Richard Berry

Richard Berry

Born: July 31, 1950
in Paris, France
Richard Berry (born Richard Élie Benguigui, 31 July 1950) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. He has appeared in more than 100 films since 1972. He starred in The Violin Player, which was entered into the 1994 Cannes Film Festival.

He has a daughter, Coline, born 1976, from his relationship with actress Catherine Hiegel. He married singer and actress Jeane Manson in 1984. The couple divorced in 1986. With his former wife Jessica Forde, a photographer and actress, he has a daughter, actress Joséphine Berry, born in 1992.

Since 2009, he has been in a relationship with actress Pascale Louange, with whom he has a daughter, born in 2014.

In 2005, he made headlines for donating one of his kidneys to his sister Marie Berry, who was born with Alport syndrome, a genetic kidney disease.

His brother, Philippe Berry, is a sculptor and the former husband of actress Josiane Balasko.

On 2 February 2021, it was revealed that Berry's daughter Coline had recently filed a complaint with Paris prosecutors alleging incest and sexual abuse by Berry. In a story on his Instagram account, Berry claimed Coline made the allegation for the first time seven years prior, writing: "As I announced to my family (in 2014) that my wife and I were expecting a child, Coline, herself pregnant, reacted with extreme violence, then, in an email sent to my wife, she for the first time alluded to the fact that she would have been 'abused.'"

Source: Article "Richard Berry (actor)" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movies for Richard Berry...

La loi de Damien - L'égal des dieux
Title: La loi de Damien - L'égal des dieux
Character: Maître Damien Turenne
Released: December 17, 2019
Type: Movie
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Title: Mike
Character: Alain
Released: January 24, 2019
Type: TV
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Title: The secret song
Character: Self
Released: December 29, 2018
Type: TV
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To Each, Her Own
Title: To Each, Her Own
Character: Norbert Benloulou
Released: June 24, 2018
Type: Movie
Just as Simone works up the courage to tell her conservative Jewish family she's a lesbian, she finds herself attracted to a male Senegalese chef.
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Eva
Title: Eva
Character: Régis Grant
Released: March 7, 2018
Type: Movie
A playwright encounters a mysterious woman when he takes shelter in a chalet during a violent snowstorm and becomes obsessed with her.
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Johnny Hallyday, la France Rock'n Roll
Title: Johnny Hallyday, la France Rock'n Roll
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: December 6, 2017
Type: Movie
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Number One
Title: Number One
Character: Jean Beaumel
Released: September 8, 2017
Type: Movie
A brilliant and determined female engineer is approached by a network of powerful women with an offer to help become the head of a CAC 40 firm. The conguest, which was at first thrilling, turns to complete war with the men who still dominate.
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Murder in Lille
Title: Murder in Lille
Character: Commissaire François Dubois
Released: April 20, 2017
Type: Movie
The body of a man is found hanging in an old mine shaft
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Father Son Therapy
Title: Father Son Therapy
Character: Jacques Laroche
Released: December 28, 2016
Type: Movie
A cop and his son have to put away their differences while undercover on a therapeutic trip.
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The Origin of Violence
Title: The Origin of Violence
Character: Adrien Fabre (2014)
Released: May 25, 2016
Type: Movie
A French teacher makes a startling discovery while on a trip to Buchenwald.
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Everything Now
Title: Everything Now
Character: Daniel Halimi
Released: May 11, 2016
Type: Movie
This gripping and wrenching thriller tells the story of Ilan Halimi who was kidnapped for ransom in a Paris suburb. His captors, who dub themselves The Gang of Barbarians, operate under the assumption that his Jewish heritage means he is worth a lot of money. Taking the audience through the harrowing experience of the Halimi family and sharing a searing insight into Ilan's vicious ordeal, the story tracks the massive but futile investigation doomed by near-misses and tragedy that triggered a national outcry. For 24 days the police, insistent upon handling the case as a normal for-ransom kidnapping, failed to recognize the anti-Semitic overtones of the abduction. Faithfully reenacting events from the view of the various characters, Tout, tout de suite raises troubling questions about the state of anti-Semitism and race relations in contemporary France.
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Our Women
Title: Our Women
Character: Max
Released: April 29, 2015
Type: Movie
Max, Paul and Simon have been friends for 35 years. They take great pleasure in their one vacation a year together without their partners and meet-up regularly to spend evenings drinking or playing cards. Each has a successful career and they all appear to have perfect lives until the night Simon announces to his friends that he has just strangled his wife, Estelle after a blazing row. Max and Paul are horrified by Simon's confession, but worse is to come when Simon asks them to lie and provide him with an alibi for the time Estelle was killed. Both men are torn between lying or turning over their best friend to the police.
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Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Title: Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Released: December 13, 2014
Type: Movie
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Family Business
Title: Family Business
Character: Professeur Antoine Legendre
Released: December 3, 2014
Type: Movie
Brothers Yvan and Max are total opposites. One is a hypochondriac; the other, a carefree optimist. Their little sister Hélène suffers from kidney problems and urgently needs a transplant. Both are called upon but only one will be chosen.
