Michael Lonsdale
Michael Edward Lonsdale Crouch (24 May 1931 – 21 September 2020), commonly known as Michael Lonsdale and sometimes as Michel Lonsdale, was a French actor and author. Description above from the Wikipedia article Michael Lonsdale, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
The Day of the Jackal
as Deputy Commissioner Claude LebelAn international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to...
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Agora
as TheonA historical drama set in Roman Egypt, concerning philosopher Hypatia of Alexandria and her...
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Moonraker
as Hugo DraxAfter Drax Industries' Moonraker space shuttle is hijacked, secret agent James Bond is assigned...
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The Name of the Rose
as The Abbot14th-century Franciscan monk William of Baskerville and his young novice arrive at a conference...
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Munich
as PapaDuring the 1972 Olympic Games in Munich, eleven Israeli athletes are taken hostage and murdered...
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Murmur of the Heart
as Father HenriThis loosely plotted coming-of-age tale follows the life of 15-year-old Laurent Chevalier as he...
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The Remains of the Day
as Dupont D'IvryA rule-bound head butler's world of manners and decorum in the household he maintains is tested...
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Stolen Kisses
as Georges TabardThe third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the...
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A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes...
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The Passage
as RenoudotDuring WW 2, a Basque shepherd is approached by the underground, who wants him to lead a...
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The Bride Wore Black
as MoraneJulie Kohler, whose husband was inexplicably shot dead on the church steps after their wedding,...
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To Each His Own Cinema
as The old blind man (segment "Le Don")Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema"...
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The Holcroft Covenant
as Ernst ManfrediA man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi...
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Goya's Ghosts
as Inquisitor GeneralPainter Francisco Goya becomes involved with the Spanish Inquisition after his muse, Inés, is...
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Of Gods and Men
as LucFrench drama based on the 1996 kidnapping and killing of seven monks in Algeria. A group of...
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Hibernatus
as Edouard LoriebatThe frozen body of Paul Fournier is discovered in Greenland where he had disappeared during a...
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The Bunker
as Martin BormannDramatization depicting the events surrounding Adolf Hitler's last weeks in and around his...
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Mr. Klein
as PierreParis, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who...
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Chariots of Fire
as Garth Jones (scenes deleted)In the class-obsessed and religiously divided UK of the early 1920s, two determined young...
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Kaena: The Prophecy
as Opaz (french voice)Compelled by a mysterious force, Kaena, a rebellious, high-spirited teenage girl will defy the...
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The Trial
as PriestJosef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on...
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The Romantic Englishwoman
as SwanA marriage crisis between a writer and his wife leads her to flee to Germany and eventually...
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Titeuf
as Le psyTiteuf is a comic series created by Swiss draughtsman Zep (real name Philippe Chapuis) depicting...
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The Phantom of Liberty
as Le chapelierThis Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short...
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Is Paris Burning?
as Debu-Bridel (uncredited)Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if...
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Five Times Two
as BernardAs young French couple Gilles and Marion officially separate, we see, in reverse order, the...
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The Last Mistress
as le vicomte PronySecrets, rumors and betrayals surround the upcoming marriage between a young dissolute man and...
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India Song
as Le Vice-Consul de LahoreIn 1937 Calcutta, the wife of the French ambassador takes on many lovers.
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Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In...
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Stavisky...
as Docteur MézyBiarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to...
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Nelly and Monsieur Arnaud
as DollabellaNelly leaves her lazy, unemployed husband to work for retired judge Mr Arnaud, forty years her...
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The Mystery of the Yellow Room
as StangersonJoseph Rouletabille, a reporter for a local newspaper, investigates the attempted killing of...
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A Monkey's Tale
as Maître Flavius (Voice)Kom is from a tribe of monkeys who live in a canopy. He rejects elders' authority as well as the...
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The Perfume of the Lady in Black
as Le professeur StangersonNewly married, Mathilde and Robert are honeymooning at a resort owned by their friends Edith and...
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Successive Slidings of Pleasure
as The JudgeA young woman is questioned by the police and the judges, suspected of being a modern witch. The...
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Good King Dagobert
as Saint EloiKing's Dagobert I intestinal and sexual problems loom large as he survives an attack on his...
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Actors
as SelfLes Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot...
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Galileo
as Cardinal Barberini (later Pope Urban VIII)Challenged by a new student, tutor and theorist Galileo co-opts emerging telescope technology...
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The First, the Last
as Jean-BerchmansApocalyptic neo-western about two gangsters, a town full of crazy people and Jesus...
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Mauvais Genre
as Honoré de BalzacThe film's title is a pun, the double meaning referencing both the "wrong genre" and a person...
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Don Juan
as Don LuisSpain in the mid-seventeenth century. A series of bloody wars has ravaged the nation. Don Juan...
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Maestro
as Cedric RovèreHenry, a young actor, finds himself involved in a film by cinema superstar, Cédric Rovere....
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Under a False Name
as DavidA mysterious writer is involved in a love affair with his stepson's wife, leading to a web of...
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Jefferson in Paris
as Louis XVIHis wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to...
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Snobs!
as Charles DufautFour vice-presidents fight among themselves to reach the top post after the president dies....
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A Dirty Story
as uncreditedA group of friends listen as one man tells them a story about a time when, in a small cafe, he...
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My Life Is Hell
as GabrielThe naive and self-conscious Leah mistakenly signs a pact with the devil Abargadon. But she's on...
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Law Breakers
as Inspecteur BertrandA judge investigating police corruption finds that the deeper he digs, the more roadblocks he finds.
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There Once Was a Cop
as Commissioner LucasCampana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch...
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Go West: A Lucky Luke Adventure
as Bartleby (voice)The Daltons have escaped to New York, where their accumulated loot is hidden in the carts of...
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The Track
as David SutterSomewhere in rural France, a young English female tourist is sexually assaulted by two men in...
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Concerto for an Exile
as Un acteur au théâtreYoung Africans in Paris face insecurity and vague future. Should they stay in France, or return...
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Free Men
as Si Kaddour Ben GhabritIn Paris during WWII, an Algerian immigrant is inspired to join the resistance by his unexpected...
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The Pink Telephone
as M. Morrison, président de la FieldingA small industrialist from Toulouse, goes to Paris to negotiate the buyout of his company from...
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Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
as SelfLaurent Terzieff was more than a good actor, after having been a real "star" in the cinema,...
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Special Section
as Pierre Pucheu - le ministre de l'intérieurIn occupied France during the WWII, a German officer is murdered. The collaborationist Vichy...
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Out 1
as ThomasWhile two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the...
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The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
as CammerschulzeStory about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way...
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Out 1: Spectre
as ThomasOut 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we...
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Gebo and the Shadow
as GeboDespite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his...
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Let There Be Light!
as Monseigneur LoubliéGod comes to Earth in order to make a film.
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The Old Maid
as MonodMuriel is a shy woman who bluffs and blusters around in order to hide her shyness and to protect...
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The Denunciation
as MercierMichel Jussieu, a film producer, returns one morning to the cabaret where he forgot his sweater....
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Les Compagnons de la marguerite
as Lastac / Lataque, expert en écritures / Le juge (voix)Jean-Louis Matouzec works for French National Library as an expert looking after the restoration...
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Your Money or Your Life
as Le conférencier au club des timidesPétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to...
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The Stud
as le commissaire Donald BothVeterinary surgeon William Chaminade is having a peaceful holiday in the South of France when he...
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The Man in the Buick
as L'inspecteur Farjon de la P.J.Mr Jo, nicknamed "the man with the Buick", is the darling of the small town of Honfleur. But he...
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Les Filles au Moyen-Âge
as DanielThe history of women through the Middle Ages as told to and by little boys and girls and an old...
