Lino Ventura

Lino Ventura

Born: July 13, 1919
Died: October 22, 1987
in Parma, Emilia-Romagna, Italy
Angiolino Giuseppe Pasquale Ventura (14 July 1919 – 22 October 1987), known as Lino Ventura, was an Italian actor. Born in Italy, he was raised in Paris by his mother. After a first career as a professional wrestler was ended by injury, he was offered a part as a gang boss in the Jacques Becker film Touchez pas au grisbi (1954) and rapidly became one of France's favourite film actors, playing opposite many other great stars and working with such leading directors as Louis Malle, Claude Sautet, and Claude Miller.

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Bacri, comme un air de famille
Title: Bacri, comme un air de famille
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 14, 2022
Type: Movie
Jean-Pierre Bacri was never happy about anything. But beyond the caricature of the grumpy man, from his apprenticeship years to his death in January 2021, this film tells the story of this quintessential Frenchman: a man turned towards others, an actor by accident, a moralist by vocation, who was left unaffected by flattery and false honors by success, and ready for all kinds of anger when it was necessary to speak out against injustice and stupidity. The film tells the story of how Jean-Pierre Bacri's life changed several times: from Algeria to France when he was eleven years old in 1962; from bank clerk to apprentice theater actor; from Pieds-noirs film star to screenwriter for Alain Resnais; and from Cannes playboy to Agnès Jaoui's mad lover, the most decisive encounter for his life as well as for his work
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Title: La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 7, 2022
Type: Movie
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three new public channels but autonomous and competing. It is a race for the audience which is engaged then, and from now on the channels will make the war! This competition will give birth to a real golden age for television programs, with variety shows in the forefront. The stars of the song are going to invade the living rooms of the French for their biggest pleasure. This unedited documentary tells the story of the metamorphosis of this television of the early 1970s, between freedom of tone, scandals, political intrigues and programs that have become mythical.
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Aznavour by Charles
Title: Aznavour by Charles
Character: Self - Actor (archive footage)
Released: October 2, 2019
Type: Movie
In 1948, French singer Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) receives a Paillard Bolex, his first camera. Until 1982, he will shoot hours of footage, his filmed diary. Wherever he goes, he carries his camera with him. He films his life and lives as he films: places, moments, friends, loves, misfortunes.
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Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Title: Breakpoint: A Counter History of Progress
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: July 14, 2019
Type: Movie
An account of the last two centuries of the Anthropocene, the Age of Man. How human beings have progressed so much in such a short time through war and the selfish interests of a few, belligerent politicians and captains of industry, damaging the welfare of the majority of mankind, impoverishing the weakest, greedily devouring the limited resources of the Earth.
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Personne Ne Bouge ! Lino Ventura
Title: Personne Ne Bouge ! Lino Ventura
Character: Lino Ventura
Released: April 6, 2018
Type: Movie
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Lino Ventura, la part intime
Title: Lino Ventura, la part intime
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: February 4, 2018
Type: Movie
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Lino Ventura, une histoire d'homme
Title: Lino Ventura, une histoire d'homme
Released: May 28, 2017
Type: Movie
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De Gaulle, the Last King of France
Title: De Gaulle, the Last King of France
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 27, 2017
Type: Movie
Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was statesman of action and has been compared to a monarch. This film depicts the general’s personality through the great events of his presidential term, at a time when the world was undergoing considerable changes.
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Lino, il n'était que lui-même
Title: Lino, il n'était que lui-même
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 14, 2012
Type: Movie
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D'un film à l'autre
Title: D'un film à l'autre
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 13, 2011
Type: Movie
On April 13, 2011, Les Films 13 production company turned 50. How can one celebrate an anniversary of this sort ? By simply making "another" film that would sum up all the earlier ones. D'un film à l'autre is hence a kind of anthology of the films produced Les Films 13 since the 1960s (short and feature films written and directed for the main part by Claude Lelouch), a best-of of half a century of cinema, going from Le Propre de l'homme to What Love May Bring. A biography in images of a filmmaker as admired as he is criticized. In reality, D'un film à l'autre is more than a series of film excerpts, interviews, and making-of documents (some of which possess an undeniable historical value, like that from A Man and A Woman, or the final performances of Patrick Dewaere).
