Jean-Claude Dauphin
Biography: Jean-Claude Dauphin (né Legrand; born 16 March 1948) is a French actor who is primarily known for national movie productions in France. He is a uncle to American actors Griffin Newman and James Newman as well as to chef Romilly Newman. He is the son of actor Claude Dauphin and actress Maria Mauban, the grand-son of the poet Maurice Étienne Legrand and nephew host Jean Nohain, his father's brother. At Lycée Paul-Valéry in Paris, he studied in the class of Latinist Bernard Mortureux, a specialist in Seneca. His debut, in 1968, in Adolphe ou l'Âge tendre (Adolphe or the tender Age), directed by Bernard Toublanc-Michel, made him famo In 1969, he plays Claude Jade's fiancé in The Witness. At the time, Claude Jade and Jean-Claude Dauphin were a couple. Jade later wrote in her autobiography Baisers envolés: "He was charming, funny, intelligent, and I was not long in going out with him. With our fair complexion and fine features, we could have played a brother and a sister." Gérard Blain hired him in 1970 for The Friends, a gay romance which won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival, and in 1972 Bernard Paul gave him the lead role alongside Dominique Labourier in Beau Masque (Handsome Face). He plays alongside Annie Girardot and Philippe Noiret in Edouard Molinaro's La Mandarine, and alongside Isabelle Adjani in the television series Le Secret des Flamands. Other films in the 1970s: Le Hasard et la Violence, Les Suspects, Hugues-le-loup, Dracula and Son... In 1980, he played Ulysses alongside Nicole Jamet in The Inconnue of Arras by Raymond Rouleau. He is also the voice-over or the reciter of many documentaries of French television. In 1981, he was Ricky in Choice of Arms by Alain Corneau and participated, in 1984, in Souvenirs, Souvenirs. One of his most important roles is that of Clovis, the hero of Adieu la vie, directed by Maurice Dugowson in 1986. In 1987, he played with Guy Marchand and Caroline Cellier in Charlie Dingo by Gilles Béhat, and with Juliette Binoche in The Unbearable Lightness of Being. One of his latest film hits is his role in Benoît Jacquot's The School of Flesh (1998) with Isabelle Huppert. Later movies are including Léa (2011). Since the 1990 he worked more for television where he met again his former fiancée Claude Jade in Sentiments mortels, an episode of TV series Navarro. Source: Article "Jean-Claude Dauphin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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The Witness
1969-01-01
The Witness
Overview: Cécile teaches English at the Collegium in Bruges. She has a boyfriend, Thomas, a student at the Beaux-Arts. Cécile lives with Mrs. Hanka, who reads horoscopes and surrounds herself with natal charts. She says she's known a lot about people for 30 years.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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The Tender Age
1968-06-03
The Tender Age
Overview: Twenty-year-old Henri Rebecque wants to make his dream come true: to bring Benjamin Constant's Adolphe to the screen in amateur format. Armed with a sixteen-millimeter camera and a team of friends, Henri embarks on this adventure, playing the role of Adolphe himself. Despite all the warnings, he lived through the passion and ordeal of the novel's hero, right to the end. Different times and circumstances will not change this.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-06-03
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Six-Pack
2000-04-26
Six-Pack
Overview: A serial killer is on the loose in Paris and he seems to be an american citizen working in the US embassy and being in the middle of a french-american economical affair.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-04-26
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Champagne Charlie
1989-04-12
Champagne Charlie
Overview: This is the story of the Charles Heidsieck who opened the market for Champagne sales in America just prior to the American Civil War. He is a reluctant French spy and is captured and spends time in a Union prison. There are two parallel love stories (he is French) and some battles with his uncle for control of the family vineyard (because his father married his mother who the uncle also loved).
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-12
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Dracula and Son
1976-09-14
Dracula and Son
Overview: With angry villagers driving them away from their castle in Transylvania, Dracula and his son Ferdinand head abroad. Dracula ends up in London, England where he becomes a horror movie star exploiting his vampire status. His son, meanwhile, is ashamed of his roots and ends up a night watchman in Paris, France where he falls for a girl. Naturally, tensions arise when father and son are reunited and both take a liking to the same girl.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-14
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The Suspects
1974-11-27
The Suspects
Overview: When an American tourist is murdered in the south of France, the police must investigate. In this movie, the police inspector re-creates the girl's journeys through France until the murder is solved. Suspicions are narrowed down to four possible perpetrators early on, and flashbacks illuminate the roles each one played in the girl's vacation.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-11-27
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Choice of Arms
1981-08-19
Choice of Arms
Overview: Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey, to take him to the estate of a retired robber, Noel, who lives in comfort with his lovely and beloved wife, Nicole. The man dies, and Mickey, a menacing hothead, demands money of Noel. A few days later, Mickey returns to the estate, shoots up a dinner party and threatens them again. Noel sends Nicole to an hotel and goes to his old gang to help him hunt down the dangerous Mickey. Mickey has other problems, too, including heartache for a daughter he hardly knows. Young, eager cops tail Nicole, and all are on a complicated collision course.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-08-19
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Why Not Me?
1999-01-06
Why Not Me?
Overview: Four gay French expatriots share a business in Barcelona. When they and their parents are thrown together for a "coming out" party, another French Farce ensues.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-01-06
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Le sourire du clown
1999-07-21
Le sourire du clown
Overview: A clown from Romania (Ticky Holgado) has more than amusing tricks for children on his mind -- he has in his possession a computer disc with information wanted by the police, several organized crime figures and the European Agency for Atomic Energy.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-07-21
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The Second Wind
2007-10-24
The Second Wind
Overview: Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu needs a final job to get some money. The job works, but a police's scheming makes Gu appear as a traitor to his own accomplices. Gu will do whatever it takes to clean his honor...
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-24
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Samson le magnifique
1995-01-01
Samson le magnifique
Overview: Adaptation of a French boulevard play, in which a parvenu businessman marries a young lady from a noble family who need his money.There is no love lost between them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Tender Souls
2001-12-05
Tender Souls
Overview: Jacques, 50-something bachelor painter and great seducer, is about to receive the charming Claire for dinner. Broke but clever, Jacques concocted a sumptuous meal. Everything looks great when, suddenly, a door slams and turns the evening into a fiasco. Jacques will have to change his plans, play the unexpected. However, that evening, it is the unexpected that will play with him.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-12-05
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Like Stone Lions in the Gateway into Night
2012-04-20
Like Stone Lions in the Gateway into Night
Overview: Between 1947 and 1951, more than 80 000 Greek men, women and children were deported to the isle of Makronissos (Greece) in reeducation camps created to ‘fight the spread of Communism’. Among those exiles were a number of writers and poets, including Yannis Ritsos and Tassos Livaditis. Despite the deprivation and torture, they managed to write poems which describe the struggle for survival in this world of internment. These texts, some of them buried in the camps, were later found. «Like Lions of stone at the gateway of night» blends these poetic writings with the reeducation propaganda speeches constantly piped through the camps’ loudspeakers. Long tracking shots take us on a trance-like journey through the camp ruins, interrupted along the way by segments from photographic archives. A cinematic essay, which revives the memory of forgotten ruins and a battle lost.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-04-20
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The Friends
1971-09-07
The Friends
Overview: Philippe is an older man and an industrialist whose wife is confined to her bed. They have no children. As he is preparing to go on a vacation to the seaside, he strikes up an acquaintance with Paul, a young working-class boy, and decides to bring him along. This is Paul's first glimpse of how the other half lives, with their first-class hotels and so on. When he meets some aristocratic young people at the resort, he tries to put over the fiction that he is of their class, with poor success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-07
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La Mandarine
1972-03-17
La Mandarine
Overview: Paris, seventies. In a hotel in the glittering Rue de Rivoli an English boy falls in love with the two young grandchildren of the owner. Based on the novel "La Mandarine" by Christine de Rivoyre.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-03-17
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Brother and Sister
2012-08-26
Brother and Sister
Overview: A 50-something lawyer's solitary life is upended when he discovers he has a 15-year-old half sister!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-08-26
