Claude Melki
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint-Denis, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Birthday: February 23, 1939
Deathday: March 29, 1994
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Les Disparus de Saint-Agil
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-09-16
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Brigitte and Brigitte
Overview: Episodes in the lives of two country girls at school in Paris and their opinions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-12-17
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Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad
Overview: In a cul-de-sac in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Leon shares two rooms with his sister Marie. In one, he receives his clients: he is a tailor. In the other, Marie receives her own: she is a clairvoyant. Leon was happy until he learned what Marie was hiding from him. She is actually a prostitute, and Maxime, her supposed fiancé, is her pimp. On the same day, Leon also discovers love in the form of Arlette, a provincial young woman picked up by Marie.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-03-01
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The House
Overview: Former professor of natural history, Louis Compiegne lives in retirement in a big house, with Pascal, his faithful servant. The arrival of a young American student comes to disorder the quiet life of the pensioner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-08-26
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A Slightly Pregnant Man
Overview: Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young son. After a series of nauseous dizzy spells he goes to the doctor and discovers that he is four-months pregnant. Marco then becomes internationally famous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-09-20
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Godefinger ou Certaines chattes n'aiment pas le mou
Overview: In the far away African country of Tagabombo a millionaire adventurer has died. His ex-wife and a private detective are more than interested in his money.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-04
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The Acrobat
Overview: Leon who works as a bathhouse attendant discovers a passion for the tango that will change his life. He falls in love with Fumée, a young and pretty prostitute who becomes his partner in tango contests.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-10
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L'Agression
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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L'Amour ou presque
Overview: Without warning, Mélie disembarks on the cargo ship where her father has the sailor's blues. He remembers his drifts and his friend Max who used to get him into some crazy situations. He remembers Alice and Luc whom he decided to avenge. He has his grenade ready. But Melie has just arrived.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-11-20
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L'attentat
Overview: André is a loser. He dreams of becoming a great writer and being sought after by wonderful women. To make something interesting happen in his life he visits political meetings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-01-01
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The Braggart
Overview: Lieutenant Gilles Castelet would have liked to marry like anybody else. But he has always been under the sexual spell of Colonel Popoti's wife. Once returned to civilian life he tries desperately to escape her, all the more as she is now widowed and she shamelessly chases him away. One day, Gilles meets Charlie, a former army buddy. His friend, sorry about what happens to him, undertakes to rid him of the possession he is under.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-06-16
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The Man with Connections
Overview: Following "The Two of Us", Claude is now 21 years old. Content with his life, he has a girlfriend Tania and he aspires to become an actor. When he receives his draft notice, a friend convinces Claude he can get out of military service with his connections in Paris. When the connections fall through, Claude is sent for basic training outside Paris before being shipped off to Algeria. His stops in Morocco and Algeria are uneventful as far as military action goes. He returns home with few bad memories of his army life ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-04-15
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Six in Paris
Overview: Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rohmer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-05-19
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Threshold of the Void
Overview: The young artist Wanda Leibovitz comes to Paris, hoping to forget unfortunate love. Soon after arrival directly at the station Wanda meets the mysterious old woman suggesting to rent at it the room (whom the old woman, allegedly, held ready for the now deceased sister). Wanda doesn't know yet that this room will change all her life shortly after it slightly opens a mysterious forbidden door.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-27
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Line of Sight
Overview: Pedro returns to the castle of his childhood, inhabited by his uncle, an indifferent being who scarcely notices his presence. At the castle, Pedro wanders between the park and the salons, playing the songs he composed on the guitar. He notices strange people around the castle.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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What Did I Ever Do to the Good Lord to Deserve a Wife Who Drinks in Cafes with Men?
Overview: Gaby is happy. After eighteen years of work, he is a flourishing mechanist. But one day, the mechanic of his life is out of order. He discovers that his assistant is in love with his wife. This one runs away with her daughter in law. So, Gaby's friends imagine a gambit to find them, at the moment where father and son enjoy pleasures of single life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-08-06
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The Blood
Overview: An apocalyptic vision of man after a cosmic catastrophe, this film is a terrifying metaphor of a dehumanized future. The Brazilian Cinema Novo, German expressionism of the twenties, and the ideologically motivated ‘cruelty’ of a Buñuel come together in this ferocious work of a French theatre collective – an ambitious, almost completely successful example of visual cinema at its best.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-03-20
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Salut, voleurs!
Overview: In this French crime caper film, a young misfit who has grown tired of his job as a bank teller deliberately gets fired. When some underworld characters ask him to share the layout of the bank so that they can more effectively rob it, he does. He also joins in the robbery. But when members of the gang start shooting at one another, it becomes clear that he is definitely in over his head.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-06-21
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Up and Down
Overview: A bicycle race is held every year in a pass of the Alps called Parpaillon. With the energy of a skillful cyclist perhaps as a great tribute to François, the mailman played by Tati in The Big Day, Moullet makes a comedy by pedaling at a pace that allows him to reinvent the possibilities of film gags. La Cabale des oursins is a guided tour to the northern France, transformed into a Geography lesson in the pataphysical style of an Alfred Jarry disciple.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-03-27
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Rue Saint-Denis
Overview: A lonely dishwasher hires a prostitute and brings her to his dingy apartment to enliven his dreary life for a night.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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The Big Softie
Overview: A young man who lives with his aunt falls for a free-spirited German model in this uninspired drama. Although he runs off with her for the summer, he returns to his aunt to live off her money after the model and an old flame rekindle their romance. The story unfolds in a series of flashbacks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-08-30
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Million Dollar Man
Overview: A U.S. Treasury Department agent is sent to Morocco to find a fortune in counterfeit money hidden by the Nazis during World War II. The agent escapes from prison with the only man who knows the location of the bogus bills. The duo is shadowed by a group of former Nazi soldiers who hope they will lead them to recover the lost loot. The feature plays as a crime drama with overtones of international espionage.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-08-31
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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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La jeune femme et la mort
Overview: A short film by Jean Douchet
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-01-01
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Subway
Overview: Fred, a raffish safe blower, takes refuge in the Paris Metro after being chased by the henchmen of a shady businessman from whom he has just stolen some documents. While hiding out in the back rooms and conduits of the Metro, Fred encounters a subterranean society of eccentric characters and petty criminals.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-04-10
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Contretemps
Overview: As a rereading of his films, "Contretemps" (in the fight against time), Jean-Daniel Pollet brings together excerpts of his films and a report by Jean Baronnet. The author Philippe Sollers and philosopher Julia Kristeva voice their thoughts.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-04-18
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Gala
Overview: Gala (1961), a more polished version of Pourvu, set in a black cha-cha nightclub. Relying more upon looks, faces, and unease, rather than gags or dialogue, Pollet sets the cool elegance of the club's manager against the decidedly uncool Melki and his sartorial inadequacies. - Village Voice
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-01-01
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As Long as You Get Drunk...
Overview: A study of loneliness set in a dance hall of suburban Paris.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-04-23
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La bande du Rex
Overview: What do Patricia, Badou, François, Dingo and P'tit Jeannot have in common? They live in the Paris suburbs, they are young, they are on the verge of breaking away from school, from the working world or from the Army. Their meeting place is "La Javanaise", a bar held by no-nonsense Janine and her lighter husband Lucien. There they mix with their idol, Daniel, also known as Frankie Mégalo, a film projectionist and a rocker without a band. Most of the efforts of these born idlers will consist in finding a band and a venue for Frankie to perform and in laying hands on cash by means fair or foul to go to the Southern sun.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-04-29
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