Michel Simon — Actor (27)
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Not Guilty (1947) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Non coupable
director: Henri Decoin actor: Jean Debucourt / Michel Simon …
other title: Non coupable / No soy inocente …
An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. The episode triggers a sense of confidence and he resolves to correct the miseries of his life.
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Boys' School (1938) [Movie] IMDb TMDB
Les Disparus de Saint-Agil
director: Christian-Jaque actor: Erich von Stroheim / Michel Simon …
other title: Das Geheimnis von St. Agil / Les Disparus de Saint-Agil
In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One night, after one of their secret meetings, one of them sees a man coming out from a wall. The next day, after he talks about it, he disappears. Then, the second one vanishes. Are they gone to their dreams? That's when the art teacher is murdered. Suspicions now are too high so the third one decides to investigate.
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Bizarre, Bizarre (1937) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Drôle de drame
director: Marcel Carné actor: Françoise Rosay / Michel Simon …
other title: Lo strano dramma del dottor Molyneux / Ein sonderbarer Fall …
A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pretend to go missing in order to hide from their sanctimonious cousin – an Anglican bishop who is leading a campaign against such writing.
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The End of the Day (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
La Fin du jour
director: Julien Duvivier actor: Louis Jouvet / Michel Simon …
other title: I prigionieri del sogno / Lebensabend …
Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory or failures. One day Raphael Saint-Clair comes; he has been a famous actor and had a lot of love affairs. Passions come back, and jealousies... A bitter film about aging, failure and the entertainment.
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The Last Turning (1939) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Le Dernier Tournant
director: Pierre Chenal actor: Fernand Gravey / Michel Simon …
other title: Le Dernier Tournant / Le dernier tournant …
Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and mercenary woman half his age. Frank, although not a fan of hard work, accepts Nick's offer to work for him. Of course, it is not for Nick's sake that the young man becomes his attendant, but for the love of Cora under whose spell he has fallen at once. It does not take long before Cora, who despises her husband, asks her lover to help her get rid of him. Frank is reluctant at first but ...
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Ecco (1963) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
Il mondo di notte numero 3
director: Gianni Proia actor: George Sanders / Rita Renoir …
other title: Il mondo di notte numero 3 / El mundo al desnudo …
A documentary highlighting some of the oddest, strangest and more grotesque examples of human behavior. Included are a tour of the Grand Guignol theater in Paris, a man who sticks long needles through his body, reindeer being castrated, and footage of lesbians and strippers.
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The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan (1975) [Movie] WikiData TMDB IMDb
Le boucher, la star et l'orpheline
director: Jérôme Savary actor: Gérard Croce / Valérie Kling …
other title: Le boucher, la star et l'orpheline / Le boucher, la star et l’orpheline …
A butcher dreams of becoming a famous director. He hires stars that he begins to kill.
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The Gallery of Monsters (1924) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
La Galerie des monstres
director: Jaque Catelain actor: Jaque Catelain / Lois Moran …
other title: La Galerie des monstres / La barraca de los monstruos …
The whimsical Riquet's has kidnapped and married a well-born young girl, Ralda. They travel around Spain performing their act in a circus but Ralda's beauty arouses the director's lust. Furious at being rejected, he opens a lion's cage during Ralda's act, leaving her seriously injured. With Ralda's family on their trail, the young people set off to find a better life elsewhere.
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The Head (1959) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
Die Nackte und der Satan
director: Victor Trivas actor: Horst Frank / Karin Kernke …
other title: Al di là dell'orrore / Die Nackte und der Satan …
A scientist invents a serum that keeps a dog's head alive after its body dies. When the scientist dies of a heart attack, his crazed assistant cuts off his head and, using the serum, keeps the doctor's head alive and forces it to help him on an experiment to give his hunchbacked nurse assistant a new body.
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Poison (1951) [Movie] TMDB WikiData IMDb
La Poison
director: Sacha Guitry actor: Michel Simon / Jean Debucourt …
other title: Ho ucciso mia moglie / Veneno …
Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each other without risk. After listening to a radio show, Paul decides to go to Paris to meet a famous lawyer in the acquittal of the murderers. He tells the lawyer that he killed his wife. The lawyer asks Paul to reconstruct the circumstances of the drama. Without knowing it, he explains, in spite of himself, the way for Paul to murder his wife by putting the odds on his side to avoid death penalty or even be released...
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The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life (1972) [Movie] TMDB IMDb WikiData
La più bella serata della mia vita
director: Ettore Scola actor: Alberto Sordi / Charles Vanel …
other title: La più bella serata della mia vita / Die schönste Soiree meines Lebens …
A successful businessman whose destiny leads him to a secluded Swiss chalet where his life is put on trial by a group of retired law professionals. The men assemble to analyze Sordi's rise to power and his increasingly immoral behavior as he attained success, and the warped perceptions of right and wrong he has adopted to remain successful.
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Ladies Lake (1934) [Movie] WikiData NeoDB Douban IMDb
Lac aux dames
director: Marc Allégret actor: Jean-Pierre Aumont / Odette Joyeux …
other title: Lac aux dames / El lago de las damas …
A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpine lake resort. He falls in love with a young heiress who is staying there with her father, but he also grabs the attention of tomboyish Puck who lives on the other side of the lake and who saves him from drowning one foggy night. Further havoc is caused by the arrival of Eric's old sweetheart whose husband is wanted by the police.
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The Two of Us (1967) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Le Vieil Homme et l'Enfant
director: Claude Berri actor: Michel Simon / Alain Cohen …
other title: Il vecchio e il bambino / Der alte Mann und das Kind …
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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The Train (1964) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB Douban Skybridge TMDB WikiData
The Train
director: John Frankenheimer actor: Burt Lancaster / Paul Scofield …
other title: Il treno / Toget …
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.
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It Happened in Broad Daylight (1958) [Movie] IMDb TMDB WikiData
Es geschah am hellichten Tag
director: Ladislao Vajda actor: Heinz Rühmann / Sigfrit Steiner …
other title: Il mostro di Magendorf / Es geschah am hellichten Tag …
The search for a child murderer drags a once-respected detective into an all-consuming obsession.
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La golfa (1931) [Movie] NeoDB IMDb Douban TMDB WikiData
La Chienne
director: Jean Renoir actor: Michel Simon / Janie Marèse …
other title: La cagna / Die Hündin …
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and make her his mistress. He thinks he finally met love, but Lulu is nothing but a streetwalker, in love with Dede, her pimp. She only accepts Legrand to satisfy Dede's needs of money.