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Amores que matan (1996)
Character: N/A
Consuelo is a bored housewife. Her husband is away on business in Berlin, and her only company would be a mysterious neighbor, a science professor who spends a lot of time gardening (?) One fine morning, Consuelo is compelled to find an excuse to speak with her neighbor. She asks him for some sugar, and then starts discussing gardening. During the rest of the film we find out what may be below the well-manicured flowers, and what secrets involving everyone, these may conceal.
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Ehrengard (1982)
Character: Cazotte
Wolfgang Cazotte, a famous, refined and charming court painter of the early 19th century, plans to seduce Ehrengard, an attractive and proud virgin, without touching her, just by instilling in her a throbbing passion. At one point, though, the painter's artifice seems to start turning its back on him.
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Une deuxième chance (2003)
Character: Anatole
It's Christmas Eve. Nicolas feels very lonely since Natacha, the woman he loves, has left him. Nothing interests him anymore. He wanders aimlessly in the illuminated streets of the city. Then Zoé, a homeless woman, crosses his path.
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Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés (1950)
Character: Un figurant
"Le Tambourin", a Montmartre nightclub, is on its way down. Although it can boast great performances by the alluring Les Bluebell Girls and by Jacques Hélian's lively Big Band the venue does not attract people anymore. Nightclub patrons now prefer the jazz cellars of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Taking this new taste into account, the staff of the "Tambourin" and Jacques Hélian decide to set up their own club, "La Pivoine Ecarlate". They are joined by Pâquerette, a flower vendor and amateur singer, and by Jean-Pierre Francis, an existentialist poet...
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Napoléon II, l'aiglon (1961)
Character: Gustav von Neipperg
The story of Napoleon 1st's long-awaited son, born in 1911. He spent his childhood in the Tuileries, before being separated from his father and taken in and raised by his grandfather, Emperor Francis, who made him an Austrian prince.
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Le Secret d'Elissa Rhaïs (1993)
Character: Lucien Rameau
After a confinement in a harem, an illiterate Algerian takes her revenge by reinventing herself as a writer. Under the name of Elissa Rhaïs, she becomes the darling of the literary Paris of the inter-war period, in search of oriental fantasies.
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Con rabbia e con amore (1997)
Character: N/A
At a bus stop they meet Francesca, an eighteen year old who is collaborating in a veterinary office, and Claudio, a university student. The two begin to walk together and talk about many things.
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Cyrano et D'Artagnan (1964)
Character: D'Artagnan
Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy against King Louis XIII of France.
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De terre et de sang (1992)
Character: Ridefort
The warlike and sentimental adventures of a young French knight who participates in the crusades.
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Les Surmenés (1958)
Character: Bernard
A young woman wins a typing contest and sets off to work in Paris.
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Congorama (2006)
Character: Hervé Roy
Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese woman and is the father of an interracial child whom he reassures as to his parentage. He discovers at the age of 41 that he was adopted, actually having been born in Sainte-Cécile, Quebec. In the summer of 2000, he travels to Quebec, supposedly to sell some of his inventions. While on a near-impossible quest to find his birth family in the town where he was born, he crosses paths with Louis Legros, son of another inventor, in a meeting which will change their lives.
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Nunca pasa nada (1963)
Character: Juan
The star of a magazine company suffers an appendicitis attack during a shift and has to stay in a small Spanish town to be operated. But the doctor who takes care of his speech falls in love for her and tries to prolong their convalescence.
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Sur la terre comme au ciel (1992)
Character: Le rédacteur en chef
Maria Garcia (Carmen Maura) is a television journalist and she's about to be a single mother. Her career foremost in her mind, she doesn't slow down even for a minute, despite her pregnancy. She is, however, taking Lamaze classes and is quite competently coping with the romantic attentions of a man she's not very interested in. It's not at all irrelevant that her news beat includes stories on terrorism, the greenhouse effect, pollution and genetic engineering, because when her baby's due date comes and goes, she starts hearing from her infant from in the womb. It is telling her that it and many other babies are refusing to be born into such a horrible world. She learns that this is true, and that the children born through induced labor are dying.
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Le Soleil en face (1980)
Character: Marat
Famous writer, Marat retires to Portugal, where he lives surrounded by his family, including his wife Genevieve. When she learns she is diagnosed with cancer, she tries to hide the truth. But Marat doesn't take time to know.
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Le plus beau pays du monde (1999)
Character: Blondel
The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was discovered during the filming of Mermoz (1943).
