Ticky Holgado

Ticky Holgado

Born: June 24, 1944
Died: January 22, 2004
in Toulouse, Haute-Garonne, Midi-Pyrénées, France
Ticky Holgado (24 June 1944, in Toulouse – 22 January 2004, in Paris), pseudonym of Joseph Holgado, was a French actor and a frequent collaborator with Jean-Pierre Jeunet.

With Delicatessen (1991) by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, Ticky Holgado saw his acting talent acknowledged. Gérard Jugnot wrote for him the character of the beggar who meets the frame in the unemployment becoming NFA (played by Jugnot) in Une époque formidable (1990).

He received the Caesar of the best male bit part in 1992 for Une époque formidable and in 1996 for Gazon maudit.

In September 2003, Holgado announced the remission of his lung cancer, which had considerably rarefied his appearances on the screen since 2000. On 5 January 2004, he had just begun work on a new film with Lelouch, but he succumbed to cancer on 22 January 2004. He left a posthumous message, in the form of a document which appeared on his hospital bed after taking him to surgery to remove his 4th cancerous tumor. Holgado declared there: "It is necessary to tell to people that it's absolutely necessary to stop smoking".

Ticky Holgado was buried at the Père Lachaise Cemetery (45th division).

Source: Article "Ticky Holgado" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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The Courage to Love
Title: The Courage to Love
Character: Dieu
Released: June 29, 2005
Type: Movie
A picture of humankind in Paris: singers, shows, social gatherings, businessmen, nightclub barmen, bums, shoppers.
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A Very Long Engagement
Title: A Very Long Engagement
Character: Germain Pire
Released: October 27, 2004
Type: Movie
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.
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Le genre humain - 1ère partie: Les Parisiens
Title: Le genre humain - 1ère partie: Les Parisiens
Released: September 15, 2004
Type: Movie
Paris, December 1999. A group of Parisians cross paths. A police commissioner madly in love with his colleague's wife, a director looking for a subject. A man who learns that he has lung cancer. A waitress in love with her boss. A wealthy owner of a pizza chain who falls in love with a former member of the Comédie Française when he wanted to buy her castle. Among them, there is also Shaa. She dreams of becoming a singer and starts a duet with Massimo, a street singer of Italian origin. They quickly fall in love with each other. But one day, a producer spots Shaa and offers her a solo career.
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The Masked Avenger: Lagardere
Title: The Masked Avenger: Lagardere
Character: Passepoil
Released: December 25, 2003
Type: Movie
France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a skilled swordsman, the noble Henri de Lagardère, seeks his rightful vengeance as he tries to protect the innocent life of the duke's last heir.
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The Car Keys
Title: The Car Keys
Character: Le chanteur du happy-end
Released: December 10, 2003
Type: Movie
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
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Young, Beautiful and Screwed Up
Title: Young, Beautiful and Screwed Up
Character: Jojo
Released: November 30, 2003
Type: Movie
A young boy from the south of France falls madly in love with a posh Parisian girl and follows her for crazy adventures to the big city.
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Ruby & Quentin
Title: Ruby & Quentin
Character: Martineau
Released: October 22, 2003
Type: Movie
After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, Ruby, a brooding outlaw encounters Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant who befriends him. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy Quentin Ruby is forced to take him along as he pursues his former partners in crime to avenge the death of the woman he loved and get to the money.
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And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
Title: And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen...
Character: Boubou
Released: May 29, 2002
Type: Movie
A jazz singer and a British jewel thief are brought together by their mutual desire to forget the past.
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Shooting Stars
Title: Shooting Stars
Character: Angelo
Released: April 24, 2002
Type: Movie
A Fleury-Mérogis, un match de foot a lieu dans la cour de prison. Tibor Kovacs, un jeune Hongrois, fait des prodiges avec le ballon. Véritable virtuose du football, il rêve de jouer en équipe de France. Pour Manu, son compagnon de cellule, Tibor est un cadeau du ciel. A la veille de leur sortie de prison, les deux compères décident d'unir leurs destins : Tibor deviendra le plus grand joueur du mon
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Monsieur Batignole
Title: Monsieur Batignole
Character: Lucien Morel
Released: March 6, 2002
Type: Movie
In 1942, in an occupied Paris, the apolitical grocer Edmond Batignole lives with his wife and daughter in a small apartment in the building of his grocery. When his future son-in-law and collaborator of the German Pierre-Jean Lamour calls the Nazis to arrest the Jewish Bernstein family, they move to the confiscated apartment. Some days later, the young Simon Bernstein escapes from the Germans and comes to his former home. When Batignole finds him, he feels sorry for the boy and lodges him, hiding Simon from Pierre-Jean and also from his wife. Later, two cousins of Simon meet him in the cellar of the grocery. When Pierre-Jean finds the children, Batignole decides to travel with the children to Switzerland.
