Writing
André Ruellan
Born August 7, 1922 · Courbevoie, Seine, France [now Courbevoie, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France]
Died November 10, 2016 · aged 94
André Ruellan was born on August 7, 1922 in Courbevoie, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France], France. He died on November 10, 2016 in Paris, France. As 'Kurt Steiner', he was a prolific novelist.
Known For
The Dogs · 1979The Dogs
★ 6.01979
MovieThrillerDrama
After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to put a stop to the climb of violence.
Ville à vendre · 1992Ville à vendre
★ 5.31992
MovieCrimeComedy
A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He teams up with the victim's vulgar assistant to try to solve the mystery.
The Troubles of Alfred · 1972The Troubles of Alfred
★ 5.91972
MovieComedy
Unlucky in love, Alfred tries to commit suicide, only to be thwarted by police efforts to prevent a simultaneous attempt by a nearby young woman. Recovering, the young lady puts him up at her house, as he has run out of places to live. He joins a Parisian sporting team and seems to have transferred his bad luck to a corrupt television boss who is attempting to manipulate the game so that Alfred's Paris team loses.
Bonsoir · 1994Bonsoir
★ 4.41994
MovieComedy
Having first lost his wife then his job as a tweed tailor, Alex Ponttin has devised a novel way to keep himself in touch with society. He admits himself into people's homes, by pretending to be a relative or an official, and persuading his victims to give him a night's free board: He finds at first a lunch at the horrible couple Dumont, where a thief follows him for a robbery. Alex spent an evening in front of TV at Marie, mother of seven children. He runs from Marie to find an evening and a new bed at the home of charming but shy lesbian Caroline and her funny lover Gloria. To save her inheritance, Caroline - accused for her homosexuality by her horrible sister Catherine - tells her aunt Amélie, that Gloria is her secretary and Alex her lover. So Alex has to present himself nude in Caroline's bed. He saves Carolines inheritance. The police officers investigating the case are so terminally stupid that Alex has little chance of being arrested.
Distracted · 1970Distracted
★ 6.11970
MovieComedy
A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.
Black for Remembrance · 1995Black for Remembrance
★ 6.01995
MovieThrillerMystery
This French thriller begins with a flashback to a small village dance where a six-year-old girl is kidnapped and killed. Seventeen years later the murder remains unsolved. The girl's parents Caroline and Chris have gone on with separate lives Caroline remarried and had another daughter while Chris became an alcoholic. The two are thrown back together when each begin receiving strange messages that imply their daughter has returned from the dead for vengeance. They contact a police detective (the lover of Caroline's best friend) who finds the case intriguing and decides to reopen it. Unfortunately, as soon as he begins questioning the old suspects, people begin to die.
Village Girls · 1975Village Girls
★ 7.01975
MovieComedy
A number of strange characters come to Corecheux, in France: the Lalyre famille, an homossexual notary, a severe-looking governess, a female witch, a veterinarian, a journalist, and possibly the most chaste of them all, a few young girls ready to lift their skirts up at anything... A young priest takes over the mission to preach at this country estate village - but maybe he is too vigorous for the task.
Paradise for All · 1982Paradise for All
★ 6.01982
MovieDramaComedy
Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain Durieux. This is great success, everybody's happy except may be Alain's wife, Jeanne, who's worrying about the changes in Alain's personality. Other patients use the treatment with similar successes, and Valois's happy about it. But the monkeys are changing: non-cured ones are made mad by the over-stability and stereotyped behaviour of the cured ones. So are the humans. When Valois realises he can't stop the process, he decides to "flash" himself.
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