Jean-Pierre Zola
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: February 05, 1916
Deathday: January 18, 1979
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Mon Oncle
1958-05-10
Mon Oncle
Overview: Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-05-10
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The Train
1964-09-24
The Train
Overview: As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-24
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Oh Jonathan – oh Jonathan!
1973-05-09
Oh Jonathan – oh Jonathan!
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-05-09
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Strip-Tease
1963-05-29
Strip-Tease
Overview: Strip-tease has a pleasing Paris setting and a convincing strip club atmosphere, where a roster of exotic dancers do their thing. Making the club atmosphere work is the animated Dany Saval, as a charming gossip and outspoken cheerleader for the art of the strip-tease. Berthe encourages Ariane to loosen up and enjoy what she's doing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-29
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The Big Risk
1960-03-23
The Big Risk
Overview: Two men pull off a daring daylight payroll heist in Milan, making a fast getaway. One is returning to France after years in hiding, needing money to start fresh with his family.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-03-23
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An Almost Perfect Affair
1979-04-27
An Almost Perfect Affair
Overview: An idealistic first-time director lives for his art — until he meets a wife of an Italian producer at the Cannes Film Festival. A passionate affair begins, but the couple's romance is tested as they face the temptations of fame and fortune.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-27
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The Stranger
1967-10-14
The Stranger
Overview: Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienation results in sudden, inexplicable bursts of violence, culminating in murder.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1967-10-14
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Carom Shots
1963-05-17
Carom Shots
Overview: Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he wants, he begins plotting the demise of the head of the company. The company itself specializes in holiday travel and unscrupulously brutalizes its customers for maximum profit, spending more thought on publicity gimmicks than customer service...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-17
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Conversation Piece
1974-12-20
Conversation Piece
Overview: A retired professor of American origin lives a solitary life in a luxurious palazzo in Rome. He is confronted by a vulgar Italian marchesa and her lover, her daughter and her daughter's boyfriend, and forced to rent to them an apartment on the upper floor of his palazzo. From this point on his quiet routine is turned into chaos by his tenants' machinations, and everybody's life takes an unexpected but inevitable turn.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-12-20
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Atlantic Wall
1970-10-14
Atlantic Wall
Overview: 1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance when a British pilot is shot down and hides in his attic and, through a series of mishaps, he accidentally steals the plans for Hitler's V1 missiles.
Genres: Adventure Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-14
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Les Culottes rouges
1962-12-19
Les Culottes rouges
Overview: Antoine Rossi, a recidivist prisoner of war in Germany, manages to escape with the cowardly Fendard. Fendard does everything in his power to help him even though he is wounded, but Antoine tries to get rid of him as he boards the train to freedom.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-19
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Le 7ème jour de Saint-Malo
1960-04-19
Le 7ème jour de Saint-Malo
Overview: End of WW2 : the German officers lock all the men between 18 and 65 into the "Fort National" on an islet in Saint-Malo.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-04-19
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Chicken Feed for Little Birds
1963-02-15
Chicken Feed for Little Birds
Overview: In a building close to the Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris, a tale of criss‑crossings in turn romantic, gourmet, interested or mystical, between an Italian gigolo and a nightclub hostess, a family of butchers and an apprentice rocker, a mystic tailor, a writer sending himself telegrams, an alert paralytic woman, a thoughtful concierge, a bird breeder and a just‑out‑of‑jail hooligan. Little by little each one discovers each other’s more or less troubled history… when a mysterious death introduces the Police within this huis clos, hastens disclosure of well‑kept secrets and ruffle this little World.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-02-15
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The Virgins
1963-05-22
The Virgins
Overview: The story of five girls that lose their virginity.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-22
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Le petit Nicolas
1964-01-01
Le petit Nicolas
Overview: At school, Nicolas is falsely accused of misbehaving and is expelled. On school photo day, Nicolas will try to prove his innocence, with disastrous consequences.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-01-01
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The Crab Basket
1960-05-20
The Crab Basket
Overview: Charles is a student in Strasbourg. Abandoned by Liliane, his fiancée, who has inexplicably given up on marriage, he moves to Paris, where he decides to pursue a career in cinema. He founded a film club and became a journalist, then assistant to a famous director. Little by little, he came face to face with the various compromises inherent in this professional milieu. After writing a screenplay about his experiences, he enlists the help of Chantal, a young actress, to bring his film project to fruition.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-05-20
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The Cat Shows Her Claws
1960-03-09
The Cat Shows Her Claws
Overview: France under the Occupation. Executed for treason against the Resistance, Cora, code-named "La Chatte", was left for dead. Recovered and cared for by the Germans, Dr. von Hollwitz brainwashed her to control her and use her as a counter-espionage. In the spring of 1944, her escape was faked so that she could resume contact with the Resistance. She has to scupper the mission of Charles, an engineer with the SNCF, to blow up a train loaded with V1s intended to power the launch pads set up on the French coast to bomb London. But at the last moment, La Chatte regains her lucidity.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-03-09
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The Itchy Palm
1960-02-03
The Itchy Palm
Overview: A widow in her fifties,Madame Lacoste ,meets Jean when they both come to put their pussy in a cattery.The man borrows a hefty sum from her ,to send his sick young son to breathe the fresh air of the country ,or so he said;in fact there's no son at all.He gives the money to his mistress who claims she's pregnant by him and who wants to have an abortion.She lies too ,for she does not expect any child and she intends to help the young man she's in love with to buy a scooter.But the latter does not care about her either and intends to marry a "rich " girl ....who's actually the concierge's daughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-02-03
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The Education in Love of Valentin
1976-05-25
The Education in Love of Valentin
Overview: This sex comedy concerns the efforts of Julien to get his timid, "backward" 20-year-old son to take an interest in sex and get married. After a series of adventures with women (arranged by papa), Valentin finally gets married to a woman who appears to be as shy as he is. Things get complicated when his father begins an affair with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-05-25
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The Dance of Death
1960-05-25
The Dance of Death
Overview: On his journey through USA, Simon Templar, alias 'the Saint', landed in Palm Springs. After arrival, Simon is offered a job as a bodyguard of a millionaire who is threatened with death.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-05-25
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Et la femme créa l'amour
1966-05-24
Et la femme créa l'amour
Overview: Laurent, a young playboy, lives off his charms, maintained by wealthy women of the world. He becomes the lover of Sonia, a young woman painter, a lover at heart of course. But Sonia has a provincial friend, Clotilde. One day, Clotilde pays Bona a visit. As she has just come into a large inheritance, Laurent courts her and marries her. The young couple embark on a misguided life of easy pleasures and questionable company. Clotilde's nerves crack at this game. Among Laurent's acquaintances, François, a doctor, treats her in his clinic: sleep cure, rest, etc. Meanwhile, Laurent distracts himself with other women. But Clotilde, convalescing, refuses to resume life together. Laurent turns to his former mistress, Sonia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-05-24
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The Nabob Affair
1960-11-16
The Nabob Affair
Overview: Serge, alias Count Fornari, is hired by a mysterious employer to try to steal the Nabob, an exceptionally valuable diamond that Jeannette, alias Aménita (Perrette Pradier), the companion of a billionaire, wears as a locket. She covets the diamond and steals it from the safe. About to be caught in the act, she keeps it hidden in a handkerchief in her hand and manages to conceal it in Serge's pocket during the hotel ball. When she rejoins the billionaire, he asks her to open her hand, but the diamond is gone. The result is a chase full of misunderstandings and twists and turns between the three protagonists.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-11-16
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Blague dans le coin
1963-11-13
Blague dans le coin
Overview: A Las Perlass, ville de jeu du Névada, bandes rivales de Lippy et de Steinberg tiennent les plus beaux établissements de l'endroit. Franck Bradford has hired Jeff Burlington as a comedian, who, to cheer up a difficult audience, launches nightly verbal attacks on Lippy's casino where, he says - the games are rigged. Each of the two gangs sends a henchman to either stop the sarcasm or get in trouble if they don't leave their act as it is. Un certain "Main d'or" qui est autre que Bradford fait attaquer casinos. C'est Jeff, après avoir été kidnappé par les deux bandes devenues amies, quiasquera coupable.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-13
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Bells Without Joy
1962-04-20
Bells Without Joy
Overview: In November 1942, American troops landed in Tunisia. German paratroopers were immediately launched and occupied Tunis. A French squadron of chasseurs d'Afrique was sent to Medjez-el Bab with the mission of occupying the bridge over the Medjerda. But the captain is mute and the cavalrymen don't know whether the operation is being prepared against the Germans or the Allies. The first hypothesis inflames Maréchal des Logis Bourgeon and his friend Maurice, who have not forgotten the defeat of '40. In the village, Maurice meets up with his friend Léa, a refugee, and discovers with fury that she is Jewish, because he doesn't like Jews any more than he likes English or Germans! The hunters set up camp on the bridge. Soon, a German column appears and demands passage. The captain refuses, awaiting orders from Vichy. But in Tunis, confusion reigns. Finally, the captain himself takes the initiative to oppose the passage of the German troops...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-04-20
