Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Jean-Pierre Kalfon

Born: October 30, 1938
in Paris, France
Jean-Pierre Kalfon (born 30 October 1938) is a French actor and singer.

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Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Title: Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman
Character: Old Man (voice)
Released: February 24, 2023
Type: Movie
A lost cat, a giant talkative frog and a tsunami help a bank employee without ambition, his frustrated wife and a schizophrenic accountant to save Tokyo from an earthquake and find a meaning to their lives.
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Finale
Title: Finale
Character: Jean-Pierre
Released: September 28, 2020
Type: Movie
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Film Français
Title: Film Français
Character: The director
Released: July 14, 2017
Type: Movie
A director from the French New Wave has a meeting with a young, fashionable female actor with a background in television. Nothing goes the way it should.
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Panthéon Discount
Title: Panthéon Discount
Character: M. Bove
Released: October 11, 2016
Type: Movie
The year is 2050. Doctors have been replaced by a machine called Sherlock, a kind of super-scanner that not only diagnoses but also heals depending on the patients' means. Doctors have now become financial advisers who sell health insurance and solutions that are more or less drastic.
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Bernadette Lafont, and God Created the Free Woman
Title: Bernadette Lafont, and God Created the Free Woman
Character: Self
Released: May 18, 2016
Type: Movie
A journey in the company of Bernadette Lafont, French Cinema’s most atypical actress. Tracing her career from pin-up girl, to New Wave model of sexual freedom, to drug-dealing granny in the film Paulette, by way of La Fiancée du Pirate and Les Stances à Sophie, this film pays tribute to her extraordinary life and artistic odyssey. Her grand-daughters, Anna, Juliette and Solène, revisit the dreams of Bernadette, in the family home in the Cevennes region where they, like her, grew up. Her close friends, Bulle Ogier and Jean-Pierre Kalfon, reminisce on their artistic and human complicity. Throughout the film, Bernadette Lafont in person, with her inimitable character actress voice, re-evokes a life in cinema marked with insolence, courage and freedom.
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This Summer Feeling
Title: This Summer Feeling
Character: Faris
Released: October 11, 2015
Type: Movie
In high summer, Sasha suddenly dies. Her death brings two virtual strangers, her boyfriend Lawrence and sister Zoé, closer together, sharing their grief and the burden of their loss in Berlin, Paris and New York.
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Miroir mon amour
Title: Miroir mon amour
Character: le roi Jacob
Released: October 26, 2012
Type: Movie
The story starts where the tale ends: Snow White wakes up to the age of sexuality and discovers a world where the dwarves have become tall, and her Prince Charming is deprived of charisma. And, most terrible of all, her mother is incomparably more sexy.
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The Rabbi's Cat
Title: The Rabbi's Cat
Character: Malka of the Lions (voice)
Released: May 31, 2011
Type: Movie
The story of a rabbi and his talking cat, a sharp-tongued feline philosopher brimming with scathing humor and a less than pure love for the rabbi's teenage daughter.
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Parc
Title: Parc
Character: le propriétaire
Released: January 14, 2009
Type: Movie
Georges Nail lives in a new suburb. He's married, loves his wife, son and dog. Paul Hammer is good looking, rich and intelligent. But he is torn by his severe judgment of the world and a desire to be part of it. One day, their paths meet. Nail sees this meeting as an opportunity to create a new friendship. On his side, Hammer sees it as a new reason for living : to crucify the perfect image of the happy western man and his incarnation in the person of Georges Nail. A nail is the perfect victim for a hammer.
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Positano
Title: Positano
Released: November 30, 2008
Type: Movie
Positano is an island of the Amalfi Coast that Neptune would have, according to legend, created for the love of a nymph. Perched on the rocks of the island, the house of Frédéric Pardo and Tina Aumont became in 1968 a meeting place for the underground community. Pierre Clémenti stays there for a while and makes images of dazzling sensuality. Beyond Pierre Clémenti's intimate love of these faces and bodies often naked in this Mediterranean landscape, the film reveals the moving beauty of a utopia where living together could still be achieved in a territory of sharing and permanent creation. Flow of perceptions of consciousness, visual impressions, physical impregnations, the work of Pierre Clémenti is an ode to sensuality and "life-cinema".
