Didier Sauvegrain

Didier Sauvegrain

Born: September 12, 1950
in France

Movies for Didier Sauvegrain...

Eugénie Grandet
Title: Eugénie Grandet
Character: Banquier
Released: September 29, 2021
Type: Movie
Felix Grandet reigns supreme in his modest house in Saumur where his wife and daughter Eugenie lead a distraction-free existence. Extremely avaricious, he does not take a favorable view of the beautiful parties who rush to ask for his daughter's hand. Nothing should damage the colossal fortune he hides from everyone. The sudden arrival of Grandet's nephew, an orphaned and ruined Parisian dandy, turns the young girl's life upside down.
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Les mélancolies de Sade
Title: Les mélancolies de Sade
Character: Donatien Alphonse François de Sade
Released: January 29, 2020
Type: Movie
During the last years of his life, the Marquis de Sade was imprisoned. Alone in his wanderings, this man of letters wrote almost every day. We discover a man of exquisite complexity: his painful introspection reveals a man in love, a visionary, but also a fragile and terribly human being... this story flies in the face of presuppositions about Sade.
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The Royal Exchange
Title: The Royal Exchange
Character: Cardinal de Fleury
Released: December 27, 2017
Type: Movie
After many years of confrontation, the treasures of Spain and France are empty. In 1721, the regent of France draws up an ambitious plan to inaugurate an era of peace and prosperity that will heal the economies of both nations: his intention is to build a solid network of marriage alliances that will involve four children of very different ages who know nothing of betrayals and power games…
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Le commissaire Perdrix ne fait pas le voyage pour rien
Title: Le commissaire Perdrix ne fait pas le voyage pour rien
Character: Paul Anselmini
Released: September 12, 2012
Type: Movie
Paul Anselmini is a former mobster and businessman. A romantic character, a barbouze with no morals, no scruples, no values other than himself. Alone, yes, but free and once powerful. But this freedom is precisely what Commissaire Perdrix and Lieutenant Webb have come to take, two cops lost in a country and a time that are not their own.
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The Shoe
Title: The Shoe
Released: July 21, 2011
Type: Movie
The directorial debut of French cultural provocateur André Saraiva is a collaboration with luxury footwear brand J.M. Weston, featuring his actress girlfriend Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Leo Fitzpatrick and model Poppy Delevingne.
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Lady Bar 2
Title: Lady Bar 2
Character: Père de Jean
Released: September 11, 2009
Type: Movie
The sequel of Lady Bar follows Jean and Pat opening a match-making resort on a beautiful Thai island while Jean's friend Polo finds himself soul-searching in a buddhist monastry.
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Déluge
Title: Déluge
Character: Mon père
Released: June 15, 2006
Type: Movie
I am there. I say nothing. In the lounge, the boxes still opened from our moving in. My father. My mother. Come to comfort me. Her father. Her mother. Incapable to say the words. To put into words what has happened. And outside, the rain. Diluvian. Improbable.
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Regular Lovers
Title: Regular Lovers
Released: September 30, 2005
Type: Movie
1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend, Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself. They fall in love. A year passes; François continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and François do?
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Empire of the Wolves
Title: Empire of the Wolves
Character: Dr. Ackerman
Released: April 20, 2005
Type: Movie
When the young detective Paul Nerteaux finds the third slashed female corpse of illegal Turkish immigrants, he decides to ask for support to the experienced dark retired detective Jean-Louis Schiffer to chase the serial killer. Together, they infiltrate in the Turkish mafia trying to find the answer to the crimes. Meanwhile, the worker Anna Heymes is being submitted to a brain treatment and has severe headaches and glimpses of memories and visions. When these two parallel events collide, disclose that the Turkish organization "The Wolves" is behind them.
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Kings and Queen
Title: Kings and Queen
Character: Le chirurgien
Released: December 22, 2004
Type: Movie
Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her aging professor father, Louis, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. During her stay, she reaches out to her former lover, Ismaël, a viola player and father figure to Elias who has been committed against his will to a mental hospital. Ismaël, however, has his own problems to sort out.
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Autumn
Title: Autumn
Character: Gerard
Released: September 10, 2004
Type: Movie
Jean-Pierre is a hit man in Paris. He wants to stop; an incentive is reconnecting to Michelle, a childhood friend. He's ready to commit himself to her, but she has her own secrets: she sells bomb components to thugs. He hears rumors of a missing briefcase, which he finds in Michelle's flat. He asks no questions, and soon both of them are in trouble with Jean-Pierre's ex-employer and with her bomb buyers. Two other characters complicate the maneuvering: Jean-Pierre's best friend, who's always losing money on the ponies, and the ex-employer's new contract killer, a seemingly fragile woman. Is there any way that Jean-Pierre can protect Michelle and escape with his life? Written by
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Safe Conduct
Title: Safe Conduct
Character: Armand Thirard
Released: January 9, 2002
Type: Movie
The film is about the French film industry from 1942 to 1944 during the Nazi occupation. The film focuses on assistant director and resistance fighter Jean Devaivre and screenwriter Jean Aurenche. Aurenche is on the move so that he doesn't have to write anything collaborationist. Devaivre is in dangerous political activity. Devaivre also works for the German production company Continental where he is respected. On the other hand, Aurenche's scriptwriting doesn't help how he lives and he is a womanizer which causes him to procrastinate.
