Bernard Fresson
Biography: Bernard Fresson (27 May 1931- 20 October 2002) was a French cinema actor. He starred in over 160 films. Some of his notable roles include: Javert in the 1972 mini-series version of Les Misérables, Inspector Barthelmy in John Frankenheimer's French Connection II (1974), Scope in Roman Polanski's The Tenant (1976), Gilbert in Lover Boy (1978), and Francis in Garçon! (1983), for which he received a César nomination for Best Supporting Actor. Description above from the Wikipedia article Bernard Fresson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 27, 1931
Deathday: October 20, 2002
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Ursule and Grelu
1974-01-09
Ursule and Grelu
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-09
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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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Without Family
2000-12-12
Without Family
Overview: Young Remi, a foundling, lives on the farm run by his impoverished foster parents. When their money runs out, unbeknown to his foster-mother, Rémi is sold by his hard-hearted foster father to an old street performer named Vitalis. Vitalis was once a famous opera singer, but became destitute after a tragic love affair.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-12-12
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Max and the Junkmen
1971-02-17
Max and the Junkmen
Overview: A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-17
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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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French Connection II
1975-05-18
French Connection II
Overview: "Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-05-18
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Is Paris Burning?
1966-10-26
Is Paris Burning?
Overview: Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-26
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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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Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
1968-04-24
Je T'Aime, Je T'Aime
Overview: Recovering from an attempted suicide, a man is selected to participate in a time travel experiment that has only been tested on mice. A malfunction in the experiment causes the man to experience moments from his past in a random order.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-04-24
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Farewell, Friend
1968-08-14
Farewell, Friend
Overview: After serving together in the French Foreign Legion, a mercenary and a doctor leave the service and go their separate ways. Later, they are reunited and become involved with a caper involving millions in a high-security safe. The two men become locked in during a holiday weekend as they attempt to crack the safe's combination.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-08-14
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Hiroshima Mon Amour
1959-06-10
Hiroshima Mon Amour
Overview: The deep conversation between a Japanese architect and a French actress forms the basis of this celebrated French film, considered one of the vanguard productions of the French New Wave. Set in Hiroshima after the end of World War II, the couple -- lovers turned friends -- recount, over many hours, previous romances and life experiences. The two intertwine their stories about the past with pondering the devastation wrought by the atomic bomb dropped on the city.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-06-10
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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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Manège
1998-07-27
Manège
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Genres: Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-07-27
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
1970-10-22
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Overview: Dany Longo is red-haired, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-22
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The Tenant
1976-05-26
The Tenant
Overview: A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-26
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Place Vendôme
1998-10-07
Place Vendôme
Overview: The story of a woman that remained distracted for a long time from her life, from the passions that made her feel alive. The importance of true love is compared with the material value of diamonds. Only one truly lasts forever. She's got to find the thing that values most for her, the thing that gives psychical stability and real happiness again to her life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-10-07
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Cookies
1975-08-20
Cookies
Overview: Henri Serin (Jean-Pierre Marielle), an umbrella salesman, leads a quiet life between his work, his family and his passion for painting. During his many business trips, Henri indulges in a few amorous escapades, which provide a welcome change from the tiresome daily routine his bigoted wife locks him into. One fine day, Henri decides to drop everything and live on love and fresh water. He ends up in Pont-Aven, where he meets Émile, a local painter imitating Gauguin, with whom he shares his drinking and other feminine attractions.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-08-20
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Too Small My Friend
1971-08-06
Too Small My Friend
Overview: Ticky Edriss, a dwarf, develops a scheme to avenge him on society and extort a bank.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-08-06
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Far from Vietnam
1967-10-18
Far from Vietnam
Overview: In seven different parts, Godard, Ivens, Klein, Lelouch, Marker, Resnais, and Varda show their sympathy for the North-Vietnamese army during the Vietnam War.
Genres: Documentary War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-10-18
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Zita
1968-01-12
Zita
Overview: Because "Tante Zita" main theme is death: a twenty-year old girl, Annie (Shimkus) lives with her mother and her aunt (both played by first-class actresses Suzanne Flon and Katina Paxinou). The auntie is dying, and for the first time in her life, Annie has to cope with death. One night, she finds it too hard to bear, and leaving home where the old woman is suffering, she begins to hang around in Paris. She will meet people, and, from dusk to dawn, she will learn to leave her childhood behind and to grow into a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-01-12
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Shadow of a Kiss
1995-08-31
Shadow of a Kiss
Overview: Albert is a distinguished art dealer living in New York City. One day by chance, he visits a photo exhibit titled "Bistrot de Paris" by Carol Labronsky. In an old photo of two young lovers kissing while seated at a Bistro, Albert recognizes his first love, Rose, the girl he fell madly in love with during his stay in Paris in 1959, and had disappeared after leaving him. In that photograph Rose is wearing a sweater which Albert gave her, proof that the photo was taken after she had met him. Tormented by memories, AIbert feels a burning need to find out whet became of her.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-08-31
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Marie, the Doll
1976-08-25
Marie, the Doll
Overview: Marie, who was orphaned as a young girl, has a case of arrested development that makes her act younger than her age. One day she stops to look in a store window displaying various ornate dolls. Claude, the affluent, eccentric store owner, sees her and becomes infatuated which leads to her and him meeting and deciding to go and take a look at Claude personal doll collection at his house. Marie, unaware of Claude's bizarre obsession with dolls, decides to marry him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-08-25
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Spy, Stand Up
1982-01-27
Spy, Stand Up
Overview: Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative to discover how one of their own secret agents was found out and executed in broad daylight.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-27
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Rain over Santiago
1975-12-10
Rain over Santiago
Overview: A semi-fictional account on the fatidic September 11, 1973, when the military commanded by General Pinochet took over the power from socialist president Salvador Allende, initiating a dictatorship that lasted until 1988 causing the deaths and disappearances of many people.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-10
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My Man
1996-01-31
My Man
Overview: In Lyon, where many are unemployed, Marie is a prostitute who loves her work: she's thoughtful and exuberant toward clients old and young, slim or flabby. One night, a homeless man sleeps in the foyer of her apartment house; she gives him a hot meal, then a place on the floor to sleep by her radiator, then she offers herself. She falls in love, giving him new life, clothes, a place to live. When he grouses that he must bar hop while she uses the flat for her work, she finds them a larger flat. He grows restless, seducing a manicurist and pressing her to prostitution. He's arrested for procuring, so Marie must decide what to do; he, too, must face the consequences of his choices.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-01-31
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Bonjour l'angoisse
1988-08-17
Bonjour l'angoisse
Overview: Anxious and shy, Michaud works for a company that specializes in alarms, safes and other security devices.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-08-17
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Woman in Chains
1968-11-20
Woman in Chains
Overview: Gallery director Stanislas bolsters the development of modern art with his collection of surprising works. His newest acquisition is a sculpture by Gilbert, whose wife Josée is captivated by Stanislas. But unbeknownst to her, Stanislas is amassing photographs of a very perverse, disturbed nature.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-11-20
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The Big Swag
1965-07-09
The Big Swag
Overview: Louis Bourdin est employé à la RATP le jour, romancier la nuit, avec une forte prédilection pour le genre policier. Un jour, il rédige un polar situé dans l'univers de la RATP, boudé par les éditeurs. Le livre parvient alors aux yeux d'une bande de criminels...
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-07-09
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Street of No Return
1989-05-17
Street of No Return
Overview: A rock star-turned-bum, his vocal chords severed at the height of his career for the love of a woman, drunkenly roams the city, torn apart by sponsored race riots. When accused of murder, he may have the chance to get revenge on the magnate who maimed him.
Genres: Action Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-05-17
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Girl in the Window
1961-04-14
Girl in the Window
Overview: A romantic drama partially set in Amsterdam, this standard tale starts out in a mining area in Holland where conditions are about as rough as they get. Two of the miners, Italians Federico and Vincenzo take off together for the city's red-light district, where the women pose in windows for prospective customers. There the duo meet Else and Carrel who are willing to leave their windows to spend a weekend at a resort with the two men. Soon Else has fallen in love with Vincenzo and the future of the two hookers, as well as the miners, seems to look brighter.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-04-14
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Waiter!
1983-11-09
Waiter!
Overview: After a tumultuous life, a middle-aged headwaiter in a Parisian restaurant dreams of opening a seaside amusement park. When an old flame reappears, he reignites his feelings, but she is involved with another man.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-11-09
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The Adversary
2002-08-28
The Adversary
Overview: Based on the 2000 book of the same name by Emmanuel Carrère, it is inspired by the real-life story of Jean-Claude Romand. L'Adversaire's protagonist Jean-Marc Faure (Auteuil) pursues an imaginary career as a doctor of medicine in a plot more closely based on Romand's life and Carrère's book than was Laurent Cantet's 2001 film L'Emploi du Temps. The film was nominated for a Palme d'Or at the 2002 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-08-28
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The Cop
1970-10-05
The Cop
Overview: A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge against villainous drug dealers. Word comes down from above that the United States feels French authorities have been lax on their arrests of the dealers. A violent action feature finds the harried inspector battling his colleagues as much as the criminal element targeted for extermination.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-05
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The Undertaker Parlor Computer
1976-04-07
The Undertaker Parlor Computer
Overview: Fred works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. He is bored with enduring the trials of his shrewish wife, so, after using actuarial tables to calculate the most common means of death, he cleverly prepares the family bathroom and brings about her demise. For a while he is content with his new freedom, but then he recognizes that a friend is in a similar situation.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-04-07
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Autopsie d’un complot
1978-07-01
Autopsie d’un complot
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-07-01
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The Call of the Wild
1976-05-22
The Call of the Wild
Overview: A prospector, a trapper and their sled dog battle the Klondike elements on their journey to get to the gold country.
Genres: Action Adventure Drama Family TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-22
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Sweet Lies
1987-12-18
Sweet Lies
Overview: An insurance investigator is visiting Paris on assignment. He is soon made the object of a seduction bet amongst three ladies. Problems arise when the girls realize they are really falling for him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-12-18
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Where There's Smoke
1973-05-16
Where There's Smoke
Overview: An election campaign becomes more interesting when anonymously published photographs depict the wife of a candidate, Dr. Peyrac, attending a sex party. Are the photographs fake or genuine ?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-16
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Money
1991-04-06
Money
Overview: A young man whose father's fortune was stolen by his closest friends sets out to get revenge in this odyssey through the world's major financial centers.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-06
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L'Interdiction
1993-09-18
L'Interdiction
Overview: An upright judge must consider the petition of a scheming marquise who wants to have her estranged husband stripped of his rights.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-09-18
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Taking Wing
2000-07-05
Taking Wing
Overview: This is the story of Stan, a young man who might be considered an ordinary, run of the mill guy. But his love and passion for the theatre propels him to realize the most extraordinary desires. He is very attached to his grandfather, who owns a butcher's shop and who offers that Stan take over the family business. But Stan refuses. He decides to drop out of school and move out of his family's apartment, despite the opposition of his parents. His uncle is the only one to support him in the impossible dream of becoming an actor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-07-05
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Rive droite, rive gauche
1984-10-30
Rive droite, rive gauche
Overview: Longtime friends Guarrigue and Sénanques own a successful law practice in Paris. The dreaded businessman Pervillard is one of their clients. One night, Sénanques, who is in an unhappy relationship, meets Sacha. For her sake, he causes a political scandal involving Pervillard and puts himself in danger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-10-30
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No Harm Intended
1988-02-03
No Harm Intended
Overview: When Catherine is caught with her illicit lover by her father-in-law Paul, the concerned father leaves to tell his son Thomas about the incident. Paul is injured in an auto accident and returns home in a wheelchair unable to speak. Catherine's guilt weighs heavily on her as she hopes to never let Thomas know she was unfaithful. She panics and seeks a way to eliminate Paul in this psychological thriller.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-02-03
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Don't Bite, We Love You
1976-05-03
Don't Bite, We Love You
Overview: Georges,a trucker, is the single father of young Frédéric. His job prevents him from seeing his son as often as he could, as often as he should. Brought up by his grandparents, Frédéric proves a difficult child. His only friend is his twelve-year-old neighbor Rose. One day, Georges tells his son how Agnès, his mother, abandoned him at birth. Upset by such a revelation, Frédéric decides to be revenged...