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Title: Resistance
Character: Lili's Father
Released: May 19, 2014
Type: TV
In occupied France, 17-year-old Lili encounters war before love, and joins the Resistance. Through the interconnecting destinies of its teenage heroes, Resistance tells the story of young people going to any lengths to defend their country.
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Title: Lanester
Character: Éric Lanester
Released: January 22, 2014
Type: TV
In the west of Paris, strange murders are committed. The victims are eviscerated before being arranged in a macabre display. While discovering one of the victim, Police commander Eric Lanester loses his sight... as well as the control of the case. But with help of a young woman taxi driver, the cop nevertheless continues his investigation.
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Before the Winter Chill
Title: Before the Winter Chill
Character: Gérard
Released: November 26, 2013
Type: Movie
They are the perfect French haute bourgeois couple: Paul is a respected surgeon and Lucie cooks and gardens exquisitely. But now, in the autumn of his life, Paul can’t resist the lure of an ambiguous and dangerous relationship with a mysterious young woman. Might there be something sinister behind the roses delivered to his office and the “chance” meetings?
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Silences d'état
Title: Silences d'état
Character: Jacques Rohmerieu
Released: May 16, 2013
Type: Movie
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Rue Mandar
Title: Rue Mandar
Character: Charles
Released: January 22, 2013
Type: Movie
When their beloved Polish immigrant mother passes away, the sisters Emma (Kiberlain) and Rosemonde (Devos), and their brother, Charles (Berry), are obliged to deal with the personal and physical aftereffects, which include the cozy, old fashioned flat where she lived on the movie’s titular street (located in the heart of Paris’ chic 2nd arrondissement).
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Le Début de la fin
Title: Le Début de la fin
Character: Alain Bauman
Released: April 27, 2012
Type: Movie
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The Great Restaurant II
Title: The Great Restaurant II
Character: A man from the “absurd locker room”
Released: April 30, 2011
Type: Movie
The great restaurant reopens with new extravagent costumers and the same beloved manager.
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D'un film à l'autre
Title: D'un film à l'autre
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 13, 2011
Type: Movie
On April 13, 2011, Les Films 13 production company turned 50. How can one celebrate an anniversary of this sort ? By simply making "another" film that would sum up all the earlier ones. D'un film à l'autre is hence a kind of anthology of the films produced Les Films 13 since the 1960s (short and feature films written and directed for the main part by Claude Lelouch), a best-of of half a century of cinema, going from Le Propre de l'homme to What Love May Bring. A biography in images of a filmmaker as admired as he is criticized. In reality, D'un film à l'autre is more than a series of film excerpts, interviews, and making-of documents (some of which possess an undeniable historical value, like that from A Man and A Woman, or the final performances of Patrick Dewaere).
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The Marquis
Title: The Marquis
Character: Quentin Tasseau
Released: March 9, 2011
Type: Movie
Thomas Gardesse, a traveling alarm systems salesman, is arrested for a minor offense and sentenced to six months imprisonment. To win the respect of his fellow inmates, he claims he is "The Marquis," a brilliant robber whose identity has remained a mystery. Two weeks before his release, an armed robber named Quentin Tasseau helps him escape and takes him to Manila so he can take part in a robbery whose mastermind requires the talents of the Marquis.
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22 Bullets
Title: 22 Bullets
Character: Aurelio Rampoli
Released: March 23, 2010
Type: Movie
Charly Matteï has turned his back on his life as an outlaw. For the last three years, he's led a peaceful life devoting himself to his wife and two children. Then, one winter morning, he's left for dead in the parking garage in Marseille's Old Port, with 22 bullets in his body. Against all the odds, he doesn't die...
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The Life Coach
Title: The Life Coach
Character: Maximilien Chêne
Released: September 9, 2009
Type: Movie
Max Chêne is a life coach who helps to motivate everybody from professional athletes to government ministers to business executives. After his gambling debts get out of control and his wife throws him out, he is approached to take on a unique client.
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Title: C à vous
Character: Self
Released: September 7, 2009
Type: TV
Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second part, the program welcomes, around a meal prepared by a qualified chef, artists in promotion.
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Title: Panique dans l'oreillette
Character: Self
Released: September 6, 2008
Type: TV
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Une suite pour deux
Title: Une suite pour deux
Character: Laurent Rozier
Released: September 1, 2008
Type: Movie
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Crossfire
Title: Crossfire
Character: Drieu
Released: June 11, 2008
Type: Movie
A grizzled Parisian detective is sent to an outpost town in Southern France to dismantle a gang of killers which has freed a notorious criminal. The detective inherits a team of unmotivated and dishevelled detectives, and he makes connections nobody else ever saw because nobody else bothered to look. A mysterious, charismatic figure, he leads by example, and gradually his team begins to feel like cops again.
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A Pain in the Ass
Title: A Pain in the Ass
Character: Jean Milan / Ralf Milan
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
An unlikely friendship develops between a hitman and a suicidal guy who have both checked into the same hotel for different reasons.
