Jean-Paul Belmondo

Jean-Paul Belmondo

Born: April 9, 1933
Died: September 6, 2021
in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Jean-Paul Belmondo (born 9 April 1933 – 6 September 2021) was a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s.

Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, west of Paris, Belmondo did not perform well in school, but developed a passion for boxing and football. Belmondo made his amateur boxing debut on 10 May 1949 in Paris, France, when he knocked out Rene DesMarais in one round. Belmondo's boxing career was undefeated, but brief. He won three straight first round knockout victories from 1949 to 1950.

His breakthrough role was in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960), which made him a major figure in the French New Wave. Later he acted in Jean-Pierre Melville's philosophical movie Leon Morin, Priest (1961) and in Melville's film noir crime film The Fingerman (Le Doulos, 1963) and Godard again with Pierrot le fou (1965). With That Man From Rio (1965) he switched to commercial, mainstream productions, mainly comedies and action films but did appear in the title role of Alain Resnais' masterpiece Stavisky (1974), which some critics regard as Belmondo's finest performance.

Until the mid-1980s, when he ceased to be one of France's biggest box-office stars, Belmondo's typical characters were either dashing adventurers or more cynical heroes. As he grew older, Belmondo preferred concentrating on his stage work, where he encountered success. He suffered a stroke in 2001 and had since been absent from the stage and the screen until 2009 when he appeared in Un homme et son chien (A man and his dog) which was his last performance.

Belmondo died on 6 September 2021 at his home in Paris, after a period of ill health, at the age of 88.

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Movies for Jean-Paul Belmondo...

Senza malizia
Title: Senza malizia
Released: July 5, 2023
Type: Movie
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Godard by Godard
Title: Godard by Godard
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 17, 2023
Type: Movie
Godard by Godard is an archival self-portrait of Jean-Luc Godard. It retraces the unique and unheard-of path, made up of sudden detours and dramatic returns, of a filmmaker who never looks back on his past, never makes the same film twice, and tirelessly pursues his research, in a truly inexhaustible diversity of inspiration. Through Godard’s words, his gaze and his work, the film tells the story of a life of cinema; that of a man who will always demand a lot of himself and his art, to the point of merging with it.
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Title: La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: January 7, 2022
Type: Movie
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three new public channels but autonomous and competing. It is a race for the audience which is engaged then, and from now on the channels will make the war! This competition will give birth to a real golden age for television programs, with variety shows in the forefront. The stars of the song are going to invade the living rooms of the French for their biggest pleasure. This unedited documentary tells the story of the metamorphosis of this television of the early 1970s, between freedom of tone, scandals, political intrigues and programs that have become mythical.
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Hommage national à Jean-Paul Belmondo
Title: Hommage national à Jean-Paul Belmondo
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 9, 2021
Type: Movie
A ceremony celebrated in the courtyard of the Invalides, in the presence of the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, members of the Government, the actor's family and many personalities from entertainment and sport.
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Title: Samedi Sébastien
Character: Self - Guest
Released: April 17, 2021
Type: TV
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Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
Title: Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: November 30, 2020
Type: Movie
If Jean Rochefort remains so dear to our hearts, it is because this extraordinary actor alone embodies a cinema and a France imbued with freedom and carelessness. Through his films, archives and the testimony of those close to him, we discover a complex man, a sad clown saved by his taste for words and for fun.
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Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Title: Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 9, 2020
Type: Movie
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Jacques Deray, j'ai connu une belle époque
Title: Jacques Deray, j'ai connu une belle époque
Character: Self
Released: December 2, 2018
Type: Movie
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Belmondo ou le goût du risque
Title: Belmondo ou le goût du risque
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 5, 2017
Type: Movie
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Belmondo, le magnifique
Title: Belmondo, le magnifique
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 3, 2017
Type: Movie
With more than 70 films and 160 million cumulative tickets in France, Jean-Paul Belmondo is one of the essential stars of French cinema.
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De Gaulle, the Last King of France
Title: De Gaulle, the Last King of France
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 27, 2017
Type: Movie
Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was statesman of action and has been compared to a monarch. This film depicts the general’s personality through the great events of his presidential term, at a time when the world was undergoing considerable changes.