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La deuxième femme
Title: La deuxième femme
Character: Self
Released: November 30, 2008
Type: Movie
Over the course of more than fifteen years, Clémenti films a series of intimate diaries, starting from daily encounters. In La deuxième femme, we see Bulle Ogier and Viva, Nico and Tina Aumont, Philippe Garrel and Udo Kier, a performance by Béjart, a piece by Marc’O, concerts by Bob Marley and Patti Smith (not always recognisable)... It’s like a maelstrom of psychedelic images that are passed through a particle accelerator.
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Souvenirs souvenirs
Title: Souvenirs souvenirs
Character: Self
Released: November 30, 2008
Type: Movie
Homemade footage of parties, travel, and everyday life.
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Asylum
Title: Asylum
Character: Le grand patron
Released: April 16, 2008
Type: Movie
Jack, a young thug, mingles with a bunch of hard boiled gangsters and tries to outsmart them. He ends up tied to a tree on a chain like a dog. A new adventure begins, not the one he had wished for.
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I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
Title: I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
Character: Max
Released: March 26, 2008
Type: Movie
Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they might not have what it takes for a life of crime.
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Heartbeat Detector
Title: Heartbeat Detector
Character: Karl Rose
Released: September 12, 2007
Type: Movie
A psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business.
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American Vertigo
Title: American Vertigo
Character: Narrator
Released: June 20, 2007
Type: Movie
A subjective documentary, a real logbook that follows the philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy in the U.S.A.
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Suzanne
Title: Suzanne
Character: Max
Released: March 7, 2007
Type: Movie
After the death of his musician wife, Franck, a septuagenarian hellenist, feels lost. His friend Max, a womanizer, and his daughter Sabine successively welcome him to their home, but it is his meeting with Suzanne that will give him a taste for life. She is not of his world, nor of his age, but she will be his last love.
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Title: Mafiosa
Character: Toussaint
Released: December 12, 2006
Type: TV
By the will of her dead uncle who was murdered Sandra Paoli is propelled to the head of a powerful mafia clan. She becomes a respected, but also hated, woman in a world of men, murder and criminality.
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S.A.C. : Des hommes dans l'ombre
Title: S.A.C. : Des hommes dans l'ombre
Character: Pierre Debizet
Released: November 29, 2005
Type: Movie
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Philippe Nahon, de l'acteur fétiche à l'icône
Title: Philippe Nahon, de l'acteur fétiche à l'icône
Released: May 19, 2005
Type: Movie
Since the beginning of the 70s, committed and willing, Philippe Nahon has been exploring the strangest roles and became at the dawn of the 90s, with "Carne", a rising star and a source of inspiration for a generation of young directors such as Gaspar Noé, for whom he has become a favorite actor. At fifty, he has become an emblematic figure for a new generation of filmmakers. Even today, he is still in full rebellion against age and invests in short films and first films of young directors with an enthusiasm still intact. Through the testimonies of his first partners, filmmakers of several generations, relatives and fans, this documentary sketches the portrait of a committed man, an actor unknown to the general public, an icon for film lovers.
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Don't Do That!
Title: Don't Do That!
Character: le monologuant au comptoir
Released: March 24, 2004
Type: Movie
Joël is jealous and violent. After one crisis too many, Nicole, his young wife, returns to live with her parents with their three-year-old son. Joël hangs on, begs, threatens. One day, he kidnaps the little boy.
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Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’
Title: Cinema, Sex, Politics: Bertolucci Makes ‘The Dreamers’
Character: Self
Released: March 1, 2004
Type: Movie
The making of The Dreamers, its background and relation to the May 1968 student riots in Paris.
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The Dreamers
Title: The Dreamers
Character: Himself
Released: September 1, 2003
Type: Movie
When Isabelle and Theo invite Matthew to stay with them, what begins as a casual friendship ripens into a sensual voyage of discovery and desire in which nothing is off limits and everything is possible.
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The Bathers
Title: The Bathers
Character: Lebel
Released: January 22, 2003
Type: Movie
Sexy, gritty and as provocative as a lap dance, The Bathers takes an insider's look at the lives of six women working as dancers at a seedy Parisian peep show. Governed by their overprotective boss, the girls' routine of glittery neon lights and lecherous customers is soon disrupted when an enigmatic stranger enters the scene. Now, drugs, sex and bickering all take a back seat as the girls unite to save this man haunted by a mysterious past and unforgiving demons. A fascinating glimpse into a world of back alleys and primal instincts, The Bathers transports us to a netherworld where the show always goes on.
