Jean-Pierre Mocky

Jean-Pierre Mocky

Born: July 6, 1929
Died: August 8, 2019
in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Jean-Pierre Mocky (6 July 1929 – 8 August 2019), pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, was a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer.

Mocky was born in Nice, France to Polish immigrant parents, Jeanne Zylinska and Adam Mokiejewski. His father was Jewish and his mother was Catholic.

Mocky appeared as an actor in the 1955 film Gli Sbandati and in many other movies, including some of those he also directed (Solo, L'albatros, L'Ombre d'une chance, Un Linceul n'a pas de poches). His 1987 film Le Miraculé was entered into the 37th Berlin International Film Festival.

He began as an actor in the cinema and theater. In particular, he played in Jean Dréville's Les Casse-pieds (1948), Jean Cocteau's Orphée (1950) and Bernard Borderie's The Mask of the Gorilla (1957). But it was especially in Italy that he became famous, thanks to his role in I vinti by Michelangelo Antonioni.

After working as an assistant with Luchino Visconti on Senso (1954) and Federico Fellini on La strada (1954), he wrote his first film, La Tête contre les murs (1959) and planned to direct it himself, but the producer preferred to entrust the task to Georges Franju. He went on to direct the following year with Les Dragueurs (1959). Since then, he has never stopped shooting.

As early as the 1960s, he was able to reach a wide audience with crazy comedies such as A Funny Parishioner (1963) and La Grande Lessive (1968). After May 1968, he turned to darker films with Solo (1969), in which he shows a group of young terrorists of the extreme left, then L'Albatros (1971) which shows the corruption of politicians.

In the 1980s, he returned to success with a film denouncing, a year before the drama of Heysel, the excesses of some football fans (À mort l'arbitre, 1984) and a comedy denouncing the hypocrisy around the pilgrimage to Lourdes (Le Miraculé, 1987). In the 1990s and 2000s, his films met with less success, but Mocky continued to shoot with much enthusiasm.

In the beginning, his films were dedicated to the uprising against the restrictions imposed by society. Later, he concentrated on farce, as in Bonsoir where the homeless Alex (Michel Serrault) pretends to be the lover of the lesbian Caroline (Claude Jade) in order to save her inheritance from her homophobic relatives.

Mocky's cinema, often satirical and pamphleteer, is generally inspired by the truth of society. He worked with few resources and filmed very quickly. He worked with Bourvil (A Funny Parishioner, The City of Unspeakable Fear, La Grande Lessive and The Stallion), Fernandel (The Exchange and Life), Michel Simon (The Red Ibis), Michel Serrault (twelve films including Le Miraculé), Francis Blanche (five films including The City of Unspeakable Fear), Jacqueline Maillan (five films), Jean Poiret (eight films) and with the stars Catherine Deneuve (Agent Trouble), Claude Jade (Bonsoir), Jane Birkin (Noir comme le souvenir), Jeanne Moreau (Le Miraculé) and Stéphane Audran (The Seasons of Pleasure).

In 2010, he received the Prix Henri-Langlois for his entire career and the 2013 Alphonse Allais Prize. The International Festival of Film Entrevues in Belfort in 2012 and the Cinémathèque française in 2014 dedicated full retrospectives to him.

He died on 8 August 2019.

Source: Article "Jean-Pierre Mocky" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movies for Jean-Pierre Mocky...

Take Your Bible and Get the Fuck Out of Here!
Title: Take Your Bible and Get the Fuck Out of Here!
Character: Vieux 2
Released: May 20, 2023
Type: Movie
A small village in the north of France is plagued by zombies after a meteorite landed. 3 Homeless peoples must fight for there lives and if zombies weren't enough, others peoples coming from VERY far away arrives in town.
