Rufus

Rufus

Born: December 19, 1942
in Riom, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Rufus (born 19 December 1942; Riom, Puy-de-Dôme) is the stage name of French actor Jacques Narcy. He is best known by the international film audience for his performance as Raphaël, the father of Amélie Poulain in Amélie (2001). He has appeared in numerous French TV series and productions, including most of the films directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He had the lead role in the movie Train de vie (1998), an award-winning tragicomedy about the Holocaust.

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Movies for Rufus...

Un père idéal
Title: Un père idéal
Character: L'Evêque
Released: April 21, 2024
Type: Movie
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Amélie: The Real Story
Title: Amélie: The Real Story
Character: (archive footage)
Released: January 15, 2023
Type: Movie
The truth about the real Amélie Poulain is finally revealed.
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Family
Title: Family
Character: Jean
Released: November 18, 2022
Type: Movie
Five family depictions, five disrupted balances. An anthology which broach subjects such as mourning, family toxicity, the lack of parents/children communication, miscarriage or divorce.
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The Takeover
Title: The Takeover
Character: Michel
Released: October 19, 2022
Type: Movie
Cédric works in a company specialized in precision mechanics. Its management, run by an investment fund, is disastrous. As another fund is about to buy it again, Cédric decides to take the company over, giving it to the employees.
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Shoot to Live
Title: Shoot to Live
Character: Self
Released: May 11, 2022
Type: Movie
A documentary on filmmaker Claude Lelouch, following him over seven years.
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Title: A French Case
Character: Le gendarme Féru
Released: September 20, 2021
Type: TV
When four-year-old Gregory is murdered, his devastated parents, the police and the judiciary are tested to their limits.
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Title: HPI
Character: Henri
Released: April 29, 2021
Type: TV
Morgane is 38 years old. She raises her 3 children alone. She manages (or not) her 2 exes and her various credits. Her 160 IQ scores spoil her life a bit until the day when Morgane sees her destiny as a cleaning lady turned upside down. Her extraordinary abilities are spotted by the police who offer her a job as a consultant... Problem: Morgane hates cops...
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Folon
Title: Folon
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 2021
Type: Movie
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Mine de rien
Title: Mine de rien
Character: Roger Morels
Released: February 26, 2020
Type: Movie
In a region that was once the flagship of the mining industry, two long-term unemployed men come up with the idea of building an "artisanal" amusement park on the site of a disused coal mine. By saving the mine and its memory, they will regain their strength and dignity.
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In the Name of the Land
Title: In the Name of the Land
Character: Jacques Jarjeau
Released: September 25, 2019
Type: Movie
Pierre is 25 when he returns from Wyoming to his fiancée and take over the family farm. Twenty years later, the farm expanded and so did the family.
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Dance of Chance
Title: Dance of Chance
Character: Le voisin
Released: August 22, 2019
Type: Movie
That day, there’s tension in the air: Marianne has her car and dog stolen from a highway parking lot. Stéphane is constantly arguing with his wife. Noémie can no longer stand her husband Aldo’s infidelities. A little-known orchestra performs for the last time…
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Title: The Art of Crime
Character: Père Christophe
Released: November 17, 2017
Type: TV
Fired for insubordination, PJ Antoine Verlay, good cop but a blood strand and having difficulty working as a team, is attached to the OCBC (Central Office for the fight against Traffic in Cultural Goods) thanks to the intervention of the commander Pardo, his friend who becomes, therefore, his new superior. A clever investigator, but a stranger to everything related to culture, Antoine will have to work with Florence Chassagne, renowned art historian, who lives, speaks and breathes culture, to the point that - fruit of her great imagination - it happens to her in the midst of daydreams, to see and talk to the great artists who have disappeared as if they were familiar to her.
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Noir Enigma
Title: Noir Enigma
Character: Roger Baudouin
Released: October 20, 2017
Type: Movie
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Knock
Title: Knock
Character: Le vieux Jules
Released: October 18, 2017
Type: Movie
Doctor Knock is a former thug who has become a doctor and arrives in the small village of Saint-Maurice to make his fortune according to a particular method. It will make the villagers believe that they are not as healthy as they might think. It is thus that he will find in each one an imaginary symptom, or not, and thus will be able to exercise his profession lucratively. Under his seductive looks and after gaining the confidence of the village, Knock is on the verge of achieving his ends. But his past catches up with him and an old acquaintance disrupts the doctor's plans.
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Va, Toto!
Title: Va, Toto!
