Michel Blanc

Michel Blanc

Born: April 16, 1952
in Courbevoie, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Michel Blanc (born 16 April 1952 in Courbevoie, France) is a French actor and director who is noted for his roles of losers and hypochondriacs. He is frequently associated with the Splendid group, which he co-founded, along with Thierry Lhermitte, Josiane Balasko, Christian Clavier and Gérard Jugnot. Michel Blanc has also shown his versatility by appearing in more serious roles, such as the title role in the Patrice Leconte film Monsieur Hire.

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Take a Chance on Me
Title: Take a Chance on Me
Character: Judge Gilles d'Outremont
Released: October 11, 2023
Type: Movie
Marie-Line is juggling between odd jobs to support her agoraphobic father. Despite the precariousness of their lifestyle, she remains a lively and cheerful young woman. Yet, after a series of unfortunate events, she is fired from her job and sentenced by a judge to a small penalty. A few days later, this very judge will be in a position to help her get back on track – a chance for Marie-Line but also the beginning of an unlikely friendship.
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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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The Small Victories
Title: The Small Victories
Character: Emile Menoux
Released: March 1, 2023
Type: Movie
Between her roles as mayor and teacher in the small village of Kerguen, Alice's days are very full. When an unexpected new student, 60-year-old Emile, finally decides to learn to read and write, her daily life threatens to become unmanageable. Especially since Alice will also have to save her village and her school...
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Top Dogs
Title: Top Dogs
Character: Jean-Pierre Deloup
Released: January 11, 2023
Type: Movie
Antoine and Christian, two long-estranged brothers from Normandy, couldn’t be more different from each other: while the former is happily married with two kids and a successful boat driver, the latter is a facetious globe-trotting hustler who likes to engage in bar fights. But when Antoine starts getting involved in sleazy activities, Christian flies to his rescue. In an unexpected bonding-adventure they take upon themselves to defend the family they thought they’d never be.
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Christmas with the Tuches
Title: Christmas with the Tuches
Character: Jean-Yves Marteau
Released: December 8, 2021
Type: Movie
After having resigned from his post as President of the Republic, Jeff and his family are happy to be back in their village of Bouzolles. As the end of the year holidays approach, Cathy asks for a unique gift: to reconnect with her sister Maguy, and her husband Jean-Yves, with whom Jeff has been angry for 10 years. The reconciliation could have gone smoothly, except that during a lunch, Jeff and Jean-Yves, will once again find a subject of contention: CHRISTMAS. This family feud, which should never have left Bouzolles, will turn into a standoff between Jeff and a giant of Internet distribution.
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A Good Doctor
Title: A Good Doctor
Character: Serge Mamou Mani, the doctor
Released: December 11, 2019
Type: Movie
On Christmas eve, Serge is the only on-call emergency doctor available. Struck by a crippling back-ache, he gets help from a pizza delivery boy who will need to step in the doctor's shoes.
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Kiss & Tell
Title: Kiss & Tell
Character: Jean-Pierre
Released: October 10, 2018
Type: Movie
Sequel to 2002's "Summer Things" (Embrassez qui vous voudrez). This French comedy follows various people in two families. Bertrand and his wife, Elizabeth, are a wealthy couple who plan to vacation near the same coastal town as their friends, Jerome and Veronique, who are secretly struggling with financial problems. Meanwhile, Bertrand and his daughter, Emilie, have each been hiding a secret, and these deceptions are bound to have repercussions.
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R.A.I.D. Special Unit
Title: R.A.I.D. Special Unit
Character: Jacques Pasquali
Released: February 1, 2017
Type: Movie
The story of a woman who dreams to join an intervention group in the police department called RAID. Unfortunately, she is rather clumsy and both her family (and soon to be family-in-law) and a veteran of the RAID do not approve. However, Johanna is determined to prove them wrong.
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Odd Job
Title: Odd Job
Character: Gardot
Released: August 31, 2016
Type: Movie
An unemployed factory worker takes a job as a hit man to make ends meet.
