Yves Montand
Also Known As: Ivo Livi, Yves Livi, Yves Montant, ایو مونتان
Biography: Ivo Livi (13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991), better known as Yves Montand, was an Italian-born French actor and singer. He is said to be one of France's greatest 20th-century artists. Montand was born Ivo Livi in Stignano, a small village in the hills of Monsummano Terme, Italy, to Giovanni Livi, a broom manufacturer. Montand's mother Giuseppina Simoni was a devout Catholic. The family left Italy for France in 1923 following fascist Benito Mussolini's rise to power. He grew up in Marseille, where, as a young man, he worked in his sister's beauty salon (Salon de Coiffure), as well as later on the docks. He began a career in show business as a music-hall singer. In 1944, he was discovered by Édith Piaf in Paris; she made him part of her act. Montand achieved international recognition as a singer and actor, starring in many films. He is recognised for crooner style songs, with those about Paris becoming instant classics. He was one of the best known performers at Bruno Coquatrix's Paris Olympia music hall, and toured with musicians including Didi Duprat. In October 1947, he sang "Mais qu'est-ce que j'ai?" (music by Henri Betti and lyrics by Édith Piaf) at the Théâtre de l'Étoile. Betti also asked him to sing "C'est si bon" but Montand refused. Following the success of the recording of this song by the Sœurs Étienne in 1948, he decided to record it. Montand was also very popular in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe, where he did a concert tour in 1956-57. During his career, Montand acted in American motion pictures as well as on Broadway. He was nominated for a César Award for Best Actor in 1980 for I comme Icare and again in 1984 for Garçon! In 1986, after his international box-office draw power had fallen off considerably, the 65-year-old Montand gave one of his best remembered performances, as the scheming uncle in Jean de Florette, co-starring Gérard Depardieu, and Manon des Sources (both 1986), co-starring Emmanuelle Béart. The film was a worldwide critical hit and revived Montand's profile in the United States, where he made an appearance on Late Night with David Letterman. In 1951, he married Simone Signoret, and they co-starred in several films throughout their careers. The marriage was, by all accounts, fairly harmonious, lasting until her death in 1985, although Montand had a number of well-publicised affairs, notably with American actress Marilyn Monroe, with whom he starred in one of her final films, Let's Make Love. He was the stepfather to Signoret's daughter from her previous marriage, Catherine Allégret. Montand's only child, a son named Valentin, by his second wife, Carole Amiel (b. 1960), was born in 1988. In a paternity suit that caused commotion across France, another woman accused Montand of being the father of her daughter and went to court to obtain a DNA sample from him. Montand refused, but the woman persisted even after his death. In a court ruling that made international headlines, the woman won the right to have Montand exhumed and a sample taken. The results indicated that he was not the girl's biological father. He supported left-wing causes during the 1950s and 1960s, and attended Communist festivals and meetings. ... Source: Article "Yves Montand" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Monsummano Terme, Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy
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Deathday: November 09, 1991
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The Wages of Fear
Overview: In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.
