David Gabison
Also Known As: Alain Gabison, Alain David, Alain David-Gabison
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: August 25, 1939
Age: 85 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 20, 2020
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American Cuisine
Overview: Following his discharge from the Navy for hitting a superior officer, Loren takes a chance and moves to France, to learn haute cuisine under a four star chef...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-10-21
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Let's Make a Dirty Movie
Overview: A bumbling film crew attempts to make a porno movie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-02-17
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My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument
Overview: Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other lovers?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-01
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The Sorceress
Overview: An adaptation of La Sorcière from Jules Michelet
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-05-25
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25 décembre 58, 10h36
Overview: Two children are cycling in a street of the Butte Montmartre, one of them falls and kills himself on the spot. The witnesses of the tragedy meet again 30 years later.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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La Ceremonie
Overview: Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-08-30
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The Police War
Overview: Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the underworld.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-11-14
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Dear Inspector
Overview: When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy of the National Assembly has been murdered. She has a suspect, another Deputy, and must track him while deflecting Antoine's eye from her vocation. All roads in the inquiry lead to Christine Vallier, the dead Deputy's mistress, a beguiling 22-year-old whose mother ran the Assembly's snack bar. When more deputies die and Antoine learns Lise's identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-01-18
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Le Tueur triste
Overview: A crime comedy directed by Nicolas Gessner.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-12-21
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Lady Oscar
Overview: Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the guards at Versailles under King Louis XVI and Marie Antonette. Her privileged, noble life comes under fire as she discovers the hard life of the poor people of France. She is caught up in the French Revolution, and must choose between her loyalty and love.
Genres: History Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-03-03
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Is This Reasonable?
Overview: A young journalist comes from Nice to Paris to meet with the famous judge, Simon, hoping he will help her understand a case. She does not know that, according to the will of fate, in the office of judge was fugitive criminal. The couple hit the road.
Genres: Comedy Action Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-03-25
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Petit
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Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-11-01
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Judith Therpauve
Overview: A former hero of the French anti-Nazi resistance is approached by old comrades to lead a financially struggling liberal newspaper. Initially reluctant, she takes on the challenge, mortgaging her house to keep it afloat. As conservative forces intensify their opposition, she is eventually forced to sell the paper, seeing it as a personal failure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-10-06
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A Piece of Pleasure
Overview: Phillipe and Esther live an apparently idyllic life with their daughter, Elise. In an attempt to preserve this bliss, Phillipe decides that he and Esther should each have affairs, being sure to tell each other openly about them. The plan backfires with tragic results as Phillipe becomes engulfed in jealously.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-15
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The Devil in the Box
Overview: Alain Brissot, an executive in a major company, was made redundant following a redundancy plan, but decided to put up a fight by continuing to occupy his office against all odds... He soon went on hunger strike, and, after many ups and downs, ended up taking back the job of his former manager, who had himself been ousted following the failure of a lucrative contract with an African country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-04-19
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The Superb Trip
Overview: Argenteuil, July 1973. Five unstable, insecure buddies pass the boredom by pilfering in the stores and revving up their motorcycles. On the eve of July 14th, during a trip to Bastille, a motorcycle paradise, one of them, Roger, gets into a fight with a policeman and is wounded. While fleeing, he meets a young "runaway" who helps him escape the search and rejoin Anne, "his wife". Despite a rather incredible maneuver, the two boys break into an apartment and kidnap the occupants. Anne and Roger don't manage to reach each other "discreetly", and the adventure ends stupidly: surrounded by the police, Roger makes a false move and throws the motorcycle into the ditch. When they get out of hospital or prison, life starts all over again.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-22
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The Education in Love of Valentin
Overview: This sex comedy concerns the efforts of Julien to get his timid, "backward" 20-year-old son to take an interest in sex and get married. After a series of adventures with women (arranged by papa), Valentin finally gets married to a woman who appears to be as shy as he is. Things get complicated when his father begins an affair with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-05-25
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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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The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
Overview: In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe while visiting Paris and staying at the fabulous Ritz hotel. Rather than cope constructively with it all, the fellow opts to ignore it and continue living the high-life for as long as possible.