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Lulu
Title: Lulu
Character: Simon
Released: June 5, 2002
Type: Movie
It's the beginning of the bullfighting season and all paths seem to lead from the arena straight to Lulu's bar. Lulu is radiant. When she was seventeen, and went by the name of Lucien, she headed off for more convivial surroundings.
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Replay
Title: Replay
Character: Walter Amar
Released: August 22, 2001
Type: Movie
Nathalie and Louise are friends from childhood. While studying drama at University Louise becomes hopelessly obsessed with her friend. Jealous of the male friends she has she breaks up the friendship, followed by a suicide attempt. Later, Louise marries, but finds time to see the, by now quite accomplished actress, Nathalie. They fight through the years, La Repetition following them as their friendship comes together and breaks up frequently, while never actually reaching anything that can be called a climax.
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Gamer
Title: Gamer
Character: Albert
Released: March 21, 2001
Type: Movie
Tony is crazy about video games. But he is arrested during a hold-up which failed, and he goes to prison for eight months. When he gets out, he contacts Valery, GameStar's boss, and offers her a new video game concept.
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Total Western
Title: Total Western
Character: Ludo
Released: June 13, 2000
Type: Movie
After a drug deal gone wrong, Bédé goes into hiding in the countryside at a reformative school for criminal youth. His location is found out, and he and the pupils have to protect themselves with whatever means they have.
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The King's Daughters
Title: The King's Daughters
Character: Louis XIV
Released: May 17, 2000
Type: Movie
Late 17th Century: Anne de Grandcamp and Lucie de Fontenelle, two little girls from Normandy, arrive at the Saint-Cyr school founded by Madame de Maintenon for educating the daughters of impoverished nobles ruined in wars and making them into free women. Madame de Maintenon is the secret wife of Louis XIV, and empowered by his support, she offers "her" two hundred fifty girls a playful and avant-garde education. Anne and Lucie, two inseparable friends, allow themselves to be carried away by the promise of a bright future. But Maintenon has arrived at the pinnacle of power through scheming and debasing herself and she now fears the fires of hell. She is counting on her model school to atone for her past sins.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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What I Did for Love
Title: What I Did for Love
Character: Anderson
Released: June 17, 1998
Type: Movie
A man falls in love from afar with a woman who has just broken up acrimoniously with her husband and is disgusted with all men except her gay friends.
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Day and Night
Title: Day and Night
Character: Lucien
Released: February 12, 1997
Type: Movie
Ten years ago, distinguished French author Alexandre (Alain Delon) exchanged his stressful, hectic life in Paris for a more peaceful existence upon a Mexican hacienda with his wife Ariane (Marianne Denicourt). Lucien (Jean-Pierre Kalfon) also accompanies them. There, Alexandre meets the strange lady-oracle Sonia (Lauren Bacall). As the film opens, the melancholy Alexandre is visited by the sensuous actress Laure (Arielle Dombasle) and her producer Raoul Fillipi (Karl Zero) who is going to make a movie of one of Alexandre's best-loved books. Laure is determined to play the part of the heroine and is willing to resort to seduction to get it. At the same time, Ariane is involved in a passionate affair with French-Mexican seismologist Carlo (Xavier Beauvois). While all of these characters wrangle and tangle with their different agendas, the local residents prepare for a violent revolution. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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Title: La Rivière Espérance
Character: Corentin
Released: September 4, 1995
Type: TV
La Rivière Espérance is a French TV series, 9 episodes of 90 minutes each, directed by Josée Dayan based on the novel by Christian Signol and shown in 1995 on France 2.
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God, My Mother's Lover and the Butcher's Son
Title: God, My Mother's Lover and the Butcher's Son
Character: Henri Larrieux
Released: July 1, 1995
Type: Movie
The mother of three children seems to become romantically involved with the man playing Don Juan in the same local countryside theatre where she is acting. The children decide to try to poison the man who is threatening their family life. The real life and the stage roles get intertwined...
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One Hundred and One Nights
Title: One Hundred and One Nights
Character: The First Jean-Pierre (uncredited)
Released: January 25, 1995
Type: Movie
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made.
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Et demain... Hollywood
Title: Et demain... Hollywood
Released: June 17, 1992
Type: Movie
A director and a secretary conspire to swindle a banker who is blinded by his dream of becoming an actor.
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Jesuit Joe
Title: Jesuit Joe
Character: Le vautour (Récitant) (voice)
Released: November 6, 1991
Type: Movie
Canada, 1911. Narrated by a vulture, the story of Jesuit Joe, a mixed-race who belongs to a rebel Indian family, which have pay a lot for the defense of their territory. After having striped a policeman of his uniform, Jesuit Joe cross the Far North to give justice.
