Maurice Barrier
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1932-06-08
Locus Natus: Malicorne-sur-Sarthe, Sarthe, France
Et ut: Maurice Jean-Étienne Barrier
Hothead
François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge...
release : 1979.02.14popularis : 5.309
Raphael or the Debauched One
1830, somewhere in France. Aurore is a young, beautiful and virtuous widow. She meets Raphael, a man of leisure, a debauchee. Raphael is obsessed by...
release : 1971.04.02popularis : 2.163
The Return of Martin Guerre
Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and Bertrande de Rols marry. A few years later,...
release : 1982.05.14popularis : 9.927
The Fugitives
Coming out from jail, Lucas has decided to change his life and behave like a good citizen. But when he is taken hostage in a bank by a hare-brained...
release : 1986.12.17popularis : 8.624
And the Ship Sails On
In 1914, a cruise ship sets sail from Naples to spread the ashes of beloved opera singer Edmea Tetua near Erimo, the isle of her birth. During the...
release : 1983.10.07popularis : 7.43
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being...
release : 1972.12.06popularis : 13.092
The Specialists
While being transferred to another prison, two convicts - Stéphane Carella and Paul Brandon - effect a miraculous escape. They are pursued...
release : 1985.03.13popularis : 8.739
Flic Story
The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to...
release : 1975.10.01popularis : 25.172
Black and White in Color
French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their...
release : 1976.09.22popularis : 3.888
Life and Nothing But
January, 1920. 350,000 French soldiers remain missing in action. Major Dellaplane tirelessly matches the dead and the wounded with families'...
release : 1989.09.06popularis : 5.44
The Gypsy
Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.
release : 1975.12.05popularis : 8.341
The Gang
In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the...
release : 1977.01.19popularis : 3.145
One Woman or Two
An ad executive impersonates an archeology professor to avoid a situation with an obsessed former lover. She enlists the help of a hapless...
release : 1985.02.06popularis : 8.372
Un jour avant l'aube
At the time of the Battle of Normandy in 1944, French paratroopers of the Special Air Service carried out commando actions in Brittany.
release : 1994.05.14popularis : 0.37
Hail the Artist
Marcello Mastrioanni stars as aging actor Nicolas whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeking an anchor in his life, Nicolas attempts a...
release : 1973.12.06popularis : 3.566
Scout Toujours
France, 1965 - An aging mamma's boy becomes the replacement leader of a rowdy group of teenage boy scouts who make his life miserable.
release : 1985.11.27popularis : 12.475
La Nuit de Santa-Klaus
Cruel Santa Claus, when you come down from the sky with guns by the thousands, I beg you to spare me. If Santa Claus really existed, if he lived in...
release : 1986.01.22popularis : 1.77
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s.
release : 2017.09.01popularis : 3.271
The Taking of Power by Louis XIV
Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor,...
release : 1966.10.08popularis : 7.119
The Outsider
Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of...
release : 1983.10.26popularis : 11.416
Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre Richard, improbable synthesis of the talking ant...
release : 2005.12.07popularis : 3.06
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.
release : 1973.10.24popularis : 4.651
The Way Out
Leaving prison, Paul goes to the port. That's where he lived and where he got caught. This is also where his father died. And before leaving to try...
release : 1986.10.15popularis : 2.539
La victoire des vaincus
In June 1940, in a village of Franche-Comté occupied by the Germans, five children decide to join the resistance in their own way, against the...
release : 2002.05.04popularis : 0.851
The ComDads
Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is...
release : 1983.11.23popularis : 11.488
Louis, the Child King
January 1649: Since the death of his father, the young Louis XIV must undergo the hard apprenticeship of royal power. He must face the intrigues of...
release : 1993.11.04popularis : 4.887
Two Men in Town
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
release : 1973.10.24popularis : 7.865
He Died with His Eyes Open
Police Inspector Staniland is investigating the death of a pianist. While conducting his investigation and looking through the victim's apartment, he...
release : 1985.10.09popularis : 5.157
Marié(s) ou presque
Coustaud and Milka have to organize a memorable party to bury the boy life of their friend Tom. They go into their usual cafe, where all the guests...
release : 2008.04.30popularis : 2.779
Charlie Dingo
Charlie (Guy Marchand) returns home after being declared legally dead to reclaim his wife Georgia (Caroline Cellier) and cash in on a lucrative life...
release : 1987.10.07popularis : 1.596
Rouget le braconnier
The adventurous and dangerous life of a nineteenth-century Anjou poacher hunted by the local justice system for several years. Betrayed by the woman...
release : 1989.05.31popularis : 2.661