Jean-Claude Brialy — Actor (52)

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Wise Guys (1961)
Les Godelureaux WikiData IMDb TMDB
other title: I bellimbusti / Speisekarte der Liebe …
In Paris in the early 1960s, Ronald is a son of a good family, with a carefree, pleasure-oriented life. He is one of the leading figures in the small world of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Following a trivial parking incident, he meets Arthur, a young man with a straight face who hurts his pride. It is at this moment that Ambroisine, a beautiful young woman, appears... she will be the instrument of Ronald's revenge.

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The Accuser (1977)
L'Imprécateur WikiData IMDb TMDB
Jean-Louis Bertuccelli actor: Jean Yanne / Michel Piccoli …
other title: L'Imprécateur / Der Ankläger
In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is inundated with mysteriously threatening be-ribboned anti-capitalist tracts, delivered overnight to everyone's desks. Later, the executive's body is brought to company offices for an official wake -- only no one at the company has ordered that such a thing be done. A mysterious prankster, who is able to imitate the voice of the company's president, has arranged these things. When Americans from the head office get wind of these developments, they institute a search for the perpetrator which leads to mysterious subterranean passages under the company's skyscraper.

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Demon Is on the Island (1983)
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Francis Leroi actor: Anny Duperey / Jean-Claude Brialy …
other title: Der Dämon der Insel / Le Démon dans l'île …
An epidemic of appliance madness unrelated to discount sales strikes an island off the coast of France: the islanders are being murderously attacked by ovens and refrigerators acquired in the same department store. Enter the young Dr. Gabrielle Martin (Anny Duperey), who arrives here to escape her own personal tragedy and instead lands in the middle of the kitchen mania. She tracks down the cause of the rapidly spreading epidemic to another doctor on the island — quite as insane as any of the kitchen appliances (if the comparison could be made) — and finds that the villainous doctor and the appliances have a most unusual link. Graphic scenes of mutilation by an oven, as one example, leave nothing much to the imagination in this film, but the interpretations of actors Anny Duperey and Jean-Claude Brialy as the good and evil doctors are excellent.

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An Impudent Girl (1985)
L'Effrontée
Claude Miller actor: Charlotte Gainsbourg / Bernadette Lafont …
other title: Sarà perché ti amo? / Das freche Mädchen …
Charlotte Castang is a working-class 13-year-old girl, who lives in a drab, run-down neighbourhood, and is ready to become an adult. Her mother died giving birth to her, and she lives with her crass brother and a father whose attention is elsewhere. Her only friend is Lulu, a sick 10-year-old she regards as a pest. Charlotte is antisocial, bored and dreams of a better life. Her life improves when she meets Clara Bauman, a pianist prodigy.

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No Fear, No Die (1990)
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Claire Denis actor: Isaach de Bankolé / Alex Descas …
other title: Al diavolo la morte / Scheiß auf den Tod …
Dah and Jocelyn come from former French colonies to coach their rooster, "S'en fout la mort", for an illicit cock-fight in the basement of a restaurant.

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The Night of Varennes (1982)
La Nuit de Varennes IMDb TMDB Douban
Ettore Scola actor: Jean-Louis Barrault / Marcello Mastroianni …
other title: Il mondo nuovo / La Nuit de Varennes …
During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.

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The Mandrake (1965)
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Alberto Lattuada actor: Rosanna Schiaffino / Philippe Leroy …
other title: La mandragola / A Mandrágora …
A young man hatches a plan to sleep with another man's infertile wife. Based on the play by Machiavelli.

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King of Hearts (1966)
Le Roi de cœur
Philippe de Broca actor: Alan Bates / Geneviève Bujold …
other title: Tutti pazzi meno io / Le Roi de cœur …
An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache.

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Adieu Philippine (1962)
Adieu Philippine
Jacques Rozier actor: Jean-Claude Aimini / Yveline Cery …
other title: Desideri nel sole / Adiós Filipina …
Michel is a young technician in the fledgling TV industry and is due for military service in two months at the time of the Algerian War. Juliette and Liliane are inseparable best friends, and aspiring actresses, who hang around outside the TV studio. Michel invites them in to watch, flirts with them both, and dates them separately and together. When Michel goes on a holiday to Corsica, just before he is drafted, the girls follow.

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Fiancés on the Bridge (1961)
Les fiancés du pont Mac Donald ou (Méfiez-vous des lunettes noires)
other title: Die Verliebten von Pont Mac Donald / Les Fiancés du pont Mac Donald …
A subtitle warns, "beware of dark sunglasses." Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow tie are reminiscent of a young Buster Keaton, kiss chastely on a bridge overlooking the Seine. He dons sunglasses and waves as she runs down a stairway to the river's edge, then watches in horror as she's knocked flat and loaded into the back of a hearse. In vain, he gives chase. Disconsolate, he buys a large funeral wreath and a handkerchief from sympathetic vendors. He removes the glasses to wipe his eyes and realizes they are the cause of all his woe. He replays the farewell without the glasses.

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All the Boys Are Called Patrick (1959)
Charlotte et Véronique, ou Tous les garçons s'appellent Patrick IMDb TMDB Douban NeoDB
让-吕克·戈达尔 actor: Jean-Claude Brialy / Anne Collette …
other title: 所有的男生都叫派翠克 / Charlotte et Véronique, ou Tous les garçons s'appellent Patrick …
A pickup artist/womanizer named Patrick inadvertently pursues two young women who happen to be roommates.

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The Lovers (1958)
Les Amants
Louis Malle actor: Jeanne Moreau / Alain Cuny …
other title: Les amants - Gli amanti / Die Liebenden …
A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions, leading her further towards Paris and the country wilderness.

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Fool’s Mate (1956)
Le Coup du berger WikiData IMDb Douban
Jacques Rivette actor: Virginie Vitry / Anne Doat …
other title: Le Coup du berger / El mate del pastor
Claire is a chic young Parisian woman married to a somewhat older husband, Jean As the story opens, she leaves her husband playing baroque music at the piano, telling him she is off to see her sister, Solange. In reality she meets her lover, Claude at his apartment; After some idle chatter and love-making he tells her a story of the shriveled heads that the Jivaro Indians used to give their lovers as tokens of affection but, as she shivers in disgust, he gives her a mink instead. How will they hide it from her husband?

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Way of Youth (1959)
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Michel Boisrond actor: Françoise Arnoul / 布尔维尔 …
other title: 青年之路 / Le Chemin des écoliers …
This movie is a Marcel Aymé adaptation and it deals with the not-so-glorious side of the Occupation: black market, war profiteers, cracking open bottles of Champagne while most of the Parisians are almost starving.