Jean Bouise
Biography: Jean Bouise (3 June 1929 – 6 July 1989) was a French actor. He was born in Le Havre. In the 1950s he helped to found Théâtre de la Cité, and was a player in the company. He entered films in the 1960s, and played a supporting roles in The Shameless Old Lady, Z, L'Aveu, Out 1, The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Section spéciale, and Monsieur Klein. He received César nominations for his roles in Le vieux fusil and Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff, before winning the Best Supporting Actor award for Coup de tête. Subsequently, he appeared in Édith et Marcel, Le Dernier Combat, Subway, The Big Blue and La Femme Nikita. He died in Lyon. Source: Article "Jean Bouise" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Birthday: June 03, 1929
Deathday: July 06, 1989
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The Big Blue
1988-05-10
The Big Blue
Overview: Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy-adventure. Jacques and Enzo are a pair of friends who have been close since childhood, and who share a passion for the dangerous sport of free diving. Professional diver Jacques opted to follow in the footsteps of his father, who died at sea when Jacques was a boy; to the bewilderment of scientists, Jacques harbors a remarkable ability to adjust his heart rate and breathing pattern in the water, so that his vital signs more closely resemble that of dolphins than men. As Enzo persuades a reluctant Jacques to compete against him in a free diving contest -- determining who can dive deeper and longer without scuba gear -- Jacques meets Johana, a beautiful insurance investigator from America, and he finds that he must choose between his love for her and his love of the sea.
Genres: Romance Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-05-10
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Hearth Fires
1972-05-24
Hearth Fires
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-05-24
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The Things of Life
1970-03-13
The Things of Life
Overview: The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memories of the past with Catherine, his ex-wife; but his true destiny awaits him at a crossroads on his way to Rennes…
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-03-13
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Mado
1976-10-27
Mado
Overview: A middle-aged businessman faces bankruptcy after his partner's suicide and a rival's unscrupulous offer to buy his company. Determined to avoid the trap, he finds an unexpected solution through a prostitute.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-10-27
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The Old Gun
1975-08-22
The Old Gun
Overview: In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German army entering Montauban, he asks his friend Francois to drive his wife and his daughter in the back country village where Julien has an old castle. One week later, Julien decided to meet then for the week end, but the Germans are already occupying the village.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-08-22
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Subway
1985-04-10
Subway
Overview: Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen some documents. While hiding out in the back rooms and conduits of the Metro, Fred encounters a subterranean society of eccentric characters and petty criminals.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-04-10
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The French Revolution: Years of Rage
1989-05-10
The French Revolution: Years of Rage
Overview: Second part of the revolutionary historical drama, which takes up the events that occurred from August 10, 1792 until the end of the reign of terror with the execution of Robespierre.
Genres: Drama War History Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-05-10
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The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1974-11-12
The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Overview: With "little captain" Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy," Colonel Toulouse kidnaps Christine and forces Francois to play again the character of "The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe" in some fake adventures. All this to stop the investigation into the death of Colonel Milan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-11-12
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Appointment in Bray
1971-12-22
Appointment in Bray
Overview: In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. One day his friend Jacques, also a musician and now a fighter pilot on the front, invites him to spend a few days in his family's empty house in Bray. The housekeeper, a beautiful stoic woman lets Julien in, but his friend is late and he is obliged to wait. In the meantime, he starts reminiscing of the pre-war days spent with his friend and Jacques' girlfriend Odile.
