Jean-François Balmer

Jean-François Balmer

Born: April 18, 1946
in Neuchâtel, Switzerland

Movies for Jean-François Balmer...

The Worst Man in London
Title: The Worst Man in London
Character: Comte Henri de Pourtalès
Released: February 8, 2024
Type: Movie
In the Victorian era of the late 19th century, Charles Augustus Howell moves through London’s art circles as the assistant of famous art critic John Ruskin. His skill at rising through high society lands him a close friendship with painter and poet Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
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Mise au vert
Title: Mise au vert
Released: September 20, 2023
Type: Movie
To strengthen family ties, to free his teenagers from their digital addiction, to reconnect with his roots in the region of his childhood; this is why Régis decides to take his wife and children on a surprise vacation in the Vercors. An old ruined house lost in the forest. No water, no electricity, even less network or wifi. Nothing is going to happen as planned
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Title: The King’s Favorite
Character: Mathieu Ory
Released: November 7, 2022
Type: TV
It follows Diane de Poitiers, an emeritus huntress whose unalterable beauty fuels rumors and legends during her lifetime - and even in her death.
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Juliette dans son bain
Title: Juliette dans son bain
Character: Amato
Released: May 14, 2022
Type: Movie
Ronny Kandiotis, a billionaire and art lover, is the guest of a major museum, on the occasion of a donation to France of two paintings, one by Gauguin and the other by Munch. The same evening, his daughter Lara, is kidnapped by a mysterious organization, which demands as ransom the publication of texts casting opprobrium on this supposedly virtuous man, while the media is already actively seizing the case.
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Title: Cellule de crise
Character: Adi Lipp
Released: December 3, 2020
Type: TV
Newly elected president of one of the largest humanitarian organisations in the world, Suzanne Fontana is put to the test when a young delegate and a dozen employees of the organisation are kidnapped in Yemen.
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Waiting for Anya
Title: Waiting for Anya
Character: Narrator
Released: February 7, 2020
Type: Movie
During the harrows of WWII, Jo, a young shepherd along with the help of the widow Horcada, helps to smuggle Jewish children across the border from southern France into Spain.
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Murder on Omaha Beach
Title: Murder on Omaha Beach
Character: Jacques Marechal
Released: October 20, 2018
Type: Movie
Captain Eloïse Gentil, of Caen police, hasn't been on speaking terms with her father Robert, an expert on WWII, for twenty years. But the two are brought together to investigate the death of James Crawley, a 91 year-old former GI, found tied to a pole and in his uniform, apparently executed "as an example".
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Dieumerci !
Title: Dieumerci !
Character: Monsieur Ventura
Released: March 9, 2016
Type: Movie
A 44 year old guy gets out of jail and wants to become an actor.
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Cosmos
Title: Cosmos
Character: Leon
Released: December 3, 2015
Type: Movie
Two young men seek the solitude of the country; their peace is disturbed when a set of random occurrences suggest to their susceptible minds a pattern with sinister meanings.
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Title: Capitaine Marleau
Character: Jean Garcin
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: TV
Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.
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Dead Europe
Title: Dead Europe
Character: Gerry
Released: December 12, 2012
Type: Movie
In Greece to scatter his father's ashes, Isaac hears of a curse that hangs over the head of his family. Dismissing the idea, his trip begins to unveil dark truths that forced his father to flee years ago.
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In the House
Title: In the House
Character: Le proviseur
Released: September 26, 2012
Type: Movie
A sixteen-year-old boy insinuates himself into the house of a fellow student from his literature class and writes about it in essays for his French teacher. Faced with this gifted and unusual pupil, the teacher rediscovers his enthusiasm for his work, but the boy’s intrusion will unleash a series of uncontrollable events.
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Celles qui aimaient Richard Wagner
Title: Celles qui aimaient Richard Wagner
Character: Richard Wagner
Released: November 9, 2011
Type: Movie
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La Joie de vivre
Title: La Joie de vivre
Character: M. Chanteau
Released: October 5, 2011
Type: Movie
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L'Infiltré
Title: L'Infiltré
Character: Le directeur de la DST
Released: June 21, 2011
Type: Movie
A notorious French ex-felon becomes an informant and infiltrates a Mexican drug cartel.
