Jacques Rispal
Also Known As: Marcel Rispal, Rispal
Biography: Jacques Rispal (1 August 1923 – 9 February 1986) was a French film actor. He appeared in 100 films between 1952 and 1986. Source: Article "Jacques Rispal" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Belvès, Dordogne, France
Birthday: August 01, 1923
Deathday: February 09, 1986
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Overview: In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-09-15
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The War Is Over
Overview: Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages to get free. When he arrives in Paris, he starts searching for one of his comrades to prevent him from going to Madrid where he could be arrested.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-05-11
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The Cat
Overview: Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished. His cat Greffier being the only one he still gives affection to, he becomes the object of Clemence's anger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-24
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The Last Train
Overview: Two people, a Frenchman and a Jewish German woman, meet on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-31
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A Taste for Women
Overview: A writer discovers a link between a vegetarian restaurant and a series of mysterious deaths.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-05-13
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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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A Man Named Rocca
Overview: Roberto goes to Marseilles to give a hand to his friend Xavier, wrongly imprisoned following a frame-up organized by his associate Villanova. Roberto sets out to seduce Villanova's mistress, but when Villanova is killed, Roberto ends up leader of the band...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-17
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Femmes Fatales
Overview: Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-02-11
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La Menace
Overview: Henri Savin has managed a trucking company for his lover, Dominique Montlaur, for many years. Now he is planning to leave her for Julie Manet, the woman he has made pregnant, and Dominique is hysterical. She first threatens suicide, then shows up at a meeting of Savin and Julie. Dominique tries everything she can think of to break Savin and Julie apart, to no avail. Frustrated in her efforts, she jumps off a cliff and dies. Savin insists that he and Julie lie to the police about the encounter, although Dominique's death was a suicide and therefore they had no direct hand in it. Detective Waldeck investigates Dominique's death.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-09-28
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As the Moon
Overview: Normandy, France, 1976. After 2 years of wild love with Nadia, Pouplard - unemployed heating engineer, working in his girlfriend's butcher's - decides to marry her and leave for good his (regular) wife and daughter.. He'll have to struggle against his own jealousy and Nadia's incredible sexappeal to get through this 'moment de vie'.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-08-31
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The Gypsy
Overview: Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-05
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Crimson Curtain
Overview: Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in which he was to play with Aurélia Nobli, his companion and Ludovic Arn, her lover. The police arrive on the scene and the investigation begins. Suspicion first falls on Sigurd, an old actor who had threatened Bertal. But parallels appear between the characters in the play and the actors who play them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-11-14
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L'Affaire Lourdes
Overview: In Lourdes, in the 1860s, the young Bernadette disturbs despite herself the peaceful life of the small town. She is the only one to see the apparition of The Lady, every day. The villagers take sides, the notables try to stifle the affair. But crowds come from all over the country. Inspired by the true story of the Lourdes affair.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-11-07
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L'Inconnu
Overview: The descent into hell begins for Edouard, a disillusioned marginal, when he loses his job, and his wife leaves with his son. His meeting with a mysterious stranger, who claims to work for the secret services, leads him to commit the irreparable. Was it a trap or just a symptom of his madness? There is doubt...
Genres: Thriller Fantasy Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-12-11
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The Goodbye Singing
Overview: In her suburban house, Madame Vaussart brings together a group of solitaries every Wednesday. Everyone tries to forget their problems, their complexes, their sadness. Between Mr. Michel, very shy, Mrs. Lebris, a former actress, a former colonial soldier and a few others, a project was soon born. They arm themselves and organize a manhunt from which, voluntarily, no one will come out alive.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1977-12-08
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The Invitation
Overview: After the death of his mother, middle-aged insurance employee inherits her small cottage surrounded by a garden. Selling the cottage which is situated on unexploited ground near the center of a big city makes him a rich man and he buys a big house in the countryside. He takes some time off and decides to throw a big garden party at the house and invite all his colleagues from the office. Aided by alcohol, the guests gradually lose all their inhibitions and reveal personality traits and frustrations that they normally keep hidden.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-09-13
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Le Prussien
Overview: A German prisoner of wars stays in France after the armistice with the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-11-29
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Boomerang
Overview: A reformed gangster turns to his old associates for help after his son kills a police officer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-08-15
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Les Beaux Quartiers
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-03-31
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Going Places
Overview: Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeoisie holds dear, whether it’s cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She’s on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-20
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The Confession
Overview: The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-04-29
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Act of Aggression
Overview: After his wife and daughter are raped and killed by a motorbike gang, a man sets out to take revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-04-16
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One Must Live Dangerously
Overview: Richard is a private detective. He makes a good money from marital infidelity: the deceived husband and wife generously paid him for proof of their infidelity "halves"...
