Pierre Collet

Pierre Collet

Born: March 10, 1914
Died: October 30, 1977
in Montrouge, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Pierre Collet (10 March 1914 – 30 October 1977) was a French film actor. He appeared in 104 films and television shows between 1943 and 1977.

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Forget Me, Mandoline
Title: Forget Me, Mandoline
Released: March 3, 1976
Type: Movie
The young and charming Mandoline, accountant of the advertising agency Publi-Pub, has stolen documents proving that the company kept double accounts. Remorseful when she wanted to pass this evidence to a tax inspector, she decides to put the documents back in the agency's safe, but does not really know how to go about it. Her friend Marie-Charlotte, a transvestite, helps him find a young safe-drilling man in his condition, who will help him open the safe - but of course, the matter is not so simple.
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L'Homme sans visage
Title: L'Homme sans visage
Character: Le grand maître des Templiers
Released: September 4, 1975
Type: Movie
This 8-episode miniseries, like Franju's previous Feuillade homage, Judex, was written by and stars the silent filmmaker's grandson, Jacques Champreux. It was shot in 16mm and 4:3, alongside a theatrical version, Nuits rouge – that in 35mm and 1.66:1.
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French Connection II
Title: French Connection II
Character: Old Pro
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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Shadowman
Title: Shadowman
Character: Le grand maître des tempeliers
Released: November 20, 1974
Type: Movie
Clad in a featureless red mask, The Man Without A Face is involved in a single-minded pursuit of the fabled treasure of the Knights Templar in this tribute to the pulp adventure stories of Louis Feuillade.
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The Last Train
Title: The Last Train
Character: Le maire de Funnoy
Released: October 31, 1973
Type: Movie
Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
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Two Men in Town
Title: Two Men in Town
Character: Commissioner
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: Movie
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
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A Pain in the Ass
Title: A Pain in the Ass
Character: Butcher
Released: September 20, 1973
Type: Movie
Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.
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Hit!
Title: Hit!
Character: Zero
Released: September 18, 1973
Type: Movie
A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug trade and trains them. Then they all leave for France to track down and destroy the ring.
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Mais toi, tu es Pierre
Title: Mais toi, tu es Pierre
Released: May 10, 1973
Type: Movie
According to Jesus' order, Peter and his companions disperse two by two for their first apostolic mission.
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A Police Officer Without Importance
Title: A Police Officer Without Importance
Released: April 12, 1973
Type: Movie
Camille, Dov and Joëlle live on the edge of society and are involved in petty theft helping them to buy their drug doses and to survive as best they can. One day, while attempting to rob a movie theater, they activate the alarm signal and it is Pierre, Camille's brother, who is doing a heist in the same building, who is arrested red-handed. The three young people decide to kidnap a police officer and exchange him for Pierre.
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The Silent One
Title: The Silent One
Character: Mechanic
Released: February 10, 1973
Type: Movie
Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another nationality, French. So what led him to become Russian and to change identity? And why are the British secret services interested in him?
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The Pariah
Title: The Pariah
Character: Le directeur de la prison
Released: December 12, 1972
Type: Movie
For more than 15 years, two Marseille friends and criminals battle the law, rival gangs, prison authorities and even mined beaches in order to survive.
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The Widow Couderc
Title: The Widow Couderc
Character: le commissaire Mallet
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: Movie
The relationship between a middle-aged French widow and a young drifter takes a turn when her young niece pays a visit.
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The Lion's Share
Title: The Lion's Share
Released: September 8, 1971
Type: Movie
A writer is reunited with an old childhood friend, who gives him the opportunity to devise a heist.
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Le Cercle Rouge
Title: Le Cercle Rouge
Character: Prison Guard
Released: October 19, 1970
Type: Movie
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.
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Title: Un mystère par jour
Character: Le capitaine de gendarmerie
Released: October 5, 1970
Type: TV
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Potatoes
Title: Potatoes
Released: November 22, 1969
Type: Movie
In a village in the Ardennes, during the German occupation, finding rations is becoming almost impossible. Clovis, an ordinary labourer, decides to cross the occupied zone to bring back enough potatoes to feed his family. His plan is a success but Clovis rapidly becomes obsessed with storing the precious tubers.
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Life Love Death
Title: Life Love Death
Character: Chief Executioner
Released: January 29, 1969
Type: Movie
François Toledo, married businessman and father, falls head-over-heels in love with Janine, a work colleague. However, he is soon found out: after three dates, he strangles some prostitutes, when, the victim of blackmail, he becomes dishonored. He is taken to court, and sentenced to be killed by a guillotine.
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Goto, Island of Love
Title: Goto, Island of Love
Released: January 29, 1969
Type: Movie
In an isolated community on a mythical island, a pompous dictator holds public executions and lets criminals fight in the streets.
