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L'Objectif (1986)
Character: N/A
A man armed with a sniper rifle searches for his target. The focus moves back and forth between an electoral meeting and a room where a couple of undoubtedly adulterous lovers are frolicking. So what is the “purpose” of the man behind the “lens”? And who is he: a licensed killer or a jealous husband? Suspense...
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Félix et Lola (2001)
Character: Frantz
Félix, operator of dodgem cars in a fairground, becomes obsessed by one of his customers, a mysterious young woman named Lola. Félix soon discovers that Lola is running away from her former boyfriend, a singer who continues to taunt her. Lola asks Félix to prove his love for her by murdering a man he does not know...
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Thomas (1975)
Character: Antoine
In Troyes, Thomas, the son of a bourgeois family, is in the final stages of his adolescence. He's almost an adult when he discovers that his mother has a lover. At the same time, he realizes that his father is turning a blind eye, and that the estranged couple are only together for show. Thomas rebels, but has to hide his dismay and satisfy his great need for tenderness at the same time.
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La frisée aux lardons (1979)
Character: Aldo, marchand de glaces
It’s summer in a small port town in Brittany. Isabelle (Pascale Rocard), who has just graduated from high school, comes to join her mother Micheline (Bernadette Lafont). Micheline is being courted by a beach boy, Maurice—whom everyone calls Doudoune (Bernard Menez). Isabelle soon begins a sweet romance with one of his friends, Pascal (Pascal Meynier). Meanwhile, her father (Michel Aumont) has stayed behind in Soissons, where he runs a medical laboratory, and is bored to death. Every weekend, he comes to spend 48 hours with Micheline and sometimes splurges a little extra in Paris, hitting on girls in nightclubs. Efforts that are not crowned with success. On the contrary, in Brittany, that ladies’ man Doudoune gets what he wants... But when the family man comes to join his loved ones, the blunders and misunderstandings multiply...
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Stress (1984)
Character: N/A
A whimsically paced crime drama that takes you on a journey through deceit and intrigue.
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Interdit aux moins de 13 ans (1982)
Character: L'inspecteur au bonnet
Louis is a delivery boy, his wife Chantal is a supermarket salesgirl. Louis is bored, and decides to buy a truck and go to the Lebanon, but he has no money. He tries to rob the supermarket where Chantal works, but it goes wrong and he kills the cashier and watchman...
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Les p'tits gars Ladouceur (2001)
Character: Le chef de gare
When their behavior and brushes with the law drive their mother to abandon them, Jonathan and Vivi hire a private detective to find her.
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Le laboratoire de l'angoisse (1971)
Character: Antoine
All the researchers of the IMPS laboratory are males - with one exception : Mademoiselle Clara, Antoine, the cleaner, desperately yearns for. Night after night, when Clara is alone, going on with her experiments, the young man awkwardly manoeuvres with a view to declaring his flame. But the cold scientist remains unconcerned. In his trouble, Antoine regularly drops and breaks phials and other test tubes full of dangerous chemical products. He doesn't care when his skin gets into contact with acid. His heart burns too much for him to be able to feel the burning of his skin. And if he can't GIVE his hand to Clara will he really mind to... LOSE it ?
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Trop tard Balthazar (1986)
Character: Lino
Pivoine, a 13-year-old girl, tired of her parents' arguments, reluctantly goes on vacation with them. She takes advantage of an accident on the highway to run away from them and take her legs. She meets a young legionnaire, Rouquin, also on the run. Together and in complicity, they will flee, trying to escape the highway police, and will love each other without saying it...
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Mon fils d'ailleurs (2004)
Character: The controller
A schoolteacher takes in a 16-year-old immigrant boy who has found himself without a foster family.
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Manipulations (1984)
Character: Michel
Julien, an honest policeman, is asked to infiltrate a terrorist organization. He soon meets the charming Brigitte. But soon, manipulated by his superior, Julien finds himself involved in a dangerous affair: a gigantic campaign of intoxication.
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Plein sud (1981)
Character: L'employé des wagon-lits
In France in the near future, revolt and chaos erupt. A right-wing politician, Philippe Muphand, is set to take control when his lady friend Caroline walks out, announcing she will take up with the first fool she sees. The fool is Serge Laine, a professor and author of the prize-winning "Le voyage qui ne finit pas," headed to the train station for tickets to Barcelona where he and his wife will enjoy a second honeymoon and he will lecture at the university. Caroline seduces Serge, and he soon abandons wife, family, job, and honesty to embrace Caroline, the romanticism of Jack London, and murder.
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Plein sud (1981)
Character: L'employé des wagons-lits
In France in the near future, revolt and chaos erupt. A right-wing politician, Philippe Muphand, is set to take control when his lady friend Caroline walks out, announcing she will take up with the first fool she sees. The fool is Serge Laine, a professor and author of the prize-winning "Le voyage qui ne finit pas," headed to the train station for tickets to Barcelona where he and his wife will enjoy a second honeymoon and he will lecture at the university. Caroline seduces Serge, and he soon abandons wife, family, job, and honesty to embrace Caroline, the romanticism of Jack London, and murder.
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Les Bronzés font du ski (1979)
Character: Co-owner of the apartment who leaves late
In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Claude, and Christiane.
