François Dyrek

François Dyrek

Born: August 16, 1933
Died: December 17, 1999
in Pontoise, Val-d'Oise, France

Movies for François Dyrek...

Le margouillat
Title: Le margouillat
Released: July 5, 2000
Type: Movie
The ambitious Alex is trapped by his father-in-law who fears that he will take his place in the multinational company of which he is the CEO. The latter has a photo montage made that accuses his troublesome son-in-law of adultery. This ploy leads Alex and his wife into a heated argument which, unfortunately, leads to an accident in which the wife is killed. Alex is then accused of his wife's murder. But in this descent into hell, he finds the strength to react.
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Tempest in a Teapot
Title: Tempest in a Teapot
Character: Socrate
Released: December 10, 1997
Type: Movie
American actor-director Arnold Barkus made this low-budget French film, a comedy set in New York, with scenes taking place in Chinatown, in a Franco-Greek cabaret, and on the Brooklyn Bridge. Brooklyn-born Max suspects his girlfriend Sophia has been cheating on him. His French pal Jean and a young woman, Vita, step in with a scheme to get back at Sophia, a character who is never seen during the entire film. Included is a parody of the Russian roulette scene from The Deer Hunter (1978).
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Le Groom
Title: Le Groom
Character: Félix
Released: December 21, 1995
Type: Movie
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Inner City
Title: Inner City
Character: DD, le père
Released: June 14, 1995
Type: Movie
Pierre, a young man in his thirties, grew up with his two brothers in a city in the suburbs of Paris. He still lives there today with his wife, Deborah. His everyday life is divided between a job where he is exploited, discussions with his friends and brothers, family meals and unpreventable altercations with the cops.
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Ils n'ont pas vingt ans
Title: Ils n'ont pas vingt ans
Character: Bertoli
Released: March 3, 1995
Type: Movie
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Title: The Castle of Olive Trees
Character: Sarrans
Released: June 28, 1993
Type: TV
The Castle of Olive Trees is the ancestral home of the "Laborie de Sauveterre". Located at "Châteauneuf-du-Pape", it holds many mysteries and legends. Like every summer "Estelle Laborie" goes there to take some time off. But this summer she take an important decision: run from Paris and stay here at the castle definitively. Little does she knows that her arrival will awake a lot of drama and secrets, beginning with this enigmatic "Pierre Séverin" who wants to demolish the castle to the ground, to make an amusement parc "Cigaleland". She will learn unfortunately that this "Pierre Séverin" is also knowned as "Marceau" the little boy of the steward of the castle when her father was the master of the domain. That steward also died in terrible circumstance. However Estelle decides to face this vengeance and save the castle with the aid of archaeologist "Raphaël Fauconnier"...
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Le Zèbre
Title: Le Zèbre
Character: Alphonse
Released: June 16, 1992
Type: Movie
Hippolyte, the titular oddball, is a far from typical country lawyer. He has been happily married to the woman of his dreams for 15 years, but has an incurable penchant for practical (or rather impractical) jokes.
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Just a Game
Title: Just a Game
Character: Bear man
Released: April 22, 1992
Type: Movie
Emile Michel, Lapland, orphan, is obliged to bring back within the tribe the ancestral totem: a gold plumb line "borrowed" formerly by his grandfather Raymond Michel. His quest will take him aboard a floating boat that crosses Baffin Bay in the icy waters of Greenland.
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Cross My Heart
Title: Cross My Heart
Character: Titanic
Released: February 27, 1991
Type: Movie
Young Martin has been acting strange. At his school, his teacher and classmates notice that he is less talkative and more withdrawn. When those around him begin to prod, they discover that Martin’s single mother has died. Fearful that he will be sent away from home now that he has no parents, Martin looks to his friends for help. With Jerome leading the charge to save Martin from the orphanage, the first thing they decide to do is dispose of the mother’s body.
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Bouvard et Pécuchet
Title: Bouvard et Pécuchet
Character: M. Vaucorbeil
Released: September 17, 1990
Type: Movie
Two retirees obsessed with their desire to know everything put their knowledge into practice in a constantly awkward way.
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Life and Nothing But
Title: Life and Nothing But
Character: Vergnes
Released: September 6, 1989
Type: Movie
January, 1920. 350,000 French soldiers remain missing in action. Major Dellaplane tirelessly matches the dead and the wounded with families' descriptions. Honor and ethics drive him; he hates the idea of "the unknown soldier." Into his sector, looking for her husband, comes a haughty, politically connected Parisian, Madame Irène de Courtil. Brusquely, Dellaplane offers her 1/350,000th of his time, but as their paths cross and she sees his courage and resolve, feelings change. After he finds a surprising connection between her missing husband and a local teacher, Irène makes Dellaplane an offer. This man of action hesitates: has he missed his only chance?
