Maurice Risch
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 25, 1943
Deathday: N/A
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The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
1979-01-31
The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
Overview: The bungling inspector Cruchot finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that they sound like empty garbage cans when you touch them. Chaos is ahead.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-31
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The Last Metro
1980-09-17
The Last Metro
Overview: In occupied Paris, an actress married to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis while doing both of their jobs.
Genres: Drama Romance War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-09-17
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The Discord
1978-03-16
The Discord
Overview: Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His only problem: His production capacity is way to small so he gets to produce the machines in his private house. His wife Bernadette is far from being happy about it. Her private life goes down the line so she decides to leave Guillaume and to finally have revenge she candidates for major against her husband...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-03-16
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The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
1982-10-03
The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes
Overview: Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate. All of them scramble to work with them -- and cause pure chaos while being distracted by the fine ladies. Then they get into real trouble when one after the other of their female colleagues is kidnapped.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-10-03
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Asterix in Britain
1986-12-03
Asterix in Britain
Overview: One little ancient British village still holds out against the Roman invaders. Asterix and Obelix are invited to help. They must face fog, rain, warm beer and boiled boar with mint sauce, but they soon have Governor Encyclopaedius Britannicus's Romans declining and falling. Until a wild race for a barrel of magic potion lands them in the drink.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-12-03
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Beau Pere
1981-09-15
Beau Pere
Overview: Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-09-15
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Signé Furax
1981-04-01
Signé Furax
Overview: The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-04-01
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We Won't Grow Old Together
1972-05-03
We Won't Grow Old Together
Overview: Jean, a married 40-year-old filmmaker, and his young working class lover, Catherine, engage in a circular series of spectacular blow-ups and tentative reunions, their mutual desire a fire that burns them again and again.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-05-03
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The Castaways of Turtle Island
1976-10-06
The Castaways of Turtle Island
Overview: Jean-Arthur has been working as a clerk in a travel agency. One day, he, along with his colleague comes to a brilliant idea: what if I offer tourists real extreme recreation? So the group of tourists land on a deserted island with no food, no shelter, nothing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-10-06
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Gros dégueulasse
1986-06-26
Gros dégueulasse
Overview: A fat and disgusting man is rejected by society... A vitriolic adaptation of the famous comic strip by Reiser.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-06-26
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The Red Shade
1981-10-28
The Red Shade
Overview: The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communist factions during the Civil War in Spain. It is the time of Stalin's iron rule in the USSR, and the two agents are suddenly called to Moscow by the KGB. Knowing that they are in trouble for no fault of their own, fear drives one of them to suicide while the other gets his lover and her child and begins a run for his life, knowing that the KGB will never let him go free.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-10-28
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The Big Apartment
2006-12-27
The Big Apartment
Overview: Francesca and her husband, Martin, are dreamers. They live a carefree existence oblivious to the increasingly hostile world closing in on them. Their huge Parisian apartment is a refuge for an array of colorful characters in need of a roof over their heads and in particular for Adrien, a filmmaker who turns their home into his office, studio and love-nest. When their mean landlady tries to evict them all and Martin succumbs to the charms of a beautiful vamp, Francesca comes up with some original and entertaining solutions in the defense of her and everybody else's happiness.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-12-27
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By the Pricking of My Thumbs
2005-04-13
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Overview: The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-04-13
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Ma femme s'appelle Maurice
2008-12-05
Ma femme s'appelle Maurice
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-12-05
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The Fuhrer Runs Amok
1974-04-12
The Fuhrer Runs Amok
Overview: France and Germany are at war. Adolf Hitler challenges the Allies to seal the fate of the war by playing a football match.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-04-12
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A Sea Urchin in the Pocket
1977-12-14
A Sea Urchin in the Pocket
Overview: A young journalist, abandoned by her wealthy lover, sets out with a musician inventor to stage a musical.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-12-14
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M the Damned
1982-08-03
M the Damned
Overview: A Claude Chabrol remake of M by Fritz Lang for French television.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-08-03
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Vive les femmes !
1984-03-07
Vive les femmes !
Overview: The love affairs of Bob, a womanizer and seducer and Mammouth, the unhappy loner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-03-07
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My Pastor Among the Thais
1983-07-13
My Pastor Among the Thais
Overview: Maximin, priest in a little village in the South-West of France, inherits from his brother a brothel in Thailand, although he's always been told it was a very strict catholic school. The journey to Asia is full of surprises (a plane hi-jack, pirates...) and once in Thailand, Maximin is taken into 'political' turmoils.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-07-13
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Day Off
2001-03-28
Day Off
Overview: Wednesday is the day when children are not in school and stay at home. It is also the day when the parents are not there. In Nantes, in the spring, twenty or so carefree and boisterous kids between the ages of three and eleven take advantage of this day to make their parents go crazy. Emma, 9 years old and naturally romantic, decides that Roland, the little boy she met in the street, is unhappy and persuades her friends to adopt him. Victoria spends the day with Martin Socoa, an often distant father whom she learns to love. There are also Muriel, Bruno, Colette and Henri who take off and create panic in their parents' home, while Marylin lives the founding drama of her childhood with a mother of an unreal sweetness. Throughout these little stories, we realize that the world of children has its own logic, totally different from that of adults.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-28
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Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
1972-05-05
Everybody He Is Nice, Everybody He Is Beautiful
Overview: Selon "Radio plus près de Dieu", rien n'est conçu sans Dieu, surtout pas les shampoings, produits de beauté, la vente des disques... Un animateur dénonce cette escroquerie à l'antenne, ce qui lui vaut d'être licencié. Il réapparaîtra sur de nouvelles ondes avec "Radio plus près de la Vérité".
