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Jacques Villeret

Jacques Villeret (6 February 1951 – 28 January 2005) was a French actor, best known for his role in the comedy film "Le Dîner de Cons". He won a César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 1986 for his performance in "Comédie!" and was nominated for two more César Awards in his career.

Titles credited to Jacques Villeret

The Dinner Game

Le Dîner de cons

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1998 IMDB Rating: 7.6

For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is “Idiots' Day”. The idea is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who brings the most spectacular idiot wins the prize. Tonight, Bro...

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Gramps Is in the Resistance

Papy fait de la résistance

Film Age rating: n/a Year: 1983 IMDB Rating: 6.7

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is f...

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A Crime in Paradise

Un crime au Paradis

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 6.5

In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. The only thing that keeps the oppressed Jojo from m...

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The Cabbage Soup

La Soupe aux choux

Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1981 IMDB Rating: 6.5

Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.

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Us Two

À nous deux

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 6.3

Françoise has gone into business seducing men whose wives want to divorce them, and who need incriminating evidence against them. In addition, she has a little blackmail operation going on on the side...

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The Vultures

Les Morfalous

Film Age rating: 9 Year: 1984 IMDB Rating: 6.1

April 5, 1943: a battalion of the Foreign Legion arrives in El Ksour, Tunisia, to escort a fortune in gold bars to the home front. A German ambush awaits, and all but four die. Thanks to the street sm...

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Black Mic Mac

Black Mic Mac

Film Age rating: 12 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 5.3

This is a charming and successful farce from director Thomas Gilou, featuring a witty screenplay co-authored by producer Monique Annaud. When a group of African squatters in Paris are threatened with...

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Move Along, There Is Nothing to See!

Circulez y a rien à voir!

Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1983 IMDB Rating: 5.2

Inspector Leroux is investigating the owner of a contemporary art gallery Helen Duvernet who is suspected of being involved in trafficking of stolen paintings. He is both intrigued and attracted by th...

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The Joint Brothers

Les frères Pétard

Film Age rating: 15 Year: 1986 IMDB Rating: 5.1

After he is dismissed from his umpteenth job, Momo is kicked out of the family home by his fed-up father. He immediately joins his buddy Manu, who is also penniless having just lost his job at a cafet...

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