Genres: Drama Music War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-12-22
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The War Is Over
1966-05-11
The War Is Over
Overview: Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages to get free. When he arrives in Paris, he starts searching for one of his comrades to prevent him from going to Madrid where he could be arrested.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-05-11
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The Common Man
1975-02-26
The Common Man
Overview: Georges Lajoie is a Parisian café owner. As every summer, Georges, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite, where they meet up with the Schumacher family (whose father is a bailiff) and the Colin family (who sells bras in the markets). This year, their peace is slightly disturbed by the proximity of a construction site where foreign workers are employed. Xenophobic comments are made. One evening at the ball, a fight breaks out between Lajoie, Albert Schumacher and two algerian immigrant workers...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-02-26
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The Burned Barns
1973-05-30
The Burned Barns
Overview: The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge, Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers have something to do with the murder.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-30
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La Femme Nikita
1990-02-21
La Femme Nikita
Overview: A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chance – as a secret political assassin controlled by the government.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-02-21
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The Confession
1970-04-29
The Confession
Overview: The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-04-29
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Strictement personnel
1985-08-21
Strictement personnel
Overview: The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the miseries of one French policeman is compelling throughout. Jean (Pierre Arditi) is a cop and also a failed novelist who was abandoned by his father, brother, and sister after his mother died. The trio move to Paris where they set up an art scam that nets them considerable cash -- something Jean begins to figure out when he joins them for a family reunion. Little by little, he learns that his father is an expert forger, his stepmother's art gallery seems to be involved in the scam, his brother is a derelict and into drugs, his stepmother is a hooker in addition to all of this, and his sister runs an exercise gym for keeping prostitutes in shape. Things get worse -- just when everything seems bad enough, the stepmother is murdered and it is up to Jean to find the killer.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-08-21
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Hecate
1982-10-22
Hecate
Overview: Set amid the European community in an unspecified North African country, a colony on the verge of nationalism just before the war. And colonized is what happens to a French diplomat, Julien Rochelle, when he meets the mysterious beauty Clothilde de Watteville. Schmid 's favorite axiom, that love is projection, never had such a thorough airing. Is Clothilde really the wife of a French official now holed up in Siberia? Or is she Hecate, goddess of black magic and devourer of the Arab boys she meets far from the European quarter? Only our projections know for sure; for the rest, she is a "woman looking out into the night." Drawn from a novel by Paul Morand, who based the main character on his wife Helene, Schmid's film achieves an atmosphere of magic in which psychological credibility is not so much absent as irrelevant-a film that distances itself from the drama it invokes, perhaps as the elusive Clothilde turns her back on the madness she provokes.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-10-22
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The Abyss
1988-05-13
The Abyss
Overview: The Inquisition is in full swing in 16th century Flanders. Wanted for his dissident writings, the alchemist doctor Zeno has been wandering Europe under an assumed name for twenty years. But he remains a non-conformist. He returns to his native Bruges, where he thinks he has been forgotten. In this silent labyrinth where the faces of the past resurface, he rediscovers his identity and thus signs his death warrant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-05-13
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L'été en pente douce
1987-04-29
L'été en pente douce
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-04-29
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Tintin and the Blue Oranges
1964-12-18
Tintin and the Blue Oranges
Overview: Professor Calculus's friend develops a blue-skinned orange that can grow on any kind of land and survive harsh weather (in the manner of Lue Gim Gong) and therefore solve world hunger. The Professor and his friends, however, run afoul of gangsters who also covet the fruit. The adventure takes them from their home in Marlinspike Hall (Moulinsart), a fictional mansion that is presumably in Belgium, to Spain, where Calculus and another scientist are kidnapped.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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The Last Battle
1983-04-06
The Last Battle
Overview: The plot explores the devastation of civilization and issues of brutality, hostility and isolation. Pierre Jolivet stars as the main character (identified only as "The Man" in the end credits) who is menaced by "The Brute" (played by Jean Reno) on his journey through a world filled by people rendered nearly mute by some unknown incident.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-06
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Death of a Corrupt Man
1977-12-07
Death of a Corrupt Man
Overview: In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt dealings and was poised to use them against the deputy. Xavier readily agrees to cover up for his old pal Philippe, but he soon runs into difficulties. Nobody believes Dubaye's alibi. And everybody -- influential personalities, powerful businessmen, dubious go-betweens and the police -- wants to get hold of the documents that served to blackmail Dubaye; by all possible means...