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Title: Les Hordes
Character: Salomon
Released: March 13, 1991
Type: TV
In the near future, the poor and the underprivileged will come together to form roving road gangs. They form hordes that increasingly worry the state. In order to thwart the small group, a police officer declared dead infiltrates the hordes ...
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The Expert Halima
Title: The Expert Halima
Character: Narrator
Released: January 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Kamar, who just arrived at Bassra, falls in love with the young wife of the old Obeid. But, until now, nobody has survived to be able to praise himself for obtaining favors from this beautiful, capricious woman.
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Plato's Banquet
Title: Plato's Banquet
Character: Eryximaque
Released: July 27, 1989
Type: Movie
At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to discuss the theme of love and sex: each of them intervenes to support its argument dialogical rules, within the context symposial.
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La Garçonne
Title: La Garçonne
Character: Marly
Released: September 21, 1988
Type: Movie
The neglected daughter of an industrialist who made his fortune in explosives supplies during the war and of a mother who was mostly concerned with herself, Monique Lerbier is a pretty blonde with generous but strong ideas and a hard character. She has chosen to be an atheist since her adolescence and does not tolerate injustice and social hypocrisy. She was to be married to an engineer, Lucien Vigneret. It was an arranged marriage, the dowry having to allow Vigneret to enter the capital of his father's company, which needed it to finance its business. But two weeks before the wedding, Monique surprises the fiancé with a mistress.
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Corps z'à corps
Title: Corps z'à corps
Character: President-Director
Released: June 15, 1988
Type: Movie
A newspaper editor attempts to save a failing girlie magazine.
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Septième ciel
Title: Septième ciel
Character: Eddie
Released: December 30, 1987
Type: Movie
Vicky goes to Paris to become an actress and ends up as a hostess in a phone sex company. Her friend Jimmy, who lives in the Camargue, discovers her on the cover of a famous magazine. Back in Paris, he meets Zoe, an eight-year-old girl who will help him find Vicky.
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Vent de panique
Title: Vent de panique
Character: Humphries
Released: December 2, 1987
Type: Movie
Roland and Martine, once child stars in a TV series, have sunk into a life of crime. Answering an ad from Isabelle, a young girl seeking work with children, they abduct her with the intention of selling her into prostitution. At the last moment, having become fond of her, they relent and set out to take her home. She rebels, insisting that she enjoys their exciting life of stolen cars, stolen cheques, hotels and restaurants left without paying the bill, and the threesome become a formidable team. Then Isabelle's mood changes again and she disappears with a hitch-hiker. Worried over her future, Roland and Martine trace her to the town where she is about to get married and abduct her, this time from the church steps. Roaring off in a stolen ambulance, the three are happily on the run again.
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The Cry of the Owl
Title: The Cry of the Owl
Character: Le commissaire / Police commisionneer
Released: October 28, 1987
Type: Movie
Robert is an architect and artist, in Vichy after separating from his Parisian wife. Robert finds it calms him to stand in the shadows of the home of Juliette and Patrick and watch her cook. She thinks he's a prowler and confronts him, then invites him in...
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Title: Collaricocoshow
Character: Self
Released: September 16, 1987
Type: TV
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Funny Boy
Title: Funny Boy
Character: Aboulkian
Released: August 26, 1987
Type: Movie
Micky leaves his provincial and bourgeois background and leaves to live in Paris, where he performs as a transvestite singer in a cabaret.
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Public Security
Title: Public Security
Character: Francis
Released: June 17, 1987
Type: Movie
Tempted by an important contract, Anna, a renowned writer, agrees to write a screenplay. But she lacks inspiration. She talks to her old university professor. No solution... Or maybe one... Take inspiration from reality. Desperate to express what seems to her to be clichés, Anna sees her life turned upside down after her husband's arrest, when a dancer is found murdered. A tornado, against a backdrop of police drama, her scenario takes shape. Her husband, innocent, is released, the murderer is still at large.
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Le Cimetière des durs
Title: Le Cimetière des durs
Character: Rayner
Released: December 5, 1986
Type: Movie
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Title: Série rose
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: November 8, 1986
Type: TV
An anthology of erotic stories by famous writers like Guy de Maupassant, Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne, Marquis de Sade, Giovanni Boccaccio, Marquis de Foudras, Daniel Defoe, Anton Tchekov, Jin Ping Mei, and Aristophanes.