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The New Adventures of Aladdin
Title: The New Adventures of Aladdin
Character: Le Sultan
Released: October 14, 2015
Type: Movie
A pair of losers working at department store plan to rob the place after it closes. When a bunch of kids show up begging for a story, the men launch into an improvised version of Aladdin.
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Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Title: Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Released: December 13, 2014
Type: Movie
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Les Souvenirs
Title: Les Souvenirs
Character: Le père de Romain
Released: August 23, 2014
Type: Movie
Romain is 23 years old. He would like to be a writer, but for now, it is night porter in a hotel. His father is 62 years old. He retires and pretends to fuck. His roommate is 24 years old. He thinks only one thing: to seduce a girl, any and all means. Her grandmother is 85 years old. She finds herself in a retirement home and wondered what she does with all these old. One day his father arrived in disaster. His grandmother was gone. She escaped somehow. Romain goes looking for him somewhere in his memories ...
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The Hundred-Foot Journey
Title: The Hundred-Foot Journey
Character: Mayor
Released: August 6, 2014
Type: Movie
A story centered around an Indian family who moves to France and opens a restaurant across the street from a Michelin-starred French restaurant.
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Des Bronzés au Père Noël, la folle histoire du Splendid
Title: Des Bronzés au Père Noël, la folle histoire du Splendid
Released: January 31, 2014
Type: Movie
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Half-Sister
Title: Half-Sister
Character: Paul
Released: June 4, 2013
Type: Movie
When Nénette discovers the identity of her father in a letter, she quickly goes off in search of him. But instead of finding her father, she is met by her half-brother, Paul. Paul, a bitter man who gave up his dream to take over his father’s pharmacy business, is less than thrilled at the arrival of his ‘embarrassing’ half-sister. After refusing to take her in, he soon gets a taste of his own medicine. Under the influence of a potent drug, for one day Paul is generous, happy and sensitive. The next morning, however, once the drug has worn off, his nasty side comes back...
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The Minister
Title: The Minister
Character: Gilles, directeur de cabinet
Released: October 26, 2011
Type: Movie
Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean is awoken in the middle of the night by his head of staff. A bus has gone off the road into a gully. He has no choice but to go to the scene of the accident. Thus begins the odyssey of a politician in a world that is increasingly more complex and hostile.
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The Day I Saw Your Heart
Title: The Day I Saw Your Heart
Character: Eli Dhrey
Released: April 20, 2011
Type: Movie
Justine, struggles with commitment, listens to old David Bowie covers, and uses her employer’s private MRI machines to make “X-Ray Art” After a trail of boyfriends, Justine thinks she has found The One, a hunky shoe salesman, but her temporary happiness is thrown when her neurotic 60-year-old Jewish father (Michel Blanc) suffers a delayed midlife crisis and announces that his young second wife is expecting a baby. Justine and her half-sister Dom, who is trying to adopt, are rather annoyed at the news. Coupled with resentment about her father’s absence when she was growing up, causes her to spiral into self-doubt. Overflowing with French charm, Justine gets by with the help of her family, friends, and newly discovered muse.
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A Spot of Bother
Title: A Spot of Bother
Character: Jean-Paul Muret
Released: January 12, 2010
Type: Movie
Retired Englishman George Hall's hypochondria worsens and takes its toll on his family.
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Title: C à vous
Character: Self
Released: September 7, 2009
Type: TV
Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second part, the program welcomes, around a meal prepared by a qualified chef, artists in promotion.
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The Girl on the Train
Title: The Girl on the Train
Character: Samuel Bleistein
Released: March 18, 2009
Type: Movie
The Girl on the Train is a 2009 French drama film directed by André Téchiné. Jeanne is a young woman, striking but otherwise without qualities. Her mother tries to get her a job in the office of a lawyer, Bleistein, her lover years ago. Jeanne fails the interview but falls into a relationship with Franck, a wrestler whose dreams and claims of being in a legitimate business partnership Jeanne is only too happy to believe. When Franck is arrested, he turns on Jeanne for her naivety; she's stung and seeks attention by making up a story of an attack on a train. Is there any way out for her?
