Pierre Richard

Pierre Richard

Born: August 16, 1934
in Valenciennes, Hauts-de-France, France
Pierre Richard (born Pierre-Richard Maurice Charles Léopold Defays (originally de Fays, his grandfather changed the spelling for unknown reasons), 16 August 1934 in Valenciennes, Nord) is a popular French actor best known for the roles of a clumsy daydreamer in comedy films. Richard is considered by many, such as Louis de Funès and Gérard Depardieu, to be one of the greatest and most talented French comedians in the last 50 years. He is also a film director and occasional singer.

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Movies for Pierre Richard...

The Valley of Fools
Title: The Valley of Fools
Released: November 13, 2024
Type: Movie
Passionate about sailing, Jean-Paul passes a difficult pass. He accumulates debts and moves away from his own. Determined to take his life into his own hands, he enrolled in Virtual Regatta the virtual race of the Vendée Globe. He puts himself in the conditions of a real skipper by insulating himself for 3 months on his boat in his garden - This trip like no other, will allow him to reconnect with his family but above all with himself.
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Two Words as the Key
Title: Two Words as the Key
Released: July 27, 2023
Type: Movie
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Sous les nénuphars
Title: Sous les nénuphars
Character: Claude Monet
Released: June 19, 2023
Type: Movie
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Jeanne du Barry
Title: Jeanne du Barry
Character: Le Duc de Richelieu
Released: May 16, 2023
Type: Movie
The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.
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La plus belle pour aller danser
Title: La plus belle pour aller danser
Character: Albert
Released: April 19, 2023
Type: Movie
Marie-Luce Bison, 14 years old, is raised by her father in a cheerful boarding house for seniors where he is the director. It is soon the costume party of her new college: her father does not want her to go ... and anyway, she is not invited. But pushed by Albert, her 80-year-old best friend, Marie-Luce crashes the party, dressed as a man. That evening, everyone takes her for a boy... a boy who is looked at and who pleases. She then decides to invent a male double named Leo to finally live her teenage life. Of course, at home, the relationship with her father becomes complicated.
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Umami
Title: Umami
Character: Rufus
Released: February 9, 2023
Type: Movie
Following a near-death experience France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flavor that has confounded his life since he was defeated by a Japanese chef's bowl of noodles as a young man.
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Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom
Title: Asterix & Obelix: The Middle Kingdom
Character: Panoramix
Released: February 1, 2023
Type: Movie
Gallic heroes and forever friends Asterix and Obelix journey to China to help Princess Sa See save the Empress and her land from a nefarious prince.
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Epic Tails
Title: Epic Tails
Character: Zeus (voice)
Released: January 25, 2023
Type: Movie
An adventurous mouse sets off to battle dangerous creatures in Ancient Greece, including Poseidon.
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A Christmas Story
Title: A Christmas Story
Character: Himself
Released: November 24, 2022
Type: Movie
Three families, three festive stories. Uninvited guests, new love, and a quest for the perfect winter. 'A Christmas Story' weaves humor and holiday spirit into a heartwarming journey through the ups and downs of the season.
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Title: Le Late avec Alain Chabat
Character: Self - Guest
Released: November 21, 2022
Type: TV
Alain Chabat hosts a brand-new late show for TF1: games, fake ads, stand up, live music and interviews with all the personalities of the entertainment world!
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Pierre Richard... en mode Veber
Title: Pierre Richard... en mode Veber
Released: September 12, 2022
Type: Movie
Great actors have interpreted, in the theater or in the cinema, the roles of François Pignon or François Perrin. But the one who, without any doubt, knew how to give him his letters of nobility on the big screen was Pierre Richard who interpreted seven times the characters of Perrin and Pignon. Two cult characters from the imagination of the famous director and screenwriter Francis Veber. For 15 years, the collaboration of the Pierre Richard-Francis Veber duo offered huge public and popular successes that have stood the test of time and entered the pantheon of the greatest French comedies.
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Tricky Old Dogs 2
Title: Tricky Old Dogs 2
Character: Pierrot
Released: August 17, 2022
Type: Movie
To come to the aid of migrants he was hiding in Paris, Pierrot takes them to the South-West to Antoine, who himself is already welcoming Mimile, in the midst of reconquering love for Berthe. Expecting to find calm and voluptuousness in the countryside, the six refugees will taste above all the legendary hospitality of a French village. The perfect opportunity to shake up fears and prejudices for Sophie and our three Old Furnaces, promoted to unexpected consultants of an electoral campaign that Larquebuse, the mayor of Montcoeur is not about to forget.
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Je t'aime, filme-moi !
Title: Je t'aime, filme-moi !
