Juliette Gréco

Juliette Gréco

Juliette Gréco (7 February 1927 – 23 September 2020) was a French singer and actress. Her best known songs are "Paris Canaille" (1962, originally sung by Léo Ferré), "La Javanaise" (1963, written by Serge Gainsbourg for Gréco) and "Déshabillez-moi" (1967). She often sang tracks with lyrics written by French poets such as Jacques Prévert and Boris Vian, as well as singers like Jacques Brel and Charles Aznavour. Her 60-year career came to an end in 2015 when she began her last worldwide tour titled "Merci". As an actress, Gréco played roles in films by French directors such as Jean Cocteau and Jean-Pierre Melville. Juliette Gréco was born in Montpellier, France, to an absent Corsican father, Gérard Gréco; her mother Juliette Lafeychine (1899–1978) was from Bordeaux. Her lineage hails in part from Greece. She did not receive love from her mother in her childhood and suffered from her harsh comments due to being an unwanted child, such as "You ain't my daughter. You're the child of rape". She was raised by her maternal grandparents in Bordeaux with her older sister Charlotte. After the death of her grandparents, her mother took them to Paris. In 1938, she became a ballerina at the Opéra Garnier. When World War II began, the family returned to the southwest of France. Gréco was a student at the Institut Royal d'éducation Sainte Jeanne d'Arc in Montauban. The Gréco family became active in the Resistance and her mother was arrested in 1943. The two sisters decided to move back to Paris but were captured and tortured by the Gestapo, then imprisoned in Fresnes Prison in September 1943. Her mother and sister were deported to Ravensbrück while Juliette, being only 16, remained in prison for several months before being released. After her release, she walked the eight miles back to Paris to retrieve her belongings from the Gestapo headquarters. Her former French teacher and her mother's friend, Hélène Duc, decided to take care of her. In 1945, Gréco's mother and sister returned from deportation after the liberation of Ravensbrück by the Red Army. Gréco moved to Saint-Germain-des-Prés in 1945 after her mother moved to Indochina, leaving Gréco and her sister behind. Gréco became a devotee of the bohemian fashion of some intellectuals of post-war France. Duc sent her to attend acting classes given by Solange Sicard. She made her debut in the play Victor ou les Enfants au pouvoir in November 1946 and began to host a radio show dedicated to poetry. Her friend Jean-Paul Sartre installed her at the Hotel La Louisiane and commented that Greco had "millions of poems in her voice". She was known to many of the writers and artists working in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, such as Albert Camus, Jacques Prévert and Boris Vian, thus gaining the nickname la Muse de l'existentialisme. Gréco spent the post-Liberation years frequenting the Saint-Germain-des-Prés cafes, immersing herself in political and philosophical bohemian culture. As a regular at music and poetry venues like Le Tabou on Rue Dauphine, she was acquainted with Jean Cocteau, and was given a role in Cocteau's film Orphée (1950). ... Source: Article "Juliette Gréco" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

  • Title: Juliette Gréco
  • Popularity: 2.755
  • Known For: Acting
  • Birthday: 1927-02-07
  • Place of Birth: Montpellier, Hérault, France
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  • Also Known As: Жюльетт Греко
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Juliette Gréco Movies

  • 1950
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    Orpheus

    Orpheus

    7.6 1950 HD

    A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.

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  • 1999
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    Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon

    Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon

    1 1999 HD

    Posthumous tribute paid by actor Luc Bernard to his older brother, director Guy Gilles ( 1938 - 1996 ). Documentary composed of interviews with some...

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  • 1957
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    It Happened on the 36 Candles

    It Happened on the 36 Candles

    2 1957 HD

    Rejecting the union of her daughter Brigitte with a modest worker, Madame Magnin invents an adultery for the lover, then introduces Brigitte to a...

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  • 1957
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    The Sun Also Rises

    The Sun Also Rises

    5.9 1957 HD

    A group of disillusioned American expatriate writers live a dissolute, hedonistic lifestyle in 1920's France and Spain.

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  • 1967
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    The Night of the Generals

    The Night of the Generals

    6.8 1967 HD

    A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects,...

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  • 1952
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    The Green Glove

    The Green Glove

    6.2 1952 HD

    In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona, who leaves behind a gem studded...

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  • 1981
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    Droit de Réponse

    Droit de Réponse

    10 1981 HD

    "Droit de Réponse" (Right of Reply) is a French debate program broadcast between December 12, 1981 and September 19, 1987 on the TF1 channel,...

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  • 1975
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    Lily aime-moi

    Lily aime-moi

    6 1975 HD

    Everything starts when a journalist François decides to investigate the world of working class people. He gets into the lives of Claude, a...

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  • 1958
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    The Roots of Heaven

    The Roots of Heaven

    6.238 1958 HD

    In French Equatorial Africa, an idealist campaigns to save the African elephant, gaining support from a nightclub hostess and an ex-soldier. His...

