André Falcon
Also Known As: Andre Falcon
Biography:
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lyon, Rhône, France
Birthday: November 28, 1924
Deathday: July 22, 2009
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Known For:
Stolen Kisses
Overview: The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-09-04
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The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Overview: In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-17
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Mado
Overview: A middle-aged businessman faces bankruptcy after his partner's suicide and a rival's unscrupulous offer to buy his company. Determined to avoid the trap, he finds an unexpected solution through a prostitute.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-10-27
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A Thousand Billion Dollars
Overview: A young journalist uncovers an assassination disguised as a suicide, linked to an American multinational seeking to dominate French industries. Determined to expose the truth, he races against time to gather evidence before more lives—and his own—are at stake.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-02-09
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Is Paris Burning?
Overview: Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-26
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Maître Pygmalion
Overview: Juliette, a young woman of twenty-five, works unsuccessfully as a sales representative. Discouraged, on the point of giving up, Juliette meets Christian, a brilliant and seductive salesman, who offers her to play Pygmalion: he will be the master, she will be the pupil. But the master falls in love with Juliette.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-07-27
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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 Nada Gang
Overview: Nada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They kidnap the American ambassador after one of his regular visits to an exclusive brothel. The gang starts to quarrel amongst themselves as to the diplomat's fate, while the police purge suspects in their attempts to destroy the Nada faction. As the violence escalates on both sides, the States and the terrorists are forced to use one another's methods in an increasingly desperate and relentless conflict.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-02-06
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Only the Wind Knows the Answer
Overview: The yacht of millionaire Hellmann explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, with him and 8 men crew on board. Insurance agent Lucas investigates at the Cote D'Azur, because there's the suspicion that it could have been suicide. He finds out that Hellmann's villa was monitored, the tapes also contain information about the explosion. He uses them for blackmail.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1974-11-20
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Borsalino and Co.
Overview: Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-23
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The Serpent
Overview: Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes over the case. After polygraph tests and cross-examinations, Vlassov names several Western European agents who are also spying for the Soviets. Davies wants to take the listed agents into custody; meanwhile, those on the list start dying under mysterious circumstances.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-04-07
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Captain Conan
Overview: The last days of World War I, Eastern front. Captain Conan, a lone wolf, a true warrior, leads a band of ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat; they are not fit for peacetime, they only feel really alive in the chaos of the battlefield.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-10-16
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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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State of Siege
Overview: Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-12-30
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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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Happy New Year
Overview: Released from prison under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season Cannes, but also by a very special someone he met there.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-04-13
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The Courage to Love
Overview: A picture of humankind in Paris: singers, shows, social gatherings, businessmen, nightclub barmen, bums, shoppers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-06-29
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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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Heads or Tails
Overview: Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others. His period of mournful contemplation is broken when he is called out to look into the suspicious death of Madame Morlaix who, according to her husband Edouard (Michel Serrault), fell from an upstairs window. Curious to find out more, Baroni begins his inquiry.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-08-30
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Tartuffe ou L'Imposteur
Overview: Tartuffe, a hypocritical man confided in false devotion, monopolizes the confidence of Orgon, a wealthy bourgeois and undertakes to seduce his wife Elmire. Having been unmasked by the latter, he strives to precipitate the ruin of his benefactor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-07-05
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Polyeucte
Overview: In a frightening dream, Pauline, daughter of Felix the Roman governor, foresees the death of Polyeucte and cannot agree to let her husband leave the Palace. In love, Polyeucte leaves however on the advice of his Christian friend Néarque who encourages him to neglect the tears of his wife and urges him to be baptized...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-31
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A Slightly Pregnant Man
Overview: Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young son. After a series of nauseous dizzy spells he goes to the doctor and discovers that he is four-months pregnant. Marco then becomes internationally famous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-09-20
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27 Horas
Overview: Drama on juvenile delinquency, unemployment and drugs. Jon, a boy of twenty, gets up at seven o'clock and from that moment we can see how he lives the friendship, love, family relationships and his dark passion for drugs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1986-09-23
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Jean Jaurès, naissance d'un géant
Overview: In 1892, Jean Jaurès, a republican deputy from the bourgeoisie, supported the miners' strike in Carmaux, in the south of France.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-03-08
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The Count of Bragelonne
Overview: Raoul de Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Cardinal Mazarin.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-12-09
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Madame Claude
Overview: Based on a true story. Madame Claude, a well connected Parisienne with dark past, runs a network of high-class call girls. She sends her girls to any place in the world to satisfy sexual desires of wealthy and powerful men. Claude's manipulations also involve big business and politics. Meanwhile, photographer David Evans is trying to clear his own criminal record by providing the authorities with pictures of Claude's girls with important clients in compromising positions. But powerful men can do anything to keep their secrets...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-05-11
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The Guardian Angel
Overview: The film centres on Annie (Trudeau), the Canadian wife of wealthy businessman André Roussel (Falcon), who is sent by her husband on a vacation in the French Riviera. Her husband sends private detective Aldo (Lemaire) to follow her as he suspects her of infidelity; however, Annie and Aldo themselves begin a romantic relationship with each other.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-21
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Money Money Money
Overview: When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-05-04
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The Hurried Man
Overview: Art collector Pierre Niox rushes through life, lives a frantic life, does everything in full speed -- searching for and acquiring works of art or real estate, marrying or even dying -- and in total disregard for any kind of morality. His misdeeds finally turn on him and destroy him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-08-10
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Faster, Faster
Overview: Angela is a young waitress who turns her back on society when she meets and falls in love with Pablo, a reckless criminal delinquent. Along with Pablo’s gang of car thieves, the pair embark on a drug and disco-fueled robbery spree as they hurtle toward oblivion.
