André Badin
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Nogent-le-Rotrou, Eure-et-Loir, France
Adult: No
Birthday: September 18, 1932
Age: 92 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: January 23, 2009
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Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
Overview: André Laroche, an industrialist, has just passed away. Face to his grave, as he is being buried, Anne de Vierne, the wife of a magistrate, confesses to her son François that Laroche was in fact Lupin and that he is his natural child. But he is not the gentleman thief's only offspring! Lupin had indeed another son by a housemaid, Gérard Dagmar, a dancer, magician and - occasionally - burglar. Which complicates the task of François who, to respect the last wishes of the testator, has gone in search of the treasure of Poldavia. For he keeps finding Gérard on his way and his efforts are constantly thwarted by his half-brother. Will Gérard prevent François from becoming the worthy successor to their father or will the two young men decide to join forces? That is the question.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-08-29
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The Vampire of Dusseldorf
Overview: A true story of Peter Kurten, a serial killer who committed nine murders and many other offenses in Dusseldorf during the Great Depression era.
Genres: Adventure Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-04-07
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Sweet Skin
Overview: Strip-tease has a pleasing Paris setting and a convincing strip club atmosphere, where a roster of exotic dancers do their thing. Making the club atmosphere work is the animated Dany Saval, as a charming gossip and outspoken cheerleader for the art of the strip-tease. Berthe encourages Ariane to loosen up and enjoy what she's doing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-29
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Idiot in Paris
Overview: Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, but the meat merchant Dessertine takes him under his wings when he hears that Goubi was likewise 'raised by the State'...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-03-22
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Carom Shots
Overview: Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on credit. Seeing that marrying his immediate superior's daughter will not get him the results he wants, he begins plotting the demise of the head of the company. The company itself specializes in holiday travel and unscrupulously brutalizes its customers for maximum profit, spending more thought on publicity gimmicks than customer service...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-17
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A Mouse with the Men
Overview: Marcel and Francis are busy people. Marcel owns a café and spend all his nights running from meetings to meetings with members from the high society... at least, that's what he say to his barman! Francis leaves his home, loving wife and adorable daughter, frequently to attend meetings and demonstration with customers. His boss trusts him so much that his agenda is always full... at least, that's what he say to his wife! In fact, Marcel and Francis' incomes come from their night job: thieves! Here at least, they are professional. Troubles arise when, during one robbery, they encounter a young, high-pitched voice, candid girl who takes the decision to become their associate in crime... for the fun!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-07-16
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Clémentine chérie
Overview: Gaston Bellus, is the director of a textile house, and the research laboratory makes a sensational discovery: the elastic fabric. This new discovery is used to manufacture new modern stretchable bathing suits. His daughter Clementine, enters the beauty pageant to represent France for the swimsuit launch. But scandal ensues when the public soon discover, the photos of the event in which this new revolutionary material is completely invisible on photographs & live television.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-08-03
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Under the Sign of the Bull
Overview: In this film, Albert is an eccentric inventor of missiles who comes under fire from his investors when his first prototype explodes. Even his sympathetic mistress has her doubts, as Albert lashes out in a verbal tirade condemning those of little faith in his genius.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-03-28
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L'assassin connaît la musique
Overview: Lionel Fribourg, a great composer (at least that's what he thinks) has a problem with his noisy environment: he can't complete his unfinished symphony. Of course there is a market for unfinished symphonies but, for all he knows, only one became famous. So he had better find a way to finish it. At long last, he comes across Agnès, a divorced woman who agrees to let him her quiet home. Lionel, full of hope, resumes work...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-10-16
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The Restaurant
Overview: A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-09-09
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Bedmania
Overview: A large bed recounts stories from its brief existence. Clumsy burglars, adulterated husbands and wives, homosexuals, lesbians, a lady, and her gigolo, a doctor who tries an erotic measurement machine on his assistant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-04-02
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A Man of My Measure
Overview: A tall and gangly Victoire arrives in Paris looking for the ideal French lover -- and because she stands well above many of her preceding romantic partners, that is an added dimension to consider. As she finds and drops a series of possibilities -- a free-wheeling sociologist, an up-tight intellectual, and a dentist fixated on sports -- she begins to wonder if this simple quest may turn out to be an impossibility after all.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-16
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The Groper
Overview: Because he dishonored the daughter of a mafia boss, Ernesto must leave Rome and take shelter with his uncle in Paris. There, he thinks of only one thing: to seduce girls.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-29
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Loin du front
Overview: Three war stories, far from the Front. The first two take place during the Great War, one in the summer of 1916, when allegiance still reigns, the other in the winter of 1916, when a convalescent soldier and his young cousin go for a walk in the woods. The third story, set in the present day, accompanies two young French soldiers, marked by the violence of the fighting in a distant and blurred war that no one seems to care about, during a July Fourth ball.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-01-14
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Josefa's Loot
Overview: Justin, a lyricist by trade, and his friend Pierre, a composer, lead a bohemian life in Paris. Justin thinks his mother Josefa is richer than she appears, and decides to swindle her out of three million centimes by using Pierre as an intermediary in a case involving an insolvent check. Josefa uncovers the ruse and refuses to help her son. However, Pierre has discovered the identity of his friend's father, who had been unknown to him for twenty years. With the help of Justin's mother, the two friends do everything they can to extort the son's missing three million centimes from his ashamed and repentant father.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-08-22
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Les Livreurs
Overview: These two friendly delivery boys from a Parisian department store not only take their job to heart as much as possible, but also consider themselves responsible for the happiness of the customers they have to deliver to. This leads them successively to help, at the cost of incredible acrobatics, a young couple celebrating the first anniversary of their marriage, to mingle with the clientele of a rather disquieting doctor, to almost perish in an ambush that was of course not intended for them, and to avoid a domestic quarrel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-07-24
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Et la femme créa l'amour
Overview: Laurent, a young playboy, lives off his charms, maintained by wealthy women of the world. He becomes the lover of Sonia, a young woman painter, a lover at heart of course. But Sonia has a provincial friend, Clotilde. One day, Clotilde pays Bona a visit. As she has just come into a large inheritance, Laurent courts her and marries her. The young couple embark on a misguided life of easy pleasures and questionable company. Clotilde's nerves crack at this game. Among Laurent's acquaintances, François, a doctor, treats her in his clinic: sleep cure, rest, etc. Meanwhile, Laurent distracts himself with other women. But Clotilde, convalescing, refuses to resume life together. Laurent turns to his former mistress, Sonia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-05-24
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The Abominable Man of Customs
Overview: Two rival gangs fight over drug trafficking. An American killer named Timetti Le Muet arrives at Marseille airport to make a delivery to Arnakos' gang. He is denounced to the police, and the peaceful customs officer Camposantos is put in charge of his arrest. Following a mix-up, Camposantos is mistaken for the killer himself. Taken in by Arnakos' men, the innocent customs officer is forced to play a rather unexpected role.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-03-01
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The Fabiani Affair
Overview: The tale of the famous vendetta, vengeance over the years between two families. For nearly nothing at the start, as always with Sicilians or Corsican people, from the underworld or not...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-01-24
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The Great Gadget
Overview: A scientist from the East happens in France where it is supposed to improve one of his inventions. But it is much more interested in the fact to enjoy it and have fun ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-06-21
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Who Stole the Body?
Overview: Edouard and Félix work in a real estate agency. One day, they are threatened with dismissal if they don't manage to sell a very isolated house to an elderly, silver and somewhat unusual Englishwoman. In the house, they discover a corpse. The visit is spent dragging the corpse from room to room, cupboard to chest, so as not to frighten the otherwise impressed buyer. But the corpse disappears. He has to be found before the deed can be signed. The two salesmen become detectives, tracking down the dead man's many female acquaintances. All the seducer's conquests are sifted through, to find the one who left her jewels at the scene of the crime.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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Blague dans le coin
Overview: A Las Perlass, ville de jeu du Névada, bandes rivales de Lippy et de Steinberg tiennent les plus beaux établissements de l'endroit. Franck Bradford has hired Jeff Burlington as a comedian, who, to cheer up a difficult audience, launches nightly verbal attacks on Lippy's casino where, he says - the games are rigged. Each of the two gangs sends a henchman to either stop the sarcasm or get in trouble if they don't leave their act as it is. Un certain "Main d'or" qui est autre que Bradford fait attaquer casinos. C'est Jeff, après avoir été kidnappé par les deux bandes devenues amies, quiasquera coupable.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-13
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Why Paris?
