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Pierre Durou

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1924-10-23
Septfonds, Tarn-et-Garonne, France

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#1The Truth

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as Un gardien de la paix (uncredited)

7.6 / 10
DramaRomance

As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the two used to share.

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#2Thérèse Étienne

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
Drama

Her father having served a prison sentence, there is unending gossiping about Therese's family. Unable to put up with it any longer, the young woman leaves her native village for the canton of Bern where she manages to be hired by Anton Muller, a wealthy, authoritarian farmer. Under the young woman's spell, Anton wants to make his servant his mistress but Thérèse refuses energetically.. Later on, she nevertheless accepts to marry Anton. On the wedding day, she meets Gottfried, her bridegroom's son, and they instantly fall passionately in love with each other.

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#3The Stud

Movie - 1970, 2h 15m • as Capt. Mathieu

4.9 / 10
Comedy

Veterinary surgeon William Chaminade is having a peaceful holiday in the South of France when he is witness to an event that will change not only his life but the destiny of France! A young woman tries to kill herself by jumping from the upstairs window of the hotel where he is staying. Thanks to the services of a passing athlete, the woman is unharmed, and she reveals that her distress is down to her husband’s apparent lack of interest in her. Immediately, Chaminade has a brainwave. He will open a special centre for people like this unfortunate young woman, who will be able to satisfy their romantic needs, at the tax payers’ expense. All is well until this innovative ’pleasure centre’ draws the attention of an over-zealous tax inspector, Dupuis...

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#4The Albatross

Movie - 1971, 2h 15m • as Driver of the van

7.2 / 10
CrimeThriller

A prisoner escapes and kidnaps a woman with her he falls in love. He's involved in a bad business where politicians and underworld are leading the dance. He'll die like the albatross in Baudelaire's poem.

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#5Captain Blood

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as (uncredited)

6.4 / 10
ActionAdventure

Le capitan is a 1960 French-Italian swashbuckler film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli and Lise Delamare. It is based on a novel by Michel Zévaco.

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#6Thank Heaven for Small Favors

Movie - 1963, 2h 15m • as Discontented sacristan (uncredited)

6.6 / 10
Comedy

Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family to do strange work.

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#7Dangerous Love Affairs

Movie - 1959, 2h 15m • as (uncredited)

6.5 / 10
DramaRomance

Juliette de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont are a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both have sexual affairs with others and share their experiences with one another. But when Valmont meets the beautiful young Marianne at a ski resort, he breaks the one rule of his unconventional marriage: never fall in love.

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#8Love Is My Profession

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
RomanceDramaCrime

Leading lawyer Andre Gobillot takes the case of Yvette, a young criminal. As he works on her defence, an unexpected romance blooms between them, only to be cut short by a tragedy.

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#9Sunday Encounter

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as Un homme attendant le bus (uncredited)

6.3 / 10
ComedyDramaRomance

Jean Brevent still did not understand the departure of his wife, Danielle Darieux. It's been five years, but he still can't forget her. In spite of a work of writer originator in a newspaper, in which it tried to be invested completely, time did not make its work. One day, by chance, he meets her in the bus...

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#10Your Money or Your Life

Movie - 1966, 2h 15m • as Waiter

6.0 / 10
Comedy

Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank.

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#11Hardboiled Egg Time

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as Un homme apportant des faux billets

5.5 / 10
Comedy

A shy, penniless employee of the garage owner Grillot, the gentle Louis wins $10 million in the lottery. Flitting along the banks of the Seine, he takes in Raoul Grandvivier, an unknown, untalented painter who has just botched a spectacular suicide intended to draw attention to himself. Raoul takes him back to his studio, where he meets his charming daughter Lucie. In order to see Lucie again, with whom he is in love, Louis offers to sell the paintings. In reality, he's the one paying for them, to make it look like a wealthy art lover.

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#12The Cat

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as (uncredited)

6.2 / 10
Drama

During the Occupation, Cora takes the place of her dead husband at the head of a Resistance network. One evening, she sympathizes with Bernard, a Swiss journalist. However, he is actually an undercover German officer who is close to the man ordered to find her using an Identikit picture...

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#13Order of the Daisy

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m • as Emile

6.2 / 10
Comedy

Matou is an innocuous, gentle-looking man. He is married to a formidable, even a frightening woman, who is as dissatisfied with him as he is with her. He knows everything there is to know about restoring and authenticating manuscripts, particularly ancient ones, through his job at the museum. One day, it occurs to him that his skills could be put to use in a more personal way, and he embarks on a private career of re-arranging the documents of people who have had the misfortune to be married to the wrong people.

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#14The Big Wash

Movie - 1968, 2h 15m • as Postman

5.9 / 10
Comedy

Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an anarchist start a war against the television. They climbed on Paris roofs to coat the T.V. antennas with a special product cutting the signal reception.

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#15The Big Scare

Movie - 1964, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

5.8 / 10
ComedyThriller

Two police inspectors pursue a dangerous counterfeiter on the run.

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#16The Desert of Pigalle

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • as un fidèle à la messe du père Janin

4.7 / 10
Drama

A young priest works as a barman in a Pigalle cafe in Paris. He tries to prevent the women there to prostitute themselves....

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#17Snobs!

Movie - 1962, 2h 15m • as Ernest Lesourd, boxer

6.0 / 10
Comedy

Four vice-presidents fight among themselves to reach the top post after the president dies. Their wives take part in the various schemes to downgrade the opposition by unorthodox means.

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#18Les Livreurs

Movie - 1961, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

8.0 / 10
Comedy

These two friendly delivery boys from a Parisian department store not only take their job to heart as much as possible, but also consider themselves responsible for the happiness of the customers they have to deliver to. This leads them successively to help, at the cost of incredible acrobatics, a young couple celebrating the first anniversary of their marriage, to mingle with the clientele of a rather disquieting doctor, to almost perish in an ambush that was of course not intended for them, and to avoid a domestic quarrel.

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#19Tabarin

Movie - 1958, 2h 15m • Main Cast Role

5.5 / 10
Drama

Jacques Forestier, also a choreographer, an art decorator and a stage producer, is the very competent manager of "Tabarin", a renowned Parisian music-hall. A hard worker, he always wants the best for the public, at the expense of his health. He is assisted in his task by his wife Rosine and his lively secretary Mimi. Chance has it that one of the dancers he auditions for a new show is Florence, his former lover. He doesn't want her in the show but the spiteful belle has a rich influential protector who imposes her anyway. Some time later, Jacques falls victim of a heart attack.

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#20The Heirs

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
Comedy

Rival brother and sister Gaëtan and Chantal, the last heirs of the late billionaire financier Omar Porassis, use every trick in the book to try and claim his fabulous inheritance when two of Omar's natural sons, Roger and Marc, are found. The brother and sister try to manipulate Marc and Roger into stealing their inheritance. After discovering the deception, the two half-brothers join forces to escape the many traps set by Gaëtan and Chantal, who try to eliminate them by any means necessary.

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#21Rendezvous

Movie - 1960, 2h 15m • as (uncredited)

7.0 / 10
Drama

In France, during the Second World War, journalist Paul Roy is a member of the Resistance, while his colleague and friend Jacques Médina is a collaborator. But it's thanks to Jacques that Paul is able to remain free, as he shelters him in his home after a roundup. The two friends co-wrote various Nazi propaganda articles, which appeared under Jacques' byline. The situation becomes complicated when Paul becomes the lover of Jacques' wife.

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