Tchéky Karyo

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Actor • Musician

Birth Date: October 4, 1953

Age: 70 years old

Birth Place: Istanbul, Turkey

This handsome Turkish-born actor is one of France's most popular stage and screen stars, but his vehicles do not always arrive on US shores. Karyo grew up in Paris, studied acting and by the late 1970s was appearing with the Daniel Sorano Company and the National Theatre of Strasbourg, in both modern and classical roles. He made his film debut in a supporting role in "The Return of Martin Guerre" (1982), and spent the next few years working his way up to leading roles in such films as "La Balance" (a 1982 detective film), "Le Marginal" (with Jean-Paul Belmondo, 1983), "L'Unique" (a 1985 sci-fi outing), "Le Moine et al Sorciere" (starring in this 1987 historical drama) and "The Bear" (as the dashing but easily-frightened young hunter in this 1988 outdoors epic).

In the Canadian children's film "Vincent and Me" (1990), Karyo played the artist Van Gogh, and co-starred with Peter Coyote in the actioner "Exposure" (1991). Karyo had his first international hit with his portrayal of Bob, the "secret agent man" who teaches a young punkette (Annie Parillaud) how to be a cool government killer in "La Femme Nikita" (1991). The multi-lingual actor's roles have taken him all over the globe: Berlin and Tunisia (for "Isabelle Eberhardt," 1991); Rome (for "La Villa del Venerdi," 1991); the Alps (for "L'Affut," 1992). He had a supporting role in the disappointing epic "1492: The Conquest of Paradise" (1992), and starred as the controversial prognosticator in a multi-national production of "Nostradamus" (1994).

In addition to his European work, Karyo has taken an apartment in Los Angeles and has been pursuing American films. In 1995 alone, he appeared as a sinister drug lord in the comedy "Bad Boys," as a hapless soldier in the Vietnam elephant film "Operation Dumbo Drop" and as a post-Communist Russian in the latest James Bond flick, "GoldenEye." On American TV, Karyo has been seen on the Showtime detective film "The Sketch Artist" (1992) and as a doctor in the medical drama "And the Band Played On" (HBO, 1993).

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The Tailor
Miniseries
2023
57%

Bonne conduite

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Movie
2023

La forêt des disparus

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Franz Agerland
Show
2022

Une comédie romantique

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Pascal, le père
Movie
2022

Noël à tous les étages

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Georges
Show
2021

Mystère

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Bruno
Movie
2021

La vie d'avant

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André
Movie
2021

Possessions

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Joël
Show
2020

BaptisteStream

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Julien Baptiste
Series
2019
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Aux animaux la guerre

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Serge Tokarev
Show
2018

Mary MagdaleneStream

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Elisha
Movie
2018
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Belle et Sébastien 3, le dernier chapitre

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César
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2018

Je n'ai pas tué Jesse James

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2017

Wild Tales from the Village

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2016

Section Zéro

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Franck Varnove
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2016

L'indomptée

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Marc
Movie
2016

Les brigands

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Old Man
Movie
2015

Belle et Sébastien 2: l'aventure continue

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César
Movie
2015

La résistance de l'air

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Armand Cavelle
Movie
2015

The Missing

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Julien Baptiste
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2014

Ex-Interventions

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2014

Marseille - De guerre lasse

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2014

Belle et Sébastien

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César
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2013

Jappeloup

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Marcel Rozier
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2013

Des morceaux de moi

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Edern
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2012

L'étoile du jour

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Heroy
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2012

Sunday Brunch

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2011

Special Forces

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Guezennec
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2011

A Gang Story

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Serge Suttel
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2011

Requiem for a Killer

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l'Arménien
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2011

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2011

Coup d'éclat

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2011

Among Us

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Walter
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2010

The Way

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Captain Henri
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2010

La Résistance

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2009

Les dents de la nuit

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Le duc de Journiac
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2008

The Impossible Truth

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Juge François Marceau
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2008

A Previous Engagement

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Alex Belmont
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2008

The Teeth of the Night

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Le Duc de Journiac
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2008

La Resistance

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2008

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2007

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Aram
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2007

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2007

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2006

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Le cardinal de Richelieu
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2005

D'Artagnan et les trois mousquetaires

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Le cardinal de Richelieu
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2005

S.A.C: Les hommes de l'ombre

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2005

Cbeebies Bedtime Stories

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2004

Local Call!