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Mort d'un président
Title: Mort d'un président
Character: Georges Pompidou
Released: April 12, 2011
Type: Movie
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Colère
Title: Colère
Character: L'évêque
Released: July 16, 2010
Type: Movie
The town of Carzac Shakespeare suffered a violent attack that caused a fire in the local factory. Many dead and wounded. Two citizens investigate the drama and discover that its origin could be criminal.
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Mumu
Title: Mumu
Character: Monsieur le curé
Released: March 24, 2010
Type: Movie
The story a rescue, the rescue of a bad brat's life in the post-WWII period. In 1947, Roger reaches 11 years old. He's a kid badly loved, mischievous and specializes in silly things to do. He is sent to a small boarding school in a small village. Mumu reigns over here. She's not the bitchest school teacher of the area. Roger has already been expelled from several schools and this is his last chance to avoid the reformatory his father has been promising him for a long time. But this is will change with the vigilance of Mumu, who, despite her strict aspects, proves herself to have a big heart.
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Title: Beauregard
Character: Pierre Hautefort
Released: January 16, 2010
Type: TV
The life of a small group of teenagers in a small 1961 French boarding school. In French Savoie, Pierre Hautefort, a literature teacher, is head of the Beauregard school, located in the mountains. However, the arrival of the young science teacher, Julien Ferrer, is going to seriously challenge the school’s strict and organized life.
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Lucky Luke
Title: Lucky Luke
Character: Le gouverneur
Released: October 21, 2009
Type: Movie
Fearless gunslinger, Lucky Luke, is ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town.
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La Vallée delle ombre
Title: La Vallée delle ombre
Character: Don Rinaldo
Released: August 12, 2009
Type: Movie
Matteo, a boy from the city, goes to visit his grandfather in a secluded mountain village, where preparations for a local ancient festival are under way. Matteo spends the eve of the festival with Lidia and three other boys from the village. The group of kids begins a dangerous game, bringing up obscure mysteries that are rooted in the past of that mountain valley. Matteo thus goes through a sort of initiation, at the end of which he is able to exorcise his fears, but only after becoming uncomfortably conscious of the existence of evil.
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Lucifer et moi
Title: Lucifer et moi
Character: Lucifer
Released: February 4, 2009
Type: Movie
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Tokyo!
Title: Tokyo!
Character: Maître Voland (segment "Merde")
Released: August 16, 2008
Type: Movie
Three distinct tales unfold in the bustling city of Tokyo. Merde, a bizarre sewer-dweller, emerges from a manhole and begins terrorizing pedestrians. After his arrest, he stands trial and lashes out at a hostile courtroom. A man who has resigned himself to a life of solitude reconsiders after meeting a charming pizza delivery woman. And finally, a happy young couple find themselves undergoing a series of frightening metamorphoses.
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The Sacha Guitry Affair
Title: The Sacha Guitry Affair
Character: Sacha Guitry
Released: July 24, 2007
Type: Movie
On the morning of 23 August 1944 Sacha Guitry was arrested at his Paris appartment, as the French capital was being liberated. Accused of collaboration with the enemy, the author of successful plays ("My Father was Right," "Let's Make a Dream," "Quadrille") and director of the theatre of the Madeleine was to remain captive for sixty days. His detention took from from the depot, to the Vel' d'hiv', then Drancy, and finally Fresnes Prison.
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A Winter in Paris
Title: A Winter in Paris
Character: Gaspacho
Released: March 1, 2006
Type: Movie
After being released from prison, a burglar is convinced by a former accomplice to participate in the theft of a precious jewel belonging to a rich heiress.
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Comedy of Power
Title: Comedy of Power
Character: Boldi
Released: February 16, 2006
Type: Movie
Magistrate Jeanne Charmant-Killman doggedly investigates CEO Michel Humeau, who is accused of participating in massive corporate malfeasance. As her investigation leads her into the upper echelons of government, Jeanne becomes intoxicated by the power she is amassing.
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Pierre et Jean
Title: Pierre et Jean
Character: Henri Rolland
Released: March 22, 2004
Type: Movie
In the 1930s, on the eve of the Popular Front, Pierre and Jean harmoniously combine their brotherhood. Pierre has just finished his medical studies, Jean his law studies. A rivalry is born between the brothers when Jean, the youngest, inherits the fortune of Dr. Maréchal, his godfather, who has just died in the colonies.
