person

Michel Piccoli

Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1925-12-27

Place of Birth

Paris, Ile-de-France, France

Michel Piccoli

Biography

Michel Jacques Daniel Piccoli was the son of Henri Piccoli, violinist and Marcelle Expert-Bezançon (1892-1990), pianist and daughter of the French industrialist and politician Charles Expert-Bezançon. In 1954, Michel Piccoli married actress Éléonore Hirt with whom he had a daughter, Anne-Cordélia Piccoli. In 1966, he married the singer Juliette Gréco, then in 1978 the screenwriter Ludivine Clerc, with whom he adopted two children of Polish origin, Inord and Missia. Placed in an establishment for problem children, the commitments of the young Piccoli, are made in opposition to his maternal grandfather, senator of the Third Republic, financier of the Radical Party, and important industrial painter, accused by the trade union left and by Georges Clemenceau, of having intoxicated his workmen through lead white which causes lead poisoning. Michel Piccoli then trained as an actor first with Andrée Bauer-Théraud and then during Simon. After an appearance as an extra in "Sortilèges" by Christian-Jaque in 1945, Michel Piccoli made his film debut in "Le Point Du Jour" by Louis Daquin. In the theater he distinguished himself with the Renaud-Barrault and Grenier-Hussot companies as well as at the Théâtre de Babylone. Noticed in the film "French Cancan" in 1954, he continued on stage and worked with directors Jacques Audiberti, Jean Vilar, Jean-Marie Serreau, Peter Brook, Luc Bondy, Patrice Chéreau and André Engel, and became also know in popular TV movies. Having become an atheist after a family bereavement, he met Luis Buñuel in 1956, and ironically took on the role of a priest in "La Mort En Ce Jardin". In 1959, he shot "Le Rendez-Vous De Noël", a short film by André Michel based on the short story by Malek Ouary "Le Noël Du Petit Cireur", in Algiers. The 1960s sounded his consecration, noticed in "Le Doulos" by Jean-Pierre Melville, he was revealed internationally with "Le Mépris" by Jean-Luc Godard alongside Brigitte Bardot. From then on, he toured with the greatest French and international filmmakers such as Alfred Hitchcock, Luis Buñuel, Youssef Chahine, Manoel de Oliveira... He began the 1980s with the interpretation prize at the Cannes festival in 1980, with "Le Saut Dans Le Vide" by Marco Bellocchio, and that of the Berlin festival in 1982, with "Une Étrange Affaire" by Pierre Granier-Deferre. . He worked with Jacques Doillon, Leos Carax, before trying his hand at directing. In 2001 he received the IX Europe Prize for Theatre. He was part of the jury of the 60th Cannes Film Festival in 2007, chaired by Stephen Frears. In 2011, he played in "Habemus Papam" by Nanni Moretti. The last film in which Michel Piccoli appears is the film "Le Goût Des Myrtilles", by Thomas de Thiers in 2013. Politically committed to the left, member of the Peace Movement (communist), Michel Piccoli distinguished himself by his positions against the National Front, and mobilized for Amnesty International. Michel Piccoli died on May 12, 2020 following a stroke in his mansion in Saint-Philbert-sur-Risle in Eure. His funeral takes place in Évreux on May 19, 2020, where he is cremated, his ashes are scattered within the family property.

Also Known For

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Contempt

Oct 29, 1963

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63

Spoiled Children

Sep 06, 1977

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73

Belle de Jour

May 24, 1967

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69

May Fools

Jan 24, 1990

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60

Topaz

Dec 17, 1969

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71

The Things of Life

Mar 13, 1970

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65

Mado

Oct 27, 1976

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71

Max and the Junkmen

Feb 17, 1971

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54

The Infernal Trio

May 22, 1974

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71

La Grande Bouffe

May 16, 1973

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61

The Last Woman

Apr 20, 1976

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75

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie

Sep 15, 1972

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64

Danger: Diabolik

Jan 24, 1968

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50

Masquerade

Apr 13, 1965

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64

A Room in Town

Oct 27, 1982

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69

The Witches of Salem

Apr 26, 1957

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69

The Sleeping Car Murder

Nov 17, 1965

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55

La Voleuse

Aug 26, 1966

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71

Is Paris Burning?

