Patrick Dewaere
Biography: Patrick Dewaere was a French film actor. Born in Saint-Brieuc, Côtes-d'Armor, he was the son of French actress Mado Maurin. Actor from a young age, and his career lasted more than 21 years, until his suicide in Paris, in 1982.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 26, 1947
Deathday: July 16, 1982
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A Thousand Billion Dollars
1982-02-09
A Thousand Billion Dollars
Overview: A young journalist uncovers an assassination disguised as a suicide, linked to an American multinational seeking to dominate French industries. Determined to expose the truth, he races against time to gather evidence before more lives—and his own—are at stake.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-02-09
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Going Places
1974-03-20
Going Places
Overview: Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeoisie holds dear, whether it’s cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She’s on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-20
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Catherine & Co.
1975-10-29
Catherine & Co.
Overview: Catherine, a young British sexworker living in Paris, decides to start her own "company" after learning the basics of big businesscom from her clients. She encounters both interest and setbacks in her search for investors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-29
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Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
1978-01-11
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Overview: Solange is seriously depressed, and her kindhearted husband, Raoul, makes it his mission to cure her doldrums. After many failed attempts to cheer her up, Raoul hits upon a possible solution: find his wife a lover. Unfortunately, his choice, Stéphane, proves to be just as ineffectual in restoring her flagging spirits. In the end, the gorgeous Solange finds her own, highly problematic tonic to her troubles in the form of a 13-year-old boy.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-01-11
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Hothead
1979-02-14
Hothead
Overview: François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-02-14
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The Married Couple of the Year Two
1971-04-07
The Married Couple of the Year Two
Overview: Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others trying to woo her his own interest is rekindled.
Genres: Adventure Comedy History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-07
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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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Beau Pere
1981-09-15
Beau Pere
Overview: Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-09-15
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Victory March
1976-03-12
Victory March
Overview: The drawbacks and difficulties of military life are explored in this film. Paolo Passeri is a college graduate, somewhat spoiled, somewhat effete, who finds himself in an officer training program under the stern martinet, Captain Asciutto. He gradually becomes acclimated to the military mind-set, and when the Captain's wife decides to take a romantic interest in him, he does not report her dangerous peculiarities to anyone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-12
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A Bad Son
1980-10-14
A Bad Son
Overview: Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is at his father's apartment.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-10-14
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The Bishop's Bedroom
1977-03-18
The Bishop's Bedroom
Overview: Mario, a rich and eccentric war hero befriends Marco, a loner with a sailboat, and takes him home to meet his estranged wife Cleofe and sexually repressed sister in law Matilde. Mario confesses his love for Matilde and so ensues a love triangle.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-03-18
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Serie Noire
1979-04-25
Serie Noire
Overview: Franck Poupart is a slightly neurotic door-to-door salesman in a sinister part of Paris' suburbs. He meets Mona, a teenager, who's been made a prostitute by her own aunt. Franck would like to change his life and also save Mona from her aunt. Murder is the only solution.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-04-25
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Paradise for All
1982-08-25
Paradise for All
Overview: Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain Durieux. This is great success, everybody's happy except may be Alain's wife, Jeanne, who's worrying about the changes in Alain's personality. Other patients use the treatment with similar successes, and Valois's happy about it. But the monkeys are changing: non-cured ones are made mad by the over-stability and stereotyped behaviour of the cured ones. So are the humans. When Valois realises he can't stop the process, he decides to "flash" himself.
Genres: Drama Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-08-25
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Plucking the Daisy
1956-07-25
Plucking the Daisy
Overview: Due to an urgent need of money, aspiring writer Agnes participates in an amateur striptease contest. Her new boyfriend, Daniel, who is a reporter by profession, covers the contest for his magazine.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-07-25
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Can Dialectics Break Bricks?
1973-03-08
Can Dialectics Break Bricks?