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A Day at the Museum
Title: A Day at the Museum
Character: Mosk
Released: November 19, 2008
Type: Movie
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.
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School's Out
Title: School's Out
Character: Professeur Martineau
Released: July 16, 2008
Type: Movie
A few days before the baccalaureate, a high school student decides to settle accounts with the most cowardly teacher in the school.
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The Second Wind
Title: The Second Wind
Character: le commissaire Blot
Released: October 24, 2007
Type: Movie
Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu needs a final job to get some money. The job works, but a police's scheming makes Gu appear as a traitor to his own accomplices. Gu will do whatever it takes to clean his honor...
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The Witnesses
Title: The Witnesses
Character: Adrien
Released: March 7, 2007
Type: Movie
Paris, 1984. A group of friends contend with the first outbreak of the AIDS epidemic.
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Title: Salut les Terriens !
Character: Self (guest)
Released: November 4, 2006
Type: TV
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French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever
Title: French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever
Character: Jean-Claude "Jessy" Dusse
Released: February 1, 2006
Type: Movie
After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same, and worse.
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You Are So Beautiful
Title: You Are So Beautiful
Character: Aymé Pigrenet
Released: November 7, 2005
Type: Movie
Aymé Pigrenet, a recently widowed farmer, is eager to find a new wife to help him run his farm. Desperate, he seeks the aid of a local matchmaker who suggest that he go to Romania to find a new wife. There he meets Elena.
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93, rue Lauriston
Title: 93, rue Lauriston
Character: Inspecteur Blot
Released: December 14, 2004
Type: Movie
93, rue Lauriston, in the 16th arrondissement de Paris, is an address of bleak memory. It was indeed the headquarter of the French Gestapo, which was active between 1941 and 1944 and was headed by Henri Lafont and Pierre Loutrel, two wanted criminals. On the day of 1940 he was demobilized, little did well-meaning Léon Jabinet know that he would be associated with such disreputable characters. And yet, some time later, Odile Panzer, the Jewish girl he has been hiding at his parents'place, is arrested by the Gestapo. On this occasion Léon is offered a deal for her release: collaborating with the Carlingue (another name for the French auxiliaries of the Nazi police) and Odile will be free. Or else... What should he do?
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Madame Edouard
Title: Madame Edouard
Character: le commissaire Léon
Released: June 2, 2004
Type: Movie
In Brussels, one discovers the bodies of young women buried behind the tombs of famous painters… In each of them, it lacks the right forearm. Yarn needles, Commissioner Leon, whose secret passion is knitting, unravels the intrigue of this dark history, with the heart of this case Mrs. Edward Island, transvestite housekeeper bistro "In Sudden Death," where one encounters a high wildlife colors.
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L'Affaire Dominici
Title: L'Affaire Dominici
Character: Commissaire Sébeille
Released: October 12, 2003
Type: Movie
During the night of August 4-5, 1952, three Englishmen, Jack Drummond, his wife Anne and their daughter Elizabeth were murdered near their car near the farm of the Dominici family, in the commune of Lurs in the Alpes-de-Haute-Provence. Denounced by two of his sons, the patriarch Gaston Dominici was judged and condemned without any real evidence.
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Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
Title: Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
Character: Self
Released: January 3, 2003
Type: Movie
Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of these cult films that have crossed generations without getting old. Go behind the scenes of these unusual films through completely unpublished anecdotes and funny stories told by the authors themselves.
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Summer Things
Title: Summer Things
Character: Jean-Pierre
Released: March 4, 2002
Type: Movie
Two couple of friends, one very rich, the other almost homeless, decide to go on Holiday. Julie, a single mother, joins them too. Once at seaside, it starts a complicate love cross among them that will involve also a transsexual, a jealous brother, a Latin Lover and another nervous stressed couple. Not to mention about the daughter of one of them that is secretly in Chicago with one of her father's employees... At the end of the summer, all of them will join the same party...
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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The Grand Dukes
Title: The Grand Dukes
Character: Shapiron
Released: February 21, 1996
Type: Movie
Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of course under the worst possible conditions.