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Tenue de soirée (1986)
Character: The Nightclub Flirt
A bisexual petty criminal named Bob encounters a married couple arguing in a bar. Bob breaks up the fight and proceeds to seduce first the wife and then the husband. Then Bob teaches the couple how to be burglars and they join him in his criminal exploits.
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Des enfants gâtés (1977)
Character: N/A
Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for his next film. Bernard moves into an apartment building whose tenants are in the midst of a revolt against their abusive landlord. Reluctant at first, he joins their cause and then becomes involved in an affair with young, unemployed resident Anne.
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Lévy et Goliath (1987)
Character: Cafe owner
A very faithful Jewish man works making diamond dust in his family's workshop, to sell to industries. One day he goes on businnes trip. In the same train goes a very sexy girl, with some heroin bags (you guess it) very similar to the diamond bags. The police begins to chase the girl, and she hides the drug into the Levy's bag. The girl calls his boss ('Goliath') the situation and he and his band begins to hound Levy, who, by this time, selled the bags to a factory, not knowing the content. He has to get out of the problem with the help of his brother and his God.
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L'été en pente douce (1987)
Character: Paul le vigile
When he inherits the family house and property after his mother's death, aspiring novelist Fane returns home with his bimbo girlfriend Lilas. He must care for his idiot brother Mo and contend with a greedy garage owner who covets Fane's property to expand his business. When efforts to buy the property are fruitless, the mechanic incites the townsfolk against the strange trio.
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Violette et François (1977)
Character: Le copain musicien
Violette and François are a couple with a child. As they cannot lead a good life with odd jobs, François starts to steal.
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Dites-lui que je l'aime (1977)
Character: Raymond
Industrious accountant David Martinaud claims to be visiting his parents every weekend, but it's merely a cover for the labor-intensive refurbishing of his country cottage. The reason for David's secrecy is that his childhood crush, Lise, lives nearby, and, although she's married, he still believes they'll get together. His devotion to the idea borders on mania, and, when Lise's husband is accidentally killed, he quickly spirals out of control.
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Colloque de chiens (1987)
Character: N/A
A charming tale of murder, perversity and narrative echoes told through shots of barking dogs and a La jetée-like series of stills.
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Quartet (1981)
Character: Prison Guard
When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.
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Mortelle randonnée (1983)
Character: The Man with the Briefcase
A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.
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Garde à vue (1981)
Character: Jean-Marie Jabelain, Stolen Car Owner
Martinaud, an illustrious notary suspected of being the perpetrator of two horrendous crimes, voluntarily agrees to be questioned by Inspector Gallien on New Year's Eve. What initially is a routine procedure, soon becomes a harsh interrogation that seems to confirm the initial suspicions.
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Mes meilleurs copains (1989)
Character: Le gendarme
They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, the rock and their love for Bernadette. This Bernadette has left them to become a rock-star, and is back 15 years later for a weekend. Jean-Marie Poire describes with this movie the portrait of a generation with lots of humor served by excelent actors.
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L'Important c'est d'aimer (1975)
Character: Electrician
Servais Mont, a freelance photographer who works taking compromising photos, gets fascinated by Nadine Chevalier, a tormented low-budget movie actress married to an eccentric film photo collector.
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La Meilleure Façon de marcher (1976)
Character: Léni
In 1960, Marc and Philippe are counselors at a summer camp in the French countryside. One night, Marc finds Philippe dressed and made up as a woman, and from now on, he will keep on humiliating Philippe.
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Les Bronzés (1978)
Character: Lenny
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.
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Bab El Oued City (1994)
Character: Paulo Gosen
Bab El-Oued, a popular district of Algiers, in 1989, a few months after the riots. Boualem works at night in a bakery and steals the loudspeaker that was installed on his roof and was broadcasting the Imam's word... therefore preventing him from sleeping. This blunder is taken as a pretext by the Islamists to put the district under their control...
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La Soif de l'or (1993)
Character: Le gendarme
Urbain Donnadieu's first love is money. It's also his second, third and fourth love. The only reason he married - a tax inspector named Fleurette - was to avoid a fine for tax evasion. For several years, he has been stealing money from his construction company and buying gold bars with his ill-gotten gains. His plan is to deposit all this wealth in a Swiss Bank, where neither his wife - whom he is about to divorce - nor the French State can get at it. Accompanied by his money-grabbing Granny Zézette, Urbain heads off for Switzerland, with his gold concealed in the walls of a model house on the back of a trailer. Unfortunately, his scheme is threatened by his wife and his embittered ex-chauffeur, who are determined to get his money at any cost...
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L'Héritier (1973)
Character: (uncredited)
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...
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Réveillon chez Bob (1984)
Character: N/A
On New Year's Eve, among the tower blocks of a huge housing estate in Paris, strange people - each for a different reason - are looking for the home of a man called Bob.
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Ils sont grands, ces petits (1979)
Character: Le caissier
When a real-estate promoter attempts to take over the homes of two electronics whizzes and boot them out, they contrive ingenious ways to inconvenience and harass him. By pooling their knowledge, they are able to pull off a crucial robbery using a very special box of chocolates.
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Pourquoi pas nous ? (1981)
Character: Un client de la librairie
A wrestler and a bookseller disgraced by life fall in love with each other.
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