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Jean-Pierre Mocky, libre et sentimental
Title: Jean-Pierre Mocky, libre et sentimental
Character: Various Roles (archive footage)
Released: February 19, 2023
Type: Movie
A journey into the mind of French actor and director Jean-Pierre Mocky (1929-2019), author of films both playful and profound, of an impressive richness.
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Tous flics !
Title: Tous flics !
Character: Alex
Released: August 25, 2022
Type: Movie
A comedy on the theme of the law being debated where, in the face of growing insecurity and the upsurge in gratuitous violence, anyone can become a police auxiliary and thus increase the number of police officers. Each citizen will be able to defend himself by becoming a police officer.
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Mocky sans Mocky
Title: Mocky sans Mocky
Released: November 18, 2019
Type: Movie
A disassembly / reassembly of 58 films by Jean-Pierre Mocky, the editor becoming the director and the hero of his own film.
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Aznavour by Charles
Title: Aznavour by Charles
Character: Self - Actor (archive footage)
Released: October 2, 2019
Type: Movie
In 1948, French singer Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) receives a Paillard Bolex, his first camera. Until 1982, he will shoot hours of footage, his filmed diary. Wherever he goes, he carries his camera with him. He films his life and lives as he films: places, moments, friends, loves, misfortunes.
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The Story of French Fantasy Cinema
Title: The Story of French Fantasy Cinema
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 31, 2019
Type: Movie
The story of the French fantasy cinema from Méliès to Raw.
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La parallèle Mocky
Title: La parallèle Mocky
Character: himself
Released: November 17, 2018
Type: Movie
An episode of the renowned french TV series "Cinéma, de notre temps" (Cinema of Our Times) about french filmmaker Jean-Pierre Mocky.
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Votez pour moi !
Title: Votez pour moi !
Character: Pascal, l'ermite
Released: October 20, 2017
Type: Movie
The mayor of a small provincial town, caught up in mundane affairs and corruption, summons his three deputies before fleeing: one of them will have to succeed. From then on, Veyron, Ben and Karabik, mere office colleagues, become fierce rivals with betrayals, inventions, revelations.
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Godard Mon Amour
Title: Godard Mon Amour
Character: Customer in the Restaurant
Released: June 24, 2017
Type: Movie
In 1967, during the making of “La Chinoise,” film director Jean-Luc Godard falls in love with 19-year-old actress Anne Wiazemsky and marries her.
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Vénéneuses
Title: Vénéneuses
Character: Dick Grant
Released: March 15, 2017
Type: Movie
An aging gangster (Jean-Pierre Mocky) escapes from prison and is taken in by a very beautiful blonde who asks him to kill her uncle (Richard Bohringer) because he guards her money but prevents her from using it. She asks the gangster to kill him and that way she won't turn the gangster in - she knows he's escaped. The gangster prepares to kill the uncle, except that he realizes he's a very good guy. He becomes friends with the uncle. He won't kill him and will simulate the murder.
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La loi de l'albatros
Title: La loi de l'albatros
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: Movie
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Bourvil, un homme vrai
Title: Bourvil, un homme vrai
Character: Himself
Released: December 11, 2016
Type: Movie
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Monsieur Cauchemar
Title: Monsieur Cauchemar
Character: Valentin Esbirol
Released: October 17, 2015
Type: Movie
The old Mr. Esbirol, a passionate bookseller of crime fiction, had waited for a long time that the three conditions necessary for committing a perfect crime materialize : murder, preferably by strangulation of an anonymous bystander walking in a deserted street.
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Tu es si jolie ce soir
Title: Tu es si jolie ce soir
Character: Agent Willy
Released: June 17, 2015
Type: Movie
Prosecutor Vadim, who has an uneasy relationship with his glamorous wife Chanéac, vanishes at the time a psycho is offing club girls to the strains of the "Tu es si jolie ce soir" song.
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Les Compagnons de la pomponnette
Title: Les Compagnons de la pomponnette
Character: L'ange Léonard
Released: June 17, 2015
Type: Movie
The young vicar Victor and Sister Marie Ernestine, caught while they were making love, are defrocked by their cardinal. In front of their newly rented flat, they will come upon two couples who practice swinging.
