Biography: Pierre Brasseur |
Brasseur was born Pierre-Albert Espinasse. The son of an actress, he began his drama studies with film actor Harry Baur. Onstage from age 15, he made his film debut five years later in La Fille de l'Eau (1924). With his role in Marcel Carne's Port of... more
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La Piu Bella Serata Della Mia Vita (1972)
Cast: Michel Simon Ettore Scola Alberto Sordi
Tags: Satire Comedy Drama
Length: 106min
This film marks the final performance of the notable French film star Pierre Brasseur, who died not long after the film was shot. One of his better-known films is Children of Paradise. In this film, an Italian industrialist (Alberto Sordi) who has...
Tags: Drama Political Drama
Length: 89min
This unusual comic tragedy is filmed both in color and black-and-white and concerns the residents of the mythical island of Goto. Goto III (Pierre Brasseur) is the pompous dictator who allows children to witness public execution and has criminals...
Tags: Drama
Length: 95min
This film details a pretty girl's rise (with its attendant hazards) from obscurity to fame as she becomes a top model. Macedoine is played by Michele Mercier, popular for her appearances in the Angelique films. Her boss is Pierre Brasseur, and the...
Les Oiseaux Vont Mourir Au Peru (1968)
Cast: Jean Seberg
Tags: Erotic Drama Drama
Length: 95min
This sexual psychodrama was the first film to receive an X-rating in the US. Written and directed by Romain Gary and starring his wife Jean Seberg, it is the chronicle of a nymphomaniac who feels compelled to have sex with every man she meets. As the...
Tags: Comedy Drama
Length: 90min
A young woman living on the Left Bank of Paris is a pickpocket and a prostitute. Running away from a man she has robbed, she sees a young street photographer and plants the stolen wallet on him. Before she goes to prison, the two fall in love. Upon...
Cast: Alan Bates Geneviève Bujold Jean-Claude Brialy
Tags: Comedy of Errors Military Comedy War Adventure Comedy Satire Anti-War Film
Length: 101min
The French/Italian/British King of Hearts (Le Roi de Coeur) takes place during World War I, but it might as well have been the Vietnamese conflict so far as its youthful "core" audience was concerned. Overacting outrageously, Adolfo Celi plays British...
Cast: Ugo Tognazzi
Tags: Sex Comedy Comedy
Length: 95min
In this Italian bedroom farce, a humble village peasant has managed to remain a bachelor despite the fact that he has fathered numerous illegitimate children. The trouble begins when he finds himself entangled in a fight over water rights. Though...
Sous Le Signe De Monte-Cristo (1968)
Tags: Drama
Length: 95min
In this modernized adaptation of the much-filmed Alexandre Dumas story, The Count of Monte Cristo, Edmond Dantes was sent to prison on a trumped-up charge of betraying the revolution, but he managed to escape to South American and earn a fortune. Now...
Cast: Bernard Blier
Tags: Parody/Spoof Comedy Crime
Length: 90min
This talkative and unevenly paced feature finds Fou (Jean Lefebvre) the inventor of a gas that makes the users fall in love. He is chased by his boss, the police, and spies, who seek to secure the secret recipe for their own selfish purposes. A...
Cast: Vittorio De Sica Pierre Brasseur Sean Connery
Tags: Psychological Drama Drama
Length: 83min
A beautiful free-lance photographer meets and falls in love with a French medical student at a fancy ball and becomes pregnant after their passionate tryst. Now the formerly free-wheeling student finds himself facing a difficult situation. He decides...
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