Max Montavon

Max Montavon

Born: July 24, 1926
Died: September 22, 1983
in Vincennes, Seine [now Val-de-Marne], France

Movies for Max Montavon...

A Good Little Devil
Title: A Good Little Devil
Released: December 21, 1983
Type: Movie
One of the comtesse de Ségur's most popular works,it tells the tale of an orphan ,Charles,mistreated by his wicked old cousin Madame Mac Miche;nevertheless,Charles has many friends including sweet blind young Juliette and her sister Marianne, Mac Miche's maid ,Betty,her boyfriend Donald ,and even the judge. (by dbdumonteil)
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It's Called Catastrophe
Title: It's Called Catastrophe
Character: Puidubourg
Released: June 29, 1983
Type: Movie
Following a commonplace car accident, Antoine Malibran became involved in the armed robbery of the bank of the Seine.
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Salut la puce
Title: Salut la puce
Released: January 12, 1983
Type: Movie
Robert Dumortier and his son "La Puce" live on a barge moored to an island of the Seine and Robert dreams of cruising remote and exotic seas.
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The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
Title: The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
Character: der Apotheker
Released: October 3, 1982
Type: Movie
Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the fine ladies. Then they get into real trouble when one after the other of their female colleagues is kidnapped.
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Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 6: Eine Mutter namens Waldemar
Title: Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 6: Eine Mutter namens Waldemar
Character: Edelbert
Released: January 2, 1982
Type: Movie
A comedy directed by Gunter Otto.
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The Cabbage Soup
Title: The Cabbage Soup
Character: Le frère d'Amélie Poulangeard
Released: December 2, 1981
Type: Movie
Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.
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Prends ta Rolls et va pointer
Title: Prends ta Rolls et va pointer
Character: Le douanier efféminé
Released: August 12, 1981
Type: Movie
Camille Vigault, takes advantage of his vacation to visit a cousin winemaker in Roussillon. Quickly tired by work in the countryside, he prefers to buy an old abandoned Rolls Royce from his cousin.
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Cinq-Mars
Title: Cinq-Mars
Character: La Chesnaye
Released: May 16, 1981
Type: Movie
In the 17th century, under Louis XIII, the policy of Cardinal de Richelieu aimed at the definitive establishment of a monarchic power, and gave rise to a struggle against the great feudal lords, who favored a weak central power. Numerous conspiracies against the Cardinal were led by the high nobility. The one led by Henri Coiffier de Ruzé d'Effiat, marquis de Cinq-Mars, was the last and most famous of them.
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Is This Reasonable?
Title: Is This Reasonable?
Character: Le greffier au tribunal de Paris
Released: March 25, 1981
Type: Movie
A young journalist comes from Nice to Paris to meet with the famous judge, Simon, hoping he will help her understand a case. She does not know that, according to the will of fate, in the office of judge was fugitive criminal. The couple hit the road.
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Les surdoués de la première compagnie
Title: Les surdoués de la première compagnie
Released: February 4, 1981
Type: Movie
As soon as they arrive at the barracks, the new contingent reveals some characters who will give their officers a hard time. There is the handsome, resourceful man, the technocrat in love, the bootlicker, the "Jamaican" who only moves to music, the shortsighted man... and all the others. Sometimes to see the nurse undress, sometimes to arrange an appointment with a fiancée, sometimes to cuckold the obtuse non-commissioned officer whose wife is volcanic, sometimes to have a free lunch in a great restaurant, the handsome man invariably deploys a wealth of cunning. And each time it is the colonel's servile driver who gets caught instead of him.
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The Miser
Title: The Miser
Character: Maître Simon
Released: March 5, 1980
Type: Movie
Based on Molière's play. The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven't spoken to their father yet. Harpagon is a miser who wants to choose the right man and the right woman for his children. When Cléante, at last, tries to speak to Harpagon, the old man informs the family that he wants to marry Marianne, the young girl loved by Cléante. Unaware of his son's sorrow, Harpagon doesn't understand why Cléante has become so angry with him.
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Comme une femme
Title: Comme une femme
Character: Max
Released: January 30, 1980
Type: Movie
A transsexual becomes a star of Paris and lives a crazy love story with the lover of a friend. But the young man comes to his senses and his bourgeois upbringing. A victim of prejudice, Vicky has no choice but to kill herself.
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Le Gagnant
Title: Le Gagnant
Character: L'agent immobilier qui présente l'appartement
Released: November 28, 1979
Type: Movie
A plumber finally meets the woman of his dreams. But as her uptight family tries to keep him away, he wins the lottery and starts plotting his revenge.
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Duets on Sofa
Title: Duets on Sofa
Character: The seller
Released: November 7, 1979
Type: Movie
The former spouses Jacqueline and Bernard are still living in the same apartment. And now each of them has a new "half"...