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Looping
Title: Looping
Released: November 22, 2014
Type: Movie
Experimental short about Jean-Pierre Mocky on a motorbike.
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Looping
Title: Looping
Character: archival material
Released: November 22, 2014
Type: Movie
Experimental short about Jean-Pierre Mocky on a motorbike.
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Calomnies
Title: Calomnies
Character: Armand
Released: November 19, 2014
Type: Movie
Xavier Durmont young deputy newly elected, is charged by a representative of the Court of Auditors to investigate a dubious case of waste disposal involving a minister. He becomes then the target of slander orchestrated by the agency of a mysterious Armand.
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Le mystère des jonquilles
Title: Le mystère des jonquilles
Character: Tarling
Released: July 18, 2014
Type: Movie
The director of a department store is murdered. He is discovered in a park, a bunch of daffodils on his chest.
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À votre bon cœur, mesdames
Title: À votre bon cœur, mesdames
Character: Christophe
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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Le Mentor
Title: Le Mentor
Character: Ludovic
Released: April 10, 2013
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of a gentleman of a certain age, a distinguished homeless, who becomes the mentor of a young girl of 20. He will keep out of trouble, especially when she’s about to marry a fool. He will try to change her life by making it more beautiful in the manner of a guardian angel.
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Americano
Title: Americano
Character: Le père
Released: November 30, 2011
Type: Movie
A real estate agent from Paris arrives in Los Angeles to settle his late mother's estate, but a found photograph sends him on an impromptu journey to Mexico to find a woman named Lola.
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Dossier Toroto
Title: Dossier Toroto
Character: Le professeur Lapine
Released: March 30, 2011
Type: Movie
A scientist invents a product destined to make vegetables grow larger. His nephew, until then totally lacking a penis, drinks a little of this liquid by accident and from then on develops outsize genitals that lead some of his acquaintances to become jealous.
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Les Insomniaques
Title: Les Insomniaques
Character: Boris
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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Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma
Title: Jean Aurenche, écrivain de cinéma
Character: Self
Released: May 8, 2010
Type: Movie
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Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
Title: Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 11, 2010
Type: Movie
Catherine Deneuve couldn’t care less about being a celebrity, but fame made her an icon long ago and she occupies a special place in our imagination. The star is not one to let others get too close, but when she gives you her confidence, she keeps her word. If Deneuve’s career covers a half-century of cinema, it also bears witness to the force of a generation that experienced the deepest transformation of mores. This portrait reflects her entirely. The story of a mystery and an adventure.
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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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Un risque à courir
Title: Un risque à courir
Character: Self - Host
Released: June 27, 2009
Type: Movie
A young, idle, half-mad man kidnaps a wealthy woman and confines her to the trunk of his car. He drives very close to the police who are watching his victim's house. He talks to the police and accentuates the danger more and more.
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Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju
Title: Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju
Character: Self
Released: May 5, 2009
Type: Movie
A short documentary about Georges Franju.
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Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve)
Title: Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve)
Character: Self
Released: October 7, 2008
Type: Movie
Les portraits désormais cultes de Stéphane Guillon sur Canal+ . S'adressant aux invités, il ose un ton inédit, parfois irrévérencieux mais toujours hilarant et taquine avec facétie et perspicacité Jean Dujardin, IAM, Christophe Lambert, Judith Godrèche, Rocco Siffredi, David Douillet, Joey Starr, Fabrice Luchini, Nagui, Marianne James, Bernard Kouchner... Et retrouvez en bonus, les invités en colère qui ne voulaient plus jamais entendre parler de leur portrait !...
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Les Ballets écarlates
Title: Les Ballets écarlates
Character: Mathieu, the gunsmith
Released: April 25, 2007
Type: Movie
A pedophile network, to which belong notables of a French provincial town is about to be discovered by a young woman who herself lost her son, a child survivor of one of these horror festivals, and an anarchist gunsmith.