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Trafics dans l'ombre
1964-10-28
Trafics dans l'ombre
Overview: Codeine has been stolen from Philippe Calaro's pharmaceutical laboratory. The police are investigating and ask the young chemical engineer to remain at their disposal, as one of his direct employees is under suspicion. On his way home from an evening out with a friend, whom the case has forced him not to accompany on a trip, he discovers the corpse of an unknown man in the boot of his car. Distraught, and without thinking about his imprudence, he disposes of the cumbersome and inert passenger in the woods of St-Cloud. After the departure of his girlfriend's plane to Orly, he is accosted by a young girl who tells him she knows the dead man from the previous evening, and begs him to join her on the Air France bus, to disguise the fact that he is being followed.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-10-28
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Faithful in My Fashion
1970-01-21
Faithful in My Fashion
Overview: Thanks to the complicity of his friend Laura, Jo, sentenced to 20 years in prison, escapes from the central prison. Hiding in an old disused mill, Jo sends his young friend to a certain Freddy, gangster and nightclub owner in Pigalle, who owes his freedom to Jo's silence. But Freddy sends two of his henchmen to the mill where Jo is hiding, to kill her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-01-21
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The Crime of David Levinstein
1968-04-24
The Crime of David Levinstein
Overview: David Levinstein, a young Jewish boy whose parents have been arrested and killed by the Nazis, is taken in by Monsieur Ray, the head of his school. Unfortunately for him, Donnadieu, a pro-Nazi schoolmaster, denounces him to the Gestapo and he is sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. After being released in 1945, David attempts to live normally. He even marries Jacky, the woman he has fallen in love with. But fifteen years pass and the taste of revenge invades him and becomes irresistible. He eventually traces the teacher who gave him way.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-04-24
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Big Deal
1973-03-29
Big Deal
Overview: Paul and Thérèse have sold their café on the outskirts of an airport to buy one in Marseille. The business is going well until they discover that their bistro is being used as a hub for drug trafficking. To stop the traffic, they reignite a gang war.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-29
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La Grande Récré
1976-10-01
La Grande Récré
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-10-01
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The Champagne Murders
1967-03-31
The Champagne Murders
Overview: A champagne tycoon's partner suspects his partner's gigolo husband of murders he's been framed for.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-03-31
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Mark of the Devil Part II
1973-01-26
Mark of the Devil Part II
Overview: A tribunal interrogates, tortures and murders "witches" and "heretics" during the Inquisition.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-01-26
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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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Love Is a Ball
1963-04-24
Love Is a Ball
Overview: Etienne makes a good living out of marrying off poor but titled young men to rich but untitled young ladies. Millicent is now in his sights on the Riviera, and Grand Duke Gaspar is the bait. But what if Millicent starts to fancy planted chauffeur John instead, and Gaspar takes a shine to Etienne's secretary Janine?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-04-24
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Sex Connection
1973-07-06
Sex Connection
Overview: Three men and a girl arrive in Zurich after a disastrous trip by minibus. Their fun is to make fun of everyone.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1973-07-06
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Königliches Abenteuer
1966-10-21
Königliches Abenteuer
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-10-21
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Prisoner of the Jungle
1960-02-24
Prisoner of the Jungle
Overview: The survivors of a forced landing progress in a hostile African bush.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-02-24
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Do It Again Callaghan
1961-04-05
Do It Again Callaghan
Overview: Slim Callaghan investigates the theft of the famous Upper Sangha diamonds. Disguised as a Salvation Army auxiliary, he boards a luxury yacht where a transvestite party is being held. During an illusionist's trick, Callaghan manages to steal the precious diamonds, but the thief escapes.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-04-05
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Bilderkomödie
1963-03-03
Bilderkomödie
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-03-03
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The Things of Life
1970-03-13
The Things of Life
Overview: The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memories of the past with Catherine, his ex-wife; but his true destiny awaits him at a crossroads on his way to Rennes…
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-03-13
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The Pavements of Paris
1961-02-19
The Pavements of Paris
Overview: Arlette has too provincial parents to whom she announces her plan about own independence. After her departure, Marc, her absent fiance seek for her in vain in Paris until he discovers her picture on the magazine cover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-02-19
