Roland Amstutz
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Adult: No
Birthday: January 12, 1942
Age: 83 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: May 20, 1997
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Never Twice
Overview: After much hesitation, a gigolo decides to take a shot of a radical remedy to save his failing virility.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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The Wonderful Crook
Overview: A manufacturer of furniture sees his business go down and decides to rob banks to pay his staff. Het gets romantically involved with one of his victims.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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Shot Pattern
Overview: A Paris flea market vendor is transformed into a vigilante after his fiancée is murdered by three vicious thugs on a commuter train. As the revenge-minded young man tracks the killers, a veteran police inspector leads a parallel investigation.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-09-21
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I... For Icarus
Overview: Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee's final findings.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-12-19
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Solemn Communion
Overview: In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families from the 1890s to the 1970s. In one of many related tales, a man who was engaged to the older daughter of a farmer elopes with the younger one. After many years and the birth of five children, the man leaves his wife and family for the bright lights of the city but continues turning up from time to time, until he is finally taken into the home of one of his sons when he is a quite old man. The complex interactions of the legitimate and illegitimate children of a womanizing miner give rise to yet another set of related stories.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-04-27
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Hôtel de France
Overview: A French family is shown as they go through the daily routines of life. Arguing, feasting, crying, and yearning for love are just some of the human emotions encountered. The mood wavers between excessive noise to silence while those not participating in the conversations eavesdrop.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-05-20
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Every Man for Himself
Overview: A look at the sexual and professional lives of three people — a television director, his ex-girlfriend, and a sex worker.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-10-12
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The Last Days of Immanuel Kant
Overview: A brief, fictionalized time period in the life of Professor Kant. The story is set in Kant's hometown, Konigsberg; it chronicles his last few years prior to his death in 1804 at the age of 80.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-03-27
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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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Lucie Aubrac
Overview: A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-02-26
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Such a Lovely Town...
Overview: Stephane (Victor Lanoux) is the mayor of a small village. He is also the manager of the tannery which provides the inhabitants with work. In a fit of anger, he kills his wife (Edith Scob). A judge (Jean Carmet) tries to prove his culpability, but it's not an easy task, because there is a political and social pressure.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-02-28
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Girls with Guns
Overview: In Montelimar, four young women whom life has not spared want to emerge from mediocrity. They decide to rob a bank, but everything is not so simple and the perfectly developed heist could turn into disaster.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-06-22
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Dirty Like an Angel
Overview: Georges Deblache, a despondent middle-aged cop, falls for his partner's wife.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-06-19
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La Chanson du mal-aimé
Overview: Biography of the life of Guillaume Apollinaire.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-02-03
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Gwendoline
Overview: A beautiful woman hires an intrepid adventurer to help find her father, who has disappeared in the jungle while searching for a rare and priceless butterfly. Along the way they run into cannibals, a race of Amazon warriors and all the usual attractions one would expect to find in a lost jungle.
Genres: Adventure Fantasy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-02-08
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Poulets à l'amende
Overview: Arnaud Gensac, unlucky inspector, loses his police card, which falls into the hands of a graphic designer who witnesses the murder of a kingpin. And serious trouble begins for Arnaud.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-02-07
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The Madman
Overview: George (Francois Simon) takes care of his invalid wife and holds down a full-time job. When an investment firm wipes out his life savings, the middle-aged George is soon forced into retirement for health reasons. George takes up a life of crime when the company turns his back on him and the money is gone overnight. He is soon driven to the brink of insanity over the unfortunate series of events that transpire. - Dan Pavlides
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-01-11
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Voyage to Grand Tartarie
Overview: After the murder of his wife Alexis is devastated. He withdraws all his savings and embarks on a journey from which he does not think he will return. His meeting with Daphne makes the escape through Tartary even crazier.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-06
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Youth Without God
Overview: This French-Belgian drama, based on a novel by Odon von Horvath, is set in 1938 in a German city along the banks of the Rhine and Ruhr rivers. It attempts to provide insight as to why certain German youths were so easily lead into becoming Nazis by using two narrators, one a teacher who challenged the movement and another by a student who embraced it. Pabst teaches a group of teenage boys, all of whom seem to be young Nazis. The trouble begins when Pabst and a WW I vet are assigned to take the class to a military camp and a nature outing for urban kids. While there a boy is brutally murdered and they blame one local girl. During her trial, Pabst speaks out against Hitler and becomes pariah. Still he continues investigating the death, at great personal expense until at last he brings the real killer to justice.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-28
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The Silence of Rak
Overview: The adventures of Rak, who after his dismissal begins to reflect on the meaning of the word work and on the act of working.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-07-09
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Fou comme l'oiseau
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-06-22
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L'Ogre
Overview: Dr. Paul Calmet is dead. His son Jean again feels the familiar feeling of anguish caused by his father; victim of this torture, he is carrying the virus of misfortune.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-02
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The Story of Paul
Overview: A young man is checked into a mental hospital for unexplained reasons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-15
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Night Patrol
Overview: With the help of journalist Diane Castelain, Parisian police inspectors Leo Gorce and Gu Arenas are trying to solve the murder of a member of the French Parliament, but some dangerous powerful people try to make sure that doesn't happen.
