Jean-Pierre Sentier

Jean-Pierre Sentier

Born: April 7, 1940
Died: January 5, 1995
in Beaugency

Movies for Jean-Pierre Sentier...

George Sand, une femme libre
Title: George Sand, une femme libre
Released: April 22, 1995
Type: Movie
This film bears witness to a life that changes... Or how Aurore, a young woman of 26 who is bored in Nohant, with Baron Dudevant, her country husband with the appearance of a gentleman, becomes George Sand.
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Crystal Book
Title: Crystal Book
Character: Père Baud
Released: November 11, 1994
Type: Movie
This European thriller, set in Sri Lanka, attempts to expound upon the philosophical implications of life, death, and memory. JB, an academic famed for his studies of oriental culture and alcoholic who has never recovered from his wife's suicide, returns to Sri Lanka to translate a book written on glass. It is supposed to contain Buddha's discourse upon memory. While he is there, an attractive nurse, Julia asks him to assist a young boy who wants to locate his father who is now living in a Tamil-occupied area. The Tamil terrorists will kill any trespassers. Compounding JB's conflict in deciding to go is that his former home where he lived with his wife is in that area. Unbeknownst to him, the boy is really a Tamil spy.
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A Shadow of a Doubt
Title: A Shadow of a Doubt
Character: Maître Toussaint / l'avocat de Jean
Released: September 11, 1993
Type: Movie
Aline Issermann's "Shades of Doubt" ("L'Ombre du Doute"), a French film about a wrenching family crisis, is set forth with remarkable restraint. The subject is incest, but the story's potential for tawdriness is never exploited. Instead, Ms. Issermann presents a discreet, methodical account of how 12-year-old Alexandrine comes to bring and then recant charges against her father, Jean.
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Krapatchouk
Title: Krapatchouk
Character: Marceau
Released: April 7, 1993
Type: Movie
Two young men have left their obscure Balkan country to earn some money as "guest workers" in western Europe. On their way back home, they attempt to change trains in Paris but encounter surprising difficulties from the ticket authorities there. It seems that political changes have rendered their homeland nonexistent, and their passports are no good. Before long, they are stranded in Paris without passports, without a country, and soon even their luggage is stolen. Their fumbling efforts to straighten out the mess result in the French press getting into the act, labeling them as Russian spies. The Parisian expatriate community takes them into its bosom, and romance blooms between one of the lads and a Spanish hatmaker, before they finally achieve a (highly improbable) solution for their difficulties.
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On Guard
Title: On Guard
Character: Etienne, the mayor
Released: February 26, 1992
Type: Movie
In this earnest drama, a rural schoolteacher who has become a strong advocate for ecological awareness and is a committed opponent of hunting in the local swamp becomes romantically embroiled with a single mother who has returned to her birthplace since just before her boy (now nine years old) was born. Despite some hard feelings from the adult population of the town (who are very pro-hunting), the teacher's romance progresses smoothly until he learns that his girlfriend's brother stuffs and mounts specimens of endangered species.
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La fille du magicien
Title: La fille du magicien
Character: Othello
Released: November 28, 1990
Type: Movie
Lili is twenty years old, has an English mother, a magician father, a voice from elsewhere and a gift that only children know: the power of her own desire. It all starts with a summer night: that summer, Lili and Bruno will find love.
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Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
Title: Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
Character: Pierre Leclerc
Released: August 22, 1990
Type: Movie
Fleeing fame, the writer Anatole Hirsch decides to publish his new book under the name of his cousin, Martin Bassane. This book wins the Prix Goncourt. A film inspired by the story of Romain Gary.
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La fille des collines
Title: La fille des collines
Character: Augustin
Released: March 14, 1990
Type: Movie
When Tom returns from the army in the summer of 1958 to his country, the Pyrenees, he never thought he would meet an 18-year-old girl who is causing trouble in the region. This girl will lead Tom to oppose his brother Vincent...