Character: Joseph (voice)
Released: October 4, 2017
Type: Movie
A film about belonging, gay rural life, physical labor & elderly bodies. The arrival of Toto the marcassin at Madeleine's house, Vincent's trip to India and his troubles with the monkeys, or Joseph's dreams provoked by the continuous pressure machine, are three stories that Pierre will share and that in one way or another summon up our relationship with the animal, with this other neighbor
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Two Snails Set Off
Title: Two Snails Set Off
Character: (voice)
Released: June 8, 2017
Type: Movie
A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because they are in mourning for a dead leaf, to celebrate the new spring and reclaim the colors of life. Based on the children's poem by Jacques Prévert entitled "Chanson des escargots qui font à l'enterrement" ("Song of the snails who are on their way to a funeral").
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Brothers
Title: Brothers
Character: Emile
Released: June 1, 2017
Type: Movie
When Alexander suddenly leaves on a road trip to France, Lukas decides to join him as he’s been trailing his charismatic brother for his entire life. But during this journey he discovers that he finally has to go his own way, not knowing this decision would be so all-encompassing.
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Vive la crise !
Title: Vive la crise !
Character: Lucien
Released: May 10, 2017
Type: Movie
In a futuristic France, computers decide the fate of the unemployed and the homeless.
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Everyone's Life
Title: Everyone's Life
Character: Le chauffeur de taxi
Released: March 15, 2017
Type: Movie
Before being judges, attorneys, or jury members, they are first of all men and women at a crossroads in their lives, with their dreams and their secrets, their hopes and their limitations, all beneath the same sun, each with their own dark side. In a lovely provincial town, during a jazz festival, life will juggle with their destinies.
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The African Doctor
Title: The African Doctor
Character: Jean
Released: June 8, 2016
Type: Movie
1975. When Seyolo Zantoko, a doctor from the Congo who has managed, along with his family, to flee tyranny, is hired by the mayor of a small town in northern France, he begins a struggle to adapt to a new life and gain the trust of the prejudiced villagers.
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Stornoway
Title: Stornoway
Character: Keller
Released: December 18, 2015
Type: Movie
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Winter Song
Title: Winter Song
Character: Concierge
Released: November 25, 2015
Type: Movie
Two old friends have urban adventures connected to the skull of an executed French aristocrat.
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We Love You, You Bastard
Title: We Love You, You Bastard
Character: Le Ruf
Released: April 2, 2014
Type: Movie
A war photographer and absent father, who spends more time taking care of his camera than his four daughters, enjoys a happy life in the Alps with his new girlfriend. But his life is turned upside down the day that his best friend tries to reconcile him with his family by telling them a big lie.
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La Déesse Aux Cent Bras
Title: La Déesse Aux Cent Bras
Character: Le Dantec
Released: February 12, 2014
Type: Movie
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À votre bon cœur, mesdames
Title: À votre bon cœur, mesdames
Character: Doctor Andreausse
Released: December 4, 2013
Type: Movie
The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a new companion will rediscover the small pleasures of life and the art of seduction.
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The Marchers
Title: The Marchers
Character: François, le pasteur
Released: November 27, 2013
Type: Movie
In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest Minguettes launching a largely peaceful march for equality and against racism, over 1,000 km between Marseille and Paris . Despite the difficulties and resistance encountered, their movement will bring about a real boost of hope in the way of Gandhi and Martin Luther King. They unite with their arrival more than 100 000 people from all walks of life and give France its new face.
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Marius
Title: Marius
Character: Piquoiseau
Released: July 9, 2013
Type: Movie
"Marius" takes place in Marseilles' Old Port, at the La Marine Bar, owned by César and his son Marius. Marius' biggest dream is to embark on one of the boats passing by his dad's bar and to set off to a faraway land. Fanny, a young and pretty seafood peddler, has secretly been in love with Marius since her childhood; Marius, never admitting it, has always loved Fanny. One day, a sailor drops by La Marine and offers him a job on an exploratory ship. Trying to hold him off and to make him jealous, Fanny confesses his love to him and provokes a fight between Marius and one of César's old friends, Panisse, a boat merchant, who despite his old age, has been courting Fanny for a while. Torn between the call of the sea and his love for her, Marius abandons his dream to be with Fanny who gives herself to him. As César and Honorine, Fanny's mother, are getting ready for the wedding, Marius changes his mind, drawn back to the call of the sea.
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Pas Très Normales Activités
Title: Pas Très Normales Activités
Character: Levantour
Released: January 29, 2013
Type: Movie
A parody of Paranormal Activity.
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10 jours en or
Title: 10 jours en or
Character: Père Clément Rozière
Released: January 11, 2012
Type: Movie
When a carefree bachelor is unexpectedly left in charge of a young boy, the two embark on a road trip that will change both of their lives.
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My Name Is Bernadette
Title: My Name Is Bernadette
Character: Forcade
Released: November 30, 2011
Type: Movie
Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from Lourdes. A true revolution in the heart of the Second Empire that shakes the established order by his universal message of love and prayer.
