Pierre Semmler
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: April 19, 1943
Deathday: September 09, 2011
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The Island of Thirty Coffins
1979-09-21
The Island of Thirty Coffins
Overview: The story takes place in 1917. Véronique is a young woman of 35 years, nurse at the military hospital of Besançon. She suddenly learns of the murder of her husband, the mysterious Count Vorski, whom she has not seen for fourteen years. Her research will also lead her to the track of her father and son whom she believed to have died in a shipwreck, already a long time ago. From clue to clue, here we are in Brittany, on this island with a name so ill-fitting... Brutal deaths, enigmatic words written... by whom? A frightening prophecy, the superstitious terror of the island's inhabitants, and suddenly, Veronica d'Hergemont can no longer leave this island. She's stuck alone. Almost alone...
Genres: Adventure Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-09-21
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A Simple Story
1978-11-22
A Simple Story
Overview: A middle-aged woman leaves her partner and drifts back to her ex-husband, while the lives of her middle class friends intersect with her own.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-11-22
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Vera Brühne
2001-01-24
Vera Brühne
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2001-01-24
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The Blood of Others
1984-08-25
The Blood of Others
Overview: In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-25
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Le Caviar rouge
1986-01-08
Le Caviar rouge
Overview: Russian spy boss in Geneva spends a night interrogating two spies to see who is a traitor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-08
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The Hunt for the Hidden Relic
2002-12-05
The Hunt for the Hidden Relic
Overview: Steffen Vogt, aged around 25, is helping out at a German archeological excavation in Israel when he finds a 2,000-year-old skeleton holding the instructions for a video camera dating from the year 2003. The bones also show traces of the present day. His theory of a time-traveler who made a video of Jesus is laughed at by everyone, however, including Sharon, an attractive Israeli woman he adores. Although no one appears to believe him, his find certainly seems to have generated interest: Steffen is attacked shortly afterwards in his hotel room by strange men; then he discovers that the German embassy and the secret service are after him; and when his friend Dan is murdered, he goes into hiding.
Genres: Adventure Science Fiction Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2002-12-05
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Cargo
2009-09-24
Cargo
Overview: The story of CARGO takes place on rusty space-freighter KASSANDRA on its way to Station 42. The young medic LAURA is the only one awake on board while the rest of the crew lies frozen in hibernation sleep. In 4 months will Laura's shift be over.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2009-09-24
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Hard Off
1999-05-17
Hard Off
Overview: This French romantic comedy-drama concerns Claude Langmann, a middle-aged auctioneer, who is in a loving marriage with his second wife of 15 years. Though he is deeply in love with his wife and has remained faithful to her, he finds himself unable to perform in bed. His wife says she is satisfied with Claude's love and tenderness, but he visits a sex specialist anyway. There he learns of Viagra, which is not yet approved in France, though it is available in Switzerland over the counter. Soon Claude is on his way to Geneva, and eager to prove his manhood, tries to bed Agnes, his very attractive and very available assistant. His daughter, who also comes along for the trip, interferes with her own problems.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-05-17
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The Hostage Tower
1980-09-19
The Hostage Tower
Overview: A flamboyant master criminal and several specialists stage an audacious scheme to capture the Eiffel Tower and hold as hostage one of its visitors, the U.S. President's mother, while the head of a UN security force tries to stop them.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-19
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L'Objectif
1986-05-14
L'Objectif
Overview: A man armed with a sniper rifle searches for his target. The focus moves back and forth between an electoral meeting and a room where a couple of undoubtedly adulterous lovers are frolicking. So what is the “purpose” of the man behind the “lens”? And who is he: a licensed killer or a jealous husband? Suspense...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: xx
Release Date: 1986-05-14
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A Man of My Measure
1983-01-16
A Man of My Measure
Overview: A tall and gangly Victoire arrives in Paris looking for the ideal French lover -- and because she stands well above many of her preceding romantic partners, that is an added dimension to consider. As she finds and drops a series of possibilities -- a free-wheeling sociologist, an up-tight intellectual, and a dentist fixated on sports -- she begins to wonder if this simple quest may turn out to be an impossibility after all.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-16
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Stella
1983-07-13
Stella
Overview: During the Second World War, Yvon joins the Gestapo to save his Jewish girlfriend, Stella, from deportation. When France is liberated, he has to answer for his past. Hunted, he decides to escape to Spain, but Stella refuses to go with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-07-13
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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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Spital in Angst
2003-12-02
Spital in Angst
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Genres: Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2003-12-02
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Luftpiraten - 113 Passagiere in Todesangst
2000-12-03
Luftpiraten - 113 Passagiere in Todesangst
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Genres: Action
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2000-12-03
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The Vultures
1984-03-28
The Vultures
Overview: April 5, 1943: a battalion of the Foreign Legion arrives in El Ksour, Tunisia, to escort a fortune in gold bars to the home front. A German ambush awaits, and all but four die. Thanks to the street smarts of Sergeant Augagneur, the Legionnaires successfully counter attack. The bank manager and his seductive wife arrive, and so does a German lieutenant, whom the French arrest. Augagneur wants to steal the gold; warrant officer Mahuzard wants to do his duty. A series of alliances form and break apart, the group dwindles in number, and the gold heads south toward Betahoua. But in whose possession?
