Carlo Nell
Also Known As: Charles Maggio Bartolotta, Carlo de Paname
Biography: Carlo Nell was born on June 9, 1926 in Ormont-Dessous, Vaud, Switzerland as Charles Maggio Bartolotta. He was an actor, known for Le Samouraï (1967), Le chat (1971) and César and Rosalie (1972). He died on February 7, 2016 in Le Chesnay, Yvelines, France.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Ormont-Dessous, Vaud, Switzerland
Adult: No
Birthday: June 09, 1926
Age: 98 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: February 07, 2016
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Les Demoiselles à péage
Overview: A woman starts working in her dead husband's brothel.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-09-15
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La Difficulté d'être infidèle
Overview: Olivier and Françoise, newlyweds, have Chantal at their service, whose main function is to pretend to be his boss, while she takes care of the housework. But Olivier is suddenly tempted by an extramarital affair with a young Italian woman, Frédérique. Pretending a business trip, he sends his wife and maid to their respective mothers, intending to bring Frédérique to his home...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-05-15
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The Cat
Overview: Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished. His cat Greffier being the only one he still gives affection to, he becomes the object of Clemence's anger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-24
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Joe: The Busybody
Overview: A writer accidentally shoots his blackmailer and tries to hide the body.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-08-31
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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 Loner
Overview: In Paris , Commissioner Stan Jalard and Inspector Simon Lecache plan to quit the police to go and enjoy a more peaceful life in the West Indies. In a nightclub, during a routine visit, they spot Schneider, a dreaded gangster and public enemy. At the time of his arrest, Simon is killed at close range by the criminal. Stan then decides to stay in the police to avenge Simon. Being the godfather of Christian, Simon's son, who sometimes lives in a boarding school, sometimes at home, he takes charge of his education. Two years later, Stan has been promoted, and he's told that Schneider had resurfaced in the capital. A long hunt begins.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-03-18
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The Gang
Overview: In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the front-wheel drive gang". The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will their luck last?
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-01-19
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The Upper Hand
Overview: In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. And an undercover US Treasury Department agent is trying to infiltrate the smuggling business.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-03-02
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Seduction Squad
Overview: After witnessing and accidentally helping several thugs get away with a heist, the women rooming together notice through their telescope that the stolen loot is in the apartment right across the street. They plan their own burglary of the already stolen loot.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-11-29
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Mass in C Minor
Overview: Friends Philippe and Laurent, a violinist and a cello player, frequently team up to play special gigs. While performing for a wedding, they meet the high-class Sophie. Unfortunately for Sophie and the musicians, both of whom she eventually has relationships with, Sophie has an entirely unscrupulous drug-peddling mother, who will stop at nothing to pursue her plans.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-01-31
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L'Été en hiver
Overview: Movie for French TV - Jean, a highly sought-after reporter, and Diane, an actress, have been married for three years, but are often separated by their respective professions. They have not lived together for more than six months. During the winter, they decide to spend a vacation together in Meschers, to relive the first moments of their relationship.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-01-04
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The Exchange Student
Overview: Monsieur Bosquier, the owner of a private school, is far from pleased when his eldest son, Philippe, fails his end of year exams. He decides to send his wayward offspring to England to improve his English. In exchange, Philippe’s host, a wealthy whisky distiller, Mac Farrel, will send his daughter, Shirley, to live with the Bosquiers in France. However, Philippe has already decided to spend the summer holidays on a yacht with his friends, so he sends a fellow student, Michonnet, to England in his place. The deception is soon discovered but things go from bad to worse when Philippe and Shirley fall in love and fly to Scotland to get married...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-12-01
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Easy Down There!