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Comme ton père
Title: Comme ton père
Released: December 12, 2007
Type: Movie
1968. La famille Maïmon : Félix, Mireille et leurs deux enfants, Eric et Michel, débarquent à Marseille. Quelques années plus tard, à peine installé à Belleville, Félix fait la connaissance de Serge, un parrain local avec qui il se lie d'amitié. Serge entraîne Félix sur les chemins du grand banditisme, jusqu'à ce que celui-ci se fasse prendre par la police et décide d'endosser, à la place de Serge, la responsabilité de chef de bande.
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In Love with Adolf Hitler
Title: In Love with Adolf Hitler
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: June 12, 2007
Type: Movie
It was a strange affair, full of love, lust and despair... Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun, his mistress from 1932 to their double suicide in Hitler's Berlin bunker, a fateful day of April 1945.
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Please Don't Go
Title: Please Don't Go
Character: Paul
Released: April 25, 2007
Type: Movie
Paul may be a successful psychoanalyst but he fails to realize that his own marriage to Carla is failing. One of his patients, Raphaël, confides in him that he is in love with a married woman. In the course of the discussion, Paul understands that the woman in question is his own wife, Carla. Rather than end the consultation, Paul decides to manipulate his patient in an attempt to win back his wife. But Raphaël is not as stupid as he looks...
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La Chasse à l'homme
Title: La Chasse à l'homme
Character: Lucien Aimé-Blanc
Released: November 8, 2006
Type: Movie
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Title: Salut les Terriens !
Character: Self (guest)
Released: November 4, 2006
Type: TV
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Terminus
Title: Terminus
Released: October 9, 2006
Type: Movie
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Red Needles
Title: Red Needles
Character: Luc's father
Released: May 10, 2006
Type: Movie
September 1960: on a purely punitive basis, eight scouts must climb the solid mass of Brévent to 2500 meters of altitude. The so beautiful and so majestic mountain which draws up face them very quickly reveals dangerous. All the techniques of orientation learned at the scouts will do nothing there. The teenagers find themselves delivered to themselves. Lost in the abrupt throats, the eight boys are confronted cold, with the hunger and the fear.
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The Valet
Title: The Valet
Character: Maître Foix
Released: March 29, 2006
Type: Movie
Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in the photo to claim to his wife that it's not him Elena is seeing but the other man, one François Pignon. Pignon is a modest little man who works as a parking valet. To make the story convincing, Elena has to move in with Pignon.
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Péril imminent: Mortel chahut
Title: Péril imminent: Mortel chahut
Character: Me David Marchal
Released: October 11, 2004
Type: Movie
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Mon voisin du dessus
Title: Mon voisin du dessus
Character: Alain Gareda
Released: February 4, 2004
Type: Movie
Claire Letellier works as head of a pharmaceutical company. After dating André for a number of years, she has at long last accepted his marriage proposal. She decides this is a good time to reclaim the maid's room she owns above her place and turn her apartment into a duplex. But her tenant, a slightly offbeat designer named Alain Gareda, categorically refuses to vacate the premises. The latent hostility between them gains momentum by the day, until Alain suggests a compromise.
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Corto Maltese - Autres aventures
Title: Corto Maltese - Autres aventures
Character: Corto Maltese
Released: December 22, 2003
Type: Movie
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The Car Keys
Title: The Car Keys
Character: Un comédien qui refuse de tourner avec Laurent
Released: December 10, 2003
Type: Movie
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
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Corto Maltese: The Celts
Title: Corto Maltese: The Celts
Character: Corto Maltese (voice)
Released: November 20, 2003
Type: Movie
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Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn
Title: Corto Maltese: Under the Sign of Capricorn
Character: Corto Maltese (voice)
Released: November 19, 2003
Type: Movie
In 1916, laconic adventurer Corto Maltese is in Paramaribo, Surinam visiting his mystic female friend Java. He helps a young heir haunted by voodoo spirits, delivers some weapons to rebels in Brazil and hunts for treasure with Rasputin.
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Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea
Title: Corto Maltese: The Ballad of the Salt Sea
Character: Corto Maltese (voice)
Released: November 18, 2003
Type: Movie
In 1913, laconic sea captain Corto Maltese, adrift in the Pacific, gets rescued by his bandit friend Rasputin who's taking two rich shipwrecked teens to an island where his boss the Monk will hold them for ransom. WWI complicates things.
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Corto Maltese: The Guilded House of Samarkand
Title: Corto Maltese: The Guilded House of Samarkand
Character: Corto Maltese (voice)
Released: November 14, 2003
Type: Movie
Hugo Pratt's famous comics adventurer, Corto Maltese while sojourning in Adana, Turkey, discovers a map to the treasure of Cyrus, an ancient king of Persia. To assist him in his quest, he enlists his old friend/nemesis the unbelievable Raspoutine whom he first has to help escape from the prison of Samarkand (aka "La maison dorée de Samarkand", the golden house of Samarkand). On the long and tortured way to the riches, he encounters all kind of interesting characters, soldiers of fortune, lost British actors, and even his doppelgänger.