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La Folle Histoire de Jean-Paul Belmondo
Title: La Folle Histoire de Jean-Paul Belmondo
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: Movie
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Belmondo by Belmondo
Title: Belmondo by Belmondo
Character: Self
Released: May 5, 2016
Type: Movie
Jean-Paul Belmondo returns to the settings of a fantastic career, accompanied by his son Paul. Over a career spanning 50 years, Jean-Paul Belmondo’s movies drew over 130 million people into cinemas. This logbook takes us back to sets and countries, from where we can revisit the films in reference and find out about his fruitful collaborations with various directors. Paul Belmondo will lead the investigation, meeting the stars and his father’s friends (eye-witnesses all) and questioning his father about his journey, sharing it with us so we can discover the man and his story like never before.
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The Emperor's New Clothes
Title: The Emperor's New Clothes
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 24, 2015
Type: Movie
An uproarious critique of the world financial crisis. Building on actor, comedian, and provocateur Russell Brand’s emergence as an activist following his 2014 book Revolution, where he railed against “corporate tyranny, ecological irresponsibility, and economic inequality".
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Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Title: Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Character: (images d'archives)
Released: October 25, 2011
Type: Movie
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Belmondo, itinéraire...
Title: Belmondo, itinéraire...
Character: Self
Released: May 18, 2011
Type: Movie
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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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Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
Title: Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 11, 2010
Type: Movie
Catherine Deneuve couldn’t care less about being a celebrity, but fame made her an icon long ago and she occupies a special place in our imagination. The star is not one to let others get too close, but when she gives you her confidence, she keeps her word. If Deneuve’s career covers a half-century of cinema, it also bears witness to the force of a generation that experienced the deepest transformation of mores. This portrait reflects her entirely. The story of a mystery and an adventure.
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La Traversée du désir
Title: La Traversée du désir
Character: Self
Released: March 16, 2009
Type: Movie
What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.
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A Man and His Dog
Title: A Man and His Dog
Character: Charles
Released: January 14, 2009
Type: Movie
An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Title: The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
Character: Ferdinand Griffon (archive footage) (uncredited)
Released: July 2, 2002
Type: Movie
Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips.
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L'Aîné des Ferchaux
Title: L'Aîné des Ferchaux
Character: Paul Ferchaux
Released: September 17, 2001
Type: Movie
Ferchaux, a rich and powerful businessman, becomes the target of an investigating judge convinced of his involvement in a huge political and financial scandal. To obtain Ferchaux's confession, the judge throws his brother and partner in jail. Very attached to Gilles, whom he has always protected, Ferchaux fights to obtain his release. To get out, the businessman enlists the services of Mike Maudet, an ambitious and determined young man, who becomes his driver and then his private secretary.
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Title: L'Aîné des Ferchaux
Character: Paul Ferchaux
Released: September 17, 2001
Type: TV
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Amazon
Title: Amazon
Character: Edouard
Released: July 19, 2000
Type: Movie
On an observatory set high on a mountain, astronomers make a stunning discovery somewhere out in the galaxy. A flying object in the depths of the cosmos is showing signs of life, emitting an intelligent signal. The UFO has just landed on Earth somewhere in the midst of a rainforest. Margot, the enthusiastic young woman heading up the research team, decides to go to the spot and check out this phenomenon. Meanwhile Edouard, our hero, studies the flora and fauna of the tree tops in the rainforest. He perches on an enormous net that stretches over the still pure, unadulterated forest that spreads out beneath him. He discovers a naked little twelve-year old girl seated on the net. He covers her with a broad banana leaf and asks where she comes from. She quickly replies, in perfect French 'from another world'.
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Actors
Title: Actors
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 2000
Type: Movie
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.
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Peut-être
Title: Peut-être
Character: Ako
Released: November 10, 1999
Type: Movie
Arthur is invited to a New Year's Eve party to celebrate the year 2000. His girlfriend Lucie would like a baby from him but he refuses. Through the ceiling of the toilets, he discovers a passage leading to this futurist Paris. There, he meets an old man Ako who affirms he is his son and that he wants to exist. Otherwise he will vanish into the air. Arthur is still hesitant because his life is an unfulfilled one: a has a little lucrative job, is uncertain about his future and things are getting out of hand when Ako discovers the passage and interferes in the party.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Vivement dimanche prochain
Character: Self
Released: September 11, 1998
Type: TV
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Half a Chance
Title: Half a Chance
Character: Léo Brassac
Released: March 25, 1998
Type: Movie
Alice Tomaso gets out of jail, and goes looking for Léo and Julien, one of whom, it appears, is her father. On the way, she steals the wrong car - one belonging to the Russian mafia, and arrives at her destination with a gang of thugs out looking for her and the car.
