André Thorent
Biography: André Thorent was born on May 28, 1922 in Salies-du-Salat, Haute-Garonne, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Le Samouraï (1967), Allô police (1966) and Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978). He died on March 27, 2015 in Montreuil, Seine-Saint-Denis, France.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 28, 1922
Deathday: March 27, 2015
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« Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur
1970-07-20
« Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-07-20
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Cloportes
1965-10-01
Cloportes
Overview: Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years. When he's released, he's out for revenge.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-10-01
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Life Upside Down
1964-09-01
Life Upside Down
Overview: A Paris real estate developer feels compelled to withdraw from his seemingly perfect life into a world of his own. Is the man going insane? By conventional standards, maybe, but it's clear that the life he's fleeing is madder still from his point of view, and since that point of view is unfailingly witty and astute, we even come to accept his delusions as more "real" than reality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-09-01
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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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State of Grace
1986-12-24
State of Grace
Overview: She is Florence Vannier-Buchet. Married to Protestant banker Jean-Marc Buchet. Florence leads a major sporting goods company with happiness and firmness. He is Antoine Lombard, Professor, son of a teacher, he is Secretary of State at the Universities. He divides his time between his ministerial activity and his riding in the working class suburb of Chartres. An elected member of the "pink wave". They met during a stormy assembly of the CNPF. The action takes place in 1983. Florence is engaged in a daring industrial and financial operation, while Antoine is putting the finishing touches to a bill for the renovation of Higher Education. Everything separates them and yet they do not manage to live separated from each other ...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-12-24
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Un amour de jeunesse
1977-07-02
Un amour de jeunesse
Overview: Normandy 1850. A stagecoach drives along a road in the middle of the countryside. Inside, the passengers are all asleep except two men who are talking. Suddenly the coach stops: an axle has just broken. When one of the two men leans out of the window to see what is going on, his gaze lingers on the front a provincial abode, which seems to upset him. He soon starts remembering facts that took place forty years earlier...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-07-02
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Madame Bovary
1991-04-03
Madame Bovary
Overview: Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and pursues scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around her are endangered.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-04-03
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Make Room for Tomorrow
1979-06-06
Make Room for Tomorrow
Overview: Four generations of Oppenheim men gather in Paris for Isaac's 90th birthday. He's "Romeo," still a lady's man, waiting to hear from a woman to whom he has proposed, threatening suicide if she says no. They gather at Isaac's grandson's, Ben, who lives with Peggy and their son Mathias who's 10. Joining them, from Israel, is Isaac's son Elie. Against a backdrop of Elie's attempts to call his ex-wife, Ben and Peggy's marital difficulties, Mathias's budding sexuality, everyone's love of chess and practical jokes, Ben's house (shifting dangerously on its foundation), and the twentieth-century struggles of the Jews, the film explores their relationships and Isaac's aging.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-06-06
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By the Pricking of My Thumbs
2005-04-13
By the Pricking of My Thumbs
Overview: The Beresfords investigate mysterious deaths at an old people's home.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-04-13
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Twist Again in Moscow
1986-10-22
Twist Again in Moscow
Overview: Igor, who manages a fancy hotel and is on the take, has to juggle several problems at once. He has a two-hour window to get his ill-got gain out of the hotel, he must misdirect and obstruct the inquiries of a Party auditor who suspects that all is not above board, and he must keep out of sight and out of trouble his interloping and troublesome young brother-in-law, who arrives unannounced with barrels of rotten herring.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-10-22
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Paganini
1990-05-25
Paganini
Overview: Legendary "devil violinist" Niccolo Paganini sets all of 19th century Europe into frenzy.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-05-25
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Head Against the Wall
1959-03-20
Head Against the Wall
Overview: An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-20
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Day Off
2001-03-28
Day Off
Overview: Wednesday is the day when children are not in school and stay at home. It is also the day when the parents are not there. In Nantes, in the spring, twenty or so carefree and boisterous kids between the ages of three and eleven take advantage of this day to make their parents go crazy. Emma, 9 years old and naturally romantic, decides that Roland, the little boy she met in the street, is unhappy and persuades her friends to adopt him. Victoria spends the day with Martin Socoa, an often distant father whom she learns to love. There are also Muriel, Bruno, Colette and Henri who take off and create panic in their parents' home, while Marylin lives the founding drama of her childhood with a mother of an unreal sweetness. Throughout these little stories, we realize that the world of children has its own logic, totally different from that of adults.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-28
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Song of Autumn
1983-01-01
Song of Autumn
Overview: Chants d’Automne (Song of Autumn), is a story of daily life on a colonial farm, at the start of the war of liberation in Algeria, describing individual and group behavior in this context. An unthinkable, even dangerous, romantic relationship, born in this context between Catherine, daughter of a settler, and Abdelmalek, son of a blacksmith. Managing his vast property in a feudal manner, Monsieur Marcel whose only ambition is his personal enrichment to the detriment of the community. Everyone fears his authority except his daughter Catherine, a student in France, who returns home during the holidays. She does not stop herself from expressing to him her ideas of justice which go against family and colonial practices. Catherine and Abdelmalek's romance makes relationships increasingly strained, but the call for freedom will be stronger than a woman's love.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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Julie la rousse
1959-08-12
Julie la rousse
Overview: The artist Edouard Lavigne falls in love with a young girl but must quickly leave her because her parents are opposed to this relationship. Edourd's son will go in search of this woman and will thereby meet her daughter. About a love story that continues from one generation to the next.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-08-12
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La Demoiselle de Coeur
1963-01-01
La Demoiselle de Coeur
Overview: The kings of the card game, tired of serving for the amusement of men, decide to participate in the lives of humans and behave like them.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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Be Beautiful and Shut Up
1958-05-07
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
