Patrick Bauchau

Patrick Bauchau

Born: December 6, 1938
in Brussels, Belgium
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Patrick Nicolas Jean Sixte Ghislain Bauchau (born 6 December 1938) is a Belgian actor best known for his roles in the films A View to a Kill, The Rapture and Panic Room, as well as the TV shows The Pretender and House.

Movies for Patrick Bauchau...

Wim Wenders, Desperado
Title: Wim Wenders, Desperado
Character: Self
Released: July 16, 2020
Type: Movie
"Wings Of Desire" and "Buena Vista Social Club", "Paris, Texas" and "The State Of Things": Wim Wenders is considered one of the pioneers of New German Cinema and one of the most important and influential representatives of contemporary cinema. With never before shown archive material and extraordinary encounters with companions and contemporary witnesses such as Francis Ford Coppola, Willem Dafoe, Andie MacDowell, Hanns Zischler, Patti Smith and Werner Herzog, this documentary provides unique insights into the life and work of one of the most multifaceted artists of our times. Renowned documentary filmmaker Eric Friedler ("It Must Schwing. The Blue Note Story") and his co-director Andreas Frege were given the exclusive opportunity to portray Wenders for this film. From Dusseldorf to Paris, and all the way to the desert of Texas, the film traces iconic locations and decisive moments in Wenders' work as director, producer, photographer and author.
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The Translators
Title: The Translators
Character: Georges Fontaine
Released: December 20, 2019
Type: Movie
Nine translators, hired to translate the eagerly awaited final book of a bestselling trilogy, are confined in a luxurious bunker.
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Against the Clock
Title: Against the Clock
Character: Goldstucker
Released: January 11, 2019
Type: Movie
After a CIA Agent is seriously injured during a mission, his wife, a former CIA operative, becomes determined to find out what happened - a truth the CIA Director wants concealed at all cost.
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The Girl King
Title: The Girl King
Character: René Descartes
Released: December 11, 2015
Type: Movie
A portrait of the brilliant, extravagant Kristina of Sweden, queen from age six, who fights the conservative forces that are against her ideas to modernize Sweden and who have no tolerance for her awakening sexuality.
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Me and Kaminski
Title: Me and Kaminski
Character: Professor Megelbach
Released: September 17, 2015
Type: Movie
Young journalist Sebastian Zöllner is writing an article on artist Manuel Kaminski. Zöllner hopes that Kaminski dies soon, so that he can cash in on his article.
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Amnesiac
Title: Amnesiac
Character: Doctor
Released: August 14, 2015
Type: Movie
The story of a man who wakes up in bed suffering from memory loss after being in an accident, only to begin to suspect that his wife may not be his real wife and that a web of lies and deceit deepen inside the house where he soon finds himself a prisoner.
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Mega Shark vs. Kolossus
Title: Mega Shark vs. Kolossus
Character: Dr. Sergie Abramov
Released: June 18, 2015
Type: Movie
In search of a new energy source, Russia accidentally reawakens the Kolossus - a giant robot doomsday device from the Cold War. At the same time, a new Mega Shark appears, threatening global security.
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Every Thing Will Be Fine
Title: Every Thing Will Be Fine
Character: Dad
Released: April 2, 2015
Type: Movie
One day, driving aimlessly around the outskirts of town after a trivial domestic quarrel, a writer named Tomas accidentally hits and kills a child. Will he be able to move on?
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Big Ass Spider!
Title: Big Ass Spider!
Character: Lucas
Released: October 17, 2013
Type: Movie
When a giant alien spider escapes from a military lab and rampages across the city of Los Angeles, it is up to one clever exterminator and his security guard sidekick to kill the creature before the entire city is destroyed.
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Title: Crossing Lines
Character: Christophe Bernard
Released: August 22, 2013
Type: TV
Through globalization, many countries have been opened and barriers removed to ensure easy trade, travel and cultural diversity. However, this openness has given opportunities to criminals looking to exploit the system and ultimately threaten our global safety. As Europe has become a "safe house" for criminals eluding law enforcers, a special kind of law enforcement team is needed to handle specific ongoing crimes on a global level. "Crossing Lines" is the story of one such team, made up of five international cops, headed by Captain Daniel. The team - comprised of individuals who have little in common - must learn to live and work under the most dangerous and potentially deadly conditions. Housed in an unused storage section underneath the ICC, this mismatched team faces bureaucratic, jurisdictional and cultural obstacles while traversing continents in pursuit of justice.
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Satellite of Love
Title: Satellite of Love
Character: Alex
Released: March 5, 2013
Type: Movie
Catherine and Blake just tied the knot. Samuel and Catherine have a long and intimate history which is significant to the fact that Samuel and Blake are best friends. When Samuel decides not to attend their wedding under some pretense that no one believes, he invites the newlyweds to Nadi Vineyards for a week-long party in paradise to make up for his absence. Records spin, wine flows, and bottles pile up. What unfolds over the course of this week will rearrange the geometry of Samuel, Catherine, and Blake's relationships and test the boundaries of their complicated, revolving love for one another.
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The Boarder
Title: The Boarder
Character: Jarren Williams
Released: July 25, 2012
Type: Movie
Inspired by true-life events, this is the sobering story of the Williams family and their process of coping with an adopted child suffering from Reactive Attachment Disorder.
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Get the Gringo
Title: Get the Gringo
Character: Surgeon
Released: March 15, 2012
Type: Movie
A career criminal nabbed by Mexican authorities is placed in a tough prison where he learns to survive with the help of a 9-year-old boy.
