Henri-Jacques Huet
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Biography: Henri-Jacques Huet was born on 27 March 1930 in Paris, France. He was an actor, known for The Little Soldier (1963), La mort d'un touriste (1975) and Claudine (1978). He died on 4 June 2009 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: March 27, 1930
Age: 95 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: June 04, 2009
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Breathless
Overview: A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away to Italy with him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-03-16
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Cesar and Rosalie
Overview: A young woman becomes entangled with a successful businessman, but her ex tries to win her back, provoking intense jealousy that leads her to reconsider her choice. Ultimately, one man's actions force a resolution to her dilemma.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-11
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Max and the Junkmen
Overview: A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand.
Genres: Crime Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-17
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Violette Nozière
Overview: Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-05-24
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Conduite à gauche
Overview: It all happens in a hospital waiting room. While his young wife has just had a serious accident and is undergoing surgery, the husband relives, in his memory, the reality of their near past, or what he would have liked his marital union to be. At the outset, this young couple took as their model the famous couple from "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" and their line of conduct: complete freedom for everyone, as long as they confide in each other about their adventures.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-06-13
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Beau Pere
Overview: Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-09-15
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The Loner
Overview: In Paris , Commissioner Stan Jalard and Inspector Simon Lecache plan to quit the police to go and enjoy a more peaceful life in the West Indies. In a nightclub, during a routine visit, they spot Schneider, a dreaded gangster and public enemy. At the time of his arrest, Simon is killed at close range by the criminal. Stan then decides to stay in the police to avenge Simon. Being the godfather of Christian, Simon's son, who sometimes lives in a boarding school, sometimes at home, he takes charge of his education. Two years later, Stan has been promoted, and he's told that Schneider had resurfaced in the capital. A long hunt begins.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-03-18
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Le Petit Soldat
Overview: In 1958, during the Algerian War, Bruno Forestier, a young man belonging to a far-right group fighting against the Algerian resistance, arrives from France in Geneva. As a cover for deserting the French army, he is given a job as a photographer. The group's leader, a Poujadist MP, tasks him with killing a Swiss radio journalist, Palivoda, a supporter of the Algerian cause. A friend introduces Bruno to a young girl who "has the same kind of mouth as Leslie Caron" and who wants to become a model, and bets him $50 that he will fall in love with her; shortly after introducing him to Véronica, an aspiring actress, he succeeds. The Little Soldier is Jean-Luc Godard's second feature film after Breathless, and it is Godard's first film with Anna Karina. Filmed in 1960, but not released until January 25, 1963 due to a censorship ban.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-01-25
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Exterior Night
Overview: Hoping to make a fresh start, Léo, a jazz musician, takes up temporary residence with his friend Bony, a young writer who is struggling to get his work published. One evening, Léo strikes up an acquaintance with a woman taxi driver, Cora; in spite of her impulsive and moody temperament, he cannot help being attracted to her. On the spur of the moment, Cora invites Léo to make love to her. When Bony meets Cora, he too finds her irresistible, but he lacks Léo’s self-confidence to make his move. Cora is not a woman that any man can possess readily. She is like a wild animal, a creature that revels in its freedom. Will either Léo or Bony be able to tame her...?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-09-10
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Willing
Overview: A young, unscrupulous director hires an actress and uses the story she tells him of her life to write his screenplay, but fires her and entrusts the leading role to someone else.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-03-10
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Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
Overview: Claude Ventura's documentary Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede, was made for the French television channel Arte in 1993. Ventura checks into room twelve in the hotel's final week of operation: it is demolished the day after he checks out. Room twelve was one of the principal locations for Jean-Luc Godard's New Wave masterpiece Breathless, and Ventura's documentary investigates the production of Godard's film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-05-27
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And Satan Calls the Turns
Overview: On a sun-kissed beach, six people linger lazily, each confident of fulfilling his or her desires before the day is out. A wealthy heiress, Emmanuelle, has designs on a handsome adolescent, Ivan, but his interests lie elsewhere. Having gratified Emmanuelle’s womanly needs, Ivan immediately sets out to make his next conquest, the mistress of a well-known writer...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-10-24
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Emmenez-moi au Ritz
Overview: The three ex-wives of a real estate developer join forces to get revenge on him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-09-29
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Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard
Overview: Unwilling to marry, Silvia poses as a maid in order to meet the man she is to marry incognito. This will allow her to study the character and behaviour of her fiancé. But the young man resorts to the same stratagem...