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Title: Village départ
Character: Self
Released: July 3, 2005
Type: TV
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Les araignées de la nuit
Title: Les araignées de la nuit
Character: Inspecteur Richard Gordone
Released: April 17, 2002
Type: Movie
In the lead up to the presidential elections five candidates turn up from out of nowhere. Then, as the days go by, they are eliminated one by one, each meeting with a violent death, until one is left to become president.
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Title: L'Invité
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: TV
The show features an interview with a famous personality from the world of politics, economics or culture.
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La bête de miséricorde
Title: La bête de miséricorde
Character: Jean Mardet
Released: October 17, 2001
Type: Movie
After a car accident, Jean Mardet ends the agony of his wife with a rock. Mardet then keeps killing because he believes that God himself has entrusted a mission to him: kill the unfortunate souls.
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Le glandeur
Title: Le glandeur
Character: Bruno Bombec
Released: September 20, 2000
Type: Movie
Bruno Bonbeck, a retired soccer referee, is the world’s biggest layabout until his politician wife, the Junior Minister for Sport, delivers an ultimatum: you get a job or I get a divorce. The film traces the trials and tribulations of Bruno’s 18-hour hunt for gainful employment and has a very unexpected ending.
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La Candide Madame Duff
Title: La Candide Madame Duff
Character: Jacob Duff
Released: March 29, 2000
Type: Movie
Married to a younger woman, Jacob sinks into jealousy, alcohol and violence.
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Tout est calme
Title: Tout est calme
Character: Lucas
Released: January 12, 2000
Type: Movie
A secret society, somewhere in France, is responsible for the major unsolved murder mysteries throughout history (such as Henri IV, Lincoln, Kennedy, John-Paul I)...
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Le parapluie de Cherbourg
Title: Le parapluie de Cherbourg
Released: January 1, 2000
Type: Movie
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Vidange
Title: Vidange
Character: Castellin
Released: October 21, 1998
Type: Movie
Mireille Bertillet, a provincial judge, is transferred to Paris. She inherits a heavy file compromising high personalities.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Robin des mers
Title: Robin des mers
Character: le père de Mathieu
Released: April 1, 1998
Type: Movie
In La Roche-sur-Mer, the factory where the father of Mathieu's boyfriend, a 12-year-old boy, works will close. Desperate, the man tries to commit suicide and is saved by his son.
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Leon's Husband
Title: Leon's Husband
Character: Boris Lossef
Released: March 16, 1993
Type: Movie
The tragi-comic chronicle of a passionate friendship between Boris Lassef, brilliant but insufferable and tyrannical actor and director, and Léon Yvrard, his confidant and all-round man in love with him, indispensable slave and clever schemer. This terrifying duo, which operates in the theatrical world but can be found in all spheres of jet-society, is about to be shattered by Léon's sister-in-law Nadège, a small but formidable teenager who, thanks to her malice and devastating determination, will succeed in triumphing over Léon and marrying the illustrious Boris.
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Title: Zone interdite
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 1993
Type: TV
The zone interdite refers to two distinct territories established in German-occupied France during the Second World War after the signature of the Second Armistice at Compiègne.
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Ville à vendre
Title: Ville à vendre
Character: Shade
Released: February 26, 1992
Type: Movie
A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He teams up with the victim's vulgar assistant to try to solve the mystery.
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Il gèle en enfer
Title: Il gèle en enfer
Character: Tim
Released: April 25, 1990
Type: Movie
Based on Elliott Chaze's "Black Wings Has My Angel", the film tells a story of (nudist) gangsters on a coup and on the run
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Divine enfant
Title: Divine enfant
Character: Aurélien Brada
Released: April 19, 1989
Type: Movie
Much against his will, Aurélien Brada is put in charge of a cute orphan girl and her cute dog.
