Micha Bayard

Acting

Micha Bayard

Born — Died

1930-11-20 — 2021-07-01

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

45 titles

Known for

Film credits

1980s · 7 titles

Litan poster
5.9

Married couple Jock & Nora are visiting the town of Litan during Litan's Day, with its carnivalesque atmosphere. When Nora wakes that morning from dreaming the bizarre death of her husband, she sets out across town to find him and warn him. But as she does, she encounters stranger and stranger people and events erupting into a frenzy in front of her. Now, she and Jock must elude all of the impediments in their way of reaching safety on the outskirts of town.

Litan

1982

Le Beauf poster
5.0

Gilbert, assigned to incinerate old banknotes at the Bank of France, lives with his wife, Gisèle, and his young son, Thomas. A few years earlier, he had formed a rock band with Serge and Gisèle's brother, Marc. The latter, abusing his naivety, make him believe that he has been robbed of a briefcase containing a million dollars and that, because of his fault, Marc is in danger of dying. The objective is to force Gilbert to put his incinerator out of order to facilitate the bank robbery. Gilbert refuses at first, then gives in. But he discovers that he has been cheated. To get revenge, he tells the police the date and time of the robbery.

Le Beauf

1987

The Comedy of Work poster
6.1

Sylvain Berg, a "professional" unemployed who spends his time hiking and mountain climbing, and "model" bank employee Benoît Constant, who has just been fired and does not want his wife to find out, both find themselves in Françoise Duru's office at an employment agency. Françoise is secretly in love with Sylvain, so in order to keep him close she convinces her employer to give Sylvain a job he doesn't want, instead of Benoit who not only wants it but also has the right qualifications.

The Comedy of Work

1988

L'Énigme des sables poster
8.0

A team of amateur filmmakers sets off, camera in hand, to the south of Morocco. During their stay, one of the members of the group, Fanette, a vulgar vampire, is murdered. The Moroccan police do not find the culprit, and Paris takes over the case. The inspector in charge of the investigation decides to view all the "works" made on site, in the presence of their author.

L'Énigme des sables

1988

Car Cemetery poster
5.1

After the apocalypse, a group of survivors take shelter in a junkyard beside a nuclear crater. Led by a messianic punk rocker named Emanou, they hide out from corrupt authorities while indulging their wildest fantasies.

Car Cemetery

1983

San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça poster
3.5

Walter Klozett is a spy arrested and imprisoned by the French Police who know him in possession of stolen booty which the French secret services would like to recover at all costs.

San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça

1981

The Seats of the Alcazar poster
7.2

A French man recalls his moviegoing adventures at a now defunct titular theater as a journalist for the film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma during the mid-1950s.

The Seats of the Alcazar

1989

1970s · 21 titles

The Magnificent One poster
7.0

A writer of pulpy book series in which he's the hero and his beautiful English roommate is the love interest attempts to finish his new book in time at the publisher's demand.

The Magnificent One

1973

La Grande Maffia poster
6.0

After receiving a mobster's heart as a transplant, a modest bank teller embarks on a life of criminal exploits.

La Grande Maffia

1971

Sophie's Ways poster
5.5

Céline is a free-spirited woman is married to a dull, middle manager Philippe. Her husband's co-worker pegged her as a household ornament because of the union. She befriends a woman who shows her how to juggle the couple's living expenses to get what she wants. As she asserts her independence and gradually frees herself from her husband's claustrophobic world, she turns to painting and writing about the inequity between genders.

Sophie's Ways

1971

The Boat on the Grass poster
5.1

Despite their social differences, poor David and the rich Olivier are the best friends. David took the young Eleanor in Olivier's Paris apartment. When Olivier meets her there, he takes her to the country, where the three build a boat on the meadow. Eleanore divided the friends.

The Boat on the Grass

1971

A Whale That Had a Toothache poster
6.7

Bernardette is feeling bored in a country house. She decides to send weekend invitations to a lot of people.

A Whale That Had a Toothache

1975

We Were Mistaken About a Love Story poster
7.3

Anne and Pierre work in the same company, they date but do not consider a long-term relationship until Anne learns that she is expecting a child. Having already had an abortion, she fears repeating the experience, so Pierre proposes to marry her.

We Were Mistaken About a Love Story

1974

Cher Victor poster
6.0

A pair of elderly men, friends for 40 years, find their relationship stressed when they set up housekeeping together in order to save money. Exploring similar ground to that covered in Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple, which spawned a movie and a television series, Ce Cher Victor explores the tragic and dramatic aspects of the story. The two friends, meek, sensitive Anselme (Bernard Blier) and blustering Victor (Jacques Dufilho) are swiftly driven apart by circumstances.

Cher Victor

1975

Le Cinema de Papa poster
6.5

Claude Berri plays himself as he relates his own experiences through youth and adolescence. His father owns a profitable fur shop. Initially, Claude's father hopes his son will take over the fur shop, but he later gives in to Claude's desire to become involved in filmmaking.

Le Cinema de Papa

1971

Surprise Sock poster
5.5

Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhile, their wives take full advantage of their newfound freedom.

