Lino Ventura — Actor (25)
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Il était une fois... Les Tontons flingueurs (2010)
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Gilles Mimouni actor: Georges Lautner / Lino Ventura …
L'histoire du film de Georges Lautner, « Les Tontons flingueurs » (1963) en le re-situant par rapport à son environnement de son époque. En 1963, Georges Lautner dégaine ses tontons qui flinguent à tout va, il tape un grand coup, violent dans le cinéma français. Si le réalisateur n'avait pas de moyens financier, il avait les acteurs et les dialogues ! « J'ai réussi à imposer ma bande » estime-t-il, bien des années plus tard. Des coups comme ceux-là, on en donnerait bien tous les jours...
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The Strange Mr. Steve (1957)
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Raymond Bailly actor: Jeanne Moreau / Philippe Lemaire …
other title: L'Étrange Monsieur Steve / L'étrange Monsieur Steve …
Georges Villard, a minor bank employee, is won over by Mr Steve who does him favours, treats him to the high life and introduces him to his wife Florence, with whom he falls in love. Georges is unaware that these generous gifts will cost him dearly.
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To Catch a Spy (1957)
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Maurice Labro actor: Henri Vidal / Barbara Laage …
other title: Spione / Action immédiate …
The blueprints of an aeroplane built from an ultra-secret metal are stolen from national security. French secret service agent Walder believes that the documents are now in Switzerland, in the hands of a man named Lindbaum. The latter agrees to hand over the blueprints in return for a large sum of money. Another agent, Francis Coplan, is sent to Switzerland to handle the deal, but Lindbaum only has half of the documents because he was double-crossed by Kalpannen, an international crook. With the help of Heidi, a Swiss correspondent, Coplan sets out to identify the members of Kalpannen’s gang, only to find that they have all been murdered…
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The Right of the Maddest (1973)
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François Reichenbach actor: Raymond Devos / Alice Sapritch …
other title: La Raison du plus fou / La raison du plus fou …
The guardian of a nursing home lends a compassionate ear to the complaints of two new pensioners who love each other and have only one dream: to see the sea. To help them realize their dream, the brave man steals the car of the director. She quickly discovers the crime and drags her pale husband to the pursuit of the trio, aboard a tanker truck...
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Girl in the Window (1961)
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卢恰诺·埃默 actor: Lino Ventura / 玛加莉·诺埃尔 …
other title: Mädchen im Schaufenster / La Fille dans la vitrine …
A romantic drama partially set in Amsterdam, this standard tale starts out in a mining area in Holland where conditions are about as rough as they get. Two of the miners, Italians Federico and Vincenzo take off together for the city's red-light district, where the women pose in windows for prospective customers. There the duo meet Else and Carrel who are willing to leave their windows to spend a weekend at a resort with the two men. Soon Else has fallen in love with Vincenzo and the future of the two hookers, as well as the miners, seems to look brighter.
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The Beast Is Loose (1959)
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Maurice Labro actor: Lino Ventura / Paul Frankeur …
other title: Das Raubtier rechnet ab / Le fauve est lâché …
Paul Lamiani, a wizened mobster, is asked to return to duty following the disappearance of secret documents of extreme importance. It is assumed that they are in the hands of a friend of Paul. But the case becomes even more delicate when Lamiani's son is kidnapped.
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Fantasia Among the Squares (1971)
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吉拉尔·皮雷 actor: Lino Ventura / 让·雅南 …
other title: Die Filzlaus kehrt zurück / Fantasia chez les ploucs …
Sagamore Noonan lives in seclusion on a farm in Alabama, where he distills moonshine during Prohibition. He receives a visit from his brother Doc Noonan and his son Billy. A young stripper and her gangster boyfriend come to disturb their peace.
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The Mask of the Gorilla (1958)
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Bernard Borderie actor: Lino Ventura / Charles Vanel …
other title: Der Gorilla lässt schön grüßen / Le Gorille vous salue bien …
Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must infiltrate a dangerous gang working for a foreign embassy as their leader, a spy enjoying diplomatic immunity, can't be arrested by regular police.
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Cloportes (1965)
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Pierre Granier-Deferre actor: Lino Ventura / 查尔·阿兹纳夫 …
other title: Ganoven rechnen ab / La Métamorphose des cloportes …
Three little criminals get a tip for a great coup with lots of money in it. Unfortunately they lack the starting funds to buy the required welding torch. So they persuade their successful colleague Alphonse to join their team. But the well thought-out coup fails, and Alphonse is the only one of them who ends up in jail for several years. When he's released, he's out for revenge.
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Spy, Stand Up (1982)
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Yves Boisset actor: Lino Ventura / 米歇尔·皮科利 …
other title: Der Maulwurf / Espion, lève-toi …
Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative to discover how one of their own secret agents was found out and executed in broad daylight.
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Razzia (1955)
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Henri Decoin actor: Jean Gabin / 玛加莉·诺埃尔 …
other title: Razzia in Paris / Razzia sur la Chnouf …
Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy preceding him, he sets himself to the task of knowing why the French operations were not so profitable - and soon he is master of all links of the organization. He can now get it honed to perfection - or destroy it. Only... the Police are following his every step.
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Far West (1973)
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Jacques Brel actor: Jacques Brel / Gabriel Jabbour …
other title: Le Far West / 远西 …
This Belgian/French tale chronicles the efforts of Jacques (Jacques Brel) to find the Old West in modern America. Dressed as cowboy, he travels throughout western American cities and towns and finds others similarly dressed. These idealists gather together and build an old-western-style town in the middle of an abandoned factory, battling local bureaucracies in the process.
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Crooks in Clover (1963)
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Georges Lautner actor: Lino Ventura / Bernard Blier …
other title: Les Tontons flingueurs / Mein Onkel der Gangster …
An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.