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Candide ou l’optimisme au XXᵉ siècle (1960)
Character: Candide
Charming and innocent, Candide is vigorously chased away by the Baron, for his close encounters with the pretty Cunégonde. World War II breaks out, and when he is drafted and taken prisoner, he is forced to take German nationality and ends up guarding the camp where he was imprisoned. He crossed into Switzerland, but as he had no bank account, he was incarcerated for eight days for trespassing. Hunted by the Gestapo, he kills two men to free Cunégonde, who has finally been found. They both flee to Argentina, and their world tour begins. In Paris, Moscow, New York, Borneo and Alexandria. They try to follow Dr. Pangloss' optimistic rule of life. Tossed about, separated, they find themselves grown old and wiser, thinking only of cultivating their garden on the shores of the Mediterranean.
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Il magnate (1973)
Character: N/A
The engineer Furio Cicerone came up from nothing and entered the circle of the great industrialists; he is married to Clara, but has a series of adventures with other women. Gianni is part of the powerful from birth and is used to having everything he wants and wants Clara. But Clara does not want him. Then there is an opportunity: Furio wins an important foreign contract, but needs to have immediately 500 million while the bank can not give it to him before five days. Gianni will lend him money, without interest for five days but for every day of blackberry Furio will have to give him Clara. Furio and Clara accept the contract.
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Vive la sociale ! (1983)
Character: Le camelot
A student demonstration in Paris leads to an unexpected reunion between two childhood friends.
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Un pique-nique chez Osiris (2001)
Character: Victor Ancelin
The year is 1898. Héloïse, 9 years old, comes from a family belonging to the anti-Dreyfus and anti-Semitic Parisian high bourgeoisie. In a spirit of revolt, she begins a love affair with Maxime, a young Jewish journalist. During a terrible quarrel with her father, the latter suffers a stroke and dies. To get her away from Maxime, her mother Mathilde and her cousin Olympe take Héloïse on a trip to the Orient. After Cairo and the Pyramids, they go up the Nile and cross the desert in a caravan.
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Call Me Agostino (2006)
Character: N/A
Hélène and Marianne are two girls with love on their minds. Together, they decide to play a short-lived game of deception. A guy called Agostino Stone charms the two but then disappears into thin air, but not without first leaving his mark…
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Les Œufs brouillés (1976)
Character: The representative of the Italian leader
Brumaire, the director of public relations at the Élysée, is trying to boost the rating of his government.
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La Marraine de Charley (1959)
Character: Claude
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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La peau de l'ours (1957)
Character: N/A
A police commissioner lives with his two children, wife, mother-in-law and maid. But he discovers that he has been poisoned with arsenic, and that the culprit must be someone close to him.
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La Chanson du maçon (2002)
Character: Arnold
Three eccentric old homosexual men encourage a love affair between their snobbish young landlady and a mason.
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Vado a riprendermi il gatto (1989)
Character: N/A
Having always lived in solitude, working the land (his only company being a cat), one day Alceo meets Ester, a girl much younger than him.
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Jean-Pierre Melville et L’armée des ombres (2002)
Character: Self
In this documentary, produced by Philippe Quinconneau for StudioCanal, editor Françoise Bonnot, actor Jean-Pierre Cassel, composer Éric Demarsan, writer and filmmaker Philippe Labro, cinematographer Pierre Lhomme, and filmmaker Bertrand Tavernier share insights and anecdotes about Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 film ARMY OF SHADOWS.
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Révolution d'octobre (1967)
Character: Narrator (French version) (voice)
French director Frederic Rossif presents this historical documentary that coincided with the 50th anniversary of the Russian Revolution. Stock footage from both World Wars are included with 30 minutes of new scenes filmed especially for the project. The historical timeline is traced from the time Czar Nicholas II is crowned. The emergence of Lenin, his death in 1924, and the later contributions of Trotsky and Stalin give the viewer a sense of death, betrayal, and ideological devotion to the communist agenda. Rossif effectively uses scenes from the landmark 1929 film The Man With A Movie Camera by celebrated director Dziga Vertov. Rossif researched the film archives from several countries in his meticulous gathering of materials for this timely historical feature.
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Aqui D'El Rei! (1992)
Character: Rodrigo
At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal chief Gungunhana, who had rebelled against Portuguese government and sovereignty.
Mouzinho instantly becomes a national hero but his raising popularity worries the State.