Released: June 15, 2022
Type: Movie
This film is a tribute to love, a tribute to cinema. Our two main characters take us with them into the intimacy of "real people". We cross the roads of France with them, in their different vans and pick-up trucks transformed for the occasion into mini movie studios. Their concept: to film "declarations of love" and to deliver them directly by van to their recipients. And we discover, as we go along, that our duo and their own personal adventures are subtly intertwined with the people they film. This mix of genres offers several universes to the spectator in order to make him question himself about love.
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The Angel in the Wall
Title: The Angel in the Wall
Character: Pietro
Released: June 9, 2021
Type: Movie
Under threat of eviction, an old man hides himself inside his flat, ready for anything - except the cruel twist of fate that will force him to reassess his whole life.
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Title: Samedi Sébastien
Character: Self - Guest
Released: April 17, 2021
Type: TV
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Rabbit's Paw
Title: Rabbit's Paw
Released: February 11, 2021
Type: Movie
In Petersburg during perestroika there are two people, Alya and Nika. She is a little funny Petersburg intellectual; he is a French architect. They cannot live without each other, but they cannot together, either in the ancient Lyon castle, or in her communal apartment inhabited by colorful neighbors. Next to Alya is her childhood friend - Mitya, whose love she does not notice. He uses Ali's ridiculous mistake and Niki's jealousy to separate them for years.
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Brutus vs Cesar
Title: Brutus vs Cesar
Character: Alorix
Released: September 18, 2020
Type: Movie
Faced with the tyranny of Caesar who acts as absolute master over Rome, Senators Rufus and Cassius form a plot to assassinate him.
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À cause des filles…?
Title: À cause des filles…?
Character: Orphée
Released: January 30, 2019
Type: Movie
At a wedding where the husband runs away, everyone has his own story to tell about the trivial misfortune of a person in love with someone that slips away. The guests paint a full picture of clumsiness, lies, and bad luck, that makes impossible, whatever the age, all attempts of seduction... or close enough !
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Tricky Old Dogs
Title: Tricky Old Dogs
Character: Pierrot
Released: August 22, 2018
Type: Movie
Two septuagenarians go to Tuscany to prevent their old friend from killing the man who cuckolded him fifty years ago.
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Pierre Richard, le discret
Title: Pierre Richard, le discret
Character: Himself
Released: July 30, 2018
Type: Movie
A documentary directed by Gregory Monro.
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Além do Homem
Title: Além do Homem
Character: Marcel Lefavre
Released: June 28, 2018
Type: Movie
Brazilian writer Alberto Luppo has lived in Paris for years and does not want to return to his home country. But when a French anthropologist disappears in the interior of Brazil, Alberto is forced to return to his homeland to turn the story into a book. However, during the journey, between fear and enchantment, he surrenders to his destiny. Guided by Bethânea, he discovers in everything he despised, the beauty of his own identity.
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On refait les grands duos d'humour
Title: On refait les grands duos d'humour
Released: May 29, 2018
Type: Movie
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Mme Mills, une voisine si parfaite
Title: Mme Mills, une voisine si parfaite
Character: Mrs. Mills / Léonard
Released: March 7, 2018
Type: Movie
Hélène leads a sad life as editor of cheesy romance novels. But one day, when the old and delightfully eccentric American Mrs. Mills moves into the apartment next door, there is a sudden return to her everyday life. The two unequal women make friends in a hurry and Mrs. Mills is finally even the new face for Hélènes publishing - and that brings great success. But actually the old lady pursues a completely different plan. And is she even a lady?
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Family Is Family
Title: Family Is Family
Character: Joseph Duquesne, Valentine's father
Released: February 28, 2018
Type: Movie
Valentin D is a hot designer architect who claims to be an orphan because he is too ashamed to admit he is the son of working-class scrap metal merchants from the north of France.
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Little Spirou
Title: Little Spirou
Character: Grand Papy
Released: September 27, 2017
Type: Movie
Petit Spirou, like all his family before him, has a career destiny all traced. When his mother announces that he will integrate the grooms school at the beginning of the new school year, Petit Spirou, with the help of his friends, will take advantage of his last days of class to declare his love to Suzette. And no matter how. They decide to live an extraordinary adventure.
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À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Title: À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 1, 2017
Type: Movie
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Mr. Stein Goes Online
Title: Mr. Stein Goes Online
Character: Pierre Stein
Released: February 17, 2017
Type: Movie
Pierre, widowed and retired, has not been out of his house for two years. He discovers the joys of the internet thanks to Alex, a young man hired by his daughter to teach him the basics of computer science. On a meeting place, a charming young woman, Flora63, seduced by the romanticism of Pierre, offers her a first date. Lovers, Pierre is back. But on his profile he put a picture of Alex and not his own. Pierre must convince the young man to meet Flora in his place
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Lost in Paris
Title: Lost in Paris
Character: Duncan
Released: January 14, 2017
Type: Movie
Fiona visits Paris for the first time to assist her myopic Aunt Martha. Catastrophes ensue, mainly involving Dom, a homeless man who has yet to have an emotion or thought he was afraid of expressing.
