Happy New Year

Apr 13, 1973

1h 55m

★ 7.2

Overview

Released from prison under a New Year amnesty, a criminal tries to pick up the threads of a life changed not only by his daring plan to rob a jewelry store in out-of-season Cannes, but also by a very special someone he met there.

Genres

Comedy

Crime

Drama

Romance

Production Companies

Les Films 13

Rizzoli Film

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Cast

Simon

Lino Ventura

Françoise

Françoise Fabian

Charlot

Charles Gérard

Jeweler

André Falcon

Self

Mireille Mathieu

Madame Félix

Lilo

Intellectual

Claude Mann

Parisian Lover

Frédéric de Pasquale

Prison Warden

Gérard Sire

Italian Lover

Silvano Tranquilli

André Barello

Michel Bertay

Seeking to avoid arrest while fleeing through a city park at night, two jewel thieves, Gordon and young Tommy, stash some just-stolen jewels on elderly, unknowing Martha Abbott. They then invite Martha to come live with them as their housekeeper, duping her into helping fence their goods. When Martha eventually becomes aware of the criminal activities, she strives to help Tommy reform.

4.0

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5.8

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Feb 8, 1950

Larry Nelson, paroled from prison after serving nearly half of his thirty-year sentence, is determined to not fall into the clutches of the law again, and takes a quiet job at a country sanitarium. Thete, he meets and falls for a nurse, Charlotte Maynard, and he knows the only way to enter her web is to have a lot of money, for Miss Maynard is somewhat of a gold-digger.

5.3

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Feb 17, 1984

A handsome jewel thief is arrested and in order to avoid prison, must break into the heavily guarded German Embassy to steal millions in gems.

4.9

The Blue Panther

Aug 25, 1965

Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin's place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger entrusts her with false jewels that contain a virus powerful enough to destroy all humankind.

7.2

Love and Larceny

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Gerardo, an aspiring actor, trying unsuccessfully to cross over from comedy to tragedy, is involved, due to his ability to mimic dialects of Italy, in a scam concocted by Lallo against a rich cloth-merchant.

7.3

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6.9

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Mar 30, 1985

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0.0

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Apr 19, 1990

A robber falls for the girl his gang kidnaps during a jewelry store robbery.

6.4

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3.8

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5.5

Happy New Year

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Small time crooksters Nick and Charlie have an elaborate plan to rob an exclusive jewelers store. Using a variety of disguises and posing as rich old men and women they begin the set-up, but then Nick falls for the owner of a neighboring antique store and things get a little complicated.

0.0

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A pastry-shop girl (Penny Edwards) sees a priest's (Ross Elliott) and a lawyer's (Rick Vallin) brother take part in a jewel heist.

4.1

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Three airline hostesses combine their work crossing the Atlantic with searching for a rich handsome man to marry.

5.4

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5.9

Crooks Anonymous

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A former burglar trying to go straight joins a rehabilitation scheme using much the same methods as AA. Through the process, he takes work as a department store Santa, where the endless parade of goods and money, not to mention the pretty young shop hands have him like a moth to a flame in no time flat.

6.3

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A scientist successfully creates an invisibility serum, only to be kidnapped by a gang of thugs who wish to use the formula to rob a priceless jewel.

1.0

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Jerry Cummings, a mining engineer, has pledged a large diamond on a short-term note to a pair of crooked loan sharks, Crone and Jan Jaffin, and heads for Mexico. His daughter Betsy, posing as a jewel thief called Mary Layton, is working to keep the crooks from absconding with the jewel, and her efforts are hindered greatly by an artist, Jimmy Baxter, who thinks she is a crook and Crone and Jaffin the good guys.

4.0

The Devil Diamond

Jan 15, 1937

A group of thugs tries to steal the cursed title gem from a jeweler who has been hired to cut it into small, saleable pieces.

3.0

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