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La puce à l'oreille
Title: La puce à l'oreille
Character: Victor-Emmanuel Chandebise / Poche
Released: October 12, 1996
Type: Movie
Raymonde Chandebise suspects her husband Victor-Emmanuel of cheating on her. Her best friend advises her to find out for sure and to use a stratagem. Both of them send him a false letter, written by a beautiful stranger, giving him an appointment at the "Minet Galant"! But they are completely unaware that the hotel's waiter, a simpleton, is a look-alike of poor Victor-Emmanuel!
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Desire
Title: Desire
Character: Désiré
Released: April 10, 1996
Type: Movie
Désiré is a fine servant and butler who regularly seduces the ladies of the house where he works, but then he moves on. This time he is working for Odette, the mistress of the minister of Posts and he is living a new situation. He has fallen in love with with Odette.
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Les Miserables
Title: Les Miserables
Character: Henri Fortin / Jean Valjean
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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One Hundred and One Nights
Title: One Hundred and One Nights
Character: Professor Bébel
Released: January 25, 1995
Type: Movie
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made.
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Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
Title: Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
Character: Self
Released: May 27, 1993
Type: Movie
Claude Ventura's documentary Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede, was made for the French television channel Arte in 1993. Ventura checks into room twelve in the hotel's final week of operation: it is demolished the day after he checks out. Room twelve was one of the principal locations for Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave masterpiece Breathless, and Ventura's documentary investigates the production of Godard's film.
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Tailleur pour Dames
Title: Tailleur pour Dames
Character: Mouineaux
Released: January 1, 1993
Type: Movie
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Stranger in the House
Title: Stranger in the House
Character: Loursat
Released: October 3, 1992
Type: Movie
Since the suicide of his wife, Jacques Loursat has gone downhill. Estranged from his daughter, his lawyer's pratice in ruins, he consoles himself with drink. One night he is woken by a gunshot and catches sight of a young man fleeing the house. Isabelle, his daughter, claims to know nothing about it, even when he finds the body of a young man. Isabelle hangs around with a gang of spoiled young people who have no shortage of money, and is in love with Joel, an ambitious boy involved in drug dealing. Antoine, from a more modest background, is in love with her. When the police start investigating Joel's murder, Antoine becomes the ideal suspect.
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Title: Stars 90
Character: Self
Released: September 3, 1990
Type: TV
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Title: Star Life
Character: Self
Released: August 4, 1990
Type: TV
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Title: Cyrano de Bergerac
Character: Cyrano de Bergerac
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his young cousin, Roxane, but does not dare to confess his love to her. It must be said that Cyrano's prominent nasal appendage attracts him constant mockery, which often forces him to defend his honor with weapons. When Roxane reveals to him that she loves the handsome Christian, a cadet of Gascony like Cyrano, the latter undertakes to take him under his protection. But the young man is cruelly lacking in spirit. It is therefore Cyrano who writes love letters to Roxane in her name, in which he expresses the ardent flame he also feels for his cousin. He even helps Christian to marry his beloved in secret. It is only years later and after having been the victim of an attack that Cyrano, on the verge of death, will finally declare his passion for her.
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Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
Title: Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
Character: Sam Lion
Released: November 30, 1988
Type: Movie
A foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. However, when he reaches fifty and becomes tired of his responsibilities and of his son Jean-Philippe, he decides to disappear at sea. However, he runs into Albert Duvivier, one of his former employees. He comes to realise that he has ignored the important things in his life.
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Kean
Title: Kean
Character: Kean
Released: November 12, 1988
Type: Movie
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Title: Na siehste!
Character: Self
Released: November 4, 1987
Type: TV
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The Loner
Title: The Loner
Character: Stan Jalard
Released: March 18, 1987
Type: Movie
In Paris , Commissioner Stan Jalard and Inspector Simon Lecache plan to quit the police to go and enjoy a more peaceful life in the West Indies. In a nightclub, during a routine visit, they spot Schneider, a dreaded gangster and public enemy. At the time of his arrest, Simon is killed at close range by the criminal. Stan then decides to stay in the police to avenge Simon. Being the godfather of Christian, Simon's son, who sometimes lives in a boarding school, sometimes at home, he takes charge of his education. Two years later, Stan has been promoted, and he's told that Schneider had resurfaced in the capital. A long hunt begins.