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L'amour propre ne le reste jamais très longtemps
1985-06-05
L'amour propre ne le reste jamais très longtemps
Overview: In a routine sex farce, Gautier (Jean-Claude Dauphin) is a man determined to figure out how to give a woman an orgasm -- which of course requires a lot of practice and experimentation. His buddy Roussel (Jean-Luc Bideau) also chases after women but does not share Gautier's unique quest. Rose (Nathalie Nell) finds Gautier entrancing and devises a way to capture his heart while helping him on his search for the ultimate turn-on.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-06-05
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Georges Bataille - À perte de vue
1997-04-30
Georges Bataille - À perte de vue
Overview: The film contains the interviews with Pierre Klossowski and Jacques Pimpanneau.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-04-30
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Au bon beurre
1981-04-08
Au bon beurre
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-04-08
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Nuit d'ivresse
1986-09-23
Nuit d'ivresse
Overview: Jacques Belin, presenter of a silly TV show, gets drunk after receiving an award and misses the train bringing his TV-soap-star fiancée. He meets up with Frède, just out of prison after a three year sentence and, in between numerous arguments and Jacques' break-up with his girlfriend, the two of them get drunker together, going across Paris in search of more alcohol and adventure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-09-23
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Accusé Mendès France
2011-03-09
Accusé Mendès France
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Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-03-09
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The School of Flesh
1998-11-18
The School of Flesh
Overview: Fashion executive Dominique's obsession for Quentin, a young bisexual hustler, fills her desire for physical love but leaves her taxed emotionally. Twists and turns in the relationship, along with the man's violent and abusive nature, force Dominique to reconcile the conflicts created by her passion. In this quest, Dominique is aided, and sometimes hindered, by friends, clients, and Quentin's former and current acquaintances.
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-11-18
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What a Flash!
1972-10-03
What a Flash!
Overview: The producers of this French film took approximately 100 people, put them on a soundstage and had them improvise this film based on the premise that they are on a spaceship escaping from the dictators of earth and only have a few days to live. Improvisation is a dangerous art-form; unprepared amateurs invariably come up with gross caricatures when challenged to improvise. The actors' choices in this film include an allegorical pageant of the life of Jesus, a marriage, an orgy, and some genuinely affectionate moments. Nonetheless, as an experimental effort in large-group improvisation, the film is instructive. - Clarke Fountain, Rovi
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-03
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The Last Bolshevik
1993-03-25
The Last Bolshevik
Overview: A documentary on Soviet filmmaker Aleksandr Medvedkin, examining his tumultuous career, the rediscovery of his masterpiece Happiness, and Russia's struggles over the course of the 20th Century.
Genres: History Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-03-25
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LOL (Laughing Out Loud)
2009-02-04
LOL (Laughing Out Loud)
Overview: Lola is a striking teenaged girl who is on the cusp of adulthood and longs to rush into the adult world of independence, freedom and sexual exploits, but is tenaciously held back by her mother.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-02-04
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Sarah
1983-04-27
Sarah
Overview: An insurance investigator meets an attractive woman in a hotel on his way to check out the causes of a fire that destroyed a movie set.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-27
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Spécial police
1985-07-02
Spécial police
Overview: Paris Flic and computer-crack David Ackermann is a teacher at the academy advising the rookies in computer-crime. By coincidence Informations about personalities from the high-politics and police-authorities that are involved in organized crime fall into his hands. From than on he's been chased merciless, even having his ex-wife kidnapped to blackmail him. With the help from his new girlfriend he lashes back.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-07-02
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Handsome Face
1972-11-29
Handsome Face
Overview: Pierrette, an active labor activist, marries Mario. He had little sympathy for his wife's political activities. Nevertheless, he takes part in a strikers' demonstration she leads, where he is bludgeoned to death by the CRS.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-11-29
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Chance and Violence
1974-02-04
Chance and Violence
Overview: A sociologist specialising in criminology moves to a peaceful residence on the Côte d’Azur so that he can concentrate on writing a thesis. When he is attacked by a karate fanatic, he decides not to press charges. He refuses help from the police, preferring to take care of himself...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-02-04
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La Grande Peinture
2012-01-01
La Grande Peinture
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-01-01
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Yiddish Connection
1986-08-27
Yiddish Connection
Overview: Two middle-aged Jewish merchants plot to crack a safe with a clergyman and some neighbors in Paris.
