Bernard Ménez

Bernard Ménez

Born: August 8, 1944
in Mailly-le-Château, Yonne, France
Bernard Ménez (born 8 August 1944, in Mailly-le-Chateau) is a French actor. He has appeared in more than seventy films since 1969.

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Movies for Bernard Ménez...

Big Kids
Title: Big Kids
Released: June 15, 2023
Type: Movie
A café terrace. Couples of teenagers are sitting here and there. They discuss things in life, but curiously with the experience of people much older than they seem. The watchful and caring waiter of the café responds to them in song, offering a touching and poetic filmed fantasy.
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Fernandel, Jacques Tati, Bourvil, Louis de Funès - Les Rois de la comédie
Title: Fernandel, Jacques Tati, Bourvil, Louis de Funès - Les Rois de la comédie
Character: Lui-même
Released: January 1, 2023
Type: Movie
At the end of the 1950s, four humor specialists simultaneously experienced recognition. Fernandel with “The Cow and the Prisoner”, Bourvil with “The Hunchback”, Jacques Tati with “My Uncle” and Louis de Funès with “Oscar” at the theater. On the big screen or on stage, each of these artists has a unique style of humor. They are the kings of French comedy. But how did they manage to become true box office champions? How did they experience their immense popularity? How do they still influence the comedy genre? And above all, are- are they funny in life? Where is the line between their character in the cinema and their real personality?
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Je t'aime, filme-moi !
Title: Je t'aime, filme-moi !
Released: June 15, 2022
Type: Movie
This film is a tribute to love, a tribute to cinema. Our two main characters take us with them into the intimacy of "real people". We cross the roads of France with them, in their different vans and pick-up trucks transformed for the occasion into mini movie studios. Their concept: to film "declarations of love" and to deliver them directly by van to their recipients. And we discover, as we go along, that our duo and their own personal adventures are subtly intertwined with the people they film. This mix of genres offers several universes to the spectator in order to make him question himself about love.
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The Legend of Black Snake
Title: The Legend of Black Snake
Character: Le président français
Released: February 20, 2019
Type: Movie
After years spent in Paris, Clotaire Sangala returns to his native country, Africa. Raised by a Chinese martial arts grandfather, convinced to have been found in a garbage can, Clotaire knows nothing of the glorious past of his parents. He will become "Black Snake", the masked and ultra-sapped superhero, liberator of the people against the dictator Hezekiah.
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À cause des filles…?
Title: À cause des filles…?
Character: The Secretary
Released: January 30, 2019
Type: Movie
At a wedding where the husband runs away, everyone has his own story to tell about the trivial misfortune of a person in love with someone that slips away. The guests paint a full picture of clumsiness, lies, and bad luck, that makes impossible, whatever the age, all attempts of seduction... or close enough !
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À vos souhaits
Title: À vos souhaits
Character: Ludovic Méricourt, the son-in-law
Released: October 27, 2018
Type: Movie
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Loue-moi !
Title: Loue-moi !
Character: Serge Masson
Released: July 5, 2017
Type: Movie
Lea opens an agency where anybody can rent her to play the part the clients need: a daughter, a girlfriend, a customer, you name it...
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Sélection Officielle
Title: Sélection Officielle
Character: Charlot
Released: May 17, 2017
Type: Movie
Ulysses, an idealistic, novice film director, invites Clothilde, his young and pretty neighbor, to accompany him to the Love Film Festival on Réunion Island, where his debut film has been selected. Unfortunately, the day before they're due to leave, Ulysses learns that his film has been removed from the program. Afraid of disappointing Clotilde, he hides the truth and flies with her to Réunion, determined to do everything in his power to get his film back in the official selection and, at the same time, win the favors of the young woman, who dreams of becoming an actress. But Ulysses must cope with internal rivalries and struggles behind the scenes if he wants love and cinema to triumph.
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Croque monsieur
Title: Croque monsieur
Character: Anatole Longvy
Released: November 12, 2016
Type: Movie
Coco Baisos, a mature woman who likes to lead a big train, finds herself once again a widow, the fifth to be more precise. Bursting with energy and natural optimism, Coco is firmly determined not to be put down by fate. She immediately starts looking for a new companion, preferably a billionaire, so as not to have to give up her habits of luxury and pomp. She would indeed be very unhappy if fate forced her to modify her lifestyle. But the wallets trimmed do not run the streets. This manhunt, longer than expected, will hold many surprises for him ...
