Michel Peyrelon
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Puy-en-Velay, Haute-Loire, France
Birthday: October 10, 1936
Deathday: June 04, 2003
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Going Places
Overview: Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeoisie holds dear, whether it’s cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She’s on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-20
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The Good and the Bad
Overview: The film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon as their robberies, beginning well before the Second World War, take on a political coloration under the occupation.
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-01-19
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The Common Man
Overview: Georges Lajoie is a Parisian café owner. As every summer, Georges, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite, where they meet up with the Schumacher family (whose father is a bailiff) and the Colin family (who sells bras in the markets). This year, their peace is slightly disturbed by the proximity of a construction site where foreign workers are employed. Xenophobic comments are made. One evening at the ball, a fight breaks out between Lajoie, Albert Schumacher and two algerian immigrant workers...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-02-26
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The Visitors
Overview: After a wizard's spell goes awry, 12th-century Gallic knight Godefroy de Papincourt, Count of Montmirail finds himself transported to 1993, along with his dimwitted servant, Jacquouille la Fripouille. Startled and perplexed by modern technology, the duo run amok, destroying cars and causing chaos until they meet Beatrice de Montmirail, an aristocratic descendant of the nobleman, who may be able to help them get back to 1123.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-01-27
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Les réformés se portent bien
Overview: In order to subdue the conscripts of Chamber 13, a new captain is assigned. He is an adventurer, a nostalgic of his warrior past and the resistance is quickly born within the young soldiers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-10-25
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Ces flics étranges venus d'ailleurs
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-02-07
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Femmes Fatales
Overview: Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-02-11
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Cat and Mouse
Overview: A jaded and charming police inspector is assigned along with his cheerful partner to a case involving the mysterious death and/or suicide of a wealthy entrepreneur. The chief suspect is his enchanting wife who was aware that her husband had a mistress. It is also possible that the dead man may be the victim of a radical terrorist group.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-09-03
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Follow My Gaze
Overview: A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food commercial on less than one tank of intelligible French. Another skit shows a silent duel between an airport custodian and an automatic door, while another with the renowned Michel Galabru sets up a strange teacher-student exchange.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-04-23
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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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My Friend the Traitor
Overview: After the end of World War II, a collaborationist seeks redemption.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-10-26
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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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The Pariah
Overview: For more than 15 years, two Marseille friends and criminals battle the law, rival gangs, prison authorities and even mined beaches in order to survive.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-12-12
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The Red Dwarf
Overview: Lucien is a dwarf, who works hard in a large legal office. His only friend is trapeze circus artist Isis. One day he gets the attention of singer Paola Bendoni and falls in love with her.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-12-23
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The Defective Detective
Overview: Lewis plays a Las Vegas policeman visiting his ex-wife in France, only to be caught up in the shenanigans of a group of art thieves. His ex-wife has remarried and her husband is undercover among the art thieves, carrying out an assignment given him by his superiors in the police force. Inevitably, the current husband and the ex-husband are bound to clash.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-10-31
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Scoundrel in White
Overview: Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Paul, a former womanizer who marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be trusted and make poor wives. A car accident leaves him bedridden and he begins to miss his playboy days, when Christine's bombshell sister Martine arrives and Paul decides he must have her. He begins drugging Christine at night so he can sneak out to kill of Martine's many suitors one by one.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-09-29
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Nothing to Report
Overview: In 1956, the professional army of France lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold on to at any price. For this reason, reservists are called up and subject to an intense period of training before being sent to the front. Rémy March, Alain Charpentier and Raymond Dax are three such young men who have no interest in the military escapade and are reluctant conscripts. What they witness in Algeria will appall and transform them. Rape, torture, executions... there is no end to the atrocities in which they become unwilling participants. No wonder the French military are so willing to proclaim that there is nothing to report...
Genres: War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-08-15
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Nothing to Report
Overview: In 1956, the professional army of France lacks the manpower to keep the peace in Algeria, the colony which the country is determined to hold on to at any price. For this reason, reservists are called up and subject to an intense period of training before being sent to the front. Rémy March, Alain Charpentier and Raymond Dax are three such young men who have no interest in the military escapade and are reluctant conscripts. What they witness in Algeria will appall and transform them. Rape, torture, executions... there is no end to the atrocities in which they become unwilling participants. No wonder the French military are so willing to proclaim that there is nothing to report...
Genres: War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-08-15
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Icy Breasts
Overview: On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa, he meets Marc, a lawyer who has a strange relationship with the girl.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-08-28
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The Great White of Lambarene
Overview: Albert Schweitzer (1875-1965), the mission doctor, theologian and philosopher who founded a hospital in the rainforests of Gabon, achieved sainthood in his lifetime, at least in the popular imagination. The critical assessment of his life and works in recent years, however, has been slightly more ambivalent. Ba Kobhio Bassek is the first director to examine this medical missionary from a purely African point-of-view.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-04-26
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Radio corbeau
Overview: This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives of the elite of a small French town.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-02-01
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The Crazy Capo Affair
Overview: Jean Diserens has a double life: he's a property developer and... drug dealer. He's looking for a new way to sell it. But his superior, Crazy Capo, doesn't see things the same way.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-09-09
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Camomille
Overview: A bakery employee gives shelter to a young female addicted to drugs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-05-04
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Love Me Strangely
Overview: Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window. Enlisting the help of an equally perverse casual acquaintance, Dino, the "handsome brute" proceeds to emotionally torture his second wife, Nathalie. The sadistic plan is picked up on by Officer Leroy who suspects the truth. Will he be able to snatch the unfortunate woman from the evil Alain's clutches?
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-10
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Miss Mona
Overview: An aging trans woman dreams of becoming a real woman before she dies.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-01-28
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Scrambled Eggs
Overview: Brumaire, the director of public relations at the Élysée, is trying to boost the rating of his government.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-30
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The Lion's Share
Overview: A writer is reunited with an old childhood friend, who gives him the opportunity to devise a heist.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-08
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The Accuser
Overview: In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is inundated with mysteriously threatening be-ribboned anti-capitalist tracts, delivered overnight to everyone's desks. Later, the executive's body is brought to company offices for an official wake -- only no one at the company has ordered that such a thing be done. A mysterious prankster, who is able to imitate the voice of the company's president, has arranged these things. When Americans from the head office get wind of these developments, they institute a search for the perpetrator which leads to mysterious subterranean passages under the company's skyscraper.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-09-07
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Transit
Overview: François Cremer is a truck driver who gets out of prison after having served a sentence of several months for a traffic of which he has always proclaimed himself innocent. He soon realizes that he is being followed and threatened by former acquaintances. Alone against all, he has no other recourse than to ask for help to a radio hostess, who had orchestrated a campaign for his release. She becomes frightened and refuses to help him, but he forces her to follow him in his escape. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-09-06
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The Winner
Overview: A plumber finally meets the woman of his dreams. But as her uptight family tries to keep him away, he wins the lottery and starts plotting his revenge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-11-28
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Vertigo For A Killer
Overview: Jean-Pierre Desagnat's Vertige pour un tueur involves Marc as a hood hunted down by his boss when he fails to execute a man who happens to be his friend. He is hidden by a woman whose husband has murdered his business associate and wants Marc to take the rap for the crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-08-05
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A Cloud in the Teeth
Overview: Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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The French Detective
Overview: When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning from his superiors. When he embarrasses Lardatte while disarming a hostage (the dead volunteer's father), Verjeat is told he's being transferred within a week. He speeds up his hunt for the goon and, with Lefévre, one of his young detectives, he engineers a complicated scheme to buy more time before the transfer. How should Verjeat play out his values of honor and duty?
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-10
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Tusk
Overview: An English girl and an Indian elephant, born on the same day, share a common destiny...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-03-01
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The Best Job in the World
Overview: To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, and he finds an apartment in the Cité des Muriers, a particularly difficult district.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-12-11
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Plus beau que moi tu meurs
Overview: Aldo and Marco are twins. Marco, a priest by trade, has always been an object of pride for his mother, while Aldo has already spent six periods in prison. Always on the lookout for money and pretty girls, he lets himself be hijacked by crazy, often dishonest operations, which fail most of the time. One day, he is forced to flee to Tunisia, dressed as a priest and posing as Marco. There he meets up with Prosper, a childhood friend, whom he lures into his race for millions and beautiful summer girls. Marco, delegated by the Paris police, arrives in Tunisia to limit the damage, but only makes it worse. Once again, Aldo has to disappear into the wilderness for a while and make himself forgotten...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-11-10
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These Sorcerers Are Mad
Overview: Julien est envoyé par son patron à l'île Maurice, où il fait la connaissance d'Henri, un chômeur professionnel. Un soir de beuverie, les deux hommes se soulagent au pied d'une statue sacrée. Offensés par ce sacrilège, les dieux les punissent en leur ôtant leur reflet et en les faisant léviter. Si cette situation leur paraît au début invivable, les deux hommes finissent cependant par tirer parti de ces désavantages pour régler leurs problèmes personnels.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-06-28
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Les Sept Péchés capitaux
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Cop or Hood
Overview: When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers a mare's nest of police corruption. In fact, in this comedy thriller the whole town is corrupt. If they were closely examined, Stan's methods for pursuing this investigation might embarrass the police. For instance, he drives into a criminal's house in a fancy, expensive race car. In another incident, he callously blows up a casino owned by Musard , one of the town's crime bosses. On that occasion, he first forces Musard to remove his clothes, and the poor criminal watches his casino explode from across the square while standing naked in a phone booth. Meanwhile, Stan seduces the lovely Edmonde.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-03-28
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Médée
Overview: Repudiated by her husband Jason, Medea takes cruel revenge on her children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-02-20
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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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Our Story
Overview: Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life. An attractive young woman, Donatienne, suddenly enters the compartment and offers to make love to him. Robert accepts but, when the woman leaves the train afterwards, he decides to follow her...
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-05-23
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