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Ready to Wear
Title: Ready to Wear
Character: Inspector Forget
Released: December 23, 1994
Type: Movie
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.
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The Monster
Title: The Monster
Character: Paride Taccone, le psychiatre
Released: October 22, 1994
Type: Movie
A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris and ...
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Dead Tired
Title: Dead Tired
Character: Michel Blanc / Patrick Olivier
Released: May 18, 1994
Type: Movie
Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around him, and he gradually loses his grip. Taking the advice of a psychiatrist, Blanc retreats to the countryside with his friend Carole Bouquet, but Blanc still has not managed to escape all of his problems.
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Toxic Affair
Title: Toxic Affair
Character: The suicidal
Released: May 26, 1993
Type: Movie
In this erstwhile comedy, Penelope (Isabelle Adjani) is already sufficiently unsettled by the fact that she is no longer a top model, and must cast around for another occupation. When her boyfriend leaves her, she becomes quite hysterical, conjuring up schemes for revenge, contemplating suicide, and so on. These dramatics eventually exasperate her best friend Sophie (Clementine Celarie) so much that she contemplates killing Penelope, her ex-boyfriend, or the two of them together, just to stop the whining.
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Les Enfoirés 1993 - Les Enfoirés chantent Starmania
Title: Les Enfoirés 1993 - Les Enfoirés chantent Starmania
Released: March 6, 1993
Type: Movie
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Title: Coucou c'est nous !
Character: Self
Released: September 22, 1992
Type: TV
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Prospero's Books
Title: Prospero's Books
Character: Alonso
Released: August 30, 1991
Type: Movie
An exiled magician finds an opportunity for revenge against his enemies muted when his daughter and the son of his chief enemy fall in love in this uniquely structured retelling of the 'The Tempest'.
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The Favor, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
Title: The Favor, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
Character: Norbert
Released: May 1, 1991
Type: Movie
A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds himself doing a voice track for a porno movie with Natasha Richardson. Hoskins finds his model for Jesus in Jeff Goldblum and a romantic triangle begins in which Goldblum finds adoring crowds believing him to be Jesus and then begins to believe it himself.
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The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
Title: The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
Character: L'hindou
Released: April 24, 1991
Type: Movie
This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.
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Thank You, Life
Title: Thank You, Life
Character: Raymond Pelleveau, le père jeune
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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Uranus
Title: Uranus
Character: Gaigneux
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: Les Nuls, l'émission
Character: Self
Released: October 13, 1990
Type: TV
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Chambre à part
Title: Chambre à part
Character: Martin
Released: November 22, 1989
Type: Movie
Martin and Gert lead a very quiet life, until the day when their path crosses that of Marie and Francis. Martin, the shy one, lets himself be seduced by Marie. Gert wasted no time in understanding and dropped into Francis' arms.
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Monsieur Hire
Title: Monsieur Hire
Character: Monsieur Hire
Released: May 24, 1989
Type: Movie
A French man spies on a lovely younger woman across the way. When he's spotted by the woman shortly after being questioned by the police about a local murder, the man's simple life becomes more complicated.
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Sans peur et sans reproche
Title: Sans peur et sans reproche
Character: Verdiglione, surgeon
Released: December 14, 1988
Type: Movie
Without fear and beyond reproach: the life of the brave knight de Bayard reviewed and corrected with humorous sauce.
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Title: Palace
Character: Service des fraudes
Released: October 29, 1988
Type: TV
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Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale
Title: Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale
Character: Walter Arbeit
Released: June 8, 1988
Type: Movie
The leader of a nudist colony enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor.
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Title: Sacrée soirée
Character: self
Released: September 2, 1987
Type: TV
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The Fugitives
Title: The Fugitives
Character: Doctor Bourdarias
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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I Hate Actors
Title: I Hate Actors
Character: Monsieur Albert
Released: September 10, 1986
Type: Movie
A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up as corpses, killed before the critics could ever put pen to paper. Under suspicion is a talent agent. Is he guilty or not? These macabre events have everyone off their feed, from the producers down to the lowest gofer.
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Ménage
Title: Ménage
Character: Antoine
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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Drôle de samedi
Title: Drôle de samedi
Character: Driving school student
Released: April 1, 1985
Type: Movie
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Nuit d'ivresse
Title: Nuit d'ivresse
Character: Jacques Belin
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
In a bar, ex-TV host Belin meets Frede, an ex-maid who just got out of prison. Between them, they manage to create panic everywhere they go. The next morning Belin has forgotten everything.
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Dream One
Title: Dream One
Character: Boris / Nemo's Father
Released: December 12, 1984
Type: Movie
Based on Winsor McCay's comic strip, a little boy embarks on a dream-like adventure. Also known as Dream One.
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The Defective Detective
Title: The Defective Detective
Character: Laurent Martin
Released: October 31, 1984
Type: Movie
Lewis plays a Las Vegas policeman visiting his ex-wife in France, only to be caught up in the shenanigans of a group of art thieves. His ex-wife has remarried and her husband is undercover among the art thieves, carrying out an assignment given him by his superiors in the police force. Inevitably, the current husband and the ex-husband are bound to clash.
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Marche à l'ombre
Title: Marche à l'ombre
Character: Denis
Released: October 17, 1984
Type: Movie
Two friends, one a musician the other constantly depressed wander around Greece and France till they get to Paris without a penny to their name. Here they spend nights in the underground, and squat in houses with the African immigrants. One day they both fall in love with Mathilde a blond dancer and follow her to New York.
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Gramps Is in the Resistance
Title: Gramps Is in the Resistance
Character: Le père Lebœuf, résistant
Released: October 26, 1983
Type: Movie
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!
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Move Along, There Is Nothing to See!
Title: Move Along, There Is Nothing to See!
Character: Leroux
Released: April 20, 1983
Type: Movie
Inspector Leroux is investigating the owner of a contemporary art gallery Helen Duvernet who is suspected of being involved in trafficking of stolen paintings. He is both intrigued and attracted by the young woman, follows her everywhere and finally falls in love...
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Après tout ce qu'on a fait pour toi
Title: Après tout ce qu'on a fait pour toi
Character: Pierre
Released: February 3, 1983
Type: Movie
Divorced parents are concerned about the behavior of their teenage son who is rebelling against society.
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Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Title: Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Character: L'obsédé sexuel au téléphone (voix)
Released: August 25, 1982
Type: Movie
Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a transvestite visit their office.
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Bunny's Bar
Title: Bunny's Bar
Character: Jacques, portier
Released: April 14, 1982
Type: Movie
In the cloakroom of Bunny's Bar, a shabby striptease box, Anita, a cloakroom lady, celebrates her last night of work: she has to join Paul in Metz to start a new life.
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Title: Merci Bernard
Released: April 4, 1982
Type: TV
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Singles
Title: Singles
Character: Bernard
Released: January 27, 1982
Type: Movie
Abandoned by his wife, Bernard struggles to overcome his grief and settles in a residence for singles. Employed by "SOS Doctors", he provides night guards to occupy his insomnia. That's how he is brought one night to help a neighbor, Nadine Foulon, victim of discomfort in the elevator. It turns out that Nadine is also going through a difficult time, since her companion, Terry, a singer-guitarist, has left her. A professional photographer, she can not forget it and has since oscillated between depression and bulimia. Gathered by their pains of heart, these two beings will, with the wire of the confidences, become more intimate ...
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend's
Title: Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend's
Character: Guy
Released: January 25, 1981
Type: Movie
Guy is fired from is job, and asks to stay with his friend and his girlfriend in their apartment. The longer he stays, the more disaster he creates.
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The Horse of Pride
Title: The Horse of Pride
Character: Corentin Calvez
Released: September 24, 1980
Type: Movie
In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton ways: three generations under one roof, a division of labor between the sexes, elders' stories at night, politics and religion during their little free time. Times are hard: la Chienne du Monde drives some to suicide; Ankou (death) is close at hand. Pierre is born into this republican family, his lyric childhood interrupted by the outbreak of war and his father's conscription. He learns his catechism and, as a child of a Reds, also reveres school. His grandfather and father often put him on their shoulders, giving him a ride on the horse of pride.
