Jean-Paul Roussillon
Biography: Jean-Paul Roussillon (5 March 1931 – 31 July 2009) was a French actor. He appeared in more than 80 films and television shows between 1954 and 2008. He starred in the film Playing 'In the Company of Men', which was screened in the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. He won the César Award for Best Supporting Actor for his role in A Christmas Tale. For years Roussillon had been battling lung cancer and died on 31 July 2009 in Auxerre, France. Source: Article "Jean-Paul Roussillon" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 05, 1931
Deathday: July 31, 2009
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Tableau d'honneur
1992-08-26
Tableau d'honneur
Overview: Handsome Jules has problems with school and girls. His domineering dad doesn't make matters easier, although his mom is supportive of her only child. Contemplating an extramarital affair, Claude Jade attempts to discreetly shop for condoms, a cute twist on what is traditionally a teenage boy's awkward ordeal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-08-26
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Same Old Song
1997-11-12
Same Old Song
Overview: Odile is a business executive looking for a new, bigger apartment. Her younger sister Camille has just completed her doctoral thesis in history and is a Paris tour guide. Simon is a regular on Camille's tours because he's attracted to her. Camille has fallen for Marc, and they begin an affair. Nicolas is also looking for an apartment, since he hopes to eventually have his family join him in Paris.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-11-12
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Black Mor's Island
2004-02-11
Black Mor's Island
Overview: Kid, a 15-year-old hard laborer, steals a map that promises to reveal the location of the notorious pirate Black Mor's treasure. Together with his crew -- MacGregor, Beanpole, Taka and Jim the monkey -- Kid procures a vessel and sets out to sea.
Genres: Animation Adventure Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-02-11
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A Business of Men
1981-11-09
A Business of Men
Overview: Two friends, Commissioner Servolle and real estate developer Faguet, see their friendship tested by the investigation carried out following the murder of Faguet's wife.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-11-09
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A Christmas Tale
2008-05-16
A Christmas Tale
Overview: When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Christmastime reunion. Among them is rebellious ne'er-do-well Henri and the uptight Elizabeth. Together under the same roof for the first time in many years, their intricate, long denied resentments and yearnings emerge again.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-05-16
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The Girl from Paris
2001-09-05
The Girl from Paris
Overview: A woman in her thirties gets tired of life in Paris and decides to leave and become a farmer.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-09-05
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Kings and Queen
2004-12-22
Kings and Queen
Overview: Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her aging professor father, Louis, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. During her stay, she reaches out to her former lover, Ismaël, a viola player and father figure to Elias who has been committed against his will to a mental hospital. Ismaël, however, has his own problems to sort out.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-12-22
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Les clowns de Dieu
1987-04-22
Les clowns de Dieu
Overview: The adventures of Melies called super-eight because he is the greatest cursed cineaste and Absynthe, the crazy one, the strada of the breweries. They will meet Garniks who looks for God in the sewers and Carcasse, an anarchist touched by the bottle syndrome. It is also the initiatory journey that Absynthe, the mute, makes, of the lost word, thanks to three men.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-04-22
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Hôtel de France
1987-05-20
Hôtel de France
Overview: A French family is shown as they go through the daily routines of life. Arguing, feasting, crying, and yearning for love are just some of the human emotions encountered. The mood wavers between excessive noise to silence while those not participating in the conversations eavesdrop.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-05-20
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The Thousandth Window
1960-05-27
The Thousandth Window
Overview: An old man against the public housing project.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-05-27
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The Idol
2002-08-06
The Idol
Overview: An Australian actress forms a spiritual bond with an elderly Chinese chef who lives across from her in a Parisian tenement house.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-08-06
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The Trout
1982-09-22
The Trout
Overview: The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a naive married woman becomes the obsession of two wealthy suitors.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-09-22
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Weekend at Dunkirk
1964-12-18
Weekend at Dunkirk
Overview: In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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Deadlier Than the Male
1956-04-13
Deadlier Than the Male
Overview: In the heart of Paris, a restaurateur's mundane life is disrupted by the arrival of his ex-wife's daughter, who claims to be in need after her mother's death. After marrying her, tensions rise when she becomes involved with a young student, leading to betrayal and murder. As secrets unfold, he uncovers the truth about her past and her manipulative nature.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-04-13
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He Died with His Eyes Open
1985-10-09
He Died with His Eyes Open
