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Monsieur de Pourceaugnac (1985)
Character: Sbrigani
Mixing real locations with a Louis XIV stage setting, director Michel Mitrani interprets the story first told in Moliere's play of the same name, written for the stage. A slightly supercilious country gentleman, Monsieur de Pourceaugnac (Michel Galabru) has arrived in Paris to marry Julie (Fanny Cottencon) the woman promised him, but he does not know that Julie is in love with a handsome young man and has no interest in marrying the grand Monsieur, at all. She and her lover ask the cunningly clever Sbrigani (Roger Coggio) for help, and he concocts a wild array of characters with claims on the easily gulled Pourceaugnac's attention, including arrogant doctors and women with supposed liens on his matrimonial intentions -- actually no more valid than the ostensible creditors out to collect imaginary debts from the unwary gentlemen. The dialogue and situations are as funny as when Moliere first wrote them, but Mitrani's version may be a bit long and slow for some tastes.
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Rue du Départ (1986)
Character: Cedonazzi
Leaving prison, Paul goes to the port. That's where he lived and where he got caught. This is also where his father died. And before leaving to try his luck elsewhere, Paul wants to avenge him.
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Le Chemin de Damas (1952)
Character: (uncredited)
Saul De Tarse is a Roman soldier who is making rough all over. He arrives at the Golgotha when the apostles remove the cross. He ruthlessly persecutes the Christians, even though they are his own friends.
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Donnez-moi ma chance (1957)
Character: Serge Calas
17 year-old small-town girl Nicole Noblet comes to Paris dreaming of becoming a world-famous actress.
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Marchands de filles (1957)
Character: ' La Fouine'
A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp for women by a sadistic gangster.
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Les Fruits amers (1967)
Character: Paco
A police drama set in an unidentified and oppressed South American country among a group of conspirators. The main characters are two sisters Soledad and Tita.
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Pardonnez nos offenses (1956)
Character: Jean-Lou
In a port area of France, clashes between a gang of young delinquents and a tribe of gypsies.
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Le pain vivant (1955)
Character: Sacristan
The practice of Eucharistic Adoration brought a group of San Antonio groups closer to Jesus. Hear the stories from those who experienced the Lord's presence through their devotion.
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Le journal d’un fou (1963)
Character: Pascal Canteloup
Pascal Canteloup is a proofreader at a newspaper. He is bitter and irritable towards his bosses and the people he works with. He's full of hatred about life. Little by little, he sinks into madness!
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Chronique d'un couple (1971)
Character: Christian Cantel
A couple, convinced that extramarital affairs bring marriage to life, are having the time of their lives. But trouble begins when the bride falls in love with another man and abandons her husband.
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Le Journal d'un fou (1987)
Character: Poprichtchine
In the nineteenth century, in St. Petersburg. Poprichtchine, a small official living almost in misery, decides not to go to the office. Coming from a noble family, he can not stand his condition anymore.
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Une mauvaise nuit (1962)
Character: N/A
From the marine cemetery which overlooks the town, a young man goes down towards the port. He successively meets three young girls with whom he becomes acquainted, but they leave him one by one... Will the last one give in to him? At dawn, he goes back the other way...
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Les Fausses Confidences (1984)
Character: Dubois
Araminte is a wealthy young widow. Over a matter of land, she is in conflict with Count Dorimont, whom her mother would like her to marry. In need of a steward, she hires Dorante, a handsome young man without a fortune, whose secret ambition is to win the young woman's heart and hand. It's Dubois, Dorante's former valet, now Araminte's, who, by manipulating all the household staff, hatches a plot based on true, false and mixed confidences, designed to lure Araminte into Dorante's arms. Dorante eventually confesses to Araminte, who forgives him and marries him.
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C'est encore loin l'Amérique? (1980)
Character: Isaac Rosenthal / Boby Lambert
Julienne Lebas is a financial assistant at a real estate developer but she has published a novel and hopes to become an actress someday.
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On peut le dire sans se fâcher (1978)
Character: Peppo
Pauline intends to end her days and meticulously prepares her suicide, but she meets Peppo, an Italian immigrant, who will change her mind.
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La Dernière Bourrée à Paris (1973)
Character: The trust man
Young Berthe, deeply moved by a cinema screening of the notoriously sultry Le Dernier Tango à Paris, goes to the address where most of the action takes place, a building overlooking the Bir-Hakeim Bridge metro station. Reality suddenly seems to mimic fiction when she discovers not only an apartment advertised for rent, but also a man prostrate in a corner who seems to be waiting for her. Hoping for the same torrid embrace as in the film, she discovers that he is in fact preoccupied only by the apartment's defects. Attempting to embark on a passionate affair, she learns that the man suffers from libido problems.
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Un honnête homme (1963)
Character: N/A
In 1900, an ambitious young man goes to Paris to make a fortune there. He will naturally get rich but by becoming a dreaded bandit. When he falls in love with the woman of his life, he tries to reform. To this end, he joins the colonial army.
