Patrice Melennec
Also Known As: Patrice Melenec, Patrice Mellenec, Guy Michel Melennec
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Quimper, Finistère, France
Adult: No
Birthday: June 01, 1942
Age: 82 years old
Gender: Male
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Haine
Overview: Klaus Kinski plays the role of a drifter on a motorcycle who happens to be passing through town immediately after a young school girl has been run over and killed by an unknown person on a motorcycle. The parents of the girl conspire to get rid of Kinski with the help of some of the locals including the town bully who recently had a run-in with Kinski in a pub over a woman. Kinski's only ally is the woman whose honor he tried to defend. Trapped in the town due to sabotage on his bike and a number of other incidents, Kinski soon realizes he is in real trouble.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-01-09
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The Secret
Overview: A stranger enters into and forever alters the life of a couple. He claims to be pursued by certain authorities who intend to prevent him from disclosing a secret that only he holds, whence the title. Is he lying, or insane - or is he telling the truth? Who, if anyone, is after him? And what *is* - the secret?
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-09
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Uranus
Overview: After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Communist Party tries to flush out Petain loyalists. The local bar owner, a simple man who likes to write poetry, who only wants to be left alone to do his job, becomes a target for Communist harassment as they try and locate a particular loyalist, and he pushes back.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-12-12
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Ernest & Celestine
Overview: Celestine is a little mouse trying to avoid a dental career while Ernest is a big bear craving an artistic outlet. When Celestine meets Ernest, they overcome their natural enmity by forging a life of crime together.
Genres: Animation Comedy Drama Family Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-12-12
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St. Ives
Overview: In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the prison's commander, Major Farquar Bolingbroke Chevening, asks for lessons in communicating with women. Both men have their eyes on the lovely Flora, who resides with her aunt, the iconoclastic and well-traveled Miss Susan Emily Gilcrist. By chance, living close to the camp is Jacques's grandfather and brother, whom Jacques believes died years before. Jacques decides to escape, find his relatives, and win the hand of Flora; Major Chevening and an unforeseen enemy stand in his way. Can Miss Gilcrist contrive to make everything work out?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Love at Second Sight
Overview: A man tries to make his wife fall in love with him again, after waking up in an alternate reality where she never knew him.
Genres: Comedy Romance Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-01-18
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Thieves After Dark
Overview: A crime story set in Paris about a Bonnie-and-Clyde couple -- how they got together and how they are pursued for a murder they never committed.
Genres: Thriller Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-02-27
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Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition
Overview: The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
Overview: In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe while visiting Paris and staying at the fabulous Ritz hotel. Rather than cope constructively with it all, the fellow opts to ignore it and continue living the high-life for as long as possible.
Genres: TV Movie Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-11-28
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How Did You Get In? We Didn't See You Leave
Overview: Clovis Blaireau is a private detective. It is charged by Nadège de Courtaboeuf wife knew wealthy industrialist Prosper de Courtaboeuf, to obtain evidence of the infidelity of her husband. Clovis managed to penetrate the intimacy of Prosper, and became his friend. Following diverse Clovis and Prosper adventures will find themselves in Tunisis pursued by a band of Mafioso and by members of the Front of breaking load of Couscous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-11-18
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Les Sœurs Soleil
Overview: This gently satirical French comedy centers on the resulting brouhaha that erupts when the preadolescent daughter of a very conservative bourgeoisie couple gets the chance to appear in a raucous music video starring a raunchy, aging female rocker. When pipe-puffing patriarch and solid citizen Brice learns that his daughter Clemence has been to selected for the music video with tacky has-been rocker Gloria, he nearly comes unglued. His prim wife, Benedicte, the organist for the local congregation, has a different perspective and understands her daughter's eagerness. She quietly agrees to secretly accompany Clemence during the shoot. Once there, the two are filmed dancing around and having fun. Neither realize that they will become special-effects victims by time production on the film ends and find themselves apparently dancing amongst men who but for the presence of small rubber sea creatures, would be buck naked.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-04-02
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Angel's Skin
Overview: Héléna Werner leads a reclusive and deserted life. Alone, as if withdrawn from the world in her apartment of refined luxury. She places an ad for a private secretary, a "handyman" who would take her away from the daily grind. As soon as he starts working, Milo adopts an intriguing behavior. From the start, he takes everything in hand and the doors of the apartment close on them both.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-29
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The ComDads
Overview: Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-11-23
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Two Is a Family
Overview: A man without attachments or responsibilities suddenly finds himself with an abandoned baby and leaves for London to try and find the mother. Eight years later after he and his daughter become inseparable Gloria's mother reappears.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-12-07
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One Deadly Summer
Overview: In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-05-11
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L'Amuse-gueule
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-09-09
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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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Under the Cherry Moon
Overview: Two friends from Miami are in the French Riviera enjoying life by scamming money off of rich women. One day, they read about a young woman set to inherit $50 million from her father. At first, Tricky has Christopher Tracy talked into romancing her for her money, but in getting to know her, Christopher falls in love with her. This love comes between the brothers, and Tricky tells about the plan.
Genres: Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-07-02
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À l'abri des regards indiscrets
Overview: January 1st 2002. 1st day of Euro currency. The window of a cash dispenser is lifting up on a square, in Paris. 23 amazing characters will be meeting each other there, all along this very particular day...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-01-01
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Mais où sont passées les jeunes filles en fleurs ?
Overview: Two students, one of whom is still a virgin, spend a few days on vacation in the castle of the aunt of one of them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-05-07
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The Gilded Cage
Overview: In the beautiful area of Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the ground floor of a Haussmann building, in their dear little lodge.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-04-19
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Out of It
Overview: The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-10-10
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Frantic
Overview: The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris. To find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
Genres: Thriller Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-19
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Just Like Brothers
Overview: Since Charlie is no longer there, the lives of Boris, Elie, and Maxime have been torn apart. These three men, who have nothing in common, all shared one thing: their love for Charlie. One loved her like a sister, one loved her like the woman of his dreams, one loved her like a friend. Except that Charlie is dead and none of them - not Boris, an accomplished businessman, not Elie, a night owl scriptwriter, and not Maxime, still living at home with his mother - know how to deal with it. But because she asked them to do so, they abruptly decide to undertake a journey together, heading for Corsica and the house that Charlie loved so much. Except that here they are stuck in a car together for over 500 miles. It's going to be a long journey. Boris, Elie and Maxime, three men, three generations, no affinity. But by the time they arrive at their destination, they will have realized one majorly important thing: Charlie has changed their lives forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-11-21
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The Dangerous Mission
Overview: 1944. A young French soldier is involved, without really wanting it, into American operations for Liberation.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-04-22
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Engrenage
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-12-02
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L'amour Dangereux
Overview: When an 18-year-old guy teams up with a band of thieves and robs a delivery truck, a cop is knocked senseless. The guy and his girlfriend steal her dad's car and escape to the seashore. Can young love survive with the police in hot pursuit?
Genres: Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-02-26
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Les Misérables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-10-20
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