Philippe Léotard

Philippe Léotard

Born: August 28, 1940
Died: August 25, 2001
in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Philippe Léotard ( born Ange Philippe Paul André Léotard-Tomasi August 28, 1940 - died August 25, 2001) was a French actor, poet, and singer.

He was born in Nice , one of seven children - four girls, then three boys, of which he was the oldest - and was the brother of politician François Léotard. His childhood was normal except for an illness (rheumatic fever) which struck him and forced him to spend days in bed during which time he read a great many books. He was particularly fond of the poets - Baudelaire, Rimbaud, Lautréamont, Blaise Cendrars. He met Ariane Mnouchkine at the Sorbonne and in 1964 they formed the théâtre du soleil.

He played Philippe, the tormented son of a women with terminal illness, in the 1974 drama film La Gueule ouverte, by the controversial director Maurice Pialat. He won a César Award for Best Actor for his role in the 1982 movie La Balance.

One of his few English-language roles was a cameo in the 1973 thriller The Day of the Jackal and he co-starred as "Jacques" in the 1975 John Frankenheimer movie French Connection II which starred Gene Hackman and Fernando Rey, (sequel to The French Connection).

Léotard died in 2001 of respiratory failure in Paris at the age of 60. He was interred at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

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Black Dju
Title: Black Dju
Character: Inspecteur Plettschette
Released: November 28, 1997
Type: Movie
This standard slice-of-life drama is about Dju Dibonga (Richard Courcet), a young man who leaves his home on Cabo Verde, an island of Portuguese dependency off the coast of Africa, to go to Luxembourg and search for his father. Far from his home village and unfamiliar with the large city, the young black man forms an unlikely friendship with a down-and-out white policeman whose only consolation in life is found at the bottom of a bottle. Their developing companionship forms the main focus of this movie directed by Pol Cruchten.
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Pandora
Title: Pandora
Character: Raúl
Released: February 2, 1996
Type: Movie
It's September in Lisbon… Elsa’s young daughter leaves with her father, and Teresa, a friend’s friend, comes to stay in her room. One night the two women go out and meet Raul, a vagrant lover of Elsa. A triangle takes form. They finish the night on a boat by the name of Pandora, but in the morning Raul sails away, alone. Elsa and Teresa will start a new life...
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Les Miserables
Title: Les Miserables
Character: Thénardier 1942
Released: March 22, 1995
Type: Movie
In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin, is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.
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Elisa
Title: Elisa
Character: Gitanes Smoker
Released: February 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames for her mother's death.
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Im Kreis der Iris
Title: Im Kreis der Iris
Character: Dr. Ionescu
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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Le Voleur et la menteuse
Title: Le Voleur et la menteuse
Character: Jeff
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
The thief: a gangster on the lam, is waiting for a boat which is to sail away from this harbor,a dead end. The liar: a young woman he meets in a restaurant tells him the story of her life based on the screenplay of a movie she was to make. They fall head over heels in love. The convict who has just escaped from jail wants to keep her out of his predicament, but after a night of desperate love, she refuses to leave him.And the police are tracking him down.
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Ville à vendre
Title: Ville à vendre
Character: Jean Boulard
Released: February 26, 1992
Type: Movie
A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He teams up with the victim's vulgar assistant to try to solve the mystery.
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Le Grand Ruban (Truck)
Title: Le Grand Ruban (Truck)
Character: Jeff
Released: December 19, 1991
Type: Movie
Truck driver Jeff agrees to take the son of his biggest customer along on the road and explain the tricks of the trade to him.
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The Flesh
Title: The Flesh
Character: Nicola
Released: August 21, 1991
Type: Movie
A beautiful film which is basically about a man, a piano player, who meets and falls in love with a beautiful and voluptuous woman, who, by some strange procedure, leaves the man unable to move but with a permanent priapism! After some time he becomes sick of it and she relieves his paralysis. Eventually she gets bored and decides to leave, but he can't take it because he loves her…
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Venins
Title: Venins
Character: Phil Anzer
Released: May 1, 1991
Type: Movie
Marc, a young snake expert, works at a museum in Geneva. He loves snakes, to the point that he owns many and even takes a bath with his huge pet python. He meets and falls in love with a beautiful young woman named Malenka, who is the assistant--and mistress--of an older herpetologist professor. Marc discovers that not only is the "professor" a fraud but also a dangerous psychotic who had at one time seduced Marc's mother, and Marc believes that the longer Malenka stays with him, the greater danger she's in.
