Raymond Bussières
Raymond Bussières (3 November 1907 – 29 April 1982) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1933 and 1982. He was born in Ivry-la-Bataille and died in Paris. He is buried in Marchenoir. He was married to the actress Annette Poivre. Source: Article... Read full bio →
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Porca vacca
When a stage artist is send to fight he met a lovely girl.
Neige
Anita is a barmaid at the center of a community of street preachers, sex workers, dealers and users. When a beloved friend (and young drug dealer) is caught by narcotics agents, Anita takes it upon herself to score for his struggling clients.
Les sous-doués
The story centers around a graduating class of "less-gifted" students in a private Versailles high school. Only a miracle has brought the students this far along, and after a practical joke misfires and the whole school is dynamited, the students are in deep trouble.
Le roi et l'oiseau
A young shepherdess and a chimneysweep plan to get married and escape the clutches of a tyrannical king in love with her, assisted by the guile of a cheeky mockingbird, the king's archenemy.
La carapate
The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.
Le 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 front-wheel drive gang". The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will their luck last?
L'aile ou la cuisse
Charles Duchemin is an exquisite restaurant owner and runs a magazine of fine French dining. He is an expert of tasting food and when arch enemy Jacques Tricatel opens a fast-food restaurant that sells fabricated French meals, Duchemin fells challenged and must prove that he is the best. A cult French comedy with Louis de Funès.
Jonas qui aura 25 ans en l'an 2000
A look at the lives of several men and women in their 30s as they confront the slim gains of the "revolutionary" sixties. Max, a dissatisfied copy editor; Myriam, a redhead into tantric sex; and Marie, a supermarket checker who gives unauthorized discounts to the elderly, search for renewed meaning on a communal farm.
Dracula père et fils
With angry villagers driving them away from their castle in Transylvania, Dracula and his son Ferdinand head abroad. Dracula ends up in London, England where he becomes a horror movie star exploiting his vampire status. His son, meanwhile, is ashamed of his roots and ends up a night watchman in Paris, France where he falls for a girl.
Nuits rouges
Clad in a featureless red mask, The Man Without A Face is involved in a single-minded pursuit of the fabled treasure of the Knights Templar in this tribute to the pulp adventure stories of Louis Feuillade.
Mannen som slutade röka
The Plot focuses on Dante Alighieri, a young man who loves smoking. When his father dies Dante inherits $17 million on one special condition: He must give up smoking in 14 days and then stay smoke-free for an entire year. If he fails, his uncle inherits the $17 million instead.
Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Architect Giambattista Manteghin, actor Romolo Moretti, Prince Pantegani and inventor Leonardo Rossi meet while trying to bribe a tax official out of paying exorbitant taxes. The four get together and conspire to rob the taxation office building, which happens to have been designed by Manteghin.
Les compagnons de Baal
Journalist Claude Leroy reports that a secret society, The Companions of Baal, is behind a hold-up in the small town of Blaingirey. They are led by the Grand Maître Hubert de Mauvouloir. An adorant of Lucifer, he aims to enslave the world.
Ho!
Race driver who has lost his membership card becomes the chauffeur of a gangsters pack
La malédiction de Belphégor
At the Opera of Toulon, the cast and crew hoping to put on a Satanism / human sacrifice-themed ballet entitled “La malédiction de Belphégor” soon find their numbers dwindling.
Paris - When It Sizzles
The sprightly young assistant of a Hollywood screenwriter helps him over his writer's block by acting out his possible plots.
Fanny
Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is in love with him, and he discovers that he is in love with her.
Che femmina!! E... che dollari!
An American millionaire has just died. His sole legatee is a youthful indiscretion, a girl who is currently living in Italy. Two private eye detective agencies, in competition with each other, investigate.
A cavallo della tigre
Giacinto Rossi, a poor driver up to his neck in debt, is imprisoned for simulated crime. He finds himself in a cell with Tagliabue, an unscrupulous murderer; Sorcio, an elderly thief; and Papaleo, an honor-obsessed intellectual who murdered his fiancée's lover. Giacinto is forced by the three men to make a daring escape from prison.
