Charles Denner

Charles Denner

Charles Denner (29 May 1926 – 10 September 1995) was a French actor born to a Jewish family in Poland. During his 30-year career he worked with some of France's greatest directors of the time, including Louis Malle, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch and François Truffaut who gave him two of his most memorable roles, as Fergus in The Bride Wore Black (1968) and Bertrand Morane in The Man Who Loved Women (1977). Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Denner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

  • Title: Charles Denner
  • Popularity: 0.6567
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1926-05-29
  • Place of Birth: Tarnow, Poland
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Charles Denner Movies

  • 1958
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    Elevator to the Gallows

    Elevator to the Gallows

    7.6 1958 HD

    A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally provokes an ill-fated chain of events.

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  • 1977
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    The Man Who Loved Women

    The Man Who Loved Women

    7.1 1977 HD

    At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.

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  • 1982
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    A Captain's Honor

    A Captain's Honor

    6 1982 HD

    During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the methods of Captain Caron, killed in action in 1957. The widow of the captain, Patricia, decided to file a defamation suit.

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  • 1969
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    Z

    Z

    7.8 1969 HD

    A prominent politician is murdered during a demonstration. The government and army are trying to suppress the truth, but a tenacious magistrate is determined to not to let them get away with it.

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  • 1982
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    A Thousand Billion Dollars

    A Thousand Billion Dollars

    6.9 1982 HD

    A young journalist uncovers an assassination disguised as a suicide, linked to an American multinational seeking to dominate French industries. Determined to expose the truth, he races against time to gather evidence before more lives—and his own—are at stake.

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  • 1985
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    Vivement Truffaut

    Vivement Truffaut

    6 1985 HD

    A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie, Vivement Dimanche!, released in 1983. Included in this overview of Truffaut's contribution to filmmaking are clips from 14 of his movies arranged according to the themes he favored. These include childhood, literature, the cinema itself, romance, marriage, and death.

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  • 1974
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    The Down-in-the-Hole Gang

    The Down-in-the-Hole Gang

    6.4 1974 HD

    Here we find a group of misfits who've given up on humanity and have decided to dwell below the pavement. The group has its own hierarchy, of course, and soon the conditions that drove them underground begin to manifest themselves without the influences of the Outside World.

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  • 1964
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    Life Upside Down

    Life Upside Down

    6.8 1964 HD

    A Paris real estate developer feels compelled to withdraw from his seemingly perfect life into a world of his own. Is the man going insane? By conventional standards, maybe, but it's clear that the life he's fleeing is madder still from his point of view, and since that point of view is unfailingly witty and astute, we even come to accept his delusions as more "real" than reality.

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  • 1963
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    Bluebeard

    Bluebeard

    6.3 1963 HD

    Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.

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  • 1968
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    The Bride Wore Black

    The Bride Wore Black

    7.1 1968 HD

    Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves home, with the intent track down, charm and kill five men who do not know her. What is her goal? What is her purpose?

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  • 1971
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    The Married Couple of the Year Two

    The Married Couple of the Year Two

    6.5 1971 HD

    Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others trying to woo her his own interest is rekindled.

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  • 1965
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    The Sleeping Car Murders

    The Sleeping Car Murders

    6.9 1965 HD

    Six people travel by overnight train from Marseilles to Paris. When they arrive, one of them, a young woman, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police, led by Inspector Grazzi, investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one among them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the others start turning up dead. It's up to the remaining two to solve the case, lest they become the next victims.

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  • 1972
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    A Gorgeous Girl Like Me

    A Gorgeous Girl Like Me

    6.2 1972 HD

    Young sociologist Stanislas Previne is writing a thesis on criminal women, so he visits Camille Bliss in prison for an interview. Accused of murdering her husband and her lover, Camille recounts her life and love affairs.

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  • 1971
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    Law Breakers

    Law Breakers

    5.4 1971 HD

    A judge investigating police corruption finds that the deeper he digs, the more roadblocks he finds.

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  • 1972
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    Money Money Money

    Money Money Money

    6.7 1972 HD

    When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions.

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  • 1975
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    The Night Caller

    The Night Caller

    7.2 1975 HD

    A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.

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  • 1976
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    The First Time

    The First Time

    4.9 1976 HD

    Claude is in his last year of high-school, but he doesn't care much for school. Instead all his thoughts circle around girls and getting laid. But since he doesn't look very studly, he has a hard time realizing his fantasies. When he's finally got an invitation to a steamy afternoon by Carole, his father intercepts the letter...

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  • 1967
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    The Two of Us

    The Two of Us

    7.6 1967 HD

    A story of the caring friendship formed between a crusty, old anti-Semite and an eight-year-old Jewish boy who goes to live with him during World War II.

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  • 1986
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    Golden Eighties

    Golden Eighties

    6.5 1986 HD

    In a lively shopping center, proprietors and customers are bustling, including three women vying for a man's heart with song and dance.

