Arlette Balkis
Also Known As: Arlette Redon, Arlette Louise Bloch
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: October 01, 1910
Age: 114 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: May 31, 1997
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The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Overview: A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.
Genres: Comedy Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-12-06
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The Invisible Man's Love Life
Overview: Young doctor Garondet is summoned by renowned Professor Orloff. At Orloff's castle, Garondet discovers that the mad scientist has created an invisible yet murderous apeman.
Genres: Horror Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-25
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The Chasers
Overview: Two young men, one shy and one self-confident, spend a fast-paced night in Paris trying to pick up chicks. They confront every possible difficulty
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-04-29
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The Duel
Overview: A widow is loved by a doctor whose brother, an ecclesiastic unconsciously in love with the young woman, persuades her to enter a convent. Brought back on the straight and narrow by a missionary, the priest blesses his brother's marriage.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-01-11
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Cloportes
Overview: Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years. When he's released, he's out for revenge.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-08
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Deficiency
Overview: The true story of a French loner, Roland Resse, who is torn between the anti-Semitic hate of a fascist co-worker and the love of his warmhearted landlady. Roland's struggle to reconcile the different sides of his life explodes in heart-wrenching violence when he discovers that the old woman is Jewish.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-07-06
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July 14
Overview: A light, comedy romance about a cab driver named Jean and a flower girl named Anna that takes place in Paris during the Bastille day celebration of July 14th.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1933-01-13
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The Surrounded
Overview: Jean-Claude is a student, with Didier, at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Generales where Violaine, Didier's sister, is a professor of sociology. These young people belong to this upper-class, snobbish bourgeoisie.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-06-12
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Un cas intéressant
Overview: Adaptation for TV of the Dino Buzzati play "Un caso clinico". A modern Kafkaesque horror story in which medical specialists and machinery destroy a perfectly healthy man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-01-15
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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 Garden of Torment
Overview: The story of a Antoine, a physician who was exiled to China in the 1930's due to his drug habit.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-10-05
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The Passion of Bernadette
Overview: French filmmaker Jean Delannoy directs this inspiring sequel to his biopic about Marie-Bernarde Soubirous (portrayed by Sydney Penny), a young shepherdess who claimed to have seen numerous apparitions of the Lady in White at Lourdes in 1858. Chronicling Bernadette's years with the Sisters of Charity of Nevers convent, the film traces her life from age 22 until her untimely death from tuberculosis at age 35.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-05-09
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Au petit Marguery
Overview: Hippolyte, the chef at the small Paris restaurant of the title, is losing his sense of smell - and without that, you can’t cook. Not in France. The restaurant has to close. Guests and customers of the ailing master chef gather for one last fabulous meal. Between courses, personal conflicts are explored and flashbacks flesh out incidents from the lives of the restaurant owners.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-11-08
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Male Hunt
Overview: A few stories about marriage and its problems. Antoine is about to marry Gisèle. His friend Julien, an established bachelor, desperately tries to convince him not to do it, recounting his own painful experiences.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-09-18
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Zazie dans le Métro
Overview: A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-10-28
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I Stand Alone
Overview: After completing jail time for beating up a man who tried to seduce his mentally-handicapped teenage daughter, The Butcher wants to start life anew. He institutionalizes his daughter and moves to the Lille suburbs with his mistress, who promises him a new butcher shop. Learning that she lied, The Butcher returns to Paris to find his daughter.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-05-16
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