Overview: A priest gets a little hot under the collar when the wife he thought was dead unexpectedly returns.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-09
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Ghost with Driver
Overview: A chauffeur for a corrupt CEO, and a few hours later, his boss himself, are killed by the industrialist's associate. But their ghosts remain on Earth, and they try to tell the millionaire's teenage son the identity of the killer.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-03-20
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Jean-Philippe
Overview: A bourgeois office drone whose raison d'être is the music of French rocker Johnny Hallyday awakens one day in an alternate universe where the famed musician never recorded a single song. When he’s not at the office dutifully plugging-away, Fabrice lives a deadly dull life.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-04-05
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Les baisers
Overview: A portmanteau film in which the producer, instead of as usual using already well known directors with a commercial draw, allowed five new young directors to each have a crack at an episode about romance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-05-14
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The Sleeping Sentinel
Overview: In 1812, Napoleon I set off for the Russian Campaign and planned to spend a night in Châlons-sur-Marne. However, as the police were aware of a planned assassination attempt, the place of accommodation was changed at the last minute, and the house of Doctor Mathieu was requisitioned. But Doctor Mathieu was an opponent of the Emperor who had allied himself with the instigators of the attack. They decided to plant their bomb in the doctor's home, leaving his family in danger.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-01-21
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Les baratineurs
Overview: A precious work of art from the Italian Renaissance is stolen and passes through many hands before ending up in the shed of the farmhouse of Mr. and Mrs. Dujardin, fishmongers, who are inaugurating their luxury fish shop that very day. But the antique dealers, the free-riders and the bargain-hunters are there. They are jealously careful not to pass on the fruit of their clever investigations to their rivals, for all of them, after a picturesque treasure hunt, know that the Dujardin family own the famous Duranti altarpiece. But where have they hidden it themselves?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-02-01
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Code Name: Tiger
Overview: A Turkish ambassador arrives in Paris to sign an important trade agreement, allowing Turkey to buy a sophisticated new war plane from France. Immediately he is the target of an assassin, and a special agent is assigned to protect him.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-11-18
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The Boss of Champignol
Overview: Claudius finds a foal and takes it home to his boss. The men who stole the animal are looking for him. Claudius names him Champignol and trains him for racing. When he grows up, Champignol wins a regional race. But the thieves return, and Claudius is forced to do odd jobs to keep his horse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-03-16
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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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La Grande Maffia
Overview: After receiving a mobster's heart as a transplant, a modest bank teller embarks on a life of criminal exploits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-17
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Zita
Overview: Because "Tante Zita" main theme is death: a twenty-year old girl, Annie (Shimkus) lives with her mother and her aunt (both played by first-class actresses Suzanne Flon and Katina Paxinou). The auntie is dying, and for the first time in her life, Annie has to cope with death. One night, she finds it too hard to bear, and leaving home where the old woman is suffering, she begins to hang around in Paris. She will meet people, and, from dusk to dawn, she will learn to leave her childhood behind and to grow into a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-01-12
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Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus
Overview: Alphonse flees to Paris to escape his wife's despotism. Intoxicated by the frenzied pace of Parisian life, he ruins himself completely. During a nightclub outing, some hoodlums mistake him for Al Gregor, the king of the underworld.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-11-05
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Scandal Man
Overview: Marc, is a reporter in a tabloid. At the "Bongo Club", he photographs a young blond woman kissing a black man. This woman is the daughter of Senator Linden, head of the segregationist movement of USA.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-02-14
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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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Le Samouraï
Overview: After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police investigator and a ruthless employer, and not even his armor of fedora and trench coat can protect him.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-10-25
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Catherine & Co.
Overview: Catherine, a young British sexworker living in Paris, decides to start her own "company" after learning the basics of big businesscom from her clients. She encounters both interest and setbacks in her search for investors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-29
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Love at the Top
Overview: A shy bank employee unexpectedly invites a young woman to a café, leading to a one-night stand. When he shares this with his disillusioned friend, the writer helps him navigate a dazzling social ascent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-13
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Waiter!
Overview: After a tumultuous life, a middle-aged headwaiter in a Parisian restaurant dreams of opening a seaside amusement park. When an old flame reappears, he reignites his feelings, but she is involved with another man.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-11-09
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The Love Mates
Overview: Julien and Agatha appear to be a great couple, loving, caring and seem to feel complete with each other. Though Julien often gives the impression of being interested in other girls, his lover doesn't care all that much and sometimes even looks like she's encouraging him to do that. It all changes when they meet an American woman who'll change their lives and their perception of love.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-12-18
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Cesar and Rosalie
Overview: A young woman becomes entangled with a successful businessman, but her ex tries to win her back, provoking intense jealousy that leads her to reconsider her choice. Ultimately, one man's actions force a resolution to her dilemma.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-11
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Lola
Overview: A bored young man meets with his former girlfriend, now a cabaret dancer and single mother, and soon finds himself falling back in love with her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-03
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The Gendarme Takes Off
Overview: The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-28
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The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
Overview: The bungling inspector Cruchot finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that they sound like empty garbage cans when you touch them. Chaos is ahead.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-31
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Three Seats for the 26th
Overview: Yves Montand, playing himself, returns to his hometown of Marseilles to appear in an autobiographical musical. Once there, he searches for the barmaid he once loved and also encounters young hopeful Marion, giving her the chance of a lifetime
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-23
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La Honte de la famille
Overview: On the day of his marriage, the son of a Marseille king declares to his family that he wishes to engage in the police.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-11-07
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The Margin
Overview: A businessman leaves his country home, and wife and young son for a business trip to Paris. While there he develops a sexual and spiritual bond with a call girl.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-22
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Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
Overview: Three friends navigate mid-life crises: a blocked writer, a disillusioned doctor, and a charming man facing bankruptcy and divorce. As their struggles strain friendships, a younger man captures the attention of one friend's wife, complicating their lives further.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-23
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Action Man
Overview: An American talks a retired French crook into robbing a bank, but kidnappers demand the loot as ransom.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-05-31
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Maigret Sees Red
Overview: Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help land an influential mobster in jail. It's up to detective Maigret to deal with the FBI and a series of underworld figures to save the life of the witness...
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-09-18
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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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