Overview: A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up with a gang of jewel smugglers, and decides on a life of crime. However, she falls for and marries a policeman, putting a crimp in her criminal career.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-05-07
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So Young a Peace
1965-01-02
So Young a Peace
Overview: The first fictional feature film produced in Algeria after independence, this film addresses one of the most worrying problems: that of childhood. Children, freedom regained, do not yet know how to play “at peace”, they naturally play “at war”.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1965-01-02
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A Cloud in the Teeth
1974-05-01
A Cloud in the Teeth
Overview: Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
1973-10-24
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Overview: Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-24
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On n'arrête pas le printemps
1972-03-22
On n'arrête pas le printemps
Overview: Four high school students in Paris question the education system and try to provoke a dialogue with their teachers. A portrait of the French youth after 1968.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-03-22
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Nickel and Dime
2003-06-25
Nickel and Dime
Overview: Jacques is coming home after a long stretch behind bars. The boys are waiting, especially hi longtime friend Francis and new kid on the block Didier. They have a job lined up. but Jacques wants out of the life, Francis would rather be on the stage and wannabe mobster Didier has loser written all over him. Looks like someone's heading for a fall.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-06-25
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The Man with Connections
1970-04-15
The Man with Connections
Overview: Following "The Two of Us", Claude is now 21 years old. Content with his life, he has a girlfriend Tania and he aspires to become an actor. When he receives his draft notice, a friend convinces Claude he can get out of military service with his connections in Paris. When the connections fall through, Claude is sent for basic training outside Paris before being shipped off to Algeria. His stops in Morocco and Algeria are uneventful as far as military action goes. He returns home with few bad memories of his army life ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-04-15
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Six personnages en quête d'auteur
1964-01-01
Six personnages en quête d'auteur
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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Raging Fists
1975-02-12
Raging Fists
Overview: Tony and Nanar, two teenagers who met in reform school, are part of a gang of idle, penniless youngsters from the Paris suburbs. Together, they go to dances and plan mischief. The muse of the gang, B.B. La Brune, organizes leisure activities when she's not up to no good. Unemployed and penniless, they all dream of consumption and possession. Until the day a fight turns ugly: Tony, trying to reason with Nanar, pulls the trigger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-02-12
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Le Samouraï
1967-10-25
Le Samouraï
Overview: After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-10-25
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December
1973-01-02
December
Overview: In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most violent methods to make the prisoners speak. The use of torture poses a conscience problem for a French officer. Playing shot-reverse-shot, between the tortured and his torturer, in a suffocating camera, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina approaches torture by drawing inspiration from the story of his father, who died of abuse.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-01-02
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L'Amour des 4 colonels
1969-12-24
L'Amour des 4 colonels
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-24
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Appelez-moi maître
1977-05-26
Appelez-moi maître
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-05-26
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Fric-Frac
1971-10-14
Fric-Frac
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-10-14
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Les coucous
1978-10-27
Les coucous
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-10-27
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The Brigade
1975-05-07
The Brigade
Overview: This film explores the experiences of some of the members of an anti-Nazi resistance group in France composed mostly of Polish immigrants, known as "La Brigade." Many of them also fought for the leftist cause during the Spanish Civil War, and for them the resistance is simply a continuation of their prior activities. After the war, some of them continue to have a "resistance" mind-set. One of the stories concerns a love relationship between a Polish boy and a French girl who are thrown together because of their war efforts. After the war, they get together and reminisce.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-05-07
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Douze hommes en colère
2010-01-05
Douze hommes en colère
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-01-05
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The Sicilian Clan
1969-12-05
The Sicilian Clan
Overview: An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-05
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Nightmare
1980-12-24
Nightmare
Overview: A troubled young woman who lives alone in a rundown house meanders around and one day reveals a hidden talent when she goes into a bar, plays magnificently at the piano, and leaves as mysteriously as she came. Meanwhile, an unidentified man is on her trail and eventually tracks her down to the bar she had visited. As the dragnet around her closes in, it becomes apparent that the young woman's stepmother is behind the effort to locate her. But questions over why she is hiding out and what she is hiding from begin to take on more importance as the history of the young woman starts to surface.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-12-24
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Sachs' Disease
1999-09-22
Sachs' Disease
Overview: Dr. Bruno Sachs, the only medical practitioner in a small French town, seems on the surface to be compassionate and dedicated. However, in private he is not happy in his work and does not like most of his patients. Here he meets Pauline Kasser, a young woman, and they are attracted to each other...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-09-22
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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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Catherine de Médicis
1989-04-18
Catherine de Médicis
Overview: This film, in two parts, is considered a cultural work admirably embodied by Alice Sapritch. The TV movie focuses on the period of the late 16th century in France, ravaged by religious wars, and highlights the efforts of Catherine de Medici to defend the throne of her sons and maintain the unity of the kingdom. The role of Catherine de Medici in this TV movie is an interpretation that gives more humanity to this historical figure often presented in a negative light in history.
Genres: History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-04-18
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Dialogues des Carmélites
1984-02-15
Dialogues des Carmélites
Overview: The story of a group of nuns executed during the French Revolution for refusing to renounce their vows.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-02-15
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Manon Roland
1989-12-28
Manon Roland
Overview: The story of revolutionary woman Manon Roland.
Genres: History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-12-28
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