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La part des anges
Title: La part des anges
Character: Émile
Released: September 17, 2011
Type: Movie
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Les Insomniaques
Title: Les Insomniaques
Character: Le commissaire
Released: March 30, 2011
Type: Movie
Two insomniacs go into partnership to start a club bringing together people who suffer from the same trouble and decide together to become vigilantes and more precisely vindicators serving causes they are interested in. But relations between the various members will go on deteriorating.
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Crédit pour tous
Title: Crédit pour tous
Character: Pistille
Released: March 29, 2011
Type: Movie
While unemployed, Gobert must repay 40 bank loans he had taken out. In the housing project where he lives in, bailiffs swarm. Gobert will organize resistance and develop an original and popular loan system which will soon arouse the interest of the French government.
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Colère
Title: Colère
Character: Germain Bougron, l'expert
Released: July 16, 2010
Type: Movie
The town of Carzac Shakespeare suffered a violent attack that caused a fire in the local factory. Many dead and wounded. Two citizens investigate the drama and discover that its origin could be criminal.
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Colombe
Title: Colombe
Character: La Surette
Released: February 5, 2010
Type: Movie
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Freedom
Title: Freedom
Character: Fernand
Released: August 1, 2009
Type: Movie
A Gypsy family travels the French roads during the Second World War, followed by Little Claude, a young boy seeking a new family after his parents "left and never returned". Upon reaching a town where they traditionally stop for a few months and work in vineyards, they learn that a new law forbids them from being nomadic. Theodore, the town's mayor, and Miss Lundi, the schoolteacher, protect and help the Gypsies. Despite this, They are arrested and placed in an internment camp. Theodore manages to rescue them and gives them a piece of property where they must settle. But the Gypsies' deeply ingrained thirst for freedom makes this sedentary lifestyle difficult to bear. After Theodore and Miss Lundi are arrested for resistance, the Gypsies decide they must get back on the move in order to remain free.
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King Guillaume
Title: King Guillaume
Character: Roi Cyril John Delagny
Released: January 28, 2009
Type: Movie
Magali plays in a brass band. Guillaume drives a small tourist train. Both spin a perfect love, they share modest dreams and their baby is about to come. But an unexpected news upsets their routine: a man appears and announces that he is Guillaume's estranged father and also reveals that Guillaume is his legitimate heir of a kingdom offshore of France and England. Guillaume and Magali start to dream of a life as monarchs, surrounded by faithful subjects in their castle, enjoying their wealth. But reality is often different to what you can imagine.
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My Stars
Title: My Stars
Character: Victor
Released: October 29, 2008
Type: Movie
Robert, a fan of three French actresses is a bald-headed, potbellied man on the fifties, but fully devotes himself to them, and sometimes works for them without being recognized. But those star actresses find him a simple stalker fan and make fun of him, but later recognize he is sincere and genuine.
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It Had to be You
Title: It Had to be You
Character: le père de Thomas
Released: December 19, 2007
Type: Movie
In this romantic comedy Thomas moves back in with his parents after his girlfriend throws him out. He runs into Florence, an old school friend, who invites him to dinner with her husband and two children.
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His Majesty Minor
Title: His Majesty Minor
Character: Rectus
Released: October 10, 2007
Type: Movie
In this offbeat comedy, a man raised by a pig dies and is resurrected with a newfound power of speech, elevating his stature among his fellow humans.
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La volière aux enfants
Title: La volière aux enfants
Character: The Bishop
Released: October 3, 2006
Type: Movie
In 1835, in order to cope with an ever increasing number of infants left alone during the day while their impoverished mothers had to go to work in factories, refuge rooms were put in place in some towns.
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Rascals
Title: Rascals
Character: Fouchs
Released: September 30, 2006
Type: Movie
The story of boys who were condemned to the severe reformatory regime in a French penal ‘colony’. It’s run by a former prison warden, based on ‘rehabilitattion’ trough manual labor and strict discipline. Young Reynard, a novice to crime and juvenile detention, meets horrible hardened villains and sadistic staff as well as people with some heart among fellow inmates and their supposed educators.
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If You Love Me, Follow Me
Title: If You Love Me, Follow Me
Character: Jean-Pierre
Released: July 5, 2006
Type: Movie
Thirty-five-year-old Max has a successful career and a beautiful wife, but one day he realises that his life isn’t exactly as he’d planned. He decides to leave it all behind to live out his teenage dream of being in a rock band. But fulfilling his dream at this point in his life is harder than he had imagined.
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Les Irréductibles
Title: Les Irréductibles
Character: Edmond
Released: June 14, 2006
Type: Movie
On the day that his son fails his baccalaureate, Michel loses his job. He has been employed at the same factory for twenty years and now he has no job, no qualifications, no prospects. Michel soon realises that the only way he is going to get another job is by first passing his baccalaureate. So, he goes back to school, with his friend Gérard, who is in the same position. Naturally, Michel’s son is not at all pleased to find himself in the same class as his dad...