Oct 26, 1966

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63

The War Is Over

May 11, 1966

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61

The Passerby

Apr 14, 1982

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74

The Phantom of Liberty

Sep 10, 1974

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20

Hauteclaire

Jun 13, 1961

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68

Atlantic City

Sep 03, 1980

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NA

Kiarostami in Close up

Jan 01, 2000

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69

Raining Cats and Frogs

Dec 03, 2003

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65

Themroc

Feb 22, 1973

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60

Death in a French Garden

Feb 13, 1985

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62

Strange Affair

Dec 23, 1981

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73

La Belle Noiseuse

Sep 04, 1991

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59

Godard's Passion

May 26, 1982

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50

On War

Oct 01, 2008

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NA

La Lune

Jan 01, 1985

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70

The Milky Way

Feb 28, 1969

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64

Death in the Garden

Sep 21, 1956

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71

Diary of a Chambermaid

Mar 04, 1964

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70

Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others

Oct 23, 1974

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63

Wedding in Blood

Apr 12, 1973

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NA

Danger in the Middle East

Sep 02, 1960

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58

Passion in the Desert

Aug 31, 1997

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67

We Have a Pope

Apr 15, 2011

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72

Spy, Stand Up

Jan 27, 1982

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72

The Prodigal Daughter

Mar 25, 1981

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60

Liza

Aug 11, 1972

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67

Sugar

Oct 15, 1978

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57

Gardens in Autumn

Sep 06, 2006

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48

Walking a Tightrope

Sep 01, 1991

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71

Mauvais Sang

Nov 26, 1986

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64

Heartbeat

Oct 30, 1968

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49

The Prude

Dec 03, 1986

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59

Dangerous Moves

Apr 15, 1984

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42

The Veiled Man

Sep 16, 1987

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50

Le Coup de grâce

May 08, 1966

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53

The Duchess of Langeais

Mar 28, 2007

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66

The Supper

Dec 23, 1992

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57

Tykho Moon

Nov 28, 1996

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66

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

Mar 20, 1996

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57

The Accuser

Sep 07, 1977

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65

Against Oblivion

Dec 11, 1991

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58

Actors

Apr 05, 2000

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47

The Children Thief

Sep 25, 1991

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59

Belle Toujours

Sep 08, 2006

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67

The Audience

Mar 31, 1972

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63

The Dust of Time

Nov 22, 2008

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46

La Rumba

Feb 18, 1987

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54

Little Lili

Aug 27, 2003

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62

A Leap in the Dark

Feb 14, 1980

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61

Sunday Buddies

Jul 01, 1957

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57

París-Tombuctú

Sep 10, 1999

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65

The Creatures

Sep 03, 1966

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60

Nothing About Robert

Feb 24, 1999

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55

Don't Touch the White Woman!

Jan 23, 1974

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64

F as in Fairbanks

May 05, 1976

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41

Libero Burro

Sep 10, 1999

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62

Claude Chabrol, the Maverick

Jan 25, 2019

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NA

Le Roi Lear

Sep 19, 2007

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51

The Game Is Over

Jun 22, 1966

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44

Le Bel Âge

Dec 30, 2009

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63

Ten Days' Wonder

Dec 01, 1971

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NA

Coming Apart

Dec 28, 2017

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70

Dillinger Is Dead

Jan 24, 1969

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58

Le Bal des casse-pieds

Feb 12, 1992

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62

One Hundred and One Nights

Jan 25, 1995

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66

The Day and the Hour

Apr 05, 1963

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61

Seven Deaths by Prescription

Dec 03, 1975

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43

My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister

Mar 05, 1986

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NA

Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres

May 13, 2011

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61

Without Leaving an Address

Jan 17, 1951

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40

Torticola versus Frankensberg

Apr 19, 1952

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55

Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!

Nov 03, 1982

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63

Going and Coming Back

Mar 27, 1985

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52

The Woman in Blue

Jan 14, 1973

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50

Malady of Love

Sep 30, 1987

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69

Holy Motors

Jul 02, 2012

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62

Atrocious Tales of Love and Death

Apr 12, 1979

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34

Everything's Fine, We're Leaving

Jun 27, 2000

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66

You Ain't Seen Nothin' Yet

Sep 01, 2012

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56

Leonor

Sep 01, 1975

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NA

Le Plus Heureux des trois

Aug 17, 1957

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NA

Délire à deux

Dec 22, 1968

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54

The Black Angel

Nov 11, 1994

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56

Life Size

Aug 21, 1974

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62

Beneath the Rooftops of Paris

Aug 10, 2007

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67

Genealogies of a Crime

May 04, 1997

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40

Beyond the Door

Sep 05, 1982

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NA

Du crime considéré comme un des beaux-arts.

Aug 20, 1981

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75

Un coupable

Dec 18, 1988

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66

The Assassination

Oct 04, 1972

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60

The Diary of an Innocent Boy

Jan 12, 1968

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NA

Il bambino di Betlemme

Jan 01, 2002

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59

Long Live Life

Apr 18, 1984

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59

Speaking of Buñuel

Jun 09, 2000

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60

How Good the Whites Are

Jan 20, 1988

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60

Loonies at Large

Aug 11, 1993

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51

Sinners of Paris

Jan 15, 1958

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45

Amazons of Rome

Mar 24, 1961

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68

The World of Jacques Demy

Sep 22, 1995

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71

The Young Girls Turn 25

May 19, 1993

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59

Nathalie

Dec 04, 1957

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50

The Perfume of the Lady in Black

Oct 05, 1949

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60

Success Is the Best Revenge

May 26, 1984

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80

L'Été en hiver

Jan 04, 1964

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55

The Eyes, the Mouth

Sep 10, 1982

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65

The Monkey Folk

May 26, 1989

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53

Boxes

Jun 06, 2007

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50

The Distant Land

Jan 01, 1987

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58

Adieu Bonaparte

May 17, 1985

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20

Archipel

Mar 17, 1993

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46

All About Loving

Dec 28, 1964

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78

Godard by Godard

May 17, 2023

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60

Traveling Companion

May 26, 1996

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60

François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story

May 16, 2021

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76

One Way or Another

Apr 30, 1976

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NA

La Cerisaie

Jan 31, 1982

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45

Little Girl in Blue Velvet

Aug 23, 1978

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67

The Bellman

Dec 04, 1945

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60

The Uninvited

Oct 31, 1969

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73

Marx Can Wait

Jul 15, 2021

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41

Rene the Cane

Feb 16, 1977

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100

Climates of Love

Apr 11, 1962

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70

Martha and I

Sep 01, 1990

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58

Lines of Wellington

Oct 04, 2012

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74

Hello Cubans

Nov 26, 1963

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61

Dom Juan

Nov 06, 1965

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56

The Bit Between the Teeth

Sep 01, 1979

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60

Le divorcement

Aug 22, 1979

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NA

Marie Soleil

Dec 19, 1964

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73

Portrait Of My Father

Oct 27, 2010

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50

Les Joueurs

Jan 01, 1960

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44

Confused Feelings

Jun 10, 1981

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55

The General of the Dead Army

Oct 19, 1983

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40

Daughters of Destiny

Jan 21, 1954

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45

La Chevelure

Jan 01, 1961

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71

French Cancan

Apr 09, 1955

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NA

The Taste of Blueberries

Oct 08, 2014

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52

Fire's Share

Jan 04, 1978

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46

Touch and Go

Sep 01, 1971

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72

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

Jan 07, 2022

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53

Our Lady of Hormones

Sep 02, 2015

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42

Price of Love

Jan 05, 1955

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NA

Romy Schneider, étrange étrangère

Sep 18, 2002

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NA

Claude Sautet, Romy, Yves, Michel et les autres

Nov 12, 2017

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67

Shock Troops

Apr 05, 1967

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66

I’m Going Home

May 13, 2001

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61

The Nonentity

Aug 13, 1986

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NA

Tödliches Geld

Jan 01, 1995

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60

Bête de scène

Feb 02, 1994

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61

Elsa the Rose

Oct 23, 1966

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64

The Prize of Peril

Jan 25, 1983

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62

Far West

May 31, 1973

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68

Paparazzi

Sep 22, 1964

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70

Ernst Thälmann – Leader of the Working Class

Oct 06, 1955

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72

It's Not Me

Jun 12, 2024

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62

The Savage State

Apr 18, 1978

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62

My Love, My Love

Jun 08, 1967

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NA

Le quadrille des diamants

Nov 19, 1957

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74

Le Doulos

Dec 13, 1962

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56

That Day

Jun 04, 2003

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76

The Beaches of Agnès

Dec 17, 2008

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72

Luis Buñuel : Un cinéaste de notre temps

Apr 21, 1964

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47

Beast at Bay

Jun 17, 1959

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63

Party

Jun 27, 1996

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45

Le Matelot 512

Dec 19, 1984

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80

The Mark Of The Day

Apr 06, 1949

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50

Otar Iosseliani, le merle siffleur

Jan 01, 2006

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50

Rupture(s)