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5% de risque (1980)
Character: Henri Tanin
A troubled gentleman named David ponders whether vegemite can be consumed undiluted without posing a health risk. Meanwhile his friend, a senior government official, returning from an evening, has a car accident and his passenger dies in the accident. He puts the corpse in the driver's seat, but there is a witness. To eliminate this annoying witness, he calls on his David, a physicist, who wants to make it a perfect crime by quantifying the risk taken in each of its stages. And compressing it enough to make the execution of the most improbable.
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Le Bateau sur l'herbe (1971)
Character: David
Despite their social differences, poor David and the rich Olivier are the best friends. David took the young Eleanor in Olivier's Paris apartment. When Olivier meets her there, he takes her to the country, where the three build a boat on the meadow. Eleanore divided the friends.
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La Gamberge (1962)
Character: Albert
The Dance is a 1962 French comedy film directed by Norbert Carbonnaux and starring Jean-Pierre Cassel, Françoise Dorléac and Arletty. The film is based on the French comic strip 13 rue de l'Espoir.
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Notorious (1992)
Character: Alex Sebastian
After Alicia Velorus' father is convicted as a communist spy, CIA asks her to prove her loyalty by getting close to her father's friend, who's a suspected arms dealer. In the meantime she and her CIA contact Devlin fall in love.
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A Matter of Convenience (1988)
Character: Alphonse
Valma wants a baby with her partner Joe but he has trouble sustaining himself financially. She agrees to help Alphonse and to marry an immigrant.
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Liberty (1986)
Character: Eduard de Laboulaye
Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and the people responsible for its creation.
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La Double Inconstance (1968)
Character: The prince
Silvia and Harlequin, two young peasants, are in love. The Prince, who is also enamoured of Silvia, will test their feelings. Will the rural world withstand the corruption of the court and its rewards? Marcel Bluwal directed a prestigious television adaptation, filmed in a natural setting, with a star-studded cast.
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The Fatal Image (1990)
Character: Vandelle
A woman and her daughter vacationing in Paris get caught up in intrigue after being witnesses to a murder.
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Flairs ennemis (1996)
Character: Jean-Charles Cuvelier
By becoming attached to animals, one can learn to love humans. This is what Mathias Lefort, a thirty-five year old photographer, will discover. Mathias has a feeling of disgust towards dogs, all dogs, coupled with an irrepressible terror. This very special phobia will change Mathias' life the day he witnesses an attempted murder.
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Les Rivières pourpres (2000)
Character: Dr. Bernard Chernezé
Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other working on the desecration of a young girl's grave by skinheads, are brought together by the clues from their respective cases. Soon after they start working together, more murders are committed, and the pair begin to discover just what dark secrets are behind the killings.
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Prêt-à-Porter (1994)
Character: Olivier de la Fontaine
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.
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Folies bourgeoises (1976)
Character: Jacques
Claire de La Tour Picquet shares her life between her husband, the successful novelist William Brandeis, and her lover, Jacques Lalouet, William's publisher. Then she discovers that her lover has a mistress, Charlie, who is also that of her husband...
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Jeu de massacre (1967)
Character: Pierre Meyrand
Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them to create a new comic strip. As they work on the new strip, the playboy begins to live it out. Unfortunately, the new strip deals with murder.
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Astérix aux Jeux olympiques (2008)
Character: Panoramix
Astérix and Obélix have to win the Olympic Games in order to help their friend Alafolix marry Princess Irina. Brutus uses every trick in the book to have his own team win the game, and get rid of his father Julius Caesar in the process.
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Pétain (1993)
Character: Hans Roberto
During second world war,Philippe Pétain gets absolute powers.The war ends with the arrival of allied forces by Petainism has not been put on trial.
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La Truite (1982)
Character: Rambert
The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a naive married woman becomes the obsession of two wealthy suitors.
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L'Enfer (1994)
Character: M. Vernon
Forced to work extremely hard to keep things afloat, Paul begins hearing voices in his head questioning his past choices. Convinced that his wife has been unfaithful, he begins to see every male guest as a potential threat. What follows is Paul's downward spiral into the madness of deranged jealousy where he finally discovers that hell is not a state of mind – hell is himself.
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Comme un cheveu sur la soupe (1957)
Character: Un journaliste (uncredited)
Pierre Cousin, a depressive compositor, wants to die. After five vain attempts at committing suicide, he decides to hire professional hit men to do the job on him. But as he's waiting for death, he accidentally saves a suicidal young woman's life... and falls in love. Having suddenly found a reason to live, he now fears the killers he himself hired. Is there still time to call off his contract?