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-12-07
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To Skin a Spy
1966-08-24
To Skin a Spy
Overview: A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the crossfire of international enemy agents trying to eliminate the French.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-08-24
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Le hasard mène le Jeu
1985-07-05
Le hasard mène le Jeu
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-07-05
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For Those I Loved
1983-10-12
For Those I Loved
Overview: Polish Martin Gray recalls the Holocaust, New York prosperity, and losing his wife and family.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-10-12
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Butterfly on the Shoulder
1978-05-03
Butterfly on the Shoulder
Overview: On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in a strange clinic without remembering who brought him there. The doctor insists he hallucinated, but it's not long before he obtains evidence that it wasn't a dream.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-05-03
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Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
1977-01-12
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
Overview: Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re-adapt the notion of justice to our changing times. His methods are not agreeable to every one. Criticism and pressure are brought to bear upon him but he is aware of his value, professionally, and refuses to make any concessions. He follows an unwavering course. He uses dynamic methods and takes uncustomary initiatives. He behaves like a crusader, a battler, whence the nickname given him by the reporters : the sheriff.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-01-12
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To Die of Love
1971-01-20
To Die of Love
Overview: A love story between a teacher, Daniele, 32 years and one of his students Gerard, 17 during the heated atmosphere of May 68. Daniele is a fiery young woman, very involved politically. Gerard's parents accuse Danièle of statutory rape and complain. Danièle is trapped and the drama begins...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-01-20
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Mr. Klein
1976-09-23
Mr. Klein
Overview: Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with whom he could be mistakenly identified, something dangerous in such harsh times.
Genres: Mystery Drama History Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-23
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Going and Coming Back
1985-03-27
Going and Coming Back
Overview: Salomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called "Apostrophes", hosted by French TV showman Bernard Pivot. Pivot then imagines a film that could be created from her gripping story. A film entirely made of music because after seeing the young pianist Erik Berchot, Salomé believes seeing her long lost brother, who was a musician as well. A brother she had lost along with her parents in 1943. However, the Lerners did in fact escape the gestapo and might have based themselves in Paris...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-03-27
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Paco the Infallible
1979-10-03
Paco the Infallible
Overview: In Madrid of the 20's, many women were hired as wet nurses for middle class families. Milk is paid very well, so women are turning to the honest services of Paco, glazier by trade, which completes his monthly salary getting pregnant the clients who pay for it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-10-03
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The Assassination
1972-10-04
The Assassination
Overview: Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to film a television special about the Third World. Sadiel, the exiled leader of a North African state, is being hunted by the ruthless Colonel Kassar, who will stop at nothing to capture his political rival. Once Sadiel arrives in Paris, Darien realizes he has been manipulated. He tries to turn back the clock, not realizing what or who he’s truly dealing with.
Genres: Thriller History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-04
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The Power of Speech
1988-12-31
The Power of Speech
Overview: Godard blends elements of literature, cinema and other artistic medias from different historical periods in order to make a stance on how words can be subverted and manipulated to many different contexts, sometimes bearing a similar significance to the original material or even creating an alternate context.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-12-31
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Credo
1983-01-26
Credo
Overview: Based on an actual Cold War incident in which a Ukrainian prisoner of conscience was forced to defend his Christian faith while under Soviet interrogation
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-26
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Bluff
1982-01-01
Bluff
Overview: A César award winning short film about a group of men playing poker until, at precisely 6pm, a bright light suddenly invades their room...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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The Outlaws
1969-01-01
The Outlaws
Overview: In prison in colonial Algeria, shortly after the end of the Second World War, three indigenous cellmates make out. Once free, they attack the authority represented by the triad of the boss, the gendarme and the administrator. “Living the colonial condition,” confided Tewfik Farès, “is something! It’s not sociologically or historically speaking. It’s life. And I think that’s all there in it. [...] For a hundred and thirty years, we wait. We hold back. We push back. We hope. At the same time, on different occasions, there are skirmishes, unrest.