Genres: Drama Thriller Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-04-22
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D'un film à l'autre
Overview: On April 13, 2011, Les Films 13 production company turned 50. How can one celebrate an anniversary of this sort ? By simply making "another" film that would sum up all the earlier ones. D'un film à l'autre is hence a kind of anthology of the films produced Les Films 13 since the 1960s (short and feature films written and directed for the main part by Claude Lelouch), a best-of of half a century of cinema, going from Le Propre de l'homme to What Love May Bring. A biography in images of a filmmaker as admired as he is criticized. In reality, D'un film à l'autre is more than a series of film excerpts, interviews, and making-of documents (some of which possess an undeniable historical value, like that from A Man and A Woman, or the final performances of Patrick Dewaere).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-04-13
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The End of a Beautiful Epoch
Overview: Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2015-06-07
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Cesar and Rosalie
Overview: A young woman becomes entangled with a successful businessman, but her ex tries to win her back, provoking intense jealousy that leads her to reconsider her choice. Ultimately, one man's actions force a resolution to her dilemma.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-11
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Z
Overview: Amid a tense political climate, the opposition leader is killed in an apparent accident. When a prosecutor smells a cover-up, witnesses get targeted. A thinly veiled dramatization of the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis and its aftermath, “Z” captures the outrage at the US-backed junta that ruled Greece at the time of its release.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-02-26
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The Witches of Salem
Overview: Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a witch in revenge. A series of tragic trials soon befall Salem as fear and suspicion blur the lines of reality.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-04-26
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The Sleeping Car Murder
Overview: Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-11-17
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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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The War Is Over
Overview: Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages to get free. When he arrives in Paris, he starts searching for one of his comrades to prevent him from going to Madrid where he could be arrested.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-05-11
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Jean de Florette
Overview: In a rural French village, an old man and his only remaining relative cast their covetous eyes on an adjoining vacant property. They need its spring water for growing their flowers, and are dismayed to hear that the man who has inherited it is moving in. They block up the spring and watch as their new neighbour tries to keep his crops watered from wells far afield through the hot summer. Though they see his desperate efforts are breaking his health and his wife and daughter's hearts, they think only of getting the water.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-08-27
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Manon of the Spring
Overview: In this, the sequel to Jean de Florette, Manon has grown into a beautiful young shepherdess living in the idyllic Provencal countryside. She plots vengeance on the men who greedily conspired to acquire her father's land years earlier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-11-19
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1958: Those Who Said No
Overview: On October 4, 2018, France celebrated the 60th anniversary of the Fifth Republic. It is a republic born in the throes of the Algerian War and one which—from the day it was founded by General de Gaulle until the presidency of a very Jupiterian Emmanuel Macron—has been assailed as a “Republican monarchy” by partisans of a more assertive parliamentarian state. By revisiting the struggle of those who dared oppose the new regime — only to suffer a crushing defeat on September 28, 1958, when they were barely able to garner 20% of the vote against the constitutional text — this film shines a powerful new light on the origins of the Fifth Republic and its consequences for the next 60 years. It is a constitutional debate that planted the seeds for a complete upheaval of the French political landscape, on the left in particular, and set the country in motion toward what would be called the Union of the Left.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-10-06
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Grand Prix
Overview: The most daring drivers in the world have gathered to compete for the 1966 Formula One championship. After a spectacular wreck in the first of a series of races, American wheelman Pete Aron is dropped by his sponsor. Refusing to quit, he joins a Japanese racing team. While juggling his career with a torrid love affair involving an ex-teammate's wife, Pete must also contend with Jean-Pierre Sarti, a French contestant who has previously won two world titles.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-21
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Womanlight
Overview: Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-08-29
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Les Rois de la comédie
Overview: At the end of the 1950s, four humor specialists simultaneously experienced recognition. Fernandel with “The Cow and the Prisoner”, Bourvil with “The Hunchback”, Jacques Tati with “My Uncle” and Louis de Funès with “Oscar” at the theater. On the big screen or on stage, each of these artists has a unique style of humor. They are the kings of French comedy. But how did they manage to become true box office champions? How did they experience their immense popularity? How do they still influence the comedy genre? And above all, are- are they funny in life? Where is the line between their character in the cinema and their real personality?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-01-01
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Let's Make Love
Overview: When billionaire Jean-Marc Clement learns that he is to be satirized in an off-Broadway revue, he passes himself off as an actor playing him in order to get closer to the beautiful star of the show, Amanda Dell.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-09-08
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Le Cercle Rouge
Overview: When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-19
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Tout Va Bien
Overview: A strike at a French sausage factory contributes to the estrangement of a married filmmaker and his reporter wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-04-28
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I... For Icarus
Overview: Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee's final findings.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-12-19
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T'es fou Marcel
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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The Red Inn
Overview: A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-10-19
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Choice of Arms
