Jean-Louis Trintignant

Jean-Louis Trintignant

Born: December 11, 1930
Died: June 17, 2022
in Piolenc, Vaucluse, France
Jean-Louis Xavier Trintignant (11 December 1930 – 17 June 2022) was a French actor. He made his theatrical debut in 1951, and went on to be regarded as one of the best French dramatic actors of the post-war era. He starred in many classic films of European cinema, and worked with many prominent auteur directors, including Roger Vadim, Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch, Claude Chabrol, Bernardo Bertolucci, Éric Rohmer, François Truffaut, Krzysztof Kieślowski, and Michael Haneke.

He made a critical and commercial breakthrough in And God Created Woman (1956), followed by a starmaking romantic turn in A Man and a Woman (1966), and The Great Silence (1968). He won the Silver Bear for Best Actor at the 1968 Berlin International Film Festival for his performance in The Man Who Lies and the Best Actor Award at the 1969 Cannes Film Festival for Costa-Gavras's Z. Trintignant's other notable films include, My Night at Maud's (1969), The Conformist (1970), Three Colours: Red (1994), and The City of Lost Children (1995). He won the 2013 César Award for Best Actor for his role in Michael Haneke's Amour.

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The Most Precious of Cargoes
Title: The Most Precious of Cargoes
Character: Narrateur (voice)
Released: November 20, 2024
Type: Movie
During World War II a French Jewish family is deported to Auschwitz. On the train to the death camp, in a desperate gesture, the father throws one of his twins out into the snow, where he’s discovered by a childless Polish couple.
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Shoot to Live
Title: Shoot to Live
Character: Self
Released: May 11, 2022
Type: Movie
A documentary on filmmaker Claude Lelouch, following him over seven years.
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Trintignant by Trintignant
Title: Trintignant by Trintignant
Character: Self
Released: October 11, 2021
Type: Movie
A portrait of a man of rare elegance and enigmatic charm, versatile and successful: Jean-Louis Trintignant, one of the most critically acclaimed French actors of the last sixty years, known for his numerous roles on stage and screen.
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Marie Trintignant : Le Choix du jeu
Title: Marie Trintignant : Le Choix du jeu
Character: Himself
Released: September 1, 2021
Type: Movie
This film revisits the career and development of Marie Trintignant through the loving and often amused eyes of her father Jean-Louis Trintignant, as well as those of the actors and directors with whom she worked.
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Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
Title: Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
Character: Lui-même
Released: January 15, 2021
Type: Movie
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The Best Years of a Life
Title: The Best Years of a Life
Character: Jean-Louis Duroc
Released: May 22, 2019
Type: Movie
They knew each other long ago: a man and a woman whose dazzling and unexpected romance captured in the now-iconic film revolutionized our understanding of love. Today, the former race car driver seems lost in the pathways of his memory. In order to help him, his son seeks out the woman his father wasn’t able to cherish but whom he constantly revisits in his thoughts and dreams. Anne reunites with Jean-Louis and their story picks up where they left it…
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André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
Title: André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
Character: Self - Actor (archive footage)
Released: April 3, 2019
Type: Movie
A walk through the career of French filmmaker André Téchiné, from his own point of view and that of those who worked with him: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, Juliette Binoche and Sandrine Kiberlain, among others.
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Jacques Deray, j'ai connu une belle époque
Title: Jacques Deray, j'ai connu une belle époque
Character: Self
Released: December 2, 2018
Type: Movie
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Making of Happy End
Title: Making of Happy End
Character: Jean-Louis Trintignant
Released: February 6, 2018
Type: Movie
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Happy End
Title: Happy End
Character: Georges Laurent
Released: June 21, 2017
Type: Movie
A well-to-do French family living in Calais deal with a series of setbacks and crises while paying little attention to the grim conditions in the refugee camps within a few miles of their home.
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Filming Silenzio
Title: Filming Silenzio
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: Movie
Featurette about the making of Sergio Corbucci's 'Il grande silenzio' consisting mostly of footage from 'Western Italian Style'.
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Cinéma Jacques Perrin
Title: Cinéma Jacques Perrin
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 2014
Type: Movie
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Michael H. – Profession: Director
Title: Michael H. – Profession: Director
Character: Self
Released: March 15, 2013
Type: Movie
Over the past twenty-five years, director Michael Haneke has established himself as a towering figure in modern cinema whose rigorous focus on the craft of filmmaking has produced works of profound artistry. This career-spanning documentary gives unprecedented access and covers the body of Haneke’s work, offering insight into his creative process through on-set footage and interviews with the man himself and collaborators including Emmanuelle Riva, Isabelle Huppert and Juliette Binoche.
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Michel
Title: Michel
Character: Narrator
Released: January 12, 2013
Type: Movie
Michel has lived in a psychiatric hospital for many years. Blaise Othnin-Girard is fascinated by this figure outside any canon, including those to which a forced isolation would like to reduce him. Art, love, friendship in Michel's words seem different. "It seems to me that paradise ... is a love that pierces your belly and makes you really happy ... a feeling like an explosion of love in a faraway place. It's a place where you can enjoy, paradise." The director has not seen Michel since the therapeutic apartment in Mâcon in 2001, where he lived before some problems arose. He finds him now at the hospital in a Complex Psychiatry Unit: a closed and silent sector. His words reveal themselves between pain and resistance, humor and lucidity, hinting at a love affair between impeded bodies.
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Close Up
Title: Close Up
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 30, 2012
Type: Movie
More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferences in Cannes, Venice and Berlin, between 1993 and 2002. Presented the first time in 2012 (ten years after the last shooting) in Napoli Film Festival and in 2013 at the Art Institute of California in Santa Ana. An anthropological experiment on the facial expressions of famous people showing the human being aspect. All original footage from Mel Gibson to Peter Jackson, from George Lucas to Catherine Deneuve, from Michael Douglas to Giancarlo Giannini and many others.
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Amour
Title: Amour
Character: Georges Laurent
Released: September 20, 2012
Type: Movie
Georges and Anne are in their eighties. They are cultivated, retired music teachers. Their daughter, who is also a musician, lives abroad with her family. One day, Anne has a stroke, and the couple's bond of love is severely tested.
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Jean-Louis Trintignant, pourquoi que je vis
Title: Jean-Louis Trintignant, pourquoi que je vis
Character: Self
Released: May 21, 2012
Type: Movie
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Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Title: Final Cut: Ladies and Gentlemen
Character: (archive footage)
Released: February 4, 2012
Type: Movie
A film where anything can happen - the hero and the heroine changes their faces, age, look, names, and so on. The only same thing: The love between man and woman... in an archetypical love story cut from 500 classics from all around the world.
