Maurice Biraud
Also Known As: Bibi
Biography: Maurice Biraud (3 March 1922 – 24 December 1982) was a French film actor. He appeared in 90 films between 1951 and 1982. Biraud was born on 3 March 1922 in Paris. He married actress Françoise Soulié in 1956. He died on 24 December 1982 in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine. Source: Article "Maurice Biraud" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: March 03, 1922
Deathday: December 24, 1982
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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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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The Seventh Juror
Overview: In a moment of madness a middle-aged, married and respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened. Eventually her boyfriend is charged with the crime and, in a strange twist of fate, the killer finds himself serving on the jury.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-04-18
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Any Number Can Win
Overview: Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-03-19
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Taxi for Tobruk
Overview: During World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-05-09
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Beau Pere
Overview: Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-09-15
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The Eye of the Monocle
Overview: In 1943, a German commando conceals a large quantity of gold in an undersea cave on the coast of Corsica. Years later, Schlumpf, the sole survivor of the commando, returns to Corsica to recuperate the treasure -- with British and Soviet spies on his heels, and closely monitored by Dromard, from the French intelligence services. The monocled Dromard is convinced that he can outfox his opponents, but difficulties accumulate: despite his plump appearance, Herr Schlumpf is a sly fellow; Corsica is teeming with treasure hunters from various nationalities; and all parties readily resort to unnatural alliances, brazen treachery, and strong-arm tactics. Who will get the treasure?
Genres: Thriller Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-14
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Sorrel Flower
Overview: Catherine is left unmarried and pregnant when her mobster sweetheart is killed in this gangster comedy. With the help of another unmarried mother-to-be, Catherine goes looking for the stash of cash buried by her lover before his death. Soon other thugs and her suspicious neighbors are following their every move in an attempt to recover the lost loot...
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-09-22
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April Fools' Day
Overview: Emile is a good mechanic whose clientele is very loyal. A bit naive, he is bamboozled by a seller who manages to sell him the full trappings of the perfect fisherman. No sooner did he regret that he bought, frightened by his wife's reaction to such expenditure. But he plans to try it ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-07-28
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A Mouse with the Men
Overview: Marcel and Francis are busy people. Marcel owns a café and spend all his nights running from meetings to meetings with members from the high society... at least, that's what he say to his barman! Francis leaves his home, loving wife and adorable daughter, frequently to attend meetings and demonstration with customers. His boss trusts him so much that his agenda is always full... at least, that's what he say to his wife! In fact, Marcel and Francis' incomes come from their night job: thieves! Here at least, they are professional. Troubles arise when, during one robbery, they encounter a young, high-pitched voice, candid girl who takes the decision to become their associate in crime... for the fun!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-07-16
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The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Overview: The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-09-14
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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: 1965-10-01
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The Big Grasshopper
Overview: While he is trying to escape from a hit man, Carl is setting up a kidnapping in Beirut. He gets lost on his way, falling in love with Salène, a.k.a. "La grande sauterelle"...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-11
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The Counterfeiters of Paris
Overview: "Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Dutch florin, he accepts immediately. He retired after having counterfeited 100 florin notes just before the Queen Wilhelmina retired them from circulation. He flies to Paris. But the gang is not to be trusted, at least not all of them.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-27
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She No Longer Talks, She Shoots
Overview: Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities who use them as holy relics. Inspector Adrian Bondu is handling the case... But a young hippie who looks like Jesus will have Rosemonde suddenly feel very earthly feelings...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-08-23
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Jamais deux sans trois
Overview: Father Benoît would like one of his twins to take over his inn, at 3 plates. But his ancillary ambitions are not commensurate with his last 3. Bernard is also in love with Hélène, daughter of Colonel Flouc de La Donzelle. He dreams of becoming an actor and goes to Paris to find a job. Difficult beginnings since from the theater, he goes to the cabaret, then to the radio, without success. In the final scene, the 3 brothers meet, which gives rise to a series of gags during the wedding.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-22
