Claude Cerval

Claude Cerval

Born: February 21, 1921
Died: July 25, 1972
in Paris, France

Movies for Claude Cerval...

Manhunt for Murder
Title: Manhunt for Murder
Released: November 10, 1971
Type: Movie
A French waiter living in New York City witnesses a murder and must go on the run from the police and the mob.
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Angel's Leap
Title: Angel's Leap
Character: Marc Orsini
Released: September 21, 1971
Type: Movie
In this French crime thriller, you can leave the mob, but the mob won't leave you. Louis (Jean Yanne) has retired to a Thailand plantation with an Asian wife and child. Back in Marseilles, however, because a no-holds-barred gang war has broken out, Louis' large collateral family is wiped out, and he is family are slated for destruction.
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To Die of Love
Title: To Die of Love
Character: le juge d'instruction
Released: January 20, 1971
Type: Movie
A love story between a teacher, Daniele, 32 years and one of his students Gerard, 17 during the heated atmosphere of May 68. Daniele is a fiery young woman, very involved politically. Gerard's parents accuse Danièle of statutory rape and complain. Danièle is trapped and the drama begins...
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Clock Head
Title: Clock Head
Character: Fine Faisan
Released: April 11, 1970
Type: Movie
One night in Paris all the clocks and watches of the whole world stopped except that of a small professor.
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Title: Jacquou le Croquant
Character: Le Comte de Nansac
Released: October 4, 1969
Type: TV
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The Milky Way
Title: The Milky Way
Character: Brigadier
Released: February 28, 1969
Type: Movie
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
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Title: Sial IV
Character: Nathanaël de Geoffroy
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: TV
Sial IV is a Swiss television miniseries by Greek filmmaker and writer Adonis Kyrou, adapted from the speculative fiction novel Deadly Image (AKA The Uncertain Midnight) by British author Edmund Cooper. It tells the story of Denis Lange (Henri Gilabert), a fallout shelter engineer who is accidentally trapped in suspended animation as war breaks out in 1970, only to awaken in the early 2100s in Sial IV, an underground city in which humankind lives a life of leisure, having discharged all responsibility to androids. Assigned the android Diana as his personal assistant, Denis ventures through this unsettling idyll, eventually finding a small but tenacious group of resistors who seek to uncover the truth about the compound and its ruler, the mysterious Machiavelli.
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Beru and These Women
Title: Beru and These Women
Released: October 23, 1968
Type: Movie
Inspector Bérurier, having inherited a mansion three years earlier, comes to collect rent from the tenant when the latter is murdered under mysterious circumstances. Béru calls Commissaire San Antonio to the rescue, and the two men discover that Laurenzi's hotel is home to a "brothel" whose director, Madame Albertine, soon reveals to the two policemen that Laurenzi was having an ongoing relationship with Helga, one of the boarders, and Mr. Max, a regular guest of the house.
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The Woman Is a Stranger
Title: The Woman Is a Stranger
Character: Joe Kerr
Released: January 17, 1968
Type: Movie
The psychotic son of a film producer becomes obsessed with a beautiful blonde starlet while in Cannes, lures her to his hotel room and strangles her. His mother finds out, but can she keep her mouth shut to protect her son? Meanwhile, the young killer meets another pretty blonde...
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Title: Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
Character: Bernard Bargain
Released: September 15, 1967
Type: TV
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.
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The Slave
Title: The Slave
Character: Ferry
Released: June 28, 1967
Type: Movie
While entertaining her lover one weekend, a woman's marriage is threatened by the sudden appearance of her evil step-brother. Beyond using her home to hide from the police after his recent heist, he also blackmails her in to a horrendous weekend filled with debauchery and violence. After her ordeal she is anything but bored.
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Love + Fear = Torment
Title: Love + Fear = Torment
Character: Louie Ricco
Released: June 14, 1967
Type: Movie
"Love + fear = Torment" exposes the secret world of the French model studios, and the men who try to corrupt them. Mobsters become involved when fifty-thousand dollars worth of uncut gems are stolen. A model studio becomes terrorized as one of the models innocently befriends one of the mobsters.