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Maldonne (1969)
Character: L'imprésario Bosche
A musician named Jacques Christens, is given a proposition by an old man. For ten million Francs he is asked to impersonate a certain Paul de Baer – a man who is supposedly exiled in the Amazone. Christens is told this scheme will save Mr. Baer from ruin. An adaptation of Boileau and Narcejac's "D'entre les Morts".
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La Mort de Pompée (1961)
Character: Ptolomée
Political ambitions sometimes lead to the downfall of those who formulate them. For Ptolemy, assassinating Pompey was an opportunity to get into Caesar's good graces. Once the crime is committed, Ptolemy impatiently awaits recognition from Caesar. But a completely different fate awaits Cleopatra's brother.
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La dame de Noël (1958)
Character: N/A
A French drama about a mysterious woman who appears in a small village during the Christmas season. Her presence brings unexpected revelations and transformations to the lives of the villagers, intertwining themes of hope, redemption, and the magic of the holiday spirit.
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Cadavres en vacances (1963)
Character: Julien Jacquet
The holidays at a pension in Touquet (North-Western France) are marred by a series of tragic disappearances.
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Belle (1973)
Character: Victor
Mathieu Grégoire is an esteemed author who lives in Spa with his wife and daughter and leads a carefully structured life. One day, while out in the desolate landscape of the High Fens he meets a mysterious woman whom he calls 'Belle'. An obsessive passion is kindled in Mathieu and in a short space of time he loses all control over his existence.
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Un beau monstre (1971)
Character: Alain Revent (voice)
Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window. Enlisting the help of an equally perverse casual acquaintance, Dino, the "handsome brute" proceeds to emotionally torture his second wife, Nathalie. The sadistic plan is picked up on by Officer Leroy who suspects the truth. Will he be able to snatch the unfortunate woman from the evil Alain's clutches?
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Le Temps des loups (1970)
Character: Innkeeper
Patterning himself after the American gangster John Dillinger, the criminal (Robert Hossein) is tracked by the inspector (Charles Aznavour), a former childhood friend. Plenty of gunplay and psychology is used to trap the killer. His only tender moments are spent with his girlfriend Stella (Virna Lisi). Dillinger is cornered by the police and kills several innocent victims in a crowd during the shootout. The mob decides to take things into their own hands as they approach the doomed man with a noose when he runs out of bullets.
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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme (1982)
Character: Covielle
In this adaptation of the play by Molière, Monsieur Jourdain, social climber, nouveau rich but naive, dreams of being recognized in high society. He hires masters of music, dance, philosophy. He has gone mad with thoughts of honors, decorations, and power.
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Les Carabiniers (1963)
Character: Man in Car (uncredited)
During a war in an imaginary country, unscrupulous soldiers recruit poor farmers with promises of an easy and happy life. Two of these farmers write to their wives of their exploits.
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Le Protecteur (1974)
Character: N/A
Recently released from prison, Samuel Malakian, a wealthy architect, investigates the disappearance of his daughter, Nathalie, kidnapped by thugs linked to the underworld. When he discovers that she is a prostitute, he will descend into the slums of the city and rub shoulders with these dangerous environments. For him, from now on, all means will be good in order to find the fruit of his entrails.
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Du côté de la côte (1958)
Character: Narrator (voice)
Tongue-in-cheek look at the French Riviera, especially in summer when it overflows with tourists. Reviews its history and famous visitors; displays its faux-exotic buildings, its crowded beaches, its trees and monuments; and, pokes fun at the colors women wear and the vagaries of fashion. The film celebrates the use of "Eden" as a place name, suggesting that paradise comes to the coast after all are gone, perhaps only on a remote island beach.
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Avant le déluge (1954)
Character: Daniel Epstein
The title of this French "reality" drama, which translates to Before the Deluge, is a play on Louis XVI's famous prognostication, "Apres moi, le deluge." Set in 1950, the film concentrates on five Parisian adolescents. Certain that the next war will herald the apocalypse, the youngster make plans to run off to a desert island and set up a new society. This, however, will require money, which is why the boys decide to pull off a "necessary" robbery. Idealism collapses in the face of cold reality, as the five youths suffer from the consequences of their actions. Avant le Deluge was one of a group of films cowritten by director Andre Cayatte and Charles Spaak which endeavored to explore the touchy social issues of the day: others in the Cayatte-Spaak canon include the euthanasia-themed Justice est Faite and the capital-punishment tract Nous sommes tous des assassins.
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Commissariato di notturna (1974)
Character: Cristoforo
Rome police headquarters. A new commissioner, promoted by the political team at "night", has to deal with the case of a girl seriously injured at Villa Borghese.
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The Immortal Story (1968)
Character: Elishama Levinsky
An aged, wealthy trader plots with his servant to recreate a maritime tall tale, using a local woman and an unknown sailor as actors.
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