Rufus

Born: 1942-12-19

Rufus (born 19 December 1942; Riom, Puy-de-Dôme) is the stage name of French actor Jacques Narcy. He is best known by the international film audience for his performance as Raphaël, the father of Amélie Poulain in Amélie (2001). He has appeared in numerous French TV series and productions, including most of the films directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet. He had the lead role in the movie Train de vie (1998), an award-winning tragicomedy about the Holocaust. Description above from the Wikipedia article Rufus (actor), licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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An Ideal Father

as L'Evêque
Released: 2024-04-21

Michel, the jovial owner of the only café in a small Normandy town, sees his life turned upside...

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as Raphaël Poulain
Released: 2001-04-25

At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for...

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Exploits of a Young Don Juan

as Le moine
Released: 1986-11-04

In 1914, sixteen year old Roger returned home from boarding school during vacation to find his...

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The City of Lost Children

as Peeler
Released: 1995-05-17

A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they...

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The Tenant

as Georges Badar
Released: 1976-05-26

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a...

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A Very Long Engagement

as Breton
Released: 2004-10-27

Young Frenchwoman Mathilde searches for the truth about her missing fiancé, lost during World...

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Doctor Dolittle

as Dog (uncredited)
Released: 1967-12-05

A veterinarian who can communicate with animals travels abroad to search for a giant sea snail.

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Delicatessen

as Robert Kube
Released: 1991-04-17

In a post-apocalyptic world, the residents of an apartment above the butcher shop receive an...

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Les Miserables

as Thénardier 1830 / 1990
Released: 1995-03-22

In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin, is introduced to Victor...

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March or Die

as Sgt. Triand
Released: 1977-09-08

Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign...

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Jonah Who Will Be 25 in the Year 2000

as Mathieu
Released: 1976-08-11

A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the...

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Knock

as Le vieux Jules
Released: 2017-10-18

Doctor Knock is a former thug who has become a doctor and arrives in the small village of...

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The African Doctor

as Jean
Released: 2016-06-08

1975. When Seyolo Zantoko, a doctor from the Congo who has managed, along with his family, to...

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In the Name of the Land

as Jacques Jarjeau
Released: 2019-09-25

Pierre is 25 when he returns from Wyoming to his fiancée and take over the family farm. Twenty...

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Everyone's Life

as Le chauffeur de taxi
Released: 2017-03-15

Before being judges, attorneys, or jury members, they are first of all men and women at a...

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Marius

as 'Piquoiseau'
Released: 2013-07-09

"Marius" takes place in Marseilles' Old Port, at the La Marine Bar, owned by César and his son...

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Train of Life

as Mordechai
Released: 1998-09-16

In 1941, the inhabitants of a small Jewish village in Central Europe organize a fake deportation...

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One Fine Day

as Cremer
Released: 2006-03-15

François Berthier’s life is a series of unfortunate events. One day, however, a miracle occurs...

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Fantasia chez les ploucs

as Wesson
Released: 1971-01-15

Sagamore Noonan vit reclu dans une ferme de l'Alabama où il distille de la gnôle au temps de la...

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We Love You, You Bastard

as Le Ruf
Released: 2014-04-02

A war photographer and absent father, who spends more time taking care of his camera than his...

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Amélie: The Real Story

as (archive footage)
Released: 2023-01-15

The truth about the real Amélie Poulain is finally revealed.

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Mr. Freedom

as Freddie Fric
Released: 1969-01-08

Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to...

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Iznogoud

as le conseiller du calife
Released: 2005-01-19

In Baghdad the Magnificent reigns Haroun al Plassid, who is the Caliph. There also dwells...

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Not Very Normal Activities

as Levantour
Released: 2013-01-29

A parody of Paranormal Activity.

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Metroland

as Henri
Released: 1997-08-30

In late-1970s suburban London, Chris and Marion have settled into a comfortable yet...

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10 jours en or

as Père Clément Rozière
Released: 2012-01-11

When a carefree bachelor is unexpectedly left in charge of a young boy, the two embark on a road...

