Michel Charrel
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Tarare, Rhône, France
Adult: No
Birthday: September 13, 1936
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Male
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The Vampire of Dusseldorf
Overview: A true story of Peter Kurten, a serial killer who committed nine murders and many other offenses in Dusseldorf during the Great Depression era.
Genres: Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-04-07
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Idiot in Paris
Overview: Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, but the meat merchant Dessertine takes him under his wings when he hears that Goubi was likewise 'raised by the State'...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-03-22
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Jailhouse Wardress
Overview: After the fall of the Third Reich, all Nazi SS officers ran away in Latin American countries. There they created special laboratories to crate beautiful women for satisfaction of their guards' sexual desires. The main warden in this prison is a cruel woman. Their main plan is to revenge for defeat of Nazi's Germany.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-08-05
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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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Pasha
Overview: Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his own, which leads him through the bas-fond of Paris...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-03-14
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Convoy of Girls
Overview: Eric, a brilliant young German officer, is transfered back to Berlin.His superior officer tells him about his new assignment on the Russian front and then invites him to a luxurious villa. Gathered in the mansion are the most beautiful women: the army's special services could enroll for the pleasure of its returning heroes.Eric is stupefied to recognize Renata among the women, who are all ready and willing to make love with any officer present. Not many years ago, while still students, Renata and Eric had been very much in love. After making love in a room put at their disposal, Renata tells him that she had no choice but to accept joining the army as an official camp follower: her father's survival depended on it. The following morning, Renata leaves in a special women's convoy for Eastern frontwhere they are scheduled to entertain hard-pressed officers and men. Will Eric and Renata's love survive those adventures?
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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I Am a Nymphomaniac
Overview: A young woman falls down a staircase, and suddenly becomes... a nymphomaniac.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-08-11
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Helltrain
Overview: The SS puts a slutty nightclub singer in charge of a train car full of prostitutes whose "services" are reserved solely for Adolf Hitler.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-02-23
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The Invention of Morel
Overview: Escaped from jail, Luis finds refuge on a remote island where, it is said, several people have died long ago of a mysterious illness. He discovers a large abandoned villa. One day, a group of people from another time, come in. The villa and the nature around become the theater of strange phenomena…
Genres: Science Fiction Mystery Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-12-08
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Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
Overview: Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-09-06
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Incorrigible
Overview: Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is to make enough money to build a sea wall to protect Mont-Saint-Michel. Charlotte, a parole officer, shows up: she's young and seems taken in by Victor. He discovers she lives above the Senlus Museum, where her parents are the curators. With two pals he decides to steal a priceless El Greco triptych and then ransom it back to the cultural ministry. What will Charlotte do when she realizes he's used her to make a fortune?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-15
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Goto, Island of Love
Overview: A petty thief works his way up the absurd hierarchy of Goto, an archipelago cut off from civilisation by a tumultuous earthquake. His dream is to possess Glossia, a stifled beauty trapped in a loveless marriage to a melancholic dictator.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-01-29
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The Wise Guys
Overview: Hector Valentin returns to France from Canada when he inherits a small sawmill. He has difficulties restarting the run-down operation which has inefficient workers and is hampered by the dirty tactics of its bigger...
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-10-22
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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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Surprise Sock
Overview: Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhile, their wives take full advantage of their newfound freedom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-06-14
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Convoy of Women
Overview: On the coast of France, the police are raiding the streets and taverns at night in search of girls to send to the colonists in North America. A ship takes these girls to America, where they are placed in carts leaving for territories where colonists and soldiers are expecting them.
Genres: Western Adventure War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-02-08
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The Men in the Family
Overview: Gabriel Pelletier, sales manager for a major industrial firm, would be the happiest of men if he didn't have a family of rare originality. The day Gabriel Pelletier is asked by the firm's management to welcome and accommodate an important American industrialist who has come to Paris to handle a major contract, he realizes the difficulties that lie ahead. How will Mr. Strumberger, who has the reputation of a fierce puritan, react to the behavior of the various members of the family?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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The Groper
Overview: Because he dishonored the daughter of a mafia boss, Ernesto must leave Rome and take shelter with his uncle in Paris. There, he thinks of only one thing: to seduce girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-29
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Dispute in Valladolid
Overview: Spain conquered the seas, found a new world and different realities than the one known in Europe. But a question needed to be answered with what they found in those new territories: do the Indians have souls? The Church, bound to protect and convert the natives and the conquerors who treated them like slaves and thought they were only merchandising, expose their arguments and reasonings at what would be known as the Vallidolid controversy. Between them, there's a cardinal hearing both parts and trying to get reasonable answers from this critical question.
Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-05-02
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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Overview: Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands ("A River of Diamonds" by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy ("The Road Map" by Ugo Gregoretti); Paris, France ("The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower" by Claude Chabrol); and Marrakesh, Morocco ("The Confidence Man" by Jean-Luc Godard). Godard's segment was not included in the original French cinema release, and Polanski's segment was not included on the 2016 home disc release.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-08-14
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Outpost in Indo-china
Overview: A refugee crisis in Vietnam occurs which complicates an French army captain's primary mission of securing a fort.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-01-16
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Par ici la monnaie
Overview: All the inhabitants of an old house are swindlers, dreaming only of the big score that will enable them to survive an announced eviction. They end up pulling it off together, by building a fake tollgate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-04-03
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Song of the World
Overview: In Haute-Provence, two rival farming clans clash over the four seasons of the year. A young lumberjack, who has gone up to Rebeillard country to fell trees, has not been heard from for several months. Concerned by his long absence, his father sets out to find him. Antonio, known as "Bouche d'or" (Golden Mouth), the man from the river, accompanied him out of friendship; the two of them toiled together for long days, but one night, at the edge of the wood, they discovered a blond woman lying on the ground, giving birth to a child: it was Clara, a young blind woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-10-07
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Code Name: Tiger
Overview: A Turkish ambassador arrives in Paris to sign an important trade agreement, allowing Turkey to buy a sophisticated new war plane from France. Immediately he is the target of an assassin, and a special agent is assigned to protect him.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-11-18
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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: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-01-21
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Rookies Run Amok
Overview: Les Bidasses en Folie, a french movie from 1971, is a very short, easy to watch, slapstick hippie comedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-12-15
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Love in the Night
Overview: Bourgoin uses Philippe to attract customers from another establishment to the nightclub he wants to open in Pigalle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-06-10
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The Black Hand
Overview: Somewhere in Europe, a scientific research institute, houses the lair of one of the leaders of a terrorist organization called The Black Hand. Zhan Raur, an Albanian who, under a phlegmatic exterior, is suffering from a delirium of power and also from a heart condition, awaits the visit of an unknown correspondent carrying precious documents. But the F.B.I. He has been replaced by one of his agents, Thomas Asher, who is responsible for unlocking the secrets and ramifications of The Black Hand.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-12-20
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Vagabond Humor
Overview: Benoît, a young provincial, arrives in the capital. He has left his family (mother, wife and child) in his native Charente. But for him, the difference in the standard of living is trying, and he loses his bearings among this crowd of anonymous people. A young woman, Myriam, crosses his path. But the encounter is short-lived, and Benoît returns home. A tragedy has occurred.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-07-05
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The Big Shots
Overview: Thia and Murelli, who live from car stunt shows, make ends meet by carrying out small burglaries.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-31
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Faites donc plaisir aux amis
Overview: Jean-Louis, a garage worker and womanizer, asks his friend and boss to reverse roles for a while, to make his brother, who has just arrived from South America, believe he's not only the boss, but also his wife's husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-02-05
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Port of Desire
Overview: Jeff, a notorious gangster, has just served 3 years in prison for pimping. He reunites with his accomplices and sets up a cigarette smuggling business, all the while maintaining a perfect alibi. We're in Dieppe, and the bustling harbor life allows a wide variety of people to indulge in a variety of trafficking activities.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-17
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Trafic de filles
Overview: Lydia, a model, and Helga, a flight attendant, live together and share the rent. Lydia gets a job in a cabaret, but the owner soon asks her to become a trainer, which she refuses. To punish her, he locks her up in his house. Thanks to her friend Helga, the police take a closer look at the manager's reprehensible actions.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-04-23
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5 Kittens
Overview: A 'gang' of five young women spend their days shoplifting, hitchhiking and having orgies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-07-18
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Erotic Trap
Overview: Varen and Bob are a couple of buddies who get mixed up with a white-slave trader. Pursued by a pair of mob-connected brothers, Bob is killed. Varen retaliates by killing one of the brothers, then enlists the aid of his friend Agnès in tracking down the remaining sibling.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-04-30
