Maurice Chevit
Also Known As: Maurice Chévit
Biography: Maurice Chevit (31 October 1923 – 2 July 2012) was a French actor. Maurice Chevit made his theatrical début just after the Second World War, and made his first screen appearance in 1946 in René Clément's film Le Père tranquille. In August 1950, the Theatre de la Huchette in Paris presented Pepita ou Cinq cents francs de bonheur, a three-act comedy that Chevit co-wrote with Henri Fontenille; Chevit himself appeared in it, playing alongside Jacqueline Maillan, Pierre Mondy and Jacques Jouanneau. He was seen in many small film roles during the 1950s and 1960s, working with producers such as Henri Decoin and André Cayatte, but he was best known as a stage actor. Source: Article "Maurice Chevit" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: October 31, 1923
Deathday: July 02, 2012
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Man on the Train
Overview: A man, Milan steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier. The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-02
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The Hairdresser's Husband
Overview: The film begins with a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a young age. The film uses flashbacks throughout and there are frequent parallels drawn with the past. We are unsure what Antoine has done with his life, however, we know he has fulfilled his childhood ambition, to marry a hairdresser.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-10-03
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Premonition
Overview: A Parisian lawyer moves to a working-class neighborhood in an attempt to shed his social conditioning and bourgeois values.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-10-04
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Strange Tales
Overview: A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse in the floor, and a wine aficionado who buries his friend alive.
Genres: Horror Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-10-26
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Mon fils d'ailleurs
Overview: A schoolteacher takes in a 16-year-old immigrant boy who has found himself without a foster family.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-11-17
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The Widow of Saint-Pierre
Overview: In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in custody. The other, Neel Auguste, is sentenced to death by the guillotine. The island is so small that it has neither a guillotine nor an executioner. While those are sent for Auguste is placed under the supervision of an army Captain.
Genres: Romance Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-04-19
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On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
Overview: When he learns that his daughter is to be engaged to the son of a rich businessman, Leon Martin realizes that extreme measures are needed to create a good impression.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-09-11
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Asterix the Gaul
Overview: In the year 50 BC, Gaul is occupied by the Romans - nearly. But the small village of Asterix and his friends still resists the Roman legions with the aid of their druid's magic potion, which gives superhuman strength. Learning of this potion, a Roman centurion kidnaps the druid to get the secret formula out of him.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-12-20
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Asterix and Cleopatra
Overview: Popular animated hero Asterix and his faithful sidekick Obelix travel to ancient Egypt to help Cleopatra build a new summer home. Cleopatra and Julius Caesar have made a bet, with Caesar wagering the project cannot be completed in a few weeks time. With the help of a magic potion, Asterix comes to the rescue of the Queen of the Nile as Caesar and an angry architect plot against them.
Genres: Family Animation Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-12-19
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Dis bonjour à la dame !..
Overview: Robert Ferry, a PTT employee, is having problems with his two sons. The elder has impregnated his girlfriend, a young hippie, and the younger, Daniel, is said to have homosexual tendencies. Determined to put his son back on the straight and narrow, Robert decides to go against his principles and force a young girl on him...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-03-30
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A Woman Very Very Very Much in Love
Overview: French TV star Nagui, described by Variety as "popular for his lowbrow-Letterman approach," portrays Zak, who learns about "the curse of Onan" experienced by males in his family. If Zak does not impregnate a woman before his 33rd birthday, the joys of sex evaporate forever. However, Zak's interest in married women creates a roadblock. Even his current girlfriend, art auctioneer Florence (Cristiana Reali) is a married mother of triplets. So Zak's rabbi cousin Joseph (Thomas Langmann) fixes him up with an attractive supermodel (Joanna Rhodes). It's a race against time before permanent impotence strikes.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-08-13
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Mr. Orchid
Overview: This character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the chief of the underground who uses his hobby of growing orchids to hide his radio equipment.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1946-04-30
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Counter Investigation
Overview: Alain Marchal, wrongly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from prison the day before his execution. Before committing suicide, he contacts Monsieur Charles, a retired gangster, and asks him to investigate, find the real culprit and clear his name. Monsieur Charles accepts his request and along with his wife Ginette and two former accomplices, Paragraphe and Teddy Coffre fort, embarks on his counter-investigation.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-03-21
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Noah's Ark
Overview: Bitru is a carefree fellow who, one day, decides to buy a houseboat on the River Seine. He moves there and starts living surrounded by a circle of colorful friends. Among them, the daughter of an auto maker but also a group of scientists who have developed "Aqua Simplex", a device that could enable motorists to fill their tanks with... water ! Panic sets in in the automobile industry and Bitru is appointed his friends' middle man to represent them on the various car makers directors' boards.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-08-20
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Here Is the Beauty
Overview: Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success as a ballerina despite being wounded by him in a fit of jealousy. His career as a sculptor is stymied when he is arrested.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-04-21
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Between Eleven and Midnight
Overview: Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot whilst walking in a tunnel in Paris. The case is assigned to Inspector Carrel, who is Vidauban’s perfect double. Using his resemblance to the arch criminal, Carrel manages to infiltrate in Vidauban’s circle of acquaintances and contacts. He becomes embroiled in a bizarre web of intrigue and discovers no shortage of possible murder suspects, all of whom appear to be surprised to see him still alive.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-03-23
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Without Leaving an Address
Overview: A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-01-17
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Under the Paris Sky
Overview: Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-03-28
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Lettre ouverte
Overview: Martial, Colette 's husband, is madly jealous. One day, he catches his wife writing a letter and he does want to know what this message contains, to no avail.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-03-11
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The Sleeping Car Murder
Overview: Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-11-17
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Sugar
Overview: Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-10-15
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Madame Jacques on the Croisette
Overview: A César Award winning short film about an elderly Jewish couple playing cards in Cannes who find love at an unexpected age.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-06-04
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The Comedy of Work
Overview: Sylvain Berg, a "professional" unemployed who spends his time hiking and mountain climbing, and "model" bank employee Benoît Constant, who has just been fired and does not want his wife to find out, both find themselves in Françoise Duru's office at an employment agency. Françoise is secretly in love with Sylvain, so in order to keep him close she convinces her employer to give Sylvain a job he doesn't want, instead of Benoit who not only wants it but also has the right qualifications.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-03-02
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I Have You Under My Skin
Overview: Jeanne is a woman who is driven by her very active conscience. She attempts to assuage her idealistic bent by trying out life as a nun, but this doesn't work out. After she leaves the convent, she takes a job at a factory, where the callousness of management spurs her to become a labor activist. Her efforts are marked by great persistence and fervor, but she lacks any kind of diplomacy or persuasiveness, and as the years progress, she manages to alienate everyone in her life. By the end of the film, there is only one way that she can see to resolve the horrible situation she finds herself in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-07-23
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Je m'appelle Régine
Overview: This TV movie is adapted from the memoirs of the singer Régine, in which she recounts her youth and her beginnings in the music hall.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-17
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Levy & Goliath
Overview: A very faithful Jewish man works making diamond dust in his family's workshop, to sell to industries. One day he goes on businnes trip. In the same train goes a very sexy girl, with some heroin bags (you guess it) very similar to the diamond bags. The police begins to chase the girl, and she hides the drug into the Levy's bag. The girl calls his boss ('Goliath') the situation and he and his band begins to hound Levy, who, by this time, selled the bags to a factory, not knowing the content. He has to get out of the problem with the help of his brother and his God.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-01-27
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How to Succeed in Love
Overview: Bernard, a young, serious publisher of religious books, finds himself embroiled in amusing and eventful adventures with Sophie, a wacky twist dancer. Having lost his own situation, he joins Editions du Soleil thanks to his friend Marcel's manuscript "Comment réussir en amour". Freed of his shyness, he succeeds brilliantly in his career; and having put to good use the teachings of the manuscript, Bernard ends up marrying Sophie. But he soon finds himself confronted by the impetuous young woman's fantasies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-16
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Anna in Corsica
Overview: Shattered by the death of her husband, a young woman takes refuge in Corsica at her grandmother's who will do everything to pull her out of her despair.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-09-08
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XXL
Overview: Tunisian-Jewish businessman Alain Berrebi (Michel Boujenah) courts Ashkenazi princess Arlette Stern (Elsa Zylberstein). Her father David (Maurice Chevit) learns of the death of a rural Auvergne peasant who once hid David and his cousin Nathan (Felix Fibich) from the Nazis. Nathan is now a NYC diamond dealer on West 47th Street. David, Nathan, Arlette, and Berrebi head for the funeral in Auvergne. There they encounter the deceased peasant's son, Jean Bourdalou (Gerard Depardieu), who operates the family's restaurants in Paris. Arlette does a romantic take on Bourdalou, which sends the distraught Berrebi off to cry on the shoulder of his mother Gaby (Gina Lollobrigida). Back in Paris, Bourdalou and Berrebi make plans to open a trendy fashion restaurant in Manhattan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-12-10
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Le Passager du Tassili
Overview: Omar, a young Franco-Algerian from La Garenne-Colombes, decided to spend his vacation in the country of his ancestors, Algeria. On his return, he boards the ferry “Le Tassili” and during the crossing, he meets people who share his doubles, in a good mood that does not hide their heartbreaks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-08-05
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Whereabouts Unknown
Overview: Michel Thierry is asked by the Second Bureau to go to Provence to help two colleagues, Leroy and Orcado, who are monitoring a gang of arms dealers. As soon as he arrives, Orcado is shot and leaves him an incomprehensible message in which three words are written: Sarah, Métis, Yerco...
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-07-26
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Operation Abduction
Overview: The Secret Service abducts a "rocket scientist" to better protect him against gangsters acting for Chinese agents.
Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-10-08
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Love, Math and Sex
Overview: A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-08-05
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Croquemitoufle
Overview: Returning from a two-year stay in Terre Adélie, explorer Bernard Villiers meets up with his best friend, Thomas Desjardins, whose diplomatic duties call him to London. While Thomas is away, Bernard learns that Catherine, his wife, has run off with his collaborator Michel. Out of friendship for Thomas, and always resourceful, he follows the couple and tries to separate them. He does so much, in fact, that he falls in love with Catherine.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-05-20
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Leave All Fair
Overview: John Middleton Murry visits France to finalize the publication of a collection of his late wife, Katherine Mansfield's, letters and journals. The publisher's girlfriend Marie (who physically resembles Mansfield) and Murry become friends. Marie gradually learns that Murry not only profited greatly from his publication of Mansfield's writings, but that as her editor he sacrificed the real Mansfield to his own romantic dream, and even that he published her letters and journals against her expressed wishes.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-06-24
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Les baisers
Overview: A portmanteau film in which the producer, instead of as usual using already well known directors with a commercial draw, allowed five new young directors to each have a crack at an episode about romance.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-05-14
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Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
Overview: Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of these cult films that have crossed generations without getting old. Go behind the scenes of these unusual films through completely unpublished anecdotes and funny stories told by the authors themselves.
Genres: Documentary Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-03
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L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
Overview: Julien Brûlebois, a brave peasant from Auvergne, learns that he has been summoned to Strasbourg to collect an inheritance. Amazed by the operation of the bus that takes him from the station to his notary's home, he decides to buy it. What follows is a bewildering chase between the agents of the Strasbourg transport authority, the capitalists, the naive peasant and his lucid, pretty fiancée.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-04-18
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Big Deal
Overview: Paul and Thérèse have sold their café on the outskirts of an airport to buy one in Marseille. The business is going well until they discover that their bistro is being used as a hub for drug trafficking. To stop the traffic, they reignite a gang war.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-29
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En marge des jours
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-06-06
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The Mad Dog
Overview: Claude Brasseur plays a villain on the run from both the police and the mob. Good atmosphere in the Paris by Night, including deserted factory, Les Halles market and an empty theatre.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-09-02
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French Fried Vacation 2
Overview: In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Claude, and Christiane.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-11-22
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Famous Love Affairs
Overview: Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-03
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The Curse of Belphegor
Overview: At the Opera of Toulon, the cast and crew hoping to put on a Satanism / human sacrifice-themed ballet entitled “La malédiction de Belphégor” soon find their numbers dwindling.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-11-08
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The Giraffe's Neck
Overview: Le Cou de la girafe (The Giraffe's Neck) is a 2004 French/Belgian film directed by Safy Nebbou.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-09-29
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Le Bonheur à Romorantin
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-11-14
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L'Huissier
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-01-03
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The Mask of the Gorilla
Overview: Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must infiltrate a dangerous gang working for a foreign embassy as their leader, a spy enjoying diplomatic immunity, can't be arrested by regular police.
Genres: Action Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-08-14
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The Man Who Came From Elsewhere
Overview: At the end of 19th century, Doctor Pierre Adélaïde, born in Martinique, gets to a small village in Charente to take over from a colleague. Soon, he is facing something else than racism: fear of foreigner. His office is desperately empty.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-12-06
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The Donkey of Zigliara
Overview: Maddalena finds that her donkey has reappeared after being missing for months. However, on the same day, a donkey disappears in a neighboring village. The unfortunate coincidence leads to "war" between the two villages.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-03
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Yours Truly, Blake
Overview: Larry Blake is an American airline pilot who loves women and ... trouble! Wherever he goes troubles indeed follow, like this time in Paris. On vacation in the French capital, the happy American decides to discover Paris by Night. As of his first night out, he gets to know Michèle Marley, a beautiful entertainer, and looks forward to a wonderful night of pleasure. But things do not go according to plan. Indeed, Laurent, Michèle's partner is found dead and not only is Michèle accused of killing him but Larry is suspected of being her accomplice as well ...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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Relax Yourself Darling
Overview: Hélène and François are a perfect couple happily married for twelve years. But Hélène discovers psychoanalysis via a very handsome Dr. Kougloff, and he convinces her that the apparent well-balanced nature of her husband is in fact a cover for horrible tragedies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-08-19
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Why Women Sin
Overview: La moucharde stars Dany Carrel as a young miss who loves neither wisely nor well. Duped into a life of crime, Carrel remains on the wrong side of the Law because she's hopelessly in love with a two-bit crook. Soon she becomes as jaded and hardened as her criminal cohorts. When the police threaten to throw her in the Bastille, Carrel agrees to turn informer, with the expected disastrous results.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-08-06
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The Sword and the Balance
Overview: Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pasts are questionable, riddled with violence and controversy. Neither the police nor the court can decide how to solve that puzzle.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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Le Cid
Overview: Short stop motion animation film based upon the work of Pierre Corneille.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-11-09
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The Hussars
Overview: Brigadier Le Gouce and Private Flicot lose their horses during a campaign in Italy. To avoid looking ridiculous, the two hussars cross the country in search of their mounts. But when they are mistaken for deserters, their regiment gives chase.
Genres: War Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-14
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The Kick of Sirocco
Overview: A shady Parisian tries to take advantage of a family of French-descended Algerians forced to move to France.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-04-18
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Ridicule
Overview: To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-09
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Molière
Overview: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is raised by his father and his grandfather because his mother dies when he's still very little. He works as a handyman, studies the law at a university and travels the country as an actor before he becomes the celebrated playwright Molière who impresses firstly the Duke of Orleans and then even King Louis XIV.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-08-30
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Clara de Montargis
Overview: Renaud, a young student who is camping alone at the moment, has a dream one night, in which the woman of his dreams appears. When he wakes up the next morning, he cannot believe his eyes: the creature of the dream is there by the side of the road, in the flesh! The woman accepts to drive Renaud to Montargis but it is only after she has dropped him off there that he realizes that what he experienced for her was love at first sight. He then decides not to return to Paris but to try and find the wonderful stranger in Montargis. He discovers that the woman's name is Clara and that she is the member of a drama company.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-06-20
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The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen
Overview: The Fabulous Adventures of the legendary Baron Munchausen is a French animated feature from Jean Image of 1978, inspired by the adventures of Baron Munchausen. Baron Munchausen is wont to bring his friends to tell them about his imaginary exploits.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-10-24
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Les Idées fausses
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-11-07
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The Honour of the Tribe
Overview: Like every year in Zitouna, a bear handler passes by. With his creature, he comes to challenge the small community. And like every year, it is Slimane El Mabrouk who defends the honor of the tribe. But this time, he dies, leaving two orphans, Omar and Ourida. Robbed of their inheritance, the children will grow up alone. The years pass, the French army settles in, and with it, the war. Mysteriously, one day, after the murder of a French legionnaire, Omar disappears into the bush, while his sister dies in childbirth. Omar will return to the village, much later, once independence has been acquired, as a representative of power and with this enigmatic formula: "You must know that the Revolution has not forgotten you". Personal revenge? Sincere desire to bring progress and modernity? ... The inhabitants of Zitouna, upset in their ancestral way of life, will not be long in having an answer to their questions.
Genres: Drama Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-01-02
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588 rue Paradis
Overview: A successful playwright reflects on his journey from his Armenian roots to adapting in France, forty years after his family's move to Marseilles. He now goes by a new name to fit in better with French society.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-01-14
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Douce France
Overview: In this village, French are much more victims of their fellow countrymen than they are of the occupying forces.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-03-19
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La dame de Noël
Overview: A French drama about a mysterious woman who appears in a small village during the Christmas season. Her presence brings unexpected revelations and transformations to the lives of the villagers, intertwining themes of hope, redemption, and the magic of the holiday spirit.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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