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In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal
Title: In the Shadow of the Blue Rascal
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
300 kilos of heroin have disappeared in Necrocity, a city of terror—a city of night—where Captain Speed has a gang and the government hides the dead. An experimental crime film considered to be a landmark of Parisian underground cinema.
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L'Amour ou presque
Title: L'Amour ou presque
Character: Max
Released: November 20, 1985
Type: Movie
Without warning, Mélie disembarks on the cargo ship where her father has the sailor's blues. He remembers his drifts and his friend Max who used to get him into some crazy situations. He remembers Alice and Luc whom he decided to avenge. He has his grenade ready. But Melie has just arrived.
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The Night Wears Suspenders
Title: The Night Wears Suspenders
Released: April 20, 1985
Type: Movie
Jézabel, a worldly young woman, takes hold of Ariel, a shy and inexperienced young man, and leads him by hook or by crook through the wild side of Paris nightlife.
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The Click
Title: The Click
Character: Dr. Fez
Released: April 17, 1985
Type: Movie
A man, Dr. Fez, is blackmailed into taking a fall for his boss. However, with a cruel invention that he created, Dr. Fez has plans of his own to seek revenge against his blackmailer.
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Love on the Ground
Title: Love on the Ground
Character: Clémont Roquemaure
Released: October 17, 1984
Type: Movie
A playwright offers two actress friends the chance to appear in his new, unfinished play, which consists of only one female part.
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The Twin
Title: The Twin
Character: Ernest Volpinex
Released: October 10, 1984
Type: Movie
Matthias Duval is in love, but he can't choose between the two twin sisters Betty and Liz Kerner. To pick up the two sisters, he invents his own twin brother and will play both characters.
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Laisse béton
Title: Laisse béton
Character: Gilles More
Released: March 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Brian and Nourredine are two lousy young offenders. Their flights have a motive: a film brought back from San Francisco where the father of Brian, singer of rock of the sixties, today in prison, made a tour.
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Dog Day
Title: Dog Day
Character: Marcel Torontopoulos
Released: January 10, 1984
Type: Movie
A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession.
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Street of the Damned
Title: Street of the Damned
Character: Paul Chetman, dit 'Rocky Malone', un rocker has been, frère de Chet
Released: January 4, 1984
Type: Movie
In a desolate Paris suburb, no one dares challenge crime boss Hagen, who rules his turf with an iron fist. That includes his former friend Chet, who vows to keep to himself in order to protect his loved ones. But Hagen keeps pushing his buttons… and Chet can only stand for so much before he explodes.
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Liberty Belle
Title: Liberty Belle
Character: Brinon
Released: September 14, 1983
Type: Movie
Liberty Belle tells the story of a group of student's involvement with a group who oppose the French Algerian war. The film premiered at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.
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Confidentially Yours
Title: Confidentially Yours
Character: Massoulier's brother (The Priest)
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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Rock
Title: Rock
Released: December 1, 1982
Type: Movie
An eccentric, poor young couple who constantly lives in a dream world, desperately trying to make their existence feel like an adventure movie.
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Hecate
Title: Hecate
Character: Massard
Released: October 22, 1982
Type: Movie
Set amid the European community in an unspecified North African country, a colony on the verge of nationalism just before the war. And colonized is what happens to a French diplomat, Julien Rochelle, when he meets the mysterious beauty Clothilde de Watteville. Schmid 's favorite axiom, that love is projection, never had such a thorough airing. Is Clothilde really the wife of a French official now holed up in Siberia? Or is she Hecate, goddess of black magic and devourer of the Arab boys she meets far from the European quarter? Only our projections know for sure; for the rest, she is a "woman looking out into the night." Drawn from a novel by Paul Morand, who based the main character on his wife Helene, Schmid's film achieves an atmosphere of magic in which psychological credibility is not so much absent as irrelevant-a film that distances itself from the drama it invokes, perhaps as the elusive Clothilde turns her back on the madness she provokes.
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Nestor Burma, détective de choc
Title: Nestor Burma, détective de choc
Character: Delpierre
Released: April 14, 1982
Type: Movie
Detective Nestor Burma begins an investigation into the corrupt drug-ridden punk rock music world.
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Chassé-croisé
Title: Chassé-croisé
Released: March 24, 1982
Type: Movie
Passionate about music, Julien nevertheless works with a sculptor. One day, he meets young Hermine at a religious bookseller.
