François Maistre
Also Known As: Francois Maistre
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Demigny, Saône-et-Loire, France
Adult: No
Birthday: May 14, 1925
Age: 100 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 16, 2016
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Innocents with Dirty Hands
Overview: Saint Tropez. Julie Wormser and her lover, writer and neighbour Jeff Marle, plan the murder of her wealthy husband Louis, an alcoholic impotent. She hits him, and leaves the rest of the task to Jeff. Julie finds herself alone the following day, and becomes therefore the prime suspect. Where is Louis' body? Where is Jeff? Is there any secret beyond a door?
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-03-26
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Violette Nozière
Overview: Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-05-24
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Overview: In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-09-15
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The Phantom of Liberty
Overview: This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-09-10
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The Milky Way
Overview: Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-02-28
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Paris Belongs to Us
Overview: A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-13
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The Serpent
Overview: Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-examinations, Vlassov names several Western European agents who are also spying for the Soviets. Davies wants to take the listed agents into custody; meanwhile, those on the list start dying under mysterious circumstances.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-04-07
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Danger in the Middle East
Overview: A criminal making plans to pull off one big score before he retires, comes into possession of secret papers worth a fortune, but dies while attempting the hit. His wife takes those papers for herself, while discovering there are rival criminals, a powerful organization and a sleazy blackmailer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-09-02
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Thank You, Natercia
Overview: A wealthy widow, Natercia, helps Alain, a poor young man, to put together the film he plans to make. They decide to pool their resources to make the project a reality. At the first screening, Natercia realizes that Alain no longer needs her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-11-02
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The Shameless Old Lady
Overview: Madame Bertini, a newly widowed 70-year-old miser, has lived a sheltered life in squalour. She determines to venture into the modern world and have as much fun as possible, and in doing so finds that she loves it. She blows her life savings, much to the disapproval of the young people around her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-03-24
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Le 7ème jour de Saint-Malo
Overview: End of WW2 : the German officers lock all the men between 18 and 65 into the "Fort National" on an islet in Saint-Malo.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-04-19
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Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
Overview: The Saracens invade Spain again, but they seem content to compose music and watch the dancers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-12-19
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The Star Ship
Overview: Onboard a spaceship sailing into infinity, generations of travelers are subject to dictatorial rules imposed by the central computer "Psycho." Recruited as a new police officer, Eddy Burns will discover the terrifying secrets behind this flawless system.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-11
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The Golden Claws of the Cat Girl
Overview: Françoise looks like a sexy kitten by day, but is a silent she-wolf by night, making very clever robberies of gold jewels. Despite the interest, and competition, from Bruno, she ends a lonely she-wolf.
Genres: Crime Adventure Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-02-09
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Angelique
Overview: In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac out of convenience, but eventually, she falls in love with him. So when Jeoffray is arrested and then vanishes, she bravely sets out to find him. This is the first of many dramas based on Anne and Serge Golon's novels about strong-willed Angélique and her adventures during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King.
Genres: Adventure Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-08
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Angelique: The Road To Versailles
Overview: Angelique is saved by the king of the cutthroats when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman.
Genres: Adventure Mystery Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-07-07
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Vivre libre ou mourir
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-01-02
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The Duchess of Avila
Overview: An epic six-hour adaptation of Potocki's The Manuscript Found in Saragossa. Most famously filmed by Wojciech Has, this four part adaptation has the advantage of a vastly expanded running time, allowing for more of the novel to be incorporated >> shot on film, it was clearly a very expensive production and is equally spectacular in its own way.
Genres: Adventure Drama Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-12-24
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Distracted
Overview: A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-12-09
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The Conquistadores
Overview: A young couple: Victor is a musician, Claire is a secretary in a publishing house. Their daily life seems so disappointing, so monotonous, that they begin to spend their time daydreaming, both creating their own imaginary world. At the office, she writes the story of an heroine's imaginary life. He collects material to compose an opera which glorifies the conquistadors.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-10
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The Groper
Overview: Because he dishonored the daughter of a mafia boss, Ernesto must leave Rome and take shelter with his uncle in Paris. There, he thinks of only one thing: to seduce girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-29
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The Arrest
Overview: A young writer has just written a new novel, which has been accepted by an editor. A simple and familiar story about the terrifying power the state has over people’s lives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Blague dans le coin
Overview: A Las Perlass, ville de jeu du Névada, bandes rivales de Lippy et de Steinberg tiennent les plus beaux établissements de l'endroit. Franck Bradford has hired Jeff Burlington as a comedian, who, to cheer up a difficult audience, launches nightly verbal attacks on Lippy's casino where, he says - the games are rigged. Each of the two gangs sends a henchman to either stop the sarcasm or get in trouble if they don't leave their act as it is. Un certain "Main d'or" qui est autre que Bradford fait attaquer casinos. C'est Jeff, après avoir été kidnappé par les deux bandes devenues amies, quiasquera coupable.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-13
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Daggers Drawn
Overview: Via Something Weird: "Four men representing the world’s great criminal organizations unite to locate a cache of sunken treasure. The treasure is in fact a fortune in diamonds and secret documents that was lost by the Germans in the seas off Monte Carlo during the war. Following their every move are representatives from every secret agency in the world, amongst them, the British, the Russians, the Germans, and the Americans, all seeking the important papers contained within the treasure."