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Dialogue avec Pierre Richard
Title: Dialogue avec Pierre Richard
Character: Himself
Released: April 9, 2016
Type: Movie
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Agafia
Title: Agafia
Character: Dimitri
Released: November 29, 2015
Type: Movie
A local hobo carries a strange attraction for the women of a village, including the train conductor's wife Agafia.
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La Folle Histoire de François Pignon - De La chèvre au Dîner de cons
Title: La Folle Histoire de François Pignon - De La chèvre au Dîner de cons
Character: Self
Released: January 24, 2015
Type: Movie
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Gaumont, en effeuillant la marguerite
Title: Gaumont, en effeuillant la marguerite
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
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Le Vendredi 13 de Pierre Richard
Title: Le Vendredi 13 de Pierre Richard
Character: Lui même
Released: June 13, 2014
Type: Movie
Surrounded by his friends and an orchestra of fifteen musicians, Pierre Richard made his first Olympia in 2014, the year of his 80th birthday. It offers a show full of laughter, emotion and blunders. Pierre Richard performs original sketches and humorously delivers the tastiest moments of his artistic life. He tells of the unwavering friendships, unforgettable encounters, acrobatics and dreams of his career. With a dazzling form, the poet of humor, legendary comedian and eternal clown talks about the passing time and which must be taken advantage of.
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Paper Souls
Title: Paper Souls
Character: Victor
Released: December 25, 2013
Type: Movie
A funeral-speech writer gets a new lease on life when he meets a widow who commissions him to write a piece for her 8-year-old son.
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The Little Blond Boy with a White Sheep
Title: The Little Blond Boy with a White Sheep
Character: La grand-mère
Released: February 1, 2013
Type: Movie
It's school time again. During a writing test, Pierre escapes his grey school by recalling the happy memories of his holidays spent with his sheep.
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Prodavets igrushek
Title: Prodavets igrushek
Released: January 7, 2013
Type: Movie
Nicolas Bersen is a Frenchman with Russian roots. He lives in Paris and works as a toy seller. Neither the mother nor the French bride - the daughter of the Parisian confectionery "king" - disapprove of Nicolas's extravagance, because the Sorbonne education allows him to make an excellent career in business. Before Christmas, Nicolas travels to Russia to learn more about her background. Who could have imagined that this trip would change his life? In Russia, he is going to get the adventure, family treasures, and ... true love.
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Départ immédiat
Title: Départ immédiat
Character: Self
Released: December 23, 2012
Type: Movie
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Mes héros
Title: Mes héros
Character: Jean, Jacques' old friend
Released: December 10, 2012
Type: Movie
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Antoine’s four Seasons
Title: Antoine’s four Seasons
Character: Le grand-père
Released: June 21, 2012
Type: Movie
Ten year-old Anthony has red hair, as did Antonio Vivaldi. For his birthday, his grandfather gives him a book. He would have preferred a video game, but what can you expect from a grandfather who spends his time building violins in his workshop? But this is a magic book! When you draw in it, it plays the Four Seasons: it’s an activity book, a herbarium, a sketchbook... The orchestra playing the music is inside the book, on the other side of each page... drawings come to life and join the orchestra in an imaginary space. The book accompanies Anthony throughout the seasons until his eleventh birthday.
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All Together
Title: All Together
Character: Albert
Released: January 18, 2012
Type: Movie
Five old friends decide to move in together as an alternative to living in a retirement home. Joining them is an ethnology student whose thesis is on the aging population.
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Title: Platane
Character: Pierre Richard
Released: September 5, 2011
Type: TV
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The Great Restaurant
Title: The Great Restaurant
Character: Le père de Pierre
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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Eleanor's Secret
Title: Eleanor's Secret
Character: Adrien (voice)
Released: December 16, 2009
Type: Movie
Natanaël, seven, still doesn't know how to read. His eccentric old aunt bequeaths her house to his parents and her book collection to the young boy. Nat discovers that the books serve as a shelter for all the heroes found in children's literature. They are the original characters and are counting on him for protection. For if they leave the library, they will disappear along with their stories forever! When his parents start selling off the books, Nathanaël, who is shrunk by the evil witch Carabosse, braves everything to save his tiny friends
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Cineman
Title: Cineman
Character: Self
Released: October 28, 2009
Type: Movie
A maths teacher acquires the power to travel into movies to save the woman of his dreams and bring her back to her correct film.