Genres: Crime Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-08-27
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Last Exit Before Roissy
1977-08-10
Last Exit Before Roissy
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-08-10
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La Tour Montparnasse Infernale
2001-03-28
La Tour Montparnasse Infernale
Overview: Eric and Ramzy are working as window washers at the Montparnasse skyscraper in Paris. Thinking that he has a date set up with beautiful executive Marie-Joelle (who in reality hates his guts), Ramzy stays at work late while Eric hangs around with him. As a result, the pair witness a gang of terrorists seize the tower and take its late-night occupants (including Marie- Joelle) hostage. Knowing that only they can save the day, Eric and Ramzy swing into action.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-28
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Barry of the Great St. Bernard
1977-01-30
Barry of the Great St. Bernard
Overview: A Wonderful World of Disney TV movie based on the true story of famed Saint Bernard dog, Barry, who rescued dozens of stranded travelers in the Swiss Alps.
Genres: Family Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-01-30
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Un mauvais garçon
2020-01-31
Un mauvais garçon
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-01-31
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Traces fantômes, le musée d'un rêve
1999-01-01
Traces fantômes, le musée d'un rêve
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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The Saint: The Big Bang
1990-07-28
The Saint: The Big Bang
Overview: Simon Templar and a newswoman track down the front man for a deadly corporate takeover.
Genres: Action Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-07-28
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Netchayev is Back
1991-01-23
Netchayev is Back
Overview: Freshly landed in Paris, Daniel Laurençon, who calls himself Netchaïev, who was believed dead five years ago in Gibraltar, warns a commercial center of a bomb attack a few minutes before its completion.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-01-23
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Murder In La Rochefoucauld
2019-10-27
Murder In La Rochefoucauld
Overview: During the annual party in the château of a wealthy French family, a murder is committed. The small neighboring town is thrown into disorder, suddenly plunged back into the old relationship of master and serfs.
Genres: Crime TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-27
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Une jeunesse
1983-06-15
Une jeunesse
Overview: After the birthday party of his wife Odile, Louis accompanies a friend to the station. When the train leaves he starts reminiscing about his youth.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-06-15
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Charlie Dingo
1987-10-07
Charlie Dingo
Overview: Charlie (Guy Marchand) returns home after being declared legally dead to reclaim his wife Georgia (Caroline Cellier) and cash in on a lucrative life insurance policy in this shadowy drama. He finds Georgia is married to the crooked cop William (Niels Arestrup), who has his eye on the insurance money. Antihero Charlie and the villainous police inspector head towards an inevitable confrontation, while Georgia is caught in the middle.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-10-07
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Le Poids d'un secret
1996-05-29
Le Poids d'un secret
Overview: A teenage girl who is afraid to admit to her parents that she has been raped gets help from a caring young woman.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-29
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The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1988-02-05
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Overview: Successful surgeon Tomas leaves Prague for an operation, meets a young photographer named Tereza, and brings her back with him. Tereza is surprised to learn that Tomas is already having an affair with the bohemian Sabina, but when the Soviet invasion occurs, all three flee to Switzerland. Sabina begins an affair, Tom continues womanizing, and Tereza, disgusted, returns to Czechoslovakia. Realizing his mistake, Tomas decides to chase after her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-05
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