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Belle de Jour
Title: Belle de Jour
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 24, 1967
Type: Movie
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
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The Upper Hand
Title: The Upper Hand
Character: René
Released: March 2, 1966
Type: Movie
In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. And an undercover US Treasury Department agent is trying to infiltrate the smuggling business.
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That Man in Istanbul
Title: That Man in Istanbul
Character: Brandt
Released: August 11, 1965
Type: Movie
An American adventurer who has a gambling den in Istanbul, who is suspected to be involved in the kidnapping of a nuclear scientist, but ultimately becomes self on the search for the disappeared and gets a striving for world domination secret organization.
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Le commissaire mène l’enquête
Title: Le commissaire mène l’enquête
Released: July 28, 1965
Type: Movie
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The Girl Can't Stop
Title: The Girl Can't Stop
Character: Manolis
Released: June 11, 1965
Type: Movie
A shipbuilder is ruined. All he has left is a mortgaged house, a mortgaged yacht and a mortgaged wife. Precisely, there is a young vivacious, banker in his spare time, a little sadistic on the edges, ready to take the mortgage in question. Helped by his damned soul, a Turk, brother of his mistress, the builder throws his wife in the arms of the viveur. Which falls madly in love with Thassoula. The Turk kills Giorgian's uncle. Held by blackmail, he realizes that, decidedly, he has gone too far. Too late.
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Crime on a Summer Morning
Title: Crime on a Summer Morning
Character: Jean-Pierre 'Pierrot' - le pigeon
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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FX 18, Secret Agent
Title: FX 18, Secret Agent
Character: Barter
Released: March 28, 1964
Type: Movie
Secret agent FX-18 goes undercover to break up an espionage ring.
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Germinal
Title: Germinal
Character: Victor Maigrat
Released: September 16, 1963
Type: Movie
Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low and safety left much to be desired. Lantier tried to organize the miners into a union. When mine manager Hennebeau refused to negotiate, the workers launched a general strike, which ended with the intervention of the troops.
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Symphony for a Massacre
Title: Symphony for a Massacre
Released: August 2, 1963
Type: Movie
A band of gangsters devise a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug traffickers: the five fraudsters will face bigger problems than them.
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Young Girls of Good Families
Title: Young Girls of Good Families
Character: Clauval
Released: July 12, 1963
Type: Movie
A young kleptomaniac girl befriends a rich heiress whom she admires and goes with her to Saint-Tropez
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Any Number Can Win
Title: Any Number Can Win
Character: Le commissaire de police
Released: March 19, 1963
Type: Movie
Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
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Ophélia
Title: Ophélia
Character: Adrien Lesurf
Released: February 6, 1963
Type: Movie
A young man becomes enraged when his mother remarries his wealthy uncle after his father dies.
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The Sword and the Balance
Title: The Sword and the Balance
Released: February 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pasts are questionable, riddled with violence and controversy. Neither the police nor the court can decide how to solve that puzzle.
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The Empire of Night
Title: The Empire of Night
Released: December 5, 1962
Type: Movie
Usually cast as secret agent/private eye Lemmy Caution, Eddie Constantine plays "Eddie" in The Empire of Night. This time, Constantine is a cabaret singer at odds with a criminal gang. When the villains try to take over every nightclub in town for their own nefarious purposes, Eddie sings a new tune with his fists. The story takes several unexpected turns, but Constantine remains in charge throughout.
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There's Going to Be a Party
Title: There's Going to Be a Party
Character: Secret Services Director
Released: December 22, 1960
Type: Movie
FBI agent John Lewis travels in Europe, from Paris to Lisbon, trying to locate a disappeared fellow secret-agent, Mark Lemoine. Soon he has trouble with a violant gang, and is involved with a young French reporter, Michèle Laurent. Finally, the chief of the Secret Service tells Lewis that Lemoine never existed. Instead of ending his mission there, the real trouble starts.
