Gérard Depardieu

Gérard Depardieu

Born: December 27, 1948
in Châteauroux, Indre, France
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (born 27 December 1948) is a French actor, film-maker, businessman and vineyard owner. He is one of the most prolific character actors in film history, having completed approximately 170 movies since 1967. He has twice won the César Award for Best Actor as well as the Golden Globe award for Best Actor in Green Card. After he garnered huge critical acclaim for the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac, which landed him a nomination for an Academy Award, Depardieu acted in many big budget Hollywood movies. He is a Chevalier of the Légion d'honneur and Chevalier of the Ordre national du Mérite. He was granted citizenship of Russia in January 2013 and the same month became a cultural ambassador of Montenegro. In 2015 he left Russia declaring that he intends to give up the citizenship and to live in Belgium.

Movies for Gérard Depardieu...

Gérard Depardieu: The Fall of the Ogre
Title: Gérard Depardieu: The Fall of the Ogre
Character: Self
Released: December 7, 2023
Type: Movie
Revered French actor Gérard Depardieu, featured in over 170 film and television projects, has, in recent years, been disgraced. Countless allegations of sexual assault and abuse have brought this titan under fire.
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L'Âge d'or de la pub
Title: L'Âge d'or de la pub
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 2, 2023
Type: Movie
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Umami
Title: Umami
Character: Gabriel
Released: February 9, 2023
Type: Movie
Following a near-death experience France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flavor that has confounded his life since he was defeated by a Japanese chef's bowl of noodles as a young man.
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Title: Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 21, 2022
Type: TV
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Title: Le Late avec Alain Chabat
Released: November 21, 2022
Type: TV
Alain Chabat hosts a brand-new late show for TF1: games, fake ads, stand up, live music and interviews with all the personalities of the entertainment world!
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Title: The King’s Favorite
Character: Nostradamus
Released: November 7, 2022
Type: TV
It follows Diane de Poitiers, an emeritus huntress whose unalterable beauty fuels rumors and legends during her lifetime - and even in her death.
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The Green Shutters
Title: The Green Shutters
Character: Jules Maugin
Released: August 24, 2022
Type: Movie
The twilight of a sacred monster, Jules Maugin, an actor at the height of his glory. Beneath the famous personality, the big mouth, and the social shell, lies the intimate portrait of a man laid bare.
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Employee of the Month
Title: Employee of the Month
Character: Gérard Depardieu
Released: June 29, 2022
Type: Movie
Vincent, a civil servant, has always enjoyed the benefits of his family's status. When the government votes on a massive savings plan, Vincent is pushed out. When he is transferred to the North Pole, he meets Eva and finds love. It's time for him to choose.
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Robust
Title: Robust
Character: George
Released: March 2, 2022
Type: Movie
When his right-hand man and only mate has to go away for a few weeks, Georges - an ageing film star - is given a substitute, Aïssa. The disillusioned actor and the young female security guard forge a special relationship.
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Les Pieds dans la mayonnaise : Les Irrévérencieux des années 70
Title: Les Pieds dans la mayonnaise : Les Irrévérencieux des années 70
Character: Self - actor
Released: February 26, 2022
Type: Movie
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Maigret
Title: Maigret
Character: Jules Maigret
Released: February 23, 2022
Type: Movie
In Paris, a young girl is found dead in a Parisian square, wearing an evening dress. Commissioner Maigret will try to identify her and then understand what happened to the victim.
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Retirement Home
Title: Retirement Home
Character: Lino Vartan
Released: February 16, 2022
Type: Movie
A story of friendship between a young convict who is forced to work in a retirement home and a group of crazy old people. Together they organize their escape.
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Adieu Paris
Title: Adieu Paris
Character: Michael
Released: January 26, 2022
Type: Movie
An old Parisian bistro with eternal charm. Eight gentlemen at the table, eight great figures. They were the “kings of Paris”… National treasures, masterpieces in peril. A well-honed ritual ... A sense of humor and self-deprecation intact. Tenderness and cruelty. Eight old friends who hate and love each other. And suddenly an intruder ...
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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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Lost Illusions
Title: Lost Illusions
Character: Dauriat
Released: October 20, 2021
Type: Movie
Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he tries to stay true to his dreams.
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Sous le soleil de Pialat
Title: Sous le soleil de Pialat
Character: Self
Released: October 18, 2021
Type: Movie
In just ten films, Maurice Pialat painfully rose to the top of the cinema, draining into his legend a mad demand for truth as much as memorable fury to achieve it. With "L'Enfance nue", his first feature film at the age of 43, the filmmaker immediately made his mark, this "art of making things authentic", according to Chabrol. But throughout an unclassifiable filmography in the form of an autobiography, from a break-up to his fatherhood in wonder, through the agony of his mother, the filmmaker does not get rid of the feeling of being misunderstood, despite international recognition.
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Do You Do You Saint-Tropez
Title: Do You Do You Saint-Tropez
Character: Maurice Lefranc
Released: July 14, 2021
Type: Movie
Every summer, the Billionaire Tranchant and his wife Eliane host the glamorous world of celebrities in their luxurious mansion in the south of France. When a criminal car sabotage related to threatening letters wreak havoc in the villa, Tranchant goes in search of the best agent for the investigation. In the middle of this hot summer, only the arrogant and incompetent agent Boullin is available... To catch the suspect and solve the mystery, he will have no choice but to impersonate a newly hired butler and will turn everyone’s vacation into a hilarious game of ‘Cluedo’!
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Title: Un homme d'honneur
Character: Bruno Riva
Released: March 22, 2021
Type: TV
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Creators: The Past
Title: Creators: The Past
Character: Master of Faith
Released: October 8, 2020
Type: Movie
Where do we come from and where do we go ? The eternal question of humanity which religions have tried to answer over the centuries - lt's the end of the year 2012. The Universe is about to undergo an imposing planetary alignment and a Total Eclipse will soon be upon Planet Earth. Great vibrational changes are imminent and set to disturb us. The eight members of the Galactic Council, led by Lord Ogmha (William Shatner), meet to discuss the effects of the imminent alignment. They are 8 creators (aliens) and each one of them governs a Planet. They are each responsible for the security and well-being of a 'LENS'. Together they balance the conflict and allegiance of the Universe. Treason puts Earth in danger and the LENS, the hard disc (crystal core) containing the recording of the entire history, DNA, memories and nucleus of mankind is hidden somewhere in Italy. Everyone is searching for it. If the Lens is opened and in the wrong hands it could reveal to the human beings the shocking
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Home Front
Title: Home Front
Character: Feu-de-Bois
Released: August 31, 2020
Type: Movie
Burgundy, France. Solange's 60th birthday celebrations are violently interrupted by her estranged brother, Bernard. His outburst will reawaken painful memories and reveal untold stories of the Algerian War.
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Fahim
Title: Fahim
Character: Sylvain Charpentier
Released: October 16, 2019
Type: Movie
Fahim Mohammad, a Bangladeshi immigrant, becomes a world junior chess champion in France.
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Thalasso
Title: Thalasso
Character: Gérard Depardieu
Released: August 21, 2019
Type: Movie
Provocative French writer Michel Houellebecq meets Gérard Depardieu at a sea water therapy centre in Cabourg. Together, they try to survive the health regime to which they are subjected by the establishment. But events quickly derail their routine… Just Great is a joyful comedy elevated by two extraordinary performances.
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Crystal Frog
Title: Crystal Frog
Character: Benjamin
Released: May 10, 2019
Type: Movie
Benjamin visits Tokyo to see Miko. At her place, he finds a photo that caught his attention. It was taken at the winery 40 years ago. There are Benjamin, his deceased wife, and Miko's parents in it. Miko starts to tell a story behind it.
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André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
Title: André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
Character: Self - Actor (archive footage)
Released: April 3, 2019
Type: Movie
A walk through the career of French filmmaker André Téchiné, from his own point of view and that of those who worked with him: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, Juliette Binoche and Sandrine Kiberlain, among others.
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Wide Load
Title: Wide Load
Character: Taupin
Released: March 13, 2019
Type: Movie
This is the story of a guy who goes too fast and a big guy who is too slow. Foster meets Taupin. All this would be trivial if one of them had a scary scenario, the scenario of their lives and their deaths. Just open the pages and shake.
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To the Ends of the World
Title: To the Ends of the World
Character: Saintonge
Released: December 5, 2018
Type: Movie
Indochina, 1945. While the French are harassed by both the Japanese army and the Vietnamese rebels, private Robert Tassen, driven by the memory of a tragedy of which he is the only survivor, embarks on the search for the mysterious and cruel Võ Bình Yên, one of the leaders of the insurrection.
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Aladdin 2
Title: Aladdin 2
Character: Christophe Colomb
Released: October 3, 2018
Type: Movie
After freeing Baghdad from its terrible ruler, Aladin delays his marriage to the princess until a new dictator arrives to take over the city.
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Title: Gérard de par le Monde
Character: lui-même
Released: September 3, 2018
Type: TV
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Saving My Pig
Title: Saving My Pig
Character: Vania
Released: August 10, 2018
Type: Movie
The delicate story of the friendship between a man and a piglet, taking place in contemporary Bulgaria.
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Private Eye
Title: Private Eye
Character: Camionneur
Released: August 8, 2018
Type: Movie
At the Swiss border, a detective is responsible for investigating a woman whose whereabouts worry her husband. The spinning takes place, the night falls and the desire resurfaces.
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Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya
Title: Kadyrov, The Dictator of Chechnya
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 15, 2018
Type: Movie
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The Other Woman
Title: The Other Woman
Character: Patrick
Released: April 26, 2018
Type: Movie
When Daniel and Isabelle invite Patrick and his new flame, Emma, to dinner, it’s with some misgivings. After all, Patrick has just dumped his ex-wife — their best friend — to run off with a much younger woman. But when the ravishing Emma appears, all of Daniel’s qualms fly out of the window. He’s instantly smitten with the seductive woman...
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Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
Title: Sgt. Stubby: An American Hero
Character: Gaston Baptiste (voice)
Released: April 13, 2018
Type: Movie
The true story of the most decorated dog in American military history -- Sgt. Stubby -- and the enduring bonds he forged with his brothers-in-arms in the trenches of World War I.
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Carbone
Title: Carbone
Character: Aron Goldstein
Released: November 1, 2017
Type: Movie
In danger of losing his business, Anthony Roca, an ordinary man, develops a scam that will become the heist of the century. Overtaken by the crime, he will have to deal with betrayal, murder and settling.
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Michel Sardou – Dernier show
Title: Michel Sardou – Dernier show
Character: Self
Released: October 21, 2017
Type: Movie
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Let the Sunshine In
Title: Let the Sunshine In
Character: Clairvoyant
Released: September 27, 2017
Type: Movie
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.
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À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Title: À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Character: Self - Comédien (archive footage)
Released: September 1, 2017
Type: Movie
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Nobody's Perfect!
Title: Nobody's Perfect!
Character: Gérard, dit Bonne Pomme
Released: August 30, 2017
Type: Movie
Gerard is tired of being taken for a good apple by his beautiful family. He leaves everything and starts a garage in a village nestled at the bottom of the Gâtinais ... In front of the garage, there is a lovely inn, run by Barbara: a beautiful woman, disconcerting, mysterious, unpredictable. Their encounter will spark ...
