Philippe Leroy

Philippe Leroy
Date of Birth: 15 Oct 1930
Country: France
Total Credits at Criticker: 54 (Actor)
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The Town Is Quiet
Marseille in the year 2000 is the backdrop to this story of several characters whose lives overlap and influence one another in both tragic and uplifting ways. (New Yorker Films)
A Man and a Woman: 20 Years Later
Jean-Louis and Anne have had their fling and separated. Now 20 years have passed. He is still dating various women... (imdb)
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The Night Porter
Thirteen years after WWII a concentration camp survivor (Rampling) and her tormentor, currently the night porter at a Vienna hotel... (imdb)
The Hole
Four convicts in a French prison share a single cell. As all are incarcerated for serious crimes, including, perhaps, execution, they decide to escape and have collected materials for the purpose. Before they can begin carrying out their carefully prepared plan, another inmate is moved to their cell... (imdb)
A Married Woman
Charlotte is young and modern, superficial, cool. She lives in a Paris suburb with her son and her husband Pierre, a pilot. Her lover is Robert, an actor. There's tension at home, Pierre had her followed a few months before, their marital play has an edge, Pierre slaps her and apologizes. She quizzes Robert: is he acting when he's with her? Events may force her to choose Robert or Pierre.
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Caliber 9
Just out of prison, ex-con Ugo Piazza meets his former employer, a psychopathic gangster Rocco who enjoys sick violence and torture... (imdb)
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Mannaja: A Man Called Blade
Arriving in the mining town Suttonville, after claiming the bounty of a outlaw known as Burt Craven, a bounty hunter named Blade (armed with a hatchet instead of a gun) is hired by the town's wheelchair bound mayor McGowan and his corrupt associate Voller to track down McGowan's daughter Debra who has gone missing... (imdb)
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Yankee
Yankee, (Philippe Leroy in his first western) is a bounty killer who decides to take on a bandit chief and his henchmen when he realises the prices on all their heads adds up to a tidy sum. The bandit, El Grande Concho (Adolfo Celi), is lord of the entire region and resides like a king at court in an abandoned church surrounded by his entourage of philosopher, painter, fortune teller and soldiers; robbing and murdering anyone who ventures into his territory. (spaghetti-westerns.net)
Mother of Tears
An ancient urn is found in a cemetery outside Rome. Once opened, it triggers a series of violent incidents: robberies, rapes and murders increase dramatically, while several mysterious, evil-looking young women coming from all over the world are gathering in the city... (imdb)
Gang War in Milan
A Milan produce vendor, whom moonlights as a pimp, faces off against a ruthless and greedy French gangster whom wants to unite the organized crime ring of Italy. (IMDB)
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The Frightened Woman
An eminent philanthropist invites a female journalist at his fashionable home for the week-end; however, it transpires that he's a misogynist who distrusts all members of the opposite sex and would rather dominate (or even kill) them!
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A film maker and his party end up stranded in the desert. (imdb Comment)
Castle of the Living Dead
Count Drago (Christopher Lee) invites over entertainers to his castle, but what the people don't know is that Drago mummifies animals and humans! (imdb)
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Alone Against Rome
A gladiator from a subject people wins clemency from the Roman garrison by his display of skill in the arena. (BFI)
Cross Current
Philippe Leroy stars as a speed boat racer who is almost killed during a race due to sabotage. He sustains a head injury and so retires to his country home to recover. He suspects his wife of having an affair with his best friend so he decides to begin one with a close friend. Meanwhile, people close to the dysfunctional couple begin to be murdered in brutal ways. Is he hallucinating because of his head injuries or is someone really trying to kill him. (European Trash Cinema)
The Bloody Hands of the Law
When a crime boss is murdered during a stay in a high-security hospital and the only witness turns up dead, a loose-cannon police detective becomes obsessed with finding the killers, even if it means taking on the Mafia and going up against corrupt cops. (moviesunlimited.com)
Covert Action
CIA agent's life is endangered after he writes a book about his career with the agency. (imdb)
San Pietro
With tension mounting between Christians and Romans, Jesus' faithful disciple Peter (Omar Sharif) continues his quest to spread Christianity throughout the world. But his enemies are equally passionate about persecuting him for his religious beliefs. Originally produced for Italian television, this epic drama prompted death threats against Sharif, a converted Muslim, for portraying a famous Christian and speaking positively about the experience.
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Frenesia dell\
Comedy and episode film about several people in the italian town Viareggio.
Senza sapere niente di lei
"Senza sapere niente di lei" tells a dark story about a young lawyer that falls in love with a strange girl with an unknown past.
Il terrorista
Venice, 1943. A group of partisans plot acts of sabotage against the Nazis.
Qua la mano
Two episodes: A roman coachman fulfills the dream of his life and meets the Pope. A priest crazy about dancing wins the first prize in a contest. (imdb)
Mother\
A strangely apathetic and mute mother watches on as her children develop disturbing behaviour. They torture the nanny, accuse each other of Communism, build dangerous rockets that tend to blow up and kill whoever is nearby, read medical details about death, and seem to be involved in a series of deaths and accidents.
R.A.S.
In this French film, soldiers in the Algerian war not only fight against the rebelling natives of that country, but fight an equally brutal battle among themselves. Three young army misfits are assigned to a brutal "disciplinary company" during the conflict. When the "discipline" becomes too harsh for him to bear, one of the soldiers kills two of his tormentors. (Allrovi)
Libera, amore mio...
Director Mauro Bolognini inserts this story in Fascist Italy, with careful attention to details. The couple formed by Matteo Zannoni (Bruno Cirino) and Libera Valente (Cardinale) can't bear fascism. They move constantly between cities, settling down in Modena, where Libera quickly collides with the fascist political commissar Franco Testa (Philippe Leroy). Libera has to suffer awful moments due to her attachment to the resistance, and to the political and sexual harassment from Testa.
Ecce Homo
Among the debris of an atomic war, Jean, Anna and their son Patrick, a small family, believe that they're the only survivors of the human kind. They have choosen a caravan parked on a beach near a dead city as their house: the sea gives them a lot of food and the city all the needed furnishings. Days are passing with a strange peaceful resignation until two new survivors, Len the soldier and Quentin the highbrow, appear. (cinemageddon)
Senilità
Based on Italo Svevo's great novel so admired by James Joyce, this atmospherically photographed film is set in old Trieste and centers on a middle-aged public official and his unrequited love for a flirtatious but unpossessable girl who blithely betrays him. (SurrealMoviez)
The Berlin Affair
Set in 1938 Berlin, Louise Von Hollendorf is the wife of a young Nazi diplomat who meets and falls in love with a certain Mitsuko Matsugae, an artist and the daughter of the Japanese ambassador to Germany. (imdb)
Il tango della gelosia
Comedy of manners based on a play by Aldo de Bendetti. An unhappy princess married to a man only interested in breeding race horses persuades her bodyguard, Diego to act as her lover to arouse her husband's jealousy. Problems arise when Diego's girlfriend arrives. (ftvdb)
Roma bene
A satirical expose of Roman aristocracy today. (bfi)
La mandragola
A florentine Notary is worried about his beautiful wife's sterility. The sly Callimaco, a rich and fun-loving young man, organizes a plot to contact Lucrezia: pretending to be a French doctor he prepares a prodigious potion that cures the woman's sterility but... (movie-time)
Delitto quasi perfetto
A rich heiress is kidnapped and substituted by a gang member in order to gain access to her fortune. A journalist sets out to rescue her. (bfi)
Teste di quoio
A group of clumsy terrorists hold a strange group of inhabitants of a compartment block hostage. (imdb)
Mr. Superinvisible
A superhero becomes invisible after he swallows an Indian potion. (imdb)
Apri gli occhi e... sogna
Alessio Mirti is a young, extroverted painter who tries to have success with his artwork. He lives with Joy Berti, a young woman of 32, a friend from childhood. Joy is very attracted to a TV program called "Magic For You", an esoteric ... (filmitalia)
State buoni... se potete
Around the year 1500, the Italian priest Don Filippo Neri helps street kids and orphans in his poor little chapel. He is no clergyman by the book, but a true believer in terms good and bad and he teaches this to his children. Neri is not very well-seen by the church and his only "friend" is the dry, humorless Ignatius De Loyola. But Neris real counterpart is the devil himself, working in endless incarnations in Neris direct neighborhood, trying to seduce his kids... (imdb)
Courage fuyons
Martin Belhomme is a coward since his birth. After a childhood spent in the tumult of the Occupation, he is married with Mathilda, who will decide everything: they will have two children and he will become a pharmacist, even if he vowed a passion for music. But after this monotonous life, events in May 68 will lead him into a crazy adventure. (Wikipedia)
Vajont - La diga del disonore
The history of the Vajont Dam disaster, which in 1963 caused the death of about 2.000 people.