Genres: Thriller Crime Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-01-11
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Fernand
Overview: Everybody takes advantage of Fernand who has just come out of prison.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-02-27
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The Arrest
Overview: A young writer has just written a new novel, which has been accepted by an editor. A simple and familiar story about the terrifying power the state has over people’s lives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
Overview: This program of short films by Vincent Ravalec (Never twice, Le Masseur and Les Mots de l'amour) deals with themes such as desire and death through the journey of a group of characters.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-04-03
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La loi sauvage
Overview: A man escapes from prison, and leads in his run the woman of his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-05-05
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Bête de scène
Overview: Bernard Nissille’s little gem imagines a love triangle between the director, the Queen, and the Bear during a staging of Shakespeare’s The Winter’s Tale. An actor who appeared with Bulle Ogier in Olivier Assayas’s Irma Vep, Nissille enlisted the brilliant opera and film director Patrice Chéreau to appear in the film opposite Ogier, Michel Piccoli, and Emmanuelle Salinger, the star of Arnaud Desplechin’s The Sentinel.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-02-02
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Happiness Is No Joke
Overview: What there is of a plot in this drama serves mainly as a vehicle for the exploration of character. In the story, Michel (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu) is a recent widower. As the story opens, he and his friend Andre (Philippe Nahon) are sharing a drink on Christmas Eve. He takes a yellow scarf from a woman he knows (Laura Morante) and teasingly refuses to return it. Throughout the remainder of the film, the scarf reappears, as does the woman, until they wind up in bed together at the end of the film. Before that happens, Michel wanders around Paris, viewing the festivities with a jaundiced eye which serves to heighten the unattractiveness of those he observes. Later he has dinner with a group at Andre's house, and his poor opinion of human nature is amply supported by the events that occur then.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-12-20
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1789
Overview: Recording of the play 1789, a collective creation by Théâtre du Soleil at La Cartoucherie de Vincennes in 1970, edited from several shows.
Genres: Drama History Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-28
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Nouvelle Vague
Overview: Composed entirely of literary quotations from many different sources and from several historical periods, the loose narrative concerns a drifter found by a rich woman who soon falls in love with him. A drowning accident takes place and the drifter dies, but some time later he reappears in the woman’s life looking for a job. Or could it be the man’s twin brother?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-03-23
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Heat of Desire
Overview: In France in the near future, revolt and chaos erupt. A right-wing politician, Philippe Muphand, is set to take control when his lady friend Caroline walks out, announcing she will take up with the first fool she sees. The fool is Serge Laine, a professor and author of the prize-winning "Le voyage qui ne finit pas," headed to the train station for tickets to Barcelona where he and his wife will enjoy a second honeymoon and he will lecture at the university. Caroline seduces Serge, and he soon abandons wife, family, job, and honesty to embrace Caroline, the romanticism of Jack London, and murder.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-04-29
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The Seventh Dimension
Overview: A poor french guy, in love with a 50's actresse, meet her husband who send him in an other dimension to fight for her love.
