie
During the Occupation, a boarding school in Moulins was placed under the rule of a headmistress committed to collaboration. It is within these walls that Michel, Arthur and Franck, escaped prisoners seeking to cross the demarcation line, find themselves stranded. Three boarders, Manouche, Jo and La Tigresse, discreetly devote themselves to them. Until the day when, aware of the danger, they alert the Resistance through the intermediary of a warden. The three men cross into the free zone, and Michel promises to find Manouche.
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The Rebels of Lomanach
Title: The Rebels of Lomanach
Character: Jean de Latour
Released: April 6, 1954
Type: Movie
A young woman has a perilous affair with a General from the opposing side during the Revolutionary war.
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The Bonnadieu House
Title: The Bonnadieu House
Character: Pascal Mascaret
Released: November 27, 1951
Type: Movie
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. Rather than express outrage, Felix decides that there's something lacking in him. He spends the rest of the picture trying to keep his wife by altering his own personality and outlook.
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Deburau
Title: Deburau
Character: Charles Deburau
Released: June 29, 1951
Type: Movie
Jean-Gaspard Deburau is a very successful mime, the most famous in his category. One day, he falls head over heels in love with Marie Duplessis, a courtesan better known as "La Dame aux Camélias". But he soon realizes that he is but a number in her long list of lovers. He will find comfort in devoting his time teaching his art to his son Charles.
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Clara de Montargis
Title: Clara de Montargis
Character: Renaud Geoffroy
Released: June 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Renaud, a young student who is camping alone at the moment, has a dream one night, in which the woman of his dreams appears. When he wakes up the next morning, he cannot believe his eyes: the creature of the dream is there by the side of the road, in the flesh! The woman accepts to drive Renaud to Montargis but it is only after she has dropped him off there that he realizes that what he experienced for her was love at first sight. He then decides not to return to Paris but to try and find the wonderful stranger in Montargis. He discovers that the woman's name is Clara and that she is the member of a drama company.
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The Last Vacation
Title: The Last Vacation
Character: Jacques Simonet
Released: March 24, 1948
Type: Movie
A schoolboy remembers his last holiday in the big house of his family in the country, before it was sold.
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Devil in the Flesh
Title: Devil in the Flesh
Character: René
Released: September 22, 1947
Type: Movie
In France during World War I, Marthe waits for her husband, Jacques, while he fights on the front lines. Marthe then begins a tempestuous affair with 17-year-old François, with whom she had a dalliance before marrying Jacques. Jealous François struggles with the fact that Marthe is married, while she tries to prove her devotion to her young, hotheaded lover. Things become even more complex when Marthe becomes pregnant with Jacques' baby.
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A Cage of Nightingales
Title: A Cage of Nightingales
Character: Eloi Lequerec
Released: September 6, 1945
Type: Movie
In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of his boarding school director.
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The Woman Who Dared
Title: The Woman Who Dared
Character: Claude
Released: February 3, 1944
Type: Movie
The strength of a couple's fascination with airplanes and flight is to the detriment of their family
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The Blue Veil
Title: The Blue Veil
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1942
Type: Movie
In 1914, in the first months of World War I, Louise Jarraud loses her husband, killed on the front. Shortly after, she gives birth to a baby, who soon dies. Devastated by this double misfortune, Louise decides to dedicate her life to caring for the children of others. She becomes a nurse with several employers, giving her affection to little boys or girls. A widower and another man propose to her but she refuses twice determined as she is to live only for the children in her charge.
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Patricia
Title: Patricia
Character: Fabien child
Released: October 27, 1942
Type: Movie
Mademoiselle Bressac is a bossy spinster who manages "Le Clos", her estate, with an iron hand. But is she really a bad person? Her manners are abrupt but they only hide a heart of gold. Doesn't she bring up four orphans, Dominique, Fabien, Chantal and Jean? And as if it were not enough, she has accepted to educate another child, her niece Patricia, entrusted to her care by her irresponsible father. Thanks to her, the five young people have grown up in harmony and now they are about to find their place in society. Two of them, Jean and Patricia, who love each other, live only for the estate.
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The Lover of Borneo
Title: The Lover of Borneo
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 28, 1942
Type: Movie
Lucien Mazerand, a bookseller from Châteauroux, goes to Paris to spend a few days in the French capital. At the music-hall, he discovers Stella Losange, a singer who literally enthralls him. Determined to seduce her, he is aware that a mere bookseller from the provinces stands no chance. So he resorts to a stratagem: posing for a globe-trotter who has gone through millions of adventures. The scheme works but the lady wants more : why doesn't he take her along with him so that she can share his dangerous life?
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Sins of Youth
Title: Sins of Youth
Character: Maurice (uncredited)
Released: November 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A rich businessman living alone is deprived of the nephew he was to have brought up decides on his doctor's advice to search for the four illegitimate children he once fathered, which leads him to accept responsibility for his actions.
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Who Killed Santa Claus?
Title: Who Killed Santa Claus?
Character: Pierre Coquillot, a kid
Released: October 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A village in the French Alps is rocked by a series of crimes, including the theft of a sacred ring and the murder of a man dressed as Père Noël (Father Christmas).
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There's No Tomorrow
Title: There's No Tomorrow
Character: Pierre, Evelyn's son
Released: March 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Evelyne, a woman of bourgeois origin, now reduced to dancing in a sleazy nightclub, is reunited with her first love, who has become a successful doctor.
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Threats
Title: Threats
Character: Le gosse au chien (uncredited)
Released: January 11, 1940
Type: Movie
"Menaces" deals with the months before WW2 in a hotel :t he fear of the impending war never leaves the guests of an hotel in Paris.
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The Phantom Wagon
Title: The Phantom Wagon
Character: Le fils de David Holm
Released: September 7, 1939
Type: Movie
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 wrought when he dies on New Year's Eve and is collected by Death in his carriage.
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Girls in Distress
Title: Girls in Distress
Character: Michel Mortier
Released: January 10, 1939
Type: Movie
Jeune Filles en Detresse (Young Girls in Distress) was director G. W. Pabst's last French production before his (ill-timed) return to Nazi-occupied Austria in 1941. Somewhat reminiscent of Maedchen in Uniform, the story is set in a private girl's school, populated almost exclusively by children from broken homes. Among the few students who can claim family stability is Micheline Presle, but even her happiness is threatened when her lawyer father Andre Luguet inaugurates an affair with stage actress Jacqueline Debulac. With the help of Debulac's daughter Louisa Carletti, Presle is able to break up her father's romance and deliver him into the open arms of her mother Marcelle Chantal. On the whole, the performance by the younger cast members are more convincing than those rendered by the film's so-called adults.
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I Was an Adventuress
Title: I Was an Adventuress
Character: Michel François
Released: December 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Old friends of Vera Vronsky remind her of her past and try to blackmail her.
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Courier of Lyons
Title: Courier of Lyons
Character: Pierre Lesurques
Released: November 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of justice will lead an innocent person to the guillotine.
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Rose
Title: Rose
Released: February 21, 1936
Type: Movie