Bernard Fresson

Bernard Fresson

Born: May 27, 1931
Died: October 20, 2002
in Reims, Marne, France
Bernard Fresson (27 May 1931- 20 October 2002) was a French cinema actor. He starred in over 160 films. Some of his notable roles include: Javert in the 1972 mini-series version of Les Misérables, Inspector Barthelmy in John Frankenheimer's French Connection II (1974), Scope in Roman Polanski's The Tenant (1976), Gilbert in Lover Boy (1978), and Francis in Garçon! (1983), for which he received a César nomination for Best Supporting Actor.

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Jean Moulin, une affaire française
Title: Jean Moulin, une affaire française
Character: Général Delestraint
Released: January 6, 2003
Type: Movie
Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French resistance and the patriotism during the dark years of Nazi occupation.
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The Adversary
Title: The Adversary
Character: Le père de Christine
Released: August 28, 2002
Type: Movie
Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist Jean-Marc Faure (Auteuil) pursues an imaginary career as a doctor of medicine in a plot more closely based on Romand's life and Carrère's book than was Laurent Cantet's 2001 film L'Emploi du Temps. The film was nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
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La Beauté sur la terre
Title: La Beauté sur la terre
Character: Rougier
Released: June 2, 2001
Type: Movie
Coming to live with her uncle in the canton of Vaud after the death of her father, a pretty 17-year-old woman of mixed race turns men's heads.
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Title: Sans famille
Character: Padrone Garofoli
Released: December 18, 2000
Type: TV
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Without Family
Title: Without Family
Character: Padrone Garofoli
Released: December 12, 2000
Type: Movie
Young Remi, a foundling, lives on the farm run by his impoverished foster parents. When their money runs out, unbeknown to his foster-mother, Rémi is sold by his hard-hearted foster father to an old street performer named Vitalis. Vitalis was once a famous opera singer, but became destitute after a tragic love affair.
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Taking Wing
Title: Taking Wing
Character: Victor
Released: July 5, 2000
Type: Movie
This is the story of Stan, a young man who might be considered an ordinary, run of the mill guy. But his love and passion for the theatre propels him to realize the most extraordinary desires. He is very attached to his grandfather, who owns a butcher's shop and who offers that Stan take over the family business. But Stan refuses. He decides to drop out of school and move out of his family's apartment, despite the opposition of his parents. His uncle is the only one to support him in the impossible dream of becoming an actor.
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Six-Pack
Title: Six-Pack
Character: Benetti
Released: April 26, 2000
Type: Movie
A serial killer is on the loose in Paris and he seems to be an american citizen working in the US embassy and being in the middle of a french-american economical affair.
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Demons of Deception
Title: The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Demons of Deception
Character: Joffre
Released: October 31, 1999
Type: Movie
In the ninth film in the series, in September 1916, young Indiana Jones - going by the alias of "Henri Defense" - has become a motorcycle courier stationed near the trenches at Verdun. His friend Remy is still in the trenches, and both grow more disillusioned about the war each day. Chosen to sneak into enemy territory on account of his gift for languages, Indy overhears German officers speaking of the imminent arrival of their most powerful artillery guns, nicknamed "Big Bertha." A month later, Indy and Remy are granted leave to Paris, where Indiana meets the exotic dancer Mata Hari at a dinner party. He falls for her immediately, but soon finds out she is dating other men as well, including the French Minister of War.
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Place Vendôme
Title: Place Vendôme
Character: Vincent Malivert
Released: October 7, 1998
Type: Movie
The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She's got to find the thing that values most for her, the thing that gives psychical stability and real happiness again to her life.