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A Thousand Billion Dollars
Title: A Thousand Billion Dollars
Character: l'informateur
Released: February 9, 1982
Type: Movie
A young journalist stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician - the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American multinational company intent on taking over several French industries. The journalist's objective is to garner enough evidence to expose the American corporation for what it really is, before French companies start disappearing - and before any more corpses accumulate, including his own.
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Strange Affair
Title: Strange Affair
Character: François Lingre
Released: December 23, 1981
Type: Movie
A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his family and friends, viewing it a privilege to let the ubiquitous employer take over his home, his life, his desire. Only his wife remains suspicious, recognizing both the pathos and the evil in the man’s soul-stealing power.
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Condorman
Title: Condorman
Character: Morovich
Released: July 2, 1981
Type: Movie
Comic artist and writer Woody performs a simple courier operation for his friend Harry who works for the CIA. But when he successfully fends off hostile agents, he earns the respect of the beautiful Natalia, who requests his assistance for her defection. Woody uses this request as leverage to use the CIA's resources to bring his comic book creation, Condorman, to life to battle the evil Krokov.
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Bolero: Dance of Life
Title: Bolero: Dance of Life
Character: Père Antoine
Released: May 27, 1981
Type: Movie
The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and times, with their own theme scores that evolve as time passes. The main event in the film is the Second World War, which throws the stories of the four musical families together and mixes their fates. Although all characters are fictional, many of them are loosely based on historical musical icons (Édith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Herbert von Karajan, Glenn Miller, Rudolf Nureyev, etc.) The Boléro dance sequence at the end brings all the threads together.
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The Boy Soldier
Title: The Boy Soldier
Character: Commandant de la Mazardière
Released: March 4, 1981
Type: Movie
In the 1930s a young fellow, Simon Chalumet, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who has little sympathy for his son's more gentle temperament, or for his interest in films.
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Jetzt und alles
Title: Jetzt und alles
Character: Rudy Smirak
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
A singer and a mysterious foreigner plan an abduction.
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The Dogs of War
Title: The Dogs of War
Character: Benny
Released: December 17, 1980
Type: Movie
Mercenary James Shannon, on a reconnaissance job to the African nation of Zangaro, is tortured and deported. He returns to lead a coup.
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La Tisane de sarments
Title: La Tisane de sarments
Released: September 1, 1980
Type: Movie
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La Femme flic
Title: La Femme flic
Character: Backmann, le directeur de la MJC
Released: January 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Young police inspector Corinne Levasseur interrogated a dealer without the judge's consent. Following an indiscretion of her lover, the substitute Berthot, Corinne is transferred to a small town in the North who lives under the thumb of a rich industrialist and his family. He is given subaltern tasks. Intrigued by the strange death of a teenager, she stubbornly leads an investigation that allows her to trace the chain of a child prostitution network in which are mixed a notable and his son-in-law. A young investigating judge decides to investigate the case, but he is the victim of pressure ...
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The Police War
Title: The Police War
Character: Marc
Released: November 14, 1979
Type: Movie
Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the underworld.
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Destins parallèles
Title: Destins parallèles
Released: January 1, 1979
Type: Movie
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The Song of Roland
Title: The Song of Roland
Character: Marsile / Turold / Charlemagne
Released: October 4, 1978
Type: Movie
Roland des Roncesvalles is a legendary knight from the age of chivalry in France. In the 11th-century epic La Chanson de Roland, he is depicted as a key figure in halting the advance of the Arabs into France. In this story, the 10th-century legend is staged by a group of 12th-century pilgrims using the 11th-century poem. Their acting is interrupted by a violent peasant uprising, which kills many of the pilgrims. However, one of the survivors, is converted to the peasant cause and later speaks out in favor of more just treatment for the downtrodden.
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The Sorceror's Apprentice
Title: The Sorceror's Apprentice
Character: Robespierre
Released: September 28, 1977
Type: Movie
A thriller in which the characters are Latin-American exiles living in Paris. It is also a comedy about artists who play at revolution rather than actually participate in one
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The Apprentice Heel
Title: The Apprentice Heel
Character: Robert Forelon, le directeur du journal
Released: February 12, 1977
Type: Movie
After a car accident in which his mother dies, Antoine Chapelote decides to change his life and become a con-artist. He meets a young girl Caroline who helps him with his scam.
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A Second Chance
Title: A Second Chance
Character: Le bijouter
Released: September 30, 1976
Type: Movie
Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is reunited with the boy, Simon, who has remained in an orphanage the entire time. She is accompanied by toothsome prison buddy Sarah, and gradually these people whose lives have been frozen in time "thaw" and get on with the business of living.