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Torquemada
Title: Torquemada
Released: May 12, 1989
Type: Movie
Last feature film of Stanislav Barabas
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Radio corbeau
Title: Radio corbeau
Character: Albert Cauvin, l'aubergiste restaurateur
Released: February 1, 1989
Type: Movie
This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives of the elite of a small French town.
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Appelez-moi Fouks
Title: Appelez-moi Fouks
Character: Morlock
Released: August 13, 1986
Type: Movie
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Flagrant désir
Title: Flagrant désir
Character: Georges Barnac
Released: June 11, 1986
Type: Movie
In the Médoc, a young woman is found drowned. An accident, her influential family of winegrowers maintains. Or rather murder, as the American inspector Morrison suspects. If so, why? What secrets this family keeps?
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Le Gaffeur
Title: Le Gaffeur
Character: Marcel Dugrand
Released: September 4, 1985
Type: Movie
A good country priest discovers that he is a father and must assume his role, a task all the more delicate since his son is a thug.
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Le voleur de feuilles
Title: Le voleur de feuilles
Released: June 20, 1984
Type: Movie
An old vagrant accidentally meets a man who has just killed his wife. They are both housed with an old woman who lives in the nostalgia of a youthful love.
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Equator
Title: Equator
Character: Superintendent
Released: August 17, 1983
Type: Movie
Although based on a novel by Georges Simenon, director (and songwriter) Serge Gainsbourg has superimposed several dark emotions and a subtle brutality over the weak plot about a man's trip to Africa and his unfortunate passion for a murderess whose amorality sends the disillusioned fellow back to Europe. Sometimes described as frustrating and self-centered, reactions to this film swing across a broad spectrum of complaints -- not the least might be whether or not Gainsbourg is using a clichéd and stereotypical view of "dark Africa" to convey what he sees in his characters.
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Paradise for All
Title: Paradise for All
Character: le responsable du zoo
Released: August 25, 1982
Type: Movie
Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain Durieux. This is great success, everybody's happy except may be Alain's wife, Jeanne, who's worrying about the changes in Alain's personality. Other patients use the treatment with similar successes, and Valois's happy about it. But the monkeys are changing: non-cured ones are made mad by the over-stability and stereotyped behaviour of the cured ones. So are the humans. When Valois realises he can't stop the process, he decides to "flash" himself.
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Parti sans laisser d'adresse
Title: Parti sans laisser d'adresse
Character: Detective
Released: May 19, 1982
Type: Movie
A young Swiss drug addict has been imprisoned for robbery, and must wait and wait for his upcoming trial, all the while isolated and without hope of parole - the police are convinced he is a dealer and not just a user. He hears from his son that his girlfriend has a new man, and begins to despair of ever coming to trial, or of having another relationship like the one he lost. This fiction film is said to be based on a true story.
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Title: Marcheloup
Character: Pascal
Released: March 26, 1982
Type: TV
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La vie continue
Title: La vie continue
Character: Robert
Released: September 23, 1981
Type: Movie
Jeanne, mother of two children, loses her husband. She meets Pierre, abandoned by his wife.
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Title: Arcole ou la terre promise
Character: Antoine Campagne
Released: July 17, 1981
Type: TV
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Le Chêne d'Allouville
Title: Le Chêne d'Allouville
Character: Roger Dubois, l'adjoint au maire
Released: March 18, 1981
Type: Movie
The small Norman village of Allouville is proud of its thousand-year-old oak tree. But one day, a project of enlargement threatens the tree. The deputy Charles Crétois was keen on this project, which allowed him to continue the speculation he had been indulging in on certain lands. He is supported by the mayor of Allouville to whom he promised the Legion of Honor. But the whole village protests: they want to save the oak tree.
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Asphalt
Title: Asphalt
Character: Edward
Released: January 7, 1981
Type: Movie
Heavy traffic in the summer. Bad luck for Juliet, Albert, Jaeger and Arthur who does not reach their destination. Involved in a terrible accident that will change their lives forever.
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Title: Les Mystères de Paris
Character: Le Chourineur
Released: November 15, 1980
Type: TV
TV mini series. An adaptation of Eugene Sue's popular novel.