Surprise Sock

1978

Ursule and Grelu poster
6.3

A Salvation Army lieutenant and an accordion player fall in love, only to be repeatedly separated by circumstance. Reuniting in Marseille, they build a life and have a child, but fate continues to intervene as their relationship unfolds through cycles of separation and reunion.

Ursule and Grelu

1974

Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise ! poster
4.0

The Saracens invade Spain again, but they seem content to compose music and watch the dancers.

Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !

1979

The Groper poster
3.5

Because he dishonored the daughter of a mafia boss, Ernesto must leave Rome and take shelter with his uncle in Paris. There, he thinks of only one thing: to seduce girls.

The Groper

1976

L'Amour poster
7.0

A young couple has just got married. He is an advertising artist in an agency on the Champs-Elysees. She is a window dresser in a department store on Boulevard Haussmann.

L'Amour

1970

Five Leaf Clover poster
6.5

A middle-aged couple moves into an old villa populated by eccentric characters.

Five Leaf Clover

1972

Monsieur Balboss poster
9.0

Inspector Balboss, a corrupt police officer with a criminal streak, takes under his wing a young vagrant he meets by chance and sets about teaching him the tricks of the trade.

Monsieur Balboss

1975

No artwork available
NR

This variety show, with its new concept, is presented as a musical comedy. Having formed an orchestra, a group of young people perform in the courtyards of an old Parisian neighborhood, hoping to earn some money. But no one listens to them. All the tenants of the building are glued to their television sets. Only one mysterious man takes an interest in the group and offers them a box of magic matches.

La Lucarne magique

1971

Pierrot mon ami poster
7.0

Pierrot, a short-sighted, indolent and distracted young boy gets involved in a carnival at the Palais de la Rigolade whose main attraction is to place the women in an ascending current of air which makes their skirts fly. A fight in this Palace makes him lose his job. Then he meets Yvonne, the daughter of Pradonet, the owner of the funfair. He falls in love with Yvonne who hardly seems to share his feelings.

Pierrot mon ami

1979

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le Ballet inachevé

1979

The Angels poster
6.0

Larry, who is awaiting a large inheritance, lives with his uncle who hopes to receive part of the hefty sum. He meets another specimen of its kind, weak, lazy and eager to show off, who lives on the hooks of an elderly woman. The two thugs sympathize and cause, by game, a fatal accident. From perverse games to silly games, they enter a deadly spiral.

The Angels

1973

En grandes pompes poster
6.0

The Robinards form a family divided into two irreconcilable clans: the Léonce branch and the Sébastien branch. That day, the village of Boissy-sous-Saint-Yon was abuzz with activity: at the cemetery, the grandfather, Sébastien Robinard, was buried. At the same time, Marcel Robinard, a descendant of Léonce, was getting married in church. Not to mention a bicycle race and a parade. All these events collide.

En grandes pompes

1975

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

D'Artagnan amoureux

1977

1960s · 10 titles

The Brain poster
7.3

Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know that other people have planned to do the same thing.

The Brain

1969

A Very Curious Girl poster
6.2

Treated as an outcast and exploited by the villagers of a small town, a young woman liberates herself through sex, which she uses as a tool of economic gain and an instrument of revenge against those who have wronged her.

A Very Curious Girl

1969

Le Grand Amour poster
6.5

Pierre married Florence, the only daughter of a small industrialist. 15 years later, he is the boss, but his middle-class life worries him a lot. When a new young and lovely secretary comes, he starts dreaming.

Le Grand Amour

1969

The Fire Within poster
7.6

Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and women, trying to find a reason to continue living.

The Fire Within

1963

The Big Wash poster
5.9

Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an anarchist start a war against the television. They climbed on Paris roofs to coat the T.V. antennas with a special product cutting the signal reception.

The Big Wash

1968

Order of the Daisy poster
6.2

Matou is an innocuous, gentle-looking man. He is married to a formidable, even a frightening woman, who is as dissatisfied with him as he is with her. He knows everything there is to know about restoring and authenticating manuscripts, particularly ancient ones, through his job at the museum. One day, it occurs to him that his skills could be put to use in a more personal way, and he embarks on a private career of re-arranging the documents of people who have had the misfortune to be married to the wrong people.

Order of the Daisy

1967

La Honte de la famille poster
5.5

On the day of his marriage, the son of a Marseille king declares to his family that he wishes to engage in the police.

La Honte de la famille

1969

Le Cercle vicieux poster
7.0

A young artist, an occasional gigolo, marries an older woman for her dough; however, he has not broken with his younger lover.

Le Cercle vicieux

1960

No artwork available
3.8

No synopsis available yet.

La Fête des mères

1969

Ubu Roi poster
6.2

Based on Alfredy Jarrry's 1896 play about a selfish, greedy, overweight man named Pere Ubu. The story follows Ubu on his journey to overthrow the current ruler and become King of Poland; Along the way he betrays many of his followers, taxes the civilians to an unreasonable degree and eventually slaughters everyone. By his the equally crude but somehow more likable Mere Ubu.

Ubu Roi

1965

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