Roland Giraud
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Biography: Roland Giraud (born 14 February 1942) is a French actor. He married actress Maaike Jansen in 1966. Giraud began his theatrical training in the 1960s and joined Coluche's theatrical company in 1971. Around this time he worked also with the troupe, Le Splendid. His first cinematic role came in 1974 in Michel Audiard's Bons baisers...à lundi. He acquired greater recognition for Papy fait de la résistance, and again, for his appearance in Coline Serreau's Trois hommes et un couffin, making him one of the most popular actors of the 1980s. He lost his daughter Géraldine, an actress herself, murdered when she was just thirty-six, in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne. Source: Article "Roland Giraud" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Rabat, Morocco
Adult: No
Birthday: February 14, 1942
Age: 83 years old
Gender: Male
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Three Men and a Cradle
Overview: Three young men - Jacques, Pierre, and Michel - share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of Jacques' tells him he has a quite compromising package to deliver, and asks him if he can leave it discreetly at their place. Jacques agrees and, as he works as a steward, flies away for a one-month trip in Japan, telling Pierre and Michel about the package. Then, one of Jacques' former girlfriends drops a baby before their door, making Pierre and Michel believing it is the package they are waiting for. Their lives are then completely changed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-09-18
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A Business of Men
Overview: Two friends, Commissioner Servolle and real estate developer Faguet, see their friendship tested by the investigation carried out following the murder of Faguet's wife.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-11-09
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Changing Sides
Overview: Ariane and Hugo decide to exchange the lives they lead to escape from their routine, which after ten years of marriage, gives them the feeling of being hamsters in a wheel. She suddenly finds herself at the head of a construction equipment rental company and he tries to take the role of a house calling jewelry salesman...But is life really better when you live it on the other side of the bed?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-01-07
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Three Men and a Cradle - 18 Years Later
Overview: Marie (and her three fathers) are taking A-levels. Marie passes. She spends the summer in the country with her mother, Sylvia, who has returned from America with her Californian husband who has two sons. Marie falls in and out of love for the first time in front of her alarmed fathers, who see Marie's innocence slipping away at frightening speed, and their relationships with the two women become even more complicated.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-02-05
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The Italian
Overview: Dino Fabrizzi is the number one seller of the Maserati dealership in Nice. At 42, he arrives at a turning point in his life, the position of director is openly proposed and his companion for a year, Helen, has the firm intention to marry her. For Dino, life is great, except that this perfect life was built on a lie. Dino is actually called Mourad Ben Saoud. Neither his boss nor Helen and even less his parents are aware of this false identity. In ten days begins Ramadan and Mourad who passes every year will this time assume the promise made to his sick father. Taking part in Ramadan, For Dino - the Italian - it will not be easy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-07-07
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Simple mortel
Overview: A young man, a researcher in ancient languages, begins to receive strange radio messages in a language only he knows. The messages ask him for very bizarre missions. Eventually, he understands that he's just a pawn in an intergalactic game, and that the fate of Earth depends on him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-12-31
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Vaudeville
Overview: The husband, the wife and the lover. The husband is tired of playing the eternal husband. The wife would like to live a last love story. The lover, seducer in the soul, only dreams of slippers. As a bonus, there is the brother-in-law, Santa Claus in a department store who carries jealousy in his sack. So everyone changes roles.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-03-19
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The Little Coquette
Overview: Fifteen-year-old Camille is a vulnerable and a strong-willed seductress- she chooses, she takes, she leaves; she can go very far in her desire for freedom. She is the daughter of disunited parents, Armand, a professor and Colette, an intellectual bourgeois. She manages to seduce Jean-Louis, a professor of letters of thirty-seven years, friend and colleague of her father. She makes him commit a lot of extravagance - he even dyed blond. Later she had a passion for Samuel, a former student of Jean-Louis, lout and trafficker. She is not easy, men learn at their expense, either sentimentally, as with the teacher, or that the first sexual experience come to ignite the relationship with Samuel.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-08-12
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Take It from the Top
Overview: Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-08-09
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Promised... sworn!