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Cemetery Without Crosses
Title: Cemetery Without Crosses
Character: Sheriff Ben
Released: January 25, 1969
Type: Movie
Maria seeks revenge on the killers of her husband. She enlists the help of her husband's best friend, Manual, a reluctant, but skilled, gunfighter.
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Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo
Title: Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo
Character: Morel
Released: December 11, 1968
Type: Movie
Edmond Dantès, who was active in the resistance against the Nazis, is accused for being a Nazi collaborator and is imprisoned in the fortress of Sisteron.
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Theatre of Mr. and Mrs. Kabal
Title: Theatre of Mr. and Mrs. Kabal
Character: M. Kabal (voice)
Released: December 6, 1967
Type: Movie
"Theatre of Mr. and Mrs. Kabal" is Walerian Borowczyk’s first feature-length film and his last animated film. It consists of a sequence of loosely connected scenes, much like a vaudeville program, in which Mr. and Mrs. Kabal perform absurd, surreal, and sometimes cruel acts.
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The Big Softie
Title: The Big Softie
Character: Commissioner
Released: August 30, 1967
Type: Movie
A young man who lives with his aunt falls for a free-spirited German model in this uninspired drama. Although he runs off with her for the summer, he returns to his aunt to live off her money after the model and an old flame rekindle their romance. The story unfolds in a series of flashbacks.
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Triple Cross
Title: Triple Cross
Character: German Warder
Released: December 9, 1966
Type: Movie
A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.
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Is Paris Burning?
Title: Is Paris Burning?
Character: Un policier résistant
Released: October 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
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Mademoiselle
Title: Mademoiselle
Character: Marcel
Released: June 1, 1966
Type: Movie
A sexually repressed school teacher releases her pent up passions in a series of shocking crimes.
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Wake Up and Die
Title: Wake Up and Die
Released: April 6, 1966
Type: Movie
A petty hoodlum pulls jewellery store heists in broad daylight. The cop on his tail knows he has accomplices and focuses on the gangster's girl friend is his attempt to catch him.
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The Vampire of Dusseldorf
Title: The Vampire of Dusseldorf
Character: The foreman (uncredited)
Released: April 7, 1965
Type: Movie
A true story of Peter Kurten, a serial killer who committed nine murders and many other offenses in Dusseldorf during the Great Depression era.
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Skies Above
Title: Skies Above
Released: January 20, 1965
Type: Movie
The crew of an aircraft carrier discovers that it is being pursued by a UFO that turns out to be a radioactive probe from outer space. They appeal to the warring countries of Earth to stop fighting and help it to repel the invaders.
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Weekend at Dunkirk
Title: Weekend at Dunkirk
Character: Le capitaine Français
Released: December 18, 1964
Type: Movie
In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.
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Les hommes
Title: Les hommes
Released: November 11, 1964
Type: Movie
At the start of the First World War, two next-door neighbors find themselves companions in misfortune. Faced with the horror of the trenches and the fear of death, they grow closer and become friends. But will these strong feelings that the war engendered survive a return to daily monotony?
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Fantomas
Title: Fantomas
Character: Agent qui arrête le commissaire Juve
Released: November 4, 1964
Type: Movie
Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using an array of masks and can create endless confusion by constantly changing his appearance.
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The Unvanquished
Title: The Unvanquished
Character: Le policier au barrage (uncredited)
Released: September 25, 1964
Type: Movie
In this drama that alludes to the Algerian War with France of the 1960s, Thomas is a deserter from the French Foreign Legion who is on the run from authorities. He helps damsel in distress Dominique, who has been taken hostage by a group of terrorists. Thomas is wounded but manages to escape after killing the guard who inflicted the injury. Dominique gives Thomas money to escape to France after he secures her freedom, but he is caught between the Foreign Legion and the terrorists seeking revenge.
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Requiem pour un caïd
Title: Requiem pour un caïd
Released: July 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Police officer Antoine Delille is in charge of putting an end to the activities of a "kingpin", Jo Pinelli, trafficker, racketeer and pimp. He has three women working for him, including Eva and Jeannette, and is currently "conditioning" a charming, naive Orly employee, with whom he poses as an honorable businessman. Inspector Delille's plan is to arrest Jo for some crime and, while he's being held at the P.J., to delve into his other criminal activities and confound him.
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Greed in the Sun
Title: Greed in the Sun
Character: Worker at Castigliano
Released: April 17, 1964
Type: Movie
Marec, a truck driver is sent by his boss to track down through the Morroccan desert a reckless youngster who stole a brand-new truck and its payload. Riddled with bad luck, Marec will face the dangers of the desert, as well as a fishy partner, and a reluctant, misogynist tow-truck helper until the climactic fight.
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Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent
Title: Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent
Character: Un gendarme (uncredited)
Released: March 11, 1964
Type: Movie
Jeff Gordon, FBI agent, infiltrates a gang and finds himself in the midst of a gang war.
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Diary of a Chambermaid
Title: Diary of a Chambermaid
Character: Le voyageur
Released: March 4, 1964
Type: Movie
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.
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Si tous les amoureux du monde...
Title: Si tous les amoureux du monde...
Released: November 18, 1963
Type: Movie
Because he was given 50 francs one night as he was reciting poetry in a Parisian café, Grégoire decides to discover the world, and to take his fiancée Micheline alongside.
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La parole est au témoin
Title: La parole est au témoin
Released: November 17, 1963
Type: Movie
Mustapha, a cab driver in Paris, charges a customer in a hurry, without realizing that he is in a hurry to escape his pursuers after robbing a jewelry store. The next day, reading the newspapers, Mustapha becomes aware of the role he has played in this affair, and would gladly assist the police if a fortuitous incident didn't make him fear the criminals' vengeance. It's a cruel dilemma in which he is both suspected by some and threatened by others. Weak but honest, he manages to get out of this predicament at the risk of his life!
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Le temps des copains
Title: Le temps des copains
Released: May 15, 1963
Type: Movie
Three young students, who met on the train, arrive in Paris and decide to find accommodation together.
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Chicken Feed for Little Birds
Title: Chicken Feed for Little Birds
Character: un consommateur
Released: February 15, 1963
Type: Movie
In a building close to the Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris, a tale of criss‑crossings in turn romantic, gourmet, interested or mystical, between an Italian gigolo and a nightclub hostess, a family of butchers and an apprentice rocker, a mystic tailor, a writer sending himself telegrams, an alert paralytic woman, a thoughtful concierge, a bird breeder and a just‑out‑of‑jail hooligan. Little by little each one discovers each other’s more or less troubled history… when a mysterious death introduces the Police within this huis clos, hastens disclosure of well‑kept secrets and ruffle this little World.
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The Honors of War
Title: The Honors of War
Character: Morizot
Released: February 16, 1962
Type: Movie
One morning in August 1944, the inhabitants of a French village are celebrating their premature liberation. The festivities are interrupted by the arrival of an exhausted, leaderless German detachment. A few kilometers away, the inhabitants of the village of Muzière negotiate with the Germans and agree to a truce. But the arrival of a Wehrmacht captain, anxious to regain control of the men, puts an end to this fragile peace process. The captain suggested meeting the Americans and surrendering to regular troops rather than civilians. The inhabitants of Muzière, believing the truce to be broken, fire on the Germans and, on this misunderstanding, the guns start talking again.
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The Counterfeiters of Paris
Title: The Counterfeiters of Paris
Character: Taxi driver (uncredited)
Released: September 27, 1961
Type: Movie
"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Dutch florin, he accepts immediately. He retired after having counterfeited 100 florin notes just before the Queen Wilhelmina retired them from circulation. He flies to Paris. But the gang is not to be trusted, at least not all of them.
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L'exécution
Title: L'exécution
Character: 1st policeman
Released: January 29, 1961
Type: Movie
Paris, at the start of the German Occupation, five men plan to sabotage a factory.
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Recourse in Grace
Title: Recourse in Grace
Character: Gendarme Fromont
Released: May 19, 1960
Type: Movie
Mario di Donati, a deserter from the Italian army, lives in Paris under a false name with Germaine, his French lover. When the latter learns about his hidden past, she feels hurt by Mario's lack of trust in her and she distances herself from him. In despair, Mario surrenders to the law but, at the time of trial, he runs away to join the woman he loves.
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Port of Point-du-Jour
Title: Port of Point-du-Jour
Character: Coco, a worker
Released: April 13, 1960
Type: Movie
Emile is a steelworker in a car factory ;a confirmed bachelor going on fifty, he leads a peaceful life .One night, he is woken up by a burst of machine gun fire. The cafe in the corner of the street has been burglarized.A distraught young girl rushes into his apartment building and hides in his room .When the police make a search, he makes her out to be his lover for the night.Madeleine tells her about her sad past : she has severed all links with her parents ,she's an unwed mother and in the underworld's clutches. Emile sends his protegee to old mommy Dupont's place ,in the suburbs of Paris.
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Gorilla's Waltz
Title: Gorilla's Waltz
Released: October 7, 1959
Type: Movie
This is the third feature in a series about an intrepid French spy by the nickname of "The Gorilla," but unlike the earlier films, this time around Roger Hanin replaces Lino Ventura in the title role. A West German scientist has discovered a way to recover missiles shot into space, and the major Western powers are after his secret. Even though the scientist is willing to pass his discovery on to NATO, it is guarded by an elite, undercover West German police force. As foreign agents, including the Russians and Americans, try to get their hands on the secret, "The Gorilla" is forced into the affair by his surly, aging boss -- he has to make sure that the scientist's discovery ends up with NATO.
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125, rue Montmartre
Title: 125, rue Montmartre
Released: September 9, 1959
Type: Movie
Desperate, Didier throws hymself out in the Seine. Pascal, a newsboy, jumps and saves him. It’s the beginning of the friendship between them.Once, as Pascal helps Didier, he finds himself involved in a murder. Only the superintendent believes in his innocence…
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The Road to Shame
Title: The Road to Shame
Character: Nasol
Released: April 30, 1959
Type: Movie
Pierre Rossi and Béatrice live in the same block of flats in Marseille and love each other. One night, Béatrice leaves her apartment. Pierre knows that his fiancée goes to a rendezvous, but she would not tell him more than just that. Worried, Pierre follows her but he is attacked and stolen his identity papers by two men, Tom and Nasol, on the payroll of Quaglio, one of the city's bosses. Later on, Quaglio kills Nasol and deposits the body in a garage, leaving Pierre's papers nearby. As for Pierre, he manages to follow Tom to a villa where several young women have been invited. Pierre, horrified, realizes that this place is the headquarters for the white slave trade. - Written by Guy Bellinger
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Time Bomb
Title: Time Bomb
Character: Crewman
Released: January 20, 1959
Type: Movie
Plotters decide to scuttle a ship for the insurance money, but things go wrong.
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The Night Affair
Title: The Night Affair
Character: Un inspecteur (uncredited)
Released: May 14, 1958
Type: Movie
Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky (Najda Tiller), whom he considers to be more victim than criminal. Taking it upon himself to wean Lucky away from narcotics, Vallois also wins her love -- and, incidentally, smashes the dope ring responsible for her addiction.
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Thérèse Étienne
Title: Thérèse Étienne
Released: February 7, 1958
Type: Movie
Her father having served a prison sentence, there is unending gossiping about Therese's family. Unable to put up with it any longer, the young woman leaves her native village for the canton of Bern where she manages to be hired by Anton Muller, a wealthy, authoritarian farmer. Under the young woman's spell, Anton wants to make his servant his mistress but Thérèse refuses energetically.. Later on, she nevertheless accepts to marry Anton. On the wedding day, she meets Gottfried, her bridegroom's son, and they instantly fall passionately in love with each other.
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The First Weapons
Title: The First Weapons
Released: August 3, 1950
Type: Movie
A sensitive teen-age boy survives the brutalities of a country training school.
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Strange Tales
Title: Strange Tales
Character: Cotin / François
Released: October 26, 1949
Type: Movie
A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse in the floor, and a wine aficionado who buries his friend alive.
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The House Under the Sea
Title: The House Under the Sea
Released: August 20, 1947
Type: Movie
A stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband Lucien. But she suddenly experiences a passionate love, taking refuge with Constant in a cave they call “home under the sea.”
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Alert Nights
Title: Alert Nights
Released: September 25, 1946
Type: Movie
Hélène, a young waitress working in a bar frequented by German soldiers, saves the life of Pierre, a Resistance fighter. Her jealous lover has her arrested first and then released. Later on, Hélène is wounded while walking in the streets. Pierre has her transported to friends with the hope of taking her to London with him. Unfortunately, owing to lack of space in the plane, Pierre has to fly alone. Hélène has to wait several weeks before being able to board a new plane. When the day comes at last, the Germans are waiting for the plane on the clandestine airfield.
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Coup de tête
Title: Coup de tête
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1944
Type: Movie
A sporty and chivalrous young man creates, with some comrades, a society whose goal is to protect honest people against rogues. He finds himself thrown into unforeseen adventures, at the end of which he will discover love.
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Florence is Crazy
Title: Florence is Crazy
Character: Le Chauffeur
Released: June 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Monsieur Benoit's existence is transformed when his dour wife suddenly thinks in a bout of folly that she will become a chanteuse and her husband the impresario.
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Night Shift
Title: Night Shift
Released: April 19, 1944
Type: Movie
A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.
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First in Line
Title: First in Line
Character: Un guide (uncredited)
Released: February 23, 1944
Type: Movie
A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain guides and their families in the French Alps, near Chamonix and the French/Swiss/Italian borders... Like his father, Zian Servettaz is a dedicated mountain man. His Italian-born wife Bianca does not adjust well to his mountain village in France, and to the ever life-threatening dangers presented by his mountain guiding and climbing. She briefly returns to Italy and to her family. However, after Zian's insistence and trip to Italy, she returns to mountain life in the French Alps. Once back there, events will unfold, changing their lives as well as those of other mountain people forever.
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Adieu Léonard
Title: Adieu Léonard
Character: Clothes Merchant (uncredited)
Released: September 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the village idiot.