Overview: A Hong Kong martial arts movie redubbed by situationist René Viénet. The narrative focuses on a conflict between proletarians and bureaucrats within state capitalism. The proletarians enlist their grasp of dialectics in the fight against their oppressors, while the bureaucrats defend themselves using a combination of co-optation and violence.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-08
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The Key Is in the Door
1978-12-13
The Key Is in the Door
Overview: Marie (Annie Girardot) teaches high school and has a 16-year-old daughter in her class. Divorced some years previously, she has some vague egalitarian notions about friendship with her students and leaves her door open to them. One of her protégés is found beaten up just outside her door, and an emergency physician comes by to treat her. When her daughter starts seeing someone she doesn't much like, and she begins having a brief affair (her first since the divorce) with the ER doctor, she begins to reconsider her policy.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-13
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The Best Way to Walk
1976-03-03
The Best Way to Walk
Overview: In 1960, Marc and Philippe are counselors at a summer camp in the French countryside. One night, Marc finds Philippe dressed and made up as a woman, and from now on, he will keep on humiliating Philippe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-03
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F as in Fairbanks
1976-05-05
F as in Fairbanks
Overview: André Fragman, nicknamed "Fairbanks" after his childhood idol by his film projectionist father, returns home from military service. He meets and falls in love with Marie, an aspiring actress who is rehearsing for a stage production of 'Alice in Wonderland'. All his attempts to find a job and a way out end up in failure, his friends Étienne and Jean-Pierre are powerless to help him, and the dreamy yet desperate hero loses his mind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-05-05
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Traffic Jam
1979-01-12
Traffic Jam
Overview: A tremendous congestion hits the Rome highway ring. The biggest traffic jam ever seen lasts more than 36 hours. At the beginning the people blocked in their cars react normally. But as more time passes, the more we witness personal dramas, hysteric reactions and other grotesque situations. All the episodes are linked as if in a single plot. Cars and their hosts are a microcosm of stories part of a larger universe: the congestion.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-01-12
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Lily aime-moi
1975-04-30
Lily aime-moi
Overview: Everything starts when a journalist François decides to investigate the world of working class people. He gets into the lives of Claude, a worker and his wife Lily who has left him.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-04-30
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Psy
1981-02-04
Psy
Overview: Marc runs a psychotherapy course at a large country house belonging to his wife Colette. His clients are depressed and his job is to cure them of their neuroses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-02-04
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Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
1977-01-12
Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
Overview: Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re-adapt the notion of justice to our changing times. His methods are not agreeable to every one. Criticism and pressure are brought to bear upon him but he is aware of his value, professionally, and refuses to make any concessions. He follows an unwavering course. He uses dynamic methods and takes uncustomary initiatives. He behaves like a crusader, a battler, whence the nickname given him by the reporters : the sheriff.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-01-12
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No Problem!
1975-06-18
No Problem!
Overview: A man with a gunshot wound in the stomach comes to first house and collapses in Anita's apartment. A minute later he dies and the girl horrified by what happened, must look for somebody who would help her get rid of the corpse...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-06-18
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Hotel America
1981-12-02
Hotel America
Overview: Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the lethargic Gilles, a young man who lives for free at his mother's hotel. Gilles pursues Helene romantically, and she eventually softens up. Gilles, however, is also devoted to Bernard, a petty crook who revels in mugging gay men. All three struggle with relationships that seem to be going nowhere.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-12-02
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The French Detective
1975-12-10
The French Detective
Overview: When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning from his superiors. When he embarrasses Lardatte while disarming a hostage (the dead volunteer's father), Verjeat is told he's being transferred within a week. He speeds up his hunt for the goon and, with Lefévre, one of his young detectives, he engineers a complicated scheme to buy more time before the transfer. How should Verjeat play out his values of honor and duty?
