Daniel Ceccaldi
Birthday: Born in 1927-07-25 in Meaux, Seine-et-Marne, France
Deathday: 2003-03-27
Daniel Ceccaldi (July 25, 1927 – March 27, 2003) was a French actor. He was born in Meaux, Seine-et-Marne, France. The mild-mannered Daniel Ceccaldi is famous as Claude Jade's father Lucien Darbon in François Truffaut's movies Stolen Kisses and Bed & Board.Note: Christine refers to him twice as "Lucien", not papa, indicating perhaps that he is not her biological father, echoing Truffaut's own experience. The American critics Bob Wade wrote about Ceccaldi in 'Stolen Kisses': "Claude Jade's parents are memorably played by Daniel Ceccaldi and Claire Duhamel. Ceccaldi’s role may represent the most pleasant and neurosis-free father in any movie of the era. He overflows with Dickensian warmth and geniality." Description above from the Wikipedia article Daniel Ceccaldi, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Agence Interim
Character: Max
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La Piovra
Character: Nicola Sorbi
An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything through local and international networks like an octopus, and anyone who tries to bring them down pays the ultimate price....
Studio Gabriel
Character: Self
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Au théâtre ce soir
Character: Michel
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater....
Au théâtre ce soir
Character: Christian
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater....
Graf Luckner
Character: Morgan
Between the first and second World Wars, we portray glorified and renown naval sea officer Felix Graf von Lucker and his fictitious ship Niobe, which is the 1887 built Amphitrite from Southampton. Von Luckner is famous for his tactical genius in the first World War, especially sinking 14 enemy ships and only losing one crewman, whilst always seeking a peaceful outcome - making him the ideal seaman....
Dieu seul me voit (Versailles-Chantiers) - version interminable
Character: President of the polling station
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Numéro un
Character: Self
A French variety show....
Vive la vie
Character: Jacques Vincent
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Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
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Sacrée Soirée
Character: Self
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Stolen Kisses
Character: Lucien Darbon
The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine....
Bed and Board
Character: Lucien Darbon
Parisian everyman Antoine Doinel has married his sweetheart Christine Darbon, and the newlyweds have set up a cozy domestic life of selling flowers and giving violin lessons while Antoine fitfully works on his long-gestating novel. As Christine becomes pregnant with the couple's first child, Antoine finds himself enraptured with a young Japanese beauty. The complications change the course of their relationship forever....
The Soft Skin
Character: Clément
Pierre Lachenay is a well-known publisher and lecturer, married to Franca and father of Sabine. He starts a love affair with air hostess Nicole, which Pierre is hiding, but he cannot stay away from her....
Place Your Bets, Ladies
Character: Stephan
A famous American secret service agent tries to rescue a German 17-year-old prodigy scientist who has been captured by the Russians....
That Man from Rio
Character: Commissaire
French military man Adrien Dufourquet gets an eight-day furlough to visit his fiancée, Agnès. But when he arrives in Paris, he learns that her late father's partner, museum curator Professor Catalan, has just been kidnapped by a group of Amazon tribesmen who have also stolen a priceless statue from the museum. Adrien and Agnès pursue the kidnappers to Brazil, where they learn that the statue is the key to a hidden Amazon treasure....
Charles and Lucie
Character: Charles
An old and poor couple, Charles and Lucie, scrape by working as a concierge and an untalented antique dealer, respectively. But one day, their dreary daily routine is disrupted by the surprising news that they have inherited a luxurious house in the South of France....
La dama inacabada
Character: Jordi Basté
An executive asks Carvalho to obtain photographs of his wife with her lover in order to obtain a divorce. To do so, Carvalho travels to Menorca....
Love in the Afternoon
Character: Gérard
Frederic leads a bourgeois life; he is a partner in a small Paris office and is happily married to Helene, a teacher expecting her second child. In the afternoons, Frederic daydreams about other women, but has no intention of taking any action. One day, Chloe, who had been a mistress of an old friend, begins dropping by his office. They meet as friends, irregularly in the afternoons, till eventually Chloe decides to seduce Frederic, causing him a moral dilemma....
Ghislain Lambert's Bicycle
Character: Maurice Focodel
In the 70s, there was Merckx and there were the others. Ghislain Lambert was one of the others. This is his story, a quite simple one. The story of a modest Belgian bike racer. His greatest ambition in life? To become a champion. His greatest tragedy? Not having the legs his heart deserves....
Squeak-squeak
Character: Pedro Castelli
Léonard Monestier owns a large fortune, alas his wife Cynthia made a bad investment in a worthless oil concession. Far from letting this get him down, Léonard decides to find a sucker to buy this concession from him. Right on cue appears Antoine Brévin, a befuddled billionaire who is very interested in Léonard's beautiful daughter Patricia and would do anything to win her hand......
The Devil Who Limped
Character: Lackey (uncredited)
The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Constitutional Monarchy. Its title comes from one of the main historical nicknames for Talleyrand, that he shares with demon king Asmodeus and English poet Lord Byron....
Lucky Luke: The Ballad of the Daltons
Character: Lucky Luke (voice)
The story opens in a Western saloon, where a young musician with a banjo begins to tell a tale of Lucky Luke and his sworn enemies the Dalton brothers: Joe, William, Jack and Averell. Luke has, once again, as he has done many times before, thrown the four outlaws into jail. The prison is also the abode of a guard dog named Rin Tin Can (Rantanplan in the original French language version)....
Les zozos
Character: Uncle Jacques
The romantic adventures of two teenagers in the 60s, boarding at a provincial college....
Death of a Corrupt Man
Character: Maître Lucien Lacor
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt dealings and was poised to use them against the deputy. Xavier readily agrees to cover up for his old pal Philippe, but he soon runs into difficulties. Nobody believes Dubaye's alibi. And everybody -- influential personalities, powerful businessmen, dubious...
L'Hôtel de la plage
Character: Euloge Saint-Prix
Visitors young and old get up to fun antics and romance at a seaside hotel in Brittany, France....
Mannequins of Paris
Character: Un ami de Barbara
Véronique Lanier runs one of the most highly rated haute couture houses in Paris. Her first partner is her husband Pierre, who has left aside a promising artist career to design the styles which make their firm a success. The trouble is that Véronique lives only for her job and does not allow herself -and her husband for that matter - a moment's respite. In Cannes, Pierre meets Wanda, a young singer with strange, fascinating eyes. The frustrated husband falls for her but gradually realizes that ...
Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose
Character: Lucky Luke (voice)
The cowboy Lucky Luke tracks the Dalton brothers who escaped from prison and are seeking refuge in Canada....
The Big Swag
Character: Félix Pignol, metro ticket puncher colleague
Louis Bourdin est employé à la RATP le jour, romancier la nuit, avec une forte prédilection pour le genre policier. Un jour, il rédige un polar situé dans l'univers de la RATP, boudé par les éditeurs. Le livre parvient alors aux yeux d'une bande de criminels......
Cloportes
Character: Police inspector Lescure
Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years. When he's released, he's out for revenge....
Fall of a Body
Character: Alain Renon
The body of a young woman falls on the terrace of Martha, who intrigued, meets her neighbor. In contact with this strange man, she learns to have a different look about her own life and her marital problems....
When the Pheasants Pass
Character: le directeur Barnave
Arsène Baudu and Hyacinthe, a pair of small-time crooks, fall prey to Alexandre Larsan-Bellac, who involves them (against their will) in high-profile swindling, but their success is quite limited. For starters they are deceived by Mrs. Paterson, a charming widow. Later on, Ribeiro, a Portuguese contractor and former victim of the two crooks, traces them and forces them to work on one of his building sites for damages. Just then, Larsan-Bellac resurfaces with plans to lure Ribeiro once again. —G...
The Magic of Méliès
Character: Méliès (voice)
A walk through the life and work of the brilliant French filmmaker Georges Méliès (1861-1938), pioneer of special and visual effects....
The Toy
Character: The family man
When Francois, a journalist, tours a big store for an article, he is chosen by the son of the newspaper's owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy. Needing money and unwilling to quit his job, Francois agrees to this ridiculous assignment. Gradually befriending the spoiled boy, he induces him to play at making a newspaper, unveiling publicly the tyrannical way of life of the father. The powerful emotional climax we experience with the child astonishes both men....
