Armand Mestral
Also Known As: Armand Serge Zelikson
Biography: Armand Mestral (born Armand Serge Zelikson; 25 November 1917 - 17 September 2000) was a French actor and singer. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1945 to 1992. Source: Article "Armand Mestral" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: November 25, 1917
Age: 107 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 17, 2000
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My Uncle Benjamin
Overview: Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the marriage contract, and marriage does not fit in with Benjamin's spirit of independence. For the same reason he resists the efforts of his sister Bettine to marry him off to Arabelle, the daughter of old Dr. Minxit. Benjamin does agree to go and meet the girl. But that evening his sister finds him at the inn together with Manette, who is arrested by her father. So she decides to go with Benjamin herself. But as result of an incident with the fat Marquis puts paid to the expedition. Benjamin is subjected by the Marquis to a humiliating practical joke. Benjamin is determined to got his revenge. He succeeds thanks to the gorgeous Vicomte Hector de Pont-Cassé, who also helps Manette with her problems against her father. But Benjamin is now arrested by the Marquis...
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-11-28
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Two Men in Town
Overview: A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-24
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Le Gentleman des Antipodes
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Genres: Crime Horror Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-11-04
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Enquête sur une parole donnée : La lettre perdue
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Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-03-27
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Gervaise
Overview: An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-09-05
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The Queer Assignment
Overview: A young man, Robert Dupont, with suicidal tendencies and a bit stupid to boot, is saved by a stranger who pretends to be a well-known banker. This stranger then entrusts him with a suitcase full of mysterious documents, which he asks him to take with him to Indochina. But in reality, the suitcase is stuffed with banknotes from a scam.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-10-03
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Over the waves
Overview: Panorama of the programs and hosts who made the heyday of radio in the 1950s.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-11
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Welcome
Overview: The leading coach the company of Jean Nohain make a program fails in a small village. The people immobilize the troops to force him to do the show there.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-07-09
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Highway Pick-Up
Overview: An escaped convict makes a remote gas station his safe haven. But soon the cunning, devious wife of the owner seeks a chance to use him to get what she wants.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-13
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They Came to Rob Las Vegas
Overview: After successfully assaulting an armored car between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the ambitions of the diverse members of the intrepid criminal gang collide, causing undesirable consequences.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1968-02-07
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Bonnot's Gang
Overview: The story of a notorious French criminal gang of the 1910s.
Genres: Crime Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-11-01
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The Big Pardon
Overview: The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's friend), Samy (the bodyguard) are a family clan of Jewish Blackfoot kingpins of French organized crime. Their activities include running casinos, organizing underground boxing matches, illegal gambling, pimping, racketeering and bloody settlements of scores against other Arab and French clans. But in the shadows, Pascal Villars has sworn the loss of the Bettoun. He will succeed in setting the Arab clan against the Jewish clan, for the great benefit of the police commissioner Duché, who has been trying in vain for ten years to bring down the Bettouns.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-27
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Mandrin
Overview: It was the reign of Louis XV and, in 1750, France was at war all the time, and the people, suffocated by taxes, liked their beloved Louis less and less. When the governor of Dauphiné arrived in Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, he had to deal with opponents of the regime who had gathered around cooper Louis Mandrin. Mandrin becomes the vigilante who respects his king, but does not tolerate the oppression of the poor through taxation.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-19
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White Slave Ship
Overview: The Albatross travels from England to the New World in 1675, with a number of passengers, a couple of political prisoners along with a dozen other women convicts, these to be sold into slavery on arrival. The woman activist frees the dozen of low-cast women, and they take over the ship. After a storm, the captain takes back control of his ship. Since mutiny is punishable by death in the New World, the mutineers try to reroute the course, tossing Desny and Purdom in the brig. A practical male mutineer wants to throw the women overboard to save rations, but the women free Purdom and the captain to battle the mutineers. A British warship comes to the rescue, and the captain pardons Angeli and Purdom for having saved his life.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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The Busybody
Overview: André Loriot works for Dr Clairac in a laboratory producing euphoric pills. He searches in vain for an apartment where he can settle down and start a family with the woman who loves him, Juliette. To motivate himself and cope with the setbacks he encounters, he decides to swallow an excessive dose of euphoriants.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-20
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Duel of Fire
Overview: Antonio Franco's sister is been murdered by a gang of bandits. He swear vengeance and manage to infiltrate the gang to find the murders.