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Victor
Title: Victor
Character: Victor
Released: October 7, 2009
Type: Movie
When a family wins a contest to adopt Victor, an 85-year-old man, the magazine intern who hatched the idea must undo what has been done.
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A Happy Man
Title: A Happy Man
Character: Pierre
Released: February 27, 2009
Type: Movie
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King Guillaume
Title: King Guillaume
Character: William Fernand
Released: January 28, 2009
Type: Movie
Magali plays in a brass band. Guillaume drives a small tourist train. Both spin a perfect love, they share modest dreams and their baby is about to come. But an unexpected news upsets their routine: a man appears and announces that he is Guillaume's estranged father and also reveals that Guillaume is his legitimate heir of a kingdom offshore of France and England. Guillaume and Magali start to dream of a life as monarchs, surrounded by faithful subjects in their castle, enjoying their wealth. But reality is often different to what you can imagine.
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Paris 36
Title: Paris 36
Character: Max, aka 'Monsieur TSF'
Released: September 24, 2008
Type: Movie
A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of 1936, Paris is in a state of uncertainty; while the rise of the Third Reich in Germany worries many, a leftist union-oriented candidate, Léon Blum, has been voted into power, and organized labor is feeling its new power by standing up to management.
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Mia and the Migoo
Title: Mia and the Migoo
Character: Pedro, le père de Mia
Released: September 6, 2008
Type: Movie
One night Mia has a premonition. So after saying a few words of parting at her mother’s grave, she sets out on a cross continent journey, though mountains and jungles in search of her father, who has been trapped in a landslide at a construction site on a remote tropical lake. In the middle of the lake stands the ancient Tree of Life, watched over by innocent, bumbling forest spirits called the Migoo, who grow and change shape as they please, morphing from small childlike beings to petulant giants. The Migoo have been disrupting the construction to protect this sacred site – and now together with Mia they join in a fight to find Mia’s father and save the Tree, with the future of life on Earth hanging in the balance.
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The Snake
Title: The Snake
Character: Cendras
Released: October 21, 2006
Type: Movie
A ruthless gang led by private detective Joseph Plender is extorting rich people and famous fashion photographer Vincent Mandel seems the next victim. He is married to Hélène, daughter of one of the richest people in Europe, but not quite happily. In fact the marriage is on the brink of a divorce and a judge is deciding who will take the two children. Can Hélène take them to Germany or will they stay with Vincent? Vincent has a lot on his mind and he improvises when model Sofia Kippiani comes to his studio, but his makeup crew doesn't show up. Before he knows it, he is accused of a rape. Things go worse and worse for Vincent, he sees his entire life slipping away and, most importantly, he might lose his children. But why does his former schoolmate Joseph Plender seek contact with Vincent and even solve a nasty problem for him? Does Plender want something more than money?
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Pierre et fils
Title: Pierre et fils
Character: Pierre père
Released: September 21, 2006
Type: Movie
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Try Me
Title: Try Me
Character: Le père d'Yves-Marie
Released: March 6, 2006
Type: Movie
When Yves-Marie, 9, asks Jacqueline, who is her age: "Marry me", she replies with a pirouette: "The day you go to the stars, I give you my hand."
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Le Cactus
Title: Le Cactus
Character: Christian
Released: December 14, 2005
Type: Movie
Sami and Patrick are long-time friends. Sami is a hypochondriac. One day, following a misunderstanding at the hospital, Sami thinks he has an incurable neurological disease. He decides to live his last moments to the fullest and goes to India to be treated by a great local "doctor". In the meantime, his friend Patrick, who has been accompanying and supporting him without knowing that this illness is in fact fictitious, finds himself without a wife or job. The initial situation seems to be reversed; Patrick is out of luck and Sami seems less and less ill.
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Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
Title: Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
Character: Self
Released: December 7, 2005
Type: Movie
This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre Richard, improbable synthesis of the talking ant silent films, heir to Buster Keaton for the gestural one and the expression of the body, and to Groucho Marx for the puns and the burlesque verbal one. Conceived like a voyage inside the universe of Pierre Richard, "the Art of unsteadiness" makes it possible to better understand its step, its method of actor, director and gag man. With through many testimonies, extracts of films and archives documents, drawn up here the portrait of one of the large last burlesques.
