Philippe Dumat
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Neuilly sur Seine, France
Birthday: March 04, 1925
Deathday: January 10, 2006
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Soft Skin
Overview: Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married with Franca and father of Sabine, around 10. He starts a love affair with air hostess Nicole, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stand staying away from her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-04-20
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La Femme fatale
Overview: Fanny Le Doublond has a lover, Jean, and her husband is beginning to have suspicion. To calm him down she makes him believe that Jean dies of love for another woman and wants to commit suicide if his love is not returned. The two accomplices select a young creature named Claire Coussol for the (unwitting role)of the "beloved". As for Jean, he plays the suicidal man to perfection. But what the two lovers had not planned at all is that Claire, deeply moved by Jean's "act of desperation", starts growing fond of him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-04-12
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Le Mystérieux Monsieur Sylvain
Overview: In an aero-naval base, a marine engineer who was about to deliver the name of a redoubtable spy is murdered. Shortly afterwards three different men appear on the crime scene, each of them claiming to be Monsieur Sylvain, the expected sleuth. But which of the three investigators is actually Sylvain? And what about this delightful young lady who arouses one of the police inspectors? Couldn't she be the murderous spy?
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-04-16
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The Passerby
Overview: A woman who has a terrible secret to conceal takes refuge on a barge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-18
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Jaloux comme un tigre
Overview: Henri has a beautiful wife, Sophie. Unfortunately, suffering from an unhealthy jealousy, he spends much of his time watching his wife's every move, and a few domestic scenes often ensue.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-06-16
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Sex Life in a Convent
Overview: 120 schoolgirls live in a Catholic boarding school for girls together with nuns, who teach them, but secular teachers are also employed here. Behind the conservative façade of decency, discipline and order, there are unsuspected sexual abysses.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1972-01-28
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Asterix vs. Caesar
Overview: Obelix falls for a new arrival in his home village in Gaul, but is heartbroken when her true love arrives to visit her. However, the lovers are kidnapped by Romans; Asterix and Obelix set out to rescue them on a dangerous journey that will involve gladiators, slavers and beauracracy - and a personal encounter with the Emperor himself, Julius Caesar...
Genres: Comedy Animation Family Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-03-06
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Reproduction interdite
Overview: An art dealer in dire straits, after being ripped off by two crooks, one of whom owns a genuine painting by Gauguin while the other is an expert copyist, finds them again and, instead of killing them as he originally intended, joins in their game – with ultimately disastrous results.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-02-06
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Mad Race to Cote d'Azur
Overview: A surgeon saves an notorious mobster's life. This could be the answer to the doctor's problems, as he is engaged to an unbearable, hysterical woman. The mobster agrees to assassinate her. Except for one thing. The mobster has the wrong target, a young, innocent journalist who resembles his fiancee. When the surgeon discovers they are after the wrong woman, he takes off in a mad race to Cote d'Azur to save the wrong woman from being murdered.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-06-13
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Holy Year
Overview: Two bank robbers, an old and a young, escape from prison to get to the hidden loot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-04-23
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Le voleur de feuilles
Overview: An old vagrant accidentally meets a man who has just killed his wife. They are both housed with an old woman who lives in the nostalgia of a youthful love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-06-20
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Beast at Bay
Overview: Melun, on 1959. On the return to an auction, a young and attractive widow, Elisabeth Vernon, finds at her home(with her) a wounded escapee of prison. The fugitive, Daniel Morane, is a handsome boy and justifies himself crimes(murders) of which we accuse it. The young woman is allowed convince, seduce, feels sorry, and agrees to help him(it). But during their escape(mare), the doubt seizes her …
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-06-17
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Les Livreurs
Overview: These two friendly delivery boys from a Parisian department store not only take their job to heart as much as possible, but also consider themselves responsible for the happiness of the customers they have to deliver to. This leads them successively to help, at the cost of incredible acrobatics, a young couple celebrating the first anniversary of their marriage, to mingle with the clientele of a rather disquieting doctor, to almost perish in an ambush that was of course not intended for them, and to avoid a domestic quarrel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-07-24
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La salamandre d'or
Overview: In 1525, on the evening of the Battle of Pavia, François 1er was taken prisoner by the armies of Charles-Quint, with the Constable de Bourbon on their side. His mother, regent of the kingdom, commissioned the king's loyal equerry, Antoine de Montpezat, to raise a ransom of two million ecus and send it to Madrid. Despite the treachery of Vandoeuvre, governor of Languedoc and supporter of the connétable de Bourbon, who has his eye on the French throne, Montpezat accomplishes his mission and is reunited with his fiancée, who had almost married the traitor Vandoeuvre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-31
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Céleste
Overview: Georges Cazenave, a " politically committed" French TV reporter leads a good life. Besides having a regular mistress in the person of Hélène, he is a ladies man with "a girl in every port". But this comfortable situation is challenged the day he hires Céleste as his housemaid. A Portuguese immigrant, she soon appears to be a Marxist-Leninist activist, engaged in political groups working against the regime of Salazar, the dictator of Portugal. Geoges and Céleste fall in love with each other, which brings adventure in the reporter's hitherto superficial life, upset by a breakup with Hélène, the interference of the French Secret Service and a touch of terrorism.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-12-10
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The 1001 Gags of Spiff & Hercules
Overview: Hercule wishes to be recognized at last as the star that he always was. He does not accept that Pif, this fleabag, can delight stardom. He decides, therefore, on an impulse, to change his life and retire to a deserted island- or the nearest thing: to relate his career and write his own film. In a paradise-like setting, Hercule recounts the biggest roles of his career. Pif isn't absent from his memories, but Hercule still considers him to be a fifth wheel... However, this, in reality, is not exactly the case.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-02-09
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le vol d'Icare
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-11-22
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Line Up and Lay Down
Overview: Erotic comedy about an incorrigible womanizer whose lecherous love life becomes too much to handle. Things culminate when his jealous friends arrange for his fiancee and his mistresses to meet him at the same time.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-08-29
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La Main passe
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-12-31
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Le troisième témoin
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-10-13
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L'École des contribuables
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-06-26
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Le Traité d'Auteuil
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-08-02
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The Little Bather
Overview: Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-03-22
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Double Verdict
Overview: Richard killed his wife out of jealousy, but was acquitted. During the vacations, he meets a young girl and decides to start a new life with her. Knowing Richard's past, his father warns them of the risks involved, and once again blinded by jealousy, he tries to kill his wife. He is then shot dead by his father-in-law.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-08-02
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The American Beauty
Overview: Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-29
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Clockwork Bananas
Overview: Gilles, who operates a money losing garage, teams up with his friends Max, who operates a scrap yard, and lawyer Xavier to open a brothel catering to women. They get the idea from Gilles' secretary Irma, a former prostitute. They are assisted in the implementation by Max's wife Juliette and Sabine who is mad for Gilles. Unfortunately Gilles has fallen for Florence the daughter of the conservative Prime Minister and his wife. When the Prime Minister tries to shut down the brothel Gilles decides to stand against him in the election.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-08-09
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Squeak-squeak
Overview: Léonard Monestier owns a large fortune, alas his wife Cynthia made a bad investment in a worthless oil concession. Far from letting this get him down, Léonard decides to find a sucker to buy this concession from him. Right on cue appears Antoine Brévin, a befuddled billionaire who is very interested in Léonard's beautiful daughter Patricia and would do anything to win her hand...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-20
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Let's Rob the Bank
Overview: Shopkeeper Victor Garnier has naively invested his family's life savings in an African mine, on his banker's recommendation. When the mine is nationalized, rendering the stock worthless, he considers himself shamelessly robbed by the bank; it seems only fair to him to return the 'favor' and rob the bank, teaming up with the whole family as they were all duped. Even for professionals such an enterprise -he decides to dig a tunnel- is quite demanding, but for simple commoners it's daunting, as they also have their personal downsides; thus Victor's wife has a most unwelcome tendency to blurt out the truth, even to the grumpy local copper: a crazy risk when you need to keep a criminal plan secret.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-02-25
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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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La Maîtresse de bridge
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-11-28
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The American
Overview: A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among old friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-09-24
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Le Trou
Overview: Four prison inmates have been hatching a plan to literally dig out of jail when another prisoner, Claude Gaspard, is moved into their cell. They take a risk and share their plan with the newcomer. Over the course of three days, the prisoners and friends break through the concrete floor using a bed post and begin to make their way through the sewer system -- yet their escape is anything but assured.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-03-18
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Unexpected
Overview: An English teacher seduces a young student in the company of his wife to help him in an ambitious plan with the kidnapping of a newborn baby of a wealthy businessman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-04-20
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People in Luck
Overview: A light French comedy of 5 segments.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-04-26
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Deux Romains en Gaule
Overview: This film is directly inspired by Asterix, created by René Goscinny and Albert UDERZO, chronicles the adventures of a little boy, Antoine, entered the world of antiquity by studying its history lesson and two Romans, and TICKETBUS PROSPECTUS, who prefer to leave their life of legionnaires and discover the lifestyle of Gaulois.Antoine meeting Asterix cartoon form, which explains certain peculiarities of life in Lutetia.
Genres: Comedy Animation TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-02-25
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Les p'tits schtroumpfs
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Genres: Animation Family Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-03-23
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Le bébé schtroumpf
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-12-12
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