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You Only Live Once
Title: You Only Live Once
Character: Duges
Released: June 15, 2017
Type: Movie
Leo is the wrong man in the wrong place at the wrong time. After taping a murder and keeping the evidence he runs away to stay alive and, in order to survive, he has to cover up himself. Under a new identity he will become an orthodox Hasidic Jew. A french ruthless killer, Duges and his associates López and Harken will hunt Leo. Their nonstop chase has only one exhilarating speed: all- out. Time is running out and his enemies are getting closer. Now Leo a ragtag bunch of misfits will face the biggest challenge of their lives.
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Title: Mata Hari
Character: Abbé Busoni
Released: March 20, 2017
Type: TV
A sex icon becomes a spy during one of the most important wars of the 20th century. To survive, Margaret becomes an exotic dancer after her husband leaves her. When the world stands on the edge of WWI, she becomes Mata Hari, a spy with unprecedented access to the European elite.
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French Tour
Title: French Tour
Character: Serge
Released: November 16, 2016
Type: Movie
Far’Hook is a 20-year-old rapper. Following a violent dispute with a rival, he’s forced to leave Paris for a while. His producer, Bilal, suggests that Far’Hook acts as driver for Bilal’s father, Serge, on a tour of French ports, following in the footsteps of the classic painter Joseph Vernet. Despite the age gap and culture clash, an unlikely friendship forms between this talented rapper and a bricklayer from the north of France during a road trip that concludes in Marseille for a final concert, one of reconciliation.
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Stalin's Couch
Title: Stalin's Couch
Character: Joseph Staline
Released: November 13, 2016
Type: Movie
Set in the 1950s Soviet Union, centers on a young artist who is commissioned to create Stalin's monument and must go through KGB scrutiny.
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Title: Quotidien
Character: Self
Released: September 12, 2016
Type: TV
Quotidien is a French television program presented by Yann Barthès and broadcast from September 12, 2016 on TMC.
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Title: Marseille
Character: Robert Taro
Released: May 5, 2016
Type: TV
The longtime mayor of Marseille is preparing to hand over the reins to his protégé when a sudden and ruthless battle erupts for control of the city.
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A Mighty Team
Title: A Mighty Team
Character: Jacques Belloch
Released: March 23, 2016
Type: Movie
Sadoun is France’s best soccer player whose extra-curriculum pleasures are damaging his play and new contract negotiations. Dispatched by his scheming agent to his home village, he ends up reconciling with his father, relating to his fatherless niece, who dotes on him, and training his local children’s team, whom he takes to championship glory.
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Saint Amour
Title: Saint Amour
Character: Jean
Released: March 2, 2016
Type: Movie
Every year, Bruno makes a tour of all the wine stands, without setting foot outside the Show’s premises and without ever finishing his wine trail. This year, his father suggests they finish it together, but a real wine trail, across the French countryside. Accompanied by Mike, a young, quirky taxi driver, they set off in the direction of France’s major wine regions. Together, they are going to discover not only the wine trails, but also the road that leads back to Love.
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The End
Title: The End
Character: L'homme
Released: February 14, 2016
Type: Movie
Depardieu plays an unnamed hunter and we join him and his dog as they depart for a nearby forest to snare some rabbits - or perhaps he's hunting for something far more elusive? His excursion soon progresses from carefree meandering to a palpable sense of placelessness and it doesn't take long before the hunter's dog disappears and he finds himself lost.
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Rhapsody
Title: Rhapsody
Character: Gérard
Released: February 6, 2016
Type: Movie
A lonely 60-year-old man lives in a small apartment on the top floor of a tower. Every day, a young woman entrusts her baby to him. A natural and unusual bond unites these two beings, one solid and sturdy, the other small and delicate.
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Le Rustre et le Juge
Title: Le Rustre et le Juge
Character: Charpentevich
Released: November 29, 2015
Type: Movie
An obnoxious man ends up in court facing a familiar judge after a dispute over archery.
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Agafia
Title: Agafia
Character: Savka
Released: November 29, 2015
Type: Movie
A local hobo carries a strange attraction for the women of a village, including the train conductor's wife Agafia.
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Le Magicien et les Siamois
Title: Le Magicien et les Siamois
Character: Borach
Released: November 29, 2015
Type: Movie
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Title: Bon appetit: Gérard Depardieu's Europe
Character: Himself
Released: October 12, 2015
Type: TV
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Title: Capitaine Marleau
Character: Philippe Muir
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: TV
Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.
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Valley of Love
Title: Valley of Love
Character: Gérard
Released: June 17, 2015
Type: Movie
A story of two famous actors who used to be a couple. They reunite after the son's death and receive a letter asking them to visit five places at Death Valley, which will make the son reappear.
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Fifty Shades of Erotica
Title: Fifty Shades of Erotica
Released: April 13, 2015
Type: Movie
Before Fifty Shades of Grey and beyond the limits of desire, Nucleus Films draw back the veil on Fifty Shades of Erotica. Now, in the privacy of your own home and as a consenting adult, you can succumb to trailers from carnal classics like The Libertine, Story of O, Venus In Furs, Cruel Passion, Gwendoline, Education Anglaise, Dressage and many, many more as you enter the timeless world of fetishistic fantasy, deviant desires and pulsating pleasure! Submit yourself to the salacious sensations and cruel caresses of this mind-blowing collection of curated carnality, the rare and raunchy, re-mastered from the finest available materials. So, lie back, relax and prepare to enter the sensual world of Fifty Shades of Erotica...
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Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes
Title: Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes
Character: He (segment 'Two, Deux')
Released: November 20, 2014
Type: Movie
Eleven comedic vignettes featuring conversations – some important, some less so – held in restaurants over coffee and cigarettes (how quickly time flies – cigarettes are banned in Russia’s restaurants now). The conversations are candid, and even veer into the territory of murder. In the final credits, the director apologizes to Jim Jarmusch, whose work (in the anthology Coffee and Cigarettes, which Jarmusch shot in pieces over many years) Oldenburg-Svintsov is clearly indebted to. Sex, Coffee, Cigarettes’s kinship with Jarmusch’s film extends to the fact that superstars play tiny roles in almost all of the vignettes.
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Viktor
Title: Viktor
Character: Victor Lambert
Released: September 4, 2014
Type: Movie
After spending seven years in jail for an art heist, Frenchman Victor Lambert returns to Moscow to uncover the circumstances behind his son Jeremy's brutal murder. He is backed by his lover Alexandra, and by his ex-partner-in-crime, choreographer Souliman.
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Welcome to New York
Title: Welcome to New York
Character: Devereaux
Released: August 7, 2014
Type: Movie
George Devereaux, a prominent French politician, lives a life of debauchery, until he is arrested in New York for sexually assaulting a hotel maid.
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The Term. Beginning of a Big Story
Title: The Term. Beginning of a Big Story
Character: Himself (archival footage) (uncredited)
Released: July 9, 2014
Type: Movie
The documentary project The Term was conceived in May 2012. When the directing trio commenced mapping the Russian sociopolitical landscape, Vladimir Putin had just settled into the Kremlin for his third term. The original experimental format of “documentary bulletins,” which were published daily online, allowed for wide-ranging content; in the feature film version, however, the filmmakers focused solely on the members of various opposition groups. Nevertheless, the work’s neutral position remains and viewers have to interpret the objectively presented situations for themselves. The main characteristics of this strongly authentic movie include close contact with the protagonists, precise editing, and an effectively controlled release of information.
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Duras and Cinema
Title: Duras and Cinema
Character: Self [archive footage]
Released: July 3, 2014
Type: Movie
Documentary on famous writer Marguerite Duras and her paradoxical relation to the seventh art by her former film editor.
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United Passions
Title: United Passions
Character: Jules Rimet
Released: June 19, 2014
Type: Movie
An epic, untold story that brings to life the inspiring saga of the World Cup and the three determined men who created it. Driven by their vision and passion, three men, overcame their doubts and fought obstacles and scandals to make the World Cup a reality. Spanning the tumultuous 20th Century, this timeless saga celebrates the event that became the most popular sporting event in the world.
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La voix des steppes
Title: La voix des steppes
Character: Anatole
Released: May 14, 2014
Type: Movie
A little boy Anatole lives in 1960s in the steppe in Kazakhstan with his parents-archaeologists. One day he witnesses the accidental death of his brother, this drama traumatizes the boy so much that he loses his ability to speak. Once he meets an old Kazakh who will teach him to hear again the world around him and will teach him how to speak again. The whole life of Anatole depends from now on from his ability to hear. His ear connects him to the world. 50 years later, the steppe calls him again.
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Retour au Caucase: Gérard Depardieu dans les pas d'Alexandre Dumas
Title: Retour au Caucase: Gérard Depardieu dans les pas d'Alexandre Dumas
Character: Himself
Released: May 4, 2014
Type: Movie
Gérard Depardieu following the steps of Alexandre Dumas in Caucasus.
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Obsessive Rythms
Title: Obsessive Rythms
Character: Père Villedieu
Released: January 8, 2014
Type: Movie
On the night of New Year's Eve, a small group penetrates into the room of an old hotel in ruins. Carmine, the oldest of the group, poses a challenge to one of the men, Furio: he has 4 months to restore the hotel and inaugurate it with great pomp. Aware of the difficulties but anxious to prove the point, Furio accepts encouraged by his wife Margo who believes that this assignment will allow the couple to rediscover the lost momentum.
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The World Petanque Tour
Title: The World Petanque Tour
Character: Jacky
Released: September 18, 2013
Type: Movie
Momo has one dream buried for years: become a petanque champion. When an international tournament is announced, he drops his ordinary life to win the first prize and fulfill his dreams.
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Miserere
Title: Miserere
Character: Lionel Kasdan
Released: June 26, 2013
Type: Movie
Paris, December. A conductor of a choir is found mysteriously murdered, with burst eardrums. Lionel Kasdan, a police inspertor the verge of retirement, and Frank Salek, an official of Interpol, embark together on a hunt for the killer, and also to a secret organization specializing in kidnapping children.
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Nothing Can Stop Us Now
Title: Nothing Can Stop Us Now
Character: Henry
Released: June 13, 2013
Type: Movie
The training trip of 4 "special" boys, one narcoleptic, one internet-dependent, one suffering from Tourette's Syndrome and one obsessed with hygiene towards self-affirmation and acceptance of one's differences.
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A Farewell to Fools
Title: A Farewell to Fools
Character: Ipu
Released: March 15, 2013
Type: Movie
Set during World War II, somewhere in Eastern Europe. A German soldier is found dead near the village. The local authorities must find the culprit, or they will be all shot by the Nazis the morning after. There's no way to find the guilty one, but there's Ipu, the madman of the village, whom they promise a hero's funeral if he will claims responsibility and agrees to die in their place. He must decide, and time is running out.