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An Afternoon
Title: An Afternoon
Character: Le barbier
Released: June 24, 2001
Type: Movie
A small village in occupied France, 1943. Part of the war seems to rest on the shoulders of a sympathetic barber: the Nazi officer he’s shaving is at his mercy.
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Amélie
Title: Amélie
Character: Man in Photo
Released: April 25, 2001
Type: Movie
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?
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Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
Title: Nadia Coupeau, dite Nana
Character: Jean Bordenave
Released: March 2, 2001
Type: Movie
Victim of a rape, Nadia Coupeau decides to keep the child despite her precarious personal situation. But her child is soon taken away from her and placed in public care. Desperate, but ready to do anything to get him back, she decides to join her friend Zoé in the capital... In this version freely inspired by Emile Zola's work, Nana's trajectory is a cross-section of contemporary society, from the jungle of the suburbs to the golden world of business.
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Philosophale
Title: Philosophale
Character: Commissaire Ernest-August Mallory
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
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Most Promising Young Actress
Title: Most Promising Young Actress
Character: le sans-abri
Released: May 31, 2000
Type: Movie
Yvon Rance, who runs a hair salon in Brittany, only wants his beloved teenaged daughter Laetita to be happy, something he believes she'll be able to achieve by completing high school and then following in her father's professional footsteps. When Laetita tells him that she has been cast in the latest movie by renowned director Stephane, he is initially unimpressed. He grudgingly relents when he learns that the money she will make for a couple months of work is twice what he makes in a year.
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Hallyday par Johnny
Title: Hallyday par Johnny
Character: Self
Released: May 26, 2000
Type: Movie
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Actors
Title: Actors
Character: Le clochard cul-de-jatte
Released: April 5, 2000
Type: Movie
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.
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Le Schpountz
Title: Le Schpountz
Character: Oncle Baptiste
Released: August 25, 1999
Type: Movie
Irénée has no desire to work in his uncle's grocery shop and dreams of becoming an actor. His opportunity comes when a crew of movie makers came to his little village. Irénée begins to go over the top in order to be noticed, which earns him the traditional joke reserved to a "Schpountz" (naive person): a phoney contract and a departure for Paris.
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Title: Le Grand Tralala
Character: Self
Released: August 7, 1999
Type: TV
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Le sourire du clown
Title: Le sourire du clown
Character: Ian
Released: July 21, 1999
Type: Movie
A clown from Romania (Ticky Holgado) has more than amusing tricks for children on his mind -- he has in his possession a computer disc with information wanted by the police, several organized crime figures and the European Agency for Atomic Energy.
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Prison à domicile
Title: Prison à domicile
Character: Jules Klarh
Released: June 9, 1999
Type: Movie
Leonie Koutcharev, a top civil servant at the Ministry of Interior, proposes an ideal solution to the problem of overpopulated prisons: put model prisoners in the homes of carefully screened families. Jules and Norma Klarh, a childless couple, expect to receive an inoffensive juvenile delinquent but end up with the psychopath Marcus Steckner in their suburban home. The film centers on social criticism of the gap between reality and the bureaucratic assumptions of what reality should be.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Let There Be Light!
Title: Let There Be Light!
Character: L'ange René
Released: July 8, 1998
Type: Movie
God comes to Earth in order to make a film.
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Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
Title: Rhinoceros Hunting in Budapest
Character: Alcoholic Man
Released: January 19, 1997
Type: Movie
A young man's odyssey from a small town in Colorado to Budapest, in search of his estranged girlfriend.
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The Best Job in the World
Title: The Best Job in the World
Character: Baudoin
Released: December 11, 1996
Type: Movie
To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, and he finds an apartment in the Cité des Muriers, a particularly difficult district.
