Jean Poiret
Birthday: 1926-08-17
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Biography: Jean Poiret, born Jean Poiré, (17 August 1926 – 14 March 1992) was a French actor, director, and screenwriter. He is primarily known as the author of the original play La Cage Aux Folles. Jean Poiret was born in Paris, France, where he died of a heart attack in 1992. He is buried at the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Poiret, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The Last Metro
In occupied Paris, an actress wed to a Jewish theater owner must keep him hidden from the Nazis whil...
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Three Men on a Horse
A man has found a way to win any bet he places on a horse. However, he himself must never be the per...
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The Other One's Mug
Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a for...
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The Dance
The Dance is a 1962 French comedy film directed by Norbert Carbonnaux and starring Jean-Pierre Casse...
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Cop au Vin
Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly....
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Clara and the Villains
A rich kid, the daughter of an oil tycoon, lives a life of luxury. Bad guys kidnap the heiress....
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Sisi/Last Minute
The immature young ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Joseph, was extremely shy around wome...
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Atlantic Wall
1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black ...
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Thank Heaven for Small Favors
Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family to do strange work....
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Oh! What a Mambo
Miguel foils a bank robbery and becomes a successful nightclub singer, but he doesn't know that his ...
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Inspector Lavardin
Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one...
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I Hate Actors
A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up ...
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Miracle Healing
Faking an injury for insurance money, a peddler seeks out a cure to support his claims while a suspi...
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The Seasons of Pleasure
Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their produc...
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That Naughty Girl
Nightclub entertainer Jean Clery has just become engaged to Lili, his attractive psychoanalyst. Mean...
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The Seventh Target
Bastien Grimaldy, a man driven to heightened anxiety as the plot against him begins to take effect. ...
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The Men in the Family
Gabriel Pelletier, sales manager for a major industrial firm, would be the happiest of men if he did...
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Merci Zaza - La folle histoire de la Cage aux Folles
A look back at "La Cage aux Folles", which ran non-stop for five years, from February 1973, on the s...
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Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!
The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in h...
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Le Gang des pianos à bretelles
An accordionist playing in disreputable halls is mistaken for a gangster by a special envoy from the...
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Your Money or Your Life
Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdra...
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Love and the Frenchwoman
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty w...
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What the East Wind Saw
Clarisse cheats on her husband with a vain insurance agent. Zamore, the cuckold (and a magician) wou...
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It's Not My Business
A small-scale cabaret troupe is touring the provinces. One afternoon while canoeing, Monique Darzel,...
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Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Charming and innocent, Candide is vigorously chased away by the Baron, for his close encounters with...
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The Four Truths
"Les quatre vérités" aka "The Four Truths" is a movie anthology that consists of four segments, all ...
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Liberté, égalité, choucroute
A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, w...
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You Have Nothing to Declare?
Married against her will to the Comte de Trivelin, Paulette Dupont shares her anxieties with her chi...
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Life is beautiful
Paris, 1956. Everything is going smoothly for Roger, married to Denise, and Paul, married to Monique...
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How to Succeed in Love
Bernard, a young, serious publisher of religious books, finds himself embroiled in amusing and event...
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The Big Wash
Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an anarchist s...
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Auguste
Auguste is about an eponymous bank clerk who finds fame and fortune. Auguste happens to be in the ri...
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Under Your Hat
An illegal gambling den where players can lose millions... and the owners make their fortune....
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The Real Bargain
The eccentric Comtesse de Saint-Plâs sells a black Citroën DS to car dealer Paul Souflé. He sells it...
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Le petit monstre
Robert's peaceful existence as a manufacturer of beauty creams is suddenly disrupted by the arrival ...
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Aux frais de la princesse
The Eloi family, who have just won the "model family" competition, set off for winter sports. Also o...
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The Bureaucrats
The gifts and bequests department is particularly eccentric, including Lahrier, a fervent absentee a...
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Ces messieurs de la gâchette
Gabriel Pelletier's life is no bed of roses. Not because of his job: he is a successful sales manage...
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The Three Musketeers
The umpteenth adaptation of Dumas' novel finds d'Artagnan and his friends promoting the love affairs...
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The Great Gadget
A scientist from the East happens in France where it is supposed to improve one of his inventions. B...
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La Petite Amie
Martin Morel wants to spend Sylvester with both his wife and family and his girlfriend Agnes. So he ...
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Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale
The leader of a nudist camp enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he sh...
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Nina
A husband plans to shoot the man having an affair with his wife, but both come to realise their desi...
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Adorables démons
Annibal Onnis, a good man and major laundry manufacturer, has his wife's necklace stolen by a young ...
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Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ?
To replace Hector Grofenol, the tyrannical boss of the "Tout pour le camping" factory, who has been ...
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The Blockhead Fair
On prize-giving day, a few dunces recall various incidents that marked their school year....
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Jaloux comme un tigre
Henri has a beautiful wife, Sophie. Unfortunately, suffering from an unhealthy jealousy, he spends m...
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On purge bébé
Mr. Follavoine plans to supply the French army with chamber pots. In preparation for this lucrative ...
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Les baratineurs
A precious work of art from the Italian Renaissance is stolen and passes through many hands before e...
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The Innocent with Forty Children
Jean-François Robignac, a teacher, arrives at a provincial college to teach literature to ninth-grad...
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The Terror with Women
Aimé Morin, a good-natured bookseller, is also one of the candidates in the local elections of his s...
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The Elegant Criminal
On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard,...
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My Wife Is a Panther
During an evening in a bar, Roger, a friendly cognac salesman and connoisseur, overhears a telephone...
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Tales of Paris
A film made up of four sketches. In Marc Allégret's Sophie, a naive high-school girl invents a love ...
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La Cage aux folles
La Cage aux Folles "The Cage of Madwomen") is a 1973 French farce by Jean Poiret centring on confusi...
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