Jean Rochefort

Jean Rochefort

Born: April 29, 1930
Died: October 9, 2017
in Paris, France
Jean Rochefort (29 April 1930 – 9 October 2017) was a French actor, with a career that has spanned over six decades.

Rochefort was born in Paris, France. He was educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen He was 19 years old when he entered the Centre d'Art Dramatique de la rue Blanche. Later he joined the Conservatoire National. After his national service, in 1953, he worked with the Compagnie Grenier Hussenot as a theatre actor for seven years. There he was noticed for his ability to play both drama and comedy. He then became a television and cinema actor. He has also worked as director.

In his 30s during the shooting of Cartouche, he discovered his passion for horses and equestrianism. He has been a horse breeder since then and now owns Le Haras de Villequoy. His passion led him to become a horse consultant for French television in 2004. He has won two César Awards: In 1976, Best Supporting Actor for Que la fête commence; and in 1978, Best Actor for Le Crabe-tambour.

He was to play the title character in The Man Who Killed Don Quixote, after being found as "the perfect Quixote" by director Terry Gilliam. Rochefort learned English just for the part. Unfortunately, amongst other production problems, he began suffering from a herniated disc. Unable to film for months, production was cancelled. A documentary, Lost in La Mancha, was made about the failed production. With recent news of the film's possible restart, Rochefort has been recast with Robert Duvall, due to his inability to ride a horse.

In 1960 he married Alexandra Moscwa, with whom he fathered two children: a girl, Marie (1962), and a boy, Julien (1965).

In 2007, he sang with the French band Dionysos a short verse in l'homme sans trucage: « Vas-y, saute, monte, grimpe à ton cœur, sauve-toi, n'aie pas peur, ouvre grand, mon petit, il est temps d'avaler une énorme bouffée d'air frais, andalucia, anda, anda, andalucia... » (Go ahead, jump, climbs to your heart, save yourself, don't be afraid, open wide, my boy, it's time to swallow a huge breath of fresh air, andalucia, anda, anda, andaluci...)

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Movies for Jean Rochefort...

Title: Archives secrètes
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 9, 2021
Type: TV
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Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
Title: Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 30, 2020
Type: Movie
If Jean Rochefort remains so dear to our hearts, it is because this extraordinary actor alone embodies a cinema and a France imbued with freedom and carelessness. Through his films, archives and the testimony of those close to him, we discover a complex man, a sad clown saved by his taste for words and for fun.
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Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde
Title: Je ne sais pas si c'est tout le monde
Character: Self
Released: October 23, 2019
Type: Movie
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Belmondo ou le goût du risque
Title: Belmondo ou le goût du risque
Character: Self
Released: December 5, 2017
Type: Movie
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Belmondo, le magnifique
Title: Belmondo, le magnifique
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 3, 2017
Type: Movie
With more than 70 films and 160 million cumulative tickets in France, Jean-Paul Belmondo is one of the essential stars of French cinema.
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À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Title: À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Character: Self - Comédien (archive footage)
Released: September 1, 2017
Type: Movie
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Belmondo by Belmondo
Title: Belmondo by Belmondo
Character: Self
Released: May 5, 2016
Type: Movie
Jean-Paul Belmondo returns to the settings of a fantastic career, accompanied by his son Paul. Over a career spanning 50 years, Jean-Paul Belmondo’s movies drew over 130 million people into cinemas. This logbook takes us back to sets and countries, from where we can revisit the films in reference and find out about his fruitful collaborations with various directors. Paul Belmondo will lead the investigation, meeting the stars and his father’s friends (eye-witnesses all) and questioning his father about his journey, sharing it with us so we can discover the man and his story like never before.
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Title: Les Boloss des belles lettres
Released: January 21, 2016
Type: TV
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April and the Extraordinary World
Title: April and the Extraordinary World
Character: Pops (voice)
Released: November 4, 2015
Type: Movie
France asleep in the nineteenth century, governed by steam and Napoleon VI, where scientists vanish mysteriously, a girl, Avril, goes in search of her missing scientist parents.
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Florida
Title: Florida
Character: Claude Lherminier
Released: August 12, 2015
Type: Movie
Although he's now eighty years old, Claude Lherminier is still as imposing as he ever was. But his bouts of forgetfulness and confusion are becoming increasingly frequent. Even so, he stubbornly refuses to admit that anything is wrong. Carole, his oldest daughter, wages a daily and taxing battle to ensure that he's not left on his own. Claude suddenly decides on a whim to go to Florida. What lies behind this sudden trip?
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Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
Title: Jack and the Cuckoo-Clock Heart
Character: Méliès (voice)
Released: February 5, 2014
Type: Movie
In Scotland 1874, Jack is born on the coldest day ever. Because of the extreme cold, his heart stops beating. The responsible midwife in Edinburgh finds a way to save him by replacing his heart with a clock. So he lives and remains under the midwife's protective care. But he must not get angry or excited because that endangers his life by causing his clock to stop working. Worse than that, when he grows up, he has to face the fact he cannot fall in love because that too could stop his delicate heart.
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Jappeloup
Title: Jappeloup
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: March 13, 2013
Type: Movie
A true sports story that utterly defies the odds, Duguay’s film captures the wild ups and downs of the Olympics-bound career of legendary equine star Jappeloup and his troubled rider, locked in a tense relationship with his horseman father and forever uncertain of his own skills as an equestrian
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Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
Title: Asterix & Obelix: God Save Britannia
Character: Lucius Fouinus
Released: October 17, 2012
Type: Movie
Asterix crosses the channel to help second-cousin Anticlimax face down Julius Caesar and invading Romans.
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The Artist and the Model
Title: The Artist and the Model
Character: Marc Cros
Released: September 28, 2012
Type: Movie
In occupied France in summer 1943, a world-weary famous sculptor finds the desire to work again with the arrival of a beautiful young Spanish refugee.
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Title: Square
Character: Self
Released: January 8, 2012
Type: TV
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Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Title: Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Character: (images d'archives)
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: Movie
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Belmondo, itinéraire...
Title: Belmondo, itinéraire...
Character: Self
Released: May 18, 2011
Type: Movie
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Titeuf
Title: Titeuf
Character: Pépé (voix)
Released: April 6, 2011
Type: Movie
Titeuf is a comic series created by Swiss draughtsman Zep (real name Philippe Chapuis) depicting the life of a young boy (the title's namesake Titeuf, "Tootuff" in the English translation) and his vision of the adult world & themes such as love, sex, seduction and mysteries about the girls. In this film, Titeuf (Donald Reignoux) is off on a new comedic adventure! Things get complicated when Nadia (Melanie Bernier) doesn’t invite Titeuf to her birthday party, which is surely the most horrible moment of his life. Before long, Titeuf’s whole life is turned upside down when his parents are nearly deported. Everything continues to spiral out of control even in the midst of Titeuf’s exhaustive attempts to make matters right.
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The Great Restaurant
Title: The Great Restaurant
Character: Un client du restaurant
Released: February 20, 2010
Type: Movie
Fragments of the lives of the customers of a great restaurant and the inconvenience of its manager.
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Agathe Cléry
Title: Agathe Cléry
Character: Louis Guinard
Released: November 11, 2008
Type: Movie
Agathe Clery, a marketing manager for a cosmetics company, is snobbish, stubborn and racist. When she is diagnosed with Addison Syndrome, an disorder that darkens the pigmentation of one's skin, she suddenly finds herself resembling a black woman.
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Bien des choses
Title: Bien des choses
Character: Voix
Released: May 17, 2008
Type: Movie
"Pensées d'Alexandrie", "Bises du Caire" ... It's summer. They took their car, drove in coaches, flew in planes and visited camera in shoulder strap some distant country bristling with monuments and other "things to see", such as Egypt, Greece, India or Bordeaux. So as they are bored a bit far from their home sweet home, the Rouchon write to Brochon and vice versa - we are polite all the same! They send postcards not stung from the beetles. In these letters from the front of the leisure society, François Morel as a "melancholy mocker" has fun with often tender humor, sometimes biting, of this irrepressible need to change scenery to finally eye with a weary eye the pyramids and all those centuries that contemplate you while thinking of the evening meal (wine is free and at will) and the friends who have stayed in the country.
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I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
Title: I Always Wanted to Be a Gangster
Character: Jean
Released: March 26, 2008
Type: Movie
Told in four vignettes, this existential comedy relates the exploits of four aspiring criminals who hope to improve their lot, but find that they might not have what it takes for a life of crime.
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The Key
Title: The Key
Character: Joseph Arp
Released: December 19, 2007
Type: Movie
Depuis peu Eric Vincent, trentenaire sans histoire, a un fort sentiment de malaise. Est-ce la peur d'avoir un enfant ou celle de voir brutalement resurgir le fantôme d'un père qu'il n'a jamais connu ? Un matin, un inconnu l'appelle pour lui proposer de récupérer les cendres de son père. D'abord réticent, il finit par accepter et se retrouve plongé au coeur d'une machination infernale.
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Tell No One: The B-Side
Title: Tell No One: The B-Side
Character: Self
Released: October 15, 2007
Type: Movie
This lengthy domestic exclusive explores the filmmakers' adaptation of the original novel, changes made to the cinematic version, casting, the production itself, and director Guillaume Canet's efforts and work. It's a candid, well-conceived documentary that kept me entertained and engaged throughout. Harlan Coben, the author of Tell No One, talks about the film adaptation and how actor-director Guillaume Canet approached it. Later on, the director also shares his thoughts on the film while we see plenty of raw footage from the shooting process. Also, there is footage from Studio Labo M2 where the film's soundtrack was recorded. Finally, there are plenty of scattered comments from the cast addressing the film production.
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Mr. Bean's Holiday
Title: Mr. Bean's Holiday
Character: Maître d'hôtel
Released: March 22, 2007
Type: Movie
Mr. Bean wins a trip to Cannes where he unwittingly separates a young boy from his father and must help the two reunite. On the way he discovers France, bicycling and true love, among other things.
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Title: Chez Maupassant
Character: le père
Released: March 6, 2007
Type: TV
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Twice Upon a Time
Title: Twice Upon a Time
Character: Louis Ruinard
Released: November 8, 2006
Type: Movie
Alice d'Abanville and Louis Ruinard are two extraordinary personalities. They were the most strikingly glamorous couple of the 70s. But this pair haven't seen each other in thirty years.
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Tell No One
Title: Tell No One
Character: Gilbert Neuville
Released: November 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.
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Hell
Title: Hell
Character: Louis
Released: November 16, 2005
Type: Movie
Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.
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Akoibon
Title: Akoibon
Character: Chris Barnes
Released: April 13, 2005
Type: Movie
A disparate group of people meet at a hotel on a gorgeous and isolated Mediterranean island. Meanwhile, a woman schemes to get even with its owner.
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Lucky Luke and the Daltons
Title: Lucky Luke and the Daltons
Character: Jolly Jumper (voice)
Released: November 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Joe and Averell are the eldest and youngest of the four Dalton brothers, the worst outlaws in Wild West history...
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RRRrrrr!!!
Title: RRRrrrr!!!
Character: Lucie
Released: January 28, 2004
Type: Movie
In 35,000 BC, the tribe of the Dirty Hairs is at war against the tribe of the Clean Hairs for eight hundred years, trying to get their shampoo. The chief of the Dirty Hairs sends his daughter Guy disguised to the enemy tribe to get some shampoo for his tribe. When the healer of the Clean Hairs tribe surprisingly kills two cavemen of his tribe, their imbecile chief assigns Pierre with curled hair and Pierre blonde to investigate the murder and find the criminal.
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Heureux ?
Title: Heureux ?
Character: The interpreter of Fernand Raynaud's sketches
Released: January 14, 2004
Type: Movie
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Saint-Germain ou La négociation
Title: Saint-Germain ou La négociation
Character: Henri de Malassise
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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The Car Keys
Title: The Car Keys
Character: Un comédien qui refuse de tourner avec Laurent
Released: December 10, 2003
Type: Movie
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
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J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend
Title: J.S. Bach: The Music, The Life, The Legend
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: August 13, 2003
Type: Movie
A dramatic exploration of the life and struggles of the great composer, J.S. Bach, from his orphaning at the age of nine, through his struggles for the freedom to compose music in a restrictive society, to his eventual recognition after death.
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Pierre et le Loup
Title: Pierre et le Loup
Released: October 22, 2002
Type: Movie
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Man on the Train
Title: Man on the Train
Character: Monsieur Manesquier
Released: October 2, 2002
Type: Movie
A man, Milan steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier. The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.
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Blanche
Title: Blanche
Character: Mazarin
Released: September 18, 2002
Type: Movie
In 17th century France, cardinal Mazarin's death squad kills young Blanche's parents. She grows up to become a thief and steels a substance called Powder of the Devil and a coded letter that were sent to cardinal Mazarin. He is furious.
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Lost in La Mancha
Title: Lost in La Mancha
Character: Self
Released: February 11, 2002
Type: Movie
Fulton and Pepe's 2000 documentary captures Terry Gilliam's attempt to get The Man Who Killed Don Quixote off the ground. Back injuries, freakish storms, and more zoom in to sabotage the project.
