Robert Hossein
Also Known As: Abraham Hosseinoff, Робер Оссейн
Biography: Robert Hossein was a French film actor of Parsi origin, director and writer. He directed the 1982 adaption of Les Misérables, and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute. His most recent roles include starring as Michèle Mercier's husband in the Angélique series and as a Catholic priest who falls in love with Claude Jade and becomes a communist in Prêtres interdits (Forbidden Priests) in 1973. Hossein started directing films in 1956 with Les salauds vont en enfer from a story by Frédéric Dard whose novels and plays went on to furnish Hossein with much of his later film material. Right from the start Hossein established his characteristic trademarks: using a seemingly straightforward suspense plot and subverting its conventions (sometimes to the extent of a complete disregard of the traditional demand for a final twist or revelation) in order to concentrate on ritualistic relationships. This is the director's running preoccupation which is always stressed in his films by an extraordinary command of film space and often striking frame compositions where the geometry of human figures and set design is used to accentuate the psychological set-up of the scene. The mechanisms of guilt and the way it destroys relationships is another recurring theme, presumably influenced by Hossein's lifelong interest in the works of Dostoyevski. Although Hossein had some modest international successes with films like Toi, le venin and Le vampire de Dusseldorf, he was much singled out for scorching criticism by the critics and followers of the New Wave for the unashamedly melodramatic frameworks of his films. The fact that he was essentially an auteur director with a consistent set of themes and an extraordinary mastery of original and unusual approaches to staging his stories, was never appreciated. He was not averse to trying his hand at widely different genres and was never defeated, making the strikingly different spaghetti western Une corde, un Colt and the low-budgeted but daringly subversive period drama J'ai tué Raspoutine. However, because of the lack of wider success and continuing adverse criticism, Hossein virtually ended his film directing career in 1970, having concentrated on theatre where his achievements were never questioned, and subsequently returning to film directing only twice. With two or three exceptions, his films remain commercially unavailable and very difficult to see. He is the son of André Hossein a Zoroastrian French composer of Azerbaijani-Tajik descent, and a Jewish comedy actress from Kiev. He was married three times: first to Marina Vlady (he has two sons with her, Pierre and Igor), later to Caroline Eliacheff (with whom he has a son, Nicholas). He is currently married to actress Candice Patou, with whom he has one son, Julien. According to an article written by Emannuel Peze, Hossein experienced a conversion to Catholicism in 1971 during a visit to the Marian apparition at San Damiano in Lombardo Italy. Description above from the Wikipedia article Robert Hossein, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: December 30, 1927
Deathday: December 31, 2020
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Gender: Male
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Rififi
Overview: Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-04-13
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The Professional
Overview: French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But when his assignment is canceled, he's shocked to learn that his government is surrendering him to local authorities. He is given a mock trial and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. But Beaumont escapes from prison and vows not only to avenge himself against his betrayers but also to finish his original assignment.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-10-21
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Trivial
Overview: An inspector who just suffered a family tragedy is looking for a missing older man. Man's family is of no help, or are they hiding something? He is helped by a ghost of an actress who died 30 years ago, or is he slowly going insane?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-05-23
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Prêtres interdits
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-11-22
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Love Is Better Than Life
Overview: Upon their release from prison twenty years earlier, Gérard, Ary and Philippe asked themselves if honesty was not the best racket of them all. Today, they are inseparable and scrupulously above board. But Gérard learns he is terminally ill. Their friend’s days being numbered, Ary and Philippe want to offer him one last love story… because, as Gérard likes to say : love is better than life.
