François Chaumette
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: September 08, 1923
Deathday: February 27, 1996
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Christine
Overview: Vienna, 1906. A passionate love story develops between Franz Lobheiner and the young Christine. Lobheiner is, however, currently seeing the married Baroness von Eggersdorf. Upon learning of his wife's infidelity, the Baron von Eggersdorf provokes a duel with Lobheiner. But the former is no longer a real threat to the Baron. Lobheiner is now passionately in love with Christine. How will this love quartet end?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-12-19
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Come Dance with Me!
Overview: The wife of an accused murderer embarks on a dangerous masquerade to find the real culprit behind a dancer's death.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-12-18
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The Devil's Envoys
Overview: At the end of the 15th century, a man and a woman, posing as traveling minstrels, are sent by the Devil to a castle to seduce its inhabitants.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-12-05
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The Inheritor
Overview: After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...
Genres: Thriller Drama Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-22
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The Night Affair
Overview: Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicted Lucky (Najda Tiller), whom he considers to be more victim than criminal. Taking it upon himself to wean Lucky away from narcotics, Vallois also wins her love -- and, incidentally, smashes the dope ring responsible for her addiction.
Genres: Crime Thriller Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-05-14
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Rayés des vivants
Overview: With the help of a social worker and Isabelle, Pierre, a delinquent influenced by Marcelle, undertakes a slow and difficult reintegration.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-24
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The Tiger Attacks
Overview: Paul Lamiani, a wizened mobster, is asked to return to duty following the disappearance of secret documents of extreme importance. It is assumed that they are in the hands of a friend of Paul. But the case becomes even more delicate when Lamiani's son is kidnapped.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-01-21
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The Road to Damascus
Overview: Saul De Tarse is a Roman soldier who is making rough all over. He arrives at the Golgotha when the apostles remove the cross. He ruthlessly persecutes the Christians, even though they are his own friends.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-12-05
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The Beautiful Prisoner
Overview: Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up. He takes her to a villa to get a doctor, and ends up being locked in a bedroom with her. While she is making love to him, he has visions of surrealistic images from René Magritte's paintings. In the morning, the girl, Marie-Ange, has vanished, the villa looks derelict, and his neck is bleeding. Was it all just a nightmare?
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-02-16
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On ne badine pas avec l'amour
Overview: While Camille refuses Perdican's advances, she takes offense when he courts Rosette. Then begins a confrontation of pride, where each seeks to establish his ascendancy over the other in the name of love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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There's Always a Price Tag
Overview: A wealthy businessman's wife tries to cover up his suicide to cash in his life insurance policy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-09-18
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Ondine
Overview: In the forest, knight-errant Hans meets and falls in love with Ondine, a water-sprite who is attracted to the world of mortal man.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Galia
Overview: Newly arrived in Paris, Galia lives in a small apartment near Notre-Dame cathedral. One evening, whilst walking along the banks of the River Seine, she saves a young woman from drowning. The woman, Nicole, tells Galia that she intended to drown herself, having left a suicide note for her husband, Greg. Having settled Nicole in her apartment, Galia sets out to recover the suicide note, but waits so that she can observe Greg’s reaction. When Greg appears unmoved by the note, Galia decides to wait for him at the art gallery where he works...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-01-26
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Rue de Paris
Overview: Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a dash of comedy. While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times but he also has a better side that will not stay buried. Since handling three children alone is no easy task, the single father has the choice of growing in the process or not.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-10-21
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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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Burning Fuse
Overview: Lola, the wife of arms dealer Pedro Wassewich, is attracted to Ludovic, a young painter who turns out to be the emissary of a notorious gangster. He claims to have been sent by the latter to pick up a shipment. In fact, it's the police who, behind the scenes, orchestrate the operation to catch Wassewich red-handed.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-02-27
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Dose mortelle
Overview: Sylvie Drapier is an attractive 40-year old surgeon, specializing in liver transplants, who heads a department in the foremost clinic of a small country town. Divorced, she lives alone with her eight-year-old son, David. One night, returning home from a major operation, Sylvie is violently assaulted and raped in the garage of her building. In the furious struggle with the rapist, she manages to scratch him with a brooch. Several weeks later, the rapist attacks a pharmacist, but this time, the victim escapes by severely injuring him. The assaulter is hospitalized and must undergo a liver transplant, an operation which only Sylvie Drapier can perform...
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-09-17
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Thérèse Étienne
Overview: Her father having served a prison sentence, there is unending gossiping about Therese's family. Unable to put up with it any longer, the young woman leaves her native village for the canton of Bern where she manages to be hired by Anton Muller, a wealthy, authoritarian farmer. Under the young woman's spell, Anton wants to make his servant his mistress but Thérèse refuses energetically.. Later on, she nevertheless accepts to marry Anton. On the wedding day, she meets Gottfried, her bridegroom's son, and they instantly fall passionately in love with each other.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-02-07
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Keep Talking, Baby
Overview: Ex-boxer Eddie is framed for murder. While serving time, he tries to clear his name and uncover the real culprit behind the deadly setup.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-10-06
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The Persians
Overview: Les Perses (The Persians) is a French TV movie adaptation of Aeschylus' oldest known tragedy, Πέρσαι (Persai). It was originally broadcasted in October 31, 1961. The play deals with the aftermath of the Persian defeat in the battle of Salamis (480 BC), which makes it the only Greek tragedy that deals with a real historical event.
Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-10-31
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Z
Overview: Amid a tense political climate, the opposition leader is killed in an apparent accident. When a prosecutor smells a cover-up, witnesses get targeted. A thinly veiled dramatization of the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis and its aftermath, “Z” captures the outrage at the US-backed junta that ruled Greece at the time of its release.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-02-26
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Time Masters
Overview: On planet Perdide, an attack of giant hornets leaves young Piel alone in a wrecked car with his dying father. A mayday message reaches their friend Jaffar, an adventurer travelling through space. Onboard Jaffar’s shuttle are the renegade Prince Matton, his fiancée, and Silbad, who knows Perdide well. Thus begins an incredible race across space to save Piel.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-03-24
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My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days
Overview: Lucas has invented a new computer language but at the same time he has been informed about his strange terminal illness during which he has been gradually losing his memory. Shortly after that he meets Blanche who acts as a medium in a bizarre traveling show. Dying Lucas follows her to the sea resort where they spend together several days and nights.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-04-19
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Ces malades qui nous gouvernent
Overview: From testimonies and medical explanations, an evocation of the last fifty years, seen through the different illnesses of the main heads of state in the world. The state of health of the men in power who have made the history of the last half-century has often been deficient at critical moments of decisions that affected millions of people. The dramatic consequences of Chamberlain's illness in front of Hitler in Munich, Roosevelt's illness in front of Stalin in Yalta.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-09-08
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Le Tartuffe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-13
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Death of a Corrupt Man
Overview: In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt dealings and was poised to use them against the deputy. Xavier readily agrees to cover up for his old pal Philippe, but he soon runs into difficulties. Nobody believes Dubaye's alibi. And everybody -- influential personalities, powerful businessmen, dubious go-betweens and the police -- wants to get hold of the documents that served to blackmail Dubaye; by all possible means...
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-12-07
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Les femmes savantes
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-08-19
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Électre
Overview: During the long journey that brought him home victorious in the Trojan War, Agamemnon fell in love with one of his captives, Cassander, daughter of Priam, with whom he had children. The reception in Argos, more than ten years later, was icy. Annoyed by the double indelicacy of her husband, Clytemnestra, his wife who had meanwhile become the mistress of Aegisthus, killed him with the help of her lover. Aegisthus then became the regent and ensured the prosperity of the city alongside his mistress, the widowed queen. But Electra, one of the daughters of Agamemnon, has always foreseen the murder and adultery of her mother. Solitary, wild, she lives in the royal palace awaiting the return of Orestes, her brother who has taken refuge since childhood with an uncle, in order to take revenge. Electra can begin, the crimes of the Atreides family continue quietly, as planned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-07-07
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La Volupté de l'honneur
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-10-12
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Les Plaisirs de l'île enchantée
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-07-08
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The Ostrich Has Two Eggs
Overview: A father discovers one day that one of his sons is a homosexual and the other, is the "gigolo" of a Japanese countess. He is first horrified, but finally accepts the situation because it brings him economical advantages.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-08-29
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A Few Days with Me
Overview: After being discharged from a mental institution, a man is tasked by his mother to revive a struggling supermarket in Limoges. He must navigate unexpected responsibilities and the challenges of managing the store's staff.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-08-14
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Président Faust
Overview: A modern variation on the myth of Faust, the film features Henri Faust, an influential man at the head of a gigantic financial empire. One day, the Devil himself visits her. The Evil One offers him a range of happiness, youth, love, fortune, power; but Faust has everything he wants and he refuses the pact offered to him. However, a fault exists and the Devil will know how to discover it.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-12
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Britannicus
Overview: Emperor Claudius had a son, Britannicus, before marrying Agrippina and adopting her son Nero, born of a previous marriage. Nero succeeded Claudius and ruled the Empire. Despite his reign, Nero decides to free himself from his mother's yoke and take revenge on Britannicus, the brother who has everything and whom he envies.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-04-19
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Le Roi Lear
Overview: An aging King invites disaster when he abdicates to his corrupt, toadying daughters and rejects his one loving, but honest one.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-02-13
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Le roi se meurt
Overview: A staging of Eugène Ionesco's play "Exit the King" by Jorge Lavelli.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-05-26
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Le mariage de Figaro
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-12-09
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Créanciers
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-07-17
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Wacko
Overview: An anthology movie comprising four weird stories. Like the Twilight Zone movie but strictly played for laughs. There’s a bit of everything, car explosions, french debauchery, serial-killers, crazy broads, silly humor and naughty language…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-06-08
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Une visite de noces
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-06-04
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D'Artagnan
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-13
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