Philippe Mareuil
Also Known As: Philippe Jean Eigenschenck
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dreux, France
Birthday: October 19, 1926
Deathday: January 08, 2016
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Il y a longtemps que je t'aime
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-07-24
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Perfectionist
Overview: Professor Louis Delage is a kidney transplant specialist. He is so good in his field that his peers nickname him the "great man". But one day, one of his patients die during surgery and Delage starts doubting. Is he actually such a great man? To fight desperation he decides to take in the deceased child while devoting more time to Florence, his hitherto neglected wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-28
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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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Mandrin (1ère époque) Le libérateur
Overview: Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear and without reproach, puts himself out of the law by refusing to obey the local nobility. The public authorities are tearing their hair out because the man is elusive. Helped by his faithful friends and by two women in love, Mandrin will become a legend.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-11-15
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Judex
Overview: Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent filmmaker Louis Feuillade. Franju shuffles through the plot of Feuillade's lengthy serial of the same name, about an adventurer named Judex whose revenge against the corrupt banker Favraux unleashes a complicated series of schemes.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-12-04
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Les Aristos
Overview: The Arbac de Neuvilles are one of the oldest families in France. They have inhabited their ancient château for fifty-two generations and are proud of their noble ancestry. But today they are stone broke. When a bailiff turns up notifying them that they owe two million euros in back taxes, these proud aristocrats are understandably shaken to the core of their ancestral seat. Just how are they to find this amount of money when none of them has any capacity for work?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-20
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The Dogs
Overview: After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-03-07
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Cinq-Mars
Overview: In the 17th century, under Louis XIII, the policy of Cardinal de Richelieu aimed at the definitive establishment of a monarchic power, and gave rise to a struggle against the great feudal lords, who favored a weak central power. Numerous conspiracies against the Cardinal were led by the high nobility. The one led by Henri Coiffier de Ruzé d'Effiat, marquis de Cinq-Mars, was the last and most famous of them.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-16
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Krim
Overview: A prize-fighter spends 16 years in prison for killing his wife during a blind rage. Upon his release, he wanders the grim streets of an empty French housing project in search of his now teen-age daughter. His quest forms the basis of this gripping French drama. Krim is the fighter and Yasmine his estranged daughter. Krim finds his old apartment block, but it is abandoned and slated for destruction. He is terribly disappointed, for all Krim wants right now is to be happy and to have his daughter back. He sends messages back to his friend and mentor in prison telling him how wonderful it is to be out of jail. His friend, Eugene, a lifer, isn't fooled for a second and is very angry at Krim for lying to him. Meanwhile, Krim stumbles across Nora, a teen-age drug addict, who could be his long-lost daughter. Eventually, he locks her in an abandoned flat and helps her get off the junk cold-turkey. It is a terrible scene, but he succeeds and the two begin a new kind of relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-05-31
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The Woman I Murdered
Overview: During a singles meal, the phone rings. A woman claims a man, Jean-Louis. As a joke, the master of the house replies that he is gone forever and advises him to take the plunge. But she obeys and the suicide appears in the newspapers. Tested, the master of the house takes in the child of the unfortunate woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-11-26
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Rendezvous in July
Overview: Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-06
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The Tiger Attacks
Overview: Paul Lamiani, a wizened mobster, is asked to return to duty following the disappearance of secret documents of extreme importance. It is assumed that they are in the hands of a friend of Paul. But the case becomes even more delicate when Lamiani's son is kidnapped.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-01-21
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Femmes de Paris