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À pied, à cheval et en voiture (1957)
Character: Mariel
When he learns that his daughter is to be engaged to the son of a rich businessman, Leon Martin realizes that extreme measures are needed to create a good impression.
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The Three Musketeers (1973)
Character: Louis XIII
The young D'Artagnan arrives in Paris with dreams of becoming a King's musketeer. He meets and quarrels with three men, Athos, Porthos, and Aramis, each of whom challenges him to a duel. D'Artagnan finds out they are musketeers and is invited to join them in their efforts to oppose Cardinal Richelieu, who wishes to increase his already considerable power over the King. D'Artagnan must also juggle affairs with the charming Constance Bonancieux and the passionate Lady De Winter, a secret agent for the Cardinal.
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Fantaghirò (1991)
Character: Generale
After a queen's tragic death, the king abandons his newborn daughter in a cave, but a witch saves her. Years later, the tomboy princess must confront and ultimately falls in love with the enemy king.
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The Four Musketeers (1974)
Character: Louis XIII
The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter.
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Tranches de vie (1985)
Character: Le comte de Forcheville
A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal!"
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The Maid (1991)
Character: C.P. Olivier
A man goes off to Paris to start his new job at a bank. When he falls in love with a beautiful woman, he decides to work as her maid -- until he discovers she not only is his boss, but his colleague at the bank.
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Nudo di donna (1981)
Character: Pireddu
Sandro is a Roman adrift in Venice during Carnival. As he enters midlife, he argues with his wife of sixteen years more often than they laugh or make love. She's had enough of his moods, so they separate so he can sort out his mind. His first night away, he sees a photograph of a nude; the image resembles his wife. He searches for the model, whose name is Riri. He finds her, and she looks exactly like his wife, except that Riri is a gaily attired prostitute and Laura is a self-contained antiquarian bookseller. Are they two women, are they one, and in the masquerade of Carnival, what is real?
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La Rupture (1970)
Character: Paul Thomas
An innocent woman falls prey to her abusive husband, his wealthy father and a shady family friend.
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Contro 4 bandiere (1979)
Character: Dick Sanders
In 1939, at a Paris café, six friends of various nationalities vow to meet again at the same spot after the end of WW2.
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La Ville des silences (1979)
Character: Private detective
Creuzeville, a small provincial town with its woods, its countryside, its ramparts, its mass and its little Sunday cakes. A stranger arrives. He's a private investigator in Creuzeville, over which an old family of industrialists reigns, a murder has just been committed. The victim is the founding ancestor of this small empire that has outgrown one man. In Creuzeville, we hardly like foreigners, especially if they are vegetarians, perhaps homosexuals, undoubtedly anarchists like, precisely, this detective. However the detective by whom the scandal broke broke the silence of the city by going to the heart of family secrets hitherto well hidden behind purple shutters. The murders follow one another. We strike on the left - a young ecologist - as on the right - a cynical playboy. Continuing to dissect the mobiles and the characters, the detective dropped the masks one by one. And, little by little, fear and violence are settling in the small town.
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Oh! What a Lovely War (1969)
Character: French Colonel
The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the three boys of the family witness the harsh reality of trench warfare.
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À l'abri des regards indiscrets (2002)
Character: Le balayeur claquettiste
January 1st 2002. 1st day of Euro currency. The window of a cash dispenser is lifting up on a square, in Paris. 23 amazing characters will be meeting each other there, all along this very particular day...
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Il cuore e la spada (1998)
Character: Hoel
After the death of his father, prince Tristan is living in Cornwall at the court of his uncle, King Marke, who treats him like a son. When the Irish king sends his son Morold over to demand high tax payments, Tristan challenges him to combat. He manages to kill Morold but is very badly injured, and is placed in a boat to be healed by the magic powers of the sea, which takes him across to Ireland.
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Sade (2000)
Character: Le vicomte de Lancris
A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive one more time the highlights of his youth.
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Virgil (2005)
Character: Ernest
Every week, Virgil makes his father Ernest dream by telling him about his boxing exploits during a visit. Every week, Virgil comes to dream by meeting the eyes of Margot, a young woman who is also visiting. This week, Ernest tells her that he is going to get out and that he will finally be able to see Virgil in the ring. There's just one problem: Virgil hasn't boxed in three years.
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L'Avarice (1962)
Character: Raymond
A group of university students in Paris dream of a night of love with Suzon, whose rates are staggering. To raise the money, they organize a lottery among themselves so that at least the winner will enact their fantasy.