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Antoine Brunetti
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: TV
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
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Visa de censure n° X
Title: Visa de censure n° X
Character: (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 1976
Type: Movie
Best known for his roles in Belle de jour, Sweet Movie, and many more, Pierre Clementi was also the architect behind a transgressive, high-minded, and disorienting cinema. Like an acid-soaked freefall, Visa de censure n° X is a rush of nudity and color from one of France’s most seductively watchable actors, set to an album's worth of psychedelic prog rock (performed by the Delired Cameleon Family, a group featuring members of French band Clearlight).
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The Good and the Bad
Title: The Good and the Bad
Character: Lafont
Released: January 19, 1976
Type: Movie
The film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon as their robberies, beginning well before the Second World War, take on a political coloration under the occupation.
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An Angel Passes
Title: An Angel Passes
Released: April 23, 1975
Type: Movie
Nico is an ethereal poet haunting the gaps between scenes of Jean-Pierre Kalfon, Bulle Ogier, Laurent Terzieff, and Garrel’s father, Maurice, discussing the filmmaker’s staple topics: love, psychoanalysis, and the failures of May ’68.
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Zig Zig
Title: Zig Zig
Character: Le guitariste
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Two women work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home.
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The White Gloves of the Devil
Title: The White Gloves of the Devil
Character: Le député Caron
Released: April 5, 1973
Type: Movie
Crime thriller.
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The Valley
Title: The Valley
Character: Gaëtan
Released: July 11, 1972
Type: Movie
Viviane, a French Consul's wife, is in New Guinea to find exotic feathers for export to Paris. She encounters four European travelers who are en route to "La Vallée": The Valley, high in the Guinean mountains, is shown on maps as 'obscured by clouds' and is beyond their previous experiences. Viviane joins their trek to find rare feathers and soon becomes entwined in their journey. Their extended stay with the Mapuga tribe brings a denouement between western and indigenous values before their final quest toward the 'Valley of the Gods'.
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The Inner Scar
Title: The Inner Scar
Character: Fire-keeper / King
Released: February 2, 1972
Type: Movie
A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.
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Le Maître du temps
Title: Le Maître du temps
Released: October 24, 1971
Type: Movie
An alien, with the ability to travel through time, visits our planet at various eras.
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Jupiter
Title: Jupiter
Character: Hippie
Released: March 5, 1971
Type: Movie
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Paul
Title: Paul
Character: Evariste
Released: October 25, 1969
Type: Movie
Paul leaves his wealthy parents behind to go on a spiritual quest. He meets up with a pilgrim, leader of a vegetarian cult whose members survive by begging for food in uncomfortable robes. The religious fanatics draw the ire of local peasants when they are arrested for stealing eggs. Marianne is one of the followers, and she and Paul go to a remote island to live off seaweed and vegetation, but a development company moves in to wreck the paradise. Paul is brokenhearted when Mariane goes off with one of the greedy developers in this symbolic film that decries the allure of the material world.
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Les Gauloises bleues
Title: Les Gauloises bleues
Character: Ivan à 30 ans
Released: June 7, 1969
Type: Movie
The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into a shop to buy a pack of the title cigarettes. There he meets a pretty shop girl with whom he falls in love and eventually marries. It was a foolish choice, for the two cannot get along and constantly fight. Things get worse when the husband resumes his criminal activities and gets caught. The two are about to divorce when the woman gets pregnant. The time comes for their baby to be born and while sitting in the waiting room, the husband reflects upon his past activities, which are revealed via flashback.
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The Virgin's Bed
Title: The Virgin's Bed
Character: Horseman
Released: May 14, 1969
Type: Movie
30 year old child enters the new city, riding on a donkey. He says he is the Savior. He has spent no time among men. He is trembling with cold. His clothes are soaked. His mother was overprotective ; his father conspicuously absent. He knows that he must face the mockery, refusal, ignorance and blindness of the men around him. They travel in gangs, in large numbers : soldiers, mercenaries or the like, on majestic, imposing horses. Everything is out of proportion to his thin, bewildered, innocent body ; he is the madman of the new city...
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Crazy Love
Title: Crazy Love
Character: Sébastien-Pyrrhus
Released: January 15, 1969
Type: Movie
A troubled marriage is tested by the couple's involvement in a theatrical production of Racine’s Andromaque.