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-05-03
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Jean Moulin, une affaire française
2003-01-06
Jean Moulin, une affaire française
Overview: Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French resistance and the patriotism during the dark years of Nazi occupation.
Genres: History Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-06
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Ils n'ont pas vingt ans
1995-03-03
Ils n'ont pas vingt ans
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-03-03
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Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday
1967-01-01
Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday
Overview: A bitter-sweet story of a young sales assistant and a truck driver trapped between their dreams and the economic depression.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Little Girl in Blue Velvet
1978-08-23
Little Girl in Blue Velvet
Overview: An ageing surgeon falls in love with a thirteen-year-old girl.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-08-23
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La Règle de l'homme
1994-05-16
La Règle de l'homme
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Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-05-16
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The Passengers
1977-03-09
The Passengers
Overview: A man and his stepson driving across Europe are terrorized by a man following them in a pickup truck.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-03-09
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Skies Above
1965-01-20
Skies Above
Overview: The crew of an aircraft carrier discovers that it is being pursued by a UFO that turns out to be a radioactive probe from outer space. They appeal to the warring countries of Earth to stop fighting and help it to repel the invaders.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-01-20
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Lover Boy
1978-02-15
Lover Boy
Overview: "The Pocket Lover" tells the story of Julien, a 15 year-old boy who falls in love with an older woman, later discovered to be a prostitute. Now, Julien will have to face several obstacles, which includes his parents opposition with this affair, and Julien's own perceptions about the woman's line of work, going out with wealthy guys.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-02-15
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Macédoine
1971-01-01
Macédoine
Overview: The tale of a young pretty girl's rise to a top model and her finding of emptiness in her life after success.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Zielscheiben
1985-03-15
Zielscheiben
Overview: The police catch Zorro, a small-time crook who is to testify as a key witness in a trial against organized crime. When an assassination attempt is made on him in prison, Zorro is to be given a new identity and the prosecutor decides to let him go into hiding until the trial begins. The experienced and cunning inspector Fütterer is to protect him. The policeman and the crook are now completely on their own and become targets of the criminal organization that starts hunting them. In the process, they become something like friends. When they find out that the public prosecutor is also only using them as bait, they narrowly escape the trap set for them and flee to the Caribbean.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1985-03-15
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L'Amour ou presque
1985-11-20
L'Amour ou presque
Overview: Without warning, Mélie disembarks on the cargo ship where her father has the sailor's blues. He remembers his drifts and his friend Max who used to get him into some crazy situations. He remembers Alice and Luc whom he decided to avenge. He has his grenade ready. But Melie has just arrived.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-11-20
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The Flamboyant Sex
1961-09-10
The Flamboyant Sex
Overview: 24 hours in the life of three Swedish girls in Paris. Seduced by the excitement but short of money they earn a few francs as nude models in an art school.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1961-09-10
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Le Futur aux trousses
1975-08-05
Le Futur aux trousses
Overview: A large company offers consumers to acquire a "second identity", having the character traits that individuals would not normally adopt. Because of all these uninhibited behaviors, anarchy is quick to take hold.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-08-05
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We Forget Everything!