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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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There's Going to Be a Party
1960-12-22
There's Going to Be a Party
Overview: FBI agent John Lewis travels in Europe, from Paris to Lisbon, trying to locate a disappeared fellow secret-agent, Mark Lemoine. Soon he has trouble with a violant gang, and is involved with a young French reporter, Michèle Laurent. Finally, the chief of the Secret Service tells Lewis that Lemoine never existed. Instead of ending his mission there, the real trouble starts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-12-22
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The Sultans
1966-05-06
The Sultans
Overview: Lisa, a fashion photographer, has an affair with a married man. They both know that the relationship forces them to have fun. When he goes through a delicate family situation caused by his daughter's adventure with a much older man, Lisa understands how much she is in love and how little she can expect from him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-05-06
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The Baron of the Locks
1960-04-13
The Baron of the Locks
Overview: The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for more attractive scenery offered by a wealthy local man. Meanwhile, there is a certain charming cafe owner that the Baron finds irresistible -- at least for awhile.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-04-13
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The Great Chase
1968-10-02
The Great Chase
Overview: A gang of young tugs led by Frankie, opens a nightclub just in front of a gangster's hideout. Morelli is his name and he prepares the stealing of the century.
Genres: Comedy Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-10-02
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Christine
1958-12-19
Christine
Overview: Vienna, 1906. A passionate love story develops between Franz Lobheiner and the young Christine. Lobheiner is, however, currently seeing the married Baroness von Eggersdorf. Upon learning of his wife's infidelity, the Baron von Eggersdorf provokes a duel with Lobheiner. But the former is no longer a real threat to the Baron. Lobheiner is now passionately in love with Christine. How will this love quartet end?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-12-19
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Halt die Luft an alter Gauner - Der Stockfisch und das Stinktier
1976-01-01
Halt die Luft an alter Gauner - Der Stockfisch und das Stinktier
Overview: Two old sea dogs are fighting to the teeth for customers for a coastal cruise. Three crooks turn up at the resort and try to get a briefcase full of valuable jewelry out of the three-mile zone. A rich "Frenchwoman" is also involved in the affair. An insurance agent mingles with the tourists without being recognized in order to track down the jewel thieves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Love School
1973-01-10
Love School
Overview: Disguising himself as a geisha and introducing himself as Madame Mufiko, a certain Max Fox opens a school in Paris where he proposes to teach the Japanese art of love. He recruits a few students, boys and girls, to whom he teaches to imitate the positions represented on old prints. The young people set themselves to it with such ardor that soon the girls are pregnant. In addition, the school is put under police surveillance and the false Mufiko sees her true identity revealed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-01-10
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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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The Odessa File
1974-10-17
The Odessa File
Overview: Following the suicide of an elderly Jewish man, investigative journalist Peter Miller sets out to hunt down an SS Captain and former concentration camp commander. In doing so he discovers that, despite allegations of war crimes, the former commander has become a man of importance in industry in post-war Germany, protected from prosecution by a powerful organisation of former SS members called Odessa.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-17
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My Wife's Husband
1963-12-20
My Wife's Husband
Overview: After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disparition, his wife as made her life with a norman chef, sympathetic but a specialist of butter's cooking when Fernand cook only with oil!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-12-20
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The Seventh Company Has Been Found
1975-12-10
The Seventh Company Has Been Found
Overview: The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-10
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Dangerous Love Affairs
1959-09-09
Dangerous Love Affairs
Overview: Juliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both have sexual affairs with others and share their experiences with one another. But there is one rule: never fall in love. But this time Valmont falls madly in love with a girl he meets at a ski resort, Marianne.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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The Last Word
1975-01-01
The Last Word
Overview: Leo, the owner of the stocking product "Discrete", has driven his company into the wall; the company is virtually bankrupt.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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La Main coupée
1979-09-20
La Main coupée
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Genres: War Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-09-20
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Der Mann, der sich Abel nannte
1966-06-03
Der Mann, der sich Abel nannte
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Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1966-06-03
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