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Manège
Title: Manège
Character: Saradel
Released: July 27, 1998
Type: Movie
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Title: Entre terre et mer
Character: Le père Léon Lebreton
Released: December 22, 1997
Type: TV
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My Man
Title: My Man
Character: Directeur du personnel
Released: January 31, 1996
Type: Movie
In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to sleep by her radiator, then she offers herself. She falls in love, giving him new life, clothes, a place to live. When he grouses that he must bar hop while she uses the flat for her work, she finds them a larger flat. He grows restless, seducing a manicurist and pressing her to prostitution. He's arrested for procuring, so Marie must decide what to do; he, too, must face the consequences of his choices.
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Shadow of a Kiss
Title: Shadow of a Kiss
Character: Jean
Released: August 31, 1995
Type: Movie
Albert is a distinguished art dealer living in New York City. One day by chance, he visits a photo exhibit titled "Bistrot de Paris" by Carol Labronsky. In an old photo of two young lovers kissing while seated at a Bistro, Albert recognizes his first love, Rose, the girl he fell madly in love with during his stay in Paris in 1959, and had disappeared after leaving him. In that photograph Rose is wearing a sweater which Albert gave her, proof that the photo was taken after she had met him. Tormented by memories, AIbert feels a burning need to find out whet became of her.
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Ils n'ont pas vingt ans
Title: Ils n'ont pas vingt ans
Character: Jock
Released: March 3, 1995
Type: Movie
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La Règle de l'homme
Title: La Règle de l'homme
Character: Mehmet Pacha
Released: May 16, 1994
Type: Movie
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Germinal
Title: Germinal
Character: Victor Deneulin
Released: September 29, 1993
Type: Movie
It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them.
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L'Interdiction
Title: L'Interdiction
Released: September 18, 1993
Type: Movie
An upright judge must consider the petition of a scheming marquise who wants to have her estranged husband stripped of his rights.
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Quiproquos !
Title: Quiproquos !
Character: Jean-Michel Ducharry
Released: May 8, 1991
Type: Movie
A candidate for mayor of a small town decides to have the mayor's daughter kidnapped to induce him to withdraw his candidacy in the next elections.
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Money
Title: Money
Character: Henry Landau
Released: April 6, 1991
Type: Movie
A young man whose father's fortune was stolen by his closest friends sets out to get revenge in this odyssey through the world's major financial centers.
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Il prato delle volpi
Title: Il prato delle volpi
Character: Dr. Paroni
Released: December 7, 1990
Type: Movie
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No Time for Justice
Title: No Time for Justice
Character: The Godfather
Released: May 30, 1990
Type: Movie
A man is accused of a crime he didn't commit. He will be sexually abused in prison.
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Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
Title: Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
Character: Pierre
Released: April 29, 1990
Type: Movie
The story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians.
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Équipe de nuit
Title: Équipe de nuit
Character: Schlossberg
Released: April 25, 1990
Type: Movie
Quentin and André, two brothers who had lost sight for several years, find themselves in the family home, uninhabited since the death of their parents.
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Sons
Title: Sons
Character: Baker
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war.
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L'Été de la Révolution
Title: L'Été de la Révolution
Released: July 11, 1989
Type: Movie
Part 1: In May 1789, in Versailles, a game tug of war takes place between conservative and more progressive bigwigs. Part 2: As the people of Paris revolt, King Louis XVI finds it increasingly difficult to get the situation under control.
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Street of No Return
Title: Street of No Return
Character: Morin
Released: May 17, 1989
Type: Movie
A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, drunkenly roams the city, torn apart by sponsored race riots. When accused of murder, he may have the chance to get revenge on the magnate who maimed him.
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Title: L'Été de la Révolution
Character: Mirabeau
Released: April 26, 1989
Type: TV
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Bonjour l'angoisse
Title: Bonjour l'angoisse
Character: commissaire Maréchal
Released: August 17, 1988
Type: Movie
Anxious and shy, Michaud works for a company that specializes in alarms, safes and other security devices.
