Gérard Blain
Gérard Blain (23 October 1930 – 17 December 2000) was a French actor and film director.
Blain appeared in sixty films between 1944 and 2000. He also directed nine films between 1971 and 2000. In 1971, he won the Golden Leopard at the Locarno International Film Festival for his film The Friends. Blain married three times, including briefly to Bernadette Lafont.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 0.9689 |
| Birthday | 1930-10-23 |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Also Known As |
1959
The Cousins
6.843/102
Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a decadent, bohemian pleasure-seeker who shows the...
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The Cousins
1959
Le Beau Serge
6.929/98
After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcoholic.
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Le Beau Serge
1977
The American Friend
7.089/457
Tom Ripley, an American who deals in forged art, is slighted at an auction in Hamburg by picture framer Jonathan Zimmerman. When Ripley is asked by ga...
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The American Friend
1962
Hatari!
6.8/275
A female wildlife photographer arrives on an East African reservation where a group of men trap wild animals for zoos and circuses.
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Hatari!
1979
Utopia
8/1
After getting painfully separated from the woman he loves, Julien leaves his apartment. He goes in search of his old friends but no one is to be found...
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Utopia
1957
The Mischief Makers
6.8/109
A group of young boys develops a crush on a girl, leading to jealousy toward her boyfriend. They scheme to disrupt their relationship, and when the bo...
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The Mischief Makers
1963
The Virgins
4.778/9
The story of five girls that lose their virginity.
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The Virgins
1944
Le bal des passants
9/1
Fabienne believes herself to be cheated on by her husband Claude and divorces her. He leaves for America and does not return until eight years later....
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Le bal des passants
1944
Children of Chaos
5.6/5
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 f...
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Children of Chaos
1946
Son of France
7/1
The crew of a tank from the 1st French army took part in the liberation of Strasbourg during the fall of 1944.
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Son of France
1956
Deadlier Than the Male
7.243/70
In the heart of Paris, a restaurateur's mundane life is disrupted by the arrival of his ex-wife's daughter, who claims to be in need after her mother'...
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Deadlier Than the Male
1961
Gold of Rome
6.591/11
Rome 1943. The German Commandant of the city causes a turmoil in the Jewish community by offering them what seems to be an expensive way out of impris...
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Gold of Rome
1969
Joe Caligula: Tallow for the Old Men
3.714/7
A young crook called Joë Caligula and his crew make war on a Parisian gang.
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Joe Caligula: Tallow for the Old Men
1989
Jour après jour
9/1
Two would be producers launch a singer's career.
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Jour après jour
1960
The Hunchback
6.6/9
Alvaro Cosenza, also known as the Hunchback from Quarticciolo, during Rome's occupation by Nazis in 1943, decides to revolt.
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The Hunchback
1993
Open Season
7.25/4
A "three people relationship" with a pact involving a terrible past. The pact concerns France, Anne and Pierre.
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Open Season
1963
The Eye of the Needle
7.5/3
Two young men in a village in Sicily raping a girl. In the end, two skilled lawyers will succeed in getting them to complete the trial, but one, who i...
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The Eye of the Needle
1968
Negresco
4.875/8
The wife of a jet-set millionaire takes a holiday in Berlin and poses for racy photographs. These are stolen, a man is killed, and she decamps to the...
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Negresco
1960
The Dolphins
6.6/14
An acid portrait of Italian youth at the time, I DELFINI follows a dreary season of discontent and viciousness in the lives of a thoroughly unpleasant...
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The Dolphins
1989
Winter's Child
6.5/11
Feckless aspiring architect Stéphane leaves his pregnant girlfriend for theater designer Sabine; Sabine in turn vainly attempts to overcome her violen...
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Winter's Child
1967
La Musica
5/11
A husband and wife meet three years after their formal separation, when they return to the provincial town where they once lived to pick up their divo...
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La Musica
1960
Run with the Devil
5.1/10
The trials and tribulations of a group of artist friends and a gay gallery owner living in the Via Margutta neighbourhood of Rome. Stefano is a talen...
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Run with the Devil
1971
Paolo e Francesca
10/1
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Paolo e Francesca
2001
Bandits d'amour
9/1
A young woman who has gone over to the wrong side of the law with her new boyfriend begins having second thoughts about both crime and her new romance...
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Bandits d'amour
1964
Amori pericolosi
7/1
Three episodes of varying pitch and quality. In the first a maid plans the elimination of her lover's wife with him, but she doesn't enjoy the fruits...
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Amori pericolosi
1989
Natalia
6.417/6
WW2: in an occupied France, a young Jewish girl wants to become a movie star.
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Natalia
1963
Chicken Soup
8/1
The fiancée of a gangster who has been shot by the police takes an entire police station hostage, armed with a revolver and a bottle of nitroglycerine...
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Chicken Soup
1981
La Flambeuse
4/2
A woman on the brink of middle age becomes bored and takes up playing cards. She becomes hooked on gambling and begins to neglect her husband and chil...
