Teddy Bilis
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, Ile-de-France, France
Birthday: May 13, 1913
Deathday: April 30, 1998
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Experiment in Evil
Overview: Dr. Cordelier, living in a suburb of Paris, withdraws from society to pursue research into the functioning of the human brain. His lifelong friend, Maître Joly, becomes concerned when Cordelier draws up a will that bequeaths his entire estate to a stranger, Monsieur Opale; he cannot understand why Cordelier defends him, considering Opale attacks women and children. After a colleague is killed, Joly confronts Cordelier and discovers the truth behind his friend's behavior.
Genres: TV Movie Science Fiction Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-07-04
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La Confession d'un enfant du siècle
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Fortunate
Overview: During WW2, a posh bourgeois woman (Morgan)is compelled to live under the same room as a crude simple-minded yet big-hearted man.(Bourvil) Her husband was arrested by the Gestapo and she is a hunted woman.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-11-16
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No Pity for Women
Overview: The wealthy industrialist Alain de Narbois has disappeared. Michel Dunant, an idle man who passed by and who looks exactly like the deceased, is taken for Alain by a young woman and her servant. He jumps at the chance but quickly realizes that, in this hushed little world, masters and servants play comedy and know very well that he is only a double of Alain. In fact, the industrialist was assassinated.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-08-30
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Gunman in the Streets
Overview: An American is on the run in the streets and back alleys of France.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-12-13
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Maya
Overview: Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance) who is all things to all men. No matter what sort of woman her client wants, she will become that woman -- at least for the night. When a middle-aged man named Jean insists that Bella is his long-lost sweetheart, she plays along, hoping to escape her sordid lifestyle. The emotional tragedy that follows is meant to explain how Bella became "Maya," the living embodiment of Lost Souls.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-09
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Lettre ouverte
Overview: Martial, Colette 's husband, is madly jealous. One day, he catches his wife writing a letter and he does want to know what this message contains, to no avail.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-03-11
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Gaspard des montagnes
Overview: We are in 1814, in Auvergne, in the dark fir forests of Livradois, near La Chaise Dieu. Gaspard and his beautiful cousin Anne-Marie see their love thwarted and their lives disrupted because of a treasure that an old uncle, who made his fortune in Guadeloupe, buried in the mountains of Auvergne.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-12-30
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Les Culottes rouges
Overview: Antoine Rossi, a recidivist prisoner of war in Germany, manages to escape with the cowardly Fendard. Fendard does everything in his power to help him even though he is wounded, but Antoine tries to get rid of him as he boards the train to freedom.
Genres: Romance Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-19
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Flesh and Desire
Overview: Giuseppe is accused of killing his employer Matthias who is actually in a hospital with amnesia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-06-18
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He Who Must Die
Overview: Greece, in the 1920s, is occupied by the Turks. The country is in turmoil with entire villages uprooted. The site of the movie is a Greek village that conducts a passion play each year. The leading citizens of the town, under the auspices of the Patriarch, choose those that will play the parts in the Passion. A stuttering shepherd is chosen to play Jesus. The town butcher (who wanted to be Jesus) is chosen as Judas. The town prostitute is chosen as Mary Magdalene. The rest of the disciples are also chosen. As the movie unfolds, the Passion Play becomes a reality. A group of villagers, uprooted by the war and impoverished, arrive at the village led by their priest. The wealthier citizens of the town want nothing with these people and manipulate a massacre. In the context of the 1920s, each of the characters plays out their biblical role in actuality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-05-03
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The Law
Overview: A gorgeous housekeeper turns the tables on the men in a small Mediterranean coastal town by using their own vicious drinking game.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-01-25
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Albert Einstein
Overview: In this imaginary investigation, the scientist, who was very secretive, is presented in a new light. Actors play people who knew Einstein and retrace his journey. The portrait is followed by a debate on a point of controversy, the involvement of Albert Einstein in the nuclear war.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-28
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Les Rosenberg ne doivent pas mourir
Overview: A French film about a famous American trial - that of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who became the first people in American history to receive the death penalty for espionage.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-05-24
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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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Na !
Overview: A group of pensioners, exasperated by the Social Security strike, meet Chalupot, a former paratrooper and ex-priest who has just been released from prison. He encouraged them to form the M.L.V. (Mouvement de Libération des Vieillards) and organize demonstrations. But as Chalupot is arrested and locked up, the pensioners plan to hold up the Social Security.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-06-06
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Le Cinema de Papa
Overview: Claude Berri plays himself as he relates his own experiences through youth and adolescence. His father owns a profitable fur shop. Initially, Claude's father hopes his son will take over the fur shop, but he later gives in to Claude's desire to become involved in filmmaking.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-10
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The Sword and the Balance
Overview: Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pasts are questionable, riddled with violence and controversy. Neither the police nor the court can decide how to solve that puzzle.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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Rififi
Overview: Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offers him, until he discovers that his old girlfriend Mado has become the lover of local gangster Pierre Grutter during Tony's absence. Expanding a minor smash-and-grab into a full-scale jewel heist, Tony and his crew appear to get away clean, but their actions after the job is completed threaten the lives of everyone involved.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-04-13
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The Hotshots
Overview: A story about inventor who invented a cool bike and goes on racing competition but has a lot of problems on his way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-03-01
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L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
Overview: Julien Brûlebois, a brave peasant from Auvergne, learns that he has been summoned to Strasbourg to collect an inheritance. Amazed by the operation of the bus that takes him from the station to his notary's home, he decides to buy it. What follows is a bewildering chase between the agents of the Strasbourg transport authority, the capitalists, the naive peasant and his lucid, pretty fiancée.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-04-18
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Le Faiseur
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-03-12
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L'Amour des 4 colonels
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-24
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Ah! La police de Papa
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-09-04
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La folle de Chaillot
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-06-30
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A Train Can Hide Another
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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The Gates of Paris
Overview: Juju, a drunken oaf who feels the need of being important to someone---anyone---and his friend The Artist are forced at gunpoint to house a fugitive, Pierre Barbier, in Juju's broken-down home. The urge for being needed is such in Juju that he gives up drinking and takes care of Pierre. But one day Juju finds out that Pierre has been making love to his girl Maria...
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-09-27
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Impossible on Saturday
Overview: Robert Hirsch impresses as he takes on 11 different roles in Alex Joffé's comedy about the six sons of a recently deceased Jewish Casanova. To receive their inheritance, the sons must convene in Israel and recite a Kaddish (memorial prayer) for their dad. But planning the gathering is no easy feat. The film's title is based on the nonobservant son's futile attempts to contact his siblings on the one day when working is forbidden by Jewish law.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-01-20
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Madame Baptiste
Overview: Blanche was raped in her adolescence by a servant, a cowherd named Baptiste. Her family, anxious to hide the shame that this scandal has cast on their reputation, locks the young girl in their manor, thinking that four walls are enough to silence the mockery. One day, Blanche, whom the whole country nicknames "Madame Baptiste", tries to commit suicide, consumed by the painful memory she carries within her. A man saves her and, charmed by the woman who now owes him her life, he asks her to marry him, thus defying the moral barriers set by public opinion. Life now seems happy for Blanche, but one day, at the agricultural show, the insult comes again: "Madame Baptiste!"...
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-29
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