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Glenn, the Flying Robot
Title: Glenn, the Flying Robot
Character: Richard Leblanc
Released: July 5, 2011
Type: Movie
Henry and Jack are two famous and talented pianists: they are rivals and try to outdo each other in the various music events where they regularly compete. The former friends will clash with no mercy, from contest to contest until the day a domestic robot, GLENN, enters their lives. GLENN will jeopardize everybody and everything around them.
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Dharma Guns
Title: Dharma Guns
Character: Professor Starkov
Released: March 9, 2011
Type: Movie
The film opens on a water-skiing accident - a girl (Délie) drives a speedboat and pulls a young man (Stan). They are both challenging their own limits when a crash occurs... Stan wakes up from a coma after this serious accident, to find out that genealogists are looking for an individual whose identity corresponds to his. Instead of asking himself questions about this testamentary filiation, he subscribes for Professor Starkov's legacy, and embarks for the country of Las Estrellas... Purging odyssey where intuition and telepathy accelerates the journey in time. Dharma Guns revisits the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice fighting with the tyranny of Time-God...
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Extraordinary Measures
Title: Extraordinary Measures
Character: CEO Erich Loring
Released: January 21, 2010
Type: Movie
Working-class father John Crowley is finally on the fast track to corporate success when his two young children are diagnosed with Pompe disease—a condition that prevents the body from breaking down sugar. With the support of his wife, John ditches his career and teams with unconventional specialist, Dr. Robert Stonehill to found a bio-tech company and develop a cure in time to save the lives of his children. As Dr. Stonehill works tirelessly to prove the theories that made him the black sheep of the medical community, a powerful bond is forged between the two unlikely allies.
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2012
Title: 2012
Character: Roland Picard
Released: October 10, 2009
Type: Movie
Dr. Adrian Helmsley, part of a worldwide geophysical team investigating the effect on the earth of radiation from unprecedented solar storms, learns that the earth's core is heating up. He warns U.S. President Thomas Wilson that the crust of the earth is becoming unstable and that without proper preparations for saving a fraction of the world's population, the entire race is doomed. Meanwhile, writer Jackson Curtis stumbles on the same information. While the world's leaders race to build "arks" to escape the impending cataclysm, Curtis struggles to find a way to save his family. Meanwhile, volcanic eruptions and earthquakes of unprecedented strength wreak havoc around the world.
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The Perfect Sleep
Title: The Perfect Sleep
Character: Nikolai
Released: March 13, 2009
Type: Movie
In a timeless city, a man with no name returns to the violent, brutal domain of assassins he left ten years before – back when they dubbed him The Mad Monk for his disregard for his own life and his intense devotion to one woman, Porphyria; a beautiful, luminescent woman; the girl he grew up with; the love of his life; the one thing he has ever wanted; the one thing he can never have.
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Title: Castle
Character: Caine Powell
Released: March 9, 2009
Type: TV
After a serial killer imitates the plots of his novels, successful mystery novelist Richard "Rick" Castle receives permission from the Mayor of New York City to tag along with an NYPD homicide investigation team for research purposes.
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Possibility of an Island
Title: Possibility of an Island
Character: Le prophéte
Released: October 9, 2008
Type: Movie
La Possibilité d'une île is a 2008 film directed by Michel Houellebecq, loosely based on his 2005 novel The Possibility of an Island.
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La velocità della luce
Title: La velocità della luce
Character: Rinaldo
Released: April 18, 2008
Type: Movie
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Title: Women's Murder Club
Released: October 12, 2007
Type: TV
Women's Murder Club was an American police procedural and legal drama, which ran on ABC from October 12, 2007, to May 13, 2008. The series is set in San Francisco, California and is based on the 'Women's Murder Club' series of novels written by James Patterson. Series creators Elizabeth Craft and Sarah Fain also served as executive producers alongside Patterson, Joe Simpson, Brett Ratner, and R. Scott Gemmill. The latter also served as showrunner, with Gretchen J. Berg and Aaron Harberts co-executive producing. The pilot was directed by Scott Winant.
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The Gray Man
Title: The Gray Man
Character: Albert Fish
Released: August 30, 2007
Type: Movie
In the late 1920s, Albert Fish, a seemingly benevolent father and grandfather who reared his family by himself after his wife deserted them, turns out to be a serial child molester and murderer. Based on a true story.
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Thieves
Title: Thieves
Character: Anticuario
Released: August 8, 2007
Type: Movie
The main character is a nameless boy (Juan Jose Ballesta) who was taught to steal wallets by his absent mother. He is able to do the trick effortlessly, using his "earnings" to survive while he looks for his mom. As he runs into an antique store owner, he might have found a trace that will lead to her. First, however, he will have to pull off a few "jobs" for the store owner, and he can't do it alone: enter a nameless girl (Maria Valverde) who gets to learn all the secret techniques the young boy has been using all his life.
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Title: Burn Notice
Character: Lucien Balan
Released: June 28, 2007
Type: TV
A formerly blacklisted spy uses his unique skills and training to help people in desperate situations.
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Chrysalis
Title: Chrysalis
Character: Charles Becker
Released: June 25, 2007
Type: Movie
Paris 2020, a high tech surgeon and her daughter are involved in a horrific car accident, the surgeon saves her daughter's life at the cost of manipulating her dreams and memories.
