Jacques Galland
Also Known As: Jaques Galland
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: October 12, 1921
Age: 103 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 13, 2010
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A Pain in the Ass
Overview: Ralf Milan, a hitman, arrives in Montpellier to kill an important witness. He checks in a hotel without knowing that his neighbour has become neurotic after his wife left him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-09-20
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The Last Train
Overview: Two people, a Frenchman and a Jewish German woman, meet on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-31
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We Won't Grow Old Together
Overview: Jean, a married 40-year-old filmmaker, and his young working class lover, Catherine, engage in a circular series of spectacular blow-ups and tentative reunions, their mutual desire a fire that burns them again and again.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-05-03
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Caméléons
Overview: The means used by foreign spy services to obtain the trade secret of a French invention.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-11-10
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A Cop
Overview: A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s having an affair with is a bank robber planning a heist.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-01
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Funny Boy
Overview: Micky leaves his provincial and bourgeois background and leaves to live in Paris, where he performs as a transvestite singer in a cabaret.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-08-26
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En grandes pompes
Overview: The Robinards form a family divided into two irreconcilable clans: the Léonce branch and the Sébastien branch. That day, the village of Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon was abuzz with activity: at the cemetery, the grandfather, Sébastien Robinard, was buried. At the same time, Marcel Robinard, a descendant of Léonce, was getting married in church. Not to mention a bicycle race and a parade. All these events collide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-06-05
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Panurge's Sheep
Overview: Charles and Jeanne Renard live with their young kids in a dormitory town. Everyday train and metro,work and return by train and metro to the dormitory town (the famous french sentence "Métro,boulot,dodo"). But how fragile is marital bliss ?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-07-05
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A Young Couple
Overview: The dramatic failure of a couple, Véronique and Gilles, who can't solve their everyday problems. On the verge of breaking up, they're reunited at the last minute.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-06-11
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Bye Bye Barbara
Overview: A chance meeting with an alluring stranger leads a sports journalist down a twisted path of deception.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-03-11
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A Police Officer Without Importance
Overview: Camille, Dov and Joëlle live on the edge of society and are involved in petty theft helping them to buy their drug doses and to survive as best they can. One day, while attempting to rob a movie theater, they activate the alarm signal and it is Pierre, Camille's brother, who is doing a heist in the same building, who is arrested red-handed. The three young people decide to kidnap a police officer and exchange him for Pierre.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-04-12
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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: 1973-05-10
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The Fighting Cock
Overview: A sleeping car employee seeking a well-deserved rest is prevented from doing so by the crowing of his neighbor's rooster. Just as he's about to settle the score, he's presented with a gift: a rubber band around the annoying bird's beak temporarily puts an end to its vocalizations. But the animal can't be left alone, and Pierre has to take it with him on his nocturnal journeys: you can imagine the disturbance it can cause when, after being thrown out of a wagon window, it lands in the next van full of pheasants. The whole little world spills out onto the train, and the conductor is not at all pleased! Pierre manages to get a young passenger to assume ownership of the rooster, but not for long. Every time Pierre tries to get rid of it, it somehow comes back to him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-05-30
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Les Aventures de Lagardère
Overview: A young man, Lagardère, discovers that a plot is afoot to assassinate the Duke of Nevers. He warns him and flees with his daughter, Aurore. Fifteen years pass. Lagardère has raised Aurore as his own, but her mother seeks her out and has her abducted by her men. With the help of two friends, Lagardère rescues the girl and confronts her kidnappers.
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-04-04
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The Associate
Overview: An unemployed investor creates a fictious business partner to attempt to improve business. Eventually, his creation gets out of control as his business becomes successful and his wife announces that she is in love with the partner and his son wishes the partner was his father -- although no one has ever seen him. To regain control, the man decides to "kill" his imaginary partner and is arrested for the murder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-08-22
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Grandison
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-03-28
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Recourse in Grace
Overview: Mario di Donati, a deserter from the Italian army, lives in Paris under a false name with Germaine, his French lover. When the latter learns about his hidden past, she feels hurt by Mario's lack of trust in her and she distances herself from him. In despair, Mario surrenders to the law but, at the time of trial, he runs away to join the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-05-19
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Love Life in Luxembourg
Overview: The story of a hotel boss that, from time to time, observes the couples in the rooms and even films them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-11
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The Horse
Overview: Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules with an iron hand. Things go awry the day he discovers one of his grandsons is involved in drug traffic. To make matters worse, the reckless youth has hidden the white powder in the Maroilleur farm. Without a moment's hesitation, Auguste gets rid of the toxic substance but, of course, the mob has different views...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-02-22
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Murder at 45 R.P.M.
Overview: Danielle Darrieux stars in this French thriller as a singer having an affair with her accompanist. When her husband dies in an automobile accident, the two lovers suspect each other of having murdered him. Soon after, they receive 45 rpm records with the dead man’s voice, threatening to come back.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-05-24
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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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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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Last Known Address
Overview: Marceau Léonetti, a competent and energetic officer stops by chance the son of an influential lawyer driving under the influence of alcohol. A few months later, the lawyer falsely accuses Léonetti as being violent and incompetent. As a result Marceau is transferred to a small police station, where he meets young and beautiful Jeanne. Soon they are faced with a tough investigation.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-02-25
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Engrenage
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-12-02
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