Max Amyl
Also Known As: Max Gabriel Emmanuel Louis Chiapale
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Birthday: May 11, 1921
Deathday: March 02, 1982
Adult: No
Gender: Male
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Simone Barbès or Virtue
Overview: Simone and Martine are usherettes in a porno cinema in Montparnasse. Installed in the hall, they greet regulars, put men in their place, chat and pass the time. At midnight Simone departs to a lesbian nightclub.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-02-27
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The Delinquents
Overview: Jean-Pierre, who has escaped from prison, tries to reintegrate into society with the help of workers at a construction site.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-06-22
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La parole est au témoin
Overview: Mustapha, a cab driver in Paris, charges a customer in a hurry, without realizing that he is in a hurry to escape his pursuers after robbing a jewelry store. The next day, reading the newspapers, Mustapha becomes aware of the role he has played in this affair, and would gladly assist the police if a fortuitous incident didn't make him fear the criminals' vengeance. It's a cruel dilemma in which he is both suspected by some and threatened by others. Weak but honest, he manages to get out of this predicament at the risk of his life!
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-17
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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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Inspector Sergil
Overview: Inspector Sergil is a detective comedy. Sergil, inspector of the P.J., investigates three crimes, helped by two pretty women, Bijou and Nadège.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-01-15
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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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Si ça peut vous faire plaisir
Overview: Gonfaron is barking at the auction of Cassis. He accepted with good heart to believe that he was the proud custodian of the jackpot of the National Lottery , to avoid marital trouble his friend Viala, which is the real winner with his mistress Ginette . Millionaire become false as false Ginette lover until one day.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-09-01
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Mum's the Word
Overview: Martin is a nurse in a private clinic in Paris. The victim of a serious concussion, an unidentified casualty, arrives in the emergency room one night. He is operated on immediately. When he wakes up, half-unconscious, he tells Martin a confused story about stealing jewels from a maharajah visiting Marseille... before falling into total amnesia. Real and fake policemen interrogate Martin, gangsters kidnap him to get him to reveal precious information, but... the nurse keeps his mouth shut!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-04-26
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Alone in Paris
Overview: Henri and Jeannette Milliard, a newly married couple from Normandy arrive in Paris where they intend to spend their honeymoon. Unforfunately a wicket gate in the metro separates the couple. In panic, Henri looks for his wife across the capital. He ends up finding her at the hotel they were to put up. But it looks as if Jeannette has gone through some distressing adventure.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-28
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The Convict
Overview: The practice of Dr. Julien, a GP of Marseilles, consists mainly of drug-addicts. One day, one of his patient dies at his surgery and Julien yields to the temptation : he steals the dead man's money and hides the corpse in a trunk. But the whole thing is discovered and ... misinterpreted. The doctor is condemned for killing the junkie and sent to the Cayenne convict prison, from which he escapes. The Indians give him shelter and he is soon given the opportunity to return their good deed when a yellow fever epidemic strikes their tribe. A young woman helps to fight the disease and, thanks to her, Julien starts considering that a new life is possible for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-03-07
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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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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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Le chien qui a vu Dieu
Overview: In a small Italian village live a group of men, each as miscreant as the next. Among them is the baker, violent and miserly. One day, to benefit from an inheritance, he has to distribute fifty kilos of bread a day to the poor for five years. At the moment of distribution, a dog comes along and takes a loaf of bread in its mouth, to take to an old hermit whom the villagers are convinced "has seen God".
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-03-10
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The Man in the Iron Mask
Overview: The story of Louis XIV of France and his attempts to keep his identical twin brother Philippe imprisoned away from sight and knowledge of the public, and Philippe's rescue by the aging Musketeers, led by D'Artagnan.
Genres: History Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-07-17
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Under the Sign of the Bull
Overview: In this film, Albert is an eccentric inventor of missiles who comes under fire from his investors when his first prototype explodes. Even his sympathetic mistress has her doubts, as Albert lashes out in a verbal tirade condemning those of little faith in his genius.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-03-28
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The Rebels of Lomanach
Overview: A young woman has a perilous affair with a General from the opposing side during the Revolutionary war.
Genres: History Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-04-06
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Ladies First
Overview: An FBI agent works to arrest David Griffin, a murderous drug trafficker, and protect Juliette, the beautiful widow of Griffin's late partner.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-04-12
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Rue de Paris
Overview: Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a dash of comedy. While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times but he also has a better side that will not stay buried. Since handling three children alone is no easy task, the single father has the choice of growing in the process or not.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-10-21
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Madame Claude
Overview: Based on a true story. Madame Claude, a well connected Parisienne with dark past, runs a network of high-class call girls. She sends her girls to any place in the world to satisfy sexual desires of wealthy and powerful men. Claude's manipulations also involve big business and politics. Meanwhile, photographer David Evans is trying to clear his own criminal record by providing the authorities with pictures of Claude's girls with important clients in compromising positions. But powerful men can do anything to keep their secrets...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-05-11
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Boubou cravate
Overview: An African diplomat who has returned to his native country after a long stay in Europe realizes that perhaps he has assimilated too much white culture.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-01-02
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No Mercy for the Cellers
Overview: In Montmartre, prostitutes and neighborhood pimps meet in Victor's bar. One of them, Charly, one day falls in love with the beautiful Laurence, a girl who honestly earns her life as a singer. But Fernand, the local boss, sees a bad eye his acolyte out of the ranks to lead a quiet life in the company of his sweetheart. He provokes the jealousy of Jessy, mistress of Charly. The latter, stung, does not intend to leave without fighting his lover take the tangent. She ruminates her revenge so much that she ends up shooting Charly ...
Genres: Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1955-10-31
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In the Manner of Sherlock Holmes
Overview: A horrific and, on the face of it, incomprehensible murder has just been committed on the unsympathetic person of a loan shark. The victim's body is found lifeless, but the circumstances of his death are far from clear. For want of anything better to go on, the police immediately suspect a penniless gentleman who had the bad idea and misfortune to be present at the time of the crime. The police don't take the time to look for other possible suspects, and are not at the end of their surprises. A dark story seems to lie behind this imbroglio of incoherent facts.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-06-05
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Clandestine Paris
Overview: In the elegant nightclub of Corsican Luciano, known as Lucky, "Les Naturistes", big sums are gambled at the Longchamp races. Lucky not only "welcomes" the new dancers, he also collects the stakes entrusted to him and personally plays the horses recommended to him by Max, a former convict. But Bramati, Lucky's ex-partner, doesn't forgive Max for double-crossing him and has him shot.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-10-11
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Au cœur de la ville
Overview: Louis saves a five-year-old girl, Monique, who wants to throw herself into the river. He consoles her, takes her home and nurses her back to health. Thanks to Monique, the old man regains his zest for life. Monique tells him that she has misplaced her mother's purse and is afraid to go home. Louis takes her back and continues on his way.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-04-11
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Three Faces of Sin
Overview: Laurent is an artist and sometimes con-man. He wanders into the life of Renee one day in her antique shop and tries to seduce her. Before they can leave town on a weekend getaway together, Renee's teenage daughter Daniele quits school and unexpectedly shows up. Laurent and Daniele fall for each other immediately and end up getting married. The film follows the disastrous situation created by the jealous mother and her daughter's immature husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-12
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The Comeuppance
Overview: Philippe, Théo and Bob share the same cell in the prison of La Santé. Philippe, a young student, known as "Sciences-Po", is planning revenge against those who sent him to prison. He offers his two fellow prisoners, seasoned mobsters, to help him recover an important document from a diamond dealer in Le Havre. This paper would rehabilitate his father, his two comrades being able to keep the diamonds contained in the safe... But the coup does not go as planned.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-01-09
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A Golden Widow
Overview: A woman learns that she is sole legatee of her forgotten rich uncle, but there is a small problem: she's got to be a widow to latch onto the dough or the fortune will go to a vague sect...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-10-23
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Bebert and the Train
Overview: The Martin family is shopping in a department store. Tiennot is responsible for looking after his little brother, Bébert, but he prefers to chase girls. On the train home, Tiennot leaves Bébert alone. On arrival, Bébert has disappeared. The Martin family sets out to find him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-12-03
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Paris in August
Overview: A man is alone in Paris during the month of August while his woman and children go on vacation. He meets a young English girl posing as a model who came to Paris for a shoot.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-01-07
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The Great Gadget
Overview: A scientist from the East happens in France where it is supposed to improve one of his inventions. But it is much more interested in the fact to enjoy it and have fun ...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-06-21
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Un cas intéressant
Overview: Adaptation for TV of the Dino Buzzati play "Un caso clinico". A modern Kafkaesque horror story in which medical specialists and machinery destroy a perfectly healthy man.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-01-15
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Happy He Who Like Ulysses
Overview: For 25 years now, under the Provence sun, Antonin, a farmhand, has shared his work and everyday life with a horse named Ulysse. What a shock when Pascal, the farmer, tells him he has decided to sell Ulysse to a picador for being too old. Not only will he be separated from his faithful companion, but he is well aware too that the arenas of Arles mean death for Ulysse. Being unable to stand such injustice, Antonin runs away from the farm in the company of Ulysse. Together, they go through the Lubéron, the Baux de Provence, the Alpilles, the Crau and the Vaccarès. Yet, their journey is no pleasure cruise, specially when it comes to crossing National Road 7. After a visit to Marcellin, an old friend of his, Antonin sets off again with Ulysse, this time towards the Rhône River.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-07-08
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Sale temps pour les mouches
Overview: Renowned atomic scientists are kidnapped on French soil. Inspector San-Antonio and his loyal deputy Bérurier infiltrate a gang suspected of involvement in the case, in order to trace the trail.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-12-23
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The Pebbles of Etratat
Overview: Following a car breakdown, Miss Annie, director of a weight loss center, meets a certain Mr. Kelvo, a car champion. But instead of helping her, he rapes her. She decides to take revenge and follows him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-03-10
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The Crazy Capo Affair
Overview: Jean Diserens has a double life: he's a property developer and... drug dealer. He's looking for a new way to sell it. But his superior, Crazy Capo, doesn't see things the same way.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-09-09
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The Restroom Robbery
Overview: Max and Riton, 2 thieves make plan to steal money in a train station office. They will operate through the wall in the public toilets.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-22
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Salut Berthe !
Overview: Adrien Chautard, a major industrialist from Abidjan, has been chosen to replace an expert on the official Ivory Coast delegation sent to Paris to discuss the country's association with the Common Market. Chautard is delighted at the prospect of this trip, where he will be reunited with the woman of his dreams: Elisabeth. Alas, at Abidjan airport, a nasty surprise awaits him: Berthe, his lawful wife, has decided to leave with him to consult a leading cardiologist in the capital.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-08-20
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Fantastic Planet
Overview: On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.
Genres: Animation Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-12-01
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La Tête des autres
Overview: Prosecutor Maillard can rejoice: he has just obtained the death sentence of an accused accused of murder. It is the third head he gets at the assizes. There followed an evening of rejoicing with his wife and friends, including the prosecutor Bertolier. The latter's wife is Maillard's mistress. The lovers left alone, the condemned man, Valorin, burst into the room. He managed to escape during his transfer to the remand center. Valorin immediately recognized Bertolier's wife. And for good reason: at the time of the crime, they were together in a brothel. Stunned by the miscarriage of justice he has just committed, Maillard then tries to rehabilitate Vallorin while trying to avoid a scandal in the judiciary. He then calls Bertolier to the rescue. Valorin is opportunely killed "accidentally" and ... everything will go back to "order".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-09-13
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Les oeufs de l'autruche
Overview: In one shocking moment, a conservative bigot finds out that one of his adult sons is gay and the other is the kept "boy toy" of a wealthy Japanese widow. Predictably, his first reaction is overreaction.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-09-17
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La Machine
Overview: Pierre Lentier murders an 8-year-old in horrendous circumstances. This 30-something solitary factory worker who lives on the edge of society is sentenced to death. A damning indictment of the death penalty and the manipulative behaviour of the media.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-09-17
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Boys and Girls
Overview: Ten young people (six boys and four girls), most of whom students, rent a house in bad repair and set about living together. The experience is not obvious and the ten tenants have to cope with more than one difficulty. But they also have their moments. Things really go awry when Françoise, an unmarried girl, is forced to deliver the baby she carries prematurely and when Solange, the lonely girl of the group, attempts suicide. Shortly afterwards, the group learns that the house is due for demolition. They decide to take advantage of this opportunity to face adult life individually.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-09-21
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Port of Point-du-Jour
Overview: Emile is a steelworker in a car factory ;a confirmed bachelor going on fifty, he leads a peaceful life .One night, he is woken up by a burst of machine gun fire. The cafe in the corner of the street has been burglarized.A distraught young girl rushes into his apartment building and hides in his room .When the police make a search, he makes her out to be his lover for the night.Madeleine tells her about her sad past : she has severed all links with her parents ,she's an unwed mother and in the underworld's clutches. Emile sends his protegee to old mommy Dupont's place ,in the suburbs of Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-04-13
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Sénéchal the Magnificent
Overview: Sénéchal, an actor touring the provinces with the "Tournées Carlini" does not meet the success he thinks he deserves. One night in Dreux, he finds himself without his luggage and dressed up as a Foreign Legion officer, he is invited to a party thrown by a colonel. He creates a sensation there and does not leave the colonel's wife ... indifferent! Back in Paris, Sénéchal goes through a similar experience. This time around, wearing tuxedo and top hat, he gets mistaken for a diplomat and charms the guests of a wedding party. Arrested by the police, he chooses to do without an attorney at his trial and his brilliant eloquence has him acquitted. A question remains unanswered though : will all those people who give an ovation in real life ever go to see him on stage ?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-05-24
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Funny Money
Overview: Fulbert is a sidewalk artist who is duped into working for a counterfeiter. He accompanies a woman posing as a grieving widow on a trip to Spain in a hearse. Unaware she is the mistress of a notorious gangster, Fulbert is chased by thugs.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-03-09
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The Things of Life
Overview: The mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable present with Hélène, his younger lover, and his happy memories of the past with Catherine, his ex-wife; but his true destiny awaits him at a crossroads on his way to Rennes…
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-03-13
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Your Money or Your Life
Overview: Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-04-26
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Cherchez l'idole
Overview: After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning to the music shop he discovers that the precious instrument has just been sold! The problem is complicated by the fact that five stars all bought the same model that morning...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-02-26
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Good King Dagobert
Overview: Mr. Pelletan's rascal son Bébert son got another F for playing in class. His punishment is an essay on the Merovingian king Dagobert. All they know is he had eight wives and reunited Francia. The ignorant knave's irreverent imagination turns that into a harem and a ludicrous war without armies, loaded with anachronisms, in a race against rival king Charibert for the crown of Reims. The king's right hand, archbishop Eloi, the later patrons saint of carpentry, is portrayed as an inventor.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-20
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We're Not Angels... Neither Are They
Overview: A group of friends is shaken when the girl falls in love. But the three boys will do anything to stop the romance.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-04-01
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The Big Risk
Overview: Two men pull off a daring daylight payroll heist in Milan, making a fast getaway. One is returning to France after years in hiding, needing money to start fresh with his family.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-03-23
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My Wife's Husband
Overview: After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disparition, his wife as made her life with a norman chef, sympathetic but a specialist of butter's cooking when Fernand cook only with oil!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-12-20
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One Morning in June 1940
Overview: 18 June 1940: German troops sweep through France. The cavalry school at Saumer is ordered to withdraw, but the director resolves to stop the enemy on a 25km front with his students.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-06-29
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Hue and Cry
Overview: After the Great War, a wounded Frenchman lives atop a mountain with his wild brother who violates the property of villagers below.A second kind of war ensues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-02-22
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The Aristocrats
Overview: A novel by Michel De Saint Pierre was the source for Les Aristocrates. Pierre Fresnay stars an aging Marquis, who tries his best to uphold the traditions of nobility in an ever-changing world. The Marquis' children prefer the trappings of modern society and pop culture and regard their father as a relic. This cultural clash nearly results in tragedy when two of the Marquis' offspring substitute recklessness for common sense.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-10-12
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