Michel Serrault

Michel Serrault

January 24, 1928 · 98 years old

Michel Serrault (24 January 1928 – 29 July 2007) was a French stage and film actor who appeared from 1954 until 2007 in more than 130 films. His first professional job was in a touring production in Germany of Molière's Les Fourberies de Scapin. In 1948, he began his career in the theatre with Rob…

Known For

34 titles
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Diabolique

Diabolique

1955 · 1h 57m · Movie

The wife and mistress of a loathed school principal plan to murder him with what they believe is the perfect alibi.

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La Cage aux Folles

La Cage aux Folles

1978 · 1h 37m · Movie

The manager of a Saint-Tropez nightclub featuring drag entertainment, and his star attraction, are a gay couple. Madness ensues when his straight son brings home a fiancée and her ultra-conservative parents to meet them.

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Buffet Froid

Buffet Froid

1979 · 1h 33m · Movie

Alphonse lives in an empty building. Empty but for one neighbour, the police captain Morvandieu. When the man who has killed Alphonse's wife appears, the three men will be thrown in a series of events in a surrealist world.

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The Grilling

The Grilling

1981 · 1h 27m · Movie

A police inspector, suspecting an attorney of two child sex murders, has him held for a questioning session that goes on for hours.

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Belphegor: Phantom of the Louvre

Belphegor: Phantom of the Louvre

2001 · 1h 37m · Movie

At the Louvre museum in Paris, the phantom Belphegor awakens and causes electrical havoc. Night guards at the museum start dying, Lisa gets possessed, and Martin tries to help her.

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Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud

Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud

1995 · 1h 46m · Movie

When Nelly, a woman being just divorced, meets by chance M. Arnaud, a mature salesman just retired, begins a strange and special relationship between the two personalities.

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Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

1978 · 1h 48m · Movie

A worried husband finds a lover for his depressed wife, but she falls in love with a bullied thirteen-year-old math prodigy and wants to have the boy's baby.

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King of Hearts

King of Hearts

1966 · 1h 42m · Movie

During World War I, a British private, sent ahead to a French town to scout for enemy presence, is mistaken for a King by the colorful patients of an insane asylum.

7.3
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The Children of the Marshland

The Children of the Marshland

1999 · 1h 55m · Movie

A chronicle of a group of friends in rural France between the wars. Garris and Riton live in the marshlands along the banks of the Loire river. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly children. Garris lives al...

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10
The Swindle

The Swindle

1997 · 1h 41m · Movie

Betty and Victor are a pair of scam artists. One day Betty brings in Maurice, a treasurer of a multinational company. Maurice is due to transfer 5 millions francs out of Switzerland, and Betty is convinced he plans to steal that m...

6.5
11
Deadly Circuit

Deadly Circuit

1983 · 2h 0m · Movie

A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.

6.9
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The Girl from Paris

The Girl from Paris

2001 · 1h 43m · Movie

Sandrine, a woman in her thirties gets tired of life in Paris and decides to leave her work in computers and become a farmer. She takes the required practice for two years, and after that she buys an isolated farm from Adrien, an ...

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La Cage aux Folles II

La Cage aux Folles II

1980 · 1h 42m · Movie

The titular gay couple become involved with local cops and foreign spies when one of them unwittingly obtains a roll of stolen microfilm.

5.8
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Artemisia

Artemisia

1997 · 1h 38m · Movie

Artemisia Gentileschi (1593-1653) was one of the first well-known female painters. The movie tells the story of her youth, when she was guided and protected by her father, the painter Orazio Gentileschi. Her professional curiosity...

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The Libertine

The Libertine

2000 · 1h 40m · Movie

The 'philosopher' (modernist intellectual of the French 18th-century Enlightenment) Denis Diderot is part of an aristocratic circle which practices the libertarian principles on the rural castle estate of the baron of Holbach, and...

6.3
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Pars vite et reviens tard

Pars vite et reviens tard

2007 · 1h 56m · Movie

A modern-day Parisian town crier gradually learns that someone is using him to give cryptic warnings of a plague outbreak in the city.