Genres: Comedy Romance Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-01-19
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Versatile Lovers
Overview: Isabelle (Marisa Mell) runs a nursing home for wealthy women who are trying to detox from their various obsessions. Her lover, Serge Belaiev (Robert Hossein), a petty gangster, has pulled off a big hit but his partners have denounced him to the police in order to appropriate his share of the loot. Isabelle takes him in and hides him in an attic of this strange house. In love with Isabelle, Philippe Lansac (Alberto Dalbes), the owner of the place, decides to close the castle...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-05-06
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Cemetery Without Crosses
Overview: Ruthlessly pursued by the Rogers family following a dispute over cattle, Ben Caine (Benito Stefanelli) is chased back to the Caine Ranch. Despite his wife Maria's (Michèle Mercier) desperate pleading, the Rogers family hangs Ben Caine, forcing Maria to watch. Consumed with revenge but finding her two brothers-in-law reluctant to assist, Maria enlists the help of Manuel (Robert Hossein). Manual, presumably preoccupied with the past, wears a single black glove and lives alone in a ghost town. Manuel agrees to Maria's plan with reluctance, in part because of his deep feelings/attraction to her. Manuel finds employment as foreman at the Rogers' ranch and surreptitiously kidnaps Pa Rogers' (Daniele Vargas) only daughter Johanna (Anne-Marie Balin). With Johanna as the bait, Maria will be in the perfect position to exact her revenge on the Rogers but things don't turn out quite as planned.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-25
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Angelique and the King
Overview: Soon after her latest husband death, the King himself (Louis XIV) meets with our heroine and begs her to help convince the Persian Ambassador to agree to a treaty. However, what they didn't realize was that the handsome Persian was in fact a sexual sadist. So, it is up to the King's half- brother, some Hungarian prince, to save Angélique from the evil troll's clutches.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-01-31
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The Burglars
Overview: In Athens a collection of emeralds is successfully stolen by a team of robbers, led by safe-cracker Azad. Things go smoothly until they miss the ship by which they planned their escape; a police chief pursues Azad while he waits for the next ship to set off.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-10-27
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Venus Beauty Institute
Overview: Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train station. Witnessing how she turns around a humiliating situation, younger sculptor Antoine becomes so smitten that he breaks up with his fiancée and sets out to win Angèle's heart. Meanwhile, Angèle attempts to quash the budding romance of her young co-worker, Marie, and a much older widowed client, despite their obvious rapport.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-02-03
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The Wax Mask
Overview: Paris, 1900: a couple are horribly murdered by a masked man with a metal claw who rips their hearts out. The sole survivor and witness to the massacre is a young girl. Twelve years later in Rome a new wax museum is opened, whose main attractions are lifelike recreations of gruesome murder scenes. A young man bets that he will spend the night in the museum but is found dead the morning after. Soon, people start disappearing from the streets of Rome and the wax museum halls begin filling with new figures...
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-04-04
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Bolero: Dance of Life
Overview: The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and times, with their own theme scores that evolve as time passes. The main event in the film is the Second World War, which throws the stories of the four musical families together and mixes their fates. Although all characters are fictional, many of them are loosely based on historical musical icons (Édith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Herbert von Karajan, Glenn Miller, Rudolf Nureyev, etc.) The Boléro dance sequence at the end brings all the threads together.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-27
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Crime and Punishment
Overview: A young tormented student can no longer stand his miserable life. To avoid his sister marrying an old antiques dealer out of convenience, he murders a pawnbroker to steal his money. Very quickly, it is taken from remorse and confides to a young prostitute. The latter, very believing, advises him to go. He opposes this idea, but guilt devours him. He is soon struck by remorse, and confides in a young prostitute, who advise him to surrender. He opposes this idea, but guilt devours him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-12-04
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Angelique and the Sultan
Overview: Angélique is in a North African Muslim kingdom where she is now part of the Sultan's harem. She refuses to be bedded as her captors try to beat sense into her. She finally decides to escape with the help of two Christian prisoners.
Genres: Adventure Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-03-13
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Untamable Angelique
Overview: Angelique goes in search of her husband Joffrey de Peyrac who did not die on the stake.
Genres: Adventure Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-01
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Angelique
Overview: In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac out of convenience, but eventually, she falls in love with him. So when Jeoffray is arrested and then vanishes, she bravely sets out to find him. This is the first of many dramas based on Anne and Serge Golon's novels about strong-willed Angélique and her adventures during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King.
Genres: Adventure Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-08
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Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
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Genres: TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-25
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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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Love on a Pillow
Overview: A young girl rescues a man from a suicide attempt. He turns out to be a sociopath, who begins to take over her life, abusing her both verbally and emotionally, yet she can't seem to tear herself away from him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-09-05
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Children of Chaos
Overview: Is there still a chance for Marie, an unwed young mother and a former drugs addicted prostitute, who is sent to a reformatory school?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-11-22
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Long March
Overview: In June 1944, a young doctor, Chevalier, under the threat of guns, is forced to treat a wounded man in a camp of resistance fighters (maquisards). He recognizes the man, minister of the Third Republic, called Morel by his companions. Carnot, the chief of the maquisards, is suspicious of a doctor who expressly disapproves of the resistance and wants to have him shot as soon as he has treated Morel. Philippe, who is second in command, intervenes in favor of the Chevalier. Meanwhile, peasants denounce the maquisards to the Nazis and the camp is surrounded by the Germans. The camp is saved thanks to Philippe who takes command of the group. He decides to leave the shelter and they begin the long march through the Cévennes to rally maquisard Napoleon in the Vercors...