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-03-28
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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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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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The Secret Wife
1986-09-17
The Secret Wife
Overview: It was during one of his missions in Norway that Antoine learned of his wife's death. He leaves his experimental submarine and returns to Paris. Helene was found in the Seine and had taken barbiturates. Even though he had not been with Hélène for six years, he knew her well enough to believe that she was incapable of committing suicide. So who and why?
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-09-17
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The Unsewing Machine
1986-05-07
The Unsewing Machine
Overview: The insane Doctor Enger is obsessed with his plan to build a hospital to cure blind children, and goes on a killing and kidnapping spree with the police in pursuit.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-05-07
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Plus beau que moi tu meurs
1982-11-10
Plus beau que moi tu meurs
Overview: Aldo and Marco are twins. Marco, a priest by trade, has always been an object of pride for his mother, while Aldo has already spent six periods in prison. Always on the lookout for money and pretty girls, he lets himself be hijacked by crazy, often dishonest operations, which fail most of the time. One day, he is forced to flee to Tunisia, dressed as a priest and posing as Marco. There he meets up with Prosper, a childhood friend, whom he lures into his race for millions and beautiful summer girls. Marco, delegated by the Paris police, arrives in Tunisia to limit the damage, but only makes it worse. Once again, Aldo has to disappear into the wilderness for a while and make himself forgotten...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-11-10
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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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Le jeu du renard
1990-06-06
Le jeu du renard
Overview: Tania, a young actress, puts everything at stake for her starring role in Dotez's play. But Dotez, blocked and hostile to Tania, only frees himself as the rehearsals progress, while his actress is exhausted in her daily life, divided between Yan, her lover, and Lila, his little daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-06-06
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Ace of Aces
1982-10-27
Ace of Aces
Overview: In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution, he risks his one shot at Olympic glory to save Simon and his family, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I, by an adventurous escape to Switzerland, Nazi troops on their heals and braving impossible odds in roller coaster-style.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-10-27
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Stray Bullets
1983-04-13
Stray Bullets
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-13
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The Red Shade
1981-10-28
The Red Shade
Overview: The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communist factions during the Civil War in Spain. It is the time of Stalin's iron rule in the USSR, and the two agents are suddenly called to Moscow by the KGB. Knowing that they are in trouble for no fault of their own, fear drives one of them to suicide while the other gets his lover and her child and begins a run for his life, knowing that the KGB will never let him go free.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-10-28
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Le divorcement
1979-08-22
Le divorcement
Overview: In this rambling comic tale about a man and a wife, with four children, who calmly announce to the children that they want to divorce one another, it is impossible to tell who is dissatisfied with whom about what. They had seemed to be a perfect couple. Their flabbergasted children have mixed feelings, and the most difficult thing about the divorce, besides understanding why it is taking place at all, is deciding what will happen with the couple's numerous pets.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-08-22
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Drummer-Crab
1977-11-09
Drummer-Crab
Overview: "Le Crabe Tambour" ("Drummer Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-11-09
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