Taxi, Roulotte et Corrida
A chaotic family go on holiday to Spain and get mixed up with a gang of diamond thieves
Les copains du dimanche
Casti and Trébois, two friends who are workers at the same factory, have developed a common passion for flying. They dream of starting an aviation club. In the meantime they spend all their Sundays restoring an old plane under the supervision of Raf, a former RAF pilot...
Porte des Lilas
Pour échapper à la police, Barbier, un gangster, trouve refuge chez un chanteur anarchiste surnommé "L'Artiste". Cette arrivée va bouleverser l'existence de Juju, un copain de "L'Artiste". Pilier de bistrot, Juju veut à tout prix devenir le protecteur de Barbier, dont il admire l'audace et le succès auprès des femmes.
Cette sacrée gamine
Nightclub entertainer Jean Clery discovers too late that the 'baby' he agreed to take care of is a wild, shapely sex kitten.
Ah! les belles bacchantes
La police enquête sur la moralité d'un spectacle de music-hall. L'inspecteur Leboeuf entre en coulisses, questionne , suspecte et devient acteur du show.
Mon frangin du Sénégal
Jules Pinson, photographer in a small provincial village is in love with Annette, the daughter of the grocer. She 's dreaming only heros of adventure movies, so Jules invents a twin brother, Caesar, hunter of lions in Senegal ...
La tournée des grands Ducs
Gaston is in love with Brigitte, daughter of the Baroness, who claims to have a lover. Gaston sets off for Paris, with 300,000 francs borrowed from the Baroness, to find his rival. He is robbed and forced to work in cabarets, where his father, his fiancée and the Baroness, not to mention the Curé, come looking for him. All ends well.
Les belles de nuit
A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.
Casque d'or
Ispirato ad una storia vera. Parigi, fine Ottocento. La bella prostituta Marie vive nel quartiere di Belleville ed è soprannominata Casco d'oro per via dei suoi meravigliosi capelli biondi: il suo amore è conteso da due uomini, un mite falegname ed il protettore della ragazza.
Justice est faite
Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads something different into the presented facts.
Fandango
In the Basque Country, two friends, José and François, live a cheerful life. The two sly foxes use their wit to boost the business of an innkeeper they have a connection with. José is in love with Angélica, the innkeeper"s daughter, while François courts petite Annette.
Alice in Wonderland
This exceptional theatrical version of Lewis Carroll's 1865 classic features a combination of live characters and puppets.
Quai des orfèvres
Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the thorough investigation of the murder of a shady businessman, led by Antoine, a peculiar and methodical police inspector.
I due orfanelli
In 19th-century France, middle-aged orphans Gasparre and Battista, watchmen at an orphanage, find out from a soothsayer that one of them is the offspring of the Hangman of Paris and the other is the son of a count. But it is only a dream of theirs.
Les portes de la nuit
In post-Liberation Paris, a man reunites with a friend and meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover her brother's dark past.
Le carrefour des enfants perdus
An officer, two of his comrades and a social worker want to create the "Carrefour", a place for lost children and teens to give them a chance not to fall by the wayside and spend most of their life in jail.
Le mariage de Chiffon
Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with the social conventions of the community. A widow, her mother (Suzanne Dantes) would like to remarry a rich noble. Without realizing it, Chiffon is in love with her uncle, a ruined pioneer of aviation ...
L'assassin habite... au 21
Un mystérieux assassin commet des meurtres en série et laisse sur ses cadavres sa carte de visite au nom de M. Durand. Le commissaire Wens trouve une piste qui le mène a Montmartre dans une pension de famille, les Mimosas. Il se déguise en pasteur et s'inscrit comme pensionnaire.
Le récif de corail
The adventures of a sailor (Lennard) from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lonely girl (Lilian White).