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No Harm Intended
Title: No Harm Intended
Character: Doctor Serge Cohen
Released: February 3, 1988
Type: Movie
When Catherine is caught with her illicit lover by her father-in-law Paul, the concerned father leaves to tell his son Thomas about the incident. Paul is injured in an auto accident and returns home in a wheelchair unable to speak. Catherine's guilt weighs heavily on her as she hopes to never let Thomas know she was unfaithful. She panics and seeks a way to eliminate Paul in this psychological thriller.
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Sweet Lies
Title: Sweet Lies
Character: Mr. Leguard
Released: December 18, 1987
Type: Movie
An insurance investigator is visiting Paris on assignment. He is soon made the object of a seduction bet amongst three ladies. Problems arise when the girls realize they are really falling for him.
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La Petite Roque
Title: La Petite Roque
Released: May 21, 1986
Type: Movie
A teenager is found raped and strangled near a Norman village governed by a crude mayor.
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L'Affaire Marie Besnard
Title: L'Affaire Marie Besnard
Character: Maître Albert Gautrat
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
In the small town of Louvun, Marie and Léon Besnard live quite comfortably. But on 25 October 1947 Léon passes away. Nobody, including the doctor who issued the burial permit, is doubtful that his death was natural. Nobody except Louise Paniou, a friend of the couple's, who is persuaded that Marie has poisoned her husband.
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L'Amour ou presque
Title: L'Amour ou presque
Character: Pyromaniac
Released: November 20, 1985
Type: Movie
Without warning, Mélie disembarks on the cargo ship where her father has the sailor's blues. He remembers his drifts and his friend Max who used to get him into some crazy situations. He remembers Alice and Luc whom he decided to avenge. He has his grenade ready. But Melie has just arrived.
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La Dixième de Beethoven
Title: La Dixième de Beethoven
Character: Ludwig Van Beethoven
Released: March 16, 1985
Type: Movie
Play by Peter Ustinov, about a return to the modern world by Beethoven, who knocks on the door of a London music critic. He is fitted with a hearing aid, and l istens in horror to his works. The critic wishes Beethoven to complete his tenth symphony, and one night the piano emits a few notes by itself.
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Zielscheiben
Title: Zielscheiben
Character: Fütterer
Released: March 15, 1985
Type: Movie
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Le maître-chanteur
Title: Le maître-chanteur
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
A César award nominated short feature.
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New Year's Eve At Bob's
Title: New Year's Eve At Bob's
Character: Kremeur
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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Rive droite, rive gauche
Title: Rive droite, rive gauche
Character: le "président" Pervillard
Released: October 30, 1984
Type: Movie
Longtime friends Guarrigue and Sénanques own a successful law practice in Paris. The dreaded businessman Pervillard is one of their clients. One night, Sénanques, who is in an unhappy relationship, meets Sacha. For her sake, he causes a political scandal involving Pervillard and puts himself in danger.
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Clash
Title: Clash
Character: Be Schmuller
Released: February 8, 1984
Type: Movie
A woman revisits long-suppressed nightmares as she is being chased through an abandoned warehouse by a strange man.
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Title: Thérèse Humbert
Character: Romain Daurignac
Released: November 18, 1983
Type: TV
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Waiter!
Title: Waiter!
Character: Francis, le chef cuisinier de la brasserie
Released: November 9, 1983
Type: Movie
After a life of emotional and professional upsets, Alex finds himself headwaiter in a chic Parisian restaurant. Well into middle age, divorced but still very much a ladies’ man, he has one great ambition: to open an amusement park by the sea. One day, an old flame, Claire, suddenly re-enters his life. For Alex, the fires of love are easily re-kindled, but Claire has another man in her life…
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Title: Los Desastres de la Guerra
Character: General Leopoldo Hugo
Released: June 6, 1983
Type: TV
The series narrates the events that occurred in Spain between 1808 and 1814, during the Spanish War of Independence against the Napoleonic troops. For this purpose, he uses the 82 etchings that make up the series by Francisco de Goya, Los Desastres de la Guerra, which also give the series its title.
