Jean-Pierre Cassel

Jean-Pierre Cassel

Birthday: 1932-10-27

Place of Birth: Paris, France

Biography: Jean-Pierre Cassel (October 27, 1932 – April 19, 2007) was a French actor. A popular star of French cinema, he had over 200 film and television credits in a career spanning over 50 years. He was the father of actor Vincent Cassel, actress/singer Cécile Cassel, and rapper Mathias Cassel.

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La Cérémonie
La Cérémonie

Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energet...

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Michel Vaillant
Michel Vaillant

Michel Vaillant is # 1 of pilots, undisputed champion in rallying in all circuits in the world. His ...

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The Boat on the Grass
The Boat on the Grass

Despite their social differences, poor David and the rich Olivier are the best friends. David took t...

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Asterix at the Olympic Games
Asterix at the Olympic Games

Astérix and Obélix have to win the Olympic Games in order to help their friend Alafolix marry Prince...

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Anyone Can Play
Anyone Can Play

In this delightful romantic comedy, four beautiful women attempt to deal with their sexual frustrati...

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Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes
Those Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines or How I Flew from London to Paris in 25 Hours 11 Minutes

In order to boost circulation of his newspaper, Lord Rawnsley announces an air race and offers £10,0...

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Prêt-à-Porter
Prêt-à-Porter

During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue an...

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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Jean-Dominique Bauby, editor-in-chief of French fashion bible Elle magazine, has a devastating strok...

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Murder on the Orient Express
Murder on the Orient Express

In 1935, when his train is stopped by deep snow, detective Hercule Poirot is called on to solve a mu...

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The Three Musketeers
The Three Musketeers

In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends ...

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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but neve...

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The Breach
The Breach

An innocent woman falls prey to her abusive husband, his wealthy father and a shady family friend....

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Is Paris Burning?
Is Paris Burning?

Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be...

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Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin
Arsène Lupin vs. Arsène Lupin

André Laroche, an industrialist, has just passed away. Face to his grave, as he is being buried, Ann...

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Narco
Narco

Gustave Klopp suffers from narcolepsy, he can fall asleep everwhere at anytime whithout warning. Liv...

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The Dance
The Dance

The Dance is a 1962 French comedy film directed by Norbert Carbonnaux and starring Jean-Pierre Casse...

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Oh! What a Lovely War
Oh! What a Lovely War

The working-class Smiths change their initially sunny views on World War I after the five boys of th...

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Counter Investigation
Counter Investigation

A cop investigates whether the man convicted of murdering his daughter is really guilty....

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The Four Musketeers
The Four Musketeers

The Four Musketeers defend the queen and her dressmaker from Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter...

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Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?

Mystery abounds when it is discovered that, one by one, the greatest Chefs in Europe are being kille...

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The Return of the Musketeers
The Return of the Musketeers

It's 1649: Mazarin hires the impoverished D'Artagnan to find the other musketeers: Cromwell has over...

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Fair Play
Fair Play

A company, where manipulation and harassment is a problem between colleagues, decides to organize a ...

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Love at the Top
Love at the Top

A shy bank employee unexpectedly invites a young woman to a café, leading to a one-night stand. When...

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The Elusive Corporal
The Elusive Corporal

The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir's 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing toge...

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The Crimson Rivers
The Crimson Rivers

Two French policemen, one investigating a grisly murder at a remote mountain college, the other work...

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Army of Shadows
Army of Shadows

Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Th...

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Virgil
Virgil

Every week, Virgil makes his father Ernest dream by telling him about his boxing exploits during a v...

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The Bear and the Doll
The Bear and the Doll

A quiet cellist living in the countryside has his life disrupted when he accidentally bumps into a w...

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Bad Faith
Bad Faith

In Paris, Clara, psycho motor therapist, and Ismaël, music teacher, have been lovers for four years....

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Malpertuis
Malpertuis

A young sailor finds himself trapped in the labyrinthine mansion of his occultist uncle, along with ...

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L'Œil écarlate
L'Œil écarlate

An unorthodox police commissioner investigates the suspicious death of a man run over by a train....

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Torment
Torment

Forced to work extremely hard to keep things afloat, Paul begins hearing voices in his head question...

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Influence Peddling
Influence Peddling

Maxime and Gerard are a couple of white-collar criminals condemned to 5 years in prison. Sandrine At...

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On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels

When he learns that his daughter is to be engaged to the son of a rich businessman, Leon Martin real...

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Doctor Francoise Gailland
Doctor Francoise Gailland

Dr. Françoise Gailland has a hectic schedule, which causes her to have little time to spend with her...

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Chouans!
Chouans!

Directed by Philippe de Broca, the film recounts a bloody episode of the French Revolution. 1793, t...

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Casque bleu
Casque bleu

Winegrower Patrick Ponsac comes close to ruining his marriage when he has an affair with another wom...

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Métisse
Métisse

Lola is pregnant, and she isn’t sure who the father is: Félix, a Jewish delivery boy, or Jamal, a bl...

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Sade
Sade

A man prepares himself to be transferred to a detention center and rest home where he will relive on...

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The Seven Deadly Sins
The Seven Deadly Sins

Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic ...

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The Trout
The Trout

The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a n...

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Hle Praha, pane Pařížane!
Hle Praha, pane Pařížane!

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Call Me Agostino
Call Me Agostino

Hélène and Marianne are two girls with love on their minds. Together, they decide to play a short-li...

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The Meetings of Anna
The Meetings of Anna

On a trip across Western Europe to promote her newest release, filmmaker Anna encounters several ind...

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Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés

"Le Tambourin", a Montmartre nightclub, is on its way down. Although it can boast great performances...

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From Hell to Victory
From Hell to Victory

In 1939, at a Paris café, six friends of various nationalities vow to meet again at the same spot af...

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Bunker Paradise
Bunker Paradise

Friendly and broke, Mimmo dreams of being rich and famous, but for now he's a taxi driver. One eveni...

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Gone for a Dance
Gone for a Dance

After seeing 'Singin' in the Rain', a man decides to give up his peaceful life of happiness to pursu...

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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefa...

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The Killing Game
The Killing Game

Two cartoonists meet a playboy who lives out the fantasies created in their cartoons. He hires them ...

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Où avais-je la tête ?
Où avais-je la tête ?

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The Maid
The Maid

A man goes off to Paris to start his new job at a bank. When he falls in love with a beautiful woman...

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Slices of Life
Slices of Life

A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's...

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La Femme coquelicot
La Femme coquelicot

A septuagenarian widow feels revived by an old painter with whom she falls in love....

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The Twist
The Twist

Claire de La Tour Picquet shares her life between her husband, the successful novelist William Brand...

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Nailcruncher
Nailcruncher

Adapation of the fanciful comic novel by Albert Cohen....

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Nothing Ever Happens
Nothing Ever Happens

A French vedette is forced to leave her touring company behind after she suffers a medical emergency...

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The Happy Road
The Happy Road

Two children run away from a Swiss boarding school and set out for Paris, with their frantic parents...

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La Double Inconstance
La Double Inconstance

Silvia and Harlequin, two young peasants, are in love. The Prince, who is also enamoured of Silvia, ...

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Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
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 Joker
The Joker

A young man who lives on women meets his match in the young wife of a rich industrialist. Their affa...

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Vive la sociale !
Vive la sociale !

A student demonstration in Paris leads to an unexpected reunion between two childhood friends....

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Cyrano and d'Artagnan
Cyrano and d'Artagnan

Duelist and poet Cyrano de Bergerac and musketeer d'Artagnan meet and team up to stop the conspiracy...

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Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard
Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard

Unwilling to marry, Silvia poses as a maid in order to meet the man she is to marry incognito. This ...

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The Cave of the Golden Rose
The Cave of the Golden Rose

After a queen's tragic death, the king abandons his newborn daughter in a cave, but a witch saves he...

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Between Heaven and Earth
Between Heaven and Earth

Maria Garcia (Carmen Maura) is a television journalist and she's about to be a single mother. Her ca...

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Blood and Dust
Blood and Dust

The warlike and sentimental adventures of a young French knight who participates in the crusades....

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Le Cœur étincelant
Le Cœur étincelant

A young woman is sure that her son is alive...

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Amores que matan
Amores que matan

Consuelo is a bored housewife. Her husband is away on business in Berlin, and her only company would...

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Liberty
Liberty

Drama about how the Statue of Liberty came to be erected in New York Harbor in the early 1880s and t...

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Baxter!
Baxter!

A young boy struggles to overcome his speech problem and strained relationship with his parents....

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Wife for Sale
Wife for Sale

The engineer Furio Cicerone came up from nothing and entered the circle of the great industrialists;...

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Young Toscanini
Young Toscanini

A fanciful biopic of legendary conductor Arturo Toscanini as a very young man....

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The Marriage of Figaro
The Marriage of Figaro

Comedy in five acts by Beaumarchais, filmed by Marcel Bluwal in studio and on location. The cast, in...

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Les Bidochon
Les Bidochon

Raymond and Robert Bidochon lead a dismal life in a suburban HLM. The change, so hoped for by Raymon...

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Un pique-nique chez Osiris
Un pique-nique chez Osiris

The year is 1898. Héloïse, 9 years old, comes from a family belonging to the anti-Dreyfus and anti-S...

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Alice
Alice

Alice was sitting in the park one day. She sees a jogger called Rabbit. When she first meets him she...

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Vous êtes de la police ?
Vous êtes de la police ?

A former policeman resentfully enters a retirement home. To deceive his boredom, he will investigate...

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The House by the Canal
The House by the Canal

After her parents' death, a young woman moves in with her unsophisticated country relatives with unf...

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Con rabbia e con amore
Con rabbia e con amore

At a bus stop they meet Francesca, an eighteen year old who is collaborating in a veterinary office,...

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Mountain of Diamonds
Mountain of Diamonds

France, 1915. Young and radiantly beautiful Centaine de Thiry is the happiest woman in the world: in...

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5% de risque
5% de risque

A troubled gentleman named David ponders whether vegemite can be consumed undiluted without posing a...

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La Peau de l'ours
La Peau de l'ours

A police commissioner lives with his two children, wife, mother-in-law and maid. But he discovers th...

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Crazy in the Noodle
Crazy in the Noodle

Pierre Cousin, a depressive compositor, wants to die. After five vain attempts at committing suicide...

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Five Day Lover
Five Day Lover

Claire is a young mother and married to Georges, but she is also having an affair with bachelor Anto...

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Eine Frau zieht ein
Eine Frau zieht ein

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Casanova
Casanova

The life story of an 18th century womanizer who's arrested, not so much for his crimes, but because ...

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Le Soleil en face
Le Soleil en face

Famous writer, Marat retires to Portugal, where he lives surrounded by his family, including his wif...

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Il caso Graziosi
Il caso Graziosi

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Scrambled Eggs
Scrambled Eggs

Brumaire, the director of public relations at the Élysée, is trying to boost the rating of his gover...

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Male Companion
Male Companion

A dedicated layabout (Jean-Pierre Cassel) bounces from relationship to relationship, moving on only ...

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Notorious
Notorious

After Alicia Velorus' father is convicted as a communist spy, CIA asks her to prove her loyalty by g...

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Heart and Sword
Heart and Sword

After the death of his father, prince Tristan is living in Cornwall at the court of his uncle, King ...

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The Lace Wars
The Lace Wars

In the 18th century, as the army of Prince De Beaulieu lays siege on the fortress of Marechal D'Alle...

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La Guérilléra
La Guérilléra

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The Love Game
The Love Game

Victor (Jean-Pierre Cassel) and Suzanne (Genevieve Cluny) are a couple at odds about commitment in t...

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Portrait of a Nude Woman
Portrait of a Nude Woman

Sandro is a Roman adrift in Venice during the Carnival. After sixteen years of marriage, Sandro can ...

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Pétain
Pétain

During second world war,Philippe Pétain gets absolute powers.The war ends with the arrival of allied...

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That Lucky Touch
That Lucky Touch

A European arms dealer meets a liberated woman journalist, who is writing a story about the ridiculo...

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Mister Frost
Mister Frost

Frost is arrested and committed for murder after he is apprehended burying his victims in the garden...

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La Patinoire
La Patinoire

La Patinoire is about a film director who is shooting a highly symbolic film called 'Dolores' at an ...

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La Marraine de Charley
La Marraine de Charley

Living in cramped quarters with Charley, an architecture student, four of his friends force him to d...

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The City of Silences
The City of Silences

Creuzeville, a small provincial town with its woods, its countryside, its ramparts, its mass and its...

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La vie continue
La vie continue

Jeanne, mother of two children, loses her husband. She meets Pierre, abandoned by his wife....

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Sacred Youth
Sacred Youth

Mr. Longué, aged 79, is offered a life annuity on his provincial estate by his nephew. He receives t...

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In Your Dreams
In Your Dreams

Ninth is a promising young rapper whose reputation does not exceed even the few streets of his neigh...

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Chá Forte com Limão
Chá Forte com Limão

In the summer of 1870, Raquel, who owns a farm, and lives secluded in her mansion with an old butler...

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Vincent & Theo
Vincent & Theo

The tragic story of Vincent van Gogh broadened by focusing as well on his brother Theodore, who help...

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The Overworked
The Overworked

A young woman wins a typing contest and sets off to work in Paris....

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La giacca verde
La giacca verde

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Amor e Dedinhos de Pé
Amor e Dedinhos de Pé

Macau 1897. Life is easy for Portuguese settlers. Young reveler Francisco Frontaria is deemed as irr...

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Napoléon II, the Eagle
Napoléon II, the Eagle

The story of Napoleon 1st's long-awaited son, born in 1911. He spent his childhood in the Tuileries,...

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The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish

A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model...

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Le Secret d'Elissa Rhaïs
Le Secret d'Elissa Rhaïs

After a confinement in a harem, an illiterate Algerian takes her revenge by reinventing herself as a...

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The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service
The Adventures of Young Indiana Jones: Adventures in the Secret Service

Indy finds that he must enlist the help of Hapsburg royalty when he embarks on a dangerous diplomati...

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High Infidelity
High Infidelity

Four different directors present lighthearted stories about married Italian couples and their dilemm...

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Jean-Pierre Melville and Army of Shadows
Jean-Pierre Melville and Army of Shadows

In this documentary, produced by Philippe Quinconneau for StudioCanal, editor Françoise Bonnot, acto...

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Congorama
Congorama

Michel is a Belgian inventor. He cares for his father, a paralysed writer, is married to a Congolese...

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Goodbye Again
Goodbye Again

Middle-aged businesswoman Paula Tessier rejects the advances of her client's amusing 25-year-old son...

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Grandison
Grandison

The case of stagecoach robber Carl Grandison, who lived in Heidelberg as a respected merchant and co...

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October Revolution
October Revolution

French director Frederic Rossif presents this historical documentary that coincided with the 50th an...

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Ehrengard
Ehrengard

Wolfgang Cazotte, a famous, refined and charming court painter of the early 19th century, plans to s...

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À l'abri des regards indiscrets
À l'abri des regards indiscrets

January 1st 2002. 1st day of Euro currency. The window of a cash dispenser is lifting up on a square...

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Et ta sœur…
Et ta sœur…

Bastien du Boccage is a repeat offender: hasn't he been sent to jail no fewer than six times? But he...

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La Nuit de Tom Brown
La Nuit de Tom Brown

How did Master Brown turn from a man of faith into a cantankerous, distrustful and cynical man? Nath...

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Le Vrai Coupable
Le Vrai Coupable

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The Night Affair
The Night Affair

Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicte...

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Aqui D'El Rei!
Aqui D'El Rei!

At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry ...

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Une deuxième chance
Une deuxième chance

It's Christmas Eve. Nicolas feels very lonely since Natacha, the woman he loves, has left him. Nothi...

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The Fatal Image
The Fatal Image

A woman and her daughter vacationing in Paris get caught up in intrigue after being witnesses to a m...

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La Treizième Voiture
La Treizième Voiture

A Scottish woman with her nephew travels to Russia in the Paris-Moscow express. On the same flight i...

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Love Is My Profession
Love Is My Profession

Married French lawyer Andre defends succesfully the case of Yvette, who committed a robbery. He fall...

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Les Montagnes bleues
Les Montagnes bleues

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Valse Nocturne
Valse Nocturne

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Superman II
Superman II

Three Kryptonian criminals led by General Zod team up with Lex Luthor to conquer Earth, forcing a de...

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La Chanson du maçon
La Chanson du maçon

Three eccentric old homosexual men encourage a love affair between their snobbish young landlady and...

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Flairs ennemis
Flairs ennemis

By becoming attached to animals, one can learn to love humans. This is what Mathias Lefort, a thirty...

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A Matter of Convenience
A Matter of Convenience

Valma wants a baby with her partner Joe but he has trouble sustaining himself financially. She agree...

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Le Président et la garde barrière
Le Président et la garde barrière

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Greed
Greed

A group of university students in Paris dream of a night of love with Suzon, whose rates are stagger...

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Vado a riprendermi il gatto
Vado a riprendermi il gatto

Having always lived in solitude, working the land (his only company being a cat), one day Alceo meet...

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The Happiest Place on Earth
The Happiest Place on Earth

The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was disc...

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I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs

In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a...

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Mag Bodard, un destin
Mag Bodard, un destin

Mag Bodard, un destin is an archive documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2005....

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L'été 36
L'été 36

In 1936, the life of the inhabitants of a Breton manor is disturbed by the arrival of workers on vac...

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Le fils de Paul
Le fils de Paul

Clément, a young entrepreneur, is a happy father: married to the beautiful Alex, he is also the happ...

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