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The Gypsy
Overview: Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-05
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Mr. Peek-a-Boo
Overview: A simple civil servant Léon, who has the unusual ability to walk through walls, falls madly in love with a hotel thief by the name of Susan. He poses as Garou-Garou, a dangerous gangster to attempt to woo her affections, but is arrested and sent to jail. While in jail he annoys the guards by walking in and out of his cell, and keeps persuading Susan to cease her criminal way of life. As fundamentally being an honest and law-abiding citizen, he eventually handles back everything he has stolen, is acquitted by the court, and becomes famous and respected. When he learns that Susan is planning to return to England and start a new life, he decides to confess to her his emotions. However, the couple is interrupted by a sudden rush of journalists. Trying to escape in a building, they get cornered on a corridor, and Léon pushes Susan through a nearby wall. But by doing this, he loses his own wall-walking ability, and the film concludes.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-04-06
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Carrot Top
Overview: As the red headed boy writes in his school book, a family is a group living under the same roof who can't stand each other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-05-28
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Paris Pick-Up
Overview: On Christmas night, an ex-convict meets a beautiful, married Italian woman who has a lot of things to hide.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-05-04
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Good Enough to Eat
Overview: Rose Chaperon is asked by her confectioner mother Mathilde to bring jewels to her sick grandmother, Madame de Mergrand. But Hugues, the latter's brother, is prepared to do anything to get his hands on the loot. To this end he hires a villainous young man, Jean-Louis nicknamed Loup, to do the job. Will Loup engulf and devour Little "Rose "Riding Hood?
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-06-08
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Premier mai
Overview: On this beautiful May 1st, Thérèse is about to give birth. Their presence at home is undesirable, so Jean, her husband, decides to take François, their little boy, to a soccer match. Their plans change when they meet a former factory mate who seems to have made a success of his life. This man, Blanchot, decides to return to Jean a sum of money he had once borrowed. Trusted, Jean is drawn into a clandestine circle, where his apparent luck delivers him without ulterior motive to Blanchot, who is one of the ringleaders. The police interrupt the dangerous game, putting Jean, who has no identity papers, in an awkward situation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-03-25
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Dandelions by the Roots
Overview: Jockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry the gangster's knife attack backstage at a theatre and the latter ends up dead being put into a double bass case. A day later the gangster mysteriously has disappeared, but it turns out that he was carrying a bet ticket for a horse race now worth over a million. A turbulent run for the money begins.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-05-06
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The Happiest of Men
Overview: An industrialist who prefers painting to business is cheated on by his wife with a painter who prefers business to painting.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-11-26
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Wonderful Mentality
Overview: Honoré, a valet, has an extremely logical mind and is unable to tell a lie. This comes in very fortunate for the family he works for.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-03-14
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A Slightly Pregnant Man
Overview: Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young son. After a series of nauseous dizzy spells he goes to the doctor and discovers that he is four-months pregnant. Marco then becomes internationally famous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-09-20
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Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Overview: Charming and innocent, Candide is vigorously chased away by the Baron, for his close encounters with the pretty Cunégonde. World War II breaks out, and when he is drafted and taken prisoner, he is forced to take German nationality and ends up guarding the camp where he was imprisoned. He crossed into Switzerland, but as he had no bank account, he was incarcerated for eight days for trespassing. Hunted by the Gestapo, he kills two men to free Cunégonde, who has finally been found. They both flee to Argentina, and their world tour begins. In Paris, Moscow, New York, Borneo and Alexandria. They try to follow Dr. Pangloss' optimistic rule of life. Tossed about, separated, they find themselves grown old and wiser, thinking only of cultivating their garden on the shores of the Mediterranean.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-12-16
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My Husband, His Mistress and I
Overview: Middle-aged lust: a man, in his thirteenth and therefore omen-filled marriage year, cheats on his wife.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-02
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Pierrot mon ami