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Title: Nulle part ailleurs
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 1987
Type: TV
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Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
Title: Rise and Fall of a Small Film Company
Character: Jean Almereyda
Released: May 24, 1986
Type: Movie
An absurdly brutal and minimalist examination of the desperate search for financial backing by two small-time filmmakers, 'Rise and Fall' is knowingly self-referential, sad, and appropriately enough, a film shot on a miniscule budget in 16mm. Based on a novel by James Hadley Chase, with script by Jean-Luc Godard.
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The Unsewing Machine
Title: The Unsewing Machine
Character: Ralph Enger
Released: May 7, 1986
Type: Movie
The insane Doctor Enger is obsessed with his plan to build a hospital to cure blind children, and goes on a killing and kidnapping spree with the police in pursuit.
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Le Bridge
Title: Le Bridge
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
A César award nominated short drama.
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Kill the Referee
Title: Kill the Referee
Character: Inspector Granowski
Released: February 22, 1984
Type: Movie
Michel, a referee has to suffer the consequences of having whistled a penalty against a team which is supported by football hooligans.
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Title: Série noire
Character: Jean Almereyda
Released: January 28, 1984
Type: TV
Série noire is a French crime television series created by Pierre Grimblat in 1984. The series was adapted from crime books by the publishing imprint of the same name. 36 episodes were filmed between 1984 and 1989, and were aired until 1991 on TF1.
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Is There a Frenchman in the House?
Title: Is There a Frenchman in the House?
Character: Récitant (voice) (uncredited)
Released: April 28, 1982
Type: Movie
An official's earlier rise to power had some sordid aspects that are about to be uncovered by the death of his uncle. While he is trying to contain any potential scandal, the man becomes enamored of the daughter of his uncle's maid. This new romance inspires him to forget worries about a public image and focus on a new life -- not any easy objective when unsavory friends and foes have their own agendas in mind.
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Litan
Title: Litan
Character: Jock
Released: February 24, 1982
Type: Movie
Nora and Jock arrive in the strange village of Litan during the Festival of the Dead.
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Droit de Réponse
Title: Droit de Réponse
Character: Self
Released: December 12, 1981
Type: Movie
"Droit de Réponse" (Right of Reply) is a French debate program broadcast between December 12, 1981 and September 19, 1987 on the TF1 channel, presented by Michel Polac and produced by Maurice Dugowson. Broadcast live on a weekly basis, on Saturdays from 8.30 p.m., the right of reply has been the source of many controversies, due to the various speakers who have come to present their point of view on the show (which leads to famous scandals , remained in the memory of viewers), but also for the variety and relevance of the topics covered, which ensured the success of the program on the air for several years. On French television, this program is considered by some observers as a “pioneer program in terms of controversy-show or clash, in modern language”.
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Cocktail Morlock
Title: Cocktail Morlock
Character: Self
Released: January 31, 1981
Type: Movie
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Le piège à cons
Title: Le piège à cons
Character: Michel Rayan
Released: October 17, 1979
Type: Movie
Ten years after the French political upheavals of 1968, a maturing "soixante-huitard" falls in with some young radicals who are influenced by a book he had written. But does he still have the guts to translate his ideas into acts against the state? And is he still attractive to younger chicks?
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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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No Pockets in a Shroud
Title: No Pockets in a Shroud
Character: Michel Dolannes
Released: October 25, 1974
Type: Movie
In the newspaper he has just founded, journalist Dolannes exposes all the wheeling and dealing and scandals that go on in his town. But the day he exposes the socialist mayor's homosexual crime, he is shot dead by an unknown assailant in a cul-de-sac just before the paper is due to appear.
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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Shadow of a Chance
Title: Shadow of a Chance
Character: Mathias Caral
Released: February 13, 1974
Type: Movie
Mathias is an anarchist who lives with his 27 year old son, Michel, in late 1960s type communal weirdness.