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Title: Les 400 Coups de Virginie
Character: l'antiquaire
Released: December 22, 1979
Type: TV
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The Other One's Mug
Title: The Other One's Mug
Character: Taboureau
Released: December 12, 1979
Type: Movie
Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a forthcoming election. When he learns that a notorious criminal named Kraus has escaped from prison, Perrin panics and goes into hiding. His deputy, Constant, hires Perrin’s cousin, Gilbert, an actor who is a perfect double of Perrin, to replace him. What Gilbert does no know is that the killer Kraus is bumping off the people who were implicated in the affair for which he was arrested, and that Perrin is next on his list.
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Out of Whack
Title: Out of Whack
Character: Marcel Dupin / Passager métro effrayé
Released: December 12, 1979
Type: Movie
Rien ne va plus is a series of comedy sketches of disparate quality, on the social, cultural, and political foibles that make the French, French. Various settings and character types are given a once-over, including pseudo-intellectuals, punk bikers, right-wingers, and patrons of a low-end cafe.
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French Fried Vacation 2: The Bronzés go Skiing
Title: French Fried Vacation 2: The Bronzés go Skiing
Character: Jean-Claude Dusse, le frustré
Released: November 22, 1979
Type: Movie
In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Claude, and Christiane.
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Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
Title: Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
Character: L'agent de police du chantier
Released: April 18, 1979
Type: Movie
François Perrin is a journalist who reads the news on RTL radio. Alone in life, his only "amusement" is his neighbor from Africa, who makes mildly fun of him from time to time. One evening, François is bored, and decides to call a random telephone number. He gets Christine on the line, a bit of an old school pharmacist, who hesitates to put down the phone, and plays the game of seduction with the charming "Mr X"...
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Pierrot mon ami
Title: Pierrot mon ami
Released: February 7, 1979
Type: Movie
Pierrot, a short-sighted, indolent and distracted young boy gets involved in a carnival at the Palais de la Rigolade whose main attraction is to place the women in an ascending current of air which makes their skirts fly. A fight in this Palace makes him lose his job. Then he meets Yvonne, the daughter of Pradonet, the owner of the funfair. He falls in love with Yvonne who hardly seems to share his feelings.
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The Adolescent
Title: The Adolescent
Character: M. Bertin
Released: January 24, 1979
Type: Movie
In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother.
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Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears
Title: Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears
Character: Un passant qui renseigne
Released: January 17, 1979
Type: Movie
Two brothers are fighting for a one girl attention...
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Title: Rire et sourire : Le Splendid
Character: Différents rôles (Jean Marchand, M. Cinoche)
Released: November 19, 1978
Type: TV
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French Fried Vacation
Title: French Fried Vacation
Character: Jean-Claude Dusse, le frustré
Released: November 11, 1978
Type: Movie
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.
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Like a Turtle on Its Back
Title: Like a Turtle on Its Back
Character: le fêtard qui lit
Released: September 27, 1978
Type: Movie
Unable to put a single word on paper, a youngish man with one novel to his credit finds that his life is crumbling to ruins around him because of his severe case of writer's block. He tries every remedy known to man and makes up a few new ones in this comedy. All his efforts are futile: he loses his girlfriend and his apartment and has a succession of misadventures until finally, homeless and hospitalized, he rediscovers his inspiration.
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Surprise Sock
Title: Surprise Sock
Character: L'interne
Released: June 14, 1978
Type: Movie
Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhile, their wives take full advantage of their newfound freedom.
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Le beaujolais nouveau est arrivé...
Title: Le beaujolais nouveau est arrivé...
Character: Le fils du capitaine
Released: March 26, 1978
Type: Movie
Camadule is in charge of buying several barrels of the Beaujolais Nouveau. The Captain and Kamel will travel with him to get the divine beverage.
