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Mandrin (1ère époque) Le libérateur (1947)
Character: Patrice Aspremont
Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear and without reproach, puts himself out of the law by refusing to obey the local nobility. The public authorities are tearing their hair out because the man is elusive. Helped by his faithful friends and by two women in love, Mandrin will become a legend.
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La Femme que j'ai assassinée (1948)
Character: Jean
During a singles meal, the phone rings. A woman claims a man, Jean-Louis. As a joke, the master of the house replies that he is gone forever and advises him to take the plunge. But she obeys and the suicide appears in the newspapers. Tested, the master of the house takes in the child of the unfortunate woman.
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Krim (1995)
Character: Perez
A prize-fighter spends 16 years in prison for killing his wife during a blind rage. Upon his release, he wanders the grim streets of an empty French housing project in search of his now teen-age daughter. His quest forms the basis of this gripping French drama. Krim is the fighter and Yasmine his estranged daughter. Krim finds his old apartment block, but it is abandoned and slated for destruction. He is terribly disappointed, for all Krim wants right now is to be happy and to have his daughter back. He sends messages back to his friend and mentor in prison telling him how wonderful it is to be out of jail. His friend, Eugene, a lifer, isn't fooled for a second and is very angry at Krim for lying to him. Meanwhile, Krim stumbles across Nora, a teen-age drug addict, who could be his long-lost daughter. Eventually, he locks her in an abandoned flat and helps her get off the junk cold-turkey. It is a terrible scene, but he succeeds and the two begin a new kind of relationship.
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Les Deux Gamines (1951)
Character: Philippe
A famous singer disappears in a plane crash. Her two little girls are given a new home by their grandfather. Unfortunately the good man has an old housekeeper who goes out of her way to make their lives impossible. In desperation the two brats run away to Paris. Meanwhile, the girl's father manages to steal important documents. In the end, Gaby and Ginette track down their mother who had not got killed at all. All is well that ends well.
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Cinq-Mars (1981)
Character: Gaston d'Orléans
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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Mandrin (2ème époque) La Tragédie d'un siècle (1948)
Character: Patrice Aspremont
Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear and without reproach, puts himself out of the law by refusing to obey the local nobility. The public authorities are tearing their hair out because the man is elusive. Helped by his faithful friends and by two women in love, Mandrin will become a legend.
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La Madone des sleepings (1955)
Character: Gérard Dextrier
Lady Diana Winham is beautiful, wealthy and a widow, so she's courted. She travels Europe in luxury trains, earning her nickname. One of her riches, a uranium deposit in a South American country, attracts the attention of international secret agents. Lady Diana is at the center of a spider's web, with the French, British and Germans all trying to get their hands on her. Helped by the love of Armando, whom she met in San Miguel, she gives the deposit to her secretary Gérard as a reward for his services.
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La Bête à l'affût (1959)
Character: Alain de Beauvier
Melun, on 1959. On the return to an auction, a young and attractive widow, Elisabeth Vernon, finds at her home(with her) a wounded escapee of prison. The fugitive, Daniel Morane, is a handsome boy and justifies himself crimes(murders) of which we accuse it. The young woman is allowed convince, seduce, feels sorry, and agrees to help him(it). But during their escape(mare), the doubt seizes her …
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Femmes de Paris (1953)
Character: Pierre-Dominique, aka 'Pépé'
Professor Charles Buisson, astronomer and Nobel Prize winner, has just discovered a nova. He informs the other observatories by telephone. Just as he thinks one of them is calling back, he finds himself on the line with a young woman threatening suicide at the Ruban Bleu cabaret, if her lover hasn't joined her by midnight. Intrigued, the professor decides to go and prevent the unfortunate woman from committing suicide. One of his students, who earns her living as an understudy in a knife act, helps him in his investigation, while the school principal and a policeman suspect him of being a prankster or even of selling drugs. For the scientist, it's an opportunity to discover a world of music-hall that he'd never known before: "I thought I knew the sky chart by heart, but there's one planet that was totally unknown to me: Earth. I'll be back!
