Marc Porel
Also Known As: Marc Marrier de Lagatinerie
Biography: Marc Porel (3 January 1949 – 15 August 1983) was a Swiss-born French film actor. He appeared in 40 films between 1967 and 1983.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lausanne, Vaud, Switzerland
Birthday: January 03, 1949
Deathday: August 15, 1983
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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A Spiral of Mist
Overview: The lovely Maria Teresa is unhappily married with the impotent lawyer Marcello. Maria Teresa's marriage is contrasted by the passionate Valeria, who is killed during a chase. Is Valeria's husband the murderer? Maria Teresa helps him..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-09-08
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Ludwig
Overview: Historical evocation of Ludwig, king of Bavaria, from his crowning in 1864 until his death in 1886, as a romantic hero. Fan of Richard Wagner, betrayed by him, in love with his cousin Elisabeth of Austria, abandoned by her, tormented by his homosexuality, he will little by little slip towards madness.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-03-07
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The Sicilian Clan
Overview: An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-05
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The Most Gentle Confessions
Overview: Following a robbery in a circus, a young mobster, Jean, is arrested by Inspector Borelli. The thug denies involvement. To compel him to sign a full confession, Inspector Muller encourages the suspect to get married for - he says - to move the jury. This being done, he lets Jean believe that he can spend a moment alone with his wife; but then, Inspector Borelli blackmails him: "If you sign your confession, you can spend a moment with her." After being beaten, Jean signs a confession. It is then that a new blackmail intervenes: "the name of the accomplice?", asks the inspector. But the thug refuses to denounce the latter and ends up refusing the bargain dupes. While the guards drive him back to prison, his wife cuts his veins, breaking the career of the bad policeman.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-05-19
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The Innocent
Overview: Tullio Hermil is a chauvinist aristocrat who flaunts his mistress to his wife, but when he believes she has been unfaithful he becomes enamored of her again.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-05-18
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When the City Awakes
Overview: An armored van is attacked and the gangsters hide the loot in a graveyard.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-06-05
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The Marquis of Grillo
Overview: In 18th-century Rome, impish aristocrat Onofrio del Grillo amuses himself by playing pranks on all sorts of people — his reactionary family and fellow nobles, the poors, the French occupiers trying to modernize society, and even the Pope himself.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-12-23
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The Psychic
Overview: A woman with psychic powers has a vision of a murder that took place in a house owned by her husband.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-08-10
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Blazing Flowers
Overview: Pino Scalise discharged from the prison he was in for robbery, take refuge in Milan at the home of his uncle. Pino falls in love with one of the uncle's two daughters, who has become a prostitute because of Don Ciccio, head of a gang that traffics in drugs. Pino, now an informer to Police Commissioner Morani, makes plans to take the boss down.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-02-05
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L'albero della maldicenza
Overview: Five youngsters spend their time spreading rumours in a little village.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-12-16
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The Horse
Overview: Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules with an iron hand. Things go awry the day he discovers one of his grandsons is involved in drug traffic. To make matters worse, the reckless youth has hidden the white powder in the Maroilleur farm. Without a moment's hesitation, Auguste gets rid of the toxic substance but, of course, the mob has different views...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-02-22
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Don't Torture a Duckling
Overview: A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote southern Italian town rife with superstition and a distrust of outsiders.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-09-29
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The Sister of Ursula
Overview: While searching for their estranged mother, two beautiful sisters, Dagmar and Ursula, arrive at a luxurious seaside hotel. At the same time, a mysterious killer starts murdering promiscuous women in the area.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-10-18
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Tony Arzenta
Overview: A mob hitman wants to retire, but his bosses don't think that's a good idea. Complications - and many bloody shootouts - ensue.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-08-23
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Live Like a Cop, Die Like a Man
Overview: Fred and Tony are members of an elite 'special squad' of police in Rome, Italy who are licensed-to-kill, undercover cops and who love to live dangerously.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-03-11
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Loaded Guns
Overview: An air hostess gets involved in Naples, against her will, in the in-fighting amongst rival gangs.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1975-01-18
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Pigs with a P.38
Overview: After an elderly crime boss retires from business, his three lieutenants each inherit a piece of his empire: Max is given the kidnapping ring, while the prostitution racket and the drug trafficking go to the others. Max is not satisfied with his share, and after killing the old boss he gets rid of the other two lieutenants. However, a police officer finds a lighter at the murder scene which could lead to Max, who then kidnaps the policeman's daughter.
