Jean-Paul Belmondo
Jean-Paul Belmondo (born 9 April 1933 – 6 September 2021) was a French actor initially associated with the New Wave of the 1960s.
Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, west of Paris, Belmondo did not perform well in school, but developed a passion for boxing and football. Belmondo made his amateur boxing debut on 10 May 1949 in Paris, France, when he knocked out Rene DesMarais in one round. Belmondo's boxing career was undefeated, but brief. He won three straight first round knockout victories from 1949 to 1950.
His breakthrough role was in Jean-Luc Godard's Breathless (1960), which made him a major figure in the French New Wave. Later he acted in Jean-Pierre Melville's philosophical movie Leon Morin, Priest (1961) and in Melville's film noir crime film The Fingerman (Le Doulos, 1963) and Godard again with Pierrot le fou (1965). With That Man From Rio (1965) he switched to commercial, mainstream productions, mainly comedies and action films but did appear in the title role of Alain Resnais' masterpiece Stavisky (1974), which some critics regard as Belmondo's finest performance.
Until the mid-1980s, when he ceased to be one of France's biggest box-office stars, Belmondo's typical characters were either dashing adventurers or more cynical heroes. As he grew older, Belmondo preferred concentrating on his stage work, where he encountered success. He suffered a stroke in 2001 and had since been absent from the stage and the screen until 2009 when he appeared in Un homme et son chien (A man and his dog) which was his last performance.
Belmondo died on 6 September 2021 at his home in Paris, after a period of ill health, at the age of 88.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 13.777 |
| Birthday | 1933-04-09 |
| Place of Birth | Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France |
| Also Known As | Жан-Поль Бельмондо, Жан Поль Бельмондо, 장 폴 벨몽도, Jean Paul Charles Belmondo, Bébel, |
1960
Breathless
7.5/1797
A small-time thief steals a car and impulsively murders a motorcycle policeman. Wanted by the authorities, he attempts to persuade a girl to run away...
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Breathless
2021
Hommage national à Jean-Paul Belmondo
6/1
A ceremony celebrated in the courtyard of the Invalides, in the presence of the President of the Republic Emmanuel Macron, members of the Government,...
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Hommage national à Jean-Paul Belmondo
1969
Mississippi Mermaid
6.603/200
A tobacco planter on Réunion island in the Indian Ocean becomes engaged through correspondence to a French woman he does not know. The woman that arri...
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Mississippi Mermaid
1981
The Professional
7.237/527
French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But when his assignment is canceled, he's shocked to...
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The Professional
1965
Pierrot le Fou
7.394/850
Pierrot escapes his boring society and travels from Paris to the Mediterranean Sea with Marianne, a girl chased by hit-men from Algeria. They lead an...
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Pierrot le Fou
1964
That Man from Rio
7.5/308
French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late fa...
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That Man from Rio
1971
The Married Couple of the Year Two
6.6/81
Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others tr...
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The Married Couple of the Year Two
1966
Is Paris Burning?
7.2/208
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if...
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Is Paris Burning?
1964
Male Hunt
6.6/27
A few stories about marriage and its problems. Antoine is about to marry Gisèle. His friend Julien, an established bachelor, desperately tries to conv...
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Male Hunt
1976
Hunter Will Get You
6.7/109
L'Alpagueur is a free-lance spy from the French secret agency. He's put on the investigation about L'epervier, a serial-killer who employs young boys...
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Hunter Will Get You
1962
Le Doulos
7.4/256
Enigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just released from prison and is already involved in what sh...
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Le Doulos
1993
Tailleur pour Dames
0/0
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Tailleur pour Dames
1961
A Woman Is a Woman
7.3/366
Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous.
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A Woman Is a Woman
1960
Two Women
7.8/530
A young widow flees from Rome during WWII and takes her lonely twelve-year-old-daughter to her rural hometown but the horrors of war soon catch up wit...
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Two Women
1999
Peut-être
5.286/70
Arthur is invited to a New Year's Eve party to celebrate the year 2000. His girlfriend Lucie would like a baby from him but he refuses. Through the ce...
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Peut-être
1977
Animal
6.235/98
Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a stuntman who works with his girlfriend Jane (Raquel Welch). On their wedding day Mike and Jane are forced by producers...
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Animal
1970
Borsalino
6.9/214
In 1930s Marseilles two small-time crooks decide to join forces when they meet while brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and boxing...
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Borsalino
1967
Casino Royale
5.3/725
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be...
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Casino Royale
1980
Le Guignolo
6.12/154
After the failure of his recent criminal exploits, international con artist Alexandre Dupré sets off for Venice to try to dupe some Japanese business...
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Le Guignolo
1964
Greed in the Sun
7/141
Marec, a truck driver is sent by his boss to track down through the Morroccan desert a reckless youngster who stole a brand-new truck and its payload...
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Greed in the Sun
1983
The Outsider
6.9/193
Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of...
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The Outsider
1960
The Big Risk
7.1/125
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 s...
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The Big Risk
1969
The Brain
7.339/261
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know...
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The Brain
1971
The Burglars
7/113
In Athens a collection of emeralds is successfully stolen by a team of robbers, led by safe-cracker Azad. Things go smoothly until they miss the ship...
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The Burglars
1974
T'es fou Marcel
0/0
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T'es fou Marcel
1962
Cartouche
6.4/173
In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, ac...
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Cartouche
1962
A Monkey in Winter
7.6/207
During World War II, an innkeeper vows to abstain from alcohol for the sake of his family. Years later, as they thrive in Normandy, his resolve is tes...
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A Monkey in Winter
1984
Happy Easter
6/134
Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle drops his wife Sophie off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up be...
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Happy Easter
1975
The Night Caller
7.2/250
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent...
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The Night Caller
1985
Hold-up
6.2/141
Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police...
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Hold-up
1979
Cop or Hood
6.4/181
When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situatio...
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Cop or Hood
2009
A Man and His Dog
5.9/21
An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.
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A Man and His Dog
1975
Incorrigible
6.3/99
Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and...
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Incorrigible
1974
Stavisky...
6.2/103
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...
1965
Up to His Ears
7.1/173
A millionaire realizes he really wants to live after he has hired an assassin to kill him.
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Up to His Ears
1958
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
6.4/52
This short features a man who is visited by his ex-lover. The moment she arrives, the man starts his constant barrage of speech; the woman doesn't say...
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Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
1961
A Man Named Rocca
6.1/15
Roberto goes to Marseilles to give a hand to his friend Xavier, wrongly imprisoned following a frame-up organized by his associate Villanova. Roberto...
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A Man Named Rocca
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
1988
Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
7.3/196
A foundling, raised in the circus, Sam Lion becomes a businessman after a trapeze accident. However, when he reaches fifty and becomes tired of his re...
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Itinerary of a Spoiled Child
1958
The Cheaters
6.5/25
Bob Letellier, a good looking rich kid who studies science, makes the acquaintance of Alain, a cynical and immoral young man. The latter introduces hi...
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The Cheaters
2011
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
6/1
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Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
1959
À double tour
5.9/35
The mistress of the wealthy Henri Marcoux is murdered and the family accuses the milkman of committing the crime. But Marcoux's daughter's fiancé susp...
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À double tour
1961
Léon Morin, Priest
7/149
The widow Barny lives in Nazi-occupied France, looking after her half-Jewish daughter in a small village. When the Germans arrive, she decides to bapt...
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Léon Morin, Priest
2000
Actors
5.7/89
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the stor...
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Actors
1961
Famous Love Affairs
4.2/4
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
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Famous Love Affairs
1995
Les Miserables
6.7/74
In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin, is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see...
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Les Miserables
1957
On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
5.5/8
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...
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On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
1998
Half a Chance
5.8/102
Alice Tomaso gets out of jail, and goes looking for Léo and Julien, one of whom, it appears, is her father. On the way, she steals the wrong car - one...
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Half a Chance
1972
Scoundrel in White
5.2/26
Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Paul, a former womanizer who marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks...
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Scoundrel in White
1963
Magnet of Doom
6.3/58
Young boxer Michel Maudet is sacked by his manager after a series of match defeats and is forced to look for a new job. He is engaged as secretary to...
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Magnet of Doom
1973
The Magnificent One
7/342
A writer of pulpy book series in which he's the hero and his beautiful English roommate is the love interest attempts to finish his new book in time a...
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The Magnificent One
1976
The Body of My Enemy
6.4/118
Francois always despised the textile barons who ruled his local town. But he fell in love with the family heiress Gilberte. Ten years ago, he would ha...
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The Body of My Enemy
1958
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
5.3/21
A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up with a gang of jewel smugglers, and decides on a life of crime. However, she fa...
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Be Beautiful and Shut Up
1982
Ace of Aces
7.089/319
In this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rose...
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Ace of Aces
2000
Amazon
3.9/20
On an observatory set high on a mountain, astronomers make a stunning discovery somewhere out in the galaxy. A flying object in the depths of the cosm...
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Amazon
1992
Stranger in the House
6.4/24
Since the suicide of his wife, Jacques Loursat has gone downhill. Estranged from his daughter, his lawyer's pratice in ruins, he consoles himself with...
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Stranger in the House
1957
Sunday Buddies
6.1/5
Casti and Trébois, two friends who are workers at the same factory, have developed a common passion for flying. They dream of starting an aviation clu...
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Sunday Buddies
1959
An Angel on Wheels
5.5/12
Heralded racing driver Pierre Chaillot has never noticed the pretty young flight attendant who dotes on him adoringly. But when his fiancée's infideli...
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An Angel on Wheels
1987
The Loner
6/96
In Paris , Commissioner Stan Jalard and Inspector Simon Lecache plan to quit the police to go and enjoy a more peaceful life in the West Indies. In a...
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The Loner
1984
The Vultures
6/136
April 5, 1943: a battalion of the Foreign Legion arrives in El Ksour, Tunisia, to escort a fortune in gold bars to the home front. A German ambush awa...
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The Vultures
1960
Letters of a Novice
6.4/11
The nun tells the priest about her past and then a long flashback begins...
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Letters of a Novice
1965
Crime on a Summer Morning
6.5/11
An ill-assorted group of international criminals executes a tightly-planned ransom sting in Spain. Things go along swimmingly until various tensions w...
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Crime on a Summer Morning
1969
Love Is a Funny Thing
6.4/47
A composer and a French film star, both of whom are married to others, meet and fall in love while shooting a film in the United States.
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Love Is a Funny Thing
1960
Seven Days… Seven Nights
6.2/40
Anne Desbarèdes is a young woman who is married to a wealthy businessman and lives a monotonous existence in the small commune town of Blaye. After in...
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Seven Days… Seven Nights
1963
Banana Peel
5.7/21
Two scoundrels cheat a millionaire out of a huge bankroll on the French Riviera.
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Banana Peel
1996
Desire
5.6/8
Désiré is a fine servant and butler who regularly seduces the ladies of the house where he works, but then he moves on. This time he is working for Od...
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Desire
1967
The Thief of Paris
6.7/78
In Paris around 1900, a young man raised by his wealthy uncle plots revenge after his cousin is betrothed to a rich neighbor. He steals the fiancé's f...
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The Thief of Paris
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
1958
Sunday Encounter
6.2/10
Jean Brevent still did not understand the departure of his wife, Danielle Darieux. It's been five years, but he still can't forget her. In spite of a...
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Sunday Encounter
2002
The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
5.8/4
Samuel Fuller discusses his career as a filmmaker, illustrated by plenty of clips.
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The Men Who Made the Movies: Samuel Fuller
1972
The Pariah
7.2/99
For more than 15 years, two Marseille friends and criminals battle the law, rival gangs, prison authorities and even mined beaches in order to survive...
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The Pariah
1968
Ho!
6.2/27
Race driver who has lost his membership card becomes the chauffeur of a gangsters pack
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Ho!
1959
The Three Musketeers
5.5/4
The Three Musketeers (French: Les trois mousquetaires) is a 1959 French TV film based on a play adaptation of the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is...
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The Three Musketeers
1969
God Chose Paris
0/0
An interesting mixture of filmed scenes with Belmondo and archival footage regarding cultural aspects of all kind around Paris, starting at the end of...
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God Chose Paris
1996
La Puce à l'oreille
4.5/2
Raymonde Chandebise suspects her husband Victor-Emmanuel of cheating on her. Her best friend advises her to find out for sure and to use a stratagem....
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La Puce à l'oreille
1973
The Inheritor
6.3/83
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his fath...
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The Inheritor
1995
One Hundred and One Nights
6.2/48
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all...
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One Hundred and One Nights
1963
Crazy Sea
4/5
A pretty woman approaching middle age rents out rooms in a small Italian town. An aging sailor and a handsome younger man are amongst the lodgers.
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Crazy Sea
1966
Tender Scoundrel
5.2/29
Tony Maréchal is a professional seducer. Having conquered countless women, proclaims that there is none that can resist his charm. To prove this makes...
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Tender Scoundrel
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
2015
The Emperor's New Clothes
6.3/29
An uproarious critique of the world financial crisis. Building on actor, comedian, and provocateur Russell Brand’s emergence as an activist following...
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The Emperor's New Clothes
2020
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
7.5/8
If Jean Rochefort remains so dear to our hearts, it is because this extraordinary actor alone embodies a cinema and a France imbued with freedom and c...
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Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
2023
Senza malizia
0/0
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Senza malizia
1993
Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
7/1
Claude Ventura's documentary Chambre 12, Hotel de Suede, was made for the French television channel Arte in 1993. Ventura checks into room twelve in t...
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Chambre 12, Hôtel de Suède
1964
Backfire
6.4/16
A greedy gold smuggler hires a handsome hero to transport a stolen fortune to a new hideout accompanied by the smuggler's sexy girlfriend.
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Backfire
1960
Trapped by Fear
6.7/10
Two French paras who had lived through deadly situations in Algeria, meet again in civil life. Frapier is a newspaper reporter, and one day finds his...
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Trapped by Fear
2011
Belmondo, itinéraire...
7.5/11
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Belmondo, itinéraire...
1961
The Lovemakers
6.4/33
The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys out his other relatives in order to gain full con...
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The Lovemakers
2023
Godard by Godard
7.8/4
Godard by Godard is an archival self-portrait of Jean-Luc Godard. It retraces the unique and unheard-of path, made up of sudden detours and dramatic r...
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Godard by Godard
2017
La Folle Histoire de Jean-Paul Belmondo
6.7/3
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La Folle Histoire de Jean-Paul Belmondo
2018
Jacques Deray, j'ai connu une belle époque
0/0
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Jacques Deray, j'ai connu une belle époque
2022
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
7.2/4
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions wa...
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
1961
The Winner
5.5/2
Documentary-style drama about a young African boxer who comes to Paris to try for a boxing career.
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The Winner
2001
L'Aîné des Ferchaux
6.4/8
Ferchaux, a rich and powerful businessman, becomes the target of an investigating judge convinced of his involvement in a huge political and financial...
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L'Aîné des Ferchaux
1972
J'ai tout donné
8/1
An intimate cinéma vérité style documentary following french mega star Johnny Hallyday's summer tour.
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J'ai tout donné
1961
Riviera-Story
2/1
Relations between middle-aged businessman Arthur Dahlberg and his young wife Anja are not at their best. So it occurred to them to leave their Hamburg...
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Riviera-Story
1965
Panorama: Jean-Paul Belmondo, 1965
0/0
Actor Jean-Paul Belmondo is interviewed, along with actor Anna Karina and director Jean-Luc Godard, during the filming of 'Pierrot le Fou'.
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Panorama: Jean-Paul Belmondo, 1965
2011
D'un film à l'autre
8/5
On April 13, 2011, Les Films 13 production company turned 50. How can one celebrate an anniversary of this sort ? By simply making "another" film that...
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D'un film à l'autre
1963
The Shortest Day
5.8/22
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an important battle.
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The Shortest Day
2017
Belmondo, le magnifique
7.7/9
With more than 70 films and 160 million cumulative tickets in France, Jean-Paul Belmondo is one of the essential stars of French cinema.
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Belmondo, le magnifique
2009
La Traversée du désir
5.7/3
What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.
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La Traversée du désir
1988
Kean
5/1
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Kean
2016
Belmondo by Belmondo
7.8/11
Jean-Paul Belmondo returns to the settings of a fantastic career, accompanied by his son Paul. Over a career spanning 50 years, Jean-Paul Belmondo’s m...
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Belmondo by Belmondo
2017
Belmondo ou le goût du risque
6.3/6
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Belmondo ou le goût du risque
2020
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
6/1
Laurent Terzieff was more than a good actor, after having been a real "star" in the cinema, through his professional choices, he gradually became a re...
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Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2017
De Gaulle, the Last King of France
8/1
Charles de Gaulle, the first president (1958-1969) of the Vth Republic, France’s current system of government, left his mark on the country . He was s...
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De Gaulle, the Last King of France
1990
Cyrano de Bergerac
0/0
Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his young cousin, Roxane, but does not dare to confess his love to her. It must be said that Cyrano's prominent nas...
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Cyrano de Bergerac
2010
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
7.3/3
Catherine Deneuve couldn’t care less about being a celebrity, but fame made her an icon long ago and she occupies a special place in our imagination....
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