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Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 5. Teil: Die Bruchpiloten vom Königssee
Title: Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 5. Teil: Die Bruchpiloten vom Königssee
Character: Sheik
Released: December 23, 1978
Type: Movie
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Zizis In Madness
Title: Zizis In Madness
Character: Maître Plumart
Released: March 21, 1978
Type: Movie
In a small country village, a beneficiary for a large inheritance requires proof of morality, unfortunately that won't be easy.
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Dis bonjour à la dame !..
Title: Dis bonjour à la dame !..
Character: The disgruntled man at the post office counter
Released: March 30, 1977
Type: Movie
Robert Ferry, a PTT employee, is having problems with his two sons. The elder has impregnated his girlfriend, a young hippie, and the younger, Daniel, is said to have homosexual tendencies. Determined to put his son back on the straight and narrow, Robert decides to go against his principles and force a young girl on him...
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Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 3: Sex-Express in Oberbayern
Title: Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 3: Sex-Express in Oberbayern
Character: Xaver
Released: March 18, 1977
Type: Movie
After the government decides to incorporate the town of Entenbach into the town of Almendingen the two towns engage in a battle of pranks in order to lure tourists away from each other and change those plans.
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The Wing or the Thigh?
Title: The Wing or the Thigh?
Character: M. Godefroy, le concepteur du pommeau de l'épée d'académicien
Released: October 27, 1976
Type: Movie
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: L'antiquaire
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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Silence... We're Shooting
Title: Silence... We're Shooting
Character: Max, the makeup artist
Released: May 26, 1976
Type: Movie
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Les Demoiselles à péage
Title: Les Demoiselles à péage
Character: Commissaire Baruche
Released: September 15, 1975
Type: Movie
A woman starts working in her dead husband's brothel.
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Par ici la monnaie
Title: Par ici la monnaie
Character: Le colonel
Released: April 3, 1974
Type: Movie
All the inhabitants of an old house are swindlers, dreaming only of the big score that will enable them to survive an announced eviction. They end up pulling it off together, by building a fake tollgate.
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Le concierge
Title: Le concierge
Character: Le metteur en page imprimerie
Released: August 23, 1973
Type: Movie
Christophe Merignac, a youngESCP graduate with a law degree but still unemployed, gets a job as a concierge in a luxury building. Using charm and cunning, he makes himself indispensable. He makes a fortune and marries a young, pretty and rich tenant, whom he happily deceives. The conclusion is bittersweet: he's "made it", but he doesn't love anyone. What's more, a young concierge who looks like a brother has just arrived in his building.
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La Main passe
Title: La Main passe
Character: Étienne
Released: December 31, 1972
Type: Movie
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Seduction Squad
Title: Seduction Squad
Character: L'inspecteur
Released: November 29, 1972
Type: Movie
After witnessing and accidentally helping several thugs get away with a heist, the women rooming together notice through their telescope that the stolen loot is in the apartment right across the street. They plan their own burglary of the already stolen loot.
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Repeated Absences
Title: Repeated Absences
Character: Un homme à la soirée mondaine
Released: November 1, 1972
Type: Movie
François Naulet turns his bedroom into an island of drugs, loneliness and despair.
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Justine de Sade
Title: Justine de Sade
Released: May 19, 1972
Type: Movie
Therese, a beautiful but naive young girl, who finds herself being passed around from depraved pervert to depraved pervert, enduring just about every kind of sexual degradation there is while still believing that some kind stranger will eventually help her.
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Hellé
Title: Hellé
Released: May 2, 1972
Type: Movie
Hellé is a young deaf-mute living among the mountains. She’s ignored by everyone except, now and then, the local woodsmen, who use her for their pleasure. She has no education, no knowledge of right or wrong. One summer, a young man comes to spend the holidays in her village.
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Scandal Man
Title: Scandal Man
Released: February 14, 1972
Type: Movie
Marc, is a reporter in a tabloid. At the "Bongo Club", he photographs a young blond woman kissing a black man. This woman is the daughter of Senator Linden, head of the segregationist movement of USA.
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Title: Cadet Rousselle
Character: Self
Released: November 4, 1971
Type: TV
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Title: The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Character: Le bagagiste de l'hôtel (non crédité)
Released: October 22, 1970
Type: Movie
Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there.
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Erotic Love-Games
Title: Erotic Love-Games
Released: September 23, 1970
Type: Movie
Partisan of total sexual freedom, a young woman with perfect physique leads, by her example, a married friend to live like her. The two friends then engage in all kinds of erotic experiences at random from their meetings with various gentlemen, but also between them.
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Et qu'ça saute !
Title: Et qu'ça saute !