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Pierre Richard - Détournement de Mémoire
Title: Pierre Richard - Détournement de Mémoire
Character: Pierre Richard
Released: November 16, 2005
Type: Movie
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Dérives
Title: Dérives
Released: January 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Short movie
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After We're Gone
Title: After We're Gone
Character: Jean-René
Released: May 18, 2004
Type: Movie
The dying aristocrat Jean-René decides to execute one of the treasured desires and invites in the lock theatrical company that its participants have rehearsed and have played the play before the only viewer - him
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Transit
Title: Transit
Released: March 18, 2004
Type: Movie
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Title: Robinson Crusoé
Character: Robinson Crusoë
Released: December 22, 2003
Type: TV
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Robinson Crusoe
Title: Robinson Crusoe
Character: Robinson Crusoe
Released: December 13, 2003
Type: Movie
The classical story of Robinson Crusoe, a man who is dragged to a desert island after a shipwreck.
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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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The Very Merry Widows
Title: The Very Merry Widows
Character: Maurice Donnay
Released: July 9, 2003
Type: Movie
Renée is Laurence's grandmother and she intends to show her how to make rich men fall in love with her, in order to get their life insurance's money. Both women will meet several men in the course of the movie. Even the cynical Renée will fall deeply in love again. But even after getting married, Laurence and Renée don't seem to be able to love their husband for a long time. Will they manage to get rid of their rich, loving but irritating husbands? Will their husbands survive the experience? Or will true love triumph at the end?
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Title: Sans famille
Character: Vitalis / Vitalo Pedrotti
Released: December 18, 2000
Type: TV
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Without Family
Title: Without Family
Character: Vitalo Pedrotti
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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27 Missing Kisses
Title: 27 Missing Kisses
Character: Captain
Released: October 26, 2000
Type: Movie
A young woman's passion has a remarkable effect on a Russian village in this comedy-drama with fantasy elements. Sybill (Nino Kuchanidze) is a teenager who is sent to a small town in the country to spend the summer with her aunt. Despite her tender age, Sybill is ripe and sexually aware, and while the initial object of her attention is Alexander (Eugenji Sidichin), a widower in his early 40s, she instead pairs up with Mickey (Shalva Iashvili), Alexander's teenage son. Mickey quickly becomes infatuated with Sybill and is more than happy to indulge her fondness for outdoor lovemaking. Between Sybill's carefree, youthful sensuality and the appearance of Emmanuelle at the local movie house, suddenly love and lust are in bloom all over town.
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Scénarios sur la drogue
Title: Scénarios sur la drogue
Character: Segment "Les mots attendrot"
Released: February 21, 2000
Type: Movie
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Droit dans le mur
Title: Droit dans le mur
Character: Romain
Released: November 19, 1997
Type: Movie
Pierre Richard directed, co-scripted and stars in this French comedy. Former top film comedian Romain (Richard) is on a downward spiral -- rehearsing a play directed by his sister while also dealing with his wife, mistress, taxes, low self-esteem, demands for attention from his two children, and a private detective attempting to snap incriminating photos. Producer Jean-Louis Levi appears in a cameo as a poverty-stricken bum.
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A Chef in Love
Title: A Chef in Love
Character: Pascal Ichak
Released: June 6, 1996
Type: Movie
The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a flashback from the present, as a French-Georgian man whose mother was Pascal's lover translates his memoirs for Pascal's niece.
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Title: Die Harald Schmidt Show
Character: Self
Released: December 5, 1995
Type: TV
The Harald Schmidt Show is a German late night talk show hosted on Sky Deutschland by comedian Harald Schmidt. The show first aired from 5 December 1995 to 23 December 2003 on Sat.1. Schmidt then moved his show to Das Erste as Harald Schmidt and Schmidt & Pocher, but he returned to Sat.1 on 13 September 2011. After cancellation on Sat.1, the show continued on Sky Deutschland in September 2012.
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L'Amour conjugal
Title: L'Amour conjugal
Character: Squirrat
Released: May 28, 1995
Type: Movie
This French tale, set in the 17th century, chronicles the marriage between an errant knight and a beautiful spinster. The tale begins in 1629, and the knight is Nathan Le Cerf who joins the regiments of Count Anchire after he loses his entire family to the plague. Nathan's first assignment is to kill the gambling rival of the count in a duel; Nathan obeys, but gets wounded in the process. Still he makes it back to his master and is expecting a generous reward. Instead, the count reviles the knight, invokes Louis XIII's ban on dueling, and orders Nathan beheaded. Nathan will have none of that. Despite his bleeding abdominal wound, he escapes into the countryside. Initially he finds shelter with his lifelong friend, a chalk maker; he then goes on to one of his patrons, an artist. Nathan is relegated to living in a humble hut in the wilds. Eventually he meets an impoverished noblewoman, Marhte de Lairac.
