Jean Lara
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Biography: Jean Lara (born Jean Joseph Marie Usandivaras; 20 September 1922 - 3 April 2010) is a French actor and director.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Dijon, France
Adult: No
Birthday: September 22, 1922
Age: 102 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: September 25, 2010
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Operation Double Cross
Overview: In Barcelona, secret agent Antoine Donadieu thwarts the plans of a Nazi scientist.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-11-10
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Mr. Orchid
Overview: This character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the chief of the underground who uses his hobby of growing orchids to hide his radio equipment.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-04-30
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The Damned Lovers
Overview: A waiter, Paul, likes detective novels as he identifies with the characters, before becoming a sought-after offender himself. He flees with his group and his girlfriend Jackie
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-03-12
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Un trésor de femme
Overview: Francois is engaged to Isabelle. While going to buy the engagement ring, he meets Sophie, who puts the ring on her finger and does not manage to remove it. Francois follows in the footsteps of Sophie, who is married to an important merchant, in order to recover his property.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-02-11
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The Iron Mask
Overview: The story of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, and the imprisonment in an iron mask of the identical twin of the King of France, Louis XIV.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-10-26
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The Last Vacation
Overview: A schoolboy remembers his last holiday in the big house of his family in the country, before it was sold.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-03-24
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This Desired Body
Overview: A man falls in love with Lina , a hot girl with a racy past who creates a sensation among the workers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-04-17
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Une gosse « sensass »
Overview: Pierre Leroy has a garage that he manages with the help of a couple of friends, Raymond and Annette. But the bills pile up and Leroy is on the brink of bankruptcy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-04-02
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L'Étrange Amazone
Overview: Michel, a young painter in poor health, enters the grounds of a château and faints when he sees a haughty young woman in the simplest of garb. The chatelaine, Eliane, takes care of him and calls in Pierre Fournier, a Parisian doctor. A disreputable Count Ostrowsky turns up to blackmail her. He is found murdered. But who's the killer? Pierre or Eliane? Quite simply Michel, who, before dying, showed his gratitude to the woman who had taken him in. Pierre and Eliane were living apart, but they were husband and wife. Such adventures unite them, this time, forever.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-04-19
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Mademoiselle from Paris
Overview: Micheline Bertier is as wise as she is graceful, and is the perfect assistant to her boss, couturier Maurice Darnal. Darnal's business is faltering and he has to close down. Micheline's family is also in trouble. Her crazy-headed sister is about to steal her fiancé away from her. At the suggestion of singer Jacqueline François, Micheline goes on tour as an accompanist, and meets up with Darnal in Nice, full of projects he wants to involve her in. Micheline, who arrives in time to save her sister from a suicide attempt, will know how to run the new fashion house.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-06-28
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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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Minuit... Champs-Elysées
Overview: A burglar, Bob Duchemin, is charged with murder following a mysterious settling of accounts. Suspicion also falls on the manager of a cabaret on the Champs-Elysées, as well as the owner of the establishment, Enrico. But Bob is also found guilty and sentenced to twenty years' hard labor. Soon abandoned by his fiancée, Lili, Bob learns that she has become Enrico's mistress, one of the attractions at the Tipico. The young singer's affair quickly makes her an international star. For his part, Bob escapes and seeks revenge. He meets a young pure freak who dissuades him from carrying out his murder plans. Bob kills Enrico anyway, but in self-defense. Afterwards, having been found innocent, he will be able to "remake his life" with the pure young girl.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-01-29
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Operation Abduction
Overview: The Secret Service abducts a "rocket scientist" to better protect him against gangsters acting for Chinese agents.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-10-08
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Police Judiciaire
Overview: The detectives of the Paris Judicial Police, based at the Quai des Orfèvres, are mobilized by four criminal cases. A double murder, perpetrated in a hotel on the Place de Clichy, intrigues the investigators. The owner and a little maid were murdered in cold blood.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-02-28
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L’aventurière des Champs-Élysées
Overview: After a Parisian haute couture house is robbed and jewels stolen, Commissaire Legrand leads the investigation. His suspicions fall on Linda, the great couturier. He decides to follow her to Nice to present her next collection.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-07-24
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La situation est grave... mais pas désespérée
Overview: Sophie, viscountess of Valrude, believes herself being a widow since her husband disappeared in the Amazon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-31
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That Night
Overview: Jean, who is the artistic director of a fashion magazine, is married to a very pretty cover girl, Sylvie. They both work for André Reverdy, a very cynical man, who openly covets Sylvie.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-09-11
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Every Minute Counts
Overview: The Leroy factory manager, Sorel, is a gambler with debts, playing double-game. He enjoys the advantages of his social situation and the confidence shown him by his boss, Leroy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-07-15