Genres: Adventure Horror Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-06-04
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Dobermann
Overview: The charismatic criminal Dobermann, who got his first gun when he was christened, leads a gang of brutal robbers. After a complex and brutal bank robbery, they are being hunted by the Paris police. The hunt is led by the sadistic cop Christini, who only has one goal: to catch Dobermann at any cost.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-06-18
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The Eyes of the Birds
Overview: A Red Cross inspection team visits a prison and holds interviews with a range of inmates.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-11-30
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Les Deux Fragonard
Overview: The name of painter Jean-Honore Fragonard (1732-1806) is synonymous for a kind of painting style which celebrates carefree romantic life, indoors and out. He was a painter during the final decades of the French monarchy. In this story, he and his brother Cyprien (Robin Renucci), who is an early pioneer in medical anatomy (he dissected corpses and made drawings of what he found in them), have fallen in love with the same woman, Marianne (Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu), a laundress. This attraction has not escaped the notice of Salmon d'Anglas (Sami Frey), a conniving nobleman, who has his heart set on getting revenge on Jean-Honore (Joachim de Almeida) for refusing his patronage and becoming the darling of the French court.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-04-19
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Félicité
Overview: After a bout of intense jealousy, Félicité finds herself alone. For one night, as her family dissipates, she relives her torments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-05-22
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The Middle of the World
Overview: Paul is married, a successful engineer, and a conservative candidate in an upcoming local election. He falls in love with Adriana, a café waitress from Italy. Paul's party is very critical of foreign labour and wants to keep Switzerland to the Swiss. Where Paul falls deeper and deeper into the relationship and is ready to leave his wife, Adriana feels the social pressure growing and has to make her own decision.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-09-11
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L'imprésario de Smyrne
Overview: The Venetian performance world is on the alert: an impresario is looking for talent to stage what he defines as the most beautiful opera of his time. Everyone goes there from their pushy little merry-go-round to attract the favors of the character and extricate themselves from misery. But the main interested party hardly seems to be sensitive to these effects.
Genres: History Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-08-03
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La Découverte
Overview: To make his neighbor no longer eye his wife, Paulo decides to put on the wall in front of his house a painting representing New York. A waste of time, the neighbor continues to look at his wife...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-12-31
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Peer Gynt
Overview: French television adaptation of Henrik Ibsen's five-act play in verse.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-12-28
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Alors voilà,
Overview: A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy a truck, a trucker's dream. The father, practical joker, and larger-than-life lover, keeps a watchful eye. The children are his accomplices. One is his heroine. His daughter is his other heroine. A puzzle of life's desires in which all veers into the imaginary, into dreams of far-off lands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-10-22
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My Sex Life... or How I Got Into an Argument
Overview: Paul Dedalus is at a crossroads in his life. He has to make several decisions; should he complete his doctorate, does he want to become a full professor, does he really love his long-standing girlfriend, or should he re-start with one of his other lovers?
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-01
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Car Cemetery
Overview: The plot is set in a post apocalyptic Junkyard where people take refuge from authority and are able to practice their fantasies and fetishes without being stopped by the police. These people are led by Emanou who is a sort of Messiah, who promises music rather than salvation.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-30
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Parti sans laisser d'adresse
Overview: A young Swiss drug addict has been imprisoned for robbery, and must wait and wait for his upcoming trial, all the while isolated and without hope of parole - the police are convinced he is a dealer and not just a user. He hears from his son that his girlfriend has a new man, and begins to despair of ever coming to trial, or of having another relationship like the one he lost. This fiction film is said to be based on a true story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-05-19
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C'était la guerre
Overview: Directed by Maurice Failevic and Ahmed Rachedi
Genres: War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-01-02
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Let Joy Reign Supreme
Overview: A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-03-23
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A Beating Heart
Overview: Mado is followed in the street by an unknown man. He offers her to go the hotel. She accepts, they sleep together and then split. Mado does not want to see him again, because she is married with Jean, and has a teenager son, Stephane. But Yves gave her his phone number. One day, Mado calls him.... An unusual love story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-05-26
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The Unburdening
Overview: In this surreal, overstated, black-and-white film by Marcel Schuepbach, a young woman is slowly driven to near insanity by an inner desire for a passionate existence, while she lives a dull life at her grandmother's country home. The grandmother recalls how her own daughter lost hold of sanity and died on her lover's grave -- and she begins to see similarities in her granddaughter's behavior.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-10-04
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