Pierre Vial
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 05, 1928
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Gender: Male
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The Visitors
Overview: After a wizard's spell goes awry, 12th-century Gallic knight Godefroy de Papincourt, Count of Montmirail finds himself transported to 1993, along with his dimwitted servant, Jacquouille la Fripouille. Startled and perplexed by modern technology, the duo run amok, destroying cars and causing chaos until they meet Beatrice de Montmirail, an aristocratic descendant of the nobleman, who may be able to help them get back to 1123.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-01-27
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Dangerous Moves
Overview: World Chess Champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) faces his former pupil Pavius Fromm (Alexandre Arbatt), who defected to the West from the Soviet Union five years earlier, for the World Chess Championship in Geneva, Switzerland. The tension and strategies between the players draw parallels to the political conflicts and ideologies between East and West during the Cold War.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-04-15
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Ballades
Overview: Anna lives with Philippe. Their couple has been formed since "belle lurette", and Anna is starting to get bored…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-05-01
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Fanny
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Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-11-01
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Le Dindon
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-09-30
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The Mystery of Alexina
Overview: In 1856, fresh from life with nuns in an orphanage school, Alexina Barbin comes to a coastal village in La Rochelle to teach the village girls. She is deeply religious. She shares the classroom and a bedroom with the young and vivacious Sara, with whom she falls in love. Alexina has another secret: her gender is mysterious. She and Sara begin a scandalous love affair, but Alexina seeks marriage and social acceptance. She discloses her secrets to the village priest, to her mother, to the bishop, and to the bishop's physician. After the church and court rule on her petition, marriage to Sara becomes Alexina's sole purpose and hope.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-09-25
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The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
Overview: The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the present, with often drastic consequences. Godefroy de Montmirail travels to today to recover the missing family jewels and a sacred relic, guarantor of his wife-to-be's fertility. The confrontation between Godefroy's repellent servant Jack the Crack and his descendent, the effete Jacquart, present-day owner of the chateau, further complicates the matter.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-02-11
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Shadow Dance
Overview: The French intelligence agency plants Xavier, a former militant leftist, into a fascist organisation called Janus, against whom Xavier bears an old grudge.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-08-31
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La Vouivre
Overview: Arsène Muselier returns to his home village at the end of the First World War. His only injury is a head wound, which sometimes provokes periods of delirium and fury. As he renews his acquaintance with the people he left behind - his mother, the old farmhand who brought him up after his father's death, his former girlfriend, and many others - he becomes fascinated by the legend of La Vouivre, a creature with the body of a woman who lives in the marsh, surrounded by vipers. One day, Arsène sees the strange woman - she is naked, beautiful, alluring, and he is instantly enchanted by her. Can she be real, or is she merely a creation of his damaged mind...?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-01-11
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Sans rires
Overview: An old man, former clown, comes back in the neighborhood where he used to lived for the funeral of his ex-wife, and finds old friends with whom he had lost contact.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Deep Water
Overview: On the island of Jersey, off the French coast, Mélanie, a beautiful woman gifted with a captivating personality, enjoys having unimportant love affairs that her husband Victor, a perfumer older than her, seems to endure with total indifference.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-12-16
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Civil Wars in France
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Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-03-15
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Le Roi de Paris
Overview: Victor Derval is returning home after a performance when he is hailed by Lisa, a young Hungarian woman. Her motives are mysterious; is she simply a star-struck peasant girl, or an ambitious, manipulative aspiring star?
Genres: Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-11
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Just Kids
Overview: Jack, 19, Lisa, 17, and Mathis, 10, abruptly become orphans. Each sibling reacts differently to the family tragedy: Lisa spreads her wings. Jack, having just become of age is appointed as his brother’s guardian by court decision. A new life begins. But how does someone just barely out of adolescence himself become responsible for a child? And how does one construct a future when the past has become a dangerous obsession? Fortunately, youth’s strength and energy can work miracles…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-08-05
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Bastille
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1984-05-10
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Maître Zacharius
Overview: Master Zacharius, the village watchmaker, dreams of giving a soul to the automatons he manufactures. A mysterious young man bursts in and seems to want to charm the watchmaker's daughter. After his passage, all the clocks go haywire, causing trouble. How far is Zacharius willing to go to get what he wants?
Genres: Family Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-09-11
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Les Enfants de Saturne
Overview: A staging of Olivier Py's play "Les Enfants de Saturne" by himself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-09-21
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Dark Woods
Overview: In this gothic romance based on a 1950s novel by Robert Margerit, after a whirlwind romance, Violette, a Parisian girl, has married Gustave Dupin, a charming aristocrat, and returned with him to live on his country estate. There, she begins to discover that all is not as it seemed, and beneath her groom's charming exterior is an undreamt-of savagery. She forms an alliance with her husband's much saner brother Bastien which saves her in the end, but not before she must go on trial for the murder of her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-08-23
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Le Soulier de Satin
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-07-09
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