Jean Champion
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire, France
Birthday: March 09, 1914
Deathday: May 23, 2001
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Day for Night
Overview: A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-24
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The Blood of Others
Overview: In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-25
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The Umbrellas of Cherbourg
Overview: This simple romantic tragedy begins in 1957. Guy Foucher, a 20-year-old French auto mechanic, has fallen in love with 17-year-old Geneviève Emery, an employee in her widowed mother's chic but financially embattled umbrella shop. On the evening before Guy is to leave for a two-year tour of combat in Algeria, he and Geneviève make love. She becomes pregnant and must choose between waiting for Guy's return or accepting an offer of marriage from a wealthy diamond merchant.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-02-19
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Le Cercle Rouge
Overview: When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-19
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March or Die
Overview: Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located in the French Morocco to protect an archaeological excavation from El Krim, a Rifian leader who intends to unite all local tribes to fight the colonial government…
Genres: Drama Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-08
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Mais qui donc m'a fait ce bébé ?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-10-27
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I Want to Go Home
Overview: Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (bande dessinée) which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled with his daughter Elsie who has been a student in Paris for two years, in flight from the American culture of which she sees her father as a typical example. Elsie is naively infatuated with French literature, and is trying to secure an introduction to the brilliant university professor Christian Gauthier, an expert on Flaubert but also an enthusiast for comic books. The meeting of father and daughter goes badly, but Elsie is persuaded to join Joey and Lena for the weekend at the country house of Gauthier's mother, Isabelle. During a comic-themed masquerade party, all of the characters are made to reconsider their present and past relationships.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-09-27
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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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Muriel, or the Time of Return
Overview: In the seaside town of Boulogne, no one seems to be able to cope with their past, least of all Hélène, an antique furniture saleswoman, her stepson Bernard, and her former lover Alphonse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-10-01
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The Hatter's Ghost
Overview: A hatter in a provincial town (Michel Serrault) leads the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial murderer. The only person to suspect this is his neighbour the tailor (Charles Asnavour).
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-05-26
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The Invitation
Overview: After the death of his mother, middle-aged insurance employee inherits her small cottage surrounded by a garden. Selling the cottage which is situated on unexploited ground near the center of a big city makes him a rich man and he buys a big house in the countryside. He takes some time off and decides to throw a big garden party at the house and invite all his colleagues from the office. Aided by alcohol, the guests gradually lose all their inhibitions and reveal personality traits and frustrations that they normally keep hidden.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-09-13
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Le naïf amoureux
Overview: Paul is an accomplished teacher at Janson-de-Sailly. A "good guy" who, having returned for the holidays to the provincial town where he was raised, finds Véronique, his childhood friend. He falls madly in love...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-06-26
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Sugar
Overview: Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-10-15
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Pierrot mon ami
Overview: Pierrot, a short-sighted, indolent and distracted young boy gets involved in a carnival at the Palais de la Rigolade whose main attraction is to place the women in an ascending current of air which makes their skirts fly. A fight in this Palace makes him lose his job. Then he meets Yvonne, the daughter of Pradonet, the owner of the funfair. He falls in love with Yvonne who hardly seems to share his feelings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-02-07
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Drummer-Crab
Overview: "Le Crabe Tambour" ("Drummer Crab") is the nickname for the mysterious central character, Willsdorff (Jacques Perrin), an Alsatian, whose doomed, out-of-date career is recalled through the tales of three naval officers currently serving aboard a French supply ship in the North Atlantic.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-11-09
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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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Mon père avait raison
Overview: After being abandoned by his wife, a man raises his son alone for twenty years.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-11-15
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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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On the Lam
Overview: A young couple of burglars, waiting for trial, marry in jail. Annick writes down her observations of the women's ward. When she hears that her lover must serve a twice as long prison sentence, she plans their escape.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-29
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The Blockhead Fair
Overview: On prize-giving day, a few dunces recall various incidents that marked their school year.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-10-30
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Guardian Angels
Overview: A sleazy Paris nightclub owner and ex-detective flies to Hong Kong to rescue the young son of a friend murdered by the Chinese mob.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-10-11
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Monsieur
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-04-22
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Le journal d’un fou
Overview: Pascal Canteloup is a proofreader at a newspaper. He is bitter and irritable towards his bosses and the people he works with. He's full of hatred about life. Little by little, he sinks into madness!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-06
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The Big Shots
Overview: Thia and Murelli, who live from car stunt shows, make ends meet by carrying out small burglaries.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-31
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Love Unto Death
Overview: A man is haunted after waking up from his sleep, during which he was pronounced dead by his doctor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-09-05
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Milady
Overview: Commandant Gardefort, horseman at the Cadre Noir Riding Academy in Saumur, having given up hope of promotion decides to retire. To fill his time until then, he buys a mare, Milady, and in two years trains her to the highest dressage haute ecole standards. But he finds himself in dire financial straits over his divorce, and is obliged to sell the mare. She is bought by a rich Belgian banker, who transforms Milady into a circus horse. Visiting him, Gardefort resolves the situation in the only way he sees fit.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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The Thief of Paris
Overview: In Paris around 1900, a young man raised by his wealthy uncle plots revenge after his cousin is betrothed to a rich neighbor. He steals the fiancé's family jewels, reveling in the thrill, and sets off on a lifelong path of burglary.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-02-22
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The Phantom of Liberty
Overview: This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-09-10
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Une robe noire pour un tueur
Overview: The "black robe" in the title of this suspense film belongs to a female lawyer, Florence Nat who has just lost a case in which she defended Simon Risler, a man wrongly accused of murder. Risler escapes before he can be put in prison, and seeks help from attorney Nat in finding the real killer, partly by going after the police inspector who framed him in the first place. A retired surgeon, in the process of setting up a drug rehab clinic gets involved in solving Risler's case, and soon the solution seems to be pointing to high-ranking figures with every desire and ample means to keep the truth well-hidden.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-01-14
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Cléo from 5 to 7
Overview: Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-04-11
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Félicité
Overview: After a bout of intense jealousy, Félicité finds herself alone. For one night, as her family dissipates, she relives her torments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-05-22
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Pillaged
Overview: Over the course of one night, a gang of twelve criminals carry out a commando-like raid on a small town.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-11-15
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Life and Nothing But
Overview: In 1920, Major Dellaplane, a man of honor and ethics, searches for missing French soldiers. He meets Madame Irène de Courtil, a politically connected Parisian, and their paths cross.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-09-06
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The Royal Chase
Overview: Two friends, who go hunting meet a woman who questions their practice.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-26
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