Genres: Crime Drama Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1981-03-25
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Stories from the Kronen
Overview: Carlos is a young student, just 21. Nice or annoying as he likes, enjoys provoking and transgreding. In the night he goes out to meet his friends in the Kronen, a bar. Every situation can be taken a little farther. There are no limits, no accepted barriers. And more each time, each adventure is chained to the next, as if it were a continuous night. A long description of people: grandfather, parents, sister, girlfriend, friends. And, among that, the obscure will of living every minute as if it were the last one. But something which happens puts Carlos and his friend against a reality they have been trying to ignore.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1995-04-29
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Ne pleure pas
Overview: Marc Lafarge, 13, is idolized by his brother Thomas, 20, future veterinarian and amateur boxer. Thomas has a soul of justice. Thus, returning home with Marc after a fight, he hits a little thug who has just robbed an old lady.
Genres: Family Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-03-15
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Le cardinal d'Espagne
Overview: This play by Henry de Montherland, takes place in 1517 and depicts the Cardinal de Cisneros, an authoritarian man approaching his end, regent of the throne of Spain oscillating between his desire for power and his tendency to inaction. Thinking himself invulnerable, he awaits the arrival of young Charles on the throne, but his beliefs will be shaken.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-11-24
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The Two Orphans
Overview: A story about two girls who grew up as sisters, were separated and finally met again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-05-24
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And Now My Love
Overview: The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-15
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Three Men to Destroy
Overview: A man helps the victim of an auto accident, not realizing that the man has actually been shot. The men who shot him are now after the man who helped him, in order to eliminate him as a potential witness. Soon they are killing everyone he even comes in contact with in order to get him.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-10-31
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Ce que savait Morgan
Overview: The Moreen family hires Pemberton to tutor young Morgan. Pemberton has no money of his own, and the social non-conformity of his employers condemns him to the impossibility of being paid. Yet an emotional relationship develops between master and pupil. Little by little, Morgan becomes an object of blackmail. Having run out of arguments, the parents give their son to his teacher. The child, abandoned by his parents, dies.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-07
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The Silent One
Overview: Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another nationality, French. So what led him to become Russian and to change identity? And why are the British secret services interested in him?
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-02-10
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Blindfolded Eyes
Overview: A drama teacher casts a woman in a play about torture, and the two eventually become lovers. As production of the play develops, the director begins to receive threatening letters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1978-06-06
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Without Apparent Motive
Overview: A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-15
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Sorcerer
Overview: Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin) across dangerous jungle terrain.
Genres: Thriller Adventure Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-24
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Man of Desire
Overview: A man reevaluates his life. Étienne, a married writer, gives a lift to a young hitchhiker called Rudy who is mixed up with a gang of thugs. Étienne takes a liking to Rudy and brings him home, where a strong homoerotic attraction soon develops between them. Étienne also tries to extricate Rudy from his dangerous life in the streets, and seems ready to go to any lengths to achieve this goal..
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-03-17
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The Big Softie
Overview: A young man who lives with his aunt falls for a free-spirited German model in this uninspired drama. Although he runs off with her for the summer, he returns to his aunt to live off her money after the model and an old flame rekindle their romance. The story unfolds in a series of flashbacks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-08-30
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The Confession
Overview: The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-04-29
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Where There's Smoke
Overview: An election campaign becomes more interesting when anonymously published photographs depict the wife of a candidate, Dr. Peyrac, attending a sex party. Are the photographs fake or genuine ?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-16
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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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Family
Overview: Santiago wakes up like any other morning. He goes down to the kitchen and his whole family is waiting for him: it's his birthday. They all sing "Happy Birthday to You" and give him presents. But when he opens the present of his youngest son, he gets angry and says he doesn't like it. The boy starts crying and saying that he loves him, but Santiago answers that he doesn't believe him and he tells the boy that he is fired and that he wants another son, who is thinner, who doesn't need glasses and who resembles him more. Written by Pablo Montoya
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1996-10-01
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Tout peut arriver
Overview: Back in France after a few years in the United States, a reporter goes in search of his wife.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-11-26
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A Full Day's Work
Overview: A father plans to kill in the same day the nine members of the jury who condemned his son to death.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-08
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La Mort de Danton
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Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-06-01
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Les pieds poussent en novembre
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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