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Honolulu Baby
Title: Honolulu Baby
Character: Cri Cri
Released: March 23, 2001
Type: Movie
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The Closet
Title: The Closet
Character: Kopel, le directeur de l'usine
Released: January 17, 2001
Type: Movie
A man spreads the rumor of his fake homosexuality with the aid of his neighbor, to prevent his imminent firing at his work.
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Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
Title: Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
Character: Self
Released: August 1, 2000
Type: Movie
Delphine Seyrig, an extraordinary woman and actress, died on October 15, 1990. From "Last Year at Marienbad" by Alain Resnais to "India Song" by Marguerite Duras, she played in 34 films for cinema, 13 films for television and 33 plays. Jacqueline Veuve, filmmaker and friend of Delphine Seyrig, wanted to break the silence that has fallen on her memory by making a documentary that traces with emotion and subjectivity the life of the mythical actress, the fierce feminist but also the simple friend.
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Rembrandt
Title: Rembrandt
Character: Nicolaes Tulp
Released: August 9, 1999
Type: Movie
This French-German-Dutch biopic on the life of 17th century Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn is told in flashbacks from the point-of-view of the aged artist. Soon after establishing his career as a painter in Amsterdam, he marries the radiant Saskia. As he makes a name for himself, he can soon afford to buy a large house by teaching wealthy aristocrats how to paint. However, the couple's happiness is short-lived; Saskia dies soon after bearing their son, Titus. Crushed, van Rijn seeks comfort first in the arms of his maid Geertje and then with his second wife, Hendrickje, who gives birth to a daughter. In spite of his genius, van Rijn's determinedly eccentric behavior alienates the very members of the elite who were paying his bills. At one point, the artist's home and belongings, including many of his paintings, are seized and sold for humiliatingly low prices in a rigged auction.
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Wind with the Gone
Title: Wind with the Gone
Character: Edgard Wexley
Released: November 12, 1998
Type: Movie
Soledad, a girl tired of being a taxi driver in Buenos Aires, travels with her car to Patagonia. She stops in a village whose inhabitants live in isolation and their only contact with the outside world is a cinema where old films are projected.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Der Graf von Monte Christo
Title: Der Graf von Monte Christo
Character: Fernand Mondego Comte de Morcerf
Released: September 7, 1998
Type: Movie
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Title: The Count of Monte Cristo
Character: Fernand Mondego
Released: September 7, 1998
Type: TV
A TV mini-series adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is unjustly sent to prison for 18 years. He escapes to reclaim his fiancée Mercedes and revenge against his nemesis, Mondego.
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Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
Title: Le serpent a mangé la grenouille
Released: August 12, 1998
Type: Movie
Yves Le Guen, a black man with a degree in economics, is hired as a handyman on the property of Mr. Moreau, a rich public works contractor. His arrival is going to upset the daily life of the inhabitants of the house.
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In and Out of Fashion
Title: In and Out of Fashion
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 3, 1998
Type: Movie
The legendary photographer William Klein has designed this fascinating book on fashion photography, with a selection of images from throughout his career, including material from his films. Though Klein claims roots in areas as diverse as painting, street photography, the tabloids, and B movies, his fashion work has been known since the fifties and sixties and has been a constant in his career.
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Barracuda
Title: Barracuda
Character: Monsieur Clément
Released: October 29, 1997
Type: Movie
This French-German-Belgian thriller, reminiscent of Misery (1990) and The Collector (1965), begins after Fred Astaire-fan Clement (Jean Rochefort) invites comic-book artist Luc (Guillaume Canet) to Sunday dinner with Clement and his wife Violette. Luc's girlfriend Margot announces her pregnancy, prompting Luc to forget about the invitation, but Clement insists that Luc join him. After Luc arrives and sees that Violette is only a life-size plastic doll, he decides to leave but gets clobbered on the head. Awakening, he finds he's been handcuffed to the bathroom sink and gagged. Cruelties ensue, with crazed Clement getting visionary advice from both Astaire and Violette. Award-winning composer-arranger-orchestrator Philippe Haim made his feature directorial debut with this drama, and music is very much a part of the film from Haim's score and music-box melodies to tap dancing, honky-tonk piano, and a full musical comedy production number.
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Never Ever
Title: Never Ever
Character: Gerard Panier
Released: September 17, 1997
Type: Movie
Thomas Murray and Amanda have just moved to Paris. He works for a bank owned by Amanda's father Arthur Trevane. Amanda decides that she does not like Paris, so she goes back to London. But trouble begins on a drive through the countryside, where he meets a free spirit whose charms pressure his long-distance marriage.
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Clara et son juge
Title: Clara et son juge
Character: Judge Larcher
Released: March 17, 1997
Type: Movie
Judge Larcher, who has lost his wife and child, leads a quiet and secluded life in retirement; until the day his path crosses that of Clara, a troubled teenager; it doesn't take long for the perceptive Larcher to detect a dark story of incest between the young girl, who has lost her mother, and her father, a bitter widower...
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Ridicule
Title: Ridicule
Character: Le Marquis de Bellegarde
Released: May 9, 1996
Type: Movie
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
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The Grand Dukes
Title: The Grand Dukes
Character: Eddie Carpentier
Released: February 21, 1996
Type: Movie
Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of course under the worst possible conditions.
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Palace
Title: Palace
Character: Thomas Fausto
Released: January 12, 1996
Type: Movie
While three brothers, heirs of a hotel owner, want to restore the glamour of yesteryear to the establishment, a Health Department official tries to find a way to close it down for good.
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Title: Les Bœuf-carottes
Released: September 21, 1995
Type: TV
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Tom est tout seul
Title: Tom est tout seul
Character: Jean-Pierre
Released: January 25, 1995
Type: Movie
After his fiancée leaves him, Tom finds himself alone and helpless. He has to wash his clothes himself and so goes to the laundromat. There, he meets a quaint tribe and opens up to a new world and incredible horizons.
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Ready to Wear
Title: Ready to Wear
Character: Inspector Tantpis
Released: December 23, 1994
Type: Movie
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.
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Once a Year, Every Year
Title: Once a Year, Every Year
Character: Raffaele
Released: October 13, 1994
Type: Movie
A man enters a restaurant in Trastevere, in the suburbs of Rome, and asks the owner to cook him the superb bass he has just been given. He wants it served at the dinner gathering like every year the group of inseparable friends he is a member of. The others join him. The last to come is a lawyer who has just liquidated the succession of the one that will be missing tonight. The deceased leaves them an estate in Umbria provided they live there in community. What will the friends decide during this dinner like no other?