Genres: Drama Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
2019-05-07
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-05-07
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Last Image
1986-06-02
Last Image
Overview: Seen through the filtered lens of boyhood memories, award-winning director Mohamed Lakhdar-Hamina crafted this half-fictional, half-autobiographical account of a brief period in the history of an Algerian village. It is 1940, and the quiet town is ruled by French colonialists appointed by the Vichy government. Algerians are being called up for service in the Vichy military, and Jews in the village are in danger of deportation. A beautiful young schoolteacher named Claire Boyer (Veronique Jannot) arrives in town and turns every male head within miles, including 14-year-old Mouloud (Merwan Lakhdar-Hamina, the director's son). Simon Attal (Michel Boujenah), a fellow teacher and a Jew, is also attracted to Claire, and so is Mouloud's older brother. Suddenly two murders occur in the village, Simon is in danger of being deported, and the tone shifts from the dreams of boyhood to the realities of manhood.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-06-02
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Spiral
1987-09-23
Spiral
Overview: Whilst spending a few days on the Côte d’Azur with his friends, Jérôme meets Simorre, a strange young woman who will have a profound impact on him. Jérôme allows Simorre to take her into her world, and he soon finds himself caught in a terrible trap...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-09-23
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Ubu Roi
1965-09-20
Ubu Roi
Overview: Based on Alfredy Jarrry's 1896 play about a greedy, overweight, selfish dude named Pere Ubu. The story follows Ubu on his journey to overthrow the current ruler and become King of Poland. Along the way he betrays many of his followers, taxes the civilians to an unreasonable degree and eventually slaughters everyone. Along his side, is the equally crude but somehow more likable Mere Ubu, who's like a foul mouthed Lady Macbeth.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-20
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I Am Cuba
1964-10-26
I Am Cuba
Overview: Four vignettes on the lives of the Cuban people in the pre-revolutionary era. In Havana, Maria is ashamed when a man she loves discovers how she makes a living. Pedro, an old farmer, discovers that the land he cultivates is being sold to an American company. A student sees his friends attacked by the police while they distribute leaflets supporting Fidel Castro. Finally, a peasant family is threatened by Batista's army.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1964-10-26
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Hothead
1979-02-14
Hothead
Overview: François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-02-14
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Jenatsch
1987-06-01
Jenatsch
Overview: A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who was mysteriously murdered in 1639. Initially disinterested, the journalist begins to uncover unflattering truths about the national hero and experiences visions in which he seems to be witnessing events that transpired over 300 years ago. As he obsessively pursues the investigation, his personal life and his grip on reality disintegrate, drawing him relentlessly toward the fatal carnival at which Jenatsch was killed.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-06-01
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The Other Christopher
1963-05-14
The Other Christopher
Overview: The dictator Anastasio rules with an iron fist backed by business-men making deals and speeches about building canals, completely disconnected from the chaos amongst the population. Anastasio is rumored to have died after an incident with a mirror and a violent confrontation after literally crowing as a cock amongst his chicken followers. The afterlife is shown as a casino where Anastasio strong-arms his way into heaven. Divination is used to find the next dictator, and a sailor and his black, peasant sidekick find themselves attempting to start a revolution with an organ, dragging it through the countryside, as the movie explores the country, culture and music.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-05-14
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Sale rêveur
1978-04-04
Sale rêveur
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-04-04
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Dans les griffes de Thulius
1986-12-06
Dans les griffes de Thulius
Overview: Professor Wilcox, recognized for his research on magnetic phenomena, decides, in the company of his assistant and a famous adventurer, to fight the evil forces which are devastating the planet.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-12-06
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Châteauroux district
1987-08-12
Châteauroux district
Overview: Reading old letters, a young girl from Châteauroux, Carole, discovers that her father was an American soldier whose regiment was based in town in the 1950s. She will try by all means to find people who remember this period.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-08-12
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Focal Point
1977-10-25
Focal Point
Overview: Reporter renowned photographer, Danièle Gaur is conducting an investigation into the alleged accident of her husband Michel. Her research is gradually leading her to discover the workings of a plot to assassinate US Foreign Secretary John W. Maxwell.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-10-25
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Touch and Go
1971-09-01
Touch and Go
Overview: North Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940, has fled to Tunis, where he traffics stolen goods, transporting them from Libya to Tunisia on an old boat.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-01
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Z
1969-02-26
Z
Overview: Amid a tense political climate, the opposition leader is killed in an apparent accident. When a prosecutor smells a cover-up, witnesses get targeted. A thinly veiled dramatization of the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis and its aftermath, “Z” captures the outrage at the US-backed junta that ruled Greece at the time of its release.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-02-26
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The French Calvinists
1972-02-22
The French Calvinists
Overview: A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers, formed groups following Gédéon Laporte and fought Louis XIV's dragoons.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-02-22
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Out 1
1990-12-15
Out 1
Overview: While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian streets hustling the populace for cash.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-12-15
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No Rest for Billy Brakko
1983-05-15
No Rest for Billy Brakko
Overview: On a winter evening Billy Brakko buys a paper and reads: "The famous Billy Brakko is dead!" An early short film from Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-05-15
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The Big Shots
1972-10-31
The Big Shots
Overview: Thia and Murelli, who live from car stunt shows, make ends meet by carrying out small burglaries.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-31
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Equator
1983-08-17
Equator
Overview: Although based on a novel by Georges Simenon, director (and songwriter) Serge Gainsbourg has superimposed several dark emotions and a subtle brutality over the weak plot about a man's trip to Africa and his unfortunate passion for a murderess whose amorality sends the disillusioned fellow back to Europe. Sometimes described as frustrating and self-centered, reactions to this film swing across a broad spectrum of complaints -- not the least might be whether or not Gainsbourg is using a clichéd and stereotypical view of "dark Africa" to convey what he sees in his characters.
Genres: Drama Thriller Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-08-17
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If I Were 1000 Years Old
1983-01-14
If I Were 1000 Years Old
Overview: A long time ago, on a French island, a group of villagers saved a girl from being sacrificed by the local lord. To this day the place is cursed. Mysterious knights emerge from the fog each year, while a woman disappears.
Genres: Fantasy Horror Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-14
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Merette
1982-04-03
Merette
Overview: Merette is a pretty child, living within a patrician, strictly Calvinist family in the Switzerland of the 19th century. She is happy, until her mother dies, and Merette blames God, and gives up her religion. Her family turns against her, the villagers reject her, and her priest drives her into isolation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-04-03
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Anthracite
1980-09-08
Anthracite
Overview: In a Jesuit secondary school , the headmaster imposes an iron discipline on the unfortunate students. Enter Father Godard who believes in Christian love.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-09-08
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Edith and Marcel
1983-01-01
Edith and Marcel
Overview: This tragic musical drama chronicles the star-crossed love between beloved French singer Edith Piaf and World Middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerdan who died in a plane crash. The tumultuous affair is paralleled by the love affair of a French POW and his young pen pal who get engaged after writing to each other for four years and having never met. Their romances are framed by the sad, torchy songs of Piaf.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Dessert for Constance
1981-03-12
Dessert for Constance
Overview: Bokolo and Mamadou, sweepers in the city of Paris, are looking for a way to pay for the return home of one of their sick comrades. When they find an old book of recipes in the trash, they discover a passion for French cuisine and decide to participate in a televised cooking competition.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-03-12
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The Blockhead Fair
1963-10-30
The Blockhead Fair
Overview: On prize-giving day, a few dunces recall various incidents that marked their school year.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-10-30
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The Brigade