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Red Needles
Title: Red Needles
Character: Marullaz
Released: May 10, 2006
Type: Movie
September 1960: on a purely punitive basis, eight scouts must climb the solid mass of Brévent to 2500 meters of altitude. The so beautiful and so majestic mountain which draws up face them very quickly reveals dangerous. All the techniques of orientation learned at the scouts will do nothing there. The teenagers find themselves delivered to themselves. Lost in the abrupt throats, the eight boys are confronted cold, with the hunger and the fear.
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One Fine Day
Title: One Fine Day
Character: Cremer
Released: March 15, 2006
Type: Movie
François Berthier’s life is a series of unfortunate events. One day, however, a miracle occurs for François and his expected misfortune is changed to never-ending luck.
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Iznogoud
Title: Iznogoud
Character: le conseiller du calife
Released: January 19, 2005
Type: Movie
In Baghdad the Magnificent reigns Haroun al Plassid, who is the Caliph. There also dwells Iznogoud, who wants to be the Caliph. The irascible Grand Vizier hatches plot after plot to remove his ruler and take his place—melting Djinn, invisibility spell, cursed diamond, voodoo doll… But no amount of cunning or obstinacy can make up for sheer, hilariously bad luck.
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A Very Long Engagement
Title: A Very Long Engagement
Character: Breton
Released: October 27, 2004
Type: Movie
Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World War I, and learns many unexpected things along the way. The love of her life is gone. But she refuses to believe he's gone forever — and she needs to know for sure.
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The Great Role
Title: The Great Role
Character: Monsieur Silberman
Released: October 13, 2004
Type: Movie
When a famous American film director, Rudolph Grichenberg, comes to Paris to cast a Yiddish version of 'The Merchant of Venice,' Maurice Kurtz and his friends try out for the role of Shylock. Thinking he has finally been cast in an important film role after years of obscurity, Maurice rushes home to tell his beloved wife, Perla. Later, Maurice discovers the part has gone to a famous American star, but he must play the role of his life to be sure Perla, who has become very ill with cancer, doesn't find out.
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Madame Edouard
Title: Madame Edouard
Character: Valdès, l'homme à l'oiseau
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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In Your Image
Title: In Your Image
Character: O pai de Mathilde
Released: May 26, 2004
Type: Movie
Ridden by guilt for not being able to have a child, wife decides to conceive by cloning. The daughter she gives birth to is therefor almost identical to her. The child starts to grow rapidly and slowly replaces mom in the household.
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Bonhomme de chemin
Title: Bonhomme de chemin
Character: Oscar
Released: May 5, 2004
Type: Movie
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Saint-Germain ou La négociation
Title: Saint-Germain ou La négociation
Character: M. de Biron
Released: December 20, 2003
Type: Movie
This is the TV adaptation of a novel by Francis Walder. The scene happens in 1570, during the religions wars between catholics and protestants in France. Both sides are decided for a truth, to enable peaceful negociations of a settlement, which will become the peace of Saint-Germain-en-Laye, the same year. The negociation, lead by Henri de Malassise (Jean Rochefort), and the Earl of Biron for the Catholic side, and Mr. d'Ublé and M. de Mélynes for the protestants side.
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Les Contes de l'horloge magique
Title: Les Contes de l'horloge magique
Released: December 10, 2003
Type: Movie
In the night, at the top of a big clock, three little automatons come to life in turn: an agile monkey, a pretty dancer and an acrobatic jester, driven by clever mechanisms. Nina, the clockmaker's little girl, begins to dream. She is a little street singer. And a ballerina in love with a little tin soldier. And a princess in search of her beautiful knight lost in the enchanted forest. From burglary to castle attack, from mermaid to dragon, the adventure never stops... like the hands of a clock.
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Comme si de rien n'était
Title: Comme si de rien n'était
Released: August 3, 2003
Type: Movie
Thomas is a stage director. One evening he meets Alix and they fall in love at first sight. It's total, absolute. But Alix's life catches up with them. During the course of the performance of the play, they'll pretend that nothing has happened.
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Entrusted
Title: Entrusted
Character: Prof. Bergot
Released: July 3, 2003
Type: Movie
Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-old chess master. An exchange arrangement goes awry and he sees her die in a hail of bullets; but he is rescued by his American father, whom he has never met before, and who plans to flee with him to Spain. However, Queen Maria had solemnly entrusted her little pawn Thomas with a precious secret and a terrifying mission, and it was time for him to move. A pawn may become an important piece by slowly, quietly advancing all the way through the enemy's ranks. Or a pawn may die trying. Retreat is what a pawn can never do.
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That Day
Title: That Day
Character: Hubus
Released: June 4, 2003
Type: Movie
A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other.
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Hôtel des deux mondes
Title: Hôtel des deux mondes
Released: October 18, 2002
Type: Movie
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Title: Une soupe aux herbes sauvages
Character: Joseph
Released: December 25, 2001
Type: TV
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Amélie
Title: Amélie
Character: Raphaël Poulain
Released: April 25, 2001
Type: Movie
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?