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  • 1948
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    The Bouquinquant Brothers

    The Bouquinquant Brothers

    7 1948 HD

    A provincial, Julie Moret, is hired as a servant in a Parisian bourgeois residence. She is courted by one of the Bouquinquant brothers, Léon,...

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  • 1953
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    When You Read This Letter

    When You Read This Letter

    6 1953 HD

    After a novice nun learns of the sudden death of her parents, she leaves the convent to manage the family business and look after her teenage sister....

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  • 2004
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    Days and Nights in Paris

    Days and Nights in Paris

    1 2004 HD

    Reencounter with a myth. 40 years since Georg Stefan Troller reported from his adopted home in "Pariser Journal," he returns to his old haunts. A...

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  • 1949
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    The Sinners

    The Sinners

    6.1 1949 HD

    Au Royaume des Cieux takes place in in a dreadful girls' reformatory. A couple of lovers will try to escape from this living hell.

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  • 1959
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    Whirlpool

    Whirlpool

    6.2 1959 HD

    The ex-girlfriend of a German fugitive hides with the captain and crew of a ship on the Rhine.

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  • 1954
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    Boom on Paris

    Boom on Paris

    5.4 1954 HD

    In the early 1950s, the popular radio show "La Kermesse aux Étoiles", hosted by the famous Jean Nohain, mixing lottery games and performances...

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  • 2021
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    François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story

    François Mitterrand & Anne Pingeot: Pieces of a Love Story

    6 2021 HD

    In the summer of 1963, François Mitterrand was going through a deep existential crisis. His political career was at a standstill and, after 19...

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  • 1965
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    Uncle Tom's Cabin

    Uncle Tom's Cabin

    5.8 1965 HD

    In the pre-Civil War South, a sadistic plantation owner brutalizes his slaves to the point of rebellion. Always obedient, peaceful and honest old...

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  • 1956
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    Man and Child

    Man and Child

    5 1956 HD

    Fred Barker, an unmarried American who remained in France after heroically defending the country during the Second World War, runs the perfume...

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  • 1961
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    The Big Gamble

    The Big Gamble

    5.7 1961 HD

    Irish seaman Vic Brennan persuades his Dublin family to finance a truck-hauling business in the remote African town of Jebanda. The only stipulation...

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  • 1962
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    Where the Truth Lies

    Where the Truth Lies

    6.6 1962 HD

    A young veterinarian falls in love with a strange woman, a former explorer who might be a Voodoo priestess, after he comes to help her ailing...

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  • 2002
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    Everyman's Feast

    Everyman's Feast

    2 2002 HD

    Austrian television director Fritz Lehner makes his feature debut with the big-budget drama Jedermann's Fest, based on the 1911 play by Hugo von...

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  • 1960
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    Crack in the Mirror

    Crack in the Mirror

    7.5 1960 HD

    Three stars appear in two separate but intertwined stories of romantic triangles gone wrong in this ambitious drama. In the first segment, Hagolin is...

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  • 1966
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    Love at Sea

    Love at Sea

    7.1 1966 HD

    During her holiday in Brest, a young Parisian falls in love with a sailor. But autumn comes and the two lovers have to part. They write to each...

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  • 2019
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    Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

    Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool

    7.3 2019 HD

    An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trumpeter Miles Davis (1926-1991).

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  • 2022
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    La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

    La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

    7.2 2022 HD

    In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first...

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  • 1973
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    Barbara ou ma plus belle histoire d'amour

    Barbara ou ma plus belle histoire d'amour

    8 1973 HD

    In the early 70s, Barbara discovered herself backstage on her French tour. The artist plays with intimacy and camera glances. Between concerts, she...

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  • 1956
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    Elena and Her Men

    Elena and Her Men

    5.8 1956 HD

    Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France, Jean Renoir’s delirious romantic comedy Elena and...

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  • 1963
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    38-24-36

    38-24-36

    1 1963 HD

    The film is a rundown of the songs sung by the stars of the time, chained to various shows such as strip and comic caricatures.

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  • 1951
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    Without Leaving an Address

    Without Leaving an Address

    6.3 1951 HD

    A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address.

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  • 1956
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    The Lebanese Mission

    The Lebanese Mission

    2.5 1956 HD

    In Lebanon, industrialist Hennequin, director of a French oil company, entrusts engineers Jean Domèvre, a Frenchman, and Mokhrir, a Lebanese,...

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  • 1958
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    Bonjour Tristesse

    Bonjour Tristesse

    6.6 1958 HD

    Cecile is a decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father, Raymond. When Anne, Raymond's old love interest, comes to Raymond's villa,...

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  • 2015
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    Hôtel La Louisiane

    Hôtel La Louisiane

    1 2015 HD

    Hôtel La Louisiane is, at its core, a film about freedom and dignity. Freedom for those who wish to live in a place where they are able to feel...

