Jacques Robiolles

Jacques Robiolles

Born: March 6, 1935
in Coutances, France

Movies for Jacques Robiolles...

Trio
Title: Trio
Character: Self
Released: April 2, 1987
Type: Movie
Trio is a cinematic series of filmed portraits that shows, in a single large, fixed and silent shot of 3 minutes and 20 seconds, three people free to do what they want.
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The Secret Wife
Title: The Secret Wife
Released: September 17, 1986
Type: Movie
It was during one of his missions in Norway that Antoine learned of his wife's death. He leaves his experimental submarine and returns to Paris. Helene was found in the Seine and had taken barbiturates. Even though he had not been with Hélène for six years, he knew her well enough to believe that she was incapable of committing suicide. So who and why?
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Barres
Title: Barres
Released: December 31, 1984
Type: Movie
The 1984 short Barres celebrates the ingenious ways one can get onto the Paris Metro without paying.
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Rebelote
Title: Rebelote
Character: Charles Chauveau, the father
Released: September 5, 1984
Type: Movie
Rémi Chauveau, ten years old, lives in a broken home. He first experiences an austere boarding school and then an authoritarian and abusive nanny. Teenager, he works as butcher in Paris. On Saturday, he made “silly little things” that sometimes lead to prison.
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Démons de midi
Title: Démons de midi
Released: November 28, 1979
Type: Movie
At 45, divorced, unemployed and father of two children, Franois Morot realizes that he can no longer support the society in which he lives and decides to leave everything.
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The Bit Between the Teeth
Title: The Bit Between the Teeth
Character: Un client au 'Fer à cheval'
Released: September 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math whiz who uses his talent for picking the winners. Charles (Michel Galabru) is the wealthy scrap-iron magnate who has embarrassing evidence on many prominent political figures. Loic (Jacques Dutronc) is the aspiring politico who seeks to further his career by any means possible. Charles approaches Loic and asks his political party for a loan in hopes of fixing an upcoming race....
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La Maison qui pleure
Title: La Maison qui pleure
Released: March 23, 1979
Type: Movie
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Cinématon
Title: Cinématon
Character: N°2028
Released: December 20, 1978
Type: Movie
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
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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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It's Tough for Everybody
Title: It's Tough for Everybody
Released: June 18, 1975
Type: Movie
After losing his job, an idealistic adman starts his own agency, putting himself in the crosshairs of his jaded ex-boss.
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Zig Zig
Title: Zig Zig
Character: L'ingénieur du son
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Two women work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home.
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Rookies Go to War
Title: Rookies Go to War
Character: Lelieutenant
Released: November 11, 1974
Type: Movie
A Grand Slapstick comedy about four buddies serving in the army. Their long-suffering sergeant attempts to whip them into shape but the conflict spirals out of control.
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Ballad for Billy the Kid
Title: Ballad for Billy the Kid
Character: The Photographer
Released: November 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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Clockwork Bananas
Title: Clockwork Bananas
Released: August 9, 1974
Type: Movie
Gilles, who operates a money losing garage, teams up with his friends Max, who operates a scrap yard, and lawyer Xavier to open a brothel catering to women. They get the idea from Gilles' secretary Irma, a former prostitute. They are assisted in the implementation by Max's wife Juliette and Sabine who is mad for Gilles. Unfortunately Gilles has fallen for Florence the daughter of the conservative Prime Minister and his wife. When the Prime Minister tries to shut down the brothel Gilles decides to stand against him in the election.
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Don't Touch the White Woman!
Title: Don't Touch the White Woman!
Released: January 23, 1974
Type: Movie
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.
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Line Up and Lay Down
Title: Line Up and Lay Down
Character: (uncredited)
Released: August 29, 1973
Type: Movie
Erotic comedy about an incorrigible womanizer whose lecherous love life becomes too much to handle. Things culminate when his jealous friends arrange for his fiancee and his mistresses to meet him at the same time.
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5 Kittens
Title: 5 Kittens