Overview: Professor Charles Buisson, astronomer and Nobel Prize winner, has just discovered a nova. He informs the other observatories by telephone. Just as he thinks one of them is calling back, he finds himself on the line with a young woman threatening suicide at the Ruban Bleu cabaret, if her lover hasn't joined her by midnight. Intrigued, the professor decides to go and prevent the unfortunate woman from committing suicide. One of his students, who earns her living as an understudy in a knife act, helps him in his investigation, while the school principal and a policeman suspect him of being a prankster or even of selling drugs. For the scientist, it's an opportunity to discover a world of music-hall that he'd never known before: "I thought I knew the sky chart by heart, but there's one planet that was totally unknown to me: Earth. I'll be back!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-05-17
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Tower of Lust
Overview: France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are invited. The young men were brought blindfolded, and after a night of love they were killed and their corpses thrown into the river, because the queen was afraid that her husband would learn about her adventures. One of her lovers managed to escape death. He knows the secrets of the queen, knows that she once gave birth to a son from him, claims that he has evidence that Margarita wanted to kill her father and blackmails her.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-03-18
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The Magnificent Tramp
Overview: Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-04-08
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Beast at Bay
Overview: Melun, on 1959. On the return to an auction, a young and attractive widow, Elisabeth Vernon, finds at her home(with her) a wounded escapee of prison. The fugitive, Daniel Morane, is a handsome boy and justifies himself crimes(murders) of which we accuse it. The young woman is allowed convince, seduce, feels sorry, and agrees to help him(it). But during their escape(mare), the doubt seizes her …
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-06-17
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Ces dames s'en mêlent
Overview: FBI agent Jeff Gordon is responsible for tracking down counterfeiters. Owing to his suave ways and irresistible charm, he manages to extract information from women who are unaware of his intentions. His investigation leads him to the beautiful Wanda Ericson, whose ex-husband is being blackmailed, and eventually to the leader of the counterfeiting ring.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-01-06
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Flash Love
Overview: Jeanne, a little secretary dreaming of love, meets Alain, a reporter-photographer with a major daily newspaper. He takes her along on his professional nocturnal activities, during which she meets a host of celebrities. One evening, Alain takes photos of the kidnapping of a diplomat, and is followed by a mysterious individual who wants the film back. Alain falls in love with Jeanne. Their embrace is passionate. During the night, he manages to get rid of the follower, then receives a new assignment: to leave for Colombia as soon as possible. He sacrifices his love for Jeanne to his ambition, and she waits in vain for him before returning to her dull life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-04
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The Discoveries of a Modern Couple
Overview: Black comedy about a couple who become convinced that their best friends are aliens and that the Earth’s days are numbered.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-12-24
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La Grande Embrouille
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Genres: TV Movie Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-07-11
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For Better and for Worse
Overview: The Pope accepts when the friend of a young engaged couple jokingly sends him a wedding invitation.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-01-01
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Une fille à papas
Overview: An energetic teenager gives a hard time to her father, an artist, and her stepfather, an unemployed executive not very comfortable with young people.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-07-19
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The Hostage Tower
Overview: A flamboyant master criminal and several specialists stage an audacious scheme to capture the Eiffel Tower and hold as hostage one of its visitors, the U.S. President's mother, while the head of a UN security force tries to stop them.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1980-09-19
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Hauteclaire
Overview: The action takes place under the Restoration, at the Château de Savigny, near Nerville, a devout and prudish little town in the Cotentin region. Doctor Torty is the doctor. He tells a story of which he is the only one to know the secret, that of a criminal couple, without any remorse. The pretty Hauteclaire Stassin, daughter of the master of arms, meets the Count of Savigny, married to the noble and languid Delphine. Madly in love with the count, Hauteclaire joined the castle as a servant. Shortly after, the countess died of poisoning. Will the guilty lovers go unpunished?