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Title: Amanda
Character: Self
Released: September 5, 2016
Type: TV
The program combines comedy, celebrity, musical guests, and human-interest stories.
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Le cabanon rose
Title: Le cabanon rose
Character: Bertrand
Released: March 5, 2016
Type: Movie
A cottage inhabited by a peasant, crazy painter in his spare time, who only paints naked women. After his death, another farmer decides to transform the place into a brothel which quickly attracts the notables of the area. But all those who come disappear one by one.
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The Law
Title: The Law
Character: Eugène Claudius-Petit
Released: November 26, 2014
Type: Movie
Directed by French Director Christian Faure and released in 2014, The Law brilliantly traces three days, in late Fall 1974, of stormy debate in the French National Assembly, around a bill which would make "voluntary termination of pregnancy" legal. Behind this bill stands a lone woman brilliantly played by a remarkable Emmanuelle Devos (also in The Other Son): Simone Veil the Minister of Health in the Jacques Chirac government during the presidency of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. During these three days of violent debate Veil, a Jew and Holocaust survivor, is spared nothing: political negotiations, solitude, sparring arguments, insults and violence to her family. In spite of all of this, Veil never wavers.
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Nice and Easy
Title: Nice and Easy
Character: Monsieur Lochu
Released: May 7, 2014
Type: Movie
Sebastian has one ambition in life: to do nothing. His horizon is his couch. His life he does not want to live but contemplate. But today, if you do nothing - You are nothing. So driven by his two roommates, that chain internships and odd jobs, decided to Anna and not quite decided Bruno, Sebastien will have to - A little.
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Le quepa sur la vilni !
Title: Le quepa sur la vilni !
Character: André
Released: February 12, 2014
Type: Movie
Today, Andre comes out of his peaceful retirement : on order from the mayor, he has to lead through mounts a troop of sandwich men on bike to attract the spectators to the inauguration of the local cinema. In spite of his determination, the former postman has a great deal of difficulty in taming his young and passionate team-mates.
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Tonnerre
Title: Tonnerre
Character: Le Père
Released: January 29, 2014
Type: Movie
The story of Maxime, a 33-year-old musician, who has come to find refuge in his father’s home in the town of Tonnerre. There he will have the joy and the bad luck of meeting Mélodie, a 21-year-old girl trapped by her love for her childhood sweetheart. One and the other will not experience the same story at the same time, which will trigger a series of incidents.
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Love Lasts Three Years
Title: Love Lasts Three Years
Character: Père de Marc
Released: December 10, 2011
Type: Movie
A heartbroken literary critic turns his despair into creativity following a bitter divorce, only to encounter an enchanting beauty who poses a major challenge to his newfound cynicism. Marc Marronnier thought his marriage was going well until his wife deemed him immature, and left him for a high-profile writer. Devastated, he began filtering all of his heartache into a misanthropic manuscript decrying the virtues of true love. But later, when Marc falls hard for his cousin's radiant and gorgeous wife, his entire life is turned upside down. Louise Bourgoin and Gaspard Proust star in a film by actor and author-turned-director Frederic Beigbeder.
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A Very Very Beautiful Love Story
Title: A Very Very Beautiful Love Story
Character: Le patron du salon de coiffure
Released: April 7, 2010
Type: Movie
Dorothée and Nicolas fall in love at first sight. Together, they’re going to live a very beautiful love story... they know it. But life always finds a way to compromise the best resolutions, the best script, and nothing will happen as expected. Nicolas and Dorothée will be carried into a stormy comedy as crazy as their passion for each other…
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Title: Scènes de ménages
Character: ex-preneur d'otages qui vient se venger de Raymond
Released: November 9, 2009
Type: TV
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Title: Scènes de ménages
Character: Ex-preneur d'otages
Released: November 9, 2009
Type: TV
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On dînera au lit
Title: On dînera au lit
Character: Robert
Released: February 6, 2008
Type: Movie
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The Car Keys
Title: The Car Keys
Character: Un comédien qui refuse de tourner avec Laurent
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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France Boutique
Title: France Boutique
Character: Marcus
Released: October 29, 2003
Type: Movie
Francois Cluzet and Karin Viard are the couple behind a French shopping channel whose business and marriage are both drifting towards the rocks, with Nathalie Baye as a smiling Rottweiller out to steal their business by conning them into offering a duff product, the 'Fear Eliminator,' and picking up the network for pennies in the ensuing financial fallout.