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2004

Taking Lives

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Leclair
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2004

A Very Long Engagement

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Captain Favourier
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2004

Le Père Goriot

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Vautrin
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2004

Utopía

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Hervé
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2003

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Dr. Serge Leveque
Movie
2003
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The Good Thief

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Roger
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2002

Kiss of the DragonStream

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Insp. Richard
Movie
2001
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Arabian Nights

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2000

Mille et une nuits

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Black Coda
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2000

Las mil y una noches

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Black Coda
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2000

The PatriotStream

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Jean Villeneuve
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2000
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The King Is Dancing

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Molière
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2000

Saving Grace

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Jacques Chevalier
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2000

Like a Fish Out of Water

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1999

Comme un poisson hors de l'eau

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1999

Wing Commander

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Cmmdre. James "Paladin" Taggart
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1999

My Life So Far

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Gabriel Chenoux
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1999

Babel

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Nemrod
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1999

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc

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Dunois
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1999

From the Earth to the MoonStream

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George Melies
Miniseries
1998

Que se Haga la Luz

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Harper
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1998

Habitat

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Hank Symes
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1997

Addicted to Love

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Anton
Movie
1997

Dobermann

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Inspecteur Sauveur Cristini
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1997

Les Mille merveilles de l'univers

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1997

Passaggio Per Il Paradiso

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Renato
Movie
1996

Secreto en la Jungla

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Jack
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1996

Va' dove ti porta il cuore

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Ernesto
Movie
1996

Gentle Into the Night

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Renato
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1996

To Have & to Hold

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Jack
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1996

The Thousand Wonders of the World

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Professor Larsen
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1996

Moon Shadow

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Lorenzo
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1995

Una Escalera a la Luna

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Lorenzo
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1995

Bad BoysStream

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Fouchet
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1995
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Operation Dumbo Drop

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Goddard
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1995

Crying Freeman

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Detective Netah
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1995

GoldenEyeStream

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Defense Minister Dmitri Mishki
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1995
80%

Zadoc et le bonheur

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Zadoc
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1995

Foreign Land

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Kraft
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1995

Rayo de Luna

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1995

Nostradamus II

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1994

Nostradamus III

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1994

Nostradamus IV

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1994

Las Profecías del Fin del Mundo

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1994

Las Profecías de Nostradamus

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1994

Nostradamus

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Nostradamus
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1994

La cité de la peur

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M. Jacques
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1994

La Règle du silence

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1994

L'ange noir

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1994

Innocent Obsession

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1993

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Phillip
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1992

L'Atlantide

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1992

Sketch Artist

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Paul Korbel
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1992

Husbands and Lovers

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Paolo
Movie
1992

1492: Conquest of Paradise

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Martín Alonso Pinzón
Movie
1992

Exposure

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Hermes
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1991

Isabelle Eberhardt

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Slimene
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1991

Vincent and Me

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Vincent Van Gogh
Movie
1990

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Bob
Movie
1990
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La fille des collines

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Vincent
Movie
1989

Australia

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Julien Pierson
Movie
1989

Cuerpos perdidos

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1989

The Bear

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Tom
Movie
1988

The House on the Dune

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Sylvain
Movie
1988

Sorceress

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Etienne de Bourbon
Movie
1987

Spirale

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1987

Blue Like Hell

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Franck
Movie
1986

L'Unique

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Michel
Movie
1986

Le Moine et la sorcière

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1986

L'amour braque

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Micky
Movie
1985

Contes clandestins

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Philippe
Movie
1985

Full Moon in Paris

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Remi
Movie
1984

Le Matelot 512

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Le balafré/André
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1984

L'air du crime

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Robert
Movie
1984

La Java des ombres

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Xavier
Movie
1983

Le marginal

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Francis Pierron
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1983

Toute une nuit

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1982

Que les gros salaires lèvent le doigt

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1982

La Balance

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Petrovic
Movie
1982

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