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It All Depends on Girls
Title: It All Depends on Girls
Character: 'Good Night', the blind
Released: February 13, 1980
Type: Movie
In Montmartre, Paris, two friends are leading a happy carefree Bohemian existence. Jean-Luc is a cabinetmaker, Mathieu is a sculptor. Then they both meet the love of their lives and decide to get married. Unfortunately, the objects of their desire are not so eager to be drawn into matrimony.
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See Here My Love
Title: See Here My Love
Character: l’inspecteur Daloup
Released: December 7, 1979
Type: Movie
Young aristocrat Arnaud de Maule hires female private detective Claude Alphand to investigate a strange cult, the Church of the Final Revival, that tried to recruit his girlfriend Chloé, who then disappeared, and it now stalks him.
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The Bit Between the Teeth
Title: The Bit Between the Teeth
Character: Guy Pasquier
Released: September 1, 1979
Type: Movie
Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math whiz who uses his talent for picking the winners. Charles (Michel Galabru) is the wealthy scrap-iron magnate who has embarrassing evidence on many prominent political figures. Loic (Jacques Dutronc) is the aspiring politico who seeks to further his career by any means possible. Charles approaches Loic and asks his political party for a loan in hopes of fixing an upcoming race....
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Le divorcement
Title: Le divorcement
Released: August 22, 1979
Type: Movie
In this rambling comic tale about a man and a wife, with four children, who calmly announce to the children that they want to divorce one another, it is impossible to tell who is dissatisfied with whom about what. They had seemed to be a perfect couple. Their flabbergasted children have mixed feelings, and the most difficult thing about the divorce, besides understanding why it is taking place at all, is deciding what will happen with the couple's numerous pets.
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Tendrement vache
Title: Tendrement vache
Character: Andre Legent
Released: July 4, 1979
Type: Movie
Brave peasant of the country of Caux, Henri Duchemin is recovering badly from the death of his married wife, whom he loved dearly. After seeing a TV show, the man is convinced that his late wife has reincarnated into a cow.
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Hothead
Title: Hothead
Character: Driver of the first truck
Released: February 14, 1979
Type: Movie
François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries.
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Take It from the Top
Title: Take It from the Top
Character: Le routier
Released: August 9, 1978
Type: Movie
Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life...
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La Passion
Title: La Passion
Character: Judas
Released: March 23, 1978
Type: Movie
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L'Exercice du pouvoir
Title: L'Exercice du pouvoir
Released: March 8, 1978
Type: Movie
At the turn of the century, an unusual woman refuses to become an object to be desired or played with. Instead she wants to succeed on the stage of politics in the Third Republic.
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Drummer-Crab
Title: Drummer-Crab
Character: L'ancien gendarme, patron du bistrot
Released: November 9, 1977
Type: Movie
"Le Crabe Tambour" ("Drummer Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.
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You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
Title: You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
Character: Le second tavernier
Released: October 19, 1977
Type: Movie
Whilst King Gros Pif I amuses himself at debauched banquets, his musketeers pursue their tax-collecting duties with a malicious zeal. Goaded by the court jester (who is also the Queen’s lover), the ministers decide to put an end to this regime and have the King locked up. Hearing the news, the famous Chevalier Blanc comes to his rescue. Aided by the knight and his cousin Lucienne, the King flees to Flanders, where he devises a scheme to win him back the throne of France...
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Monsieur Papa
Title: Monsieur Papa
Character: Janine's colleague
Released: August 23, 1977
Type: Movie
In this family comedy, Papa has no end of trouble getting his young son to accept his new girlfriend.
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The Question
Title: The Question
Character: Lieutenant Herbelin
Released: May 4, 1977
Type: Movie
1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers.
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Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
Title: Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
Character: Bouvines
Released: January 12, 1977
Type: Movie
Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re-adapt the notion of justice to our changing times. His methods are not agreeable to every one. Criticism and pressure are brought to bear upon him but he is aware of his value, professionally, and refuses to make any concessions. He follows an unwavering course. He uses dynamic methods and takes uncustomary initiatives. He behaves like a crusader, a battler, whence the nickname given him by the reporters : the sheriff.
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The Judge and the Assassin
Title: The Judge and the Assassin
Character: Le cheminot libéré
Released: March 10, 1976
Type: Movie
France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders many teenagers over years. The judge Rousseau captures him, but to serve his ambition seeks to avoid that Bouvier is simply declared insane.
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Title: Marie-Antoinette
Character: Louis XVI
Released: December 24, 1975
Type: TV
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Les Rosenberg ne doivent pas mourir
Title: Les Rosenberg ne doivent pas mourir
Released: May 24, 1975
Type: Movie
A French film about a famous American trial - that of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who became the first people in American history to receive the death penalty for espionage.