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Totally Nuts
Title: Totally Nuts
Released: January 28, 2004
Type: Movie
Diane, a young woman in search of a child, is looking for money to go to the sperm bank. She crosses paths with Arthur, a bank robber.
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My New Partner III
Title: My New Partner III
Character: Albert
Released: December 10, 2003
Type: Movie
It's been ten years since the paths of René and François parted ways. From the glorious era when, as cops, they roamed the Montmartre district, they only have a handful of memories left, the money from their cronies having evaporated over time. Everything comes to an end. Until it starts again.
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That Day
Title: That Day
Character: Treffle
Released: June 4, 2003
Type: Movie
A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other.
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Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre
Title: Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre
Character: Bertrand Faussier
Released: April 3, 2001
Type: Movie
A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum in Paris, and while experts are using a laser scanning device to determine the age of a sarcophagus, a ghostly spirit escapes and makes its way into the museum's electrical system.
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Charming Fellow
Title: Charming Fellow
Character: Hector
Released: January 24, 2001
Type: Movie
Octave and his friends, Achille and Hector, wander around at night in the grocery stores, the regulars' restaurants and the creepy bars. Octave meets Esther by chance. These two people have diametrically opposed characters. She is beautiful, cultured, free, creative, while he is rude, violent and whiny. The latter falls in love with her. The game is going to be difficult.
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The King's Daughters
Title: The King's Daughters
Character: Racine
Released: May 17, 2000
Type: Movie
Late 17th Century: Anne de Grandcamp and Lucie de Fontenelle, two little girls from Normandy, arrive at the Saint-Cyr school founded by Madame de Maintenon for educating the daughters of impoverished nobles ruined in wars and making them into free women. Madame de Maintenon is the secret wife of Louis XIV, and empowered by his support, she offers "her" two hundred fifty girls a playful and avant-garde education. Anne and Lucie, two inseparable friends, allow themselves to be carried away by the promise of a bright future. But Maintenon has arrived at the pinnacle of power through scheming and debasing herself and she now fears the fires of hell. She is counting on her model school to atone for her past sins.
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T'aime
Title: T'aime
Character: Paul Gontier
Released: April 26, 2000
Type: Movie
Zef, twenty years old, is a simple-minded man who can only say one word: "love you". Always happy, loving everyone, he lives with his sister Sophie on a farm in the Lot. Attracted by the sad smile of Marie, he rapes her one evening without realizing the gravity of his act. Commited in a psychiatric asylum, Zef falls into a deep silence. Hugues, a doctor with avant-garde methods, is in charge of caring for Marie. He decides to confront her with Zef, convinced that her healing goes through a long reappropriation of life and love.
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La Dilettante
Title: La Dilettante
Character: Le président du tribunal
Released: July 7, 1999
Type: Movie
Pierrette is a woman who describes herself as having "opted for the temporary on a permanent basis." After 15 years of living the good life in Switzerland, Pierrette one day packs her bags full of fashionable outfits and returns to her native Paris with no idea of what she'll do. Pierette, however, leads a charmed life; while her son is forced to work the graveyard shift at a factory due to poor job prospects, she's able to find a job right away at a high school. Pierrette soon reintroduces herself to her 23-year-old daughter and one-time best friend, trying to use her charm to skate over years of neglect. She just as suddenly finds a new beau, Ackerman, and starts helping him out with his antique business. However, what would seem like a simple matter -- buying a clock from an elderly woman -- soon turns out to be very complicated and fraught with consequence.
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Time Regained
Title: Time Regained
Character: Uncle Adolphe
Released: May 19, 1999
Type: Movie
In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
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Title: Boulevard du Palais
Character: commandant Philippe Rovère
Released: February 26, 1999
Type: TV
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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The Swindle
Title: The Swindle
Character: Monsieur K
Released: October 15, 1997
Type: Movie
Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 millions francs out of Switzerland, and Betty is convinced he plans to steal that money.
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An Unlikely Adventurer
Title: An Unlikely Adventurer
Character: Reynaud
Released: September 13, 1997
Type: Movie
Carole is ready to do anything to save the Guyanese forest and the Wayanas Indians from the pollution of the Gerson laboratories! Fearless and determined, our adventuress will face the unscrupulous men sent by the laboratories to make her give in. In the jungle where she grew up, she is the strongest. But she is accompanied by Bruno, a clumsy young French policeman.
