Rufus
Birthday: 1942-12-19
Place of Birth: Riom, Puy-de-Dôme, France
Biography: Rufus (born 19 December 1942; Riom, Puy-de-Dôme) is the stage name of French actor Jacques Narcy. He is best known by the international film audience for his performance as Raphaël, the father of Amélie Poulain in Amélie (2001). He has appeared in numerous French TV series and productions, including most of the films directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He had the lead role in the movie Train de vie (1998), an award-winning tragicomedy about the Holocaust. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rufus (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Amélie
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for hel...
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Delicatessen
In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an occasio...
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The City of Lost Children
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow hi...
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Le radeau de la Méduse
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Trop c'est trop
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A Very Long Engagement
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The Austrian
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Train of Life
In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation tra...
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March or Die
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One Fine Day
François Berthier’s life is a series of unfortunate events. One day, however, a miracle occurs for F...
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His Majesty Minor
In this offbeat comedy, a man raised by a pig dies and is resurrected with a newfound power of speec...
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King Guillaume
Magali plays in a brass band. Guillaume drives a small tourist train. Both spin a perfect love, they...
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Fantasia Among the Squares
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The French Calvinists
A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes...
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Zoo zéro
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Les Miserables
In WWII France, poor and illiterate Henri Fortin is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Mi...
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That Day
A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowin...
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Les Irréductibles
On the day that his son fails his baccalaureate, Michel loses his job. He has been employed at the s...
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Where Did Tom Go?
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My Stars
Robert, a fan of three French actresses is a bald-headed, potbellied man on the fifties, but fully d...
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Troubleshooters
The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse ass...
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Saint-Germain ou La négociation
This is the TV adaptation of a novel by Francis Walder. The scene happens in 1570, during the religi...
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Lily, aime-moi
Everything starts when a journalist François decides to investigate the world of working class peopl...
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Comme si de rien n'était
Thomas is a stage director. One evening he meets Alix and they fall in love at first sight. It's tot...
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The Cop
A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge agai...
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Shoot to Live
A documentary on filmmaker Claude Lelouch, following him over seven years....
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Colère
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Potatoes
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La Volière aux enfants
In 1835, in order to cope with an ever increasing number of infants left alone during the day while ...
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Marius
"Marius" takes place in Marseilles' Old Port, at the La Marine Bar, owned by César and his son Mariu...
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Le Mangeur de lune
A man thinks he's a scarecrow. He meets a Russian clown on a train....
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Crime à l'altimètre
A mountain climber devises a plan to eliminate the tyrannical husband of a young Vietnamese woman wi...
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Erotissimo
Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner and ...
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The Takeover
Cédric is a worker in a precision mechanics factory in the French Alps. When he finds out that the ...
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Not Very Normal Activities
An isolated house, a young couple, a perverted videographer, a mute. All of which leads to normal ac...
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It Had to be You
In this romantic comedy Thomas moves back in with his parents after his girlfriend throws him out. H...
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If You Love Me, Follow Me
Thirty-five-year-old Max has a successful career and a beautiful wife, but one day he realises that ...
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Red Needles
September 1960: on a purely punitive basis, eight scouts must climb the solid mass of Brévent to 250...
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The Great Role
When a famous American film director, Rudolph Grichenberg, comes to Paris to cast a Yiddish version ...
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Tales of the Magic Clock
In the night, at the top of a big clock, three little automatons come to life in turn: an agile monk...
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La adúltera
With more than thirty years, Malena Fonseca is a spinster and provincial woman who, after coincident...
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Marriage
Four wedding anniversaries serve to chronicle the beginning and end of a thirty-year marriage....
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We Love You, You Bastard
A war photographer and absent father, who spends more time taking care of his camera than his four d...
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Madame Edouard
In Brussels, one discovers the bodies of young women buried behind the tombs of famous painters… In ...
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Je veux mourir dans la patrie de Jean-Paul Sartre
The dream of a man from the East confronted with the realities of the West....
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The Tenant
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit...
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In Your Image
Ridden by guilt for not being able to have a child, wife decides to conceive by cloning. The daughte...
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Surprise Sock
Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhil...
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Folon
One of the 20th century Belgian artists who was the most idolized, exhibited, published, sold... Yet...
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Valparaiso, Valparaiso
Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about...
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La Déesse aux cent bras
Vanina leads a very ordered life and and desperately wants to appear perfect to everyone, whatever t...
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Exploits of a Young Don Juan
In 1914, sixteen year old Roger returned home from boarding school during vacation to find his puber...
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Family
Five family depictions, five disrupted balances. An anthology which broach subjects such as mourning...
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Tendre piège
The engagement of a young couple is spoiled by the antics of their relatives....
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L'amour est un jeu d'enfant
Benjamin lives with his widowed father, a designer and a bohemian artist. Olivia, his best friend, l...
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Love, Math and Sex
A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man....
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Winter Song
Two old friends have urban adventures connected to the skull of an executed French aristocrat....
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Fire's Share
Real estate developer Bob Hansen discovers that his wife Catherine is cheating on him with his partn...
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The Surrounded
Jean-Claude is a student, with Didier, at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Generales where Violaine, Didi...
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A Cloud in the Teeth
Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they ro...
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The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped....
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Safety Catch
A doctor disbarred for euthanasia is called in by a man to help his son, who has been depressed sinc...
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An Ideal Father
Michel, the jovial owner of the only café in a small Normandy town, sees his life turned upside down...
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The African Doctor
1975. When Seyolo Zantoko, a doctor from the Congo who has managed, along with his family, to flee t...
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So Woman!
Clemence is a brilliant young lawyer who has just settled herself in a comfortable chair. She does n...
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Side Roads
The story of Itineraire Bis has no singular plot line, but swings back and forth between the adventu...
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Crédit pour tous
While unemployed, Gobert must repay 40 bank loans he had taken out. In the housing project where he ...
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The Goodbye Singing
In her suburban house, Madame Vaussart brings together a group of solitaries every Wednesday. Everyo...
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Les Insomniaques
Two insomniacs go into partnership to start a club bringing together people who suffer from the same...
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Everyone's Life
Before being judges, attorneys, or jury members, they are first of all men and women at a crossroads...
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Rascals
The story of boys who were condemned to the severe reformatory regime in a French penal ‘colony’. It...
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Au long de rivière Fango
Jérémie and Bild, two riders, arrive in a community that lives along the river Fango. It was Mathild...
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Vive la crise !
In a futuristic France, computers decide the fate of the unemployed and the homeless....
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Brothers
When Alexander suddenly leaves on a road trip to France, Lukas decides to join him as he’s been trai...
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My Father Saved My Life
Novelist and filmmaker Jose Giovanni turned to the remarkable true story of how his father helped hi...
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En attendant Godot
Two vagabonds, Vladimir and Estragon, meet on stage in a non-place ("Country road with tree") at dus...
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My Name Is Bernadette
Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Berna...
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Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000
A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "re...
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Knock
Doctor Knock is a former thug who has become a doctor and arrives in the small village of Saint-Maur...
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Noir Enigma
In the doorway of the neighborhood's most-renowned bakery, a young student collapses, shot dead. It'...
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10 jours en or
When a carefree bachelor is unexpectedly left in charge of a young boy, the two embark on a road tri...
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As Far as Love Can Go
The boyfriend of Isabelle has just committed suicide. Therefore Isabelle roams the streets of Paris ...
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Keep Your Right Up
This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles t...
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Ce que savait Morgan
The Moreen family hires Pemberton to tutor young Morgan. Pemberton has no money of his own, and the ...
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L'école sauvage
In a school near Paris, a new experiment is being tried: to allow each child to express him or herse...
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La vie facile
In this French-language film, Albin is a mercenary soldier. Sure, he's paid to kill, but he only agr...
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Mr. Freedom
Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to Fran...
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Two Snails Set Off
A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black because th...
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Go, Toto!
A film about belonging, gay rural life, physical labor & elderly bodies. The arrival of Toto the mar...
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Le Point Mort
Short film that was part of the very first Director's Fortnight short film selection in 1969....
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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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Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad
In a cul-de-sac in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Leon shares two rooms with his sister Marie. In one, ...
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À votre bon cœur, mesdames
The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a...
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In the Name of the Land
Pierre is 25 when he returns from Wyoming to his fiancée and take over the family farm. Twenty years...
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Mine de rien
In a region that was once the flagship of the mining industry, two long-term unemployed men come up ...
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One Way Ticket
After a bank robbery gone wrong, a crook goes on the run across Belgium to escape the police, clear ...
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The Police War
Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of com...
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Freedom
A Gypsy family travels the French roads during the Second World War, followed by Little Claude, a yo...
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Ubac
In 1930, in the majesty of the Andean mountains, the long hunt of a bounty hunter gradually turns in...
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Bonhomme de chemin
11-year-old Valentin and his father live alone on their farm. with the boy spending time with Oscar,...
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Doctor Dolittle
A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail....
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Dance of Chance
That day, there’s tension in the air: Marianne has her car and dog stolen from a highway parking lot...
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The American
A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among ol...
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Entrusted
Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the ...
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Metroland
In late-1970s suburban London, Chris and Marion have settled into a comfortable yet all-too-predicta...
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The Marchers
In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the priest M...
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Promotion canapé
Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with thei...
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Poorly Extinguished Fires
A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this grippin...
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La Goutte d'or
Idris is a young shepherd in the desert of Tunesia. One day a jeep drives by and a woman takes a pic...
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Iznogoud
In Baghdad the Magnificent reigns Haroun al Plassid, who is the Caliph. There also dwells Iznogoud, ...
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Promise at Dawn
A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then...
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A Plan of Hell
A short film commissioned by the Société Lyonnaise de Banque to present its business plan to the sta...
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I'm Going Home To Mum
Unemployed and separated from his wife, François has no choice but to return to live with his mother...
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Front woman
Leaud portrays a Parisian publisher of romance novels who hits on the gimmick of having his live-in ...
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Soleils
An old man is entrusted in curing a young girl struck by amnesia. He takes her on a healing trip, ec...
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Class Reunion
Feeling nostalgic about their high school days, Hervé, Maxime, and Jordy decide to host a grand reun...
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