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Turf
Title: Turf
Character: Monsieur Paul
Released: February 13, 2013
Type: Movie
This is the story of four French friends: the Greek (an osteopath), Fifi (who lives with his mother), Fortuné (a West Indian) and Freddy (a gambler). They meet up regularly at a Parisian bookmakers’, their favourite haunt. Tired of frittering away the little spare cash they have, they agree to give up gambling. But no sooner have they taken this pledge than Fate intervenes, in the guise of the turf king, Monsieur Paul. The latter persuades the four friends to buy a champion racehorse, not knowing that it is in fact an old nag…
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The Man Who Laughs
Title: The Man Who Laughs
Character: Ursus
Released: December 26, 2012
Type: Movie
During a winter storm, Ursus offers shelter to two orphans, Gwynplaine and Déa; some years later, they are still living together. Gwynplaine has become a famous star, but his success threatens his relationships with Déa and Ursus.
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Life of Pi
Title: Life of Pi
Character: Cook
Released: November 20, 2012
Type: Movie
The story of an Indian boy named Pi, a zookeeper's son who finds himself in the company of a hyena, zebra, orangutan, and a Bengal tiger after a shipwreck sets them adrift in the Pacific Ocean.
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Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
Title: Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
Character: Obélix
Released: October 17, 2012
Type: Movie
Asterix crosses the channel to help second-cousin Anticlimax face down Julius Caesar and invading Romans.
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Frank-Etienne Towards Beatitude
Title: Frank-Etienne Towards Beatitude
Character: Frank-Étienne Boulard
Released: September 7, 2012
Type: Movie
Frank-Étienne is a door-to-door salesman on a mission to sell empty boxes in the middle of nowhere. Things go awry when he meets a young woman who is determined to take advantage of his kindness and his car. Unable to resist her, Frank-Étienne finds himself in an increasingly absurd situation with the woman, her lover, and his dog.
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My Sinful Angel
Title: My Sinful Angel
Released: August 1, 2012
Type: Movie
The hardships encountered by Aisha, a young Kazakh singer, whose dream is to sing in Paris.
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The Big Night
Title: The Big Night
Character: Juvénal
Released: June 6, 2012
Type: Movie
An ageing punk-with-a-dog and his brother the conformist decide to get their revenge on a shopping mall. Directing duo Benoit Delepine and Gustave Kervern, longstanding comic crusaders against capitalism, again set out to surprise and shock the bourgeois audience.
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Rasputin
Title: Rasputin
Character: Grigori Raspoutine
Released: December 30, 2011
Type: Movie
A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin.
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Fucking Kassovitz
Title: Fucking Kassovitz
Character: Self
Released: November 16, 2011
Type: Movie
A making-of of the chaotic production of Mathieu Kassovitz's Babylon A.D. (2008).
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Glenn, the Flying Robot
Title: Glenn, the Flying Robot
Character: TV reporter
Released: July 5, 2011
Type: Movie
Henry and Jack are two famous and talented pianists: they are rivals and try to outdo each other in the various music events where they regularly compete. The former friends will clash with no mercy, from contest to contest until the day a domestic robot, GLENN, enters their lives. GLENN will jeopardize everybody and everything around them.
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Title: Klein gegen Groß - Das unglaubliche Duell
Character: Self
Released: June 11, 2011
Type: TV
Klein gegen Groß – Das unglaubliche Duell is a family game show that has been broadcast on the first channel since 2011, on ORF 1 since March 2017 and on SRF 1 since November 2020. The format is produced by i&u TV. Kai Pflaume acts as host and moderator.
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A Butterfly Kiss
Title: A Butterfly Kiss
Character: le médecin de Manon
Released: June 1, 2011
Type: Movie
Billie and Louis have the good fortune of loving each other passionately and of having a family. But then one day terrible news turns their existence and that of their friends' upside down. Marie, a famous actress who is Billie's friend and confidant, redoubles her determination to give life, while Alice, her nurse, fighting for freedom, maintains that life 'is here and now and in the moment.' A film about love, hope, and the conviction that the force of life, despite the toughest tests, will always gain the upper hand.
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A Frog in Winter
Title: A Frog in Winter
Character: Benjamin
Released: May 12, 2011
Type: Movie
Benjamin's wife died in his arms after a long fight against a disease. He can't take suicide off his mind but a young Japanese woman will help him though his mourning.
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Small World
Title: Small World
Character: Conrad Lang
Released: December 16, 2010
Type: Movie
Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big holiday house he keeps. He returns to the town he grew up in, to the family home, where Philippe, Thomas's son, and Simone are getting married. Conrad's frequent memory loss and behavioural problems rapidly reveal a neurological disease (Alzheimer's is suggested by doctor Cohen when he examens Elvira) which leads Elvira, Thomas's stepmother, to install Conrad in a guesthouse on the property, with the help of a nurse. When Conrad looses more and more his landmarks in present and past, memories of his youth come back to surface. They intrigue Simone, since these memories do not entirely fit together with the official family history...
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Trophy Wife
Title: Trophy Wife
Character: Maurice Babin
Released: November 10, 2010
Type: Movie
In 1977 France, tightfisted factory owner Robert Pujol is so shocked when his workers strike for higher wages that he suffers a heart attack. His acquiescent wife, Suzanne, whose father had founded the factory, takes over management duties during Robert's convalescence.
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Late Love
Title: Late Love
Character: Gueorgui
Released: September 22, 2010
Type: Movie
In the center of the plot are three friends, three old men who swore in the name of the happiness of their friend Kaltay to marry him, no matter what. They do not suspect that soon they will have to get into the whirlpool of incredible, but fun adventures. Especially since love is the cause of everything.
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My Afternoons with Margueritte
Title: My Afternoons with Margueritte
Character: Germain
Released: June 2, 2010
Type: Movie
An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.
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Mammuth
Title: Mammuth
Character: Serge Pilardosse, dit Mammuth
Released: April 21, 2010
Type: Movie
Serge Pilardosse has just turned 60. He has worked since the age of 16, never unemployed, never sick. But the hour of retirement has come, and it is disillusionment: he is missing points, some employers having forgotten to declare it! Pushed by Catherine, his wife, he gets on his old motorcycle from the 70s, a "Mammut" which earned him his nickname, and sets off in search of his pay slips. During his journey, he rediscovers his past and his quest for administrative documents soon becomes incidental...
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Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
Title: Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 11, 2010
Type: Movie
Catherine Deneuve couldn’t care less about being a celebrity, but fame made her an icon long ago and she occupies a special place in our imagination. The star is not one to let others get too close, but when she gives you her confidence, she keeps her word. If Deneuve’s career covers a half-century of cinema, it also bears witness to the force of a generation that experienced the deepest transformation of mores. This portrait reflects her entirely. The story of a mystery and an adventure.
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The Great Restaurant
Title: The Great Restaurant
Character: Gérard - un client du restaurant
Released: February 20, 2010
Type: Movie
Fragments of the lives of the customers of a great restaurant and the inconvenience of its manager.
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The Other Dumas
Title: The Other Dumas
Character: Alexandre Dumas
Released: February 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Alexandre Dumas, at the height of his career, takes Auguste Maquet, his chief literary collaborator or 'ghost writer' ten years his junior, to meet a young unknown admirer, Charlotte Desrives. The two men are at the summit of their artistic collaboration for they have just published "The Count of Monte Christo", "Queen Margot" and "The Three Musketeers". If it's Maquet who writes the majority of the texts, both the honours and fame go to Dumas.
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Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
Title: Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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In the Beginning
Title: In the Beginning
Character: Abel
Released: November 11, 2009
Type: Movie
France, present day. A professional conman passes himself off as the boss of a construction site building a highway extension. He cons the whole region, hires dozens of workers and cynically enjoys the profits of his scam until he meets the lady mayor of a small village that the road will go through. She intrigues and unsettles him, before revealing to him a world he never knew: feelings. How far will he go now to save his victims and save himself from his own lies?
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Coco
Title: Coco
Character: Le cardiologue
Released: July 21, 2009
Type: Movie
Coco is a French comedy released in 2009 and produced by Gad Elmaleh. This is the first embodiment of the actor, adapted from a sketch in the show La Vie Normale. Coco talks about organizing a Bar Mitzvah.
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Gérard Depardieu, blessures secrètes
Title: Gérard Depardieu, blessures secrètes
Character: Gérard Depardieu
Released: July 1, 2009
Type: Movie
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Diamond 13
Title: Diamond 13
Character: Mat
Released: June 21, 2009
Type: Movie
A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city's biggest drug traffickers.
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Bellamy
Title: Bellamy
Character: Paul Bellamy
Released: February 25, 2009
Type: Movie
A well known Parisian inspector becomes involved in an investigation while on holiday.
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L'Abolition
Title: L'Abolition
Character: Henry Torrès
Released: January 27, 2009
Type: Movie
The story of Robert Badinter who was the major architect of the abolition of the death penalty in France .
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The Beaches of Agnès
Title: The Beaches of Agnès
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 17, 2008
Type: Movie
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on herself with this unique autobiographical documentary. Composed of film excerpts and elaborate dramatic re-creations, Varda's self-portrait recounts the highs and lows of her professional career, the many friendships that affected her life and her longtime marriage to cinematic giant Jacques Demy.
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Trouble at Timpetill
Title: Trouble at Timpetill
Character: Le général Igor
Released: December 17, 2008
Type: Movie
The children of a small European mountain village end up being its only residents, soon after the adults cannot take their behavior any longer.
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Hello Goodbye
Title: Hello Goodbye
Character: Alain Gaash
Released: November 26, 2008
Type: Movie
French film icons Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant star in this romantic comedy about a Parisian couple in their fifties who share a comfortable life, a beautiful home, a posh country club and a midlife crisis. Following a dream vacation to Israel where Alain (Depardieu) explores his Jewish roots, Gisèle (Ardant) insists they change their life and move to Tel Aviv. While Gisèle, a Jewish convert, finds her new life inspiring; Alain fights to embrace Hebrew, Jewish tradition and a new circumcision. Will Alain and Gisèle learn whether Shalom represents Hello or Goodbye?
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Final Arrangements
Title: Final Arrangements
Character: Hugo
Released: November 5, 2008
Type: Movie
An American funeral director is recruited to a job in Paris.
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Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Title: Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Character: Guido
Released: October 22, 2008
Type: Movie
Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder.
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Babylon A.D.
Title: Babylon A.D.
Character: Gorsky
Released: August 20, 2008
Type: Movie
A veteran-turned-mercenary is hired to take a young woman with a secret from post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe to New York City.
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The Easy Way
Title: The Easy Way
Character: Le chef
Released: April 16, 2008
Type: Movie
Albert Spaggiari is arrested in Nice and brought to a judge's office for interrogation, but he escapes to South America where he meets a journalist who is investigating the event.
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Disco
Title: Disco
Character: Jean-François Jackson
Released: April 2, 2008
Type: Movie
Didier Travolta is a 40-year-old disco music fan who has no job, lives with his mother, and has a son he hasn't seen for a while. The mother of his son refuses to send him their son for the holidays unless he can offer him a real vacation, not just going to bars of the French port city of Le Havre. Penniless, the only way he can see his son is by winning a dance contest organized by his friend Jackson, with the prize of a vacation to Australia for two.
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Kings Can Do Everything
Title: Kings Can Do Everything
Released: March 6, 2008
Type: Movie
On a visit to Russia, a young princess escapes her handlers for an adventure in the city.
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Asterix at the Olympic Games
Title: Asterix at the Olympic Games
Character: Obélix
Released: January 30, 2008
Type: Movie
Astérix and Obélix have to win the Olympic Games in order to help their friend Alafolix marry Princess Irina. Brutus uses every trick in the book to have his own team win the game, and get rid of his father Julius Caesar in the process.