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Ruby & Quentin
Title: Ruby & Quentin
Character: Commissioner Vernet
Released: October 22, 2003
Type: Movie
After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, Ruby, a brooding outlaw encounters Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant who befriends him. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy Quentin Ruby is forced to take him along as he pursues his former partners in crime to avenge the death of the woman he loved and get to the money.
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Title: Corto Maltese
Character: Corto Maltese (voice)
Released: September 16, 2003
Type: TV
Elegant, daring, generous, Corto Maltese travels around the world wherever his current whim tales him. In every exotic locale his code of honor leads him to battle on behalf of the poor and the weak, battles he win due to his sparkling wit and daring.
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My Children Are Different
Title: My Children Are Different
Released: July 23, 2003
Type: Movie
A classical musician demands that his beautiful daughter and his young son follow in his footsteps despite their personal wishes.
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If I Were a Rich Man
Title: If I Were a Rich Man
Character: Gérard dit Gégé
Released: November 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambition and contemplates divorce.One day Aldo wins the ten million euro lotto prize. But, unwilling to share the bonanza, he keeps mum about it, all the more as he finds out Alice has an affair with Gérard, Aldo's former friend and ... new boss. However, Aldo, leading a double life, starts spending his money ...
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Corto Maltese: Les hommes Léopards
Title: Corto Maltese: Les hommes Léopards
Character: Corto Maltese (voice)
Released: October 28, 2002
Type: Movie
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Corto Maltese: Heads and Mushrooms
Title: Corto Maltese: Heads and Mushrooms
Character: Corto Maltese (voice)
Released: October 2, 2002
Type: Movie
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Corto Maltese: The Secret Court of the Arcane
Title: Corto Maltese: The Secret Court of the Arcane
Character: Corto Maltese (voice)
Released: September 25, 2002
Type: Movie
At the end of 1918 while civil war is raging on in Russia, antagonism is slowly spreading to the East, between the Oral mountains and Shanghai. Stuck between a desire to save what's left of the great Imperial Russia, and starting from a clean slate, old generals, secret organizations, and mercenaries attracted by gold, struggle to take advantage of the events. As Corto Maltese returns to Shanghai, he barely gets time to cross paths with his old friend/nemesis Rasputin, and escape a murder attempt before being contacted by members of a Chinese secret organization called "The Red Lanterns". In the heart of violent Manchurian horizons, Corto and Rasputin launch themselves into a fabulous treasure hunt, following the tracks of the mysterious armor-plated train of Kolchak. A steel monster spiked with canons and machine guns, this trains protects the counter-revolutionaries gold...
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Break of Dawn
Title: Break of Dawn
Character: Adrien
Released: September 11, 2002
Type: Movie
An ex-con suffering from terminal cancer and a suicidal ex-legionnaire are hired to participate in a staged assassination attempt on a Romanian politician. As part of the plan, the two must themselves be murdered in order to make their target appear more powerful. But while their circumstances make them perfect fall guys, their lives are initially spared when the attack descends into chaos. Staying alive thereafter involves the two strangers working together to dodge both fellow conspirators and the police.
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Le nouveau Jean-Claude
Title: Le nouveau Jean-Claude
Character: Luis
Released: June 26, 2002
Type: Movie
A young man, to whom life has never smiled, decides to change his destiny and begins by conquering the pretty woman with whom he fell in love.
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Title: Burger Quiz
Character: Self
Released: August 27, 2001
Type: TV
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Angel
Title: Angel
Character: David Koskas
Released: June 20, 2001
Type: Movie
Léa is a strong person, but when she comes out of prison, she decides to get a fresh start. She would like to forget her cold and aloof father Vittorio Pastore, her young and irresponsible brother Samy for who she went in jail and the Zach's gang, the thug she used to love. But nothing elapses as she expected.
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August 15th
Title: August 15th
Character: Max
Released: April 18, 2001
Type: Movie
Three men are abandonned by their wives for a few days in the summer holidays. They are alone with five kids to feed and a house to maintain. And they will learn what they did wrong with their wives.
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L'Art (délicat) de la séduction
Title: L'Art (délicat) de la séduction
Character: Jacques
Released: March 21, 2001
Type: Movie
The film follows Etienne, a 40-year-old car designer, who takes time off from work to study sexual mastery from a Zen master and several prostitutes, in the hopes of having the sexual skill to impress Laure. Laure, a blonde who was introduced to him by his friend Jacques, told Etienne on January 1 that she will not have sex with him until May 27 that year at precisely 9 PM.