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Goodbye Again (1961)
Character: Dancer
Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her longtime philandering partner begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman. She soon learns that May-December romances with older women are frowned upon in society.
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Mangeclous (1988)
Character: De Surville
Adapation of the fanciful comic novel by Albert Cohen.
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Alta infedeltà (1964)
Character: Tonino
Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemmas with jealousy, sex and love.
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J'aurais voulu être un danseur (2007)
Character: Guy adulte
After seeing 'Singin' in the Rain', a man decides to give up his peaceful life of happiness to pursue his new dream of tap dancing.
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L'Œil écarlate (1993)
Character: Leprince
An unorthodox police commissioner investigates the suspicious death of a man run over by a train.
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Les Plus Belles Escroqueries du monde (1964)
Character: Alain des Arcys (segment "L'Homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel")
Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands ("A River of Diamonds" by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy ("The Road Map" by Ugo Gregoretti); Paris, France ("The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower" by Claude Chabrol); and Marrakesh, Morocco ("The Confidence Man" by Jean-Luc Godard). Godard's segment was not included in the original French cinema release, and Polanski's segment was not included on the 2016 home disc release.
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La Maison du canal (2003)
Character: Louis
After her parents' death, a young woman moves in with her unsophisticated country relatives with unfortunate results.
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L'Armée des ombres (1969)
Character: Jean-François Jardie
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in occupied Marseilles, France, and exacts his revenge on the informant, he must continue a quiet, seemingly endless battle against the Nazis in an atmosphere of tension, paranoia and distrust.
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Trafic d'influence (1999)
Character: Pierre-Jean Guisard
Maxime and Gerard are a couple of white-collar criminals condemned to 5 years in prison. Sandrine Athan, an honest and principled young police officer, is assigned the banal task of escorting them to the nearest prison in Melun. Things get complicated when killers try to knock them off. Meanwhile, they must contend with strikes which have paralyzed the country and make travelling a nightmare. Added to this mess are the prisoners' many botch escape attempts. All these complications turn a simple transfer into a hellish adventure.
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Le Mouton enragé (1974)
Character: Claude Fabre
A shy bank employee unexpectedly invites a young woman to a café, leading to a one-night stand. When he shares this with his disillusioned friend, the writer helps him navigate a dazzling social ascent.
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Les Sept Péchés capitaux (1962)
Character: Raymond (segment "L'avarice")
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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La Cérémonie (1995)
Character: Georges Lelièvre
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.
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Métisse (1993)
Character: Gynecologist
Lola is pregnant, and she isn’t sure who the father is: Félix, a Jewish delivery boy, or Jamal, a black law student.
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Les Fêtes galantes (1965)
Character: Joliecoeur
In the 18th century, as the army of Prince De Beaulieu lays siege on the fortress of Marechal D'Allenberg, a young princess sends a soldier out of the fortress to go find her lover.
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Mauvaise foi (2006)
Character: Victor Breitmann
In Paris, Clara, psycho motor therapist, and Ismaël, music teacher, have been lovers for four years. Happy, the couple are expecting their first child and decide to move in together. But the news is not well received by their respective families because Clara is Jewish and Ishmael a Muslim. Although not practicing, this difference will gradually sow trouble in their love life.
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Dans tes rêves (2005)
Character: Mike
Ninth is a promising young rapper whose reputation does not exceed even the few streets of his neighborhood. With his band and supported by Keuj, hairdresser apprentice producer, he tries to attend concerts and trying to break into the music, to the chagrin of his mother, who would see him in a more conventional career at the post office...
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Contre-enquête (2007)
Character: Docteur Delmas
A cop investigates whether the man convicted of murdering his daughter is really guilty.
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Sacrée jeunesse (1958)
Character: Jeune homme de la boîte de nuit
Mr. Longué, aged 79, is offered a life annuity on his provincial estate by his nephew. He receives the same, but more advantageous, offer from his insurer, but Mr. Longué has decided to undergo a rejuvenation treatment in Switzerland, at Dr. Koranoff's establishment. The effect was striking, and he was given a new lease on life, leaving his heirs and insurer in complete disarray. His wife, witnessing her husband's metamorphosis, also undergoes the treatment, and off they go on a second honeymoon to Italy.
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Le Scaphandre et le Papillon (2007)
Character: Father Lucien
The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
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Un monsieur de compagnie (1964)
Character: Antoine Mirliflor
A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only when the prospect of employment presents itself.
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Les Jeux de l'amour (1960)
Character: Victor
Victor (Jean-Pierre Cassel) and Suzanne (Genevieve Cluny) are a couple at odds about commitment in this light, fast-paced comedy-drama by Philippe de Broca. Suzanne needs more reassurance from Victor about the future of their relationship. He is a painter with an inspired creative side who finds it difficult to understand Suzanne's point of view. They are happy together; what is the problem? So when a friend comes into the picture and proposes to Suzanne, Victor suddenly realizes that Suzanne was right. Without a formal commitment, the suddenly insecure man does not like the view from the opposite shore.
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Baxter ! (1973)
Character: Roger Tunnell
A young boy struggles to overcome his speech problem and strained relationship with his parents.
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That Lucky Touch (1975)
Character: Leo
A European arms dealer meets a liberated woman journalist, who is writing a story about the ridiculous things men do with the armaments during a NATO war games meeting.
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La Treizième Voiture (1993)
Character: Charles
A Scottish woman with her nephew travels to Russia in the Paris-Moscow express. On the same flight in the 13th carriage, the old icons are returning from France to Russia. Thieves try to replace real icons with fake ones.
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Mister Frost (1990)
Character: Corelli
Frost is arrested and committed for murder after he is apprehended burying his victims in the garden. However, even while under psychiatric care and tight hospital security, it becomes obvious that Mr. Frost is not all he seems to be.
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Docteur Françoise Gailland (1976)
Character: Daniel Letessier
Dr. Françoise Gailland has a hectic schedule, which causes her to have little time to spend with her family, which consists of her husband Gérard, her pregnant teenager daughter Élisabeth, and her sullen son Julien. However, she does manage to find the time to spend with her lover, Daniel Letessier. While her life in such disarray, she learns that she has cancer. Françoise tries to put a brave face on it, and is determined to face the life-threatening disease with courage.
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Casque bleu (1994)
Character: Nicolas
Winegrower Patrick Ponsac comes close to ruining his marriage when he has an affair with another woman. By way of atonement, he takes his wife back to the Mediterranean island where, 13 years earlier, they spent their honeymoon. Not such a good move, as it turns out. The peacemaking holiday coincides with the outbreak of a bloody civil war. Having failed to leave the country, Patrick, his wife and their eccentric entourage are taken hostage by merciless guerrillas…
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Narco (2004)
Character: Le père de Gus
Gustave Klopp suffers from narcolepsy, he can fall asleep everwhere at anytime whithout warning. Living a simple life with his wife Pam and his best friend Lenny Bar, Gus decides to undergo therapy sessions and finds out that he can make incredible comics from his dreams.
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Paris brûle-t-il? (1966)
Character: Lt. Henri Karcher
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
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La montagna dei diamanti (1991)
Character: Louis de Thiry
France, 1915. Young and radiantly beautiful Centaine de Thiry is the happiest woman in the world: in a few more hours she will be married to pilot Michael Courteney, the love of her life. But fate has it otherwise: Michael is shot down in a reconnaissance plane shortly before his wedding. Life has lost its meaning for Centaine. When the young woman realizes soon afterwards that she is expecting a baby, her zest for live is revived. She decides to give birth to the child in South Africa, the home country of her deceased fiancé.
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Le Désordre et la Nuit (1958)
Character: Un jeune militaire (uncredited)
Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky (Najda Tiller), whom he considers to be more victim than criminal. Taking it upon himself to wean Lucky away from narcotics, Vallois also wins her love -- and, incidentally, smashes the dope ring responsible for her addiction.
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L'Ours et la Poupée (1970)
Character: Gaspard
A quiet cellist living in the countryside has his life disrupted when he accidentally bumps into a wealthy, temperamental woman in a Rolls-Royce. Angered by his indifference to her charm, she attempts to seduce him, but he resists her attempts to invade his peaceful life.
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Alicja (1982)
Character: Rabbit
Alice was sitting in the park one day. She sees a jogger called Rabbit. When she first meets him she thinks he's a jerk later she finds him nice and relaxing. She falls in love with him. He takes her to Queenie's party. Rabbit later finds out that Queenie wants to kill him. So Rabbit packs up to leave the country. When Alice finds this out she commits suicide which brings her into a fantasy world.
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Chouans! (1988)
Character: Baron de Tiffauges
Directed by Philippe de Broca, the film recounts a bloody episode of the French Revolution. 1793, the Terror . In Vendée and in Bretagne, the chouans are revolting against the young Republic and fight for the monarchy restauration. The civil war divides also the family of the Count Savinien de Kerfadec, a liberal and generous noble and a flying machines inventor.