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-10
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Amazing Monsieur Fabre
1951-09-26
Amazing Monsieur Fabre
Overview: It centres on the life of the entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre and his total devotion to studying insect behavior, travelling from Avignon to Paris, from Paris to his death in Sérignan. He is honoured by the French president Raymond Poincaré and his patience, obstinacy and knowledge are also recognised by Napoleon III, the publisher Charles Delagrave and the philosopher John Stuart Mill. They reach their climax in his book, Souvenirs entomologiques.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-09-26
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Les Pieds dans la mayonnaise : Les Irrévérencieux des années 70
2022-02-26
Les Pieds dans la mayonnaise : Les Irrévérencieux des années 70
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-02-26
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The Happy Road
1957-06-20
The Happy Road
Overview: Two children run away from a Swiss boarding school and set out for Paris, with their frantic parents in hot pursuit.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1957-06-20
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Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
2022-05-17
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero
Overview: The actress Lola Dewaere recounts the film career and traumatic life of celebrated actor Patrick Dewaere, the father she never knew, under the watchful eye of director Alexandre Moix.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-05-17
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Les matous sont romantiques
1981-10-20
Les matous sont romantiques
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-10-20
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Heat of Desire
1981-04-29
Heat of Desire
Overview: In France in the near future, revolt and chaos erupt. A right-wing politician, Philippe Muphand, is set to take control when his lady friend Caroline walks out, announcing she will take up with the first fool she sees. The fool is Serge Laine, a professor and author of the prize-winning "Le voyage qui ne finit pas," headed to the train station for tickets to Barcelona where he and his wife will enjoy a second honeymoon and he will lecture at the university. Caroline seduces Serge, and he soon abandons wife, family, job, and honesty to embrace Caroline, the romanticism of Jack London, and murder.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-04-29
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The Deadly Trap
1971-06-09
The Deadly Trap
Overview: An industrial espionage group calls on a retired spy living with his wife and children in Paris.
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-06-09
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Paco the Infallible
1979-10-03
Paco the Infallible
Overview: In Madrid of the 20's, many women were hired as wet nurses for middle class families. Milk is paid very well, so women are turning to the honest services of Paco, glazier by trade, which completes his monthly salary getting pregnant the clients who pay for it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-10-03
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Mimi Pinson
1958-07-22
Mimi Pinson
Overview: Dany Robin plays the title character in the French comedy Mimi Pinson. The plot is strictly formula stuff, with Mimi being thwarted on all sides by those who have designs on her money and her virtue. Happily, our heroine triumphs over her foes and predators, finding true romance in the arms of Raymond Pellegrin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-07-22
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022-01-07
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Overview: In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three new public channels but autonomous and competing. It is a race for the audience which is engaged then, and from now on the channels will make the war! This competition will give birth to a real golden age for television programs, with variety shows in the forefront. The stars of the song are going to invade the living rooms of the French for their biggest pleasure. This unedited documentary tells the story of the metamorphosis of this television of the early 1970s, between freedom of tone, scandals, political intrigues and programs that have become mythical.
Genres: History Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-01-07
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Au long de rivière Fango
1975-01-22
Au long de rivière Fango
Overview: Jérémie and Bild, two riders, arrive in a community that lives along the river Fango. It was Mathilde who founded her, a woman who left husband and baby to flee urban society. All live in happiness away from the world, without thinking either of work or money. Bild believes he is the child abandoned by Mathilde, while Jeremiah is attracted to his daughter, Maurine. When Bild dies, Jeremiah learns that he is the son of Matilda and that consequently Maurine is his sister. He takes to flight ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-22
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André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
2019-04-03
André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
Overview: A walk through the career of French filmmaker André Téchiné, from his own point of view and that of those who worked with him: Catherine Deneuve, Daniel Auteuil, Emmanuelle Béart, Juliette Binoche and Sandrine Kiberlain, among others.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-04-03
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Les Hauts de Hurlevent - 2ème partie
1968-01-13
Les Hauts de Hurlevent - 2ème partie
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-01-13
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Les Hauts de Hurlevent - 1ère partie
1968-01-06
Les Hauts de Hurlevent - 1ère partie
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-01-06
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La Vie sentimentale de Georges le tueur
1972-01-17
La Vie sentimentale de Georges le tueur
Overview: A hit man fails his contracts because of a young runner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-01-17
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Themroc
1973-02-22
Themroc
Overview: Themroc, a bachelor house painter living at home with his mother, leads a sad and colorless life. One day, after a run-in with his boss, he rebels. He wrecks his apartment, rejects every facet of bourgeois life, and begins acting like an urban, modern-day Neanderthal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-02-22
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