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Il était une fois... Les Tontons flingueurs
Title: Il était une fois... Les Tontons flingueurs
Character: Self
Released: May 13, 2010
Type: Movie
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Code Name: Melville
Title: Code Name: Melville
Character: Self
Released: November 15, 2008
Type: Movie
Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted by what he experienced in his youth during WWII, and how it structured his whole approach to cinema, not only in its thematic but also in its aesthetics.
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La Rumba
Title: La Rumba
Character: un caïd
Released: February 18, 1987
Type: Movie
Paris, 1938. In a lavishly decorated nightclub, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin America: Rumba, Cucaracha, Tango, and also the Charleston, Foxtrot and Boston. Among beautiful women, local pimps and Mussolini's spies brush each other on the dance floor, and in the streets. A police inspector is charged with a difficult task, to clean-up the city streets - just when bodies start falling around, as the Mafia and the spies tend each other deadly traps.
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Sword of Gideon
Title: Sword of Gideon
Character: Papa
Released: September 1, 1986
Type: Movie
Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.
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The Seventh Target
Title: The Seventh Target
Character: Bastien Grimaldi
Released: December 19, 1984
Type: Movie
Bastien Grimaldy, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. Bastien's personal relationships give him enough cause for anxiety -- between his new lover Laura and a feisty mother, life provides its own insecurities. When he goes to the police with his problems, Bastien is assigned an off-beat inspector to protect him but is still faced with skepticism about his dilemma.
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One Hundred Days in Palermo
Title: One Hundred Days in Palermo
Character: Generale Carlo Dalla Chiesa
Released: April 6, 1984
Type: Movie
In the late 1970s and early 80s, assassinations in Sicily get the attention of Communist deputy, Pio La Torre, who appeals to General Carlo Alberto Dalla Chiesa to become prefect in Palermo and take on the Mafia. Dalla Chiesa approaches the job with the same focus and methods he used in hunting down the Red Brigade.
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The Ruffian
Title: The Ruffian
Character: Aldo
Released: January 12, 1983
Type: Movie
The adventures of a group of friends who plan to recover crates full of gold from a fall in Canada.
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Les Misérables
Title: Les Misérables
Character: Jean Valjean
Released: October 20, 1982
Type: Movie
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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Espion, lève-toi
Title: Espion, lève-toi
Character: Sébastien Grenier
Released: January 27, 1982
Type: Movie
Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative to discover how one of their own secret agents was found out and executed in broad daylight.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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The Inquisitor
Title: The Inquisitor
Character: Inspector Antoine Gallien
Released: September 23, 1981
Type: Movie
Martinaud, an illustrious notary suspected of being the perpetrator of two horrendous crimes, voluntarily agrees to be questioned by Inspector Gallien on New Year's Eve. What initially is a routine procedure, soon becomes a harsh interrogation that seems to confirm the initial suspicions.
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Sunday Lovers
Title: Sunday Lovers
Character: François Quérole (sketch 'La méthode française')
Released: October 31, 1980
Type: Movie
A sex comedy anthology containing four stories, each from a different country (England, France, USA and Italy). "An Englishman's Home" "The French Method" "Armando's Notebook" "Skippy"
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The Angry Man
Title: The Angry Man
Character: Romain Dupre
Released: March 14, 1979
Type: Movie
Romain Dupree arrives to Montreal from France only to be informed that his son is dead. However the deceased is not his son but an individual who was using his passport so Dupree begins a frantic search for his son who happens to be wanted by the local mob.
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Butterfly on the Shoulder
Title: Butterfly on the Shoulder
Character: Roland Fériaud
Released: May 3, 1978
Type: Movie
On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in a strange clinic without remembering who brought him there. The doctor insists he hallucinated, but it's not long before he obtains evidence that it wasn't a dream.
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The Medusa Touch
Title: The Medusa Touch
Character: Brunel
Released: April 13, 1978
Type: Movie
A French detective in London reconstructs the life of a man lying in hospital with severe injuries with the help of journals and a psychiatrist. He realises that the man had powerful telekinetic abilities.
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Title: Auf los geht's los
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 1977
Type: TV
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Illustrious Corpses
Title: Illustrious Corpses
Character: Inspector Amerigo Rogas
Released: February 12, 1976
Type: Movie
A detective is assigned to investigate the mysterious murders of some Supreme Court judges.
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The French Detective
Title: The French Detective
Character: Commissioner Verjeat
Released: December 10, 1975
Type: Movie
When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning from his superiors. When he embarrasses Lardatte while disarming a hostage (the dead volunteer's father), Verjeat is told he's being transferred within a week. He speeds up his hunt for the goon and, with Lefévre, one of his young detectives, he engineers a complicated scheme to buy more time before the transfer. How should Verjeat play out his values of honor and duty?
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The Cage
Title: The Cage
Character: Julien
Released: June 10, 1975
Type: Movie
The story of a woman who is suddenly visited by her estranged ex-husband. The ex-hubby wants to buy her country house, which she received in the divorce settlement. Instead he finds himself locked in a cage in the cellar.
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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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 Slap
Title: The Slap
Character: Jean Douléan
Released: October 23, 1974
Type: Movie
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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Three Tough Guys
Title: Three Tough Guys
Character: Father Charlie
Released: May 29, 1974
Type: Movie
Isaac Hayes plays as Lee in his feature film debut, as Father Charlie and himself solve a bank robbery mystery that stretches across the city. After Lee is removed from the force due to $1,000,000 being stolen from the bank Father Charlie helps him to gain revenge for the loss of one of his friends.
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A Pain in the Ass
Title: A Pain in the Ass
Character: Ralf Milan
Released: September 20, 1973
Type: Movie
Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.
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Far West
Title: Far West
Released: May 31, 1973
Type: Movie
This Belgian/French tale chronicles the efforts of Jacques (Jacques Brel) to find the Old West in modern America. Dressed as cowboy, he travels throughout western American cities and towns and finds others similarly dressed. These idealists gather together and build an old-western-style town in the middle of an abandoned factory, battling local bureaucracies in the process.
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Happy New Year
Title: Happy New Year
Character: Simon
Released: April 13, 1973
Type: Movie
Released from prison under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season Cannes, but also by a very special someone he met there.
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The Right of the Maddest
Title: The Right of the Maddest
Character: Un motard
Released: March 27, 1973
Type: Movie
The guardian of a nursing home lends a compassionate ear to the complaints of two new pensioners who love each other and have only one dream: to see the sea. To help them realize their dream, the brave man steals the car of the director. She quickly discovers the crime and drags her pale husband to the pursuit of the trio, aboard a tanker truck...
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The Silent One
Title: The Silent One
Character: Clément Tibère
Released: February 10, 1973
Type: Movie
Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another nationality, French. So what led him to become Russian and to change identity? And why are the British secret services interested in him?
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Money Money Money
Title: Money Money Money
Character: Lino Massaro
Released: May 4, 1972
Type: Movie
When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions.
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self - Main guest
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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The Valachi Papers
Title: The Valachi Papers
Character: Vito Genovese
Released: January 6, 1972
Type: Movie
When Joe Valachi has a price put on his head by Don Vito Genovese, he must take desperate steps to protect himself while in prison. An unsuccessful attempt to slit his throat puts him over the edge to break the sacred code of silence.
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Rum Runners
Title: Rum Runners
Character: Cornelius von Zeelinga
Released: October 13, 1971
Type: Movie
During the prohibition era, Cornelius, a bootlegger, is on the run from the American coastguards. He comes across a silent film actress, Linda, on the set of a movie and falls in love with her.
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Fantasia chez les ploucs
Title: Fantasia chez les ploucs
Character: Sagamore Noonan
Released: January 15, 1971
Type: Movie
Sagamore Noonan vit reclu dans une ferme de l'Alabama où il distille de la gnôle au temps de la prohibition. Il reçoit la visite de son frère Doc Noonan et de son fils Billy. Une jeune strip-teaseuse et son compagnon gangster viennent troubler leur tranquillité.
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Last Known Address
Title: Last Known Address
Character: Principal Inspector Marceau Leonetti
Released: February 25, 1970
Type: Movie
Marceau Léonetti, a competent and energetic officer stops by chance the son of an influential lawyer driving under the influence of alcohol. A few months later, the lawyer falsely accuses Léonetti as being violent and incompetent. As a result Marceau is transferred to a small police station, where he meets young and beautiful Jeanne. Soon they are faced with a tough investigation.
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The Sicilian Clan
Title: The Sicilian Clan
Character: Commissaire Le Goff
Released: December 5, 1969
Type: Movie
An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
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Army of Shadows
Title: Army of Shadows
Character: Philippe Gerbier
Released: September 10, 1969
Type: Movie
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.
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Birds of Prey
Title: Birds of Prey
Character: Le rapace / Le rital
Released: April 6, 1968
Type: Movie
1938, a Central America country. A Frenchman who goes by the name "Le Rital" is hired to take out the local dictator. Young Chico is assigned as his right-hand man, whom he impresses. Will a friendship form between them?
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The Last Adventure
Title: The Last Adventure
Character: Roland
Released: April 12, 1967
Type: Movie
Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot's license. With seeming contrition, the jokesters tell Roland and Manu about a crashed plane lying on the ocean floor off the coast of Congo stuffed with riches. The adventurers set off to find the loot.
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Deux Romains en Gaule
Title: Deux Romains en Gaule
Character: Un client du bar
Released: February 25, 1967
Type: Movie
This film is directly inspired by Asterix, created by René Goscinny and Albert UDERZO, chronicles the adventures of a little boy, Antoine, entered the world of antiquity by studying its history lesson and two Romans, and TICKETBUS PROSPECTUS, who prefer to leave their life of legionnaires and discover the lifestyle of Gaulois.Antoine meeting Asterix cartoon form, which explains certain peculiarities of life in Lutetia.
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Le Deuxième Souffle
Title: Le Deuxième Souffle
Character: Gustave 'Gu' Minda
Released: November 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.
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To Skin a Spy
Title: To Skin a Spy
Character: Pascal Fabre
Released: August 24, 1966
Type: Movie
A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the crossfire of international enemy agents trying to eliminate the French.
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Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle
Title: Jean-Pierre Melville on the Set of Le Deuxième Souffle
Character: Self - Interviewee
Released: July 30, 1966
Type: Movie
Director Jean-Pierre Melville and actor Lino Ventura are interviewed about their 1966 film.
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Let's Not Get Angry
Title: Let's Not Get Angry
Character: Antoine Beretto
Released: April 20, 1966
Type: Movie
One-time gangster Antoine is enjoying retirement on the coast, now managing a boating club. He receives a visit from a former accomplice who asks for a loan. The money will be repaid by a crook who is now in hiding; Antoine intends to recover his money.
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The Wise Guys
Title: The Wise Guys
Character: Laurent Dannecker
Released: October 22, 1965
Type: Movie
Hector Valentin returns to France from Canada when he inherits a small sawmill. He has difficulties restarting the run-down operation which has inefficient workers and is hampered by the dirty tactics of its bigger...
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Cloportes
Title: Cloportes
Character: Alphonse Maréchal
Released: October 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years. When he's released, he's out for revenge.
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The Dictator's Guns
Title: The Dictator's Guns
Character: Jacques Cournot
Released: June 18, 1965
Type: Movie
Jacques Cournot, a freelance skipper, is hired by Mr Hendrix in Santo Domingo, first of all to advise him regarding the acquisition of a sailing boat. After a thorough inspection of a prospective vessel, the "Dragoon", Cournot reports his positive appraisal to Mr Hendrix and initiates the negotiations with Mrs Osborne, the owner of the craft. Barely a couple of days later, Cournot finds himself in a bind as the police questions him about the exact kind of cruise he was supposed to organize for his principal. For the "Dragoon" is gone; Mr Hendrix has disappeared; Mrs Osborne is not aware of any deal; and the corpses of mysterious individuals, victims of a violent death, are found on the beaches of Santo Domingo.
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The Great Spy Chase
Title: The Great Spy Chase
Character: Francis Lagneau
Released: December 10, 1964
Type: Movie
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.
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The Monocle's Sour Laugh
Title: The Monocle's Sour Laugh
Released: September 16, 1964
Type: Movie
A French agent goes after a gang of Asian terrorists who plan to blow up an American nuclear aircraft carrier.
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Weeping for a Bandit
Title: Weeping for a Bandit
Character: "El lutos"
Released: August 31, 1964
Type: Movie
José María "El Tempranillo" fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Morena. After a period of hard learning, he becomes the leader of a group of bandits.
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Greed in the Sun
Title: Greed in the Sun
Character: Hervé Marec, aka 'Le plouc'
Released: April 17, 1964
Type: Movie
Marec, a truck driver is sent by his boss to track down through the Morroccan desert a reckless youngster who stole a brand-new truck and its payload. Riddled with bad luck, Marec will face the dangers of the desert, as well as a fishy partner, and a reluctant, misogynist tow-truck helper until the climactic fight.
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Crooks in Clover
Title: Crooks in Clover
Character: Fernand Naudin
Released: November 27, 1963
Type: Movie
An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.
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The Threepenny Opera
Title: The Threepenny Opera
Character: Brown, Polizeichef von London
Released: February 28, 1963
Type: Movie
The Gangster Macheath secretly marries the daughter of beggar king Peachum. When Peachum finds out, he instructs the police chief Brown to arrest and hang Macheath. If not, all the beggars of Soho will disturb the upcoming coronation.
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Carmen di Trastevere
Title: Carmen di Trastevere
Character: Vincenzo, le caïd
Released: November 22, 1962
Type: Movie
Carmen, wife of a certain Vincenzo detained for theft, chooses Antonio as a friend. When the husband is released from prison, he accepts the relationship in progress and continues to use the woman in his shady businesses.
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The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Title: The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Character: Garigny
Released: September 14, 1962
Type: Movie
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.
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Hitch-Hike
Title: Hitch-Hike
Character: Paul, le chauffeur de car
Released: March 16, 1962
Type: Movie
Agathe, 18, dreams of change. Gone are her vacations on the rainy beaches of Belgium! She decides to hitchhike down to the South of France, where she'll have many happy and less happy encounters. On the way to Paris, men of various ages offer to shorten her wait by the roadside. Some try to take advantage of her, while another, in a fit of madness, tries to stab her. Despite these assaults, Agathe continues her journey, heading for Valence and then Aix-en-Provence.
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Emile's Boat
Title: Emile's Boat
Character: Émile Bouet
Released: March 3, 1962
Type: Movie
Charles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers, decides to return to La Rochelle, his hometown to die there. Forty years earlier he had been driven out by his father. Before passing away, the old eccentric announces that he has a hidden son, Émile, a fisherman to whom he wishes to bequeath his property. François, the younger brother, whom Charles-Edmond hates, is eyeing the inheritance to bail out the powerful family business, a veritable fishing trust, and will try to appropriate the affection and property of this inopportune heir. Émile, meanwhile, is too busy arguing with Fernande, a beugland singer, to suspect what awaits him...
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The Last Judgment
Title: The Last Judgment
Character: Giovanna's father
Released: October 26, 1961
Type: Movie
The Last Judgement (Italian: Il giudizio universale) is a 1961 commedia all'italiana film by Italian director Vittorio De Sica. It was coproduced with France. It has an all-star Italian and international cast, including Americans Jack Palance, Ernest Borgnine; Greek Melina Mercouri and French Fernandel, Anouk Aimée and Lino Ventura. The film was a huge flop, massacred by critics and audiences when it was released. It was filmed in black and white, but the last sequence, the dance at theatre, is in color.
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The Lions Are Loose
Title: The Lions Are Loose
Character: le docteur André Challenberg
Released: September 20, 1961
Type: Movie
Albertine, a young woman from Bordeaux, leaves her town and her husband to discover the joys of the French capital. Thanks to her friend Cécile, she penetrates Parisian high society and becomes the subject of rivalry between Dr André Challenberg and a fashionable young novelist, Didier Marèze.
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Black City
Title: Black City
Character: Il bandito
Released: September 16, 1961
Type: Movie
A charming rogue, the self-proclaimed leader of Naples, locks horns with an American Army general and a police inspector.
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Taxi for Tobruk
Title: Taxi for Tobruk
Character: le brigadier Théo Dumas
Released: May 9, 1961
Type: Movie
During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.
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Girl in the Window
Title: Girl in the Window
Character: Federico
Released: April 14, 1961
Type: Movie
A romantic drama partially set in Amsterdam, this standard tale starts out in a mining area in Holland where conditions are about as rough as they get. Two of the miners, Italians Federico and Vincenzo take off together for the city's red-light district, where the women pose in windows for prospective customers. There the duo meet Else and Carrel who are willing to leave their windows to spend a weekend at a resort with the two men. Soon Else has fallen in love with Vincenzo and the future of the two hookers, as well as the miners, seems to look brighter.
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Mistress of the World - Part II
Title: Mistress of the World - Part II
Character: Biamonte
Released: April 26, 1960
Type: Movie
Karin is now continuing her father's research and is also caught in the cross hairs of the mysterious opponents. Johanson himself retreats to a Cambodian monastery in order to escape the gangsters' shots and recover. Meanwhile, the international criminals manage to steal Johanson's energy formula. Karin then goes after the thieves, supported by Lundstrom. But he also has his own goals. The hunt takes them around the world. It soon turns out that a certain Madame Latour is behind the sinister machinations. Eventually old Johanson falls into her hands. In Southeast Asia, a showdown ensues between the kidnappers and Lundstrom and Karin.
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Mistress of the World - Part I
Title: Mistress of the World - Part I
Character: Biamonte
Released: April 14, 1960
Type: Movie
Professor Johansson has made a huge scientific breakthrough; a device that will create a huge magnetic pulse that knocks out all electricity over a continent-wide area. The military applications are already being thought of when Dr. Johansson is kidnapped by a group of profit-seeking mercenaries. Meanwhile, his daughter, Karin, finds herself having to consort with all manner of shady characters as she searches for her father.
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The Big Risk
Title: The Big Risk
Character: Abel Davos
Released: March 23, 1960
Type: Movie
On crowded Milan streets, two men execute a split-second payroll heist-in broad daylight-then begin a lightning-paced getaway, via every conveyance available. But after all, when a tough guy's returning to France (where he's been sentenced to death in absentia) after holing up in Italy for nearly a decade, he's got to have some startup money--particularly if he's going back with the wife and kids.
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Way of Youth
Title: Way of Youth
Character: Tiercelin
Released: September 23, 1959
Type: Movie
This movie is a Marcel Aymé adaptation and it deals with the not-so-glorious side of the Occupation: black market, war profiteers, cracking open bottles of Champagne while most of the Parisians are almost starving.
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125, rue Montmartre
Title: 125, rue Montmartre
Character: Pascal
Released: September 9, 1959
Type: Movie
Desperate, Didier throws hymself out in the Seine. Pascal, a newsboy, jumps and saves him. It’s the beginning of the friendship between them.Once, as Pascal helps Didier, he finds himself involved in a murder. Only the superintendent believes in his innocence…
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Witness in the City
Title: Witness in the City
Character: Ancelin
Released: May 6, 1959
Type: Movie
Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife's murderer, who has been acquitted by justice.
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Marie-Octobre
Title: Marie-Octobre
Character: Carlo Bernardi
Released: April 24, 1959
Type: Movie
A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin. The former members of the network have carried on with their lives after the war, but this evening they are going to have to live again a fateful night – the night their leader was killed. He had been betrayed, his name given to the Germans. The search for the traitor puts each personality in the spotlight – and also that of the killed leader, Castille.
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Twelve Hours by the Clock
Title: Twelve Hours by the Clock
Character: Fourbieux
Released: April 21, 1959
Type: Movie
Three criminals escape from a French prison and hide in a coastal village where they have to wait for 12 hours until the boat that is supposed to take them to freedom arrives.
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Pensione Edelweiss
Title: Pensione Edelweiss
Character: Borcher
Released: March 10, 1959
Type: Movie
A man who was injured in an accident has a visitor in his hospital. The visitor suggests a strange deal.
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The Tiger Attacks
Title: The Tiger Attacks
Character: Paul Lamiani
Released: January 21, 1959
Type: Movie
Paul Lamiani, a wizened mobster, is asked to return to duty following the disappearance of secret documents of extreme importance. It is assumed that they are in the hands of a friend of Paul. But the case becomes even more delicate when Lamiani's son is kidnapped.
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The Mask of the Gorilla
Title: The Mask of the Gorilla
Character: Géo Paquet, Le Gorille
Released: August 14, 1958
Type: Movie
Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must infiltrate a dangerous gang working for a foreign embassy as their leader, a spy enjoying diplomatic immunity, can't be arrested by regular police.
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The Lovers of Montparnasse
Title: The Lovers of Montparnasse
Character: Morel
Released: April 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial help. Modigliani worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.
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Three Days to Live
Title: Three Days to Live
Character: Lino Ferrari
Released: March 12, 1958
Type: Movie
Struggling actor Simon witnesses a murder; he didn't see the killer, but that doesn't stop him from claiming that he did in order to get his name into the papers. Sure enough, the murderer targets him as his next victim. Our hero is temporarily rescued by Jeanne, a fellow aspiring actress who has always had a crush on him.
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Elevator to the Gallows
Title: Elevator to the Gallows
Character: Le Commissaire Cherrier
Released: January 29, 1958
Type: Movie
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, the husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.
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Maigret Sets a Trap
Title: Maigret Sets a Trap
Character: Inspecteur Torrence
Released: January 29, 1958
Type: Movie
Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret pieces the clues together, he comes to realize that for the elusive man that he suspects to be unmasked, he has to set him a trap.
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Dishonorable Discharge
Title: Dishonorable Discharge
Character: Paulo
Released: January 22, 1958
Type: Movie
Burt Brickford, a deserted U.S. Navy captain stranded in a South American port, rents out his services to survive. Perez, a drug trafficker, calls on him to command Henry's yacht, on which a group of would-be treasure seekers are embarking.
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The Strange Mr. Steve
Title: The Strange Mr. Steve
Character: Denis
Released: June 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Georges Villard, a minor bank employee, is won over by Mr Steve who does him favours, treats him to the high life and introduces him to his wife Florence, with whom he falls in love. Georges is unaware that these generous gifts will cost him dearly.
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Speaking of Murder
Title: Speaking of Murder
Character: Pepito
Released: April 12, 1957
Type: Movie
Louis Bertain is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his accomplices are careful to keep up a civic veneer by day, indulging in criminal activities only when "the red light is on" at night. This status quo is upset when one of the gang members becomes convinced that Louis' younger brother is a police informer.
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To Catch a Spy
Title: To Catch a Spy
Character: Bérès
Released: March 15, 1957
Type: Movie
The blueprints of an aeroplane built from an ultra-secret metal are stolen from national security. French secret service agent Walder believes that the documents are now in Switzerland, in the hands of a man named Lindbaum. The latter agrees to hand over the blueprints in return for a large sum of money. Another agent, Francis Coplan, is sent to Switzerland to handle the deal, but Lindbaum only has half of the documents because he was double-crossed by Kalpannen, an international crook. With the help of Heidi, a Swiss correspondent, Coplan sets out to identify the members of Kalpannen’s gang, only to find that they have all been murdered…
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Burning Fuse
Title: Burning Fuse
Released: February 27, 1957
Type: Movie
Lola, the wife of arms dealer Pedro Wassewich, is attracted to Ludovic, a young painter who turns out to be the emissary of a notorious gangster. He claims to have been sent by the latter to pick up a shipment. In fact, it's the police who, behind the scenes, orchestrate the operation to catch Wassewich red-handed.
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Crime and Punishment
Title: Crime and Punishment
Character: Gustave Messonnier
Released: December 4, 1956
Type: Movie
A young tormented student can no longer stand his miserable life. To avoid his sister marrying an old antiques dealer out of convenience, he murders a pawnbroker to steal his money. Very quickly, it is taken from remorse and confides to a young prostitute. The latter, very believing, advises him to go. He opposes this idea, but guilt devours him. He is soon struck by remorse, and confides in a young prostitute, who advise him to surrender. He opposes this idea, but guilt devours him.
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Law of the Streets
Title: Law of the Streets
Character: Mario
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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Title: Cinépanorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1956
Type: TV
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Razzia
Title: Razzia
Character: Roger le Catalan
Released: April 7, 1955
Type: Movie
Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy preceding him, he sets himself to the task of knowing why the French operations were not so profitable - and soon he is master of all links of the organization. He can now get it honed to perfection - or destroy it. Only... the Police are following his every step.
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Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Title: Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Character: Angelo Fraiser
Released: March 17, 1954
Type: Movie
Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the style they enjoy. However, Max confides the details of the theft to his younger mistress, Josey -- who has secretly taken up with ambitious young rival gangster Angelo. Angelo then has Riton kidnapped and demands the stash of gold as ransom, which threatens Max's dreams of the perfect retirement.