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  • 2006
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    Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe

    Play Your Own Thing: A Story of Jazz in Europe

    1 2006 HD

    A comprehensive history of European Jazz, exploring the origins of the US-influenced Jazz clubs after the Second World War, the first steps...

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  • 1950
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    Disorder

    Disorder

    5 1950 HD

    Variations on the cultural and intellectual explosion in the Saint-Germain-des-Prés district in 1946.

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  • 2018
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    On l'appelait Roda

    On l'appelait Roda

    5.2 2018 HD

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  • 1958
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    The Naked Earth

    The Naked Earth

    1 1958 HD

    Africa, early 20th century, an Englishman marries the girlfriend of a late friend and faces natives and adventures, on the banks of a river infested...

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  • 2016
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    Vadim Mister Cool

    Vadim Mister Cool

    6.2 2016 HD

    As a poster boy for hedonism, his whole life was one big party. A journalist, filmmaker, director, producer, actor, novelist, ladies' man and...

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  • 2001
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    Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre

    Belphegor, Phantom of the Louvre

    4.6 2001 HD

    A collection of artifacts from an archeological dig in Egypt are brought to the famous Louvre museum in Paris, and while experts are using a laser...

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  • 2017
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    The Incredible Mr. Piccoli

    The Incredible Mr. Piccoli

    6.9 2017 HD

    A captivating portrait of French actor Michel Piccoli, who has worked with the greatest filmmakers of his time and has built a dazzling career of...

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  • 1964
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    Cherchez l'idole

    Cherchez l'idole

    6.2 1964 HD

    After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning to the music shop he discovers that the...

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  • 2012
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    Juliette Gréco, l'insoumise

    Juliette Gréco, l'insoumise

    1 2012 HD

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  • 1954
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    Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances

    Saint-Tropez, devoirs de vacances

    1 1954 HD

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  • 1962
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    Lieben Sie Show ?

    Lieben Sie Show ?

    1 1962 HD

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  • 1963
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    Tonight in Person

    Tonight in Person

    7 1963 HD

    A series of weekly programmes presenting music in the folk idiom from many parts of the world.

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  • 1972
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    Le Grand Échiquier

    Le Grand Échiquier

    8 1972 HD

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  • 1984
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    La Chance aux chansons

    La Chance aux chansons

    4 1984 HD

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  • 1985
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    Victoires de la musique

    Victoires de la musique

    2 1985 HD

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  • 1959
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    Stars in der Manege

    Stars in der Manege

    5.3 1959 HD

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  • 1975
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    Musik ist Trumpf

    Musik ist Trumpf

    6 1975 HD

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  • 1965
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    Belphegor, or the Phantom of the Louvre

    Belphegor, or the Phantom of the Louvre

    6.9 1965 HD

    Four episodes chronicle a mysterious phantom who appears in the Musée du Louvre in Paris at night. Neither guards nor police are able to make...

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  • 1968
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    À bout portant

    À bout portant

    8 1968 HD

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  • 1972
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    Le Grand Échiquier

    Le Grand Échiquier

    8 1972 HD

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  • 1948
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    The Ed Sullivan Show

    The Ed Sullivan Show

    6.667 1948 HD

    The Ed Sullivan Show is an American TV variety show that originally ran on CBS from Sunday June 20, 1948 to Sunday June 6, 1971, and was hosted by...

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  • 1971
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    V.I.P. Schaukel

    V.I.P. Schaukel

    6 1971 HD

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  • 1978
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    Bio’s Bahnhof

    Bio’s Bahnhof

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1964
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    Einer wird gewinnen

    Einer wird gewinnen

    7 1964 HD

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  • 1975
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    Numéro un

    Numéro un

    6 1975 HD

    A French variety show.

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  • 1972
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    Midi trente

    Midi trente

    6 1972 HD

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  • 1982
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    Champs-Elysées

    Champs-Elysées

    6.2 1982 HD

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  • 1956
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    Cinépanorama

    Cinépanorama

    8 1956 HD

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  • 1975
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    Apostrophes

    Apostrophes

    8.5 1975 HD

    Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years...

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  • 1987
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    Le monde est à vous

    Le monde est à vous

    1 1987 HD

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  • 1996
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    Das große Los

    Das große Los

    1 1996 HD

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  • 1998
    imgS27 E2

    Vivement dimanche

    Vivement dimanche

    3.2 1998 HD

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  • 1959
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    Discorama

    Discorama

    1 1959 HD

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  • 1990
    imgS5 E11

    Stars 90

    Stars 90

    6.2 1990 HD

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  • 1968
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    Night-Club

    Night-Club

    1 1968 HD

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  • 1955
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    Was bin ich?

    Was bin ich?

    6.5 1955 HD

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