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Title: Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Released: December 19, 2011
Type: TV
Agnès Varda takes us on a journey of discovery as she travels the globe—from Stockholm to St. Petersburg, Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City to Los Angeles—meeting with friends, artists, and fellow filmmakers.
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Title: Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Character: Himself
Released: December 19, 2011
Type: TV
Agnès Varda takes us on a journey of discovery as she travels the globe—from Stockholm to St. Petersburg, Lisbon to Rio de Janeiro, Mexico City to Los Angeles—meeting with friends, artists, and fellow filmmakers.
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Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Title: Agnès Varda: From Here to There
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Agnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive view of the global contemporary art scene.
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Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Title: Vittorio racconta Gassman: Una vita da mattatore
Character: Self
Released: September 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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Le Miracle du silence
Title: Le Miracle du silence
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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Jean-Louis Trintignant,
Title: Jean-Louis Trintignant, "an honest man"
Character: Self
Released: February 13, 2009
Type: Movie
Portrait of Jean-Louis Trintignant, for the "empreintes" collection, produced by Pierre Bouteiller and written and directed by François Chayé.
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The Western World of Ferdinando Baldi
Title: The Western World of Ferdinando Baldi
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 31, 2005
Type: Movie
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Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Title: Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Les Contes Secrets ou les Rohmériens features interviews with 16 actors who have appeared in Rohmer's films, and they talk on camera about his unusual working methods, his personality, and his spare but evocative signature style. Among the thespians who share their memories are Jean-Louis Trinitignant, Marie-Christine Barrault, Zouzou, Jean-Claude Brialy, Béatrice Romand, Françoise Fabian, and Andre Dussolier; the film also includes rare footage of Rohmer himself at work on the set of his 1978 effort Perceval.
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Janis and John
Title: Janis and John
Character: Monsieur Cannon
Released: October 15, 2003
Type: Movie
Insurance salesman tries to get money from his hippie cousin by fulfilling his dream: arraigning for John Lennon and Janis Joplin's "second coming".
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Zinédine Zidane - Comme dans un rêve
Title: Zinédine Zidane - Comme dans un rêve
Character: Narator
Released: April 23, 2002
Type: Movie
An exhaustive retrospective commented by Zidane, his greatest goals, soccer lessons where Zidane reveals his most precious secrets.
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Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur
Title: Albert Camus, la tragédie du bonheur
Character: Narration (Voice)
Released: March 9, 1999
Type: Movie
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Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train
Title: Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train
Character: Lucien Emmerich / Jean-Baptiste Emmerich
Released: May 15, 1998
Type: Movie
Friends of a recently painter Jean-Baptiste Emmerich gather at a Paris railroad station for a four-hour journey to Limoges, where Emmerich wanted to be buried. The dozen travelers include art historian François and his lover Louis, who develops an interest in Bruno, whom he meets on a train. Traveling parallel with the train is a station wagon with Jean-Baptiste's body, and this vehicle is driven by Thierry, husband of Catherine, who's on the train with their daughter. François plays a taped interview with Jean-Baptiste, revealing his sexual appeal to both men and women. Lucie is convinced that she was his main love. Also on board is his nephew, Jean-Marie and Jean-Marie's estranged wife Claire. After the funeral in "Europe's largest cemetery," the story continues in the mansion of Jean-Baptiste's brother Lucien.
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Tykho Moon
Title: Tykho Moon
Character: Le chirurgien
Released: November 28, 1996
Type: Movie
The McBee family has erected a government over a future 'colony', that looks like a run-down Paris divided into sectors by the Berlin Wall. All male family members suffer from a mysterious disease and are in urgent need of organ transplants. The perfect donor, Tykho Moon, probably has been killed in a fire, but according to rumours he's still alive. Although assassins stalk the family members, the McBees start a hunt for Tykho. Trying to escape the dragnet, Alex, a sculptor, meets Lena, a killer posing as a whore.
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A Self-Made Hero
Title: A Self-Made Hero
Character: Albert Dehousse (old)
Released: May 15, 1996
Type: Movie
Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.
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C'est jamais loin
Title: C'est jamais loin
Character: Elliot Spencer
Released: January 10, 1996
Type: Movie
In Dieppe, a taciturn young man is fascinated by a woman whom he has only seen in the street. One day, he leaves Dieppe and Lola, the girl he was living with. He becomes a truck-driver. In the Middle East, Christian's travels end in a prison in the heart of the desert. There he meets Eliot who lives an isolated life within the prison environment. Since Eliot talks, Christian who was mute up to that point, listens then speaks too. But Eliot receives letters from a woman: Marie. And Christian starts dreaming that she's the woman he saw on the streets of Dieppe.
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Fiesta
Title: Fiesta
Character: Colonel Masagual
Released: November 15, 1995
Type: Movie
A Jekyll-and-Hyde colonel toughens up a 17-year-old aristocrat for the Spanish Civil War.
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Title: Kulturzeit
Character: self
Released: October 2, 1995
Type: TV
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The City of Lost Children
Title: The City of Lost Children
Character: L'oncle Irvin (voice)
Released: May 17, 1995
Type: Movie
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
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Kieślowski Cannes 94
Title: Kieślowski Cannes 94
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1994
Type: Movie
A documentary about the showing of Krzysztof Kieślowski's film RED at the 1994 Cannes Film Festival, including interviews with the director and the cast of the film.
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See How They Fall
Title: See How They Fall
Character: Marx
Released: August 31, 1994
Type: Movie
Simon is a sales representative about fifty. When Mickey, his cop friend, is being shot, he leaves everything to find the murderers. Two years before, Marx, an old gambler, met Frederic, a young man that does not look very smart and started to follow him everywhere (as a puppy) and changed his name to Johnny to please Marx. Of course, Simon's story is related with Marx and Johnny's one. But the thriller is only a pretext for a psychological description of the three main characters.
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Three Colors: Red
Title: Three Colors: Red
Character: Richter Joseph Kern
Released: May 12, 1994
Type: Movie
Valentine, a student model in Geneva, struggles with a possessive boyfriend and a troubled family. When she runs over a dog, she discovers that its owner, a retired judge, is illegally wiretapping and eavesdropping on his neighbors' phone calls. Although Valentine is outraged, she develops a strange bond with the judge – and as the two become closer, she finds herself caught in the middle of events that could change her life.
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Shattered Lives
Title: Shattered Lives
Character: Récitant (texte de Paul Éluard) (voice)
Released: May 7, 1994
Type: Movie
August 1939. The fate of four young people, Ramona, Georges, Brigitte and Hans is upset by the outbreak of war.
