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Roland Topor
Born January 7, 1938 · Paris, France
Died April 16, 1997 · aged 59
Roland Topor was a French illustrator, cartoonist, comics artist, painter, novelist, playwright, film and TV writer, filmmaker and actor, known for the surreal nature of his work. He gained notoriety as one of the home cartoonists of the subversive French magazine Hara-Kiri, renamed later Charlie-Hebdo. Roland Topor wrote the novel The Tenant (Le Locataire chimérique, 1964), which was adapted to…
Known For
Nosferatu the Vampyre · 1979Nosferatu the Vampyre
★ 7.31979
MovieDramaHorror
A real estate agent leaves behind his beautiful wife to go to Transylvania to visit the mysterious Count Dracula and formalize the purchase of a property in Wismar.
Fantastic Planet · 1973Fantastic Planet
★ 7.61973
MovieAnimationScience Fiction
On the planet Ygam, the Draags, extremely technologically and spiritually advanced blue humanoids, consider the tiny Oms, human beings descendants of Terra's inhabitants, as ignorant animals. Those who live in slavery are treated as simple pets and used to entertain Draag children; those who live hidden in the hostile wilderness of the planet are periodically hunted and ruthlessly slaughtered as if they were vermin.
The Tenant · 1976The Tenant
★ 7.61976
MovieThrillerMystery
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
Swann in Love · 1984Swann in Love
★ 5.51984
MovieDramaRomance
In Belle Époque Paris, a 19th-century Parisian aristocrat falls in love with a lower-class prostitute who seduces him but never loves him.
Sweet Movie · 1974Sweet Movie
★ 5.31974
MovieComedy
The winner of the Miss World Virginity contest marries, escapes from her masochistic husband and ends up involved in a world of debauchery.
Who Are You, Polly Maggoo? · 1966Who Are You, Polly Maggoo?
★ 6.51966
MovieComedyDrama
A model tells a television crew about her dreams of a life with prince charming all while fending off the lecherous advances of a horde of men.
Three Lives and Only One Death · 1996Three Lives and Only One Death
★ 6.51996
MovieComedyCrime
Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before.
Marquis · 1989Marquis
★ 6.51989
MovieAnimationComedy
On the eve of revolution, French activist and author Marquis and his talking penis, Colin, await judgment in the Bastille for allegedly plotting against the state. While Marquis dedicates himself to his art and Colin longs for action, the provocative pair unwittingly rouse the interest of competing ideological factions.
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