Overview: Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey, to take him to the estate of a retired robber, Noel, who lives in comfort with his lovely and beloved wife, Nicole. The man dies, and Mickey, a menacing hothead, demands money of Noel. A few days later, Mickey returns to the estate, shoots up a dinner party and threatens them again. Noel sends Nicole to an hotel and goes to his old gang to help him hunt down the dangerous Mickey. Mickey has other problems, too, including heartache for a daughter he hardly knows. Young, eager cops tail Nicole, and all are on a complicated collision course.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-08-19
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Delusions of Grandeur
Overview: Don Sallust is the minister of the King of Spain. Being disingenuous, hypocritical, greedy and collecting the taxes for himself, he is hated by the people he oppresses. Accused by The Queen, a beautiful princess Bavarian, of having an illegitimate child to one of her maids of honor, he was stripped of his duties and ordered to retire to a monastery.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-12-08
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Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
Overview: Three friends navigate mid-life crises: a blocked writer, a disillusioned doctor, and a charming man facing bankruptcy and divorce. As their struggles strain friendships, a younger man captures the attention of one friend's wife, complicating their lives further.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-23
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The Confession
Overview: The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-04-29
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My Geisha
Overview: Famed movie director Paul Robaix breaks with tradition by not casting his actress-comedienne wife, Lucy Dell, in his latest film production, a version of Madame Butterfly. Undaunted, the resourceful Lucy wings her way to Tokyo and, masquerading as a Japanese geisha, lands the coveted role from her unsuspecting husband! But in front of the cameras (and behind the pancake makeup), Lucy faces greater challenges: her lecherous leading man - and a husband who is beginning to realize that his talented new "discovery" seems vaguely familiar...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-09
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Napoleon
Overview: The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-03-25
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Gates of the Night
Overview: In post-Liberation Paris, a man reunites with a friend and meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover her brother's dark past.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-12-03
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Police Python 357
Overview: A tough but honest cop must clear his name after a corrupt colleague implicates him in a murder in this French thriller. Ferrot is a hard-as-nails police detective who is attracted to a beautiful woman named Sylvia. Sylvia, however, is having an affair with Ganay, who happens to be Ferrot's superior on the force; Ganay happens to be married to Therese, who is handicapped. Sylvia is found murdered, and Ferrot is assigned to investigate; Ferrot is convinced that Ganay killed Sylvia because she wanted to end their relationship, but to his dismay, Ferrot discovers that the killer has placed a number of false clues that point the blame toward Ferrot.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-31
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Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-12-13
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On a Clear Day You Can See Forever
Overview: Daisy Gamble, an unusual woman who hears phones before they ring, and does wonders with her flowers, wants to quit smoking to please her fiancé, Warren. She goes to a doctor of hypnosis to do it. But once she's under, her doctor finds out that she can regress into past lives and different personalities, and he finds himself falling in love with one of them.
Genres: Fantasy Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-06-17
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One Night... a Train
Overview: The Belgian linguistics professor Matthias is going through a difficult period in relations with his girlfriend Anne. She is French, he is Belgian, and, oddly enough for an enlightened Europe and a doubly enlightened university environment, this small difference is a shadow on the couple’s personal life. One day, during a train ride, Anne disappears and Mathias goes looking for her in an unknown city.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-09-06
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Rotterdam-Europoort
Overview: Instructional film about the (former) biggest harbour in the world, with a hybrid format. Well known Ivens themes are revisited, like The Flying Dutchman in the fiction part of the film, who returns to the modern day Rotterdam, that has recovered very well after the devastating bombardments in the second world war.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-04-29
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The Law
Overview: A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-01-25
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Trintignant by Trintignant
Overview: A portrait of a man of rare elegance and enigmatic charm, versatile and successful: Jean-Louis Trintignant, one of the most critically acclaimed French actors of the last sixty years, known for his numerous roles on stage and screen.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-10-11
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IP5: The Island of Pachyderms
Overview: Young graffiti artist Tony and his friend Jockey jump-start an unexpected adventure on the streets of Grenoble, France, when they steal a car that's already occupied by an older man who's been sleeping in the back, Léon Marcel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-06-12
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All Fired Up
Overview: Victor Valance, an absent father and gambler, works with shady casino operations abroad. When he returns to Paris in need of money, he plans to take advantage that Pauline, his eldest daughter now fully responsible for the whole family, has begun to work for the Ministry of Finance. Pauline thwarts his new projects but when she realizes gangsters are looking for Victor she will put her life at risk to help him and save their family.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-13
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A Grin Without a Cat
Overview: French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of socialist movements in Latin America.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-11-23
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State of Siege
Overview: Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-12-30
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Goodbye Again
Overview: Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her longtime philandering partner begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman. She soon learns that May-December romances with older women are frowned upon in society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-23
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La Menace
Overview: Henri Savin has managed a trucking company for his lover, Dominique Montlaur, for many years. Now he is planning to leave her for Julie Manet, the woman he has made pregnant, and Dominique is hysterical. She first threatens suicide, then shows up at a meeting of Savin and Julie. Dominique tries everything she can think of to break Savin and Julie apart, to no avail. Frustrated in her efforts, she jumps off a cliff and dies. Savin insists that he and Julie lie to the police about the encounter, although Dominique's death was a suicide and therefore they had no direct hand in it. Detective Waldeck investigates Dominique's death.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-09-28
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Waiter!