Released: September 11, 1970
Type: Movie
A uranium deposit brings turmoil to the small South American republic of Guatalpa. Between two revolutions, the government tries unsuccessfully to decide whether the Americans, Soviets or Cubans will exploit the concession. Delegates from these nations spy on and betray each other to achieve their goal.
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Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
Title: Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
Character: A guest
Released: June 30, 1970
Type: Movie
Nobles try desperately to cling to the crumbling aristocracy in the days following World War I. The Count (Jean-Claude Brialy) and his Countess Mahe (Sylvia Fennec) delight in throwing lavish costume balls. The couple develops a friendship with a young boy who delights in the parties thrown by the noble couple. Love soon blooms between the Countess and the boy as she searches for something more than a string of endless parties and social affairs. The masquerades are an attempt to freeze time and hold on to the nostalgia of a bygone era. For fear of losing her, the Count allows the Countess to continue her love affair.
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Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
Title: Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
Character: Le collègue d'Yves
Released: August 14, 1969
Type: Movie
Baron Yves de Kerfunte learns of his uncle's death. Overjoyed, he is astonished to discover that seven other individuals are vying for the inheritance. Worse still, when they open the will, they learn that only the elderly Louise de Kerfunte is the heiress, and that she intends to squander the money quickly.
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The Scarlet Lady
Title: The Scarlet Lady
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 14, 1969
Type: Movie
Comedy about a self-made woman in Paris contemplating the idea of suicide at first, then murder.
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The Brain
Title: The Brain
Character: L'antiquaire au Havre, partenaire de Jean-François
Released: March 7, 1969
Type: Movie
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.
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Azaïs
Title: Azaïs
Character: M. Bile
Released: November 9, 1968
Type: Movie
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Salut Berthe !
Title: Salut Berthe !
Released: August 20, 1968
Type: Movie
Adrien Chautard, a major industrialist from Abidjan, has been chosen to replace an expert on the official Ivory Coast delegation sent to Paris to discuss the country's association with the Common Market. Chautard is delighted at the prospect of this trip, where he will be reunited with the woman of his dreams: Elisabeth. Alas, at Abidjan airport, a nasty surprise awaits him: Berthe, his lawful wife, has decided to leave with him to consult a leading cardiologist in the capital.
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The Little Bather
Title: The Little Bather
Character: L'homme nu de la cabine
Released: March 22, 1968
Type: Movie
Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...
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The Exchange Student
Title: The Exchange Student
Character: Morizot, un professeur
Released: December 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Monsieur Bosquier, the owner of a private school, is far from pleased when his eldest son, Philippe, fails his end of year exams. He decides to send his wayward offspring to England to improve his English. In exchange, Philippe’s host, a wealthy whisky distiller, Mac Farrel, will send his daughter, Shirley, to live with the Bosquiers in France. However, Philippe has already decided to spend the summer holidays on a yacht with his friends, so he sends a fellow student, Michonnet, to England in his place. The deception is soon discovered but things go from bad to worse when Philippe and Shirley fall in love and fly to Scotland to get married...
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Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
Title: Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
Character: Alexandre
Released: March 16, 1967
Type: Movie
In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply.
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Les enquiquineurs
Title: Les enquiquineurs
Released: November 9, 1966
Type: Movie
Monsieur Eloy, his wife and their ten-year-old son, Zizi, are off to their country home for the weekend. When they arrive, the two men settle into the garden, while Madame gets down to her cooking. When an embassy official and his wife invite themselves for lunch, the whole household is in an uproar.
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The Restaurant
Title: The Restaurant
Character: Le violoniste / Client qui dit que "ce n'est pas cher du tout"
Released: September 9, 1966
Type: Movie
A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: M. Bile
Released: July 21, 1966
Type: TV
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
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Your Money or Your Life
Title: Your Money or Your Life
Released: April 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank.
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We Are All Naked
Title: We Are All Naked
Character: Crony
Released: February 25, 1966
Type: Movie
A poverty-stricken family lives in a rundown shack on the coast of Northern France--Dad (Jacques Normand) is a foul-mouthed drunk, Mom (Rita Maiden) likes to make it with random strangers on the beach, their son (Gérard Dessalles) is mentally handicapped and their six-year-old daughter (Isabelle Pierson) is oversexed.
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Fantomas Unleashed
Title: Fantomas Unleashed
Character: Surveillant de l'institut
Released: December 8, 1965
Type: Movie
In the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand with the aim to develop a super weapon that will enable him to menace the world. Fantômas is also planning to abduct a second scientist, professor Lefebvre.
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Killer Spy
Title: Killer Spy
Character: le barman du train
Released: September 23, 1965
Type: Movie
The most secret agent Stanislas Dubois, tired of saving the world alone decides to retire and to start writing his memoirs. The enemies of humanity, progress and peace in the world found out about it and created an international network of espionage "13 columns". Unfortunately they platted a slot in the good old France. They should think better...
