Guy Marchand
Guy Marchand (22 May 1937 – 15 December 2023) was a French actor, musician, and singer. He appeared in over 100 films in over 30 years, but was best known for his role as the fictional television private detective Nestor Burma. Guy Émile Marchand was born in Paris, 19th... Read full bio →
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Loulou
1980
Le doudou
A father enlists the help of an airport employee on a quest to find his daughter's teddy.
Hibou
Rocky is a discreet man. He is happy but exists in anyone's eyes. One evening in returning home, he discovered an owl "Grand Duke "on his couch that fixed intently. He understands that he must act. The next day arrived his office, he takes an owl costume without that nobody pays any attention. Until the day he encounters a panda ...
Passe-passe
A missed highway exit leads Darry Marzouki, an unemployed magician, to cross paths with Irène Montier Duval, a wealthy woman carrying a Hermès bag full of cash. Out of love, she acted as an intermediary in an arms deal between a French minister and Korea. When the deal was exposed, the minister tried to pin the blame on her. On the run, she offe...
Dans Paris
After a love affair ends badly, a young Parisian named Paul sinks into the same kind of deep depression that led his sister to kill herself. He moves back home with his father and aimless brother Jonathan but refuses to get out of bed.
Ma femme... s'appelle Maurice
Georges, a wealthy Parisian, has a mistress who wants to marry him, but he has no intention of divorcing his wife, the source of his money. The mistress, meanwhile, has a jealous boyfriend, so when Georges dumps her, two people are angry with him. Add Georges' wife, who suspects the affair. The mistress calls Georges to say she's coming to tell ...
Le plus beau métier du monde
To be closer to his children following his divorce, Laurent Monier, a history and geography teacher in a peaceful provincial high school, accepts a position in a sensitive college in the Paris suburbs. He is assigned the hardest class, the fourth techno, and he finds an apartment in the Cité des Muriers, a particularly difficult district.
Beaumarchais l'insolent
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
Le nouveau monde
A young boy who worships all things American comes of age in Orleans, where over 14,000 American GIs were stationed.
Ripoux contre ripoux
The partners are back and are in a tight spot! Francois is going through a moral crisis, and Rene is experiencing the same. But, honesty is not always the best policy. After being suspended for their actions, they return to face their far more crooked replacements.
Les maris, les femmes, les amants
A group of women send their husbands and children to the island of Ré and stay in Paris to spend the month of August. During this time children try to become adults and their parents find themselves behaving like children. This separation allows the women consider their lives, and succeed at best to be happy while men are happy, like kids, organ...
L'été en pente douce
When he inherits the family house and property after his mother's death, aspiring novelist Fane returns home with his bimbo girlfriend Lilas. He must care for his idiot brother Mo and contend with a greedy garage owner who covets Fane's property to expand his business. When efforts to buy the property are fruitless, the mechanic incites the town...
Grand Guignol
It narrates the trials and tribulations of a company of second-rate actors trying to revive the customs and habits of the grand guignol.
Châteauroux district
Reading old letters, a young girl from Châteauroux, Carole, discovers that her father was an American soldier whose regiment was based in town in the 1950s. She will try by all means to find people who remember this period.
Vaudeville
This film features a husband who is tired of playing the eternal husband and his wife who would like to live one last love story with her lover.
Je hais les acteurs
Hollywood in the 1940s. A tyrannical producer, a paranoid director, a starlet engaged twenty-four times, an actor who refuses to age - all against a backdrop of a series of murders.
Conseil de famille
French rocker Johnny Halliday stars as a professional thief just released from jail. He returns to stealing to support his family. After several successful thefts, he decides to include his under-aged kid into the "family business".
Hold-Up
Dressed as a clown, the clever rascal Grimm holds up the most secure bank of Montreal and takes 30 hostages. While confusing and ridiculing the police with his strange behavior, he calmly manages to rid the bank of a fortune. But then an unsatisfied companion arouses trouble...
P'tit con
An adolescent who fancies himself a sexy and conscientious young man abuses all his friends and family in a quest for his own independence.
Mortelle randonnée
A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.
Coup de foudre
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. Lena and Madeleine meet at their children's school in Lyon in 1952 and the intensity of their ...
Les sous-doués en vacances
A group of friends are planning how to spend their summer vacation. One plans to go to the Seychelles with his American girlfriend. At the airport she dumps him for another guy. He has no money so he steals a backpack and goes camping. Somehow he meets a pretty girl and convinces her to share his tent. But a famous singer sees the girl and wants...
Garde à vue
Martinaud, an illustrious notary suspected of being the perpetrator of two horrendous crimes, voluntarily agrees to be questioned by Inspector Gallien on New Year's Eve. What initially is a routine procedure, soon becomes a harsh interrogation that seems to confirm the initial suspicions.
Coup de torchon
In 1938 in the french West Africa, Lucien Cordier is a weak and corrupted policeman despised by the local bad boys. His wife is openly cheating on him and he hasn't got any self-respect anymore. But when comes the occasion, his revenge will be terrible.
Loulou
Nelly, a bored wife, leaves her husband for Loulou, an unemployed, petty criminal.
Le maître-nageur
Marie, the charming daughter of Italian immigrants, has a dream : to become rich. In Roubaix, where she lives, she meets and marries small-time crooner Marcel Potier. Together they leave for the South of France where they live happily but poorly. Now, Marie hasn't forgotten her hopes of wealth and with this aim still in mind she pushes Marcel in...
L'hôtel de la plage
A group of tourists arrive in Brittany for their annual summer holiday at the Hôtel de la plage. Everyone – infants, teenagers, husbands and wives, even those who are obviously past it – has just one thing on his or her mind: sex...
Tendre poulet
Parisian detective Lise meets her childhood sweetheart Antoine by chance. Extremely happy about the reunion, the two arrange to meet. But Lise's duties as an inspector thwart their plans.
Cousin cousine
Two distant cousins meet at a wedding banquet for an elderly couple. Over time, a close friendship develops between them, but their spouses begin to think that they are more than just friends.
Une belle fille comme moi
A young sociologist researching criminal women selects a captivating inmate as his subject. As he conducts interviews in prison, her troubled past and justifications for her actions intrigue him. His growing interest soon blurs professional boundaries, testing his ability to resist her charm.
Boulevard du Rhum
In the prohibition years, the 'rumrunners' travel through the Caribbean Sea with the forbidden liquor barely escaping the ship patrols. While on the run, one of the bootleggers falls in love with an actress on a movie set.
The Longest Day
The retelling of June 6, 1944, from the perspectives of the Germans, US, British, Canadians, and the Free French. Marshall Erwin Rommel, touring the defenses being established as part of the Reich's Atlantic Wall, notes to his officers that when the Allied invasion comes they must be stopped on the beach. "For the Allies as well as the Germans, ...