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Death of a Schoolboy
Title: Death of a Schoolboy
Released: September 1, 1990
Type: Movie
On June 28, 1914 Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria was shot to death in Sarajewo. His assassination caused a chain of events that brought about World War I and the downfall of old Europe. Who is the assassin? Who is GAVRE PRINCIP, a man that fate brought into the center of world attention. The subject of the film is not the historical background but rather the psychological makeup of PRINCIP at the age of seventeen.
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No Time for Justice
Title: No Time for Justice
Character: Auclair
Released: May 30, 1990
Type: Movie
A man is accused of a crime he didn't commit. He will be sexually abused in prison.
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Title: Chillers
Character: André Arnaud
Released: April 14, 1990
Type: TV
Based on Patricia Highsmith short stories. Displaying a sinister atmosphere, delving into the darkest depths of human nature.
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There Were Days... and Moons
Title: There Were Days... and Moons
Character: le chanteur abandonné
Released: April 11, 1990
Type: Movie
How can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its characters towards violence and alienation.
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The Color of the Wind
Title: The Color of the Wind
Character: Pierre
Released: November 2, 1988
Type: Movie
Louise, literary advisor to the Cercle Editions, receives a large manuscript from the United States. Upset by the reading of this book, she begins an epistolary relationship with Paul, the author.
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Ada in the Jungle
Title: Ada in the Jungle
Character: Rudi
Released: September 28, 1988
Type: Movie
A dying man Lord Gordon asks his niece Ada to find his son in Africa whom he left many years ago.
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Snack Bar Budapest
Title: Snack Bar Budapest
Character: Sapo
Released: September 22, 1988
Type: Movie
While his girlfriend recovers from a medical procedure, a corrupt lawyer becomes entranced by the grand visions of a mob boss.
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The Abyss
Title: The Abyss
Character: Henri-Maximilien
Released: May 13, 1988
Type: Movie
The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the alchemist doctor Zeno has been wandering Europe under an assumed name for twenty years. But he remains a non-conformist. He returns to his native Bruges, where he thinks he has been forgotten. In this silent labyrinth where the faces of the past resurface, he rediscovers his identity and thus signs his death warrant.
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The South
Title: The South
Character: Roberto
Released: March 5, 1988
Type: Movie
After the end of the military dictatorship in Argentina in 1983, Floreal is released from prison. Instead of returning to his wife, he wanders through the night of Buenos Aires. He meets some people from his past–most of which are only imaginary–and remembers the events of his imprisonment.
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Jane B. for Agnès V.
Title: Jane B. for Agnès V.
Character: Painter / Murderer
Released: March 2, 1988
Type: Movie
The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fortieth birthday—a milestone she admits to some anxiety over—Jane B. by Agnès V. contrasts the private, reflective Birkin with Birkin the icon.
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Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Title: Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Character: Bernard Hauptmann
Released: February 26, 1988
Type: Movie
This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew who was incarcerated in a Stalinist prison. Zupanev (Erland Josephson) is a sympathetic court registrar who smuggles the documents and later presents them to the poet's son Grisha (Vincent David).
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If the Sun Never Returns
Title: If the Sun Never Returns
Character: Arlettaz
Released: September 2, 1987
Type: Movie
The residents of a remote Swiss mountain village come to believe an ancient oracle in this drama taken from the novel by Charles Ferdinand Ramuz. With news of the Spanish Civil War on the radio, the people begin to believe the sun will not return and the world will be forever darkened.