Released: July 18, 1973
Type: Movie
A 'gang' of five young women spend their days shoplifting, hitchhiking and having orgies.
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La Lucarne magique
Title: La Lucarne magique
Released: October 4, 1971
Type: Movie
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The Shiver of the Vampires
Title: The Shiver of the Vampires
Character: 2nd Vampire
Released: April 21, 1971
Type: Movie
A young honeymooning couple stop for the night at an ancient castle. Unbeknownst to them, the castle is home to a horde of vampires, who have their own plans for the couple.
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Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad
Title: Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad
Character: Philippe
Released: March 1, 1971
Type: Movie
In a cul-de-sac in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Leon shares two rooms with his sister Marie. In one, he receives his clients: he is a tailor. In the other, Marie receives her own: she is a clairvoyant. Leon was happy until he learned what Marie was hiding from him. She is actually a prostitute, and Maxime, her supposed fiancé, is her pimp. On the same day, Leon also discovers love in the form of Arlette, a provincial young woman picked up by Marie.
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Sophie's Ways
Title: Sophie's Ways
Released: February 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Céline is a free-spirited woman is married to a dull, middle manager Philippe. Her husband's co-worker pegged her as a household ornament because of the union. She befriends a woman who shows her how to juggle the couple's living expenses to get what she wants. As she asserts her independence and gradually frees herself from her husband's claustrophobic world, she turns to painting and writing about the inequity between genders.
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Bed and Board
Title: Bed and Board
Character: Jacques
Released: September 9, 1970
Type: Movie
Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.
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Destroy Yourselves
Title: Destroy Yourselves
Released: May 10, 1969
Type: Movie
Detruisez-vous is a ‘primitive’ film which breaks all the rules of film-making. It’s the first Zanzibar film (and predates the very naming of the movement), an attempt to make a film which defies the rules of production, the production line of commerce
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Stolen Kisses
Title: Stolen Kisses
Character: TV Unemployed (uncredited)
Released: September 4, 1968
Type: Movie
The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.
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The Companions of Baal
Title: The Companions of Baal
Character: Une adoratrice de Cosmochronos
Released: July 29, 1968
Type: Movie
Journalist Claude Leroy (Jacques Champreux) reports that a secret society, The Companions of Baal, is behind a hold-up in the small town of Blaingirey. They are led by the Grand Maître Hubert de Mauvouloir (Jean Martin). An adorant of Lucifer, he aims to enslave the world. Accompanied by their acolyte, Pierrot Robichat (Gérard Zimmermann), and a young girl, Françoise Cordier (Claire Nadeau), Claude Leroy is determined to finally reveal the mysteries of the group's criminal enterprise.
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Marie for Memory
Title: Marie for Memory
Character: Ambulance nurse
Released: April 22, 1968
Type: Movie
Parallel lives of two couples destined to suicide, one, and unhappiness, the other.
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The Bride Wore Black
Title: The Bride Wore Black
Character: Charlie
Released: March 22, 1968
Type: Movie
Julie Kohler, whose husband was inexplicably shot dead on the church steps after their wedding, is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves the town to track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her.
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La bonne peinture
Title: La bonne peinture
Released: November 24, 1967
Type: Movie
A light philosophical movie about a painter who has the ability to produce paintings that can feed people's stomach by watching them.
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Ubu Roi
Title: Ubu Roi
Character: Mathias de Konisburg
Released: September 20, 1965
Type: Movie
Based on Alfredy Jarrry's 1896 play about a greedy, overweight, selfish dude named Pere Ubu. The story follows Ubu on his journey to overthrow the current ruler and become King of Poland. Along the way he betrays many of his followers, taxes the civilians to an unreasonable degree and eventually slaughters everyone. Along his side, is the equally crude but somehow more likable Mere Ubu, who's like a foul mouthed Lady Macbeth.
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Bluebeard
Title: Bluebeard
Released: January 25, 1963
Type: Movie
Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.
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La Fin de la nuit
Title: La Fin de la nuit
Character: Mondoux
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie