René Clément
Nascimento : 1913-03-18, Bordeaux, Gironde, France
Morte : 1996-03-17
História
René Clément (March 18, 1913, Bordeaux – March 17, 1996, Monte Carlo, Monaco) was a French film director and screenwriter. Clément studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. In 1936, he directed his first film, a 20 minute short written and featuring Jacques Tati. Clément spent the latter part of the 1930s making documentaries in parts of the Middle East and Africa. In 1937, he and archaeologist Jules Barthou were in Yemen making preparations to film a documentary, the first ever of that country and one that includes the only known film image of Imam Yahya. Almost ten years passed before Clément directed a feature but his French Resistance film, La Bataille du rail (1945), gained much critical and commercial success. From there René Clément became one of his country's most successful and respected directors, garnering numerous awards including two films that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the first in 1950 for The Walls of Malapaga (Au-delà des grilles) and the second time two years later for Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits). Clément had international success with several films but his star-studded 1966 epic Is Paris Burning?, written by Gore Vidal and Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Paul Graetz was a costly box office failure. Clément continued to make a few films until his retirement in 1975, including an international success with Rider On The Rain that starred Charles Bronson and Marlène Jobert. In 1984 the French motion picture industry honored his lifetime contribution to film with a special César Award. René Clément died in 1996 and was buried in the local cemetery in Menton on the French Riviera where he had spent his years in retirement.
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With his grizzled moustache and chiselled features, Charles Bronson is the embodiment of a slightly archaic, brooding and almost reactionary virility. But who is he really? Often hired to play marginalised Native American or Mexican characters before he was typecast as the image of a lone killer, Bronson was a major figure in the popular cinema of the 1960s and 70s and his stony-faced, physical acting and career are worthy of a second look.
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The film is set in Europe and depicts the love between a Japanese photographer and a princess from one of the European countries.
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Michelle, a French sculptor living in Rome, is told of a job babysitting a rich man's son by her new friend Ann, an actress. When she arrives at the boy's house, she discovers that he in fact has been kidnapped...
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A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.
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An industrial espionage group calls on a retired spy living with his wife and children in Paris.
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An industrial espionage group calls on a retired spy living with his wife and children in Paris.
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Um coronel do exército dos EUA na França tenta localizar um foragido maníaco sexual. Uma jovem e bonita mulher no sul da França é seguida e em seguida estuprada por um assaltante mascarado misterioso. Logo depois ela atira no criminoso e o mata e em seguida joga o seu corpo no mar. Mais tarde, um investigador americano aparece e, para seu espanto, ele parece saber tudo sobre o que ela fez.
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A verdadeira história da retirada do exército alemão de Paris em 1944. Neste filme longo e cheio de estrelas, vemos as lutas das várias facções da resistência francesa para recuperar o controle de Paris, perto do fim da Segunda Guerra Mundial. O general nazista encarregado de Paris, Dietrich von Choltitz (Fröbe), têm ordens de Hitler para queimar a cidade se ele não puder controlá-lo ou se os Aliados chegarem muito perto. Grande parte do drama gira em torno das deliberações morais do General Dietrich, do embaixador sueco Raoul Nordling (Orson Welles), e dos ansiosos mas desesperadas líderes da resistência francesa.
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This promotional film for "Joy House" (1964) shows the cast and crew filming at locations on the French Riviera. Star Alain Delon performs his own dangerous stunts in the movie, which is referred to by its English title "The Love Cage".
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A small-time con man on the run from the gangster-husband of his girlfriend hides out in a strange, brooding mansion run by two mysterious women, where he finds himself trapped in deception between the two women.
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A small-time con man on the run from the gangster-husband of his girlfriend hides out in a strange, brooding mansion run by two mysterious women, where he finds himself trapped in deception between the two women.
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It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running from the village where she has gone to visit her father's grave and to fill two suitcases with food. Some British and American planes have been shot down and the Germans want to know where the pilots are hiding. An acquaintance has clearance to drive to Paris with a truckload of goats. After she is in the truck Therese discovers that two British pilots and an American pilot are back there with the goats. She must get the men on a train to Paris and to a safe house there, where there is no room for the American. Can she leave him at the Metro station trying to figure out the map?
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Ulisse is a naive young man out looking for a job after being released from the army. He drops the offer he gets from a group of fascists to go in with the Fossatis, a family of anarchists (unknown to him).
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Ulisse is a naive young man out looking for a job after being released from the army. He drops the offer he gets from a group of fascists to go in with the Fossatis, a family of anarchists (unknown to him).
The clumsy waiter (uncredited)
Tom Ripley é um talentoso imitador, golpista, dissimulado e tudo mais de um criminoso improvisador. Mas há muito mais esperando Tom Ripley do que ele mesmo poderia imaginar.
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Tom Ripley é um talentoso imitador, golpista, dissimulado e tudo mais de um criminoso improvisador. Mas há muito mais esperando Tom Ripley do que ele mesmo poderia imaginar.
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Tom Ripley é um talentoso imitador, golpista, dissimulado e tudo mais de um criminoso improvisador. Mas há muito mais esperando Tom Ripley do que ele mesmo poderia imaginar.
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Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed mother. Their mother attempts to exert a hold on her children by involving them in the family's run-down rice plantation. However the siblings seek liberation, and look for this in their romantic lives. Suzanne becomes involved with Michael and Joseph finds a love interest in Claude.