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Title: Lost Signs
Character: Général de Lestrade
Released: June 20, 2007
Type: TV
A strange geometric shape in a field becomes the key to a young woman's dark family past.
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El amor y la ciudad
Title: El amor y la ciudad
Released: April 19, 2007
Type: Movie
It tells the story of three people who live in the same building. On the one hand a pair something uneven, she, a refined decorator more than forty-five and he a young thirtysomething, with an uncertain future. On the other hand, a young visual artist and somewhat unhinged unemployed, portraying their neighbors, spying and draw your way. The meeting point of the three characters is a neighboring bar, thus making the owner, involuntary witness of the triangle, in whose armed much have to see a celebrity who lives in Paris. (PRO)
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Suzanne
Title: Suzanne
Character: Frank
Released: March 7, 2007
Type: Movie
After the death of his musician wife, Franck, a septuagenarian hellenist, feels lost. His friend Max, a womanizer, and his daughter Sabine successively welcome him to their home, but it is his meeting with Suzanne that will give him a taste for life. She is not of his world, nor of his age, but she will be his last love.
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9 Lives of Mara
Title: 9 Lives of Mara
Character: acting
Released: January 1, 2007
Type: Movie
When his widower father starts dating a darkly mesmerizing woman, 12-year-old Robin believes she's witch filled with nefarious intent for his family. But as he tries to rid the house of her, Robin's delicate mind descends into a sinister world.
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The Exotic Locations of 'A View to a Kill'
Title: The Exotic Locations of 'A View to a Kill'
Character: Scarpine (archive footage)
Released: October 4, 2006
Type: Movie
A tour of the exotic locations of 'A View to a Kill'.
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Boy Culture
Title: Boy Culture
Character: Gregory Talbot
Released: September 15, 2006
Type: Movie
A successful gay male escort describes in a series of confessions his tangled romantic relationships with his two roommates and an older, enigmatic male client.
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Karla
Title: Karla
Character: Dr. Arnold
Released: January 20, 2006
Type: Movie
Based on real events, Canada's most notorious serial killers, Paul Bernardo and wife Karla Homolka kidnap, sexually abuse, and murder three young girls.
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Title: Numb3rs
Released: January 23, 2005
Type: TV
Inspired by actual cases and experiences, Numb3rs depicts the confluence of police work and mathematics in solving crime as an FBI agent recruits his mathematical genius brother to help solve a wide range of challenging crimes in Los Angeles from a very different perspective.
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Vampires: The Turning
Title: Vampires: The Turning
Character: Raines
Released: January 2, 2005
Type: Movie
An American kickboxer in Thailand joins a gang of vampire slayers to rescue his lover from a bloodsucking warlord.
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Title: House
Character: Dr. Rowan Case
Released: November 16, 2004
Type: TV
Dr. Gregory House, a drug-addicted, unconventional, misanthropic medical genius, leads a team of diagnosticians at the fictional Princeton–Plainsboro Teaching Hospital in New Jersey.
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Ray
Title: Ray
Character: Dr. Hacker
Released: October 29, 2004
Type: Movie
Born on a sharecropping plantation in Northern Florida, Ray Charles went blind at seven. Inspired by a fiercely independent mom who insisted he make his own way, He found his calling and his gift behind a piano keyboard. Touring across the Southern musical circuit, the soulful singer gained a reputation and then exploded with worldwide fame when he pioneered coupling gospel and country together.
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Title: CSI: NY
Character: Dr. Willems
Released: September 22, 2004
Type: TV
Follow the investigations of a team of NYPD forensic scientists and police officers identified as "Crime Scene Investigators".
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Promised Land
Title: Promised Land
Character: Jim Williamson
Released: August 10, 2004
Type: Movie
The film is about a former child star who still can't accept that his one film is likely to be the last he ever starred in. He drives around in a car that's one big ad for himself and occasionally makes the local news with some freak incident. When the film starts he has just burned down his trailer and caused a traffic jam. He then hits the road with a DV cam to capture real life. A friend promised him he could sell such material to an Italian TV station. When he meets a famous singer on the way and gets drawn into her story things get interesting.
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Title: Justice League Unlimited
Character: Kasnian Monk (voice)
Released: July 31, 2004
Type: TV
Justice League Unlimited is an American animated television series that was produced by Warner Bros. Animation and aired on Cartoon Network. Featuring a wide array of superheroes from the DC Comics universe, and specifically based on the Justice League superhero team, it is a direct sequel to the previous Justice League animated series.
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The Five Obstructions
Title: The Five Obstructions
Character: The Perfect Man / Voice-over (Brussels) / Speaker (Cartoon)
Released: November 7, 2003
Type: Movie
Lars von Trier challenges his mentor, filmmaker Jørgen Leth, to remake Leth’s 1967 short film The Perfect Human five times, each with a different set of bizarre and challenging rules.
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Title: Threat Matrix
Released: September 18, 2003
Type: TV
Against the rising threat, the Homeland Security Agency has created a highly specialized, elite task force trained and equipped to counter anyone or anything that threatens our nation. The head of this super-secret team is Special Agent John Kilmer. He reports only to the President and has authority to call upon the technical skills, firepower and the specialist agents of the FBI, CIA and NSA.
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Title: Carnivàle
Character: Professor Ernst Lodz
Released: September 14, 2003
Type: TV
Carnivàle is an American television series set in the United States during the Great Depression and Dust Bowl. In tracing the lives of two disparate groups of people, its overarching story depicts the battle between good and evil and the struggle between free will and destiny; the storyline mixes Christian theology with gnosticism and Masonic lore, particularly that of the Knights Templar.