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The Chess Game
Title: The Chess Game
Character: Ambroise
Released: November 19, 1994
Type: Movie
In 19th century, a disillusioned priest helps a young boy drifter who's a chess wunderkind to move on up in life and social structures using his talent. Years later, he's a success, but game of life and love has higher stakes than chess.
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Loonies at Large
Title: Loonies at Large
Character: Bertrand Daumale
Released: August 11, 1993
Type: Movie
This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former professor Henri Toussaint Piccoli has been locked away in a psychiatric ward for some years for trying to strangle his wife when he found her in bed with another man. Now she has a terminal illness, and wants some sort of reconciliation with him. His therapist (Richard) decides to permit him to visit with her, provided he comes along. Except for his wide mood swings and occasional outbursts of lewd muttering, the professor "passes" for sane fairly easily. Not so the psychotic (Dominique Pinon) who stows away in the psychiatrist's car, who constantly calls attention to the other two.
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Old Rascal
Title: Old Rascal
Character: Charlie
Released: December 25, 1992
Type: Movie
A story of a modest ordinary crook trying his best to turn his boring life into an affordable extraordinary adventure.
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One Can Always Dream
Title: One Can Always Dream
Character: Charles De Boylesve
Released: February 16, 1991
Type: Movie
A billionaire Charles de Boisleve becomes a friend of a petty criminal Rachid after two of them meet in the supermarket.
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Promotion canapé
Title: Promotion canapé
Character: L'informateur
Released: October 10, 1990
Type: Movie
Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with their boss.
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Welcome Aboard!
Title: Welcome Aboard!
Character: The Hitchhiker
Released: August 15, 1990
Type: Movie
A philosophizing uninvited hitchhiker terrorizes a writer, who's selling dictionaries while he's struggling with writer's block.
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Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator
Title: Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator
Character: Yann Ducoudray
Released: August 31, 1988
Type: Movie
Yan is a successful artist. One day he is waiting for his date Florence to turn up at his apartment. As the doorbell rings, he finds another young woman in underwear on his doorstep: his neighbor Eva! She tells him she locked herself out of her apartment and insists that he helps her. Whilst Yan is trying to enter Eva's apartment via their adjoining balcony, his phone rings. It is Florence, and she is not impressed when a female voice answers the phone. At this point, Eva's rabidly jealous boyfriend Boris returns home. Seeing Yan in his apartment, he deduces that Eva has been having an affair behind his back. Florence then turns up and Yan tries in vain to explain the situation. By chance, Florence's husband suddenly puts in an appearance. After that, it all starts to get a bit complicated.
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Nailcruncher
Title: Nailcruncher
Character: Mangeclous
Released: June 6, 1988
Type: Movie
Adapation of the fanciful comic novel by Albert Cohen.
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Title: Nulle part ailleurs
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 1987
Type: TV
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The Fugitives
Title: The Fugitives
Character: François Pignon
Released: December 17, 1986
Type: Movie
Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not part of the action.
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Slices of Life
Title: Slices of Life
Character: Dubois - le commandant de bord (uncredited)
Released: February 6, 1985
Type: Movie
A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal!"
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Dialogue de sourds
Title: Dialogue de sourds
Character: The paraplegic
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
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The Twin
Title: The Twin
Character: Matthias Duval / Mathieu Duval
Released: October 10, 1984
Type: Movie
Matthias Duval is in love, but he can't choose between the two twin sisters Betty and Liz Kerner. To pick up the two sisters, he invents his own twin brother and will play both characters.
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The ComDads
Title: The ComDads
Character: François Pignon
Released: November 23, 1983
Type: Movie
Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.
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Pick Up Your Belongings
Title: Pick Up Your Belongings
Character: Pierre Cohen
Released: January 26, 1983
Type: Movie
Pierre Cohen, a sophisticated Parisian psychologist, goes to his brother's farm in order to protect it from very hostile local landowners.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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La Chèvre
Title: La Chèvre
Character: François Perrin
Released: December 9, 1981
Type: Movie
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.
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Title: Wetten, dass..?
Character: Self
Released: February 14, 1981
Type: TV
A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.
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Umbrella Coup
Title: Umbrella Coup
Character: Grégoire Lecomte, acteur à mi-temps, dragueur à plein temps
Released: October 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
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It's Not Me, It's Him
Title: It's Not Me, It's Him
Character: Pierre Renard
Released: January 23, 1980
Type: Movie
Pierre Renard is the blackboy of the writer George Vallier. At the time of a reception, the Italian actor Aldo Barazutti takes him for the writer and proposes to him to come to work with him in Tunisia with the development of a scenario. In fact Barazutti wants only to flee her wife to find her mistress Valerie. Misunderstandings when Vallier joined them. They must flee in the desert a jealous husband...