Overview: Pierrot, a short-sighted, indolent and distracted young boy gets involved in a carnival at the Palais de la Rigolade whose main attraction is to place the women in an ascending current of air which makes their skirts fly. A fight in this Palace makes him lose his job. Then he meets Yvonne, the daughter of Pradonet, the owner of the funfair. He falls in love with Yvonne who hardly seems to share his feelings.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-02-07
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Land of Milk and Honey
Overview: Pierre Etaix’s most radical film, and perhaps unsurprisingly the one that effectively ended his career in cinema, Land of Milk and Honey is a fascinating investigative documentary about post–May ’68 French society.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-09
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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: 1973-05-01
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Confessions of a Choir Boy
Overview: A twelve year old boy who lives in a small town where strict social codes are observed, joins the choir to get to know a young girl of his own age whom he has seen at mass.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-01-29
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Le Permis de conduire
Overview: Michel Martenot (Louis Velle) works in a bank consumption, is recommended and intended for children. His professional skills were appreciated by his boss and promoted Michel. He becomes deputy director of an agency in central Paris. Unfortunately, not having a driving license means that you will have to track a lot of time commuting to public transport. To start the business on his family and professional life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-04-30
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Mon enfant, ma mère
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-09-24
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L'Or et la fleur
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Genres: Crime TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-04
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War Spies
Overview: Professor Meier has stolen the plans of his own infernal machine, the T-14, and intends to sell to the highest bidder in a transaction organized in an Avoriaz hotel belonging to "Pasha", a mob boss who acts as go between. To retrieve the famous case, the SDECEE release Peter Finshh, a professional gentleman thief, from prison to return to the plans. Peter is ordered to recover the T-14 from the possession of a group of spies in Avoriaz.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-02-03
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Too Many Lovers
Overview: The charming Lulu, a cabaret singer and dancer, has no shortage of admirers. When she decides to get married, she sets her heart on Robert, a young industrialist, but he is already married. Disappointed, she sets out in search of the ideal man.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-12-11
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No Big Deal for Johnny
Overview: Robert Lanier, a man with a doubtful past, disembarks clandestinely in Le Havre decided to rebuild his life. Johnny, an orphaned young acrobat, takes him for his father and presents him to the seductive Gaby, his best friend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-05-04
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The Secret of Helene Marimon
Overview: At the end of the Great War, the wounded Jacques Taillandier is cared for by the beautiful Hélène Marimon and becomes her lover. He hides from her the fact that her husband is a comrade from the trenches, and only reveals the truth when he learns of Marimon's death. Outraged, Hélène drives him away. After many years, Jacques reappears to learn that Hélène had once given him a daughter. Hélène, unwilling to reveal anything to young Dominique, forces the man she loves to leave her country. Dominique not only gets her mother to talk, but also reunites those separated by fate.
Genres: War Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-05-13
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Chicken Soup
Overview: The fiancée of a gangster who has been shot by the police takes an entire police station hostage, armed with a revolver and a bottle of nitroglycerine...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-06-12
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Why Paris?
Overview: Monique, a Belgian girl, comes to Paris to learn painting and become an artist. She took courses at the Academy and found a studio in Montmartre.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-06-24
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Un dimanche de flics
Overview: Two policemen, Franck and Rupert, intervene in a Parisian heliport where drugs are exchanged for a large sum of money. They decide to keep the loot and find themselves fighting with the mafia.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1983-10-31
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Bartleby
Overview: Adaptation of the classic Herman Melville short story. The narrator, an elderly Manhattan lawyer with a very comfortable business helping wealthy men deal with mortgages, deeds, and bonds, relates the story of the strangest man he has ever known.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-12-16
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Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
Overview: Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-10
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Hello, Sisters
Overview: Denis spends a holiday at his friend's Marc home. Staying with the family for several days, even though the Chotards have other things in mind than sex, he will have nice encounters with the girl of the house, Marianne, a young maid, and more.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-03-05
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Why Not Us?
