Jean Marais

Jean Marais

Birthday: 1913-12-11

Place of Birth: Cherbourg, Manche, France

Biography: Jean-Alfred Villain-Marais (11 December 1913 – 8 November 1998), was a French actor and director. Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean Marais, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia. ​

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Beauty and the Beast
Beauty and the Beast

The story of a gentle-hearted beast in love with a simple and beautiful girl. She is drawn to the re...

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Fantomas Unleashed
Fantomas Unleashed

In the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand wit...

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Fantomas
Fantomas

Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using...

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Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard

In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening ...

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Operation Double Cross
Operation Double Cross

In Barcelona, secret agent Antoine Donadieu thwarts the plans of a Nazi scientist....

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Orpheus
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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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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Donkey Skin
Donkey Skin

A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father....

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The Glass Castle
The Glass Castle

Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning ho...

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Thomas the Impostor
Thomas the Impostor

In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princes...

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Luchino Visconti
Luchino Visconti

A chronological look at the creative life of Luchino Visconti (1906-1976). It examines his theatrica...

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Stealing Beauty
Stealing Beauty

Lucy Harmon, an American teenager is arriving in the lush Tuscan countryside to be sculpted by a fam...

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Testament of Orpheus
Testament of Orpheus

An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he ...

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Le Notti Bianche
Le Notti Bianche

A middle-aged man meets a young woman who is waiting on a canal bridge for her lover's return....

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King on Horseback
King on Horseback

Henri La Tour, a strolling player, is also a daring adventurer. So, when, after accomplishing a bril...

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The Storm Within
The Storm Within

Young Michel is in love with the attractive Madeleine, so he decides to tell his parents of his inte...

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Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde

A profile of Jean-Paul Belmondo by his peers. Besides appearing in over eighty films, the actor also...

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Dis papa, raconte-moi là-bas
Dis papa, raconte-moi là-bas

A father tells his story to his eight-year-old son. Pictures of his past in Algeria come back in fla...

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The Eternal Return
The Eternal Return

A retelling of Tristan and Isolde set in 1940s France....

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Leathernose
Leathernose

After being hurt in the face, Count de Roger Tinchebraye is forced to hide his disfigured face behin...

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Royal Affairs in Versailles
Royal Affairs in Versailles

Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocra...

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Carmen
Carmen

Carmen is a French-Italian musical drama film directed by Christian-Jaque and starring Viviane Roman...

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Les Miserables
Les Miserables

In WWII France, poor and illiterate Henri Fortin is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Mi...

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If Paris Were Told to Us
If Paris Were Told to Us

Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its found...

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The Battle of Austerlitz
The Battle of Austerlitz

Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself emperor and fights the English, Austrians and Russians in 1802....

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Julietta
Julietta

Julietta Valendor is in love with lawyer André Landrecourt. He is unaware of her feelings. He puts h...

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Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain
Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain

The story of Fantômas, the first villain of modernity, from his birth in 1911 as a novel character t...

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The Count of Monte Cristo
The Count of Monte Cristo

Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the...

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Elena and Her Men
Elena and Her Men

Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean R...

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Étienne
Étienne

Étienne, a very sensitive being, watches helplessly as his mother suffers from his father's infideli...

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The Hawk
The Hawk

The wife of a Hungarian gentleman tires of helping him cheat and becomes the mistress of a diplomat....

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Bizarre, Bizarre
Bizarre, Bizarre

A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pret...

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Le Patriote
Le Patriote

The reign of Tsar Paul I and the intrigues of his friend, Governor Pahlen, to rid the country of the...

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The Hunchback of Paris
The Hunchback of Paris

Duke Philippe de Nevers is an influential and popular man who is married to a beautiful wife called ...

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The Pavilion Burns
The Pavilion Burns

Denise, a young employee of the mine, is courted by the engineer Risay while she is engaged to Danie...

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The Royalists
The Royalists

The Marquis de Montauran was appointed to command the Chouans whose first two revolts were crushed. ...

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Captain Blood
Captain Blood

Le capitan is a 1960 French-Italian swashbuckler film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Jean ...

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The Image Book
The Image Book

In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings, tele...

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The Iron Mask
The Iron Mask

The story of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, and the imprisonment in an iron mask of the identical...

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The Mysteries of Paris
The Mysteries of Paris

The Marquis Rodolphe de Sombrueil accidentally runs over a working man with his carriage and helps h...

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Life Together
Life Together

The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on ...

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Blood on His Sword
Blood on His Sword

Charles le Temeraire asks in marriage Jeanne de Beauvais, daughter of King Louis XI, wishing to get ...

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Killer Spy
Killer Spy

The most secret agent Stanislas Dubois, tired of saving the world alone decides to retire and to sta...

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Princess of Cleves
Princess of Cleves

When a young teen marries the Prince of Cleves, more than twice her age, she automatically becomes a...

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The Saint Lies in Wait
The Saint Lies in Wait

Oscar Chartier plays a dangerous double game by selling secret plans to the German and American secr...

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A Girl in a Pocket
A Girl in a Pocket

A professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his female ...

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Voyage Without Hope
Voyage Without Hope

Gohelle, escaped from prison, seeks to flee occupied France for Argentina. The captain of a cargo sh...

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Romulus and the Sabines
Romulus and the Sabines

The classic story from the early days of Rome where there are no women. Romulus, the founder of Rome...

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Le Jouet criminel
Le Jouet criminel

A couple abducts an "angel" for their entertainment, who will escape with the help of an old man....

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The Eagle with Two Heads
The Eagle with Two Heads

Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face...

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The Reluctant Spy
The Reluctant Spy

Stanislas Dubois is the manager of a successful advertising agency. One day, he comes up against an ...

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Ivory Coast Adventure
Ivory Coast Adventure

An Embassy attache and a butterfly hunter become involved in a treasure hunt between two rival gangs...

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School for Love
School for Love

At the Conservatory of Vienna the students only have eyes for their beautiful singing teacher, tenor...

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Pontius Pilate
Pontius Pilate

The events that culminated with the Passion of Christ seen from the perspective of Pontius Pilate, t...

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Seven Guys and a Gal
Seven Guys and a Gal

Italy during the Napoleonic wars: A French General and his Adjutant are separated from their unit ge...

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The Queen's Lover
The Queen's Lover

Exiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge on the Quee...

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Boom on Paris
Boom on Paris

In the early 1950s, the popular radio show "La Kermesse aux Étoiles", hosted by the famous Jean Noha...

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Miracles Only Happen Once
Miracles Only Happen Once

1939 : what a beautiful year for Claudia and Jerôme. No sooner do they meet that they are under each...

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Friends of the family
Friends of the family

Leon Rollo whose nickname is "Patate" is an inventor adored by his wife and is daughter. He is mostl...

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Typhoon Over Nagasaki
Typhoon Over Nagasaki

Pierre Marsac, a French engineer working for the Nagasaki shipbuilding yards, has fallen in love bot...

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Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or

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Inside a Girls' Dormitory
Inside a Girls' Dormitory

In a little town with a renowned college a female student is found after she was hogtied and strangl...

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Love, Madame
Love, Madame

Madame Célerier is determined to marry off her son François to a rich and haughty woman but François...

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The Invincible Swordsman
The Invincible Swordsman

Lovers are united by a political and royal coup within the court of King Louis XIII....

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At World's End
At World's End

An english tv-team discovers a special white flower in the indonesian rainforest, but they never get...

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Parking
Parking

Rock star Orpheus writes love songs for Eurydice, who designs his album covers. Torn between her and...

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The Adventurer
The Adventurer

A scandalised Frenchman returns from Africa where he has been involved in illegal trading of mines (...

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Voice of Silence
Voice of Silence

The film follows men from all walks of life, seeking to give meaning to their lives and rediscover t...

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Le Bonheur
Le Bonheur

Philippe Lutcher, an anarchist, fires a shot at Clara Stuart, a famous stage and screen actress, but...

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Napoleon
Napoleon

The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. T...

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Soleil éteint
Soleil éteint

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The New Men
The New Men

Dedicated to men, natives and French, which under the leadership of General Lyautey, made modern Mor...

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Federico Fellini's Autobiography
Federico Fellini's Autobiography

Federico Fellini was one of the most individual and thought provoking directors who based most of hi...

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In the Eyes of Memory
In the Eyes of Memory

Director Jean Delannoy's immediate followup to his brilliant Les Jeux sont Faits was the more conven...

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Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths

This documentary consists mainly of archive interviews of Jean Cocteau, and it features interesting ...

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The Four-Poster Bed
The Four-Poster Bed

In his prison cell, the composer Remi Bonvent composed an opera, The columns bed. The director of th...

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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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Diamond Rush
Diamond Rush

Traumatized by the War of Algeria and by the accidental death of his wife and his son, Manu left the...

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The Provocation
The Provocation

An expedition of archaeology students in Israel....

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The Secret of Mayerling
The Secret of Mayerling

On the morning of January 30, 1889, the Archduke Rodolphe de Habsbourg and his mistress Marie Vetser...

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Every Day Has Its Secret
Every Day Has Its Secret

Given up for dead three years ago in a plane crash in the Amazon rainforest, a young woman arrives i...

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The Lovers of Midnight
The Lovers of Midnight

Marcel, rich and alone for Christmas, invite Françoise to celebrate with him. Soon, the fairy tale t...

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Le Scandale
Le Scandale

A woman suffers ill repute when she deserts her husband for a fling with an adventurer and gives the...

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Screening at the Majestic
Screening at the Majestic

More than fifty years after its making, we return to the set of Jean Cocteau's 1946 film "La Belle e...

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Goubbiah and the Gipsy Girl
Goubbiah and the Gipsy Girl

Goubbiah is a Yugoslav sponge fisherman. He loves Trinida, but she is promised to Peppo, the village...

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S.O.S. Noronha
S.O.S. Noronha

In 1930, on the island of Noronha in Brazil, the inmates of the penitentiary revolt. Frédéric Coulib...

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Shipwrecked Children
Shipwrecked Children

Eight children of a wrecker live together on a strange island, in a supernatural happiness. Until th...

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Damia: Concert en velours noir
Damia: Concert en velours noir

Documentary on the singer Damia made for TV....

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The Whole Town Accuses
The Whole Town Accuses

François is the benefactor of the town; but later on, all the inhabitants turn against him....

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The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender
The Silver Screen: Color Me Lavender

A film scrapbook, images, phrases from our past, hiding their meanings behind veils. Let's lift thos...

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The Call of Destiny
The Call of Destiny

Young conductor Roberto Lombardini has never known his father who is actually a former musician, a f...

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Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées

The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from G...

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Cherchez l'idole
Cherchez l'idole

After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning t...

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The World of Jacques Demy
The World of Jacques Demy

Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacq...

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Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là
Catherine Deneuve, belle et bien là

Catherine Deneuve couldn’t care less about being a celebrity, but fame made her an icon long ago and...

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The Healer
The Healer

Pierre Laurent, a former doctor, has established himself as a renowned healer in Brittany. A young g...

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Lien de parenté
Lien de parenté

In this drama, the popular French film star of the '30s and '40s Jean Marais plays Victor, a disgrun...

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Pour le cinema: Le peau d'ane
Pour le cinema: Le peau d'ane

Writer / director Jacques Demy and actors Catherine Deneuve and Jean Marais are interviewed on the s...

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Jean Marais par Jean Marais
Jean Marais par Jean Marais

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Die 1000 Tode des Yvan Chiffre
Die 1000 Tode des Yvan Chiffre

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Jean Cocteau, cinéaste
Jean Cocteau, cinéaste

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I misteri di Roma
I misteri di Roma

A day in Rome viewed by sixteen different directors under the supervision of the great screenwriter ...

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