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Lost in Transit
Title: Lost in Transit
Character: Arturo Conti
Released: September 1, 1993
Type: Movie
A traveller who has lost his passport in a Paris airport while between flights is restricted to a special transit zone. There he finds a group of similarly lost people hiding out and living from hand-to-mouth, reliant on their ingenuity to survive.
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Wild Target
Title: Wild Target
Character: Victor Meynard
Released: August 18, 1993
Type: Movie
Victor Meynard, a hit man who still lives with his mother, is becoming more reluctant to pull the trigger during assignments. He meets a young man, Antoine, whom he takes under his wing after being unable to kill him. Their lives change when he meets Renée, an art forger who has earned the wrath of powerful mob leaders. Unwilling to assassinate the new object of his affections, Victor must run and hide with two new friends in tow.
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Next Time the Fire
Title: Next Time the Fire
Character: Amedeo
Released: February 4, 1993
Type: Movie
The study of semantics has convinced Amedio (Jean Rochefort) that things only have relative validity, and that everything is changeable. So it seems, because while on an Italian holiday with his family, he conceives the idea that his aging wife (Marie-Christine Barrault) should assume the role of his mother, and his daughter (Jacqueline Lustig), who has an infant son, should assume the role of his wife and lover. His real mother (Lila Kedrova), an elderly invalid, dies just as this conceit begins to take form, and, inexplicably, the women placidly go along with this odd notion for a time, but eventually return to their former roles.
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Tango
Title: Tango
Character: Bellhop
Released: February 3, 1993
Type: Movie
Vincent, a stunt pilot, is acquitted of murdering his wife and her lover. However, a few years later, L'Elegant, the Judge in the case, comes to blackmail him. The Judge's nephew, Paul, is having trouble with his wife and they demand that Vincent kill her. The Judge, a confirmed bachelor, takes Paul and Vincent on the road to search for Paul's wife Marie. The three men get on well together, and spend their time discussing their relationship with women.
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L'Atlantide
Title: L'Atlantide
Character: Le Meige
Released: November 5, 1992
Type: Movie
A mythical land who must be discover. Or invented. In an impressive library, two old men. One is a great Polish archaeologist at the end of his work. The second- his best friend. They are masters of a substantial slice of human history: legendary Atlantis. It is refuge and masterpiece, propriety and treasure.
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The Long Winter
Title: The Long Winter
Character: Jordi Casals
Released: February 15, 1992
Type: Movie
In 1939, Ramón was a young man, caught up in his Barcelona family's involvement on the Republic side in the brutal Spanish Civil War. He and his family fled into exile ahead of Franco's troops. Now it is many years later, and he has come back to see how his old homestead fared in the intervening years. The only person he can find who is able to remember those years clearly is his family's old butler Claudio.
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Le bal des Casse-pieds
Title: Le bal des Casse-pieds
Character: Henri Sauveur
Released: February 12, 1992
Type: Movie
A tolerant veterinarian turns the other cheek when annoyed but changes his nature when he falls in love.
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Amoureux fou
Title: Amoureux fou
Character: Rudolph
Released: June 7, 1991
Type: Movie
When Remy, an ad consultant, falls in love with Sarah, the newest star of an ad campaign, sparks fly. The only problem is that they are both married. Sarah's husband knows she will eventually get tired of Remy while his wife just can't let go. At first she throws him out, begs him to come back, cheats on him, hates him, and finally slumps into the worse depression ever. It is amazing what love can do...
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My Mother's Castle
Title: My Mother's Castle
Character: Adolphe Cassignol, aka Loïs de Montmajour
Released: October 26, 1990
Type: Movie
To his chagrin, young Marcel Pagnol and his family move back to their home in Marseilles, France, far from their pastoral holiday cottage in the hills. Determined, Marcel makes the long voyage back to the cottage on foot and lands himself in trouble. One day Marcel's father discovers a shortcut to the cottage, but it requires trespassing. Despite their trepidations, Marcel and his family begin using the secret trail to reach their cottage.
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The Hairdresser's Husband
Title: The Hairdresser's Husband
Character: Antoine
Released: October 3, 1990
Type: Movie
The film begins with a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a young age. The film uses flashbacks throughout and there are frequent parallels drawn with the past. We are unsure what Antoine has done with his life, however, we know he has fulfilled his childhood ambition, to marry a hairdresser.
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Title: Stars 90
Character: Self
Released: September 3, 1990
Type: TV
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The Other Woman
Title: The Other Woman
Character: Farou
Released: April 25, 1990
Type: Movie
In The Other Woman, Farou (Jean Rochetfort) is an author whose success is matched only by his lechery. During the rehearsal of his newest play, a scandal unfolds. Farou's wife Fanny (Anne Duperey) knows that during his "creative periods," Farou gets a particular itch that he can't resist scratching, but her own jealousy has finally reached the boiling point. It starts when Jane (Caroline Sihol), the deliciously sexy secretary that Farou has brought on as a live in assistant, falls in love with the artist.
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I'm the King of the Castle
Title: I'm the King of the Castle
Character: Jean Breaud
Released: February 22, 1989
Type: Movie
Thomas, the son of a millionaire lives a fairly isolated existence, in a mansion in rural France. His father hires a widowed woman to take care of things while he is away. The maid's son, Charles moves in as well, and the two parents hope that the two can become friends but they become enemies immediately after meeting each other. Once their parents fall in love, Thomas decides to make Charles, who he views as an "invader", as miserable as possible.
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My First 40 Years
Title: My First 40 Years
Character: Principe Riccio
Released: November 5, 1987
Type: Movie
Marina is a woman who never says no...to men, money and fame! Determined to climb the social ladder, she works her way up from a marriage of a millionaire prince. At last, she's living the life of wealth and glamour she's always dreamed of. Then Love comes along and ruins everything! A starving artist steals her heart and seduces her away to his bohemian world. Will Marina manage to stay happy living a lifestyle out of the fast lane?
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Title: Nulle part ailleurs
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 1987
Type: TV
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Tandem
Title: Tandem
Character: Michel Mortez
Released: June 17, 1987
Type: Movie
Michel Mortez travels around France hosting a radio game show he created 25 years ago. He is famous among the average Frenchmen. Rivetot, his assistant and technician, always goes with him. He is the only one who knows what really lies under Mortez's appearance of a playful don Juan. When the program is canceled, Rivetot delays telling Mortez as long as possible... Both malicious and tender, this bitter comedy also shows nostalgia.
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Le Moustachu
Title: Le Moustachu
Character: le capitaine Duroc
Released: April 8, 1987
Type: Movie
The French intelligence service want to use a double agent to eliminate a terrorist groupe. To do this, the captain Duroc will give to the traitor a car filled with explosives. But the whole thing is a double trap. One of the officer of the Service, Leroy, has plan a dreadful blow to discredit his new director. He had chosen Duroc because is not supposed to be an intelligent agent.