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Espion, lève-toi
Title: Espion, lève-toi
Character: Henri Marchand
Released: January 27, 1982
Type: Movie
Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative to discover how one of their own secret agents was found out and executed in broad daylight.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Title: L'Ennemi de la mort
Character: Gaspard de Fersac
Released: August 28, 1981
Type: TV
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Madame Claude 2
Title: Madame Claude 2
Character: Paul Barton
Released: August 26, 1981
Type: Movie
A notorious French madam, whose business serves many of the nation's most powerful individuals, plans to go international until she becomes the focus of media scrutiny.
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Title: L’Aéropostale, courrier du ciel
Character: Didier Daurat
Released: December 13, 1980
Type: TV
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Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur
Title: Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur
Character: Orgon
Released: September 24, 1980
Type: Movie
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Légitime défense
Title: Légitime défense
Character: Béchereau
Released: July 18, 1980
Type: Movie
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We Forget Everything!
Title: We Forget Everything!
Character: Ballandier
Released: January 3, 1979
Type: Movie
Anne, who has just had an argument with her boyfriend Vassili, is put up for the night by Jacques and Odile, a couple of friends. But when Jacques takes her home the next day, he is arrested by the police, who mistake him for Vassili. In reality, Vassili is a terrorist.
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Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Title: Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Character: Professeur Lherbier
Released: August 23, 1978
Type: Movie
An ageing surgeon falls in love with a thirteen-year-old girl.
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Autopsie d’un complot
Title: Autopsie d’un complot
Character: Jacques Serrano
Released: July 1, 1978
Type: Movie
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Lover Boy
Title: Lover Boy
Character: Gilbert
Released: February 15, 1978
Type: Movie
"The Pocket Lover" tells the story of Julien, a 15 year-old boy who falls in love with an older woman, later discovered to be a prostitute. Now, Julien will have to face several obstacles, which includes his parents opposition with this affair, and Julien's own perceptions about the woman's line of work, going out with wealthy guys.
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Le Dernier Baiser
Title: Le Dernier Baiser
Character: The husband
Released: May 11, 1977
Type: Movie
The meeting of two women of the same age. One is a taxi driver, a little idealistic and romantic and the other is a wealthy and idle bourgeois.
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The Passengers
Title: The Passengers
Character: Fabio
Released: March 9, 1977
Type: Movie
A man and his stepson driving across Europe are terrorized by a man following them in a pickup truck.
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To Each His Hell
Title: To Each His Hell
Character: Bernard Girard
Released: February 2, 1977
Type: Movie
After her daughter is kidnapped, a mother discovers that there can be something even worse after "the worst."
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Mado
Title: Mado
Character: Julien, Simon's partner
Released: October 27, 1976
Type: Movie
Middle-aged businessman, Simon Léotard finds his future in jeopardy when his partner Julien commits suicide after having accumulated a mass of debts. Simon's unscrupulous business rival Lépidon offers to save him from bankruptcy by buying his company, at a discount rate. Reluctant to fall into Lépidon's trap, Simon decides to resolve the crisis himself. A prostitute, Mado, provides him with the solution to his problems...
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Marie, the Doll
Title: Marie, the Doll
Character: Sergio
Released: August 25, 1976
Type: Movie
Marie, who was orphaned as a young girl, has a case of arrested development that makes her act younger than her age. One day she stops to look in a store window displaying various ornate dolls. Claude, the affluent, eccentric store owner, sees her and becomes infatuated which leads to her and him meeting and deciding to go and take a look at Claude personal doll collection at his house. Marie, unaware of Claude's bizarre obsession with dolls, decides to marry him.
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The Tenant
Title: The Tenant
Character: Scope
Released: May 26, 1976
Type: Movie
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
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The Call of the Wild
Title: The Call of the Wild
Released: May 22, 1976
Type: Movie
A prospector, a trapper and their sled dog battle the Klondike elements on their journey to get to the gold country.