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Title: Les Jupons de la révolution
Character: Grandjean
Released: July 19, 1989
Type: TV
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La soule
Title: La soule
Released: February 8, 1989
Type: Movie
In the debacle of the battle of Vitoria in Spain in 1813, Pierre Cursey was robbed of the horses of his unit by a fugitive. He is taken prisoner and sent to a floating pontoon. He managed to survive but vowed to find the traitor who had put him through hell. He finds him two years later in a village in the Dordogne. Francois Lemercier is the town's shoemaker and above all the captain and hero of the local soule team, a ball game that dates back to the Middle Ages. Cursey will discover in Lemercier a man of chivalrous honor.
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Pleure Pas My Love
Title: Pleure Pas My Love
Released: January 18, 1989
Type: Movie
After the suicide of his actress-mother, a young man announces his identity to his father, who happens to be the man who directed his mother's last film.
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Camille Claudel
Title: Camille Claudel
Character: Limet
Released: December 7, 1988
Type: Movie
The life of Camille Claudel, a French sculptor who becomes the apprentice of Auguste Rodin and later his lover. Her passion for her art and Rodin drive her further away from reason and rationality.
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Strange Place for an Encounter
Title: Strange Place for an Encounter
Character: Pierrot
Released: May 26, 1988
Type: Movie
France is a haughty, bourgeoise wife who is abandoned at the side of the road by her husband after a vicious quarrel. She meets Charles, a doctor. The meeting of the two strangers is the focus of the film, along with their encounters with characters at a truck stop.
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The Murdered House
Title: The Murdered House
Character: Célestat Dormeur
Released: February 1, 1988
Type: Movie
After World War I, a young ex-soldier, Sébastien Monge, returns to his home village. Ignorant of his past, he learns that, 24 years before, his entire family was slain in their home one stormy night. Only Sébastien, then a four-month old baby, was spared. Whilst Sébastien is being seduced by Charmaine, Dupin is killed by someone else. Sébastien’s next victim, the miller Didon Pujol, is also murdered before he has a chance to take his revenge. Sébastien realises that someone is watching his every move and is going to extraordinary lengths to protect him. But who, and why..?
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Angel Dust
Title: Angel Dust
Character: Georges Landry
Released: March 18, 1987
Type: Movie
A tired and alcoholic police investigator has lost his wife to a hotel owner, and former pimp, but befriends a young woman which isn't at all who she claims to be.
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The Secret Wife
Title: The Secret Wife
Character: Bourgogne
Released: September 17, 1986
Type: Movie
It was during one of his missions in Norway that Antoine learned of his wife's death. He leaves his experimental submarine and returns to Paris. Helene was found in the Seine and had taken barbiturates. Even though he had not been with Hélène for six years, he knew her well enough to believe that she was incapable of committing suicide. So who and why?
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Exit-exil
Title: Exit-exil
Character: Lyautey
Released: April 2, 1986
Type: Movie
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Title: Le Génie du faux
Character: Jérôme de Bazel
Released: November 15, 1985
Type: TV
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De l'autre côté de l'image
Title: De l'autre côté de l'image
Character: Jonathan Akenbury (Voice) / Narrator (Voice)
Released: August 1, 1984
Type: Movie
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The Judge
Title: The Judge
Character: Le commisaire Perrota
Released: April 11, 1984
Type: Movie
A courageous judge tries to dismantle a drug traffickers ring.
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Street of the Damned
Title: Street of the Damned
Released: January 4, 1984
Type: Movie
In a desolate Paris suburb, no one dares challenge crime boss Hagen, who rules his turf with an iron fist. That includes his former friend Chet, who vows to keep to himself in order to protect his loved ones. But Hagen keeps pushing his buttons… and Chet can only stand for so much before he explodes.
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Un bruit qui court
Title: Un bruit qui court
Character: Piotre Hernandez
Released: September 5, 1983
Type: Movie
Jean-Pierre Sentier and Daniel Laloux joined forces to write, direct, and act in this zany comedy about two men who were sent to an island by the Ministry of Toil to make Camembert cheese boxes. Unfortunately, the men's papers fell behind a filing cabinet and it is many years before the government realizes they exist. Meanwhile, the men have forged new identities and a good life for themselves as they loyally keep up their production. When the government decides to send a team of experts to handle the situation, the two men prepare to eject these unwanted arrivals at any cost.