Overview: After a tumultuous life, a middle-aged headwaiter in a Parisian restaurant dreams of opening a seaside amusement park. When an old flame reappears, he reignites his feelings, but she is involved with another man.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-11-09
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Lovers Like Us
Overview: A young Frenchwoman fleeing her Italian fiancé in Caracas thrusts herself and those around her into madcap events.
Genres: Romance Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-11-26
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Live for Life
Overview: Famous TV newscaster Robert Colomb is married to Catherine, but is continually unfaithful to her. Then he meets, and becomes fascinated with Candice.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-09-13
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Marguerite of the Night
Overview: It tells the story of an older pedant who buys adolescence from Satan.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-29
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Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-13
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Lost Souvenirs
Overview: Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide. -A funeral wreath lets us know how it caused a young woman to believe her lover dead. After having told their respective story, the objects return to their customary stillness.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-11-11
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Premier mai
Overview: On this beautiful May 1st, Thérèse is about to give birth. Their presence at home is undesirable, so Jean, her husband, decides to take François, their little boy, to a soccer match. Their plans change when they meet a former factory mate who seems to have made a success of his life. This man, Blanchot, decides to return to Jean a sum of money he had once borrowed. Trusted, Jean is drawn into a clandestine circle, where his apparent luck delivers him without ulterior motive to Blanchot, who is one of the ringleaders. The police interrupt the dangerous game, putting Jean, who has no identity papers, in an awkward situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-03-25
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The Devil by the Tail
Overview: In this comedy, a run-down hotel drums up customers by sabotaging passing cars. The stuck motorists are then obliged to stay. Unfortunately, one of the sabotaged cars belongs to a bank robber. The hotel staff wants the robber out, but they also want to keep his ill-gotten money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-02-07
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Three Seats for the 26th
Overview: Yves Montand, playing himself, returns to his hometown of Marseilles to appear in an autobiographical musical. Once there, he searches for the barmaid he once loved and also encounters young hopeful Marion, giving her the chance of a lifetime
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-23
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Rush - Voyage à Moscou
Overview: A document of Perestroika, to be viewed as (nearly) unedited rushes of a voyage to Moscow, preserved by compatriot Costa-Gavras. Says Émilie Cauquy of the French Cinémathèque, "Astonishing unpublished travel diary, shot by Chris Marker in analog video on the occasion of a screening of L'Aveu in Moscow in 1990 [...] Armed with his camcorder, Marker films and records the comments, takes on the role of contemporary capital according to this unique ethnographic method that he has perfected".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-02-03
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The Wide Blue Road
Overview: Squarciò, a fisherman, lives with his family on a small island off the Dalmatian coast of Italy. Like his fellow villagers, Squarciò struggles against harsh living conditions, a scarcity of fish in nearby waters and exploitation by the local wholesaler. But while the other fishermen continue to use nets, he goes out to the open sea to fish illegally with bombs. But Squarciò borrows money, loses his boat, and in a moment of supreme desperation, has to bomb directly off-shore, causing the hatred and rejection of his fellow fishermen. Trying to save his family, Squarciò and his young sons sail their new boat out beyond the local waters and bomb-fish again. But this time, the sea exacts a terrible toll…
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-11-22
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The Big Operator
Overview: The aging villain Émile Morland talks his old friend Aristide into helping him with to kidnap the son of a millionaire.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-11-27
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Star Without Light
Overview: An aspiring singer tries to break into films during the early talkie era. She is hired to dub the singing and speaking voice of a silent-movie favorite. Sworn to secrecy, the fill-in must stand by in silence as the star receives all the praises and plaudits.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-04-03
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Montand
Overview: A documentary portrait of French actor/singer Yves Montand.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-05-25