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L'abbuffata
Title: L'abbuffata
Character: Gérard Depardieu
Released: November 16, 2007
Type: Movie
A pair of Italian filmmakers go to Rome to find a star for their first project.
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Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
Title: Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
Character: Himself
Released: September 6, 2007
Type: Movie
The documentary focuses on Marco Ferreri and shows an unconventional man, extreme, provocative in ways, always a step ahead in its work, and often considered a visionary and experimental. The documentary honors the memory of a filmmaker too soon forgot that left an indelible mark in the seventh art.
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Lebo, l'ombre et la lumière
Title: Lebo, l'ombre et la lumière
Released: May 29, 2007
Type: Movie
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Michou d'Auber
Title: Michou d'Auber
Character: Georges
Released: February 28, 2007
Type: Movie
Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the factory, can't look after him, so decides to put him and his older brother Abdel in foster care. Sent to the countryside, Abdel has to work on a farm, but Messaoud is taken in by a childless woman, who conceals his Arab origins from her fiercely Gaullist ex-army husband. Re-named Michel/Michou, and with his hair comically dyed blond, the young boy quickly steals the hearts of both foster-parents, and eventually is instrumental in saving their troubled marriage.
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Title: The Graham Norton Show
Character: Self
Released: February 22, 2007
Type: TV
Each week celebrity guests join Irish comedian Graham Norton to discuss what's being going on around the world that week. The guests poke fun and share their opinions on the main news stories. Graham is often joined by a band or artist to play the show out.
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La Vie en Rose
Title: La Vie en Rose
Character: Louis Leplée
Released: February 14, 2007
Type: Movie
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her grandmother's brothel, Piaf was discovered in 1935 by nightclub owner Louis Leplee, who persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness. Piaf became one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the indelible signatures of the 20th century.
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The Singer
Title: The Singer
Character: Alain Moreau
Released: September 13, 2006
Type: Movie
Alain Moreau sings for one of the few remaining dance-bands in Clermont-Ferrand. Though something of an idol amongst his female audience he has a melancholic awareness of the slow disappearance of that audience and of his advancing years. He is completely knocked off balance when he meets strikingly attractive and much younger businesswoman Marion. She seems distant and apparently otherwise involved but soon shows quiet signs of reciprocating his interest.
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Journey of the Dissidents
Title: Journey of the Dissidents
Character: Narrator
Released: July 2, 2006
Type: Movie
The forgotten history of "dissidents", the men and women of Martinique and Guadeloupe who left their islands between 1940 and 1943. The film features interviews with those in the resistance who tell their stories with passion, humility and humor.
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Paris Je T'aime
Title: Paris Je T'aime
Character: Le patron (Quartier Latin)
Released: June 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
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Last Holiday
Title: Last Holiday
Character: Chef Didier
Released: January 13, 2006
Type: Movie
The discovery that she has a terminal illness prompts introverted department store saleswoman Georgia Byrd to reflect on what she realizes has been an overly cautious life. With weeks to live, she withdraws her life savings, sells all her possessions and jets off to Europe where she lives it up at a posh hotel. Upbeat and passionate, Georgia charms everybody she meets, including renowned Chef Didier. The only one missing from her new life is her longtime crush Sean Matthews.
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Olé !
Title: Olé !
Character: François Veber
Released: December 7, 2005
Type: Movie
Ramon Holgado is the driver of a big boss, as well as his confidant, his golf partner, and the alibi of his escapades. His wife, Carmen, dreams of returning to sunny Andalusia.
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Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
Title: Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
Character: Self
Released: December 7, 2005
Type: Movie
This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre Richard, improbable synthesis of the talking ant silent films, heir to Buster Keaton for the gestural one and the expression of the body, and to Groucho Marx for the puns and the burlesque verbal one. Conceived like a voyage inside the universe of Pierre Richard, "the Art of unsteadiness" makes it possible to better understand its step, its method of actor, director and gag man. With through many testimonies, extracts of films and archives documents, drawn up here the portrait of one of the large last burlesques.
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Title: The Accursed Kings
Character: Jacques de Molay
Released: November 7, 2005
Type: TV
A sequence of seven episodes detailing the French monarchy.
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How Much Do You Love Me?
Title: How Much Do You Love Me?
Character: Charly
Released: October 26, 2005
Type: Movie
After winning the lottery, François goes to a bar in Pigalle and offers one hundred thousand Euros per month to a prostitute named Daniela to live with him as his wife until his money runs out.
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Boudu
Title: Boudu
Character: Boudu
Released: March 9, 2005
Type: Movie
A modern remake of Renoir's classic film. Aix-en-Provence, a spring night. Christian Lespinglet, an over-indebted gallery owner, rescues a homeless man, Boudu, from the waters of a canal who was trying to drown himself. Heroic to his detriment, he brings him home, for a few hours only... The incongruous arrival of Boudu will act like a mad dog in the game of skittles that is Christian's life...
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Let's Be Friends
Title: Let's Be Friends
Character: Serge
Released: February 23, 2005
Type: Movie
The two friends Claude and Serge are fundamentally different in their temperament. Similarities arise only when they try to have a relationship with a woman, because both fail equally. While Claude is simply too shy to even start a relationship, let alone meet a woman, Serge is too jumpy to have a relationship. Together they go in search of the great love in all sorts of curious situations, from the self-help group on speed dating to wedding celebrations of strangers - in the hunt for the right woman, they are no way too far.
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La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre
Title: La vie de Michel Muller est plus belle que la vôtre
Character: Gérard Depardieu
Released: January 25, 2005
Type: Movie
A documentary crew follow a minor TV star with a giant ego in is everyday life.
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Changing Times
Title: Changing Times
Character: Antoine Lavau
Released: December 8, 2004
Type: Movie
In Tangiers where he traveled for his work, a man finds the woman he loved, and attempts to revive their romance though it ended some 30 years earlier.
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Volpone
Title: Volpone
Character: Volpone
Released: December 1, 2004
Type: Movie
A version of Ben Johnson's play: A Venetian swindler goes from town to town pretending to be a dying millionaire in order to attract (and dispose of) greedy "friends".
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36th Precinct
Title: 36th Precinct
Character: Denis Klein
Released: November 24, 2004
Type: Movie
The film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of chief of police while in the middle of a search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, which is taken in part from real facts that happened during the 1980s in France.
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Battle of the Brave
Title: Battle of the Brave
Character: Father Thomas Blondeau
Released: November 19, 2004
Type: Movie
In the mid-18th Century, as England and France battle over control of Canada, an epic romance between a peasant woman and a trapper unfurls
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San Antonio
Title: San Antonio
Character: l'inspecteur Bérurier
Released: July 21, 2004
Type: Movie
While a terrorist epidemy strikes the world leaders, the commissaire San-Antonio and his partner, the lieutenant Bérurier, have to escort the French ambassador in a British hotel. But after a negligence of Bérurier (one more little sex affair...), San-Antonio witnessed, helpless, to the ambassador's abduction, organized by a gorgeous Italian girl. Back to Paris, San-Antonio is dismissed by the police chief, Achille Hachille. A real godsend for Bérurier, who get promoted... But soon, the situation degenerates, when the president of the Republic mysteriously disappears. Immediate reaction from Police Minister : San-Antonio is the only one who can save the day. He has 48 hours and a secret squad to find the president. At the Elysée, San-Antonio finds Bérurier, the official investigator. But now, it's every man for himself : who will be the first to find the President ?
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Title: The Lady Musketeer
Character: Cardinal Mazarin
Released: June 20, 2004
Type: TV
When the bride-to-be of King Louis XIV is kidnapped, the sons of the original three musketeers rally to rescue her. Much to their surprise, a fourth musketeer joins the fray. And this brilliant swordsman—the most gifted of the lot—turns out to be D'Artagnan's daughter.
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RRRrrrr!!!
Title: RRRrrrr!!!
Character: Le chef des Cheveux Sales
Released: January 28, 2004
Type: Movie
In 35,000 BC, the tribe of the Dirty Hairs is at war against the tribe of the Clean Hairs for eight hundred years, trying to get their shampoo. The chief of the Dirty Hairs sends his daughter Guy disguised to the enemy tribe to get some shampoo for his tribe. When the healer of the Clean Hairs tribe surprisingly kills two cavemen of his tribe, their imbecile chief assigns Pierre with curled hair and Pierre blonde to investigate the murder and find the criminal.
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The Car Keys
Title: The Car Keys
Character: Le fromager
Released: December 10, 2003
Type: Movie
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
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Ruby & Quentin
Title: Ruby & Quentin
Character: Quentin
Released: October 22, 2003
Type: Movie
After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, Ruby, a brooding outlaw encounters Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant who befriends him. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy Quentin Ruby is forced to take him along as he pursues his former partners in crime to avenge the death of the woman he loved and get to the money.
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Nathalie...
Title: Nathalie...
Character: Bernard
Released: September 11, 2003
Type: Movie
Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hoping to learn more about his extramarital activities, Catherine heads to a strip club, where she hires call girl Nathalie to have a fling with Gerard. As the affair progresses, Nathalie gives Catherine regular status reports, and the relationship between the women evolves from business to personal.
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Bon Voyage
Title: Bon Voyage
Character: Jean-Étienne Beaufort
Released: April 16, 2003
Type: Movie
On the eve of World War II four Parisians cope with the impending invasion of their city by German forces. While the French government braces for impact, the intersected lives of a young writer, a vain movie star, a French politician and a young scientist are examined as they attempt to deal with war and evade German spies.
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Crime Spree
Title: Crime Spree
Character: Daniel Foray
Released: April 16, 2003
Type: Movie
An out-of-town heist becomes a nightmare for a crew of French burglars when they mistakenly rob the head of the Chicago mafia. Unaccustomed to the ways of the American underworld, it is not long before they have the mafia, the FBI and a couple of street gangs on their backs as they attempt to make their way back to Paris.
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The Pact of Silence
Title: The Pact of Silence
Character: Joachim
Released: March 5, 2003
Type: Movie
Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalist Carmelite in a Brazilian convent, and Gaëlle has been in prison for a heinous crime. Sarah comes to the attention of Fr. Joachim, a priest and physician; he can find no cause for her debilitating abdominal pain. When Sarah and he are transferred to Paris, Joachim looks for Gaëlle, now on probation and finding no respite from society's approbation. An enterprising reporter is digging into Gaëlle's life, the mother superior of Sarah's convent hovers over her, and Joachim investigates the phenomenon of twin's symmetry. Is there any release from the past?
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A Loving Father
Title: A Loving Father
Character: Léo Shepherd
Released: November 13, 2002
Type: Movie
Writer Léo Shepherd lives in rural France together with his daughter Virginia, who manages his affairs. One day Virginia gets a call from the Swedish Academy. Léo has won the Nobel Prize for Literature. His estranged son Paul tries desperately to contact him, but is denied every time by his sister. When Léo starts traveling to the ceremony in Stockholm by motor bike, Paul decides to follow him and try to speak to him. Clearly Léo doesn't want to be followed, starts speeding and gets involved in a accident, but isn't badly hurt. The police confuse another motorist for Shepherd and announce his death. Paul, driven by his childhood experiences, decides to kidnap his father.
