Michel Beaune
Also Known As: Michel Bosne
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Clichy, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Birthday: December 13, 1933
Deathday: July 24, 1990
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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The Loner
Overview: In Paris , Commissioner Stan Jalard and Inspector Simon Lecache plan to quit the police to go and enjoy a more peaceful life in the West Indies. In a nightclub, during a routine visit, they spot Schneider, a dreaded gangster and public enemy. At the time of his arrest, Simon is killed at close range by the criminal. Stan then decides to stay in the police to avenge Simon. Being the godfather of Christian, Simon's son, who sometimes lives in a boarding school, sometimes at home, he takes charge of his education. Two years later, Stan has been promoted, and he's told that Schneider had resurfaced in the capital. A long hunt begins.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-03-18
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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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« Allô police » Retour à l'envoyeur
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-07-20
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T'es fou Marcel
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Stavisky...
Overview: Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French political power. But when his great scam involving millions gets exposed, he brings the government to the verge of collapse and the country to the brink of civil war.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-15
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The Confession
Overview: The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-04-29
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Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
Overview: A foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. However, when he reaches fifty and becomes tired of his responsibilities and of his son Jean-Philippe, he decides to disappear at sea. However, he runs into Albert Duvivier, one of his former employees. He comes to realise that he has ignored the important things in his life.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-11-30
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The Body of My Enemy
Overview: A man accused of murder discovers a trail of corruption leading to the powerful family of his former love. Going underground, he seeks allies in a town where trust is scarce.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-10-13
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The Vultures
Overview: April 5, 1943: a battalion of the Foreign Legion arrives in El Ksour, Tunisia, to escort a fortune in gold bars to the home front. A German ambush awaits, and all but four die. Thanks to the street smarts of Sergeant Augagneur, the Legionnaires successfully counter attack. The bank manager and his seductive wife arrive, and so does a German lieutenant, whom the French arrest. Augagneur wants to steal the gold; warrant officer Mahuzard wants to do his duty. A series of alliances form and break apart, the group dwindles in number, and the gold heads south toward Betahoua. But in whose possession?
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-03-28
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Let Joy Reign Supreme
Overview: A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-03-23
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The Inheritor
Overview: After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...
Genres: Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-22
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Mesrine
Overview: Mesrine was the foremost criminal, public enemy N°1, the man most wanted in France, guilty of 39 crimes. "In the police or newspaper history, Mesrine broke all records". The film begins with his escape on May 8, 1978. Mesrine was the only man to escape from La Santé. We relive the 18 crazy months he spent on the run and his encounter with Sylvia who is swept into his madness.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-29
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Gaspard des montagnes
Overview: We are in 1814, in Auvergne, in the dark fir forests of Livradois, near La Chaise Dieu. Gaspard and his beautiful cousin Anne-Marie see their love thwarted and their lives disrupted because of a treasure that an old uncle, who made his fortune in Guadeloupe, buried in the mountains of Auvergne.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-12-30
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Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
Overview: "Hangar" is a new agency whose purpose is to carry out missions even too sensitive for the police or intelligence services. The agency must eliminate a German female terrorist by the name of Birgitt Haas. The murder is to be disguised as a crime of passion, so an agent must lure Birgitt into falling in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-09-02
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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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Un jeu d'enfer
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Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-26
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The Fighter
Overview: Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking for his loot worth 6 million francs.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-02-02
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Les Avocats du Diable
Overview: In 1958 in Paris, during the Algerian War, a young trainee lawyer, Maître Chabrier, was assigned to defend an Algerian garbage collector against paratroopers who had beaten him. Stay out of Algerian affairs, his peers advise him because the trial is taking a political turn. Chabrier acquired the reputation of the Fellaghas' lawyer.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-19
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Ma cousine de Varsovie
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-01-01
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Courage fuyons
Overview: At forty years old, Martin Belhomme leads a quiet life with his wife and two children. One day, he falls hopelessly in love with Eva, a cabaret singer. He decides to follow her to Amsterdam. From then on, his life becomes very eventful!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-10-17
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Coup de Torchon
Overview: A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-11-04
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Incorrigible
Overview: Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is to make enough money to build a sea wall to protect Mont-Saint-Michel. Charlotte, a parole officer, shows up: she's young and seems taken in by Victor. He discovers she lives above the Senlus Museum, where her parents are the curators. With two pals he decides to steal a priceless El Greco triptych and then ransom it back to the cultural ministry. What will Charlotte do when she realizes he's used her to make a fortune?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-15
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The Syringe
Overview: Good dope is becoming rare in the North of Paris. Drugstores are being raided by junkies and gangs are nervous, fighting each others: the 'Viets', the 'Blackies', the 'Arabs', the neo-nazis 'Justiciers' and some mean gays. Vincent (Daniel Auteuil) is the good cop coming from Marseilles where he was a gangster. He's a soft method guy but also kicks assses hard and throw lethal dialog lines when needed. With the precious help of 'l'Arbalète'* (Marisa Berenson**), a tox' prostitute ex-member of Vincent's former gang, he will try to put order in that mess. There's also a violent and racist cop (Marcel Bozzuffi), Algeria veteran with hard methods, whose role could be more than to protect and to serve.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-11-14
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Happy Easter
Overview: Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle drops his wife Sophie off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie, who has just had a fight with her married boyfriend. He gets her back to his apartment and is preparing for a sexy weekend, when his wife suddenly returns home. He makes up a bizarre, on-the-spot, spur-of-the-moment story that the gorgeous girl is actually his long-lost daughter. Julie plays along, but this leads to a whole series of increasingly ridiculous lies and comical situations (such as when her real mother shows up).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-10-24
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The Question
Overview: 1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-05-04
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Un jour, la fête
Overview: Michel returns from a trip. He meets up with his friends from the H.L.M. housing estate. Together, they have set up a meeting place. The developer has the place demolished. Furious, instead of rebelling, the friends organize a party in the housing estate. The party gets off to a good start, but a tragic event interrupts it...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-02-19
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Sortie de secours
Overview: A failed actress sinks into neurosis and mythomania. To give relief to her dismal existence, she engages in all kinds of activities ranging from false testimony to occasional prostitution.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-30
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The Informer
Overview: The girlfriend of an associate of a gangland boss, is persuaded by a police detective to inform about her lover's associates.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-06
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Honeymoon
Overview: A Frenchwoman in Manhattan, in danger of being deported because of her relationship with a recently arrested drug offender, enters into a marriage of convenience with a stranger that is arranged through an agency. But even though the two are not supposed to even meet, her new husband starts taking his faux wedding vows entirely too seriously.
Genres: Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-11-20
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Kean
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-11-12
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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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The Time to Die
Overview: The movie starts with a mysterious girl riding her horse into a tree. Then she's rescued by millionaire Max Topfer, who is startled to discover in her possession a video showing him being shot by a man he doesn’t know. Both the girl, who has total amnesia, and the tape appear to have come from the future. With the aid of bodyguard Helmut, Max Topfer tries to find out why a total stranger is apparently going to kill him on camera.
Genres: Crime Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-07-08
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The French Detective
Overview: When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning from his superiors. When he embarrasses Lardatte while disarming a hostage (the dead volunteer's father), Verjeat is told he's being transferred within a week. He speeds up his hunt for the goon and, with Lefévre, one of his young detectives, he engineers a complicated scheme to buy more time before the transfer. How should Verjeat play out his values of honor and duty?
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-10
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Backfire
Overview: A greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout accompanied by the smuggler's sexy girlfriend.
Genres: Crime Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-09-04
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The Assassination
Overview: Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to film a television special about the Third World. Sadiel, the exiled leader of a North African state, is being hunted by the ruthless Colonel Kassar, who will stop at nothing to capture his political rival. Once Sadiel arrives in Paris, Darien realizes he has been manipulated. He tries to turn back the clock, not realizing what or who he’s truly dealing with.
Genres: Thriller History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-04
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The Bit Between the Teeth
Overview: Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math whiz who uses his talent for picking the winners. Charles (Michel Galabru) is the wealthy scrap-iron magnate who has embarrassing evidence on many prominent political figures. Loic (Jacques Dutronc) is the aspiring politico who seeks to further his career by any means possible. Charles approaches Loic and asks his political party for a loan in hopes of fixing an upcoming race....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-09-01
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Cop or Hood
Overview: When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers a mare's nest of police corruption. In fact, in this comedy thriller the whole town is corrupt. If they were closely examined, Stan's methods for pursuing this investigation might embarrass the police. For instance, he drives into a criminal's house in a fancy, expensive race car. In another incident, he callously blows up a casino owned by Musard , one of the town's crime bosses. On that occasion, he first forces Musard to remove his clothes, and the poor criminal watches his casino explode from across the square while standing naked in a phone booth. Meanwhile, Stan seduces the lovely Edmonde.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-03-28
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Un beau ténébreux
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-08-10
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Tout le monde peut se tromper
Overview: A young woman, employed in a jewelry store, decides to take advantage of the heist she witnesses. She shoots down one of the burglars; the other will pursue her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-02-10
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Feu sur le candidat
Overview: Robert Cavaillon is the king of the pet food industry. After he sold the factory to his workers, he decided to run for office. His campaign in support of animal rights gives him a lead in the opinion polls - which worries the main political parties. Since his past is unassailable, his political opponents decide to give the job of getting rid of him to a bizarre couple - a professional killer called Jean and a high-class call girl named Clara. The pair has to ruin him with scandal and then eliminate him for good. Jean's first attempt at his task is a failure: instead of a killer he ends up looking like Cavaillon's savior and friend. Clara is forced to play the role of the killer's tender wife, because their victim sees them as a kindly pair not interested in using him for his position like everyone else. Between one bungled assassination attempt and the next, the three are enmeshed in an intense relationship in which their roles all change.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-07-04
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