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Title: Nulle part ailleurs
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 1987
Type: TV
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State of Grace
Title: State of Grace
Character: Pierre-Julien
Released: December 24, 1986
Type: Movie
She is Florence Vannier-Buchet. Married to Protestant banker Jean-Marc Buchet. Florence leads a major sporting goods company with happiness and firmness. He is Antoine Lombard, Professor, son of a teacher, he is Secretary of State at the Universities. He divides his time between his ministerial activity and his riding in the working class suburb of Chartres. An elected member of the "pink wave". They met during a stormy assembly of the CNPF. The action takes place in 1983. Florence is engaged in a daring industrial and financial operation, while Antoine is putting the finishing touches to a bill for the renovation of Higher Education. Everything separates them and yet they do not manage to live separated from each other ...
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The Dawn
Title: The Dawn
Character: Gad
Released: December 17, 1986
Type: Movie
In a drama in which even Gad has a role as well as Michael York, it is certain that serious issues are at stake. Set during the time before the state of Israel was created and established, a British officer has been captured by a band of Jewish resistance fighters with the intent of killing him at dawn. One of the Jews was sentenced to die after being captured by the English, and this death will be in retaliation. The trouble is that a young and ambivalent fighter is left holding the officer captive with orders to shoot him at the pre-arranged time. It is a long night of soul-searching before the Jewish soldier comes up with a solution to his quandary.
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The Nonentity
Title: The Nonentity
Character: Kaufmann
Released: August 13, 1986
Type: Movie
Each evening, four men – a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant – meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar’s owner, her downtrodden barman (nicknamed “le paltoquet”) and a strange woman in white watch from a distance. One night, the card game is disturbed when a police inspector suddenly appears and declares that a dead body has been found nearby. Certain that one of the four men is the murderer, the inspector starts his investigation. All the evidence suggests that the doctor did the deed, but we soon learn that nothing is quite what it seems…
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Exit-exil
Title: Exit-exil
Character: Duke
Released: April 2, 1986
Type: Movie
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Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
Title: Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
Character: Pierre
Released: November 6, 1985
Type: Movie
Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.
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Rouge-gorge
Title: Rouge-gorge
Character: Louis Ducasse
Released: February 6, 1985
Type: Movie
After graduating from high school where she was a boarder, Reine Ducasse decides to settle down with her rich father Louis in his luxurious apartment. She has just begun her studies in history and has a good friend, Frédéric, a medical student who wouldn't mind being more than just that. Around her, strange fellows attract her attention. Who is Philippe, allegedly Louis's stockbroker? And what about Marguerite who presents herself as her father's former secretary? Even more puzzling is the video cassette she finds in her father's place, showing young motorbikers distributing bundles of banknotes. Some time later, Charles, one of the bikers appearing on the video, rings the doorbell: he is wounded.
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Farewell Fred
Title: Farewell Fred
Character: Fred
Released: January 30, 1985
Type: Movie
Fred is a gambler and deep in debt. He owes crime boss Victor a lot of money and the time to pay has come. He decides to take a massive risk to refund his debts and agrees to kill a man. Fred knows he has to pay his debt and that the only way to do it is to carry out the hit arranged by Victor.
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La Pirate
Title: La Pirate
Character: n° 5
Released: May 23, 1984
Type: Movie
Shortly after returning home one evening with her husband, Alma is visited by her one-time lesbian lover Carole. In the ensuing emotional torrent, Alma allows herself to be abducted by Carole and taken to a hotel, pursued by a young girl - an unnamed friend of Carole - and an eccentric bystander posing as a private detective. Before Alma and Carole can resolve their situation, Alma's husband Andrew appears on the scene and, in a mad frenzy, attempts to reclaim his wife…
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Wild Animals
Title: Wild Animals
Character: Léandro Santini
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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Femmes de personne
Title: Femmes de personne
Character: Antoine
Released: March 14, 1984
Type: Movie
Cécile, a single mother, contrives to meet Gilquin, the married father of a classmate of her nearly-adolescent son. An affair ensues. Isabelle, approaching middle age with two children, discovers she's pregnant, goes into a funk, and arranges for a younger woman to seduce her husband. Adeline is distraught at her ex-lover's plan to leave France. The three women are colleagues at a radiology clinic. They come to each other's aid, but each must decide on her own what course to take: Cécile with Gilquin, Isabelle with her husband, and Adeline with her solitude.