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-04-21
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Morgan, the Pirate
Overview: A Welsh pirate raids up and down the Caribbean, battling the Spanish, the English and other pirates.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-11-17
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No Big Deal for Johnny
Overview: Robert Lanier, a man with a doubtful past, disembarks clandestinely in Le Havre decided to rebuild his life. Johnny, an orphaned young acrobat, takes him for his father and presents him to the seductive Gaby, his best friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-05-04
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The Roundup is for Tonight
Overview: Three sketches that all start in the police station, where Léa, La Pintade and the brigadier himself tell their little stories. The story of Danielle, who bamboozled the impresario Mortimer so well that he made her his wife; the story of the sad little Simon, deprived of a father and unable to stand the mockery of his friends; and the story of the daughter of an ex-convict who - by golly - steals a statue on the day of her First Communion.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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Tabor
Overview: An evocation of the wartime exploits of the Moroccan "Tabors" in Tunisia, Italy, the French campaign and Germany. During the landings in Corsica, a light-hearted love affair develops between Adjutant Lenoir and a nurse. Fights, escapes and heroic actions lead to victory.
Genres: War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-02-22
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Clandestine Paris
Overview: In the elegant nightclub of Corsican Luciano, known as Lucky, "Les Naturistes", big sums are gambled at the Longchamp races. Lucky not only "welcomes" the new dancers, he also collects the stakes entrusted to him and personally plays the horses recommended to him by Max, a former convict. But Bramati, Lucky's ex-partner, doesn't forgive Max for double-crossing him and has him shot.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-10-11
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Amour, autocar et boîtes de nuit
Overview: A young girl, Christiane, leaves her family to join friends with whom she intends to "make a life". Two boys, Jo and Paul, look after the heroine, whose relations seem rather shady. Jo, a guide in a tourist agency specializing in nightlife in Paris, has a "shadow" of his own in the scatterbrained Annette, who is determined to marry him. While touring the capital's cabarets, Jo meets a model, Jacynthe, and her photographer, Daniel, as well as a star, Jackie, and her manager, Helios. The latter organizes a mock jewel robbery for publicity purposes, with Jackie as the victim. But contrary to expectations, the robbery takes place.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-08-17
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The Hostage Gang
Overview: Barely out of the psychiatric hospital where he went to seek care, Gilbert Nodier commits several assaults to have some money.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-02-01
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The Enigma of the Folies-Bergère
Overview: The Raffin Commissioner investigates the murder of an industrialist and it soon becomes apparent that the activities of the relatives of the deceased all revolve around the Folies-Bergere.
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-09-22
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The Viscount
Overview: Inspector for a major insurance company, Clint de La Roche, known as "le vicomte", is enjoying a pleasant vacation on the Spanish coast with a few pretty girls and his assistant, Billette, when he is urgently called back to Paris to investigate a bank robbery. The bank manager has had the key to the security system stolen by a certain Tania. But Tania is killed in a car bomb attack. However, Clint soon discovers that behind this case lies a rivalry between the gangs of Rico Barone and Marco Demoygne, who are fighting for control of the drug market.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-04-04
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Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Overview: Henri IV falls in love with the young Charlotte de Montmorency, 40 years his junior. The king decided to marry her off to his nephew, Henri de Condé, so that he could later make her his mistress.
