Michel Fortin
Also Known As: Michel Didier Fortin
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Méru, Oise, France
Birthday: July 09, 1937
Deathday: March 15, 2011
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Nous ne l'avons pas assez aimée
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-11-18
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The Good and the Bad
Overview: The film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon as their robberies, beginning well before the Second World War, take on a political coloration under the occupation.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-01-19
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Strictement personnel
Overview: The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the miseries of one French policeman is compelling throughout. Jean (Pierre Arditi) is a cop and also a failed novelist who was abandoned by his father, brother, and sister after his mother died. The trio move to Paris where they set up an art scam that nets them considerable cash -- something Jean begins to figure out when he joins them for a family reunion. Little by little, he learns that his father is an expert forger, his stepmother's art gallery seems to be involved in the scam, his brother is a derelict and into drugs, his stepmother is a hooker in addition to all of this, and his sister runs an exercise gym for keeping prostitutes in shape. Things get worse -- just when everything seems bad enough, the stepmother is murdered and it is up to Jean to find the killer.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-08-21
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Buffet Froid
Overview: An absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-12-19
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Camping à la ferme
Overview: Six jeunes en difficulté de la banlieue parisienne débarquent au fin fond de la campagne française, escortés par leur éducateur. Ils doivent montrer leur bonne volonté en effectuant des travaux d'intérêts généraux décidés par la pétillante juge d'application des peines, qui veut ainsi leur donner une dernière chance. Entre le portable vissé à l'oreille de l'un, le pit-bull de l'autre ou encore les prières musulmanes du troisième, ces adolescents vont bouleverser la vie paisible du petit village.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-06-29
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The Gypsy
Overview: Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-05
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Zim and Co
Overview: Because of a motorcycle accident, a young man from the poor outskirts of Paris must find a steady job in order to avoid being sent to prison. He gets into more trouble trying to do that.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-08-17
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La vie continue
Overview: Jeanne, mother of two children, loses her husband. She meets Pierre, abandoned by his wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-09-23
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Heart to Heart
Overview: The independently-minded daughter of lower-middle class French shopkeepers, Brigitte, one of three sisters, refused to marry the father of her child when she became pregnant. In this film, she reminisces about her family life beginning when she was about five years old, up to the present when she is in her early 20s. Of her two sisters, one has a nervous breakdown and the other one becomes something of a baby factory. Colorful anecdotes of her eventful life lend additional depth to her insights.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-03
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Hothead
Overview: François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-02-14
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Royal Palace
Overview: Eugenia is the queen of an imaginary European country. When her husband dies, quite unexpectedly, the country is left without a king. According to the law, the new king needs to be married so that leaves out the eldest son. Her youngest son, Prince Arnaud is married to the lovely Armelle and they have two young children. They become the future rulers of the kingdom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-11-23
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Holy Year
Overview: Two bank robbers, an old and a young, escape from prison to get to the hidden loot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-04-23
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A Cloud in the Teeth
Overview: Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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The Conspiracy
Overview: Paris 1960. DeGaulle determines to end a bitter war in Algeria by granting its independence. Millions oppose him, including a group of DeGaulle's disenchanted Arm Officers. In a desperate attempt to save the colony for France, they plan a daring jailbreak of their imprisoned leader. A network of snitches inform a tenacious detective leading to an explosive three-way cat-and-mouse game among the rebels, the Gaullist politicos and the police.
Genres: Drama Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-01
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A Mistress for the Summer
Overview: Philippe, a little known artist, has a mistress, Viviane, a woman he does not love. When he learns the bailiffs are about to seize his paintings, Philippe decides to leave alone for the French Riviera and spend, as he regularly does, comfortable and carefree holidays in the luxurious villa of his friend Paule. But, on his way, he meets Manette, a beautiful but poor girl to whom he offers to become his companion for the Summer. Manette accepts the strange deal in exchange for bed and board. As Philippe always comes in the company of his mistress of the time, the presence of Manette does not pose a problem. But the young woman soon feels ill-at-ease in such a dubious environment. moreover, she realizes that she is falling in love with Philippe, who might not be so cynical as he wants to appear.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-02-26
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The Track
Overview: Somewhere in rural France, a young English female tourist is sexually assaulted by two men in the countryside. After she manages to escape, a party of local hunters agree to track her in order to cover up the scandal.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-05-14
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Family Jewels
Overview: The head of an aristocratic family died, so everyone gather to mourn him and see who gets what from his estate. Greed, lust, love and class conflict between the family and their payed servants create a real mess rather quickly.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-03-05
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Themroc
Overview: Themroc, a bachelor house painter living at home with his mother, leads a sad and colorless life. One day, after a run-in with his boss, he rebels. He wrecks his apartment, rejects every facet of bourgeois life, and begins acting like an urban, modern-day Neanderthal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-02-22
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Pleasure Mafia
Overview: A fictionalized report from the Côte d'Azur. Preparing for vacation (diet and artificial tanning). The vacation route (a hitchhiker has her luggage stolen by a motorist; hitchhikers steal, rape and leave in their victims' cars...). "Dolce vita" in Saint-Tropez. The art of spending a vacation with a minimum of money (prostitution, cheating at gambling, pussies kept by old ladies...). Naturists on the Ile du Levant. Vacation club romance. Drugs (a girl gets stung and falls into a coma next to her friend, already dead). The end of a vacation (a young woman, ruined by her stay on the Riviera, indulges for a day in slaughterhouse prostitution to pay for her return).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-01
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The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Overview: In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-17
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Baloche
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-08-28
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The Silent One
Overview: Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another nationality, French. So what led him to become Russian and to change identity? And why are the British secret services interested in him?
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-02-10
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Who Cares: Anatomy of a Delivery Boy
Overview: Experiencing something of a mid-life crisis after his beloved son marries and moves out, a factory worker makes some drastic changes in his life, moves in with the boy and his wife, and sets them all on the path to a communal lifestyle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-03-17
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The Insolent
Overview: Having escaped from prison Ristack contacts his partner, to organize an attack on a van full of gold. The heist goes well but each man is trying to keep all the loot for himself...
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-01-25
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La Chèvre
Overview: When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detective in hopes he can duplicate the daughter's mistakes.
Genres: Comedy Crime Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-12-09
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Alyse et Chloé
Overview: Alyse, a successful cover girl, has had an affair with Luc Bordier, an advertising photographer, for one year now. But although Luc loves her truly, he tends to neglect her as he is too busy with his work. Chloé, who runs an advertising agency, takes advantage of these off-days to seduce Alyse. Alyse tries to hide the situation from Luc but the latter realizes what is happening. He urges Alyse to go with him on a trip to the West Indies but she refuses and joins Chloé, not without suffering from being separated from Luc...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-30
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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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La Chanson du maçon
Overview: Three eccentric old homosexual men encourage a love affair between their snobbish young landlady and a mason.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-06-17
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The Question
Overview: 1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-05-04
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