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Les mordus de Paris
Title: Les mordus de Paris
Released: May 31, 1965
Type: Movie
Paris is a city where effervescence is dangerous for city dwellers, who have become nothing more than "nervous machines". Two eminent psychiatrists, one French and one American, decided to administer a sedative to all Parisians, proceeding by arrondissement, which they injected in single, double or triple doses. Soon, the whole of Paris was injected. Calm, good humor and kindness returned, but 11 refused to be treated and remained the only Parisian not to have been treated.
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Déclic et des claques
Title: Déclic et des claques
Released: March 5, 1965
Type: Movie
From their native Algeria, four friends discover Paris, hoping to find fortune and love. One of them meets the charming Sandra, who is looking for meaning in her life.
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Les fourberies de Scapin
Title: Les fourberies de Scapin
Released: February 6, 1965
Type: Movie
Two youths have secretly married ladies but not the ones their fathers who are away on trips had selected.A mischievous valet plays tricks to see that the lovers can stay together.
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Les baratineurs
Title: Les baratineurs
Released: February 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A precious work of art from the Italian Renaissance is stolen and passes through many hands before ending up in the shed of the farmhouse of Mr. and Mrs. Dujardin, fishmongers, who are inaugurating their luxury fish shop that very day. But the antique dealers, the free-riders and the bargain-hunters are there. They are jealously careful not to pass on the fruit of their clever investigations to their rivals, for all of them, after a picturesque treasure hunt, know that the Dujardin family own the famous Duranti altarpiece. But where have they hidden it themselves?
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Comment épouser un premier ministre
Title: Comment épouser un premier ministre
Character: Les deux policiers
Released: November 11, 1964
Type: Movie
Philippe Lambert, an attractive young attaché to the Prime Minister's office, is a man of many female conquests. One of them, Madame Grandbourg, wife of a very influential man, sent him a passionate letter, which he lost at the theater. Marion, the usherette who found it, contacts him to ask him for a "favor" in exchange for its return: to avoid eviction from the family apartment, because of the father, who gardens in every room and constantly floods the downstairs neighbors. At first, Lambert refuses to give in to the "blackmail" and calls in the police to unmask the indelicate woman, but love soon gets in the way...
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The Adventures of Salavin
Title: The Adventures of Salavin
Released: November 4, 1964
Type: Movie
Finding himself unemployed overnight, Louis Salavin lets himself go into an incurable laziness despite the support of his friends and his mother...
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Circle of Love
Title: Circle of Love
Character: L'homme (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1964
Type: Movie
In a chain reaction of romantic adventures, various people play musical beds in a remake of Max Ophul's "La Ronde."
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Clémentine chérie
Title: Clémentine chérie
Character: Le liftier de la FBI
Released: August 3, 1964
Type: Movie
Gaston Bellus, is the director of a textile house, and the research laboratory makes a sensational discovery: the elastic fabric. This new discovery is used to manufacture new modern stretchable bathing suits. His daughter Clementine, enters the beauty pageant to represent France for the swimsuit launch. But scandal ensues when the public soon discover, the photos of the event in which this new revolutionary material is completely invisible on photographs & live television.
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Hard Boiled Ones
Title: Hard Boiled Ones
Released: June 10, 1964
Type: Movie
A playwright has to murder if he does not want to be murdered.
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Le bluffeur
Title: Le bluffeur
Released: May 6, 1964
Type: Movie
Fredo, a former gangster nicknamed "The Bluffer", has just been released from prison and is now thinking of going into the legal world with a friend. But his ex-partners are desperate to find him, to punish him for operating without their cooperation. His fortune is stolen and he is accused of a diamond robbery perpetrated by the old gang.
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Cherchez l'idole
Title: Cherchez l'idole
Character: Loulou, photographer
Released: February 26, 1964
Type: Movie
After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning to the music shop he discovers that the precious instrument has just been sold! The problem is complicated by the fact that five stars all bought the same model that morning...
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Les gros bras
Title: Les gros bras
Released: December 31, 1963
Type: Movie
Madame Andromèze's diamond bracelet has been stolen from the plane taking Nicole from Rome to Paris. Slipped by the thief into her bag, the bracelet undergoes many vicissitudes... Found and appraised, it is declared a fake! Nicole's brother and fiancé chase after the real bracelet, disrupting the life of a grand palace. Finally, Madame Andromèze finds her bracelet, which has been declared genuine. The original thief resurfaces and steals the jewel again.
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The Reluctant Spy
Title: The Reluctant Spy
Character: The hotel receptionist (uncredited)
Released: September 3, 1963
Type: Movie
Stanislas Dubois is the manager of a successful advertising agency. One day, he comes up against an imposing woman who foists on him a cumbersome painting by Cézanne.
