Maurice Vallier

Maurice Vallier

Born: January 6, 1929
Died: May 29, 2020
in Genève, Switzerland

Movies for Maurice Vallier...

Les araignées de la nuit
Title: Les araignées de la nuit
Character: Maurice Durand
Released: April 17, 2002
Type: Movie
In the lead up to the presidential elections five candidates turn up from out of nowhere. Then, as the days go by, they are eliminated one by one, each meeting with a violent death, until one is left to become president.
bee
Liberty Belle
Title: Liberty Belle
Character: The censor
Released: September 14, 1983
Type: Movie
Liberty Belle tells the story of a group of student's involvement with a group who oppose the French Algerian war. The film premiered at the 1983 Cannes Film Festival.
bee
The Roaring Forties
Title: The Roaring Forties
Released: August 11, 1982
Type: Movie
Julien is an electronics professional who is down on his luck when he decides to enter an international sailboat race. He is led astray from his original good intentions by a low-life press agent who convinces him it would be well worth his while to win the race by illegal maneuvering. As he sets off, flashbacks tell how he came to be on the sailboat; later he has long monologues -- several of them, and in-between he occasionally battles to stay afloat on an uncooperative sea.
bee
Le Choc
Title: Le Choc
Released: April 28, 1982
Type: Movie
Martin Terrier wants to quit his job as a hired hitman, but his organized crime employers are unwilling to see him turned out to pasture, Terrier knows too much, and he is still useful to the organization. He escapes to the countryside where he meets Claire, and the two soon fall in love. Back in Paris to confront his employers, Terrier learns that they've stolen all his money from the bank. They give him an ultimatum—do one last job for them and he gets his money and his freedom...
bee
Title: Petit déjeuner compris
Character: Le proviseur du lycée
Released: February 22, 1980
Type: TV
A couple who live in the French provinces are surprised to inherit a hotel in Paris. These new owners are determined to sell it, but that's without the charms, vagaries, and clientele of this typical inn implanted in a nice neighborhood.
bee
Such a Lovely Town...
Title: Such a Lovely Town...
Character: Le médecin
Released: February 28, 1979
Type: Movie
Stephane (Victor Lanoux) is the mayor of a small village. He is also the manager of the tannery which provides the inhabitants with work. In a fit of anger, he kills his wife (Edith Scob). A judge (Jean Carmet) tries to prove his culpability, but it's not an easy task, because there is a political and social pressure.
bee
Autopsie d’un complot
Title: Autopsie d’un complot
Released: July 1, 1978
Type: Movie
bee
La Mort amoureuse
Title: La Mort amoureuse
Character: Rossignol
Released: November 16, 1977
Type: Movie
A young woman, elegant, cold and inhuman, who is none other than Death, reigns over a universe dominated by electronics, the firm Thanatos Unlimited Corporation. A file in a computer and life stops. But death is also capable of knowing love. Thus she keeps Robert, a worker in eternal youth and forces him to love her until he falls in love with Marie, a barmaid. But can we defy Death with impunity?
bee
Bobby Deerfield
Title: Bobby Deerfield
Character: Priest
Released: September 29, 1977
Type: Movie
Bobby Deerfield, a famous American race car driver on the European circuit, falls in love with the enigmatic Lillian Morelli, who is terminally ill.
bee
The Accuser
Title: The Accuser
Released: September 7, 1977
Type: Movie
In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is inundated with mysteriously threatening be-ribboned anti-capitalist tracts, delivered overnight to everyone's desks. Later, the executive's body is brought to company offices for an official wake -- only no one at the company has ordered that such a thing be done. A mysterious prankster, who is able to imitate the voice of the company's president, has arranged these things. When Americans from the head office get wind of these developments, they institute a search for the perpetrator which leads to mysterious subterranean passages under the company's skyscraper.
bee
The Devil in the Box
Title: The Devil in the Box
Released: April 19, 1977
Type: Movie
Alain Brissot, an executive in a major company, was made redundant following a redundancy plan, but decided to put up a fight by continuing to occupy his office against all odds... He soon went on hunger strike, and, after many ups and downs, ended up taking back the job of his former manager, who had himself been ousted following the failure of a lucrative contract with an African country.
bee
The Wing or the Thigh?
Title: The Wing or the Thigh?
Character: Un employé du guide Duchemin
Released: October 27, 1976
Type: Movie
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!
bee
Au bout du compte
Title: Au bout du compte
Released: October 17, 1976
Type: Movie
bee
Mr. Klein
Title: Mr. Klein
Released: September 23, 1976
Type: Movie
Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with whom he could be mistakenly identified, something dangerous in such harsh times.
bee
The Education in Love of Valentin
Title: The Education in Love of Valentin
Character: Businessman
Released: May 25, 1976
Type: Movie
This sex comedy concerns the efforts of Julien to get his timid, "backward" 20-year-old son to take an interest in sex and get married. After a series of adventures with women (arranged by papa), Valentin finally gets married to a woman who appears to be as shy as he is. Things get complicated when his father begins an affair with her.
bee
The Red Ibis
Title: The Red Ibis
Character: Hervé
Released: May 21, 1975
Type: Movie
A mentally disturbed man named Jérémie is scouring the area in search of women he can strangle with his scarf, which is embroidered with an ibis.
bee
Fear Over the City
Title: Fear Over the City
Character: L'invité qui se trompe de porte
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.
bee
Playing with Fire
Title: Playing with Fire
Character: Bonaud, gang leader
Released: February 19, 1975
Type: Movie
A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers.
bee
Saint-Just and the Force of Things
Title: Saint-Just and the Force of Things
Character: Barbaroux
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Antoine Saint-Just, comrade of Robespierre and youngest member of the Committee of Public Safety, is drawn into the tempestuous political & military conflicts of France under the Terror.
bee
The Secret
Title: The Secret
Character: Bertram
Released: October 9, 1974
Type: Movie
A stranger enters into and forever alters the life of a couple. He claims to be pursued by certain authorities who intend to prevent him from disclosing a secret that only he holds, whence the title. Is he lying, or insane - or is he telling the truth? Who, if anyone, is after him? And what *is* - the secret?
bee
Chut !
Title: Chut !
Character: Henri Butin
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A small saver discovers the scam that threatens all subscribers to the "Caution foncière". He embarks on an incredible adventure to recover the funds paid in by his friends, and succeeds in exposing the scandal.