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People Who Love Each Other
Title: People Who Love Each Other
Character: Jean-Francois
Released: July 5, 2000
Type: Movie
Jean-Francois and Angie have known each other for 25 years and have been lovers on and off for most of that time. After two marriages (one ending in divorce, the other with her husband's death) and two children, the free-spirited Angie has returned to Jean-Francois, only to announce after a year of living together that she's leaving him to open a antique business in the United States. Jean-Francois regrets Angie's decision, but also knows her well enough to know there's little he can do to change her mind. Five years later, Jean-Francois has become friends with Angie's daughter Winnie, who now lives in Paris and has fallen in love with Laurent, a carefree artist who lives in a studio given to him by his father. However, after sleeping with Laurent, Winnie is convinced he can't be trusted and keeps him at a distance. Over the next few years, Laurent keeps running into Winnie, and Angie periodically arrives at Jean-Francois' doorstep only to leave again shortly after.
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Quasimodo d'el Paris
Title: Quasimodo d'el Paris
Character: Phoebus
Released: March 24, 1999
Type: Movie
The location is the town of El Paris. When ten-year-old boy Quasimodo shows signs of deformity, his well-to-do parents place him in the charge of the town’s mysterious evangelist, Frollo. In exchange, they adopt a Cuban girl, Esméralda, from a lower social class. Ten years later, El Paris is menaced by a serial killer, and Quasimodo is the prime suspect.
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Une journée de merde !
Title: Une journée de merde !
Character: Marc Chanois
Released: March 3, 1999
Type: Movie
This is an important day for Marc Chanois, an insurance advisor heading toward middle age: it's his fiancée Sabine's birthday, her parents arrive in Paris and Marc will meet them for dinner to announce the engagement (her father can't stand him), he's bought Sabine a Spitfire, and his most important client is to sign a policy. But, as the day wears on, he's vexed by an incompetent secretary, the unexpected return of a girlfriend he hasn't seen in five years, squatters who use his office at night, the jealous former lover of a flight attendant who lives in the building, and his boss's unexpected return from a Swiss clinic. Will he reach Sabine in one piece?
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Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000
Title: Les Enfoirés 1999 - Dernière édition avant l'an 2000
Released: February 13, 1999
Type: Movie
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Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon
Title: Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
Posthumous tribute paid by actor Luc Bernard to his older brother, director Guy Gilles ( 1938 - 1996 ). Documentary composed of interviews with some of his brother's friends and some actors from his main films, excerpts of which we see.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Un grand cri d'amour
Title: Un grand cri d'amour
Character: Hugo Martial
Released: January 7, 1998
Type: Movie
A famous couple is going on stage after ten years of separation and hate.
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L'Enfant du secret
Title: L'Enfant du secret
Character: St. Brieux
Released: December 21, 1996
Type: Movie
Blanche, a social worker living in Southern France is assigned the case of a five year old deaf boy, who is found by a Gypsy lady after having been abandoned and tied to a shed near her trailer. The boy's life is in danger apparently because he is related to the family of a local politician who is seeking election as mayor. Blanche, though suffering from manic depression and thus emotionally vulnerable, decides to take charge of the situation, get her act together and besides being told to drop the case, seeks to discover the secret the boy has inside.
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The Lambs
Title: The Lambs
Character: Father
Released: September 27, 1996
Type: Movie
In a village of the French Juras, Daniel, 15, and Marie, 14, live in the shadow of their brutal, domineering father, who can only express his love through violence. When their mother dies, the two inseparable children flee into the forest pursued by their father...
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What a Drag
Title: What a Drag
Character: Alexandre Hagutte
Released: March 27, 1996
Type: Movie
A closeted gay man's attempt to "act straight" for the sake of his job has unexpected consequences.
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Victor et François
Title: Victor et François
Character: Roland
Released: December 31, 1995
Type: Movie
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Le cavalier des nuages
Title: Le cavalier des nuages
Character: Joss
Released: December 20, 1995
Type: Movie
Luc Farraud, a journalist and former hostage in Lebanon, lives alone in the wilderness. But his tranquility is disrupted by the arrival of Joss, a young cop, and Melka, a beautiful gypsy car thief.
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The World of Jacques Demy
Title: The World of Jacques Demy
Character: Self
Released: September 22, 1995
Type: Movie
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacquot de Nantes.
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Adultery (A User's Guide)
Title: Adultery (A User's Guide)
Released: May 26, 1995
Type: Movie
This French farce chronicles one special day in the lives of a married pair of Parisian architects, Fabienne and Bruno, as they anxiously await the results of an important architectual contest they have entered. Unable to handle the stress of waiting, both turn to sexual liason's to ease their tension. Bruno ends up enacting a dark sexual fantasy with a stranger while Fabienne eventually succumbs to the advances of Bruno's friend Simon, a fortyish Lebanese businessman and part-time drug dealer. The comedy takes on overtones of psycho-drama when the contest winner announced and the couple discovers the truth of each other's actions. A cache of drugs, discovered in an apartment only adds to their troubles.
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Fresh Bait
Title: Fresh Bait
Character: Alain
Released: March 8, 1995
Type: Movie
With the ambition to start a boutique overseas but without the means to do so, Nathalie finds herself in a desperate situation, where she would do anything to acquire what she needs. Along with her boyfriend, Eric, and his friend Bruno, she concocts a plan where she seduces clueless men and accompanies them to their places, then allows Eric and Bruno to break in. But the three soon encounter trouble after one of their schemes ends in murder.