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La vérité est un vilain défaut
Title: La vérité est un vilain défaut
Character: Bruckmann
Released: March 3, 1997
Type: Movie
The trials and tribulations of a good guy who feels obliged to confess the truth to his wife or his boss every time he makes a mistake.
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Sidecar
Title: Sidecar
Character: Jean Denamur, le censeur
Released: February 19, 1997
Type: Movie
The gloomy life of a high school censor is turned upside down the day he meets an old classmate.
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Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Title: Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Character: Sartine
Released: March 20, 1996
Type: Movie
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
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Lou Didn't Say No
Title: Lou Didn't Say No
Character: (voice)
Released: December 21, 1994
Type: Movie
The turbulent relationship between a filmmaker and a volatile actor.
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Crystal Book
Title: Crystal Book
Character: John Billeter, aka JB
Released: November 11, 1994
Type: Movie
This European thriller, set in Sri Lanka, attempts to expound upon the philosophical implications of life, death, and memory. JB, an academic famed for his studies of oriental culture and alcoholic who has never recovered from his wife's suicide, returns to Sri Lanka to translate a book written on glass. It is supposed to contain Buddha's discourse upon memory. While he is there, an attractive nurse, Julia asks him to assist a young boy who wants to locate his father who is now living in a Tamil-occupied area. The Tamil terrorists will kill any trespassers. Compounding JB's conflict in deciding to go is that his former home where he lived with his wife is in that area. Unbeknownst to him, the boy is really a Tamil spy.
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My Chinese Sister
Title: My Chinese Sister
Character: Paul Bricou
Released: November 9, 1994
Type: Movie
In 1977, one year after Mao died, a French man ( played by Alain Bashung) comes back to China to work as a school teacher with his daughter. He quickly ignores the interdiction of getting in touch with Chinese people and finds himself drawn into mysterious meetings at the Red Pavilion. MY CHINESE SISTER is a movie about pretense and the mystification of reality.
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La Lumière des étoiles mortes
Title: La Lumière des étoiles mortes
Character: Pierre
Released: January 12, 1994
Type: Movie
June 1940. The Wechrmacht appropriates the houses in which are living Pierre, his wife Magdeleine, their son Charles, their two servants Louise and Lea, and Mademoiselle, the beautiful jewish governess.
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Rocking Poponguine
Title: Rocking Poponguine
Character: M. Benoit
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
A tale of growing up in 1960s Senegal. Bacc narrates his early years of living in Popenguine, a town divided by culture and musical tastes.
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Spender : The French Collection
Title: Spender : The French Collection
Character: Inspector Calliere
Released: December 29, 1993
Type: Movie
Spender Christmas Special: Spender is sent to France to escort Tommy Thornton who has been extradited to the UK.
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East Wind
Title: East Wind
Character: Père Siegler
Released: January 20, 1993
Type: Movie
The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resisting Soviet pressure to be returned for execution in the USSR.
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Sam's Enough
Title: Sam's Enough
Character: Albert
Released: April 1, 1992
Type: Movie
After trying a job as a stripper in a Barcelona carnival, Eva (Aure Attika) is ready for something new, so she heads over to France and becomes the roommate of a gay American artist (Phillip Bartlett) and works as the housewife for two wealthy older homosexuals (Claude Chabrol and Jean-François Balmer. After she gets settled, she takes a job at a government office for a while but then decides to have a child, which her obliging roommate makes with her the old fashioned way. He then returns to his usual preference, while Eva explores becoming an artist herself. From time to time in this easygoing comedy, Eva's similarly independent and quirky mother (Bernadette Lafont) shows up.
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Diên Biên Phu
Title: Diên Biên Phu
Character: AFP Employee
Released: March 4, 1992
Type: Movie
Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and the Vietminh.
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Madame Bovary
Title: Madame Bovary
Character: Charles Bovary
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: Spender
Character: Inspector Calliere
Released: January 8, 1991
Type: TV
Jimmy Nail plays tough cop Spender, forced to return to his native Newcastle after a failed undercover operation in London. He uses tough and unconventional methods to tackle the criminal underworld, but he must also deal with the friends, enemies and family he left behind, and never expected to return to. Sammy Johnson played Spender's sidekick Stick, while Denise Welch played Spender's wife.
