Jenny Astruc
Also Known As: Ginette Paule Eugénie Astruc
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: December 30, 1935
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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When the City Awakes
Overview: An armored van is attacked and the gangsters hide the loot in a graveyard.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-06-05
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Hit!
Overview: A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug trade and trains them. Then they all leave for France to track down and destroy the ring.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-18
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Hassan Terro's Escape
Overview: Directed by Mustapha Badie.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1974-01-02
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Sweet Ecstasy
Overview: Olivier, a handsome but callow and moody young student, picks up an enthusiastic actress during a theatre rehearsal, and is introduced to her acquaintances -- a group of jaded rich kids who spend their time storming around the Riviera harassing passersby, throwing wild parties and following all the latest trends. When sexy Elke gives him the eye, he leaves the actress in the lurch and joins the gang for a decadent party aboard a yacht. However, Elke's wanton ways and Olivier's inexperience do not mesh, and in a snit, he accidentally sets the yacht afire. The gang wreaks its vengeance by luring him into a dangerous contest of bravura on a construction site.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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Le commando des chauds lapins
Overview: During the debacle of 1940, the turbulent adventures of a pimp, his "five secretaries" and three soldiers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-08-13
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Clandestine Paris
Overview: In the elegant nightclub of Corsican Luciano, known as Lucky, "Les Naturistes", big sums are gambled at the Longchamp races. Lucky not only "welcomes" the new dancers, he also collects the stakes entrusted to him and personally plays the horses recommended to him by Max, a former convict. But Bramati, Lucky's ex-partner, doesn't forgive Max for double-crossing him and has him shot.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-10-11
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The Girl Can't Stop
Overview: A shipbuilder is ruined. All he has left is a mortgaged house, a mortgaged yacht and a mortgaged wife. Precisely, there is a young vivacious, banker in his spare time, a little sadistic on the edges, ready to take the mortgage in question. Helped by his damned soul, a Turk, brother of his mistress, the builder throws his wife in the arms of the viveur. Which falls madly in love with Thassoula. The Turk kills Giorgian's uncle. Held by blackmail, he realizes that, decidedly, he has gone too far. Too late.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-06-11
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Beru and These Women
Overview: Inspector Bérurier, having inherited a mansion three years earlier, comes to collect rent from the tenant when the latter is murdered under mysterious circumstances. Béru calls Commissaire San Antonio to the rescue, and the two men discover that Laurenzi's hotel is home to a "brothel" whose director, Madame Albertine, soon reveals to the two policemen that Laurenzi was having an ongoing relationship with Helga, one of the boarders, and Mr. Max, a regular guest of the house.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-10-23
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Young Casanova
Overview: Gerard Casanova is the man that all the rich and beautiful women call when they need a little more then the husbands to give them. He's always on call to satisfy their every sexual urge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-11-20
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Waiter!
Overview: After a tumultuous life, a middle-aged headwaiter in a Parisian restaurant dreams of opening a seaside amusement park. When an old flame reappears, he reignites his feelings, but she is involved with another man.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-11-09
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The Phantom of Liberty
Overview: This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-09-10
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Sénéchal the Magnificent
Overview: Sénéchal, an actor touring the provinces with the "Tournées Carlini" does not meet the success he thinks he deserves. One night in Dreux, he finds himself without his luggage and dressed up as a Foreign Legion officer, he is invited to a party thrown by a colonel. He creates a sensation there and does not leave the colonel's wife ... indifferent! Back in Paris, Sénéchal goes through a similar experience. This time around, wearing tuxedo and top hat, he gets mistaken for a diplomat and charms the guests of a wedding party. Arrested by the police, he chooses to do without an attorney at his trial and his brilliant eloquence has him acquitted. A question remains unanswered though : will all those people who give an ovation in real life ever go to see him on stage ?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-05-24
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Life Size
Overview: When Michel gets the life-sized sex doll he ordered, shipped directly from Japan, he is only intrigued by it at first. Then the silent unresponsiveness of the thing begins to haunt him, and he finds himself reacting to it as if it were an equally unresponsive living woman. As time passes, more and more of his life is spent trying to satisfy or placate its relentless silence, and he goes somewhat mad. He dresses the doll and takes it with him wherever he goes. When his usually very tolerant wife discovers what is going on, her jealousy knows no bounds and she attempts to imitate this threatening love-object. The light-hearted quality of this addle-pated fantasy darkens quickly when various neighborhood men attempt to put the doll to its originally intended use.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-08-21
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Fernandel the Dressmaker
Overview: A modest taylor the women found irresistible inherit a Maison de couture in financial difficulty. Decided to save it he prepare a great collection. But when his wife discovered his relations with one of the mannequin, how would he prevent the scandale without loosing... both of them?!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-04-13
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