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Title: Okay
Character: Self
Released: November 4, 1979
Type: TV
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Title: Rire et sourire : Le Splendid
Character: Lui-même dans l'émission « Les Grands Zinzins », 1978
Released: November 19, 1978
Type: TV
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Out of It
Title: Out of It
Character: Jean-Philippe Duroc, l'avocat de Gaulard
Released: October 10, 1978
Type: Movie
The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.
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Too Shy to Try
Title: Too Shy to Try
Character: Pierre Renaud
Released: August 23, 1978
Type: Movie
Pierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and can't say no to the salesman, Aldo; he spends 6,000 francs on tapes, books, and a punching bag. Soon after, he's smitten by Agnes, a hotel guest with a model's looks and photographers wherever she goes. When she leaves for Nice, he follows, meeting Aldo on the way. Aldo becomes his boldness coach. Pierre gets a job washing dishes where Agnes is staying, but after a week or so, she's off to Deauville, with Aldo and Pierre in pursuit. Using funds they get by selling Aldo's car, this time Pierre poses as a polo-playing jet setter. Will this win the heart of Agnes?
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The Toy
Title: The Toy
Character: François Perrin, journalist
Released: December 8, 1976
Type: Movie
When Francois, a journalist, tours a big store for an article, he is chosen by the son of the newspaper's owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy. Needing money and unwilling to quit his job, Francois agrees to this ridiculous assignment. Gradually befriending the spoiled boy, he induces him to play at making a newspaper, unveiling publicly the tyrannical way of life of the father. The powerful emotional climax we experience with the child astonishes both men.
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The Castaways of Turtle Island
Title: The Castaways of Turtle Island
Character: Jean-Arthur
Released: October 6, 1976
Type: Movie
Jean-Arthur has been working as a clerk in a travel agency. One day, he, along with his colleague comes to a brilliant idea: what if I offer tourists real extreme recreation? So the group of tourists land on a deserted island with no food, no shelter, nothing.
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The Bottom Line
Title: The Bottom Line
Character: François
Released: June 16, 1976
Type: Movie
An advertising photographer, François, has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine, François' fiance, doesn't want him to do so, especially when the naive friend has succeeded in recruiting the young daughter of his employer to play in what he thinks is a romantic love movie.
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Title: 30 millions d'amis
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1976
Type: TV
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The Wild Goose Chase
Title: The Wild Goose Chase
Character: Pierre Vidal
Released: October 8, 1975
Type: Movie
The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is involved. The nephew of the owner of the vault is trying to cheat his uncle and have his name in the documents. Everything is even more complicated because the manager of the bank has a finger in the pie, too. Who but a humble bank-teller (Pierre Richard) will ruin the scheme?
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Trop c'est trop
Title: Trop c'est trop
Character: Cameo
Released: June 5, 1975
Type: Movie
Philippe, Didier, Georges and Edina were born on the same day. The three boys have always been in love with Edina, but she's always put them off. They set off in search of her and find her posing for a photographer. Seeing them, she flees and dies in the process. By mutual agreement, the three boys commit suicide to join her.
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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: François Perrin
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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I'm Losing My Temper
Title: I'm Losing My Temper
Character: Pierre Durois
Released: October 9, 1974
Type: Movie
Pierre is a clumsy, overly serious math teacher at an all-girls high school. His life is thrown into chaos after encountering a beautiful British actress and the paparazzi that follow her around.
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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Title: Der große Preis
Character: Self
Released: September 5, 1974
Type: TV
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A Cloud in the Teeth
Title: A Cloud in the Teeth
Character: Prévot
Released: May 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris.
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Title: Am laufenden Band
Character: Self - Guest
Released: April 27, 1974
Type: TV
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Juliette et Juliette
Title: Juliette et Juliette
Character: Bob Rozenec
Released: February 27, 1974
Type: Movie
Juliette Vidal is a journalist in Paris who works for the glamorous magazine "Pénélope". Uninspired, she decides to take an interest in the life of a department store saleswoman Juliette Rozenec.
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I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
Title: I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
Character: Pierre Gastié-le-Roy
Released: September 11, 1973
Type: Movie
Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, antimilitaristic, social educator who dreams of saving three thugs, his "little guys" at the limit of delinquency. After several resounding failures that sent him to prison, Pierre is ordered by his father to join his factory to direct the social service. Tired of the venality of his father and the foolishness of the "little guys", Pierre hires them at the factory...
