Jean Rougerie
Also Known As: Bernard Rougerie
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Birthday: March 09, 1929
Deathday: January 25, 1998
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Overview: Solange is seriously depressed, and her kindhearted husband, Raoul, makes it his mission to cure her doldrums. After many failed attempts to cheer her up, Raoul hits upon a possible solution: find his wife a lover. Unfortunately, his choice, Stéphane, proves to be just as ineffectual in restoring her flagging spirits. In the end, the gorgeous Solange finds her own, highly problematic tonic to her troubles in the form of a 13-year-old boy.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-01-11
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The Hunchback of Paris
Overview: Duke Philippe de Nevers is an influential and popular man who is married to a beautiful wife called Aurore. His rival Philippe de Gonzague hates him enough to organise an attempt on him. The Duke is accompagnied by Henri de Lagardère when de Gonzague's henchmen altogether attack him. Lagardère cannot save his friend because the both of them are hopelessly outnumbered. He has to escape in order to save the Duke's daughter and swears revenge. Together with his old buddy Passepoil he raises the little girl in Spain. At the same time he returns frequently to France where he detects confronts his friend's murderers and puts them to the sword one by one until only their former leader is left. Finally he discovers that Philippe de Gonzague is the man for whom he is looking.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-11-26
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Thank You, Life
Overview: Camille, a naïve schoolgirl, meets an intriguing influence in Joelle, a slightly older and much more experienced spirit. Camille follows her new friend through the discovery of sex and the darker side of life. As the film progresses, Camille discovers AIDS and the fear that she may have picked up the disease in her early encounters.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-03-13
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Choice of Arms
Overview: Two men break out of prison; a rival gang ambushes them. One is mortally wounded and tells the other, Mickey, to take him to the estate of a retired robber, Noel, who lives in comfort with his lovely and beloved wife, Nicole. The man dies, and Mickey, a menacing hothead, demands money of Noel. A few days later, Mickey returns to the estate, shoots up a dinner party and threatens them again. Noel sends Nicole to an hotel and goes to his old gang to help him hunt down the dangerous Mickey. Mickey has other problems, too, including heartache for a daughter he hardly knows. Young, eager cops tail Nicole, and all are on a complicated collision course.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-08-19
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Miracle Healing
Overview: Faking an injury for insurance money, a peddler seeks out a cure to support his claims while a suspicious investigator tries to expose the scam.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-02-18
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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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Preuve d'amour
Overview: A journalist wrongly accused of murder enlists the help of a femme fatale to track down the real killer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-03-09
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Le Jour de gloire
Overview: In 1944, a retired German detachment found itself stranded in a French town. The inhabitants try to live in good harmony with the occupants. But one day kids, playing with a grenade, accidentally cause the death of an SS lieutenant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-12-08
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Monsieur Vincent
Overview: The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-11-05
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March or Die
Overview: Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located in the French Morocco to protect an archaeological excavation from El Krim, a Rifian leader who intends to unite all local tribes to fight the colonial government…
Genres: Drama Adventure War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-09-08
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Head Against the Wall
Overview: An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-20
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The North Star
Overview: Edouard Binet, an aimless Frenchman, has been travelling in North Africa for many years, and is sailing to Belgium. En route, he meets Sylvie Baron. He introduces her to Nemrod Lobetoum, a rich Egyptian carrying valuable jewelry, and Sylvie and Nemrod become friends. Their friendship escalates to love, which makes Edouard jealous. Days later, Edouard arrives at a rooming house owned by Mme. Louise Baron, Sylvie's mother, wearing blood-stained clothes. It appears that Nemrod was killed on a train after he arrived in France, but Edouard denies any knowledge of what happened. Sylvie suspects that Edouard is responsible for Nemrod's death, but by now her mother has become Edouard's ally.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-03-31
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Scout Toujours
Overview: France, 1965 - An aging mamma's boy becomes the replacement leader of a rowdy group of teenage boy scouts who make his life miserable.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-11-27
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Voulez-vous un bébé Nobel?
Overview: Famous men are being kidnapped for their genes, to impregnate women and give birth to gifted babies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-11-19
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Les Gauloises blondes
Overview: In the year 100, the village of Lutèce was invaded by a Roman troop. The Gauls decide to send their naked women to confuse them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-08-15
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Buffet Froid
Overview: An absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-12-19
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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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A View to a Kill
Overview: A newly-developed microchip designed by Zorin Industries for the British Government that can survive the electromagnetic radiation caused by a nuclear explosion has landed in the hands of the KGB. James Bond must find out how and why. His suspicions soon lead him to big industry leader Max Zorin who forms a plan to destroy his only competition in Silicon Valley by triggering a massive earthquake in the San Francisco Bay.
Genres: Adventure Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-24
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False Pregnancy
Overview: Perhaps you have to love dogs in order to sell tins of slimy mystery meat to their owners. At any rate Martin, who is indifferent to pets in general, isn't doing all too well in his marketing job at Floppy Dog Foods. But right now this is the least of his problems: he has made a British au-pair pregnant in a one night stand; and while he is trying to figure out how to deal with this, his ex-wife (who divorced him over his not wanting children) and his mother (a militant anti-overpopulation, pro-birth control, pro-abortion activist) have a few comments to offer on the situation. Before his own child is born, Martin clearly has some growing up of his own to do.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-09-11
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Pinot simple-flic
Overview: The film starts in the 13th arrondissement of Paris in 1984. Robert Pinot is a police officer as ordinary as clumsy. One day, he stops a certain Josyane, a young drug addict who is also doubled as a pickpocket, nicknamed Marylou. Having discovered that she comes from the same village, Nanteuil, then him, he takes compassion for the young girl and decides to take her under his wing to keep her away from Tony, a dangerous dealer with whom she is in love.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-06-06
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Judith Therpauve
Overview: A former hero of the French anti-Nazi resistance is approached by old comrades to lead a financially struggling liberal newspaper. Initially reluctant, she takes on the challenge, mortgaging her house to keep it afloat. As conservative forces intensify their opposition, she is eventually forced to sell the paper, seeing it as a personal failure.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-10-06
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How to Succeed in Love
Overview: Bernard, a young, serious publisher of religious books, finds himself embroiled in amusing and eventful adventures with Sophie, a wacky twist dancer. Having lost his own situation, he joins Editions du Soleil thanks to his friend Marcel's manuscript "Comment réussir en amour". Freed of his shyness, he succeeds brilliantly in his career; and having put to good use the teachings of the manuscript, Bernard ends up marrying Sophie. But he soon finds himself confronted by the impetuous young woman's fantasies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-16
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The Room of Chains
Overview: For fun, two men kidnap and torment women in bondage.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-19
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The Prize of Peril
Overview: In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television.