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La Galette du roi
Title: La Galette du roi
Character: Arnold III of Corsalina
Released: January 29, 1986
Type: Movie
In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris is marrying Maria-Helena, a princess who comes with a dowry that is made up of one half of her island kingdom. Her father, the cowardly King Arnold III is counting on the money this marriage will bring him. The country is now almost bankrupt because of the king's gambling debts. As Harris and the king look forward to their illusory profits from the royal merger, other characters add some liveliness to the otherwise predictable story.
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L'Énigme blanche
Title: L'Énigme blanche
Character: Henri
Released: December 26, 1985
Type: Movie
Like every year, five old friends come together in a chalet in the middle of a Canadian snow desert. Henri, his wife Apolline, brother-in-law Maxence, Jean and Paul are waiting for cozy evenings with board games and good food - a typical ski holiday. But on the first day Henri announces that he knows about the affair between Apolline and Jean. An oppressive mood spreads in the secluded hut until the spiral of jealousy and sadism kills one from its midst.
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: (Album of the Year for Children)
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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Volley for a Black Buffalo
Title: Volley for a Black Buffalo
Character: Lajos Ácsi, the count
Released: May 16, 1985
Type: Movie
During the years following World War II, a new boy arrives to class 7/c, and the audience learns to know the lives of the drunkard teacher, his husband-cheating wife, the lonely music teacher hiding behind her paper flowers, the wise count deprived of all his properties, the jovial parish priest and especially the buffalo owner of tragic fate who lost his four daughters, alongside with the young protagonist.
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New Year's Eve At Bob's
Title: New Year's Eve At Bob's
Character: Louis Alban
Released: December 12, 1984
Type: Movie
On New Year's Eve, among the tower blocks of a huge housing estate in Paris, strange people - each for a different reason - are looking for the home of a man called Bob.
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Frankenstein 90
Title: Frankenstein 90
Character: Victor Frankenstein, alias Victor Lafaurie
Released: August 14, 1984
Type: Movie
French cybernetics genius Victor Frankenstein carries on the work of his notorious ancestor and creates a monster, albeit one with a penchant for philosophy, etiquette and occasional bouts of murderous rage. But when the creature develops a hunger for l'amour, Frankenstein and his understanding fiancé use a cache of freshly murdered strippers to build the creature a beautiful yet dutiful bride. Can the undead find true love in a cold world, or will the French ways of passion unleash some monstrous surprises upon them all?
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Un dimanche de flics
Title: Un dimanche de flics
Character: A. Rupert
Released: October 31, 1983
Type: Movie
Two policemen, Franck and Rupert, intervene in a Parisian heliport where drugs are exchanged for a large sum of money. They decide to keep the loot and find themselves fighting with the mafia.
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A Friend of Vincent
Title: A Friend of Vincent
Character: Vincent Lamar
Released: September 28, 1983
Type: Movie
Vincent is the victim of an assassination attempt carried out by a young woman who wants to avenge her sister. Albert, the childhood friend of Vincent, wants to help and begins to investigate the woman, but he realizes that Vincent is perhaps not the person he seems to be.
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The Big Brother
Title: The Big Brother
Character: Charles-Henri Rossi
Released: September 8, 1982
Type: Movie
The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one direction and then in another, with the intention of going home if things would just stop moving. Bernard (Gerard Depardieu) is a doctor whose Hippocratic oath was a hypocritic failure -- the not-so-good doctor kills his wife because she is having an affair, and he kills her lover too. Then he joins the French Foreign Legion. On his way to the former French colonies in Africa, the plane he is in crashes, and Rossi, a "friend" on the plane with some overweight in carry-on money, shoots Bernard and takes off, leaving him for dead. He is nursed back to life and health by friendly villagers and just his luck, he not only manages to make his fortune in Africa, he also nabs a French passport from a dying man who will clearly not need it anymore unless the Pearly Gates have a French guard.
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L'Indiscrétion
Title: L'Indiscrétion
Character: Alain Tescique
Released: July 21, 1982
Type: Movie
An innocent man stumbles across a political intrigue, when he discovers that his neighbours apartment is bugged. They are then found dead and their killers description resembles the man.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
Title: Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
Character: Charles-Philippe Bauman
Released: September 2, 1981
Type: Movie
"Hangar" is a new agency whose purpose is to carry out missions even too sensitive for the police or intelligence services. The agency must eliminate a German female terrorist by the name of Birgitt Haas. The murder is to be disguised as a crime of passion, so an agent must lure Birgitt into falling in love.
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Un étrange voyage
Title: Un étrange voyage
Character: Pierre
Released: February 4, 1981
Type: Movie
A man walks a length of railroad track, looking for his elderly mother whom he believes fell from the train at some point. He brings his daughter along.
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I Hate Blondes
Title: I Hate Blondes
Character: Donald Rose
Released: September 12, 1980
Type: Movie
There are two problems with Emilio and his career as a pulp writer. Emilio is a bumbling fellow who has absolutely nothing in common with the heroes he writes about. Second, Emilio can't seem to publish anything under his own name.
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I Sent a Letter to My Love
Title: I Sent a Letter to My Love
Character: Gilles Martin
Released: April 9, 1980
Type: Movie
A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried sister, who takes care of him. As he writes more and more to her, he begins to fall in love, and she, knowing that it is her brother who is writing, discovers a new, tender side to him. But trouble looms when he asks to meet her in person.
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French Postcards
Title: French Postcards
Character: Monsieur Tessier
Released: October 19, 1979
Type: Movie
French Postcards rings both comic and true. The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their French-English dictionaries, they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic artist's life, and look for grown-up love. The French tutor them well, as befits their reputation. Jean Rochefort is the harassed headmaster with a hankering for affairs, and Marie-France Pisier is his very sexy wife. Watch for a newcomer named Debra Winger, and another-Mandy Patinkin.
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Courage fuyons
Title: Courage fuyons
Character: Martin Belhomme
Released: October 17, 1979
Type: Movie
At forty years old, Martin Belhomme leads a quiet life with his wife and two children. One day, he falls hopelessly in love with Eva, a cabaret singer. He decides to follow her to Amsterdam. From then on, his life becomes very eventful!
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The Skirt Chaser
Title: The Skirt Chaser
Character: Edouard Choiseul
Released: January 17, 1979
Type: Movie
A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people in his life attempt to force him to grow up in this French comedy/drama.