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Requiem pour un caïd
Overview: Police officer Antoine Delille is in charge of putting an end to the activities of a "kingpin", Jo Pinelli, trafficker, racketeer and pimp. He has three women working for him, including Eva and Jeannette, and is currently "conditioning" a charming, naive Orly employee, with whom he poses as an honorable businessman. Inspector Delille's plan is to arrest Jo for some crime and, while he's being held at the P.J., to delve into his other criminal activities and confound him.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-07-25
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A Legitimate Defense
Overview: Two friends from the last war, Pierrot, a bar owner, and Gustave, a police inspector, are in contact with a notorious gang of racketeers in Montmartre. Tired of putting up with Albert the King's demands, Pierrot kills the gangster during a bar brawl. His first instinct is to flee, but on Gustave's advice, he turns himself in to the law. All things considered, he'll be safer in prison than exposed to the reprisals of the "underworld". Pierrot goes to trial. He was acquitted as having acted in self-defense. But his release leaves him open to the vengeance of Bob, one of Albert's accomplices. Pierrot narrowly escapes an ambush, but is finally able to rid himself of the threat hanging over him, thanks to the friendship of Inspector Gustave, and finally reunites with the companion of his life, Dora, who has never stopped trembling for him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-06-11
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King on Horseback
Overview: Henri La Tour, a strolling player, is also a daring adventurer. So, when, after accomplishing a brilliant feat, he is awarded a title by King Louis XV, the Duke of Saint-Sever takes offense at it and challenges Henri to a duel. However, while they fight, a group of Austrian soldiers appear suddenly and the two rivals instantly unite to repel their enemies. Unfortunately, Saint-Sever is mortally wounded and, feeling he is about to die, he entreats his new friend to offer protection to Toinon, his natural daughter, whose life is being threatened...
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-02-28
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Two Men in Manhattan
Overview: Two French journalists become embroiled in a criminal plot in New York City involving a disappeared United Nations diplomat.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-10-16
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Les révoltés du Danaé
Overview: Captain Handson, captain of the "Danae", learns that his wife, Danae, is the mistress of his owner, Pierre Ricardo. Leaving for a new crossing, he takes his wife and her lover by force, whom he makes work in the holds. After a stopover in Douala, the "Danae" sets off again for the French coast.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-11-07
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Devil in the Flesh
Overview: In France during World War I, Marthe waits for her husband, Jacques, while he fights on the front lines. Marthe then begins a tempestuous affair with 17-year-old François, with whom she had a dalliance before marrying Jacques. Jealous François struggles with the fact that Marthe is married, while she tries to prove her devotion to her young, hotheaded lover. Things become even more complex when Marthe becomes pregnant with Jacques' baby.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-09-12
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Witness in the City
Overview: Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife's murderer, who has been acquitted by justice.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-05-06
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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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Diamond Rush
Overview: Traumatized by the War of Algeria and by the accidental death of his wife and his son, Manu left the right road. His last caper was the attack of the Antwerp-Tangiers Express, carrying a precious cargo of industrial diamonds. But the whole affair was bungled and all of his accomplices got shot. The only survivor of this disaster, Manu now finds refuge in the mountain house of Lucia, the widow of a smuggler who lives alone there with her little boy.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-01-10
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Do It Again Callaghan
Overview: Slim Callaghan investigates the theft of the famous Upper Sangha diamonds. Disguised as a Salvation Army auxiliary, he boards a luxury yacht where a transvestite party is being held. During an illusionist's trick, Callaghan manages to steal the precious diamonds, but the thief escapes.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-04-05
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Relax Yourself Darling
Overview: Hélène and François are a perfect couple happily married for twelve years. But Hélène discovers psychoanalysis via a very handsome Dr. Kougloff, and he convinces her that the apparent well-balanced nature of her husband is in fact a cover for horrible tragedies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-08-19
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La République nous appelle
Overview: The story of the ascent of the Aiguille de la République by mountaineers Jacques Fromentin and Michel Bastien. The Aiguille de la République, in the Mont-Blanc massif, culminates at an altitude of 3,305 meters among the Aiguilles de Chamonix group of summits. In the Fontainebleau forest, children learn mountaineering techniques on the bouldering climbing site. In 1954, rock climbing was also practiced in the Chamonix valley. The Montenvers train crosses the viaduct taking tourists or athletes to the Mer de Glace viewpoint. The two climbers take an approach step and reach the Envers des Aiguilles refuge. They then climb this steep and smooth wall, progressing along the ridge. On the platform, a rope throw allows them to climb up and sit at the top to dominate the panorama. Then the return: abseiling from the summit block.
Genres: Documentary Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-01-01
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Entre Ciel et Neige
Overview: René Collet, skier member of the French team, guides a friend from the summit of the Aiguille du Midi. This descent is an opportunity to focus on the remarkable elements of the terrain: the cable car and its work still in progress, the surrounding peaks (Capucin, Mont Maudit, Mont Blanc). The two skiers stop regularly, here to observe climbers scaling the south face of the Aiguille, there to visit the Cosmiques Laboratory. They even take the time to rescue a skier stuck in a crevasse at the Séracs du Géant, before continuing their descent in style onto the Mer de Glace.
Genres: Documentary Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-01-01
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