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Les Années lumière
Title: Les Années lumière
Character: Louis XVI
Released: October 25, 1989
Type: Movie
An astrophysicist (Marion) and an extraterrestrial (Thomas) are in love. Tomorrow, they must say goodbye. It's the price they must pay to free Thomas from the horrible affliction he is suffering from on Earth. Thomas will leave our world and return to his planet. Marion accompanies him to the point of no return.
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En attendant Godot
Title: En attendant Godot
Character: Estragon
Released: June 3, 1989
Type: Movie
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The French Revolution
Title: The French Revolution
Character: Louis XVI
Released: May 10, 1989
Type: Movie
A history of the French Revolution from the decision of the king to convene the Etats-Generaux in 1789 in order to deal with France's debt problem. The first part of the movie tells the story from 1789 until August 10, 1792 (when the King Louis XVI lost all his authority and was put in prison). The second part carries the story through the end of the terror in 1794, including the deaths by guillotine of Louis XVI, Marie-Antoinette, Danton, and Desmoulins.
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Title: L'Or du diable
Character: L'abbé Bérenger Saunière, curé de Rennes-le-Château
Released: February 3, 1989
Type: TV
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Mer de Chine: Le pays pour mémoire
Title: Mer de Chine: Le pays pour mémoire
Character: Marc
Released: September 8, 1988
Type: Movie
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Golden Eighties
Title: Golden Eighties
Character: M. Jean
Released: June 25, 1986
Type: Movie
Three young women at a hair salon all like the son of the clothing store proprietors across the mall. Although Robby is selfish and shallow, he's appealing to Lili, the salon's manager, who's trendy and also the salon-owner's moll; to Mado, who's innocent and sweet; and to Pascale, who's intelligent but passive and downcast. Robby's dad tells him to grow up and see beyond the mercurial Lili, so he proposes suddenly to Mado. She's delighted, but the day before the wedding, Lili returns to give Robby another look. In the background, a Yank who was a soldier in France in World War II returns to Paris and tries to recapture the love of his wartime sweetheart, Robby's mom.
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Last Image
Title: Last Image
Character: Miller
Released: June 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Seen through the filtered lens of boyhood memories, award-winning director Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina crafted this half-fictional, half-autobiographical account of a brief period in the history of an Algerian village. It is 1940, and the quiet town is ruled by French colonialists appointed by the Vichy government. Algerians are being called up for service in the Vichy military, and Jews in the village are in danger of deportation. A beautiful young schoolteacher named Claire Boyer (Veronique Jannot) arrives in town and turns every male head within miles, including 14-year-old Mouloud (Merwan Lakhdar-Hamina, the director's son). Simon Attal (Michel Boujenah), a fellow teacher and a Jew, is also attracted to Claire, and so is Mouloud's older brother. Suddenly two murders occur in the village, Simon is in danger of being deported, and the tone shifts from the dreams of boyhood to the realities of manhood.
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L'Amour ou presque
Title: L'Amour ou presque
Character: Albert
Released: November 20, 1985
Type: Movie
Without warning, Mélie disembarks on the cargo ship where her father has the sailor's blues. He remembers his drifts and his friend Max who used to get him into some crazy situations. He remembers Alice and Luc whom he decided to avenge. He has his grenade ready. But Melie has just arrived.
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Le Transfuge
Title: Le Transfuge
Character: Captain Pierre Clément
Released: November 13, 1985
Type: Movie
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Urgence
Title: Urgence
Character: Paul Murneau
Released: June 29, 1985
Type: Movie
When a neo-Nazi group of terrorists is set to blow a pop concert off the face of the earth because it is an anti-racist benefit, they are faced with the intrepid Jean-Pierre Mougin, a macho sports reporter with zero tolerance for Nazi hate crimes. Going along with Mougin to stop the bombing is Lyza, whose brother was killed by this group of fascists, and so she is ardently seeking revenge. After Mougin gets his hands on a videotape that reveals the plot to blow up the concert and its audience, he and Lyza join forces. As the fuse gets shorter and shorter, Mougin is also joined by sympathetic street gangs. Thus reinforced, he faces his opposition (including crooked cops) in increasingly more desperate attempts to stop Murmeau, the leader of the Nazi gang, from carrying out his terrorist objective.