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Title: Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Character: Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: September 24, 1978
Type: TV
Produced for television by Claude-Jean Philippe, the « Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma », recounts the history of French cinema from its birth to the beginning of the 1960s. With commentary read by Jean Rochefort.
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Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Title: Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Character: August Grandvilliers
Released: September 13, 1978
Type: Movie
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.
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Grandison
Title: Grandison
Character: Carl Grandison
Released: March 28, 1978
Type: Movie
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Drummer-Crab
Title: Drummer-Crab
Character: Captain, le Commandant
Released: November 9, 1977
Type: Movie
"Le Crabe Tambour" ("Drummer Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.
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We Will All Meet in Paradise
Title: We Will All Meet in Paradise
Character: Etienne Dorsay
Released: November 9, 1977
Type: Movie
Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, Étienne Dorsay becomes jealous and imagines various stratagems to identify the lover. In the meantime, he and his friends acquire a weekend house for a very low price.
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The Devil in the Box
Title: The Devil in the Box
Character: Alain Brissot
Released: April 19, 1977
Type: Movie
Alain Brissot, an executive in a major company, was made redundant following a redundancy plan, but decided to put up a fight by continuing to occupy his office against all odds... He soon went on hunger strike, and, after many ups and downs, ended up taking back the job of his former manager, who had himself been ousted following the failure of a lucrative contract with an African country.
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Pardon Mon Affaire
Title: Pardon Mon Affaire
Character: Étienne
Released: September 22, 1976
Type: Movie
On an otherwise normal day, Étienne, a happily married man and a good father, sees something that stops him dead in his tracks: a gorgeous woman in a billowing red dress. Long after she has left his vision, her memory continues to haunt his mind. He falls instantly in love with her and tries everything to get to know her better. Helping Étienne snare his elusive lady in red are his three bumbling buddies, which all have secret affairs and/or cheat on their wives.
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Femmes Fatales
Title: Femmes Fatales
Character: Albert
Released: February 11, 1976
Type: Movie
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males...
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The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
Title: The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
Character: Le commissaire Pichard
Released: January 7, 1976
Type: Movie
A bus conductor gets dressed for work in the morning, goes to the toilet, where he is killed by a bomb. The Commissioner and his fat, bumbling assistant, Inspector Charbonnier are put on the case. After interviewing friends, wives, colleagues, and spying on strangers who might be connected, our heroes trace the assassin down to a mental institution where, it seems, the murder victim has been an inmate for the last three years...
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Title: 30 millions d'amis
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1976
Type: TV
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Death Rite
Title: Death Rite
Character: Edouard
Released: September 5, 1975
Type: Movie
While traveling to a resort in Tunisia, the magician and clairvoyant Professor Vestar befriends the idle millionaire Edouard Vangard and he offers a ride in his car. Vestar discloses to Edouard that he had had a premonition of a woman being murdered in a desert area.
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A Happy Divorce
Title: A Happy Divorce
Character: Jean-Baptiste Morin, læge
Released: June 6, 1975
Type: Movie
After having been rescued from suicide, a young man is the object of a bet by his doctor that the doctor can help him recover his joy in life. Ironically, the doctor's life is not a very happy one either, and his boast has a hollow sound. For one thing, although he seemingly has a "happy divorce," in which he, his ex-wife and her new husband are all great pals, it's not true. He wants his wife back. All sorts of complications arise out of these lies and distortions.
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Isabelle and Lust
Title: Isabelle and Lust
Character: M. Vaudois
Released: April 16, 1975
Type: Movie
In the early 1950s, in a seaside town, Isabelle, a girl in her late teens,is about to spend an apparently eventless summer between her mother, her friends and a small job for a photographer whose business is lagging. But Isabelle is not the mentally balanced young lady she seems to be. In fact she is doubly traumatized, firstly by the rape she suffered eight years before from a Nazi officer and secondly by the suicide of her father shortly after. What she wants deep inside herself is to find a man, young or less young, who will bring her tenderness and happiness. Will Luc, a young German, or Monsieur Vaudois, her married boss, give her what she lacks ?
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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Innocents with Dirty Hands
Title: Innocents with Dirty Hands
Character: Maitre Albert Legal
Released: March 26, 1975
Type: Movie
Saint Tropez. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the murder of her wealthy husband Louis, an alcoholic impotent. She hits him, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. Julie finds herself alone the following day, and becomes therefore the prime suspect. Where is Louis' body? Where is Jeff? Is there any secret beyond a door?
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Let Joy Reign Supreme
Title: Let Joy Reign Supreme
Character: Father Dubois
Released: March 23, 1975
Type: Movie
A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
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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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The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Title: The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Character: Colonel Louis, Marie, Alphonse Toulouse
Released: November 12, 1974
Type: Movie
With "little captain" Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy," Colonel Toulouse kidnaps Christine and forces Francois to play again the character of "The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe" in some fake adventures. All this to stop the investigation into the death of Colonel Milan.
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Till Marriage Do Us Part
Title: Till Marriage Do Us Part
Character: Barone Henri de Sarcey
Released: October 24, 1974
Type: Movie
The Marquise Eugenia di Maqueda, an orphan raised by the nuns, marries Raimondo Corrao, but on their wedding night she finds out that he is her brother. The piece of news is in a letter written from Paris by their father, a womaniser who lives and hides from them in the French headtown. The pair decide, to avoid the scandal, to live as brother and sister. He will later leave for the war in Lybia, she will find solace and sexual satisfaction in the arms of the family chauffeur.
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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The Phantom of Liberty
Title: The Phantom of Liberty
Character: M. Legendre
Released: September 10, 1974
Type: Movie
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
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How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
Title: How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
Character: Foisnard
Released: June 19, 1974
Type: Movie
A story about a guy who still lives with his mother and sells some really awful alcohol to bartenders. The only way for him to do this is to cry and invent himself an awful life. Then he meets the beautiful woman whose goal in life is to sleep with the less exciting guys on Earth.
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The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Title: The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Character: Commissioner Guilboud
Released: January 16, 1974
Type: Movie
Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realizes that he knew far less about his son than he thought .
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Hail the Artist
Title: Hail the Artist
Character: Clément Chamfort
Released: December 6, 1973
Type: Movie
Marcello Mastrioanni stars as aging actor Nicolas whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeking an anchor in his life, Nicolas attempts a reconciliation with his ex-wife. But in this, as in his professional life, Nicolas is doomed to disillusionment and failure.
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Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
Title: Mean Frank and Crazy Tony
Character: Louis
Released: November 23, 1973
Type: Movie
There's trouble in Frankie Diomede's criminal empire in Genoa. A French gangster has moved into his territory, so he flies home to take care of business. He promptly has himself arrested so that he'll have the perfect alibi when the bodies start piling up. But it turns out his enemies have enough juice to keep him in prison, his associates start dying and the attempts on his life start. Cue Tony Breda, a wannabe wiseguy, who has a plan to spring Frankie from jail.