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Ruy Blas
Title: Ruy Blas
Character: Don Salluste
Released: October 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Chased out of the Spanish court, a nobleman uses the services of his valet to take revenge. He orders him to seduce the queen in order to better compromise her.
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Title: Napoleon
Character: Joseph Fouché
Released: October 7, 2002
Type: TV
A masterful soldier, tactician and statesmen, Napoleon Bonaparte's courage and love for his country sees him rise from an unpaid general consumed with ambition to the most powerful man in Europe, then his fall, and exile.
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Blanche
Title: Blanche
Character: D'Artagnan
Released: September 18, 2002
Type: Movie
In 17th century France, cardinal Mazarin's death squad kills young Blanche's parents. She grows up to become a thief and steels a substance called Powder of the Devil and a coded letter that were sent to cardinal Mazarin. He is furious.
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City of Ghosts
Title: City of Ghosts
Character: Emile
Released: September 10, 2002
Type: Movie
A con man who is on the run from law enforcement in the U.S. travels to Cambodia to collect his share in an insurance scam but discovers more than he bargained for.
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Between Strangers
Title: Between Strangers
Character: Max
Released: August 30, 2002
Type: Movie
Three women confront their pasts which changes their futures.
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How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
Title: How we made Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
Character: Self
Released: August 28, 2002
Type: Movie
Behind the scenes of Chabat's take on Asterix.
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Title: Sucré salé
Character: Self
Released: June 3, 2002
Type: TV
Patrice Bélanger and his team are here to give Quebecers a little boost to their lives with this show where fun and pleasure prevail. With a front row seat to events happening across the province, the show is the reference for summer culture. Above and beyond the artists featured, the show puts our entire province in the spotlight.
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I Am Dina
Title: I Am Dina
Character: Jacob
Released: March 8, 2002
Type: Movie
In Northern Norway during the 1860s, a little girl named Dina accidentally causes her mother's death. Overcome with grief, her father refuses to raise her, leaving her in the care of the household servants. Dina grows up wild and unmanageable, with her only friend being the stable boy, Tomas. She summons her mother's ghost and develops a strange fascination with death as well as a passion for living.
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Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
Title: Asterix & Obelix: Mission Cleopatra
Character: Obélix
Released: January 30, 2002
Type: Movie
The Egyptian Queen Cleopatra bets against the Roman Emperor, Julius Caesar, that her people are still great, even if the times of the Pharaohs has long passed. She vows (against all logic) to build a new palace for Caesar within three months. Since all her architects are either busy otherwise or too conservative in style, this ambivalent honor falls to Edifis. He is to build the palace and be covered in gold or, if not, his fate is to be eaten by crocodiles. Edifis calls upon an old friend to help him out: The fabulous Druid Getafix from Gaul, who brews a fantastic potion that gives supernatural strength. In order to help and protect the old Druid, Asterix and Obelix accompany him on his journey to Egypt. When Julius Caesar gets wind of the project succeeding, he has the building site attacked by his troops in order to win the bet and not lose face. But just like the local pirates, he hasn't counted on Asterix and Obelix.
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Streghe verso nord
Title: Streghe verso nord
Character: Self
Released: November 15, 2001
Type: Movie
In a world parallel to ours, things and people have supernatural powers. Witches exist, they are beautiful and attractive and try to do their 'work' to the fullest.
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Title: Friday Night with Jonathan Ross
Character: Self
Released: November 2, 2001
Type: TV
Jonathan Ross's take on current topics of conversation, guest interviews and live music from both a guest music group and the house band.
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Vidocq
Title: Vidocq
Character: Vidocq
Released: September 18, 2001
Type: Movie
Paris, 1830. In the heart of the town, Vidocq, a famous detective, disappears as he fights the Alchemist, an assassin that he has been pursuing for a few months. His young biographer, Etienne Boisset, decides to avenge Vidocq's death and takes the investigation on...
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CQ
Title: CQ
Character: Andrezej
Released: May 12, 2001
Type: Movie
A young filmmaker in 1960s Paris juggles directing a cheesy sci-fi debacle, directing his own personal art film, coping with his crumbling relationship with his girlfriend, and a new-found infatuation with the sci-fi film's starlet.
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Unfair Competition
Title: Unfair Competition
Character: Professor Angelo
Released: February 23, 2001
Type: Movie
Two linen fabric dealers with their shops close to one another, battle against each other for more and more costumers. Umberto constantly loses clients because of the tough competition brought by Leone, who offers the best prices in the neighborhood. But they leave differences aside when the rise of Fascism places Anti-Semitic politics which rigidly control business like the one conducted by the Jewish Leone, and those new regulations are viewed by Umberto as completely unfair. The long rivalry soon becomes a great friendship.
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The Closet
Title: The Closet
Character: Félix Santini
Released: January 17, 2001
Type: Movie
A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.
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The Envy of Gods
Title: The Envy of Gods
Character: Bernard
Released: October 15, 2000
Type: Movie
Sonia is a television editor, she is married to successful Soviet writer Sergey and they have a son in a high school. Their life was almost perfect... until the moment they meet Bernard from France and his translator André.
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102 Dalmatians
Title: 102 Dalmatians
Character: Jean Pierre Le Pelt
Released: October 7, 2000
Type: Movie
Get ready for a howling good time as an all new assortment of irresistible animal heroes are unleashed in this great family tail! In an unlikely alliance, the outrageous Waddlesworth - a parrot who thinks he's a Rottweiler - teams up with Oddball - an un-marked Dalmatian puppy eager to earn her spots! Together they embark on a laugh-packed quest to outwit the ever-scheming Cruella De Vil.
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Bérénice
Title: Bérénice
Character: Titus
Released: September 12, 2000
Type: Movie
An adaptation of Jean Racine's tragedy which depicts the thwarted loves of Antiochus, Titus (the future emperor of Rome) and Berenice (the queen of Palestine).
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Title: Les Misérables
Character: Jean Valjean
Released: September 4, 2000
Type: TV
Set against the background of the French Revolution and based on Victor Hugo's classic novel this is the story of Jean Valjean who is sent to prison for stealing a loaf of bread and is released after nineteen years. He meets and cares for a beautiful but poverty-stricken young girl named Fantine who has daughter Cosette. After Fantine's death Valjean brings Cosette up but he is haunted by Javert - a policeman whose search for Valjean has become an obsession.
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Vatel
Title: Vatel
Character: Francois Vatel
Released: May 1, 2000
Type: Movie
In 1671, with war brewing with Holland, a penniless prince invites Louis XIV to three days of festivities at a chateau in Chantilly. The prince wants a commission as a general, so the extravagances are to impress the king. In charge of all is the steward, Vatel, a man of honor, talent, and low birth. The prince is craven in his longing for stature: no task is too menial or dishonorable for him to give Vatel. While Vatel tries to sustain dignity, he finds himself attracted to Anne de Montausier, the king's newest mistress. In Vatel, she finds someone who's authentic, living out his principles within the casual cruelties of court politics. Can the two of them escape unscathed?
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Actors
Title: Actors
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 2000
Type: Movie
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.
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Tutto l'amore che c'è
Title: Tutto l'amore che c'è
Character: Molotov
Released: March 24, 2000
Type: Movie
The story takes place in an unspecified town in Apulia. We are in the '70s. The arrival of three beautiful and uninhibited girls from the North, the daughters of an engineer who has moved to run a factory, brings the turmoil amongst the young people of the town. Stories of love, betrayals, state money (stolen) and broken promises intertwine. All through the eyes of Carlo (alter ego of the director Sergio Rubini), the youngest.
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Title: Killing Power
Character: Cannes City Police Commissioner
Released: March 13, 2000
Type: TV
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Mirka
Title: Mirka
Character: Strix
Released: March 10, 2000
Type: Movie
The isolated lives of people on a farm at the top of the mountains are changed by a ten-year-old child named Mirka.
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Title: Balzac
Character: Honoré de Balzac
Released: September 13, 1999
Type: TV
As Balzac prepares to die, his entire past flashes before his eyes. As a young writer, he was driven by the desire to achieve something great. With the support of Laure de Berny, he started printing and publishing without much success, but it was with his pen that he achieved fame, thanks to the constant support of Madame de Berny. Balzac became a writer that readers devoured.
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Balzac: A Life of Passion
Title: Balzac: A Life of Passion
Character: Honoré de Balzac
Released: September 13, 1999
Type: Movie
This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the dramas and adventures of his own life - a life that he shaped into one spectacular and unforgettable blaze of passion. At the heart of the story are the women in Balzac's life. Although gruff, unsophisticated, and far from handsome, Balzac exerts an irresistible fascination on women.
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The Bridge
Title: The Bridge
Character: Georges
Released: April 6, 1999
Type: Movie
Mina is a movie buff with a husband, Georges, who's out of work, and a 15-year-old son, Tommy. While Mina works part-time as a domestic for Claire Daboval, the family is terribly short on money, so when Georges is offered construction work on a massive bridge project, he immediately accepts, even though the job site is far away. One day, while taking in a matinee screening of West Side Story, Mina meets a man named Matthias, an engineer associated with the bridge project. It's love at first sight for the both of them, and while Mina has no desire to hurt Georges, who is a good and decent man, she has found another good and decent man whom she loves even more. Tommy, on the other hand, has to deal with this crisis in his parents' marriage while he's sorting out his own infatuation with Ms. Daboval's daughter, Lisbeth.
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Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar
Title: Asterix & Obelix Take on Caesar
Character: Obélix
Released: February 3, 1999
Type: Movie
Set in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a magic potion concocted by Druids turns the townsfolk into mighty soldiers. When Roman troops carve a path through Gaul to reach the English Channel, Caesar and his aide de camp Detritus discover the secret elixir and capture the Druid leader who knows its formula, and Asterix and Obelix are sent off to rescue them.
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Bimboland
Title: Bimboland
Character: Laurent Gaspard
Released: December 23, 1998
Type: Movie
A shy French anthropologist who happens to be secretly in love with her college superior, chooses "bimbos" as the subject of her thesis. She becomes one of them in order to do that, and the professor she loves falls for her new identity.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: The Count of Monte Cristo
Character: Edmond Dantès
Released: September 7, 1998
Type: TV
A TV mini-series adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is unjustly sent to prison for 18 years. He escapes to reclaim his fiancée Mercedes and revenge against his nemesis, Mondego.
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Der Graf von Monte Christo
Title: Der Graf von Monte Christo
Character: Edmond Dantès / Graf von Monte Christo
Released: September 7, 1998
Type: Movie
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Notes of Love
Title: Notes of Love
Character: Levi
Released: April 17, 1998
Type: Movie
A woman suffering from compulsive-type psychological problems falls for an older divorced neighbour. Will her love be returned? A slow story of confusion and loneliness.
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Title: The Man in the Iron Mask
Character: Porthos
Released: March 12, 1998
Type: Movie
Years have passed since the Three Musketeers, Aramis, Athos and Porthos, have fought together with their friend, D'Artagnan. But with the tyrannical King Louis using his power to wreak havoc in the kingdom while his twin brother, Philippe, remains imprisoned, the Musketeers reunite to abduct Louis and replace him with Philippe.