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Hold-up
Title: Hold-up
Character: Grimm
Released: October 23, 1985
Type: Movie
Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied companion arouses trouble...
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Happy Easter
Title: Happy Easter
Character: Stephane Margelle
Released: October 24, 1984
Type: Movie
Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle drops his wife Sophie off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie, who has just had a fight with her married boyfriend. He gets her back to his apartment and is preparing for a sexy weekend, when his wife suddenly returns home. He makes up a bizarre, on-the-spot, spur-of-the-moment story that the gorgeous girl is actually his long-lost daughter. Julie plays along, but this leads to a whole series of increasingly ridiculous lies and comical situations (such as when her real mother shows up).
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The Vultures
Title: The Vultures
Character: Sgt. Pierre Augagneur
Released: March 28, 1984
Type: Movie
April 5, 1943: a battalion of the Foreign Legion arrives in El Ksour, Tunisia, to escort a fortune in gold bars to the home front. A German ambush awaits, and all but four die. Thanks to the street smarts of Sergeant Augagneur, the Legionnaires successfully counter attack. The bank manager and his seductive wife arrive, and so does a German lieutenant, whom the French arrest. Augagneur wants to steal the gold; warrant officer Mahuzard wants to do his duty. A series of alliances form and break apart, the group dwindles in number, and the gold heads south toward Betahoua. But in whose possession?
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The Outsider
Title: The Outsider
Character: Commissaire Philippe Jordan
Released: October 26, 1983
Type: Movie
Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord who is essentially inaccessible -- but not immortal.
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Ace of Aces
Title: Ace of Aces
Character: Jo Cavalier
Released: October 27, 1982
Type: Movie
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution, he risks his one shot at Olympic glory to save Simon and his family, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I, by an adventurous escape to Switzerland, Nazi troops on their heals and braving impossible odds in roller coaster-style.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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The Professional
Title: The Professional
Character: Joss Beaumont
Released: October 21, 1981
Type: Movie
French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But when his assignment is canceled, he's shocked to learn that his government is surrendering him to local authorities. He is given a mock trial and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. But Beaumont escapes from prison and vows not only to avenge himself against his betrayers but also to finish his original assignment.
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Title: Wetten, dass..?
Character: Self
Released: February 14, 1981
Type: TV
A long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British show You Bet! and the American show Wanna Bet?.
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Le Guignolo
Title: Le Guignolo
Character: Alexandre Dupré / Vicomte de Valombreuse
Released: March 26, 1980
Type: Movie
After the failure of his recent criminal exploits, international con artist Alexandre Dupré sets off for Venice to try to dupe some Japanese business men into buying a fake copy of a stolen Caneletto. On the aeroplane, a stranger asks him to look after his briefcase until after they have landed. Alexandre agrees, but the stranger is shot dead soon after and Alexandre himself becomes the target of enemy agents who are keen to recover the briefcase...
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Cop or Hood
Title: Cop or Hood
Character: Stanislas Borovitz / Antonio Cerutti
Released: March 28, 1979
Type: Movie
When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers a mare's nest of police corruption. In fact, in this comedy thriller the whole town is corrupt. If they were closely examined, Stan's methods for pursuing this investigation might embarrass the police. For instance, he drives into a criminal's house in a fancy, expensive race car. In another incident, he callously blows up a casino owned by Musard , one of the town's crime bosses. On that occasion, he first forces Musard to remove his clothes, and the poor criminal watches his casino explode from across the square while standing naked in a phone booth. Meanwhile, Stan seduces the lovely Edmonde.
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Animal
Title: Animal
Character: Mike Gaucher / Bruno Ferrari
Released: October 5, 1977
Type: Movie
Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a stuntman who works with his girlfriend Jane (Raquel Welch). On their wedding day Mike and Jane are forced by producers to do a stunt for a film they are working on. Mike, annoyed doesn't look on the road and crashes the car causing them to end up in a hospital. After they come out Jane doesn't want to talk to Mike so he decides to get her a job in a film in which he is a stunt double for his double who is a star in action pictures but is in fact a wimp.