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Hold-up à Saint-Trop’
Title: Hold-up à Saint-Trop’
Released: July 24, 1963
Type: Movie
An unscrupulous young man uses his "fiancée", who haunts gambling halls, to recruit the collaborators he needs to pull off his scams. When these unlucky gamblers are driven to dishonor by debts, he has his fiancée lend them money, and the next day he has them write checks, which of course bounce. All they have to do then is walk straight ahead, her charm encouraging them to do so. But the carefully planned hold-up at the home of a wealthy American tax dodger is a fiasco. The thief finds the safe already emptied by the very man who reported the bargain. But the unfaithful informer is fooled in turn: the loot he was about to take away in an Air-France suitcase is innocently snatched by a group of nuns who take the wrong luggage and unknowingly take off with 500 million dollars.
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Carom Shots
Title: Carom Shots
Character: Un agent de police
Released: May 15, 1963
Type: Movie
Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he wants, he begins plotting the demise of the head of the company. The company itself specializes in holiday travel and unscrupulously brutalizes its customers for maximum profit, spending more thought on publicity gimmicks than customer service...
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People in Luck
Title: People in Luck
Character: Un vendeur de la bijouterie (« Le Gros Lot »)
Released: April 26, 1963
Type: Movie
A light French comedy of 5 segments.
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The Abominable Man of Customs
Title: The Abominable Man of Customs
Character: 'La Globule'
Released: March 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Two rival gangs fight over drug trafficking. An American killer named Timetti Le Muet arrives at Marseille airport to make a delivery to Arnakos' gang. He is denounced to the police, and the peaceful customs officer Camposantos is put in charge of his arrest. Following a mix-up, Camposantos is mistaken for the killer himself. Taken in by Arnakos' men, the innocent customs officer is forced to play a rather unexpected role.
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How to Succeed in Love
Title: How to Succeed in Love
Released: November 16, 1962
Type: Movie
Bernard, a young, serious publisher of religious books, finds himself embroiled in amusing and eventful adventures with Sophie, a wacky twist dancer. Having lost his own situation, he joins Editions du Soleil thanks to his friend Marcel's manuscript "Comment réussir en amour". Freed of his shyness, he succeeds brilliantly in his career; and having put to good use the teachings of the manuscript, Bernard ends up marrying Sophie. But he soon finds himself confronted by the impetuous young woman's fantasies.
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It's Not My Business
Title: It's Not My Business
Character: Ludovic Morin, le pianiste de la troupe
Released: November 7, 1962
Type: Movie
A small-scale cabaret troupe is touring the provinces. One afternoon while canoeing, Monique Darzel, one of the troupe's singers, spots an angler whose resemblance to Fernand Raynaud strikes her. She discusses this with Jean Duroc, the troupe's director, who laments the meagre revenues his show is raking in. He then had the idea of meeting this fisherman to convince him to imitate Fernand Raynaud in his shows. It turns out that the Fernand Raynaud impersonator is in fact Fernand Raynaud himself, who has come for a week's incognito vacation in the provinces. Raynaud is finally persuaded to play the novice comedian, in order to further develop the script for his next film, Les cabotins à travers les âges.
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The Doll
Title: The Doll
Released: November 7, 1962
Type: Movie
An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The dictator has been replaced by a look-alike revolutionary, and the dictator's wife has been replaced by a robot.
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The Iron Mask
Title: The Iron Mask
Character: Notaire
Released: October 26, 1962
Type: Movie
The story of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, and the imprisonment in an iron mask of the identical twin of the King of France, Louis XIV.
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Snobs !
Title: Snobs !
Character: Duchat
Released: September 5, 1962
Type: Movie
The director of a dairy cooperative in La Manche dies in a vat of milk. In line to succeed him are his four deputy managers, all with very different temperaments: the aristocratic Dufaux, the seductive Courtin, the pious Lainé and the wait-and-see Tousseur. Each of them pulls out all the stops to win a major order from Morloch. Once this is achieved, election to the post of director by the cooperators is all but assured.
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A Swelled Head
Title: A Swelled Head
Released: June 20, 1962
Type: Movie
A man inherits an old house in a very bad condition. With the help of a young mechanic, he begins to renovate this house.