Genres: Action Drama Science Fiction Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-25
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Every Man for Yourself
Overview: Georges Flavier, once renowned Parisian hairdresser, lives alone since the death of his son and the departure of his wife. One night, he saves a stranger from drowning in the Canal Saint-Martin.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-01-24
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My Father's Glory
Overview: Raised by his science teacher father, Joseph Pagnol, and seamstress mother Augustine, young Marcel grows up during the turn of the century in awe of his rationalist dad. When the family takes a summer vacation in the countryside, Marcel becomes friends with Lili, who teaches him about rural life.
Genres: Adventure Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-08-29
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American Dreamer
Overview: American housewife Cathy Palmer loses her memory on a trip to Paris after being hit by a car. She wakes up in the hospital believing she's the fictional international spy, Rebecca Ryan.
Genres: Action Adventure Comedy Crime Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-10-26
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The Seventh Company Has Been Found
Overview: The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-10
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Lacombe, Lucien
Overview: In Louis Malle's lauded drama, Lucien Lacombe is a young man living in rural France during World War II who seeks to join the French Resistance. When he is rejected due to his youth, the resentful Lucien allies himself with the Nazis and joins the Gallic arm of their Gestapo. Lucien grows to enjoy the power that comes with his position, but his life is complicated when he falls for France Horn, a beautiful young Jewish woman.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-30
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State of Grace
Overview: She is Florence Vannier-Buchet. Married to Protestant banker Jean-Marc Buchet. Florence leads a major sporting goods company with happiness and firmness. He is Antoine Lombard, Professor, son of a teacher, he is Secretary of State at the Universities. He divides his time between his ministerial activity and his riding in the working class suburb of Chartres. An elected member of the "pink wave". They met during a stormy assembly of the CNPF. The action takes place in 1983. Florence is engaged in a daring industrial and financial operation, while Antoine is putting the finishing touches to a bill for the renovation of Higher Education. Everything separates them and yet they do not manage to live separated from each other ...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-12-24
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Le Grand Jeu
Overview: A business owner has a consuming passion for gaming. He has lost almost everything and decides to sell his apartment. To do this, he must drive his wife away and put his driver in the confidence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Ténor
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-09-16
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Prends ton passe-montagne, on va à la plage
Overview: By chance, a band of merry friends is getting in command of a thalasso therapy center.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-12
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The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Overview: In 1951, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the private detective Nestor Burma was commissioned by an insurance company to find stolen jewelery. The deal seemed easy and Burma got an appointment with a well-known black trumpet player in the neighborhood who could provide him with information. But the musician does not come and we find him murdered. The investigation becomes more complicated and Nestor must find an alibi so as not to be suspected of the crime.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-06-01
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The Phantom of Liberty
Overview: This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-09-10
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All Fired Up
Overview: Victor Valance, an absent father and gambler, works with shady casino operations abroad. When he returns to Paris in need of money, he plans to take advantage that Pauline, his eldest daughter now fully responsible for the whole family, has begun to work for the Ministry of Finance. Pauline thwarts his new projects but when she realizes gangsters are looking for Victor she will put her life at risk to help him and save their family.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-13
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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Demons of Deception
Overview: Indy's work with the Belgian Army takes him to the front lines of Verdun in 1916, where officers' callous stupidity sends thousands of men to their deaths for virtually no territorial gain. In Paris, Indy falls in love with the seductive German spy Mata Hari, only to suffer the pains of deceit.
Genres: Action Adventure War TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-03-10
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Mrs. Reinhardt
Overview: An Englishwoman seeking to escape her marriage arrives at a French hotel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-30
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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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Dumb But Disciplined
Overview: Jacques does his military service. Shy, round and clumsy, he is forced to agree to be the driver of a special ambulance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-08-21
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Héloïse
Overview: Photographer Maurice Martin turns into a woman named Héloïse every night at 8 p.m.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-01-23
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The Police War
Overview: Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the underworld.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-11-14
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On s'en fout… nous on s'aime
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-06-16
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The Alley Cat
Overview: Florent Boissonneault and his young wife Elise always had one dream: own a restaurant. When they meet a strange old man, Egon Ratablavasky, their dream become reality, but only to quick turn into a nightmare when they sadly discover they had been tricked by him, and lost everything. But their dream is not dead, and a strong desire of avenging soon bring them back in business, with the help of an homeless kid, a french cook and a friendly journalist. But the old man still had trick on for them his bag...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-08-28
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Edith and Marcel
Overview: This tragic musical drama chronicles the star-crossed love between beloved French singer Edith Piaf and World Middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerdan who died in a plane crash. The tumultuous affair is paralleled by the love affair of a French POW and his young pen pal who get engaged after writing to each other for four years and having never met. Their romances are framed by the sad, torchy songs of Piaf.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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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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