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XXL
Title: XXL
Character: Jean Bourdalou
Released: December 10, 1997
Type: Movie
Tunisian-Jewish businessman Alain Berrebi (Michel Boujenah) courts Ashkenazi princess Arlette Stern (Elsa Zylberstein). Her father David (Maurice Chevit) learns of the death of a rural Auvergne peasant who once hid David and his cousin Nathan (Felix Fibich) from the Nazis. Nathan is now a NYC diamond dealer on West 47th Street. David, Nathan, Arlette, and Berrebi head for the funeral in Auvergne. There they encounter the deceased peasant's son, Jean Bourdalou (Gerard Depardieu), who operates the family's restaurants in Paris. Arlette does a romantic take on Bourdalou, which sends the distraught Berrebi off to cry on the shoulder of his mother Gaby (Gina Lollobrigida). Back in Paris, Bourdalou and Berrebi make plans to open a trendy fashion restaurant in Manhattan.
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Pitch
Title: Pitch
Character: Himself
Released: September 4, 1997
Type: Movie
A Canadian documentary featuring two young filmmakers attending the Toronto Film Festival to pitch a film concept to various celebrities. Their film idea, titled "The Don", concerns a Mafia don who goes for a hernia operation but gets a sex change instead. During the 1996 Toronto Fest, they approach Roger Ebert, Norman Jewison (at a packed press conference), Eric Stoltz (leaving a limo), Al Pacino, and others without much success. On a roll, they leave Toronto for Hollywood, getting advice from Arthur Hiller and Neil Simon and finding an agent who expresses interest in their pitch.
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Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
Title: Roberto Rossellini: Il mestiere di uomo
Character: Self
Released: February 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Documentary about the life and works of Italian filmmaker Roberto Rossellini.
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Hamlet
Title: Hamlet
Character: Reynaldo
Released: December 25, 1996
Type: Movie
Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother now marrying the murderer... his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.
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The Best Job in the World
Title: The Best Job in the World
Character: Laurent Monier
Released: December 11, 1996
Type: Movie
To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, and he finds an apartment in the Cité des Muriers, a particularly difficult district.
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The Secret Agent
Title: The Secret Agent
Character: Ossipon
Released: November 8, 1996
Type: Movie
In 1880s London, pornographic bookseller Verloc is a double agent for the Russian government, providing information to Chief Inspector Heat about a lazy anarchist organization. In order for the anarchists to be arrested, an act of terrorism must occur. So Verloc decides to set up bombs – which leads to tragedy – not only for himself but also for his family, including wife Winnie and brother-in-law, Stevie.
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Bogus
Title: Bogus
Character: Bogus
Released: September 6, 1996
Type: Movie
Recently orphaned, a young boy is taken in by his godmother who is shocked to realize that she can see the boy's imaginary friend: a flamboyant, French magician named Bogus.
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Unhook the Stars
Title: Unhook the Stars
Character: Big Tommy
Released: September 4, 1996
Type: Movie
Widowed mother Mildred must suddenly redefine herself and find an outlet for her nurturing side when her adult daughter moves out of the family home. Though Mildred thinks she's found her purpose when her neighbor, overworked single mother Monica, asks her to look after her little boy, she has great difficulty learning to strike a healthy balance between giving selflessly to others and remembering to take care of herself.
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Title: Die Harald Schmidt Show
Character: Self
Released: December 5, 1995
Type: TV
The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012.
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The Son Of...
Title: The Son Of...
Character: Gerard
Released: October 31, 1995
Type: Movie
A self-centered man (Gérard Depardieu) with many diversions occasionally visits his 4-year-old son (Antoine Pialat) and the boy's mother (Géraldine Pailhas).
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Guardian Angels
Title: Guardian Angels
Character: Antoine Carco / His guardian angel
Released: October 11, 1995
Type: Movie
A sleazy Paris nightclub owner and ex-detective flies to Hong Kong to rescue the young son of a friend murdered by the Chinese mob.
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The Horseman on the Roof
Title: The Horseman on the Roof
Character: Police commissioner of Manosque
Released: September 20, 1995
Type: Movie
In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
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Elisa
Title: Elisa
Character: Jacques 'Lébovitch', Marie's father
Released: February 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames for her mother's death.
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One Hundred and One Nights
Title: One Hundred and One Nights
Character: Self
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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Colonel Chabert
Title: Colonel Chabert
Character: Chabert
Released: September 21, 1994
Type: Movie
When Colonel Chabert returns from the war, he discovers that he has lost everything.
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The Machine
Title: The Machine
Character: Dr. Marc Lacroix
Released: May 28, 1994
Type: Movie
This deftly made French psychological thriller terrifies with its exploration of an experiment gone horribly wrong. Dr. Marc Lacroix, a psychiatrist specializing in brain functions, is obsessed with the link between mind and spirit. To find his link he studies the criminally insane. He builds a secret machine, known only to his mistress Marianne, in which he hopes to exchange minds between humans. He simultaneously wants to help the mentally ill recover, and he wants to experience their madness. He chooses the psychotic killer, Zyto, a man who stabbed at least three women, for his experiment. The initial experiment is successful and the two exchange minds. But trouble ensues when Zyto refuses to reverse the switch. There is little Marc can do when Zyto takes over Marc's life, and more ominously his wife and child whom are unknowingly in mortal danger. Marc, encased in Zyto's body, is returned to the asylum. Will Marc's wife recognize the danger? Will Zyto kill again?
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A Pure Formality
Title: A Pure Formality
Character: Onoff
Released: May 15, 1994
Type: Movie
Onoff is a famous writer, now a recluse. The Inspector is suspicious when Onoff is brought into the station one night, disoriented and suffering a kind of amnesia. In an isolated, rural police station, the Inspector tries to establish the events surrounding a killing, to reach a startling resolution.
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My Father the Hero
Title: My Father the Hero
Character: Andre
Released: February 4, 1994
Type: Movie
A teenage girl on vacation in the Bahamas with her divorced father tries to impress a potential boyfriend by saying that her father is actually her lover. Remake of the 1991 French film Mon père, ce héros.
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Germinal
Title: Germinal
Character: Toussaint Maheu
Released: September 29, 1993
Type: Movie
It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them.
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Oh, Woe Is Me
Title: Oh, Woe Is Me
Character: Simon Donnadieu
Released: September 8, 1993
Type: Movie
This complex allegorical tale tells the story of man’s quest for spiritual meaning. When God enters the body of 1980s filmmaker Simon Donnadieu, his wife Rachel realizes that something has gone awry, but chooses to remain faithful to her erratically-behaving husband.
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François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
Title: François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
Character: Self
Released: May 14, 1993
Type: Movie
Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk about François Truffaut. They discuss his attitudes toward wealth, his early writings about cinema, the undercurrent of violence in his films and his personality, the way he used and altered events in his life when making films, his search for a father (both artistic and biological), his relationship with his mother, the scenes in his films that cause a squirm of embarrassment, and his ultimate mysticism. Clips from a dozen of his films are included.
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1492: Conquest of Paradise
Title: 1492: Conquest of Paradise
Character: Christopher Columbus
Released: October 9, 1992
Type: Movie
1492: Conquest of Paradise depicts Christopher Columbus’ discovery of The New World and his effect on the indigenous people.
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All the Mornings of the World
Title: All the Mornings of the World
Character: Marin Marais
Released: December 18, 1991
Type: Movie
Following the death of his wife, a renowned musician ostracises himself from the outer world and dedicates his life to music. However, his life changes when a young man approaches him to learn music.
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My Father the Hero
Title: My Father the Hero
Character: André Arnel
Released: October 23, 1991
Type: Movie
Veronique, living with her divorced mother, is going on holiday to Mauritius with her father. To impress a local boy, Benjamin, she manages to complicate the situation by making up stories about her father. She presents him as her lover, a mercenary and even a secret agent which gets her into trouble and then her father has to start playing along...
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Thank You, Life
Title: Thank You, Life
Character: Marc Antoine Worms
Released: March 13, 1991
Type: Movie
Camille, a naïve schoolgirl, meets an intriguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new friend through the discovery of sex and the darker side of life. As the film progresses, Camille discovers AIDS and the fear that she may have picked up the disease in her early encounters.
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Green Card
Title: Green Card
Character: Georges Faure
Released: December 23, 1990
Type: Movie
Urban horticulturalist Brontë Mitchell has her eye on a gorgeous apartment, but the building's board will rent it only to a married couple. Georges Fauré, a waiter from France whose visa is expiring, needs to marry an American woman to stay in the country. Their marriage of convenience turns into a burden when they must live together to allay the suspicions of the immigration service, as the polar opposites grate on each other's nerves.
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Uranus
Title: Uranus
Character: Léopold
Released: December 12, 1990
Type: Movie
After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist, and he pushes back.
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Title: Stars 90
Character: self
Released: September 3, 1990
Type: TV
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Title: Cyrano de Bergerac
Character: Cyrano de Bergerac
Released: March 28, 1990
Type: Movie
Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.
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Too Beautiful for You
Title: Too Beautiful for You
Character: Bernard Barthélémy
Released: October 21, 1989
Type: Movie
A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before his wife finds this particular entanglement of her husband's very difficult to accept.
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I Want to Go Home
Title: I Want to Go Home
Character: Christian Gauthier
Released: September 27, 1989
Type: Movie
Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (bande dessinée) which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled with his daughter Elsie who has been a student in Paris for two years, in flight from the American culture of which she sees her father as a typical example. Elsie is naively infatuated with French literature, and is trying to secure an introduction to the brilliant university professor Christian Gauthier, an expert on Flaubert but also an enthusiast for comic books. The meeting of father and daughter goes badly, but Elsie is persuaded to join Joey and Lena for the weekend at the country house of Gauthier's mother, Isabelle. During a comic-themed masquerade party, all of the characters are made to reconsider their present and past relationships.
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Deux
Title: Deux
Character: Marc Lambert
Released: May 26, 1989
Type: Movie
The manager of a contemporary music composer falls in love with the real estate agent with whom he is looking for a house in Paris. But both have been used to living an independent life: they want to marry but at the same time, are afraid of marriage
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Camille Claudel
Title: Camille Claudel
Character: Auguste Rodin
Released: December 7, 1988
Type: Movie
The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.
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Strange Place for an Encounter
Title: Strange Place for an Encounter
Character: Charles
Released: May 26, 1988
Type: Movie
France is a haughty, bourgeoise wife who is abandoned at the side of the road by her husband after a vicious quarrel. She meets Charles, a doctor. The meeting of the two strangers is the focus of the film, along with their encounters with characters at a truck stop.
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Under the Sun of Satan
Title: Under the Sun of Satan
Character: Donissan
Released: May 14, 1987
Type: Movie
Satan tempts Father Dossignan, who is trying to save the soul of a young girl who killed one of her lovers.
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The Fugitives
Title: The Fugitives
Character: Jean Lucas
Released: December 17, 1986
Type: Movie
Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not part of the action.
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Jean de Florette
Title: Jean de Florette
Character: Jean Cadoret, le bossu, fils de Florette
Released: August 27, 1986
Type: Movie
In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts, they think only of getting the water.
