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Acting
Christian Simon
Born July 22, 1937 · Paris, France (age 89)
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Known For
Mystery Tour · 1947Mystery Tour
★ 5.41947
MovieComedy
The basic premise: A retired bus driver fulfills his lifelong dream of providing an extended "voyage surprise" (the title is translated as "Mystery Tour") for unsuspecting vacationers. They soon realize, while riding in the old man's home-made bus, that he hasn't bothered to plan any kind of itinerary. As a result, they end up in completely preposterous situations, of course. Voyage surprise!
The Fan · 1982The Fan
★ 6.61982
MovieDramaHorror
The hero-worship that Simone has for a pop singer is built to a crescendo until she passes out when she finally sees him up-close in a crowd of fans. She is later shocked when he lets her know that he does not love her.
Berlin Express · 1948Berlin Express
★ 6.31948
MovieThrillerCrime
In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot.
Lost Souvenirs · 1950Lost Souvenirs
★ 5.51950
MovieFantasyDrama
Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A statuette of Osiris remembers how two ex-lovers, a model and a good for nothing who claimed to be an Egyptologist, met again one Christmas Eve. -A violin has things to say about Raoul, a humble policeman who lost Solange, a widowed grocer he loved, to a god-dam seducing busker also named Raoul. -A scarf was witness to an eerie romance between a young madman and girl he had saved from suicide. -A funeral wreath lets us know how it caused a young woman to believe her lover dead. After having told their respective story, the objects return to their customary stillness.
Gates of the Night · 1946Gates of the Night
★ 7.01946
MovieDramaRomance
In post-Liberation Paris, a man reunites with a friend and meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover her brother's dark past.
Carrot Top · 1952Carrot Top
★ 10.01952
MovieDrama
As the red headed boy writes in his school book, a family is a group living under the same roof who can't stand each other.
Crimson Curtain · 1952Crimson Curtain
★ 6.61952
MovieDrama
Bertal, a despotic and hated theater director, is assassinated before a performance of Macbeth in which he was to play with Aurélia Nobli, his companion and Ludovic Arn, her lover. The police arrive on the scene and the investigation begins. Suspicion first falls on Sigurd, an old actor who had threatened Bertal. But parallels appear between the characters in the play and the actors who play them.
Firemen's Ball · 1949Firemen's Ball
★ 6.71949
MovieComedyDrama
1944, France experiences its last days of German occupation. A microcosm representative of the various attitudes adopted during this troubled period, some heroic, others less brilliant, the Grégeois family, scattered by the war, will strengthen its ties according to the Allied advance on the territory and the liberation of Paris, with its joys but also its sorrows, because not all of its members will survive the relative chaos that will characterize this end of the world war.