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Home Movie: On the Set of Philippe Garrel's 'Le lit de la vierge'
Title: Home Movie: On the Set of Philippe Garrel's 'Le lit de la vierge'
Character: Himself
Released: December 31, 1968
Type: Movie
An experimental and poetic portrait of a woman.
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Bonnot's Gang
Title: Bonnot's Gang
Character: Garnier
Released: November 1, 1968
Type: Movie
The story of a notorious French criminal gang of the 1910s.
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Birds in Peru
Title: Birds in Peru
Character: Chauffeur
Released: October 20, 1968
Type: Movie
A young woman, unsatisfied by her husband, searches for sex in the brothels of a seaside town.
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The Idols
Title: The Idols
Character: Simon le Magicien
Released: June 14, 1968
Type: Movie
This satire concerns three French singing idols and their attempt to stay in the public eye. A press conference, backstage hedonism, psychedelia, manipulative managers and disc jockeys are portrayed as the pop culture is thoroughly and effectively lampooned in this independent feature.
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The Revolution Is Only a Beginning. Let's Continue Fighting.
Title: The Revolution Is Only a Beginning. Let's Continue Fighting.
Released: May 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Half family photo album, half ciné-tract, the film was shot in Paris during the events of May ‘68 and in Rome where the actor was featuring in the film Partner by Bertolucci. Rediscovered in a basement in 1999, this silent film appears to be one of Clémenti’s most purely beautiful and concentrated works, at times recalling Brakhage and Eisenstein. - MUBI
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Weekend
Title: Weekend
Character: Le Chef du Front de Libération de la Seine et Oise
Released: December 29, 1967
Type: Movie
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
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My Love, My Love
Title: My Love, My Love
Character: Yan
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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Mamaia
Title: Mamaia
Released: May 24, 1967
Type: Movie
The morning of her wedding day, Nana visits a hairdresser's shop in Mamaia, a popular Romanian resort on the Black Sea shore. Bumping into a band of joyous rock-and-roll musicians, she's having a good time. But what with her fiancé?
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Les grands moments
Title: Les grands moments
Released: September 30, 1966
Type: Movie
Four prisoners are gathered in the same cell. Each tells the others how he got there.
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Diamond Safari
Title: Diamond Safari
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: Pitou
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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Et la femme créa l'amour
Title: Et la femme créa l'amour
Released: May 24, 1966
Type: Movie
Laurent, a young playboy, lives off his charms, maintained by wealthy women of the world. He becomes the lover of Sonia, a young woman painter, a lover at heart of course. But Sonia has a provincial friend, Clotilde. One day, Clotilde pays Bona a visit. As she has just come into a large inheritance, Laurent courts her and marries her. The young couple embark on a misguided life of easy pleasures and questionable company. Clotilde's nerves crack at this game. Among Laurent's acquaintances, François, a doctor, treats her in his clinic: sleep cure, rest, etc. Meanwhile, Laurent distracts himself with other women. But Clotilde, convalescing, refuses to resume life together. Laurent turns to his former mistress, Sonia.
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To Be a Crook
Title: To Be a Crook
Character: Jean-Pierre
Released: June 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Four young people, tired of working life, decide that they can earn money from crime than they can from work. The film follows their training at the first "crime school", as well as their work.
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Night of Lust
Title: Night of Lust
Character: Sacha Markriff
Released: November 29, 1963
Type: Movie
A French crime potboiler starring Verner and Kalfon as rival gang leaders who clash over control of the narcotics trade. Parisian drug gangs are battling over turf, leading to kidnappings, beatings, murders, betrayals, and other intrigues. Featuring Chet Baker's marvelous free-jazz Score, (rivaling Miles Davis's for "Ascenseur pour l'echafaud") and the most beautiful French Babes the World has ever seen. It pricks the Conscience, probes the libido, and excites the senses!
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Night Women
Title: Night Women
Released: January 1, 1963
Type: Movie
A mondo-movie on the theme of women, with interviews and mock reports: plastic surgery, transvestites, Victoria Nanquin stripper, divorce and jealousy, dance classes, modeling school, nude modeling, prostitution in the woods, Miss Françoise masseuse, Miss Spaghetti contest.
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Le 7ème jour de Saint-Malo
Title: Le 7ème jour de Saint-Malo
Character: The young priest
Released: April 19, 1960
Type: Movie
End of WW2 : the German officers lock all the men between 18 and 65 into the "Fort National" on an islet in Saint-Malo.