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Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian Diary
Title: Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian Diary
Character: Narrator (French version)
Released: February 24, 1994
Type: Movie
A documentary about Che Guevara in Bolivia, based upon his journal listing daily agendas
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L'Interdiction
Title: L'Interdiction
Released: September 18, 1993
Type: Movie
An upright judge must consider the petition of a scheming marquise who wants to have her estranged husband stripped of his rights.
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L'Œil écarlate
Title: L'Œil écarlate
Character: René Montijoux
Released: July 21, 1993
Type: Movie
An unorthodox police commissioner investigates the suspicious death of a man run over by a train.
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Angel's Wing
Title: Angel's Wing
Character: Colonel Édouard
Released: January 27, 1993
Type: Movie
When a plane crashes in his back yard, a wealthy young man (Lambert Wilson) decides he would rather be a pilot than a musician.
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The Big Pardon 2
Title: The Big Pardon 2
Character: Le Commissaire Duché (archive footage)
Released: December 9, 1992
Type: Movie
The mobster Raymond Bettoun gets out of prison and joins his son Maurice in Miami, a drug trafficker who is about to launch a huge operation. But he falls into a trap and a war begins in which Raymond will fight a last battle to try to save his son and what remains of his family.
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Dispute in Valladolid
Title: Dispute in Valladolid
Character: Ginèse de Sepúlveda
Released: May 2, 1992
Type: Movie
Spain conquered the seas, found a new world and different realities than the one known in Europe. But a question needed to be answered with what they found in those new territories: do the Indians have souls? The Church, bound to protect and convert the natives and the conquerors who treated them like slaves and thought they were only merchandising, expose their arguments and reasonings at what would be known as the Vallidolid controversy. Between them, there's a cardinal hearing both parts and trying to get reasonable answers from this critical question.
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Thank You, Life
Title: Thank You, Life
Character: le colonel SS
Released: March 13, 1991
Type: Movie
Camille, a naïve schoolgirl, meets an intriguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new friend through the discovery of sex and the darker side of life. As the film progresses, Camille discovers AIDS and the fear that she may have picked up the disease in her early encounters.
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Julie de Carneilhan
Title: Julie de Carneilhan
Character: Herbert d'Espivant
Released: February 20, 1990
Type: Movie
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Pour un oui ou pour un non
Title: Pour un oui ou pour un non
Character: H1
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Two childhood friends who have not seen each other for a long time decide to meet again. They talk and look for what could have caused their estrangement: words pronounced in a certain way, an intonation etc. Very quickly, an argument begins and turns into a settlement of accounts.
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Bunker Palace Hotel
Title: Bunker Palace Hotel
Character: Holm
Released: June 6, 1989
Type: Movie
In an imaginary dictature of a futuristic world, rebellion has broken out. The men in power scramble to the Bunker Palace Hotel, a bunker built long ago for just this kind of contingency. But a rebel spy sneaks in, and although her nature is very quickly suspected, she is left to observe the raving of the decadent power class, who keeps wondering what happened to their leader, who has failed to show up.
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The Ghost Valley
Title: The Ghost Valley
Character: Paul
Released: September 16, 1987
Type: Movie
The efforts of an aspiring filmmaker to include an unwilling female in his production.
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Title: Nulle part ailleurs
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 1987
Type: TV
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Le Moustachu
Title: Le Moustachu
Character: le général Gougeard
Released: April 8, 1987
Type: Movie
The French intelligence service want to use a double agent to eliminate a terrorist groupe. To do this, the captain Duroc will give to the traitor a car filled with explosives. But the whole thing is a double trap. One of the officer of the Service, Leroy, has plan a dreadful blow to discredit his new director. He had chosen Duroc because is not supposed to be an intelligent agent.
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The Woman of My Life
Title: The Woman of My Life
Character: Pierre
Released: October 8, 1986
Type: Movie
Simon, a famous violinist, sinks into alcoholism. He finds support from his lover, who is also the manager of the orchestra in which he plays. But is she really helping him or is she exploiting his dependence on her? A man who has been through the same experience as Simon, offers to help him...
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August 15th
Title: August 15th
Released: August 6, 1986
Type: Movie
In a villa by the sea, in August, a woman spends her vacation with another young woman, her son and an au pair. She awaits the return of her husband who comes to join her; the au pair is also waiting for this return...
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A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
Title: A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
Character: Jean-Louis Duroc
Released: May 13, 1986
Type: Movie
Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big-time director whose most recent film was a very expensive bomb. She comes up with the idea of making a romance based upon her fling with Jean-Louis. She contacts him to gain his permission. Jean-Louis is still in racing and goes away for a desert rally while she begins filming. She finds the mood of their romance difficult to recapture in her film.
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L'Homme aux yeux d'argent
Title: L'Homme aux yeux d'argent
Character: Mayene
Released: November 13, 1985
Type: Movie
After serving his sentence, a robber returns to his small, quiet hometown to retrieve the loot. But a ruthless Police inspector and his equally nasty young subordinate are after the criminal.
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Volley for a Black Buffalo
Title: Volley for a Black Buffalo
Character: Mr. Fodó, teacher
Released: May 16, 1985
Type: Movie
During the years following World War II, a new boy arrives to class 7/c, and the audience learns to know the lives of the drunkard teacher, his husband-cheating wife, the lonely music teacher hiding behind her paper flowers, the wise count deprived of all his properties, the jovial parish priest and especially the buffalo owner of tragic fate who lost his four daughters, alongside with the young protagonist.
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Rendez-vous
Title: Rendez-vous
Character: Scrutzler
Released: May 15, 1985
Type: Movie
Nina is a young, carefree actress who arrives in Paris searching for her big break. There, she finds drama both on- and offstage as she becomes involved with three men: a mild-mannered real-estate agent who offers her stability, a bad-boy actor who lives dangerously on the edge, and an intense theater director who casts her in a production of “Romeo and Juliet.” As opening night approaches, the emotional extremes of Nina’s love life fuel her art.
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Going and Coming Back
Title: Going and Coming Back
Character: Roland Rivière
Released: March 27, 1985
Type: Movie
Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines a film that could be created from her gripping story. A film entirely made of music because after seeing the young pianist Erik Berchot, Salomé believes seeing her long lost brother, who was a musician as well. A brother she had lost along with her parents in 1943. However, the Lerners did in fact escape the gestapo and might have based themselves in Paris...
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Next Summer
Title: Next Summer
Character: Paul
Released: January 9, 1985
Type: Movie
Edouard is patriarch of a large family: his second wife, Jeanne, has just had a baby and finally had enough of his philandering. As the marriage between them unravels, Edouard's daughters experience their own emotional shock waves. Dina, in a relationship with playwright Paul, wants more from her daily life, while Sidone is married to a fellow musician but is terrified of performing in public. Fast-forward seven years: Edouard is gravely ill, and the family shares their issues, hopes and fears.