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So Long, Stooge
Title: So Long, Stooge
Character: Bauer
Released: December 20, 1983
Type: Movie
In Paris XVIIIth district, Lambert works the night shift at a gas station, rarely speaking, living alone, drinking. One day comes a half-jewish half-arab small-time crook in dire straits, pushing a Moped. Named Bensoussan, he takes refuge at the station pretending he needs a spark plug. The two men become friends.
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Hiver 60
Title: Hiver 60
Character: André
Released: July 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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Mora
Title: Mora
Character: Mora
Released: December 29, 1982
Type: Movie
A reporter travelling to Latin America witnesses a murder through the lens of his camera.
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La Balance
Title: La Balance
Character: Dédé Laffont
Released: November 10, 1982
Type: Movie
A Paris police detective plays rough with a prostitute and her pimp/lover, whom he wants as an informant.
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Paradise for All
Title: Paradise for All
Character: Marc Lebel
Released: August 25, 1982
Type: Movie
Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain Durieux. This is great success, everybody's happy except may be Alain's wife, Jeanne, who's worrying about the changes in Alain's personality. Other patients use the treatment with similar successes, and Valois's happy about it. But the monkeys are changing: non-cured ones are made mad by the over-stability and stereotyped behaviour of the cured ones. So are the humans. When Valois realises he can't stop the process, he decides to "flash" himself.
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Le Choc
Title: Le Choc
Character: Félix
Released: April 28, 1982
Type: Movie
Martin Terrier wants to quit his job as a hired hitman, but his organized crime employers are unwilling to see him turned out to pasture, Terrier knows too much, and he is still useful to the organization. He escapes to the countryside where he meets Claire, and the two soon fall in love. Back in Paris to confront his employers, Terrier learns that they've stolen all his money from the bank. They give him an ultimatum—do one last job for them and he gets his money and his freedom...
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Short Memory
Title: Short Memory
Character: Frank Barila
Released: March 3, 1982
Type: Movie
In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world. She had been given an assignment to study the work of a writer who recently had died, and the conspiracy is revealed in materials he left behind. She comes upon a young man who is going through the writer's papers, and she immediately assumes he must be one of the conspirators. However, he soon convinces her of his innocence in that regard, and the two together begin a search for the ringleader.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
Title: Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
Character: Blaise
Released: December 16, 1981
Type: Movie
Whilst driving through rural France, Antoine Bonfils comes across a community of babas - men and women who have turned their back on the modern commercialist world and live, free of constraints, as close to nature as they can. After a tiff with his girlfriend, he decides to swap his comfortable but empty life in Paris for a new life with the babas. Adapting to the new life-style proves to be far from easy...
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La Tisane de sarments
Title: La Tisane de sarments
Released: September 1, 1980
Type: Movie
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The Little Mermaid
Title: The Little Mermaid
Character: Georges Maréchal
Released: August 20, 1980
Type: Movie
A 40-year-old mechanic whistles at a passing teenager; she stops and upbraids him. In embarrassment, he claims he was whistling at her companion, her 14-year-old cousin, Isabelle. This changes Isabelle's outlook on life: her favorite story is Anderson's "Little Mermaid," and she thinks that in Georges she's found her prince. She follows him, engages him in conversation, and turns up at his flat. At first, he pushes her away and tells her she's nuts, but slowly he finds that she brings out of him a playful self, and he likes her devotion. The attraction builds, threatening Georges' adult relationships, including that with Nelly, his sweetheart. Where on earth can this affair lead?
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A Week's Vacation
Title: A Week's Vacation
Character: le docteur Sabouret
Released: June 2, 1980
Type: Movie
Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyon, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.
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The Imprint of Giants
Title: The Imprint of Giants
Character: Lucien Chabaud
Released: March 5, 1980
Type: Movie
The life of workers and their families in a construction site of a highway in 1965.