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Mine de rien

as Roger Morels
Released: 2020-02-26

In a region that was once the flagship of the mining industry, two long-term unemployed men come...

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Love, Math and Sex

as Un spectateur au cinéma
Released: 1997-08-05

A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man.

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My Stars

as Victor
Released: 2008-10-29

Robert, a fan of three French actresses is a bald-headed, potbellied man on the fifties, but...

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The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot

as Gagnepain
Released: 1973-10-24

Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.

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A Cloud in the Teeth

as L'homme au chien (uncredited)
Released: 1974-05-01

Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together,...

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King Guillaume

as Roi Cyril John Delagny
Released: 2009-01-28

Magali plays in a brass band. Guillaume drives a small tourist train. Both spin a perfect love,...

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The Cop

as Raymond Aulnay
Released: 1970-10-05

A crackdown on drugs leads a burned out cop to take the law into his own hands and seek revenge...

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Promotion canapé

as Inspecteur de justice
Released: 1990-10-10

Two women who want a raise, realize that they can easily get what they want, if they sleep with...

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Shoot to Live

as Self
Released: 2022-05-11

A documentary on filmmaker Claude Lelouch, following him over seven years.

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The Marchers

as François, le pasteur
Released: 2013-11-27

In 1983, in France experiencing intolerance and racial violence , three young teens and the...

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Erotissimo

as le comptable de Philippe
Released: 1969-06-07

Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner...

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My Father Saved My Life

as Grinval
Released: 2001-04-25

Novelist and filmmaker Jose Giovanni turned to the remarkable true story of how his father...

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My Name Is Bernadette

as Forcade
Released: 2011-11-30

Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to...

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Entrusted

as Prof. Bergot
Released: 2003-07-03

Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France,...

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Let There Be Light!

as Dieu le chauffeur de Harper
Released: 1998-07-08

God comes to Earth in order to make a film.

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Let There Be Light!

as Dieu l'infirmière
Released: 1998-07-08

God comes to Earth in order to make a film.

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His Majesty Minor

as Rectus
Released: 2007-10-10

In this offbeat comedy, a man raised by a pig dies and is resurrected with a newfound power of...

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It Had to be You

as le père de Thomas
Released: 2007-12-19

In this romantic comedy Thomas moves back in with his parents after his girlfriend throws him...

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Keep Your Right Up

as Policeman
Released: 1987-09-19

This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional...

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Two Snails Set Off

as (voice)
Released: 2017-06-08

A forest full of animated animals encourage a pair of snails, who are fully clad in black...

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The Police War

as Le Garrec, chicken farmer
Released: 1979-11-14

Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of...

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In Your Image

as O pai de Mathilde
Released: 2004-05-26

Ridden by guilt for not being able to have a child, wife decides to conceive by cloning. The...

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Safety Catch

as uncredited
Released: 1970-04-07

A doctor disbarred for euthanasia is called in by a man to help his son, who has been depressed...

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The Takeover

as Michel
Released: 2022-10-19

Cédric works in a company specialized in precision mechanics. Its management, run by an...

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Le radeau de la Méduse

as Harmonica
Released: 1998-07-15

Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the...

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Troubleshooters

as Mister Ferglough, le prof d'anglais
Released: 1971-04-07

The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse...

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If You Love Me, Follow Me

as Jean-Pierre
Released: 2006-07-05

Thirty-five-year-old Max has a successful career and a beautiful wife, but one day he realises...

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Red Needles

as Marullaz
Released: 2006-05-10

September 1960: on a purely punitive basis, eight scouts must climb the solid mass of Brévent to...

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The Wedding Ring

as L'éleveur de pigeons
Released: 1971-01-15

A vet tries to create his own Garden of Eden

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Les Irréductibles

as Edmond
Released: 2006-06-14

On the day that his son fails his baccalaureate, Michel loses his job. He has been employed at...

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The Austrian

as L'abbé Girard
Released: 1990-09-19

A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering...

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Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad

as Charles
Released: 1971-03-01

In a cul-de-sac in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Leon shares two rooms with his sister Marie. In...

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Crédit pour tous

as Pistille
Released: 2011-03-29

While unemployed, Gobert must repay 40 bank loans he had taken out. In the housing project where...

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Freedom

as Fernand
Released: 2009-08-01

A Gypsy family travels the French roads during the Second World War, followed by Little Claude,...

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The French Calvinists

as Jacques Combassous
Released: 1972-02-22

A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the...

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La Chanson du mal-aimé

as uncredited
Released: 1982-02-03

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Promise at Dawn

as Russian Violin Teacher
Released: 1970-11-25

A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and...

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Side Roads

as Cyprien
Released: 1983-09-06

The story of Itineraire Bis has no singular plot line, but swings back and forth between the...

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Potatoes

as Larobesse
Released: 1969-11-22

In a village in the Ardennes, during the German occupation, finding rations is becoming almost...

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Marriage

as Henri
Released: 1974-12-31

Four wedding anniversaries serve to chronicle the beginning and end of a thirty-year marriage.

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Lily aime-moi

as Claude
Released: 1975-04-30

Everything starts when a journalist François decides to investigate the world of working class...

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Les Contes de l'horloge magique

as uncredited
Released: 2003-12-10

In the night, at the top of a big clock, three little automatons come to life in turn: an agile...

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À votre bon cœur, mesdames

as Doctor Andreausse
Released: 2013-12-04

The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest...

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La Goutte d'or

as Sigisbert
Released: 1990-09-11

Idris is a young shepherd in the desert of Tunesia. One day a jeep drives by and a woman takes a...

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That Day

as Hubus
Released: 2003-06-04

A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by...

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Folon

as Self
Released: 2021-01-16

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Winter Song

as Concierge
Released: 2015-11-25

Two old friends have urban adventures connected to the skull of an executed French aristocrat.

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So Woman!

as M. Paroquet
Released: 2009-07-15

Clemence is a brilliant young lawyer who has just settled herself in a comfortable chair. She...

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The Elegant Criminal

as Canler
Released: 1990-12-19

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives...

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Je retourne chez ma mère

as Gorbatchev
Released: 2012-01-21

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Brothers

as Emile
Released: 2017-06-01

When Alexander suddenly leaves on a road trip to France, Lukas decides to join him as he’s been...

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Surprise Sock

as Antoine
Released: 1978-06-14

Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord....

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Stornoway

as Keller
Released: 2015-12-18

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Madame Edouard

as Valdès, l'homme à l'oiseau
Released: 2004-06-02

In Brussels, one discovers the bodies of young women buried behind the tombs of famous painters…...

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The Great Role

as Monsieur Silberman
Released: 2004-10-13

When a famous American film director, Rudolph Grichenberg, comes to Paris to cast a Yiddish...

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Au long de rivière Fango

as Jérémie
Released: 1975-01-22

Jérémie and Bild, two riders, arrive in a community that lives along the river Fango. It was...

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Les Insomniaques

as Le commissaire
Released: 2011-03-30

Two insomniacs go into partnership to start a club bringing together people who suffer from the...

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Where Did Tom Go?

as Tom Coupar
Released: 1971-10-13

Tom is a secretary for an association which aims to free political prisoners. Skipping from...

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Vive la crise !

as Lucien
Released: 2017-05-10

In a futuristic France, computers decide the fate of the unemployed and the homeless.

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Family

as Jean
Released: 2022-11-18

Five family depictions, five disrupted balances. An anthology which broach subjects such as...

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La Déesse aux cent bras

as Le Dantec
Released: 2014-02-12

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The American

as Corbeau
Released: 1969-09-24

A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger...

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Zoo zéro

as Yves, le chauffeur ventriloque
Released: 1979-05-09

Eva is a singer in a Noah's Ark themed nightclub, where the guests wear animal masks. She is...

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Noir Enigma

as Roger Baudouin
Released: 2017-10-20

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One Way Ticket

as Tom Mills
Released: 1971-05-26

After a bank robbery gone wrong, a crook goes on the run across Belgium to escape the police,...

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Saint-Germain ou La négociation

as M. de Biron
Released: 2003-12-20

This is the TV adaptation of a novel by Francis Walder. The scene happens in 1570, during the...

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Valparaiso, Valparaiso

as Un méchant
Released: 1973-03-31

Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time...

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Ce que savait Morgan

as Mr. Pemberton
Released: 1974-05-07

The Moreen family hires Pemberton to tutor young Morgan. Pemberton has no money of his own, and...

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Dance of Chance

as Le voisin
Released: 2019-08-22

That day, there’s tension in the air: Marianne has her car and dog stolen from a highway parking...

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Rascals

as Fouchs
Released: 2006-09-30

The story of boys who were condemned to the severe reformatory regime in a French penal...

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Hôtel des deux mondes

as uncredited
Released: 2002-10-18

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As Far as Love Can Go

as Le barman
Released: 1971-10-20

The boyfriend of Isabelle has just committed suicide. Therefore Isabelle roams the streets of...

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La vie facile

as Vicar (uncredited)
Released: 1973-02-22

In this French-language film, Albin is a mercenary soldier. Sure, he's paid to kill, but he only...

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Trop c'est trop

as Gendarme
Released: 1975-06-05

Philippe, Didier, Georges and Edina were born on the same day. The three boys have always been...

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Fire's Share

as Patrick Delbaut
Released: 1978-01-04

Real estate developer Bob Hansen discovers that his wife Catherine is cheating on him with his...

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Go, Toto!

as Joseph (voice)
Released: 2017-10-04

A film about belonging, gay rural life, physical labor & elderly bodies. The arrival of Toto the...

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Poorly Extinguished Fires

as Commander Perleau
Released: 1994-01-12

A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this...

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Ubac

as uncredited
Released: 1987-01-02

In 1930, in the majesty of the Andean mountains, the long hunt of a bounty hunter gradually...

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En attendant Godot

as Vladimir
Released: 1989-06-03

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Crime à l'altimètre

as Octave
Released: 1996-12-20

A mountain climber devises a plan to eliminate the tyrannical husband of a young Vietnamese...

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Comme si de rien n'était

as uncredited
Released: 2003-08-03

Thomas is a stage director. One evening he meets Alix and they fall in love at first sight. It's...

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Bonhomme de chemin

as Oscar
Released: 2004-05-05

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La adúltera

as Lucien (as Rufus Narcy)
Released: 1975-12-15

With more than thirty years, Malena Fonseca is a spinster and provincial woman who, after...

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La Volière aux enfants

as The Bishop
Released: 2006-10-03

In 1835, in order to cope with an ever increasing number of infants left alone during the day...

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Le mangeur de lune

as uncredited
Released: 1994-10-12

A man thinks he's a scarecrow. He meets a Russian clown on a train.

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Colombe

as La Surette
Released: 2010-02-05

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The Surrounded

as Didier
Released: 1968-06-12

Jean-Claude is a student, with Didier, at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes Generales where Violaine,...

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L'école sauvage

as uncredited
Released: 1973-05-08

Cannes Film Festival 1973

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The Goodbye Singing

as Michel
Released: 1975-10-28

In her suburban house, Madame Vaussart brings together a group of solitaries every Wednesday....

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Scene of the Crime

as Hacker
First aired: 1970-11-29

Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of...

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HIP - High Intellectual Potential

as Henri
First aired: 2021-04-29

Morgane is 38-years old, has three children, two exes and an IQ of 160; her destiny as a cleaner...

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Champs-Elysées

as Self
First aired: 1982-01-16

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Apostrophes

as Self
First aired: 1975-01-10

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and...

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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

as Self
First aired: 1975-01-12

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

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30 millions d'amis

as Self
First aired: 1976-01-06

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The Art of Crime

as Père Christophe
First aired: 2017-11-17

Fired for insubordination, PJ Antoine Verlay, good cop but a blood strand and having difficulty...

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À bout portant

as Self
First aired: 1968-12-16

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A French Case

as Le gendarme Féru
First aired: 2021-09-20

When four-year-old Gregory is murdered, his devastated parents, the police and the judiciary are...

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Une soupe aux herbes sauvages

as Joseph
First aired: 2001-12-25

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