Overview: The life and love affairs of a 12-year-old boy Pierre who lived in France during the Nazi occupation in 1944. We see his family, his chubby friend, the girl who ignores him - and the German defector who hides in the cellar. He suffers from a slightly more prominent nasal appendage than the average of his congeners. This complex initially serving it, will ultimately be the detonator of his success with women and the entire population of the city.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-12-09
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Gramps Is in the Resistance
Overview: It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-10-26
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Clara and Chics Types
Overview: Three days in the lives of six friends who are nearly 30 years old, live in Grenoble, and have a rock band called the "Why Notes?". They're to play in Paris at Charles's school reunion. In getting to Paris and back, the characters interact with Aimee's ex-husband and her abrasive, cruel ex-mentor, Louise's would-be lover who turns out to have a husband, Mickey's long-time lover and her children, Bertrand's Germanic wife and their children who speak no French, and Frederic's distant mother. The band also meets Clara, a mercurial free spirit who beguiles Bertrand, then Mickey, then takes up with someone else in the band.
Genres: Music Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-01-14
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The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
Overview: This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-04-24
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Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears
Overview: Two brothers are fighting for a one girl attention...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-17
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Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête
Overview: Married to Jeremie, Marie wants desperately to have a child. She has a 20 year old daughter from a former marriage with the police commissioner. When the gynecologist confirms they are unable to conceive a child together, they opt for adoption. However, it is a very lengthy and difficult process. When her daughter meets Joanna, a pregnant teenager willing to give up her child for adoption, Marie is thrilled. And so Joanna moves in...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-01-25
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Le Maître d'école
Overview: After having lost his job for having saved a child accused of shop lifting, Frédéric Barbier decides to become a school teacher with some funny results.The great comedy actor Coluche is excellent as a simple school teacher.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-10-28
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Elle voit des nains partout !
Overview: La reine de France meurt en couche. Elle met au monde un petite fille prénommée Blanche-neige. Le roi deçu de n'avoir pas un fils est résolu à faire disparaître sa progéniture mais c'est sans compter sur la protection de nombreux personnages de la littérature enfantine : les fées, Tarzan, Robin des Bois ou d'autres encore...
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-04-07
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Quatre garçons pleins d'avenir
Overview: The premise of four young men out to celebrate the end of their school exams has great promise as comedy material, a promise that is far from realized in this banal, unevenly paced, run-of-the-mill attempt at a supposedly funny story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-08-06
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Make It Mine
Overview: Loïc, a chestnut seller, has a mistress who wants a baby. Not daring to admit to her that he had the mumps late in life, he finds other excuses. Until the day he meets Claire, an old girlfriend, who has a little boy. Loïc finds the resemblance between the little boy and himself enormous and is convinced that he is his father...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-09-10
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The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque
Overview: On the day he loses his job in advertising agency, Gérard Floque returns home to find that his infant daughter has been arrested for drugs trafficking and his wife is having an affair with a TV presenter. Gérard's only comfort in this time of mid-life crisis is his colleague, a young punk girl named Martine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-01-14
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Beur sur la ville
Overview: 25-year-old Khalid Belkacem has failed at everything: college education, summer camp instructor's permit, driver's license, and even his BCG. He never expected to become the first "positive discrimination" member of the police force. But as his mother says: "That's France for you! A country where everyone has a chance."