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-05-31
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Hossein, Ronet, Trintignant : Confidences de trois acteurs inoubliables
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-01-15
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Forgive Our Trespasses
Overview: In a port area of France, clashes between a gang of young delinquents and a tribe of gypsies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-08-01
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Raymond Devos dans tous ses sens
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-11-03
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San Antonio
Overview: While a terrorist epidemy strikes the world leaders, the commissaire San-Antonio and his partner, the lieutenant Bérurier, have to escort the French ambassador in a British hotel. But after a negligence of Bérurier (one more little sex affair...), San-Antonio witnessed, helpless, to the ambassador's abduction, organized by a gorgeous Italian girl. Back to Paris, San-Antonio is dismissed by the police chief, Achille Hachille. A real godsend for Bérurier, who get promoted... But soon, the situation degenerates, when the president of the Republic mysteriously disappears. Immediate reaction from Police Minister : San-Antonio is the only one who can save the day. He has 48 hours and a secret squad to find the president. At the Elysée, San-Antonio finds Bérurier, the official investigator. But now, it's every man for himself : who will be the first to find the President ?
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-07-21
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Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman
Overview: Jeanne lives in Paris and believes she is the reincarnation of Don Juan. She visits a priest and tells him she has killed a man. He comes to her elegant flat - her father has died leaving her rich - and she tells the priest stories about men she has seduced. The seduction is easy, she tells him, it's destruction that takes planning. We watch her with an upright elected official, a wealthy boor, and a folk singer. She describes herself as a spider. Her friend Léporella tries to be Jeanne's conscience. What does Jeanne want?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-02-22
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God's Thunder
Overview: Veterinarian Léandre Brassac lives with his wife Marie on a remote estate. One day, he decides to shelter a young woman with no bearings.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-08
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A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
Overview: Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women. She is now a big-time director whose most recent film was a very expensive bomb. She comes up with the idea of making a romance based upon her fling with Jean-Louis. She contacts him to gain his permission. Jean-Louis is still in racing and goes away for a desert rally while she begins filming. She finds the mood of their romance difficult to recapture in her film.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-05-13
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Blonde in a White Car
Overview: Picked up by a beautiful motorist, jobless hitchhiker Pierre (Hossein) is subsequently romanced by the girl. Immediately thereafter, however, she dumps him, attempting to run him over as a final insult. Memorizing her license number, Pierre pursues the enigmatic motorist. Arriving at her home, Pierre is met by two young ladies (Marina Vlady and Odelle Versois), either one of whom might be the woman he's looking for.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-27
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Sextette
Overview: A man remembers all the incredible stories that took place in his hotel.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-09-17
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The Devil Who Limped
Overview: The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Constitutional Monarchy. Its title comes from one of the main historical nicknames for Talleyrand, that he shares with demon king Asmodeus and English poet Lord Byron.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-07-11
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In the Eyes of Memory
Overview: Director Jean Delannoy's immediate followup to his brilliant Les Jeux sont Faits was the more conventional Aux Yeux du Souvenir (aka Souvenir and To the Eyes of Memory). The film is based on a true story, wherein an France airliner managed to survive a journey from Rio De Janeiro to Dakar with two of its engines incapacitated. To this already intensely dramatic situation has been added a romantic subplot involving Claire Magny (Michele Morgan) and Jacques Forester (Jean Marais). The love story adds very little to the film; fortunately, neither does it detract from the film's overall quality. As was the case with many French productions of the 1940s, Aux Yeux du Souvenir benefits immeasurably from the Wagnerian musical score by Georges Auric.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-11-24
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Les Miserables
Overview: In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin, is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-03-22
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Maya
Overview: Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance) who is all things to all men. No matter what sort of woman her client wants, she will become that woman -- at least for the night. When a middle-aged man named Jean insists that Bella is his long-lost sweetheart, she plays along, hoping to escape her sordid lifestyle. The emotional tragedy that follows is meant to explain how Bella became "Maya," the living embodiment of Lost Souls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-09
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Paris Pick-Up
Overview: On Christmas night, an ex-convict meets a beautiful, married Italian woman who has a lot of things to hide.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-05-04
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Hitch-Hike
Overview: Agathe, 18, dreams of change. Gone are her vacations on the rainy beaches of Belgium! She decides to hitchhike down to the South of France, where she'll have many happy and less happy encounters. On the way to Paris, men of various ages offer to shorten her wait by the roadside. Some try to take advantage of her, while another, in a fit of madness, tries to stab her. Despite these assaults, Agathe continues her journey, heading for Valence and then Aix-en-Provence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-16
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The Game of Truth
Overview: A dozen elegant people are gathered in a writer's desirable mansion. In the grand tradition of Agatha Christie, they all have something to hide.They begin a cruel game of truth, a game where you're not supposed to tell lies. As the questions become more and more intimate and precise, the tempers rise, while outside the storm is raging. Enter a hateful person (played by Paul Meurisse, the nasty headmaster in "Les Diaboliques") who seems to know a lot about them. Someone is murdered. Whodunit?