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Folie suisse
Title: Folie suisse
Character: Carl
Released: June 10, 1985
Type: Movie
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The Blood of Others
Title: The Blood of Others
Character: Arnaud
Released: May 2, 1984
Type: Movie
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.
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Wild Animals
Title: Wild Animals
Character: Jeff Garcia
Released: April 18, 1984
Type: Movie
Berg and Bela are married stunt drivers, but one night Bela dies in an accident. Jaded and reclusive, Berg becomes a nighttime security guard where he befriends a young woman, Mimi, who works nights too. Soon a shadowy figure from Bela's past comes into Berg and Mimi's lives. Berg is forced to protect Mimi and seems responsible for a murder, but the man from Bela's past who caused her so much pain won't stop until he sees Berg suffer as much as Bela did.
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Polar
Title: Polar
Character: Eugène Tarpon
Released: March 21, 1984
Type: Movie
This film noir tends to stay within very conventional plot lines, as the narration by the main protagonist, private detective Eugene Tarpon Jean-François Balmer, recites a dreary litany of how he wanted to chuck his profession until an attractive woman shows up asking him to investigate the murder of her roommate, a porno star. Soon Tarpon is up to his neck in trouble: the police, gangsters, and the victim's lover are all out to get him.
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Swann in Love
Title: Swann in Love
Character: Dr. Cottard
Released: February 23, 1984
Type: Movie
In early 20th century, Charles Swann, a young and wealthy dandy, spends most of his time hanging out with the old nobility, notably the Duke and Duchess of Guermantes. He is madly in love with a pretty demi-mondaine, Odette de Crécy. Idle, Swann surrenders complacently to the torments of jealousy. After hours of suffering, he manages to spend a night with Odette. In the morning, he believes that ultimately, this one is "not his type". However, we find him, many years later, alongside Odette who, now his wife, gave him a daughter. In the company of Baron de Charlus, brother of the Duchess of Guermantes, he wonders about the failure of his sentimental life, so far removed from this absolute he dreamed of.
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The African
Title: The African
Character: Paul Planchet
Released: October 22, 1983
Type: Movie
Charlotte flies to East Africa to build a tourist center near Lake Williams where the pygmies live. Here she meets her husband Victor, a devoted conservationist who left her three years ago to live in the jungle. Can you imagine his enthusiasm when she arrives at the conclusion that the ideal place to build this holiday resort is his kitchen garden?
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Ladies' Choice
Title: Ladies' Choice
Character: François-Albert
Released: September 28, 1982
Type: Movie
As a result of an automobile accident, a sophisticated TV producer meets her car mechanic/blue collar nemesis. They start a comic affair, but can they reconcile their totally different worlds?
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Bluff
Title: Bluff
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A César award winning short film about a group of men playing poker until, at precisely 6pm, a bright light suddenly invades their room...
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Strange Affair
Title: Strange Affair
Character: Paul Belais
Released: December 23, 1981
Type: Movie
A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his family and friends, viewing it a privilege to let the ubiquitous employer take over his home, his life, his desire. Only his wife remains suspicious, recognizing both the pathos and the evil in the man’s soul-stealing power.
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Snow
Title: Snow
Character: Second inspector
Released: May 20, 1981
Type: Movie
Anita is a barmaid at the center of a community of street preachers, prostitutes, dealers and users. When a beloved friend (and young drug dealer) is caught by narcotics agents, Anita takes it upon herself to score for his struggling clients.
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Une page d'amour
Title: Une page d'amour
Character: L'abbé Jouve
Released: October 18, 1980
Type: Movie
In Passy, ​​Paris, 1895. The young widow Hélène calls the doctor Henri Deberle during the night, when her daughter Jeanne suddenly gets breathless. Together they spend the night at the bedside, and it develops from a trusting encounter a love relationship. When the doctor Hélène one day confesses his love, the daughter comes from jealousy in another, life-threatening crisis. A film adaptation of the eponymous novel by Émile Zola, which addresses the social milieu of the bourgeois family in the "Second Empire".
