Jean-Claude Bercq
Also Known As: Jean-Claude Berq, Jean-Claude Berck, Jean-Claude Berco, Jean Claude Bercq, Jan-Claude Bercq
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Valleroy, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France
Adult: No
Birthday: April 07, 1929
Age: 96 years old
Gender: Other
Deathday: December 12, 2008
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The Train
Overview: As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.
Genres: War Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-24
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Stuntman
Overview: Stuntman Johnny gets tired of putting his life constantly at risk and instead joins up with a bunch of international thieves who are looking to steal a priceless statue, but that's where the trouble starts....
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-31
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The Cop
Overview: A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge against villainous drug dealers. Word comes down from above that the United States feels French authorities have been lax on their arrests of the dealers. A violent action feature finds the harried inspector battling his colleagues as much as the criminal element targeted for extermination.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-05
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Playmates
Overview: Henri Verdier, a young bank manager, has made the acquaintance of Karine, a model of great beauty. Robert, who claims to be Karine's brother, forces Karine to introduce him to Verdier. This is to offer him an urgent business deal: 50 million for a uranium purchase which, within a few days, should yield double that amount. Blinded by passion, Verdier accepts and "withdraws" the necessary sum from his bank. He soon realizes he's been duped. Karine is not Robert's sister and Robert is a crook. Verdier tracks them down.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-07-31
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Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
Overview: In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot's production of L'Enfer came to a halt. Despite huge expectations, major studio backing and an unlimited budget, after three weeks the production collapsed. This documentary presents Inferno's incredible expressionistic original rushes, screen tests, and on-location footage, whilst also reconstructing Clouzot's original vision, and shedding light on the ill-fated endeavor through interviews, dramatizations of unfilmed scenes, and Clouzot's own notes.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-10-01
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Rapture
Overview: Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-23
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The Dictator's Guns
Overview: An experienced skipper is hired to buy a boat from an American heiress in the Caribbean, but when the boat vanishes and bodies surface, he realizes he’s been framed for arms trafficking.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-06-18
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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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Hit!
Overview: A federal agent whose daughter dies of a heroin overdose is determined to destroy the drug ring that supplied her. He recruits various people whose lives have been torn apart by the drug trade and trains them. Then they all leave for France to track down and destroy the ring.
Genres: Drama Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-09-18
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Snobs!
Overview: Four vice-presidents fight among themselves to reach the top post after the president dies. Their wives take part in the various schemes to downgrade the opposition by unorthodox means.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-09-05
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The Virgins
Overview: The story of five girls that lose their virginity.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-22
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Pinned to the Ground
Overview: Two young oil salesmen from Hamburg, who are tasked with buying oil from the Middle East as cheaply as possible for their company, get caught up in a clash between a local gang of drug smugglers and the police. Each stage of this dangerous adventure could earn them either twenty years in prison or liquidation by the gang. The appearance of a beautiful, somewhat enigmatic woman adds to the allure. Two middle-class existences in a foreign country, confronted with the rude methods of the police and criminal elements, form the field of tension in this adventure story, which was produced with an international cast.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-10-26
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Femmes vicieuses
Overview: Philippe Lantier, a wealthy womanizer, falls for a beautiful blonde, Madeleine. In the process of seducing her, he will discover that he's got a heart.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-08
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Sadistic Hallucinations
Overview: In a mysterious French castle dark meetings and apparitions happen, seasoned by nauseating erotic menages. The involvement frantically increases up to the amazing epilogue.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-07-30
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December
Overview: In Algiers, during the Algerian War of Independence, one of the leaders of the FLN was arrested by the French colonial army, which used the most violent methods to make the prisoners speak. The use of torture poses a conscience problem for a French officer. Playing shot-reverse-shot, between the tortured and his torturer, in a suffocating camera, Mohammed Lakhdar-Hamina approaches torture by drawing inspiration from the story of his father, who died of abuse.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-01-02