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Shade
Title: Shade
Character: Malini
Released: May 18, 2003
Type: Movie
Tiffany, Charlie and Vernon are con artists looking to up the ante from their typical scams. They figure a good way of doing this is taking down Dean "The Dean" Stevens, a well-known cardsharp, in a rigged game. However, they first need enough money to enter a game with Stevens, so they decide to strike a deal with fellow crook Larry Jennings to scam a local gangster -- which turns out to be a bad idea.
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C.E.O.
Title: C.E.O.
Released: October 22, 2002
Type: Movie
Ling Min becomes the manager of Haier Factory when the factory is almost bankrupted.
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Secretary
Title: Secretary
Character: Dr. Twardon
Released: September 20, 2002
Type: Movie
A young woman, recently released from a mental hospital, gets a job as a secretary to a demanding lawyer, where their employer-employee relationship turns into a sexual, sadomasochistic one.
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Title: The Dead Zone
Released: June 16, 2002
Type: TV
Johnny Smith discovers he has developed psychic abilities after a coma.
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Panic Room
Title: Panic Room
Character: Stephen Altman
Released: March 29, 2002
Type: Movie
Trapped in their New York brownstone's panic room, a hidden chamber built as a sanctuary in the event of break-ins, newly divorced Meg Altman and her young daughter Sarah play a deadly game of cat-and-mouse with three intruders - Burnham, Raoul and Junior - during a brutal home invasion. But the room itself is the focal point because what the intruders really want is inside it.
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The Beatnicks
Title: The Beatnicks
Character: Hank
Released: February 21, 2002
Type: Movie
The Beat Nicks are musician Nick Nero and poet Nick Beat, a pair of self-styled truth-seekers who'd better find a gig or they'll be out on the street. Their luck begins to change when they find a box on the beach, a treasure chest of infinite beats that will set the stage for the ultimate success, a gig at the Monkey Club. But when Nick Nero falls in love with Nica, the club owners captive bride, he learns that they are some truths better left unsought. Hard knocks and a trip to rock bottom reunites the Nicks to preform the gig of a lifetime, and return the box to its source
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The Pretender: Island of the Haunted
Title: The Pretender: Island of the Haunted
Character: Sydney
Released: December 10, 2001
Type: Movie
Jarod takes a keen interest in an ancient symbol that may unlock secrets about his family. But Miss Parker is hot on Jarod's trail and about to make discoveries of her own. Their investigation leads to a remote Island off the Scottish coast, where a set of sacred scrolls, vital to the Centre, have been hidden – and protected – for centuries.
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Title: 24
Character: Jacob Rossler
Released: November 6, 2001
Type: TV
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.
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Title: Alias
Character: Aldo Desantis
Released: September 30, 2001
Type: TV
Sydney Bristow, an agent who has been tricked to believe she is working for the U.S. government, is actually working for a criminal organization named the Alliance of Twelve. Upon learning this, Sydney becomes a double agent for the real CIA.
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Jackpot
Title: Jackpot
Character: Santa Claus / Voice of Sevon
Released: July 27, 2001
Type: Movie
Sunny Holiday, a middle-aged country singer with dreams of stardom, walks out on his wife and child and hits the road with his manager in a desperate search for fame and fortune... and to get far away from the past he's left behind.
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The Pretender 2001
Title: The Pretender 2001
Character: Sydney
Released: January 22, 2001
Type: Movie
Picking up where the television series left off, "The Pretender 2001" features even deeper explorations in the show's mythology, including a revealing look back at how Jarod originally espaced from the Centre. But now he must infiltrate the NSA to capture a ruthless assassin who might be a fellow Pretender from his past!
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Emmanuelle: A Hard Look
Title: Emmanuelle: A Hard Look
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 2001
Type: Movie
Documentary about the Emmanuelle movies, looking at their making as well as their social and cultural impact.
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The Demon Within
Title: The Demon Within
Character: Professor Giraud
Released: October 27, 2000
Type: Movie
A young artist follows her passion to study at one of the finest art institutes in San Francisco.
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The Cell
Title: The Cell
Character: Lucien Baines
Released: August 17, 2000
Type: Movie
A psychotherapist journeys inside a comatose serial killer in the hopes of saving his latest victim.
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Twin Falls Idaho
Title: Twin Falls Idaho
Character: Miles, a Doctor
Released: July 30, 1999
Type: Movie
Francis and Blake Falls are Siamese twins who live in a neat little room in a rundown hotel. While sharing some organs, Blake is always fit and Francis is very sickly. Into their world comes a young lady, who turns their world upside down. She gets involved with Blake, and convinces the two to attend a Halloween party, where they can pass themselves off as wearing a costume. Eventually Francis becomes really ill, and they have to be separated. They then face the physical and mental strains that come from their proposed separation.
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We Free Kings
Title: We Free Kings
Character: Baldassarre
Released: December 20, 1996
Type: Movie
Three tumblers wander throughout Italy with their show. A priest asks them to perform the Three Kings in a Nativity play, in a village where there are no children. That night a comet runs across the sky, so the three decide to follow it to search for the new Messiah.
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Title: The Pretender
Character: Sydney
Released: September 19, 1996
Type: TV
Raised in a secret facility built for experimenting on children, Jarod is a genius who can master any profession and become anyone he has to be. When he realizes as an adult that he's actually a prisoner and his captors are not as benevolent as he's been told, he breaks out. While trying to find his real identity, Jarod helps those he encounters and tries to avoid the woman sent to retrieve him.