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Long Live Life
Title: Long Live Life
Character: François Gaucher
Released: April 18, 1984
Type: Movie
The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection room. Even the movie's trailer shows only a long sequence of faces gazing speechlessly in space. "Like all my movies, this one is about a man and a woman", says Lelouch in the interview.
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Femmes de personne
Title: Femmes de personne
Character: Michel Gilquin
Released: March 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Cécile, a single mother, contrives to meet Gilquin, the married father of a classmate of her nearly-adolescent son. An affair ensues. Isabelle, approaching middle age with two children, discovers she's pregnant, goes into a funk, and arranges for a younger woman to seduce her husband. Adeline is distraught at her ex-lover's plan to leave France. The three women are colleagues at a radiology clinic. They come to each other's aid, but each must decide on her own what course to take: Cécile with Gilquin, Isabelle with her husband, and Adeline with her solitude.
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Le Bon Plaisir
Title: Le Bon Plaisir
Character: Le Président de la République
Released: January 18, 1984
Type: Movie
Claire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter he urges his pregnant mistress to have an abortion. Claire immediately alerts the President's men. From that moment, the machinery of state swings into action.
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Under Fire
Title: Under Fire
Character: Marcel Jazy
Released: October 21, 1983
Type: Movie
Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
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Cover Up
Title: Cover Up
Character: Christian Lacassagne
Released: August 24, 1983
Type: Movie
A well-known business lawyer is shot dead in the courthouse. A commissioner of the Criminal Brigade is in charge of the investigation and is helped by a journalist.
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Confidentially Yours
Title: Confidentially Yours
Character: Julien Vercel
Released: August 10, 1983
Type: Movie
Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place as Julien Vercel, an estate agent who knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discover that Marie-Christine Vercel, Julien's wife, was Massoulier's mistress, Julien is the prime suspect. But his secretary, Barbara Becker, while not quite convinced he is innocent, defends him and leads her private investigations.
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Credo
Title: Credo
Character: Prof. Lenski
Released: January 26, 1983
Type: Movie
Based on an actual Cold War incident in which a Ukrainian prisoner of conscience was forced to defend his Christian faith while under Soviet interrogation
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Blow to the Heart
Title: Blow to the Heart
Character: Dario
Released: December 24, 1982
Type: Movie
The son of a university professor discovers his father's secret life and has to decide what to do about it.
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The Night of Varennes
Title: The Night of Varennes
Character: Monsieur Sauce
Released: May 15, 1982
Type: Movie
During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.
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Boulevard des assassins
Title: Boulevard des assassins
Character: Daniel Salmon
Released: March 29, 1982
Type: Movie
After a messy divorce, a struggling writer takes a holiday on the French Riviera, where he decides to investigate a series of mysterious incidents.
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The Big Pardon
Title: The Big Pardon
Character: Le commissaire Duché
Released: January 27, 1982
Type: Movie
The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's friend), Samy (the bodyguard) are a family clan of Jewish Blackfoot kingpins of French organized crime. Their activities include running casinos, organizing underground boxing matches, illegal gambling, pimping, racketeering and bloody settlements of scores against other Arab and French clans. But in the shadows, Pascal Villars has sworn the loss of the Bettoun. He will succeed in setting the Arab clan against the Jewish clan, for the great benefit of the police commissioner Duché, who has been trying in vain for ten years to bring down the Bettouns.
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Deep Water
Title: Deep Water
Character: Vic
Released: December 16, 1981
Type: Movie
On the island of Jersey, off the French coast, Mélanie, a beautiful woman gifted with a captivating personality, enjoys having unimportant love affairs that her husband Victor, a perfumer older than her, seems to endure with total indifference.
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A Business of Men
Title: A Business of Men
Character: Louis Faguet
Released: November 9, 1981
Type: Movie
Two friends, Commissioner Servolle and real estate developer Faguet, see their friendship tested by the investigation carried out following the murder of Faguet's wife.
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Passion of Love
Title: Passion of Love
Character: Le médecin major
Released: September 16, 1981
Type: Movie
In the 1860's, Giorgio (Giraudeau), a young Italian soldier is sent to a remote post, far away from his lover, Clara (Antonelli). He is lodged in the house of the colonel (Girotti). He becames friends with the colonel and the local doctor (Trintignant). Among the inhabitants of the house, there is a strange young woman - Fosca (d'Obici) who is both unattractive and mad. However, she has a passion that Giorgio will have to cope with.
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Malevil
Title: Malevil
Character: Fulbert
Released: May 13, 1981
Type: Movie
In southern France, in a quiet little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his employees. As they are drinking wine, they hear a terrible noise and the heat's getting higher and higher. They don't realize what's happening: when they come out of the cellar, they realize that everything has burned, and all the buildings are destroyed...
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An Assassin Passes By
Title: An Assassin Passes By
Character: Ravic
Released: April 8, 1981
Type: Movie
The story of a serial killer but bears little resemblance to a slasher movie. We know almost at once who the killer is and the emphasis is not on the murders but on his psychology as he falls in love with one of his prospective victims - a weakness which, of course, will be his downfall.
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I Love All of You
Title: I Love All of You
Character: Julien Tellier
Released: December 17, 1980
Type: Movie
Alice invites all four men she has loved in her life for the dinner of New Year's Eve at the same time and unites them all in her house. In sentimental flashbacks they recall the former times. At 35, Alice is a career woman who doesn't think she has time for a lasting relationship. Thus, her love life has been, and probably always will be, a series of trysts and one-night stands.
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The Lady Banker
Title: The Lady Banker
Character: Horace Vannister
Released: August 27, 1980
Type: Movie
The scene is the restless Paris of the interwar years where an attractive and ambitious woman successfully makes her way in a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. Originating from a humble background, she quickly becomes popular with small savers by offering them outstanding interest rates. Extremely popular, she makes no secret of her taste for the good things in life and her homosexual affairs. They will cost her dearly...
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The Terrace
Title: The Terrace
Character: Enrico
Released: February 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Eight Italian politicians from the communist party gather on a terrace in Rome for a get-to-gather. They discuss about their past, present and future.
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Melancoly Baby
Title: Melancoly Baby
Character: Pierre
Released: August 29, 1979
Type: Movie
Olga is married to Laurent, who is devoted to his career and often leaves Olga at home alone when he travels away for work. Whilst she is rich and wants for nothing, she is terribly bored with life. When Laurent is working away she meets up with his colleague Pierre and through him meets Claude, who is unemployed and fed up of his situation. Can Olga and Claude help each other to get their lives back on track?
