Jean Cherlian
Also Known As: Jean Charlian, Jean Cherian, Jean Cherliant
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Romans-sur-Isère, Drôme, France
Adult: No
Birthday: February 01, 1932
Age: 93 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: August 21, 2013
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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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The Red Ibis
Overview: A mentally disturbed man named Jérémie is scouring the area in search of women he can strangle with his scarf, which is embroidered with an ibis.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-05-21
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Banzaï
Overview: Michel works there manically solving people's problems over the phone. He is about to tie the knot with his girl friend Isabelle, an airline hostess. She flies all over the world, he hates to leave the office. A series of madcap mishaps involving theft or injury (as you would expect in his line of work) ensues after Michel promises Isabelle nothing will delay their marriage and she promises in turn that she's done flying. Once this unlikely promise is made, it becomes premise and both are forced into escalating white lies to maintain the appearance of keeping their word. Their predicament mounts as Isabelle is forced to do a few more flights, while Michel is compelled to travel to New York, Tunisia, and finally Hong Kong, where they are finally reunited in the throes of a contrived and hilarious drug deal involving a 747, water taxi chases, and martial arts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-03-23
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The Murderous Months of April
Overview: When an informer is executed, his dismembered remains found in several bin bags, Fred, a resilient police inspector, leads the murder investigation with his customary dogged determination.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-04-15
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Stress
Overview: A whimsically paced crime drama that takes you on a journey through deceit and intrigue.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-09-19
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Secrétaires B.C.B.G le jour salopes et perverses la nuit
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-03-20
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L'inconnue
Overview: The head of state of a small African country arrives incognito on a visit, but causes scandal and trouble with his wild parties and sexual escapades.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-06-23
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Helga, She Wolf of Spilberg
Overview: Helga, a woman who runs a strict prison camp, forces her female prisoners into slave labor and to be love toys for her own personal pleasure, as well as for her soldiers. Issuing torture and whippings to anyone who dares defy her, man or woman.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-10-20
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The Twist
Overview: Claire de La Tour Picquet shares her life between her husband, the successful novelist William Brandeis, and her lover, Jacques Lalouet, William's publisher. Then she discovers that her lover has a mistress, Charlie, who is also that of her husband...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-06-23
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The Night of the Hunted
Overview: A woman is taken to a mysterious clinic whose patients have a mental disorder in which their memories and identities are disintegrating as a result of a strange environmental accident.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-08-20
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Nobody Loves Me
Overview: Several lives intersect when a middle-aged woman is left by her husband, and she decides to trek him down with the help of her equally troubled sister.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-03-09
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Teenage Love
Overview: Marilyn Jess is a girl with a very strong sex drive but an impotent fiance. As her wedding approaches she writes in and reads over her diary and examines her wedding outfit. This is a cue for numerous flashbacks, but the film begins with Marilyn, in a white T-shirt, black hot pants and black thigh boots, dancing for and with and then having sex with Pjotr Stanislas. Then we see her in her bedroom in the same outfit on the bed with several cuddly toys
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-06-06
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False Pregnancy
Overview: Perhaps you have to love dogs in order to sell tins of slimy mystery meat to their owners. At any rate Martin, who is indifferent to pets in general, isn't doing all too well in his marketing job at Floppy Dog Foods. But right now this is the least of his problems: he has made a British au-pair pregnant in a one night stand; and while he is trying to figure out how to deal with this, his ex-wife (who divorced him over his not wanting children) and his mother (a militant anti-overpopulation, pro-birth control, pro-abortion activist) have a few comments to offer on the situation. Before his own child is born, Martin clearly has some growing up of his own to do.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-09-11
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The Grand Highway
Overview: Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year- old girl next door, and learns from her about life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-03-25
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A Piece of Pleasure
Overview: Phillipe and Esther live an apparently idyllic life with their daughter, Elise. In an attempt to preserve this bliss, Phillipe decides that he and Esther should each have affairs, being sure to tell each other openly about them. The plan backfires with tragic results as Phillipe becomes engulfed in jealously.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-15
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Te marre pas... c'est pour rire !