5.6
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Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

Beaumarchais the Scoundrel

1996 · 1h 56m · Movie

The life story of the titular Beaumarchais, playwright and adventurer, who gets himself into numerous different scrapes and romantic encounters in 18th Century France.

6.7
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The Hatter's Ghost

The Hatter's Ghost

1982 · 2h 0m · Movie

Labbé is a quiet hatter in a small town, living with his handicapped wife who never goes out. His neighbour, a tailor, is fascinated by him. A series of female murders shakes the town. Is Labbé involved?

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Le grand bazar

Le grand bazar

1973 · 1h 26m · Movie

Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket by attempting several coups. A film about the big store taking over the business of smaller stores.

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Carambolages

Carambolages

1963 · 1h 28m · Movie

The story takes place in a luxury building of about ten floors where the "321" agency has its headquarters. The company watches over the holidays of its customers.

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Malevil

Malevil

1981 · 2h 0m · Movie

A group of ordinary French survived a nuclear war and found themselves in the face of what was left of civilization.

6.5
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Dr. Petiot

Dr. Petiot

1990 · 1h 42m · Movie

Based on the real life of Dr. Marcel Petiot: During world war II Petiot, an MD living in occupied Paris, promised to help wealthy Jewish people among his patients to flee occupied France for Spain. Instead, he drugged them and bur...

6.8
23
He Died with His Eyes Open

He Died with His Eyes Open

1985 · 1h 45m · Movie

The inspector Staniland as always try to put himself in the place of the victim, this time an unsuccessful pianist. That's when the victim's mistress Barbara entered the appartment, look like a real bitch that one think the inspec...

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Love on a Pillow

Love on a Pillow

1962 · 1h 42m · Movie

A young girl rescues a man from a suicide attempt. He turns out to be a sociopath, who begins to take over her life, abusing her both verbally and emotionally, yet she can't seem to tear herself away from him.

5.5
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Pile ou face

Pile ou face

1980 · 1h 45m · Movie

For inspector Baroni, Monsieur Morlaix is the main suspect who might have killed his wife.

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Male Hunt

Male Hunt

1964 · 1h 31m · Movie

Antoine is about to get married to Gisèle. His friend Julien, a confirmed bachelor, tries desperately to talk him out of it, citing his own painful experiences.

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The Down-in-the-Hole Gang

The Down-in-the-Hole Gang

1974 · 1h 34m · Movie

When he investigates his daughter's disappearance, a bookseller discovers an underground society, living literally under the streets of Paris.

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The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea

The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea

1991 · 1h 35m · Movie

Lady M. wades every morning through the sea in order to heal her pain. But she is not what she pretends to be: Together with her partner Pompilius she finances her luxurious life by fraud and blackmailing. Falling in love with you...

5.9
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24 heures de la vie d'une femme

24 heures de la vie d'une femme

2002 · 1h 47m · Movie

Set in 1913, 1936 and 2001. When he returns to casino and sea-side resort of his early adolescence, Louis.

6.0
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Old Rascal

Old Rascal

1992 · 1h 40m · Movie

Darius Caunes is a modest printer flanked by a cantankerous spouse ;he finally does away with her and becomes friends with the lieutenant in charge of the investigation ...who does not suspect him at all. Non content with having d...

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La gueule de l'autre

La gueule de l'autre

1979 · 1h 40m · Movie

A candidate at an election ,afraid of a gangster at large , asks his cousin to take his place :they're as like as two peas in a pod.

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Opération Lady Marlène

Opération Lady Marlène

1974 · 1h 24m · Movie

During WWII, Robert Lamoureux plays a General in the Resistance. With an unlikely team of French patriots, he easily outwits the buffoonish Germans and steals the master copy of their plans to invade England.

4.6
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Buon Natale... Buon anno

Buon Natale... Buon anno

1989 · 1h 40m · Movie

What shall we do with our folks when we, young ones,want to have fun and to make the best of our life ?

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