Overview: Monique, a Belgian girl, comes to Paris to learn painting and become an artist. She took courses at the Academy and found a studio in Montmartre.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-06-24
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The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Overview: Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-24
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Atomic Agent
Overview: Murderous foreign agents are after a scientist who has invented an atomic engine that could change the future of rocketry.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-11-04
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Alice au pays des merveilles
Overview: Alice sets off in pursuit of a mysterious white rabbit in a hurry. After a dizzying fall into a deep well, she discovers a strange world populated by beasts who behave like humans. She changes size, is invited to a wacky tea-time party and becomes a witness to a momentous trial conducted by the Queen of Hearts.
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-12-22
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The Boss of Champignol
Overview: Claudius finds a foal and takes it home to his boss. The men who stole the animal are looking for him. Claudius names him Champignol and trains him for racing. When he grows up, Champignol wins a regional race. But the thieves return, and Claudius is forced to do odd jobs to keep his horse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-03-16
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La Grande Maffia
Overview: After receiving a mobster's heart as a transplant, a modest bank teller embarks on a life of criminal exploits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-17
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A Midsummer Night's Dream
Overview: Shakespeare wrote this fantastic comedy in 1594. It features Lysander and Hermia, whose love is thwarted by Hermia's father, who wishes to marry her off to Demetrius, himself loved by Helena. In a magical forest, the couple cross paths with Obéron, king of the elves, who is quarreling with his wife and in possession of love potions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-25
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Aux frais de la princesse
Overview: The Eloi family, who have just won the "model family" competition, set off for winter sports. Also on the trip are Aunt Gabrielle and Dagobert, the village warden. For the eccentric little group, the initiation to the joys of skiing begins with a lot of excitement. The vacation gets complicated when a Hindu prince has a precious diamond stolen from the local hotel.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-07-04
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La Honte de la famille
Overview: On the day of his marriage, the son of a Marseille king declares to his family that he wishes to engage in the police.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-11-07
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La Grande Récré
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-10-01
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Léon Morin, Priest
Overview: Barny, although a Marxist, is intrigued by the mysteries of religion. In confession, she teases a priest, Léon Morin, but he is a young and intelligent man and ready to discuss anything.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-22
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Saint-Tropez Blues
Overview: With her parents away, Anne-Marie drops her studies to spend eight days in Saint-Tropez with her friend Jean-Paul. They are soon caught up in the Saint-Tropez whirlwind. Jean-Paul is seduced by a wealthy woman while Anne-Marie ends up alone with a young man she meets along the way.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-07-21
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The Big Store
Overview: Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket by attempting several coups. A film about the big store taking over the business of smaller stores.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-09-06
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The Discord
Overview: Guillaume has made it: A machine that can clean dirty air by simply sucking all dirt into air balloons and then shipping them far far away so his explanation. Some Japanese business guys, after dinner with a lot of alcohol, order 5,000 pieces. His only problem: His production capacity is way to small so he gets to produce the machines in his private house. His wife Bernadette is far from being happy about it. Her private life goes down the line so she decides to leave Guillaume and to finally have revenge she candidates for major against her husband...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-03-16
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Million Dollar Man
Overview: A U.S. Treasury Department agent is sent to Morocco to find a fortune in counterfeit money hidden by the Nazis during World War II. The agent escapes from prison with the only man who knows the location of the bogus bills. The duo is shadowed by a group of former Nazi soldiers who hope they will lead them to recover the lost loot. The feature plays as a crime drama with overtones of international espionage.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-08-31
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The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia
Overview: When an oily attorney dies at the hands of the mafia, a dedicated French detective investigates the man's murder. He soon uncovers a drug-smuggling operation and lets his sawed-off shotgun do the talking to the toughs in this Gallic gangster feature.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-05-20
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Du mou dans la gâchette
Overview: Nicolas Pappas and Léon Dubois, two particularly calamitous killers, arrive in Paris, where a gangster boss in need of "staff", Jo Laguerre, hires them to cover the escape of the perpetrators of a hold-up. They get away with it as best they can and then find themselves in charge of liquidating a certain "Magnum"...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-08-30
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The Fenouillard Family
Overview: The Fenouillards (Sophie Desmarets and Jean Richard are the parents, Annie Sinigalia and Marie-José Ruíz are the daughters) are shopkeepers with higher aspirations. The Monsieur wants to run for mayor of their town, but the family acknowledges he has little experience of the real world -- and so they all take off to experience it together. After starting out by getting lost, the family goes through an odyssey that takes them to Brazil, the Antarctic, and Japan in a series of episodic adventures.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-01-04
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Auguste
Overview: Auguste is about an eponymous bank clerk who finds fame and fortune. Auguste happens to be in the right place at the right time to save young starlet Francine from killing herself -- or more accurately, pretending to kill herself. His supposed heroism hits the news, and before Auguste knows what is happening, a Machiavellian publicist is using him for his own ends. The bank clerk is no fool and soon thinks of a way to come out on top.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-10-24
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The American Beauty
Overview: Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-29
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The Third Lover
Overview: On a work assignment in Germany, failed journalist Albin crosses paths with Andreas, a successful writer, and his wife Hélène, who quickly becomes the apple of Albin’s eye. While Andreas is off on a business trip, Albin tries to seduce Hélèn and, eventually, take over Andreas’ life
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-05-02
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Les jambes en l'air
Overview: Story of a marginal couple, César and Favouille, who set out to find their youngest daughter, who run away from home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-05-13
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Under Your Hat
Overview: An illegal gambling den where players can lose millions... and the owners make their fortune.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-03
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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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Déclic et des claques
Overview: From their native Algeria, four friends discover Paris, hoping to find fortune and love. One of them meets the charming Sandra, who is looking for meaning in her life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-03-05
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Let's Rob the Bank
Overview: Shopkeeper Victor Garnier has naively invested his family's life savings in an African mine, on his banker's recommendation. When the mine is nationalized, rendering the stock worthless, he considers himself shamelessly robbed by the bank; it seems only fair to him to return the 'favor' and rob the bank, teaming up with the whole family as they were all duped. Even for professionals such an enterprise -he decides to dig a tunnel- is quite demanding, but for simple commoners it's daunting, as they also have their personal downsides; thus Victor's wife has a most unwelcome tendency to blurt out the truth, even to the grumpy local copper: a crazy risk when you need to keep a criminal plan secret.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-02-25
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The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space
Overview: The bungling inspector Cruchot finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell the aliens from the real people, besides their constant thirst for oil-products, is that they sound like empty garbage cans when you touch them. Chaos is ahead.
Genres: Comedy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-31
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Et qu'ça saute !
Overview: A uranium deposit brings turmoil to the small South American republic of Guatalpa. Between two revolutions, the government tries unsuccessfully to decide whether the Americans, Soviets or Cubans will exploit the concession. Delegates from these nations spy on and betray each other to achieve their goal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-11
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From Hong Kong with Love
Overview: Bons baisers de Hong Kong (From Hong Kong with Love) is a 1975 French film directed by Yvan Chiffre. It is a parody of James Bond movies featuring Les Charlots with scenes shot in Hong Kong. Mickey Rooney featured in the film as well as Bernard Lee and Lois Maxwell, stars of the James Bond films who appeared as M and Moneypenny respectively.
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-17
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Paris Pick-Up
Overview: On Christmas night, an ex-convict meets a beautiful, married Italian woman who has a lot of things to hide.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-05-04
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Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent
Overview: Jeff Gordon, FBI agent, infiltrates a gang and finds himself in the midst of a gang war.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-03-11
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Les combinards
Overview: Léo and Claude, two penniless friends turned con artists, answer matrimonial classified ads to trap women. But one of the friends soon finds his own game turned against him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-02-02
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Cargo
Overview: An Italian lumberjack named Giovanni falls in love with a girl named Louise. What starts off as a whirlwind romance devolves Louise becoming a prisoner of passion.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-12-02
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San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça
Overview: Walter Klozett is a spy arrested and imprisoned by the French Police who know him in possession of stolen booty which the French secret services would like to recover at all costs.
Genres: Comedy Crime Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-20
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Ubu enchaîné
Overview: Father Ubu, grotesque king and symbol of the tyranny of power in Ubu king, decides to become a slave to acquire real power. This is the first sequel to "Ubu roi" (1965) directed by Averty.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-10-02
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