Guy Mairesse

Guy Mairesse

Born: June 14, 1924
Died: April 11, 2009
in Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, Val-de-Marne, France

Movies for Guy Mairesse...

S.A.S. San Salvador
Title: S.A.S. San Salvador
Character: Jesus
Released: February 25, 1983
Type: Movie
Enrique Chacon kills Oscar Romero, a Catholic archbishop in San Salvador. The CIA calls a special agent, Malko Linge, a ruined prince who lives with an expensive woman - Countess Alexandra - to get rid of this nuisance of a man. He does, with many encounters with sweet girls, and macho villains. (Written by Artemis-9, IMDb)
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Choice of Arms
Title: Choice of Arms
Character: Boxing coach
Released: August 19, 1981
Type: Movie
Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey, to take him to the estate of a retired robber, Noel, who lives in comfort with his lovely and beloved wife, Nicole. The man dies, and Mickey, a menacing hothead, demands money of Noel. A few days later, Mickey returns to the estate, shoots up a dinner party and threatens them again. Noel sends Nicole to an hotel and goes to his old gang to help him hunt down the dangerous Mickey. Mickey has other problems, too, including heartache for a daughter he hardly knows. Young, eager cops tail Nicole, and all are on a complicated collision course.
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Hue and Cry
Title: Hue and Cry
Character: Trillat
Released: February 22, 1978
Type: Movie
After the Great War, a wounded Frenchman lives atop a mountain with his wild brother who violates the property of villagers below.A second kind of war ensues.
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Pauline et l'ordinateur
Title: Pauline et l'ordinateur
Character: The police inspector
Released: January 25, 1978
Type: Movie
Seeking medical advice to lose a few pounds, a woman lands up finding out about the usefulness of a computer, not just for her diet but also for work, with her parents,and to find a new boyfriend after the previous one has left her.
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March or Die
Title: March or Die
Character: Maurice, Legionnaire at the Station
Released: September 8, 1977
Type: Movie
Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located in the French Morocco to protect an archaeological excavation from El Krim, a Rifian leader who intends to unite all local tribes to fight the colonial government…
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Title: Minichronique
Released: December 20, 1976
Type: TV
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When the City Awakes
Title: When the City Awakes
Character: Stany
Released: June 5, 1975
Type: Movie
An armored van is attacked and the gangsters hide the loot in a graveyard.
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That Most Important Thing: Love
Title: That Most Important Thing: Love
Character: Laurent Messala
Released: February 12, 1975
Type: Movie
Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by Nadine Chevalier, a tormented low-budget movie actress married to an eccentric film photo collector.
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The Purloined Letter
Title: The Purloined Letter
Character: Duvernois
Released: February 9, 1974
Type: Movie
Part of a 6-film collection called “Grands Détectives” about famous fictional private detectives.
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The Black Hand
Title: The Black Hand
Released: March 16, 1973
Type: Movie
Antonio, an Italian immigrant in New York finds himself drawn into the Mob when his options are limited and his desire to make a new life for himself becomes increasingly difficult.
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A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die
Title: A Reason to Live, a Reason to Die
Character: Donald MacIvers
Released: December 27, 1972
Type: Movie
A dishonored Union Army officer leads a group of convicts to retake Fort Holman from the Confederate Army.
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The Sicilian Connection
Title: The Sicilian Connection
Released: December 21, 1972
Type: Movie
A small time hood smuggles drugs from Turkey to Italy in an effort to make it into the big time, but along the way everyone has to have their cut.
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The Right to Love
Title: The Right to Love
Released: August 15, 1972
Type: Movie
The tragedy of Helene and her husband Pierre, whose life is shattered when Pierre is kept as a political prisoner, while Helene is denied the right to visit him. A growing fear of losing her husband to tuberculosis takes over Helene, who does all she can to meet him, even for one last time.
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The Confession
Title: The Confession
Character: Doctor
Released: April 29, 1970
Type: Movie
The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.