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-11
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You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
Overview: Whilst King Gros Pif I amuses himself at debauched banquets, his musketeers pursue their tax-collecting duties with a malicious zeal. Goaded by the court jester (who is also the Queen’s lover), the ministers decide to put an end to this regime and have the King locked up. Hearing the news, the famous Chevalier Blanc comes to his rescue. Aided by the knight and his cousin Lucienne, the King flees to Flanders, where he devises a scheme to win him back the throne of France...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-10-19
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Outward Signs of Wealth
Overview: Jean-Jacques Lestrade is the owner of a renowned veterinary clinic in Paris who lives in a luxurious apartment. He is part of Parisian high society and lives a wealthy lifestyle surrounded by young women and money. He relies on his trusty accountant, Jérôme Bouvier, to manage his finances. All goes well until the day that Béatrice Flamand, a tax inspector, shows up at his clinic, at which point Lestrade is now in trouble.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-11-09
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À nous les garçons
Overview: Two best friends fall in love with the same boy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-09
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Liberté, égalité, choucroute
Overview: A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, where he decides to visit the Executionner equipment exhibition.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-04-30
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Vive les femmes !
Overview: The love affairs of Bob, a womanizer and seducer and Mammouth, the unhappy loner.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-03-07
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The Gilded Cage
Overview: In the beautiful area of Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the ground floor of a Haussmann building, in their dear little lodge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-04-19
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La chambre 108
Overview: The incessant verbal duel and the bothering caused by an old patient in a hospital with his roommate, a good fellow believing himself suffering from a serious illness.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-08-18
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Private Lessons
Overview: Julie Lerrère, a young teacher in a difficult school, tries to help troubled teenagers, but makes a mistake. Excluded, a student falls under her spell.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-02-17
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Great Idea
Overview: In this comedy, five French students in their early twenties decide it's time they saw a bit more of the world, so Clementine, Caroline, Lionel, Bruno, and Brigitte buy cut-price rail passes and set out to visit 15 of the great cities of Europe. But it doesn't take long for their great plans to unravel, as the group's desire to see the important sights gets sidetracked by their fondness for partying and the opposite sex, and as they roll through Amsterdam, Berlin, Athens, and Bologna, they stumble into a wide variety of misadventures and meet all manner of unlikely people, from a former teacher who has come rather dramatically out of the closet to a washed-up dance-pop star.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-12-27
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Cross
Overview: Thomas Crosky, known as Cross, a lonely policeman, learns that his wife, daughter and sister-in-law have been kidnapped by a criminal who has escaped from a psychiatric hospital.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-02-04
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Sup de fric
Overview: Two business students hatch a perfect plan: buy their own school.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-07-22
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Le Provincial
Overview: A provincial is hired for a commercial and discovers Paris. He soon discovers that the city is not so different than his small village.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-06-27
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Slices of Life
Overview: A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal!"
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-02-06
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Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Overview: Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a transvestite visit their office.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-14
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L'amour est un jeu d'enfant
Overview: Benjamin lives with his widowed father, a designer and a bohemian artist. Olivia, his best friend, lives with his divorced mother, a lawyer who lives only for his work. Children decide to organize a meeting between the two parents, but unfortunately, neither seems interested in the other. Still, the two friends did not give up and seek new ways for the emergence of love between their parents.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-02-12
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The Big Swag
Overview: Louis Bourdin est employé à la RATP le jour, romancier la nuit, avec une forte prédilection pour le genre policier. Un jour, il rédige un polar situé dans l'univers de la RATP, boudé par les éditeurs. Le livre parvient alors aux yeux d'une bande de criminels...
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-07-09
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Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
Overview: Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of these cult films that have crossed generations without getting old. Go behind the scenes of these unusual films through completely unpublished anecdotes and funny stories told by the authors themselves.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-03
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Santa's Secretary
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1999-12-22
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Joyeuses Pâques
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-02-28
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Bonté divine !
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-01-21
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Et la tendresse ?… Bordel !