The Upper Hand
Character: Le commissaire Noël
In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. And an undercover US Treasury Department agent is trying to infiltrate the smuggling business....
God's Thunder
Character: Le prêtre
Veterinarian Léandre Brassac lives with his wife Marie on a remote estate. One day, he decides to shelter a young woman with no bearings....
Young Love
Character: The soldier who shoots badly at the funfair (uncredited)
Catherine, 18, loved Jean, a young accountant, who loved her in return. And yet, one morning, two policemen find their dead bodies on a stretch of waste ground. The case is obvious: the two young people have killed themselves. But why? Chief Inspector Ernest Plonche, feeling upset, decides to investigate personally....
Maya
Character: Un serveur du bistrot (uncredited)
Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance) who is all things to all men. No matter what sort of woman her client wants, she will become that woman -- at least for the night. When a middle-aged man named Jean insists that Bella is his long-lost sweetheart, she plays along, hoping to escape her sordid lifestyle. The emotional tragedy that follows is meant to explain how Bella became "Maya," the living embodiment of Lost Souls....
Miracles Only Happen Once
Character: A friend of Jérôme (uncredited)
1939 : what a beautiful year for Claudia and Jerôme. No sooner do they meet that they are under each other's spell. 1939 : what a horrible year for the two lovers : war breaks out before they can get married. They meet again after the war but the enchantment has vanished. They decide to marry but it will be for reason, not for love. Miracles only happen once....
Witness in the City
Character: Italian taxi customer
Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife's murderer, who has been acquitted by justice....
Deux de l'escadrille
Character:
During the Second World War, midshipman Dourdan, nicknamed 'Saucisse', distinguished himself by his clumsiness and his blunders. Charged with Lieutenant Goldfinch to convey an aircraft to Marrakech, he shot down an American bomber on the way, mistaken for a German plane....
She's One of Us
Character: le père
At the start, Christine Blanc is a temp, her boyfriend has gone. Near the story's end, she's been offered a steady job, she has a fiancé, other men seem interested in her, she's passed her driving test, and, after she wins 1000 Euros in a scratch-off, her colleagues sing that she's a jolly good fellow ("one of us"). But something's askew: her gaze is too direct, her eyes open too widely; conversational gambits hit odd notes; she parrots others' words; she cooks too much food when she invites a s...
Un trésor de femme
Character: Doctor
Francois is engaged to Isabelle. While going to buy the engagement ring, he meets Sophie, who puts the ring on her finger and does not manage to remove it. Francois follows in the footsteps of Sophie, who is married to an important merchant, in order to recover his property....
Fatal Affair
Character: Fred, Charlotte's friend (uncredited)
Didier's wife is ill, and he does the best he can to take care of her. But he's often absent and he has casual love affairs. But Leone he meets in Bruxelles wants to become his one and only mistress....
The Pink Telephone
Character: M. Levêgue, directeur des relations publiques, Fileding
A small industrialist from Toulouse, goes to Paris to negotiate the buyout of his company from an American financial group. During his stay, the representative of the large firm calls on a luxury call girl to facilitate their "business"....
Le Maestro
Character: Hubert Martin
The eldest daughter of Germaine lives in concubinage with Hubert. She is determined to marry her youngest Corinne, upon her return from England. This one meets the beautiful Maestro, a friend of Hubert....
The Frenchman's Son
Character: Monsieur Oliver
A young boy and his two grandmothers flee from headhunters and other villainous types in the Brazilian rain forest in this wacky family adventure. Benjamin, whose mom is dead and whose dad is off in the jungle searching for gold, is more cool-headed than his two grandmothers, both of whom hate one another. Upper class teacher bristles at the coarse behavior of working class Suzanne, who shoplifts and cheats at cards. Soon bad guys threaten them, and the chase begins....
Twisted Obsession
Character: Julien Legrand
An American writer in Paris is hired to do a script for an edgy young director he can't stand. When he falls in love with the director's cold and manipulative pretty sister, his life starts to unravel and he realizes that he's been used....