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This Man Must Die
Overview: When his young son is killed in a hit and run accident, Charles Thenier resolves to hunt down and murder the killer. By chance, Thenier makes the acquaintance of an actress, Helène Lanson, who was in the car at the time of the accident. He then meets Helène’s brother-in-law, Paul Decourt, a truly horrible individual.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-09-04
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The Blood Rose
Overview: Frédéric Lansac, an artist and botanist, has a wild affair with party girl Moira, but throws her over when he meets the lovely Anne. Frédéric and Anne marry, but tragedy strikes when Moira shows up at the wedding party and makes a scene, causing Anne to fall into a bonfire. Frédéric and Anne lock themselves up in his mansion with his servants, a pair of mute dwarves. Anne, needless to say, becomes bitter and demanding. Frédéric tells everyone Anne has died, then on the sly, hires a nurse to look after her.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-25
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Belle de Jour
Overview: Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-05-24
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The Country Doctor
Overview: All the people in this countryside area, can count on Jean-Pierre, the doctor who auscultates them, heals and reassures them day and night, 7 days a week. Now Jean-Pierre is sick, so he sees Natalie, a young doctor, coming from the hospital to assist him. But will she adapt to this new life and be able to replace the man that believed to be irreplaceable?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-03-23
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Her and She and Him
Overview: A stylish sensual sample of European erotica about an aspiring model in Paris who becomes a participant in a relationship with a lesbian.Her female lover becomes too possessive, the model takes a job with an homosexual painter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-03-25
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M
Overview: Lila and Mo meet at a bus stop. Lila has a paralyzing speech impediment. Mo is chatty and exuberant. Lila is preparing for her exams. Mo illegally races cars for a living. Opposites attract, and they fall in love. But Mo carries a secret burden…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-11-15
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Murmur of the Heart
Overview: This loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he stumbles his way over the burgeoning swell of adolescence in 1950s France. After having his first sexual experience with a prostitute and dodging the lips of a priest, Chevalier contracts a case of scarlet fever. When the fever leaves him with a heart murmur, Chevalier is placed in a sanatorium, along with his over-attentive and adulterous mother.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-27
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Lover for a Day
Overview: After a bad breakup, a college-aged Parisian moves into her father's flat only to discover that he is living with his new girlfriend - a young woman her age.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-05-31
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In the Shadow of Women
Overview: Pierre and Manon are poor. They make documentaries with nothing and they live by doing odd jobs. Pierre meets a young intern, Elisabeth, and she becomes his mistress. But Pierre will not leave Manon for Elisabeth; he wants to keep both.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-05-27
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The Vertical Smile
Overview: A kaleidoscope of images from history populate this skillfully animated French feature. The story concerns a history professor whose ideas about human history cause him distress. Amid a flurry of newsreel-type images, Joan of Arc's trial is shown. Another theme which emerges is of two ages (in the far past and far future) in which naked humans fight one another with animalistic aggression.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-19
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The Teasers Go to Paris
Overview: 7 American high school girls visit Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-11-02
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Four Queens for an Ace
Overview: Hakim Gregory escapes from prison by killing a number of guards, and returns to his hide-out abroad, to lead again his gang of drug trafficking and contract murders. Layton of the Secret Service must discover, and arrest him. The difficult mission almost becomes impossible with the rivalry of Layton's partner, Petula, the jealousy of his bride, Marion, the possible treachery of a Spanish woman, Dolores Arrabal, and yet a mysterious and sexy informant, Rosario... Too many women for Layton.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-05
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Les tringleuses
Overview: Inspector Dubois investigates burglaries carried out by the Barbus gang. He tracks down the criminals and shoots some of them dead, before discovering that one of them is his brother.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-06-25
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Prostitution clandestine
Overview: Claudine, Tania and Sylvia are call girls. They satisfy the wishes of their clients, amateur photographers, scoptophiles, exhibitionists, and sado-masochists.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-10
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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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The Girls of the Golden Saloon
Overview: Richard le Noir, disguised as a woman, helps free the local girls of the California town of Harriba Lannana, from enslavement at a local brothel called the Golden Saloon.
