Paul Frankeur
Birthday: 1905-06-29
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Biography: Paul Frankeur (29 June 1905 - 27 October 1974) was a French actor who appeared in films by Jacques Tati (Jour de fête) and Luis Buñuel (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Phantom of Liberty). He was sometimes credited as Paul Francoeur. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Frankeur, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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My Uncle Benjamin
Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of gi...
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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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Jour de Fête
Jour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French mailman who frequently interru...
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The Phantom of Liberty
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incid...
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Hauteclaire
The action takes place under the Restoration, at the Château de Savigny, near Nerville, a devout and...
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Le Deuxième Souffle
A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a deter...
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The Magnificent Tramp
Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy....
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A Monkey in Winter
During World War II, an innkeeper vows to abstain from alcohol for the sake of his family. Years lat...
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Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find t...
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The Milky Way
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way...
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Unusual Tales
A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a...
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The Gentleman from Epsom
The story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive cha...
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Razzia
Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, ...
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Mr. Orchid
This character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the chief o...
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Return to Life
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war afte...
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Come Dance with Me!
The wife of an accused murderer embarks on a dangerous masquerade to find the real culprit behind a ...
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Thérèse Raquin
Star-crossed lovers Thérèse and Laurent think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's weakli...
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Under the Paris Sky
Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. ...
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Sunday Buddies
Casti and Trébois, two friends who are workers at the same factory, have developed a common passion ...
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Fantastic Night
Denis, a poor student in philosophy, works as a night porter in the Paris market of Les Halles in or...
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The Marriage of Chiffon
Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with...
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Portrait of Innocence
A student from an elementary school accidentally breaks the glass roof of his school. His comrades d...
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A Star to the Sun
Martine, who has become a major star of the song in Paris, wants to return to visit her hometown. Co...
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Madame et le mort
A person who had usurped the identity of a famous writer of detective stories was killed in the trai...
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Adieu Léonard
A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cous...
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Blood to the Head
François Cardinaud is one of the richest shipowners in the region. But this success arouses resentme...
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Rue de Paris
While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away, and he returned to face the challenges o...
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Au P'tit Zouave
Au p'tit Zouave, a café, sees a colorful clientele from working-class Paris. An assassin will shake ...
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A Cage of Nightingales
In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music ...
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Devil's Daughter
Pursued by the police, Saget usurps the identity of a man who was returning to his town after having...
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Girl with Grey Eyes
A village lost in the mountains where Catherine called L'Airelle's love affair takes place with a yo...
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The Ideal Couple
Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love wit...
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The Night Affair
Vallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of drug-addicte...
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Maigret Sees Red
Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help lan...
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God's Thunder
Veterinarian Léandre Brassac lives with his wife Marie on a remote estate. One day, he decides to sh...
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Marie-Octobre
A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Hele...
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Counter Investigation
Alain Marchal, wrongly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from prison the day before his executi...
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The Bouquinquant Brothers
A provincial, Julie Moret, is hired as a servant in a Parisian bourgeois residence. She is courted b...
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The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
On the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and inci...
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Justice Is Done
Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All m...
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Monsignor
Louis Mennechain is a modest locksmith. So imagine his amazement when Professor Piétrefond approache...
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The First Weapons
A sensitive teen-age boy survives the brutalities of a country training school....
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Speaking of Murder
Louis Bertain is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his accom...
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The Beast Is Loose
Paul Lamiani, a wizened mobster, is asked to return to duty following the disappearance of secret do...
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Passion
An unhappy wife who has had a child by her lover lives a daily drama under the watchful eye of her h...
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Follow That Man
While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier recalls two of his most celebrated cases. ...
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The Dwarf
In a small circus campaign, the act of Valentine, the dwarf, is one of the highlights of the show. B...
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Le chien qui a vu Dieu
In a small Italian village live a group of men, each as miscreant as the next. Among them is the bak...
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Nana
In Paris during the Second Empire, Count Muffat, despite his prejudices against loose women, falls m...
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Star Without Light
An aspiring singer tries to break into films during the early talkie era. She is hired to dub the si...
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L'Espagnol
A survivor of the Spanish Civil War who had been in French internment camps takes refuge with a fami...
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The Lovemakers
The death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando buys...
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The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen
A thief falls in love with a maid and goes on the run after stealing Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona Lisa...
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A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
Back from Indochina, Tony and Dick, two French soldiers, are now in possession of more than 20 milli...
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Les Assassins du dimanche
After failing to carry out an urgent repair to the car of two German tourists, mechanic Robert has a...
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Reproduction interdite
An art dealer in dire straits, after being ripped off by two crooks, one of whom owns a genuine pain...
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License to Kill
Didier Formenter, the French scientist, has just put the final touch on an invention that will be ab...
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Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears...
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Headlines of Destruction
Released from prison after two years, Michel Gérard sets out to find his wife Alice. Alice, luxuriou...
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An Eye for an Eye
In North Africa, an anguished husband tests the character of the doctor he believes is responsible f...
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Black Dossier
In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential no...
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Price of Love
Because he loved a trainer named Suzy too much, honest Pierre Menard wasted his life and died. Innoc...
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Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
A terminally ill Mr. Bard, a casino bus driver forced to quit his job, miraculously wins a fortune p...
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The Crab Basket
Charles is a student in Strasbourg. Abandoned by Liliane, his fiancée, who has inexplicably given up...
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Minute papillon
Oscar, a shy lifeguard, flees the wrath of his boss following the disaster caused by the water purif...
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Jeunes mariés
Jacques and Gisèle, who are just married, are starting their honeymoon. But at nightfall, on their w...
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Long March
In June 1944, a young doctor, Chevalier, under the threat of guns, is forced to treat a wounded man ...
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The Trip to Biarritz
Guillaume Dodut is a stationmaster in rural France at a station where trains no longer stop. His dre...
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Rope Around the Neck
Arthur can no longer stand married life. He wants to get rid of his wife and live with his mistress....
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No Exit
The scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first, the gr...
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Children of Paradise
In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater...
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Before the Deluge
The title of this French "reality" drama, which translates to Before the Deluge, is a play on Louis ...
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The Mark of the Day
In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake up an...
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The Spice of Life
A series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and leadin...
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Messieurs Ludovic
Anne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different char...
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Sideral Cruises
Robert and Françoise Monier make a hot air balloon to fly to the stratosphere. After a visit to Venu...
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Port of Point-du-Jour
Emile is a steelworker in a car factory ;a confirmed bachelor going on fifty, he leads a peaceful li...
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Double Verdict
Richard killed his wife out of jealousy, but was acquitted. During the vacations, he meets a young g...
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The Atomic Cloud
A Belgian atomic cloud appears not to be deadly but instead instigates a climate of friendship and f...
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Endless Horizons
The life story of famed French aviatrix Helene Boucher is detailed in Horizons sans fin (Endless Hor...
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Cry of the Heart
Alexandre, a young man from a wealthy family, suffers a serious fall. One leg is finally amputated, ...
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Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the r...
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Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has al...
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We Are All Murderers
Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette...
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Le Cœur révélateur
Part of the longer compilation "Histoires extraordinaires" by the same director. Based on the short...
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People of No Importance
During a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman Clothilde...
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