Genres: Romance TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-03-04
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OSS 117 Is Unleashed
Overview: An American agent disappears after a scuba diving reconnaissance mission in Corsica. The Secret Service sends agent code name OSS 117 to investigate.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-06-18
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Les Avocats du Diable
Overview: In 1958 in Paris, during the Algerian War, a young trainee lawyer, Maître Chabrier, was assigned to defend an Algerian garbage collector against paratroopers who had beaten him. Stay out of Algerian affairs, his peers advise him because the trial is taking a political turn. Chabrier acquired the reputation of the Fellaghas' lawyer.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-19
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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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Girl Merchants
Overview: A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp for women by a sadistic gangster.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-09-13
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Jusqu'à plus soif
Overview: A young teacher arrives in Normandy, where she intends to put an end to illegal alcohol trafficking and consumption.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-05-16
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Diane's Body
Overview: Diane is married to Julien, an architect. The two met in Czechoslovakia before marrying and moving to France. Julien becomes extremely jealous when he suspects Diane of having a lesbian affair with a ballet dancer. His incessant questions and insane jealousy make Diane resentful to the point she considers pushing him off a cliff.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-05-27
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Le commissaire mène l’enquête
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Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-07-28
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Slogan
Overview: Commercial director Serge Faberge is having an affair with Evelyne, the 18 year old fiancee of friend Hugh. His own pregnant wife Francoise usually does not mind his dalliances, until he actually walks out on her and their newborn baby to move in with Evelyne. The shoe is on the other foot when dashing stuntman Dado catches Evelyne's eye in Venice.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-07-27
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Madame Claude 2
Overview: A notorious French madam, whose business serves many of the nation's most powerful individuals, plans to go international until she becomes the focus of media scrutiny.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-08-26
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Un monsieur bien rangé
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-04-10
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Not Dumb, the Bird
Overview: An old lady is far from suspecting everything that is going on behind her back, in particular what her servants are up to.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-11-15
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One Night at the Beach
Overview: Un soir sur la plage is relatively interesting; the cast includes highly talented Jean Dessailly, Martine Carol, a cast against type Michel Galabru as the cop.The biggest surprise is sixties starlet Daliah Lavi as a simple-minded nymphomaniac girl who is murdered on the beach. The story is essentially a whodunit: in Martine Carol's house, there are many people (too many people actually) and they all have a reason to get rid of her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-06-14
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Women's Prison
Overview: Alice Rémon, a pharmacist, is a prostitute who managed to leave the streets by getting married. Her husband dies one day, poisoned. Her mother-in-law, who hates her, accuses her of murder.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-07-15
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The Night Caller
Overview: A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.
Genres: Thriller Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-04-09
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Love Is My Profession
Overview: Married French lawyer Andre defends succesfully the case of Yvette, who committed a robbery. He falls in love with her, but she isn't true to him.
Genres: Romance Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-09-17
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The Annuity
Overview: In 1930, Louis Martinet, a peaceful sexagenarian, no longer has a long life to live according to the words of his doctor, Leon Galipeau, who sees to take advantage of the very interesting situation of the "future deceased". This one indeed has a small house in Saint-Tropez. Galipeau sniffs the windfall. Following his advice, Martinet agrees to give it in life to the brother of the doctor, Emile, and then rushes back to a health of iron. Worse, he even survives the war. Galipeau, exhausted, decide to use the great means to get rid of the importunce who persists in thwarting their project ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-01-19
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The Coin
Overview: Bob recruits Jacques, a desperate blacksmith, to "recover" smuggled diamonds from de Belar. The heist goes badly wrong. The crooks kill each other for the money, but the diamonds are gone and Jacques returns to his life as an honest man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-07-01
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The Case of Dr. Laurent
Overview: Le Cas Du Dr. Laurent (The Case of Dr. Laurent) stars Jean Gabin as a Paris-based doctor who tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth. Working in a cloistered rural community, Gabin runs up against the stone walls of fear and prejudice. His theories are proven sound when unwed mother Nicole Courcel gives birth within Gabin's methodology. The childbirth sequence is filmed straight-on with a delicate combination of taste and frankness. Nonetheless, the lurid ad campaign of Cas Du Dr. Laurent sensationalized this sequence all out of proportion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-04-03
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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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À fleur de peau
Overview: When Françoise introduced her fiancé to her parents, she had no idea that, during this family weekend, drama would enter this sumptuous estate, set up by her father for his second wife, the troubling Irène; so troubling, in fact, that she immediately set about conquering her daughter-in-law's fiancé... This doesn't faze her husband, Paul Brémont, the famous builder of Télébremont television sets, who is busy with his business and, above all, with the charms of his secretary. But it does seem to worry the house gardener, who is more than a little attached to his seductive boss (which makes Rose, the cook, sick with jealousy).
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-14
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Dressage
Overview: At a gathering of would-be society debauchees, the Baron Plessis de Regard and the attractive young Nathalie hatch their individual plans to use sex to respectively ruin and punish their selected enemies. The Baron's plan is to scupper the political ambitions of right-wing parliamentary candidate Colonel Montvilliers by setting him up with a female companion and publicly exposing his new-found vices. Nathalie's quest is of a more personal nature, to destroy her estranged father Charles Leroy-Merville by corrupting his innocent 17-year-old daughter Sophie, a task she intends to achieve by securing employ as the girl's summer tutor.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-16
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