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Let Joy Reign Supreme
Title: Let Joy Reign Supreme
Character: Montlouis
Released: March 23, 1975
Type: Movie
A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
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The Ambassadors
Title: The Ambassadors
Character: Paul
Released: January 2, 1975
Type: Movie
"Ambassadors" is a euphemistic name given by the French to Arab "guest-workers," or imported laborers. In this film, the Arab workers are shown enduring the difficulties of life in a racist society, as well as the hardships they impose on one another.
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Piaf
Title: Piaf
Released: April 10, 1974
Type: Movie
Édith Giovanna Gassion is born in 1915. As a young girl she sings on the streets of Paris until a nightclub owner, Louis Leplée, discovers her. When he is murdered the composer Raymond Asso takes care of her and lets her perform at the ABC theatre, which leads to her breakthrough.
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Private Screening
Title: Private Screening
Character: L'autre metteur en scène
Released: October 8, 1973
Type: Movie
Complications abound in this French film, which tells the story of a filmmaker who is attempting to put his real life into a movie; his interactions with the people in the movie he is filming create reverberations in his "real" life, although the past remains unchanged. Among the complications is his growing regard for the woman who plays his cinematic wife. She may wind up replacing his actual wife in real life. One of the highlights of this film is the insight it gives into the actual mechanics of filmmaking.
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A Pain in the Ass
Title: A Pain in the Ass
Character: Félix, saboteur
Released: September 20, 1973
Type: Movie
Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.
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Title: The Accursed Kings
Character: Le soldat à l'ost
Released: December 21, 1972
Type: TV
It is the start of the 14th century and Philip IV the Fair reigns supreme over France. His three sons would rule after him. Isabelle, his only daughter, is married to King Edward II of England. Under Philip's reign, France is great but its people are unhappy. Only one power dares to stand up to him: the order of the Knights Templar. When the last Grand Master of the Temple, Jacques de Molay, is burned at the stake, he curses Philip and so begins a dark period, full of blood and violence, death and tears ...
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The Pebbles of Etratat
Title: The Pebbles of Etratat
Released: March 10, 1972
Type: Movie
Following a car breakdown, Miss Annie, director of a weight loss center, meets a certain Mr. Kelvo, a car champion. But instead of helping her, he rapes her. She decides to take revenge and follows him.
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Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad
Title: Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad
Character: Rigouille
Released: March 1, 1971
Type: Movie
In a cul-de-sac in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Leon shares two rooms with his sister Marie. In one, he receives his clients: he is a tailor. In the other, Marie receives her own: she is a clairvoyant. Leon was happy until he learned what Marie was hiding from him. She is actually a prostitute, and Maxime, her supposed fiancé, is her pimp. On the same day, Leon also discovers love in the form of Arlette, a provincial young woman picked up by Marie.
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Title: Jean-Roch Coignet
Character: La Franchise
Released: December 23, 1969
Type: TV
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Title: L'Homme du Picardie
Character: Brillet
Released: December 16, 1968
Type: TV
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Bonnot's Gang
Title: Bonnot's Gang
Character: Édouard Carouy
Released: November 1, 1968
Type: Movie
The story of a notorious French criminal gang of the 1910s.
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The Companions of Baal
Title: The Companions of Baal
Character: Louis
Released: July 29, 1968
Type: Movie
Journalist Claude Leroy (Jacques Champreux) reports that a secret society, The Companions of Baal, is behind a hold-up in the small town of Blaingirey. They are led by the Grand Maître Hubert de Mauvouloir (Jean Martin). An adorant of Lucifer, he aims to enslave the world. Accompanied by their acolyte, Pierrot Robichat (Gérard Zimmermann), and a young girl, Françoise Cordier (Claire Nadeau), Claude Leroy is determined to finally reveal the mysteries of the group's criminal enterprise.
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Strange Game
Title: Strange Game
Character: Serge
Released: April 5, 1968
Type: Movie
In 1944, in Paris, the leader of a resistance network is looking for the traitor who gave away a radio operator.
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The Erotic Touch of Hot Skin
Title: The Erotic Touch of Hot Skin
Released: October 12, 1964
Type: Movie
A young couple becomes entangled with a younger woman, resulting in tragic consequences.
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L'assassin viendra ce soir
Title: L'assassin viendra ce soir
Released: March 10, 1964
Type: Movie
A woman's father, a scientist, receives repeated death threats and eventually ends up dead. Receiving no help from the police, the woman begins to realize that she is next.