Michel Barbey
Also Known As: Michel Barbet
Biography: Michel Barbey (born 23 April 1927) is a French stage, film, and television actor known for his comic roles. He starred in the 1950 film Dominique. Source: Article "Michel Barbey" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Drucourt, Eure, France
Birthday: April 23, 1927
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Gender: Male
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The Horse
Overview: Auguste Maroilleur, an elderly farmer, exploits 400 hectares of crop land with the help of his family, over which he rules with an iron hand. Things go awry the day he discovers one of his grandsons is involved in drug traffic. To make matters worse, the reckless youth has hidden the white powder in the Maroilleur farm. Without a moment's hesitation, Auguste gets rid of the toxic substance but, of course, the mob has different views...
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-02-22
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Their Last Night
Overview: Arriving in Paris, Madeleine Marsan rents a room in a guesthouse where she makes the acquaintance of Pierre Ruffin, a respectable municipal librarian. Through Pierre, Madeleine finds work as a schoolteacher and soon realises that she is in love with him. Then she discovers that Pierre is in truth the head of a band of crooks. Caught by the police after a failed robbery, Pierre manages to escape. With Madeleine’s help, he goes on the run.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-10-23
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Children of Chaos
Overview: An officer, two of his comrades and a social worker want to create the "Carrefour", a place for lost children and teens to give them a chance not to fall by the wayside and spend most of their life in jail.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-04-26
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Tainted
Overview: Louberger, director of an orphanage, is full of praise for a former boarder, Mr. Sauval, who has become their benefactor. One night he arrives and he does not seem to be exactly the man described by Louberger. He has in fact become a crooked lawyer and he is wanted for a crime he has just committed. Despite his efforts he will not escape the police but he will manage to remain, in the eyes of the children, at the height of his legend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-12-04
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Une Belle Garce
Overview: During a crossing, Professor Rabas, a famous tamer, meets a certain Raymonde whom he brings back with him to his circus. The presence of the young woman leads to disagreement between Rabas and his younger brother, Léo; she suggests to the latter to enter the cage of the untamed lions, where he is injured. Rabas and Leo understood the lesson; Raymonde is hunted like an evil beast, and calm returns to the circus.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-11-21
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The Tattoo
Overview: An art dealer wants to buy a Modigliani, which is tattooed on the back of an old soldier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-08-17
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Dominique
Overview: Dominique, a medical student, works in a cinema to help her friend Simone Lambert, a pharmacy student. Big scandal in his bourgeois-minded family when we learn and he works and he has a friend. His father chases him away brutally. Dominique is going to live with Simone, in her sixth grade. From that day on, she receives a visit from a mysterious character who calls himself a novelist and who helps her to meet the needs of her household. Dominique discovers that this character is none other than his father: he no longer understands.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-04-21
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The Execrable Fate of Guillemette Babin
Overview: Being born a witch's daughter did not bode well for your future in the Middle Ages. Guillaumette tries to stay on the straight and narrow with a little help from a priest she visits.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-10-14
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Cartouche, King of Paris
Overview: The romantic life of the head of a bandit gang, wanted by the police. Cartouche gets away with being deported to Louisiana after unmasking a plot by a Duke against the throne.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-08-02
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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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Trois marins dans un couvent
Overview: In a small village, an abbot tries to take lightly the jokes of three men, recalcitrant to religion.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-10-13
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Marlène
Overview: Returning from South America, a singer is hired by an old pal who runs a detective agency to use a perch as a night club performer to be an investigator.The amateur sleuth then falls for a girl whose brother is a jewel thief.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-02
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Tainted
Overview: Louberger, director of an orphanage, is full of praise for a former boarder, Mr. Sauval, who has become their benefactor. One night he arrives and he does not seem to be exactly the man described by Louberger. He has in fact become a crooked lawyer and he is wanted for a crime he has just committed. Despite his efforts he will not escape the police but he will manage to remain, in the eyes of the children, at the height of his legend.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-12-04
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La louve
Overview: A chronicler gets himself hired as a gamekeeper in Monsieur De Saint-Ricquier's mansion where he lives with his stepdaughter, Henriette, everybody considers insane .
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-07-13
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Rendezvous in July
Overview: Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-06
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The Woman with the Orchid
Overview: A bold police officer arrives, not without difficulty, to infiltrate a dangerous gang of drug traffickers. With the help of a beautiful young woman, he tries to stop their nefarious activities ...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-01-04
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The Girl with the Whip
Overview: The daughter of a notorious smuggler is raised as a boy by her foster mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-09-25
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For a Yellow Jersey
Overview: Tour de France 1965 in colour
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-01-01
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La chasse à l'homme
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1952-10-14
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Asterix vs. Caesar
Overview: Obelix falls for a new arrival in his home village in Gaul, but is heartbroken when her true love arrives to visit her. However, the lovers are kidnapped by Romans; Asterix and Obelix set out to rescue them on a dangerous journey that will involve gladiators, slavers and beauracracy - and a personal encounter with the Emperor himself, Julius Caesar...
Genres: Comedy Animation Family Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-03-06
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Lay Off Blondes
Overview: Inspector Al Whecler, cool and relaxed, is given the task by the sheriff of a town in California of investigating the murders of two girls tattooed on their right arms. His investigations bring him to a funeral chamber run by the suspicious Rodinoft...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-12-07
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Black Light
Overview: When a man's best friend is shot in cold blood by two corrupt policemen, he must track down the only eyewitnesses, who have deported to Mali.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-01-02
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Les vacances finissent demain
Overview: A group of boys and girls go camping after winning a publicity contest. A bad boy infiltrates the group, and one of the girls falls in love with him. Another devotes herself to a comrade weakened by the war, and the novelist Clémence watches over this youth with authority, providing the theme for her next book.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-07-17
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Hold-up à Saint-Trop’
Overview: An unscrupulous young man uses his "fiancée", who haunts gambling halls, to recruit the collaborators he needs to pull off his scams. When these unlucky gamblers are driven to dishonor by debts, he has his fiancée lend them money, and the next day he has them write checks, which of course bounce. All they have to do then is walk straight ahead, her charm encouraging them to do so. But the carefully planned hold-up at the home of a wealthy American tax dodger is a fiasco. The thief finds the safe already emptied by the very man who reported the bargain. But the unfaithful informer is fooled in turn: the loot he was about to take away in an Air-France suitcase is innocently snatched by a group of nuns who take the wrong luggage and unknowingly take off with 500 million dollars.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-07-24
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Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
Overview: Pietro Ponz lives a happy life in the mountains on the Swiss-Italian border with his mother Lamberta. No one but his mother knows that Pietro is a girl, a deception that Lamberta was forced into by a series of tragedies almost twenty years previously. Not long after her husband Joseph Ponz died, Lamberta also lost her fragile infant son, Pietro. Whilst mourning this double loss, she began an affair with Bolzano, a notorious smuggler. After Bolzano was killed by the customs men, Lamberta gave birth to his child, a little girl that she decided to pass off as her son Pietro, in the hope of securing an inheritance from her husband's wealthy parents. Now that Pietro is fast coming of age, his tutor and grandmother are adamant that he should be sent to a religious school. Pietro escapes from the school and joins a gang of smugglers...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1952-09-26
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Mama Aloko
Overview: Paris. Belleville quarter. Mama Aloko has to put up with her broken fridge, the cause of all her woes. She will come up with the one thousand francs to buy a new fridge to prevent the Health Dept from shutting down her restaurant.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-01-23
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Requiem pour un caïd
Overview: Police officer Antoine Delille is in charge of putting an end to the activities of a "kingpin", Jo Pinelli, trafficker, racketeer and pimp. He has three women working for him, including Eva and Jeannette, and is currently "conditioning" a charming, naive Orly employee, with whom he poses as an honorable businessman. Inspector Delille's plan is to arrest Jo for some crime and, while he's being held at the P.J., to delve into his other criminal activities and confound him.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-07-25
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The Two Orphans
Overview: A story about two girls who grew up as sisters, were separated and finally met again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-05-24
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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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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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Lawless Paths
Overview: Inès, a gypsy, pregnant by a rich breeder who abandoned her, finds refuge with a band of smugglers and thieves, led by an old woman nicknamed "the Spider". It is among them that she raises her daughter, Dolores. But her past catches up with her when the wealthy landlord reappears in her life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-06-17
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Weekend at Dunkirk
Overview: In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-18
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Pigalle Crossing of Illusions
Overview: A gang uses Marina, a naive striptease artist, on a tour of Asia, to make a microfilm out of the country. As soon as the girl arrives at Orly airport, she is followed by smugglers.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-08
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Lâchez les chiennes
Overview: Carl, a handsome Austrian, tries to find in a Norman castle that is said to be haunted by a treasure buried by the Nazis before the liberation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-10
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Mais qui est Jean-Louis Van Belle?
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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