1979-01-03
We Forget Everything!
Overview: Anne, who has just had an argument with her boyfriend Vassili, is put up for the night by Jacques and Odile, a couple of friends. But when Jacques takes her home the next day, he is arrested by the police, who mistake him for Vassili. In reality, Vassili is a terrorist.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-03
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Sahara on Fire
1961-01-18
Sahara on Fire
Overview: A young engineer, Lucien Rombeau, is sent to the Sahara by the oil company that employs him, which wants to put an end to drilling that it considers unproductive. He ends up agreeing with the chief prospector, who refuses to stop the work and is convinced that prospecting will not be in vain.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-01-18
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How Not to Rob a Department Store
1965-02-25
How Not to Rob a Department Store
Overview: To repay a debt, Marcel must commit a robbery in a large department store. Unfortunately his booty is intercepted by a gang of thugs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-02-25
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L'Été de la Révolution
1989-07-11
L'Été de la Révolution
Overview: Part 1: In May 1789, in Versailles, a game tug of war takes place between conservative and more progressive bigwigs. Part 2: As the people of Paris revolt, King Louis XVI finds it increasingly difficult to get the situation under control.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-07-11
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La Petite Roque
1986-05-21
La Petite Roque
Overview: A teenager is found raped and strangled near a Norman village governed by a crude mayor.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-05-21
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Le maître-chanteur
1985-01-01
Le maître-chanteur
Overview: A César award nominated short feature.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Le Dernier Baiser
1977-05-11
Le Dernier Baiser
Overview: The meeting of two women of the same age. One is a taxi driver, a little idealistic and romantic and the other is a wealthy and idle bourgeois.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-05-11
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Dingo
1991-06-02
Dingo
Overview: Young John Anderson is captivated by jazz musician Billy Cross when he performs on the remote airstrip of his Western Australian outback hometown after his plane is diverted. Years later, now a family man and making a meagre living tracking dingoes and playing trumpet in a local band, John still dreams of joining Billy on trumpet and makes a pilgrimage to Paris.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-06-02
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Clash
1984-02-08
Clash
Overview: A woman revisits long-suppressed nightmares as she is being chased through an abandoned warehouse by a strange man.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-02-08
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Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur
1980-09-24
Tartuffe ou l'Imposteur
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-09-24
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The Longest Day
1962-09-25
The Longest Day
Overview: The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, it will be the longest day"
Genres: War Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-09-25
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Belle de Jour
1967-05-24
Belle de Jour
Overview: Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-05-24
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Germinal
1993-09-29
Germinal
Overview: It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-09-29
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Il prato delle volpi
1990-12-07
Il prato delle volpi
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Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-12-07
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Madame Claude 2
1981-08-26
Madame Claude 2
Overview: A notorious French madam, whose business serves many of the nation's most powerful individuals, plans to go international until she becomes the focus of media scrutiny.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-08-26
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Oh, Sun
1973-01-04
Oh, Sun
Overview: An educated native of Mauritania tries to find work in Paris but encounters difficulty because of his race.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-01-04
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To Each His Hell
1977-02-02
To Each His Hell
Overview: After her daughter is kidnapped, a mother discovers that there can be something even worse after "the worst."
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-02-02
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3000 Million Without an Elevator
1972-08-18
3000 Million Without an Elevator
Overview: Seven small rogues dream of stealing the beautiful jewels which are in Paris for an exhibition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-08-18
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La Dixième de Beethoven
1985-03-16
La Dixième de Beethoven
Overview: Play by Peter Ustinov, about a return to the modern world by Beethoven, who knocks on the door of a London music critic. He is fitted with a hearing aid, and l istens in horror to his works. The critic wishes Beethoven to complete his tenth symphony, and one night the piano emits a few notes by itself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-03-16
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Équipe de nuit
1990-04-25
Équipe de nuit
Overview: Quentin and André, two brothers who had lost sight for several years, find themselves in the family home, uninhabited since the death of their parents.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-04-25
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Demons of Deception
2002-03-10
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Demons of Deception
Overview: Indy's work with the Belgian Army takes him to the front lines of Verdun in 1916, where officers' callous stupidity sends thousands of men to their deaths for virtually no territorial gain. In Paris, Indy falls in love with the seductive German spy Mata Hari, only to suffer the pains of deceit.
