Philippe Noiret

Philippe Noiret

Birthday: 1930-10-01

Place of Birth: Lille, Nord, France

Biography: Philippe Noiret (born 1 October 1930 in Lille – died 23 November 2006 in Paris) was a French film actor.

Movies

The Troubles We've Seen
The Troubles We've Seen

We follow Marcel Ophuls' two journeys to Sarajevo in 1993. He is starting a documentary about war co...

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My New Partner
My New Partner

A streetwise Paris policeman who takes kickbacks from the minor criminals on his beat to allow them ...

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Topaz
Topaz

Copenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French int...

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The Old Gun
The Old Gun

In Montauban in 1944, Julien Dandieu in a surgeon in the local hospital. Frightened by the German ar...

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La Grande Bouffe
La Grande Bouffe

Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death....

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The Tender Age
The Tender Age

Twenty-year-old Henri Rebecque wants to make his dream come true: to bring Benjamin Constant's Adolp...

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Zazie dans le Métro
Zazie dans le Métro

A brash and precocious ten-year-old comes to Paris for a whirlwind weekend with her rakish uncle....

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D'Artagnan's Daughter
D'Artagnan's Daughter

It is 1654, in the South of France. When horsemen follow a runaway slave into the convent where he's...

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The Down-in-the-Hole Gang
The Down-in-the-Hole Gang

Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity and have decided to dwell below the pave...

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A Matter of Resistance
A Matter of Resistance

In the countryside near Normandy's beaches lives Marie, unhappy. It's 1945, she's married to Jérôme,...

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Fort Saganne
Fort Saganne

In 1911, a willful and determined man from peasant stock named Charles Saganne enlists in the milita...

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The Most Gentle Confessions
The Most Gentle Confessions

Following a robbery in a circus, a young mobster, Jean, is arrested by Inspector Borelli. The thug d...

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La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
La Barricade du Point-du-Jour

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Captain Fracasse
Captain Fracasse

A ruined Baron Philippe de baron, meets one day a troupe of traveling actors led by Herod. Attracted...

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Ballad for a Hoodlum
Ballad for a Hoodlum

Vincent Vivant agrees to Stephan the spy's proposal: he is to cross the border with a mysterious sui...

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The Postman
The Postman

Simple Italian postman learns to love poetry while delivering mail to a famous poet; he uses this to...

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My Friends
My Friends

Four inseparable friends try to face their midlife crisis with daytrips and pranks at the expense of...

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A Woman at Her Window
A Woman at Her Window

Greece, 1936. An aristocratic woman engages in a series of loveless affairs before finding herself ...

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Cinema Paradiso
Cinema Paradiso

A filmmaker recalls his childhood, when he fell in love with the movies at his village's theater and...

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The Secret
The Secret

A stranger enters into and forever alters the life of a couple. He claims to be pursued by certain a...

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My New Partner II
My New Partner II

The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is...

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The Dog, the General, and the Birds
The Dog, the General, and the Birds

A long time ago, a young Russian general chose to sacrifice hundreds of birds to burn Moscow and sav...

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My Friends Act II
My Friends Act II

The four old friends meet on the grave of the fifth of them, Perozzi, who died at the end of the fir...

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My New Partner III
My New Partner III

It's been ten years since the paths of René and François parted ways. From the glorious era when, as...

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The Watchmaker of St. Paul
The Watchmaker of St. Paul

Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When t...

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Dear Inspector
Dear Inspector

When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before w...

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Monsieur
Monsieur

Left heartbroken by the death of his beloved wife, a rich banker tries to commit suicide. When he le...

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Mr. Freedom
Mr. Freedom

Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to Fran...

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Murphy's War
Murphy's War

Murphy is the sole survivor of his crew, that has been massacred by a German U-Boat in the closing d...

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Coup de Torchon
Coup de Torchon

A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, an...

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Three Brothers
Three Brothers

In a farmhouse in southern Italy, an old woman dies. Her husband summons their sons: from Rome, Raff...

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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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Uranus
Uranus

After World War II, a small French village struggles to put the war behind as the controlling Commun...

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Life and Nothing But
Life and Nothing But

In 1920, Major Dellaplane, a man of honor and ethics, searches for missing French soldiers. He meets...

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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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The Family
The Family

"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal por...

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Justine
Justine

In Alexandria, in 1938, Darley, a young British schoolmaster and poet, makes friends through Pursewa...

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Looking for Paradise
Looking for Paradise

The life and times of Claudia Bertelli, born in Milan in 1949 from bourgeois parents, educated in En...

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'Round Midnight
'Round Midnight

Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent w...

