Jean-Roger Milo
Actor · 1957 – 2023 · Paris, France
Jean-Roger Milo, whose real name is Salah Eldine Saoud (in Arabic: صلاح الدين سعود), is a French actor of Algerian origin, born June 5, 1957 in the 12th arrondissement of Paris and died October 12, 2023 in the 15th. district of the same city. At the end of the 1970s, he was 18 years old and already quite drifting, in Créteil, at the MJC, he became acquainted with cinema. A 16 mm Beaulieu camera, black and white film galore, and it's an adventure. One day, he heard actor Sacha Pitoëff on the radio explaining that his course was open to everyone. He calls her and arrives at the Campagne Première theater. “I probably needed another identity. For me, Pitoëff was a teacher, but also a father. A man". Through his contact, the applicant confronts the great texts and plays Pepel in Les Bas-Fonds. He discovered a passion for the acting profession. First jobs as extras. He does what he can with “his build”. He telephones Bertrand Tavernier: “We had a coffee together and we discussed cinema, that brought me a lot. I did the same thing with Bertrand Blier, who gave me books to read. The young actor searches for himself, launches into poetry, reads Pierre de Ronsard, Victor Hugo, Stéphane Mallarmé, Tristan Corbière, Max Jacob, and writes “I wrote sonnets, two quatrains and two tercets. I took my time. No more than three in the year. I also wrote short stories in prose. In my opinion." In the early 1980s, Jean-Roger Milo appeared in films such as Tir Groupé and Un Dimanche De Flic. In L'As Des As, he is part of the sports team alongside Jean-Paul Belmondo. Confined to the employment of the villain, the experience is painful. “Playing is always an act against one’s nature. Even those whose faces give off a hint of madness sometimes dream of a fireside role.” Cast in the film Rue Barbare, in 1984, he was injured in a fight while protecting a child before the start of filming and had to be replaced: this incident wrongly earned him a bad reputation in cinema circles and slowed down his career. . Jean-Roger Milo then reappears in the cinema in roles of varying importance. In Sarraounia, in 1986, he played Paul Voulet. He played colorful roles in L.627 (1992) by Bertrand Tavernier, and in 1993 he lost thirty kilos to play Chaval in Germinal by Claude Berri. His performance earned him a César nomination for Best Supporting Actor. He toured again under the direction of Berri, in 1997, in Lucie Aubrac, where he played Maurice David, a character closer to him. He will also play in popular films like Le Pari (1997) by Didier Bourdon and Bernard Campan and Astérix et Obélix contre César (1999) by Claude Zidi where he will lend his features to the blacksmith Cétautomatix. In 1999, he played one of the main roles in the television films Prison à Domicile and Les Sagards (1999) by Dominique Ladoge. Jean-Roger Milo then retired from cinema to live in the mountains. Gustave Kervern and Benoît Delépine tried to get him back on the screens in 2014 by giving him the main role in the film Near Death Experience but their contacts were unsuccessful. Jean-Roger Milo died on October 12, 2023 in Paris 15th, at the age of 66.
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Movie6.0FamilyAdventureSet in 50 B.C., Asterix and Obelix are living in a small but well-protected village in Gaul, where a magic potion concocted by Druids turns the townsfolk into mighty soldiers. When Roman troops carve a path through Gaul to reach the English Channel, Caesar and his aide de camp Detritus discover the secret elixir and capture the Druid leader who knows its formula, and Asterix and Obelix are sent off to rescue them.
Movie7.0ThrillerMarc and Laurent, two worrying misfits, break into a large isolated property in the middle of the countryside. Marc discovers with amazement that the place belongs to his idol, the movie star Jessica Melrose, of whom he is crazy. After a strange night, in the morning, Jessica meets the two "explorers" who will make her live a day of waking nightmare .
Les enragés
1985 · 2 votes
Movie7.1AdventureComedyIn this action comedy the French boxer Jo Cavalier is charmed on the train to Berlin for the Olympics in Hitler's Germany by the little boy Simon Rosenblum who asks his autograph; when it turns out his adorable young fan is a Jewish orphan in danger of persecution, he risks his one shot at Olympic glory to save Simon and his family, helped only by a German officer-gentleman who became his friend in World War I, by an adventurous escape to Switzerland, Nazi troops on their heals and braving impossible odds in roller coaster-style.
Movie6.3ComedyTwo rival "brothers-in-law" make a bet that they can stop smoking for 2 weeks. But, it's just not that easy...
Movie6.8ActionCrimePhilippe 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.
Movie5.7DramaThrillerA dockworker seeking revenge on the killer of his sister finds himself the object of desire for two women.
Movie6.7DramaRomanceIt's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them.
Germinal
1993 · 349 votes
Movie6.9DramaFamilyIn France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.
Movie7.2WarDramaIn 1920, Major Dellaplane, a man of honor and ethics, searches for missing French soldiers. He meets Madame Irène de Courtil, a politically connected Parisian, and their paths cross.
Movie6.4DramaWarA love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband...
Lucie Aubrac
1997 · 75 votes
Movie7.1DramaThrillerIn Paris, Lulu, a passionate policeman, works with the faith of a rookie, despite the sclerotic bureaucracy and the incompetence or negligence of some of his colleagues. In his new position as a narcotics inspector, he tries to keep his sanity as he witnesses the worst of the human condition.
L.627
1992 · 107 votes
Movie6.3DramaCrimeA Paris flea market vendor is transformed into a vigilante after his fiancée is murdered by three vicious thugs on a commuter train. As the revenge-minded young man tracks the killers, a veteran police inspector leads a parallel investigation.
Movie6.4CrimeDramaAfter a messy divorce, a struggling writer takes a holiday on the French Riviera, where he decides to investigate a series of mysterious incidents.
Boulevard des assassins
1982 · 7 votes
Movie5.8ComedyLeonie Koutcharev, a top civil servant at the Ministry of Interior, proposes an ideal solution to the problem of overpopulated prisons: put model prisoners in the homes of carefully screened families. Jules and Norma Klarh, a childless couple, expect to receive an inoffensive juvenile delinquent but end up with the psychopath Marcus Steckner in their suburban home. The film centers on social criticism of the gap between reality and the bureaucratic assumptions of what reality should be.
Prison à domicile
1999 · 3 votes
Movie7.0HistoryTV MovieThe story of revolutionary woman Manon Roland.
Manon Roland
1989 · 1 votes
Movie4.4ActionCrimeAn American general with highly confidential defence information has been kidnapped by terrorists and is being held in a cliff-top fortress in the Mediterranean.
Movie5.2ActionCrimeA criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession.
Movie6.4CrimeTwo policemen, Franck and Rupert, intervene in a Parisian heliport where drugs are exchanged for a large sum of money. They decide to keep the loot and find themselves fighting with the mafia.
Un dimanche de flics
1983 · 9 votes
Movie3.7ActionComedyWhile a terrorist epidemy strikes the world leaders, the commissaire San-Antonio and his partner, the lieutenant Bérurier, have to escort the French ambassador in a British hotel. But after a negligence of Bérurier (one more little sex affair...), San-Antonio witnessed, helpless, to the ambassador's abduction, organized by a gorgeous Italian girl. Back to Paris, San-Antonio is dismissed by the police chief, Achille Hachille. A real godsend for Bérurier, who get promoted... But soon, the situation degenerates, when the president of the Republic mysteriously disappears. Immediate reaction from Police Minister : San-Antonio is the only one who can save the day. He has 48 hours and a secret squad to find the president. At the Elysée, San-Antonio finds Bérurier, the official investigator. But now, it's every man for himself : who will be the first to find the President ?
San Antonio
2004 · 51 votes
Movie6.1MysteryCrimeThis fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives of the elite of a small French town.
Radio corbeau
1989 · 11 votes
Movie7.4DramaA 19 year-old Swiss woman travels to her birthplace—an isolated, barren Berber settlement in the mountainous desert landscape of Algeria—to find her biological mother, whom she has never met. The perilous journey immerses her in a world virtually untouched by contemporary society, one that still clings to tribal mores and strict religious codes of conduct.
Movie6.7WarDramaOn 2 January 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the command of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroon. Those captains and their African mercenary troops destroy and kill everything they find on their path. The French authorities try to stop them sending orders and a second troop but the captains kill the emissaries who reach them. Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas, have heard about the exactions. Clever in war tactics and in witchcraft, she decides to resist and stop those mad men.
Sarraounia
1986 · 10 votes
Movie10.0DramaWhat do Patricia, Badou, François, Dingo and P'tit Jeannot have in common? They live in the Paris suburbs, they are young, they are on the verge of breaking away from school, from the working world or from the Army. Their meeting place is "La Javanaise", a bar held by no-nonsense Janine and her lighter husband Lucien. There they mix with their idol, Daniel, also known as Frankie Mégalo, a film projectionist and a rocker without a band. Most of the efforts of these born idlers will consist in finding a band and a venue for Frankie to perform and in laying hands on cash by means fair or foul to go to the Southern sun.
La bande du Rex
1980 · 1 votes
Movie3.7AdventureFrench Guiana has long been the site for some notorious prisons surrounded by dense jungle. In this story, Noel Caradec (Richard Berry) is a bereft son who has come from France to the tropical South American country to look for his father, who fled from the prison and disappeared years ago. He runs into serious opposition from the owner of a hotel and bar known as Cayenne-Palace. The man also happens to be at the center of all the illegal goings-on in the region. However, Noel is not entirely without friends, as his half-brother Xavier and the people of the jungle are on his side.
Cayenne Palace
1987 · 6 votes