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My Father Saved My Life
Title: My Father Saved My Life
Character: Grinval
Released: April 25, 2001
Type: Movie
Novelist and filmmaker Jose Giovanni turned to the remarkable true story of how his father helped him escape a date with the guillotine for this drama, which is based closely on events from his own life. During World War II, Manu (Vincent Lecoeur, as a character Giovanni modeled after himself) fought with the French Resistance, but near the end of the war he fell into a life of crime, and in 1947, 22-year-old Manu was arrested for his part in a bungled robbery that left a man dead. While Manu did not pull the fatal trigger, he refuses to say who did, since it would mean implicating his uncle, one of the few members of his family who has stood by him; Manu's brother is dead, and he turned his back on his father Joe (Bruno Cremer) years ago. Manu is sentenced to death, and while he protests his innocence, his attempts to escape from prison do little to convince anyone that he's telling the truth.
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Train of Life
Title: Train of Life
Character: Mordechai
Released: September 16, 1998
Type: Movie
In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation train so that they can escape the Nazis and flee to Palestine.
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Le radeau de la Méduse
Title: Le radeau de la Méduse
Character: Harmonica
Released: July 15, 1998
Type: Movie
Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault (1791-1824). The ill-fated voyage of the frigate Medusa begins when it departs Rochefort for Senegal in 1816. After striking a sandbar off the African coast, 150 civilians row safely to shore, but Captain Chaumareys (Jean Yanne) orders 140 soldiers and sailors onto a raft (minus supplies) and has it cut loose. Only 14 survive from the 140, creating a scandal back in France. Gericault (Laurent Terzieff) later talks to three of the survivors while researching his painting. Work on this film began in 1987, but sets destroyed by Hurricane Hugo caused delays, so the film was not completed until 1990. However, it then remained undistributed until an incident in which writer-director Azimi slashed his wrists in front of French Ministry of Culture officials.
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Let There Be Light!
Title: Let There Be Light!
Character: Dieu l'infirmière
Released: July 8, 1998
Type: Movie
God comes to Earth in order to make a film.
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Let There Be Light!
Title: Let There Be Light!
Character: Dieu le chauffeur de Harper
Released: July 8, 1998
Type: Movie
God comes to Earth in order to make a film.
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Metroland
Title: Metroland
Character: Henri
Released: August 30, 1997
Type: Movie
In late-1970s suburban London, Chris and Marion have settled into a comfortable yet all-too-predictable middle-class existence. Chris receives an unexpected visit from his free-spirited friend Toni, a reunion that reminds him of a more carefree time in 1960s Paris. Now, with lingering doubts about his marriage bubbling up, Chris must make the choice between revisiting his youthful abandon with Toni or facing the here and now with Marion.
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Love, Math and Sex
Title: Love, Math and Sex
Character: Un spectateur au cinéma
Released: August 5, 1997
Type: Movie
A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man.
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Crime à l'altimètre
Title: Crime à l'altimètre
Character: Octave
Released: December 20, 1996
Type: Movie
A mountain climber devises a plan to eliminate the tyrannical husband of a young Vietnamese woman with whom he has fallen in love.
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Tendre piège
Title: Tendre piège
Character: Mr. Gallibert
Released: May 10, 1996
Type: Movie
The engagement of a young couple is spoiled by the antics of their relatives.
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The City of Lost Children
Title: The City of Lost Children
Character: Peeler
Released: May 17, 1995
Type: Movie
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
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Les Miserables
Title: Les Miserables
Character: Thénardier 1830 / 1990
Released: March 22, 1995
Type: Movie
In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin, is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.
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Le mangeur de lune
Title: Le mangeur de lune
Released: October 12, 1994
Type: Movie
A man thinks he's a scarecrow. He meets a Russian clown on a train.
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L'amour est un jeu d'enfant
Title: L'amour est un jeu d'enfant
Released: February 12, 1994
Type: Movie
Benjamin lives with his widowed father, a designer and a bohemian artist. Olivia, his best friend, lives with his divorced mother, a lawyer who lives only for his work. Children decide to organize a meeting between the two parents, but unfortunately, neither seems interested in the other. Still, the two friends did not give up and seek new ways for the emergence of love between their parents.
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Poorly Extinguished Fires
Title: Poorly Extinguished Fires
Character: Commander Perleau
Released: January 12, 1994
Type: Movie
A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this gripping French war movie. It is based on the 1967 novel by Philippe Labro. The film begins in Paris as Jerome Carier, ready to embark to Algiers, is beaten and questioned about the politically sensitive photographs he has. The photos were sent to him by Francois, a friend stationed in Algiers. Francoise is trying to get the French and the Algerians to reconcile. Jerome arrives in the war-torn country and finds himself faced with unbelievable carnage. The French are behind most of it. Because he took the pictures, Francois life is in jeopardy. He is murdered and Jerome finds himself attracted to his girl friend, a radio station announcer. The film contains graphic pictures of the slaughter.