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Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition
Title: Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition
Character: Alfred de Musset
Released: January 1, 1998
Type: Movie
The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.
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Le Cri de la soie
Title: Le Cri de la soie
Character: Docteur Bellec
Released: August 28, 1996
Type: Movie
An illiterate seamstress has a powerful fetish for silk which gets her into trouble. The psychiatrist sent to help her becomes fascinated by her case and when he returns to France from World War One they fall in love, an affair that can only end in tragedy.
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Title: Les Cordier, juge et flic
Character: General Lecat
Released: February 24, 1994
Type: TV
The Cordier fight in family against the crime: the father is police captain, the son, investigating judge and the girl, a journalist.
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Joan the Maid II: The Prisons
Title: Joan the Maid II: The Prisons
Character: Raoul de Gaucourt
Released: February 10, 1994
Type: Movie
Joan has succeeded in lifting the siege on Orléans and Charles VII has been ordained King of France. However, she is injured in her failed attempt to take Paris, weakening her position at court. When she is finally captured and put on trial, she finds both her life and the sanctity of her body at stake.
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Joan the Maid I: The Battles
Title: Joan the Maid I: The Battles
Character: Raoul de Gaucourt
Released: February 9, 1994
Type: Movie
Convinced that only she can lead France to victory against the invading English, Joan of Arc leaves her childhood home to plead Charles, heir to the French throne, to allow her to guide his troops on the battlefield.
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Title: Bordertown
Character: Louis Gilbert
Released: January 7, 1989
Type: TV
Bordertown is a television western-drama series that aired from 1989 to 1991. It depicts the town formerly known as Pemmican that was later renamed Bordertown when the western border between the United States and Canada was surveyed in 1880, dividing the town.
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Le Beauf
Title: Le Beauf
Character: Marc
Released: January 7, 1987
Type: Movie
Gilbert, assigned to incinerate old banknotes at the Bank of France, lives with his wife, Gisèle, and his young son, Thomas. A few years earlier, he had formed a rock band with Serge and Gisèle's brother, Marc. The latter, abusing his naivety, make him believe that he has been robbed of a briefcase containing a million dollars and that, because of his fault, Marc is in danger of dying. The objective is to force Gilbert to put his incinerator out of order to facilitate the bank robbery. Gilbert refuses at first, then gives in. But he discovers that he has been cheated. To get revenge, he tells the police the date and time of the robbery.
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Le collier de velours
Title: Le collier de velours
Character: Jean Maltais
Released: September 4, 1986
Type: Movie
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Sarraounia
Title: Sarraounia
Character: Doctor Henric
Released: July 1, 1986
Type: Movie
On 2 January 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the command of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroon. Those captains and their African mercenary troops destroy and kill everything they find on their path. The French authorities try to stop them sending orders and a second troop but the captains kill the emissaries who reach them. Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas, have heard about the exactions. Clever in war tactics and in witchcraft, she decides to resist and stop those mad men.
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The Syringe
Title: The Syringe
Character: Le chef des 'Justiciers'
Released: November 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Good dope is becoming rare in the North of Paris. Drugstores are being raided by junkies and gangs are nervous, fighting each others: the 'Viets', the 'Blackies', the 'Arabs', the neo-nazis 'Justiciers' and some mean gays. Vincent (Daniel Auteuil) is the good cop coming from Marseilles where he was a gangster. He's a soft method guy but also kicks assses hard and throw lethal dialog lines when needed. With the precious help of 'l'Arbalète'* (Marisa Berenson**), a tox' prostitute ex-member of Vincent's former gang, he will try to put order in that mess. There's also a violent and racist cop (Marcel Bozzuffi), Algeria veteran with hard methods, whose role could be more than to protect and to serve.
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The Outsider
Title: The Outsider
Character: Marc Villa, assassin d'Alfred
Released: October 26, 1983
Type: Movie
Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord who is essentially inaccessible -- but not immortal.
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Les sacrifiés
Title: Les sacrifiés
Released: March 23, 1983
Type: Movie
In 1955, a year after the creation of the FLN, Mahmoud was expelled from colonial Algeria and found himself living in a shantytown in Nanterre. After clashes with the French police, he was arrested and imprisoned. Released, Mahmoud resumed his expeditions, this time against the harkis. A reminder of a little-known chapter in the Algerian war.