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La Flambeuse
1966
M.M.M. 83
4.6/5
A secret agent works with a scientist to recover documents outlining a new formula to make fuel.
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M.M.M. 83
1959
Match contre la mort
8/1
The Lourmel couple are taking part in the final round of a TV game show: the wife has to answer questions; if she fails, her husband drives a racing c...
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Match contre la mort
1961
Skin and Bones
7/1
Convicted of murdering his wife, a crime of which he declares himself innocent, Jacques Mazur is serving a long sentence in a prison where his presenc...
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Skin and Bones
1983
Un dimanche de flics
6.4/9
Two policemen, Franck and Rupert, intervene in a Parisian heliport where drugs are exchanged for a large sum of money. They decide to keep the loot an...
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Un dimanche de flics
1945
Children of Paradise
8/466
In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans, theater mime Baptiste is in love with the mysterious actr...
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Children of Paradise
1967
Shock Troops
6.745/49
A French resistance group free twelve soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there's an additional detainee among them suspected of being...
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Shock Troops
1987
Killing Time
6.538/13
A tired and alcoholic police investigator has lost his wife to a hotel owner, and former pimp, but befriends a young woman which isn't at all who she...
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Killing Time
1956
Crime and Punishment
6.967/15
Former student Raskolnikov is pushed to murder when struggling to pay the rent on his apartment. When the murder is being investigated by the police,...
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Crime and Punishment
1958
Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
6.383/60
This short features a man who is visited by his ex-lover. The moment she arrives, the man starts his constant barrage of speech; the woman doesn't say...
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Charlotte and Her Boyfriend
1995
Until the End of the Night
6.429/7
François, perpetual rebel against society and its laws, is released after a long imprisonment, and meets up with his family and friends in Lyon. His n...
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Until the End of the Night
1958
Young Husbands
6.1/17
In a small Italian town, the local youngsters realize that their youth is coming to an end and marriage will soon follow. They gather together for one...
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Young Husbands
1965
Un amore
6.667/3
The love life of an aging architect used to love affairs with call girls, who in the end settles down with a girl of his class but still longs for the...
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Un amore
1957
Sexpot
10/1
Coveted by many of the men around her, the sensual Nathalie is a magnet for passion. After many adventures and dramas, she will find the happiness she...
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Sexpot
1964
How to Make a French Dish
4.889/9
In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and chronicles the woman's romant...
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How to Make a French Dish
1977
La Machine
5.286/7
Pierre Lentier murders an 8-year-old in horrendous circumstances. This 30-something solitary factory worker who lives on the edge of society is senten...
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La Machine
1954
Wild Fruit
5.667/6
Lyon, 1953. Maria Manzana is the oldest of a family with five children and the only one who has a job. Maria's mother is deceased and her father is re...
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Wild Fruit
1964
Via Veneto
8/1
A young man who lives on scams and deceptions manages to convince a wealthy industrialist who has come from the province to finance a film. Having rec...
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Via Veneto
2008
Il falso bugiardo
0/0
Based upon Vincenzoni's biography, "Pane e cinema", the documentary traces the story of the screen play writer who invented many stories that became b...
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Il falso bugiardo
1974
The Pelican
7.286/7
Paul has been imprisoned for ten years for passing counterfeit money. He feels victimized enough, both for the prison time and for the crime which led...
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The Pelican
1963
Lo sgarro
10/1
A young man joins a band of brigands, but, faced with their exactions, rebels against them.
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Lo sgarro
1986
Un moment d'inattention
7/1
Can a loving relationship of eight years go down the drain because of a single moment of carelessness? Virginie and Laurent have always treasured fide...
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Un moment d'inattention
1990
Der Schnee der Anden
10/1
Martin Becker, a drug addict, journeys to Colombia seeking direct access to supply but vanishes. When his mother Lore is summoned to identify his body...
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Der Schnee der Anden
2019
Gérard Blain : adultes, je vous hais
0/0
A portrait of Gérard Blain, actor and film-maker, an unclassifiable artist, a lard-head and a free spirit. This documentary, packed with eyewitness ac...
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Gérard Blain : adultes, je vous hais
Cinématon n°1996 : Gérard Blain
0/0
Portrait of actor and filmmaker Gérard Blain, shot in Tourcoing (France) on December 10, 1999 at 3:00 PM.
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Cinématon n°1996 : Gérard Blain
1966
Il faut que je tue monsieur Rumann
0/0
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Il faut que je tue monsieur Rumann
2021
Morceaux de Cannes
2/1
We thought we'd seen, read, and heard everything there was to see about the Cannes Film Festival, from the glitz and gossip to the scandals and censor...
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Morceaux de Cannes
1970
Cain from Nowhere
10/1
Cain has been traveling for a long time throughout Europe. Back "home" he knocks at the door of his parents' trailer only to be rejected by his hatefu...
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