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The Night of the Generals
The Night of the Generals

A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He ...

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Edy
Edy

Edy, an insurer with questionable morals, knows his business inside and out, so much so that he is n...

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Woman Times Seven
Woman Times Seven

Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetw...

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Masques
Masques

In this deadly game of cat and mouse, Roland Wolf is writing a book on the life of game show host Ch...

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Jupiter's Thigh
Jupiter's Thigh

Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a ...

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The Judge and the Assassin
The Judge and the Assassin

France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suici...

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The Serpent
The Serpent

Vlassov is a Soviet spy who defects in France. He is whisked to the U.S, where Allan Davies takes ov...

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Heads or Tails
Heads or Tails

Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferri...

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Playing with Fire
Playing with Fire

A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers....

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Dead Tired
Dead Tired

Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically...

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La Mandarine
La Mandarine

Paris, seventies. In a hotel in the glittering Rue de Rivoli an English boy falls in love with the t...

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The Grand Dukes
The Grand Dukes

Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road agai...

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Souvenirs souvenirs
Souvenirs souvenirs

A former singer, who was drafted and fought in the Algeria war, is demobilized and wants to make a c...

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Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?

In this excoriating satire of the fashion industry, Polly Maggoo is a 20-year-old Brooklyn-born fash...

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Tango
Tango

Vincent, a stunt pilot, is acquitted of murdering his wife and her lover. However, a few years later...

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The Desert of the Tartars
The Desert of the Tartars

Lieutenant Giovanni Drogo is assigned to the old Bastiani border fortress where he expects an immine...

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I Don't Kiss
I Don't Kiss

A good-looking but naive lad leaves his mountain village to try and make his way in Paris. He thinks...

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The Other One
The Other One

Anne, an unhappily married actress, temporarily assumes the identity of her sister Simone, the suc...

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Against Oblivion
Against Oblivion

A compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and Jean Luc Godard among them, who use film to...

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Very Happy Alexander
Very Happy Alexander

Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like...

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Famous Love Affairs
Famous Love Affairs

Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis....

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The Man Who Planted Trees
The Man Who Planted Trees

The story of one shepherd's single-handed quest to re-forest a desolate valley in the foothills of t...

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The Chops
The Chops

A father arrives at his son's house one evening. They begin talking about women, love, relationships...

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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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Twist Again in Moscow
Twist Again in Moscow

Igor, who manages a fancy hotel and is on the take, has to juggle several problems at once. He has a...

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The Witness
The Witness

An Italian painter, Antonio Berti, pays a visit to Reims to his friend Robert Maurisson, a banker wi...

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Ghost with Driver
Ghost with Driver

A chauffeur for a corrupt CEO, and a few hours later, his boss himself, are killed by the industrial...

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Therese
Therese

Thérèse is living in a provincial town, unhappily married to Bernard, a dull, pompous man whose only...

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Father and Sons
Father and Sons

Léo, un vieux père de famille ancien représentant de commerce, est prêt à tout pour retrouver l'affe...

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A Week's Vacation
A Week's Vacation

On the verge of an emotional collapse, schoolteacher Laurence takes a week off from work to figure o...

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The Assassination Bureau
The Assassination Bureau

In 1908 London, a women's rights campaigner discovers the Assassination Bureau Limited, an organizat...

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Pierre and Marie
Pierre and Marie

A humoristic view of the lives of Marie and Pierre Curie and their discoveries around radioactivity....

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The African
The African

Charlotte flies to East Africa to build a tourist center near Lake Williams where the pygmies live. ...

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Don't Touch the White Woman!
Don't Touch the White Woman!

A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically...

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La Pointe Courte
La Pointe Courte

A penetrating study of a marriage on the rocks, set against the backdrop of a small Mediterranean fi...

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A Common Sense of Modesty
A Common Sense of Modesty

The film is divided into four episodes that blends sex and comedy....

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Let Joy Reign Supreme
Let Joy Reign Supreme

A look at 18th-century France, when the depravity of the authorities contributed to social oppressio...

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The Buddies
The Buddies

Seven old pals live inseparable lives, dividing their time between hilarious pranks and memorable dr...

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Let's Hope It's a Girl
Let's Hope It's a Girl

A multifaceted exploration of the pointlessness of sexual stereotypes. Liv Ullmann is a countess who...

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All the Gold in the World
All the Gold in the World

Businessman Victor Hardy wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. He claims...

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The North Star
The North Star

Edouard Binet, an aimless Frenchman, has been travelling in North Africa for many years, and is sail...

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Max & Jeremie
Max & Jeremie

Even among bombers and murderers, there is a social ladder, a hierarchy to climb. Jeremie is a mere ...

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Matrimonial Agency
Matrimonial Agency

Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to...

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Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
Lulu Kreutz's Picnic

Joseph and Olga Stegudith, who are elderly Parisians of Viennese Jewish extraction, come to luxuriou...

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Step by Step
Step by Step

The police are questioning Hubert Verkamen, suspected of murdering an entire family. Although he pre...

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Cyrano de Bergerac
Cyrano de Bergerac

In love with Roxane, who is herself in love with the youngest son of Gascony, Christian de Neuvilett...

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Tender Scoundrel
Tender Scoundrel

Tony Maréchal is a professional seducer. Having conquered countless women, proclaims that there is n...

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The Purple Taxi
The Purple Taxi

With his mauve taxi, the old philosopher Dr. Seamus Scully runs around the small green roads of the ...

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The Old Maid
The Old Maid

Muriel is a shy woman who bluffs and blusters around in order to hide her shyness and to protect her...

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Father's Trip
Father's Trip

Determined to assert his paternal rights, Quentin leaves his small village on the Swiss border to go...

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The Masseuses
The Masseuses

Two industry managers from Milan are in Rome to get the contract to build a YMCA hostel. They get in...

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Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible
Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible

If Jean Rochefort remains so dear to our hearts, it is because this extraordinary actor alone embodi...

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Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
Birgit Haas Must Be Killed

"Hangar" is a new agency whose purpose is to carry out missions even too sensitive for the police or...

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Especially on Sunday
Especially on Sunday

Four lighthearted stories set in the idyllic Italian countryside: an old grouch is befriended by a s...

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Marianna Ucrìa
Marianna Ucrìa

In 18th-century Sicily, deaf-mute highborn Marianna Ucrìa is forced to marry at age 13, bearing thre...

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The Assassination
The Assassination

Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to...

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Fish Soup
Fish Soup

The daughter of a known filmaker finds herself in her father's family home, with the whole family....

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A Cloud in the Teeth
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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Le Grand Carnaval
Le Grand Carnaval

The story follows Americans in Algeria at the time of the Allied invasion of North Africa in 1942....

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Clerambard
Clerambard

When a cruel man is visited by Saint Francis and convinced to change his ways, his family believes h...

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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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Les Milles
Les Milles

In the beginning of the Second World War, Germans, Austrians and persons without nationality living ...

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The Gold Rimmed Glasses
The Gold Rimmed Glasses

A Jewish couple and a homosexual doctor fall to prejudice and scandal in 1938 Italy....

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The Sparrow's Fluttering
The Sparrow's Fluttering

A woman, who has been the mistress of a man who has just died, thinks about leaving the little Itali...

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Rossini! Rossini!
Rossini! Rossini!

An funny, witty and bright biopic by the master of italian comedy Mario Monicelli about the famed it...

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The Sultans
The Sultans

Lisa, a fashion photographer, has an affair with a married man. They both know that the relationship...

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A Friend of Vincent
A Friend of Vincent

Vincent is the victim of an assassination attempt carried out by a young woman who wants to avenge h...

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Summer Frenzy
Summer Frenzy

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Soleil
Soleil

During a happy evening, the famous professor Levy, one of the masters of cardiac surgery, collapses,...

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Widow's Walk
Widow's Walk

Molinat is assigned to the case of a man found with a bullet in his ear on the shore of a little Atl...

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Too Loud A Solitude
Too Loud A Solitude

An elderly paper-crusher branded a fool in Prague secretly stashes condemned books, preserving their...

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L'école est finie
L'école est finie

Short film by Jules Celma...

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Aurora
Aurora

A single mother is trying to trace previous partners in order to help her fund a life changing opera...

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La Fin de la nuit
La Fin de la nuit

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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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Crime Does Not Pay
Crime Does Not Pay

A man walks into a movie theater in Paris and starts watching a film—the same one we're watching, co...

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Le Veilleur de nuit
Le Veilleur de nuit

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Poil de carotte
Poil de carotte

In rural France, an undernourished and unloved young boy attempts suicide....

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Next Summer
Next Summer

Edouard is patriarch of a large family: his second wife, Jeanne, has just had a baby and finally had...

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Balthus through the Looking-Glass
Balthus through the Looking-Glass

Using rare images of the artist filmed at work in his studio, exclusive interviews with his family a...

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Give Her the Moon
Give Her the Moon

Marie, a young provincial girl, is seduced by an American billionaire. She agrees to stay with him i...

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Rue du Pied de Grue
Rue du Pied de Grue

A drifter navigates the fringes of Parisian society. The protagonist, a solitary man seeking directi...

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Comme un poisson dans l'eau
Comme un poisson dans l'eau

When his uncle Paul died, Lucien Berlemont inherited a telescope and a sextant, which only aggravate...

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We Are All in Temporary Liberty
We Are All in Temporary Liberty

A judge opens an inquiry into the circumstances surrounding the death of an MP....

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Les Rois du gag
Les Rois du gag

Paul Martin and François Leroux are brothers-in-law and comics without fame. One day, the famous tel...

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A Time for Loving
A Time for Loving

The story of an apartment in Paris and the various people that occupy it over the years....

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Le Paris de Zazie
Le Paris de Zazie

Philippe Collin, Louis Malle’s assistant director on 'Zazie dans le Métro', gives us a tour of the f...

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The Beaches of Agnès
The Beaches of Agnès

Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the F...

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Clémentine chérie
Clémentine chérie

Gaston Bellus, is the director of a textile house, and the research laboratory makes a sensational d...

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La Porteuse de pain
La Porteuse de pain

A young woman by the name of Jeanne Fortier finds herself the victim of a terrible miscarriage of ju...

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The Palermo Connection
The Palermo Connection

Carmine Bonavia wins election as the mayor of New York on a promise to legalize drugs. After the ele...

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Five Leaf Clover
Five Leaf Clover

A middle-aged couple moves into an old villa populated by eccentric characters....

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Rendezvous
Rendezvous

A soap-opera/murder mystery that builds to a deliriously melodramatic finale....

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Monsieur Albert
Monsieur Albert

In this poetic slice-of-life film that reveals the problems and needs of a group of lowlife characte...

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Two Pieces of Bread
Two Pieces of Bread

Two minstrels singing for their supper in Rome discover they've both been lovers to the same woman, ...

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The Secret Wife
The Secret Wife

It was during one of his missions in Norway that Antoine learned of his wife's death. He leaves his ...

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Les Œuvres de Frédéric Back
Les Œuvres de Frédéric Back

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On Guard
On Guard

France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is tre...

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Ravishing
Ravishing

A womanizing pilot who is asked by a friend to intervene in one of the friend's romantic tangles. Th...

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Le Roi de Paris
Le Roi de Paris

Victor Derval is returning home after a performance when he is hailed by Lisa, a young Hungarian wom...

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The Lovers of the France
The Lovers of the France

Seeing an opportunity to make a financial recovery for the family, a nobleman attempts to wed his so...

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The Two of Us
The Two of Us

Toussaint and Madeleine have loved each other from the cradle. They are now sixty. They have reached...

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The Fourth Power
The Fourth Power

Yves Dorget, major reporter in a daily newspaper, finds on an "affair" part of a simple news item Ca...

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Olivia
Olivia

"Olivia" captures the awakening passions of an English adolescent sent away for a year to a small fi...

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Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)

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The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
The Incredible Mr. Piccoli

A captivating portrait of French actor Michel Piccoli, who has worked with the greatest filmmakers o...

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3 Friends
3 Friends

Three childhood friends support each other through life's ups and downs in this comedy/drama. Each g...

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Lady L
Lady L

Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and ...

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Gigi
Gigi

Gilberte is a sixteen year old girl raised by her aunt and grandmother to be a demimondaine. But she...

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Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
Forgery and the Use of Forgeries

Fleeing fame, the writer Anatole Hirsch decides to publish his new book under the name of his cousin...

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A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise
A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise

The making of Cinema Paradiso and the characters of Toto and Alfredo...

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Marcello, una vita dolce
Marcello, una vita dolce

After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1...

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Death, Where Is Your Victory?
Death, Where Is Your Victory?

Feeling complicit in a heinous act of her husband, a woman sinks into decay, then recovers and becom...

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Hitler, la folie d'un homme
Hitler, la folie d'un homme

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A Day in the Life of French Cinema
A Day in the Life of French Cinema

Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same ...

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Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord
Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord

Jean Rochefort, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Philippe Noiret - This is the story of a bunch of friends. Com...

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Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future
Marco Ferreri: The Director Who Came from the Future

The documentary focuses on Marco Ferreri and shows an unconventional man, extreme, provocative in wa...

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Macbeth
Macbeth

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Le Mal court
Le Mal court

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De fil en aiguille
De fil en aiguille

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Before Midnight
Before Midnight

Filmmaker Jean Achache shot extensively on the set of ’Round Midnight. This documentary presents tha...

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Flore et Blancheflore
Flore et Blancheflore

Flore is the son of a king, Blancheflore the daughter of a slave. The two children grow up together ...

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