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Men, Women: A User's Manual
Title: Men, Women: A User's Manual
Character: le père de Loulou
Released: August 28, 1996
Type: Movie
Benoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach-ache. Fabiolini, a would-be actor, is a policeman and he too suffers from the same sickness. The two man face suffering in opposite ways: Benoit Blanc is optimistic while Fabiolini, always unsure of himself, is persuaded he is seriously ill. The two men meet by chance while doing a gastroscopy and become friends. After having known their real different conditions, they will change and will understand better their lives. Around them, other people, women and men, will see their lives changed, by chance, by love or solely by the life stream.
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Let's Hope It Lasts
Title: Let's Hope It Lasts
Character: Joseph Ponty
Released: February 7, 1996
Type: Movie
Joseph and Victor are two motorcyclists of the national police force and inseparable friends. If the first leads a tidy life with wife and child, the second, single, is always in search of a soul mate - And one day he finds her.
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Lumière and Company
Title: Lumière and Company
Released: December 20, 1995
Type: Movie
40 international directors were asked to make a short film using the original Cinematographe invented by the Lumière Brothers, working under conditions similar to those of 1895. There were three rules: (1) The film could be no longer than 52 seconds, (2) no synchronized sound was permitted, and (3) no more than three takes.
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Funny Bones
Title: Funny Bones
Character: Battiston
Released: September 20, 1995
Type: Movie
Tommy Fawkes wants to be a successful comedian. After his Las Vegas debut is a failure, he returns to Blackpool where his father—also a comedian—started, and where he spent the summers of his childhood.
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Les Milles
Title: Les Milles
Character: Capitaine Moinard
Released: August 22, 1995
Type: Movie
In the beginning of the Second World War, Germans, Austrians and persons without nationality living in France are sent to the concentration camp of Les Milles by France government. Commander Charles Perrochon is the responsible for this camp and he promises to the leaders of the prisoners to protect them from the Nazis. When France is invaded by the Germans, Commander Perronchon will disobey orders and his superiors trying to save these men. He gets a train, a ship and money from USA to send about eight hundred of these prisoners to the safety of Casablanca, in Marrocos.
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The City of Lost Children
Title: The City of Lost Children
Character: Ex-Acrobat
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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Les Miserables
Title: Les Miserables
Character: Le gentil voyou / Kind Hoodlum
Released: March 22, 1995
Type: Movie
In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin, is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.
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French Twist
Title: French Twist
Character: Antoine
Released: January 18, 1995
Type: Movie
After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.
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Title: Flics de choc
Character: Scordia
Released: January 20, 1994
Type: TV
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Justinien Trouve, or God's Bastard
Title: Justinien Trouve, or God's Bastard
Character: Beaulouis
Released: September 15, 1993
Type: Movie
Set in the French countryside in the 1600s, a lone rider deposits a newborn baby boy on the steps of a monastery, having bitten his nose off. The child is bought up by an ex-pirate and his wife and is taught to read, write, count, joust and fence, and is also given a wooden nose. However, he is ordered by a local baron to attend a tough seminary, but he soon rebels and makes an action-packed escape...
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Lost in Transit
Title: Lost in Transit
Character: Serge
Released: September 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A traveller who has lost his passport in a Paris airport while between flights is restricted to a special transit zone. There he finds a group of similarly lost people hiding out and living from hand-to-mouth, reliant on their ingenuity to survive.
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Drôles d'oiseaux
Title: Drôles d'oiseaux
Character: Benoit Cabane
Released: March 10, 1993
Type: Movie
The fire at the supermarket is a boon for a scrap dealer who has just killed his wife. According to Commissioner Voitot, the victim could be one of the unidentified bodies. But here is a landscaper claims that his wife has also disappeared.
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Title: Zone interdite
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 7, 1993
Type: TV
The zone interdite refers to two distinct territories established in German-occupied France during the Second World War after the signature of the Second Armistice at Compiègne.
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Tango
Title: Tango
Character: Waiter
Released: February 3, 1993
Type: Movie
Vincent, a stunt pilot, is acquitted of murdering his wife and her lover. However, a few years later, L'Elegant, the Judge in the case, comes to blackmail him. The Judge's nephew, Paul, is having trouble with his wife and they demand that Vincent kill her. The Judge, a confirmed bachelor, takes Paul and Vincent on the road to search for Paul's wife Marie. The three men get on well together, and spend their time discussing their relationship with women.
