Michel Modo

Michel Modo

Michel Modo, born Michel Henri Louis Goi at Carpentras (Vaucluse) (born March 30, 1937 - died September 25, 2008), was a French actor and humorist. Modo died of cancer on September 25, 2008 in Vaires-sur-Marne (Seine-et-Marne). He is best known in France for having formed in the late 1950s a comedy duo, Grosso et Modo, with actor Guy Grosso. The duo appeared in many movies with Louis de Funès, among which the series of Gendarmes de Saint Tropez, where he will played the role of Constable Berlicot alongside Michel Galabru, Jean Lefebvre and Christian Marin. They were also Laflûte and Quince in The Dream of a Summer Night by Jean-Christophe Averty. Between 1993 and 1997 he is one of the recurring actors in the television series Highlander as Maurice Lolande, humorous character characterizing the average French person. In December 2005, he stars in the television series Plus belle la vie alongside Colette Renard. He plays a bum philosopher disguised as Santa Claus. He also dubbed several recurring characters in the French version of the animated series The Simpsons. At his sudden death in 2008 at the age of 71, when dubbing the last episodes of season 19, he was replaced on the spot by Gérard Rinaldi, who died in his turn from cancer on March 2, 2012.

  • Title : Michel Modo
  • Popularity : 3.158
  • Known For : Acting
  • Birthday : 1937-03-30
  • Place of Birth : Carpentras, Vaucluse, France
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  • Also Known As : Modo, Michel Goi
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Michel Modo Movies

  • 1979
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    The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space

    The Gendarme and the Creatures from Outer Space

    6.1 1979 HD

    The bungling inspector Cruchot finds himself trying to save the residents of St. Tropez from some oil-drinking humanoid aliens. The only way to tell...

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  • 1965
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    The Gendarme in New York

    The Gendarme in New York

    6.32 1965 HD

    Sergeant Cruchot and his faithful comrades have been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.

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  • 1964
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    Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez

    Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez

    7.046 1964 HD

    The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with...

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  • 1968
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    The Gendarme Gets Married

    The Gendarme Gets Married

    6.5 1968 HD

    The Saint-Tropez police launch a major offensive against dangerous drivers. Marechal Cruchot (Louis de Funès) relishes the assignment, which...

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  • 1970
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    The Gendarme Takes Off

    The Gendarme Takes Off

    6.364 1970 HD

    The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with...

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  • 1982
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    The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes

    The Gendarme and the Gendarmettes

    6 1982 HD

    Cruchot's police office moves into a new building. They do not only get high tech equipment, but also four young female police officers to educate....

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  • 1979
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    We'll Grow Thin Together

    We'll Grow Thin Together

    1 1979 HD

    Victor is a screenwriter whose last work about the Marechal Pétain is refused by his producer. To add insult to injury, he tells Victor he is...

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  • 1966
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    Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!

    Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At!

    7.9 1966 HD

    During World War II, two French civilians and a downed British Bomber Crew set out from Paris to cross the demarcation line between Nazi-occupied...

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  • 1965
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    The Sucker

    The Sucker

    7.372 1965 HD

    In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only...

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  • 1986
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    The Female Executioner

    The Female Executioner

    4 1986 HD

    Martine is a tough female cop trying to solve the kidnapping of young Caroline by a gang of pornographers. She already has an accomplice inside the...

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  • 1963
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    Carom Shots

    Carom Shots

    6.2 1963 HD

    Paul Martin is the subservient brown-nosing youngster who needs quick advancement up the hierarchy to pay for the modern lifestyle he is buying on...

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  • 1967
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    Rita the Field Marshal

    Rita the Field Marshal

    5.2 1967 HD

    A waitress helps a scientist flee the Nazis.

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  • 1976
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    The Smurfs and the Magic Flute

    The Smurfs and the Magic Flute

    6.5 1976 HD

    The evil knight Torchesac, who is at the service of the sinister lord of La Mortaille, gets a very powerful magic flute and uses it for evil...

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  • 1983
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    Les Planqués du régiment

    Les Planqués du régiment

    4 1983 HD

    A young engineer, inventor of a dangerous ping-pong ball, which makes him pursued by the American and Russian secret services, finds refuge in a...

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  • 1978
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    Sadsacks In the Boarding School

    Sadsacks In the Boarding School

    2.7 1978 HD

    1978, France. Young recruits are secretly digging an underground tunnel to get to the boarding school for girls, located in front of their barracks....

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  • 1981
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    Pétrole ! Pétrole !

    Pétrole ! Pétrole !

    4.647 1981 HD

    Le PDG d'une importante société pétrolière voit ses manoeuvres illicites déjouées par un jeune concurrent...

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  • 1961
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    All the Gold in the World

    All the Gold in the World

    6.342 1961 HD

    Businessman Victor Hardy wants to buy the entire area around the small village of Cabosse. He claims that he wants to return to nature, but he also...

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  • 1971
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    Herminie

    Herminie

    6 1971 HD

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  • 1993
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    Faites comme chez nous

    Faites comme chez nous

    1 1993 HD

    Georges Despeu, an employee without stature or fortune, is about to receive his daughter Barbara whom he has not seen since her early childhood. She...

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  • 1992
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    Bienvenue à Bellefontaine

    Bienvenue à Bellefontaine

    1 1992 HD

    Sentenced to ten years in prison for a murder he did not commit, Gaëtan Lantier has just been cleared thanks to the confession the real criminal...

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  • 1964
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    Les Gorilles

    Les Gorilles

    5.5 1964 HD

    A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.

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  • 1978
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    Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 5. Teil: Die Bruchpiloten vom Königssee

    Liebesgrüße aus der Lederhose 5. Teil: Die Bruchpiloten vom Königssee

    6 1978 HD

    Sepp and Willy inherit a remote mountain farm. When they find an old biplane in the barn, they come up with the idea of opening a flying school, but...

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  • 2006
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    Poltergay

    Poltergay

    5.1 2006 HD

    Marc and Emma move into a new house but have no idea that their basement was a gay nightclub. To make matters worse, the club was destroyed by fire,...

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  • 1980
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    The Miser

    The Miser

    6.345 1980 HD

    Based on Molière's play. The children of Harpagon, Cléante and his sister Elise, are each in love but they still haven't spoken to...

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  • 1977
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    The Centipede Is Tap Dancing

    The Centipede Is Tap Dancing

    5.1 1977 HD

    When they get wind that Herman Goering wants the Venus de Milo statue removed from the Louvre and added to his private collection of stolen artworks,...

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  • 1963
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    Bebert and the Train

    Bebert and the Train

    6.3 1963 HD

    The Martin family is shopping in a department store. Tiennot is responsible for looking after his little brother, Bébert, but he prefers to...

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  • 1963
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    Gypsy Law

    Gypsy Law

    1 1963 HD

    The idyllic life of a beautiful gypsy girl is shattered when she runs away from a pre-arranged marriage to a member of her tribe. Away from the...

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  • 1973
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    The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot

    The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot

    5.2 1973 HD

    Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.

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  • 1970
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    Alice au pays des merveilles

    Alice au pays des merveilles

    5.7 1970 HD

    Alice sets off in pursuit of a mysterious white rabbit in a hurry. After a dizzying fall into a deep well, she discovers a strange world populated by...

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  • 1966
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    La 99ème Minute

    La 99ème Minute

    8 1966 HD

    Death live! In the middle of filming a detective drama, the main actor Gérard Gérard dies from a gunshot. This returning star was hated...

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  • 1971
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    Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques

    Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques

    5.893 1971 HD

    Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.

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  • 1969
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    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    A Midsummer Night's Dream

    10 1969 HD

    Shakespeare wrote this fantastic comedy in 1594. It features Lysander and Hermia, whose love is thwarted by Hermia's father, who wishes to marry her...

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  • 1964
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    La cloche

    La cloche

    5 1964 HD

    The misfortune of a young man who tries to keep a rendezvous and finds himself a prisoner in a bell.

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  • 1990
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    My Father's Glory

    My Father's Glory

    7.4 1990 HD

    Raised by his science teacher father, Joseph Pagnol, and seamstress mother Augustine, young Marcel grows up during the turn of the century in awe of...

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  • 2003
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    Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire

    Louis de Funès ou le pouvoir de faire rire

    6.1 2003 HD

    A documentary on Louis de Funès based on unseen archives and film extracts, interviews from close friends and comedy specialists.

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  • 1973
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    Musidora

    Musidora

    1 1973 HD

    Jean-Christophe Averty, a French television director and video artist pioneeer, retraces here the life story of Musidora, known for her signature...

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  • 1975
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    The Seventh Company Has Been Found

    The Seventh Company Has Been Found

    7.307 1975 HD

    The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.

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  • 1981
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    Les Bidasses aux grandes manœuvres

    Les Bidasses aux grandes manœuvres

    4.2 1981 HD

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  • 1965
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    Under Your Hat

    Under Your Hat

    3.6 1965 HD

    An illegal gambling den where players can lose millions... and the owners make their fortune.

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  • 1978
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    Les coucous

    Les coucous

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1984
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    S.O.S homme seul

    S.O.S homme seul

    4 1984 HD

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  • 1966
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    The Restaurant

    The Restaurant

    6.8 1966 HD

    A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.

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  • 1961
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    The American Beauty

    The American Beauty

    6 1961 HD

    Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into...

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  • 1965
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    Killer Spy

    Killer Spy

    5 1965 HD

    The most secret agent Stanislas Dubois, tired of saving the world alone decides to retire and to start writing his memoirs. The enemies of humanity,...

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  • 2003
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    The Masked Avenger: Lagardere

    The Masked Avenger: Lagardere

    7.4 2003 HD

    France, 17th century, during the reign of Louis XIII. When a dear friend, the Duke of Nevers, is treacherously assassinated by a powerful relative, a...

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  • 1967
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    Shock Troops

    Shock Troops

    6.692 1967 HD

    A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is...

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  • 1990
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    My Mother's Castle

    My Mother's Castle

    7.2 1990 HD

    To his chagrin, young Marcel Pagnol and his family move back to their home in Marseilles, France, far from their pastoral holiday cottage in the...

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  • 1979
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    The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen

    The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen

    6.179 1979 HD

    The Fabulous Adventures of the legendary Baron Munchausen is a French animated feature from Jean Image of 1978, inspired by the adventures of Baron...

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  • 1971
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    Ubu enchaîné

    Ubu enchaîné

    1 1971 HD

    Father Ubu, grotesque king and symbol of the tyranny of power in Ubu king, decides to become a slave to acquire real power. This is the first sequel...

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  • 1974
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    The Funny Guys in a Crazy World

    The Funny Guys in a Crazy World

    3.8 1974 HD

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  • 1978
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    Les coucous

    Les coucous

    1 1978 HD

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  • 1993
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    Faites comme chez nous

    Faites comme chez nous

    1 1993 HD

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  • 1968
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    The Little Bather

    The Little Bather

    6.647 1968 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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  • 1966
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    At Theatre Tonight

    At Theatre Tonight

    7.5 1966 HD

    At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days,...

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  • 1999
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    Relic Hunter

    Relic Hunter

    6.7 1999 HD

    Sydney Fox is a professor and globe-trotting "relic hunter" who looks for ancient artifacts to return to museums and/or the descendants of the...

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  • 1992
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    Highlander: The Series

    Highlander: The Series

    7.4 1992 HD

    Duncan MacLeod cannot die -- he is a 400-year-old immortal, who has seen his share of humanity's history. Still, he risks his life in battle against...

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  • 1972
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    Midi trente

    Midi trente

    6 1972 HD

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  • 1975
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    Système 2

    Système 2

    1 1975 HD

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  • 1982
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    Champs-Elysées

    Champs-Elysées

    6.2 1982 HD

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  • 1976
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    Police Commissioner Moulin

    Police Commissioner Moulin

    5.8 1976 HD

    The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.

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  • 1999
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    Mélissol

    Mélissol

    10 1999 HD

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  • 1976
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    30 millions d'amis

    30 millions d'amis

    5.8 1976 HD

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  • 1995
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    Robinson Sucroë

    Robinson Sucroë

    1 1995 HD

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  • 1971
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    Samedi soir

    Samedi soir

    6 1971 HD

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