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Title: Madame le Juge
Character: un vigile
Released: March 11, 1978
Type: TV
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Focal Point
Title: Focal Point
Character: Policeman
Released: October 25, 1977
Type: Movie
Reporter renowned photographer, Danièle Gaur is conducting an investigation into the alleged accident of her husband Michel. Her research is gradually leading her to discover the workings of a plot to assassinate US Foreign Secretary John W. Maxwell.
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You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
Title: You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
Character: Antremont
Released: October 19, 1977
Type: Movie
Whilst King Gros Pif I amuses himself at debauched banquets, his musketeers pursue their tax-collecting duties with a malicious zeal. Goaded by the court jester (who is also the Queen’s lover), the ministers decide to put an end to this regime and have the King locked up. Hearing the news, the famous Chevalier Blanc comes to his rescue. Aided by the knight and his cousin Lucienne, the King flees to Flanders, where he devises a scheme to win him back the throne of France...
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Title: Les Héritiers
Character: Ivan
Released: September 24, 1977
Type: TV
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Spoiled Children
Title: Spoiled Children
Character: Le jeune homme de l'agence
Released: September 6, 1977
Type: Movie
Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for his next film. Bernard moves into an apartment building whose tenants are in the midst of a revolt against their abusive landlord. Reluctant at first, he joins their cause and then becomes involved in an affair with young, unemployed resident Anne.
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The Devil in the Box
Title: The Devil in the Box
Released: April 19, 1977
Type: Movie
Alain Brissot, an executive in a major company, was made redundant following a redundancy plan, but decided to put up a fight by continuing to occupy his office against all odds... He soon went on hunger strike, and, after many ups and downs, ended up taking back the job of his former manager, who had himself been ousted following the failure of a lucrative contract with an African country.
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The Bottom Line
Title: The Bottom Line
Character: Un copain du café-théâtre
Released: June 16, 1976
Type: Movie
An advertising photographer, François, has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine, François' fiance, doesn't want him to do so, especially when the naive friend has succeeded in recruiting the young daughter of his employer to play in what he thinks is a romantic love movie.
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The Tenant
Title: The Tenant
Character: Scope's Neighbor
Released: May 26, 1976
Type: Movie
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
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The Undertaker Parlor Computer
Title: The Undertaker Parlor Computer
Character: Choukroun
Released: April 7, 1976
Type: Movie
Fred works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. He is bored with enduring the trials of his shrewish wife, so, after using actuarial tables to calculate the most common means of death, he cleverly prepares the family bathroom and brings about her demise. For a while he is content with his new freedom, but then he recognizes that a friend is in a similar situation.
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I Love You, I Don't
Title: I Love You, I Don't
Character: A worker
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 Best Way to Walk
Title: The Best Way to Walk
Character: Deloux
Released: March 3, 1976
Type: Movie
In 1960, Marc and Philippe are counselors at a summer camp in the French countryside. One night, Marc finds Philippe dressed and made up as a woman, and from now on, he will keep on humiliating Philippe.
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Let's Make a Dirty Movie
Title: Let's Make a Dirty Movie
Character: Un flic
Released: February 17, 1976
Type: Movie
A bumbling film crew attempts to make a porno movie.
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Let Joy Reign Supreme
Title: Let Joy Reign Supreme
Character: The valet
Released: March 23, 1975
Type: Movie
A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
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Un bol d'air
Title: Un bol d'air
Character: Michel
Released: February 19, 1975
Type: Movie
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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: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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The Girl's Dead, Man
Title: The Girl's Dead, Man
Released: January 16, 1974
Type: Movie
A young couple discover an ancient book in the attic and start reading the story of the Malemort family: a sombre household set in the nineteenth century in rural France. The old man Deroze plays his violin and tries to seduce the maid. His elder daughter Maxime "qui tue les mouches et deguste en cachette des fruits juteux". Underneath her bourgeois facade her senses are not yet put to rest. There is the rest of this upstairs/downstairs family who is visited by a sea captain who learns of a hidden treasure The storyline of this adult fairy tale is less important than the cinematography and the lyric fairy tale atmosphere that surrounds this movie. A little masterpiece still to be rediscovered.
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La Cache
Title: La Cache
Character: Père-Grand
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie