François Périer — Actor (35)

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Max and the Junkmen (1971)
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Claude Sautet actor: Michel Piccoli / Romy Schneider …
other title: Il commissario Pelissier / O Estranho Caso do Inspector Max …
A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught up in the task at hand.

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2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure (1984)
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Chris Marker actor: François Périer / Bibiane Kirby …
other title: 2084: Video clip pour une réflexion syndicale et pour le plaisir
Made for the centenary of France’s trade union laws, Chris Marker’s 2084 imagines a future in which a computer looks back on the labor movement of the 20th century. Mixing documentary reflection with speculative fiction, the film envisions contrasting paths for the future of workers and unions.

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Return to Life (1949)
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Henri-Georges Clouzot / Jean Dréville … actor: Bernard Blier / Jane Marken …
other title: Rückkehr ins Leben / Retour à la vie …
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War.

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A Grin Without a Cat (1977)
Le fond de l'air est rouge
Chris Marker actor: Laurence Guvillier / Davos Hanich …
other title: Rot ist die blaue Luft / Le fond de l'air est rouge …
Chris Marker’s A Grin Without a Cat is an epic political essay tracing the rise and decline of the global left from the 1960s to the 1970s. Through archival footage and commentary, the film examines revolutionary movements in France, Latin America, and beyond, reflecting on the ideals, failures, and fading hopes of a generation.

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What? (1972)
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Roman Polanski actor: Marcello Mastroianni / Sydne Rome …
other title: Che? / Was? …
A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa where nothing seems quite right.

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Stavisky (1974)
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Alain Resnais actor: Jean-Paul Belmondo / François Périer …
other title: Stavisky, il grande truffatore / Stavisky...
Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to bribe his way into the centre of French political power. But when his great scam involving millions gets exposed, he brings the government to the verge of collapse and the country to the brink of civil war.

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We Want the Colonels (1973)
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Mario Monicelli actor: Ugo Tognazzi / Claude Dauphin …
other title: Vogliamo i colonnelli / Nous voulons les colonels …
Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't agree anymore with his fascist party policy. He contacts many Italian Army officers and built a net of relationship in order to organize a Coup d'Etat (Golpe). Something goes wrong and the Interior Minister (Home Secretary) Mr. Li Masi (Lino Pugliesi) got the all information about the attempted Golpe. So the Minister organizes a counter-Golpe. Tritoni desperately, to save his project, kidnaps the Italian Republic President (Claude Dauphin) that immediately dies for heartache. Now Minister Mr. Li Masi is free to lay down the law to the rest of the country, realizing basically the actual Golpe! Tritoni surrenders and will spend rest of his time trying to sell his ideas about managing Golpe in Africa!

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Z (1969)
Z
★ 8.8 5 ratings
Costa-Gavras actor: Yves Montand / Irene Papas …
other title: Z - L'orgia del potere
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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Gervaise (1956)
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René Clément actor: Maria Schell / François Périer …
An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.

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Orpheus (1950)
Orphée
Jean Cocteau actor: Jean Marais / François Périer …
other title: Orfeo / Orfeu …
A famous poet in postwar Paris, scorned by the Left Bank youth, is in love with both his wife Eurydice and a mysterious princess. Seeking inspiration, the poet becomes obsessed and follows the princess from the world of the living to the land of the dead.

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Nights of Cabiria (1957)
Le notti di Cabiria
★ 9.1 14 ratings
Federico Fellini actor: Giulietta Masina / François Périer …
other title: Le notti di Cabiria / As Noites de Cabíria …
Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued, she resumes her life and tries her best to find happiness in a cynical world. Even when she thinks her struggles are over and she has found happiness and contentment, things may not be what they seem.

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Testament of Orpheus (1960)
Le Testament d'Orphée
Jean Cocteau actor: Jean Cocteau / Edouard Dermithe …
other title: Il testamento di Orfeo / Das Testament des Orpheus …
An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he has a series of enigmatic encounters with symbolic phantoms with whom he muses about the nature of art and his own career. Ultimately, the poet strives to achieve his rebirth as a celestial being.