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La Soupe froide (1975)
Character: Maury
Two young pretty Parisiennes sell their place and leave behind the capital and its pollutions to live a healthy and bucolic life in a small village in the south of France. Their arrival is an event.
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A.D.N., le dernier homme (1984)
Character: N/A
The real duration of the film is barely one second. The time that an idea takes to be born in our mind. The time that a fleeting hallucination lasts. This hallucination is that of Neanderthal man who thinks he sees, at the moment his mate was giving birth, a baby from the modern world, erasing for a fleeting second the slow evolution of the species. Immediately after, the mind of the primitive man goes on a imaginary time travel trip that takes him to... 1960. The father tries to get in touch with his son, reincarnated as a 40-year old man, an ordinary man... or almost.
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La Peau et les os (1961)
Character: Gagnaire
Convicted of murdering his wife, a crime of which he declares himself innocent, Jacques Mazur is serving a long sentence in a prison where his presence causes disruption.
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La rage au poing (1975)
Character: Father
Tony and Nanar, two teenagers who met in reform school, are part of a gang of idle, penniless youngsters from the Paris suburbs. Together, they go to dances and plan mischief. The muse of the gang, B.B. La Brune, organizes leisure activities when she's not up to no good. Unemployed and penniless, they all dream of consumption and possession. Until the day a fight turns ugly: Tony, trying to reason with Nanar, pulls the trigger.
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La vallée sans printemps (1972)
Character: Barthélémy Lizon aka 'le Mâmi'
Two men living in a snow-bound town in the mountains fall in love with the same girl
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Au bout du rouleau (1973)
Character: Massy
An experienced but aging captain in command of the Sofala must hide the fact that he is becoming blind.
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Requiem pour un caïd (1964)
Character: Inspector Le Gall
Police officer Antoine Delille is in charge of putting an end to the activities of a "kingpin", Jo Pinelli, trafficker, racketeer and pimp. He has three women working for him, including Eva and Jeannette, and is currently "conditioning" a charming, naive Orly employee, with whom he poses as an honorable businessman. Inspector Delille's plan is to arrest Jo for some crime and, while he's being held at the P.J., to delve into his other criminal activities and confound him.
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Ballade pour un voyou (1963)
Character: Max
Vincent Vivant agrees to Stephan the spy's proposal: he is to cross the border with a mysterious suitcase.
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Marie la louve (1991)
Character: Le père Ribaud
A young woman exercises a special power over wolves, a gift that was passed on to her as a child from a wolf keeper, a type of witch who mentally dominates these animals. The story takes place at the beginning of the 20th century in the French countryside.
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Le Monte-charge (1962)
Character: Bistro owner
On Christmas night, an ex-convict meets a beautiful, married Italian woman who has a lot of things to hide.
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Sous le signe du taureau (1969)
Character: M. Lambert, fidèle collaborateur d'Albert
Albert is an eccentric inventor of missiles who comes under fire from his investors when his first prototype explodes. Even his sympathetic mistress has her doubts, as Albert lashes out in a verbal tirade condemning those of little faith in his genius.
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Un divorce heureux (1975)
Character: Pierre
After having been rescued from suicide, a young man is the object of a bet by his doctor that the doctor can help him recover his joy in life. Ironically, the doctor's life is not a very happy one either, and his boast has a hollow sound. For one thing, although he seemingly has a "happy divorce," in which he, his ex-wife and her new husband are all great pals, it's not true. He wants his wife back. All sorts of complications arise out of these lies and distortions.
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Le saut de l'ange (1971)
Character: N/A
In this French crime thriller, you can leave the mob, but the mob won't leave you. Louis (Jean Yanne) has retired to a Thailand plantation with an Asian wife and child. Back in Marseilles, however, because a no-holds-barred gang war has broken out, Louis' large collateral family is wiped out, and he is family are slated for destruction.
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La Vieille Dame indigne (1965)
Character: Albert
Madame Bertini, a newly widowed 70-year-old miser, has lived a sheltered life in squalour. She determines to venture into the modern world and have as much fun as possible, and in doing so finds that she loves it. She blows her life savings, much to the disapproval of the young people around her.
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Les Culottes rouges (1962)
Character: Schmidt, le chef de barraque des culottes rouges
Antoine Rossi, a recidivist prisoner of war in Germany, manages to escape with the cowardly Fendard. Fendard does everything in his power to help him even though he is wounded, but Antoine tries to get rid of him as he boards the train to freedom.
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Objectif 500 millions (1966)
Character: Douarrd
Reichau, a former army captain, is back in France after serving three years in prison for belonging to the OAS (Secret Armed Organization), a dissident paramilitary group during the Algerian War. Marked by his past, he does not believe in the values of his country any more. At a loss to know what to do with his life, he agrees one day to take part in a heist set up by Pierre, a pilot, the very man who gave him away in Oran. The operation, in which Yo, a gorgeous woman, participates, consists in stealing a bag containing 55 million francs during a Paris-Bordeaux flight...
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La Maladie de Sachs (1999)
Character: Mr. Renard
Dr. Bruno Sachs, the only medical practitioner in a small French town, seems on the surface to be compassionate and dedicated. However, in private he is not happy in his work and does not like most of his patients. Here he meets Pauline Kasser, a young woman, and they are attracted to each other...
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Le Voyage du père (1966)
Character: Boss of the bistro “La Patrie”
Determined to assert his paternal rights, Quentin leaves his small village on the Swiss border to go to Lyon to look for his daughter, now a hairdresser, who, busy with her work, hasn't been back to the village for two years. In a few days, it will be Denise's birthday, the youngest of his daughters, and, urged on by his wife, he sets off, determined to bring the prodigal son back to the family celebration. But Denise is now living off her charms.
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Le Bateau d'Émile (1962)
Character: Marcellin
Charles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers, decides to return to La Rochelle, his hometown to die there. Forty years earlier he had been driven out by his father. Before passing away, the old eccentric announces that he has a hidden son, Émile, a fisherman to whom he wishes to bequeath his property. François, the younger brother, whom Charles-Edmond hates, is eyeing the inheritance to bail out the powerful family business, a veritable fishing trust, and will try to appropriate the affection and property of this inopportune heir. Émile, meanwhile, is too busy arguing with Fernande, a beugland singer, to suspect what awaits him...
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Le gros coup (1964)
Character: L'hôtelier
Frank Willes, a young professional footballer, is involved in a road accident from which he emerges partially crippled, having crashed into the car of a wealthy shopkeeper who dies in the accident. Willes then learns that the merchant's widow, Clémence Grandval, stands to gain a fortune from her husband's life insurance. He also discovers that his accident may not have been an accident at all.
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L'Affaire Nina B. (1961)
Character: Dietrich
A businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.
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Horace 62 (1962)
Character: Antoine Fabiani
The tale of the famous vendetta, vengeance over the years between two families. For nearly nothing at the start, as always with Sicilians or Corsican people, from the underworld or not...
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