André Chaumeau
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bourges, Cher, France
Adult: No
Birthday: October 22, 1924
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 30, 2013
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Uranus
Overview: After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist, and he pushes back.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-12-12
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Banzaï
Overview: Michel works there manically solving people's problems over the phone. He is about to tie the knot with his girl friend Isabelle, an airline hostess. She flies all over the world, he hates to leave the office. A series of madcap mishaps involving theft or injury (as you would expect in his line of work) ensues after Michel promises Isabelle nothing will delay their marriage and she promises in turn that she's done flying. Once this unlikely promise is made, it becomes premise and both are forced into escalating white lies to maintain the appearance of keeping their word. Their predicament mounts as Isabelle is forced to do a few more flights, while Michel is compelled to travel to New York, Tunisia, and finally Hong Kong, where they are finally reunited in the throes of a contrived and hilarious drug deal involving a 747, water taxi chases, and martial arts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-03-23
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Le Maître d'école
Overview: After having lost his job for having saved a child accused of shop lifting, Frédéric Barbier decides to become a school teacher with some funny results.The great comedy actor Coluche is excellent as a simple school teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-10-28
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Dr. Petiot
Overview: A true story shot in a German Impressionistic style. In France during the Nazi occupation, Dr. Petiot (Michel Serrault) offered to help Jews escape the Nazis. They would come to his house, and he would kindly give them lethal "vaccinations" for their anticipated travel to Argentina. Then he would steal everything the brought with them (in addition to their up-front payment to him) and burn their bodies in his home-made crematorium.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-09-19
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La forêt noire
Overview: Inspired by the life of 19th century composer Robert Schumann, this fiction tells the decline of Hans Richter, a great German musician. Then dying, he feels his reason leaving him, while his wife gets closer to his disciple, Friedrich Turner, who has endless admiration for him. After his death, Turner helped make him a legend.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-02-06
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Stress
Overview: A whimsically paced crime drama that takes you on a journey through deceit and intrigue.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-09-19
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Ladies' Choice
Overview: As a result of an automobile accident, a sophisticated TV producer meets her car mechanic/blue collar nemesis. They start a comic affair, but can they reconcile their totally different worlds?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-11-03
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Inspector Blunder
Overview: A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-12-03
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Cookies
Overview: Henri Serin (Jean-Pierre Marielle), an umbrella salesman, leads a quiet life between his work, his family and his passion for painting. During his many business trips, Henri indulges in a few amorous escapades, which provide a welcome change from the tiresome daily routine his bigoted wife locks him into. One fine day, Henri decides to drop everything and live on love and fresh water. He ends up in Pont-Aven, where he meets Émile, a local painter imitating Gauguin, with whom he shares his drinking and other feminine attractions.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-08-20
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I Married a Shadow
Overview: After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-02-16
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Cent francs l'amour
Overview: Jeremy, a young art photographer, needs money to finance an exhibition of his work. He turns to Maurice, a lonely bachelor who will do almost anything to buy Jérémy’s company. When his relationship with his girlfriend starts to fall apart, the young photographer visits a peepshow and is at once struck by the beauty of one of the performers, Otie. He uses the money Maurice gave him to pay for further visits to the sex shop...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-08-20
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Does This Mean We're Married?
Overview: It's a green-card marriage romance. Deena, an American standup comic living in Paris, has an expired visa. So, she marries Nick Foulliet, a struggling musician with a different woman for every day of the week. First the immigration investigation, and then a series of financial disasters push Deena and Nick into spending time together, and they fall in love. But can their in-name-only marriage become real?
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-01-29
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A Friend of Vincent
Overview: Vincent is the victim of an assassination attempt carried out by a young woman who wants to avenge her sister. Albert, the childhood friend of Vincent, wants to help and begins to investigate the woman, but he realizes that Vincent is perhaps not the person he seems to be.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-09-28
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Miss Mona
Overview: An aging trans woman dreams of becoming a real woman before she dies.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-01-28
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Private Tuition
Overview: Jeanne Kern is a pretty, somewhat repressed schoolteacher who suffers a smear campaign at work. Someone has been sending her director letters accusing her of lewd and immoral conduct. Matters take a turn for the worse when a photograph of an orgy is sent to all the faculty with one face cut out; presumably, the face is hers.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-11-12
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To Kill a Priest
Overview: A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
Genres: Drama Thriller History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-09-07
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Lucie sur Seine
Overview: Louis is a delivery boy, his wife Chantal is a supermarket salesgirl. Louis is bored, and decides to buy a truck and go to the Lebanon, but he has no money. He tries to rob the supermarket where Chantal works, but it goes wrong and he kills the cashier and watchman...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-06-30
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Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers
Overview: Two brothers who can feel each others' pain and pleasure mess up the French revolution.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-27
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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 Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau
Overview: A woman accused of murder escapes an asylum and her psychiatrist tries to find her.
Genres: Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-08-24
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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 Madman of Lab Four
Overview: This talkative and unevenly paced feature finds Fou (Jean Lefebvre) the inventor of a gas that makes the users fall in love. He is chased by his boss, the police, and spies, who seek to secure the secret recipe for their own selfish purposes. A shadowy American underworld figure tries to intimidate the inventor. A half-hearted attempt at comedy tries to go along with the double dealing and trickery of the thin plot of the film.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-11-29
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Sunday Buddies
Overview: Casti and Trébois, two friends who are workers at the same factory, have developed a common passion for flying. They dream of starting an aviation club. In the meantime they spend all their Sundays restoring an old plane under the supervision of Raf, a former RAF pilot...
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-07-01
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Les Maîtres du pain
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-12-20
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The Passerby
Overview: Max Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting against violations of human rights. Why would he commit an act that apparently negates the principles he has striven for so long to uphold? As he is tried for first-degree murder for killing a Paraguayan ambassador in cold blood, he reveals a secret about himself that he kept hidden from his wife Lina. His act is the conclusion of a struggle that started many decades earlier in his childhood...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-04-14
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Bankers Also Have Souls
Overview: A bank clerk is given an unusual retirement gift, a high class call girl. Unaware that he has been 'set up' by colleagues the man goes with the girl to Venice where he enjoys his new found virility.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-03-24
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Impromptu
Overview: In 1830s France, pianist/composer Frédéric Chopin is pursued romantically by the determined, individualistic woman who uses the name George Sand.
Genres: Drama Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-04-12
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My Mother's Castle
Overview: To his chagrin, young Marcel Pagnol and his family move back to their home in Marseilles, France, far from their pastoral holiday cottage in the hills. Determined, Marcel makes the long voyage back to the cottage on foot and lands himself in trouble. One day Marcel's father discovers a shortcut to the cottage, but it requires trespassing. Despite their trepidations, Marcel and his family begin using the secret trail to reach their cottage.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-10-26
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The Return of Martin Guerre
Overview: Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and Bertrande de Rols marry. A few years later, accused of having committed a robbery, Martin suddenly disappears. When, almost a decade later, a man arrives in Artigat claiming to be Martin, the Guerre family recognizes him as such; but doubts soon arise about his true identity.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-05-14
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Germinal
Overview: It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-09-29
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Family Jewels
Overview: The head of an aristocratic family died, so everyone gather to mourn him and see who gets what from his estate. Greed, lust, love and class conflict between the family and their payed servants create a real mess rather quickly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-03-05
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The Storytelling Show
Overview: Two children, Pierre and Jeanne, register their father into a televised contest of papas storytellers. Terrified, Laurent, the father, will have to redouble his imagination to look good next to his ruthless competitors.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-10-20
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Kaena: The Prophecy
Overview: Compelled by a mysterious force, Kaena, a rebellious, high-spirited teenage girl will defy the High Priest and her people's ancestral beliefs to take the perilous journey through the Axis and discover what dark secrets lie beyond the clouds.
Genres: Animation Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-06-04
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La Menace
Overview: Henri Savin has managed a trucking company for his lover, Dominique Montlaur, for many years. Now he is planning to leave her for Julie Manet, the woman he has made pregnant, and Dominique is hysterical. She first threatens suicide, then shows up at a meeting of Savin and Julie. Dominique tries everything she can think of to break Savin and Julie apart, to no avail. Frustrated in her efforts, she jumps off a cliff and dies. Savin insists that he and Julie lie to the police about the encounter, although Dominique's death was a suicide and therefore they had no direct hand in it. Detective Waldeck investigates Dominique's death.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-09-28
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The Girl in the Air
Overview: Who would have expected Brigitte to marry a prisoner with a long sentence in the first place? In this romantic action movie, that is only the first in a long line of surprising actions by the young woman. Somehow, she manages to get hooked to the young prisoner before realizing that he'll be locked up for another three or four decades. She decides that this is much too long to wait to spend time with her sweetheart and decides to learn how to fly a helicopter. Why? So she can fly in and take him out of his prison yard, which is exactly what she does, thrilling romantics all over France and seriously upsetting the authorities. This award-winning film is based on a true incident from 1986.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-05-26
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