Albert Simono
Also Known As: Simono, Alberto Simono
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Chambéry, Savoie, France
Adult: No
Birthday: August 26, 1930
Age: 94 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 19, 2017
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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 Old Maid
Overview: Muriel is a shy woman who bluffs and blusters around in order to hide her shyness and to protect her loneliness, even though she longs wistfully for a companion of some sort. She has been lonely so long that now she is an old maid and has never been wooed. In this gentle French film, Muriel gets a glimpse of romance when Gabriel walks into the seaside hotel she is vacationing in. His car has broken down, and he has to stay there for a few days while it is repaired. Hers is the only dinner table with room at it, and Gabriel cannot prevent himself from charming women. She is stiff with him at first, but soon they develop a friendship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-01-05
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Rum Runners
Overview: During the prohibition era, Cornelius, a bootlegger, is on the run from the American coastguards. He comes across a silent film actress, Linda, on the set of a movie and falls in love with her.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-10-13
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Dangerous Moves
Overview: During the Cold War, the World Chess Championship clashed complete opposites - personal and political.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-04-15
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The Sadist Has Red Teeth
Overview: Daniel gets out of the hospital where he has been cured for "vampirical obsessions". But his life takes a weird turn as he transforms into a vampire and starts to kill women. Despite his young fiancee's support, Daniel's fate is definitely doomed...
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-01-13
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My New Partner
Overview: A streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them to continue is assigned an idealistic new partner fresh from police academy. He sets out to corrupt him...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-09-19
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The Golden Claws of the Cat Girl
Overview: Françoise looks like a sexy kitten by day, but is a silent she-wolf by night, making very clever robberies of gold jewels. Despite the interest, and competition, from Bruno, she ends a lonely she-wolf.
Genres: Crime Adventure Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-02-09
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Incorrigible
Overview: Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is to make enough money to build a sea wall to protect Mont-Saint-Michel. Charlotte, a parole officer, shows up: she's young and seems taken in by Victor. He discovers she lives above the Senlus Museum, where her parents are the curators. With two pals he decides to steal a priceless El Greco triptych and then ransom it back to the cultural ministry. What will Charlotte do when she realizes he's used her to make a fortune?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-15
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The Scarlet Lady
Overview: Comedy about a self-made woman in Paris contemplating the idea of suicide at first, then murder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-05-14
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Pervertissima
Overview: Bold and sultry Françoise gets hired by a magazine to lead investigations in the mysterious world of sex. Until she gets caught in the web of sadistic Dr. Vilard, who runs a very strange mental institution.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-03-01
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Un ange au paradis
Overview: A bored undertaker, married to an ex prostitute, falls in love with a transsexual.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-11
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Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers
Overview: Two brothers who can feel each others' pain and pleasure mess up the French revolution.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-07-27
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Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ?
Overview: To replace Hector Grofenol, the tyrannical boss of the "Tout pour le camping" factory, who has been put out of action, a group of employees call on his cousin Achille, a Provençal shepherd, thinking they can use him. But Achille is quick to take his role as CEO seriously, and becomes very enterprising. Fortunately, young secretary Martine uses her charms to calm this man with a thirst for power.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-05-21
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Billenium
Overview: Two roommates discover an extra personal space that they have never known. Things become complicated when they allow two other close friends to share the space, and the ensuing snowball effect of their invitees bringing family to live in the room.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-09-10
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Le roi des montagnes
Overview: A young botanist, an Englishwoman and her daughter are prisoners of a group of bandits operating in the mountains of Albania. A ransom is demanded. The capture of the gang leader's daughter, however, brings the situation to a happy conclusion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-09-02
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Private Screening
Overview: Complications abound in this French film, which tells the story of a filmmaker who is attempting to put his real life into a movie; his interactions with the people in the movie he is filming create reverberations in his "real" life, although the past remains unchanged. Among the complications is his growing regard for the woman who plays his cinematic wife. She may wind up replacing his actual wife in real life. One of the highlights of this film is the insight it gives into the actual mechanics of filmmaking.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-08
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Grandison
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1978-03-28
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The Lady Kills
Overview: The film tells the story of Françoise Frémont, who travels across Europe on an apparently random killing spree, bumping off a series of increasingly odious men. From Swinging London to the eternal city of Rome, she leave a trail of dead bodies and the question: why? A mystery film as only Jean Louis van Belle could make it, The Lady Kills is a blast from start to finish with an amazing soundtrack of gloriously groovy psych-rock.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-10-27
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Triple Cross
Overview: A safecracker turns double agent during WWII.
Genres: Adventure War Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-12-09
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Lost Command
Overview: After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of the Capt. Esclavier, who has grown weary of war, and Capt. Boisfeuras, who lives for it, Raspeguy attempts to convert a rugged band of soldiers into a formidable fighting unit, with the promise of marrying a beautiful countess if he's made a general.
Genres: Action War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1966-05-01
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Door on the Left as You Leave the Elevator
Overview: Yan is a successful artist. One day he is waiting for his date Florence to turn up at his apartment. As the doorbell rings, he finds another young woman in underwear on his doorstep: his neighbor Eva! She tells him she locked herself out of her apartment and insists that he helps her. Whilst Yan is trying to enter Eva's apartment via their adjoining balcony, his phone rings. It is Florence, and she is not impressed when a female voice answers the phone. At this point, Eva's rabidly jealous boyfriend Boris returns home. Seeing Yan in his apartment, he deduces that Eva has been having an affair behind his back. Florence then turns up and Yan tries in vain to explain the situation. By chance, Florence's husband suddenly puts in an appearance. After that, it all starts to get a bit complicated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-08-31
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The Grand Duke's New Clothes
Overview: Two crooks think up a scheme to get rich at the expense of the vain and excessive Grand Duke.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-12-23
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Sous le soleil de Satan
Overview: 1971 TV movie based on the novel by Georges Bernanos.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-22
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