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Danger in the Middle East
Title: Danger in the Middle East
Character: Zarkho Solin
Released: September 2, 1960
Type: Movie
A criminal making plans to pull off one big score before he retires, comes into possession of secret papers worth a fortune, but dies while attempting the hit. His wife takes those papers for herself, while discovering there are rival criminals, a powerful organization and a sleazy blackmailer.
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L'Ennemi dans l'ombre
Title: L'Ennemi dans l'ombre
Character: Nilpiker
Released: August 24, 1960
Type: Movie
The director of the French Ministry of the Interior summons Serge Cazals, an Interpol agent, to unmask the leaders of an organization that sells military intelligence and has just made a name for itself with the assassination of Secret Service ace Georges Dandieu. Cazals is soon spotted by his adversaries and dangerously threatened. Through an intermediary in the organization, he obtains a telephone number that leads him to various leads, but to no avail. He then decides to set a trap, with the help of his friend Violaine.
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L'Ennemi dans l'ombre
Title: L'Ennemi dans l'ombre
Released: August 24, 1960
Type: Movie
The director of the French Ministry of the Interior summons Serge Cazals, an Interpol agent, to unmask the leaders of an organization that sells military intelligence and has just made a name for itself with the assassination of Secret Service ace Georges Dandieu. Cazals is soon spotted by his adversaries and dangerously threatened. Through an intermediary in the organization, he obtains a telephone number that leads him to various leads, but to no avail. He then decides to set a trap, with the help of his friend Violaine.
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The Love Game
Title: The Love Game
Character: Le consommateur
Released: June 1, 1960
Type: Movie
Victor (Jean-Pierre Cassel) and Suzanne (Genevieve Cluny) are a couple at odds about commitment in this light, fast-paced comedy-drama by Philippe de Broca. Suzanne needs more reassurance from Victor about the future of their relationship. He is a painter with an inspired creative side who finds it difficult to understand Suzanne's point of view. They are happy together; what is the problem? So when a friend comes into the picture and proposes to Suzanne, Victor suddenly realizes that Suzanne was right. Without a formal commitment, the suddenly insecure man does not like the view from the opposite shore.
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The Big Risk
Title: The Big Risk
Character: Raoul Fargier
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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The Cousins
Title: The Cousins
Character: Clovis
Released: March 11, 1959
Type: Movie
Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a decadent, bohemian pleasure-seeker who shows the meek, diligent Charles the thrills of city life. When Charles falls for Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances, relationships begin to shift.
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Le beau Serge
Title: Le beau Serge
Character: Priester
Released: June 6, 1958
Type: Movie
François returns to his village after a long absence. He finds his friend Serge who has married Yvonne, and has developed an alcohol problem after the death of their stillborn child. Serge has become an angry, bitter figure not unlike the roles of James Dean, refusing to face reality and adulthood and François must help him.
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Girl Merchants
Title: Girl Merchants
Released: October 4, 1957
Type: Movie
A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp for women by a sadistic gangster.
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Bob le Flambeur
Title: Bob le Flambeur
Character: Jean, the Croupier
Released: August 24, 1956
Type: Movie
In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling -- and winning. He is kind, classy and well-liked by virtually everyone in town, including police inspector Ledru. However, when Bob's luck turns sour, he begins to lose friends and makes the most desperate gamble of his life: to rob the Deauville casino during Grand Prix weekend, when the vaults are full. Unfortunately, Bob soon learns that the game is rigged and the cops are on to him.
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A Missionary
Title: A Missionary
Released: December 2, 1955
Type: Movie
Dreaming of heroic deeds, a young missionary soon becomes disillusioned.
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The Amazing Mr. Callaghan
Title: The Amazing Mr. Callaghan
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 28, 1955
Type: Movie
A ship, La Circé, has sunk and it might possibly be criminal . The vessel belongs to Storata ,who asks the insurance company for a hundred million Francs .Callaghan is working for them and he investigates on dry land and on the sea. The brilliant detective discovers that Storata has scuttled his ship himself to swindle insurance.