Genres: Action Crime Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-09-23
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Disobedience
Overview: Luca Manzi is a fourteen year old boy when the Northern Italy Republic of Salò is governed by the Fascists. He becomes a partisan but when the war ends he is disappointed because things have not changed as he had hoped they wood, and he decides to let himself die. He is saved by Edith who tries to introduce him to sex. Based on the novel by Alberto Moravia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-07-15
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Secret World
Overview: Wendy is the British guest of a French couple and the daughter of the man who saved the host's life during World War II. Living with the couple is their 20-year-old son and a 12-year-old nephew whose parents were killed in an automobile accident. The father and son both try to seduce the attractive guest. The young boy retreats into his own world and dreams of being taken back to Britain by Wendy in this romantic drama. The mother spends her time bleaching her hair and is seemingly uninterested in anything that goes on with her family at the beachfront villa. Meanwhile, Wendy and the younger boy develop a fondness for each other, while his aunt and uncle fail to understand his needs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1969-07-09
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Virility
Overview: A Sicilian (Turi Ferro) feels his masculinity threatened when his son returns with an androgynous girlfriend whom everyone else assumes to be male.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-11-20
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A Police Officer Without Importance
Overview: Camille, Dov and Joëlle live on the edge of society and are involved in petty theft helping them to buy their drug doses and to survive as best they can. One day, while attempting to rob a movie theater, they activate the alarm signal and it is Pierre, Camille's brother, who is doing a heist in the same building, who is arrested red-handed. The three young people decide to kidnap a police officer and exchange him for Pierre.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-04-12
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La pagella
Overview: A humble car mechanic decides to give his son, who has brought home an excellent school report, a golden watch. Unfortunately the jewellery shop where they go and buy the watch is held up and the boy gets killed. The man spends the rest of the movie trying to take his revenge...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-01-01
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My Dear Nephews
Overview: 1936. In a village in the Bassa Padana, a beautiful and shapely forty-year-old girl is aunt of some boys in the middle of their sexual maturity.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Tumuc Humac
Overview: When Marc, with the help of a juvenile court judge, is old enough to leave thewelfare system, he leaves mainland France for French Guiana to try and find the only relative he knows, his grandfather, who was deported to the penal colony of this French overseas territory. During his odyssey, he meets Françoise, a young woman with whom he falls in love, and experiences many adventures.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-01-13
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Une fille nommée Amour
Overview: A pleasingly pump female gets behind the wheel of a car during a party game and has an accident. Now temporarily confined to a wheelchair, the girl is holed up in her apartment. Watching through binoculars, she sees a man in a Mardi Gras clownsuit fight with another man and flee. Somehow the clown ends up in the girl's apartment where the two make love. Later, he returns to her after the man he had fought with shoots him. Though his clownsuit is stained with blood, she allows him in once again and hopes that love has long last arrived.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-04-02
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A Little Sun in Cold Water
Overview: Gilles Lantier, a young reporter on the AFP newspaper, is suffering from a nervous breakdown. Realising that neither his friend Jean nor his girlfriend Eloïse can help him, he decides to stay with his sister Odile, who lives near Limoges. At a party one evening he meets a wealthy bourgeois woman named Nathalie Sylvener. It is love at first sight, and on his return to Paris, Gilles tells Eloïse that he is now devotedly attached to another woman. Although Nathalie agrees to live with him in Paris, she rejects Gilles' offer of marriage. It is not long before the couple have settled into a routine and their passion begins to cool. Then Nathalie suddenly disappears from Gilles' life...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-10-29
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Die Ameisen kommen
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-03-14
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Killing of the Flesh
Overview: A group of decadent and filthy rich people arrive at the empty hotel where a deceased rich man lived. Soon they are copulating like crazy and the murders begin...
Genres: Thriller Horror Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1983-04-05
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Road to Salina
Overview: Jonas, a young drifter, is wandering in a deserted area on the road to Salina, Mexico. He stops at a desolate roadside service station when Mara, the owner, identifies him as her son Rocky, who disappeared four years ago. Feeling sorry for Mara, he decides to stay on and meets Mara's friend Warren and Rocky's sister Billie, but dark facts are to be revealed about the disappearance of Rocky.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-11-09
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Boys and Girls
Overview: Ten young people (six boys and four girls), most of whom students, rent a house in bad repair and set about living together. The experience is not obvious and the ten tenants have to cope with more than one difficulty. But they also have their moments. Things really go awry when Françoise, an unmarried girl, is forced to deliver the baby she carries prematurely and when Solange, the lonely girl of the group, attempts suicide. Shortly afterwards, the group learns that the house is due for demolition. They decide to take advantage of this opportunity to face adult life individually.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-09-21
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Soldier of Fortune
Overview: Medieval soldier of fortune Ettore is traveling through Europe with his partners looking for a fight where they can earn some money. When they come across a Spanish castle under siege by the French army, Ettore bides his time to determine which side is the winning one. This is at first the French, but the treatment he receives from them is unpleasant enough to make him change his mind and turn to the Spanish side. Somehow, Ettore must rally the weakened Spanish troops to battle their enemy long enough for reinforcements to arrive.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-02-19
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Rat Race
Overview: Young dynamic executive, married and father of two children, Jérôme Ozendron dreams of writing and escaping a life he considers mediocre. The meeting with a former comrade, who had become an actor, brought him into contact with the world of cinema. He meets, Natacha, a cover girl, for whom he is ready to give up, wife and children. Then he becomes the lover of Lilianne, a marginal who persecutes and pursues him. He quit his job to devote himself to writing a novel. But nothing goes as he wants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-04-22
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Shock Troops
Overview: A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is suspected of being an enemy spy.
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-04-05
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The Venus of Ille
Overview: A wealthy landowner uncovers a bronze statue of Venus on his property. He asks an antique expert to examine the statue and confirm its wealth. Upon arrival, the expert is striken with love by the landowner’s daughter-in-law who bears an uncanny resemblance to the statue.
Genres: Drama Horror TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-05-27
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