Jacques Mathou

Jacques Mathou

Movies for Jacques Mathou...

The Suicide Shop
Title: The Suicide Shop
Character: Mr. Calmel / Mr. Dead for Two (voice)
Released: September 26, 2012
Type: Movie
In a cold French city where suicide is a common urge, there is a colorful shop, managed for many years by the Tuvache family, where it is very easy to obtain the necessary tools to satisfy the sinister desires of so many depressed citizens.
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Voir la Mer
Title: Voir la Mer
Character: Jacky Novion
Released: May 3, 2011
Type: Movie
Two brothers live in Montbard, Burgundy. For their summer vacation, they decide to visit their mother in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, because it’s been a long time, because it would make her happy… There’s no shortage of reasons. They buy a second-hand motor home and plan to stay open to whatever the road brings them, embarking on a brothers’ journey across France. Just the two of them. But then an endearing young woman crosses their path...
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Beauties at War
Title: Beauties at War
Character: Le maire de Charmoussey
Released: January 14, 2009
Type: Movie
A ski resort town struggles to become the top tourism spot.
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La volière aux enfants
Title: La volière aux enfants
Character: Neufbourg
Released: October 3, 2006
Type: Movie
In 1835, in order to cope with an ever increasing number of infants left alone during the day while their impoverished mothers had to go to work in factories, refuge rooms were put in place in some towns.
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My Best Friend
Title: My Best Friend
Character: M. Bouley
Released: August 20, 2006
Type: Movie
Catherine refuses to believe that her business partner, the unlikeable François, has a best friend, so she challenges him to set up an introduction. Scrambling to find someone willing to pose as his best pal, François enlists the services of a charming taxi driver to play the part.
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Volpone
Title: Volpone
Character: The Judge
Released: December 1, 2004
Type: Movie
A version of Ben Johnson's play: A Venetian swindler goes from town to town pretending to be a dying millionaire in order to attract (and dispose of) greedy "friends".
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Title: Domisiladoré
Character: André Deulon
Released: October 1, 2003
Type: TV
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A Saturday on Earth
Title: A Saturday on Earth
Character: Garagiste
Released: August 28, 1996
Type: Movie
A series of seemingly unconnected events and 50 important speaking parts make this film a jigsaw puzzle to be solved by the viewer. Martin and Claire were separated in childhood, and are brought together by a series of coincidences. A tragic car crash is central to the story, but seemingly unimportant events can hold great significance. Through a montage of different film stock and techniques director Diane Bertrand creates pieces of a puzzle, from which the viewer has to piece together a story. That's the premise of the film, and it is solvable. You just have to work a bit...
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Ridicule
Title: Ridicule
Character: Abbé de l'Épée
Released: May 9, 1996
Type: Movie
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
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The Grand Dukes
Title: The Grand Dukes
Character: Janvier
Released: February 21, 1996
Type: Movie
Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of course under the worst possible conditions.
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Charlotte dite 'Charlie'
Title: Charlotte dite 'Charlie'
Character: The father
Released: May 31, 1995
Type: Movie
Two teenage girls are rehearsing a scene from a play by Marivaux, a love scene, and from the first seconds, we know who will be the heroine, who will be Charlotte, the one who will, to summarize brutally, discover her homosexuality.
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Lost in Transit
Title: Lost in Transit
Character: Policier contrôle #1
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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Delicatessen
Title: Delicatessen
Character: Roger Kube
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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The Hairdresser's Husband
Title: The Hairdresser's Husband
Character: Julien Gora
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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Dédé
Title: Dédé
Released: May 2, 1990
Type: Movie
In this retelling of the story of Hamlet, the young man is a soldier on leave to attend his widowed mother's marriage to his uncle - a marriage which is unpleasantly near in time to the death of his father. Every element of Shakespeare's tragic story is present, except that, this time, Dede refuses to kill anyone, no matter how persistent his father's frustrated ghost is.
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Roselyne and the Lions
Title: Roselyne and the Lions
Character: Armani
Released: May 26, 1989
Type: Movie
Thierry drops out of school to apprentice as a lion tamer at the zoo where he meets Roselyne, who shares his passion. They fall in love and when he loses his job, the young lovers journey across France finding odd jobs at several circuses. In Germany, they fall under the tutelage of ageing big cat trainer, Klint, and while they are closer to realising their dreams, they find that their success drivers them part.
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The War Is Over
Title: The War Is Over
Character: Paul Leblau
Released: April 26, 1989
Type: Movie