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-26
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Death of a Killer
Overview: When Massa is released from prison, he's sure that Luciano, an old freind, is responsible for his incarceration. Massa proceeds to keep watch on Luciano, who has been living with Massa's beloved sister Maria. Feeling doubly betrayed because of his unhealthy adoration for Maria, Massa is determined to get back at Luciano and ends up in a deadly game of roulette.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-04-01
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Marked Eyes
Overview: A story about a widow who begins to receive blackmail letters demanding money from her. This is when everyone in the small town she lives in dismissing her husband.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-09-02
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The Battle of El Alamein
Overview: June 1942. As Rommel swept toward the Nile, the fall of Egypt and the capture of the Suez Canal seemed inevitable. Italian and German advance units raced toward Alexandria. Mussolini had given explicit orders: The Italians must arrive first!
Genres: War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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A Little Virtuous
Overview: In Paris, the young photographer Ferdinand falls in love with Claire, a pickpocket. Shortly after, he is assaulted because he took pictures of the young woman with another man, Brady, his sponsor. The policeman Lorenzi is put on the case, but in love, Ferdinand does not want to denounce her. However, a stolen object that she offered him will allow his indictment: Claire will spend a year in prison. When she is released, Ferdinand marries her. Kerman, Ferdinand's new boss, employs Claire in his cabaret. She puts on a famous act during which she picks the pockets of the spectators, then gives the objects back at the end of the show. But Brady reappears, demanding 80% of the young woman's earnings, otherwise he will denounce Claire's bigamy, to whom he is still married! Ferdinand prepares to flee with his wife. When he finds her, he comes across the corpse of Brady, whom Claire has just killed.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-02-21
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Scandalous Crimes
Overview: In Parma, conversing with a CSM judge from Rome, the judge Bocchi tells what intrigues are hidden behind the beautiful and charming facade of the city, referring in detail to the latest and most 'chatted episode. It begins when Bocchi interrogates Giulio, a handsome and unassuming young man, for reasons of strangling, and invites him to collaborate with justice.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1999-02-26
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The Phoney
Overview: While the President of a West African Republic arrives in France to sell uranium to the State, spies from around the world are on hand to thwart the transaction. France then decides to put one of its worst agents on the case, a certain Maxime, who has a very loose tongue. All they have to do is send him false information, hoping that it will fall into the ears of their enemies...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-14
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The Protector
Overview: Recently released from prison, Samuel Malakian, a wealthy architect, investigates the disappearance of his daughter, Nathalie, kidnapped by thugs linked to the underworld. When he discovers that she is a prostitute, he will descend into the slums of the city and rub shoulders with these dangerous environments. For him, from now on, all means will be good in order to find the fruit of his entrails.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-06-05
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Stranger in the House
Overview: Since the suicide of his wife, Jacques Loursat has gone downhill. Estranged from his daughter, his lawyer's pratice in ruins, he consoles himself with drink. One night he is woken by a gunshot and catches sight of a young man fleeing the house. Isabelle, his daughter, claims to know nothing about it, even when he finds the body of a young man. Isabelle hangs around with a gang of spoiled young people who have no shortage of money, and is in love with Joel, an ambitious boy involved in drug dealing. Antoine, from a more modest background, is in love with her. When the police start investigating Joel's murder, Antoine becomes the ideal suspect.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-10-03
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Marco the Magnificent
Overview: Young Marco Polo travels to China to help Kublai Khan fight against rebels, headed by his own son, with a new invention: gunpowder.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-08-06
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Highway Pick-Up
Overview: An escaped convict makes a remote gas station his safe haven. But soon the cunning, devious wife of the owner seeks a chance to use him to get what she wants.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-13
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Belmondo, itinéraire...