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-09-03
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Bed and Board
Overview: Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-09
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The Uninvited
Overview: When her husband returns from his work abroad with a guest, a young girl, his wife suspects a liaison. She leaves her home. Her boss takes her to the Côte d'Azur. They get closer during the long voyage and the man invites her to his marital home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-10-31
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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 Ambassadors
Overview: “Each of you is an ambassador, and we are sure that each of you will be the best ambassador of our country.” This is how the film begins; a speech to emigrant workers for France. Salah left his three sisters and his mother to become an ambassador, going to work on a Defense site, wading in the mud, he works with a jackhammer. Salah wanders in search of work and housing. Coming up against racism from the owners claiming the respectability of the building and the good neighborhood, he finds himself in a hotel in the Goutte d'Or district. The body of Mehdi, friend of Salah, was found in the Canal Saint-Martin, murdered by a fascist commando, and Ali died of a bullet, killed by a racist janitor. Faced with crimes that remain unpunished, Salah and his friends organize, unite with the French working class to defend their lives and their right to work.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-02
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Na !
Overview: A group of pensioners, exasperated by the Social Security strike, meet Chalupot, a former paratrooper and ex-priest who has just been released from prison. He encouraged them to form the M.L.V. (Mouvement de Libération des Vieillards) and organize demonstrations. But as Chalupot is arrested and locked up, the pensioners plan to hold up the Social Security.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-06-06
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The Arrest
Overview: A young writer has just written a new novel, which has been accepted by an editor. A simple and familiar story about the terrifying power the state has over people’s lives.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Graduation Year
Overview: In a small provincial town, students meet at a party organized by one of them, and share their thoughts on the difficult year they are leaving : the preparation of high school diploma.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-02-12
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A Cloud in the Teeth
Overview: Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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Them
Overview: An artist grows hateful of commercial demands on his questionable talents when his friend and artist commits suicide. He puts the blame for his friend's death on an art critic and a shady art dealer. He is able to take out his frustrations on the pretentious critic at a party. When an elderly man moves into the boarding house, he brings a machine he invented that can make people realize their subconscious dreams...
Genres: Crime Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-11-18
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If I Were a Spy
Overview: A medical doctor gets into trouble when one of his patients turns out to be hunted by the mafia.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-08-30
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Zita
Overview: Because "Tante Zita" main theme is death: a twenty-year old girl, Annie (Shimkus) lives with her mother and her aunt (both played by first-class actresses Suzanne Flon and Katina Paxinou). The auntie is dying, and for the first time in her life, Annie has to cope with death. One night, she finds it too hard to bear, and leaving home where the old woman is suffering, she begins to hang around in Paris. She will meet people, and, from dusk to dawn, she will learn to leave her childhood behind and to grow into a woman.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-01-12
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The Big Shots
Overview: Thia and Murelli, who live from car stunt shows, make ends meet by carrying out small burglaries.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-31
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Lucie sur Seine
Overview: Louis is a delivery boy, his wife Chantal is a supermarket salesgirl. Louis is bored, and decides to buy a truck and go to the Lebanon, but he has no money. He tries to rob the supermarket where Chantal works, but it goes wrong and he kills the cashier and watchman...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-06-30
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Why Not!
Overview: A threesome becomes a foursome in this sensitive drama. The tale begins with the relationship between a recently divorced man and woman (from different marriages) and the bisexual they get involved with. At first all three are happy in their new arrangement, but then the divorced fellow suddenly leaves and those remaining in the relationship become quite tense. Fortunately the fellow returns with another, more conventional fellow. Eventually the three persuade him to join them.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-12-21
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Par le sang des autres
Overview: In a little French town everything goes on as usual and people seem friendly and good-natured, until the day two women arrive from Paris. A man gets off the same bus, and that very night he seizes the two women and asks for the most beautiful woman in town as their ransom. After the initial shock, the mayor, his brother, the prefect, the police, and the gendarmerie gather around the house where the two woman are imprisoned. It will be a test for everyone and each of them will show his/her real stuff: hypocrisy, meanness, or humanity concealed under their provincial respectability.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-07
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Le soldat Laforêt
Overview: When he gets separated from his unit, Laforet (Roger Van Hool) becomes a de facto deserter during 1939 fighting in the French provinces. Most of the story concerns his love affair with a local farmgirl, as he competes for her affection with a refugee from Spain. When he presses her to make a decision between them, the choice doesn't go in his favor. Soon after this he joins up with the Resistance movement.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-04-21
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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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La nuit bulgare
Overview: A youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious Bulgarian industrialists who have come to his office. A government contract is being sought for a businessman who is in danger of bankruptcy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-04-20
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The French Detective
Overview: When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning from his superiors. When he embarrasses Lardatte while disarming a hostage (the dead volunteer's father), Verjeat is told he's being transferred within a week. He speeds up his hunt for the goon and, with Lefévre, one of his young detectives, he engineers a complicated scheme to buy more time before the transfer. How should Verjeat play out his values of honor and duty?