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Title: Auf los geht's los
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 1977
Type: TV
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The Body of My Enemy
Title: The Body of My Enemy
Character: François Leclercq
Released: October 13, 1976
Type: Movie
Francois always despised the textile barons who ruled his local town. But he fell in love with the family heiress Gilberte. Ten years ago, he would have married her. Now only hatred holds them together. Francois is accused of murder. A hooker and a football star lie slaughtered. He thinks he has been framed by the mob. Going underground, he finds that the trail leads all the way to the top - to Gilberte's family. He needs friends. And friends are hard to come by in his town.
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Hunter Will Get You
Title: Hunter Will Get You
Character: Roger Pilard, aka l'Alpagueur
Released: February 1, 1976
Type: Movie
L'Alpagueur is a free-lance spy from the French secret agency. He's put on the investigation about L'epervier, a serial-killer who employs young boys to help him robbing banks before killing them.
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Incorrigible
Title: Incorrigible
Character: Victor Vauthier
Released: October 15, 1975
Type: Movie
Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is to make enough money to build a sea wall to protect Mont-Saint-Michel. Charlotte, a parole officer, shows up: she's young and seems taken in by Victor. He discovers she lives above the Senlus Museum, where her parents are the curators. With two pals he decides to steal a priceless El Greco triptych and then ransom it back to the cultural ministry. What will Charlotte do when she realizes he's used her to make a fortune?
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Fear Over the City
Title: Fear Over the City
Character: Commissaire Jean Letellier
Released: April 9, 1975
Type: Movie
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.
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Title: 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: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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Title: Der große Preis
Character: Self
Released: September 5, 1974
Type: TV
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Stavisky...
Title: Stavisky...
Character: Serge Alexandre Stavisky
Released: May 15, 1974
Type: Movie
Irresistible charm and talent helps Serge Alexandre alias Stavisky, small-time swindler, to make friends with even most influential members of French industrial and political elite during the early 30s. But nothing lasts forever and when his great scam involving hundreds millions of francs gets exposed result is an unprecedented scandal that almost caused a civil war.
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T'es fou Marcel
Title: T'es fou Marcel
Character: self
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
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The Magnificent One
Title: The Magnificent One
Character: François Merlin / Bob Saint-Clar
Released: November 23, 1973
Type: Movie
A writer of pulp fiction imagines himself as the dashing hero and his English neighbor as his love interest.
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The Inheritor
Title: The Inheritor
Character: Bart Cordell
Released: March 22, 1973
Type: Movie
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...
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The Pariah
Title: The Pariah
Character: Roberto Borgo, dit « la Scoumoune »
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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Scoundrel in White
Title: Scoundrel in White
Character: Docteur Paul Simay
Released: September 29, 1972
Type: Movie
Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Paul, a former womanizer who marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be trusted and make poor wives. A car accident leaves him bedridden and he begins to miss his playboy days, when Christine's bombshell sister Martine arrives and Paul decides he must have her. He begins drugging Christine at night so he can sneak out to kill of Martine's many suitors one by one.
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J'ai tout donné
Title: J'ai tout donné
Released: June 21, 1972
Type: Movie
An intimate cinéma vérité style documentary following french mega star Johnny Hallyday's summer tour.
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The Burglars
Title: The Burglars
Character: Azad
Released: October 27, 1971
Type: Movie
In Athens a collection of emeralds is successfully stolen by a team of robbers, led by safe-cracker Azad. Things go smoothly until they miss the ship by which they planned their escape; a police chief pursues Azad while he waits for the next ship to set off.
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The Married Couple of the Year Two
Title: The Married Couple of the Year Two
Character: Nicolas Philibert
Released: April 7, 1971
Type: Movie
Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others trying to woo her his own interest is rekindled.
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Borsalino
Title: Borsalino
Character: François Capella
Released: May 19, 1970
Type: Movie
In 1930 Marseilles two small-time crooks join forces when they meet brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and fights, they start to find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.
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Love Is a Funny Thing
Title: Love Is a Funny Thing
Character: Henri
Released: December 12, 1969
Type: Movie
In America, two French expats, composer Henri and actress Françoise meet and fall in love with each other.
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God Chose Paris
Title: God Chose Paris
Character: Récitant / Présentateur
Released: September 5, 1969
Type: Movie
An interesting mixture of filmed scenes with Belmondo and archival footage regarding cultural aspects of all kind around Paris, starting at the end of the 19th century and ending in the mid-1960's. Jean-Paul Belmondo leads us through the movie starting as a young photographer around 1900, a reporter in both world-wars and doing fictional interviews with lots of celebrities.
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Mississippi Mermaid
Title: Mississippi Mermaid
Character: Louis Mahé
Released: June 18, 1969
Type: Movie
A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a woman he does not know. The woman that comes does not look like the picture he got, but he marries her anyway.
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The Brain
Title: The Brain
Character: Arthur Lespinasse
Released: March 7, 1969
Type: Movie
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.
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Ho!
Title: Ho!
Character: François Holin, aka Ho
Released: November 4, 1968
Type: Movie
Race driver who has lost his membership card becomes the chauffeur of a gangsters pack
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Casino Royale
Title: Casino Royale
Character: Un légionnaire
Released: April 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.
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The Thief of Paris
Title: The Thief of Paris
Character: Georges Randal
Released: February 22, 1967
Type: Movie
In Paris around 1900, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a rich neighbour. As an act of revenge, Georges steals the fiance's family jewels, and enjoys the experience so much that he embarks upon a life-time of burglary.
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Tender Scoundrel
Title: Tender Scoundrel
Character: Tony Maréchal
Released: December 12, 1966
Type: Movie
Tony Maréchal is a professional seducer. Having conquered countless women, proclaims that there is none that can resist his charm. To prove this makes a difficult challenge: to seduce baroness Minna von Strasshofer.
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Is Paris Burning?
Title: Is Paris Burning?
Character: Yvon Morandat
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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Title: Goldene Kamera Verleihung
Character: Self
Released: January 25, 1966
Type: TV
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Up to His Ears
Title: Up to His Ears
Character: Arthur Lempereur
Released: December 4, 1965
Type: Movie
A millionaire realizes he really wants to live after he has hired an assassin to kill him.
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Pierrot le Fou
Title: Pierrot le Fou
Character: Ferdinand Griffon, 'Pierrot'
Released: November 5, 1965
Type: Movie
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an unorthodox life, always on the run.
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Crime on a Summer Morning
Title: Crime on a Summer Morning
Character: Francis
Released: February 17, 1965
Type: Movie
An ill-assorted group of international criminals executes a tightly-planned ransom sting in Spain. Things go along swimmingly until various tensions within the group come to the fore.
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Weekend at Dunkirk
Title: Weekend at Dunkirk
Character: Julien Maillat
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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Male Hunt
Title: Male Hunt
Character: Fernand
Released: September 18, 1964
Type: Movie
A few stories about marriage and its problems. Antoine is about to marry Gisèle. His friend Julien, an established bachelor, desperately tries to convince him not to do it, recounting his own painful experiences.
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Backfire
Title: Backfire
Character: David Ladislas
Released: September 4, 1964
Type: Movie
A greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout accompanied by the smuggler's sexy girlfriend.
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Greed in the Sun
Title: Greed in the Sun
Character: Rocco
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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That Man from Rio
Title: That Man from Rio
Character: Adrien Dufourquet
Released: February 5, 1964
Type: Movie
French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure.
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Magnet of Doom
Title: Magnet of Doom
Character: Michel Maudet
Released: September 25, 1963
Type: Movie
Young boxer Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager after a series of match defeats and is forced to look for a new job. He is engaged as secretary to a millionaire named Ferchaux who is in a hurry to flee the country when he discovers he has been implicated in a high-profile fraud.
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Crazy Sea
Title: Crazy Sea
Character: le capitaine Il Livornese
Released: September 13, 1963
Type: Movie
A pretty woman approaching middle age rents out rooms in a small Italian town. An aging sailor and a handsome younger man are amongst the lodgers.
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Sweet and Sour
Title: Sweet and Sour
Character: Raymond
Released: September 4, 1963
Type: Movie
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with cinéma vérité.
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Title: Der Sport-Spiegel
Character: Self
Released: April 2, 1963
Type: TV
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The Shortest Day
Title: The Shortest Day
Character: Erede Siciliano (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1963
Type: Movie
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
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Banana Peel
Title: Banana Peel
Character: Michel Thibault
Released: January 18, 1963
Type: Movie
Two scoundrels cheat a millionaire out of a huge bankroll on the French Riviera.
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Le Doulos
Title: Le Doulos
Character: Silien
Released: December 13, 1962
Type: Movie
Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what should be a simple heist. By the end of this brutal, twisting, and multilayered policier, who will be left to trust?
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A Monkey in Winter
Title: A Monkey in Winter
Character: Gabriel Fouquet
Released: May 11, 1962
Type: Movie
The story of a man who has stopped drinking- and then dreaming- and who thanks to a young man who tries to forget a lost love in alcohol will turn drunk again during an exciting night.
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Cartouche
Title: Cartouche
Character: Louis-Dominique Bourguignon alias Cartouche
Released: March 7, 1962
Type: Movie
In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, acting under the name of Cartouche, making audacious robberies of the rich people, and even distributing the takings with the poor. Thus, cartouche attracts the people's sympathies, Venus's love, and hate from the Police and Malichot... Cartouche can escape all the traps they set at him - except the entrapments of love. Eventually, he will be saved by a woman, at her own cost.
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Riviera-Story
Title: Riviera-Story
Character: Rennfahrer
Released: December 7, 1961
Type: Movie
Relations between middle-aged businessman Arthur Dahlberg and his young wife Anja are not at their best. So it occurred to them to leave their Hamburg home and go on vacation to the Côte d'Azur to revitalize their relationship. But Arthur Dahlberg, even on vacation, is obsessed with running his business. Meanwhile, Anya meets the young writer Roy Benter.
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A Man Named Rocca
Title: A Man Named Rocca
Character: Roberto La Rocca
Released: November 17, 1961
Type: Movie
Roberto goes to Marseilles to give a hand to his friend Xavier, wrongly imprisoned following a frame-up organized by his associate Villanova. Roberto sets out to seduce Villanova's mistress, but when Villanova is killed, Roberto ends up leader of the band...
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Famous Love Affairs
Title: Famous Love Affairs
Character: Lauzun
Released: November 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
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Léon Morin, Priest
Title: Léon Morin, Priest
Character: Leon Morin
Released: September 21, 1961
Type: Movie
The widow Barny lives in Nazi-occupied France, looking after her half-Jewish daughter in a small village. When the Germans arrive, she decides to baptize her and chooses priest Léon Morin to do so. After spending some time with him, the relationship with her confessor turns into a confrontation with both God and her own repressed desire. 
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A Woman Is a Woman
Title: A Woman Is a Woman
Character: Alfred Lubitsch
Released: September 6, 1961
Type: Movie
Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.
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The Lovemakers
Title: The Lovemakers
Character: Amerigo
Released: June 13, 1961
Type: Movie
The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys out his other relatives in order to gain full control over the dead man's property. But Ferdinando's nephew Amerigo holds out. Amerigo's stance is weakened when he heads for Florence and meets prostitute Bianca.
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The Winner
Title: The Winner
Released: April 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Documentary-style drama about a young African boxer who comes to Paris to try for a boxing career.
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Two Women
Title: Two Women
Character: Michele Di Libero
Released: December 22, 1960
Type: Movie
Widowed shopkeeper Cesira and her 13-year-old daughter Rosetta flee from the allied bombs in Rome during the second World War; they travel to the remote village where Cesira was born. During their journey and in the village and onward, the mother does everything she can to protect Rosetta. Meanwhile, a sensitive young intellectual, Michele, falls in love with Cesira.
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Letters of a Novice
Title: Letters of a Novice
Character: Giuliano Verdi
Released: December 1, 1960
Type: Movie
The nun tells the priest about her past and then a long flashback begins...
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Trapped by Fear
Title: Trapped by Fear
Character: Paul Frapier
Released: November 4, 1960
Type: Movie
Two French paras who had lived through deadly situations in Algeria, meet again in civil life. Frapier is a newspaper reporter, and one day finds his friend Porte - surrounded by the police after a car theft, and an accidental killing of a police officer. He helps him escape, and provides shelter with the complicity of his girlfriend Vera. Later, Frapier will have doubts about Vera's love, and lives a passionate night with beautiful Arabelle. However, he finds himself playing a game of life and death both with Vera, and Porte. It will end in sadness for one, and death for another.
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Love and the Frenchwoman
Title: Love and the Frenchwoman
Character: Gilles, l'amant (L'Adultère)
Released: September 16, 1960
Type: Movie
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.
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Seven Days… Seven Nights
Title: Seven Days… Seven Nights
Character: Chauvin
Released: May 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Anne Desbarèdes is a young woman who is married to a wealthy businessman and lives a monotonous existence in the small commune town of Blaye. After indirectly witnessing a murder in a café, she returns to the scene of the crime the next day and meets Chauvin, who informs her in more detail about the events that took place. Mentally unbalanced, Anne begins to believe that Chauvin intends to kill her.
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The Big Risk
Title: The Big Risk
Character: Éric Stark
Released: March 23, 1960
Type: Movie
On crowded Milan streets, two men execute a split-second payroll heist-in broad daylight-then begin a lightning-paced getaway, via every conveyance available. But after all, when a tough guy's returning to France (where he's been sentenced to death in absentia) after holing up in Italy for nearly a decade, he's got to have some startup money--particularly if he's going back with the wife and kids.
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Breathless
Title: Breathless
Character: Michel Poiccard / László Kovács
Released: March 16, 1960
Type: Movie
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: D'Artagnan
Released: December 25, 1959
Type: Movie
The Three Musketeers (French: Les trois mousquetaires) is a 1959 French TV film based on a play adaptation of the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is notable for featuring Jean Paul Belmondo in the lead.
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À double tour
Title: À double tour
Character: Laszlo Kovacs
Released: December 4, 1959
Type: Movie
The mistress of the wealthy Henri Marcoux is murdered and the family accuses the milkman of committing the crime. But Marcoux's daughter's fiancé suspects that she may have been murdered by someone else.
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An Angel on Wheels
Title: An Angel on Wheels
Character: Michel Barrot
Released: August 28, 1959
Type: Movie
Heralded racing driver Pierre Chaillot has never noticed the pretty young flight attendant who dotes on him adoringly. But when his fiancée's infidelity drives him to the brink of suicide, Pierre's guardian angel takes the form of this stewardess to urge him to choose life. Though the angel confesses her divinity, Pierre is skeptical of the existence of angels. But, despite their difference, the two bond during her brief sojourn in human form.
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Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
Title: Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
Character: Jules
Released: December 31, 1958
Type: Movie
This short features a man who is visited by his ex-lover. The moment she arrives, the man starts his constant barrage of speech; the woman doesn't say much. She just mocks the man and pretends she isn't listening. She pulls faces at him and larks about; while the man is trying his best to get her back in his life, then in the next sentence he says he hates her.
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Sunday Encounter
Title: Sunday Encounter
Character: Patrick
Released: November 19, 1958
Type: Movie
Jean Brevent still did not understand the departure of his wife, Danielle Darieux. It's been five years, but he still can't forget her. In spite of a work of writer originator in a newspaper, in which it tried to be invested completely, time did not make its work. One day, by chance, he meets her in the bus...
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The Cheaters
Title: The Cheaters
Character: Lou
Released: October 10, 1958
Type: Movie
Bob Letellier, a good looking rich kid who studies science, makes the acquaintance of Alain, a cynical and immoral young man. The latter introduces him to the existentialist circles of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Bob is invited to a party and becomes Clo's lover, a rich heiress.
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Be Beautiful But Shut Up
Title: Be Beautiful But Shut Up
Character: Pierrot, un jeune de la bande d'Olga
Released: May 7, 1958
Type: Movie
A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up with a gang of jewel smugglers, and decides on a life of crime. However, she falls for and marries a policeman, putting a crimp in her criminal career.
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On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
Title: On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
Character: Venin
Released: September 11, 1957
Type: Movie
When he learns that his daughter is to be engaged to the son of a rich businessman, Leon Martin realizes that extreme measures are needed to create a good impression.
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Sunday Buddies
Title: Sunday Buddies
Character: Trébois
Released: July 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Casti and Trébois, two friends who are workers at the same factory, have developed a common passion for flying. They dream of starting an aviation club. In the meantime they spend all their Sundays restoring an old plane under the supervision of Raf, a former RAF pilot...
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Title: Cinépanorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1956
Type: TV