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Lovely Swine
Title: Lovely Swine
Character: The police inspector
Released: October 4, 1973
Type: Movie
Pierre used to be a top level football player but he quit. Now he is both a prestidigitator and a stool pigeon, benefiting from the protection of the chief inspector. In his dreams he is haunted by the horrors he saw (he took part in ?) during the Algerian War. Pierre lives with Marie, a young singer who performs at the same cabaret as him. Lately Marie has decided to start a career in the showbiz and Pierre is worried. Nothing alarming happens though, until a diabolical inspector, jealous of his superior, decides to manipulate Pierre. He also puts pressure on Poussin, Marie's pianist, and on Joseph, the night club's master of ceremony. What he wants is to compromise his superior and take his place. Will Pierre escape this ruthless trap?
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The Conspiracy
Title: The Conspiracy
Character: Dominique
Released: May 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Paris 1960. DeGaulle determines to end a bitter war in Algeria by granting its independence. Millions oppose him, including a group of DeGaulle's disenchanted Arm Officers. In a desperate attempt to save the colony for France, they plan a daring jailbreak of their imprisoned leader. A network of snitches inform a tenacious detective leading to an explosive three-way cat-and-mouse game among the rebels, the Gaullist politicos and the police.
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The Inheritor
Title: The Inheritor
Character: Le nonce (André Berthier)
Released: March 22, 1973
Type: Movie
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...
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The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Title: The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Character: Colonel Louis Toulouse
Released: December 6, 1972
Type: Movie
Hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.
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Hearth Fires
Title: Hearth Fires
Character: Alexandre Boursault
Released: May 24, 1972
Type: Movie
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The Egg
Title: The Egg
Character: Victor Dugommier
Released: March 8, 1972
Type: Movie
Emile Magis, a modest employee, more or less ostracized by the others, would like only one thing, to be happy. Little by little he realizes that life in society is a matter of convention, lies and deception. When he has understood that cynicism rules the world, he decides to play by its untold rules and to take his revenge.
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Le Misanthrope
Title: Le Misanthrope
Character: Alceste
Released: February 20, 1971
Type: Movie
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Céleste
Title: Céleste
Released: December 10, 1970
Type: Movie
Georges Cazenave, a " politically committed" French TV reporter leads a good life. Besides having a regular mistress in the person of Hélène, he is a ladies man with "a girl in every port". But this comfortable situation is challenged the day he hires Céleste as his housemaid. A Portuguese immigrant, she soon appears to be a Marxist-Leninist activist, engaged in political groups working against the regime of Salazar, the dictator of Portugal. Geoges and Céleste fall in love with each other, which brings adventure in the reporter's hitherto superficial life, upset by a breakup with Hélène, the interference of the French Secret Service and a touch of terrorism.
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La Liberté en croupe
Title: La Liberté en croupe
Character: Moss
Released: October 30, 1970
Type: Movie
Paris, in the spring of 1968. Albin Cérès, 23, the son of a bourgeois couple on the verge of breakdown, seeks happiness in life. Disappointed by Laurent, the leader of a small group of revolutionary students ; disappointed by Paméla, a girl he half-heartedly makes love to ; refusing the friendship of Moss, a refined fifty-year-old who is secretly in love with him, Albin returns to his parents'home for a while. Shortly afterward he meets Lore, a lovely young lady, who dreams of revolution... A great love is born!
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The Time to Die
Title: The Time to Die
Character: Hervé Breton
Released: July 8, 1970
Type: Movie
The movie starts with a mysterious girl riding her horse into a tree. Then she's rescued by millionaire Max Topfer, who is startled to discover in her possession a video showing him being shot by a man he doesn’t know. Both the girl, who has total amnesia, and the tape appear to have come from the future. With the aid of bodyguard Helmut, Max Topfer tries to find out why a total stranger is apparently going to kill him on camera.
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The Devil by the Tail
Title: The Devil by the Tail
Character: Le comte Georges
Released: February 7, 1969
Type: Movie
In this comedy, a run-down hotel drums up customers by sabotaging passing cars. The stuck motorists are then obliged to stay. Unfortunately, one of the sabotaged cars belongs to a bank robber. The hotel staff wants the robber out, but they also want to keep his ill-gotten money.
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For a Distant Love
Title: For a Distant Love
Released: August 23, 1968
Type: Movie
A delicious love story has been taken place in Rio.
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Don't Play with Martians
Title: Don't Play with Martians
Character: René Mastier
Released: May 31, 1968
Type: Movie
These space people have cat eyes and a disintegrating pistol; and when they touch a woman 's lips with their magic kiss.
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Two Weeks in September
Title: Two Weeks in September
Character: Philippe
Released: June 7, 1967
Type: Movie
Story of a woman torn between her love for two different men.
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The Sunday of Life
Title: The Sunday of Life
Character: Captain Bordeille
Released: January 13, 1967
Type: Movie
After five years in the army, Valentin Brû marry a haberdasher. They move to Paris, where Valentin sells frames, while his wife becomes fortune teller. One day, Valentin replaces her, and predict a terrible event which will happen.
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Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Title: Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Character: Grégoire Pecque
Released: October 21, 1966
Type: Movie
In this excoriating satire of the fashion industry, Polly Maggoo is a 20-year-old Brooklyn-born fashion model in Paris, on the runway at the big shows where magazine editor Ms. Maxwell is the reigning opinion maker. The ridiculous passes for sublime. Polly becomes the subject of an episode of a vapid TV news documentary series called "Qui êtes-vous?" and is pursued by the filmmaker and by the prince of Borodine, a small country in the Soviet bloc.
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Angelique and the King
Title: Angelique and the King
Character: François Desgrez / Narrator (voice)
Released: January 31, 1966
Type: Movie
Soon after her latest husband death, the King himself (Louis XIV) meets with our heroine and begs her to help convince the Persian Ambassador to agree to a treaty. However, what they didn't realize was that the handsome Persian was in fact a sexual sadist. So, it is up to the King's half- brother, some Hungarian prince, to save Angélique from the evil troll's clutches.
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Up to His Ears
Title: Up to His Ears
Character: Leon
Released: December 4, 1965
Type: Movie
A millionaire realizes he really wants to live after he has hired an assassin to kill him.
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Angelique: The Road To Versailles
Title: Angelique: The Road To Versailles
Character: François Desgrez
Released: July 7, 1965
Type: Movie
Angelique is saved by the king of the cutthroats when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman.