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Title: Le Journal
Character: Clébert
Released: November 23, 1979
Type: TV
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Title: The French Atlantic Affair
Character: Blondin
Released: November 15, 1979
Type: TV
When the SS Festivale sets sail from New York to France, its 3,000 passengers include Pulitzer Prize-winning author Harold Columbine and 146 members of the Church of the Cosmic Path, led by Father Craig Dunleavy, their charismatic messiah. Seizing control of the ship, Dunleavy demands $70 million in gold, intending to kill everyone onboard once it's paid. Without knowing which passengers are cultists and warned that 12 will die for every hijacker harmed, Columbine and the captain search for a way to save 3,000 lives before Dunleavy makes good on his threat. Based on a novel by screenwriter Ernest Lehman, this mini-series was broadcast over three nights in November 1979.
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Judith Therpauve
Title: Judith Therpauve
Character: Jean-Pierre Maurier
Released: October 6, 1978
Type: Movie
When her old resistance buddies come to her looking for someone to helm a financially troubled liberal newspaper, Judith (Simone Signoret) is at first reluctant, but for this old hero of the French anti-Nazi resistance, challenges are hard to ignore. She takes on the job, mortgaging her house to keep the paper solvent. When things take a turn for the worse, because of concerted opposition by conservative forces, she is forced to sell the paper, and she regards this as a personal failure.
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Your Turn, My Turn
Title: Your Turn, My Turn
Character: Vincent
Released: March 15, 1978
Type: Movie
Family mother and model wife, Agnes hits a vehicle while driving in Paris. She immediately falls in love with the driver of the damaged car.
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Solemn Communion
Title: Solemn Communion
Character: Jacques Gravet
Released: April 27, 1977
Type: Movie
In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families from the 1890s to the 1970s. In one of many related tales, a man who was engaged to the older daughter of a farmer elopes with the younger one. After many years and the birth of five children, the man leaves his wife and family for the bright lights of the city but continues turning up from time to time, until he is finally taken into the home of one of his sons when he is a quite old man. The complex interactions of the legitimate and illegitimate children of a womanizing miner give rise to yet another set of related stories.
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Shadow of the Castles
Title: Shadow of the Castles
Character: Luigi
Released: April 27, 1977
Type: Movie
In the north of France, the life of a nice family of marginalized.
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La comédie du train des pignes
Title: La comédie du train des pignes
Released: March 2, 1977
Type: Movie
The problems raised by the project to eliminate a secondary railroad line in Provence.
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Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
Title: Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
Character: Marec
Released: January 12, 1977
Type: Movie
Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re-adapt the notion of justice to our changing times. His methods are not agreeable to every one. Criticism and pressure are brought to bear upon him but he is aware of his value, professionally, and refuses to make any concessions. He follows an unwavering course. He uses dynamic methods and takes uncustomary initiatives. He behaves like a crusader, a battler, whence the nickname given him by the reporters : the sheriff.
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Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)
Title: Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)
Released: May 12, 1976
Type: Movie
This is the tale of a father-son duo who are unable to leave each other. The trouble begins when the son decides to destroy his father's image.
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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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The Good and the Bad
Title: The Good and the Bad
Character: le vendeur de Citroën
Released: January 19, 1976
Type: Movie
The film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon as their robberies, beginning well before the Second World War, take on a political coloration under the occupation.
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Cat and Mouse
Title: Cat and Mouse
Character: Pierre Chemin
Released: September 3, 1975
Type: Movie
A jaded and charming police inspector is assigned along with his cheerful partner to a case involving the mysterious death and/or suicide of a wealthy entrepreneur. The chief suspect is his enchanting wife who was aware that her husband had a mistress. It is also possible that the dead man may be the victim of a radical terrorist group.
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French Connection II
Title: French Connection II
Character: Jacques
Released: May 18, 1975
Type: Movie
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.
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The Track
Title: The Track
Character: Paul Danville
Released: May 14, 1975
Type: Movie
Somewhere in rural France, a young English female tourist is sexually assaulted by two men in the countryside. After she manages to escape, a party of local hunters agree to track her in order to cover up the scandal.
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Title: La Cloche tibétaine
Character: Vladimir Petropavlovsky
Released: December 17, 1974
Type: TV
Miniseries about the Citroen expeditions in 1931/1932 across Asia.
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The Middle of the World
Title: The Middle of the World
Character: Paul
Released: September 11, 1974
Type: Movie
Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress from Italy. Paul's party is very critical of foreign labour and wants to keep Switzerland to the Swiss. Where Paul falls deeper and deeper into the relationship and is ready to leave his wife, Adriana feels the social pressure growing and has to make her own decision.
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Title: Armchair Cinema
Character: Jean Cacques Brialy
Released: May 28, 1974
Type: TV
British television drama anthology series of single plays.
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The Mouth Agape
Title: The Mouth Agape
Character: Philippe
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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The Oil War Will Not Happen
Title: The Oil War Will Not Happen
Character: Padovani
Released: January 2, 1974
Type: Movie
Directed by Souheil Ben-Barka.
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The Wonderful Crook
Title: The Wonderful Crook
Character: Julien
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A manufacturer of furniture sees his business go down and decides to rob banks to pay his staff. Het gets romantically involved with one of his victims.
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Kamouraska
Title: Kamouraska
Character: Antoine
Released: July 18, 1973
Type: Movie
A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.
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The Day of the Jackal
Title: The Day of the Jackal
Character: Gendarme
Released: May 16, 1973
Type: Movie
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
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Chinese Glory
Title: Chinese Glory
Character: Michel Perrat
Released: November 26, 1972
Type: Movie
During the Second World War, the son of a Grenoble collaborator went up to his grandmother's house on the Vercors plateau to wait for the war to end without him. On July 21, 1944, German troops overran the plateau. Forced to flee, he joins a small group of Resistance fighters and civilians, and struggles to survive for three days and nights.
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A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
Title: A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
Character: Clovis
Released: September 13, 1972
Type: Movie
Stanislas Previne is a young sociologist, preparing a thesis on criminal women. He chooses Camille Bliss as his subject of study and begins to visit her in prison for interviews. Camille became acquainted with trouble at a young age and justifies her actions by "fate-bets." She is currently in prison for allegedly murdering one of her lovers. As she tells Stanislas of her life and love affairs, his interest in her grows to more than just professional. Can he resist her charm?
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To Be Twenty in the Aures
Title: To Be Twenty in the Aures
Character: Lieutenant Perrin
Released: May 12, 1972
Type: Movie
A group of refractory and pacifist Bretons is sent to Algeria. These beings confronted with the horrors of war gradually become killing machines. One of them did not accept it and deserted, taking with him an FLN prisoner who was to be executed the next day. International Critics Prize at the 1972 Cannes Film Festival. Copy restored in 2012
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Rak
Title: Rak
Character: Lucien
Released: April 7, 1972
Type: Movie
David learns that his mother has cancer and only two months to live. He decides not to let her know.
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Two English Girls
Title: Two English Girls
Character: Diurka
Released: November 18, 1971
Type: Movie
At the beginning of the 20th century, Claude Roc, a young middle-class Frenchman, befriends Ann, an Englishwoman. While spending time in England with Ann’s family, Claude falls in love with her sister Muriel, but both families lay down a year-long separation without contact before they may marry.
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Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy
Title: Camille or the Catastrophic Comedy
Character: Honoré
Released: April 20, 1971
Type: Movie
Camille invites some soldiers to spend a Sunday in the country with her. When they arrive, they find that something is amiss.
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Max and the Junkmen
Title: Max and the Junkmen
Character: Losfeld
Released: February 17, 1971
Type: Movie
Max is a Paris detective, aloof, independently wealthy, and frustrated by gangs of robbers whom he cannot catch. To re-establish his stature and save face, he decides to inveigle a group of petty thieves (led by an old acquaintance) to rob a bank. A reluctant captain provides Max intelligence and Max starts spending evenings with Lilly, a prostitute who's the girlfriend of the group's leader. He poses as a rich banker with money to burn and encourages Lilly to think about her future. He hints at a payroll that comes through his bank. The plot works, the petty thieves think they're ready for a big score, and the cops are in place. What could go wrong with Max's cold plan? Who's entrapped?
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Crime and Punishment
Title: Crime and Punishment
Character: Razoumikhine
Released: January 20, 1971
Type: Movie
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police, Raskolnikov struggles between trying to hide his guilt and the pressure to confess. Part one of this epic adaption of the classic Russian novel.
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Bed and Board
Title: Bed and Board
Character: L'homme Ivre (uncredited)
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.