Jacques Denis
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Fès, Morocco
Adult: No
Birthday: May 12, 1943
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: December 03, 2015
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Le Troisième Cri
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Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-23
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Tell Her That I Love Her
Overview: Industrious accountant David Martinaud claims to be visiting his parents every weekend, but it's merely a cover for the labor-intensive refurbishing of his country cottage. The reason for David's secrecy is that his childhood crush, Lise, lives nearby, and, although she's married, he still believes they'll get together. His devotion to the idea borders on mania, and, when Lise's husband is accidentally killed, he quickly spirals out of control.
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-09-28
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Instinct de femme
Overview: Young - beautiful - married, fulfilled, Martha is bored. Passive in an active society, she took a first step by serving as a "guinea pig" to her brother researcher who undertook a comparative study on animal behavior and human behavior.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-11-07
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The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Overview: Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realizes that he knew far less about his son than he thought.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-16
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The Surveyors
Overview: A lazy surveyor is thwarted by two women whose houses he is surveying for destruction to make way for a park. In another realm of the story, a man is given a hat by another man, who asks him to give his fiancé a gift. However, he mistakenly gives the gift to another girl entirely, and makes love to her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-09-02
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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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La Face de l'Ogre
Overview: Several mountaineers attempt to climb La face de l'Ogre near Chamonix. Their starting point is a small mountain hotel from where many tourists observe them. Among these is Hélène, who has been staying there for a few weeks but who is excluded by the other tourists. Then she meets a city girl named Marion and they immediately become friends. She tells him that she is waiting for her husband who has tried to climb the mountain and should be back any day. But then the weather turns sour, which causes hope to wane but also brings women together in anxiety. Finally the weather improves and Marion's husband comes back but not Hélène's and she must finally accept the truth.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-11-16
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Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
Overview: A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy editor; Myriam, a redhead into tantric sex; and Marie, a supermarket checker who gives unauthorized discounts to the elderly, search for renewed meaning on a communal farm. The title character, a six-year-old child, is the carrier of their hopes for the future.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-12-01
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Loonies at Large
Overview: This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former professor Henri Toussaint Piccoli has been locked away in a psychiatric ward for some years for trying to strangle his wife when he found her in bed with another man. Now she has a terminal illness, and wants some sort of reconciliation with him. His therapist (Richard) decides to permit him to visit with her, provided he comes along. Except for his wide mood swings and occasional outbursts of lewd muttering, the professor "passes" for sane fairly easily. Not so the psychotic (Dominique Pinon) who stows away in the psychiatrist's car, who constantly calls attention to the other two.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-08-11
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The Boy Soldier
Overview: In the 1930s a young fellow, Simon Chalumet, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who has little sympathy for his son's more gentle temperament, or for his interest in films.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-03-04
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The Question
Overview: 1957. For several months, Henri Charlègue, the ex-director of the newspaper "Alger democratic", banned, has been living in hiding. Suspected of belonging to the FLN, he is actively sought by paratroopers.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-05-04
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Les nénuphars
Overview: Arthur and Marcel, two firemen, keep boredom at bay by improvising on stage, one on a keyboard the other on drums, tunes, poems and songs. Carol arrives, in search of her lover Armand. Accompanied by the musicians, she sings of her strange loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-03-17
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The Salamander
Overview: Two men, arty though somewhat staid, are drawn to the spirited and quixotic Rosemonde....
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-10-27
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Plurielles
Overview: A couple deal with their problems like any other, while actors read Friedrich Engels' "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State", and in interviews, the director discusses the status of women in 1978.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-03-14
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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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The Little Apocalypse
Overview: An unknown Polish writer can't publish his novels, so his ex-wife decides to help him and get some of the profit for herself. She finally finds a publisher, but there's a strange single condition that could cost the writer his life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-02-10
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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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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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That Day
Overview: A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other.
Genres: Mystery Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-06-04
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Monsieur Abel
Overview: A retired old man sees his life turned upside down by the discovery of the corpse of a young woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-10-20
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James ou pas
Overview: As he sets off for the countryside outside Geneva a taxi-driver hears a gunshot and notices a shadowy figure slipping away from the scene. So begins a series of strange incidents.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-05-12
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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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Les Zygs, le secret des disparus
Overview: On an island, clones are secretly raised.
Genres: Science Fiction Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-05-15
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Fourbi
Overview: Writer Paul attempts to interview Rosemonde, a young woman who killed an alleged rapist in self-defense six years prior, for a true crime television program. When Rosemonde refuses to divulge details of the events, Paul encourages his actress girlfriend to befriend her, but the three are repeatedly sidetracked from their initial commission.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-02-16
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Chocolat
Overview: On her way to visit her childhood home in a colonial outpost in Northern Cameroon, a young French woman recalls her childhood, her memories concentrating on her family's houseboy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-05-18
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