Espionage in Lisbon
Character: Robert Scott
An international gang pretends to have the means to destroy a small country in 30 seconds. The authorities have reason to believe this may be true, and the spying battle is on....
The Light Across the Street
Character: l'amoureux en panne
Tensions mount as the lonely wife of a trucker becomes involved with a gas station attendant....
A Sea Urchin in the Pocket
Character: Theater administrator
A young journalist, abandoned by her wealthy lover, sets out with a musician inventor to stage a musical....
Love on the Quiet
Character: Maître Ravignac
A lawyer hires a call girl after learning his wife has invited her lover to move in; the husband and wife separate and the two new couples live side-by-side without issue - until an ex-boyfriend shows up and things start to go wrong....
For a Cop's Hide
Character: Coccioli
Victim of manipulation, Cop Choucas is wanted for two murders and searched for by every cop in town....
Only God Sees Me
Character: Le président du bureau de vote
Albert, a sound engineer who is chronically hesitant successively meets three charming young women who will, each in their own way, provoke and help him to get a better hold of himself....
Who Stole the Body?
Character: 'La Banque'
Edouard and Félix work in a real estate agency. One day, they are threatened with dismissal if they don't manage to sell a very isolated house to an elderly, silver and somewhat unusual Englishwoman. In the house, they discover a corpse. The visit is spent dragging the corpse from room to room, cupboard to chest, so as not to frighten the otherwise impressed buyer. But the corpse disappears. He has to be found before the deed can be signed. The two salesmen become detectives, tracking down the d...
Les gros bras
Character: Giovanelli, jewel thief
Madame Andromèze's diamond bracelet has been stolen from the plane taking Nicole from Rome to Paris. Slipped by the thief into her bag, the bracelet undergoes many vicissitudes... Found and appraised, it is declared a fake! Nicole's brother and fiancé chase after the real bracelet, disrupting the life of a grand palace. Finally, Madame Andromèze finds her bracelet, which has been declared genuine. The original thief resurfaces and steals the jewel again....
The Husbands, the Wives, the Lovers
Character: Jacques
In the summer holidays, a group of women stay behind in Paris whilst their husbands and children take a vacation on the sunny Island of Ré. The women – wives, frustrated spinsters and adolescents – profit from their new-found freedom to sort out their love lives and the men indulge their earthy passions with no less enthusiasm. Only the children seems capable of rising above this infantile summer madness......
Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's
Character: le marquis du Velin
The love story like no other of an aristocrat with the daughter of the bellboy at Chez Maxim's restaurant....
Heart to Heart
Character: Emile Roussel, le père
The independently-minded daughter of lower-middle class French shopkeepers, Brigitte, one of three sisters, refused to marry the father of her child when she became pregnant. In this film, she reminisces about her family life beginning when she was about five years old, up to the present when she is in her early 20s. Of her two sisters, one has a nervous breakdown and the other one becomes something of a baby factory. Colorful anecdotes of her eventful life lend additional depth to her insights....
Le Chaud Lapin
Character: Henri
William, together with his family, joins his childhood friend and his family in a crowded country house for a summer vacation. As a result, he has had to leave behind his mistress and all the other lovely women he enjoys trying to seduce. Stranded in the isolated rural cottage with his friend's family, he attempts to bed every female member of that clan. Unsuccessful and extremely frustrated, he is determined to have some fun on his vacation and abandons the whole group in pursuit of a trio of h...
Un grand cri d'amour
Character: Sylvestre Archimbaud
A famous couple is going on stage after ten years of separation and hate....
C'est jeune et ça sait tout !
Character: L'ambassadeur
When Charles Le Braque learns that his boss' 17 years old daughter is pregnant, he fears that his 16 years old nice Joel from France, who's spending her vacation with them in Canada, might fall into the same trap. So he and his wife decide to give her the lecture of plants and bees... but it turns out that she's already well informed, gives them a lecture about simultaneous orgasms. She inspires the sexually repressed couple to start experimenting with "modern" forms of sex....
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
Character: Jacques Gauthier
Arsène Lupin is extremely popular among the population, because he allows the needy to share in his acquired wealth. Before entering the service of the German Emperor Wilhelm II, he removes his vault in Alsace, steals two paintings of old masters, steals valuable gems and calls out to the police prefect to avoid his arrest. But this time he risks being seriously recognized. Lupin must once again use his fine intellect to deftly escape the situation....