Overview: A young astrology enthusiast inherits an industrial business. Before any decision, he carefully studies the sign of his interlocutors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-03-10
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A Man of My Measure
Overview: A tall and gangly Victoire arrives in Paris looking for the ideal French lover -- and because she stands well above many of her preceding romantic partners, that is an added dimension to consider. As she finds and drops a series of possibilities -- a free-wheeling sociologist, an up-tight intellectual, and a dentist fixated on sports -- she begins to wonder if this simple quest may turn out to be an impossibility after all.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-16
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Anales, clitoridiennes et vaginales
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-03-10
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Secrets of the Satin Blues
Overview: A tale of sexual encounters of one woman and several friends, family members and acquaintances, as seen (and told) from the perspective of a pair of satin blue panties.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-08-11
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L'homme fragile
Overview: A middle class leftist man of the Seventies decade, starting to show signs of aging and a loss of identity, runs away from his commitments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-04-21
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Fiction in Love
Overview: Papy is sick and tired of living in the country. He goes to Paris with the money he has stolen from his son and daughter-in-law. After he has paid a visit to a prostitute, he goes to Alain’s place (his grandson) who gives him shelter for the night. Papy’s son who fears that he might not inherit from his father goes after him with his wife. Thanks to a pendullum they also go to Paris and check at Alain’s who tells them that he is unaware of Papy’s location. He then tells him to go to one of his female friend’s place. The son and his wife ask for the help of a private detective who first proceeds to pay himself in kind with the wife. Papy who has found what real life is, decides to stay in Paris and get married. His son and daughter-in-law go back home disappointed
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-01-14
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The Under-Gifted
Overview: The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble. They have to present themselves in court for their punishment and it could not be worse: If they don't pass their high-school graduation exams, they go to prison!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-04-30
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The Discord
Overview: Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His only problem: His production capacity is way to small so he gets to produce the machines in his private house. His wife Bernadette is far from being happy about it. Her private life goes down the line so she decides to leave Guillaume and to finally have revenge she candidates for major against her husband...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-03-16
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The Secret Wife
Overview: It was during one of his missions in Norway that Antoine learned of his wife's death. He leaves his experimental submarine and returns to Paris. Helene was found in the Seine and had taken barbiturates. Even though he had not been with Hélène for six years, he knew her well enough to believe that she was incapable of committing suicide. So who and why?
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-09-17
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Paradise for All
Overview: Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain Durieux. This is great success, everybody's happy except may be Alain's wife, Jeanne, who's worrying about the changes in Alain's personality. Other patients use the treatment with similar successes, and Valois's happy about it. But the monkeys are changing: non-cured ones are made mad by the over-stability and stereotyped behaviour of the cured ones. So are the humans. When Valois realises he can't stop the process, he decides to "flash" himself.
Genres: Drama Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-08-25
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Une belle carrosserie
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-11-04
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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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Unlimited Girls
Overview: 5 dark figures break into a villa on the outskirts of Paris. They hope for rich prey. Just as they turn the house upside down, the residents surprise the burglars in the act. The opportunity is favorable and so the girls get what they want the most - unrestrained sex. In a very short time, a real bum orgy develops. It is fucked to the last drop and all have a really cool weekend. A masterpiece of French eroticism!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-06-04
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Kill the Referee
Overview: Michel, a referee has to suffer the consequences of having whistled a penalty against a team which is supported by football hooligans.
Genres: Thriller Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-02-22
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Mad Enough to Kill
Overview: Julie Ballenger has spent five years in a psychiatric clinic. Leaving the clinic apparently cured, she is hired by a wealthy industrialist, Mostri, to work as a governess to his young nephew, Thomas. The boy is heir to a huge fortune after the recent death of his wealthy parents who died in mysterious circumstances. During a visit to a park, Julie and Thomas are kidnapped at gun-point and driven away to deserted quarry. The two hostages manage to escape, but are closely pursued by an armed killer...
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-08-20
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Alice or the Last Escapade
Overview: One night Alice can't stand her husband anymore and she decides to leave him. It's a dark, rainy night and something smashes the windshield so Alice is forced to seek shelter in an old mansion. She is warmly welcomed but soon realises that strange things are happening. She tries to escape but it seems there's no way out.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Mystery Thriller Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-01-19
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Christian
Overview: Nikolaj Christensen is a popular Danish folk-rock artist. In this teen-oriented film, Christian (Christensen) is a young man in search of love, who restlessly leaves his home in Denmark to search for it all over Europe, finally finding some semblance of it in Morocco. This slight film is directed by Gabriel Axel, who also directed Babette's Feast. It is likeliest to be of interest to fans of the star and his music, which is used throughout.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1989-12-26
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Annabelle partagée
Overview: In this mildly explicit sexual drama, the lovely dancer Annabelle (Delphine Zingg) has a passionate relationship with an older man but eventually decides to devote her romantic energies to a younger man with whom she has more in common. Between sex scenes, and philosophical discussions between friends and lovers about love and relationships, the viewer is treated to shots of the lovely dancer mulling over her life at various scenic locations in Paris.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-03-18
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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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Marche à l'ombre
Overview: Two friends, one a musician the other constantly depressed wander around Greece and France till they get to Paris without a penny to their name. Here they spend nights in the underground, and squat in houses with the African immigrants. One day they both fall in love with Mathilde a blond dancer and follow her to New York.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-10-17
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Les Défonceuses
Overview: Also Known As (AKA) (original title) Les Défonceuses Denmark Sex-party i pornohuset France (soft porn version) Agathe et Martha France (alternative title) Les defoncées France Les Défonceuses Italy (dubbed version) Caraibi USA Miss Innocence
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-01-29
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