François Maistre

François Maistre

Born: May 14, 1925
Died: May 16, 2016
in Demigny, Saône-et-Loire, France

Movies for François Maistre...

The Flower of Evil
Title: The Flower of Evil
Character: Jules Labière
Released: February 9, 2003
Type: Movie
Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.
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Madame Bovary
Title: Madame Bovary
Character: Lieuvain
Released: April 3, 1991
Type: Movie
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and pursues scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around her are endangered.
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Title: Les Jupons de la révolution
Character: Marboeuf
Released: July 19, 1989
Type: TV
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Rouget le braconnier
Title: Rouget le braconnier
Character: le père Rouget
Released: May 31, 1989
Type: Movie
The adventurous and dangerous life of a nineteenth-century Anjou poacher hunted by the local justice system for several years. Betrayed by the woman who loved him, he is arrested and sentenced to deportation to Cayenne.
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Story of Women
Title: Story of Women
Character: president Lamarre-Coudray
Released: September 14, 1988
Type: Movie
France, World War II. In order to somehow make ends meet, the mother of two children, Marie Latour, does underground abortions and rents a room to a familiar prostitute. She doesn't pay any attention to her husband, who returned from the war because of his injury and lives her own life. Abortions gradually begin to bring a good income, and boredom can be easily dispelled by starting a young lover.
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Dom Juan
Title: Dom Juan
Character: La voix du Commandeur
Released: September 21, 1985
Type: Movie
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Georges Courteline au travail & Boubouroche
Title: Georges Courteline au travail & Boubouroche
Character: Courteline - André
Released: February 16, 1985
Type: Movie
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Title: Châteauvallon
Character: Minister of the Interior
Released: January 4, 1985
Type: TV
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An Ice Cream With Two scoops ...
Title: An Ice Cream With Two scoops ...
Character: François Dalbion
Released: March 17, 1982
Type: Movie
A film about a pair of sisters, whose parents are divorcing after their father leaves their mother for a younger woman, and who plot together to try to repair their fractured family.
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Fais gaffe à la gaffe !
Title: Fais gaffe à la gaffe !
Character: Monsieur Dumoulin
Released: April 1, 1981
Type: Movie
Based on the comic strip about the hopeless but lovable slacker Gaston who drives his colleagues crazy at the office.
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Engrenage
Title: Engrenage
Character: Corbert
Released: December 2, 1980
Type: Movie
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Mamito
Title: Mamito
Character: Monsieur Laurence
Released: January 9, 1980
Type: Movie
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Vivre libre ou mourir
Title: Vivre libre ou mourir
Character: The public prosecutor
Released: January 2, 1980
Type: Movie
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Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
Title: Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
Character: Don Diègue
Released: December 19, 1979
Type: Movie
The Saracens invade Spain again, but they seem content to compose music and watch the dancers.
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Title: Gaston Phébus
Character: Philippe VI
Released: December 15, 1978
Type: TV
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Violette Nozière
Title: Violette Nozière
Character: Mayeul
Released: May 24, 1978
Type: Movie
Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.
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Title: Les Beaux Messieurs de Bois-Doré
Character: L'abbé Poulain
Released: December 18, 1976
Type: TV
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The Groper
Title: The Groper
Released: September 29, 1976
Type: Movie
Because he dishonored the daughter of a mafia boss, Ernesto must leave Rome and take shelter with his uncle in Paris. There, he thinks of only one thing: to seduce girls.
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: José Vierne
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: TV
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
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The Conquistadores
Title: The Conquistadores
Released: March 10, 1976
Type: Movie
A young couple: Victor is a musician, Claire is a secretary in a publishing house. Their daily life seems so disappointing, so monotonous, that they begin to spend their time daydreaming, both creating their own imaginary world. At the office, she writes the story of an heroine's imaginary life. He collects material to compose an opera which glorifies the conquistadors.
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Jarosław Dąbrowski
Title: Jarosław Dąbrowski
Character: Louis Adolphe Thiers
Released: January 26, 1976
Type: Movie
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Chronicle of the Years of Fire
Title: Chronicle of the Years of Fire
Character: Le contremaître de la carrière
Released: November 26, 1975
Type: Movie
A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the film unequivocally demonstrates that the "Algerian War" is not an accident of history, but a slow process of suffering and warlike revolts, uninterrupted, from the start of colonization in 1830, until this "Red All Saints' Day" of November 1, 1954. At its center, Ahmed gradually awakens to political awareness against colonization, under the gaze of his son, a symbol of the new Algeria, and that of Miloud, half-mad haranguer, half-prophet, incarnation of Popular memory of the revolt, the liberation of Algeria and its people.