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Mutual Consent
Title: Mutual Consent
Character: Romain
Released: December 14, 1994
Type: Movie
There is a lot of tension and resentment in Romain's and Jeanne's marriage, but their divorce is amicable. They seem to agree on how to raise their daughter, Madeleine - she will live with her mother and spend every other week-end with her father. But Romain is very controlling and manipulative and is poisoning the arrangement. At first, Jeanne seems to cope with being a single parent, but when she has to put up with Romain's tactics she starts to fall apart.
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Tra noi due tutto è finito
Title: Tra noi due tutto è finito
Released: October 6, 1994
Type: Movie
A seducer finds himself in crisis when his woman makes him believe he has a lover. The search for the suspect rival has the upper hand, with unexpected results.
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The Violin Player
Title: The Violin Player
Character: Armand
Released: June 2, 1994
Type: Movie
This European drama, set in Paris, follows a brilliant musician as he suddenly forsakes his career, to live and love amongst the common populace. Armand is the violinist who yearns to experience that life and to share his music with everyone, not just the wealthy and the elite. He leaves the glittering world of classical music without a backward glance and takes up residence in the Paris metro where he is surrounded by beggars and tramps. There he meets and becomes friends with Lydia, a metro employee.
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Dis papa, raconte-moi là-bas
Title: Dis papa, raconte-moi là-bas
Released: September 10, 1993
Type: Movie
A father tells his story to his eight-year-old son. Pictures of his past in Algeria come back in flashback : Bab El Oued, la Madrague, Sidi Ferruch, Chenoua, Tipasa, Oran, Constantine, Candle , the Kabylie, the light, the noises, the music, the events, the last hopes.
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The Big Pardon 2
Title: The Big Pardon 2
Character: Maurice Bettoun
Released: December 9, 1992
Type: Movie
The mobster Raymond Bettoun gets out of prison and joins his son Maurice in Miami, a drug trafficker who is about to launch a huge operation. But he falls into a trap and a war begins in which Raymond will fight a last battle to try to save his son and what remains of his family.
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And the Little Prince Said
Title: And the Little Prince Said
Character: Adam Leibovich
Released: November 24, 1992
Type: Movie
A divorced Swiss couple must come to terms with their daughter's life-threatening illness. He, a scientist, snatches his daughter from the examining table at the clinic and takes her away as if to kidnap her from the disease. His ex-wife, an actress, takes to bed weeping uncontrollably when she learns of her daughter's tumor. The girl's step-mother, an Asian-American physician, is clinical in her response, outlining a treatment regimen of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. It is left to the girl herself, ten-year-old Violette, to be calm, reassuring, philosophical, and even metaphysical as she faces death.
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588 rue Paradis
Title: 588 rue Paradis
Character: Pierre Zakar
Released: January 14, 1992
Type: Movie
This family drama is the sequel to director Henri Verneuil's autobiographical film, Mayrig. It takes place some forty years after the end of the previous film. In the earlier film, a young man has moved with his family to Marseilles from Armenia and is adapting to his new country to the best of his ability. This tends to put him in conflict with his traditional Armenian family. Nonetheless, they are all hardworking and loving. Now, forty years later, the lead character has changed his name to Pierre Zakar, because it is easier for the French to pronounce and relate to. He has also become a very successful playwright.
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My Life Is Hell
Title: My Life Is Hell
Character: Xavier Langsam
Released: December 4, 1991
Type: Movie
The naive and self-conscious Leah mistakenly signs a pact with the devil Abargadon. But she's on Heaven's hit list, so the Archangel Gabriel intervenes to bring about the demon's demise. But Leah begins to find Abargadon attractive and not so bad. She decides to save his soul.
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Mother
Title: Mother
Character: Araxi (voice only)
Released: November 27, 1991
Type: Movie
Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Marseilles when he was a young child. He later recounted his childhood experience in the novel Mayrig, which he dedicated to his mother and made into this 1991 film with the same name.
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Shadows of the Past
Title: Shadows of the Past
Character: Daniel
Released: November 11, 1991
Type: Movie
After a mysterious car accident, photo journalist Jackie Delaney wakes up in the hospital with amnesia. Haunted by flashbacks of the accident, she checks out of the hospital determined to unravel the mystery behind her recent past. Who was in the car with her, and who is following her now? After an attempt on her life, Jackie is assigned police protection and detective Sean MacFern enters her life. Together, they will solve a mystery that goes beyond a mere accident and that enters the shady world of internationals arm smuggling.
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For Sasha
Title: For Sasha
Character: Sacha
Released: April 10, 1991
Type: Movie
Israel, 1967. Sacha and Laura have been living in a kibbutz near the Syrian border for two years. They are visited by Simon, Michel and Paul, three friends from Paris who have come to celebrate Laura's twentieth birthday. Simon is obsessed by the death of the girl he loved and during the birthday evening, attempts to find someone to blame amongst his friends. Laura alone knows that the young girl died of a broken heart. She also loved Sacha.
