François Périer
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François Périer, (10 November 1919 – 29 June 2002), born François Pillu in Paris, was a French actor.
He made over 110 film and TV appearances between 1938 and 1996. He was also prominent in the theatre. Among his most notable parts was that of Hugo in the first production of Jean-Paul Sartre's Les Mains Sales in 1948. He was the narrator of the French-language version of Fantasia.
| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 5.182 |
| Birthday | 1919-11-10 |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Also Known As | François Pillu, Francois Perier, François Perier, Франсуа Перье, |
1971
Max and the Junkmen
7.1/118
A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand.
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Max and the Junkmen
1969
Z
7.8/539
Amid a tense political climate, the opposition leader is killed in an apparent accident. When a prosecutor smells a cover-up, witnesses get targeted....
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Z
1979
The Police War
6.2/38
Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the underworl...
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The Police War
1950
Orpheus
7.6/256
A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
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Orpheus
1967
Le Samouraï
7.763/1104
After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts, finds himself caught between a persistent police...
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Le Samouraï
1970
Le Cercle Rouge
7.6/645
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a cha...
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Le Cercle Rouge
1989
Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story
6.5/23
A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his Swiss residence in Rolle for ten years (1988-98);...
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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story
1960
Testament of Orpheus
7.714/110
Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, the palace of Pallas...
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Testament of Orpheus
1946
Sylvia and the Ghost
6.8/22
A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmother's love. On her sixteenth birthday, her father h...
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Sylvia and the Ghost
1976
Police Python 357
6.7/82
A tough but honest cop must clear his name after a corrupt colleague implicates him in a murder in this French thriller. Ferrot is a hard-as-nails pol...
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Police Python 357
1974
Stavisky...
6.163/104
Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French political power....
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Stavisky...
1949
Return to Life
6.2/13
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second Worl...
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Return to Life
1963
People in Luck
5.6/29
A light French comedy of 5 segments.
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People in Luck
1954
The Anatomy of Love
6.4/14
Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.
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The Anatomy of Love
1987
Keep Your Right Up
6/18
This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character,...
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Keep Your Right Up
1938
Hôtel du Nord
7.2/139
A young couple's suicide pact goes awry, leaving the woman to face her survival with a new admirer while pining for her lost love.
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Hôtel du Nord
1980
The Telephone Bar
5.2/3
A gangster (Daniel Duval) incurs the wrath of the patriarch of a well-established crime family.
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The Telephone Bar
1976
Doctor Francoise Gailland
5.1/15
Dr. Françoise Gailland has a hectic schedule, which causes her to have little time to spend with her family, which consists of her husband Gérard, her...
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Doctor Francoise Gailland
1957
Nights of Cabiria
7.988/769
Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happines...
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Nights of Cabiria
1963
The Organizer
7.5/114
In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers laboring with inhuman conditions at a textile factory...
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The Organizer
1985
Enquête sur une parole donnée : La lettre perdue
0/0
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Enquête sur une parole donnée : La lettre perdue
1956
Gervaise
6.7/49
An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an a...
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Gervaise
1972
What?
5.6/129
A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right.
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What?
1977
A Grin Without a Cat
7.7/22
French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the rise of the New Left in France and the development of s...
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A Grin Without a Cat
1952
She and Me
6.2/6
You never can tell. Jean had always been one of the most confirmed bachelors that kept swearing to anyone that would listen he would never put a ring...
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She and Me
1941
Happy Days
0/0
Five young people - brothers, sisters, cousins - are on vacation in the countryside. Pernette suggests to Marianne, who wants to be appreciated by h...
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Happy Days
1964
Weekend at Dunkirk
7/132
In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Brit...
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Weekend at Dunkirk
1944
L'Enfant de l'amour
0/0
This woman's melodrama pivots around a child that a famous actress had in her youth, but whom she has concealed from the wealthy businessman she is no...
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L'Enfant de l'amour
1971
Just Before Nightfall
6.5/52
A married man who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn himself in.
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Just Before Nightfall
1948
Femme sans passé
0/0
Caroline feels neglected by her husband, the businessman Lorin. She plans to have fun with an inventor but finds herself, following a combination of c...
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Femme sans passé
1950
Lost Souvenirs
5.5/14
Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and...
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Lost Souvenirs
1950
Sorceror
0/0
A young rogue kills an old lady to rob her. Arrested, he believes it is for this crime, hides nothing from his lawyer, who soon tells him that he is o...
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Sorceror
1951
Under the Paris Sky
7/6
Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.
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Under the Paris Sky
1954
Cadet Rousselle
4.9/16
The Adventures of Cadet Rousselle that on the French Revolution left his hometown in search of fortune. He thinks he knows love with Violeta, a dancer...
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Cadet Rousselle
1962
Hitch-Hike
5.5/6
Agathe, 18, dreams of change. Gone are her vacations on the rainy beaches of Belgium! She decides to hitchhike down to the South of France, where she'...
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Hitch-Hike
1963
The Visitor
7.359/32
Certain that "the right man" is crucial to her escaping the confines of the Italian village where she lives, Pina places an ad in the newspaper. She g...
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The Visitor
1953
Un trésor de femme
0/0
Francois is engaged to Isabelle. While going to buy the engagement ring, he meets Sophie, who puts the ring on her finger and does not manage to remov...
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Un trésor de femme
1960
Love and the Frenchwoman
4.9/10
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity,...
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Love and the Frenchwoman
1967
Le temps des doryphores
0/0
In 1940, harmful insects, the Colorado potato beetle, invaded the territory of a disoriented France, forced to face the German invasion. Thanks to arc...
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Le temps des doryphores
1972
The Assassination
6.7/35
Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to film a television special about the Third World....
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The Assassination
1960
Lovers on a Tightrope
5.8/7
Cora, the wife of a wealthy Parisian businessman, Daniel, is involved in an affair with Henri, an unscrupulous garage mechanic who has set his sights...
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Lovers on a Tightrope
1938
Mother Love
6.1/6
Gilbert Quercy, 18, tried to commit suicide after a heartache. At the hospital, three women try to cheer him up : the three former wives of his father...
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Mother Love
1947
Silence Is Golden
6.8/18
Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daughter Lucette in his house, when he is starting a to...
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Silence Is Golden
1983
The Fighter
5.8/37
Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking for his loot worth 6 million francs.
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The Fighter
1983
Fellini nel cestino
7.5/1
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Fellini nel cestino
1984
Le Tartuffe
6.6/5
Orgon is a man of property duped by the false piety of the penniless Tartuffe. Orgon takes him into his house, believing him a paragon of virtue. Orgo...
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Le Tartuffe
1955
Intermediate Landing in Paris
4/1
Michèle, an employee at the airport, is in love with American pilot Eddie Miller who regularly flies the route from New York to Paris, but problems ar...
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Intermediate Landing in Paris
1992
Voyage à Rome
4.5/2
Thierry 's marriage is on the rocks and his wife has filed for divorce ,but he is not prepared to accept it;he calls on his parents,to be confronted w...
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Voyage à Rome
1955
The Fugitives
7.6/15
During the Second World War, in 1943, two French prisoners, François and Michel, escape from Stalag B377 in northern Germany near the Baltic Sea. They...
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The Fugitives
1943
The Wolf Farm
4.1/8
Bastien and Furet are a journalist and a photographer working together as a team on the newspaper 'L'Echo du Jour'. Just as they are about to go off o...
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The Wolf Farm
1957
Demoniac
6/6
Gervais escapes from a German concentration camp and assumes the identity of a recently deceased fellow prisoner. Knowing that the dead man has been c...
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Demoniac
1950
The Elders of Saint-Loup
5.9/9
Due to financial problems, the boarding-school of Saint-Loup is on the verge of closing its doors. In desperation, Jacquelin, the headmaster, has the...
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The Elders of Saint-Loup
1976
The Spiral
8/2
Documentary on the events provoked by the systematic attack of imperialism on the Popular Unity government in Chile, presided by Salvador Allende.
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The Spiral
1942
Love Letters
6.1/8
A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that in...
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Love Letters
1958
The Amorous Corporal
5.5/2
A group of fun-loving French soldiers manage to circumvent a band of cutthroat pirates and win the undying loyalty of a tribal potentate.
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The Amorous Corporal
1957
Anyone Can Kill Me
5.9/6
The holdup of the bank is a success. All happened according to plan. Now, Cyril Gad and his four accomplices must secure an alibi. What better place t...
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Anyone Can Kill Me
1959
The Magistrate
6.167/6
Emilia Bonelli is an overly ambitious and driven woman. This dominant personality trait has its effects on her henpecked husband Luigi, and her daught...
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The Magistrate
1953
Captain Slipper
6/5
A bank clerk is bored to death with his nine-to-five work under his boss ' watchful eye. His missus is a pain in the neck and his in-laws are not bett...
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Captain Slipper
1978
State Reasons
5.4/8
Professor Marrot obtains the secret documents containing evidence of the illegal weapon transactions between the French government, in the face of its...
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State Reasons
1957
Too Many Lovers
5.6/5
The charming Lulu, a cabaret singer and dancer, has no shortage of admirers. When she decides to get married, she sets her heart on Robert, a young in...
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Too Many Lovers
1984
2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure
6.1/15
Filmed on the 100th anniversary of the labour union laws in France, the quasi-science fiction film is set in 2084. A robot moderator helps us look 'ba...
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2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure
1952
Love, Madame
2.5/2
Madame Célerier is determined to marry off her son François to a rich and haughty woman but François has other plans.
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Love, Madame
1941
Premier bal
5.8/3
Two country sisters are rivals for the love of the doctor. He marries one, but regrets it and is rescued by the other.
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Premier bal
1961
Five Day Lover
6.3/14
Claire is a young mother and married to Georges, but she is also having an affair with bachelor Antoine, who is being kept by her good friend Madelein...
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Five Day Lover
1961
Paris Loves
0/0
Les amours de Paris focuses on three disparate couples and their problems in the arena of romantic love. One couple is comprised of a faithful husband...
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Paris Loves
1970
Give Her the Moon
5.4/17
Marie, a young provincial girl, is seduced by an American billionaire. She agrees to stay with him if he moves her village to New York.
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Give Her the Moon
1958
The Creation of the World
6.9/19
La Création du Monde is among the first animated feature films made in France. But to be exact, the film was animated in Czechoslovakia and directed b...
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The Creation of the World
1953
Jeunes mariés
4/1
Jacques and Gisèle, who are just married, are starting their honeymoon. But at nightfall, on their way to marital bliss, their car chooses to break do...
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Jeunes mariés
1962
Mandrin
0/0
It was the reign of Louis XV and, in 1750, France was at war all the time, and the people, suffocated by taxes, liked their beloved Louis less and les...
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Mandrin
1971
Tumuc Humac
0/0
When Marc, with the help of a juvenile court judge, is old enough to leave thewelfare system, he leaves mainland France for French Guiana to try and f...
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Tumuc Humac
1974
Antoine and Sebastian
0/0
Antoine has raised Sébastien, the son of a friend who was killed in a plane crash. Sébastien is doing his military service and Antoine would like him...
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Antoine and Sebastian
1943
The White Truck
0/0
A young mechanic is given a strange job: to convey the king of the gypsies' embalmed dead body on a very long route.
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The White Truck
1948
The Loves of Colette
7.5/3
François, a young student at a provincial college, likes Colette, the daughter of the headmaster. Turlot his colleague, who commits suicide, left a di...
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The Loves of Colette
2006
Fellini dice...
0/0
A story about the mythical film director
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Fellini dice...
1958
L'américain se détend
0/0
Part of Reichenbach's series of short documentaries on America.
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L'américain se détend
1939
The End of the Day
6.8/30
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he ha...
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The End of the Day
1959
The Dreadful
3/3
César Dandieu is an honest cashier in an oil company, and Fernand Mouchette an absent-minded inventor. The latter comes to propose a new type of carbu...
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The Dreadful
1939
Nightclub Hostess
6/6
The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one night she gets propositions from a rich widower who would...
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Nightclub Hostess
1974
Les Deux mémoires
6/2
The two memories
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Les Deux mémoires
1946
The Temptation of Barbizon
5.7/13
Daniel Gelin and Juliette Faber star as a blissfully happy honeymooning couple. They are so happy that they arouse the jealous attentions of Satan. Th...
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The Temptation of Barbizon
1963
The Bamboo Stroke
3.3/3
Albert is the irremovable waiter in a small bistro that has just been sold by his former bosses, Angèle and Léon. Angèle, having forgotten the ten mil...
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The Bamboo Stroke
1950
Au P'tit Zouave
5.2/3
Au p'tit Zouave, a café, sees a colorful clientele from working-class Paris. An assassin will shake up the daily life of the regulars.
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Au P'tit Zouave
1957
Que les hommes sont bêtes
2/1
Sylvie is a young cashier in a Montmartre café, "le bar des Philosophes", owned and run by Monsieur Marcel, a former safe cracker. One day, the pretty...
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Que les hommes sont bêtes
1950
The Century Is Fifty
0/0
As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at its halfway point. Utilizing the archives of severa...
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The Century Is Fifty
1941
The Duel
0/0
A widow is loved by a doctor whose brother, an ecclesiastic unconsciously in love with the young woman, persuades her to enter a convent. Brought bac...
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The Duel
1944
Good Evening Ladies, Good Evening Gentlemen
5/1
To teach a lesson to his young wife who dreams of the famous "voiceless singer", a husband enters a radio station and manages to make people appreciat...
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Good Evening Ladies, Good Evening Gentlemen
1993
De force avec d'autres
5/1
Actor and singer on the decline, Sergio, alcoholic, goes adrift. His son, Simon, undertakes to make a film with and on him, to try to bring him back t...
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De force avec d'autres
1969
Les Gauloises bleues
5.4/5
The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into a shop to buy a pack of t...
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Les Gauloises bleues
1972
La nuit bulgare
6/1
A youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious Bulgarian industrialists who have come to his office. A...
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La nuit bulgare
1973
We Want the Colonels
6.6/35
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts m...
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We Want the Colonels
1939
The Fatted Calf
6.2/4
Jules Vachon, a pharmacist, has two sons, Gabriel, a steady-minded young man dedicated to his job in the pharmacy, and Gaston, a good for nothing whos...
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The Fatted Calf
1957
The Melbourne Rendezvous
5/5
Rendez-Vous a Melbourne is the official filmed record of the 1956 Olympic Games in Australia. At the time of its release, there was much controversy i...
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The Melbourne Rendezvous
1946
Happy Go Lucky
6.2/5
After lovers fight, the boy leaves for the Riviera. On her way to rejoin him, the girl meets a distinguished but embittered novelist and decides to sp...
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Happy Go Lucky
1956
I'll Get Back to Kandara
0/0
One evening, professor André Barret sees the author of a murder in the darkness; cafe owner Cordelec is the victim. From then on, his suspicions fall...
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I'll Get Back to Kandara
1946
Un revenant
5.9/16
A ballet producer returns to his native town and schemes to avenge himself on the family who tried to murder him 20 years before.
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Un revenant
1961
Réveille-toi, chérie
0/0
Jacqueline, who lives in the country, has organized her life around her husband, whom she loves, and her lover, whom she has taken in for a little dis...
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Réveille-toi, chérie
1973
The Train Rolls On
6.3/7
This half-hour documentary focuses on Medvedkin and his CineTrain of the 1930s, a sort of mobile film workshop, complete with post-production faciliti...
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The Train Rolls On
1949
Jean de la Lune
1/1
Marceline is pretty but inconstant. She has a brother, eccentric as well as invading, who serves as a go-between between the fickle young woman and he...
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Jean de la Lune
1957
Stars Never Die
0/0
For Les étoiles ne meurent jamais, director/archivist Max De Vaucorbeil has assembled precious film clips of such Gallic greats as Louis Jouvet, Raimu...
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Stars Never Die
1958
Maxime
6.1/6
Story of an aging dandy who is the factotum and arranger of female conquests for a brusque young millionaire.
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Maxime
1954
Marriage Episodes
5/6
Three old friends meet again. They compare their marriages and tell each other stories which illustrate why they complain about their wives.
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Marriage Episodes
1991
La Pagaille
0/0
To a non-French speaker, the word La Pagaille looks charming, elegant, even tidy. However, it means "a mess," and a mess is just what the happily divo...
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La Pagaille
1990
The Elegant Criminal
5.2/8
On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while...
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The Elegant Criminal
1991
Madame Bovary
6.289/135
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and sensual Emma Bovary finds herself in calamitous de...
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Madame Bovary
1948
A Girl Knew
0/0
An actor, a great seducer, has a 20-year-old son (François Périer) to whom he gives advice that has always succeeded; however this son has difficultie...
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A Girl Knew
1967
Shock Troops
6.7/39
A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is s...
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Shock Troops
1953
It Happened in the Park
6.4/9
Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.
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It Happened in the Park
1977
Baxter, Vera Baxter
6.1/26
In an empty villa, Vera Baxter sits and contemplates her life, as she recounts to a woman who was drawn to the villa when she heard the name Vera Baxt...
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Baxter, Vera Baxter
1963
Sweet and Sour
4.6/7
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with c...
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Sweet and Sour
1996
Mémoires d'un jeune con
5.5/2
Frédéric is arrested for illicit use of narcotic drugs. In jail, he meets he get up close with various sorts of people among which he looks for a role...
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Mémoires d'un jeune con
1968
The Child of the High Seas
0/0
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The Child of the High Seas
1954
The Secrets of the Bed
1/1
Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural background take refuge in a cabin after being sidetracked by b...
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The Secrets of the Bed
1942
Love Marriage
0/0
Pierre, who is a Fine Arts student, and Denise, who is a chemistry student, work for a department store where, wearing wedding suits, they distribute...
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Love Marriage
1959
Bobosse
8/2
Bobosse is increasingly immersing himself into the world of theater and experiencing his role as an actor more intensively. He plays in a piece where...
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Bobosse
1953
Hello Paris
7/2
Two pigeons living on the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral are Parisian lovers. The Cathedral’s chimeras and gargoyles try to break them up, but they fl...
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Hello Paris
1951
My Seal and Them
0/0
A diplomat and fast liver, François lives the good life until, one day, he is unfortunate enough to win...a seal in a raffle. From this day on his eve...
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