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Cop or Hood
Title: Cop or Hood
Character: Inspector Georges Massard
Released: March 28, 1979
Type: Movie
When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers a mare's nest of police corruption. In fact, in this comedy thriller the whole town is corrupt. If they were closely examined, Stan's methods for pursuing this investigation might embarrass the police. For instance, he drives into a criminal's house in a fancy, expensive race car. In another incident, he callously blows up a casino owned by Musard , one of the town's crime bosses. On that occasion, he first forces Musard to remove his clothes, and the poor criminal watches his casino explode from across the square while standing naked in a phone booth. Meanwhile, Stan seduces the lovely Edmonde.
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These Kids Are Grown-Ups
Title: These Kids Are Grown-Ups
Character: Monestier
Released: March 14, 1979
Type: Movie
When a real-estate promoter attempts to take over the homes of two electronics whizzes and boot them out, they contrive ingenious ways to inconvenience and harass him. By pooling their knowledge, they are able to pull off a crucial robbery using a very special box of chocolates.
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The Sewers of Paradise
Title: The Sewers of Paradise
Character: 68
Released: March 14, 1979
Type: Movie
In July of 1976, the Societé Générale of France was robbed of well over $10 million dollars by a group burrowing through the sewers of Paris. This movie is based on a book by the thieves' mastermind, Albert Spaggiari. The famous theft won the nickname, "the great drain robbery," and this romanticized cinematic retelling of the true story stars Francis Huster as Spaggiari.
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The Adolescent
Title: The Adolescent
Character: André, le menuisier
Released: January 24, 1979
Type: Movie
In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother.
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Le Chandelier
Title: Le Chandelier
Character: Clavaroche
Released: December 17, 1977
Type: Movie
Jacqueline is married to Maître André, but is in love with her lover Clavaroche, a fiery officer stationed in the city. In order to avert Master André's suspicions about his wife's fidelity, Clavaroche suggests that Jacqueline take a "Chandelier".
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La Menace
Title: La Menace
Character: l'inspecteur Waldeck
Released: September 28, 1977
Type: Movie
Henri Savin has managed a trucking company for his lover, Dominique Montlaur, for many years. Now he is planning to leave her for Julie Manet, the woman he has made pregnant, and Dominique is hysterical. She first threatens suicide, then shows up at a meeting of Savin and Julie. Dominique tries everything she can think of to break Savin and Julie apart, to no avail. Frustrated in her efforts, she jumps off a cliff and dies. Savin insists that he and Julie lie to the police about the encounter, although Dominique's death was a suicide and therefore they had no direct hand in it. Detective Waldeck investigates Dominique's death.
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The Castaways of Turtle Island
Title: The Castaways of Turtle Island
Character: Big Boss
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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Little Marcel
Title: Little Marcel
Character: Pottier
Released: April 6, 1976
Type: Movie
A homeless young man, living in his delivery truck, is simultaneously adopted by a pranksome group of youngsters and made into a police informer. Believing that he is doing something good both for the other kids and for himself, he has no qualms.
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Fear Over the City
Title: Fear Over the City
Character: Julien Dallas, l'étudiant
Released: April 9, 1975
Type: Movie
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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The Mouth Agape
Title: The Mouth Agape
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 8, 1974
Type: Movie
Monique is dying of cancer, lying in bed in the apartment above the store her family owns. Her philandering husband carries on with life, her son remains aloof, and her daughter-in-law wonders if she is witnessing her own decline. They all struggle to express, or feel, their love for one another.
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Love at the Top
Title: Love at the Top
Character: Vischenko
Released: March 13, 1974
Type: Movie
Nicolas Mallet, an inconspicuous and shy bank employee, one day successfully invites Marie-Paul, a young woman he hadn’t known before, in the streets of Paris to a café and sleeps with her the next day. When he tells his surprised friend Claude about the incident, the disillusioned and handicapped writer starts to guide him, leading Nicolas on a dazzling social ascent.
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Nothing to Report
Title: Nothing to Report
Character: Raymond Dax
Released: August 15, 1973
Type: Movie
In 1956, the professional army of France lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold on to at any price. For this reason, reservists are called up and subject to an intense period of training before being sent to the front. Rémy March, Alain Charpentier and Raymond Dax are three such young men who have no interest in the military escapade and are reluctant conscripts. What they witness in Algeria will appall and transform them. Rape, torture, executions... there is no end to the atrocities in which they become unwilling participants. No wonder the French military are so willing to proclaim that there is nothing to report...