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Bells Without Joy
Title: Bells Without Joy
Released: April 20, 1962
Type: Movie
In November 1942, American troops landed in Tunisia. German paratroopers were immediately launched and occupied Tunis. A French squadron of chasseurs d'Afrique was sent to Medjez-el Bab with the mission of occupying the bridge over the Medjerda. But the captain is mute and the cavalrymen don't know whether the operation is being prepared against the Germans or the Allies. The first hypothesis inflames Maréchal des Logis Bourgeon and his friend Maurice, who have not forgotten the defeat of '40. In the village, Maurice meets up with his friend Léa, a refugee, and discovers with fury that she is Jewish, because he doesn't like Jews any more than he likes English or Germans! The hunters set up camp on the bridge. Soon, a German column appears and demands passage. The captain refuses, awaiting orders from Vichy. But in Tunis, confusion reigns. Finally, the captain himself takes the initiative to oppose the passage of the German troops...
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Pride
Title: Pride
Character: Henri, un employé
Released: March 7, 1962
Type: Movie
A woman leaves her lover to return to her husband who cheats on her, something that his pride can not admit.
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Title: The Seven Deadly Sins
Character: Henri (segment "L'orgueuil") (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1962
Type: Movie
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.
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Les livreurs
Title: Les livreurs
Released: July 24, 1961
Type: Movie
These two friendly delivery boys from a Parisian department store not only take their job to heart as much as possible, but also consider themselves responsible for the happiness of the customers they have to deliver to. This leads them successively to help, at the cost of incredible acrobatics, a young couple celebrating the first anniversary of their marriage, to mingle with the clientele of a rather disquieting doctor, to almost perish in an ambush that was of course not intended for them, and to avoid a domestic quarrel.
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Night Out
Title: Night Out
Released: July 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Saturday evening. We have a date with friends and Pierrot has finally obtained his mother's slightly worried authorization. He runs down the indefinite staircase of the immaculate H.L.M., planted firmly in the mud of the suburbs, to meet up with the others. The others are older than him on the whole, but what they have in common is the desire for something to change, this weekend, and for things to get moving. This is especially true for those with scooters who, in close ranks, can scare pedestrians, hug cars and taunt the marshals. Pierrot will be taken in rump like the girls, Thérèse behind Jacquy, Monette behind Christian.
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Please, Not Now!
Title: Please, Not Now!
Character: Waiter
Released: April 19, 1961
Type: Movie
A sexy model pretends to have a new boyfriend in a wacky plan to make her ex-lover jealous.
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Midnight Meeting
Title: Midnight Meeting
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A woman becomes distressed by the resemblance between the plot of a film and the reality of her own life. But what is reality: life or film?
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Sheep
Title: Sheep
Character: Le coiffeur de la prison
Released: October 25, 1960
Type: Movie
Fernand, a simple employee at the Prefecture of Police, must serve as a "sheep" to extract confessions from a leader of organized crime, who has recently been in prison. But he managed to escape by taking Fernand hostage.
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Au cœur de la ville
Title: Au cœur de la ville
Released: April 11, 1960
Type: Movie
Louis saves a five-year-old girl, Monique, who wants to throw herself into the river. He consoles her, takes her home and nurses her back to health. Thanks to Monique, the old man regains his zest for life. Monique tells him that she has misplaced her mother's purse and is afraid to go home. Louis takes her back and continues on his way.
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Lovers on a Tightrope
Title: Lovers on a Tightrope
Released: April 6, 1960
Type: Movie
Cora, the wife of a wealthy Parisian businessman, Daniel, is involved in an affair with Henri, an unscrupulous garage mechanic who has set his sights on Cora's fortune. Daniel becomes suspicious and hires a detective to investigate, but the detective is unsuccessful in pinpointing Cora's extramarital activities.
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Tête folle
Title: Tête folle
Released: March 30, 1960
Type: Movie
Following an operation, Annie no longer remembers her eleven years of marriage or her children. Her memory stops at the time when she was being courted by Pierre, now the family friend. Unable to bear seeing his wife in love with someone else, her husband tries to restore her memory.
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The Eighth Day
Title: The Eighth Day
Released: February 24, 1960
Type: Movie
Françoise, a thirty-year-old single typist lives only for her Sunday release. On this day, she attends a horse race under pretext of perfecting her taste for elegance and refinement. Georges, a neighbor widower, begins to court her.
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The Versailles Affair
Title: The Versailles Affair
Released: February 10, 1960
Type: Movie
Suzuki, a Japanese secret agent, is sent to Versailles to unmask a certain Klauss, who is to receive stolen documents from Saudi Arabia.
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Pantalaskas
Title: Pantalaskas
Character: The waiter
Released: February 8, 1960
Type: Movie
An off-beat, uneven tale about a man intent on suicide and the three people who try to talk him out of it, Pantalaskas stars American Carl Studer in the title role of the morose, would-be suicide. Set in Paris and taking place over an entire night, the story has a complication in that the trio who want to prevent the suicide do not speak the man's language -- he is Lithuanian and speaks no French. So the protagonists comb the underbelly of a nighttime Paris, looking high and low but mostly low for anyone who speaks Lithuanian. Depending mainly on dialogue for its impact, the verbose drama reveals how the protagonists undergo a transformation as the night wears on.