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Don't Bite, We Love You
Title: Don't Bite, We Love You
Character: Georges, le père
Released: May 3, 1976
Type: Movie
Georges,a trucker, is the single father of young Frédéric. His job prevents him from seeing his son as often as he could, as often as he should. Brought up by his grandparents, Frédéric proves a difficult child. His only friend is his twelve-year-old neighbor Rose. One day, Georges tells his son how Agnès, his mother, abandoned him at birth. Upset by such a revelation, Frédéric decides to be revenged...
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The Undertaker Parlor Computer
Title: The Undertaker Parlor Computer
Character: Delouette
Released: April 7, 1976
Type: Movie
Fred works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. He is bored with enduring the trials of his shrewish wife, so, after using actuarial tables to calculate the most common means of death, he cleverly prepares the family bathroom and brings about her demise. For a while he is content with his new freedom, but then he recognizes that a friend is in a similar situation.
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Title: 30 millions d'amis
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1976
Type: TV
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Rain over Santiago
Title: Rain over Santiago
Character: un Ministre
Released: December 10, 1975
Type: Movie
A semi-fictional account on the fatidic September 11, 1973, when the military commanded by General Pinochet took over the power from socialist president Salvador Allende, initiating a dictatorship that lasted until 1988 causing the deaths and disappearances of many people.
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Cookies
Title: Cookies
Character: Émile, le peintre professionel
Released: August 20, 1975
Type: Movie
Henri Serin (Jean-Pierre Marielle), an umbrella salesman, leads a quiet life between his work, his family and his passion for painting. During his many business trips, Henri indulges in a few amorous escapades, which provide a welcome change from the tiresome daily routine his bigoted wife locks him into. One fine day, Henri decides to drop everything and live on love and fresh water. He ends up in Pont-Aven, where he meets Émile, a local painter imitating Gauguin, with whom he shares his drinking and other feminine attractions..
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Le Futur aux trousses
Title: Le Futur aux trousses
Character: Sermeuze, the Boss
Released: August 5, 1975
Type: Movie
A large company offers consumers to acquire a "second identity", having the character traits that individuals would not normally adopt. Because of all these uninhibited behaviors, anarchy is quick to take hold.
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French Connection II
Title: French Connection II
Character: Henri Barthélémy
Released: May 18, 1975
Type: Movie
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.
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Title: Jo Gaillard
Character: Joël Gaillard, dit « Jo »
Released: January 6, 1975
Type: TV
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Ursule and Grelu
Title: Ursule and Grelu
Character: Grelu
Released: January 9, 1974
Type: Movie
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Where There's Smoke
Title: Where There's Smoke
Character: Dr. Peyrac
Released: May 16, 1973
Type: Movie
An election campaign becomes more interesting when anonymously published photographs depict the wife of a candidate, Dr. Peyrac, attending a sex party. Are the photographs fake or genuine ?
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Oh, Sun
Title: Oh, Sun
Character: Friend
Released: January 4, 1973
Type: Movie
An educated native of Mauritania tries to find work in Paris but encounters difficulty because of his race.
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Title: Les Misérables
Character: Javert
Released: September 21, 1972
Type: TV
An ex-convict who wants to make an honest life for himself is pursued by the implacable hatred of a policeman.
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3000 Million Without an Elevator
Title: 3000 Million Without an Elevator
Character: Julien
Released: August 18, 1972
Type: Movie
Seven small rogues dream of stealing the beautiful jewels which are in Paris for an exhibition.
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Hearth Fires
Title: Hearth Fires
Character: Marc Champenois
Released: May 24, 1972
Type: Movie
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Too Small My Friend
Title: Too Small My Friend
Character: Philippe Algir
Released: August 6, 1971
Type: Movie
Ticky Edriss, a dwarf, develops a scheme to avenge him on society and extort a bank.