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-18
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Tender Moment
Overview: An eighteen-year-old student is infatuated with an older woman, the mistress of a famous racing driver. Taking advantage of a misunderstanding between the two lovers, he manages to seduce her and falls in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-12-20
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Marie-France Pisier, une femme sous influence
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-08-01
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Time of the Wolves
Overview: Patterning himself after the American gangster John Dillinger, the criminal (Robert Hossein) is tracked by the inspector (Charles Aznavour), a former childhood friend. Plenty of gunplay and psychology is used to trap the killer. His only tender moments are spent with his girlfriend Stella (Virna Lisi). Dillinger is cornered by the police and kills several innocent victims in a crowd during the shootout. The mob decides to take things into their own hands as they approach the doomed man with a noose when he runs out of bullets.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-01-21
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Riff Raff Girls
Overview: Vicky de Berlin, a female gangster, haunted by wartime memories , runs a floating night-club in Brussel. Marcel, her partner and lover, is in charge of the banknotes forgery manufacture concealed in the bottom of the boat. He decides to rob the Bank of Belgium and exchange a huge sum of counterfeit money for its equivalent in genuine one. But things get complicated when Yoko, the she leader of another gang and her lover The Bug interfere...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-05-20
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The Taste of Violence
Overview: Perez kidnaps the President's daughter to trade her for imprisoned revolutionaries.
Genres: Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-08-10
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OSS 117 Murder for Sale
Overview: A secret agent is sent to the Middle East to destroy a gang of assassins.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-07-27
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The Wicked Go to Hell
Overview: Making his directorial debut, Robert Hossein also assumes the leading role, playing an escaped convict. Hossein and his fellow escapees cross the path of Marina Vlady, with whom they all fall in love. Alas for our "heroes," Vlady intends to avenge the death of her sweetheart at the hands of Hossein and his confreres. Not only do these heels go to Hell, but they do so with a spectacular flourish. Les Salauds Vont en Enfer was adapted by Rene Wheeler from a play by Frederic Dard.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-07
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The Verdict
Overview: WW2 is coming to an end ;on the seaside,resistant fighters are captured and imprisoned in a basement ;within an hour ,all of them will be shot .An hour of fear ,of impossible dreams ,of false hopes .Based on a Bernanos play ,it sometimes recall ,by the subject of sacrifice (a sacrifice of an average human being is not an average one),"Dialogue Des Carmélites ",in which nuns ,during the French Revolution,were guillotined ,because they would have betrayed their faith if they had accepted the new rules).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-10-02
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Enough Rope
Overview: Two total strangers suspect each other of murdering their own wives. Based on Patricia Highsmith's 1954 novel The Blunderer.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-01-11
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Mademoiselle de Maupin
Overview: Mademoiselle de Maupin escapes from her uncle's castle, invaded by Hungarian troops, under the guise of a clergyman named Theodore. An army recruiter forces Theodore to enlist in the King's army, and not even the religious robe is an insurance against it. Theodore is assigned to be aide-de-camp to Alcibiade, a man as virile in combat, as he seems troubled for the figure of his aid. D'Albert, an aristocrat, will expose Theodore's true sex, and after a number of confusing, comedy situations, Alcibiade will appease his troubled feelings.
Genres: Adventure Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-01-13
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Madame
Overview: Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumstances bring Lefebvre a noble title and even more -- Napoleon decides to make him the local ruler over a large territorial fiefdom. But trouble brews when Madame Sans-Gene, now elevated to the nobility along with her man -- cannot keep her frank observations under control.
Genres: Comedy Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-21
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A Murder Is a Murder
Overview: Murder mystery involving a man and his relationship with twin sisters.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-08-23
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A Police Officer Without Importance
Overview: Camille, Dov and Joëlle live on the edge of society and are involved in petty theft helping them to buy their drug doses and to survive as best they can. One day, while attempting to rob a movie theater, they activate the alarm signal and it is Pierre, Camille's brother, who is doing a heist in the same building, who is arrested red-handed. The three young people decide to kidnap a police officer and exchange him for Pierre.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-04-12
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The Dirty Game
Overview: A U.S. intelligence general recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet, French and Italian spies.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-23
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The Road to Shame
Overview: Pierre Rossi and Béatrice live in the same block of flats in Marseille and love each other. One night, Béatrice leaves her apartment. Pierre knows that his fiancée goes to a rendezvous, but she would not tell him more than just that. Worried, Pierre follows her but he is attacked and stolen his identity papers by two men, Tom and Nasol, on the payroll of Quaglio, one of the city's bosses. Later on, Quaglio kills Nasol and deposits the body in a garage, leaving Pierre's papers nearby. As for Pierre, he manages to follow Tom to a villa where several young women have been invited. Pierre, horrified, realizes that this place is the headquarters for the white slave trade. - Written by Guy Bellinger
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-04-30
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The Conspirators
Overview: Rome, 1825. Bishop Rivarola and Colonel Nardoni are in charge of suppressing the liberal revolution. Shoemaker Cornacchia got the information that the liberal Filippo Spada is a spy and is going to denounce his revolutionary companions.
Genres: History Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-10-24
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Desert Assault
Overview: Allied and German forces are stranded in desert during WW II and attempt to surrender each other.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-07-30
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Falling Point
Overview: Three men kidnap a young girl and keep her in a small house on an isolated beach, waiting for her father to pay up the ransom. But the youngest one, in charge of watching her, let accidentally the girl see his face and it becomes no longer possible to return her alive...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-11
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Double Agents
Overview: Robert Hossein, Marina Vlady, Robert Le Beal. A brilliant "little" spy film. Hossein and Vlady play mysterious characters who meet up one night in a lonely cabin in the wilds of Normandy. They are both spies, but whom do they work for-the Allies or the Nazis.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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La Musica
Overview: A husband and wife meet three years after their formal separation, when they return to the provincial town where they once lived to pick up their divorce decree.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-03-03
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The Scarlet Lady
Overview: Comedy about a self-made woman in Paris contemplating the idea of suicide at first, then murder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-05-14
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The Wretches
Overview: Meant to be a psychological study of a dysfunctional couple and an equally unbalanced maid, this slow-paced, murky melodrama stars Michele Morgan and Robert Hossein as Thelma and Jess, two Americans who move into a down-at-the-heels Paris neighborhood. The couple is still suffering from the loss of their only son in an automobile accident that happened some time in the distant past. Thelma tends to drown her sorrows in alcohol, while Jess is introspected and morose. After they hire a maid to help out with the housework, she falls for the taciturn Jess. Her interest seems to be only a simple attraction, yet appearances, as it turns out, are deceiving.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-05-08
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The Other Truth
Overview: Middle-aged attorney Pierre falls for a young woman who dances in a discotheque to work her way through medical school. The lovestruck lawyer can't bring himself to leave his wife over the young woman. When the dancer's wealthy suitor is murdered, Pierre is accused of the crime.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-04-19
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Vice and Virtue
Overview: 1944 : Occupied France. Juliette (Vice) is Wehrmacht General Bamberg's mistress and enjoys a privileged life. Her younger sister Justine (Virtue) is about to marry Jean who is in the Resistance and come to Juliette for help. Both sisters end up at "la Commanderie", where Juliette becomes SS Colonel Schonberg's mistress and Justine is detained with other pretty girls who must satisfy the sexual needs of high-ranking nazi officials. Inspired by "Justine ou les infortunes de la vertu" by the marquis de Sade
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-03-01
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I Killed Rasputin
Overview: Grigori Rasputin becomes a fixture of Russia's Imperial Court after saving the life of Alexei Nikolaevich, Tsarevich of Russia, the haemophiliac heir to the throne. However as war breaks out, Rasputin's enemies see him as a cause and plot fatal revenge against the Russian mystic.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-05-03
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A Man and His Dog
Overview: An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-01-14
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Misdeal
Overview: A musician named Jacques Christens, is given a proposition by an old man. For ten million Francs he is asked to impersonate a certain Paul de Baer – a man who is supposedly exiled in the Amazone. Christens is told this scheme will save Mr. Baer from ruin. An adaptation of Boileau and Narcejac's "D'entre les Morts".