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Swimming Instructor
Title: Swimming Instructor
Character: le jardinier
Released: March 28, 1979
Type: Movie
Marie, the charming daughter of Italian immigrants, has a dream : to become rich. In Roubaix, where she lives, she meets and marries small-time crooner Marcel Potier. Together they leave for the South of France where they live happily but poorly. Now, Marie hasn't forgotten her hopes of wealth and with this aim still in mind she pushes Marcel into becoming the swimming instructor of Achille Zopoulos, an oil tycoon.
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Other People's Money
Title: Other People's Money
Character: Henri Rainier
Released: September 27, 1978
Type: Movie
Henri Rainier has everything a man could want. A glamorous wife, two beautiful daughters and a well-paid job with a large bank. Then, one day, his entire world collapses. In the wake of a high-profile financial scandal, he is summoned into his director's office and accused of negligence. Rainier has no choice but to resign, but he soon realises that he has been made a scapegoat. He begins his own investigation in an attempt to clear his name and discover who is responsible for the enormous hole in the bank's finances. It soon becomes apparent that he is up against a very powerful and dangerous opponent.
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Location Hunting
Title: Location Hunting
Character: Victor
Released: November 16, 1977
Type: Movie
After 10 years separation from his wife, a film director (Jean-Louis Trintignant), imagines he can make up with her by giving her a part in his next film, an adaptation of Tshekov's "Three Sisters". He goes location scouting and stays in Bex, a Spa near Lake Leman, together with the three actresses : Julie, his ex-wife (Delphine Seyrig), the mysterious Cecilia, that his producer wants him to take (Lea Massari), and Esther (Valérie Mairesse), a teenager. They all stay in an old decaying hotel. In this isolated mansion the four of them will fight but also discover each other.
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The Passengers
Title: The Passengers
Character: Alex Moineau
Released: March 9, 1977
Type: Movie
A man and his stepson driving across Europe are terrorized by a man following them in a pickup truck.
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The Desert of the Tartars
Title: The Desert of the Tartars
Character: Magg. Med. Rovine
Released: October 29, 1976
Type: Movie
Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an imminent attack by nomadic fearsome Tartars.
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The Honeymoon Trip
Title: The Honeymoon Trip
Character: Paul Carter
Released: April 21, 1976
Type: Movie
Paul and Sarah form a happy couple with no problems. But when Sarah sees Paul wrapped in the arms of a young woman her peaceful happiness collapses. She in turn takes a lover. Paul realizes that he's losing his wife and proposes a second honeymoon in Morocco...
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The Undertaker Parlor Computer
Title: The Undertaker Parlor Computer
Character: Fred Malone
Released: April 7, 1976
Type: Movie
Fred works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. He is bored with enduring the trials of his shrewish wife, so, after using actuarial tables to calculate the most common means of death, he cleverly prepares the family bathroom and brings about her demise. For a while he is content with his new freedom, but then he recognizes that a friend is in a similar situation.
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The Sunday Woman
Title: The Sunday Woman
Character: Massimo Campi
Released: December 23, 1975
Type: Movie
Police commissioner Santamaria is investigating the murder of the ambiguous architect Mr. Garrone. The investigations soon drive him into the Torino's high society. Santamaria suspect Anna Carla and at the same time falls in love for her. Lello is the lover of Massimo, Anna Carla’s gay friend. He is following another direction in order to find out the truth, and his results are confusing the Policeman. But another murder happens...
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Rain over Santiago
Title: Rain over Santiago
Character: Le Sénateur
Released: December 10, 1975
Type: Movie
A semi-fictional account on the fatidic September 11, 1973, when the military commanded by General Pinochet took over the power from socialist president Salvador Allende, initiating a dictatorship that lasted until 1988 causing the deaths and disappearances of many people.
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Flic Story
Title: Flic Story
Character: Émile Buisson
Released: October 1, 1975
Type: Movie
The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.
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Act of Aggression
Title: Act of Aggression
Character: Paul Varlin
Released: April 16, 1975
Type: Movie
After his wife and daughter are raped and killed by a motorbike gang, a man sets out to take revenge.
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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Playing with Fire
Title: Playing with Fire
Character: Franz
Released: February 19, 1975
Type: Movie
A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers.
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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The Secret
Title: The Secret
Character: David Daguerre
Released: October 9, 1974
Type: Movie
A stranger enters into and forever alters the life of a couple. He claims to be pursued by certain authorities who intend to prevent him from disclosing a secret that only he holds, whence the title. Is he lying, or insane - or is he telling the truth? Who, if anyone, is after him? And what *is* - the secret?
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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Violins at the Ball
Title: Violins at the Ball
Character: Him (Michel)
Released: June 2, 1974
Type: Movie
In this WW II drama based on an autobiographical story by director Michel Drach, a Jewish boy and his family living in Nazi occupied France, attempt to escape the cruel invaders. Later the boy grows up to become a filmmaker obsessed with chronicling his childhood.
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Escapade
Title: Escapade
Character: Ferdinand
Released: April 10, 1974
Type: Movie
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Love at the Top
Title: Love at the Top
Character: Nicolas Mallet
Released: March 13, 1974
Type: Movie
Nicolas Mallet, an inconspicuous and shy bank employee, one day successfully invites Marie-Paul, a young woman he hadn’t known before, in the streets of Paris to a café and sleeps with her the next day. When he tells his surprised friend Claude about the incident, the disillusioned and handicapped writer starts to guide him, leading Nicolas on a dazzling social ascent.
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Successive Slidings of Pleasure
Title: Successive Slidings of Pleasure
Character: The Police Commissioner
Released: March 7, 1974
Type: Movie
A young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The girl who shared her apartment has been found dead, and a pair of scissors impaled through her heart, as she lay attached to the bedposts. Apparently, the girl does have powers, to make all people around her fall prey to her spell, glissing progressively into desire, lust, and the unknown.
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The Last Train
Title: The Last Train
Character: Julien Maroyeur
Released: October 31, 1973
Type: Movie
Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
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Défense de savoir
Title: Défense de savoir
Character: Jean-Pierre Laubray
Released: August 29, 1973
Type: Movie
When a woman is accused of murder, the investigation slowly reveals numerous political connections. Laubret, the court-appointed defense lawyer, does everything in his power to expose the truth.
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A Full Day's Work
Title: A Full Day's Work
Character: Le Metteur en scène de la troupe des 'Enfants du Gard'
Released: March 8, 1973
Type: Movie
A father plans to kill in the same day the nine members of the jury who condemned his son to death.
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The Outside Man
Title: The Outside Man
Character: Lucien Bellon
Released: December 21, 1972
Type: Movie
A French hit man is hired by a crime family to end the life of a rival mobster, but things fall apart when the boss who hired him is killed.