Overview: Police Inspector Staniland is investigating the death of a pianist. While conducting his investigation and looking through the victim's apartment, he meets Barbara, the mistress of the murder victim. Barbara confesses to the crime, but Staniland, based on his observations and experience, does not believe her. He then sets out to find the truth.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-10-09
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La Mégère apprivoisée
1964-12-26
La Mégère apprivoisée
Overview: The swaggering Petruchio agrees to marry the spitting hellcat, Katherine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-26
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Playing 'In the Company of Men'
2003-05-15
Playing 'In the Company of Men'
Overview: A troupe of actors rehearse a play. In the play-within-the-film, an ambitious son and his distant father fight for control of an armaments firm and are pushed to eventual destruction by dangerous outside forces and traitorous aides.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-05-15
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L'avare
1974-01-01
L'avare
Overview: Harpagon, a miserly bourgeois, wishes to marry the young Mariane and marry his daughter Elise to Lord Anselme. He does not know that Cléante, his son, is in love with the young Mariane and that his daughter Elise loves a penniless young man, Valère, whom he has just hired as a steward.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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États d'âme
1986-05-28
États d'âme
Overview: In this political drama, five left-leaning friends gradually lose heart in the Socialist government elected in 1981 in France. One of the five men is a television broadcaster; the others are a teacher about to become an academic inspector, a tax man, the director of a cultural center, and a sociologist who is about to step into a ministerial position. Their interlocking lives are told in alternating vignettes over a four-year period, and the professions director Jacques Fansten has chosen for his main characters seem to be a comment on the media, education, budget or finance, the arts, and government bureaucracy under Socialist rule.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-05-28
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Flesh and Desire
1954-06-18
Flesh and Desire
Overview: Giuseppe is accused of killing his employer Matthias who is actually in a hospital with amnesia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-06-18
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La fille du magicien
1990-11-28
La fille du magicien
Overview: Lili is twenty years old, has an English mother, a magician father, a voice from elsewhere and a gift that only children know: the power of her own desire. It all starts with a summer night: that summer, Lili and Bruno will find love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-11-28
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The Secret of Sarah Tombelaine
1991-07-10
The Secret of Sarah Tombelaine
Overview: Legend has it that Archangel Michael confronted the Dragon and imprisoned him under a huge stone called today Mont Saint Michel. Winter 1991, the Mount is deserted. Unaware of the curse that keeps her there, Sarah transforms herself every night into a strange creature that feeds the dragon the dreams of sleeping men.
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-07-10
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Oui
1995-11-15
Oui
Overview: The crossroads of three characters: an old doctor with a general view of the world, a mother having difficulties in recovering her baby that she abandoned, and finally her young sister, a high school runaway in the heart of the problems of the suburbs. All three will meet around the Platonic tripartition, taken up by Paul Valéry: "To know... To be able... To want... Here is the triple key".
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-11-15
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Blaze
1991-05-26
Blaze
Overview: All of Europe was affected by the Great Depression of the 1930s, but some parts were hurt less badly than others. France, for instance, was relatively prosperous. In this grim drama, a sturdy Polish boxer and his family have settled into a mining town in northern France because that's where the work is. Like European "guest workers" in the 1990s, the Polish immigrants then were frequently treated badly by the locals. In this drama, the romantic aspirations of the boxer's son are thwarted by the concerted efforts of the local men and his own family's preference that he marry another Polish girl. After his romance fails, the son becomes a union activist and sacrifices a great deal to try to gain higher wages for the miners, but the contract he works out is reneged on by the duplicitous owners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-05-26
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Love Comedy
1989-10-31
Love Comedy
Overview: According to the book Journal Particulier de Paul Léautaud, the love story that was born between him and Marie D., whom he met at the Mercure de France in 1922, on the occasion of an article she wrote to appear.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-10-31
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Les Précieuses Ridicules
1969-03-15
Les Précieuses Ridicules
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-03-15
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I Have You Under My Skin
1990-07-23
I Have You Under My Skin
Overview: Jeanne is a woman who is driven by her very active conscience. She attempts to assuage her idealistic bent by trying out life as a nun, but this doesn't work out. After she leaves the convent, she takes a job at a factory, where the callousness of management spurs her to become a labor activist. Her efforts are marked by great persistence and fervor, but she lacks any kind of diplomacy or persuasiveness, and as the years progress, she manages to alienate everyone in her life. By the end of the film, there is only one way that she can see to resolve the horrible situation she finds herself in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-07-23
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D'Artagnan's Daughter
1994-08-24
D'Artagnan's Daughter
Overview: It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's taken sanctuary and kill both the fugitive and the Mother Superior, they little realise that one of the novices is the spirited daughter of retired musketeer D'Artagnan.
Genres: Adventure Action Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-08-24
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À chacun son tour
1997-12-19
À chacun son tour
Overview: A German police commissioner investigates the murders of several Tour de France yellow jerseys.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-12-19
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Un fil à la patte
1970-12-26
Un fil à la patte
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-12-26
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Love Descends from the Sky
1957-04-03
Love Descends from the Sky
Overview: Pau is home to the famous "Red Berets". Four of them have forged close friendships: Dominique, a Corsican with the rank of master sergeant; Julien, a peasant; Dédé, a wild Parisian; Jean, a shy provincial. On free evenings, the four friends meet in a bar where Dominique is interested in the waitress and Dédé is in love with Paulette, the owner's daughter. One day, a car breakdown brings Jean into contact with a young girl from Paris: Brigitte. But Brigitte leaves again and Jean can't stop thinking about her. Because of their good behavior, the battalion to which the four men belong is chosen to represent their arm at the July 14th parade in Paris. In the capital, each of them tries to find their loved ones.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-04-03
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Marriage of Figaro
1959-11-04
Marriage of Figaro
Overview: It's the day of Figaro's marriage to Susanna, but first he must help the Countess divert the Count's attention away from Susanna and back to her, while arranging the betrothal of Cherubino and Barbarina.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-11-04
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Une preuve d'amour
2003-02-01
Une preuve d'amour
Overview: A beautiful, cultured Parisian nurse working in a backwards French region, ends up falling in love with a seemingly crass farmer. She finds out that he actually is very intelligent, and she tries to help him to study again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-02-01
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Plein fer
1990-09-26
Plein fer
Overview: The Italians have bocce ball, and the French have a similar game, boules. This is played (generally in the southern part of the country) with steel balls on a packed-earth court. While these games have a bucolic, countrified and even genteel air about them, competition and betting are fierce. In this sports/crime thriller, a young man whose father was killed for violating the unspoken roles of the game in professional competition trains with his grandfather to become a champion boules player just like his father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-09-26
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Doctor Lerne, Subgod
1983-12-28
Doctor Lerne, Subgod
Overview: A mad scientist, Dr. Lerne, performs organ transplants not only between humans and animals, but also with plants and even machines ...
Genres: TV Movie Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-12-28
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Zone libre
2007-01-16
Zone libre
Overview: In 1942, the southern part of France is not yet occupied by the Nazis, but administrated by the collaborating French government in Vichy. A Parisian Jewish family flees to this "Free Zone" in Charente, where an old farmer gives them shelter. But when the Germans invade the Free Zone, their lives are at stake again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-16
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Baxter
1989-01-18
Baxter
Overview: A white Bull Terrier named Baxter is given to an elderly woman by her daughter. As time passes, the dog develops aggressive and murderous behavior in order to be adopted by another family.
Genres: Horror Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-01-18
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L'Argent
1988-10-18
L'Argent
Overview: Saccard, ready to use all means, however immoral or illegal, tries to gain back the fortune he lost three years ago. All involving business and the exchange market. He has a loyal accomplice, an indifferent son, maybe-friends, partners and investors and of course, enemies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-10-18
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Mischka
2002-02-20
Mischka
Overview: An old man in dressing gown and slippers is abandoned by his family on an area of highway while on vacation. He later finds himself in a hospital where a nurse, Gégène, calls him Mischka.
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-02-20
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Feu la mère de madame
1968-08-05
Feu la mère de madame
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-08-05
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Malady of Love
1987-09-30
Malady of Love
Overview: Two physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic hairdresser. First, she is with Raoul, the older one; then passion for Clément, the younger doctor, takes over. Raoul fights back, playing on Clément's guilt and Juliette's lack of self-assurance; then, Clément makes his case to Juliette, abandons his fiancée, and takes her to the provinces where he sets up practice and asks her to have a baby. She panics and abruptly leaves Clément, taking up with Raoul again. When she contracts Hodgkin's disease and the treatment does no good, Raoul believes she has the malady of love. Is there a cure?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-09-30
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L'Huissier
1991-01-03
L'Huissier
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-01-03
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La Troupe du Roy : Hommage à Molière
1973-02-17
La Troupe du Roy : Hommage à Molière
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-02-17
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Les trois soeurs
1980-10-03
Les trois soeurs
Overview: Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-10-03
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George Dandin
1973-01-06
George Dandin
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-01-06
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War of the Maidens
1984-07-04
War of the Maidens
Overview: A film about the rebellion that took place in the French department of Ariège from 1829 to 1832, and continued in a less intense fashion until 1872.
Genres: War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-07-04
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Cherokee
1991-08-07
Cherokee
Overview: In this detective and crime comedy, the heir to a large fortune is an unknown, and nobody knows him or where he can be found. An occasional musician, Fred plans to pass himself off as that man. It's a goofy idea, but maybe it will work. However, before he can set up the con properly, he learns that his loser of a brother has, inexplicably, just gotten his first job in years as one of the detectives who is searching for the heir. At one time, the two brothers played together in an amateur rock band, but as a result of a heated disagreement about how to play the Ray Noble standard "Cherokee", the two haven't spoken in years. It's going to take a lot of persuading to pull this scam off.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-08-07
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La Double Inconstance
1982-01-22
La Double Inconstance
Overview: A staging of Marivaux's play "The Double Inconstancy" by Jean-Luc Boutté.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-22
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Le Légataire universel - Jean-Paul Roussillon
1975-06-07
Le Légataire universel - Jean-Paul Roussillon
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-06-07
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