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The Vertical Smile
Title: The Vertical Smile
Character: Franco, le prêtre borgne
Released: March 19, 1973
Type: Movie
A kaleidoscope of images from history populate this skillfully animated French feature. The story concerns a history professor whose ideas about human history cause him distress. Amid a flurry of newsreel-type images, Joan of Arc's trial is shown. Another theme which emerges is of two ages (in the far past and far future) in which naked humans fight one another with animalistic aggression.
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Love Hate
Title: Love Hate
Character: Stef Tassel
Released: September 8, 1971
Type: Movie
A prisoner escapes and kidnaps a woman with her he falls in love. He's involved in a bad business where politicians and underworld are leading the dance. He'll die like the albatross in Baudelaire's poem.
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Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
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Solo
Title: Solo
Character: Vincent Cabral
Released: February 27, 1970
Type: Movie
During an orgy, Some old and wealthy notables are being murdered by a small group of leftist young revolutionaries. Very soon the police are tracking down Virgile Cabral, the leader of the group. Meanwhile, Virgile's brother and only relative, Vincent, a violinist (and a thief), comes back to Paris. They have not seen each other for three years. Vincent does not believe in the revolution. He only tries to live as he wishes to live. But by looking for his hunted down brother, he has no other choice than to be involved in a fight that is not his.
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Thank Heaven for Small Favors
Title: Thank Heaven for Small Favors
Character: Tramp with pram (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1963
Type: Movie
Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family to do strange work.
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Snobs !
Title: Snobs !
Released: September 5, 1962
Type: Movie
The director of a dairy cooperative in La Manche dies in a vat of milk. In line to succeed him are his four deputy managers, all with very different temperaments: the aristocratic Dufaux, the seductive Courtin, the pious Lainé and the wait-and-see Tousseur. Each of them pulls out all the stops to win a major order from Morloch. Once this is achieved, election to the post of director by the cooperators is all but assured.
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Head Against the Wall
Title: Head Against the Wall
Character: François Gérane
Released: March 20, 1959
Type: Movie
An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.
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The Mask of the Gorilla
Title: The Mask of the Gorilla
Released: August 14, 1958
Type: Movie
Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must infiltrate a dangerous gang working for a foreign embassy as their leader, a spy enjoying diplomatic immunity, can't be arrested by regular police.
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Speaking of Murder
Title: Speaking of Murder
Character: Pierre
Released: April 12, 1957
Type: Movie
Louis Bertain is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his accomplices are careful to keep up a civic veneer by day, indulging in criminal activities only when "the red light is on" at night. This status quo is upset when one of the gang members becomes convinced that Louis' younger brother is a police informer.
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Abandoned
Title: Abandoned
Character: Andrea
Released: September 7, 1955
Type: Movie
A group of rich young intellectuals hiding from the war in rural Italy play at being partisans when some disbanded soldiers and some refugees ask them for shelter in their villa. The young and aristocratic Andrea strikes up a friendship with a peasant girl, Lucia. Then the Germans suddenly appear, looking for the real partisans, and the time comes for serious decisions.
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Senso
Title: Senso
Character: Un Soldato (uncredited)
Released: December 30, 1954
Type: Movie
A troubled and neurotic Italian Countess betrays her entire country for a self-destructive love affair with an Austrian Lieutenant.
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Graziella
Title: Graziella
Character: Alphonse de Lamartine
Released: October 28, 1954
Type: Movie
Naples 1821. Alphonse, a young poet belonging to a noble French family, is caught by a storm at sea. Fortunately the boat manage to reach the shores of Procida, where Alphonse is welcomed by the family of Andrea. Here he meets the beautiful Graziella.
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The Big Flag
Title: The Big Flag
Character: Luc Dutoit - a midshipman
Released: June 21, 1954
Type: Movie
For Naval officers duty comes first. Navy Lieutenant Favrel is one of these men. He has promised his wife Simone to stay with her all the time but a last mission aboard a training cruiser makes him realize that his life is tied to the sea. For his part, Navy cadet Pierre Hardouin understands that sailing is his vocation. The prospect of staying home alone while Pierre is on mission, frightens Madeleine, the girl of his heart. But the young woman ends up accepting the ordeal and marrying Pierre.