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-04-30
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Young Girls Beware
Overview: Raven, a mobster just released from prison, settles the score by murdering Mendetta and her partner, who had turned him in. Having taken over Mendetta's various bars, he finds himself at war with other mobsters who want to kill him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-07-04
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Levy & Goliath
Overview: A very faithful Jewish man works making diamond dust in his family's workshop, to sell to industries. One day he goes on businnes trip. In the same train goes a very sexy girl, with some heroin bags (you guess it) very similar to the diamond bags. The police begins to chase the girl, and she hides the drug into the Levy's bag. The girl calls his boss ('Goliath') the situation and he and his band begins to hound Levy, who, by this time, selled the bags to a factory, not knowing the content. He has to get out of the problem with the help of his brother and his God.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-01-27
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Le Caviar rouge
Overview: Russian spy boss in Geneva spends a night interrogating two spies to see who is a traitor.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-08
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Surprise Party
Overview: Adventures of a group of youngsters set in a provincial French city in the 1950's.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-20
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Brigade Anti Gangs
Overview: The struggle between a ruthless leader of a bank robbers and the cops who are determined to put him in jail for long.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-08-18
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Life Love Death
Overview: François Toledo, married businessman and father, falls head-over-heels in love with Janine, a work colleague. However, he is soon found out: after three dates, he strangles some prostitutes, when, the victim of blackmail, he becomes dishonored. He is taken to court, and sentenced to be killed by a guillotine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-01-29
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Why Paris?
Overview: Monique, a Belgian girl, comes to Paris to learn painting and become an artist. She took courses at the Academy and found a studio in Montmartre.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-06-24
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Le commissaire mène l’enquête
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-07-28
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Hellé
Overview: Hellé is a young deaf-mute living among the mountains. She’s ignored by everyone except, now and then, the local woodsmen, who use her for their pleasure. She has no education, no knowledge of right or wrong. One summer, a young man comes to spend the holidays in her village.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-05-02
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Annie Girardot, ainsi va la vie
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-09-21
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Crime Thief
Overview: A man witnesses a suicide and starts imagining that it was a murder committed by himself.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-05-22
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OSS 117: Panic in Bangkok
Overview: A secret agent sets out to stop an evil scientist who is about to unleash on the world a virulent biological strain he has developed during experiments on rats.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-06-12
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Lamiel
Overview: Lamiel is a poor orphan girl who climbs to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. Sansfin, provincial doctor, lives vicariously through her, as he oversees the progress of his female protégé. Defiant and rebellious, Lamiel goes to Paris to escape boredom and to know love.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-08-30
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Une femme nommée Marie
Overview: August 2011 pageant performance staged by Robert Hossein depicting St. Bernadette's encounter with Mary, the mother of Jesus. Production was filmed at the Basilica of Our Lady of the Rosary in Lourdes with an audience of 30,000 people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-08-13
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Denn sie kennen kein Erbarmen - Der Italowestern
Overview: The beginnings, development and decline of so-called spaghetti-western genre; with clips, interviews and opinions of producers, actors and directors. A nostalgic look at those movies that are still in the taste of many.
Genres: Western Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2006-04-23
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The Menace
Overview: Josepha is on the verge eighteen living with her drunken washed up actor uncle. She longs for the companionship of a group of her mo-ped riding peers who dabble in activities on the shady side of a legal dividing line. In order to get the semi-delinquent group to accept her, Josepha runs to the police with a tall tale about the local druggist, Savary. The police are looking for a sex murderer, and Josepha insists Savary is their man. What she does not know, however, can do her considerable damage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-01
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Of Flesh and Blood
Overview: Samuel finances his participation in a card game by stealing parts from a jeep. He cheats at cards, and has his hands broken as a consequence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-07-08
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Judge Roy Bean
Overview: In a small western town the ineffable judge Roy Bean metes out justice in his own special way. A cargo of gold is ambushed by the outlaw Black Bird who fails in the attempt and then rides into town.