Stanza 17-17 palazzo delle tasse, ufficio imposte
Strange things are happening to silent tax collector Dr. Ugo La Strizza. When he finally opens his mouth, we learn that four of his clients are attempting to bribe him with favours. From here on the film leaves Ugo behind and follows the comical losers instead. One of them actually built the tax collectors building, so he tries to get the others to join him in a burglary (stealing taxes in order to pay them back). (imdb)
The Black Hand
The European crime melodrama Black Hand is set in America in the early 1900s. A newly arrived Italian immigrant is victimized by an Irish street gang. He goes to La Cosa Nostra for help...the first fatal step towards his own life of crime. The film begins well, showing how the Irish gangs gradually lost ground to the Italians and Sicilians, then adheres strictly to formula. Veteran gangster-flick actor Lionel Stander is top-billed over ostensible star Mike Placido. (allmovie.com)
Il gatto
Amedeo and Ofelia, middle aged brother and sister, own jointly an old decadent, but still attractive, condominium. They want to sell it, but before they have to evict all the tenants. Of course, these don't want to leave at all. The cat (Il Gatto), mascot and beloved by all, dies and this gives the two an excuse to enter the tenants' life... (imdb)
Blood of the Losers
An Italian family is fractured after World War II ends. (imdb)
7 uomini d\
A criminal mastermind (the Professor) assembles a crack team of international thieves to steal seven tons of gold from a Swiss bank.
Hotel Gagarin
A group of people is sent to Armenia to make a movie. Abandoned by everyone, they'll search for a chance at redemption. (mymovies.it)
Kidnap
The kidnapping of a 6-year-old leads to a race against time between a Mafia hitman and a police commissioner. The mafioso then realizes the child must be saved in order to spare his own life. (imdb)
Llanto por un Bandido
José María "El Tempranillo" fleeing from justice, takes refuge in Sierra Morena. After a period of hard learning, he becomes the leader of a group of bandits.
Montecarlo Gran Casinò
The misadventures of different Italian rascals who came to the famous Montecarlo Gran Casinò to get lucky (imdb)
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L'Isola Del Tesoro (1987) - TV Mini-Series
A space age version of "Treasure Island". Instead of ships, there are spaceships, and instead of an island, there is a planet. This version also includes androids, laser weapons and skeletal remains of colossal space beasts. (imdb)
Tranquille donne di campagna
Italy, late thirties. The regime of Mussolini are sent Italian volunteers to the civil war in Spain. On the background of a peaceful village landscapes, behind the walls of the old farmhouses Florianna creating its own dictatorship: everything is run by her brother Guido, who requires unquestioning obedience to his will. He believes all women around is his property, and, as a rooster in the hen house, he constantly confirm this action. His young son Alberto is his problem - all is not similar to
Chi salverà le rose
The melting love story between two old men, one of them is sick and stays in bed all day, the other is a gambler who takes care of him, visit him everyday and has a hard relationship with his daughter. Sometimes love is the only solution but we realize it when it's too late. (imdb)
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Sandokan
Sandokan (1976) - TV Mini-Series
Malaysia, the second half of 1800. The English Queen Victoria owns the domain of the eastern lands of Borneo, commanded by Lord James Guillonk, fierce and ruthless conqueror, father of the beautiful Marianna Guillon, nicknamed "the Pearl of Labuan". The brave Sandokan a young Indian prince, as a child lost his kingdom because of the English Invasion. He is now the captain of a den of pirates who make constantly attacks against the British army. (imdb)
The Life of Leonardo Da Vinci
Miniseries dramatizing the life of the Italian Renaissance genius Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519). (imdb)
Le Jeu de la vérité
Three old friends, now in their 40s, meet up once a week for dinner. One of them tells the others how he ran into Margaux. the hottest girl in their class in high school, and that she's joining them for dinner. (imdb)
La linea del fiume
Rome, October 16, 1943. The Germans deport the relatives and friends of the little Giacomo Treves who fortunately escapes capture. The child is entrusted by a priest, Don Luigi. (imdb)