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-05-05
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Hail the Artist
1973-12-06
Hail the Artist
Overview: Marcello Mastrioanni stars as aging actor Nicolas whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeking an anchor in his life, Nicolas attempts a reconciliation with his ex-wife. But in this, as in his professional life, Nicolas is doomed to disillusionment and failure.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-12-06
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The Exchange Student
1967-12-01
The Exchange Student
Overview: Monsieur Bosquier, the owner of a private school, is far from pleased when his eldest son, Philippe, fails his end of year exams. He decides to send his wayward offspring to England to improve his English. In exchange, Philippe’s host, a wealthy whisky distiller, Mac Farrel, will send his daughter, Shirley, to live with the Bosquiers in France. However, Philippe has already decided to spend the summer holidays on a yacht with his friends, so he sends a fellow student, Michonnet, to England in his place. The deception is soon discovered but things go from bad to worse when Philippe and Shirley fall in love and fly to Scotland to get married...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-12-01
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The Restaurant
1966-09-09
The Restaurant
Overview: A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-09-09
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Les p’tites têtes
1982-06-09
Les p’tites têtes
Overview: Henri, Daniel and Xavier have just opened a travel agency in Paris. Henri runs the agency while Daniel and Xavier go on trip to take care of the group of tourists in Morocco. The troubles begin when Xavier and Daniel arrive in Morocco and discover that Henri has closed the agency in Paris and hasn't booked any hotels or attractions for the trip. Without any money, Daniel and Xavier decide to continue the journey. Their luck is their meeting with the rich Prince Douzami who falls in love with one of the tourist, Marilyn, and he decides to help them. The trip is still disturbed by two criminals Mata and Harry who want to take a microfilm that daniel has unfortunately swallowed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-06-09
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Le jour se lève et les conneries commencent
1981-06-21
Le jour se lève et les conneries commencent
Overview: Three thirty-year-old friends with a strong appetite for women and leisure life, supported by different people, live very well. Until one of them is forced to work. His two mates will do everything to free him from this calvary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-06-21
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The Man with Connections
1970-04-15
The Man with Connections
Overview: Following "The Two of Us", Claude is now 21 years old. Content with his life, he has a girlfriend Tania and he aspires to become an actor. When he receives his draft notice, a friend convinces Claude he can get out of military service with his connections in Paris. When the connections fall through, Claude is sent for basic training outside Paris before being shipped off to Algeria. His stops in Morocco and Algeria are uneventful as far as military action goes. He returns home with few bad memories of his army life ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-04-15
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The Egg
1972-03-08
The Egg
Overview: Emile Magis, a modest employee, more or less ostracized by the others, would like only one thing, to be happy. Little by little he realizes that life in society is a matter of convention, lies and deception. When he has understood that cynicism rules the world, he decides to play by its untold rules and to take his revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-03-08
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The Defective Detective
1984-10-31
The Defective Detective
Overview: Lewis plays a Las Vegas policeman visiting his ex-wife in France, only to be caught up in the shenanigans of a group of art thieves. His ex-wife has remarried and her husband is undercover among the art thieves, carrying out an assignment given him by his superiors in the police force. Inevitably, the current husband and the ex-husband are bound to clash.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-10-31
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Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire
2003-01-01
Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire
Overview: A documentary on Louis de Funès based on unseen archives and film extracts, interviews from close friends and comedy specialists.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Les Bidochon - Telle est la réalité
2009-04-16
Les Bidochon - Telle est la réalité
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-04-16
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Pyjama pour six
1988-01-01
Pyjama pour six
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Frédéric
1970-03-19
Frédéric
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-03-19
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Drôles De Parents
2012-04-27
Drôles De Parents
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-04-27
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La bonne adresse
1990-02-05
La bonne adresse
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-02-05
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The Impostures of Scapin
1981-01-07
The Impostures of Scapin
Overview: Octave has married Hyacinthe during the absence of Argante, his father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-01-07
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The Groper
1976-09-29
The Groper
Overview: Because he dishonored the daughter of a mafia boss, Ernesto must leave Rome and take shelter with his uncle in Paris. There, he thinks of only one thing: to seduce girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-29
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The Groper
1976-09-29
The Groper
Overview: Because he dishonored the daughter of a mafia boss, Ernesto must leave Rome and take shelter with his uncle in Paris. There, he thinks of only one thing: to seduce girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-29
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Lettre de la Sierra Morena
1983-06-08
Lettre de la Sierra Morena
Overview: Don Quichotte (Luchini) is a modern filmmaker with views on the perfect film. Sancho Pança (Risch) is systematically condradicting Quichotte, whose film materializes in front of them as he lists his ideas
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-06-08
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Umbrella Coup
1980-10-08
Umbrella Coup
Overview: Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-10-08
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Silence on aime
1981-05-15
Silence on aime
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-15
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La Smala
1984-08-29
La Smala
Overview: When the mother of a "tribe" of five children leaves for good, their inept father is not sure how to keep the family clothed and fed, and without the help of his neighbor Simone, he would be nowhere. She is attracted to him but eventually gives up on the relationship. Meanwhile, the father grabs his brood and they take off for Paris in search of the wife. But Simone accidentally ends up on the same train...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-08-29
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Justice de flic
1986-04-02
Justice de flic
Overview: A gangster, whose younger brother has been forced into prostitution by a rival gang, tracks down the criminals with the help of his girlfriend. Bloody accounts will be settled under the eye of a sadistic commissioner.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-04-02
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Nono Nénesse
1976-12-31
Nono Nénesse
Overview: Two adults play babies and wild antics ensue.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-12-31
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