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-10
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Two Men in Town
Overview: A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-24
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Spray of the Days
Overview: Chick fell in love with Alise because of a shared passion for writer Jean-Sol Partre who gradually devoured their relationship. Soon after, Colin, the main character, also falls in love with a young girl, Chloe, but after their marriage she soon suffers from a strange illness: a water lily grows in her lungs.
Genres: Comedy Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-04-21
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My American Uncle
Overview: Prof. Henri Laborit uses the stories of the lives of three people to discuss behaviorist theories of survival, combat, rewards and punishment, and anxiety. René is a technical manager at a textile factory and must face the anxiety caused by corporate downsizing. Janine is a self-educated actress/stylist who learns that the wife of her lover is dying and must decide to let them reunite. Jean is a controversial career-climbing writer/politician at a crossroads in life.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-05-21
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The Dominici Affair
Overview: In August 1952, a family of British tourists is found by the roadside in Haute Provence, brutally murdered. In the ensuing, very public, investigation a local landowner, 75 year old Gaston Dominici, is arrested for the murders, having been denounced by his sons. Under police interrogation, Dominici confesses to have killed the family and it looks certain that he will be charged, tried and sentenced to death. But then the case begins to collapse. The old man retracts his confession and the lack of evidence against him becomes apparent…
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-07
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La Face Nord
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-05-07
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The Milky Way
Overview: Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way they meet a whole assortment of people—some truculent, some violent, and some bizarre; they experience many adventures—some mysterious, some erotic, some even supernatural.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-02-28
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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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Peppermint Soda
Overview: In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer at the beach with their father. School starts. A turbulent year awaits them both.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-12-14
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For a Cop's Hide
Overview: Victim of manipulation, Cop Choucas is wanted for two murders and searched for by every cop in town.
Genres: Thriller Action Romance Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-09-09
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French Postcards
Overview: French Postcards rings both comic and true. The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their French-English dictionaries, they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic artist's life, and look for grown-up love. The French tutor them well, as befits their reputation. Jean Rochefort is the harassed headmaster with a hankering for affairs, and Marie-France Pisier is his very sexy wife. Watch for a newcomer named Debra Winger, and another-Mandy Patinkin.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-10-19
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Les Trois Sœurs
Overview: Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-30
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Portrait of Marianne
Overview: Octave, a young painter, realizes that his wife Marianne has left without a word or explanation. With his best friend Alfred he wanders the streets of Paris, in search of Marianne.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-03
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Cher Victor
Overview: A pair of elderly men, friends for 40 years, find their relationship stressed when they set up housekeeping together in order to save money. Exploring similar ground to that covered in Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple, which spawned a movie and a television series, Ce Cher Victor explores the tragic and dramatic aspects of the story. The two friends, meek, sensitive Anselme (Bernard Blier) and blustering Victor (Jacques Dufilho) are swiftly driven apart by circumstances.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-06-06
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The Pariah
Overview: For more than 15 years, two Marseille friends and criminals battle the law, rival gangs, prison authorities and even mined beaches in order to survive.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-12-12
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The Adolescent
Overview: In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-24
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Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Overview: In this excoriating satire of the fashion industry, Polly Maggoo is a 20-year-old Brooklyn-born fashion model in Paris, on the runway at the big shows where magazine editor Ms. Maxwell is the reigning opinion maker. The ridiculous passes for sublime. Polly becomes the subject of an episode of a vapid TV news documentary series called "Qui êtes-vous?" and is pursued by the filmmaker and by the prince of Borodine, a small country in the Soviet bloc.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-21
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le 16 a Kerbriant
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Genres: War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-02-21
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