Michel Berto

Michel Berto

Born: December 25, 1939
Died: January 2, 1996
in Grenoble, Isère, France
Michel Berto (25 December 1939 in Grenoble – c. 2 january 1996 in Paris) was a French actor. He was married to the actresses Juliet Berto and Marie Berto. His body was found on 3 January 1996, hence the exact date of his death is uncertain.

Movies for Michel Berto...

The Three Brothers
Title: The Three Brothers
Character: Le greffier
Released: December 13, 1995
Type: Movie
Three half-brothers are reunited at their mother's funeral. After being told of their inheritance they quickly spend the money, only to find out that they will not receive it after all. The men grow closer while deciding how to proceed.
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Joan the Maid II: The Prisons
Title: Joan the Maid II: The Prisons
Character: Guillaume Erard
Released: February 10, 1994
Type: Movie
Joan has succeeded in lifting the siege on Orléans and Charles VII has been ordained King of France. However, she is injured in her failed attempt to take Paris, weakening her position at court. When she is finally captured and put on trial, she finds both her life and the sanctity of her body at stake.
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Coup de chien
Title: Coup de chien
Character: Ange
Released: August 31, 1992
Type: Movie
A blind man, a returning safecracker and a recently released ex-con organize a heist of a prosthesis factory to get some platinum. But nothing will happen as planned.
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Carne
Title: Carne
Character: Lawyer
Released: May 1, 1991
Type: Movie
After a dreadful incident coupled with an ungovernable paroxysm of violence, a butcher will fall into a downward spiral that will burn to the ground whatever dignity still remained in him.
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Thank You, Life
Title: Thank You, Life
Character: le banquier
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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Dédé
Title: Dédé
Released: May 2, 1990
Type: Movie
In this retelling of the story of Hamlet, the young man is a soldier on leave to attend his widowed mother's marriage to his uncle - a marriage which is unpleasantly near in time to the death of his father. Every element of Shakespeare's tragic story is present, except that, this time, Dede refuses to kill anyone, no matter how persistent his father's frustrated ghost is.
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Title: The secret files of Inspector Lavardin
Character: Georges
Released: September 15, 1988
Type: TV
The Dossiers of Inspector Lavardin is a French television series in four 90-minute episodes, created by Dominique Roulet and Claude Chabrol and broadcast between September 15, 1988 and February 1, 1990 on TF1. It follows the two films Chicken in Vinegar and Inspector Lavardin directed by Claude Chabrol and already featuring Jean Poiret in the role of Lavardin. This short series depicts the investigations of Inspector Lavardin, a tongue-in-cheek policeman known for his bad manners.
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The Fugitives
Title: The Fugitives
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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The Secret Wife
Title: The Secret Wife
Character: Torti
Released: September 17, 1986
Type: Movie
It was during one of his missions in Norway that Antoine learned of his wife's death. He leaves his experimental submarine and returns to Paris. Helene was found in the Seine and had taken barbiturates. Even though he had not been with Hélène for six years, he knew her well enough to believe that she was incapable of committing suicide. So who and why?
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États d'âme
Title: États d'âme
Character: Un fonctionnaire
Released: May 28, 1986
Type: Movie
In this political drama, five left-leaning friends gradually lose heart in the Socialist government elected in 1981 in France. One of the five men is a television broadcaster; the others are a teacher about to become an academic inspector, a tax man, the director of a cultural center, and a sociologist who is about to step into a ministerial position. Their interlocking lives are told in alternating vignettes over a four-year period, and the professions director Jacques Fansten has chosen for his main characters seem to be a comment on the media, education, budget or finance, the arts, and government bureaucracy under Socialist rule.
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Marriage of the Century
Title: Marriage of the Century
Character: Un joueur de poker
Released: October 8, 1985
Type: Movie
Princess Charlotte is scheduled to marry a boring duke, but before that event happens, Paul has taken a bet that he can seduce her. He does, profits from his act, and then falls in love with her. Meanwhile, the wedding with the duke is still planned, and it remains to be seen whether Paul will give in and give up.
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Blessure
Title: Blessure
Character: The boss of the rock room
Released: August 21, 1985
Type: Movie
A young rock singer, Morgan, falls in love with the pretty Julie. But Dimitri, Julie's "ex", doesn't see it that way.
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Le Bon Plaisir
Title: Le Bon Plaisir
Character: Le patron du café
Released: January 18, 1984
Type: Movie
Claire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter he urges his pregnant mistress to have an abortion. Claire immediately alerts the President's men. From that moment, the machinery of state swings into action.
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Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux!
Title: Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être heureux!
Released: February 1, 1982
Type: Movie
In this film that sends up the foibles of filmmaking, a standard crew of actors, stage-hands, director, writers, producers, and others are gathered for the filming of a 45-second automobile commercial. Each role embodies an archetype (the harried director who has a deadline to meet, the Scrooge production manager who has a budget to meet, and the writers who are above these mundane concerns), and these personalities drive the working actors over the edge until they decide to lock them up and do their own thing -- happiness can be just around the corner if you are in the driver's seat. Hopefully, the actors will be able to bow out before the police catch on to the situation.
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Merry-Go-Round
Title: Merry-Go-Round
Character: Jerome
