Michel Garland
Also Known As: Michael Garland
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Amiens, Somme, France
Adult: No
Birthday: December 29, 1930
Age: 94 years old
Gender: Male
Deathday: March 01, 2024
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Cloportes
Overview: Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years. When he's released, he's out for revenge.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-09-08
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Island Fishermen
Overview: Yan, captain of a fishing boat, falls in love with the daughter of his boss, to the great displeasure of Jenny, his jealous mistress.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-06-24
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Les Vignes du Seigneur
Overview: Now Gisèle Bourjeon is the mistress of the count Hubert Martin de Kardec.After a long journey abroad Henri Lévrier, a champagne producer has come back and meets again his friends Hubert and the Bourjeon family.And surprise, Henri doesn't drink alcohol anymore.He says Gisèle that he was drinking because he loved very much.Henri and Gisèle feel well together and become lovers.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-06-20
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Women and War
Overview: In 1944, in a small village in Calvados, just as the Allies landed, a British plane was shot down. The wounded pilot seeks help. All the villagers, who speak only of resistance, refuse to help, for fear of reprisals. Only the mayor, Dr. Leproux, takes him in and nurses him back to health, then entrusts him to the Resistance. But the Germans get wind of the story and arrest Leproux. He is saved by Major Frantz. But the budding friendship between these two men "doesn't stop the drums", and the war is on.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-02-01
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Les deux Monsieur de Madame
Overview: Adolphe is in serious financial difficulties and the extravagances of his wife do not help to fix things.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-12-27
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The Red Rose
Overview: The Jacques Brothers, their temporary replacements, Yves Gérard and his troupe, as well as a famous movie star looking for a new partner, Evelyne Dorsey, are causing disruption at the "La Rose rouge" cabaret, the most famous cellar in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, to the delight of regulars.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-02-06
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The Strange Madame X
Overview: Irène is the unhappy wife of a wealthy publisher, Jacques Voisin-Larive, who cares about her no more than a beautiful piece of furniture. Her meeting with Étienne, a young cabinetmaker with whom she falls in love, turns her dismal existence upside down. Not wanting to reveal her condition to her lover, she pretends to be a modest maid, employed by the Voisin-Larive. At the end of a weekend spent with her lover, Irène discovers that she is pregnant. The fragile balance of their existence is suddenly broken. Taking the initiative, she reveals her affair to Jacques and tells him about her desire to divorce. But her husband has no intention of giving her back her freedom...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-24
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Sins of Madeleine
Overview: Malou, a prostitute from Montmartre, and her pimp, have found a well laid scheme : whenever she (or he) wants to get rid of a lover, she announces to him in a tearful voice that she is pregnant. The reaction of the fall guy-is invariable: he gives her compensation money and disappears. But there is always an exception to the rule. And, as it happens, the exception is a widowed insurer, Monsieur Archibald. Indeed when he is told by Malou that he is going to be a father, he is...elated!
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-08-09
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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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Dossier AST-555
Overview: A cabaret is used as a cover for drug trafficking, but the police are unable to uncover the means used to smuggle the opium. It turns out that one of the accomplices is repatriating the bodies of her compatriots who have died abroad and smuggling the drugs. A race is waged between the police and the culprits: the law triumphs.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-11-25
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Vagabond Humor
Overview: Benoît, a young provincial, arrives in the capital. He has left his family (mother, wife and child) in his native Charente. But for him, the difference in the standard of living is trying, and he loses his bearings among this crowd of anonymous people. A young woman, Myriam, crosses his path. But the encounter is short-lived, and Benoît returns home. A tragedy has occurred.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-07-05
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The Day the Clown Cried
Overview: An unfinished and unreleased Swedish-French comedy-drama about a Circus clown imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
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Treasure Island
Overview: Young Jim Hawkins finds himself serving with pirate captain Long John Silver in search of a buccaneer's treasure, in this short adaptation of Robert Louis Stevenson's classic tale.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1972-10-01
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Goodbye Again
Overview: Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son, Philip Van der Besh, but reconsiders when her longtime philandering partner begins yet another casual affair with a younger woman. She soon learns that May-December romances with older women are frowned upon in society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-05-23
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Who Cares: Anatomy of a Delivery Boy
Overview: Experiencing something of a mid-life crisis after his beloved son marries and moves out, a factory worker makes some drastic changes in his life, moves in with the boy and his wife, and sets them all on the path to a communal lifestyle.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-03-17
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Alerte au barrage
Overview: At a construction site, an ex-con tries to sabotage the marriage of a man who married his fiancée while he was in prison.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-05-18
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Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Overview: Charming and innocent, Candide is vigorously chased away by the Baron, for his close encounters with the pretty Cunégonde. World War II breaks out, and when he is drafted and taken prisoner, he is forced to take German nationality and ends up guarding the camp where he was imprisoned. He crossed into Switzerland, but as he had no bank account, he was incarcerated for eight days for trespassing. Hunted by the Gestapo, he kills two men to free Cunégonde, who has finally been found. They both flee to Argentina, and their world tour begins. In Paris, Moscow, New York, Borneo and Alexandria. They try to follow Dr. Pangloss' optimistic rule of life. Tossed about, separated, they find themselves grown old and wiser, thinking only of cultivating their garden on the shores of the Mediterranean.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-12-16
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