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Vincent & Theo (1990)
Character: Dr. Paul Gachet
The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who helped support Vincent. Based on the letters written between the two.
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Chá Forte com Limão (1993)
Character: Tiago
In the summer of 1870, Raquel, who owns a farm, and lives secluded in her mansion with an old butler and a handful of servants, feels proud when an odd acquaintance comes by. Adriana and her daughter-in-law, Ermesinda, a very young girl, just happen to be visiting - the second time in 15 years for Adriana, and the first time for the teenager Ermesinda. The meeting seems to be pleasant, and yet, for reasons untold, there is coldness and reserve between Adriana and Raquel. Their ambiguous relationship will be revealed, when by accident old wounds are reopened.
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Fair Play (2006)
Character: Édouard
A company, where manipulation and harassment is a problem between colleagues, decides to organize a canyoning trip for its employees. The building tensions between co-workers might actually explode during this trip.
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Les Bidochon (1996)
Character: Le PDG de Canal B
Raymond and Robert Bidochon lead a dismal life in a suburban HLM. The change, so hoped for by Raymonde, could come from a reality show, Grand Bonheur, in which they participate.
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Le dolci signore (1967)
Character: Luisa's husband
In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrations in fashionable Rome society.
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En cas de malheur (1958)
Character: Le trompettiste (uncredited)
Married French lawyer Andre defends succesfully the case of Yvette, who committed a robbery. He falls in love with her, but she isn't true to him.
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Les Rendez-vous d'Anna (1978)
Character: Daniel
On a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several individuals—familiar and otherwise—and attends to their discontents.
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Et ta sœur... (1958)
Character: Acteur
Bastien du Boccage is a repeat offender: hasn't he been sent to jail no fewer than six times? But he is no ordinary criminal mind you. As a matter of fact he is a newspaper editor and should have no problems with justice. The trouble is that he has a sister, Lucrèce, who is agony aunt in his newspaper and who tends not to mince her words. To make matters worse, Francine, his daughter, has fallen in love with Bruno, a penniless student and Lucrèce is prepared to do anything to prevent her marriage..
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service (1999)
Character: Ambassador
Indy finds that he must enlist the help of Hapsburg royalty when he embarks on a dangerous diplomatic mission through enemy-held Europe into the palace of Emperor Karl of Austria. Endangering his life and the lives of his royal charges, Indy gambles all in a desperate attempt to bring the war more quickly to an end. Then, in chaos-ridden Russia, Indy finds his espionage work once again threatening lives when he infiltrates a group of young Bolsheviks and begins to empathize with their plight. As the country lurches toward revolution, Indy finds himself torn between loyalty to his friends and his military duty.
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Arsène Lupin contre Arsène Lupin (1962)
Character: Gérard
André Laroche, an industrialist, has just passed away. Face to his grave, as he is being buried, Anne de Vierne, the wife of a magistrate, confesses to her son François that Laroche was in fact Lupin and that he is his natural child. But he is not the gentleman thief's only offspring! Lupin had indeed another son by a housemaid, Gérard Dagmar, a dancer, magician and - occasionally - burglar. Which complicates the task of François who, to respect the last wishes of the testator, has gone in search of the treasure of Poldavia. For he keeps finding Gérard on his way and his efforts are constantly thwarted by his half-brother. Will Gérard prevent François from becoming the worthy successor to their father or will the two young men decide to join forces? That is the question.
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Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? (1978)
Character: Louis Kohner
Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being killed. The intriguing part of the murders is that each chef is killed in the same manner that their own special dish is prepared in. Food critics and the (many) self-proclaimed greatest Chefs in Europe demand the mystery be solved.
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Casanova (1987)
Character: Louis XV
The life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because he's viewed as an undesirable by the husbands and families of the women he seduces.
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Superman II (1980)
Character: French Officer at the White House (uncredited)
Three escaped criminals from the planet Krypton, who have the same powers on Earth as Superman, test the Man of Steel's mettle. Led by General Zod, the Kryptonians take control of the White House and partner with Lex Luthor to destroy Superman and rule the world. But Superman, who made himself human in order to get closer to Lois, realizes he has a responsibility to save the planet.
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Michel Vaillant (2003)
Character: Henri Vaillant
Michel Vaillant is # 1 of pilots, undisputed champion in rallying in all circuits in the world. His success arouses admiration and envy. Ruth Wong, director of Team Leader, is determined to break his streak and avenge the memory of his father, founder of Leader. She is capable of anything to achieve her goal.