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Une fille à papas (1996)
Character: Le maître d'hôtel
An energetic teenager gives a hard time to her father, an artist, and her stepfather, an unemployed executive not very comfortable with young people.
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La Tour de Nesle (1955)
Character: (uncredited)
France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are invited. The young men were brought blindfolded, and after a night of love they were killed and their corpses thrown into the river, because the queen was afraid that her husband would learn about her adventures. One of her lovers managed to escape death. He knows the secrets of the queen, knows that she once gave birth to a son from him, claims that he has evidence that Margarita wanted to kill her father and blackmails her.
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For Better and for Worse (1993)
Character: Christian Vernet
The Pope accepts when the friend of a young engaged couple jokingly sends him a wedding invitation.
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Un amour de cousine (1998)
Character: Domestic employee
Cheated on and fired from her job, Lucille leaves her suburb and moves to Paris with little hope of finding anything better. Shortly after arriving, she saves a desperate man from drowning. Pierre is also cheated on, but in terms of work, he is better off than Lucille: co-president of a large company, he lives in a luxurious apartment overlooking the Seine. To thank his benefactor, he offers her a place to stay for the night... This situation suits Lucille just fine, and she decides to stick around. Pierre is not at all pleased, as he finds the young woman to be a disaster, with manners that are too "common" for his taste, and who never misses an opportunity to put her foot in her mouth... The beginning of a turbulent and conflictual relationship. Will love conquer social differences?
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Flukten fra Dakar (1951)
Character: 1. underoffiser
MS Lidvard was shipping corn from Vietnam, arriving in Dakar, Senegal May 30th 1940. The ship was immediately held back by the government, together with eight other norwegian ships. After a year, July 27th 1941, the ship fled from Dakar, to the British in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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Hauteclaire (1961)
Character: Un gentilhomme
The action takes place under the Restoration, at the Château de Savigny, near Nerville, a devout and prudish little town in the Cotentin region. Doctor Torty is the doctor. He tells a story of which he is the only one to know the secret, that of a criminal couple, without any remorse. The pretty Hauteclaire Stassin, daughter of the master of arms, meets the Count of Savigny, married to the noble and languid Delphine. Madly in love with the count, Hauteclaire joined the castle as a servant. Shortly after, the countess died of poisoning. Will the guilty lovers go unpunished?
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Les Aristos (2006)
Character: L'homme âgé du château
The Arbac de Neuvilles are one of the oldest families in France. They have inhabited their ancient château for fifty-two generations and are proud of their noble ancestry. But today they are stone broke. When a bailiff turns up notifying them that they owe two million euros in back taxes, these proud aristocrats are understandably shaken to the core of their ancestral seat. Just how are they to find this amount of money when none of them has any capacity for work?
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Le Portrait de son père (1953)
Character: Michel, le dessinateur du magasin
When Paul returns to claim his estranged father's department store, he faces a frosty stepmother and a rebellious half-sister. His determination revives the once-thriving Galeries Parisiennes, healing familial rifts, and leaving a lasting bond with wise Marie-Louise.
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Les Rois mages (2001)
Character: Le bijoutier
The Three Wise Men – Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard – are on their way to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus when they are suddenly, an inexplicably, transported two thousand years into the future. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris, where they encounter a young woman called Macha who, they are convinced, will lead them to the newborn Messiah.
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Le Feu sous la peau (1985)
Character: George
American Raphael talks his colleague at the Parisian University into spending his summer at the family's country mansion. But once there Raphael seduces and plays the sisters and mother against each other - until everyone is revealed at their very worst. As it turns out - that was Raphael's intention all along - because his own torrid past is deeply rooted in their family's dirty history.
