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Maurice Barrier

Maurice Barrier (8 June 1932 – 12 April 2020) was a French actor and singer. Barrier was the son of a cabinetmaker, and had his first job working in his father's workshop. While in Rennes at age 28, he met several resident actors at the Théâtre National de Bretagne and made his stage debut in Caligula, written by Albert Camus. His first major role on television was in the film The Taking of Power by Louis XIV. His other major films included The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe, Two Men in Town, Black and White in Color, Coup de tête, and Flic Story. He played alongside several actors, such as Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Gabin, Alain Delon, Pierre Richard, Gérard Depardieu, and Gérard Jugnot. Barrier was married to the actress Hélène Manesse. The pair resided in Montréal, France from 1962 until Maurice's death on 12 April 2020 in Montbard at the age of 87 due to COVID-19. Source: Article "Maurice Barrier" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0. Born : 8th-Jun-1932

Movie Credits

Hothead

François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries.
Released : 14th-Feb-1979

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Raphael or the Debauched One

In 1830s France, a virtuous widow falls for a self-destructive debauchee obsessed with death. Initial resistance gives way to a desperate and cynical romance.
Released : 2nd-Apr-1971

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The Return of Martin Guerre

Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and Bertrande de Rols marry. A few years later, accused of having committed a robbery, Martin suddenly disappears. When, almost a decade later, a man arrives in Artigat claiming to be Martin, the Guerre family recognizes him as such; but doubts soon arise about his true identity.
Released : 14th-May-1982

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The Fugitives

Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained robber, no cops can believe he is not part of the action.
Released : 17th-Dec-1986

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And the Ship Sails On

In 1914, a cruise ship sets sail from Naples to spread the ashes of beloved opera singer Edmea Tetua near Erimo, the isle of her birth. During the voyage, the eclectic array of passengers discovers a group of Serbian refugees aboard the vessel. Peace and camaraderie abound until the ship is descended upon by an Austrian flagship. The Serbians are forced to board it, but naturally they resist, igniting a skirmish that ends in destruction.
Released : 7th-Oct-1983

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The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe

Hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.
Released : 6th-Dec-1972

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The Specialists

While being transferred to another prison, two convicts - Stéphane Carella and Paul Brandon - effect a miraculous escape. They are pursued across the Verdon Gorge before arriving at an isolated farmhouse whose owner, Laura, offers them sanctuary. Since the death of her husband, Laura has longed to get her own back on the police and she agrees to help Carella and Brandon in their scheme to rob a casino in Nice. After a shoot out with the casino’s owners, Carella realises that not everything is what it seems. Brandon is not what he appears...
Released : 13th-Mar-1985

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Flic Story

The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.
Released : 1st-Oct-1975

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Black and White in Color

French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.
Released : 22nd-Sep-1976

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Life and Nothing But

January, 1920. 350,000 French soldiers remain missing in action. Major Dellaplane tirelessly matches the dead and the wounded with families' descriptions. Honor and ethics drive him; he hates the idea of "the unknown soldier." Into his sector, looking for her husband, comes a haughty, politically connected Parisian, Madame Irène de Courtil. Brusquely, Dellaplane offers her 1/350,000th of his time, but as their paths cross and she sees his courage and resolve, feelings change. After he finds a surprising connection between her missing husband and a local teacher, Irène makes Dellaplane an offer. This man of action hesitates: has he missed his only chance?
Released : 6th-Sep-1989

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Le grand fossé


Released : 1st-Sep-1980

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The Gypsy

Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.
Released : 5th-Dec-1975

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The Gang

In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the front-wheel drive gang". The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will their luck last?
Released : 19th-Jan-1977

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One Woman or Two

An ad executive impersonates an archeology professor to avoid a situation with an obsessed former lover. She enlists the help of a hapless archeologist who is at the airport to pick the real archeology professor. What follows is a series of conflicting and comical situations involving the "switcheroo."
Released : 6th-Feb-1985

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Un jour avant l'aube

At the time of the Battle of Normandy in 1944, French paratroopers of the Special Air Service carried out commando actions in Brittany.
Released : 14th-May-1994

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Hail the Artist

Marcello Mastrioanni stars as aging actor Nicolas whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeking an anchor in his life, Nicolas attempts a reconciliation with his ex-wife. But in this, as in his professional life, Nicolas is doomed to disillusionment and failure.
Released : 6th-Dec-1973

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Scout Toujours

France, 1965 - An aging mamma's boy becomes the replacement leader of a rowdy group of teenage boy scouts who make his life miserable.
Released : 27th-Nov-1985

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La Nuit de Santa-Klaus

Cruel Santa Claus, when you come down from the sky with guns by the thousands, I beg you to spare me. If Santa Claus really existed, if he lived in some hidden place in the city in the company of those who still believe in him, and if he was seeking revenge, waiting for his revenge on those who distorted his name and image for money purposes!
Released : 22nd-Jan-1986

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À la recherche de... Pierre Richard

Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s.
Released : 1st-Sep-2017

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The Taking of Power by Louis XIV

Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the treasury and wants to be prime minister. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand by offering a bribe to Louis' mistress to be his ally. She reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt, the urban poor working and fed, and peasants untaxed.
Released : 8th-Oct-1966

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The Outsider

Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord who is essentially inaccessible -- but not immortal.
Released : 26th-Oct-1983

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Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre

This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre Richard, improbable synthesis of the talking ant silent films, heir to Buster Keaton for the gestural one and the expression of the body, and to Groucho Marx for the puns and the burlesque verbal one. Conceived like a voyage inside the universe of Pierre Richard, "the Art of unsteadiness" makes it possible to better understand its step, its method of actor, director and gag man. With through many testimonies, extracts of films and archives documents, drawn up here the portrait of one of the large last burlesques.
Released : 7th-Dec-2005

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The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot

Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.
Released : 24th-Oct-1973

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The Way Out

Leaving prison, Paul goes to the port. That's where he lived and where he got caught. This is also where his father died. And before leaving to try his luck elsewhere, Paul wants to avenge him.
Released : 15th-Oct-1986

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La victoire des vaincus

In June 1940, in a village of Franche-Comté occupied by the Germans, five children decide to join the resistance in their own way, against the German invaders.
Released : 4th-May-2002

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The ComDads

Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.
Released : 23rd-Nov-1983

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Louis, the Child King

January 1649: Since the death of his father, the young Louis XIV must undergo the hard apprenticeship of royal power. He must face the intrigues of the great ones of the kingdom who lead La Fronde, the agreements and the betrayals of those close to him. He is helped in this by his mother Anne of Austria and by the Cardinal Mazarin.
Released : 4th-Nov-1993

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Two Men in Town

A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
Released : 24th-Oct-1973

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He Died with His Eyes Open

Police Inspector Staniland is investigating the death of a pianist. While conducting his investigation and looking through the victim's apartment, he meets Barbara, the mistress of the murder victim. Barbara confesses to the crime, but Staniland, based on his observations and experience, does not believe her. He then sets out to find the truth.
Released : 9th-Oct-1985

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Marié(s) ou presque

Coustaud and Milka have to organize a memorable party to bury the boy life of their friend Tom. They go into their usual cafe, where all the guests that night give their opinion of the marriage, its setbacks and its amenities.
Released : 30th-Apr-2008

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Charlie Dingo

Charlie (Guy Marchand) returns home after being declared legally dead to reclaim his wife Georgia (Caroline Cellier) and cash in on a lucrative life insurance policy in this shadowy drama. He finds Georgia is married to the crooked cop William (Niels Arestrup), who has his eye on the insurance money. Antihero Charlie and the villainous police inspector head towards an inevitable confrontation, while Georgia is caught in the middle.
Released : 7th-Oct-1987

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Rouget le braconnier

The adventurous and dangerous life of a nineteenth-century Anjou poacher hunted by the local justice system for several years. Betrayed by the woman who loved him, he is arrested and sentenced to deportation to Cayenne.
Released : 31st-May-1989

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Goupi-Mains rouges


Released : 13th-Oct-1993

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The Happiest Place on Earth

The story of Robert Hughes-Lambert, who was captured by Nazis when his active homosexuality was discovered during the filming of Mermoz (1943).
Released : 28th-Apr-1999

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TV Credits

Louis la Brocante

Edgar de Bansac -
Released : 24th-Jan-1998

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Tatort

Khamon - Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
Released : 29th-Nov-1970

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Des grives aux loups

Jean-Édouard Vialhe -
Released : 5th-Oct-1984

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Paul Gauguin

Gauguin - The life of famous painter Paul Gauguin.
Released : 23rd-May-1975

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Les Chevaux du soleil

Antoine Bouychou - Adapted from Jules Roy's historical novel of the French presence in North Africa, the TV series follows the destiny of two families, the Bouychous and the Parises, from the conquest of Algiers in 1830 to the Independence in 1962.
Released : 22nd-Oct-1980

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Les Jupons de la révolution

Montréal - TV Show Details
Released : 19th-Jul-1989

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David Lansky

Angelo Sébastiani -
Released : 30th-Apr-1989

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Champs-Elysées

Self -
Released : 16th-Jan-1982

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La Valise en carton

Alfredo -
Released : 8th-Apr-1988

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Catherine Courage

Magenta -
Released : 9th-Jan-1993

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Vivement dimanche

Self -
Released : 20th-Sep-1998

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Les Allumettes suédoises

Bougras -
Released : 4th-Mar-1996

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