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Men and Wolves
Overview: Two young hunters of wolves are involved in a conflict. Besides the dangerous wild wolves, beautiful Teresa is the center of attention.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-02-08
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The Son
Overview: Ange leaves New York to fly to his native Corsica. His mother is dying and Ange, who was not present when his father died, wishes to be present at her death. In Corsica Ange finds his brother Baptiste who married Maria, the woman he loved. He finds out that his father was killed, but nobody wants to tell him the name of the killer. And finally he finds two killers expecting him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-30
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Sanctuary
Overview: In 1920s rural Mississippi, Nancy Mannigoe, an African-American servant, is placed on death row for the murder of Temple Drake's infant child. Temple, the daughter of the governor, pleads with her father to exonerate Nancy of the charges, explaining that Nancy acted in haste to prevent her from resuming her affair with a roguish Cajun called Candy Man. Details of Temple's sordid past are uncovered as she begs mercy for her faithful servant.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-04-18
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Paris Still Sings!
Overview: A famous comedian decrees that his fortune will go to whoever collects as many pop star autographs as quickly as possible. When he dies, two cousins embark on the race for signatures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-28
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The Loneliness of the Long Distance Singer
Overview: This documentary chronicles an Yves Montand concert for Chilean refugees in France.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-12-19
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Grand Prix: Challenge of the Champions
Overview: A short making of feature about the 1966 John Frankenheimer movie Grande Prix
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-21
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Heroes and Sinners
Overview: A good cast smooths over the rough spots of Les Heros sont Fatigues. The scene is the African republic of Liberia, which in this film proves to be a stopping-off point for a number of shady characters. Yves Montand plays a French ex-pilot who becomes involved in a scheme to smuggle stolen diamonds. His cohorts include a Nazi collaborator, a German refugee, and the white mistress of a prominent Liberian. A romance develops between the ex-pilot and the aforementioned mistress. Meanwhile, one of the conspirators (Curt Jurgens) has a last-minute attack of conscience, effectively queering the deal. The steamier romantic passages in Les Heros sont Fatigues had to be trimmed for American consumption.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-09-12
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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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Pushing the Limit : The Making of Grand Prix
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2006-03-01
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Claude Sautet, Romy, Yves, Michel et les autres
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-11-12
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One Minute for One Image
Overview: TV series directed by Varda in which she gives thoughts to her favorite images and why she is drawn to them (in short one minute segments per image)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-31
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J'ai tout donné
Overview: An intimate cinéma vérité style documentary following french mega star Johnny Hallyday's summer tour.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-06-21
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Chance and Violence
Overview: A sociologist specialising in criminology moves to a peaceful residence on the Côte d’Azur so that he can concentrate on writing a thesis. When he is attacked by a karate fanatic, he decides not to press charges. He refuses help from the police, preferring to take care of himself...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-02-04
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Netchayev is Back
Overview: Freshly landed in Paris, Daniel Laurençon, who calls himself Netchaïev, who was believed dead five years ago in Gibraltar, warns a commercial center of a bomb attack a few minutes before its completion.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-01-23
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Good Morning, Mr. Orwell
Overview: In his book "1984", George Orwell saw the television of the future as a control instrument in the hands of Big Brother. Right at the start of the much-anticipated Orwellian year, Paik and Co. were keen to demonstrate satellite TV's ability to serve positive ends-- Namely, the intercontinental exchange of culture, combining both highbrow and entertainment elements. A live broadcast shared between WNET TV in New York and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, linked up with broadcasters in Germany and South Korea, reached a worldwide audience of over 10 or even 25 million (including the later repeat transmissions).