Genres: History Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-04-04
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Chaste Susan
Overview: The young wife of an officer who, in reality, has several lovers receives an award for virtue.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-06-28
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The Strange Mr. Steve
Overview: Georges Villard, a minor bank employee, is won over by Mr Steve who does him favours, treats him to the high life and introduces him to his wife Florence, with whom he falls in love. Georges is unaware that these generous gifts will cost him dearly.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-06-26
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Fire in the Flesh
Overview: Physicist Theodore Heldt, his young daughter Fern and his assistant Larry Gordon, on board a ship for a scientific expedition, are shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean after a terrible storm. They find themselves safe and sound on an exotic desert island paradise. Several years pass, the professor dies and Fern and Larry, long in love and alone in the world, are united. One day, the ship they'd been waiting for appears, but the sailors are three smugglers who, instead of representing salvation, pose a threat to the young couple.
Genres: Romance Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-17
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Le Cyborg ou Le Voyage vertical
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Genres: TV Movie Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-15
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The Lovers of Tomorrow
Overview: A man throws a revolver in the Seine and checks into a hotel run by an unhappy Turkish couple. The wife falls for the mysterious guest, and kills her husband to prevent him from the turning the man in to the police.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-08-26
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Lost Command
Overview: After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of the Capt. Esclavier, who has grown weary of war, and Capt. Boisfeuras, who lives for it, Raspeguy attempts to convert a rugged band of soldiers into a formidable fighting unit, with the promise of marrying a beautiful countess if he's made a general.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-01
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Hold Up
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-03-14
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La Brune que voilà
Overview: Germain, a great seducer, collects the mistresses. There are four, all brown, and all married. When the husband of one of them disembarks to threaten him with death, he must break up. But with which? The gouailleur Robert Lamoureux interprets this man who does not like to leave women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-17
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Fifteen Year Old Captain
Overview: Dick Sand travels aboard the "Pilgrim" when, following dramatic events, the ship becomes without a captain. Fate has it so that, to keep all sailors in peace, he shall command the ship. All accept this arrangement, even Negoro - whose resentment will add treachery to circumstances already difficult to take the ship to safe harbour. To a point the task may prove impossible...
Genres: Action Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1974-07-07
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Soft Skin on Black Silk
Overview: Everything you need to know is telegraphed by the title of this Spanish-language drama. The story takes place in a hothouse Mediterranean setting and combines lust, intrigue and murder in the overheated sexploitation style that was popular during the late 1950s and early '60s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1959-06-14
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The Reluctant Saint
Overview: Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired hand, overcoming his intellectual and social challenges with a pure heart and a simple faith. God performs a miracle through him, quite literally raising him to sainthood.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-11-02
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Jarosław Dąbrowski
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-01-26
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Dangerous Turning
Overview: The adventures of Daniele as he tries to find love with Lucienne despite being framed for murder and cocaine smuggling.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-12-28
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Non sono più guaglione
Overview: A mechanic falls in love with a girl who aspires to become a diva.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1957-12-23
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That Riviera Touch
Overview: Eric and Ernie decide to take a holiday to the South of France and unwittingly become mixed up with a band of jewel thieves.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-03-29
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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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The Big Pardon 2
Overview: The mobster Raymond Bettoun gets out of prison and joins his son Maurice in Miami, a drug trafficker who is about to launch a huge operation. But he falls into a trap and a war begins in which Raymond will fight a last battle to try to save his son and what remains of his family.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-12-09
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The Sea Pirate
Overview: A young naval officer becomes a corsair to make enough money to marry a pretty girl, and fights injustice and snobbery to reach home safely.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-01-09
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The Big Hit of Surcouf
Overview: The continuation of the adventures of Captain Robert Surcouf and his crew.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-12-01
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Les Misérables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-10-20
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Les Mamies
Overview: When 12 year old Alex runs away, his grandmother ask her 6 friends for help and follow the kid from Paris to Lisbon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-11-11
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