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L'entraînement du champion avant la course
Title: L'entraînement du champion avant la course
Released: March 25, 1991
Type: Movie
Fabrice is an otherwise brutish truck driver who loves the disciplines involved in bicycle racing. He's no champion and doesn't appear to care much whether he wins any or not. In the crowded spaces of his world, the aloneness that comes with being a racer in training affords him a much-needed solitude and peace of mind. It's probably best for the people around him, too. In fact, it would be good if he could remain on his bike forever, because his nearly insane fear and distrust of others leads him to some pretty obnoxious behavior, especially with the women in his life.
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Title: Les Nuls, l'émission
Character: Self
Released: October 13, 1990
Type: TV
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Comprarsi la vita
Title: Comprarsi la vita
Character: Giorgio
Released: May 11, 1990
Type: Movie
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C'est La Vie
Title: C'est La Vie
Character: Michel
Released: February 14, 1990
Type: Movie
A story is about young teenage girl, with sister and brothers, a pleasant uncle and aunt, an annoying nanny, a young boy interested in kissing her, a close relationship with the imaginary addressee of her daily diary and her parents' disintegrating marriage - all this in a rented house in a summer resort.
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Migrations II
Title: Migrations II
Character: Aranđel Isaković
Released: November 26, 1989
Type: Movie
Screening of the synonymous Milos Crnjanski's poetic novel about the tragedy of Serbian people who scattered their energy and bones from Dnepr to Lotaringia during XVII and XIX century. The great Serbian migration topic is given through the military campaign of major Vuk Isakovic (Avtandil Makharadze) at the head of Slavonian-Danube regiment, from spring of 1744. to spring of the next year. The second topic follows tragic but passionate relationship between Vuk's younger brother and his wife, which ends with her long-lasting disease and death.
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Modì
Title: Modì
Character: Amedeo Modigliani
Released: October 1, 1989
Type: Movie
The life of Amedeo Modigliani, a painter and a genius.
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Migrations
Title: Migrations
Character: Aranđel
Released: May 21, 1989
Type: Movie
Based on the famous novel of Milos Crnjanski, the story follows Serbian migrations from the Austro-Hungarian Empire during the XVIII century.
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Brothers in Arms
Title: Brothers in Arms
Character: Karim Hamida
Released: March 15, 1989
Type: Movie
Simon, a Jewish police inspector, arrests Karim, a Muslim, in the bust of a drug smuggling cargo ship, only to realize that Karim is an undercover agent from the military intelligence, whose mission he was not aware of. The two men pursue the narc investigation, which will lead them to confront middle eastern terrorists together.
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L'Ex-femme de ma vie
Title: L'Ex-femme de ma vie
Character: Tom
Released: February 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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Cayenne Palace
Title: Cayenne Palace
Character: Noël
Released: December 16, 1987
Type: Movie
French Guiana has long been the site for some notorious prisons surrounded by dense jungle. In this story, Noel Caradec (Richard Berry) is a bereft son who has come from France to the tropical South American country to look for his father, who fled from the prison and disappeared years ago. He runs into serious opposition from the owner of a hotel and bar known as Cayenne-Palace. The man also happens to be at the center of all the illegal goings-on in the region. However, Noel is not entirely without friends, as his half-brother Xavier and the people of the jungle are on his side.
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Spiral
Title: Spiral
Character: Jérôme
Released: September 23, 1987
Type: Movie
Whilst spending a few days on the Côte d’Azur with his friends, Jérôme meets Simorre, a strange young woman who will have a profound impact on him. Jérôme allows Simorre to take her into her world, and he soon finds himself caught in a terrible trap...
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Title: Sacrée soirée
Character: Self
Released: September 2, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: Nulle part ailleurs
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 1987
Type: TV
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A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
Title: A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
Character: Richard Berry
Released: May 13, 1986
Type: Movie
Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big-time director whose most recent film was a very expensive bomb. She comes up with the idea of making a romance based upon her fling with Jean-Louis. She contacts him to gain his permission. Jean-Louis is still in racing and goes away for a desert rally while she begins filming. She finds the mood of their romance difficult to recapture in her film.
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Follow My Gaze
Title: Follow My Gaze
Character: The narrator
Released: April 23, 1986
Type: Movie
A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food commercial on less than one tank of intelligible French. Another skit shows a silent duel between an airport custodian and an automatic door, while another with the renowned Michel Galabru sets up a strange teacher-student exchange.
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Honeymoon
Title: Honeymoon
Character: Michel
Released: November 20, 1985
Type: Movie
A Frenchwoman in Manhattan, in danger of being deported because of her relationship with a recently arrested drug offender, enters into a marriage of convenience with a stranger that is arranged through an agency. But even though the two are not supposed to even meet, her new husband starts taking his faux wedding vows entirely too seriously.
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Spécial police
Title: Spécial police
Character: David Ackerman
Released: July 2, 1985
Type: Movie
Paris Flic and computer-crack David Ackermann is a teacher at the academy advising the rookies in computer-crime. By coincidence Informations about personalities from the high-politics and police-authorities that are involved in organized crime fall into his hands. From than on he's been chased merciless, even having his ex-wife kidnapped to blackmail him. With the help from his new girlfriend he lashes back.
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Urgence
Title: Urgence
Character: Jean-Pierre Mougin
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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The Bitch
Title: The Bitch
Character: Lucien Sabatier
Released: September 5, 1984
Type: Movie
After serving time for sexual assault, a disgraced cop finds work as a private detective and becomes enmeshed in a bizarre web that includes a gangster and his former girlfriend…the same woman who sent the cop to prison years before.
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L'Addition
Title: L'Addition
Character: Bruno Vinclert
Released: April 3, 1984
Type: Movie
For having wanted to defend a young girl accused of theft, a comedian finds himself in prison. Embarked in spite of himself in an escape attempt, he is condemned by a particularly incompetent court which follows without thinking the pleadings of an overzealous public prosecutor! Once incarcerated, the poor comedian has to deal with the harassment of one of the guards, a kind of dangerous sociopath frustrated with life.
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La trace
Title: La trace
Character: Joseph
Released: December 21, 1983
Type: Movie
In 1859, Savoy Alps, Joseph is a peddler who leaves his mountain village to travel through Northern Italy to sell cotton, thread, lace and trinkets. His road will be strewn with pitfalls and encounters, sometimes funny, sometimes pathetic.
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Le Grand Carnaval
Title: Le Grand Carnaval
Character: Rémy Castelli, le pilote d'avion, fils aîné de Léon
Released: December 7, 1983
Type: Movie
The story follows Americans in Algeria at the time of the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942.
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Le Jeune Marié
Title: Le Jeune Marié
Character: Christian Chavasse aka Billy
Released: May 11, 1983
Type: Movie
Billy falls in love with another woman after his wedding party.
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Le Crime d'amour
Title: Le Crime d'amour
Character: Michel Naulet
Released: November 24, 1982
Type: Movie
To emerge from anonymity, a young man assumes responsibility for a crime he did not commit.
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La Balance
Title: La Balance
Character: Mathias Palouzi
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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A Room in Town
Title: A Room in Town
Character: François Guilbaud
Released: October 27, 1982
Type: Movie
Set against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the middle-class daughter of his landlady.
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The Big Pardon
Title: The Big Pardon
Character: Maurice Beitoun
Released: January 27, 1982
Type: Movie
The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's friend), Samy (the bodyguard) are a family clan of Jewish Blackfoot kingpins of French organized crime. Their activities include running casinos, organizing underground boxing matches, illegal gambling, pimping, racketeering and bloody settlements of scores against other Arab and French clans. But in the shadows, Pascal Villars has sworn the loss of the Bettoun. He will succeed in setting the Arab clan against the Jewish clan, for the great benefit of the police commissioner Duché, who has been trying in vain for ten years to bring down the Bettouns.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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L'homme fragile
Title: L'homme fragile
Character: Henri Natange
Released: April 21, 1981
Type: Movie
A middle class leftist man of the Seventies decade, starting to show signs of aging and a loss of identity, runs away from his commitments.
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An Assassin Passes By
Title: An Assassin Passes By
Character: Jacques
Released: April 8, 1981
Type: Movie
The story of a serial killer but bears little resemblance to a slasher movie. We know almost at once who the killer is and the emphasis is not on the murders but on his psychology as he falls in love with one of his prospective victims - a weakness which, of course, will be his downfall.
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First Voyage
Title: First Voyage
Character: Jean Decaze
Released: March 19, 1980
Type: Movie
When her mother dies, a teenage girl, together with her five-year-old brother, decides to find her long-absent sailor father.
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Vive la mariée
Title: Vive la mariée
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
A César award nominate short feature.
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Love on the Run
Title: Love on the Run
Character: Petit Rôle (uncredited)
Released: January 24, 1979
Type: Movie
Antoine is now 30, working as a proofreader and getting divorced from his wife. It's the first "no-fault" divorce in France and a media circus erupts, dredging up Antoine's past. Indecisive about his new love with a store clerk, he impulsively takes off with an old flame.
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Mon premier amour
Title: Mon premier amour
Character: Richard
Released: August 30, 1978
Type: Movie
This sentimental drama is the story of the relationship between a lovely mother and her 20-year-old son who never really knew her. When he learns that she is dying of leukemia, he tries to get to know her. By the end of the film, the two have reconciled and she dies feeling at peace.
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The Slap
Title: The Slap
Character: Student (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1974
Type: Movie
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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Le bonheur des autres
Title: Le bonheur des autres
Character: Le prince Djelal Eldine, neveu du sultant d'Urganie
Released: November 23, 1973
Type: Movie
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Repeated Absences
Title: Repeated Absences
Character: Le collègue de la banque
Released: November 1, 1972
Type: Movie
François Naulet turns his bedroom into an island of drugs, loneliness and despair.
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Le prince Djelal Eldine, neveu du sultant d'Urganie
Released: July 21, 1966
Type: TV
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
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La Tournée
Title: La Tournée
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie