
Maurice Biraud
Actor · 1922 – 1982 · Paris, France
Maurice Biraud (3 March 1922 – 24 December 1982) was a French film actor. He appeared in 90 films between 1951 and 1982. Biraud was born on 3 March 1922 in Paris. He married actress Françoise Soulié in 1956. He suffered a heart attack at a red light while driving his car on Avenue Marceau in Paris and was taken to the Ambroise-Paré-Hospital in Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, where he was certified dead on 24 December 1982. Source: Article "Maurice Biraud" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Movie6.4DramaRomanceRémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.
Movie6.4CrimeThrillerThe 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.
Flic Story
1975 · 121 votes
Movie5.7ComedyMarco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young son. After a series of nauseous dizzy spells he goes to the doctor and discovers that he is four-months pregnant. Marco then becomes internationally famous.
L'Événement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la lune
A Slightly Pregnant Man
1973 · 75 votes
Movie7.0CrimeComedy"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Dutch florin, he accepts immediately. He retired after having counterfeited 100 florin notes just before the Queen Wilhelmina retired them from circulation. He flies to Paris. But the gang is not to be trusted, at least not all of them.
Movie7.2CrimeCharles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
Movie6.6DramaHistoryTwo people, a Frenchman and a Jewish German woman, meet on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
Movie5.6ComedyThe film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.
Movie5.8ComedyMarcel and Francis are busy people. Marcel owns a café and spend all his nights running from meetings to meetings with members from the high society... at least, that's what he say to his barman! Francis leaves his home, loving wife and adorable daughter, frequently to attend meetings and demonstration with customers. His boss trusts him so much that his agenda is always full... at least, that's what he say to his wife! In fact, Marcel and Francis' incomes come from their night job: thieves! Here at least, they are professional. Troubles arise when, during one robbery, they encounter a young, high-pitched voice, candid girl who takes the decision to become their associate in crime... for the fun!
Movie6.2DramaThrillerTwo thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.
Movie6.8Rose Chaperon is asked by her confectioner mother Mathilde to bring jewels to her sick grandmother, Madame de Mergrand. But Hugues, the latter's brother, is prepared to do anything to get his hands on the loot. To this end he hires a villainous young man, Jean-Louis nicknamed Loup, to do the job. Will Loup engulf and devour Little "Rose "Riding Hood?
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An automobile tribute
Teuf-teuf
1963 · 1 votes
Movie5.7DramaActionParis 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.
Movie7.0DramaA young composer is forced to work as a bar pianist. One night he gets hit by a car and is brought to a hospital. Severely injured he is injected with morphine. He becomes addicted.
Movie7.0ComedyAnimationThis film is directly inspired by Asterix, created by René Goscinny and Albert UDERZO, chronicles the adventures of a little boy, Antoine, entered the world of antiquity by studying its history lesson and two Romans, and TICKETBUS PROSPECTUS, who prefer to leave their life of legionnaires and discover the lifestyle of Gaulois.Antoine meeting Asterix cartoon form, which explains certain peculiarities of life in Lutetia.
Deux Romains en Gaule
1967 · 5 votes
Movie6.3ComedyCrimeThree 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.
Movie7.1HistoryDramaDuring World War II, French Commandos join forces with a German officer in order to survive the African desert.
Movie6.1ComedyFantasyLéon, a humble civil servant, has the unusual ability to walk through walls, however thick they are. One day, he falls madly in love with a charming hotel thief by the name of Suzan.
Movie5.4DramaCrimeStruggling actor Simon witnesses a murder; he didn't see the killer, but that doesn't stop him from claiming that he did in order to get his name into the papers. Sure enough, the murderer targets him as his next victim. Our hero is temporarily rescued by Jeanne, a fellow aspiring actress who has always had a crush on him.
Movie5.9ComedyCrimeAlfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
1971 · 33 votes
Movie6.8ThrillerCrimeIn a moment of madness a middle-aged, married and respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened. Eventually her boyfriend is charged with the crime and, in a strange twist of fate, the killer finds himself serving on the jury.
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Movie5.4ComedyCrimeJockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry the gangster's knife attack backstage at a theatre and the latter ends up dead being put into a double bass case. A day later the gangster mysteriously has disappeared, but it turns out that he was carrying a bet ticket for a horse race now worth over a million. A turbulent run for the money begins.
Movie5.2ComedyCrimeRosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities who use them as holy relics. Inspector Adrian Bondu is handling the case... But a young hippie who looks like Jesus will have Rosemonde suddenly feel very earthly feelings...
Movie7.7DocumentaryA documentary about writer Michel Audiard (1920-1985). Contemporary interviews are interwoven with archival footage and clips from his films. It offers a deeper understanding of the career of the man whom Jean Gabin swore by from the mid-1950s onward, and whom films such as "Les Tontons Flingueurs" immortalized.
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
2002 · 3 votes
Series12
TV7.5RealityA French variety show.
Numéro un
1975 · 2 votes
TV8.7DocumentaryFamilyCinépanorama
1956 · 3 votes
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Système 2
1975
TV7.0RealityLes Jeux de 20 heures
1976 · 1 votes
TV8.0DocumentaryDim Dam Dom
1965 · 2 votes
TVFamilyCadet Rousselle
1971
TV10.0DramaMysteryAn adaptation of the novel 813, in which the gentleman burglar competes to steal state papers and tries to uncover the identity of a terrifying murderer.
Arsène Lupin joue et perd
1980 · 2 votes
TV9.0DramaMarie-Marie
1981 · 1 votes
TV9.0DramaFrench miniseries.
Banlieue Sud-Est
1977 · 1 votes
TV7.0DramaAction & AdventureLes Hommes de Rose
1978 · 1 votes
TV7.0L'Esprit de famille
1982 · 1 votes
TV7.0Sci-Fi & FantasyFamilyNick Verlaine ou Comment voler la tour Eiffel
1976 · 1 votes