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Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
Title: Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
Character: Mimi
Released: August 17, 1983
Type: Movie
Barely out of prison, where she spent five long years, a pretty prostitute sows disorder in the life of a hitherto peaceful couple.
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Les Îles
Title: Les Îles
Character: le passeur
Released: March 16, 1983
Type: Movie
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Title: Capitaine X
Character: Baron von Rauschnitz
Released: January 28, 1983
Type: TV
French miniseries.
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Nestor Burma, détective de choc
Title: Nestor Burma, détective de choc
Character: L'homme au couteau dans les dos
Released: April 14, 1982
Type: Movie
Detective Nestor Burma begins an investigation into the corrupt drug-ridden punk rock music world.
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Instinct de femme
Title: Instinct de femme
Character: L'homme de la décharge
Released: November 7, 1981
Type: Movie
Young - beautiful - married, fulfilled, Martha is bored. Passive in an active society, she took a first step by serving as a "guinea pig" to her brother researcher who undertook a comparative study on animal behavior and human behavior.
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Title: La Traque
Character: Rognoni (OCRB Paris)
Released: November 28, 1980
Type: TV
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Two Lions in the Sun
Title: Two Lions in the Sun
Character: René
Released: October 29, 1980
Type: Movie
Paul and Rene, two men in their forties weary with life. One a widower, the other is divorced and pays alimony to his ex-wife. They live together, go on vacations together. This last vacation has been a washout and so is their return.
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Exterior Night
Title: Exterior Night
Character: Charles
Released: September 10, 1980
Type: Movie
Hoping to make a fresh start, Léo, a jazz musician, takes up temporary residence with his friend Bony, a young writer who is struggling to get his work published. One evening, Léo strikes up an acquaintance with a woman taxi driver, Cora; in spite of her impulsive and moody temperament, he cannot help being attracted to her. On the spur of the moment, Cora invites Léo to make love to her. When Bony meets Cora, he too finds her irresistible, but he lacks Léo’s self-confidence to make his move. Cora is not a woman that any man can possess readily. She is like a wild animal, a creature that revels in its freedom. Will either Léo or Bony be able to tame her...?
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It All Depends on Girls
Title: It All Depends on Girls
Character: Mathieu
Released: February 13, 1980
Type: Movie
In Montmartre, Paris, two friends are leading a happy carefree Bohemian existence. Jean-Luc is a cabinetmaker, Mathieu is a sculptor. Then they both meet the love of their lives and decide to get married. Unfortunately, the objects of their desire are not so eager to be drawn into matrimony.
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The Bit Between the Teeth
Title: The Bit Between the Teeth
Character: Ramoz
Released: September 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math whiz who uses his talent for picking the winners. Charles (Michel Galabru) is the wealthy scrap-iron magnate who has embarrassing evidence on many prominent political figures. Loic (Jacques Dutronc) is the aspiring politico who seeks to further his career by any means possible. Charles approaches Loic and asks his political party for a loan in hopes of fixing an upcoming race....
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Rowing Across the Atlantic
Title: Rowing Across the Atlantic
Character: Jonathan Akenbury (Voice)
Released: May 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Newlyweds, Adelaide and Jonathan leave New York in 1907 in a boat and row, ignorant of world events, to Europe. The years pass and many things are changing them, love is gradually degrading to hatred, then indifference. Old age is almost here, and with it, in a last swim, a last embrace, husband and wife end up “alone at last.” The boat adrift, will be discovered on the shores of Europe in the year 1957
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La Passion
Title: La Passion
Character: Ponce-Pilate
Released: March 23, 1978
Type: Movie
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The Question
Title: The Question
Character: Lieutenant Charbonneau
Released: May 4, 1977
Type: Movie
1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers.
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Mr. Michel's Dog
Title: Mr. Michel's Dog
Character: Le boucher
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
In 1977, after working as an assistant director on several features, BETTY BLUE filmmaker Jean-Jacques Beineix directed the following short film about a man and his dog.