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Stain on the Snow
Title: Stain on the Snow
Character: Violinist
Released: February 19, 1954
Type: Movie
La neige était sale is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon. Upon learning that his mother was a prostitute, Frank (Daniel Gelin) dejectedly vows that he, too, will live a life of debauchery. Part of his self-degradation program is to kill someone, and since the story takes place during the Nazi occupation of France, he chooses a German officer as his victim. His steady descent into psychosis and depravity becomes his ultimate undoing.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Title: The Count of Monte Cristo
Character: Albert de Morcerf
Released: January 14, 1954
Type: Movie
Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him...
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The Vanquished
Title: The Vanquished
Character: Pierre
Released: October 22, 1953
Type: Movie
A trilogy of stories of well-off youths who commit murders. In the French episode, a group of high school students kill one of their colleagues for his money. In the Italian episode, a university student's involved in smuggling cigarettes. In the English episode, a lazy poet finds the body of a woman on the downs, and tries to sell his story to the press.
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Illicit Motherhood
Title: Illicit Motherhood
Character: La Fouine, un gars de la bande
Released: October 9, 1953
Type: Movie
A group of drifting youngsters train to commit petty thefts. A certain André puts them on the trail of a real hold-up. They might carry it out if a suicide attempt didn't stop them. A young woman throws herself into the river. They save her, comfort her, learn that she's pregnant. They surround her with their friendship. When André reappears and seizes Lucienne to throw her on the pavement, everyone unites to save her, and the kind-hearted Maurice offers to be the baby's loving father.
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L'éternel espoir
Title: L'éternel espoir
Released: June 24, 1952
Type: Movie
The war will separate the members of the Valon family, two sons Alexandre and Antoine being prisoners, while the youngest Gilbert enters the secret army. Only their sister, Denise, will stay on the farm with her grandfather and grandmother. The Germans invade the free zone.
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Two Pennies Worth of Violets
Title: Two Pennies Worth of Violets
Character: Un joueur de belote (uncredited)
Released: October 31, 1951
Type: Movie
Thérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to conspire against her, whether her petty Paris family, or her relatives in the province bristling with false respectability, or her lustful employer, or the boy she loves who seduces her and abandons her. But at the end of the day there is Yvon, her childhood friend. Will he be the one that will love her truly?
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Bibi Fricotin
Title: Bibi Fricotin
Released: April 11, 1951
Type: Movie
To find the heritage of his friend Catherine's ancestors, the leaping Bibi Fricotin, helped by the seer Fatma, goes through a thousand funny or comical adventures, thanks to multiple means of transport, ranging from the bicycle to the helicopter. Despite the pitfalls sown in her path by the young girl's uncle and aunt, the Tartazans, the inheritance will be found with a museum curator.
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God Needs Men
Title: God Needs Men
Character: Pierre
Released: October 3, 1950
Type: Movie
The inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany follow their own religion without need for clergy, but as strangers arrive, their faith and beliefs face a deep crisis.
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Orpheus
Title: Orpheus
Character: Band Leader (uncredited)
Released: September 29, 1950
Type: Movie
A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
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A Night at a Honeymoon
Title: A Night at a Honeymoon
Released: February 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Gaston wants more than anything to marry the naive Simone. But where he is, there is Sidonie, a local singer romantically pursued by the police commissionaire.
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Keep an Eye on Amelia
Title: Keep an Eye on Amelia
Released: December 16, 1949
Type: Movie
Young Amélie is currently enjoying life as the kept woman of her reasonably well off boyfriend Étienne. But when Étienne is called off for military duty, he enlists his playboy friend Marcel to keep an eye on her....something of a problem seeing that he is currently looking for a woman with which to create a sham marriage so he can quickly inherit a large sum of money from his father. Then suddenly the Prince of Palestra enters into the picture and boldly asks for Étienne's romantic favors to assess whether or not he would consider taking her as his bride. What's a free-spirited girl to do?