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Le naïf amoureux
Title: Le naïf amoureux
Character: Paul Robignac, adult
Released: June 26, 1965
Type: Movie
Paul is an accomplished teacher at Janson-de-Sailly. A "good guy" who, having returned for the holidays to the provincial town where he was raised, finds Véronique, his childhood friend. He falls madly in love...
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Title: Dim Dam Dom
Character: Grégoire Alexandrovich, Prince Potemkine
Released: March 7, 1965
Type: TV
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Beautiful Families
Title: Beautiful Families
Character: Marchese Osvaldo
Released: December 26, 1964
Type: Movie
The film's theme is four episodes that offer the public a glimpse into the lives of rich and poor families in Italy in the 1960s.
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Angelique
Title: Angelique
Character: François Desgrez
Released: December 8, 1964
Type: Movie
In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac out of convenience, but eventually, she falls in love with him. So when Jeoffray is arrested and then vanishes, she bravely sets out to find him. This is the first of many dramas based on Anne and Serge Golon's novels about strong-willed Angélique and her adventures during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King.
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Les pieds nickelés
Title: Les pieds nickelés
Character: Croquignol
Released: September 30, 1964
Type: Movie
Three tramps in search of adventure and fortune decide to try their luck at swindling. After an initial failure at shoplifting, they take over a bateau-mouche and exploit tourists in their own way.
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Trouble Among Widows
Title: Trouble Among Widows
Character: Inspecteur Laforêt
Released: April 15, 1964
Type: Movie
When Guillaume Valmont dies in a car accident, the only thing he leaves his wife Isabelle is his pharmacy. She never loved her older husband and she regards his death as a deliverance. At the funeral, she meets Judith, widow too, and she soon realises that her husband had been leading a double life. A short while later, the pharmacy is broken into, but nothing is stolen. Police Inspector Laforêt is put in charge of the case. Isabelle becomes suspicious when Judith offers to buy the pharmacy.
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The Blockhead Fair
Title: The Blockhead Fair
Character: Sigoules
Released: October 30, 1963
Type: Movie
On prize-giving day, a few dunces recall various incidents that marked their school year.
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La Porteuse de pain
Title: La Porteuse de pain
Character: Ovide Soliveau
Released: August 29, 1963
Type: Movie
A young woman by the name of Jeanne Fortier finds herself the victim of a terrible miscarriage of justice.
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Symphony for a Massacre
Title: Symphony for a Massacre
Character: Jabeke
Released: August 2, 1963
Type: Movie
A band of gangsters devise a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug traffickers: the five fraudsters will face bigger problems than them.
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Outpost in Indo-china
Title: Outpost in Indo-china
Character: Sergeant Hérange
Released: January 16, 1963
Type: Movie
A refugee crisis in Vietnam occurs which complicates an French army captain's primary mission of securing a fort.
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The Iron Mask
Title: The Iron Mask
Character: Lastreaumont
Released: October 26, 1962
Type: Movie
The story of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, and the imprisonment in an iron mask of the identical twin of the King of France, Louis XIV.
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Sun in Your Eyes
Title: Sun in Your Eyes
Released: June 22, 1962
Type: Movie
A love triangle between 23-year-old Emma (Anna Karina), her older boyfriend (Georges Descrières) and the younger man (Jacques Perrin) she meets while on vacation by herself.
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Cartouche
Title: Cartouche
Character: La Taupe
Released: March 7, 1962
Type: Movie
In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, acting under the name of Cartouche, making audacious robberies of the rich people, and even distributing the takings with the poor. Thus, cartouche attracts the people's sympathies, Venus's love, and hate from the Police and Malichot... Cartouche can escape all the traps they set at him - except the entrapments of love. Eventually, he will be saved by a woman, at her own cost.
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The Marriage of Figaro
Title: The Marriage of Figaro
Character: Le comte Almaviva
Released: December 25, 1961
Type: Movie
Comedy in five acts by Beaumarchais, filmed by Marcel Bluwal in studio and on location. The cast, in accordance with Marcel Bluwal's wishes, is in keeping with the age and character of the characters, to give it rhythm. At once "a comic baroque play, a bourgeois drama, a chansonnier's number, a social satire, a farce and a very pretty love story" according to Marcel Bluwal, it can also be summed up, according to Beaumarchais, as "the most bantering of intrigues".
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Captain Fracasse
Title: Captain Fracasse
Character: Malartic
Released: April 21, 1961
Type: Movie
A ruined Baron Philippe de baron, meets one day a troupe of traveling actors led by Herod. Attracted by the one who plays the role of the ingenue: Isabella, and by the dynamism and enthusiasm of his companions, he takes the place of the deceased poet of the troupe. And during performances, Philippe became the captain Sunder. For his part, Isabelle loves Philip, but does not consider marriage, nobility him missing, she refuses to harm the career of Baron. And one day, the Duke of Vallombrosa, seduced by Isabella, finds himself challenged to a duel by Philippe for touching the girl. Defeated, he launched his men against Sunder, then removes Isabelle. The actors throw themselves then to storm the castle where she is being held. This time Vallombrosa was seriously injured, and the duke's own father, rushed to the scene, Isabelle discovers the girl he had once been an actress. Nothing stands now the union of Sunder and Isabella, under the tender gaze of the actors Herod and Scapin.
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Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
Title: Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
Character: Fernand
Released: January 13, 1961
Type: Movie
During World War II, the Frenchman Léon Garros and Boris Vaganov escape from the Nazi concentration camp. After 15 years, Léon, who became a journalist, and his friends came to the USSR to make a report and find Boris in the meantime. In Moscow he doesn't found, and for the sake of meeting with a friend, Garros has to travel around the country by car... The foreigners are accompanied by Nikolai, the translator, who, in turn, is looking for his brother's runaway bride, Natasha.
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A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
Title: A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
Character: Léopold, barman of 'Tip Tap'
Released: November 19, 1958
Type: Movie
Back from Indochina, Tony and Dick, two French soldiers, are now in possession of more than 20 million, entrusted by a trafficker. They buy a nightclub in the district of Montparnasse but are soon hunted by the thug who wants to recover his money.
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Meeting in Paris
Title: Meeting in Paris
Character: L'interne
Released: May 2, 1956
Type: Movie
A wealthy young American woman is suddenly cut off by her father while living in Paris. A philosopher, she tries to make a living as a guide in the capital. The Marquis de Cernay, who has his eye on Nancy's portfolio, engages Maurice, a hardworking writer, to follow the young woman. She learns from both of them that they are only interested in her fortune. However, when she learns of the deception, she returns to her usual social life. She will return to him when the Marquis de Cernay has betrayed himself once and for all.