Released: October 8, 1981
Type: Movie
New Yorker Ben Phillips and mysterious Léo Hoffmann are strangers who are summoned to Paris by a mutual acquaintance. Upon arrival, they meet and soon find themselves tangled in a complex mystery.
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Beau Pere
Title: Beau Pere
Character: Le professeur
Released: September 15, 1981
Type: Movie
Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.
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Snow
Title: Snow
Character: Blind man
Released: May 20, 1981
Type: Movie
Anita is a barmaid at the center of a community of street preachers, prostitutes, dealers and users. When a beloved friend (and young drug dealer) is caught by narcotics agents, Anita takes it upon herself to score for his struggling clients.
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Malevil
Title: Malevil
Character: Bébé (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1981
Type: Movie
In southern France, in a quiet little town, the mayor, who also owns a castle with some cattle, is in the wine cellar with some other people: the pharmacist, the veterinary, and some of his employees. As they are drinking wine, they hear a terrible noise and the heat's getting higher and higher. They don't realize what's happening: when they come out of the cellar, they realize that everything has burned, and all the buildings are destroyed...
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C'est encore loin l'Amérique?
Title: C'est encore loin l'Amérique?
Character: François
Released: January 9, 1980
Type: Movie
Julienne Lebas is a financial assistant at a real estate developer but she has published a novel and hopes to become an actress someday.
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The Police War
Title: The Police War
Character: Man at the counter
Released: November 14, 1979
Type: Movie
Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the underworld.
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Memoirs of a French Whore
Title: Memoirs of a French Whore
Character: Humiliated Client
Released: October 17, 1979
Type: Movie
Marie is nineteen and bored in her little suburban life with no future. In a café, she meets the charismatic and beautiful Gerard. Blinded by adoration, Mary decides to leave her parents and her clerk job to live with the man she considers as the love of her life. But Gerard is a pimp, who soon forces her into prostitution. From within homes to out on the streets, the young woman gradually discovers a world of decay and violence.
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The Bit Between the Teeth
Title: The Bit Between the Teeth
Character: Solo
Released: September 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math whiz who uses his talent for picking the winners. Charles (Michel Galabru) is the wealthy scrap-iron magnate who has embarrassing evidence on many prominent political figures. Loic (Jacques Dutronc) is the aspiring politico who seeks to further his career by any means possible. Charles approaches Loic and asks his political party for a loan in hopes of fixing an upcoming race....
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Roberte
Title: Roberte
Character: Justin
Released: March 14, 1979
Type: Movie
Roberte, 40, resistant during the war, Calvinist and anticlerical, is deputy to the chamber and inspector of Censorship. She married Octave, an old Catholic aesthete, professor of canon law, whom she saves from impeachment for collaboration during the war. He submits his wife to a perverse custom: the laws of hospitality or prostitution of the wife by the husband.
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These Kids Are Grown-Ups
Title: These Kids Are Grown-Ups
Character: Le prisonnier
Released: March 14, 1979
Type: Movie
When a real-estate promoter attempts to take over the homes of two electronics whizzes and boot them out, they contrive ingenious ways to inconvenience and harass him. By pooling their knowledge, they are able to pull off a crucial robbery using a very special box of chocolates.
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Other People's Money
Title: Other People's Money
Character: Duval
Released: September 27, 1978
Type: Movie
Henri Rainier has everything a man could want. A glamorous wife, two beautiful daughters and a well-paid job with a large bank. Then, one day, his entire world collapses. In the wake of a high-profile financial scandal, he is summoned into his director's office and accused of negligence. Rainier has no choice but to resign, but he soon realises that he has been made a scapegoat. He begins his own investigation in an attempt to clear his name and discover who is responsible for the enormous hole in the bank's finances. It soon becomes apparent that he is up against a very powerful and dangerous opponent.
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The Seventh Company Outdoors
Title: The Seventh Company Outdoors
Character: Le passager dans l'avion qui vient d'Angleterre
Released: December 7, 1977
Type: Movie
The third part of Seventh Company adventures.
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Spoiled Children
Title: Spoiled Children
Character: Muzard
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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Playing with Fire
Title: Playing with Fire
Character: Deputy Commissioner
Released: February 19, 1975
Type: Movie
A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers.
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Zig Zig
Title: Zig Zig
Character: Un agent de police
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Two women work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home.
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Défense de savoir
Title: Défense de savoir
Released: August 29, 1973
Type: Movie
When a woman is accused of murder, the investigation slowly reveals numerous political connections. Laubret, the court-appointed defense lawyer, does everything in his power to expose the truth.
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Out 1 : Spectre
Title: Out 1 : Spectre
Character: Honey Moon
Released: December 25, 1972
Type: Movie
Out 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we realize that there is a plot—perhaps playful, perhaps sinister—that implicates not just the thirteen characters, but maybe everyone, everywhere. Real life may be nothing but an enormous yarn someone somewhere is spinning...
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Out 1
Title: Out 1
Character: Honeymoon
Released: October 9, 1971
Type: Movie
While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.