Genres: Western Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1971-03-03
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L'Affaire
Overview: A man who had everything taken away from him, including his family, by his brother teams up with a young card player in order to take revenge on the brother.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-04-13
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Le tour d'écrou
Overview: A new governess arrives at a country house to take care of two seemingly angelic young children. But she begins to suspect that the house is haunted, and that the ghosts mean harm to the children.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-02-25
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Stars Meet in Moscow
Overview: Documentary essay about the First Moscow International Film Festival, held in August 1959, about its participants and guests - Soviet and foreign actors, directors who came to the film forum.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-08-30
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Crime Thief
Overview: A man witnesses a suicide and starts imagining that it was a murder committed by himself.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-05-22
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Les fleurs maladives de Georges Franju
Overview: A short documentary about Georges Franju.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-05-05
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Take Me As I Am
Overview: The director of the Rome office of an American news agency is seduced by his boss' daughter, who subsequently ends up dead at the foot of a cliff. Film adaptation of James Hadley Chase’s 1956 noir thriller novel You Find Him, I'll Fix Him.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-29
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Antigone
Overview: Having defied the ban on Creon and offered a burial to Polynice, her treacherous homeland brother, Antigone is condemned to a slow death in a stone tomb, despite the interposition of Hémon, her fiance, the son of Creon . Nevertheless, Creon ends up following the advice of his diviner Tiresias and, fearing the wrath of the gods, buries Polynices with dignity. When he is about to free Antigone, the young woman had already hanged herself. Mad with pain, Hémon commits suicide by his side.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-05-05
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Démons de midi
Overview: At 45, divorced, unemployed and father of two children, Franois Morot realizes that he can no longer support the society in which he lives and decides to leave everything.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-11-28
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The Lion's Share
Overview: A writer is reunited with an old childhood friend, who gives him the opportunity to devise a heist.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-08
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Provisional Liberty
Overview: Jean-Paul is a Frenchman who yearns to live in communist Czechoslovakia. His wish is granted when, mistaken as a masseur of a French boating team, he manages to elude the democratic authorities long enough to scamper over the Czech border.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: cs
Release Date: 1958-05-16
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La croisade des enfants
Overview: TV movie about the children crusade of the Middle Ages.
Genres: TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-07
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Belmondo by Belmondo
Overview: Jean-Paul Belmondo returns to the settings of a fantastic career, accompanied by his son Paul. Over a career spanning 50 years, Jean-Paul Belmondo’s movies drew over 130 million people into cinemas. This logbook takes us back to sets and countries, from where we can revisit the films in reference and find out about his fruitful collaborations with various directors. Paul Belmondo will lead the investigation, meeting the stars and his father’s friends (eye-witnesses all) and questioning his father about his journey, sharing it with us so we can discover the man and his story like never before.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-05-05
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The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia
Overview: When an oily attorney dies at the hands of the mafia, a dedicated French detective investigates the man's murder. He soon uncovers a drug-smuggling operation and lets his sawed-off shotgun do the talking to the toughs in this Gallic gangster feature.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-05-20
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Le Fruit de l'espoir
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-02-05
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No Sun in Venice
Overview: Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept woman of a very rich but undesirable fellow named Eric von Bergen, an ex-nazi turned forger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-05-31
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Aznavour by Charles
Overview: In 1948, French singer Charles Aznavour (1924-2018) receives a Paillard Bolex, his first camera. Until 1982, he will shoot hours of footage, his filmed diary. Wherever he goes, he carries his camera with him. He films his life and lives as he films: places, moments, friends, loves, misfortunes.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-02
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The Big Pardon
Overview: The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's friend), Samy (the bodyguard) are a family clan of Jewish Blackfoot kingpins of French organized crime. Their activities include running casinos, organizing underground boxing matches, illegal gambling, pimping, racketeering and bloody settlements of scores against other Arab and French clans. But in the shadows, Pascal Villars has sworn the loss of the Bettoun. He will succeed in setting the Arab clan against the Jewish clan, for the great benefit of the police commissioner Duché, who has been trying in vain for ten years to bring down the Bettouns.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-27
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Quai des blondes
Overview: The blond cigarette trade is raging in the Mediterranean, pitting the crew of a former naval officer, Ferrer, against a band of pirates led by Lucky Esposito. Initially defeated and robbed, Ferrer seeks revenge. Two women emerge, a singer, Barbara, and his former mistress, who now works for Esposito. Ferrer sees death at close quarters, Barbara saves him. The police wipe out Lucky's gang. The future looks brighter for Ferrer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-04-07
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Série noire
Overview: Léo Fardier is a police inspector who goes to prison undercover as a convict. He shares a cell with Mariani, a Corsican mafioso, whose trust he earns. The day Léo leaves prison, the criminal entrusts him with a letter to deliver to his estranged wife. He finds her, and she falls under his spell. The problem is that he, too, has fallen in love with her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-03-04
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