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The Supper
Title: The Supper
Character: Jacques
Released: December 23, 1992
Type: Movie
France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and attempt to restore the monarchy. However, the battle doesn't seem to be over. On July 6, Talleyrand, a shrewd politician of flexible convictions, invites chief of police and zealous revolutionary Fouché to supper and tries to convince him to serve the king. Over the meal they insult each other, accuse each other, and, at first sight, look like mortal enemies. But they definitely have one thing in common: they are both power-hungry.
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My Life Is Hell
Title: My Life Is Hell
Character: le diable
Released: December 4, 1991
Type: Movie
The naive and self-conscious Leah mistakenly signs a pact with the devil Abargadon. But she's on Heaven's hit list, so the Archangel Gabriel intervenes to bring about the demon's demise. But Leah begins to find Abargadon attractive and not so bad. She decides to save his soul.
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Mother
Title: Mother
Released: November 27, 1991
Type: Movie
Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Marseilles when he was a young child. He later recounted his childhood experience in the novel Mayrig, which he dedicated to his mother and made into this 1991 film with the same name.
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Une époque formidable…
Title: Une époque formidable…
Character: 'Crayon'
Released: June 19, 1991
Type: Movie
Michel Berthier, cadre supérieur d'une entreprise de matelasserie, vient d'être licencié. Comme il n'ose pas avouer la vérité à Juliette, sa compagne, il s'endette pour maintenir le niveau de la famille qu'il couvre de cadeaux. Mais il ne peut bientôt plus mentir et il décide alors de quitter la maison. Après avoir perdu son argent, sa voiture et ses chaussures, il rencontre Toubib, Mimosa et Crayon, trois «Sans Domicile Fixe» qui font leur toilette dans les lavabos de la gare de l'Est. Ils le prennent sous leur aile et l'entraînent à aller cambrioler son ancienne entreprise afin de se munir de duvets et de lits
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The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
Title: The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
Character: Le Ténardier
Released: April 24, 1991
Type: Movie
This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.
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Delicatessen
Title: Delicatessen
Character: Marcel Tapioca
Released: April 17, 1991
Type: Movie
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.
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De justesse
Title: De justesse
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
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Uranus
Title: Uranus
Character: Mégrin, l'avocat
Released: December 12, 1990
Type: Movie
After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist, and he pushes back.
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My Mother's Castle
Title: My Mother's Castle
Character: Binucci, hunting whip
Released: October 26, 1990
Type: Movie
To his chagrin, young Marcel Pagnol and his family move back to their home in Marseilles, France, far from their pastoral holiday cottage in the hills. Determined, Marcel makes the long voyage back to the cottage on foot and lands himself in trouble. One day Marcel's father discovers a shortcut to the cottage, but it requires trespassing. Despite their trepidations, Marcel and his family begin using the secret trail to reach their cottage.
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The Hairdresser's Husband
Title: The Hairdresser's Husband
Character: Morvoisieux Son-in-Law
Released: October 3, 1990
Type: Movie
The film begins with a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a young age. The film uses flashbacks throughout and there are frequent parallels drawn with the past. We are unsure what Antoine has done with his life, however, we know he has fulfilled his childhood ambition, to marry a hairdresser.
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Sans peur et sans reproche
Title: Sans peur et sans reproche
Character: Mignard de Parthode
Released: December 14, 1988
Type: Movie
Without fear and beyond reproach: the life of the brave knight de Bayard reviewed and corrected with humorous sauce.
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Lady Cops
Title: Lady Cops
Character: Inspecteur Blondel
Released: December 16, 1987
Type: Movie
Mireille Molyneux, police inspector, tracks down pimps. With the complicity of Yasmina, a prostitute, she arrested Charlie, her pimp. To take revenge on Mireille, Jean-Pierre, another pimp, accuses him of corruption. It was then the subject of an investigation by two IGS inspectors: Blondel and Lacroix. Soon after, Charlie was released for lack of evidence. To keep Yasmina, he kidnaps his son and threatens to kill him.
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Levy & Goliath
Title: Levy & Goliath
Character: le faux bossu
Released: January 27, 1987
Type: Movie
A very faithful Jewish man works making diamond dust in his family's workshop, to sell to industries. One day he goes on businnes trip. In the same train goes a very sexy girl, with some heroin bags (you guess it) very similar to the diamond bags. The police begins to chase the girl, and she hides the drug into the Levy's bag. The girl calls his boss ('Goliath') the situation and he and his band begins to hound Levy, who, by this time, selled the bags to a factory, not knowing the content. He has to get out of the problem with the help of his brother and his God.