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Max and the Junkmen
Title: Max and the Junkmen
Character: Abel Maresco
Released: February 17, 1971
Type: Movie
Max is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom he cannot catch. To re-establish his stature and save face, he decides to inveigle a group of petty thieves (led by an old acquaintance) to rob a bank. A reluctant captain provides Max intelligence and Max starts spending evenings with Lilly, a prostitute who's the girlfriend of the group's leader. He poses as a rich banker with money to burn and encourages Lilly to think about her future. He hints at a payroll that comes through his bank. The plot works, the petty thieves think they're ready for a big score, and the cops are in place. What could go wrong with Max's cold plan? Who's entrapped?
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Portrait of Marianne
Title: Portrait of Marianne
Character: Alfred
Released: February 3, 1971
Type: Movie
Octave, a young painter, realizes that his wife Marianne has left without a word or explanation. With his best friend Alfred he wanders the streets of Paris, in search of Marianne.
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Macédoine
Title: Macédoine
Character: Roger Vincent
Released: January 1, 1971
Type: Movie
The tale of a young pretty girl's rise to a top model and her finding of emptiness in her life after success.
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Title: The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Character: Jean Eguivin, le camioneur
Released: October 22, 1970
Type: Movie
Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there.
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The Cop
Title: The Cop
Character: l'inspecteur Barnero
Released: October 5, 1970
Type: Movie
A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge against villainous drug dealers. Word comes down from above that the United States feels French authorities have been lax on their arrests of the dealers. A violent action feature finds the harried inspector battling his colleagues as much as the criminal element targeted for extermination.
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The American
Title: The American
Character: Raymond
Released: September 24, 1969
Type: Movie
A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among old friends.
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Z
Title: Z
Character: Matt, friend of the Deputy, lawyer
Released: February 26, 1969
Type: Movie
Amidst a heated political climate, the opposition leader is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. When a magistrate finds evidence of a government cover-up, witnesses start to get targeted. A thinly-fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963, Z captures the outrage about the military junta that ruled Greece at the time.
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Woman in Chains
Title: Woman in Chains
Character: Gilbert Moreau
Released: November 20, 1968
Type: Movie
Gallery director Stanislas bolsters the development of modern art with his collection of surprising works. His newest acquisition is a sculpture by Gilbert, whose wife Josée is captivated by Stanislas. But unbeknownst to her, Stanislas is amassing photographs of a very perverse, disturbed nature.
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Farewell, Friend
Title: Farewell, Friend
Character: Inspecteur Antoine Méloutis
Released: August 14, 1968
Type: Movie
After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways. Later, they are reunited and become involved with a caper involving millions in a high-security safe. The two men become locked in during a holiday weekend as they attempt to crack the safe's combination.
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Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
Title: Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
Character: Bernard Hannecart
Released: April 24, 1968
Type: Movie
Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction in the experiment causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order.
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Spray of the Days
Title: Spray of the Days
Character: Nicolas
Released: April 21, 1968
Type: Movie
Chick fell in love with Alise because of a shared passion for writer Jean-Sol Partre who gradually devoured their relationship. Soon after, Colin, the main character, also falls in love with a young girl, Chloe, but after their marriage she soon suffers from a strange illness: a water lily grows in her lungs.
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Zita
Title: Zita
Character: Boniface
Released: January 12, 1968
Type: Movie
Because "Tante Zita" main theme is death: a twenty-year old girl, Annie (Shimkus) lives with her mother and her aunt (both played by first-class actresses Suzanne Flon and Katina Paxinou). The auntie is dying, and for the first time in her life, Annie has to cope with death. One night, she finds it too hard to bear, and leaving home where the old woman is suffering, she begins to hang around in Paris. She will meet people, and, from dusk to dawn, she will learn to leave her childhood behind and to grow into a woman.
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Far from Vietnam
Title: Far from Vietnam
Character: Claude Ridder (segment "Claude Ridder")
Released: October 18, 1967
Type: Movie
In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War.