Overview: Francois, seducer very misogynist, directs an Eros Club, that from which suffers his Carole wife silently. Julie, saleswoman in a clock industry, as for it is taken of an access of madness after having surprised her husband, Léo, future
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-02-28
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Le chapeau de Mitterrand
Overview: One day in 1986, François Mitterrand forgets his black felt (his initials) in a Lyons restaurant. Daniel Mercier, a young executive who has just been reprimanded by his superior, who judges that the computerization of its business plan is stupid, steals it to clear his head. It was then that his life is turned upside down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-01-06
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Pas de panique
Overview: It is time for thirty-something Ludovic Chambercy to succeed his father Jacques at the head of the family business: the Chambercy Galleries. But faced with his new duties, Ludovic begins to sweat, has panic attacks and even dizzy spells. He is diagnosed with hypegiaphobia or extreme fear of responsibility. This man with everything for a happy life seems to be shying away from the expectations of his family. Reluctantly, without a word to his father and girlfriend, Ludovic starts group behavior therapy. While his lies spark off an incredible series of tragicomic events, Ludovic strikes up a friendship with the other phobics in his group: Léon, trader in bric-a-brac, who can no longer stand untidiness; Clémence, a student who cannot bear even one second of her own company and Margaux, who can no longer touch or be touched. And if Ludovic is to find a cure at the end of the road, there will be a few surprises in store for him along the way...
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-01-01
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Let It Snow
Overview: Jean-Gabriel intends to spend Christmas in the mountains quietly with his family. Many unforeseen events occur, but Jean-Gabriel will do everything to overcome them...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-12-13
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Le Technicien
Overview: After a painful separation 25 years ago, Séverine chose to immerse herself in work. She has created her own publishing house, small, of course, but one which gives her full satisfaction. Until the day when Jean-Pierre, her ex-husband, former business banker, shows up in his office. He is completely ruined, unemployed, and threatened with expulsion. Séverine agrees to help him on two conditions: nobody needs to know who he really is, and he will be a ... surface technician.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-09-10
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French Fried Vacation 2
Overview: In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Claude, and Christiane.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-11-22
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La veuve Tatouée
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-10-30
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Avis de tempête
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-07-29
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Alarmes, etc...
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-09-20
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Impair et père
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-12-04
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Tricky Old Dogs
Overview: Two septuagenarians go to Tuscany to prevent their old friend from killing the man who cuckolded him fifty years ago.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-08-22
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L'Invité surprise
Overview: During the broadcast of a live game show, a surprise guest is shot by an armed assassin.The victim, Martin Gaillard, recounts the bizarre series of events that led to this extraordinary denouement.
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-08-23
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My Other Husband
Overview: A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-09-21
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Y aura pas école demain
Overview: Antoine Moreau, mayor of Saint-Julien, is proud that the village school opens its doors again after three years of closure. However, three students are not enough to meet the conditions for reopening.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-02-18
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Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
Overview: In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply.
Genres: Comedy Crime Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-03-16
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Mister Frost
Overview: Frost is arrested and committed for murder after he is apprehended burying his victims in the garden. However, even while under psychiatric care and tight hospital security, it becomes obvious that Mr. Frost is not all he seems to be.
Genres: Horror Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-04-10
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Sans peur et sans reproche
Overview: Without fear and beyond reproach: the life of the brave knight de Bayard reviewed and corrected with humorous sauce.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-12-14
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Tant qu'il y aura des femmes
Overview: Sam is a screenwriter, good at sorting out other people's stories but unable to organize his own life. He loves women with passion and there are too many around him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-10-14
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Périgord noir
Overview: The recolonization of Africa, this time by the very blacks who had to flee it as exiles during the time of the original French occupation, is the theme of this political comedy. Adiza, who has been living well in France, has decided that she will return and buy the plantation she and her compatriots were expelled from, and enlists some unlikely helpers to bring them back into the country and enact their plot. Meanwhile, these "local" blacks are unwittingly accepted by the other landowners as more cheap labor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-06-21
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Le Roi des cons
Overview: Georges Le Roi lives odd jobs and shares his life between two girlfriends. One day, he falls in love with Sophie and records a message of love. The tape is mistakenly broadcast in the company. In the face of success, Sophie founded the company Tell me about love and spread the messages of Georges, who soon became a sex symbol.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-02-18
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Les ritaliens
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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