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Special Section
Title: Special Section
Character: Marquis de Brinon
Released: April 23, 1975
Type: Movie
In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.
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Innocents with Dirty Hands
Title: Innocents with Dirty Hands
Character: Commissaire Lamy
Released: March 26, 1975
Type: Movie
Saint Tropez. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the murder of her wealthy husband Louis, an alcoholic impotent. She hits him, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. Julie finds herself alone the following day, and becomes therefore the prime suspect. Where is Louis' body? Where is Jeff? Is there any secret beyond a door?
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The Arrest
Title: The Arrest
Character: Le Chef
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A young writer has just written a new novel, which has been accepted by an editor. A simple and familiar story about the terrifying power the state has over people’s lives.
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Title: Les Brigades du Tigre
Character: Claude Faivre
Released: December 21, 1974
Type: TV
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The Phantom of Liberty
Title: The Phantom of Liberty
Character: Le professeur
Released: September 10, 1974
Type: Movie
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
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The Duchess of Avila
Title: The Duchess of Avila
Character: L'ermite
Released: December 24, 1973
Type: Movie
An epic six-hour adaptation of Potocki's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa. Most famously filmed by Wojciech Has, this four part adaptation has the advantage of a vastly expanded running time, allowing for more of the novel to be incorporated >> shot on film, it was clearly a very expensive production and is equally spectacular in its own way.
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Title: La Duchesse d'Avila
Character: L'ermite
Released: July 4, 1973
Type: TV
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The Serpent
Title: The Serpent
Character: inspecteur Joss
Released: April 7, 1973
Type: Movie
Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-examinations, Vlassov names several Western European agents who are also spying for the Soviets. Davies wants to take the listed agents into custody; meanwhile, those on the list start dying under mysterious circumstances.
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Title: Joseph Balsamo
Character: Comte Sartines
Released: January 8, 1973
Type: TV
Balsamo, a scoundrel with the gift of mesmerism, seeks to gain power in the French court in the days before the Revolution.
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Title: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Character: Delecluze
Released: September 15, 1972
Type: Movie
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
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Title: La Dame de Monsoreau
Character: Comte de Monsoreau
Released: December 18, 1971
Type: TV
Diane of Meridor, aged 23 years, lives a happy country life with her father. For the first time, Diana has her coming out ball, organized by the count of Monsoreau, who, in spite of being much older than her, wants to make her his wife, having a possessive and jealous love for the young woman. The duke of Anjou takes Diana in the ball, and tries to abuse of her exercising his prerogatives of being the brother of the king. Monsoreau will take advantage of this fact in his favor, and kidnaps de lady. He explains her father that Duke of Anjou, a known seducer, has kidnapped her. In order to safe her honor, he offers to marry her. Her father consents to it, with his heart broken by his sorrow. Diana of Meridor is forced to marry the damnable count of Monsoreau...
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Distracted
Title: Distracted
Character: Monsieur Gastier
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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Title: La cravache d' or
Character: Vamos
Released: September 29, 1969
Type: TV
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The Milky Way
Title: The Milky Way
Character: French Priest
Released: February 28, 1969
Type: Movie
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
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Title: Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
Character: Le Comte Vatsi
Released: March 11, 1968
Type: TV
L’Agence O is a famous Parisian private detective firm. Its premises are located in the Passage Choiseul. In front, Torrence leads the shop. In fact, the agency's team is complemented by Émilie le Roux, Mademoiselle Berthe and Barbet, who scrutinize clients through a one-way mirror located behind the desk. Getting hold of a man disguised as an old lady, solving the mystery of the Prisoner of Lagny or discovering who is blackmailing the painter Tigrane Alban does not worry the experts at the O Agency. Les Dossiers de l’Agence O is a French-Canadian television series in thirteen episodes of approximately 55 minutes created by Marc Simenon and broadcast first in Quebec from December 14, 1967 to March 13, 1968 on Télévision de Radio-Canada, then in France from March 11 to June 3, 1968 on the first channel of the ORTF.