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My Love, My Love
Title: My Love, My Love
Character: Serge
Released: June 8, 1967
Type: Movie
An architect has an affair with a young woman who aspires to be a pop singer. She ends up pregnant but does not tell her lover about her condition as she contemplates having an abortion.
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Belle de Jour
Title: Belle de Jour
Character: Le grele (uncredited)
Released: May 24, 1967
Type: Movie
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
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Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday
Title: Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday
Character: Jean
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A bitter-sweet story of a young sales assistant and a truck driver trapped between their dreams and the economic depression.
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Triple Cross
Title: Triple Cross
Character: French Resistant Raymond
Released: December 9, 1966
Type: Movie
A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.
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Is Paris Burning?
Title: Is Paris Burning?
Character: Agent de liaison F.F.I.
Released: October 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
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The War Is Over
Title: The War Is Over
Character: Sarlat
Released: May 11, 1966
Type: Movie
Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages to get free. When he arrives in Paris, he starts searching for one of his comrade to prevent him from going to Madrid where he could be arrested.
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The Big Swag
Title: The Big Swag
Character: L'employé du métro
Released: July 9, 1965
Type: Movie
Louis Bourdin est employé à la RATP le jour, romancier la nuit, avec une forte prédilection pour le genre policier. Un jour, il rédige un polar situé dans l'univers de la RATP, boudé par les éditeurs. Le livre parvient alors aux yeux d'une bande de criminels...
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How Not to Rob a Department Store
Title: How Not to Rob a Department Store
Released: February 25, 1965
Type: Movie
Bandits see the fruits of their theft fall into the hands of black jackets.
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Skies Above
Title: Skies Above
Character: Laurent
Released: January 20, 1965
Type: Movie
The crew of an aircraft carrier discovers that it is being pursued by a UFO that turns out to be a radioactive probe from outer space. They appeal to the warring countries of Earth to stop fighting and help it to repel the invaders.
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The Longest Day
Title: The Longest Day
Character: French Commando (uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1962
Type: Movie
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
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The Flamboyant Sex
Title: The Flamboyant Sex
Character: Pierre
Released: September 10, 1961
Type: Movie
24 hours in the life of three Swedish girls in Paris. Seduced by the excitement but short of money they earn a few francs as nude models in an art school.
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Please, Not Now!
Title: Please, Not Now!
Character: Serge, le photographe
Released: April 19, 1961
Type: Movie
A sexy model pretends to have a new boyfriend in a wacky plan to make her ex-lover jealous.
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Girl in the Window
Title: Girl in the Window
Character: Vincenzo
Released: April 14, 1961
Type: Movie
A romantic drama partially set in Amsterdam, this standard tale starts out in a mining area in Holland where conditions are about as rough as they get. Two of the miners, Italians Federico and Vincenzo take off together for the city's red-light district, where the women pose in windows for prospective customers. There the duo meet Else and Carrel who are willing to leave their windows to spend a weekend at a resort with the two men. Soon Else has fallen in love with Vincenzo and the future of the two hookers, as well as the miners, seems to look brighter.
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Sahara on Fire
Title: Sahara on Fire
Character: (uncredited)
Released: January 18, 1961
Type: Movie
A young engineer, Lucien Rombeau, is sent to the Sahara by the oil company that employs him, which wants to put an end to drilling that it considers unproductive. He ends up agreeing with the chief prospector, who refuses to stop the work and is convinced that prospecting will not be in vain.
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
Title: Hiroshima Mon Amour
Character: German Lover
Released: June 10, 1959
Type: Movie
The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
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Sunday Buddies
Title: Sunday Buddies
Character: Un ouvrier à la cantine (uncredited)
Released: July 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Casti and Trébois, two friends who are workers at the same factory, have developed a common passion for flying. They dream of starting an aviation club. In the meantime they spend all their Sundays restoring an old plane under the supervision of Raf, a former RAF pilot...