Judgement of God
Character: Théobald - le commis de M. Bernauer et amoureux d'Agnès
Bavaria, 1433. Reason of state rules that Prince Albert is to marry Princess Bertha of Wurtemberg. But the fine-looking young man is loath to become the husband of a woman with pimples,flat feet and no breast. Nevertheless, he has to obey his authoritarian father, Duke Ernest, and accompanied by faithful Count Törring, he mounts his steed and sets out for Würtemberg. Stopping in Augsburg, he falls in love with the daughter of a local barber-surgeon, pure and beautiful Agnès Bernauer. The couple ...
Incorrigible
Character: Police Prefect
Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is to make enough money to build a sea wall to protect Mont-Saint-Michel. Charlotte, a parole officer, shows up: she's young and seems taken in by Victor. He discovers she lives above the Senlus Museum, where her parents are the curators. With two...
Le Braconnier de Dieu
Character: Le père abbé
A monk for thirty-seven years, Brother Gregory could not resist the temptation. Leaving the monastery for the first time to fulfill his duty as a voter, he catches up with pastis and women....
The Bear and the Doll
Character: Ivan
A quiet cellist living in the countryside has his life disrupted when he accidentally bumps into a wealthy, temperamental woman in a Rolls-Royce. Angered by his indifference to her charm, she attempts to seduce him, but he resists her attempts to invade his peaceful life....
Don't Cry with Your Mouth Full
Character: l'oncle
Annie, a 16 years old girl, loves Frédéric who is away doing his national service. During her holidays in the country, she meets Alexandre. He's older, owns a car and she experiences the "first time" with him. Back during a leave, Frédéric finds his sweetheart in the arms of this clumsy oaf and eventually hits it off with him....
A Woman in White
Character: L'inspecteur Georget
Claude Sauvage, a tenacious young gynecologist takes a months long internship in a Paris hospital. Between her private life and medical career, she set her doubts and desires in a society where the square and the plight of women remain at that time a secondary issue. The film follows Claude and the staff through the case of some patients while the crucial debate on women's professional ambition, contraception and abortion rights....
Das Lied der Balalaika
Character: Coffinet
Sasha Voronin, a famous singer about to marry supermodel Nathalie, falls victim to John Darow, who attempts to murder him by knocking him out and throwing him into the sea. Sacha is taken in by fishermen, but he has lost his memory and takes the name Samson. Samson's memory begins to awaken when he hears a familiar tune during a circus performance, and begins to sing. Deciding to leave with the circus troupe, he ends up being hired by the director of a radio station, who launches him on the air ...
Barbara
Character: Admiral
Young vicar Mr. Paul arrives at the Faroe Islands to take up a benefice, and meets the young Barbara, twice married to vicars, and with both husbands laid cold in the grave. Despite the warnings of the surrounding community and his own religious scruples, he falls victim to Barbara's at once innocent and sinful charm. The appearance of the charming and gallant Andreas Heide in Thorshavn puts their love to the severest of tests....
La Madelon
Character: Military man at Maxim’s
1914, a small village of the Marne. Charming and woken up, Madeleine, said the Madelon, who works in the coffee(café) of his father, Tourlourou, account of numerous pretenders. To the rich Antoine Pichot, she prefers corporal Beauguitte. When the war bursts, she(it) searches for the latter....
Élisa
Character: Hairdresser
Recently released from reform school, Élisa works at Madame Irma's before moving to Paris, where her success is growing. On a trip to the provinces, she meets Bernard, a blind man. They soon fall in love, but Élisa hides her activities from him. When he finds out, he hits her. The situation quickly degenerates....
Good Evening Paris
Character:
A foreign pianist who comes to visit Paris is ripped off by a young man and his sister. But he soon falls in love with this one....
Folle Amanda
Character: Philippe Morhange
A former music hall singer, Amanda lives day by day while remaining optimistic. Short of money, she wants to publish her memoirs. But her ex-husband Philippe, minister-in-office, wants to dissuade her ......
The Ones That Got Away
Character: Guillaume
In a train compartment, 6 people who do not know each other tell the story of their troubles in love. Only one of those seems to be a positive one....
A Golden Widow
Character: Museum curator
A woman learns that she is sole legatee of her forgotten rich uncle, but there is a small problem: she's got to be a widow to latch onto the dough or the fortune will go to a vague sect......
Tell Me You Love Me
Character: Bertrand Danois
Two couples, undermined by frequent scenes, fall apart: the men, Richard and Bertrand, directors of an advertising agency, move into their office; soon Lucien, their main client and friend, suffering from the same afflictions, joins them in this new bachelor life. For their part, the women regroup and organize themselves: Victoire absorbs herself in her work as a decorator; Charlotte, long submissive to Richard's personality, raises her head and finds a job; as for Pascaline, she runs off with T...
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
Character: Officer
This drama about the Carmelite order of nuns is set during the French Revolution. A young woman seeks refuge with the Carmelites because she is terrified of dying during the upheaval. The longer she associates with the nuns the more she is transformed by their faith and devotion. ...
To Die of Love
Character: Richard Lanne
Michel, a writer of detective novels, is married to Pat, a pretty woman he's been neglecting. One day, the results of a private investigation reveal that his wife is cheating on him. But he'd never contacted a private detective before. The facts are all the more disturbing in that they coincide with the detective story he is writing with his beautiful young secretary. Pat is murdered and found next to her dying lover, who is said to have attempted suicide. But the police soon realize that this i...
Friends of the family
Character: Michel, bartender
Leon Rollo whose nickname is "Patate" is an inventor adored by his wife and is daughter. He is mostly happy but his best friend Noël seems to succeed in everything he undertakes... Patate become increasingly jealous of this incredible luck....
The Trip to Biarritz
Character: Paul Bonnenfant
Guillaume Dodut is a stationmaster in rural France at a station where trains no longer stop. His dream has always been to holiday in the famous resort town of Biarritz. Meanwhile, he gets involved in the romantic life of his son who is studying to be an engineer in London....
Une merveilleuse journée
Character: Felloux
The unusual day of a young pharmacist's assistant, between Deauville and Cassis....
Hôpital souterrain
Character: Commander Destouche
During a weekend on the small island of Roz Ven, Marine, an eight-year-old girl who had come with her parents, disappeared while the three of them were visiting a mysterious underground museum. The police are immediately put in charge of the investigation, but it stalls: despite numerous hypotheses, none of them seems to fit and the disappearance remains unexplained....
The Real Bargain
Character: Seller
The eccentric Comtesse de Saint-Plâs sells a black Citroën DS to car dealer Paul Souflé. He sells it to the young mathematics teacher Jacques Denzac who is about to marry....
Requiem pour un caïd
Character: Inspector Belin
Police officer Antoine Delille is in charge of putting an end to the activities of a "kingpin", Jo Pinelli, trafficker, racketeer and pimp. He has three women working for him, including Eva and Jeannette, and is currently "conditioning" a charming, naive Orly employee, with whom he poses as an honorable businessman. Inspector Delille's plan is to arrest Jo for some crime and, while he's being held at the P.J., to delve into his other criminal activities and confound him....
How Not to Rob a Department Store
Character: Léon, bartender
To repay a debt, Marcel must commit a robbery in a large department store. Unfortunately his booty is intercepted by a gang of thugs....
Diamonds Are Brittle
Character: Captain of the boat
Bernard Noblet is a modest bank clerk with a passion for billiards. His fiancée Juliette, a schoolteacher, dreams of one day living the high life, and his best friend Roger, a little-known inventor, is equally despairing. After careful consideration, a solution emerges: a cleverly organized hold-up will enable them to live in luxury for the rest of their lives. Bernard soon makes the acquaintance of Bettina and her mother, Madame Ralton, professionals in the "heist" business....
The Grand Manoeuvre
Character: Officer (uncredited)
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before....
The Conspiracy
Character: Louis Carat
Paris 1960. DeGaulle determines to end a bitter war in Algeria by granting its independence. Millions oppose him, including a group of DeGaulle's disenchanted Arm Officers. In a desperate attempt to save the colony for France, they plan a daring jailbreak of their imprisoned leader. A network of snitches inform a tenacious detective leading to an explosive three-way cat-and-mouse game among the rebels, the Gaullist politicos and the police....
Seduction Squad
Character: Le lieutenant de marine Jean-Yves Marie Le Gouennec
After witnessing and accidentally helping several thugs get away with a heist, the women rooming together notice through their telescope that the stolen loot is in the apartment right across the street. They plan their own burglary of the already stolen loot....
Michel Strogoff
Character: Count Krasow
Ever since the death of his wife, the famous and once highly-respected general Michael Strogoff has fallen steadily into a state of decrepitude....
A Happy Divorce
Character: Antoine, skuespiller
After having been rescued from suicide, a young man is the object of a bet by his doctor that the doctor can help him recover his joy in life. Ironically, the doctor's life is not a very happy one either, and his boast has a hollow sound. For one thing, although he seemingly has a "happy divorce," in which he, his ex-wife and her new husband are all great pals, it's not true. He wants his wife back. All sorts of complications arise out of these lies and distortions....
FX 18, Secret Agent
Character: Noreau
Secret agent FX-18 goes undercover to break up an espionage ring....
Queen Margot
Character: Henri d'Anjou
Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officially, it's a rapprochement between the League and the Huguenots. In fact, it was an opportunity to bring all the Huguenots to Paris and kill them all at once. King Charles IX fails in his attempt on Coligny's life. Queen Margot tries to save her husband from the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre by preventing the annulment of his marriage, forcing Henri to share her bed. Two knights from oppo...
Not Dumb, the Bird
Character: Gérard Chardonnet
An old lady is far from suspecting everything that is going on behind her back, in particular what her servants are up to....
Famous Love Affairs
Character: Antonio Villa
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis....
Heart and Sword
Character: Hoel
After the death of his father, prince Tristan is living in Cornwall at the court of his uncle, King Marke, who treats him like a son. When the Irish king sends his son Morold over to demand high tax payments, Tristan challenges him to combat. He manages to kill Morold but is very badly injured, and is placed in a boat to be healed by the magic powers of the sea, which takes him across to Ireland....
It Will Hurt!
Character: Léopold
A film producer on the verge of ruin decides to make an erotic film....
Ami-Ami
Character: Christian
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The Four Charlots Musketeers 2
Character: Louis XIII
This French slapstick comedy stars the musician/comedian foursome Les Charlots, as valets to the Four Musketeers. One of the film's highlights is a mutual kicking session between Cardinal Richelieu, the King, and a monk. This comedy foursome was enormously popular in 1970s France, and they made a huge number of films during that period....
The Four Charlots Musketeers
Character: Louis XIII / Le roi
This French slapstick comedy stars the musician/comedian foursome Les Charlots, as valets to the Four Musketeers. One of the film's highlights is a mutual kicking session between Cardinal Richelieu, the King, and a monk. This comedy foursome was enormously popular in 1970s France, and they made a huge number of films during that period....
OK Patron
Character: Duguet
Mario, the head of the Mafia in France, has just been mortally wounded. His "companion" decides to find him a successor, before the New York "organization" appoints one. She instructs her two bodyguards to take on anyone who likes money, doesn't have any and, above all, doesn't want to work too hard - in short, "the average Frenchman"... They discover Léon Bonnet, a representative of "magic crosses". They send him gifts: champagne, weapons (a mistake...), a ring for his fiancée, and a meal worth...
Le temps des vacances
Character: Norbert
In the "Valley School", as the holidays approach, students' lives will be turned upside down by the arrival of a new teacher....
The Ponies
Character: Letellier
The rise and fall of a journalist, named Max Torp, who runs a youth magazine, a private club, a tour agency and a pirate radio....
In the Mouth of the Wolf
Character: Roger
Photographer Henri Barbier is lured by his old friend Barbara to fake the theft of her jewels. It turns out that he is suspected of murder and extortion, while Barbara and her lover are the culprits, which is eventually revealed....
The Postman Goes to War
Character: Cassagne
The unsuspecting Parisian postman Thibon accepts a transfer as army mailman in Indochina. In the hospital, after his mail van is blown up by a mine, he falls in love with his Indochinese nurse Vang....