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Enfants de salaud
Title: Enfants de salaud
Character: Pierre-Yves
Released: April 3, 1996
Type: Movie
Sylvette, a sassy waitress, Sandro, a macho guy, Sophie, a shy bourgeoisie, and Susan, an American actress, do not know each other and do not have much in common. However, they all have the same father, a scammer named Julius.
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Title: Kindred: The Embraced
Character: Archon Raine
Released: April 2, 1996
Type: TV
Kindred: The Embraced is an American television series produced by John Leekley Productions and Spelling Television. Loosely based on the role-playing game Vampire: The Masquerade, the series premiered on Fox on April 2, 1996, and ran for eight episodes before it was canceled on May 9, 1996. The series focused on San Francisco Police Detective Frank Kohanek who discovers his city is home to numerous vampires while investigating alleged mobster, Julian Luna. Julian is the "prince" of the city, ruler of five groups of vampires in the city, collectively called "The Kindred". The vampires survive through the "masquerade", disguising themselves as humans, and Julian strictly enforces the laws that govern them to protect their anonymity. Julian and Frank form an uneasy bond as they work together to try to prevent a vampire war and Julian struggles with his romantic feelings for human reporter Caitlin Byrne. The eight episodes of the series have been released on VHS and DVD.
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Serpent's Lair
Title: Serpent's Lair
Character: Sam
Released: October 19, 1995
Type: Movie
Tom is seduced by Lilith, a succubus who's out to drain him and destroy his marriage.
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Jenipapo
Title: Jenipapo
Character: Father Stephen Louis
Released: September 10, 1995
Type: Movie
Michael is a U.S. journalist who works for a Brazilian newspaper. One day he is put in charge of interviewing Father Louis Stephen, a famed catholic missionary who helps the needy in the jungles of Brazil. Yet he has one problem: the Father has rarely ever given an interview. However, Michael decides that he will be the first to have interviewed the Father personally, and goes on a journey to the center of Brazil, in search of the priest. Michael will soon know how hard it can be to get an interview, and that the Father's apparent media-shyness has deeper implications than he thought.
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Lisbon Story
Title: Lisbon Story
Character: Friedrich Monroe
Released: December 16, 1994
Type: Movie
Lisbon Story is Wim Wenders' homage to Lisbon and films. A sound engineer obtains a mysterious postcard from a friend who at the moment is filming a film in Lisbon. He sets out across Europe to find him and help him.
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Title: Earth 2
Character: 'Govenor' Sheppard
Released: November 6, 1994
Type: TV
Two centuries in the future, when pollution has forced humans to abandon Earth in favor of cramped space stations, scientist Devon Adair hijacks a spacecraft and sets out with a band of followers in search of another planet that will offer a brighter, more normal future to children like her son, Ulysses. Joining Devon and Ulysses are mechanic John Danziger and his daughter, True; team physician Julia Heller, who has her own secret agenda; Alonzo Solace, a pilot; Yale, a cyborg; and Morgan, a craven government agent, and his wife, Bess. The voyagers find their planet, but their ship crash-lands on the wrong side of the globe, forcing them to attempt an arduous and dangerous trek to their ultimate destination, New Pacifica.
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The New Age
Title: The New Age
Character: Jean Levy
Released: September 16, 1994
Type: Movie
Peter and Katherine Witner are Southern California super-yuppies with great jobs but no center to their lives. When they both lose their jobs and begin marital infidelities, their solution is to start their own business together. In order to find meaning to their empty lives, they follow various New Age gurus and other such groups. Eventually, they hit rock bottom and have to make some hard decisions.
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Dark Side of Genius
Title: Dark Side of Genius
Character: Sherman McPhee
Released: August 12, 1994
Type: Movie
Julian Jons is a talented but troubled young artist. He has just been released from an asylum, where he has spent the last seven years for the murder of Anna, his girlfriend/model. Attempting to start painting again, he is pursued by journalist Jennifer Cole, who is intrigued by this complex, brooding man. Against the backdrop of the modern art world, she begins to dig into the past, fully aware that it holds painful memories for Julian, and perhaps danger for herself.
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Clear and Present Danger
Title: Clear and Present Danger
Character: Enrique Rojas
Released: August 3, 1994
Type: Movie
Agent Jack Ryan becomes acting Deputy Director of Intelligence for the CIA when Admiral Greer is diagnosed with cancer. When an American businessman, and friend of the president, is murdered on his yacht, Ryan starts discovering links between the man and drug dealers. As former CIA agent John Clark is sent to Colombia to kill drug cartel kingpins in retaliation, Ryan must fight through multiple cover-ups to figure out what happened and who's responsible.
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Every Breath
Title: Every Breath
Character: Richard
Released: March 30, 1994
Type: Movie
An unemployed actor gets involved with a strange woman who hangs out in lesbian nightclubs and her rich arms dealer husband.
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Day of Reckoning
Title: Day of Reckoning
Character: Andre Rouselle
Released: March 7, 1994
Type: Movie
Action-adventure following a onetime Special Forces Captain in Vietnam turned tour guide in remote parts of Asia, who, while on a trek with two researchers in the Burmese jungle, meets up with a wartime enemy intent on settling an old score.