Overview: A wrestler and a bookseller disgraced by life fall in love with each other.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-06-14
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His Father's Portrait
Overview: Paul has to leave his country home to collect his father's inheritance of a department store. A natural-born son, Paul's stepmother gives him a cold reception, and he's appalled by the behavior of his half-sister Dominique, an existentialist of the highest order. Paul's gumption restores the Galeries Parisiennes to its former glory, and he gives a farewell present to a more subdued Dominique. He returns to his village, arm in arm with the wise Marie-Louise, ex-saleswoman at the Grand Magasin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-10-29
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The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
Overview: An adaptation of the novel 813, in which the gentleman burglar competes to steal state papers and tries to uncover the identity of a terrifying murderer.
Genres: Romance Comedy Adventure Action Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-12-12
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Le Roi des camelots
Overview: How Robert, who does not manage to impose himself in the representation, sees his life turned upside down when he begins a career as a street vendor, which, thanks to his resourcefulness, turns out to be more and more brilliant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-01-11
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Les deux font la paire
Overview: Two third-rate actors, longing to be famous, try to make the headlines by feigning a murder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-02-11
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Five Leaf Clover
Overview: A middle-aged couple moves into an old villa populated by eccentric characters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-08-22
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OK Patron
Overview: Mario, the head of the Mafia in France, has just been mortally wounded. His "companion" decides to find him a successor, before the New York "organization" appoints one. She instructs her two bodyguards to take on anyone who likes money, doesn't have any and, above all, doesn't want to work too hard - in short, "the average Frenchman"... They discover Léon Bonnet, a representative of "magic crosses". They send him gifts: champagne, weapons (a mistake...), a ring for his fiancée, and a meal worthy of the finest gourmets. In return, they take him to Mario's dying bedside, and have him sign over the estate. It's then that Leon, with his angelic good looks, restores order within the Mafia, surprising all his adversaries with his manners, and outwitting the police...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-06-01
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Pete the Tender
Overview: In this crime drama, Michel Simon is cast as Pierrot, an elderly gangster who does not fit the stereotype -- he is soft-hearted. After a petty criminal betrays his cohorts by taking off with the loot from a big robbery, he is caught and sent to jail. Now he has served his time, and Pierrot is given the task of retrieving the stolen cash. The tyro criminal tries to use a pretty young woman who has fallen in love with him as a red herring for Pierrot's investigation. Everything backfires though, and Pierrot is left considering what to do with the loot, and with the criminal who does not yet realize he loves his attractive accomplice and could have a good life with her if he opts for walking the straight and narrow.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-11-30
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Three Days to Live
Overview: Struggling actor Simon witnesses a murder; he didn't see the killer, but that doesn't stop him from claiming that he did in order to get his name into the papers. Sure enough, the murderer targets him as his next victim. Our hero is temporarily rescued by Jeanne, a fellow aspiring actress who has always had a crush on him.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-03-12
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Flic Story
Overview: The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-01
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Le Concierge
Overview: Christophe Merignac, a youngESCP graduate with a law degree but still unemployed, gets a job as a concierge in a luxury building. Using charm and cunning, he makes himself indispensable. He makes a fortune and marries a young, pretty and rich tenant, whom he happily deceives. The conclusion is bittersweet: he's "made it", but he doesn't love anyone. What's more, a young concierge who looks like a brother has just arrived in his building.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-08-23
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The Little Boy from the Lift
Overview: A young boy is hired as a lift attendant in a grand hotel when his mother dies. To fulfill his dream, he takes part in a competition organized by the manager, and wins 1st prize: a two-day stay in one of the princely suites. He wants to share the experience with his young girlfriend, the florist, but discovers that she has betrayed him and returns to her elevator.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-04-05
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L'affaire Matzneff
Overview: About the Gabriel Matzneff affair and pedophilia in French culture and society from the 1950s to the present day. "It was not very difficult to know who Matzneff was at the time." Vanessa Springora denounces thus, in an interview with the Parisian , the support which benefited the writer Gabriel Matzneff , in the years 1970 and 1980. The author fifties then maintains an affair with the young girl, aged 14 years. A relationship under control that the editor tells in Le Consentement (éd. Grasset), published Thursday. "After having analyzed the work " , the Paris public prosecutor's office announced Friday January 3 the opening of an investigation for "rapes committed on the person of a minor of 15 years".