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Le chien qui a vu Dieu
Title: Le chien qui a vu Dieu
Character: Stefano
Released: March 10, 1970
Type: Movie
In a small Italian village live a group of men, each as miscreant as the next. Among them is the baker, violent and miserly. One day, to benefit from an inheritance, he has to distribute fifty kilos of bread a day to the poor for five years. At the moment of distribution, a dog comes along and takes a loaf of bread in its mouth, to take to an old hermit whom the villagers are convinced "has seen God".
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Z
Title: Z
Character: Dumas aka The Russian
Released: February 26, 1969
Type: Movie
Amidst a heated political climate, the opposition leader is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. When a magistrate finds evidence of a government cover-up, witnesses start to get targeted. A thinly-fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963, Z captures the outrage about the military junta that ruled Greece at the time.
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Shock Troops
Title: Shock Troops
Character: Tricard
Released: April 5, 1967
Type: Movie
A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is suspected of being an enemy spy.
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To Skin a Spy
Title: To Skin a Spy
Character: Killer
Released: August 24, 1966
Type: Movie
A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the crossfire of international enemy agents trying to eliminate the French.
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The Diabolical Dr. Z
Title: The Diabolical Dr. Z
Character: Hans Bergen
Released: August 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A woman seeks to avenge her father's death using a local dancer, with long poisonous fingernails, to do her bidding.
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In the Affirmative
Title: In the Affirmative
Character: Robert Blam
Released: February 10, 1964
Type: Movie
The film is a road movie that follows a middle aged man who gives a young woman a lift. On the car radio, news bulletins warn the population against a recently escaped sadist who is known to prey on young women and children. Lelouch often cuts away from the main story, if only briefly, to parallel events that are not necessarily crucial to the story but illustrate what is suggested by the radio.
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Sahara on Fire
Title: Sahara on Fire
Character: Hans
Released: January 18, 1961
Type: Movie
A young engineer, Lucien Rombeau, is sent to the Sahara by the oil company that employs him, which wants to put an end to drilling that it considers unproductive. He ends up agreeing with the chief prospector, who refuses to stop the work and is convinced that prospecting will not be in vain.
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Sergeant X of the Foreign Legion
Title: Sergeant X of the Foreign Legion
Character: Serge
Released: February 19, 1960
Type: Movie
A remake and rewriting by director Bernard Borderie and scripters of a well-made 1932 film, this routine French drama seems a little outdated. The story has changed from a Russian officer who returns home from the war to find his wife has remarried, to a former paratrooper who tries to drive a stolen truck back from Morocco and suffers an accident -- and the same fate as the Russian. As a result of his injuries and the subsequent delay, the ex-military man is unable to get home as scheduled, and the woman he loves decides that he has left her. Once she "realizes" that supposed truth, she decides to marry her boss. As in the earlier film, one of the protagonists ends up in the French Foreign Legion and all three head toward a fateful meeting in a North African desert.
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The Sicilian
Title: The Sicilian
Character: M. Bonbon
Released: November 26, 1958
Type: Movie
A brave little couturier from Lyon, Fernand, travels to Paris to present his creation "La ligne Impériale" to a major fashion house. Following a misunderstanding, he is mistaken by a gang of gangsters for "Le Sicilien", a hired killer. A quid pro quo of enormous proportions. Fernand has the whole gang arrested and is reunited with his sweet fiancée Josée.
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The Mask of the Gorilla
Title: The Mask of the Gorilla
Released: August 14, 1958
Type: Movie
Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must infiltrate a dangerous gang working for a foreign embassy as their leader, a spy enjoying diplomatic immunity, can't be arrested by regular police.
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Tamango
Title: Tamango
Character: Werner
Released: January 24, 1958
Type: Movie
A Dutch slave captain, on a voyage to Cuba, faces a revolt fomented by a newly captured African slave, Tamango. The slaves capture the captain's mistress, forcing a showdown.
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Les Ratés
Title: Les Ratés
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
A 1958 French language short film written and directed by Costa-Gavras, starring Guy Mairesse, Paniaras and Jean Patrick.