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The Assassination
Title: The Assassination
Character: François Darien
Released: October 4, 1972
Type: Movie
Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to film a television special about the Third World. Sadiel, the exiled leader of a North African state, is being hunted by the ruthless Colonel Kassar, who will stop at nothing to capture his political rival. Once Sadiel arrives in Paris, Darien realizes he has been manipulated. He tries to turn back the clock, not realizing what or who he’s truly dealing with.
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And Hope to Die
Title: And Hope to Die
Character: Tony
Released: September 15, 1972
Type: Movie
A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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Without Apparent Motive
Title: Without Apparent Motive
Character: Stéphane Carella
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: Movie
A serie of murders is comitted in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.
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Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
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The Crook
Title: The Crook
Character: Simon the Swiss
Released: November 20, 1970
Type: Movie
A thief known as Simon the Swiss faces up and downs in his criminal profession.
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Opium and the Stick
Title: Opium and the Stick
Character: Chaudier
Released: September 14, 1970
Type: Movie
In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army. Bachir returns to the village to escape the clashes ravaging Algiers. In Thala, he has two brothers, Ali and Belaïd. The first is engaged with the ALN (The National Liberation Army) and fights against the colonizer. His second brother, Belaïd, the eldest, is convinced of a French Algeria. His family torn apart, Bachir decides to join the war and takes sides against the repression of the French army. The French army is trying in vain to turn the population against the insurgents by using disinformation. The more time passes, the more the inhabitants of the village and surrounding areas, oppressed, rally to the cause of the FLN, their houses and their fields will be burned... Adaptation to the cinema of the eponymous novel Opium and the Stick, published in 1965, by Mouloud Mammeri, the film was dubbed into Tamazight (Berber), a first for Algerian cinema.
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Las secretas intenciones
Title: Las secretas intenciones
Character: Miguel
Released: July 29, 1970
Type: Movie
Miguel is a married architect with children; Blanca, an attractive young woman who has attempted suicide by cutting her veins. The relationship between them develops through continuous persecutions, first of him to her and then to him. In their meetings, they reflect on their empty lives, loneliness, boredom and obsession with death.
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The Conformist
Title: The Conformist
Character: Marcello Clerici
Released: July 1, 1970
Type: Movie
A weak-willed Italian man becomes a fascist flunky who goes abroad to arrange the assassination of his old teacher, now a political dissident.
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So Sweet... So Perverse
Title: So Sweet... So Perverse
Character: Jean Reynaud
Released: October 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Industrialist Jean is living a jet set life in late sixties Paris. He comes to the aid of a frightened young woman (Nicole) who is under the domineering control of her abusive boyfriend, Klaus. Although married, Jean develops a romantic relationship with Nicole. However, he may have gotten himself involved in more than he bargained for.
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The American
Title: The American
Character: Bruno
Released: September 24, 1969
Type: Movie
A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among old friends.
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My Night at Maud's
Title: My Night at Maud's
Character: Jean-Louis
Released: June 4, 1969
Type: Movie
The rigid principles of a devout Catholic man are challenged during a one-night stay with Maud, a divorced woman with an outsize personality.
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Crime Thief
Title: Crime Thief
Character: Jean Girod
Released: May 22, 1969
Type: Movie
A man witnesses a suicide and starts imagining that it was a murder committed by himself.
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Love Circle
Title: Love Circle
Character: Michele
Released: April 13, 1969
Type: Movie
A liberal-thinking author watches his wife as she attempts to seduce his best friend at a dinner party. She ends up taking on another man as well, and the writer has an affair with the another dinner guest. Soon the three men and two women are entangled in a confusing series of partner-swapping sex sprees where everyone's morals are challenged in the wake of the sexual revolution.
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Z
Title: Z
Character: Examining Magistrate
Released: February 26, 1969
Type: Movie
Amidst a heated political climate, the opposition leader is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. When a magistrate finds evidence of a government cover-up, witnesses start to get targeted. A thinly-fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963, Z captures the outrage about the military junta that ruled Greece at the time.
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The Libertine
Title: The Libertine
Character: Dr. Carlo De Marchi
Released: December 23, 1968
Type: Movie
A sexy widow discovers her late husband had a secret apartment where he cheated on her. Now she decides to use the same apartment to explore her own sexuality.
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La société est une fleur carnivore
Title: La société est une fleur carnivore
Character: Narrator
Released: May 12, 1968
Type: Movie
"Society is a carnivorous flower" - About activists in the student revolt in May 1968. Archive footage shows police entering the Sorbonne, street fighting, meetings and demonstrations. Many interviewees testify to police violence and abuses.
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The Man Who Lies
Title: The Man Who Lies
Character: Jan Robin / Boris Varissa
Released: March 27, 1968
Type: Movie
A man may or may not have betrayed a resistance fighter during World War II. He has supposedly been shot down by the Nazis and wanders into town. Mourning the death of an unseen comrade, he is taken in by the family of the dead rebel. He engages in a superfluous affair and witnesses the lesbian relationship between the man's sister and a female servant. When passions subside, the family has doubts about the reliability of the man's story.
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Les Biches
Title: Les Biches
Character: Paul Thomas
Released: March 22, 1968
Type: Movie
Bored bisexual millionaire Frédérique picks up a young street artist named Why, and whisks her away to her villa in St. Tropez for the winter season. They soon meet dashing architect Paul and both fall for him, setting in motion a ménage à trois of deception and betrayal.
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The Great Silence
Title: The Great Silence
Character: Silence
Released: February 21, 1968
Type: Movie
A mute gunslinger fights in the defense of a group of outlaws and a vengeful young widow, against a group of ruthless bounty hunters.
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Death Laid an Egg
Title: Death Laid an Egg
Character: Marco
Released: January 9, 1968
Type: Movie
A love triangle develops between three people who run a high tech chicken farm. It involves Anna (who owns the farm), her husband Marco (who kills prostitutes in his spare time) and Gabriella (the very beautiful secretary). Marco continues to kill as jealousy becomes more prevalent on the farm.
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Western, Italian Style
Title: Western, Italian Style
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A featurette (most likely shot for American television) about the Spaghetti Western genre during the late 60's and how it had affected Italy at that particular point in time. Contains behind-the-scenes footage from the films "Il Grande Silenzio" "Vado, Vedo e Sparo" "Ammazza Tutti e Torna Solo" and "Corri, Uomo, Corri" and interviews with their directors and cast.
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Deadly Sweet
Title: Deadly Sweet
Character: Bernard
Released: November 16, 1967
Type: Movie
Bernard meets Jane in a Night Club, in London, and he likes her. Her father was killed in a car accident, but Jane thinks he has been killed because he was blackmailed for a picture of his second wife, Jane's mother in law. In the same Night Club Bernard finds the blackmailer corpse and Jane near him, but he believes she is innocent. So Bernard and Jane run away followed by a dwarf, the blackmailer's men, who believe Bernard killed their boss and of course, the Police. They believe that Jerome, Jane's brother, can help them to solve the case. But Jane doesn't know where he is, or so she says. Corpse after corpse, Bernard will find out the truth. But will the truth help him?
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A Man to Kill
Title: A Man to Kill
Character: Raphaël
Released: November 10, 1967
Type: Movie
Barcelona, 1967. Hans Fromm, a German-born architect, lives an well-ordered everyday life. He has become the target of an antifascist death squad though. Indeed their leader, Julius, whose brother was killed by Schmidt, a merciless S.S., believes, without being absolutely certain, that Fromm and Schmidt are the same man. The team, whose other members are Georges, the son of a deportee liquidated by Schmidt craving for action, Raphaël, a mercenary type, Nils, the photographer and Romain, watch Fromm's every move until Julius, convinced at last that the quiet German is their man, gives the green light for the operation. They manage to lure the former Nazi to an old house but Schmidt/Fromm won't let himself be captured so easily...
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My Love, My Love
Title: My Love, My Love
Character: Vincent Falaise
Released: June 8, 1967
Type: Movie
An architect has an affair with a young woman who aspires to be a pop singer. She ends up pregnant but does not tell her lover about her condition as she contemplates having an abortion.
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Trans-Europ-Express
Title: Trans-Europ-Express
Character: Elias
Released: December 31, 1966
Type: Movie
A movie producer, director and assistant take the Trans-Europ-Express from Paris to Antwerp. They get the idea for a movie about a drug smuggler on their train and visualize it while taping the script.
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Is Paris Burning?
Title: Is Paris Burning?
Character: Capitaine Serge
Released: October 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
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Diamond Safari
Title: Diamond Safari
Character: Raphaël Vincente
Released: June 28, 1966
Type: Movie
Raphaël, a former paratrooper, is unable to adapt to the constraints of social life. One day, he becomes the unwilling accomplice of jewel thieves and falls in love with Electre, the mistress of Alaphène, their boss. Electre gives herself to Raphäel and incites him to run away with her. The couple tries to reach Monte-Carlo, where the diamonds are hidden, but they are chased by Federico, one of the gangsters who craves the loot as well...
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Long March
Title: Long March
Character: Philippe
Released: May 31, 1966
Type: Movie
In June 1944, a young doctor, Chevalier, under the threat of guns, is forced to treat a wounded man in a camp of resistance fighters (maquisards). He recognizes the man, minister of the Third Republic, called Morel by his companions. Carnot, the chief of the maquisards, is suspicious of a doctor who expressly disapproves of the resistance and wants to have him shot as soon as he has treated Morel. Philippe, who is second in command, intervenes in favor of the Chevalier. Meanwhile, peasants denounce the maquisards to the Nazis and the camp is surrounded by the Germans. The camp is saved thanks to Philippe who takes command of the group. He decides to leave the shelter and they begin the long march through the Cévennes to rally maquisard Napoleon in the Vercors...
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A Man and a Woman
Title: A Man and a Woman
Character: Jean-Louis Duroc
Released: May 27, 1966
Type: Movie
A man and a woman meet by accident on a Sunday evening at their childrens' boarding school. Slowly, they reveal themselves to each other, finding that each is a widow.
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Seventeenth Heaven
Title: Seventeenth Heaven
Character: François
Released: April 27, 1966
Type: Movie
The brave and moody François, a window washer by trade, has fallen head over heels in love with a delicious woman he spotted while working on the 17th floor of a building. From that moment on, all his dreams turn to the woman he doesn't dare approach. Fortunately, he finally meets her in Perros-Guirec, after following her on a train journey. She calls herself a chatelaine; he introduces himself as a writer. Will love triumph over these pious lies?
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The Sleeping Car Murder
Title: The Sleeping Car Murder
Character: Éric Grandin, étudiant vétérinaire
Released: November 17, 1965
Type: Movie
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.
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Title: Le train bleu s'arrête 13 fois
Character: Mezure
Released: October 8, 1965
Type: TV
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Angelique: The Road To Versailles
Title: Angelique: The Road To Versailles
Character: Claude le Petit, dit Le poète croté
Released: July 7, 1965
Type: Movie
Angelique is saved by the king of the cutthroats when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman.
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I Kill, You Kill
Title: I Kill, You Kill
Character: Gianni Santi (segment "La donna che viveva sola")
Released: March 25, 1965
Type: Movie
Six sketches with as many ways of murdering someone, and getting away with it.
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The Real Bargain
Title: The Real Bargain
Released: March 9, 1965
Type: Movie
The eccentric Comtesse de Saint-Plâs sells a black Citroën DS to car dealer Paul Souflé. He sells it to the young mathematics teacher Jacques Denzac who is about to marry.
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Fragilité, ton nom est femme
Title: Fragilité, ton nom est femme
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
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Les Siffleurs
Title: Les Siffleurs
Character: Jean-Louis Trintignant
Released: December 4, 1964
Type: Movie
Young actors drift around Paris looking for job opportunities in pursuit of their happiness. The Finnish film, made with a French cast, follows the paths signaled by nouvelle vague and cinéma vérité.
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The Last Steps
Title: The Last Steps
Character: Georges Guichard
Released: May 27, 1964
Type: Movie
A young poster artist sees an older married woman among the audience of a Parisian movie theater and falls madly in love with her.
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Mata Hari, Agent H21
Title: Mata Hari, Agent H21
Character: Captain François Lasalle
Released: January 29, 1964
Type: Movie
Ordered to seduce French captain and steal from him classified papers, Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and a spy, instead falls in love with him and blows the cover.
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Nutty, Naughty Chateau
Title: Nutty, Naughty Chateau
Character: Frédéric
Released: November 20, 1963
Type: Movie
An old castle in Sweden, inhabited by a family of 18th century dressing eccentrics, holds secrets, deception, and rumors of murder.
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Il successo
Title: Il successo
Character: Sergio
Released: September 24, 1963
Type: Movie
Giulio has a faithful wife and a true friend, but he is convinced that only with money can one be happy. So he devotes himself to dangerous real estate speculation in Sardinia, even though he does not have the capital to deal with it. To find the necessary money, he is willing to give up even his dignity. And slowly, he alienates his most beloved ones from himself....
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Way of the Wrong Road
Title: Way of the Wrong Road
Released: September 6, 1963
Type: Movie
In the course of an investigation into a gang of asocial youngsters, the author meets Colette (19) and Jean-Claude (18 and a half) who live on the fringes of society. Their young lives have been tossed back and forth between prison and children's prison.