Genres: Western Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-05-23
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La pipe au bois
Overview: In the Middle Age, two sisters, Yolande and Margot, live as witches in a remote house deep in the woods. They attract lonely passerbys with magical philters and use them as sexual slaves. But one day, yolande falls in love with a young hunter, Eric, revealing Yolande's jealousy.
Genres: Horror Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-15
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Hard Core Story
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-11-12
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Ladies House of Pleasure
Overview: A lovely summer day in Paris. Roger and Martine are on their way to work. "Work" is a euphemism because Martine is a prostitute in Pigalle. She is saving money to buy the house of her dreams in the country. Her husband Roger "works" for the same goal, but in a brothel for women. There, duchesses rub elbows with businesswomen, militant members of women's lib and other female pleasure-seekers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-06-23
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The Gardener of Argenteuil
Overview: Tulipe, is an old man who lives alone in an old railway carriage in the Argentueil region of Paris. His main passions are gardening and oil painting, but he also has a secret source of income. His godson discovers that Tulipe is actually a master forger, producing perfect copies of 10 franc notes. His godson’s girlfriend sees this as an opportunity to get very rich – but she must persuade Tulipe to forge 500 franc notes. Assuming Tulipe’s agreement, his godson and his girlfriend buy an expensive new car and luxury villa in provincial France – but there is a cruel turn of fate in store for them when Tulipe strikes up a friendship with a millionaire playboy.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-07
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La Pension des surdoués
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-04-08
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Only the Cool
Overview: A network of spies affects the lives of people in and out of the organization in this espionage drama. Dominique is the neglected wife of a spy who tracks him down at a Paris antique shop. Finding him with a female spy, the enraged wife shoots both of them. Dominique hides out on a boat while the police investigate the murders, and international spies scramble to recover some missing microfilm. Helen is the spy boss who orders a hit man to go after Dominique.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-06-03
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The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
Overview: A bus conductor gets dressed for work in the morning, goes to the toilet, where he is killed by a bomb. The Commissioner and his fat, bumbling assistant, Inspector Charbonnier are put on the case. After interviewing friends, wives, colleagues, and spying on strangers who might be connected, our heroes trace the assassin down to a mental institution where, it seems, the murder victim has been an inmate for the last three years...
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-01-07
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Gandahar
Overview: On the planet Gandahar where peace reigns and poverty is unknown, this utopian lifestyle is upset by reports of people at the outlying frontiers being turned to stone. Sylvain is sent to investigate this mysterious threat.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-12-11
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Last Known Address
Overview: Marceau Léonetti, a competent and energetic officer stops by chance the son of an influential lawyer driving under the influence of alcohol. A few months later, the lawyer falsely accuses Léonetti as being violent and incompetent. As a result Marceau is transferred to a small police station, where he meets young and beautiful Jeanne. Soon they are faced with a tough investigation.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-02-25
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The Salt of Tears
Overview: Luc travels to Paris for the first time to sit the entrance exam for a carpentry school. There he meets Djemila, a young worker with whom he enjoys a short romance, before returning to his home town and beginning a relationship with Geneviève, whom he has known since childhood. Caught between two passions, Luc runs, resolving to fulfil his father's dreams by devoting himself to his future... until finally, he experiences true love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-10-14
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Le Guépiot
Overview: A girl is placed in a strict Catholic boarding school by her hateful mother after the divorce of her parents. There she is physically and psychologically tortured by the nuns because of her brutal use of language and anti-clerical upbringing. Her only moments of joy are the visits of her father.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-06-17
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Kean - Roi de théâtre
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-06-04
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