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And the Band Played On
Title: And the Band Played On
Character: Dr. Luc Montagnier
Released: September 11, 1993
Type: Movie
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
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Acting on Impulse
Title: Acting on Impulse
Character: Yoram Sussman
Released: July 10, 1993
Type: Movie
An erotic thriller actress becomes the prime suspect in the murder of a B-movie producer, leading her to hide out and engage in sexual thrills with a pair of innocents.
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Havanera 1820
Title: Havanera 1820
Character: Mister Johnson
Released: May 21, 1993
Type: Movie
The year is 1820, and trade between Cuba and Catalonia is a booming business, although the goods that arrive to Cuba are not always the products that were shipped, in some cases, they simply arrive "lumps" or "coal". As it appears in the logbooks of the ships. 'Havanera 1820' is a film that tells stories of love and adventure in a time when Cuba confronts the Spanish colonizers.
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Chain of Desire
Title: Chain of Desire
Character: Jerald Buckley
Released: May 26, 1992
Type: Movie
A series of unrelated amorous lovers are connected by a chain of desire.
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Robert's Movie
Title: Robert's Movie
Character: Robert
Released: April 9, 1992
Type: Movie
Some time ago, Robert took some photos of military action which are now endangering his life. He is on the run from those who would find their publication damaging and is headed for Syria, where he believes he will be safe. While in Istanbul, he meets a pop singer, a woman half his age who gives him the erotic charge of his life. He begins taking film of their bedroom encounters and says some pretty excessive things about how marvelous she is to him. Meanwhile, his local friends don't trust or like him enough to help him stay in Istanbul, and it seems that he will have to continue onward in his journey to safety.
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The Rapture
Title: The Rapture
Character: Vic
Released: October 4, 1991
Type: Movie
A lonely telephone operator leading an empty, amoral life finds God – only to have her faith continually tested in ways beyond what she could have imagined.
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The Knot in the Necktie
Title: The Knot in the Necktie
Character: Cesare
Released: August 14, 1991
Type: Movie
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Terra Nova
Title: Terra Nova
Released: July 11, 1991
Type: Movie
Quite a few decades ago, the Italian immigrants in this movie came to live in the Venezuelan countryside. They have settled in a region dominated by a crusty local aristocrat, and over the years they have had many encounters with him. It is finally time to take stock of their successes and failures and to decide whether to remain in Venezuela or return to Italy. The immigrant family is headed by a strong-willed and very earthy woman, and her evolving relationship with the aristocrat determines the outcome of their deliberations.
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Blood Ties
Title: Blood Ties
Character: Eli Chelarin
Released: May 27, 1991
Type: Movie
Carpathian Americans are just like any other expatriate organization, they enjoy family get together, and share business opportunities. There is just one minor difference, the Carpathian Americans seem to have a predilection for drinking human blood.
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The Most Natural Thing
Title: The Most Natural Thing
Character: Pablo
Released: January 24, 1991
Type: Movie
Following the dissolution of her 20-year marriage to a land developer, a middle-aged woman returns to her law practice and, plotting revenge, accepts as a client a young ecologist who has accused her ex-husband's company of corruption.
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The Madonna and the Dragon
Title: The Madonna and the Dragon
Character: Pavel
Released: September 1, 1990
Type: Movie
Exposé of two news photographers covering the People's Revolution in the Philippines.
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Visioni private
Title: Visioni private
Released: August 4, 1990
Type: Movie
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Love Comedy
Title: Love Comedy
Character: Vollard
Released: October 31, 1989
Type: Movie
According to the book Journal Particulier de Paul Léautaud, the love story that was born between him and Marie D., whom he met at the Mercure de France in 1922, on the occasion of an article she wrote to appear.
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Australia
Title: Australia
Character: André Gauthier
Released: September 13, 1989
Type: Movie
Following a stint as a WWII fighter pilot, Belgian-born Edouard falls in love with an Indonesian woman, has a daughter with her and immigrates to Australia, all without the knowledge of his family back home. Years later, his love has passed away, and he's raising his daughter on his own. When his brother calls seeking help with his failing wool-processing company, Edouard agrees to temporarily return home to aid him.
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Errors of Youth
Title: Errors of Youth
Character: Paul
Released: May 1, 1989
Type: Movie
The oddest things come in pairs. In 1989, there were two foreign films on the market whose titles translated to Errors of Youth or Youthful Indiscretion. One was a Russian film, the other was a French picture, originally titled Erreur de Jeunesse. In this one, would-be poet Francis Frappat breezes through a number of relationships. Of paramount importance to Frappat are his attempts to seduce the lovely Géraldine Danon.
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Title: Miguel Servet (La Sangre y La Ceniza)
Character: Champier
Released: March 1, 1989
Type: TV
The series recreates the life of the Spanish scientist Miguel Servet from his birth until his execution for blasphemy in 1553.
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The Music Teacher
Title: The Music Teacher
Character: Prince Scotti
Released: August 1, 1988
Type: Movie
Aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside to school two young singers, Sophie and Jean. Although the rigorous training takes its toll on both teacher and students, there is plenty of time for relationships to develop between the three. Based on their teacher's reputation, Sophie and Jean are invited to participate in a singing contest staged by Prince Scotti. Scotti's protege is set up to get revenge for Scotti's defeat at the hands of Dallayrac in a similar competition many years ago. The young students overcome Scotti's trickery to win the competition. Written by Kevin Kraynak
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Title: Mount Royal
Character: André Valeur
Released: January 3, 1988
Type: TV
Andre Valeur, a successful businessman, lives in an upscale Montreal neighborhood and Paris. Daughter Stephanie is a model, Danielle a reporter. Rob works for his father but prefers the nightlife. Wife Katherine is unhapoy just being a socialite.
