Laurent Malet
Also Known As: Laurent Marie Guespin-Malet
Biography: Laurent Marie Guespin-Malet (born 3 September 1955 in Bayonne) is a French actor, and the twin brother of actor Pierre Malet. Malet's stage debut came in La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu as Troilus alongside Claude Jade in 1975. In 1978 he was made famous by his Andrew alongside Donald Sutherland and Stéphane Audran in Les Liens de sang by Claude Chabrol. That same year, Gilles Béhat gave him the lead role in Haro. En 1979, he starred alongside Yves Montand in Les Routes du sud by Joseph Losey and played Lino Ventura's son in Jigsaw (L'Homme en colère). He also played Roger Bataille in Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Querelle (after Jean Genet), and starred alongside Sandrine Bonnaire in 1984's Tir à vue, directed by Marc Angelo. In 1995 he played Arthur Rimbaud in Marc Rivière's L'Homme aux semelles de vent. Highly attached to his brother and mother, he feels asked by the latter (in the terminal stages of a brain tumour) to put an end to her sufferings. He writes of this in his 2006 book En attendant la suite, in which he calls on the candidates in the presidential election to bring the state to legislate on euthanasia. Source: Article "Laurent Malet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bayonne, Pyrénées-Atlantiques, France
Birthday: September 03, 1955
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Gender: Male
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The Prude
Overview: Pierre is the artistic director of a theater, and when his daughter Manon lets him know that she is coming to see him after a year's absence, Pierre decides to prepare for the meeting. He goes to the theater with his girlfriend Ariane and has the actresses in his troupe act out different aspects of his daughter's character. Unfortunately, this is not adequate preparation, for when Manon does show up, nothing goes quite as he imagined...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-12-03
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Blood Relatives
Overview: A Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-02-01
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Bobo Jacco
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-11-07
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Kill the Referee
Overview: Michel, a referee has to suffer the consequences of having whistled a penalty against a team which is supported by football hooligans.
Genres: Thriller Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-02-22
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Love Torn in a Dream
Overview: A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the convent. These rather ironic paradoxes turn this fairytale into a philosophical fable.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-11-22
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Long Live Life
Overview: The movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to disclose the plot of the movie after leaving the projection room. Even the movie's trailer shows only a long sequence of faces gazing speechlessly in space. "Like all my movies, this one is about a man and a woman", says Lelouch in the interview.
Genres: Thriller Comedy Drama Mystery Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-04-18
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Annie Girardot selon son cœur
Overview: A gifted student, Annie Girardot thought for a while of becoming a nurse, before passing the entrance exam to the Conservatory. She leaves with two first prizes in comedy. In the theater she triumphed in "The Typewriter" by Jean Cocteau. It was Cocteau who made her cut her hair to adopt his famous short cut. The cinema opened its doors and she turned with Pierre Fresnay, then with Jean Gabin, in "Le rouge est mis" by Gilles Grangier. The Comédie-Française then asked her to make a choice. It would be the cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-12-21
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Parking
Overview: Rock star Orpheus writes love songs for Eurydice, who designs his album covers. Torn between her and his sound engineer, Calaïs, he discovers Eurydice has died of an overdose. Desperate, he descends into the Underworld to bargain with Hades.
Genres: Music Fantasy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-05-29
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Nucingen House
Overview: Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-06-03
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The Angry Man
Overview: Romain Dupree arrives to Montreal from France only to be informed that his son is dead. However the deceased is not his son but an individual who was using his passport so Dupree begins a frantic search for his son who happens to be wanted by the local mob.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-03-14
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Invitation to Travel
Overview: After his twin sister is killed in an accident, her distraught brother jams her corpse in a cello case and hits the road.
Genres: Horror Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-06-19
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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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Operation Leopard
Overview: In May 1978, the mining town of Kolwezi in Katanga, Zaire (now Democratic Republic of Congo, the former Belgian Congo) is under attack from a group of communist guerillas coming from nearby Angola. The Europeans who work for the Belgian mining company and the Blacks who live in the town are taken as hostages by the invaders, who start a blood bath, shooting Europeans as well as Africans. Many of the Europeans being French, the French decide to organize a counter-attack, and to send a Regiment of Paratroopers from the Foreign Legion. The movie follows the stories of Delbart, a former non-commissioned officer, who was about to go back to France with his African wife and his child, Damrémont, who was Delbart's replacement, Bia, a Zairian doctor, and Annie, an American married to a Belgian engineer as well as Non com Legion officer Federico and the French Ambassador and the Military Attaché.
Genres: War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-01-09
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Les amants du bagne
Overview: In 1923, Albert Londres, the famous reporter, travels to the French penal colony in French Guyana. First, officers try to hide the truth, but leaded by his own instinct he begins an investigation alongside the authorities. He didn't expect to find such inhuman conditions. He meets a prisoner, Camille, and his wife, Claudia, who's in French Guyana to find a way to free her husband. He decides to help her.
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-09-17
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That Day
Overview: A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other.
Genres: Mystery Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-06-04
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Marion du Faouët
Overview: Historical drama centred around the legendary Breton heroine Marion du Faouët who was born Marie-Louise Tromel in 1735 in the little village of Faouët in Brittany. She became the leader of a group of highway robbers.
Genres: History Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-03-17
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Roads to the South
Overview: France, 1975. Jean, an exiled Spanish Communist, is a successful screenwriter who, after a tragic event, struggles with his political commitment, his love for his country, under the boot of General Franco, whose death he and his comrades have waited for years, and his complicated relationship with his son. (A sequel to “The War Is Over,” 1966.)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-04-28
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Le Cœur à l'envers
Overview: Laure is a 40-year-old psychologist who doesn't know her son, Jean. But the latter comes back to Paris and finds a brand new woman when he sees his mother.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-09-09
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The Costly Truth
Overview: Investigating judge at the 3rd Criminal Chamber of Marseille, Françoise Larchey is the wife of Jean-Pierre Larchey, a famous architect of the Coast. The couple has a son, Valentin, seventeen years old... The death of Edith Mesniel, a local political figure, puts the town in turmoil. But when Emilie, Edith's only daughter and Valentin's girlfriend, confides to Françoise that her mother's death was not accidental, Madame le Juge decides to look into the case. By attacking this case, Françoise disturbs many people. She receives death threats, her son and Emilie are also threatened but she refuses to give up. And she discovers little by little that the mafia infiltrated in all the country.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-01-16
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Des croix sur la mer
Overview: On August 5, 1944, in Brittany, civilians fell into the hands of the German army. Among them, Jean Palu, a man like the others, who looks back on his life. Between failure and illness, he paints a bitter picture of his life.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-10-13
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La part de l'autre
Overview: Two twin brothers, Romain and Sylvain, live together in an isolated house by the ocean. Between them, violent relationships that oscillate between love and hate. The guardians of the house watch, fascinated and powerless, their dangerous games. Until the day when Hélène, who has already lived with them, returns to look for Sylvain, with whom she has chosen to live.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-07-24
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La voyante
Overview: Véra Bellini fights with her psychic friends for their gift to be recognized by medicine. But her opponent Doctor Pelletier thoughly resists and will reveal a difficult secret about Vera's life.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-09-16
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The Possessed
Overview: Russia, 1870. A group of young anarchist revolutionaries set out to overthrow the Czarist regime through violence. Their attacks create a climate of psychosis and mutual distrust among the population, but in reality, both revolutionaries and repressors are being manipulated by a diabolical individual.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-02-24
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Fire on Sight
Overview: Inept policemen try to stop an amoral young duo on a spree of robbery and murder in France.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-09-05
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Sword of Gideon
Overview: Chronicles a Mossad team hand picked to hunt down the terrorists involved in the 1972 Munich Olympic massacre of Israeli athletes.
Genres: Action Drama Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-01
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Querelle
Overview: A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug-smuggler and murderer, embarks upon a voyage of highly charged and violent homosexual self-discovery that will change him forever from the man he once was.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-09-08
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Galilée ou L'Amour de Dieu
Overview: Before the court of the Inquisition, the scientist Galileo defends his position in favor of Copernicus' thesis that the Earth revolves around the sun.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-01-06
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Hue and Cry
Overview: After the Great War, a wounded Frenchman lives atop a mountain with his wild brother who violates the property of villagers below.A second kind of war ensues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-02-22
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Charlie Dingo
Overview: Charlie (Guy Marchand) returns home after being declared legally dead to reclaim his wife Georgia (Caroline Cellier) and cash in on a lucrative life insurance policy in this shadowy drama. He finds Georgia is married to the crooked cop William (Niels Arestrup), who has his eye on the insurance money. Antihero Charlie and the villainous police inspector head towards an inevitable confrontation, while Georgia is caught in the middle.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-10-07
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The Happiest Place on Earth
Overview: The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was discovered during the filming of Mermoz (1943).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-04-28
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Arthur Rimbaud, l'homme aux semelles de vent
Overview: After abandoning his poetry, from 1880 until his death in 1891, Arthur Rimbaud drifts between Yemen and Abyssinia as a shopkeeper, trader, explorer, and arms trafficker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-11-27
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dans la solitude des champs de coton
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-12-31
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