The film is set in France in August 1944 at the end of the war. German troops are in retreat as the allies are coming in. Two French boys run from home and on their journey they stumble upon a German soldier. Soon they become friends and together they head towards Lyon...
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A Soldier's Tale
Title: A Soldier's Tale
Character: Woulf
Released: June 16, 1988
Type: Movie
In the days following the D-Day invasion in Normandy, France, a British platoon leader named Saul (Gabriel Byrne) and his corporal (Paul Wyett) reach an isolated farmhouse and encounter a beautiful French girl named Belle (Marianne Basler). Love blooms between Saul and Belle, but the grim realities of war catch up with them when a French Resistance trio claims that Belle is a Nazi collaborator. Judge Reinhold appears briefly as the token Yank.
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Poker
Title: Poker
Released: January 13, 1988
Type: Movie
Helene loves to play poker for big money in men's company. But one day she looses big time against bar manager Antonio. He grants her 24 hours to come up with the 50,000 Francs. She asks all of her friends, but nobody will help her. When she finally steals the money from her brother Stephane, she gets them into serious trouble -- she didn't know where he got it.
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L'été en pente douce
Title: L'été en pente douce
Character: Jeannot
Released: April 29, 1987
Type: Movie
When he inherits the family house and property after his mother's death, aspiring novelist Fane returns home with his bimbo girlfriend Lilas. He must care for his idiot brother Mo and contend with a greedy garage owner who covets Fane's property to expand his business. When efforts to buy the property are fruitless, the mechanic incites the townsfolk against the strange trio.
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Betty Blue
Title: Betty Blue
Character: Bob
Released: April 9, 1986
Type: Movie
A lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.
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Police
Title: Police
Character: Gauthier
Released: September 4, 1985
Type: Movie
Mangin, a police inspector in Paris, leans hard on informants to get evidence on three Tunisian brothers who traffic in drugs. He arrests one, Simon, and his girl-friend Noria. Simon's brothers go to their lawyer. He springs Noria, who promptly steals 2 million francs that belong to the Tunisians. They suspect her of the theft; her life as well as the lawyer's is in danger. Meanwhile, Noria is playing with both the lawyer and Mangin's affections. Mangin is mercurial anyway: intimidating and bloodying suspects, falling for a police commission trainee before flipping for Noria, wearing his emotions on his sleeve. Can he save the lawyer and Noria, and can he convince her to love?
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Going and Coming Back
Title: Going and Coming Back
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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Rouge-gorge
Title: Rouge-gorge
Released: February 6, 1985
Type: Movie
After graduating from high school where she was a boarder, Reine Ducasse decides to settle down with her rich father Louis in his luxurious apartment. She has just begun her studies in history and has a good friend, Frédéric, a medical student who wouldn't mind being more than just that. Around her, strange fellows attract her attention. Who is Philippe, allegedly Louis's stockbroker? And what about Marguerite who presents herself as her father's former secretary? Even more puzzling is the video cassette she finds in her father's place, showing young motorbikers distributing bundles of banknotes. Some time later, Charles, one of the bikers appearing on the video, rings the doorbell: he is wounded.
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Slices of Life
Title: Slices of Life
Released: February 6, 1985
Type: Movie
A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal!"
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The Bodyguard
Title: The Bodyguard
Character: Le gardien du parc animalier
Released: February 15, 1984
Type: Movie
Barbara marries Julien a charming and sexy man. Barbara's old flame Paul is highly suspicious of Julien. It seems Julien's previous two wives died under dubious circumstances and he collected a wad of insurance money as a result. Paul cannot ignore his misgivings, and so he follows Barbara and Julien to Morocco on their honeymoon, intent on preventing any harm to the woman he still loves.
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Tess
Title: Tess
Character: Harvester
Released: October 6, 1979
Type: Movie
A strong-willed peasant girl is sent by her father to the estate of some local aristocrats to capitalize on a rumor that their families are from the same line, but is left traumatised from her experiences.
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Hothead
Title: Hothead
Character: Toilet customer (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1979
Type: Movie
François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries.
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1788
Title: 1788
Character: Renaud Martin
Released: March 23, 1978
Type: Movie
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The Wing or the Thigh?
Title: The Wing or the Thigh?
Character: Un des photographes à la clinique
Released: October 27, 1976
Type: Movie
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!
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Special Section
Title: Special Section
Character: Un milicien
Released: April 23, 1975
Type: Movie
In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.
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Fear Over the City
Title: Fear Over the City
Character: (uncredited)
Released: April 9, 1975
Type: Movie
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.