Genres: TV Movie Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-28
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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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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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The Tenant
Overview: A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-05-26
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Taxi 3
Overview: A gang of thieves calling themselves the Santa Claus Gang are wreaking havoc, and the police can't keep up. Police Captain Gilbert is distracted by a Chinese reporter writing a story on his squad, and taxi driver Daniel is in the midst of a relationship crisis. After a string of mistakes in which the thieves outsmart the police time and time again, Daniel and his super-taxi pitch in.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-29
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Le Guignolo
Overview: After the failure of his recent criminal exploits, international con artist Alexandre Dupré sets off for Venice to try to dupe some Japanese business men into buying a fake copy of a stolen Caneletto. On the aeroplane, a stranger asks him to look after his briefcase until after they have landed. Alexandre agrees, but the stranger is shot dead soon after and Alexandre himself becomes the target of enemy agents who are keen to recover the briefcase...
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-03-26
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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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These Sorcerers Are Mad
Overview: Julien est envoyé par son patron à l'île Maurice, où il fait la connaissance d'Henri, un chômeur professionnel. Un soir de beuverie, les deux hommes se soulagent au pied d'une statue sacrée. Offensés par ce sacrilège, les dieux les punissent en leur ôtant leur reflet et en les faisant léviter. Si cette situation leur paraît au début invivable, les deux hommes finissent cependant par tirer parti de ces désavantages pour régler leurs problèmes personnels.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-06-28
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A Little Romance
Overview: Intellectually precocious teenager Lauren King lives in Paris with her somewhat ditzy mother. On a movie set, she strikes up a friendship with teenage film buff Daniel Michon. After Lauren's mother forbids her to date the outspoken Daniel, the young lovebirds team up with eccentric pickpocket Julius to run away to Venice, where, according to legend, a couple who kiss under the Bridge of Sighs will stay together forever.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-04-27
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Un amour de pluie
Overview: Elizabeth and her daughter Cecile spend their holidays at a lakeside resort in the French mountains. Elizabeth falls in love with a strange Italian, Giovanni, while young Cecile is courted by an apprentice cook. It seems that mother and daughter are drifting apart from each other, but then their holidays are over.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-10
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Mr. Klein
Overview: Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with whom he could be mistakenly identified, something dangerous in such harsh times.
Genres: Mystery Drama History Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-23
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Ace of Aces
Overview: In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution, he risks his one shot at Olympic glory to save Simon and his family, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I, by an adventurous escape to Switzerland, Nazi troops on their heals and braving impossible odds in roller coaster-style.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-10-27
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We're Not Angels... Neither Are They
Overview: A group of friends is shaken when the girl falls in love. But the three boys will do anything to stop the romance.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-04-01
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Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Overview: Solange is seriously depressed, and her kindhearted husband, Raoul, makes it his mission to cure her doldrums. After many failed attempts to cheer her up, Raoul hits upon a possible solution: find his wife a lover. Unfortunately, his choice, Stéphane, proves to be just as ineffectual in restoring her flagging spirits. In the end, the gorgeous Solange finds her own, highly problematic tonic to her troubles in the form of a 13-year-old boy.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-01-11
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Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Overview: Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-03-20
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Enigma
Overview: Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-15
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Cache Cash
Overview: Antoine, 11, is on holiday with his grandfather. One night he catches thieves hiding their booty in a pond. Antoine seizes the 40 million. But Liza, his new friend, is the daughter of one of the criminals. Both children soon face threats.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-02-09
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Les Loulous
Overview: A group of young delinquents navigate the streets of Paris, engaging in petty crimes and reckless behavior. As they form volatile relationships and test the limits of their freedom, their actions lead to inevitable consequences, forcing them to confront the harsh realities of their choices.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-03-16
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Kiss of the Dragon
Overview: Liu Jian, an elite Chinese police officer, comes to Paris to arrest a Chinese drug lord. When Jian is betrayed by a French officer and framed for murder, he must go into hiding and find new allies.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-07-06
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Chanel Solitaire
Overview: The life and loves of Coco Chanel who rose from the bottom with no family or financial support and became one of the most legendary creative icons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-16
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