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Ménage
Title: Ménage
Character: Bob
Released: April 23, 1986
Type: Movie
Bickering couple Monique and Antoine are interrupted by bisexual burglar Bob while fighting in a bar. With husband and wife in need of cash, Bob teaches them the most efficient house burglary methods. Monique is attracted to the charismatic thief, but Bob is more interested in Antoine, who eventually succumbs to his attentions. As the trio continues living together, Monique grows unhappy about being ignored by both men.
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Police
Title: Police
Character: Louis Vincent Mangin
Released: September 4, 1985
Type: Movie
Mangin, a police inspector in Paris, leans hard on informants to get evidence on three Tunisian brothers who traffic in drugs. He arrests one, Simon, and his girl-friend Noria. Simon's brothers go to their lawyer. He springs Noria, who promptly steals 2 million francs that belong to the Tunisians. They suspect her of the theft; her life as well as the lawyer's is in danger. Meanwhile, Noria is playing with both the lawyer and Mangin's affections. Mangin is mercurial anyway: intimidating and bloodying suspects, falling for a police commission trainee before flipping for Noria, wearing his emotions on his sleeve. Can he save the lawyer and Noria, and can he convince her to love?
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Vivement Truffaut
Title: Vivement Truffaut
Character: Self / Bernard (archive footage)
Released: July 12, 1985
Type: Movie
A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie, Vivement Dimanche!, released in 1983. Included in this overview of Truffaut's contribution to filmmaking are clips from 14 of his movies arranged according to the themes he favored. These include childhood, literature, the cinema itself, romance, marriage, and death.
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One Woman or Two
Title: One Woman or Two
Character: Julien Chayssac
Released: February 6, 1985
Type: Movie
An ad executive impersonates an archeology professor to avoid a situation with an obsessed former lover. She enlists the help of a hapless archeologist who is at the airport to pick the real archeology professor. What follows is a series of conflicting and comical situations involving the "switcheroo."
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17ème jour de tournage du film
Title: 17ème jour de tournage du film "Police"
Character: Self
Released: December 5, 1984
Type: Movie
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Rive droite, rive gauche
Title: Rive droite, rive gauche
Character: Paul Senanques
Released: October 30, 1984
Type: Movie
Longtime friends Guarrigue and Sénanques own a successful law practice in Paris. The dreaded businessman Pervillard is one of their clients. One night, Sénanques, who is in an unhappy relationship, meets Sacha. For her sake, he causes a political scandal involving Pervillard and puts himself in danger.
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Le Tartuffe
Title: Le Tartuffe
Character: Tartuffe
Released: September 5, 1984
Type: Movie
Orgon is a man of property duped by the false piety of the penniless Tartuffe. Orgon takes him into his house, believing him a paragon of virtue. Orgon orders his daughter to reject her fiancé and marry Tartuffe. First Dorine, the family servant, tries a strategy to avert the marriage; then Orgon's son tries his hand. They anger Orgon, and to prove paternal power, he disinherits his son and makes Tartuffe his heir. Next Orgon's wife tries to bring her husband insight, a stratagem that partially backfires. With the bailiff at the door ordering Orgon to vacate his own home and with Tartuffe at court to prove Orgon's a traitor, all seems lost.
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Fort Saganne
Title: Fort Saganne
Character: Charles Saganne
Released: May 11, 1984
Type: Movie
In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the military and is assigned to the Sahara Desert under the aristocratic Colonel Dubreuilh.
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The ComDads
Title: The ComDads
Character: Jean Lucas
Released: November 23, 1983
Type: Movie
Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.
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The Moon in the Gutter
Title: The Moon in the Gutter
Character: Gérard Delmas - un docker hanté par le suicide de sa soeur
Released: May 18, 1983
Type: Movie
A dockworker seeking revenge on the killer of his sister finds himself the object of desire for two women.
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Danton
Title: Danton
Character: Georges Danton
Released: January 12, 1983
Type: Movie
Danton and Robespierre were close friends and fought together in the French Revolution, but by 1793 Robespierre was France's ruler, determined to wipe out opposition with a series of mass executions that became known as the Reign of Terror. Danton, well known as a spokesman of the people, had been living in relative solitude in the French countryside, but he returned to Paris to challenge Robespierre's violent rule and call for the people to demand their rights. Robespierre, however, could not accept such a challenge, even from a friend and colleague, and he blocked out a plan for the capture and execution of Danton and his allies.
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The Big Brother
Title: The Big Brother
Character: Gérard Berger / Bernard Vigo
Released: September 8, 1982
Type: Movie
The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one direction and then in another, with the intention of going home if things would just stop moving. Bernard (Gerard Depardieu) is a doctor whose Hippocratic oath was a hypocritic failure -- the not-so-good doctor kills his wife because she is having an affair, and he kills her lover too. Then he joins the French Foreign Legion. On his way to the former French colonies in Africa, the plane he is in crashes, and Rossi, a "friend" on the plane with some overweight in carry-on money, shoots Bernard and takes off, leaving him for dead. He is nursed back to life and health by friendly villagers and just his luck, he not only manages to make his fortune in Africa, he also nabs a French passport from a dying man who will clearly not need it anymore unless the Pearly Gates have a French guard.
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The Return of Martin Guerre
Title: The Return of Martin Guerre
Character: Arnaud du Tilh
Released: May 14, 1982
Type: Movie
Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and Bertrande de Rols marry. A few years later, accused of having committed a robbery, Martin suddenly disappears. When, almost a decade later, a man arrives in Artigat claiming to be Martin, the Guerre family recognizes him as such; but doubts soon arise about his true identity.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Droit de Réponse
Title: Droit de Réponse
Character: Self
Released: December 12, 1981
Type: Movie
"Droit de Réponse" (Right of Reply) is a French debate program broadcast between December 12, 1981 and September 19, 1987 on the TF1 channel, presented by Michel Polac and produced by Maurice Dugowson. Broadcast live on a weekly basis, on Saturdays from 8.30 p.m., the right of reply has been the source of many controversies, due to the various speakers who have come to present their point of view on the show (which leads to famous scandals , remained in the memory of viewers), but also for the variety and relevance of the topics covered, which ensured the success of the program on the air for several years. On French television, this program is considered by some observers as a “pioneer program in terms of controversy-show or clash, in modern language”.
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La Chèvre
Title: La Chèvre
Character: Campana
Released: December 9, 1981
Type: Movie
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.
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The Woman Next Door
Title: The Woman Next Door
Character: Bernard Coudray
Released: September 30, 1981
Type: Movie
Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion of Bernard and Mathilde, who had a passionate love affair years ago. The relationship revives... A somber study of human feelings.
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Choice of Arms
Title: Choice of Arms
Character: Mickey
Released: August 19, 1981
Type: Movie
Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey, to take him to the estate of a retired robber, Noel, who lives in comfort with his lovely and beloved wife, Nicole. The man dies, and Mickey, a menacing hothead, demands money of Noel. A few days later, Mickey returns to the estate, shoots up a dinner party and threatens them again. Noel sends Nicole to an hotel and goes to his old gang to help him hunt down the dangerous Mickey. Mickey has other problems, too, including heartache for a daughter he hardly knows. Young, eager cops tail Nicole, and all are on a complicated collision course.
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Title: Wetten, dass..?
Character: Self
Released: February 14, 1981
Type: TV
A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.
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I Love All of You
Title: I Love All of You
Character: Patrick
Released: December 17, 1980
Type: Movie
Alice invites all four men she has loved in her life for the dinner of New Year's Eve at the same time and unites them all in her house. In sentimental flashbacks they recall the former times. At 35, Alice is a career woman who doesn't think she has time for a lasting relationship. Thus, her love life has been, and probably always will be, a series of trysts and one-night stands.
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Inspector Blunder
Title: Inspector Blunder
Character: Roger Morzini, public enemy number 1
Released: December 3, 1980
Type: Movie
A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.
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The Last Metro
Title: The Last Metro
Character: Bernard Granger
Released: September 17, 1980
Type: Movie
In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
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Loulou
Title: Loulou
Character: Loulou
Released: September 3, 1980
Type: Movie
A bored wife leaves her husband for an unemployed, petty criminal.
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My American Uncle
Title: My American Uncle
Character: René Ragueneau
Released: May 21, 1980
Type: Movie
Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing. Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite. Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.
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Hurricane Rosie
Title: Hurricane Rosie
Character: Raoul Lamarre
Released: January 4, 1980
Type: Movie
Raoul has best chances to become next boxing champion in light-heavy weight. For a bet he tries to beat through a door with his bare fist. He wins the bet, but his hand is broken, his career ruined. He starts working on a fair; there he meets Hurricane Rosy the first time. When he sees her the next time, she's star of Mike Fernando's women wrestling show. They passionately fall in love, but their their love must survive her rising fame and his violent jealousy
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Buffet Froid
Title: Buffet Froid
Character: Alphonse Tram
Released: December 19, 1979
Type: Movie
An absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.
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The Dogs
Title: The Dogs
Character: Morel
Released: March 7, 1979
Type: Movie
After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence.
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Traffic Jam
Title: Traffic Jam
Character: Franco
Released: January 12, 1979
Type: Movie
A large international cast takes part in this comedy in which the stories of numerous individuals whose cars are stalled in a massive Roman traffic jam are told.
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Sugar
Title: Sugar
Character: Raoul-Renaud Homecourt
Released: October 15, 1978
Type: Movie
Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.
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Bye Bye Monkey
Title: Bye Bye Monkey
Character: Gérard Lafayette
Released: February 24, 1978
Type: Movie
In metahistorical New York city electrotechnician Lafayette deals with a megalomaniac director of a wax museum of ancient Rome, an italian lonely anarchist, a group of feminist actresses - including Angelica who falls in love with him - and a small adopted chimpanzee.
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Violanta
Title: Violanta
Character: Fortunat
Released: February 22, 1978
Type: Movie
A young man raises the dead in a high valley where the power is held by Violanta.
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Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Title: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Character: Raoul
Released: January 11, 1978
Type: Movie
Solange is seriously depressed, and her kindhearted husband, Raoul, makes it his mission to cure her doldrums. After many failed attempts to cheer her up, Raoul hits upon a possible solution: find his wife a lover. Unfortunately, his choice, Stéphane, proves to be just as ineffectual in restoring her flagging spirits. In the end, the gorgeous Solange finds her own, highly problematic tonic to her troubles in the form of a 13-year-old boy.
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At Night All Cats Are Crazy
Title: At Night All Cats Are Crazy
Character: Philippe Larcher
Released: November 23, 1977
Type: Movie
Playwright Charles Watson entertains his niece Lily by telling her about the adventures of Philibert.Both these people have something to do with Philibert.
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The Left-Handed Woman
Title: The Left-Handed Woman
Character: The Man with the T-Shirt
Released: October 30, 1977
Type: Movie
Mourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has died. In this drama based on the director's own novel, a couple with an unhappy marriage agree to a trial separation. They try to patch things up, and at the same time other relationships begin to develop for them.
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This Sweet Sickness
Title: This Sweet Sickness
Character: David Martinaud
Released: September 28, 1977
Type: Movie
Industrious accountant David Martinaud claims to be visiting his parents every weekend, but it's merely a cover for the labor-intensive refurbishing of his country cottage. The reason for David's secrecy is that his childhood crush, Lise, lives nearby, and, although she's married, he still believes they'll get together. His devotion to the idea borders on mania, and, when Lise's husband is accidentally killed, he quickly spirals out of control.