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At the Grand Balcony
Title: At the Grand Balcony
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1949
Type: Movie
World War I aviator Carbot attempts to establish a commercial airline after the war, for the purpose of delivering the mail to the outermost regions of France.
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Portrait of a Murderer
Title: Portrait of a Murderer
Released: November 25, 1949
Type: Movie
A circus daredevil is the next victim of a danger-seducing woman who tricks him into a potentially deadly stunt after he attempted to kill her.
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The Hell of Lost Pilots
Title: The Hell of Lost Pilots
Character: Denis
Released: August 18, 1949
Type: Movie
A plane flying to Dakar is caught in a storm and has to land in the desert. Deprived of a radio, he is unable to give his position and the water reserves are limited to two days. Each, among the military crew and the civilian passengers, experiences the ordeal according to his character.
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The Spice of Life
Title: The Spice of Life
Released: November 26, 1948
Type: Movie
A series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and leading actor, that examine the bores and pests of everyday life much like Pete Smith and Robert Benchley had done for years in American short subjects. Among those are the Practical Joker who will do anything for a laugh; the Party Entertainer who never stops singing; the Talkative Neigbor who forgets the time; the noisy neighbors who dance the tango all night; and women drivers, people who telephone at meal time, the friend you never saw before and amatuer medical experts. Much use of trick photography, montages, puppets and animation along with some adult Gallic wit and gentle satire.
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The Spice of Life
Title: The Spice of Life
Character: Le postilloneur
Released: November 26, 1948
Type: Movie
A series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and leading actor, that examine the bores and pests of everyday life much like Pete Smith and Robert Benchley had done for years in American short subjects. Among those are the Practical Joker who will do anything for a laugh; the Party Entertainer who never stops singing; the Talkative Neigbor who forgets the time; the noisy neighbors who dance the tango all night; and women drivers, people who telephone at meal time, the friend you never saw before and amatuer medical experts. Much use of trick photography, montages, puppets and animation along with some adult Gallic wit and gentle satire.
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La Cabane aux souvenirs
Title: La Cabane aux souvenirs
Released: September 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Laurangeais stays in a nursing home after his wife dies following an accident caused by Terrian, his adopted son. When he leaves he finds Terrian who is going to get married. He drags his future wife into a cabin and kills her.
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Dreams of Love
Title: Dreams of Love
Character: Extra
Released: January 29, 1947
Type: Movie
Paris, 1833. The famous composer Franz Liszt is friends with Chopin who introduces him to Countess Marie d'Agout. Very quickly Liszt falls in love and she, who is already married and has two children, abandons honor and reputation to follow him. They leave to live a great passion in Italy. Then, Franz Liszt gives concerts, the triumph awaits him everywhere. Little by little the fame of the composer will move the two lovers away.
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Queen's Necklace
Title: Queen's Necklace
Released: September 14, 1946
Type: Movie
The adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France Henri II, and who claims to be "Countess de la Motte", imagines a tortuous plan to steal a magnificent diamond necklace that the queen Marie-Antoinette refused to buy from the jewelers Boehmer and Bassange.
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The Eternal Husband
Title: The Eternal Husband
Released: June 19, 1946
Type: Movie
An adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Le Eternel Mari", a somber story of marital infidelity, revenge and near madness, and starring Raimu in his last film appearance.
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Long Live Liberty
Title: Long Live Liberty
Released: February 7, 1946
Type: Movie
Two-sided painting of the German occupation in France: the acts of heroism of the maquis are opposed to the villainies of the profiteers and the drafts, all treated in the manner of the imagery of Épinal.
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Rendez-vous
Title: Rendez-vous
Character: Victor
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie