Michel Piccoli
Michel Jacques Daniel Piccoli is the son of Henri Piccoli, violinist and Marcelle Expert-Bezançon (1892-1990), pianist and daughter of the French industrialist and politician Charles Expert-Bezançon. In 1954, Michel Piccoli married actress Éléonore Hirt with whom he had a daughter, Anne-Cordélia Piccoli. In 1966, he married the singer Juliette Gréco, then in 1978 the screenwriter Ludivine Clerc, with whom he adopted two children of Polish origin, Inord and Missia. Placed in an establishment for problem children, the commitments of the young Piccoli, are made in opposition to his maternal grandfather, senator of the Third Republic, financier of the Radical Party, and important industrial painter, accused by the trade union left and by Georges Clemenceau, of having intoxicated his workmen through lead white which causes lead poisoning. Michel Piccoli then trained as an actor first with Andrée Bauer-Théraud and then during Simon. After an appearance as an extra in "Sortilèges" by Christian-Jaque in 1945, Michel Piccoli made his film debut in "Le Point Du Jour" by Louis Daquin. In the theater he distinguished himself with the Renaud-Barrault and Grenier-Hussot companies as well as at the Théâtre de Babylone. Noticed in the film "French Cancan" in 1954, he continued on stage and worked with directors Jacques Audiberti, Jean Vilar, Jean-Marie Serreau, Peter Brook, Luc Bondy, Patrice Chéreau and André Engel, and became also know in popular TV movies. Having become an atheist after a family bereavement, he met Luis Buñuel in 1956, and ironically took on the role of a priest in "La Mort En Ce Jardin". In 1959, he shot "Le Rendez-Vous De Noël", a short film by André Michel based on the short story by Malek Ouary "Le Noël Du Petit Cireur", in Algiers. The 1960s sounded his consecration, noticed in "Le Doulos" by Jean-Pierre Melville, he was revealed internationally with "Le Mépris" by Jean-Luc Godard alongside Brigitte Bardot. From then on, he toured with the greatest French and international filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Buñuel, Youssef Chahine, Manoel de Oliveira... He began the 1980s with the interpretation prize at the Cannes festival in 1980, with "Le Saut Dans Le Vide" by Marco Bellocchio, and that of the Berlin festival in 1982, with "Une Étrange Affaire" by Pierre Granier-Deferre. . He worked with Jacques Doillon, Leos Carax, before trying his hand at directing. In 2001 he received the IX Europe Prize for Theatre. He was part of the jury of the 60th Cannes Film Festival in 2007, chaired by Stephen Frears. In 2011, he played in "Habemus Papam" by Nanni Moretti. The last film in which Michel Piccoli appears is the film "Le Goût Des Myrtilles", by Thomas de Thiers in 2013. Politically committed to the left, member of the Peace Movement (communist), Michel Piccoli distinguished himself by his positions against the National Front, and mobilized for Amnesty International. Michel Piccoli died on May 12, 2020 following a stroke in his mansion in Saint-Philbert-sur-Risle in Eure. His funeral takes place in Évreux on May 19, 2020, where he is cremated, his ashes are scattered within the family property.
Contempt
as Paul JavalA philistine in the art film business, Jeremy Prokosch is a producer unhappy with the work of...
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The Passerby
as Max BaumsteinMax Baumstein is a reputable businessman who founded an international organization fighting...
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It's Not Me
as (archive footage)This free-form film is a self-portrait, which revisits more than 40 years of the author’s...
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Belle de Jour
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
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The Things of Life
as Pierre BérardThe mind of Pierre Bérard, a successful middle-aged architect, is torn between his unstable...
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Cesar and Rosalie
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Max and the Junkmen
as MaxA detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too...
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We Have a Pope
as MelvilleThe newly elected Pope suffers a panic attack just as he is about to greet the faithful who have...
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To Each His Own Cinema
as Nikita Kruschev (segment "Rencontre unique")Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema"...
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La Belle Noiseuse
as Edouard FrenhoferThe former famous painter Frenhofer lives quietly with his wife on a countryside residence in...
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Holy Motors
as Man with the Wine StainWe follow 24 hours in the life of a being moving from life to life like a cold and solitary...
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The Young Girls of Rochefort
as Simon DameDelphine and Solange are two sisters living in Rochefort. Delphine is a dancing teacher and...
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The Night of Varennes
as King Louis XVI (uncredited)During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something...
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The Prize of Peril
as Frédéric MallaireIn a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to...
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La Grande Bouffe
as MichelFour friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.
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May Fools
as MilouAn eccentric family is re-united during the 1968 general strike in France, after the death of...
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Little Lili
as acteur qui joue SimonThis film, loosely inspired by Anton Chekov's The Seagull, weaves a story about sex, family and...
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Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
as François, médecinThree friends navigate mid-life crises: a blocked writer, a disillusioned doctor, and a charming...
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Le Doulos
as NuttheccioEnigmatic gangster Silien may or may not be responsible for informing on Faugel, who was just...
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Atlantic City
as JosephIn a corrupt city, a small-time gangster and the estranged wife of a pot dealer find themselves...
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Godard's Passion
as Michel BoulardWhile shooting a film, the director becomes interested in the unfolding struggle of a young...
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The Witches of Salem
as James PutnamSalem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of...
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Danger: Diabolik
as Inspector GinkoInternational man of mystery Diabolik and his sensuous lover Eva Kant pull off heist after...
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Mauvais Sang
as MarcTwo aging crooks are given two weeks to repay a debt to a woman named The American. They recruit...
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Wedding in Blood
as Pierre MauryLucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne's husband Paul is the mayor,...
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The Milky Way
as Marquis de SadeTwo men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their...
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Diary of a Chambermaid
as Monsieur MonteilCelestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father....
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Woman in Chains
as L'invité pressé au vernissage (uncredited)Gallery director Stanislas bolsters the development of modern art with his collection of...
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The Phantom of Liberty
as Le deuxième préfet de policeThis Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short...
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Mado
as Simon LéotardA middle-aged businessman faces bankruptcy after his partner's suicide and a rival's...
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Is Paris Burning?
as Edgar PisaniNear the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if...
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Raining Cats and Frogs
as Ferdinand (voice)It's a catastrophe! A flood has hit our planet and an unusual group of people are all that...
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Topaz
as Jacques GranvilleCopenhagen, Denmark, 1962. When a high-ranking Soviet official decides to change sides, a French...
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French Cancan
as Le Capitaine ValorgueilNineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening...
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The Beaches of Agnès
as Self (archive footage)Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of...
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A Room in Town
as Edmond LeroyerSet against the backdrop of an increasingly violent strike, a worker falls in love with the...
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Death in a French Garden
as Graham TombsthayA wealthy wife's affair with her daughter's guitar tutor is threatened when the tutor is...
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The Sleeping Car Murder
as René Cabourg, l'employé besogneux (Victime #2)Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its...
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The Last Woman
as MichelPsychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl...
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Death in the Garden
as Father LizzardiIn a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local...
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Spoiled Children
as Bernard RougerieSuccessful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate...
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Weak Spot
as L'enquêteurGreece 1974 - during the brutal era of the military government, and innocent tourist manager...
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One Way or Another
as LuiSet during a retreat of Christian Democrat politicians who practice spiritual exercises...
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Little Girl in Blue Velvet
as Conrad BruknerAn ageing surgeon falls in love with a thirteen-year-old girl.
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The Young Girls Turn 25
as Self (archive footage)Agnes Varda's documentary of the celebrations arising from the 25th anniversary of her husband...
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One Hundred and One Nights
as Simon CinémaMonsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so...
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Amazons of Rome
as Console PublicolaMarching down the Italian peninsula to sack ancient Rome, Etruscan warrior Drusco instead offers...
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Leonor
as RichardRichard is a medieval nobleman. After his first wife dies in an accident and is buried in the...
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The Dust of Time
as SpyrosA, an American film director of Greek ancestry, is making a film that tells his story and the...
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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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Dillinger Is Dead
as GlaucoA man decides to cook for himself and finds a revolver (which may have belonged to John...
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Strange Affair
as Bertrand MalairA young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his...
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You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet
as Le pèreFrom beyond the grave, celebrated playwright Antoine d'Anthac gathers together all his friends...
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Atrocious Tales of Love and Death
as Victor NavarroRaphael, a restaurant mandolin player with a limp, a father to support, and a lot of debt,...
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Espion, lève-toi
as Jean-Paul ChanceSebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However,...
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The Bellman
as Un villageoisThe bell ringer at a way station in the French Alps, murders a passing horse trader with a...
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Lines of Wellington
as Leópold ScheitzerPassionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of...
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The Assassination
as Colonel KassarDarien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris,...
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Boxes
as PapaAnna, 50 years old, moves into her new house. Rooms are full of boxes which contain a lot of...
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The Creatures
as Edgar PiccoliAfter a road accident, a writer, Edgar, and his wife, Mylène, take up residence on an island off...
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The World of Jacques Demy
as SelfAgnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her...
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Le Bel Âge
as Maurice ReverdyAt 18, Claire is torn between swim practice and the pangs of first love. The elderly and...
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Belle Toujours
as Henri Husson38 years after the events in the Luis Buñuel classic Belle du jour, Henri Husson thinks he sees...
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Life Size
as MichelWhen Michel gets the life-sized sex doll he ordered, shipped directly from Japan, he is only...
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The Grand Manoeuvre
as Un officier (uncredited)Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses...
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Paparazzi
as Texte dit par (voice)Paparazzi explores the relationship between Brigitte Bardot and groups of invasive photographers...
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The Infernal Trio
as Georges SarretMarseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for...
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The Diary of an Innocent Boy
as Count PhilippeSet in 18th century France, a naive 17-year-old orphan named Benjamin is taken in by his wealthy...
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Genealogies of a Crime
as Georges DidierAn attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in...
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Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class
as Maurice RougerThis film is the second of a two-part historical and biographical portrait of the communist...
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Dangerous Moves
as Akiva LiebskindWorld Chess Champion Akiva Liebskind (Michel Piccoli) faces his former pupil Pavius Fromm...
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The Prodigal Daughter
as Le pèreA young woman in a deep depression leaves her husband and returns to her parents. She discovers...
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Elsa the Rose
as Narrator (voice)Images and poems of the celebrated couple Louis Aragon and Elsa Triolet. Elsa’s youth as...
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The General of the Dead Army
as BenetandiIn the early 1960s, nearly 20 years since the Second World War ended, an Italian general,...
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The Children Thief
as Mr. ArmandAlthough he was once a colonel in Argentina, the principal character in this film is now a...
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Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
as Prince de ContiBeaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright,...
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Going and Coming Back
as Simon LernerSalomé Lerner just finished writing an autobiography. She goes to a TV show called...
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Leap Into the Void
as Mauro PonticelliMauro, a judge, is worried about his older sister Marta, who took care of him since he was a...
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Adieu Bonaparte
as CaffarelliThis big-budget historical epic from acclaimed Egyptian director Youssef Chahine features a...
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Themroc
as ThemrocThemroc, a bachelor house painter living at home with his mother, leads a sad and colorless...
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The War Is Over
as Inspector #1Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he...
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François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story
as Self (archive footage)In the summer of 1963, François Mitterrand was going through a deep existential crisis. His...
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Nothing About Robert
as Lord Ariel Chatwick-WestDidier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land...
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
as Self (archive footage)In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about...
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All About Loving
as RaoulSerge follows Hélène in the crowded streets of Paris and manages to seduce her. Werther takes...
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La Belle Noiseuse : Divertimento
as Edouard FrenhoferMore than just an abbreviated form of "La Belle Noiseuse", Rivette re-cut his footage with some...
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The Game Is Over
as Alexandre SaccardRenee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls...
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The Eyes, the Mouth
as Tío AgostinoA rich Italian's shocking suicide means different things to his twin brother, mother and...
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The Supper
as Chateaubriand (voice)France, 1815. After his defeat at Waterloo, Napoleon heads for exile. Royalists occupy Paris and...
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Without Leaving an Address
as Un journaliste aux archives (non crédité)A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who...
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Without Leaving an Address
as Un journaliste aux archivesA woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who...
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as Michel PerrinThe movie starts with an interview with director Claude Lelouch. He pleads viewers not to...
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Liza
as Giorgio's friendLiza meets the artist Giorgio and falls in love with him. She dreams of becoming the wife of...
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The Day and the Hour
as AntoineIt's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't...
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Don't Touch the White Woman!
as Buffalo BillA highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand...
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Tykho Moon
as Mac Bee / frère Mac BeeThe McBee family has erected a government over a future 'colony', that looks like a run-down...
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Malady of Love
as Raoul BergeronTwo physicians, one old and one young, fall in love with the same woman, Juliette, a quixotic...
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Hello Cubans
as Narrator (voice)A photo montage of Cubans filmed by Agnès Varda during her visit to Cuba in 1963, four years...
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Marx Can Wait
as Agostino (archive footage) (uncredited)"Marx can wait" was something Camillo Bellocchio said to his twin Marco the last time they met...
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The Nonentity
as der TölpelEach evening, four men – a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant – meet up in a...
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Shock Troops
as L'homme de tropA French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but...
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The Emigrant
as Adam - Ram's fatherThe biblical tale of Joseph is told from an Egyptian perspective in this interesting character...
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Beyond the Door
as Mr. MuttiNina lives a morbid relationship with her stepfather, who is serving time in prison for the...
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Le bal des Casse-pieds
as Désiré, l'homosexuelA tolerant veterinarian turns the other cheek when annoyed but changes his nature when he falls...
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Godard by Godard
as Self (archive footage)Godard by Godard is an archival self-portrait of Jean-Luc Godard. It retraces the unique and...
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Portrait Of My Father
as SelfA labor of love documentary, in which a daughter, with the help of various talking heads, looks...
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The Dinosaur and the Baby
as Paul Javal (archive footage)An hour-long discussion between Fritz Lang and Jean-Luc Godard in which they discuss a variety...
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I’m Going Home
as Gilbert ValenceThe comfortable daily routines of aging Parisian actor Gilbert Valence, 76, are suddenly shaken...
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Touch and Go
as ValentinNorth Africa, December 1942. Valentin, a professional gardener ruined by the bombings of 1940,...
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Le coup de grâce
as Capri / BrunoDuring WWII, Bruno gave away many people to the Gestapo. Now, 25 years after, with a new face...
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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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Bad Liaisons
as un inspecteurCatherine Racan, a young journalist who always puts her career over her love life, is brought in...
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Scénario du film Passion
as SelfGodard constructs a lyrical study of the cinematic and creative process by deconstructing the...
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Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!
as José VissThe cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end...
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Un amour de pluie
as Mr. Dellerue (voice)Elizabeth and her daughter Cecile spend their holidays at a lakeside resort in the French...
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Success Is the Best Revenge
as French OfficialPoland is under Communist rule. An exiled Polish theater director is in England,...
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Bardot et Godard
as HimselfA documentary short following director Jean-Luc Godard on the set of Contempt.
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Passion in the Desert
as Jean-Michel Venture de ParadisYoung French officer Augustin Robert escorts artist Jean-Michel Venture de Paradis to Egypt...
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The Audience
as Padre AmerinCaustic satire on bureaucracy of the Vatican authority and a simple Italian who wants to achieve...
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Confused Feelings
as ProfessorIt is the story of a middle age professor who falls deaply in love with a young student in his...
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Once Upon a Time… Contempt
as SelfFourty-six years since the release of Le mépris, Jean-Luc Godard watches the film again to...
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The Black Angel
as Georges FeuvrierStephane, the wife of a prominent magistrate, shoots and kills a man in her home and claims he...
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Against Oblivion
as SelfContre l'Oubli (Against Oblivion) is a compilation of 30 French filmmakers, Alain Resnais and...
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Lady L
as LecoeurLady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves...
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Far West
as uncreditedThis Belgian/French tale chronicles the efforts of Jacques (Jacques Brel) to find the Old West...
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Seven Deaths by Prescription
as Dr LosserayDr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their...
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The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun
as uncreditedA war film based on the novel "Journey into the Vertigo" by Evgenija Solomonovna Ginzburg
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Ten Days' Wonder
as Paul RegisCharles Van Horn, son of rich and powerful Théo Van Horn, calls upon his former teacher Paul...
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Masquerade
as Georges SarrassinThe British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.
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Invasion
as MarcelloA professor and his wife suffer humiliation at the hands of an invading college dissidents protest.
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The Price of Survival
as René WinterhalterGerman director Hans Noever shot this crime drama in the U.S. in English, an unusual achievement...
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On War
as Le grand HouAfter a freak accident changes his perspective on life, a Parisian filmmaker meets a stranger...
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Daughters of Destiny
as Pasquerel (segment "Jeanne")Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne...
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Sugar
as GrezilloCivil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.
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Heartbeat
as CharlesThe mistress of a wealthy man misses material comforts when she leaves him for a younger lover.
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My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister
as Étienne SembadelTwo members of the French Academy agree to help the attractive young veterinarian Esther...
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Rene the Cane
as Ispettore Marchand"René la Canne" was the second collaboration between Francis Girod and Ennio Morricone, coming...
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The Duchess of Langeais
as Vidame de PamiersGeneral Montriveau, having returned from the Napoleonic Wars in despair, quickly becomes...
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F as in Fairbanks
as EtienneAndré Fragman, nicknamed "Fairbanks" after his childhood idol by his film projectionist father,...
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Walking a Tightrope
as Marcel SpadiceA famous, ruthless writer takes a handsome young worker, with aspirations of becoming a...
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A Man, a Real One
as Michel PiccoliA shy computer expert falls in love with a beautiful colleague while trying to become a film...
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Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary
as Self (archive footage)Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary is a trip through the auteur's singular cosmos - at once...
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Nathalie
as Franck MarchalHaute Couture model in Paris becomes involved in the activities of two rival jewel thief gangs.
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Loonies at Large
as Henri ToussaintThis comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story,...
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Sinners of Paris
as L'inspecteur Vardier, de la P.J.Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss...
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The Mark Of The Day
as Georges GohelleIn a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake...
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Rendezvous
as PaulA soap-opera/murder mystery that builds to a deliriously melodramatic finale.
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La Voleuse
as Werner KreuzDrama of an unmarried mother who regrets having had her child fostered and fights its foster...
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The Monkey Folk
as uncreditedThis comprehensive documentary explores the lives and behavior in the wild of over a hundred...
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Sunday Buddies
as Le directeur de l'aéro-clubCasti and Trébois, two friends who are workers at the same factory, have developed a common...
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Les joueurs
as ChvokhnievIkhariev is a professional gambler who made his fortune by cheating. Having just won eighty...
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The Prude
as PierrePierre is the artistic director of a theater, and when his daughter Manon lets him know that she...
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Chance at Love
as Philippe Decharme (segment "Lucky la chance")Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love.
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Blanc de Chine
as BatzMathieu is called on by the French government to investigate murders in the Asian community of...
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Romy: Anatomy of a Face
as SelfDocumentary about young actress Romy Schneider, capturing just the right moment between her...
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That Day
as HaraldA father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by...
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Dom Juan
as Dom JuanThis telefilm in black and white is diffused on the first French chain the November 6th 1965. It...
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Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
as uncredited
Price of Love
as GeorgesBecause he loved a trainer named Suzy too much, honest Pierre Menard wasted his life and died....
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París-Tombuctú
as Michel des AssantesThe frustration and vital weariness of Michel des Assantes, a prestigious plastic surgeon in...
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The Bit Between the Teeth
as Pierre ChazerandThree men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of...
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Beast at Bay
as Commissaire Jacques GuimardMelun, on 1959. On the return to an auction, a young and attractive widow, Elisabeth Vernon,...
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The Savage State
as OrlavilleL'Etat Sauvage is based on the novel by Georges Conchon which won the highly esteemed Prix de...
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Hauteclaire
as Serlon de SavignyThe action takes place under the Restoration, at the Château de Savigny, near Nerville, a devout...
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The Perfume of the Lady in Black
as LebelMathilde Stangerson just married her fiance, when she heard that Larsan, her cruel former...
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Gardens in Autumn
as Marie, la mère de VincentWhen he loses his position as a powerful government minister, Vincent is dropped by his pretty...
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2 x 50 Years of French Cinema
as HimselfAt a lakeside hotel, Michel Piccoli discusses the centennial of cinema with Jean-Luc Godard....
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Our Lady of Hormones
as NarratorTwo actresses rehearse a play during a week-end in a country house. But one of them digs up a...
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The Uninvited
as François DesaillyWhen her husband returns from his work abroad with a guest, a young girl, his wife suspects a...
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Rupture(s)
as PaulWhen a woman fed-up with life in general commits suicide, what's left ? In the same vein, a...
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Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
as Self - Actor (archive footage)An account of the life and work of French filmmaker Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), a sybarite...
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Party
as MichelThe battle of the sexes? The forces of despair and seduction? On S. Miguel in the Azores,...
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Tabarin
as Jacques ForestierJacques Forestier, also a choreographer, an art decorator and a stage producer, is the very...
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The Veiled Man
as KassarClaire (Laure Marsac) is a 16-year-old young woman who discovers her father Pierre (Bernard...
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La Nuit de Tom Brown
as Tom Brown, jeuneHow did Master Brown turn from a man of faith into a cantankerous, distrustful and cynical man?...
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The Happiest Place on Earth
as Récitant (voice)The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was...
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The Accuser
as Saint-RameIn this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the...
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The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg
as Le baron de LeisenbohgThe 35-year-old ministry official Baron Leisenbohg had the stage career ten years ago as the...
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Magic Mirror
as Prof. HeschelLuciano, fresh out of jail, was taken by his brother, Flórido, to serve in the home of wealthy...
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The Devil's Tricks
as L'antiquaireGinette Chaluzac, who has left Central France for Paris, now works as a seamstress in a modest...
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Beneath the Rooftops of Paris
as MarcelAn old man living in an attic in a rundown part of Paris, becomes increasingly lonely and prey...
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Agnès Varda: From Here to There
as SelfAgnès Varda travels around the world to meet friends, artists and filmmakers for an expansive...
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Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère
as SelfStar at 17 years with the series of Sissi, Romy Schneider leaves Austria and glory for the love...
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My Love, My Love
as MarradesAn architect has an affair with a young woman who aspires to be a pop singer. She ends up...
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The Woman in Blue
as PierreLeading man Michel Piccoli plays Pierre, a young musician who briefly catches sight of a...
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Traveling Companion
as CosimoIn Rome, Cora is a waitress at a club, walks people's dogs, sleeps with various men, kips with...
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La Rumba
as Damien MallevilleParis, 1938. In a lavishly decorated nightclub, couples dance the syncopated rhythms of Latin...
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Le Matelot 512
as Récitant (voice)Max, who dreams of adventures, abandons his studies at 18 to become involved in the navy. He...
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Le divorcement
as PhilippeIn this rambling comic tale about a man and a wife, with four children, who calmly announce to...
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Everything's Connected
as NarratorAn analysis of French director Jacques Tati's 1957 film "Mon oncle" which discusses the...
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Fire's Share
as Robert HansenReal estate developer Bob Hansen discovers that his wife Catherine is cheating on him with his...
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Chicago Digest
as Slim SpringThis comedy short subject satirizes the Hollywood genre which the French had given the name to...
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How Good the Whites Are
as Père Jean-MarieThe humanitarian aid expedition "Angeles Azules" (Blue Angels), comprising twelve Europeans and...
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Un coupable
as L'avocatThe young Ali, a second year law student, gets caught up in a student demonstration. The...
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The Incredible Mr. Piccoli
as Self - Actor (archive footage)A captivating portrait of French actor Michel Piccoli, who has worked with the greatest...
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Kiarostami in Close up
as as SelfA documentary that focuses on Abbas Kiarostami's cinematic philosophy talking to himself and...
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Danger in the Middle East
as Brian CannonA criminal making plans to pull off one big score before he retires, comes into possession of...
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The Distant Land
as Friedrich HofreiterThe Distant Land (German: Das weite Land) is a 1987 Austrian-German drama film directed by Luc...
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Everything's Fine, We're Leaving
as LouisThree French sisters have their lives interrupted and their relationship called into question...
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Coming Apart
as (archive footage)"Our analysis of such a rich film should not be a rigid, either/or proposition. It remains for...
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Claude Sautet, Romy, Yves, Michel et les autres
as Self (archive footage)
La Lune
as uncreditedMichel Piccoli reads the first pages of Victor Hugo's 'Promontoire du songe'. In this text, Hugo...
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Train de nuit
as uncreditedThe man is seated in the compartment. Alone, he speaks to Lise through his memory. He goes...
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L'Été en hiver
as Jean, the reporterMovie for French TV - Jean, a highly sought-after reporter, and Diane, an actress, have been...
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Luis Buñuel : Un cinéaste de notre temps
as Narrator (voice)An overview of Luis Buñuel's career. Includes an interview with the filmmaker.
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Marie Soleil
as KafkaHe's twenty-five. She's thirty-five. He is a young agricultural engineer. She runs a nightclub...
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Climates of Love
as FrançoisThe Marcenat couple seem to have everything they need to be happy. However, Odile's frivolity...
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Délire à deux
as uncreditedThe absurd argument of an old couple in their apartment which is being destroyed by the...
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La dragée haute
as uncreditedTaking the place of the police, whom he finds neither fast nor efficient enough, a journalist...
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Tout chante autour de moi
as ReverdierGeorges works in a small-town drugstore. Passionate about music, he writes songs. When...
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Midi Première
as SelfMidi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre...
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Apostrophes
as SelfApostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and...
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Wetten, dass..?
as SelfA long-running German-language entertainment television show based on the format of the British...
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as SelfA talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Agnès Varda: From Here to There
as HimselfAgnès Varda takes us on a journey of discovery as she travels the globe—from Stockholm to St....
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Agnès Varda: From Here to There
as SelfAgnès Varda takes us on a journey of discovery as she travels the globe—from Stockholm to St....
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