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-01-05
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Mireille Darc, la femme libre
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-08-24
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Give Me My Chance
Overview: 17 year-old small-town girl Nicole Noblet comes to Paris dreaming of becoming a world-famous actress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-10-18
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The Slave
Overview: A young composer is forced to work as a bar pianist. One night he gets hit by a car and is brought to a hospital. Severely injured he is injected with morphine. He becomes addicted.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-09-02
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Teuf-teuf
Overview: An automobile tribute
Genres: TV Movie Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-05
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Cherchez l'idole
Overview: After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning to the music shop he discovers that the precious instrument has just been sold! The problem is complicated by the fact that five stars all bought the same model that morning...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-02-26
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In Six Easy Lessons
Overview: A bossy count has trouble marrying off any of his six sons. When one of them, Adam, finally makes wedding arrangements, something happens to his bride to be: she develops amnesia after an accident.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-12-06
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Quai des blondes
Overview: The blond cigarette trade is raging in the Mediterranean, pitting the crew of a former naval officer, Ferrer, against a band of pirates led by Lucky Esposito. Initially defeated and robbed, Ferrer seeks revenge. Two women emerge, a singer, Barbara, and his former mistress, who now works for Esposito. Ferrer sees death at close quarters, Barbara saves him. The police wipe out Lucky's gang. The future looks brighter for Ferrer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-04-07
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Deux Romains en Gaule
Overview: This film is directly inspired by Asterix, created by René Goscinny and Albert UDERZO, chronicles the adventures of a little boy, Antoine, entered the world of antiquity by studying its history lesson and two Romans, and TICKETBUS PROSPECTUS, who prefer to leave their life of legionnaires and discover the lifestyle of Gaulois.Antoine meeting Asterix cartoon form, which explains certain peculiarities of life in Lutetia.
Genres: Comedy Animation TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-02-25
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The Adventures of Salavin
Overview: Finding himself unemployed overnight, Louis Salavin lets himself go into an incurable laziness despite the support of his friends and his mother...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-11-04
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Retour à Cherchell
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-05
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Mademoiselle Nitouche
Overview: Celestin works as an organist at a girl's school. By day, Celestin is the meek and mild target of the girls' incessant practical jokes. By night, however, he is the celebrated composer of popular operas -- and the romantic vis-à-vis of a celebrated stage star. When schoolgirl Denise stumbles onto Celestin's secret, she threatens to tell all -- but only if Celestin refuses to escort her to the opening night of his latest opera. As a result, Denise falls in love with a handsome young soldier, while Celestin is accidentally shipped off to an army camp. A series of silly coincidences brings happiness to all concerned by fade-out time.
Genres: Music Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-04-21
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Ça c'est Claude François
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-05-27
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La bande du Rex
Overview: What do Patricia, Badou, François, Dingo and P'tit Jeannot have in common? They live in the Paris suburbs, they are young, they are on the verge of breaking away from school, from the working world or from the Army. Their meeting place is "La Javanaise", a bar held by no-nonsense Janine and her lighter husband Lucien. There they mix with their idol, Daniel, also known as Frankie Mégalo, a film projectionist and a rocker without a band. Most of the efforts of these born idlers will consist in finding a band and a venue for Frankie to perform and in laying hands on cash by means fair or foul to go to the Southern sun.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-04-29
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