1975-05-07
The Brigade
Overview: This film explores the experiences of some of the members of an anti-Nazi resistance group in France composed mostly of Polish immigrants, known as "La Brigade." Many of them also fought for the leftist cause during the Spanish Civil War, and for them the resistance is simply a continuation of their prior activities. After the war, some of them continue to have a "resistance" mind-set. One of the stories concerns a love relationship between a Polish boy and a French girl who are thrown together because of their war efforts. After the war, they get together and reminisce.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-05-07
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Mad Enough to Kill
1975-08-20
Mad Enough to Kill
Overview: Julie Ballenger has spent five years in a psychiatric clinic. Leaving the clinic apparently cured, she is hired by a wealthy industrialist, Mostri, to work as a governess to his young nephew, Thomas. The boy is heir to a huge fortune after the recent death of his wealthy parents who died in mysterious circumstances. During a visit to a park, Julie and Thomas are kidnapped at gun-point and driven away to deserted quarry. The two hostages manage to escape, but are closely pursued by an armed killer...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-08-20
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Special Section
1975-04-23
Special Section
Overview: In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-04-23
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Roads to the South
1978-04-28
Roads to the South
Overview: France, 1975. Jean, an exiled Spanish Communist, is a successful screenwriter who, after a tragic event, struggles with his political commitment, his love for his country, under the boot of General Franco, whose death he and his comrades have waited for years, and his complicated relationship with his son. (A sequel to “The War Is Over,” 1966.)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-04-28
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Le chien qui a vu Dieu
1970-03-10
Le chien qui a vu Dieu
Overview: In a small Italian village live a group of men, each as miscreant as the next. Among them is the baker, violent and miserly. One day, to benefit from an inheritance, he has to distribute fifty kilos of bread a day to the poor for five years. At the moment of distribution, a dog comes along and takes a loaf of bread in its mouth, to take to an old hermit whom the villagers are convinced "has seen God".
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-03-10
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The American
1969-09-24
The American
Overview: A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among old friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-09-24
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The Most Beautiful Month
1968-06-26
The Most Beautiful Month
Overview: The life of the inhabitants of a village in the Drôme region during the debacle of May-June 1940. Liberated, Cyprien Boromès returns to his village to learn that his daughter Rosine has had a child out of wedlock with the mayor's son, Bruno Besson.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-06-26
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Zone Red
1986-04-09
Zone Red
Overview: Claire Rousset visits her ex-husband Pierre who lives in the Lyon region. For some time now, Pierre's health and that of the other inhabitants of the village has deteriorated to the point of becoming worrying.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-04-09
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Madame Bovary
1974-11-29
Madame Bovary
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-11-29
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Stormy Summer
1989-06-21
Stormy Summer
Overview: Every year, the whole gather in the French region of Auvergne's home. During this 1944 summer, Louis falls in love with his cousin Laurence. The arrival of a British skydiver, Jack, will completely upset Laurence. Louis, jealous like crazy, will betray the skydiver who will die in front of his eyes. But his cousin François-Xavier has also seen what happened.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-06-21
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La Bête noire
1983-06-15
La Bête noire
Overview: In this creatively organized story of one "delinquent," director Patrick Chaput has put together a well-paced drama/thriller set in part against the dark by-ways of Paris. Seventeen-year-old Daniel grew up in foster homes in a rural area and those years contrast with his later youth in Paris. A filmmaker opts to interview Daniel for a documentary on delinquency, and that is how the young man's past and precarious present start coming to light.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-06-15
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The French Revolution: Years of Hope
1989-05-10
The French Revolution: Years of Hope
Overview: First part that includes the beginnings of the French Revolution. The film begins by recounting the events that led to the convocation of the States General in 1789 and ends with the assault on the Tuileries Palace, which occurred on August 10, 1792.
Genres: History Drama War Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-05-10
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