François Périer
Birthday: 1919-11-10
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia François Périer, (10 November 1919 – 29 June 2002), born François Pillu in Paris, was a French actor. He made over 110 film and TV appearances between 1938 and 1996. He was also prominent in the theatre. Among his most notable parts was that of Hugo in the first production of Jean-Paul Sartre's Les Mains Sales in 1948. He was the narrator of the French-language version of Fantasia.
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Max and the Junkmen
A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught...
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Z
A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to sup...
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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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Orpheus
A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydi...
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Le Samouraï
After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai instincts,...
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Le Cercle Rouge
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pul...
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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story
A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in his...
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Testament of Orpheus
An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he ...
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Police Python 357
A methodical police inspector becomes entangled in a web of deceit after a murder investigation reve...
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Sylvia and the Ghost
A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her grandmoth...
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Stavisky...
Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe ...
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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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The Anatomy of Love
Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom....
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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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Hôtel du Nord
A young couple's suicide pact goes awry, leaving the woman to face her survival with a new admirer w...
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The Telephone Bar
A gangster (Daniel Duval) incurs the wrath of the patriarch of a well-established crime family....
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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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Nights of Cabiria
Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she re...
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The Organizer
In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers lab...
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Gervaise
An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction ...
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What?
A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where ...
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A Grin Without a Cat
Chris Marker’s A Grin Without a Cat is an epic political essay tracing the rise and decline of the g...
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She and Me
You never can tell. Jean had always been one of the most confirmed bachelors that kept swearing to a...
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Happy Days
Five young people - brothers, sisters, cousins - are on vacation in the countryside. Pernette sugg...
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Weekend at Dunkirk
In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Mail...
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L'Enfant de l'amour
This woman's melodrama pivots around a child that a famous actress had in her youth, but whom she ha...
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Just Before Nightfall
A married man who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn himself ...
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Femme sans passé
Caroline feels neglected by her husband, the businessman Lorin. She plans to have fun with an invent...
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Lost Souvenirs
Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette o...
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Sorceror
A young rogue kills an old lady to rob her. Arrested, he believes it is for this crime, hides nothin...
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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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Cadet Rousselle
The Adventures of Cadet Rousselle that on the French Revolution left his hometown in search of fortu...
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Hitch-Hike
Agathe, 18, dreams of change. Gone are her vacations on the rainy beaches of Belgium! She decides to...
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The Visitor
Certain that "the right man" is crucial to her escaping the confines of the Italian village where sh...
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Un trésor de femme
Francois is engaged to Isabelle. While going to buy the engagement ring, he meets Sophie, who puts t...
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Love and the Frenchwoman
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty w...
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Le temps des doryphores
In 1940, harmful insects, the Colorado potato beetle, invaded the territory of a disoriented France,...
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The Assassination
Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris, allegedly to...
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Lovers on a Tightrope
Cora, the wife of a wealthy Parisian businessman, Daniel, is involved in an affair with Henri, an un...
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Mother Love
Gilbert Quercy, 18, tried to commit suicide after a heartache. At the hospital, three women try to c...
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Silence Is Golden
Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daugh...
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The Fighter
Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking for hi...
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Le Tartuffe
Orgon is a man of property duped by the false piety of the penniless Tartuffe. Orgon takes him into ...
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Intermediate Landing in Paris
Michèle, an employee at the airport, is in love with American pilot Eddie Miller who regularly flies...
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Voyage à Rome
Thierry 's marriage is on the rocks and his wife has filed for divorce ,but he is not prepared to ac...
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The Fugitives
During the Second World War, in 1943, two French prisoners, François and Michel, escape from Stalag ...
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The Wolf Farm
Bastien and Furet are a journalist and a photographer working together as a team on the newspaper 'L...
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Demoniac
Gervais escapes from a German concentration camp and assumes the identity of a recently deceased fel...
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The Elders of Saint-Loup
Due to financial problems, the boarding-school of Saint-Loup is on the verge of closing its doors. I...
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The Spiral
Documentary on the events provoked by the systematic attack of imperialism on the Popular Unity gove...
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Love Letters
A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and...
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The Amorous Corporal
A group of fun-loving French soldiers manage to circumvent a band of cutthroat pirates and win the u...
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Anyone Can Kill Me
The holdup of the bank is a success. All happened according to plan. Now, Cyril Gad and his four acc...
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The Magistrate
Emilia Bonelli is an overly ambitious and driven woman. This dominant personality trait has its effe...
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Captain Slipper
A bank clerk is bored to death with his nine-to-five work under his boss ' watchful eye. His missus ...
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State Reasons
Professor Marrot obtains the secret documents containing evidence of the illegal weapon transactions...
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Too Many Lovers
The charming Lulu, a cabaret singer and dancer, has no shortage of admirers. When she decides to get...
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2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure
Made for the centenary of France’s trade union laws, Chris Marker’s 2084 imagines a future in which ...
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Love, Madame
Madame Célerier is determined to marry off her son François to a rich and haughty woman but François...
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Premier bal
Two country sisters are rivals for the love of the doctor. He marries one, but regrets it and is res...
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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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Paris Loves
Les amours de Paris focuses on three disparate couples and their problems in the arena of romantic l...
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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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The Creation of the World
La Création du Monde is among the first animated feature films made in France. But to be exact, the ...
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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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Mandrin
It was the reign of Louis XV and, in 1750, France was at war all the time, and the people, suffocate...
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Tumuc Humac
When Marc, with the help of a juvenile court judge, is old enough to leave thewelfare system, he lea...
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Antoine and Sebastian
Antoine has raised Sébastien, the son of a friend who was killed in a plane crash. Sébastien is doin...
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The White Truck
A young mechanic is given a strange job: to convey the king of the gypsies' embalmed dead body on a ...
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The Loves of Colette
François, a young student at a provincial college, likes Colette, the daughter of the headmaster. Tu...
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The End of the Day
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or ...
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The Dreadful
César Dandieu is an honest cashier in an oil company, and Fernand Mouchette an absent-minded invento...
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Nightclub Hostess
The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one night sh...
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The Temptation of Barbizon
Daniel Gelin and Juliette Faber star as a blissfully happy honeymooning couple. They are so happy th...
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The Bamboo Stroke
Albert is the irremovable waiter in a small bistro that has just been sold by his former bosses, Ang...
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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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Que les hommes sont bêtes
Sylvie is a young cashier in a Montmartre café, "le bar des Philosophes", owned and run by Monsieur ...
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The Century Is Fifty
As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century at i...
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The Duel
A widow is loved by a doctor whose brother, an ecclesiastic unconsciously in love with the young wom...
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Good Evening Ladies, Good Evening Gentlemen
To teach a lesson to his young wife who dreams of the famous "voiceless singer", a husband enters a ...
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De force avec d'autres
Actor and singer on the decline, Sergio, alcoholic, goes adrift. His son, Simon, undertakes to make ...
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Les Gauloises bleues
The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins wh...
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La nuit bulgare
A youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious Bulga...
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We Want the Colonels
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree an...
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The Fatted Calf
Jules Vachon, a pharmacist, has two sons, Gabriel, a steady-minded young man dedicated to his job in...
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The Melbourne Rendezvous
Rendez-Vous a Melbourne is the official filmed record of the 1956 Olympic Games in Australia. At the...
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Happy Go Lucky
After lovers fight, the boy leaves for the Riviera. On her way to rejoin him, the girl meets a disti...
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I'll Get Back to Kandara
One evening, professor André Barret sees the author of a murder in the darkness; cafe owner Cordelec...
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Un revenant
A ballet producer returns to his native town and schemes to avenge himself on the family who tried t...
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Réveille-toi, chérie
Jacqueline, who lives in the country, has organized her life around her husband, whom she loves, and...
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The Train Rolls On
This half-hour documentary by Chris Marker explores Aleksandr Medvedkin’s 1930s “Cine-Train,” a mobi...
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Jean de la Lune
Marceline is pretty but inconstant. She has a brother, eccentric as well as invading, who serves as ...
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Stars Never Die
For Les étoiles ne meurent jamais, director/archivist Max De Vaucorbeil has assembled precious film ...
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Maxime
Story of an aging dandy who is the factotum and arranger of female conquests for a brusque young mil...
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Marriage Episodes
Three old friends meet again. They compare their marriages and tell each other stories which illustr...
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La Pagaille
To a non-French speaker, the word La Pagaille looks charming, elegant, even tidy. However, it means ...
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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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Madame Bovary
Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce and ...
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A Girl Knew
An actor, a great seducer, has a 20-year-old son (François Périer) to whom he gives advice that has ...
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Shock Troops
A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently t...
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It Happened in the Park
Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consume...
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Baxter, Vera Baxter
In an empty villa, Vera Baxter sits and contemplates her life, as she recounts to a woman who was dr...
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Sweet and Sour
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywh...
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Mémoires d'un jeune con
Frédéric is arrested for illicit use of narcotic drugs. In jail, he meets he get up close with vario...
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The Child of the High Seas
In a Breton village by the sea, a little girl lives alone. She never meets anyone, never ages, and s...
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The Secrets of the Bed
Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural background t...
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Love Marriage
Pierre, who is a Fine Arts student, and Denise, who is a chemistry student, work for a department st...
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Bobosse
Bobosse is increasingly immersing himself into the world of theater and experiencing his role as an ...
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Hello Paris
Two pigeons living on the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral are Parisian lovers. The Cathedral’s chimer...
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My Seal and Them
A diplomat and fast liver, François lives the good life until, one day, he is unfortunate enough to ...
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