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Un grand patron (1951)
Character: Georges
Professor Louis Delage is a kidney transplant specialist. He is so good in his field that his peers nickname him the "great man". But one day, one of his patients die during surgery and Delage starts doubting. Is he actually such a great man? To fight desperation he decides to take in the deceased child while devoting more time to Florence, his hitherto neglected wife.
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La Dame dans l'auto avec des lunettes et un fusil (1970)
Character: Un amant d'Anita, payé pour garder son silence
Dany Longo is red-haired, 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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Archimède le clochard (1959)
Character: Le client mécontent au restaurant (uncredited)
Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.
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Joyeuses Pâques (1984)
Character: M. Mathieu, un invité
Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle drops his wife Sophie off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie, who has just had a fight with her married boyfriend. He gets her back to his apartment and is preparing for a sexy weekend, when his wife suddenly returns home. He makes up a bizarre, on-the-spot, spur-of-the-moment story that the gorgeous girl is actually his long-lost daughter. Julie plays along, but this leads to a whole series of increasingly ridiculous lies and comical situations (such as when her real mother shows up).
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Le fauve est lâché (1959)
Character: Régis
Paul Lamiani, a wizened mobster, is asked to return to duty following the disappearance of secret documents of extreme importance. It is assumed that they are in the hands of a friend of Paul. But the case becomes even more delicate when Lamiani's son is kidnapped.
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The Hostage Tower (1980)
Character: Doctor
A flamboyant master criminal and several specialists stage an audacious scheme to capture the Eiffel Tower and hold as hostage one of its visitors, the U.S. President's mother, while the head of a UN security force tries to stop them.
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Les Chiens (1979)
Character: Beauchamp
After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to put a stop to the climb of violence.
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Ces dames s'en mêlent (1965)
Character: Ericson
FBI agent Jeff Gordon is responsible for tracking down counterfeiters. Owing to his suave ways and irresistible charm, he manages to extract information from women who are unaware of his intentions. His investigation leads him to the beautiful Wanda Ericson, whose ex-husband is being blackmailed, and eventually to the leader of the counterfeiting ring.
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Judex (1963)
Character: Le vicomte Amaury de la Rochefontaine
Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent filmmaker Louis Feuillade. Franju shuffles through the plot of Feuillade's lengthy serial of the same name, about an adventurer named Judex whose revenge against the corrupt banker Favraux unleashes a complicated series of schemes.
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Boum sur Paris (1954)
Character: lui-même
In the early 1950s, the popular radio show "La Kermesse aux Étoiles", hosted by the famous Jean Nohain, mixing lottery games and performances of various artists, will be disrupted by the adventures of a man and his fiancée seeking to recover a dangerous bottle of perfume (explosive) which was unfortunately mixed with the prizes to be won ...
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Nuit docile (1987)
Character: Le micheton à la guêpe
Jean is a successful painter who leaves his mistress, though he stops intermittently to phone her with explanations. Sometimes she is responsive but other times hangs up on him. Meanwhile, a 16-year-old male prostitute with whom Jean had a brief homosexual affair stalks the painter.
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Chanel Solitaire (1981)
Character: Supervisor
The life and loves of Coco Chanel who rose from the bottom with no family or financial support and became one of the most legendary creative icons.
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Le Cœur fou (1970)
Character: N/A
Serge Menessier has been paid to shoot a reportage on his ex-wife's depression. Now remarried, he has accepted the job to pay his debts and maybe because he is still in love with her, a famous actress whose career he contributed to launch.
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Flash Love (1972)
Character: N/A
Jeanne, a little secretary dreaming of love, meets Alain, a reporter-photographer with a major daily newspaper. He takes her along on his professional nocturnal activities, during which she meets a host of celebrities. One evening, Alain takes photos of the kidnapping of a diplomat, and is followed by a mysterious individual who wants the film back. Alain falls in love with Jeanne. Their embrace is passionate. During the night, he manages to get rid of the follower, then receives a new assignment: to leave for Colombia as soon as possible. He sacrifices his love for Jeanne to his ambition, and she waits in vain for him before returning to her dull life.
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