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L'Amant de cinq jours (1961)
Character: Antoine
Claire is a young mother and married to Georges, but she is also having an affair with bachelor Antoine, who is being kept by her good friend Madeleine, a wealthy fashion designer. But the meetings at Antoine's apartment, five afternoons a week, come to a halt when their partners learn the truth.
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Malpertuis (1971)
Character: Lampernisse
Malpertuis is the name of an old, rambling mansion which is in reality a labyrinth where characters from Greek mythology are imprisoned by the bedridden Cassavius. He manages to keep them, as well as his nephew and niece, prisoners even after his death, through a binding testament. As Jan, the nephew, unravels the mystery, he discovers that he cannot escape the house because Malpertuis is far more significant than he was led to believe.
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Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
Character: Pierre Paul Michel
In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a murder that occurred in his car the night before.
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Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard (1967)
Character: Dorante
Unwilling to marry, Silvia poses as a maid in order to meet the man she is to marry incognito. This will allow her to study the character and behaviour of her fiancé. But the young man resorts to the same stratagem...
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La vie continue (1981)
Character: Pierre
Jeanne, mother of two children, loses her husband. She meets Pierre, abandoned by his wife.
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Amor e Dedinhos de Pé (1993)
Character: Gonçalo Botelho
Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irresponsible for all his partying and boozing. Shunned and exiled for crossing a line by insulting the daughter of a prominent family, he finds himself penniless and vagrant.
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La Patinoire (1998)
Character: Ice Rink's Manager
La Patinoire is about a film director who is shooting a highly symbolic film called 'Dolores' at an ice rink. He has hired a Lithuanian ice hockey team with which he is having enormous communication problems. His actors all have inflated egos, his film crew is made up of fools, and there is a politician on his back. But he must finish the film, no matter what, in time for the Venice Film Festival.
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The Happy Road (1957)
Character: Young lover
Two children run away from a Swiss boarding school and set out for Paris, with their frantic parents in hot pursuit.
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The Return of the Musketeers (1989)
Character: Cyrano de Bergerac
It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has overthrown the English king, so Mazarin fears revolt, particularly from the popular Beaufort. Porthos, bored with riches and wanting a title, signs on, but Aramis, an abbé, and Athos, a brawler raising an intellectual son, assist Beaufort in secret. When they fail to halt Beaufort's escape from prison, the musketeers are expendable, and Mazarin sends them to London to rescue Charles I. They are also pursued by Justine, the avenging daughter of Milady de Winter, their enemy 20 years ago. They must escape England, avoid Justine, serve the Queen, and secure Beauford's political reforms.
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La Nuit de Tom Brown (1959)
Character: Toby
How did Master Brown turn from a man of faith into a cantankerous, distrustful and cynical man? Nathaniel Hawthorne's character recounts the night when everything changed. In Canada, in a village where everyone seems more virtuous than he is, Tom Brown meets a man who claims to be the devil.
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The Favor, the Watch and the Very Big Fish (1991)
Character: Zalman
A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds himself doing a voice track for a porno movie with Natasha Richardson. Hoskins finds his model for Jesus in Jeff Goldblum and a romantic triangle begins in which Goldblum finds adoring crowds believing him to be Jesus and then begins to believe it himself.
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Le Farceur (1961)
Character: Édouard Berlon
A young man who lives on women meets his match in the young wife of a rich industrialist. Their affair is doomed by her taste for luxury and his dislike of her coolness.
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Le Charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972)
Character: M. Sénéchal
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
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Le Mariage de Figaro ou La Folle Journée (1961)
Character: Figaro
Comedy in five acts by Beaumarchais, filmed by Marcel Bluwal in studio and on location. The cast, in accordance with Marcel Bluwal's wishes, is in keeping with the age and character of the characters, to give it rhythm. At once "a comic baroque play, a bourgeois drama, a chansonnier's number, a social satire, a farce and a very pretty love story" according to Marcel Bluwal, it can also be summed up, according to Beaumarchais, as "the most bantering of intrigues".
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Le Caporal épinglé (1962)
Character: Caporal
The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir's 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing together men from across the broad social spectrum of French society to depict one man's Sisyphean efforts to escape captivity in a German POW camp.
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Vous êtes de la police ? (2007)
Character: Simon Sablonnet
A former policeman resentfully enters a retirement home. To deceive his boredom, he will investigate the murder of another resident.
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