Genres: Action Adventure War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-10
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Sons
1990-01-01
Sons
Overview: A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Sunday Buddies
1957-07-01
Sunday Buddies
Overview: Casti and Trébois, two friends who are workers at the same factory, have developed a common passion for flying. They dream of starting an aviation club. In the meantime they spend all their Sundays restoring an old plane under the supervision of Raf, a former RAF pilot...
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-07-01
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Spray of the Days
1968-04-21
Spray of the Days
Overview: Chick fell in love with Alise because of a shared passion for writer Jean-Sol Partre who gradually devoured their relationship. Soon after, Colin, the main character, also falls in love with a young girl, Chloe, but after their marriage she soon suffers from a strange illness: a water lily grows in her lungs.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-04-21
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L'Affaire Marie Besnard
1986-01-01
L'Affaire Marie Besnard
Overview: In the small town of Louvun, Marie and Léon Besnard live quite comfortably. But on 25 October 1947 Léon passes away. Nobody, including the doctor who issued the burial permit, is doubtful that his death was natural. Nobody except Louise Paniou, a friend of the couple's, who is persuaded that Marie has poisoned her husband.
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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No Time for Justice
1990-05-30
No Time for Justice
Overview: A man is accused of a crime he didn't commit. He will be sexually abused in prison.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-05-30
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Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
1990-04-29
Voyage of Terror: The Achille Lauro Affair
Overview: The story of the hijacking of the Italian luxury liner Achille Lauro by four Palestinians.
Genres: Drama History Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-29
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New Year's Eve At Bob's
1984-12-12
New Year's Eve At Bob's
Overview: On New Year's Eve, among the tower blocks of a huge housing estate in Paris, strange people - each for a different reason - are looking for the home of a man called Bob.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-12-12
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Please, Not Now!
1961-04-19
Please, Not Now!
Overview: A sexy model pretends to have a new boyfriend in a wacky plan to make her ex-lover jealous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-04-19
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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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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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Triple Cross
1966-12-09
Triple Cross
Overview: A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.
Genres: Adventure War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-09
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La Beauté sur la terre
2001-06-02
La Beauté sur la terre
Overview: Coming to live with her uncle in the canton of Vaud after the death of her father, a pretty 17-year-old woman of mixed race turns men's heads.
Genres: TV Movie Family Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-06-02
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Portrait of Marianne
1971-02-03
Portrait of Marianne
Overview: Octave, a young painter, realizes that his wife Marianne has left without a word or explanation. With his best friend Alfred he wanders the streets of Paris, in search of Marianne.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-03
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Légitime défense
1980-07-18
Légitime défense
Overview:
Genres: Crime Mystery TV Movie Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-07-18
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Quiproquos !
1991-05-08
Quiproquos !
Overview: A candidate for mayor of a small town decides to have the mayor's daughter kidnapped to induce him to withdraw his candidacy in the next elections.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-05-08
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My Love, My Love
1967-06-08
My Love, My Love
Overview: An architect has an affair with a young woman who aspires to be a pop singer. She ends up pregnant but does not tell her lover about her condition as she contemplates having an abortion.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-06-08
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Le Guépiot
1981-06-17
Le Guépiot
Overview: A girl is placed in a strict Catholic boarding school by her hateful mother after the divorce of her parents. There she is physically and psychologically tortured by the nuns because of her brutal use of language and anti-clerical upbringing. Her only moments of joy are the visits of her father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-06-17
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