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Green Harvest
Title: Green Harvest
Released: December 2, 1959
Type: Movie
In 1943, a group of high school students decide to take action against the Nazi occupying forces. Showing courage and imagination, they manage to blow up the Kommandantur and to release hostages. But after the killing of a German soldier the Nazi police apparatus strikes back. The young resisters are arrested and two of them are condemned to death.
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Match contre la mort
Title: Match contre la mort
Released: December 2, 1959
Type: Movie
The Lourmel couple are taking part in the final round of a TV game show: the wife has to answer questions; if she fails, her husband drives a racing car to make up the lost minutes. Moments before the start of the show, a phone call informs Lourmel that her six-year-old son has been kidnapped, and that the ransom is the amount to be won on the game show.
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Rue de Paris
Title: Rue de Paris
Character: Un prisonnier
Released: October 21, 1959
Type: Movie
Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a dash of comedy. While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times but he also has a better side that will not stay buried. Since handling three children alone is no easy task, the single father has the choice of growing in the process or not.
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La Marraine de Charley
Title: La Marraine de Charley
Character: Le sommelier de chez Maxim's
Released: October 8, 1959
Type: Movie
Living in cramped quarters with Charley, an architecture student, four of his friends force him to dress up as a woman and play the role of his own godmother in order to rent Mr. de Saint-Sevran's mansion at low prices. The result is a series of misunderstandings and comical situations that only end when the real godmother arrives.
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Soupe au lait
Title: Soupe au lait
Released: July 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Roland Lasserre is a shy boy, which would be nothing if he weren't also prone to the violent tantrums that have earned him his nickname "Soupe au lait". It's when Francine announces her engagement that he decides to declare his love for her. Francine is not at all keen on the husband her parents are forcing on her - a wealthy record manufacturer - but she gives in under their pressure and asks Roland to give her up. But fate has other plans. A car accident provokes the young man's anger, and with Francine on board, he chases after the hit-and-run driver and ends up in a ditch, luckily undamaged, 50 km from Paris. Torrential rain, lack of transport, welcoming hostelry. All Roland and Francine have to do is confess their guilt, and for the sake of honor, get married... All would be well were it not for René, the neglected fiancé, who provokes "Soupe au lait" and triggers a scandal during the ceremony.
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The Chasers
Title: The Chasers
Character: Un invité de la surboum
Released: April 29, 1959
Type: Movie
Two men spend a night in Paris trying to pick up women.
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Head Against the Wall
Title: Head Against the Wall
Released: March 20, 1959
Type: Movie
An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.
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The Motorcycle Cops
Title: The Motorcycle Cops
Released: March 18, 1959
Type: Movie
Marc, a motorcycle brigadier, is engaged to the charming Véronique. But his future brother-in-law, the clumsy Roger, leader of a Sunday motorcycle gang, has set his sights on joining the motorcycle police.
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The Sicilian
Title: The Sicilian
Character: Le garçon du restaurant
Released: November 26, 1958
Type: Movie
A brave little couturier from Lyon, Fernand, travels to Paris to present his creation "La ligne Impériale" to a major fashion house. Following a misunderstanding, he is mistaken by a gang of gangsters for "Le Sicilien", a hired killer. A quid pro quo of enormous proportions. Fernand has the whole gang arrested and is reunited with his sweet fiancée Josée.
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The Little Professor
Title: The Little Professor
Released: September 26, 1958
Type: Movie
Naturally optimistic and mischievous, Jérôme Aubin crossed the time of his adolescence, around 1945, with ease and good humor. The years passed. He married the pretty Françoise, a little neighbor he had known since the age of eight, and soon found himself a secondary school teacher, a little anxious at the thought of facing for the first time students he had been told were particularly turbulent. How will he master this new difficulty? Better than you'd think, thanks to a delicious optimism: boldly going against the grain of conventional methods, he surprises his young audience, thwarting the plans of the dissipated gossips and turning their most tendentious attitudes to his advantage. All this provokes astonishment and concern among the college's leaders. But Jérôme Aubin is no pushover, and even the dreaded general supervisor finds himself obliged to give in to his most audacious initiatives...
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Life Together
Title: Life Together
Character: Mr Lecomte
Released: September 24, 1958
Type: Movie
The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on the loving relationships of four couples. Now he's setting up his will and wants to leave his wealth to the couples among the four, which are still as deeply in love - if any: else, his companions get the money. He sends them out to visit the couples and test their love.
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Neither Seen Nor Recognized
Title: Neither Seen Nor Recognized
Character: Un détenu
Released: April 23, 1958
Type: Movie
In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.