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Sister Angele's Secret
Title: Sister Angele's Secret
Released: March 21, 1956
Type: Movie
A poor wop entrusts his savings to an antique dealer's care. Bad idea. When he comes back to claim his dough,the villain acts as if they've never met. And the poor Italian immigrant kills him.
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The Red Cloak
Title: The Red Cloak
Character: The Guercio
Released: September 17, 1955
Type: Movie
Cosimo de' Bardi is assassinated by a gentleman called the Flemish. Time passes and at some point a masked knight wearing a red cloak enters the scene. He is the son of the killed. These and the Flemish are also rivals in love. In the final duel the Flemish will be eliminated.
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Les impures
Title: Les impures
Character: Bob, l'ami de Mario
Released: April 7, 1954
Type: Movie
When Mario, a bad boy, is released from prison, he plans to live honestly with his wife Geneviève. But the latter has not waited for him and Mario, out of spite, accepts to work as a tout for Mr. Charlie, the boss of a white slave trade gang. His first assignment consists in seducing Michèle, a Montmartre nightclub singer and hostess, into signing a contract for Tangier. The young woman, however, who does this job only to support her young sister Danièle, falls for him and he for her. From then on Mario, without betraying himself, does his utmost to save Michèle -and Danièle for that matter - from the clutches of the gang...
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Piédalu député
Title: Piédalu député
Released: January 20, 1954
Type: Movie
In the 1953 elections, Piédalu was elected mayor of Marboue-Chambourcy. The esteem of his fellow citizens won him popularity, but he had to reckon with the wiles of his political opponents if he ran for deputy. The support of the son of one of his rivals, who loves Françoise Piédalu, and above all his stubborn common sense and natural malice, help him to overcome all obstacles.
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The Road to Damascus
Title: The Road to Damascus
Released: December 5, 1952
Type: Movie
Saul De Tarse is a Roman soldier who is making rough all over. He arrives at the Golgotha when the apostles remove the cross. He ruthlessly persecutes the Christians, even though they are his own friends.
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A Tough Day
Title: A Tough Day
Released: March 20, 1952
Type: Movie
A strike has broken out in a big factory in the North of France. Two workers, Robert and Etienne, go through the experience in a different way. Etienne, who has worked there since the start, is still influenced by the time when workmen and their bosses found an agreement directly. Unlike him, his young friend believes in the power of labor unions. He even goes to Paris to attend special classes in trade unionism.
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The Merry Pilgrims
Title: The Merry Pilgrims
Released: May 25, 1951
Type: Movie
With no contract in view, Aimé Barelli, the leader of the band of the same name, decides to take a holiday. As this is the Holy Year, the young artist accepts to follow his mother on a pilgrimage to Rome. His band members - complete with their agent - decide to follow suit. Good idea because on the train to Rome, there is a whole class of charming schoolgirls, including charming Rosita and - surprise ! - Nicole, Aimé's pretty but elusive beloved. The trip is cheerful but eventful and life gets even more complicated with the interference of Duranval, a fake talent agent but genuine trouble shooter. At a time confusion is such that a bomb explodes and the whole gang find themselves in ... heaven! But Saint Peter has pity on them and sends them back to earth. At long last Aimé can marry Nicole while his musicians spread mirth around them.
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Juliette, or Key of Dreams
Title: Juliette, or Key of Dreams
Released: May 18, 1951
Type: Movie
Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One night, while sleeping in his cell, he wakes up all of a sudden, the gates open and he finds himself in a strange village where all the inhabitants have lost their memory. There, meets Juliette again who seems to agree to marry a powerful man, who might well be Bluebeard...
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Skipper Next to God
Title: Skipper Next to God
Character: A Jewish passenger
Released: March 2, 1951
Type: Movie
Captain Joris Kniper believes so strongly that he is "skipper next to God" that he is used to playing God on his ship. Tough and bossy, he gives orders which are not to be discussed. But, some day, he is driven to accept on board several German Jews fleeing the nazis and who are refused asylum everywhere. He gradually realizes that skipper he is, but next to God only.The Bible will help him to find the way to self-questioning, awareness and charity.