Bernard Dumaine

Acting

Bernard Dumaine

Born 1926-03-15 · Angers, Maine-et-Loire, France

Acting credits

Amitiés sincères poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Amitiés sincères

2006

The Secret Wife poster
7.3

It was during one of his missions in Norway that Antoine learned of his wife's death. He leaves his experimental submarine and returns to Paris. Helene was found in the Seine and had taken barbiturates. Even though he had not been with Hélène for six years, he knew her well enough to believe that she was incapable of committing suicide. So who and why?

The Secret Wife

1986

Kean poster
4.0

No synopsis available yet.

Kean

1988

The Restaurant poster
6.8

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

The Restaurant

1966

Les Misérables poster
7.0

In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.

Les Misérables

1982

Adieu Berthe poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Adieu Berthe

1970

Impossible Is Not French poster
6.6

Antoine, an accountant by trade, becomes a private detective to support his family. His wanderings lead him to transport a cargo of malachite to Le Havre, in the hope of a large bonus. With the help of his family, and despite a few mishaps, Antoine achieves his goal.

Impossible Is Not French

1974

Maine-Ocean Express poster
5.8

"Maine-Ocean" is the name of a train that rides from Paris to Saint-Nazaire (near the ocean). In that train, Dejanira, a Brazilian, has a brush with the two ticket inspectors. Mimi, another traveler and also a lawyer, helps her. The four of them will meet together later and live a few shifted adventures with a strange-speaking sailor (Mimi's client).

Maine-Ocean Express

1986

Clémentine chérie poster
6.2

Gaston Bellus, is the director of a textile house, and the research laboratory makes a sensational discovery: the elastic fabric. This new discovery is used to manufacture new modern stretchable bathing suits. His daughter Clementine, enters the beauty pageant to represent France for the swimsuit launch. But scandal ensues when the public soon discover, the photos of the event in which this new revolutionary material is completely invisible on photographs & live television.

Clémentine chérie

1964

The Suitor poster
6.5

Absent-minded yet cultured, Pierre answers his parents demands to wed by ignoring both astronomy and the housemaid, instead falling head-over-heels for rich damsels.

The Suitor

1962

Betty poster
6.4

A drunken, self-destructive woman called Betty wanders into a Parisian bar where she meets middle-aged alcoholic Laure. Laure decides to take care of Betty. Recovering in a hotel room, Betty begins to recount to Laure the story of her bourgeois life and her unhappy and unfaithful marriage.

Betty

1992

Marketing Mix poster
NR

A young, ambitious, and comically naive business school graduate takes a job as a sales rep and aims to ascend the corporate ladder as quickly as possible by way of a new marketing strategy.

Marketing Mix

1979

The Horse of Pride poster
6.0

In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton ways: three generations under one roof, a division of labor between the sexes, elders' stories at night, politics and religion during their little free time. Times are hard: la Chienne du Monde drives some to suicide; Ankou (death) is close at hand. Pierre is born into this republican family, his lyric childhood interrupted by the outbreak of war and his father's conscription. He learns his catechism and, as a child of a Reds, also reveres school. His grandfather and father often put him on their shoulders, giving him a ride on the horse of pride.

The Horse of Pride

1980

Mum's the Word poster
5.3

Martin is a nurse in a private clinic in Paris. The victim of a serious concussion, an unidentified casualty, arrives in the emergency room one night. He is operated on immediately. When he wakes up, half-unconscious, he tells Martin a confused story about stealing jewels from a maharajah visiting Marseille... before falling into total amnesia. Real and fake policemen interrogate Martin, gangsters kidnap him to get him to reveal precious information, but... the nurse keeps his mouth shut!

Mum's the Word

1960

La Mort en sautoir poster
8.2

No synopsis available yet.

La Mort en sautoir

1980

The Right of the Maddest poster
6.4

The guardian of a nursing home lends a compassionate ear to the complaints of two new pensioners who love each other and have only one dream: to see the sea. To help them realize their dream, the brave man steals the car of the director. She quickly discovers the crime and drags her pale husband to the pursuit of the trio, aboard a tanker truck...

The Right of the Maddest

1973

How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby poster
5.5

A story about a guy who still lives with his mother and sells some really awful alcohol to bartenders. The only way for him to do this is to cry and invent himself an awful life. Then he meets the beautiful woman whose goal in life is to sleep with the less exciting guys on Earth.

How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby

1974

Top Managers poster
5.9

While his three former college friends - Thierry, Gérard and Francis have made successful careers for themselves in business, Daniel has yet to make the grade. Tired of Daniel's frequent attempts to drag them into ill-considered ventures, Thierry and Gérard decide to play a cruel trick on him by making him think he has won the national lottery.

Top Managers

1987

The Hatter's Ghost poster
6.4

A hatter in a provincial town (Michel Serrault) leads the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial murderer. The only person to suspect this is his neighbour the tailor (Charles Asnavour).

The Hatter's Ghost

1982

The Empire of Night poster
6.0

Usually cast as secret agent/private eye Lemmy Caution, Eddie Constantine plays "Eddie" in The Empire of Night. This time, Constantine is a cabaret singer at odds with a criminal gang. When the villains try to take over every nightclub in town for their own nefarious purposes, Eddie sings a new tune with his fists. The story takes several unexpected turns, but Constantine remains in charge throughout.

The Empire of Night

1962

Général... nous voilà...! poster
6.0

A comedy directed by Jacques Besnard.

Général... nous voilà...!

1978

The Castaways of Turtle Island poster
6.0

Jean-Arthur has been working as a clerk in a travel agency. One day, he, along with his colleague comes to a brilliant idea: what if I offer tourists real extreme recreation? So the group of tourists land on a deserted island with no food, no shelter, nothing.

The Castaways of Turtle Island

1976

She No Longer Talks, She Shoots poster
5.2

Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities who use them as holy relics. Inspector Adrian Bondu is handling the case... But a young hippie who looks like Jesus will have Rosemonde suddenly feel very earthly feelings...

She No Longer Talks, She Shoots

1972

Du sang sous le chapiteau poster
8.0

A crime is committed in a circus during the performance of a sketch between two clowns. One of them is killed. They accuse the other, Sylvia's fiancé, to whom the victim was courting. After many twists and turns, the murderer is discovered to be the troupe's dwarf.

Du sang sous le chapiteau

1957