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Hardboiled Egg Time
Title: Hardboiled Egg Time
Character: L'expert en billet
Released: March 19, 1958
Type: Movie
A shy, penniless employee of the garage owner Grillot, the gentle Louis wins $10 million in the lottery. Flitting along the banks of the Seine, he takes in Raoul Grandvivier, an unknown, untalented painter who has just botched a spectacular suicide intended to draw attention to himself. Raoul takes him back to his studio, where he meets his charming daughter Lucie. In order to see Lucie again, with whom he is in love, Louis offers to sell the paintings. In reality, he's the one paying for them, to make it look like a wealthy art lover.
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Les Lavandières du Portugal
Title: Les Lavandières du Portugal
Character: Un employé
Released: August 23, 1957
Type: Movie
Two French advertising agencies vying for a contract with a manufacturer of washers. The manager decides to hire the agency submitting the best advertising campaign. Jean Francois, head of the A.P.N., has the great idea of ​​looking for an authentic Portuguese washerwoman to present the ads. But competition, the O.P.I., led by the attractive Catherine, on a trip to Portugal, check the washer ideal. It is a shy girl who is happy with life in Portugal and refuses to accept the proposals of Catherine. And here intervenes Jean François, who pretends to fall for her to take her to Paris ..
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That damn Amédée
Title: That damn Amédée
Released: June 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Mr. Placard, impresario of shock, lost the headliner of his show, Elia Tarti. Amédée introduces himself, he can highlight his gifts of fantasy. Randomly along the way, Amédée notices a seductive hitchhiker named Cigale. This one disappears again, kidnapped by Prince Kanaga. Assisted by a friend, Amédée flies in his footsteps and discovers in Nice that Cigale is none other than Elia Tari, capricious, disdainful and snobbish star.
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L'irrésistible Catherine
Title: L'irrésistible Catherine
Released: May 10, 1957
Type: Movie
A legionnaire, Georges, promised his friend, who died of a snake-bite, to marry Catherine, the girl with whom he had a child. Back in France, the young soldier goes in search of Catherine. The girl he finds is a dumb puritan; in spite of his disappointment, he keeps his promise and asks for her hand. At the last moment, in the town-hall, he discovers the girl he is to marry is not the true Catherine. So he leaves his fiancee and heads for Paris where the true girl works as a cabaret dancer. But the deserted fiancee is not prepared to accept it.
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Reproduction interdite
Title: Reproduction interdite
Released: February 6, 1957
Type: Movie
An art dealer in dire straits, after being ripped off by two crooks, one of whom owns a genuine painting by Gauguin while the other is an expert copyist, finds them again and, instead of killing them as he originally intended, joins in their game – with ultimately disastrous results.
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The Seventh Commandment
Title: The Seventh Commandment
Character: Le garçon d'étage de Paris
Released: February 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Princesse Nadia Vronskaïa is a veteran con artist who uses her feminine wiles to bilk wealthy, susceptible old men. Inevitably, she outsmarts herself when she falls in love with one of her victims. In concert with her new beau, she turns the tables on her former partners in crime.
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Pity for the Vamps
Title: Pity for the Vamps
Released: October 19, 1956
Type: Movie
Paris, 1956. Three sisters, three actresses willing to do almost anything to make it big. Their lives, their loves, their dramas. A savory satire of the world of show business and cinema in particular.
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Et ta soeur
Title: Et ta soeur
Released: November 30, 1951
Type: Movie
In order to escape the police, a man takes the place of his missing sister, who was clairvoyant.
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The Bonnadieu House
Title: The Bonnadieu House
Character: Le serveur moustachu
Released: November 27, 1951
Type: Movie
Felix is a middle-aged bourgeois husband. Much to his discomfort, he learns that his wife Gabrielle is carrying on with a young man--a very young man. Rather than express outrage, Felix decides that there's something lacking in him. He spends the rest of the picture trying to keep his wife by altering his own personality and outlook.
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The Bonnadieu House
Title: The Bonnadieu House
Released: November 27, 1951
Type: Movie
Felix is a middle-aged bourgeois husband. Much to his discomfort, he learns that his wife Gabrielle is carrying on with a young man--a very young man. Rather than express outrage, Felix decides that there's something lacking in him. He spends the rest of the picture trying to keep his wife by altering his own personality and outlook.
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Beware of Blondes
Title: Beware of Blondes
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 24, 1950
Type: Movie
Back from a stay in the Far East, a woman who knew the names of the chiefs of a drug ring is murdered. Georges Masse, the famous reporter, decides to investigate, accompanied by his faithful photographer P'tit Louis. He will come across some unappetizing characters like M. Dubois, a killer, Luigi Costelli, a dangerous trafficker and a beautiful but dubious lady, Suzanne Wilson. After being himself suspected, Masse will make the truth triumph.