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Potlatch
Title: Potlatch
Character: Gregoire
Released: October 15, 1987
Type: Movie
Arhangelos tou pathous: In anticipation of hearing a single word by midnight on his coming birthday, a self-destructive symphonic composer makes an out of bounds and dangerous bet on himself.
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Friendship's Death
Title: Friendship's Death
Character: Kubler
Released: August 17, 1987
Type: Movie
A robot messenger is sent to earth to appeal to humans to live in peace. Originally designed to go to MIT, by mistake she ends up in Amman, Jordan during the Black September riots of 1970. Sullivan, a British journalist, comes to her aid when she is found wandering without papers following a bombing and grants her refuge in his hotel room. But there she tells him she is a robot, sent as a peace envoy from another planet. He is not sure whether to believe her story or not, but finds her unusual view of the world appealing. They examine the human condition in a series of incredibly insightful and entertaining conversations.
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Accroche-cœur
Title: Accroche-cœur
Released: July 24, 1987
Type: Movie
Leo just broke up with his wife, and the handsome architect wants to enjoy his sadness at this event in solitude. Unfortunately for him, his young girlfriend, an unperceptive sprite, is too much in love with him to let him out of her sight. He is on his way to a resort in the south of France, and despite his persistent, obvious and repeated attempts to get her to leave him alone, she sticks to him like glue.
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Balada da Praia dos Cães
Title: Balada da Praia dos Cães
Character: Capt. Dantas
Released: March 12, 1987
Type: Movie
In Portugal, in the 60s, the corpse of a man appears on Dog's Beach. The corpse is identified as the major Dantas, a man wanted by authorities after his escape from a military prison where he was awaiting trial for insurrection.
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Love Among Thieves
Title: Love Among Thieves
Character: Alan Channing
Released: February 23, 1987
Type: Movie
Caroline DuLac, a baroness and concert pianist, steals three jewel-encrusted Faberge eggs from a San Francisco museum. The eggs were demanded as ransom for her kidnapped fiancé. She boards a plane for the Latin American city of Ladera, as per instructions, and is met by Mike Chambers. Caroline first believes that Mike is one of the kidnappers, until a mysterious man in a trench-coat tries to kill her, and Mike comes to the rescue. They are then both captured by a band of Mexican bandits, who also may or may not be part of the scheme.
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Cross
Title: Cross
Character: Simon Leenhardt
Released: February 4, 1987
Type: Movie
Thomas Crosky, known as Cross, a lonely policeman, learns that his wife, daughter and sister-in-law have been kidnapped by a criminal who has escaped from a psychiatric hospital.
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Riviera
Title: Riviera
Character: Riker
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
TV-movie directed by Alan Smithee (John Frankenheimer).
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Family Business
Title: Family Business
Character: Octave, the brother (uncredited)
Released: March 19, 1986
Type: Movie
French rocker Johnny Halliday stars as a professional thief just released from jail. He returns to stealing to support his family. After several successful thefts, he decides to include his under-aged kid into the "family business".
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Lola
Title: Lola
Character: Robert
Released: January 17, 1986
Type: Movie
Lola is a young woman who works in a factory. She lives a violent and tormented love with Mario. To get away from him, Lola moved to Barcelona. There he met Robert, CEO of a major company, with whom she starts a relationship.
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Title: Kane & Abel
Character: Ludwik
Released: November 17, 1985
Type: TV
Kane & Abel is a television miniseries, based on the novel of the same name written by Jeffrey Archer, that aired on CBS in 1985. It stars Peter Strauss as Rosnovski and Sam Neill as Kane.
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La moitié de l'amour
Title: La moitié de l'amour
Released: August 1, 1985
Type: Movie
Unable to possess Ivy in reality, Adrian organizes himself so as to know everything about her, to possess her story. Like the viewer, Adrian will be an involuntary detective, witness to a passion.
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Folie suisse
Title: Folie suisse
Character: Federico
Released: June 10, 1985
Type: Movie
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A View to a Kill
Title: A View to a Kill
Character: Scarpine
Released: May 24, 1985
Type: Movie
A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear explosion has landed in the hands of the KGB. James Bond must find out how and why. His suspicions soon lead him to big industry leader Max Zorin who forms a plan to destroy his only competition in Silicon Valley by triggering a massive earthquake in the San Francisco Bay.
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The Night Wears Suspenders
Title: The Night Wears Suspenders
Released: April 20, 1985
Type: Movie
Jézabel, a worldly young woman, takes hold of Ariel, a shy and inexperienced young man, and leads him by hook or by crook through the wild side of Paris nightlife.
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Title: Christopher Columbus
Character: Don Rodrigo
Released: March 7, 1985
Type: TV
After his proposal to sail west to the East Indies is rejected by Portugal, Columbus overcomes court intrigue in Spain to gain support for his expedition.
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Phenomena
Title: Phenomena
Character: Inspector Rudolf Geiger
Released: January 25, 1985
Type: Movie
A young girl, with an amazing ability to communicate with insects, is transferred to an exclusive Swiss boarding school, where her unusual capability might help solve a string of murders.