Genres: Comedy Music TV Movie Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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The Wind Rose
Overview: An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1957-03-08
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Paris Is Always Paris
Overview: A group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an adventure, and maybe even find some romance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1951-11-15
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Letter to Jane: An Investigation About a Still
Overview: The film's subject is a photograph of Jane Fonda visiting Hanoi during the Vietnam War. It asks what the position of the intellectual should be in the class struggle and points out the irony of Jane Fonda's participation in the photo shoot, which was staged.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-04-11
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Les Deux mémoires
Overview: The two memories
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-02-27
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The Anatomy of Love
Overview: Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-03-16
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The Lovely Month of May
Overview: Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulable notion that evokes more basic and fundamentally egalitarian ideals of self-betterment, prosperity, tolerance, economic opportunity, and freedom.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-01
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You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London
Overview: Artur London was arrested in 1951 in a Stalinist purge, imprisoned and tortured for two years and forced to confess in the Slansky Trial, one of the last Stalinist "show trials" in Eastern Europe. The documentary explores some of the reasons for the controversy aroused by Costa-Gavras' The Confession, which had been accused of being anti-communist, and it highlights the political importance of filmmaking which, by its nature, is a fiction intended for the general public.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-06-15
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Special Section
Overview: In occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy government decides to pin the murder on six petty criminals. Loyal judges are called in to convict them as quickly as possible.
Genres: Drama History Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-04-23
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Mr. Freedom
Overview: Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to France to cut off a Commie invasion from Switzerland. A destructive, arrogant patriot in tight pants, Freedom joins forces with Marie Madeleine to combat lefty freethinkers, as well as the insidious evildoers Moujik Man and inflatable Red China Man, culminating in a star-spangled showdown.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-01-08
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Making 'The Misfits'
Overview: A behind-the-scenes and in-depth look at the making of John Huston's The Misfits (1961).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-02
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Django Reinhardt
Overview: One of the first filmed portraits of a jazz musician.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-01-01
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Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-10-13
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The Idol
Overview: A young woodcutter turned into a boxer, learns the sad fact that some of his triumphs have been stage managed, and confronts his nasty manager.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-02-13
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The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
Overview: A captivating portrait of French actor Michel Piccoli, who has worked with the greatest filmmakers of his time and has built a dazzling career of remarkable merit and success, focusing on his work during the 1970s and his professional relationship with Claude Sautet, Romy Schneider, Marco Ferreri and Luis Buñuel.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-05-28
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Signoret et Montand, Monroe et Miller : Deux couples à Hollywood
Overview: In January 1960, Yves Montand and Simone Signoret, one of the most famous star couples of the day, were on tour in the United States. Yves Montand had just triumphed on the country's biggest stages. Simone Signoret, who had distinguished herself in "Room at the Top", was about to win an Oscar. It was then that they met Arthur Miller, a writer and playwright but above all, at the time, the husband of Marilyn Monroe, a world star at the height of her fame and beauty. Yves Montand and Marilyn Monroe fell in love and the actress did everything she could to make a film with the Frenchman. This is how they met on the set of the film "Let's Make Love".
Genres: Documentary Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-12-07
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A Butterfly in the Night
Overview: A prostitute in Paris is taken home to her native Argentina by an in love rich landlord.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Yves Montand is Singing
Overview: The tour of the French singer Yves Montand and actress Simone Signoret to the USSR in 1956.
Genres: Documentary Music
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1957-04-01
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Mitterrand, président culturel
Overview: On the occasion of the fourty years anniversary of François Mitterand's election, a look back to the relationship between the President and artists, from admiration to manipulation.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-05-12
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Le Parti du cinéma
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Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-02-01
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Dans les coulisses: le tournage de 'Trois Places pour le 26'
Overview: Behind-the scenes documentary on Jacques Demy's 'Trois places pour le 26'
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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Un matin comme les autres
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1956-01-01
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Rendez-vous de l'espérance
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-06-26
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