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Opium and the Stick
Overview: In 1950, in Algeria, in a village in Kabylia, Algerian resistance fighters resisted the French occupation army. Bachir returns to the village to escape the clashes ravaging Algiers. In Thala, he has two brothers, Ali and Belaïd. The first is engaged with the ALN (The National Liberation Army) and fights against the colonizer. His second brother, Belaïd, the eldest, is convinced of a French Algeria. His family torn apart, Bachir decides to join the war and takes sides against the repression of the French army. The French army is trying in vain to turn the population against the insurgents by using disinformation. The more time passes, the more the inhabitants of the village and surrounding areas, oppressed, rally to the cause of the FLN, their houses and their fields will be burned... Adaptation to the cinema of the eponymous novel Opium and the Stick, published in 1965, by Mouloud Mammeri, the film was dubbed into Tamazight (Berber), a first for Algerian cinema.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-14
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Le Mans
Overview: Filmed during the annual 24-hour endurance race at Le Mans, Michael Delaney is a Porsche driver haunted by the memory of an accident at the previous year's race in which a competing driver was killed. Delaney also finds himself increasingly infatuated with the man's widow.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1971-06-23
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Sex at the Bar
Overview: Longtime friends Marc and Hubert are successful CEOs in their 50s married to beautiful women. When they begin to doubt their power of seduction, they send their wives on a trip together and start seducing other women, which leads to some sexual escapades. Rejuvenated, they join their wives, but their holiday is quickly disrupted by the intrusion of young sexy campers who bring a wind of erotic freedom and teach the older couples to reevaluate their lives.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-07-23
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Lost Command
Overview: After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of the Capt. Esclavier, who has grown weary of war, and Capt. Boisfeuras, who lives for it, Raspeguy attempts to convert a rugged band of soldiers into a formidable fighting unit, with the promise of marrying a beautiful countess if he's made a general.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-01
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Guerilla Hellcats
Overview: Under the mundane guise of a public relations firm, Singrid Karaman is actually running an intelligence network. Her new mission is to foil an upcoming coup attempt in the African country of Myassaland, and to recover the large stock of diamonds that have fallen into the hands of the mercenaries behind the plot. She instructs a former Nazi, Eric, to form a shock commando and her assistant, Carol, to contact the mercenary leaders, Commandant St Robert and Captain Tarquier. Although Tarquier is very suspicious, St Robert agrees to go aboard Ingrid's yacht.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-07-03
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Judoka-Secret Agent
Overview: Marc is a French secret agent whose only weapons are judo and karate. With the help of his sidekick Jacques, the duo goes to protect a noted scientist from falling into the hands of a gang of underworld thugs. Marc finds love with one of the female gang members who turns out to be a double agent with the British Secret Service.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-07-24
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They Saw Inferno
Overview: A wonderful documentary that sheds additional light on the fascinating project ‘Inferno’ was, as well as how those who were involved with it reacted to it during the shooting process. A riveting adjunct to the main feature, offering a glut of interviews with various people associated with the production, and presenting quite a bit more production data, as well as some unseen footage from Clouzot's shoot.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-04-12
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Le Deuxième Souffle
Overview: A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a determined inspector is closing in.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-11-01
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Life Size
Overview: When Michel gets the life-sized sex doll he ordered, shipped directly from Japan, he is only intrigued by it at first. Then the silent unresponsiveness of the thing begins to haunt him, and he finds himself reacting to it as if it were an equally unresponsive living woman. As time passes, more and more of his life is spent trying to satisfy or placate its relentless silence, and he goes somewhat mad. He dresses the doll and takes it with him wherever he goes. When his usually very tolerant wife discovers what is going on, her jealousy knows no bounds and she attempts to imitate this threatening love-object. The light-hearted quality of this addle-pated fantasy darkens quickly when various neighborhood men attempt to put the doll to its originally intended use.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-08-21
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Triple Cross
Overview: A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.
Genres: Adventure War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-09
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