These Sorcerers Are Mad
Character: Jean La Pallière
Julien est envoyé par son patron à l'île Maurice, où il fait la connaissance d'Henri, un chômeur professionnel. Un soir de beuverie, les deux hommes se soulagent au pied d'une statue sacrée. Offensés par ce sacrilège, les dieux les punissent en leur ôtant leur reflet et en les faisant léviter. Si cette situation leur paraît au début invivable, les deux hommes finissent cependant par tirer parti de ces désavantages pour régler leurs problèmes personnels....
Monsieur le Président Directeur Général
Character: Calfarelli
In order to appoint his new right-hand man, a CEO decides to organize a weekend with all the candidates....
Le Concierge
Character: Paul Raymond, le député
Christophe Merignac, a youngESCP graduate with a law degree but still unemployed, gets a job as a concierge in a luxury building. Using charm and cunning, he makes himself indispensable. He makes a fortune and marries a young, pretty and rich tenant, whom he happily deceives. The conclusion is bittersweet: he's "made it", but he doesn't love anyone. What's more, a young concierge who looks like a brother has just arrived in his building....
Girl's Apartment
Character: François
Tibere is a small-time hood who tries to get one of three airline hostesses to help him in his gold-smuggling operation in this light comedy. One woman is a snob, the second is adventurous, and Melanie is sentimental about love....
Would-Be Gentleman
Character: Dorante
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme satirizes attempts at social climbing and the bourgeois personality, poking fun both at the vulgar, pretentious middle-class and the vain, snobbish aristocracy. The title is meant as an oxymoron: in Molière's France, a "gentleman" was by definition nobly born, and thus there could be no such thing as a bourgeois gentleman....
Caroline and the Rebels
Character: Lieutenant Bogard
A swashbuckling heritage reveals itself as the adopted son of 19th-century Spaniards develops into a suave lady-killer....
The Plouffe Family
Character: Père Alphonse
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II....
Frou-Frou
Character: Le chevalier des Grieux
A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career....
People in Luck
Character: L'homme amoureux de Virginie (segment "Le Repas gastronomique")
A light French comedy of 5 segments....
Life Doesn't Scare Me
Character: Motorist
We follow how four ordinary little girls learn about life, love and all that sort of things....
Feu Adrien Muset
Character: Me Sachet
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Meurtre en sourdine
Character: Wendell
Is doubt allowed in love? In this police investigation, feelings interfere with the investigation. While a murder has been committed, the benefit of the doubt as to the identity of the murderer is obviously allowed. Love, jealousy, passion and crime make up the essence of this thriller crime drama....
Mademoiselle Nitouche
Character: The third reservist
Celestin works as an organist at a girl's school. By day, Celestin is the meek and mild target of the girls' incessant practical jokes. By night, however, he is the celebrated composer of popular operas -- and the romantic vis-à-vis of a celebrated stage star. When schoolgirl Denise stumbles onto Celestin's secret, she threatens to tell all -- but only if Celestin refuses to escort her to the opening night of his latest opera. As a result, Denise falls in love with a handsome young soldier, whil...
The Fourth King
Character: Melchiorre
Alazar, a simple farmer who is also a beekeeper, meets the Three Wise Men Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar, who have set off to celebrate the arrival on earth of the Messiah. Alazar's magic bees become magically transformed into the tail of the bright comet which leads the four of them to the manger. At first, the brave young farmer's son is on the point of leaving the Wise Men to their fate because he has been forced against his will by their magic powers to leave his pregnant wife Izirah behind....
France, Incorporated
Character: Michel, the government's man
In the year 2222, a former drug dealer is kept in a state of hibernation. Reanimated, he tells his story. Leader in the narcotics market, his situation was prosperous until, during a political change, the government legalized its use....
The Queen of Spades
Character: Serge Leonidovitch - le premier buveur
An adaptation of the eponymous fantasy novella by Alexander Pushkin. It tells the story of the gambling mania that seizes a young Russian officer, Hermann, and ultimately causes his downfall. His best friend, Tomsky, is played by Jean Rochefort....