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Twenty-year-old Joseph and his sixteen-year-old sister Suzanne live in the merciless conditions of an intemperate foreign land with their widowed mother. Their mother attempts to exert a hold on her children by involving them in the family's run-down rice plantation. However the siblings seek liberation, and look for this in their romantic lives. Suzanne becomes involved with Michael and Joseph finds a love interest in Claude.
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An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.
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Do romance de Louis Hemon "M. Ripois and His Nemesis" sobre Andre Ripois, um namorador em busca de amor e riquezas de Paris a Londres. Andre está terminando com sua esposa, Catherine, por causa de suas atenções com sua melhor amiga Patricia. Enquanto Catherine está organizando o divórcio, André, apenas para manter a prática, dá em cima da garota do andar de cima, Diana, e depois volta sua atenção para Patricia, que ele engana para jantar em seu apartamento sob o pretexto de que Catherine estará lá. Quando ele não consegue fazer nenhum progresso com ela por meio de suas táticas usuais, ele tenta despertar sua pena de contar a ela sobre seu passado. Em seus primeiros dias empobrecidos em Londres, ele fez amor com sua chefe Anne, mas sua comida horrível o afastou. Em seguida veio Norah, que ele pegou em um ônibus e levou para seu apartamento e contou a ela sobre sua herança de faz de conta, mas ela insistiu em se casar primeiro, o que não estava em seus planos.
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O filme conta a história de Paulette (Brigitte Fossey), uma menina de cinco anos de idade que perde os pais e o cachorro em um ataque aéreo quando eles fugiam de uma Paris ocupada pelos nazistas. Ao se perder do grupo de refugiados, Paulette é recolhida por Michel Dollé (Georges Poujouly), um menino de onze anos. Eles logo se tornam os melhores amigos. E enquanto os pais dele estão ocupados querendo dar uma de benfeitores e em luta com os vizinhos Gouard, Paulette e Michel criam um universo só deles. As crianças enterram o cão de Paulette num cemitério criado por eles dentro de um moinho abandonado perto da casa de Michel. Logo, passam a enterrar todo tipo de animais e embarcam em uma odisseia atrás de crucifixos para ornamentar os “túmulos”.
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O filme conta a história de Paulette (Brigitte Fossey), uma menina de cinco anos de idade que perde os pais e o cachorro em um ataque aéreo quando eles fugiam de uma Paris ocupada pelos nazistas. Ao se perder do grupo de refugiados, Paulette é recolhida por Michel Dollé (Georges Poujouly), um menino de onze anos. Eles logo se tornam os melhores amigos. E enquanto os pais dele estão ocupados querendo dar uma de benfeitores e em luta com os vizinhos Gouard, Paulette e Michel criam um universo só deles. As crianças enterram o cão de Paulette num cemitério criado por eles dentro de um moinho abandonado perto da casa de Michel. Logo, passam a enterrar todo tipo de animais e embarcam em uma odisseia atrás de crucifixos para ornamentar os “túmulos”.
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Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she must decide between telling her husband and continuing to see Rémy.
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Evelyne, a judge's young wife, falls in love with Rémy while vacationing in Italy. Upon returning home, she must decide between telling her husband and continuing to see Rémy.
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A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.
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A group of Nazis and sympathizers board a submarine bound for South America in the hopes of finding shelter.
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A group of Nazis and sympathizers board a submarine bound for South America in the hopes of finding shelter.
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Obra-Prima do cinema francês que recria com encanto e magia o famoso conto de fadas de Jeanne-Marie Leprince de Beaumont. Um comerciante quase falido vive com seu filho Ludovic (Michel Auclair) e com suas três filhas. Duas delas, Felicie (Mila Paréli) e Adelaide (Nane Germon) são muito perversas, egoístas e pretensiosas. Elas se aproveitam da caçula, Bela (Josette Day), fazendo-a de empregada delas. Um dia, o comerciante perde-se na floresta e entra em um estranho castelo. Ele pega uma rosa para entregar à Bela e com isso, o dono do castelo, um monstro meio humano, meio fera, surge para ver quem está lá. A fera sentencia o comerciante à morte, a não ser que uma das filhas dele o substitua na prisão. Bela se sacrifica pelo pai e vai ao castelo, onde descobre que a fera não é tão selvagem e desumana.
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This character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the chief of the underground who uses his hobby of growing orchids to hide his radio equipment.
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Uma história sobre trabalhadores ferroviários franceses que fizeram parte da resistência organizada durante a ocupação alemã da Segunda Guerra Mundial. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
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Uma história sobre trabalhadores ferroviários franceses que fizeram parte da resistência organizada durante a ocupação alemã da Segunda Guerra Mundial. (e 10 - Estimado 10 Anos)
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A documentary on Aude and the river that also bears its name.
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Documentary made in Yemen (and first film ever shot in this country) under the leadership of archaeologist Jules Barthou. During the adventure of this film, René Clément will serve four days in prison for having concealed a camera under his clothes, then will be captured by rebels and threatened with being shot. The majority of the negatives will be seized by the guards of Imam Yahia, and it is with the remaining rushes that Clément will edit what becomes The Forbidden Arabia, a film entrusted to the Musée de l’Homme in 1965 where it is forgotten until that ethnologist Claudie Fayein unearths it and has it restored.
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Roger, son of a farmer, wants to be a boxer, and gets his chance by filling in for a boxer's sparring partner. However, Roger does not know how to box and reads a rule book while in the ring.
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Vercingétorix and Caesar meet again...