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The Golden Claws of the Cat Girl
Title: The Golden Claws of the Cat Girl
Character: Davenport
Released: February 9, 1968
Type: Movie
Françoise looks like a sexy kitten by day, but is a silent she-wolf by night, making very clever robberies of gold jewels. Despite the interest, and competition, from Bruno, she ends a lonely she-wolf.
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Casse-tête chinois pour le judoka
Title: Casse-tête chinois pour le judoka
Character: 'Dragon'
Released: December 22, 1967
Type: Movie
Judoka Marc Saint-Clair tries to save the world from nuclear disaster fighting Chinese and Russians.
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Title: Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
Character: Baron Wagenheim
Released: September 15, 1967
Type: TV
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.
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Belle de Jour
Title: Belle de Jour
Character: L'ensignant
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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Carré de dames pour un as
Title: Carré de dames pour un as
Character: Hakim Gregory
Released: October 5, 1966
Type: Movie
Hakim Gregory escapes from prison by killing a number of guards, and returns to his hide-out abroad, to lead again his gang of drug trafficking and contract murders. Layton of the Secret Service must discover, and arrest him. The difficult mission almost becomes impossible with the rivalry of Layton's partner, Petula, the jealousy of his bride, Marion, the possible treachery of a Spanish woman, Dolores Arrabal, and yet a mysterious and sexy informant, Rosario... Too many women for Layton.
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Title: Le Mystère de la chambre jaune
Character: Larsan
Released: November 27, 1965
Type: TV
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Angelique: The Road To Versailles
Title: Angelique: The Road To Versailles
Character: Le prince de Condé
Released: July 7, 1965
Type: Movie
Angelique is saved by the king of the cutthroats when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman.
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OSS 117: Mission for a Killer
Title: OSS 117: Mission for a Killer
Character: Carlos
Released: July 2, 1965
Type: Movie
A secret agent is dispatched to find a rare and valuable drug.
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The Shameless Old Lady
Title: The Shameless Old Lady
Character: Gaston
Released: March 24, 1965
Type: Movie
Madame Bertini, a newly widowed 70-year-old miser, has lived a sheltered life in squalour. She determines to venture into the modern world and have as much fun as possible, and in doing so finds that she loves it. She blows her life savings, much to the disapproval of the young people around her.
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Angelique
Title: Angelique
Character: Le prince de Condé
Released: December 8, 1964
Type: Movie
In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac out of convenience, but eventually, she falls in love with him. So when Jeoffray is arrested and then vanishes, she bravely sets out to find him. This is the first of many dramas based on Anne and Serge Golon's novels about strong-willed Angélique and her adventures during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King.
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La terreur et la vertu: Danton
Title: La terreur et la vertu: Danton
Character: Hébert
Released: October 10, 1964
Type: Movie
From November 1793 to April 1794, in order to reinforce the power of the Revolution, Robespierre strikes right and left. He successively sends the Hébertists to the guillotine, followed by Danton, the chief of the Indulgents, and Camille Desmoulins, who asked the new regime for clemency in his journal, Le Vieux Cordelier. Robespierre triumphs, but he is alone...
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Daggers Drawn
Title: Daggers Drawn
Released: March 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Via Something Weird: "Four men representing the world’s great criminal organizations unite to locate a cache of sunken treasure. The treasure is in fact a fortune in diamonds and secret documents that was lost by the Germans in the seas off Monte Carlo during the war. Following their every move are representatives from every secret agency in the world, amongst them, the British, the Russians, the Germans, and the Americans, all seeking the important papers contained within the treasure."
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Thank You, Natercia
Title: Thank You, Natercia
Character: L'avocat
Released: February 17, 1964
Type: Movie
A wealthy widow, Natercia, helps Alain, a poor young man, to put together the film he plans to make. They decide to pool their resources to make the project a reality. At the first screening, Natercia realizes that Alain no longer needs her.
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Blague dans le coin
Title: Blague dans le coin
Released: November 13, 1963
Type: Movie
A Las Perlass, ville de jeu du Névada, bandes rivales de Lippy et de Steinberg tiennent les plus beaux établissements de l'endroit. Franck Bradford has hired Jeff Burlington as a comedian, who, to cheer up a difficult audience, launches nightly verbal attacks on Lippy's casino where, he says - the games are rigged. Each of the two gangs sends a henchman to either stop the sarcasm or get in trouble if they don't leave their act as it is. Un certain "Main d'or" qui est autre que Bradford fait attaquer casinos. C'est Jeff, après avoir été kidnappé par les deux bandes devenues amies, quiasquera coupable.