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Delicatessen
Title: Delicatessen
Character: Robert Kube
Released: April 17, 1991
Type: Movie
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasional delicacy of meat, something that is in low supply. A young man new in town falls in love with the butcher's daughter, which causes conflicts in her family, who need the young man for other business-related purposes.
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The Elegant Criminal
Title: The Elegant Criminal
Character: Canler
Released: December 19, 1990
Type: Movie
On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.
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Promotion canapé
Title: Promotion canapé
Character: Inspecteur de justice
Released: October 10, 1990
Type: Movie
Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.
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The Austrian
Title: The Austrian
Character: L'abbé Girard
Released: September 19, 1990
Type: Movie
A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering from terrible haemorraghe. Her name is Marie-Antoinette of Lorraine, from Austria, and she's living her last four days.
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La Goutte d'or
Title: La Goutte d'or
Character: Sigisbert
Released: September 11, 1990
Type: Movie
Idris is a young shepherd in the desert of Tunesia. One day a jeep drives by and a woman takes a picture of him; she says she's from Paris and promises to send him a copy. But when nothing arrives during the next months, Idris becomes worried. His father advises him to get his "face" back or bad things may happen to him. So he sets out to Paris... and discovers Paris as a world full of strange things and weird behavior.
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En attendant Godot
Title: En attendant Godot
Character: Vladimir
Released: June 3, 1989
Type: Movie
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Keep Your Right Up
Title: Keep Your Right Up
Character: Policeman
Released: September 19, 1987
Type: Movie
This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character, played by Godard himself, is an annoyingly perfectionist film-maker determined to wring every last drop of the finest performance possible from his stars.
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Ubac
Title: Ubac
Released: January 2, 1987
Type: Movie
In 1930, in the majesty of the Andean mountains, the long hunt of a bounty hunter gradually turns into a strange initiation quest.
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Exploits of a Young Don Juan
Title: Exploits of a Young Don Juan
Character: Le moine
Released: November 4, 1986
Type: Movie
In 1914, sixteen year old Roger returnd home from boarding school during vacation to find his puberty hit hard in a house filled with beautiful women. These women have previous engagements with other men who are away, and during this time, Roger impregnates them all, including his aunt and sister, then devises plans to cuckold those men.
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Side Roads
Title: Side Roads
Character: Cyprien
Released: September 6, 1983
Type: Movie
The story of Itineraire Bis has no singular plot line, but swings back and forth between the adventures of a young man who wants to buy a pizza truck and the lives of two middle-aged brothers living in an enormous house. One of the brothers is wheelchair-bound and eventually makes the acquaintance of the pizza-driving aspirant and decides to give him the money he needs -- though this act of generosity in no way shields him from his own destiny. Other characters wander in and out of the story, such as Jeanne (Martine Kalayan), the young man's lover.
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La Chanson du mal-aimé
Title: La Chanson du mal-aimé
Released: February 3, 1982
Type: Movie
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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The Police War
Title: The Police War
Character: Le Garrec, chicken farmer
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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Zoo zéro
Title: Zoo zéro
Character: Yves, le chauffeur ventriloque
Released: May 9, 1979
Type: Movie
Eva is a singer in a Noah's Ark themed nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She is approached by a stranger who claims to know her and to remember her singing Mozart.
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Surprise Sock
Title: Surprise Sock
Character: Antoine
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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Fire's Share
Title: Fire's Share
Character: Patrick Delbaut
Released: January 4, 1978
Type: Movie
Real estate developer Bob Hansen discovers that his wife Catherine is cheating on him with his partner. He reacts calmly and even encourages their meetings, thinking that this is the only way to not lose them both.
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March or Die
Title: March or Die
Character: Sgt. Triand
Released: September 8, 1977
Type: Movie
Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located in the French Morocco to protect an archaeological excavation from El Krim, a Rifian leader who intends to unite all local tribes to fight the colonial government…
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The Tenant
Title: The Tenant
Character: Georges Badar
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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Je veux mourir dans la patrie de Jean-Paul Sartre
Title: Je veux mourir dans la patrie de Jean-Paul Sartre
Character: Self
Released: February 12, 1976
Type: Movie
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Title: 30 millions d'amis
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1976
Type: TV
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Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
Title: Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
Character: Mathieu
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy editor; Myriam, a redhead into tantric sex; and Marie, a supermarket checker who gives unauthorized discounts to the elderly, search for renewed meaning on a communal farm. The title character, a six-year-old child, is the carrier of their hopes for the future.
