Louis Arbessier
Also Known As: Louis Arbeissier
Biography: Louis Arbessier (9 April 1907 – 23 March 1998) was a French film and television actor. He played Napoleon III in the 1952 musical film Imperial Violets. Amongst his television roles was that of Maigret. Arbessier was married and divorced four times, and had four children born between 1929 and 1964. His youngest son, Arnaud (born 1964), is a professional voice actor. Source: Article "Louis Arbessier" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Vienne, Isère, France
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Birthday: April 09, 1907
Age: 118 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 23, 1998
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To Skin a Spy
Overview: A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the crossfire of international enemy agents trying to eliminate the French.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-08-24
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Pasha
Overview: Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his own, which leads him through the bas-fond of Paris...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-03-14
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Little Nothings
Overview: Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have often changed their lives. Each of these stories told will prove that a tiny detail in life can change an entire destiny.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-12-16
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The President
Overview: At 73, a former President of the French Council reflects on his political career while writing his memoirs, delving into his relationships with key figures, including the one set to become the next President.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-01
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God's Thunder
Overview: Veterinarian Léandre Brassac lives with his wife Marie on a remote estate. One day, he decides to shelter a young woman with no bearings.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-08
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Les paysans noirs
Overview: Guillon, a young administrator is appointed by the French government in Ivory Coast to replace the former one, who has been assassinated. He is soon confronted to a caste oppressing the local peasants. By joining forces with the doctor and engineer he manages to restore calm. The oppressors then try terror. But the administrator refuses to be intimidated, and with the support of the natives, will be able to avenge the former administrator.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-05-06
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Thirst of Men
Overview: The establishment of a French family who came to cultivate vines in Algeria.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-03-31
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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: fr
Release Date: 1984-02-29
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Michael Strogoff
Overview: When Emir Feofar Khan, leader of the Tartar hordes, takes up arms and invades the steppes of Eastern Siberia, Czar Alexander II of Russia entrusts the brave officer Michael Strogoff with a dangerous mission.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-12-14
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Suzanne and Her Brigands
Overview: Suzanne is a lawyer, she's just got her degree and she is married to a cop. We follow her through three investigations.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-06-15
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The Happiest of Men
Overview: An industrialist who prefers painting to business is cheated on by his wife with a painter who prefers business to painting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-11-26
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Under the Sign of the Bull
Overview: In this film, Albert is an eccentric inventor of missiles who comes under fire from his investors when his first prototype explodes. Even his sympathetic mistress has her doubts, as Albert lashes out in a verbal tirade condemning those of little faith in his genius.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-03-28
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The Beautiful Otero
Overview: An Italo-French biopic about one of the most famous women of Belle Époque, Spanish-born dancer and actress, star of Folies-Bèrgere: Carolina Otero.
Genres: Drama Music Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-11-04
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End of Desire
Overview: Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon marries. Her happiness is short-lived as she finds out that not only has Julien married her for her money but he cheats on her as well, with Rosalie to crown it all.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-09-24
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We Are All Murderers
Overview: Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former lawyer who detested France's execution system. Charles Spaak's screenplay makes no attempt to launder the four principal characters (Marcel Mouloudji, Raymond Pellegrin, Antoinine Balpetre, Julien Verdeir): never mind the motivations, these are all hardened murderers. Still, the film condemns the sadistic ritual through which these four men are brought to the guillotine. In France, the policy is to never tell the condemned man when the execution will occur--and then to show up without warning and drag the victim kicking and screaming to his doom, without any opportunity to make peace with himself or his Maker. By the end of this harrowing film, the audience feels as dehumanized as the four "protagonists." We Are All Murderers was roundly roasted by the French law enforcement establishment, but it won a special jury prize at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-05-21
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
Overview: Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-02-10
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Télévision, œil de demain
Overview: Télévision, oeil de demain predicted smartphones and video calling. The film was based on a premise from the science fiction author René Barjavel, called Cinema Total, 1944.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-01-01
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Les Misérables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-03-12
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Mandat d'amener
Overview: Appointed public prosecutor in a small provincial town, Gérard Latour befriends Delanglade, whose young wife becomes his mistress. Shortly afterwards, a fire ravages Delanglade's factory. During the ensuing investigation, the Public Prosecutor discovers the troubled past of the industrialist and his front man, Jacques Perthuis, an ex-convict. They themselves set fire to the factory to collect the insurance premium. Gérard Latour, suspecting his mistress of complicity in her husband's machinations, leaves her after a stormy argument.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-08-02
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Les Rosenberg ne doivent pas mourir
Overview: A French film about a famous American trial - that of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who became the first people in American history to receive the death penalty for espionage.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-05-24
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Les Violents
Overview: Pierre Tercelin who used to be a prosperous industrialist is now ruined and embittered, having become a mere lock keeper. A widower, he lives with his daughter Evelyne, a music-hall dancer. Claiming he is being persecuted by his cousin Edgar he gets in touch again with another cousin of his he hates, Bernard, a millionaire gun runner,who is also a victim of Edgar. It must be said that both Pierre and Bernard once caused Edgar to go bankrupt... Pierre offers Bernard to join efforts against Edgar. Soon after, Bernard dies of poison, which is only the first of a series of acts of violence. Tiercelin is shot at while going back home, Bernard's son is gunned down while his sister Luciane disappears. Chief-inspector Malouvier - who oddly enough looks very much like the suspect- investigates....
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-10
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Tonight We Kill
Overview: In Antwerp, Belgium, in 1959, a succession of Interpol agents are gunned down without obtaining what they're looking for: a list of all the influential crooks. Only one remains, Larry Laine, who is about to show them what he's made of.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-09-15
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The Crab Basket
Overview: Charles is a student in Strasbourg. Abandoned by Liliane, his fiancée, who has inexplicably given up on marriage, he moves to Paris, where he decides to pursue a career in cinema. He founded a film club and became a journalist, then assistant to a famous director. Little by little, he came face to face with the various compromises inherent in this professional milieu. After writing a screenplay about his experiences, he enlists the help of Chantal, a young actress, to bring his film project to fruition.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-05-20
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Women's Prison
Overview: Alice Rémon, a pharmacist, is a prostitute who managed to leave the streets by getting married. Her husband dies one day, poisoned. Her mother-in-law, who hates her, accuses her of murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-07-15
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Rope Around the Neck
Overview: Arthur can no longer stand married life. He wants to get rid of his wife and live with his mistress. In doing so, he makes a mistake and kills his mistress Clara. But did he really commit the crime? His wife is accused. Who killed Clara?
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-08-04
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The Lion's Share
Overview: A writer is reunited with an old childhood friend, who gives him the opportunity to devise a heist.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-08
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La Station Champbaudet
Overview: The widow Champbaudet believes herself loved by an architect. But the young man actually has views on the neighbor upstairs. Cunning, he multiplies his visits to the widow with the sole aim of getting closer to the beautiful Aglaé. It was without counting on the husband of this one, whose jealousy could well play nasty tricks on the heartthrob of these ladies!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-12-27
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Charlotte
Overview: Starting as an investigation, the film begins with the discovery of a murdered young woman. Gradually we go back in time to realize that this crime is altogether the logical continuation of a philosophy of life where neither sex nor death are taboo, and where a lust for pushing limits meets it ultimate conclusion.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-11-26
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: The umpteenth adaptation of Dumas' novel finds d'Artagnan and his friends promoting the love affairs of Anne of Austria and the Duke of Buckingham, incurring the wrath of the Cardinal and exposing themselves to the cold cruelty of Milady de Winter. Also featured are the tender Mme Bonacieux, the hilarious Planchet, the Queen's ferrets and Bethune's executioner, against a backdrop of clanging swords.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-10-07
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Queen Margot
Overview: Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officially, it's a rapprochement between the League and the Huguenots. In fact, it was an opportunity to bring all the Huguenots to Paris and kill them all at once. King Charles IX fails in his attempt on Coligny's life. Queen Margot tries to save her husband from the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre by preventing the annulment of his marriage, forcing Henri to share her bed. Two knights from opposing camps are wounded and, saved în extremis, are hidden together by the queen and her cousin. Margot falls in love with one of them, but has to run to warn her husband of a new attack and cannot prevent the two knights from being beheaded.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-11-25
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La Dame de chez Maxim
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-02-12
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Imperial Violets
Overview: Violeta, an Andalusian gypsy, foretells a lady she will become empress. The lady is Eugenia de Montijo, and when she marries emperor Luis Napoleón of France she takes the young girl with her. The empress'cousin readily makes her his focus of attention, then she discovers a criminal attempt against the empress.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1952-12-12
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Les femmes savantes
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-08-19
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La Poudre aux yeux
Overview: Created in 1861, this comedy by Eugène Labiche depicts two bourgeois families obsessed with appearances who intend to marry off their children. Labiche exposes the social rivalry between the two families through tyrannical female characters and submissive husbands, whose only concern is to create illusions in society.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-10-09
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Blood on His Sword
Overview: Charles le Temeraire asks in marriage Jeanne de Beauvais, daughter of King Louis XI, wishing to get her valuable lands in dowry. The King is wise to this, and since his daughter does not feel inclined to accept, he refuses. Charles sets up a plan to abduct the prince, in a way that the suspicions will fall upon Robert de Neuville, a noble enamoured of the princess. Robert manages to free her from the castle where she was being kept. Charles keeps setting traps, and managing people to perjure against Jeanne, and the King himself. Finally, Jeanne escapes alive from a pack of wolves, who set watching the lady alone in the snow covered woods, instead of attacking her. Charles does yet accuse her of being a witch - wishing to have her dead rather than being the wife of Robert... Robert will be her champion in a Judgement of God. Will the 'miracle of the wolfs' repeat itself, or fearless Charles defeat Robert in the sword duel?
Genres: Adventure Romance Action Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-06
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To Catch a Spy
Overview: The blueprints of an aeroplane built from an ultra-secret metal are stolen from national security. French secret service agent Walder believes that the documents are now in Switzerland, in the hands of a man named Lindbaum. The latter agrees to hand over the blueprints in return for a large sum of money. Another agent, Francis Coplan, is sent to Switzerland to handle the deal, but Lindbaum only has half of the documents because he was double-crossed by Kalpannen, an international crook. With the help of Heidi, a Swiss correspondent, Coplan sets out to identify the members of Kalpannen’s gang, only to find that they have all been murdered…
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-03-15
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Mémoires d'un flic
Overview: In Marseille, crime squad captain Dominique fights against racketeers and tries to put a young man back on the right track.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-01-27
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La visite de la vieille dame
Overview: Adaptation for TV of the play by Friedrich Durrenmatt. A very rich old lady arrives in her nearly bankrupt native village. She is ready to come to the rescue but only if her old lover who had once abandoned her pregnant is killed.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-01-05
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The Great Spy Chase
Overview: A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.
Genres: Comedy Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-10
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Liberty Bar
Overview: Superintendent Maigret is sent to Antibes to elucidate the murder of William Brown, a rich Australian who regularly disappeared to indulge in formidable drinking binges. In his footsteps, Maigret makes the rounds of bars until discovering the Liberty Bar, its welcoming patroness La Grosse Jaja and its equivocal clientele. It is without a doubt here that the key to the murder is to be found.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-06-19
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The Coin
Overview: Bob recruits Jacques, a desperate blacksmith, to "recover" smuggled diamonds from de Belar. The heist goes badly wrong. The crooks kill each other for the money, but the diamonds are gone and Jacques returns to his life as an honest man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-07-01
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Série noire
Overview: Léo Fardier is a police inspector who goes to prison undercover as a convict. He shares a cell with Mariani, a Corsican mafioso, whose trust he earns. The day Léo leaves prison, the criminal entrusts him with a letter to deliver to his estranged wife. He finds her, and she falls under his spell. The problem is that he, too, has fallen in love with her.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-03-04
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The Truth
Overview: As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the two used to share.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-11-02
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The End of the Tether
Overview: An experienced but aging captain in command of the Sofala must hide the fact that he is becoming blind.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-08-15
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Elizabeth la femme sans homme
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-06-04
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The Dirty Game
Overview: A U.S. intelligence general recalls three Cold War cases of Soviet, French and Italian spies.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-23
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Demoniac
Overview: Gervais escapes from a German concentration camp and assumes the identity of a recently deceased fellow prisoner. Knowing that the dead man has been carrying on a romance by correspondence with Hélène, whom he has never seen, Gervais makes the acquaintance of the woman and they move in, but her sister Agnès dabbles in the black arts, which should be warning enough for Gervais to make himself scarce. Yet he sticks around, intrigued that the dead man's sister, Julia, refuses to blow the whistle on him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-04-26
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