Genres: Drama Crime TV Movie Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-06-13
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Docile Night
Overview: Jean is a successful painter who leaves his mistress, though he stops intermittently to phone her with explanations. Sometimes she is responsive but other times hangs up on him. Meanwhile, a 16-year-old male prostitute with whom Jean had a brief homosexual affair stalks the painter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-11-25
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Boom on Paris
Overview: In the early 1950s, the popular radio show "La Kermesse aux Étoiles", hosted by the famous Jean Nohain, mixing lottery games and performances of various artists, will be disrupted by the adventures of a man and his fiancée seeking to recover a dangerous bottle of perfume (explosive) which was unfortunately mixed with the prizes to be won ...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-02-19
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Un amour de cousine
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Genres: TV Movie Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-12-21
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The Three Kings
Overview: The Three Wise Men – Balthazar, Melchior and Gaspard – are on their way to Bethlehem to pay homage to the infant Jesus when they are suddenly, an inexplicably, transported two thousand years into the future. They find themselves walking the streets of Paris, where they encounter a young woman called Macha who, they are convinced, will lead them to the newborn Messiah.
Genres: Comedy Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-12-12
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Happy Easter
Overview: Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle drops his wife Sophie off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie, who has just had a fight with her married boyfriend. He gets her back to his apartment and is preparing for a sexy weekend, when his wife suddenly returns home. He makes up a bizarre, on-the-spot, spur-of-the-moment story that the gorgeous girl is actually his long-lost daughter. Julie plays along, but this leads to a whole series of increasingly ridiculous lies and comical situations (such as when her real mother shows up).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-10-24
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The Mad Heart
Overview: Serge Menessier has been paid to shoot a reportage on his ex-wife's depression. Now remarried, he has accepted the job to pay his debts and maybe because he is still in love with her, a famous actress whose career he contributed to launch.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-04-24
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La madone des sleepings
Overview: Lady Diana Winham is beautiful, wealthy and a widow, so she's courted. She travels Europe in luxury trains, earning her nickname. One of her riches, a uranium deposit in a South American country, attracts the attention of international secret agents. Lady Diana is at the center of a spider's web, with the French, British and Germans all trying to get their hands on her. Helped by the love of Armando, whom she met in San Miguel, she gives the deposit to her secretary Gérard as a reward for his services.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-06-20
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His Father's Portrait
Overview: Paul has to leave his country home to collect his father's inheritance of a department store. A natural-born son, Paul's stepmother gives him a cold reception, and he's appalled by the behavior of his half-sister Dominique, an existentialist of the highest order. Paul's gumption restores the Galeries Parisiennes to its former glory, and he gives a farewell present to a more subdued Dominique. He returns to his village, arm in arm with the wise Marie-Louise, ex-saleswoman at the Grand Magasin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-10-29
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Flesh and Fire
Overview: American Raphael talks his colleague at the Parisian University into spending his summer at the family's country mansion. But once there Raphael seduces and plays the sisters and mother against each other - until everyone is revealed at their very worst. As it turns out - that was Raphael's intention all along - because his own torrid past is deeply rooted in their family's dirty history.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-07-17
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Flukten fra Dakar
Overview: MS Lidvard was shipping corn from Vietnam, arriving in Dakar, Senegal May 30th 1940. The ship was immediately held back by the government, together with eight other norwegian ships. After a year, July 27th 1941, the ship fled from Dakar, to the British in Freetown, Sierra Leone.
Genres: Documentary Drama War
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1951-10-15
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Mandrin (2ème époque) La Tragédie d'un siècle
Overview: Around 1750, in the Dauphiné not far from the Swiss border, a cooper, tired of the injustices affecting the peasants crushed by taxes, went into revolt. Louis Mandrin, a handsome fellow without fear and without reproach, puts himself out of the law by refusing to obey the local nobility. The public authorities are tearing their hair out because the man is elusive. Helped by his faithful friends and by two women in love, Mandrin will become a legend.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-04-07
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The Two Girls
Overview: A famous singer disappears in a plane crash. Her two little girls are given a new home by their grandfather. Unfortunately the good man has an old housekeeper who goes out of her way to make their lives impossible. In desperation the two brats run away to Paris. Meanwhile, the girl's father manages to steal important documents. In the end, Gaby and Ginette track down their mother who had not got killed at all. All is well that ends well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-04-04
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