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Sale destin
Title: Sale destin
Released: January 14, 1987
Type: Movie
Francois Marboni is a butcher who is being blackmailed for having an affair with the prostitute Rachel in this black comedy. He decides to hire a hit man when the blackmailer demands that he start cutting his profit margin to the bone. Francois soon becomes a target of the hitman he hired.
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Manon of the Spring
Title: Manon of the Spring
Character: le spécialiste du Génie rural
Released: November 19, 1986
Type: Movie
In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men who greedily conspired to acquire her father's land years earlier.
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Nuit d'ivresse
Title: Nuit d'ivresse
Character: L'électro
Released: September 23, 1986
Type: Movie
Jacques Belin, presenter of a silly TV show, gets drunk after receiving an award and misses the train bringing his TV-soap-star fiancée. He meets up with Frède, just out of prison after a three year sentence and, in between numerous arguments and Jacques' break-up with his girlfriend, the two of them get drunker together, going across Paris in search of more alcohol and adventure.
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Brigade of Death
Title: Brigade of Death
Released: January 9, 1985
Type: Movie
When the investigation on a prostitute murder by the Paris vice department derails, one cop will stop at nothing for revenge.
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Comment draguer tous les mecs
Title: Comment draguer tous les mecs
Released: November 7, 1984
Type: Movie
Like every provincial girl arriving in Paris, Charlotte gets off the train with one idea in mind: to have fun, to flirt, to find a guy at all costs. But Charlotte is unaware of the two handicaps she carries with her. First: Charlotte is not a fashion cover. Second: Charlotte is chronically unlucky. She attracts disasters better than a lightning rod attracts lightning... Operation Flirt is on! Charlotte's first experiences of love are catastrophic: all her stratagems end in disaster! Fortunately, Charlotte has more than one trick up her sleeve.
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My New Partner
Title: My New Partner
Character: Alphonse
Released: September 19, 1984
Type: Movie
A streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt him...
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Le fou du roi
Title: Le fou du roi
Released: May 16, 1984
Type: Movie
Dieudonné, poet and dreamer, is the opposite of his father, the famous D'Artagnan, as he hates walks and duels.
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The Seducers of Saint-Tropez
Title: The Seducers of Saint-Tropez
Character: Ticky
Released: September 27, 1983
Type: Movie
Four friends discover the pleasures of Saint-Tropez.
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It's Called Catastrophe
Title: It's Called Catastrophe
Character: Alphonse
Released: June 29, 1983
Type: Movie
Following a commonplace car accident, Antoine Malibran became involved in the armed robbery of the bank of the Seine.
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Move Along, There Is Nothing to See!
Title: Move Along, There Is Nothing to See!
Character: Le planton
Released: April 20, 1983
Type: Movie
Inspector Leroux is investigating the owner of a contemporary art gallery Helen Duvernet who is suspected of being involved in trafficking of stolen paintings. He is both intrigued and attracted by the young woman, follows her everywhere and finally falls in love...
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On n'est pas sorti de l'auberge
Title: On n'est pas sorti de l'auberge
Character: Le garagiste
Released: September 8, 1982
Type: Movie
It's about a couple owning a small hotel who are trying to sell it.
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Belles, blondes et bronzées
Title: Belles, blondes et bronzées
Character: Gus
Released: September 23, 1981
Type: Movie
Mistaken for bank robbers, two friends stumble into a group of beautiful girls and follow them to Morocco for a dance show.
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Madame Claude 2
Title: Madame Claude 2
Character: (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1981
Type: Movie
A notorious French madam, whose business serves many of the nation's most powerful individuals, plans to go international until she becomes the focus of media scrutiny.
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Les surdoués de la première compagnie
Title: Les surdoués de la première compagnie
Character: Le voisin de l'adjudant-chef
Released: February 4, 1981
Type: Movie
As soon as they arrive at the barracks, the new contingent reveals some characters who will give their officers a hard time. There is the handsome, resourceful man, the technocrat in love, the bootlicker, the "Jamaican" who only moves to music, the shortsighted man... and all the others. Sometimes to see the nurse undress, sometimes to arrange an appointment with a fiancée, sometimes to cuckold the obtuse non-commissioned officer whose wife is volcanic, sometimes to have a free lunch in a great restaurant, the handsome man invariably deploys a wealth of cunning. And each time it is the colonel's servile driver who gets caught instead of him.