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La adúltera
Title: La adúltera
Character: Lucien (as Rufus Narcy)
Released: December 15, 1975
Type: Movie
With more than thirty years, Malena Fonseca is a spinster and provincial woman who, after coincidentally meeting a Frenchman named Lucien, also a thirty-something bachelor like her, decides to marry him. However, after that, and having moved to Madrid in the company of her unbearable and possessive mother-in-law, Malena will gradually discover that her husband is a very rational man whose zero interest in sex despairs her, making the woman feel attracted to the pharmacist in the corner and the hunky bread delivery man.
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The Goodbye Singing
Title: The Goodbye Singing
Character: Michel
Released: October 28, 1975
Type: Movie
In her suburban house, Madame Vaussart brings together a group of solitaries every Wednesday. Everyone tries to forget their problems, their complexes, their sadness. Between Mr. Michel, very shy, Mrs. Lebris, a former actress, a former colonial soldier and a few others, a project was soon born. They arm themselves and organize a manhunt from which, voluntarily, no one will come out alive.
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Trop c'est trop
Title: Trop c'est trop
Character: Gendarme
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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Lily aime-moi
Title: Lily aime-moi
Character: Claude
Released: April 30, 1975
Type: Movie
Everything starts when a journalist François decides to investigate the world of working class people. He gets into the lives of Claude, a worker and his wife Lily who has left him.
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Au long de rivière Fango
Title: Au long de rivière Fango
Character: Jérémie
Released: January 22, 1975
Type: Movie
Jérémie and Bild, two riders, arrive in a community that lives along the river Fango. It was Mathilde who founded her, a woman who left husband and baby to flee urban society. All live in happiness away from the world, without thinking either of work or money. Bild believes he is the child abandoned by Mathilde, while Jeremiah is attracted to his daughter, Maurine. When Bild dies, Jeremiah learns that he is the son of Matilda and that consequently Maurine is his sister. He takes to flight ...
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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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Marriage
Title: Marriage
Character: Henri
Released: December 31, 1974
Type: Movie
Four wedding anniversaries serve to chronicle the beginning and end of a thirty-year marriage.
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Ce que savait Morgan
Title: Ce que savait Morgan
Character: Mr. Pemberton
Released: May 7, 1974
Type: Movie
The Moreen family hires Pemberton to tutor young Morgan. Pemberton has no money of his own, and the social non-conformity of his employers condemns him to the impossibility of being paid. Yet an emotional relationship develops between master and pupil. Little by little, Morgan becomes an object of blackmail. Having run out of arguments, the parents give their son to his teacher. The child, abandoned by his parents, dies.
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A Cloud in the Teeth
Title: A Cloud in the Teeth
Character: L'homme au chien (uncredited)
Released: May 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris.
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The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Title: The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: Movie
Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.
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L'école sauvage
Title: L'école sauvage
Released: May 8, 1973
Type: Movie
Cannes Film Festival 1973
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Valparaiso, Valparaiso
Title: Valparaiso, Valparaiso
Character: Un méchant
Released: March 31, 1973
Type: Movie
Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about leftist causes, usually to his current girlfriend. Then Edwarda (Bernadette Lafont), who is active in the political underground, comes into his life. From that point on, he begins to act on his beliefs. Edwarda's underground political action group stages a little drama to test Balthazar's commitment and reliability, putting him through an interrogation by what appear to him to be French secret police. Having passed this test, he is given a real assignment. This film is a comedy with elements of satire, and it explores the humor to be found in left-wing pretentiousness of all kinds. - Rovi
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La vie facile
Title: La vie facile
Character: Vicar (uncredited)
Released: February 22, 1973
Type: Movie
In this French-language film, Albin is a mercenary soldier. Sure, he's paid to kill, but he only agrees to jobs where he's killing those who need to be killed. Anyway, he trusts his buddies, and they trust him: in this case with a big haul of money they found in a jungle shoot-out. When he returns to France one of the first things he does, quite by chance, is to go see the act of Le Grande Magic Circus. The circus keeps coming into his life for the rest of the movie, as he tries to live a "regular" life.
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The French Calvinists
Title: The French Calvinists
Character: Jacques Combassous
Released: February 22, 1972
Type: Movie
A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers, formed groups following Gédéon Laporte and fought Louis XIV's dragoons.
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As Far as Love Can Go
Title: As Far as Love Can Go
Character: Le barman
Released: October 20, 1971
Type: Movie
The boyfriend of Isabelle has just committed suicide. Therefore Isabelle roams the streets of Paris until she decides to change her life radically and leave the city. She travels to the coast where she meets a young history professor on the beach...
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Where Did Tom Go?
Title: Where Did Tom Go?
Character: Tom Coupar
Released: October 13, 1971
Type: Movie
Tom is a secretary for an association which aims to free political prisoners. Skipping from inaction he plans and kills dictator Anton Caras. Arrested he ends up in a jail full of political prisoners for whose freedom he had been working. Eventually he manages to escape but only one would follow him. The others preferred to stay and testify before the court.
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One Way Ticket
Title: One Way Ticket
Character: Tom Mills
Released: May 26, 1971
Type: Movie
After a bank robbery gone wrong, a crook goes on the run across Belgium to escape the police, clear himself of a crime that he did not commit, and protect his girlfriend from a shady lawyer.
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Troubleshooters
Title: Troubleshooters
Character: Mister Ferglough, le prof d'anglais
Released: April 7, 1971
Type: Movie
The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the jewels stolen during his last stickup. On the other hand the police inspector who arrested him offers him protection on condition he gives him the same piece of information. Serge refuses and is about to be tortured by Varèse's henchmen when Michel, a friendly hood, comes to his rescue. His friendship will result in... a heap of corpses! —Guy Bellinger
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Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad
Title: Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad
Character: Charles
Released: March 1, 1971
Type: Movie
In a cul-de-sac in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Leon shares two rooms with his sister Marie. In one, he receives his clients: he is a tailor. In the other, Marie receives her own: she is a clairvoyant. Leon was happy until he learned what Marie was hiding from him. She is actually a prostitute, and Maxime, her supposed fiancé, is her pimp. On the same day, Leon also discovers love in the form of Arlette, a provincial young woman picked up by Marie.
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Fantasia chez les ploucs
Title: Fantasia chez les ploucs
Character: Wesson
Released: January 15, 1971
Type: Movie
Sagamore Noonan vit reclu dans une ferme de l'Alabama où il distille de la gnôle au temps de la prohibition. Il reçoit la visite de son frère Doc Noonan et de son fils Billy. Une jeune strip-teaseuse et son compagnon gangster viennent troubler leur tranquillité.
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The Wedding Ring
Title: The Wedding Ring
Character: L'éleveur de pigeons
Released: January 15, 1971
Type: Movie
A vet tries to create his own Garden of Eden
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Hacker
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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Promise at Dawn
Title: Promise at Dawn
Character: Russian Violin Teacher
Released: November 25, 1970
Type: Movie
A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never gives in.
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The Cop
Title: The Cop
Character: Raymond Aulnay
Released: October 5, 1970
Type: Movie
A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge against villainous drug dealers. Word comes down from above that the United States feels French authorities have been lax on their arrests of the dealers. A violent action feature finds the harried inspector battling his colleagues as much as the criminal element targeted for extermination.
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Safety Catch
Title: Safety Catch
Released: April 7, 1970
Type: Movie
A doctor disbarred for euthanasia is called in by a man to help his son, who has been depressed since the suicide of his partner. But in the dead woman's handbag, an undeveloped film is discovered by the doctor, who decides to investigate the young woman's alleged suicide.
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Potatoes
Title: Potatoes
Character: Larobesse
Released: November 22, 1969
Type: Movie
In a village in the Ardennes, during the German occupation, finding rations is becoming almost impossible. Clovis, an ordinary labourer, decides to cross the occupied zone to bring back enough potatoes to feed his family. His plan is a success but Clovis rapidly becomes obsessed with storing the precious tubers.
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The American
Title: The American
Character: Corbeau
Released: September 24, 1969
Type: Movie
A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among old friends.
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Erotissimo
Title: Erotissimo
Character: le comptable de Philippe
Released: June 7, 1969
Type: Movie
Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner and general manager of a dynamic company. Under the deluge of sexy Swedish movies, sexy advertising on the streets, sexy intimate clothing in ladies' shops, and even talks about sex and marital infidelity with her mother and female friends, Annie starts feeling left aside by her husband, and trying to attract in a number of ways - and failing. It's not the all-purpose secretary at the office that is keeping him late, it's a tax expert that, asking the most innocent questions, is finding out how Philippe can manage a company without profits, and still manage a home, may be two... with high quality levels.
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Miss Paris et le Majordome
Title: Miss Paris et le Majordome
Released: May 15, 1969
Type: Movie
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Mr. Freedom
Title: Mr. Freedom
Character: Freddie Fric
Released: January 8, 1969
Type: Movie
Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to France to cut off a Commie invasion from Switzerland. A destructive, arrogant patriot in tight pants, Freedom joins forces with Marie Madeleine to combat lefty freethinkers, as well as the insidious evildoers Moujik Man and inflatable Red China Man, culminating in a star-spangled showdown.
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Title: À bout portant
Character: Self
Released: December 16, 1968
Type: TV
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Doctor Dolittle
Title: Doctor Dolittle
Character: Dog (uncredited)
Released: December 5, 1967
Type: Movie
A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.
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The Surrounded
Title: The Surrounded
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Jean-Claude is a student, with Didier, at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Generales where Violaine, Didier's sister, is a professor of sociology. These young people belong to this upper-class, snobbish bourgeoisie.
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Le Point Mort
Title: Le Point Mort
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Short film that was part of the very first Director's Fortnight short film selection in 1969.