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Golden Night
Title: Golden Night
Character: L'indicateur
Released: October 1, 1976
Type: Movie
After his family tries to kill him and he has been pronounced dead, Michel returns from the dead and sets about getting revenge on his family members. He sends each one a voodoo doll, warning of their fate. Wandering over the streets of Paris, Michel is the haunted and hunted, as he himself hunts his villainous kin.
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The Judge and the Assassin
Title: The Judge and the Assassin
Character: Un journaliste
Released: March 10, 1976
Type: Movie
France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders many teenagers over years. The judge Rousseau captures him, but to serve his ambition seeks to avoid that Bouvier is simply declared insane.
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The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
Title: The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
Character: Le psychiatre
Released: January 7, 1976
Type: Movie
A bus conductor gets dressed for work in the morning, goes to the toilet, where he is killed by a bomb. The Commissioner and his fat, bumbling assistant, Inspector Charbonnier are put on the case. After interviewing friends, wives, colleagues, and spying on strangers who might be connected, our heroes trace the assassin down to a mental institution where, it seems, the murder victim has been an inmate for the last three years...
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Le père Amable
Title: Le père Amable
Character: Césaire
Released: November 22, 1975
Type: Movie
Celeste has failed with Victor and has a little boy. Césaire would still like to marry Céleste, a beautiful and hard-working girl. His father, old Amable, did not hear him that way but ended up giving in. Less than a year later, Césaire dies. Between Father Amable and his daughter-in-law, a cold and silent war begins.
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Title: Le Pain noir
Character: Coutil
Released: December 20, 1974
Type: TV
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Potr' and the Girl of Water
Title: Potr' and the Girl of Water
Character: Narrator (Voice)
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Popular tale. Through love and awkwardness, a fisherman and a mermaid try to bury their differences…
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Maître Zacharius
Title: Maître Zacharius
Character: L'étranger
Released: September 11, 1973
Type: Movie
Master Zacharius, the village watchmaker, dreams of giving a soul to the automatons he manufactures. A mysterious young man bursts in and seems to want to charm the watchmaker's daughter. After his passage, all the clocks go haywire, causing trouble. How far is Zacharius willing to go to get what he wants?
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The Savior
Title: The Savior
Character: Nanette's husband
Released: September 1, 1971
Type: Movie
This is rural France. It's the summer of 1943, the weather is fine and sunny and life is sweet. On one of these beautiful days, Nanette, a fourteen-year-old peasant girl, meets a slightly injured young man near the farm she lives on. Her life is about to change forever.
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Title: La bande des Ayacks
Character: Policier 1
Released: July 30, 1970
Type: TV
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Bye Bye Barbara
Title: Bye Bye Barbara
Released: March 11, 1969
Type: Movie
A chance meeting with an alluring stranger leads a sports journalist down a twisted path of deception.
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Title: L'Homme du Picardie
Character: L'éclusier
Released: December 16, 1968
Type: TV
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Le Socrate
Title: Le Socrate
Character: Adam
Released: October 3, 1968
Type: Movie
A modern-day Socrates leaves behind his life as a philosopher to live off the land. When a police inspector is assigned to follow the man and question his motives, the cop gets caught up in the charming philosophy of the man who has left his material possessions behind. He encounters a pretty young woman and her nihilistic boyfriend, the latter who makes a living with his psychedelic side shows. The boyfriend gets the newspapers to print the philosopher's thoughts, prompting him to acquire a bevy of believers. There is some nudity in this comical thought-provoking story, but the main focus remains the words of the man who left behind creature comforts to find himself.
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The Companions of Baal
Title: The Companions of Baal
Released: July 29, 1968
Type: Movie
Journalist Claude Leroy (Jacques Champreux) reports that a secret society, The Companions of Baal, is behind a hold-up in the small town of Blaingirey. They are led by the Grand Maître Hubert de Mauvouloir (Jean Martin). An adorant of Lucifer, he aims to enslave the world. Accompanied by their acolyte, Pierrot Robichat (Gérard Zimmermann), and a young girl, Françoise Cordier (Claire Nadeau), Claude Leroy is determined to finally reveal the mysteries of the group's criminal enterprise.
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Woyzeck
Title: Woyzeck
Character: Le docteur
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie