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The Wing or the Thigh? (1976) [Movie] NeoDB TMDB WikiData IMDb Douban
L'Aile ou la Cuisse
director: Claude Zidi actor: Louis de Funès / Coluche
other title: L'ala o la coscia? / O Peito ou a Perna
Charles Duchemin, a well-known gourmet and publisher of a famous restaurant guide, is waging a war against fast food entrepreneur Tri- catel to save the French art of cooking. After having agreed to appear on a talk show to show his skills in naming food and wine by taste, he is confronted with two disasters: his son wants to become a clown rather than a restaurant tester and he, the famous Charles Duchemin, has lost his taste!
Cléo from 5 to 7 (1962) [Movie] NeoDB Douban IMDb TMDB WikiData
Cléo de 5 à 7
8.1 (16 ratings) director: Agnès Varda actor: Corinne Marchand / Antoine Bourseiller
other title: Cleo dalle 5 alle 7 / Cleo fra 5 til 7
Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer set adrift in the city as she awaits test results of a biopsy. A chronicle of the minutes of one woman’s life, Cléo from 5 to 7 is a spirited mix of vivid vérité and melodrama, featuring a score by Michel Legrand and cameos by Jean-Luc Godard and Anna Karina.
Any Number Can Win (1963) [Movie] NeoDB Douban TMDB IMDb WikiData
Mélodie en sous-sol
director: Henri Verneuil actor: Jean Gabin / Alain Delon
other title: Colpo grosso al casinò / Lautlos wie die Nacht
Charles, 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.
The Gendarme Takes Off (1970) [Movie] IMDb WikiData Douban TMDB
Le Gendarme en balade
director: 让·吉罗 actor: 路易·德·菲奈斯 / 让·勒费弗尔
other title: 退休警察 / 警察巡逻记
The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.
Going Places (1974) [Movie] TMDB IMDb NeoDB Douban
Les valseuses
director: 贝特朗·布里叶 actor: 热拉尔·德帕迪约 / 帕特里克·迪瓦尔
other title: Les valseuses / 圆舞曲女郎
Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeoisie holds dear, whether it’s cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She’s on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.
Mr. Peek-a-Boo (1951) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Garou Garou, le passe-muraille
director: Jean Boyer actor: Bourvil / Joan Greenwood
other title: Garù garù / Garou Garou, le passe-muraille
A simple civil servant Léon, who has the unusual ability to walk through walls, falls madly in love with a hotel thief by the name of Susan. He poses as Garou-Garou, a dangerous gangster to attempt to woo her affections, but is arrested and sent to jail. While in jail he annoys the guards by walking in and out of his cell, and keeps persuading Susan to cease her criminal way of life. As fundamentally being an honest and law-abiding citizen, he eventually handles back everything he has stolen, is acquitted by the court, and becomes famous and respected. When he learns that Susan is planning to return to England and start a new life, he decides to confess to her his emotions. However, the couple is interrupted by a sudden rush of journalists. Trying to escape in a building, they get cornered on a corridor, and Léon pushes Susan through a nearby wall. But by doing this, he loses his own wall-walking ability, and the film concludes.
Crooks in Clover (1963) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Les Tontons flingueurs
director: Georges Lautner actor: Lino Ventura / Bernard Blier
other title: In famiglia si spara / Les Tontons flingueurs
An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.
Touchez Pas au Grisbi (1954) [Movie] TMDB IMDb
Touchez pas au grisbi
director: Jacques Becker actor: Jean Gabin / René Dary
other title: Grisbì / Grisbi, Ouro Maldito
Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the style they enjoy. However, Max confides the details of the theft to his younger mistress, Josey -- who has secretly taken up with ambitious young rival gangster Angelo. Angelo then has Riton kidnapped and demands the stash of gold as ransom, which threatens Max's dreams of the perfect retirement.
Hard Contract (1969) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Hard Contract
director: S. Lee Pogostin actor: James Coburn / Lee Remick
other title: Uno sporco contratto / Der Killer und die Dirne
A cold hearted American hit man goes to Europe for "one last score". His encounter with a beautiful young woman casts self doubt on his lifeblood, and influences him to resist carrying out the contract.
Maya (1949) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Maya
director: Raymond Bernard actor: Viviane Romance / Jean-Pierre Grenier
other title: So endete eine Dirne
1949 film by Raymond Bernard
The Tattoo (1968) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
Le Tatoué
director: Denys de La Patellière actor: Jean Gabin / Louis de Funès
other title: Nemici... per la pelle - Il tatuato / Balduin, das Nachtgespenst
An art dealer wants to buy a Modigliani, which is tattooed on the back of an old soldier.
A Horse for Two (1962) [Movie] WikiData IMDb TMDB
Un cheval pour deux
director: Jean-Marc Thibault actor: Roger Pierre / Jean-Marc Thibault
other title: Un cheval pour deux
On August 24, 1944, the day Paris was liberated, Maurice saw his cell door open. Although he had spent the whole war "in the shadows", it was not for acts of resistance, but for stealing a bicycle. His contact with the free world was quite brutal. The queues he observed at the butcher's gave him an idea. With the help of his childhood friend Roland, who has lost everything gambling-wise, he steals "Berlingot", the horse from a delivery car, and offers it for sale on the black market. But the "nag" is not of the same opinion.
The Killer is Listening (1948) [Movie] IMDb WikiData TMDB
L'assassin est à l'écoute
director: Raoul André actor: Louise Carletti / Marguerite Moreno
other title: L'assassin est à l'écoute
April fools in a studio where a radio host pretends to shoot dead all the performers....till a true crime occurs.
París, bajos fondos (1952) [Movie] IMDb NeoDB TMDB WikiData
Casque d'Or
director: Jacques Becker actor: Simone Signoret / Serge Reggiani
other title: Casco d'Oro / Smukke Marie
At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal gang.