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Horace
Title: Horace
Character: Tulle
Released: April 24, 1963
Type: Movie
Two families fight to stay in power. On one side, the Horatii, who rule Rome; on the other, the Curiatii, who rule Albe-la-longue. To escape the war, three brothers are chosen from each camp and face off in a fight to the death. A tragic confrontation with unexpected repercussions.
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The Star Ship
Title: The Star Ship
Character: Gregson
Released: December 11, 1962
Type: Movie
Onboard a spaceship sailing into infinity, generations of travelers are subject to dictatorial rules imposed by the central computer "Psycho." Recruited as a new police officer, Eddy Burns will discover the terrifying secrets behind this flawless system.
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À fleur de peau
Title: À fleur de peau
Character: le commissaire Michel
Released: November 14, 1962
Type: Movie
When Françoise introduced her fiancé to her parents, she had no idea that, during this family weekend, drama would enter this sumptuous estate, set up by her father for his second wife, the troubling Irène; so troubling, in fact, that she immediately set about conquering her daughter-in-law's fiancé... This doesn't faze her husband, Paul Brémont, the famous builder of Télébremont television sets, who is busy with his business and, above all, with the charms of his secretary. But it does seem to worry the house gardener, who is more than a little attached to his seductive boss (which makes Rose, the cook, sick with jealousy).
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Font-aux-Cabres
Title: Font-aux-Cabres
Character: Esteban
Released: November 13, 1962
Type: Movie
Font-aux-cabres is the name of an Andalusian village, benefiting the Commander of the Order of Calatrava, who supports Juana Beltraneja, the pretender to the throne of Castile, against the Catholic Monarchs. The Commander's tyranny is felt throughout the country, subjecting village women and girls to his whims by threat or violence. Laurencia, who dares to refuse him, is kidnapped on her wedding day, and her fiancé Frondoso is imprisoned.
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The Denunciation
Title: The Denunciation
Character: Patrice de Laborde
Released: July 18, 1962
Type: Movie
Michel Jussieu, a film producer, returns one morning to the cabaret where he forgot his sweater. He discovers the corpse of an extreme right-wing journalist, but immediately he is knocked out. He wakes up in the police station ...
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Paris Belongs to Us
Title: Paris Belongs to Us
Character: Pierre Goupil
Released: December 13, 1961
Type: Movie
A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger.
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Famous Love Affairs
Title: Famous Love Affairs
Character: le commissaire Massot
Released: November 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
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Napoléon II, the Eagle
Title: Napoléon II, the Eagle
Character: Prince Metternich
Released: November 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The story of Napoleon 1st's long-awaited son, born in 1911. He spent his childhood in the Tuileries, before being separated from his father and taken in and raised by his grandfather, Emperor Francis, who made him an Austrian prince.
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The Joker
Title: The Joker
Character: André Laroche
Released: January 20, 1961
Type: Movie
A young man who lives on women meets his match in the young wife of a rich industrialist. Their affair is doomed by her taste for luxury and his dislike of her coolness.
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Danger in the Middle East
Title: Danger in the Middle East
Released: September 2, 1960
Type: Movie
A criminal making plans to pull off one big score before he retires, comes into possession of secret papers worth a fortune, but dies while attempting the hit. His wife takes those papers for herself, while discovering there are rival criminals, a powerful organization and a sleazy blackmailer.
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The Love Game
Title: The Love Game
Character: L'homme élégant
Released: June 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Victor (Jean-Pierre Cassel) and Suzanne (Genevieve Cluny) are a couple at odds about commitment in this light, fast-paced comedy-drama by Philippe de Broca. Suzanne needs more reassurance from Victor about the future of their relationship. He is a painter with an inspired creative side who finds it difficult to understand Suzanne's point of view. They are happy together; what is the problem? So when a friend comes into the picture and proposes to Suzanne, Victor suddenly realizes that Suzanne was right. Without a formal commitment, the suddenly insecure man does not like the view from the opposite shore.
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Le 7ème jour de Saint-Malo
Title: Le 7ème jour de Saint-Malo
Released: April 19, 1960
Type: Movie
End of WW2 : the German officers lock all the men between 18 and 65 into the "Fort National" on an islet in Saint-Malo.
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Title: Discorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1959
Type: TV