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-03-25
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Chronicle of the Years of Fire
Overview: A meticulous chronicle of the evolution of the Algerian national movement from 1939 until the outbreak of the revolution on November 1, 1954, the film unequivocally demonstrates that the "Algerian War" is not an accident of history, but a slow process of suffering and warlike revolts, uninterrupted, from the start of colonization in 1830, until this "Red All Saints' Day" of November 1, 1954. At its center, Ahmed gradually awakens to political awareness against colonization, under the gaze of his son, a symbol of the new Algeria, and that of Miloud, half-mad haranguer, half-prophet, incarnation of Popular memory of the revolt, the liberation of Algeria and its people.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: ar
Release Date: 1975-11-26
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The Love Game
Overview: Victor (Jean-Pierre Cassel) and Suzanne (Genevieve Cluny) are a couple at odds about commitment in this light, fast-paced comedy-drama by Philippe de Broca. Suzanne needs more reassurance from Victor about the future of their relationship. He is a painter with an inspired creative side who finds it difficult to understand Suzanne's point of view. They are happy together; what is the problem? So when a friend comes into the picture and proposes to Suzanne, Victor suddenly realizes that Suzanne was right. Without a formal commitment, the suddenly insecure man does not like the view from the opposite shore.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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The Joker
Overview: A young man who lives on women meets his match in the young wife of a rich industrialist. Their affair is doomed by her taste for luxury and his dislike of her coolness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-01-20
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La terreur et la vertu: Danton
Overview: From November 1793 to April 1794, in order to reinforce the power of the Revolution, Robespierre strikes right and left. He successively sends the Hébertists to the guillotine, followed by Danton, the chief of the Indulgents, and Camille Desmoulins, who asked the new regime for clemency in his journal, Le Vieux Cordelier. Robespierre triumphs, but he is alone...
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-10-10
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Belle de Jour
Overview: Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-05-24
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Famous Love Affairs
Overview: Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-03
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OSS 117: Mission for a Killer
Overview: A secret agent is dispatched to find a rare and valuable drug.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-07-02
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Georges Courteline au travail & Boubouroche
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-02-16
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Napoléon II, the Eagle
Overview: The story of Napoleon 1st's long-awaited son, born in 1911. He spent his childhood in the Tuileries, before being separated from his father and taken in and raised by his grandfather, Emperor Francis, who made him an Austrian prince.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-01
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The Immoral Moment
Overview: Michel Jussieu, a film producer, returns one morning to the cabaret where he forgot his sweater. He discovers the corpse of an extreme right-wing journalist, but immediately he is knocked out. He wakes up in the police station ...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-07-18
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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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Jarosław Dąbrowski
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Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1976-01-26
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Casse-tête chinois pour le judoka
Overview: Judoka Marc Saint-Clair tries to save the world from nuclear disaster fighting Chinese and Russians.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-12-22
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Story of Women
Overview: France, World War II. In order to somehow make ends meet, the mother of two children, Marie Latour, does underground abortions and rents a room to a familiar prostitute. She doesn't pay any attention to her husband, who returned from the war because of his injury and lives her own life. Abortions gradually begin to bring a good income, and boredom can be easily dispelled by starting a young lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-09-14
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Four Queens for an Ace
Overview: Hakim Gregory escapes from prison by killing a number of guards, and returns to his hide-out abroad, to lead again his gang of drug trafficking and contract murders. Layton of the Secret Service must discover, and arrest him. The difficult mission almost becomes impossible with the rivalry of Layton's partner, Petula, the jealousy of his bride, Marion, the possible treachery of a Spanish woman, Dolores Arrabal, and yet a mysterious and sexy informant, Rosario... Too many women for Layton.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-05
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Dom Juan
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-09-21
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Fais gaffe à la gaffe !
Overview: Based on the comic strip about the hopeless but lovable slacker Gaston who drives his colleagues crazy at the office.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-04-01
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Font-aux-Cabres
Overview: Font-aux-cabres is the name of an Andalusian village, benefiting the Commander of the Order of Calatrava, who supports Juana Beltraneja, the pretender to the throne of Castile, against the Catholic Monarchs. The Commander's tyranny is felt throughout the country, subjecting village women and girls to his whims by threat or violence. Laurencia, who dares to refuse him, is kidnapped on her wedding day, and her fiancé Frondoso is imprisoned.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-13
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An Ice Cream With Two scoops ...
Overview: A film about a pair of sisters, whose parents are divorcing after their father leaves their mother for a younger woman, and who plot together to try to repair their fractured family.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-03-17
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The Flower of Evil
Overview: Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-02-09
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Madame Bovary
Overview: Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous debt and pursues scandalous sexual liaisons with absolute abandon. However, when her volatile lifestyle catches up to her, the lives of everyone around her are endangered.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-03-03
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Rouget le braconnier
Overview: The adventurous and dangerous life of a nineteenth-century Anjou poacher hunted by the local justice system for several years. Betrayed by the woman who loved him, he is arrested and sentenced to deportation to Cayenne.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-05-31
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Mamito
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-01-09
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Engrenage
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-12-02
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À fleur de peau
Overview: When Françoise introduced her fiancé to her parents, she had no idea that, during this family weekend, drama would enter this sumptuous estate, set up by her father for his second wife, the troubling Irène; so troubling, in fact, that she immediately set about conquering her daughter-in-law's fiancé... This doesn't faze her husband, Paul Brémont, the famous builder of Télébremont television sets, who is busy with his business and, above all, with the charms of his secretary. But it does seem to worry the house gardener, who is more than a little attached to his seductive boss (which makes Rose, the cook, sick with jealousy).
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-14
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Horace 62
Overview: Two families fight to stay in power. On one side, the Horatii, who rule Rome; on the other, the Curiatii, who rule Albe-la-longue. To escape the war, three brothers are chosen from each camp and face off in a fight to the death. A tragic confrontation with unexpected repercussions.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-04-24
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Martin Luther
Overview: Biography of Martin Luther on title benches and some reconstructions with François Maistre in the role of Luther (source: Média-Scérén)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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