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The Right of the Maddest
Title: The Right of the Maddest
Character: L'élève motard
Released: March 27, 1973
Type: Movie
The guardian of a nursing home lends a compassionate ear to the complaints of two new pensioners who love each other and have only one dream: to see the sea. To help them realize their dream, the brave man steals the car of the director. She quickly discovers the crime and drags her pale husband to the pursuit of the trio, aboard a tanker truck...
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The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Title: The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Character: François Perrin
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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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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The Troubles of Alfred
Title: The Troubles of Alfred
Character: Alfred Dhumonttiey
Released: March 1, 1972
Type: Movie
Unlucky in love, Alfred tries to commit suicide, only to be thwarted by police efforts to prevent a simultaneous attempt by a nearby young woman. Recovering, the young lady puts him up at her house, as he has run out of places to live. He joins a Parisian sporting team and seems to have transferred his bad luck to a corrupt television boss who is attempting to manipulate the game so that Alfred's Paris team loses.
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Perched on a Tree
Title: Perched on a Tree
Character: Un alpiniste
Released: April 12, 1971
Type: Movie
Henry Roubier, a French promoter, and Enrico Mazzini, an Italian, have signed an agreement guaranteeing them a stranglehold on European highways. While driving on the roads of the south, Roubier takes two young hitchhikers, but an unfortunate swerve the car rushes by Henri and its occupants on the top of a pine tree onto the side of a cliff.
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Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
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Distracted
Title: Distracted
Character: Pierre Malaquet
Released: December 9, 1970
Type: Movie
A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.
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Perrault 70
Title: Perrault 70
Released: March 26, 1970
Type: Movie
Joe and Janny get lost and find themselves in the enchanted universe of Charles Perrault's tales. During their adventures, they will have to help Little Red Riding Hood, Tom Thumb and Puss in Boots against the Wolf, Bluebeard and the Ogre.
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Three Men on a Horse
Title: Three Men on a Horse
Released: December 12, 1969
Type: Movie
A man has found a way to win any bet he places on a horse. However, he himself must never be the person to place the bet.
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Title: Agence Interim
Character: le chef de bande
Released: September 1, 1969
Type: TV
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Ora X Pattuglia Suicida
Title: Ora X Pattuglia Suicida
Released: July 20, 1969
Type: Movie
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The Fighting Cock
Title: The Fighting Cock
Character: Pierre
Released: May 30, 1969
Type: Movie
A sleeping car employee seeking a well-deserved rest is prevented from doing so by the crowing of his neighbor's rooster. Just as he's about to settle the score, he's presented with a gift: a rubber band around the annoying bird's beak temporarily puts an end to its vocalizations. But the animal can't be left alone, and Pierre has to take it with him on his nocturnal journeys: you can imagine the disturbance it can cause when, after being thrown out of a wagon window, it lands in the next van full of pheasants. The whole little world spills out onto the train, and the conductor is not at all pleased! Pierre manages to get a young passenger to assume ownership of the rooster, but not for long. Every time Pierre tries to get rid of it, it somehow comes back to him.
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Woman in Chains
Title: Woman in Chains
Character: L'artiste qui a besoin de lumière (uncredited)
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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Very Happy Alexander
Title: Very Happy Alexander
Character: Colibert
Released: February 9, 1968
Type: Movie
Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like a dog. When she dies in a car crash, he decides to stay in bed, absolutely free and inactive. Just a dog is occupied to carry food and newspapers to him.
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Idiot in Paris
Title: Idiot in Paris
Character: Un agent de police
Released: March 22, 1967
Type: Movie
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, but the meat merchant Dessertine takes him under his wings when he hears that Goubi was likewise 'raised by the State'...
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The Mad Dog
Title: The Mad Dog
Released: September 2, 1966
Type: Movie
Claude Brasseur plays a villain on the run from both the police and the mob. Good atmosphere in the Paris by Night, including deserted factory, Les Halles market and an empty theatre.
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J'ai les peintres
Title: J'ai les peintres
Character: Un peintre
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
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Roméos et jupettes
Title: Roméos et jupettes
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Roméos et jupettes reflects on fashion and on letters written by women’s magazines readers.
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Coffin from Hong Kong
Title: Coffin from Hong Kong
Character: Henri Gilbert
Released: August 21, 1964
Type: Movie
A private detective finds the limp body of a young Chinese beauty in his office, shot with his own gun.
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Skin and Bones
Title: Skin and Bones
Character: Pierini
Released: April 28, 1961
Type: Movie
Convicted of murdering his wife, a crime of which he declares himself innocent, Jacques Mazur is serving a long sentence in a prison where his presence causes disruption.
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The Lovers of Montparnasse
Title: The Lovers of Montparnasse
Character: un étudiant peintre (uncredited)
Released: April 4, 1958
Type: Movie
Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial help. Modigliani worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.