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A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
as uncreditedBack from Indochina, Tony and Dick, two French soldiers, are now in possession of more than 20...
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The Games of Countess Dolingen
as Bertrand Haines-PearsonThis complex and puzzling French drama walks the fine wavering line between the fictional and...
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Speaking of Buñuel
as SelfSurrealist master Luis Buñuel is a towering figure in the world of cinema history, directing...
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Serious as Pleasure
as Inspecteur Fournier"In Serieux comme le plaisir, two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic...
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The Big Wash
as DelarocheSickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an...
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Erendira
as Senator Onésimo SanchezWhile Erendira, a beautiful teenage girl, has a surreal mystical vision, her grandmother's house...
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La grande Paulette
as uncreditedThis is an attempt to imitate the inimitable, Jacques Tati. Paulette is a life-size blow-up...
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Crime Does Not Pay
as ActeurHusband try to kill his wife with a help of the plan he saw in a film. But reality is not a film.
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Le Furet
as Don SalvadoreFrom his locksmith's shop, a simple guy dreams of becoming a crime boss, at the wheel of his...
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No Pockets in a Shroud
as RaymondIn the newspaper he has just founded, journalist Dolannes exposes all the wheeling and dealing...
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Inside 'Moonraker'
as SelfDocumentary looking at the production of the James Bond movie 'Moonraker'. Narated by Patrick...
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Caravan to Vaccarès
as Duc de Croyter (as Michel Lonsdale)American Neil Bowman is traveling through France when he meets British photographer Lila. They...
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Hitler in Hollywood
as Michael LonsdaleA bio-doc about Micheline Presle changes into a thrilling investigation of the long hidden truth...
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Destroy, She Said
as SteinIn a secluded hotel circumscribed by a dense forest Max and Alissa Thor meet Stein and...
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You'll Miss Me
as MaxIn an airport, six destinies, during a short moment, will change, separate and meet. And if...
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Jean Eustache's Wasted Breath
as (voice)Ángel Díaz’s documentary The Lost Sorrows of Jean Eustache, concentrates on Eustache as...
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The Cardboard Village
as Old PriestWhen a group of African immigrants builds a cardboard village between the pews of a church soon...
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Dieu sait quoi
as NarratorA homage to journalist Francis Ponge in a film that its author regarded as “natural.”
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Hail! Mafia
as HymanA couple of hit men set out to kill an old friend.
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Bye Bye Blackbird
as RobertA period drama set in the early years of the 20th century. Josef, a former construction worker...
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The Nail Clippers
as Le mariThe disappearance of some nail clippers in a hotel room puzzles the owners of the capricious object.
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Gentille
as JeanAs Gentille opens, Fontaine Leglou is walking down a Paris street, and stops to confront a man...
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Mad Enough to Kill
as Stephane MostriJulie Ballenger has spent five years in a psychiatric clinic. Leaving the clinic apparently...
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Heartbeat Detector
as Mathias JüstA psychologist discovers troubling links between Nazism and modern-day big business.
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Jaune, Le Soleil
as Un juifThe whole film takes place in a single room where representatives of the two political forces...
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Chronopolis
as Narrator (voice)Chronopolis tells the story of a gargantuan city lurking in the sky colonized by powerful...
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Autumn
as Julien, le réalisateurJulien, a movie director, is on the phase of editing his new film, "Juliette sacrifiée". Hurried...
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Son nom de Venise dans Calcutta désert
as The Vice Consul of LahoreThe full soundtrack to Marguerite Duras' 1975 film India Song, about a French ambassador's wife...
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The Insomniac on the Bridge
as AntonieThis quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac...
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Spring
as L'homme qui fuitOne of four Hanoun films that take their titles from the seasons of the year, SPRING tells two...
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Degas and I
as uncreditedBetween dance and drawings, Arnaud des Pallières relates different moments of Degas’s life and...
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Invisible
as Le gardienA budding electronica artist gives up his shot at stardom to pursue a woman from a telephone...
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La Fenêtre
as BracquemontTwo suicides take place in the same room of a hotel in Paris. The police investigate the reason...
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Le petit Nicolas
as The fatherAt school, Nicolas is falsely accused of misbehaving and is expelled. On school photo day,...
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The Judge
as Le docteurA courageous judge tries to dismantle a drug traffickers ring.
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Noise of Love and War
as uncreditedA couple takes charge of mounting the film of love and war of a filmmaker friend faded away.
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The Suspects
as Le juge SouftriesWhen an American tourist is murdered in the south of France, the police must investigate. In...
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Winter
as Julien & MarcWhile working on a documentary about the city of Bruges, an artistically frustrated filmmaker...
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Le Renard jaune
as Jean VirnoCharles Senac, author of a single novel but crowned by the Prix Goncourt, is hated by the...
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Mersonne ne m'aime
as Commissioner BancauAfter a feminist is found murdered in her own home, a police detective investigates the crime...
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Rosenn
as (voice)A famous English writer, Lewis Lafoly, forty and languidly elegant, meets Rosennn Auroch, a...
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Adieu
as SergeUnder threat in Algeria, Ismahel emigrates to France where he wants to live and work, with the...
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The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited
as SelfIn June 2015, forty-five years after OUT 1 was made, the filmmakers went to Paris to interview...
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J.R.R. Tolkien: Designer of Worlds
as uncreditedThis is a story of a seemingly quiet and unobtrusive man, author of a colossal and partly...
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The Itchy Palm
as uncreditedA widow in her fifties,Madame Lacoste ,meets Jean when they both come to put their pussy in a...
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The Authentic Trial of Carl Emmanuel Jung
as L'Avocat de la Défense20 years later, the recreation of the trial of a simple man that confesses himself as a war...
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The Visit
as uncreditedBobo and Michael Lonsdale are alone in the Château de Versailles. Together, they are walking...
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Les grands sentiments font les bons gueuletons
as Stéphane1970s France. In this modern Parisian city suburb, the paths cross of two neighbours living on...
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It Happened in Aden
as SinclairDuring a stopover in Aden, a charming actress is kidnapped by an Arab prince.
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The Little Misses
as L'elèveFour young girls' love of boys put their newly opened all-services company in peril.
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A Whale That Had a Toothache
as Le peintreBernardette is feeling bored in a country house. She decides to send weekend invitations to a...
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Earthen Man
as (voice)From the construction of a sculpture "life size" in the earth, the director Boris Lehman...
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Le revolver et la rose
as Philippe de la Tour / Dimitri KorkeskyEric, a 14-year-old boy, is now almost alone. His mother, faced with her husband's bizarre...
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Right to the city
as NarratorLefebvre's Le Droit à la Ville as visualised by Jean-Louis Bertucelli
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The Accuser
as AbéraudIn this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the...
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Scrambled Eggs
as The President of the RepublicBrumaire, the director of public relations at the Élysée, is trying to boost the rating of his...
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The Devil in the Box
as Georges AubertAlain Brissot, an executive in a major company, was made redundant following a redundancy plan,...
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Souvenir
as Xavier LorionIn 1944, a dashing German soldier and a beautiful French girl fell deeply in love while World...
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The Left-Handed Woman
as The WaiterMourning for a lost relationship can be every bit as devastating as mourning for someone who has...
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Film sur Georges Perec
as SelfA two-part documentary made for French TV about Georges Perec, directed by his former partner...
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The Outsider
as Narrator (Voice)Machinima-adaptation of Albert Camus book "L'étranger", done in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas.
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Jaloux comme un tigre
as un autre homme en voitureHenri has a beautiful wife, Sophie. Unfortunately, suffering from an unhealthy jealousy, he...
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The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
as Le reporter TV / Ponce PilateA very personal interpretation, to say the least, of the passion of the Christ According to St....
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Veilleurs dans la nuit - Une journée monastique à l'Abbaye Sainte-Madeleine du Barroux
as Narrateur
Adorable Liar
as AlbertJuliette is a young woman who just can't help lying. She lies to her sister, Sophie, to Sophie's...
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The Buddies
as LamendinSeven old pals live inseparable lives, dividing their time between hilarious pranks and...
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Papa, the Lil' Boats
as Hippolyte the brother of MarylèneIn this whimsical French comedy, Cookie (aka Venus de Palma) is a tough, sweet little rich girl,...
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The Girl with the Cello
as uncreditedA lonely and unsociable man is spying on customers in a department store in Geneva. He gets his...
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The Door Slams
as GeorgesBetween a whimsical wife, two insolent girls, a son who is engaged in strange chemical...
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Jeanne, à petits pas
as uncreditedSummer is slowly drawing to a close. Jeanne, in her sixties, is abandoned on the side of the...
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Billy Ze Kick
as Commissaire BellangerBilly Ze Kick is name of a fictional serial killer in a bedtime story that a police inspector...
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Judoka-Secret Agent
as Thomas PerkinsMarc is a French secret agent whose only weapons are judo and karate. With the help of his...
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The Ghostly Rental
as KernanAt the end of the 19th Century, young Fanning finishes his studies in theology at the University...
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Sweet Inquest on Violence
as Ash, the financierAfter a businessman is captured by kidnappers, his rescue seems incumbent on a group of...
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Those Facing Us
as MikaëlIn a big isolated house, Mikael, a musician, is composing a psalm. A young woman, Linda, comes...
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Un troisième
as Le réalisateurShots of a sequence of a shooting: young girl who must shed tears.
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Une jeunesse
as BéjardyAfter the birthday party of his wife Odile, Louis accompanies a friend to the station. When the...
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Aloïse
as le médecinThe painful life of a mentally unstable but highly gifted woman is unveiled in this film, based...
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Bartleby
as L'HuissierAdaptation of the classic Herman Melville short story. The narrator, an elderly Manhattan lawyer...
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Alone
as LudovicJean, the lead character in this psychological journey is torn by a search for his lost...
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Les trois soeurs
as Andreï ProdarovA year after the death of their father, life can begin again for Macha, Olga, Irina and their...
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Chut !
as SergelA small saver discovers the scam that threatens all subscribers to the "Caution foncière". He...
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Bazin's Film
as NarratorA meditation on the passing of time, on a film that was never completed, upon Bazin’s death, on...
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N: The Madness Of Reason
as NarratorN recounts the story of the Frenchman Raymond Borremans, who left Europe for Africa in the...
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The Separation
as Paul DoumerOn March 21, 1905, the hemicycle of the Palais-Bourbon resounded with the first session of a...
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Les années Lumière
as uncreditedFilm montage of documents shot between 1895 and 1900 by the operators of the Lumière brothers.
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Cygne II
as Narrator (voice)Constructed like an animated painting in a single fixed shot where light, voice, music and...
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The Boulugres
as Le roi (voice)Herbert, a Candide-like idealistic teenager, wants to become a doctor to help humanity, but his...
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Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
as SelfDelphine Seyrig, an extraordinary woman and actress, died on October 15, 1990. From "Last Year...
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as SelfA talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Maigret
as Guillaume SerreThe pragmatic, reserved and refined Maigret investigates murders in his singular unhurried...
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Smiley's People
as uncreditedCalled out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization,...
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Smiley's People
as Anton GrigorievCalled out of retirement to settle the affairs of a friend, Smiley finds his old organization,...
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Out 1
as ThomasFollowing the May 1968 civil unrest in France, a deaf-mute and a con artist simultaneously...
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Au siècle de Maupassant, contes et nouvelles du XIXe
as Le Grand Loustalot
Le Tiroir secret
as Philippe JolivetLe Tiroir secret is a 1986 French family drama TV mini-series directed by Michel Boisrond,...
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