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Report from Hollywood
Title: Report from Hollywood
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
“It may be worse than Portugal,” observes cinematographer Henri Alekan about a Los Angeles film lab while on the set of Wim Wenders’ The State of Things (1984). A legendary production and a transitional work for the New German Cinema director as his work became increasingly international, Wenders set out to make a film about filmmaking as funding stalled on the American production of Hammett. The State of Things deals with American and European sensibilities about cinema, and he enlisted Lachman to film and document the film being made in Los Angeles. Made for German television, completed in 1985 and unseen outside of Germany, Lachman’s portrait of Wenders at work features striking filmmaking and location photography of Los Angeles in the 1980s, and serves as a candid glimpse into European encounters with American culture at the time.
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Nucleo Zero
Title: Nucleo Zero
Character: Giovanni Dettore
Released: November 14, 1984
Type: Movie
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Choose Me
Title: Choose Me
Character: Zack Antoine
Released: August 29, 1984
Type: Movie
Several lost-soul night-owls, including a nightclub owner, a talkback radio relationships counseller, and an itinerant stranger have encounters that expose their contradictions and anxieties about love and acceptance.
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The Public Woman
Title: The Public Woman
Character: Ethel's Father
Released: June 16, 1984
Type: Movie
An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. She winds up playing a real-life role posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, who is manipulated by the filmmaker into commiting a political assassination.
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Emmanuelle 4
Title: Emmanuelle 4
Character: Marc
Released: February 15, 1984
Type: Movie
In order to escape from her former lover Marc, Sylvia goes to Brazil where Dr. Santamo transforms her into the beautiful Emmanuelle...
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First Desires
Title: First Desires
Character: Jordan
Released: December 11, 1983
Type: Movie
Three teenage girls decide to visit a romantic island and find love. They get shipwrecked and end up on different sides of the island. Each girl begins her own romantic adventure either with a man, a boy or even another girl.
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Entre Nous
Title: Entre Nous
Character: Carlier
Released: April 6, 1983
Type: Movie
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. Lena and Madeleine meet at their children's school in Lyon in 1952 and the intensity of their relationship strains both their marriages to the breaking point.
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Les Îles
Title: Les Îles
Character: Edouard
Released: March 16, 1983
Type: Movie
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Enigma
Title: Enigma
Character: Russian Soldier (voice)
Released: October 15, 1982
Type: Movie
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
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The State of Things
Title: The State of Things
Character: Friedrich Munro
Released: March 22, 1982
Type: Movie
On location in Portugal, a film crew runs out of film while making their own version of Roger Corman's The Day the World Ended (1956). The producer is nowhere to be found and director Munro attempts to find him in hopes of being able to finish the film.
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Le petit Pommier
Title: Le petit Pommier
Character: Pierre, l'ami de la mère
Released: February 4, 1981
Type: Movie
Story of three "flights": a little boy, a girl, and a mother who escapes the real world and recreates the world through dreams and photographs.
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Guns
Title: Guns
Character: Tony
Released: November 18, 1980
Type: Movie
The film concerns a group of disparate types who support themselves by running guns to the Arabs. On the surface, it would seem that these characters are bad guys. In fact, the guns are to be used by a resistance group who hope to continue shipping oil to the West, despite the despotic curbs imposed upon fuel shipments by their leaders.
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Dr. Meredith
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: TV
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
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Title: Columbo
Character: Max Barsini
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: TV
Columbo is a friendly, verbose, disheveled-looking police detective who is consistently underestimated by his suspects. Despite his unprepossessing appearance and apparent absentmindedness, he shrewdly solves all of his cases and secures all evidence needed for indictment. His formidable eye for detail and meticulously dedicated approach often become clear to the killer only late in the storyline.
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Fun and Games for Everyone
Title: Fun and Games for Everyone
Released: December 22, 1969
Type: Movie
“FUN AND GAMES (FOR EVERYONE): a pitch black and milky white film shot during one of Olivier Mosset's exhibition openings. A psychedelic game of improvisation joins the Zanzibar group with Salvador Dalí, Barbet Schroeder and Jean Mascolo... the solarized image reminiscent of thick strokes of a paintbrush.” - Philippe Azoury
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Tuset Street
Title: Tuset Street
Character: Jorge Artigas
Released: September 16, 1968
Type: Movie
Barcelona 1967. The pop culture revolution. Jordi (Patrick Bauchau) is a rich playboy who runs around with a bunch of high-end hippies, smoking, drinking, dancing and daydreaming about Tuset Street, an effort to develop a popular street in the newer section of Barcelona after the models of Haight Ashbury Street in San Francisco and Carnaby Street in London. Jordi and his gang represent the new Barcelona, wealthy, artificial and striving for imported sophistication. On the older side of the city is El Paralelo, the theater district. At El Molino, one of its many music halls, performs Violeta (Sara Montiel), a showgirl in the old style tradition who supplements her singing income with prostitution. Somehow Violeta represents the old values, the "real world" living along side an artificial creation such as Tuset.
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La Collectionneuse
Title: La Collectionneuse
Character: Adrien
Released: March 2, 1967
Type: Movie
A bombastic, womanizing art dealer and his painter friend go to a seventeenth-century villa on the Riviera for a relaxing summer getaway. But their idyll is disturbed by the presence of the bohemian Haydée, accused of being a “collector” of men.
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Suzanne’s Career
Title: Suzanne’s Career
Character: Frank (uncredited)
Released: February 1, 1963
Type: Movie
In the second of Rohmer's moral tales, he examines the relationship between two friends and a girl who at first appears easily exploited. It is a complex tale of feelings and misconceptions, acted out within the head of the main character, as part of Rohmer's attempt to more easily simulate the mindscape quality of literature within a film.