
Francis Lax
Actor · 1930 – 2013 · Paris, France
French actor and voice actor, born 16 April 1930 and died 13 March 2013 in Paris. He was known for dubbing Tom Selleck (Magnum), David Soul (Starsky & Hutch), Harrison Ford (Star Wars), Shaggy (Scooby-Doo), George Jetson (The Jetsons), Ranger Smith (Yogi Bear), Brainy and Clumsy (The Smurfs) or Snarf (Thundercats) as well as several characters of the Muppet Show.
Movies23
Movie5.5ComedyA story about inventor who invented a cool bike and goes on racing competition but has a lot of problems on his way.
Movie5.6ComedyAn advertising photographer, François, has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine, François' fiance, doesn't want him to do so, especially when the naive friend has succeeded in recruiting the young daughter of his employer to play in what he thinks is a romantic love movie.
Movie7.4DramaComedyDuring WW2, a posh bourgeois woman (Morgan)is compelled to live under the same room as a crude simple-minded yet big-hearted man.(Bourvil) Her husband was arrested by the Gestapo and she is a hunted woman.
Movie6.4RomanceComedyPierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and can't say no to the salesman, Aldo; he spends 6,000 francs on tapes, books, and a punching bag. Soon after, he's smitten by Agnes, a hotel guest with a model's looks and photographers wherever she goes. When she leaves for Nice, he follows, meeting Aldo on the way. Aldo becomes his boldness coach. Pierre gets a job washing dishes where Agnes is staying, but after a week or so, she's off to Deauville, with Aldo and Pierre in pursuit. Using funds they get by selling Aldo's car, this time Pierre poses as a polo-playing jet setter. Will this win the heart of Agnes?
Movie7.0ComedyDramaA bistro counter will decide the fate of two women. The first, Marie, the owner of a cafe for forty years in a Breton village, wants to realize her dream and go to the city. The second, Joelle, wants to leave town for the countryside.
Movie9.0ComedyThree friends finish a meal washed down with plenty of wine. The host proposes a riddle: It's the story of a guy who goes to a restaurant. He reads the menu and orders pelican. The waiter serves him, the guy tastes the pelican, and he commits suicide. Why?
Le Pélican
1992 · 1 votes
Movie6.2DramaComedyTreated as an outcast and exploited by the villagers of a small town, a young woman liberates herself through sex, which she uses as a tool of economic gain and an instrument of revenge against those who have wronged her.
Movie5.4ComedyBased on the comic strip about the hopeless but lovable slacker Gaston who drives his colleagues crazy at the office.
Fais gaffe à la gaffe !
1981 · 4 votes
Movie6.5This film tells the story of a young Jewish man who starts a rock group and achieves success. That is because he is actually an incarnation of a Biblical patriarch who was once more enthused by music than by sculpting holy icons.
Rock and Torah
1983 · 2 votes
Movie6.0ThrillerDramaNada, named after a gang of Spanish anarchists, is a small, confused band of French terrorists. They kidnap the American ambassador after one of his regular visits to an exclusive brothel. The gang starts to quarrel amongst themselves as to the diplomat's fate, while the police purge suspects in their attempts to destroy the Nada faction. As the violence escalates on both sides, the States and the terrorists are forced to use one another's methods in an increasingly desperate and relentless conflict.
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
Movie5.5ActionIn a factory working for the National Defense, an employee steals a prototype. In charge of the investigation is Francis Coplan.
Movie5.7ComedyTrois partout
1990 · 3 votes
Movie7.0HistoryTV MovieThe story of revolutionary woman Manon Roland.
Manon Roland
1989 · 1 votes
Movie8.1DocumentaryDocumentary on the French dubbing industry. A journey through pop culture, the power of voice, artificial intelligence... French dubbing actors of stars like Brad Pitt, Tobey Maguire, Daniel Craig, Woopy Goldberg or Morgan Freeman, the most talented and known in France tell the story of French dubbing through the strike that immobilized the country's industry and the breaking point between art and business. They also testify to the importance that dubbing has had, its scope and the future it will face with the evolution of artificial intelligence.
On a volé ma VF
2024 · 7 votes
Movie5.3ComedyPierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, antimilitaristic, social educator who dreams of saving three thugs, his "little guys" at the limit of delinquency. After several resounding failures that sent him to prison, Pierre is ordered by his father to join his factory to direct the social service. Tired of the venality of his father and the foolishness of the "little guys", Pierre hires them at the factory...
Movie6.6RomanceDramaAntoine Rossi, a recidivist prisoner of war in Germany, manages to escape with the cowardly Fendard. Fendard does everything in his power to help him even though he is wounded, but Antoine tries to get rid of him as he boards the train to freedom.
Les Culottes rouges
1962 · 12 votes
Movie9.0ComedyDramaAt the turn of the century, an unusual woman refuses to become an object to be desired or played with. Instead she wants to succeed on the stage of politics in the Third Republic.
L'Exercice du pouvoir
1978 · 1 votes
Movie8.5DramaA construction worker on a construction site in the Paris suburbs, Mehdi takes the bus to return home after work. Wishing to get off while the vehicle is stationary in a traffic jam, the driver refuses: while restarting, the bus hits the car in front of it. The bus driver attacks Mehdi whom he holds responsible for the incident, claiming that it is forbidden to “talk to the stagehand”. Mehdi is implicated in court and his lawyer tries to draw attention to the living conditions of immigrant workers.
Le Bougnoul
1975 · 2 votes
Movie6.2DramaThrillerA medical doctor gets into trouble when one of his patients turns out have been involved in espionage (maybe).
Movie6.0AnimationFamilyLes p'tits schtroumpfs
1988 · 3 votes
Movie6.7AnimationOne night when the moon was blue, in the land of the Smurfs, a stork left a strange little basket containing a baby Smurf on the doorstep of a house.
Le bébé schtroumpf
1984 · 9 votes
Movie7.0ComedyBeaufils et fils
1980 · 1 votes
Series11
TV6.8Talk ShowChamps-Elysées
1982 · 9 votes
TV7.0ComedyDramaAt 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.
TV7.1CrimeThe series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
TV7.0RealityLes Jeux de 20 heures
1976 · 1 votes
TV6.6AnimationComedyLucky Luke, with his horse Double Six, travels the Old West to right wrongs and bring evildoers (usually his traditional enemies the Dalton Brothers) to justice. "The man who shoots faster than his shadow."
Lucky Luke
1984 · 92 votes
TV6.0DramaComedyAnnie and Peter Mayle decide, in their own words, to take the plunge: they quit their jobs as a tax investigator and an advertising executive and move to Provence in the south of France. Their first month goes from outstanding to downright puzzling: while they adore the food and wine, they encounter amusing cultural barriers.
A Year in Provence
1993 · 6 votes
- TV8.0Drama
A French-language anthology of seven famous, fantastic, and psychological stories by beloved American author Henry James.
TV7.0FamilyKids
TV7.1Action & AdventureFamilyIn 1822, Toussaint Rouveyre, a former captain in Napoleon's army, returned to his village in the Ardèche after the defeat at Waterloo and a seven-year stay in America. There, he reunited with his family, persecuted by the Restoration regime. In order for his father to give him his share of the inheritance in advance of his permanent move to America, he needs the consent of his younger brother Antoine, a carpenter who is on the Compagnons' Tour de France. When Toussaint learns that his brother, a member of the Compagnons du Devoir (Devoirants) association, has been killed by a companion from the rival association, the Compagnons du Devoir de Liberté (Gavots), he is determined to find the murderer, a certain Tourangeau Sans-Quartier, and avenge his brother. To find this man, he joins the Compagnons du Devoir de Liberté incognito.
Ardéchois, cœur fidèle
1974 · 4 votes
TV7.0DramaInspired by the book The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by painter Giorgio Vasari, this historical soap opera, in which betrayals, kidnappings, murders and police investigations are interwoven, relates the discovery by the Italians of the secret of Flemish painting around 1470.
Le Secret des Flamands
1974 · 2 votes
TV9.0CrimeLa Mort d'un touriste
1975 · 1 votes