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Baxter, Vera Baxter
Title: Baxter, Vera Baxter
Character: Michel Cayre
Released: June 8, 1977
Type: Movie
In an empty villa, Vera Baxter sits and contemplates her life, as she recounts to a woman who was drawn to the villa when she heard the name Vera Baxter pronounced. Vera tells her about her no-good husband, who has been using her to keep his failing business afloat, up to her present love affair.
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The Lorry
Title: The Lorry
Character: lui
Released: May 27, 1977
Type: Movie
In this most talky and personal of films, director Marguerite Duras and actor Gerard Depardieu do an on-camera read-through of a movie script. Occasionally, the director comments about the characters or their motivations, and sometimes the actor does. That's all -- there is no action, there are no location shots, no one pretends to be anything else. The script itself tells about an encounter between a blank-slate of a woman hitchhiker, and a communist truck driver. As the reading progresses, Duras comments bitterly about the failed ideals of communism and the glorious revolution that will probably never happen.
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Rene the Cane
Title: Rene the Cane
Character: René Bornier
Released: February 16, 1977
Type: Movie
"René la Canne" was the second collaboration between Francis Girod and Ennio Morricone, coming after "Le Trio Infernal" (1974) and before "La Banquière" (1980). His film is an adaptation of a story by Roger Borniche about the gangster René Girier and relates the fantastic adventures of a flamboyant mobster (René/Gérard Depardieu) and a maverick police inspector (Fernand la Sournoise/Michel Piccoli), through the 1940s.
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Barocco
Title: Barocco
Character: Samson / Samson's Killer
Released: December 8, 1976
Type: Movie
A woman falls in love with the man who killed her former boyfriend.
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1900
Title: 1900
Character: Olmo Dalcò
Released: August 28, 1976
Type: Movie
The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
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The Last Woman
Title: The Last Woman
Character: Gérard
Released: April 20, 1976
Type: Movie
Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son.
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I Love You, I Don't
Title: I Love You, I Don't
Character: Horseman
Released: March 10, 1976
Type: Movie
The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck-stop, where she's lonely and longs for love. She develops a crush on the garbage truck driver Krassky, although her sleazy boss Boris warns her that he's gay.
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The Cinema According to Bertolucci
Title: The Cinema According to Bertolucci
Character: Self
Released: February 28, 1976
Type: Movie
Documentary on the filming of Novecento by Bernardo Bertolucci
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Maîtresse
Title: Maîtresse
Character: Oliver
Released: February 11, 1976
Type: Movie
After breaking into a house he believes is empty, thief Olivier is caught by the owner, Ariane, who turns out to be a dominatrix. Improbably falling for her, Olivier returns periodically, and an impulsive romance blossoms despite Ariane's profession. Soon Olivier becomes more familiar with her work, even joining in on occasion. However, when he discovers that Ariane has a son, he attempts to "fix" her, hoping to give her a better life.
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Seven Deaths by Prescription
Title: Seven Deaths by Prescription
Character: Dr Jean-Pierre Berg
Released: December 3, 1975
Type: Movie
Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.
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Abicinema
Title: Abicinema
Character: Self
Released: August 9, 1975
Type: Movie
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self (archive footage)
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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Title: Apostrophes
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 1975
Type: TV
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.
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Title: Midi Première
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1975
Type: TV
Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.
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Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
Title: Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
Character: Jean Lavallée, ami de Vincent
Released: October 23, 1974
Type: Movie
Three friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who's blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money; his wife grows distant, even hostile. The charming Vincent, everyone's favorite, faces bankruptcy, his mistress leaves him, and his wife, from whom he's separated, wants a divorce. The strains on the men begin to show particularly in François and Paul's friendship and in Vincent's health. A younger man, Jack, becomes attractive to Lucie, François's wife. Another young friend, the boxer Jean, who's like a son to Vincent and whose girlfriend is pregnant, has taken a bout with a merciless slugger. Has happiness eluded this circle of friends?
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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Stavisky...
Title: Stavisky...
Character: Le jeune inventeur
Released: May 15, 1974
Type: Movie
Irresistible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even most influential members of French industrial and political elite during the early 30s. But nothing lasts forever and when his great scam involving hundreds millions of francs gets exposed result is an unprecedented scandal that almost caused a civil war.
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Woman of the Ganges
Title: Woman of the Ganges
Character: Guy on the beach / "The Fool"
Released: April 3, 1974
Type: Movie
A man returns to the place he once lived a passionate love affair with a woman who is now dead. So powerful are the emotions that seize him that he imagines she is still alive, and begins to live as if this were the case...
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Going Places
Title: Going Places
Character: Jean-Claude
Released: March 20, 1974
Type: Movie
Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeoisie holds dear, whether it’s cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She’s on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.
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The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
Title: The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
Character: le facteur
Released: February 6, 1974
Type: Movie
Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity and have decided to dwell below the pavement. The group has its own hierarchy, of course, and soon the conditions that drove them underground begin to manifest themselves without the influences of the Outside World.
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The Wonderful Crook
Title: The Wonderful Crook
Character: Pierre
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A manufacturer of furniture sees his business go down and decides to rob banks to pay his staff. Het gets romantically involved with one of his victims.
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L'Inconnu
Title: L'Inconnu
Character: Gérard
Released: December 11, 1973
Type: Movie
The descent into hell begins for Edouard, a disillusioned marginal, when he loses his job, and his wife leaves with his son. His meeting with a mysterious stranger, who claims to work for the secret services, leads him to commit the irreparable. Was it a trap or just a symptom of his madness? There is doubt...
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Two Men in Town
Title: Two Men in Town
Character: Young mobster
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: Movie
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
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Nathalie Granger
Title: Nathalie Granger
Character: Le démarcheur
Released: September 27, 1973
Type: Movie
With little or no embellishment, filmmaker Marguerite Duras offers a simple, often wordless chronicle of a woman's day. She and her friend are seen doing yard work, talking about their families and receiving the occasional visitor. The brightest spot in the day is when a washing machine salesman comes to call.
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The Dominici Affair
Title: The Dominici Affair
Character: Zézé Perrin
Released: March 7, 1973
Type: Movie
In August 1952, a family of British tourists is found by the roadside in Haute Provence, brutally murdered. In the ensuing, very public, investigation a local landowner, 75 year old Gaston Dominici, is arrested for the murders, having been denounced by his sons. Under police interrogation, Dominici confesses to have killed the family and it looks certain that he will be charged, tried and sentenced to death. But then the case begins to collapse. The old man retracts his confession and the lack of evidence against him becomes apparent…
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The Year 01
Title: The Year 01
Character: A traveler who does not take the train
Released: February 22, 1973
Type: Movie
The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of resolutions beginning with "We stop everything" and the second "After a total downtime will be revived-reluctantly-that the services and products including lack will prove intolerable. Probably: water to drink, electricity for reading at night, the TSF to say "This is not the end of the world, this is an 01, and now a page of Celestial Mechanics". The implementation of these resolutions is the first day of a new era, Year 01. The Year 01 is emblematic of the challenge of the 1970s and covers such diverse topics as ecology, negation of authority, free love, communal living, rejection of private property and labor.
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At the Meeting with Joyous Death
Title: At the Meeting with Joyous Death
Character: Beretti
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
The premise deals with a family living in a country-house which turns out to be 'alive' – to the point where a TV crew is brought in to 'capture' the paranormal phenomena
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The Pariah
Title: The Pariah
Character: Un jeune truand, homme de main
Released: December 12, 1972
Type: Movie
For more than 15 years, two Marseille friends and criminals battle the law, rival gangs, prison authorities and even mined beaches in order to survive.
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Killer
Title: Killer
Character: Fredo, the sheep
Released: March 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Whilst being transferred to a psychiatric hospital, a ruthless serial killer Gassot makes a break and goes on the run. He arrives in Marseilles, intending to escape abroad. Here, he falls for a young prostitute, Gerda.
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The Annuity
Title: The Annuity
Character: Victor, le complice de Jo
Released: January 19, 1972
Type: Movie
In 1930, Louis Martinet, a peaceful sexagenarian, no longer has a long life to live according to the words of his doctor, Leon Galipeau, who sees to take advantage of the very interesting situation of the "future deceased". This one indeed has a small house in Saint-Tropez. Galipeau sniffs the windfall. Following his advice, Martinet agrees to give it in life to the brother of the doctor, Emile, and then rushes back to a health of iron. Worse, he even survives the war. Galipeau, exhausted, decide to use the great means to get rid of the importunce who persists in thwarting their project ...
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La Vie sentimentale de Georges le tueur
Title: La Vie sentimentale de Georges le tueur
Character: 33 year old father
Released: January 17, 1972
Type: Movie
A hit man fails his contracts because of a young runner.
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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A Little Sun in Cold Water
Title: A Little Sun in Cold Water
Character: Pierre
Released: October 29, 1971
Type: Movie
Gilles Lantier, a young reporter on the AFP newspaper, is suffering from a nervous breakdown. Realising that neither his friend Jean nor his girlfriend Eloïse can help him, he decides to stay with his sister Odile, who lives near Limoges. At a party one evening he meets a wealthy bourgeois woman named Nathalie Sylvener. It is love at first sight, and on his return to Paris, Gilles tells Eloïse that he is now devotedly attached to another woman. Although Nathalie agrees to live with him in Paris, she rejects Gilles' offer of marriage. It is not long before the couple have settled into a routine and their passion begins to cool. Then Nathalie suddenly disappears from Gilles' life...
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Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
Title: Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
Character: Henri
Released: February 10, 1971
Type: Movie
Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.
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Nausicaa
Title: Nausicaa
Character: Le voleur de livres
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
A girl, whose father is from Greece, studies ancient art in France. The film was made for television but never broadcast for political reasons related to its portrayal of Greeks. A work print was screened in Belgium in 1971, and the film is now available in reconstructed form.
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The Adventures of Zadig
Title: The Adventures of Zadig
Character: Zadig
Released: December 29, 1970
Type: Movie
In the time of King Moabdar, in ancient Babylon, the young philosopher, Zadig, undergoes many misadventures.
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Title: Rendez-vous à Badenberg
Character: Eddy Balmont
Released: December 9, 1970
Type: TV
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La pomme de son œil
Title: La pomme de son œil
Character: Hamid
Released: October 17, 1970
Type: Movie
What father doesn't care for his daughter unconditionally? It's a real question for Roland de Mailly, a divorced father who, in spite of himself, is subjected to the extravagances of his beloved daughter. By turns religious, hippy, extra-lucid, circus performer, will she overcome her father's love?
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Le Cyborg  (Le Voyage vertical)
Title: Le Cyborg (Le Voyage vertical)
Character: Gabriel
Released: September 15, 1970
Type: Movie
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Title: Goldene Kamera Verleihung
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 1966
Type: TV
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Christmas Carole
Title: Christmas Carole
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A moral fable, loosely based on Dickens.
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Twins
Title: Twins
Character: Bishop Tarcisi
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
The massacre of the Levi family, of which only adopted twins Eva and Greta survive, pits priests Father Michel and Father Paul against the powers of evil, both convinced that the twins are diabolical.