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Alexandre
Title: Alexandre
Character: Antoine
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
Three years ago Ariane left Antoine, sending him a postcard announcing her departure for the mountains with a certain Alexandre. After a long journey abroad, Antoine returns to the site of his former relationship, where he meets Alfred, recently abandoned by Ariane.
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Enigma
Title: Enigma
Released: October 15, 1982
Type: Movie
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
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La Flambeuse
Title: La Flambeuse
Character: Maxence
Released: May 13, 1981
Type: Movie
A woman on the brink of middle age becomes bored and takes up playing cards. She becomes hooked on gambling and begins to neglect her husband and children.
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L'homme fragile
Title: L'homme fragile
Character: Michel Teillay
Released: April 21, 1981
Type: Movie
A middle class leftist man of the Seventies decade, starting to show signs of aging and a loss of identity, runs away from his commitments.
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Royal Vacation
Title: Royal Vacation
Character: Toni
Released: January 21, 1981
Type: Movie
Informative but not dramatically charged, this fictional documentary looks at an incident in 1976 when a group of dissidents were forcibly exiled to an island hotel in order to keep them silenced during the visit of King Carlos of Spain to France. This pseudo-documentary features a Canadian filmmaker who is looking into the group of dissidents. He interviews them to get the story of what happened recorded for posterity. Among the group was another man of Spanish ancestry who suddenly arrived on the island but managed to find a way out. His future exploits are brought into question since there are certain terrorist connotations to his character.
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Une robe noire pour un tueur
Title: Une robe noire pour un tueur
Character: Architect
Released: January 14, 1981
Type: Movie
The "black robe" in the title of this suspense film belongs to a female lawyer, Florence Nat who has just lost a case in which she defended Simon Risler, a man wrongly accused of murder. Risler escapes before he can be put in prison, and seeks help from attorney Nat in finding the real killer, partly by going after the police inspector who framed him in the first place. A retired surgeon, in the process of setting up a drug rehab clinic gets involved in solving Risler's case, and soon the solution seems to be pointing to high-ranking figures with every desire and ample means to keep the truth well-hidden.
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Umbrella Coup
Title: Umbrella Coup
Character: Stanislas Lefort, dit Constantin Patakis, alias Pierre Juvet, dit 'La Folle'
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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Scopitone
Title: Scopitone
Character: Patrick
Released: April 9, 1980
Type: Movie
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I... For Icarus
Title: I... For Icarus
Character: Karl Eric Daslow
Released: December 19, 1979
Type: Movie
Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee's final findings.
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Dossier 51
Title: Dossier 51
Character: Pylos
Released: August 30, 1978
Type: Movie
French diplomat Dominique Auphal is put under surveillance by an unnamed secret service. They wish to find a weakness in his life in order to control him politically. Auphal becomes "File no. 51": his private life is spied, analysed and commented.
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Surprise Sock
Title: Surprise Sock
Character: Luc
Released: June 14, 1978
Type: Movie
Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhile, their wives take full advantage of their newfound freedom.
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Roads to the South
Title: Roads to the South
Character: Soldier Korpik
Released: April 28, 1978
Type: Movie
France, 1975. Jean, an exiled Spanish Communist, is a successful screenwriter who, after a tragic event, struggles with his political commitment, his love for his country, under the boot of General Franco, whose death he and his comrades have waited for years, and his complicated relationship with his son. (A sequel to “The War Is Over,” 1966.)
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The Education in Love of Valentin
Title: The Education in Love of Valentin
Character: Thug
Released: May 25, 1976
Type: Movie
This sex comedy concerns the efforts of Julien to get his timid, "backward" 20-year-old son to take an interest in sex and get married. After a series of adventures with women (arranged by papa), Valentin finally gets married to a woman who appears to be as shy as he is. Things get complicated when his father begins an affair with her.
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The $2 Haircut
Title: The $2 Haircut
Character: André Lalande
Released: March 20, 1975
Type: Movie
The furniture factory in which all the young guys in this film work is also full of older workers who make fun of their long hair, which for them is a badge of their independence. The boss, particularly, thinks long hair on men is dirty. When they refuse to cut their hair, he finds an excuse to fire them. The meaning of long hair is felt particularly deeply for one fellow, a painter, who, when he succumbs to his fathers' pleas that he cut his hair, turns his paintings to the wall and burns himself to death.
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Et avec les oreilles qu'est-ce que vous faites?
Title: Et avec les oreilles qu'est-ce que vous faites?
Character: Gérôme
Released: May 15, 1974
Type: Movie
Two friends, Arthur and Jérôme, want to make a film. After much hesitation, they give up their primary aspirations and opt for a trendy theme: eroticism! Benefiting from a tidy sum of money, all they have to do is find the ideal cast. But the tandem is far from imagining that this somewhat crazy project will completely change their existence.
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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De la folie des hamsters
Title: De la folie des hamsters
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie