Pierre Mirat
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France
Adult: No
Birthday: February 12, 1924
Age: 101 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: July 16, 2008
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Greed in the Sun
Overview: A truck driver ventures into the Moroccan desert to retrieve a stolen truck, facing danger, bad luck, and uneasy alliances. Chaos builds to a climactic showdown.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-04-17
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A Man Named Rocca
Overview: Roberto goes to Marseilles to give a hand to his friend Xavier, wrongly imprisoned following a frame-up organized by his associate Villanova. Roberto sets out to seduce Villanova's mistress, but when Villanova is killed, Roberto ends up leader of the band...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-17
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T'aime
Overview: Zef, twenty years old, is a simple-minded man who can only say one word: "love you". Always happy, loving everyone, he lives with his sister Sophie on a farm in the Lot. Attracted by the sad smile of Marie, he rapes her one evening without realizing the gravity of his act. Commited in a psychiatric asylum, Zef falls into a deep silence. Hugues, a doctor with avant-garde methods, is in charge of caring for Marie. He decides to confront her with Zef, convinced that her healing goes through a long reappropriation of life and love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-04-26
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Asterix in Britain
Overview: One little ancient British village still holds out against the Roman invaders. Asterix and Obelix are invited to help. They must face fog, rain, warm beer and boiled boar with mint sauce, but they soon have Governor Encyclopaedius Britannicus's Romans declining and falling. Until a wild race for a barrel of magic potion lands them in the drink.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-12-03
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125 rue Montmartre
Overview: Desperate, Didier throws himself out in the Seine. Pascal, a newsboy, jumps and saves him. It’s the beginning of the friendship between them.Once, as Pascal helps Didier, he finds himself involved in a murder. Only the superintendent believes in his innocence…
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-09-09
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Échec et meurtre
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-01-01
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Le gardian
Overview: The guardian is engaged to a girl from a good family, but the intervention of a gypsy will make his heart lean. This one comes in fact to take revenge and will try to kill him.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-05-15
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The Triumph of Michael Strogoff
Overview: In this adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, the Czarina asks an intrepid colonel to protect her nephew as he fights an invasion in 19th century Russia.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-15
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Symphony for a Massacre
Overview: A band of gangsters devise a plan to steal a game contested between two drug gangs of drug traffickers: the five fraudsters will face bigger problems than them.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-04-23
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Big Deal
Overview: Paul and Thérèse have sold their café on the outskirts of an airport to buy one in Marseille. The business is going well until they discover that their bistro is being used as a hub for drug trafficking. To stop the traffic, they reignite a gang war.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-29
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La grande bretèche
Overview: Transposed to the 1960s, this short story by Balzac tells the story of a jealous husband who hears a door slam when he returns home. His wife swears there was no one there, but refuses to open the oil tank. To get to the bottom of it, the husband has fuel delivered. To what fatal outcome will their stubbornness lead them?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-10-14
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Overview: Dany Longo is red-haired, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-22
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L'Affaire Lourdes
Overview: In Lourdes, in the 1860s, the young Bernadette disturbs despite herself the peaceful life of the small town. She is the only one to see the apparition of The Lady, every day. The villagers take sides, the notables try to stifle the affair. But crowds come from all over the country. Inspired by the true story of the Lourdes affair.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-11-07
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Head Against the Wall
Overview: An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-20
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Chicken Feed for Little Birds
Overview: In a building close to the Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris, a tale of criss‑crossings in turn romantic, gourmet, interested or mystical, between an Italian gigolo and a nightclub hostess, a family of butchers and an apprentice rocker, a mystic tailor, a writer sending himself telegrams, an alert paralytic woman, a thoughtful concierge, a bird breeder and a just‑out‑of‑jail hooligan. Little by little each one discovers each other’s more or less troubled history… when a mysterious death introduces the Police within this huis clos, hastens disclosure of well‑kept secrets and ruffle this little World.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-02-15
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The Fighting Musketeers
Overview: D'Artagnan is back from England with a message for the queen. Buckingham has declared that he was ready to attack France to deliver Anne of Austria. D'Artagnan ends up arrested and thrown into prison. Musketeers wonder how to rescue their friend.
Genres: Adventure History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-10-04
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Mektoub
Overview: Ahmed, an Algerian laborer and young father, leaves his country and arrives in France, hoping to find a job through Salah, a friend who has been living in the Paris suburbs for several years. He is disappointed when he arrives in Nanterre, where Salah lives in a shantytown. Without any support, Ahmed has to make the daily rounds of the employment offices, like so many other immigrants who, like him, have been lulled into complacency.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-23
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Crazy in the Noodle
Overview: Pierre Cousin, a depressive compositor, wants to die. After five vain attempts at committing suicide, he decides to hire professional hit men to do the job on him. But as he's waiting for death, he accidentally saves a suicidal young woman's life... and falls in love. Having suddenly found a reason to live, he now fears the killers he himself hired. Is there still time to call off his contract?
Genres: Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-05-14
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Too Many Lovers
Overview: The charming Lulu, a cabaret singer and dancer, has no shortage of admirers. When she decides to get married, she sets her heart on Robert, a young industrialist, but he is already married. Disappointed, she sets out in search of the ideal man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-12-11
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Whereabouts Unknown
Overview: Michel Thierry is asked by the Second Bureau to go to Provence to help two colleagues, Leroy and Orcado, who are monitoring a gang of arms dealers. As soon as he arrives, Orcado is shot and leaves him an incomprehensible message in which three words are written: Sarah, Métis, Yerco...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-07-26
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The Boss
Overview: Pursued by a rival gang after a violent robbery, Toni escapes with nearly thirty million francs. On the train to Paris, to avoid arousing suspicion, he has no choice but to threaten an honorable philosophy professor, Justin Mignonnet, with his gun, so that he will carry the loot for him. To make sure he returns the money, he takes his papers and makes him promise to be present at the exchange appointment at the Pigalle Hotel the next day. Completely lost, Mignonnet decides to obey orders, but just as he is about to return the money, a young woman, a member of the enemy gang, comes to collect it.
Genres: Comedy Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-05-31
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Take Me As I Am
Overview: The director of the Rome office of an American news agency is seduced by his boss' daughter, who subsequently ends up dead at the foot of a cliff. Film adaptation of James Hadley Chase’s 1956 noir thriller novel You Find Him, I'll Fix Him.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-01-29
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Vacation in Hell
Overview: During the Second World War, the Martel family hides out in the Pyrenees, waiting for hostilities to end. André, a young boy, saves them from an attack by bogus resistance fighters. Hunted from all sides, he flees to Spain. Catherine Martel leads him to the border, and a romance develops between them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-05-26
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The Cat
Overview: During the Occupation, Cora takes the place of her dead husband at the head of a Resistance network. One evening, she sympathizes with Bernard, a Swiss journalist. However, he is actually an undercover German officer who is close to the man ordered to find her using an Identikit picture...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-04-19
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Keep Talking, Baby
Overview: Ex-boxer Eddie is framed for murder. While serving time, he tries to clear his name and uncover the real culprit behind the deadly setup.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-10-06
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The Heirs
Overview: Rival brother and sister Gaëtan and Chantal, the last heirs of the late billionaire financier Omar Porassis, use every trick in the book to try and claim his fabulous inheritance when two of Omar's natural sons, Roger and Marc, are found. The brother and sister try to manipulate Marc and Roger into stealing their inheritance. After discovering the deception, the two half-brothers join forces to escape the many traps set by Gaëtan and Chantal, who try to eliminate them by any means necessary.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-03-09
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Et qu'ça saute !
Overview: A uranium deposit brings turmoil to the small South American republic of Guatalpa. Between two revolutions, the government tries unsuccessfully to decide whether the Americans, Soviets or Cubans will exploit the concession. Delegates from these nations spy on and betray each other to achieve their goal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-11
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The Sword and the Balance
Overview: Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pasts are questionable, riddled with violence and controversy. Neither the police nor the court can decide how to solve that puzzle.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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Une merveilleuse journée
Overview: The unusual day of a young pharmacist's assistant, between Deauville and Cassis.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-11-12
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Chicken Soup
Overview: The fiancée of a gangster who has been shot by the police takes an entire police station hostage, armed with a revolver and a bottle of nitroglycerine...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-06-12
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Pinned to the Ground
Overview: Two young oil salesmen from Hamburg, who are tasked with buying oil from the Middle East as cheaply as possible for their company, get caught up in a clash between a local gang of drug smugglers and the police. Each stage of this dangerous adventure could earn them either twenty years in prison or liquidation by the gang. The appearance of a beautiful, somewhat enigmatic woman adds to the allure. Two middle-class existences in a foreign country, confronted with the rude methods of the police and criminal elements, form the field of tension in this adventure story, which was produced with an international cast.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-10-26
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Happy He Who Like Ulysses
Overview: For 25 years now, under the Provence sun, Antonin, a farmhand, has shared his work and everyday life with a horse named Ulysse. What a shock when Pascal, the farmer, tells him he has decided to sell Ulysse to a picador for being too old. Not only will he be separated from his faithful companion, but he is well aware too that the arenas of Arles mean death for Ulysse. Being unable to stand such injustice, Antonin runs away from the farm in the company of Ulysse. Together, they go through the Lubéron, the Baux de Provence, the Alpilles, the Crau and the Vaccarès. Yet, their journey is no pleasure cruise, specially when it comes to crossing National Road 7. After a visit to Marcellin, an old friend of his, Antonin sets off again with Ulysse, this time towards the Rhône River.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-07-08
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Diamonds Are Brittle
Overview: Bernard Noblet is a modest bank clerk with a passion for billiards. His fiancée Juliette, a schoolteacher, dreams of one day living the high life, and his best friend Roger, a little-known inventor, is equally despairing. After careful consideration, a solution emerges: a cleverly organized hold-up will enable them to live in luxury for the rest of their lives. Bernard soon makes the acquaintance of Bettina and her mother, Madame Ralton, professionals in the "heist" business.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-17
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La tuile à loups
Overview: Winter 1970, France. In a small village covered in snow, an outcast bonesettler starts predicting the return of wolves in the area, but nobody wants to believe his superstitious omens. Until one day, a young man is attacted by a wolf.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-06-24
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How to Steal a Million
Overview: A woman must steal a statue from a Paris museum to help conceal her father's art forgeries.
Genres: Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-07-13
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The Long Absence
Overview: Therese, a café owner, mourns the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A tramp arrives in the town and she believes him to be her husband. But he is suffering from amnesia and she tries to bring back his memory of earlier times.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-05-17
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Monsieur chasse
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-02-24
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The Three Musketeers
Overview: The Three Musketeers (French: Les trois mousquetaires) is a 1959 French TV film based on a play adaptation of the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is notable for featuring Jean Paul Belmondo in the lead.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-12-25
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Auguste
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-08-02
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Peau de vache
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-12-19
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Folle Amanda
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-10
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Un amour de pluie
Overview: Elizabeth and her daughter Cecile spend their holidays at a lakeside resort in the French mountains. Elizabeth falls in love with a strange Italian, Giovanni, while young Cecile is courted by an apprentice cook. It seems that mother and daughter are drifting apart from each other, but then their holidays are over.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-10
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The Donkey of Zigliara
Overview: Maddalena finds that her donkey has reappeared after being missing for months. However, on the same day, a donkey disappears in a neighboring village. The unfortunate coincidence leads to "war" between the two villages.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-03
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Cocagne
Overview: As the driver of a garbage truck in Arles, Marc-Antoine leads a quiet life with his wife, Mélanie, and their two children. When Amédée's "Fanny" is stolen from the bouliste club, Marc-Antoine offers to repaint another one. As soon as the work is finished, he becomes a local celebrity and, intoxicated by his new-found fame, leaves his family to go with Hélène, the young waitress, to his friend Septime's house in the Camargue to take up painting. Eventually, Marc-Antoine realizes that he is dissatisfied and that his success seems dishonest. He realizes that happiness awaits him with his wife, children and friends, and resumes his simple life without remorse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-08
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Heures Chaudes
Overview: In this drama, a jilted bride and her little sister flee their hometown to search for better lives. They go to stay in their aunt's boarding house. There they meet a notorious philanderer and his mistress. The younger sister soon tries to lure him away from his love. Unfortunately, he falls for the older sister. As they make love, the poor little sister is left all alone.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-06-07
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Belles, blondes et bronzées
Overview: Mistaken for bank robbers, two friends stumble into a group of beautiful girls and follow them to Morocco for a dance show.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-09-23
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Neither Seen Nor Recognized
Overview: In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-04-23
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Le amorose notti di Alì Babà
Overview: Ali Baba's powerful uncle hates how his nephew visits many beds of the caliphate and fetches a professor to set Ali Baba on the straight-and-narrow, but Ali humiliates the professor. Thinking Ali Baba is gay, Qadi's wife sets up a wedding, enlisting the help of a sorceress's magic potion to make Ali Baba fall for the selected woman, but the bride-to-be falls for Ali Baba instead.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1973-10-17
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Miss Pigalle
Overview: A young woman has been run over by the car of Carlos, a brilliant embassy attaché. Feeling sorry for her, Carlos drives her to his place and decides to take her in. The young lady accepts his offer but refuses to tell Carlos her name, wanting to be called Miss Pigalle, after the Paris district where she was born. It does not take long before Yvonne (Miss Pigalle's true name) and Carlos fall in love. Life is like a dream and, when Yvonne gets pregnant, their happiness is at their peak. Unfortunately, a revolution breaks out and Carlos returns to his country in secret. Feeling forsaken and at a loss, Yvonne, who is now penniless, has no other solution but prostitute herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-07-25
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The Tattoo
Overview: An art dealer wants to buy a Modigliani, which is tattooed on the back of an old soldier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-08-17
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Sundays and Cybele
Overview: The tragic story of a young orphan girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the French Indochina War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-12
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The Suspects
Overview: When an American tourist is murdered in the south of France, the police must investigate. In this movie, the police inspector re-creates the girl's journeys through France until the murder is solved. Suspicions are narrowed down to four possible perpetrators early on, and flashbacks illuminate the roles each one played in the girl's vacation.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-11-27
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Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?
Overview: 1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears - nobody knows they've been taken captive. Only their scouting patrol, three witty but lazy guys, can escape and now wanders around behind the German lines. They'd like to just stay out the fights, but a Lieutenant urges them to use a captured truck to break through to their troops.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-24
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Le temps des copains
Overview: Three young students, who met on the train, arrive in Paris and decide to find accommodation together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-15
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Is Paris Burning?
Overview: Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-26
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Fortunate
Overview: During WW2, a posh bourgeois woman (Morgan)is compelled to live under the same room as a crude simple-minded yet big-hearted man.(Bourvil) Her husband was arrested by the Gestapo and she is a hunted woman.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-11-16
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A Young World
Overview: A freelance photographer falls in love with a French medical student and becomes pregnant. Faced with the situation, he pressures her to have an abortion, even sleeping with an older woman for money. She later decides to keep the baby.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-03-25
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