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  • 1965
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    The Blue Panther

    The Blue Panther

    4.9 1965 HD

    Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin's place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger entrusts her with false jewels that contain a virus powerful enough to destroy all humankind.

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  • 1973
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    The Inheritor

    The Inheritor

    6.3 1973 HD

    After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance: to lead the industrial empire his father built. But when a prostitute tries to set him up for a drug smuggling charge, he is forced to accept that his father may have been assassinated and that the killers are out to get him as well...

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  • 1964
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    Les Pieds nickelés

    Les Pieds nickelés

    5.8 1964 HD

    Three tramps in search of adventure and fortune decide to try their luck at swindling. After an initial failure at shoplifting, they take over a bateau-mouche and exploit tourists in their own way.

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  • 1986
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    L'Unique

    L'Unique

    1 1986 HD

    A famous rock singer is being overtaken. Vox, the album and live producer of the singer, prepares a real revolution with the help of a scientist. With holography, they would like to create the perfect copy of the star.

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  • 1980
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    The Truth on the Savolta Affair

    The Truth on the Savolta Affair

    5.2 1980 HD

    Barcelona between 1917 and 1923. Is the era of gangsterism, during which gunmen clash between anarchists and thugs paid by The Patronal showed a shocking number of deaths. The confrontation between anarchists and workers of the factory owners Savolta arms worsens when Savolta family decides to end the rebellion hiring murderers hired and plotting to hide their illegal transactions with Germany. Adapted from the novel by Eduardo Mendoza.

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  • 1974
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    And Now My Love

    And Now My Love

    5.9 1974 HD

    The movie follows the lives of a woman and a man starting from several generations earlier. The story spans a whole century and several continents.

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  • 1973
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    Défense de savoir

    Défense de savoir

    5.6 1973 HD

    When a woman is accused of murder, the investigation slowly reveals numerous political connections. Laubret, the court-appointed defense lawyer, does everything in his power to expose the truth.

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  • 1966
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    YUL 871

    YUL 871

    5.7 1966 HD

    An engineer from Paris flies to Montreal, partly on business, partly in search of parents displaced by World War II, and partly because of the prevailing restlessness of the age.

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  • 1978
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    Robert et Robert

    Robert et Robert

    6.1 1978 HD

    Robert #1 is played by Charles Denner, while Robert #2 is played by Jacques Villeret. Beyond their common name, the two Roberts are as different as night and day. Oh, there is one more resemblance: both Roberts are lonely, and both hope to meet suitable mates through a computer dating service. As they await the arrival of their new dates, Robert et Robert become fast friends. Of the three favorite film subjects of writer/director Claude Lelouch--romance, crime, and politics--Robert et Robert falls firmly into the first category.

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  • 1976
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    A Second Chance

    A Second Chance

    6.1 1976 HD

    Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is reunited with the boy, Simon, who has remained in an orphanage the entire time. She is accompanied by toothsome prison buddy Sarah, and gradually these people whose lives have been frozen in time "thaw" and get on with the business of living.

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  • 1960
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    Les Joueurs

    Les Joueurs

    5.5 1960 HD

    Ikhariev is a professional gambler who made his fortune by cheating. Having just won eighty thousand roubles, he comes to try his luck again at a new inn. He is accosted by three men, also cheaters, who offer to join forces with him to ruin their new prey: young Glov, heir to a rich landed estate.

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  • 1980
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    Le Cœur à l'envers

    Le Cœur à l'envers

    4.5 1980 HD

    Laure is a 40-year-old psychologist who doesn't know her son, Jean. But the latter comes back to Paris and finds a brand new woman when he sees his mother.

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  • 1969
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    Diane's Body

    Diane's Body

    3.5 1969 HD

    Diane is married to Julien, an architect. The two met in Czechoslovakia before marrying and moving to France. Julien becomes extremely jealous when he suspects Diane of having a lesbian affair with a ballet dancer. His incessant questions and insane jealousy make Diane resentful to the point she considers pushing him off a cliff.

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  • 1964
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    The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

    The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers

    5.3 1964 HD

    Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands ("A River of Diamonds" by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy ("The Road Map" by Ugo Gregoretti); Paris, France ("The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower" by Claude Chabrol); and Marrakesh, Morocco ("The Confidence Man" by Jean-Luc Godard). Godard's segment was not included in the original French cinema release, and Polanski's segment was not included on the 2016 home disc release.

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  • 1975
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    Vous ne l'emporterez pas au paradis

    Vous ne l'emporterez pas au paradis

    3 1975 HD

    After the death of one of his clients, a Swiss industrialist decides to call his brother to transport the corpse to Switzerland. The journey will not be easy.

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  • 1973
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    A Police Officer Without Importance

    A Police Officer Without Importance

    1 1973 HD

    Camille, Dov and Joëlle live on the edge of society and are involved in petty theft helping them to buy their drug doses and to survive as best they can. One day, while attempting to rob a movie theater, they activate the alarm signal and it is Pierre, Camille's brother, who is doing a heist in the same building, who is arrested red-handed. The three young people decide to kidnap a police officer and exchange him for Pierre.

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  • 1967
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    Heraclitus the Dark

    Heraclitus the Dark

    3.5 1967 HD

    Deval shot “Héraclite l’obscur” in Tunisia in 1967, with his then-girlfriend and editor Jackie Raynal, in 35 mm and in color. He was the first Zanzibar member to shoot a film not only outside of Paris but also in an exotic location. “Héraclite l’obscur” is described by its author as a “philosophical peplum”. – spectacle theater

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  • 1966
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    The Devil's Toy

    The Devil's Toy

    6.2 1966 HD

    Dedicated “to all victims of intolerance,” "The Devil’s Toy" is a faux–public service documentary that chronicles the early days of skateboarding in Montreal. Framed as mock anti-skateboarding propaganda, Claude Jutra contrasts official hostility with the exhilaration and freedom experienced by youths racing downhill through city streets, shortly before the activity was banned.

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  • 1967
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    The Thief of Paris

    The Thief of Paris

    6.7 1967 HD

    In turn-of-the-century Paris, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a rich neighbour. In retaliation, Georges steals the fiancé's family jewels, and enjoys the experience so much that he embarks upon a lifetime of burglary.

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  • 1968
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    The Truce

    The Truce

    1 1968 HD

    A nightclub owner and his stripper girlfriend take a country ride, meet another rival underworld guy along the way, and team up to thwart a third gangster who's on their tails.

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  • 1954
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    La Belle au bois dormant

    La Belle au bois dormant

    5 1954 HD

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  • 1955
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    The Best Part

    The Best Part

    6.8 1955 HD

    Philippe Perrin, a young engineer passionate about his work, leads the construction of a huge dam in the High Alps. Like all the men who work on the building site, he gives the best part of himself. Unfortunately, his health deteriorates but he refuses to follow the doctor's orders as well as the advice of Micheline, a young nurse who has fallen in love with him. However, driven by the evolution of his illness, Philippe finally makes up his mind to go down to the valley for a treatment. On the very day of his departure though, a young Arab worker gets killed in a rock crusher...

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  • 1970
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    The Crook

    The Crook

    7.1 1970 HD

    A thief known as Simon the Swiss faces up and downs in his criminal profession.

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  • 1955
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    Les Hommes en blanc

    Les Hommes en blanc

    1 1955 HD

    Jean Nerac completes his medical studies, sure of a successful career, but less sure of his attempts with fellow student Marianne, who refuses to accept him. Nerac leaves for the Auvergne. An old doctor will soon die, but replacing him will be difficult, as one of Jean's colleagues has failed. However, with patience, skill, modesty and friendship, Jean Nerac overcame the mistrust of his patients. He settled in these austere mountains, and Marianne, convinced of the young man's worth, helped him with her presence.

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  • 1976
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    Mado

    Mado

    6.4 1976 HD

    A middle-aged businessman faces bankruptcy after his partner's suicide and a rival's unscrupulous offer to buy his company. Determined to avoid the trap, he finds an unexpected solution through a prostitute.

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  • 1964
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    Le Grand Escroc

    Le Grand Escroc

    8.5 1964 HD

    Patricia Leacock, reporter for an American television, is in Morocco on the trail of a counterfeiter-philanthropist. Based on a real story which Chaplin had already thought to adapt into a film.

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  • 1965
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    Les fourberies de Scapin

    Les fourberies de Scapin

    1 1965 HD

    Two youths have secretly married ladies but not the ones their fathers who are away on trips had selected.A mischievous valet plays tricks to see that the lovers can stay together.

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  • 1964
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    Mata Hari, Agent H21

    Mata Hari, Agent H21

    5.6 1964 HD

    Ordered to seduce French captain and steal from him classified papers, Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and a spy, instead falls in love with him and blows the cover.

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  • 1983
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    Stella

    Stella

    6.8 1983 HD

    During the Second World War, Yvon joins the Gestapo to save his Jewish girlfriend, Stella, from deportation. When France is liberated, he has to answer for his past. Hunted, he decides to escape to Spain, but Stella refuses to go with him.

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    François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay

    François Truffaut: My Life, a Screenplay

    6.4 2024 HD

    At the end of his life, gravely ill, François Truffaut took refuge with his ex-wife Madeleine Morgenstern. She tried to keep him occupied during his long agony. The filmmaker confided in his friend Claude de Givray, with the intention of writing his autobiography. Too weakened, he abandoned the project. The film reveals part of this final story.

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  • 1983
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    Rock and Torah

    Rock and Torah

    4 1983 HD

    This 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.

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  • 1970
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    La Vie à l'envers

    La Vie à l'envers

    9 1970 HD

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  • 1967
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    La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire

    La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire

    1 1967 HD

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  • 1975
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    Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

    Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

    6 1975 HD

    A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

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