Oct 26, 1993

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70

La Ruelle au clair de lune

Nov 10, 1988

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63

Magic Mirror

Mar 09, 2006

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64

2 x 50 Years of French Cinema

May 26, 1995

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60

Everything's Connected

Jul 07, 2005

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62

Rendezvous

Nov 10, 1961

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65

To Each His Own Cinema

Oct 31, 2007

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80

Once Upon a Time… Contempt

May 21, 2009

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72

Cesar and Rosalie

Oct 11, 1972

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60

The Dinosaur and the Baby

Mar 15, 1967

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NA

Strauberg ist da

Feb 25, 1978

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65

Romy: Anatomy of a Face

Jan 21, 1967

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30

The Fate of Baron Leisenbohg

Mar 30, 1991

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NA

La dragée haute

Jul 27, 1960

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NA

Tout chante autour de moi

Nov 01, 1954

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69

The Incredible Mr. Piccoli

May 28, 2017

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60

Bardot et Godard

Apr 30, 1964

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62

Weak Spot

Jan 01, 1975

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65

La Belle Noiseuse: Divertimento

Jan 01, 1992

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NA

Berau, sur les traces de Joseph Conrad

Jun 15, 1994

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NA

La Nuit de Tom Brown

Mar 24, 1959

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60

Bad Liaisons

Oct 25, 1955

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20

Invasion

Apr 23, 1970

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68

The Night of Varennes

May 15, 1982

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NA

The Voyage Into the Whirlpool Has Begun

Jan 01, 1974

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NA

Blanc de Chine

Apr 20, 1988

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49

Un amour de pluie

Jan 10, 1974

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NA

The Price of Survival

Feb 18, 1980

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77

The Young Girls of Rochefort

Mar 08, 1967

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55

The Devil's Tricks

Jun 15, 1966

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58

Lady L

Dec 17, 1965

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61

Without Leaving an Address

Jan 17, 1951

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56

Scénario du film Passion

Jan 28, 1982

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68

A Man, a Real One

May 28, 2003

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50

Train de nuit

Aug 01, 1994

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59

The Emigrant

Sep 26, 1994

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75

Marco Ferreri: Dangerous But Necessary

May 09, 2017

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NA

Le Chalet sous la neige

Dec 24, 1959

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79

Agnès Varda: From Here to There

Oct 01, 2011

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61

The Grand Manoeuvre

Oct 26, 1955

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58

Chance at Love

Oct 30, 1964

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40

Tabarin

May 21, 1958

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NA

Terreur en Oklahoma

May 18, 1951

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NA

La Leçon d'humour dans un parc

Jan 31, 1951

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NA

Chicago Digest

Jul 24, 1951

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NA

Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances

Apr 15, 1954

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NA

Croissance de Paris

Aug 11, 1955

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NA

La France romane

Dec 28, 1956

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NA

Le Rendez-vous de Noël

Dec 29, 1960

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NA

Fumée, histoire et fantaisie

Aug 23, 1961

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NA

Quarante fontaines

Jan 01, 1961

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NA

Parisienne... Parisiennes

Jan 01, 1962

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NA

Le Temps des assassins

Jan 01, 1962

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NA

Café tabac

Dec 31, 1964

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10

The Happiest Place on Earth

Apr 28, 1999

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NA

Dios de monoambiente

Jan 01, 2018

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68

Adieu Philippine

Sep 25, 1962

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70

Woman in Chains

Nov 20, 1968

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50

Un divertissement et Michel Piccoli

Jan 01, 2004

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NA

Film Study 01

Apr 01, 2025

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NA

Sole Meeting

May 20, 2007

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NA

Horizons...

Jun 09, 1953

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64

Agnès Varda: From Here to There

Dec 19, 2011

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56

Nulle part ailleurs

Aug 31, 1987

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53

Wetten, dass..?

Feb 14, 1981

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60

V.I.P. Schaukel

May 09, 1971

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NA

Spécial cinéma

Sep 25, 1974

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60

Deutscher Filmpreis

Jan 01, 1951

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60

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

Jan 12, 1975

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62

Champs-Elysées

Jan 16, 1982

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66

Il était une fois Champs-Élysées

Dec 21, 2022

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100

Midi Première

Jan 06, 1975

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85

Apostrophes

Jan 10, 1975

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NA

Docteur Teyran

Dec 30, 1980

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NA

Treffpunkte

May 26, 1970

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30

Vivement dimanche

Sep 20, 1998

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60

Samedi soir

Jan 09, 1971

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60

Midi trente

Mar 06, 1972

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NA

Nouvelles d'Henry James

Mar 13, 1976