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Il Sorpasso
Title: Il Sorpasso
Character: Roberto Mariani
Released: December 5, 1962
Type: Movie
Roberto, a shy law student in Rome, meets Bruno, a forty-year-old exuberant, capricious man, who takes him for a drive through the Roman and Tuscany countries in the summer. When their journey starts to blend into their daily lives though, the pair’s newfound friendship is tested.
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Le Combat dans l’île
Title: Le Combat dans l’île
Character: Clément Lesser
Released: August 16, 1962
Type: Movie
The charismatic, surly son of a wealthy industrialist, Clément, leads a double life as a member of a right-wing extremist organization. When he’s ratted out after a failed assassination attempt on a prominent politician, Clément and his long-suffering wife Anne flee Paris to the idyllic country home of his childhood friend, pacifist print-maker Paul. As affection blossoms between Paul and Anne, the emotional, as well as political tensions, soar and eventually explode.
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Title: The Seven Deadly Sins
Character: Bernard Duparc (segment "La luxure")
Released: March 7, 1962
Type: Movie
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.
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La luxure
Title: La luxure
Character: Bernard Duparc
Released: March 7, 1962
Type: Movie
This short film by Jacques Demy was based on his memories of growing up in Nantes, France. While it was initially made for the omnibus film THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS (as the segment on "Lust"), it has also been distributed and exhibited separately.
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The Fabiani Affair
Title: The Fabiani Affair
Character: Joseph Fabiani
Released: January 24, 1962
Type: Movie
The tale of the famous vendetta, vengeance over the years between two families. For nearly nothing at the start, as always with Sicilians or Corsican people, from the underworld or not...
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Parisienne... Parisiennes
Title: Parisienne... Parisiennes
Character: Récitant (voice)
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
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Un jour à Paris
Title: Un jour à Paris
Released: January 1, 1962
Type: Movie
A young man finds love on the streets of Paris, thanks to an Umbrella
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The Game of Truth
Title: The Game of Truth
Character: Guy de Fleury
Released: November 26, 1961
Type: Movie
A dozen elegant people are gathered in a writer's desirable mansion. In the grand tradition of Agatha Christie, they all have something to hide.They begin a cruel game of truth, a game where you're not supposed to tell lies. As the questions become more and more intimate and precise, the tempers rise, while outside the storm is raging. Enter a hateful person (played by Paul Meurisse, the nasty headmaster in "Les Diaboliques") who seems to know a lot about them. Someone is murdered. Whodunit?
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Three Faces of Sin
Title: Three Faces of Sin
Character: Un invité au vernissage
Released: September 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Laurent is an artist and sometimes con-man. He wanders into the life of Renee one day in her antique shop and tries to seduce her. Before they can leave town on a weekend getaway together, Renee's teenage daughter Daniele quits school and unexpectedly shows up. Laurent and Daniele fall for each other immediately and end up getting married. The film follows the disastrous situation created by the jealous mother and her daughter's immature husband.
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Journey Beneath the Desert
Title: Journey Beneath the Desert
Character: Pierre
Released: May 5, 1961
Type: Movie
A helicopter crashes in the desert, and the crew winds up in the underground city of Atlantis and get mixed up in a slave revolt.
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Spotlight on a Murderer
Title: Spotlight on a Murderer
Character: Jean-Marie de Keraudren
Released: March 31, 1961
Type: Movie
An old count hides just before he dies to annoy his heirs. The heirs search a manor for the count's body and are killed off one by one. Jean-Marie, his fiancée Micheline, and Edwige investigate the deaths and search for the count's body.
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The French Game
Title: The French Game
Character: François
Released: December 26, 1960
Type: Movie
Wishing to find an old love that resurfaced, Juan, a Chilean diplomat, Dominique asks his friend François to act as an intermediary.
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The Battle of Austerlitz
Title: The Battle of Austerlitz
Character: Ségur fils
Released: June 17, 1960
Type: Movie
Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802.
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The Thousandth Window
Title: The Thousandth Window
Character: Georges Desvignes
Released: May 27, 1960
Type: Movie
An old man against the public housing project.
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Violent Summer
Title: Violent Summer
Character: Carlo Caremoli
Released: November 13, 1959
Type: Movie
Summer, 1943: wealthy youth in the Riccione district of Rimini play while the war gets closer. Carlo Caremoli, a young man who follows the crowd, has found ways to avoid military service. Then, on the beach, he meets Roberta, a war widow with a child. Roberta's mother warns Roberta to avoid Carlo, but to her, he seems attentive and to her daughter he is kind. Romance develops. Within a few weeks, Roberta is risking everything. Can there be a resolution between passion, on the one hand, and war, duty, and social expectation on the other?
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Dangerous Liaisons
Title: Dangerous Liaisons
Character: Danceny
Released: September 9, 1959
Type: Movie
Juliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both have sexual affairs with others and share their experiences with one another. But there is one rule: never fall in love. But this time Valmont falls madly in love with a girl he meets at a ski resort, Marianne.
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...And God Created Woman
Title: ...And God Created Woman
Character: Michel Tardieu
Released: November 28, 1956
Type: Movie
Juliette Hardy is sexual dynamite, and has the men of a French coastal town panting. But Antoine, the only man who affects her likewise, wouldn't dream of settling down with a woman his friends consider the town tramp.
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Club of Women
Title: Club of Women
Character: Michel
Released: May 18, 1956
Type: Movie
A remake of a pre-war French film success, Club de femmes is a seriocomedy centralized in an all-female boarding house. Forced to band together because of a housing shortage, the film's heroines set up camp in a deserted structure, despite the tongue-cluckings of local busybodies and do-gooders. Complications ensue when a huge corporation announces plans to raze the building and erect a factory. Amazingly, the ladies are saved by the very company that wants to evict them.
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Law of the Streets
Title: Law of the Streets
Character: Yves Tréguier "Le Breton"
Released: April 25, 1956
Type: Movie
Yves Tréguier, a young orphan, escapes from a reform school in Brittany to join "Dédé la Glace" in Paris, an old-timer with whom he has a sincere friendship. The love of Zette, a young girl he has met, and the benevolent friendship of Father Blain, the bistro owner, give him the desire for regular work. "Jo le Grec", a pimp jealous of Dédé's friendship with Yves, seduces Wanda, a prostitute he loves, and shoots Dédé dead. Blain prevents him from doing the same to Yves, and shoots him in turn. Yves can live an honest life with Zette and the baby she's expecting.
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If All the Guys in the World...
Title: If All the Guys in the World...
Character: Jean-Louis
Released: February 24, 1956
Type: Movie
A distress call from a trawler leads various people to come to the crew's aid.