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Leave Your Hands on My Hips
Title: Leave Your Hands on My Hips
Character: Le concierge
Released: August 3, 2003
Type: Movie
Odile is 42 years old actress and single mother. One day her 18 year old daughter decided to leave her and start living with the boyfriend. All of a sudden alone in her empty house, the anguish takes over...
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Public Affairs
Title: Public Affairs
Character: Bernard
Released: March 13, 2003
Type: Movie
A television director decides to use his own life and marriage as an inspiration for his latest project.
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Joséphine en tournée
Title: Joséphine en tournée
Character: Edouard Bonnaire
Released: November 4, 2001
Type: Movie
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La bête de miséricorde
Title: La bête de miséricorde
Character: l'inspecteur Franck Moreau
Released: October 17, 2001
Type: Movie
After a car accident, Jean Mardet ends the agony of his wife with a rock. Mardet then keeps killing because he believes that God himself has entrusted a mission to him: kill the unfortunate souls.
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Girlfriends
Title: Girlfriends
Character: Mr. Suarez
Released: August 30, 2000
Type: Movie
Apprentice hairdresser Solange is a whiz at teasing locks and cutting hair but knows little about the act of sexual congress -- but she wants to know more. She hails from a small working class town close to Toulouse where she lives with her comely mother, who grudgingly works as a babysitter, and her father, who loves herding ostriches. Her best friend in beauty school is an African immigrant lass named Gary who dreads being returned to her native country for an arranged marriage. Gary offers Solange advice in her quest. Though there is a guy Solange fancies at her vocational school, she wants to know the lay of the land, so to speak, before she gets intimate with him.
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Bisous Bisous
Title: Bisous Bisous
Character: Bernard
Released: December 31, 1991
Type: Movie
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Voir l'éléphant
Title: Voir l'éléphant
Character: Fantasio
Released: September 26, 1990
Type: Movie
In Paris, on the platform of a subway station, three tramps spend time vituperating.
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Title: Fort Boyard
Character: Self
Released: July 7, 1990
Type: TV
A game show set and filmed on the real Fort Boyard in France. The contestants have to complete in physical and endurance challenges to win prize money.
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The Seasons of Pleasure
Title: The Seasons of Pleasure
Character: Simon
Released: February 10, 1988
Type: Movie
Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and somewhat disturbed son-in-law, will be the butler.
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Didi auf vollen Touren
Title: Didi auf vollen Touren
Character: Marcel
Released: November 27, 1986
Type: Movie
German vehicle fanatic Dieter 'Didi' accepts to drive a truckload of waste barrels to a French dump site. Didi ignores the plant needs to dump toxic waste after a major incident, which made the international news. But while the French site exploiter's agent Marcel believes it's Did's load, that's in fact a deliberately obvious diversion. Now everyone chases everyone else.
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Maine-Ocean Express
Title: Maine-Ocean Express
Character: Contrôleur Le Gallec
Released: April 16, 1986
Type: Movie
"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another traveler and also a lawyer, helps her. The four of them will meet together later and live a few shifted adventures with a strange-speaking sailor (Mimi's client).
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Oh, oh, oh, jolie tournée !
Title: Oh, oh, oh, jolie tournée !
Character: Lui-même
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
Jacques Rozier followed Bernard Ménez's tour in 1984 after the surprise success of his song "Jolie poupée". From a timecoded video in the possession of Jacques Rozier, post-production work was carried out in 2001 under the supervision of the director for his retrospective at the Center Pompidou. The element resulting from this work was digitized by the Cinémathèque française at the Hiventy laboratory in 2021.
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It Will Hurt!
Title: It Will Hurt!
Character: François Léaud
Released: July 21, 1982
Type: Movie
A film producer on the verge of ruin decides to make an erotic film.
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Les p’tites têtes
Title: Les p’tites têtes
Character: Daniel
Released: June 9, 1982
Type: Movie
Henri, Daniel and Xavier have just opened a travel agency in Paris. Henri runs the agency while Daniel and Xavier go on trip to take care of the group of tourists in Morocco. The troubles begin when Xavier and Daniel arrive in Morocco and discover that Henri has closed the agency in Paris and hasn't booked any hotels or attractions for the trip. Without any money, Daniel and Xavier decide to continue the journey. Their luck is their meeting with the rich Prince Douzami who falls in love with one of the tourist, Marilyn, and he decides to help them. The trip is still disturbed by two criminals Mata and Harry who want to take a microfilm that daniel has unfortunately swallowed.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Le Chêne d'Allouville
Title: Le Chêne d'Allouville
Character: Bernard Lecourt, le curé
Released: March 18, 1981
Type: Movie
The small Norman village of Allouville is proud of its thousand-year-old oak tree. But one day, a project of enlargement threatens the tree. The deputy Charles Crétois was keen on this project, which allowed him to continue the speculation he had been indulging in on certain lands. He is supported by the mayor of Allouville to whom he promised the Legion of Honor. But the whole village protests: they want to save the oak tree.
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The Ones That Got Away
Title: The Ones That Got Away
Character: Robert
Released: February 25, 1981
Type: Movie
In a train compartment, 6 people who do not know each other tell the story of their troubles in love. Only one of those seems to be a positive one.
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The Miser
Title: The Miser
Character: La Flèche
Released: March 5, 1980
Type: Movie
Based on Molière's play. The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven't spoken to their father yet. Harpagon is a miser who wants to choose the right man and the right woman for his children. When Cléante, at last, tries to speak to Harpagon, the old man informs the family that he wants to marry Marianne, the young girl loved by Cléante. Unaware of his son's sorrow, Harpagon doesn't understand why Cléante has become so angry with him.
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Duets on Sofa
Title: Duets on Sofa
Character: Robert Burton
Released: November 7, 1979
Type: Movie
The former spouses Jacqueline and Bernard are still living in the same apartment. And now each of them has a new "half"...
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Le Plus Heureux des trois
Title: Le Plus Heureux des trois
Character: Ernest
Released: October 10, 1979
Type: Movie
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Tendrement vache
Title: Tendrement vache
Character: Pierre Ganet
Released: July 4, 1979
Type: Movie
Brave peasant of the country of Caux, Henri Duchemin is recovering badly from the death of his married wife, whom he loved dearly. After seeing a TV show, the man is convinced that his late wife has reincarnated into a cow.
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Heart to Heart
Title: Heart to Heart
Character: Etienne
Released: January 3, 1979
Type: Movie
The independently-minded daughter of lower-middle class French shopkeepers, Brigitte, one of three sisters, refused to marry the father of her child when she became pregnant. In this film, she reminisces about her family life beginning when she was about five years old, up to the present when she is in her early 20s. Of her two sisters, one has a nervous breakdown and the other one becomes something of a baby factory. Colorful anecdotes of her eventful life lend additional depth to her insights.
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Ça fait tilt
Title: Ça fait tilt
Character: Claude Martin
Released: February 22, 1978
Type: Movie
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A Sea Urchin in the Pocket
Title: A Sea Urchin in the Pocket
Released: December 14, 1977
Type: Movie
A young journalist, abandoned by her wealthy lover, sets out with a musician inventor to stage a musical.
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Nono Nénesse
Title: Nono Nénesse
Character: Nénesse
Released: December 31, 1976
Type: Movie
Two adults play babies and wild antics ensue.
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Dracula and Son
Title: Dracula and Son
Character: Ferdinant
Released: September 14, 1976
Type: Movie
With angry villagers driving them away from their castle in Transylvania, Dracula and his son Ferdinand head abroad. Dracula ends up in London, England where he becomes a horror movie star exploiting his vampire status. His son, meanwhile, is ashamed of his roots and ends up a night watchman in Paris, France where he falls for a girl. Naturally, tensions arise when father and son are reunited and both take a liking to the same girl.
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The Education in Love of Valentin
Title: The Education in Love of Valentin
Character: Valentin
Released: May 25, 1976
Type: Movie
This sex comedy concerns the efforts of Julien to get his timid, "backward" 20-year-old son to take an interest in sex and get married. After a series of adventures with women (arranged by papa), Valentin finally gets married to a woman who appears to be as shy as he is. Things get complicated when his father begins an affair with her.
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Title: Les Jeux de 20 heures
Character: Self
Released: March 22, 1976
Type: TV
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Forget Me, Mandoline
Title: Forget Me, Mandoline
Released: March 3, 1976
Type: Movie
The young and charming Mandoline, accountant of the advertising agency Publi-Pub, has stolen documents proving that the company kept double accounts. Remorseful when she wanted to pass this evidence to a tax inspector, she decides to put the documents back in the agency's safe, but does not really know how to go about it. Her friend Marie-Charlotte, a transvestite, helps him find a young safe-drilling man in his condition, who will help him open the safe - but of course, the matter is not so simple.
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Lola's Lolos
Title: Lola's Lolos
Character: The mysterious diver
Released: February 11, 1976
Type: Movie
In a deliberately erratic and disjointed fashion, this film follows the adventures of Bernard (Jean-Pierre Leaud). A young man from the provinces, he makes his pilgrimage to Paris and seeks adventure while living on a barge.
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Title: 30 millions d'amis
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1976
Type: TV
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No Problem!
Title: No Problem!
Character: Jean-Pierre Michalon
Released: June 18, 1975
Type: Movie
A man with a gunshot wound in the stomach comes to first house and collapses in Anita's apartment. A minute later he dies and the girl horrified by what happened, must look for somebody who would help her get rid of the corpse...
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Trop c'est trop
Title: Trop c'est trop
Character: Curé
Released: June 5, 1975
Type: Movie
Philippe, Didier, Georges and Edina were born on the same day. The three boys have always been in love with Edina, but she's always put them off. They set off in search of her and find her posing for a photographer. Seeing them, she flees and dies in the process. By mutual agreement, the three boys commit suicide to join her.
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Like a Pot of Strawberries
Title: Like a Pot of Strawberries
Character: Philippe
Released: September 11, 1974
Type: Movie
Amandine is twenty years old, the most beautiful buttocks in Paris, and unfortunately a very ugly nose, which forces her in her profession of model, to pose only from behind. Trying in vain to save money that her sister Joëlle constantly borrows from her, she will finally be reimbursed and will thus be able to afford aesthetic surgery and become a lovely cover girl...
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Operation Lady Marlene
Title: Operation Lady Marlene
Character: Clovis
Released: September 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Robert Lamoureux plays a General in the Resistance. With an unlikely team of French patriots, he easily outwits the buffoonish Germans and steals the master copy of their plans to invade England. By doing so, he prevents the invasion and makes it more likely that the Allies will win the war.
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Tender Dracula
Title: Tender Dracula
Character: Alfred
Released: August 7, 1974
Type: Movie
Two writers and their girlfriends visit the castle of an actor who specializes in playing vampire roles. As the night progresses, they begin to wonder if the man is an actor playing a vampire, or a vampire playing an actor.
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Le Chaud Lapin
Title: Le Chaud Lapin
Character: William
Released: June 5, 1974
Type: Movie
William, together with his family, joins his childhood friend and his family in a crowded country house for a summer vacation. As a result, he has had to leave behind his mistress and all the other lovely women he enjoys trying to seduce. Stranded in the isolated rural cottage with his friend's family, he attempts to bed every female member of that clan. Unsuccessful and extremely frustrated, he is determined to have some fun on his vacation and abandons the whole group in pursuit of a trio of hippyish females who flirted with him earlier.
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The Four Charlots Musketeers
Title: The Four Charlots Musketeers
Character: Le gouverneur de La Bastille
Released: February 13, 1974
Type: Movie
This French slapstick comedy stars the musician/comedian foursome Les Charlots, as valets to the Four Musketeers. One of the film's highlights is a mutual kicking session between Cardinal Richelieu, the King, and a monk. This comedy foursome was enormously popular in 1970s France, and they made a huge number of films during that period.
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Don't Cry with Your Mouth Full
Title: Don't Cry with Your Mouth Full
Character: Alexandre
Released: October 25, 1973
Type: Movie
Annie, a 16 years old girl, loves Frédéric who is away doing his national service. During her holidays in the country, she meets Alexandre. He's older, owns a car and she experiences the "first time" with him. Back during a leave, Frédéric finds his sweetheart in the arms of this clumsy oaf and eventually hits it off with him.
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Du côté d'Orouët
Title: Du côté d'Orouët
Character: Gilbert
Released: September 27, 1973
Type: Movie
A patient observation on the adventures a group of three young girls spending their three-week summer vacation at a small village, a quotidian that includes cooking, excursions, playing cards and going out with guys, enjoying the simple pleasures life has to offer.
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Day for Night
Title: Day for Night
Character: Bernard
Released: May 24, 1973
Type: Movie
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
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La Grande Bouffe
Title: La Grande Bouffe
Character: Pierre
Released: May 16, 1973
Type: Movie
Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.