Arlette Emmery

Arlette Emmery

Movies for Arlette Emmery...

The Beautiful Story
Title: The Beautiful Story
Character: La vendeuse de robes de mariée (uncredited)
Released: March 18, 1992
Type: Movie
A film with emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief and con-artist Odona, who share parallel experiences from lives 2000 years in the past. These stories are juxtaposed.
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Austern mit Senf
Title: Austern mit Senf
Character: Odette
Released: August 10, 1979
Type: Movie
Luc and Gaston are French bus drivers who would do almost anything for pretty girls. Thus they "borrow" one of their firms busses in order to bring some girls to Kitzbuehel for skiing.
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Take It from the Top
Title: Take It from the Top
Character: Minouche
Released: August 9, 1978
Type: Movie
Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life...
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The Devil in the Box
Title: The Devil in the Box
Released: April 19, 1977
Type: Movie
Alain Brissot, an executive in a major company, was made redundant following a redundancy plan, but decided to put up a fight by continuing to occupy his office against all odds... He soon went on hunger strike, and, after many ups and downs, ended up taking back the job of his former manager, who had himself been ousted following the failure of a lucrative contract with an African country.
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The Castaways of Turtle Island
Title: The Castaways of Turtle Island
Character: Une secrétaire
Released: October 6, 1976
Type: Movie
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.
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The Bottom Line
Title: The Bottom Line
Character: La secrétaire
Released: June 16, 1976
Type: Movie
An advertising photographer, François, has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But Christine, François' fiance, doesn't want him to do so, especially when the naive friend has succeeded in recruiting the young daughter of his employer to play in what he thinks is a romantic love movie.
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The Hornet's Nest
Title: The Hornet's Nest
Character: Gertrude
Released: March 10, 1976
Type: Movie
A compulsive gambler must steal a suitcase full of money, which is also coveted by Melba, a cabaret singer. A getaway ensues.
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The Good and the Bad
Title: The Good and the Bad
Character: Arlette
Released: January 19, 1976
Type: Movie
The film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon as their robberies, beginning well before the Second World War, take on a political coloration under the occupation.
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The Wild Goose Chase
Title: The Wild Goose Chase
Character: Mlle Fenette
Released: October 8, 1975
Type: Movie
The whole intrigue is centered around carte-blanche documents kept in a vault. Whoever fills in the blank becomes the owner of a revue. Big money is involved. The nephew of the owner of the vault is trying to cheat his uncle and have his name in the documents. Everything is even more complicated because the manager of the bank has a finger in the pie, too. Who but a humble bank-teller (Pierre Richard) will ruin the scheme?
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Cat and Mouse
Title: Cat and Mouse
Character: Rose
Released: September 3, 1975
Type: Movie
A jaded and charming police inspector is assigned along with his cheerful partner to a case involving the mysterious death and/or suicide of a wealthy entrepreneur. The chief suspect is his enchanting wife who was aware that her husband had a mistress. It is also possible that the dead man may be the victim of a radical terrorist group.
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Le Chaud Lapin
Title: Le Chaud Lapin
Character: Arlette, une petite amie de William
Released: June 5, 1974
Type: Movie
William, together with his family, joins his childhood friend and his family in a crowded country house for a summer vacation. As a result, he has had to leave behind his mistress and all the other lovely women he enjoys trying to seduce. Stranded in the isolated rural cottage with his friend's family, he attempts to bed every female member of that clan. Unsuccessful and extremely frustrated, he is determined to have some fun on his vacation and abandons the whole group in pursuit of a trio of hippyish females who flirted with him earlier.
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The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
Title: The Truth About the Imaginary Passion of an Unknown
Character: La fille folle
Released: May 20, 1974
Type: Movie
A very personal interpretation, to say the least, of the passion of the Christ According to St. John.
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Threshold of the Void
Title: Threshold of the Void
Character: L'infirmière
Released: March 27, 1974
Type: Movie
The young artist Wanda Leibovitz comes to Paris, hoping to forget unfortunate love. Soon after arrival directly at the station Wanda meets the mysterious old woman suggesting to rent at it the room (whom the old woman, allegedly, held ready for the now deceased sister). Wanda doesn't know yet that this room will change all her life shortly after it slightly opens a mysterious forbidden door.
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Du côté d'Orouët
Title: Du côté d'Orouët
Released: September 27, 1973
Type: Movie
A patient observation on the adventures a group of three young girls spending their three-week summer vacation at a small village, a quotidian that includes cooking, excursions, playing cards and going out with guys, enjoying the simple pleasures life has to offer.
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Belle
Title: Belle
Character: Narrator
Released: January 17, 1973
Type: Movie
A married, middle-aged professor meets a mysterious woman in the woods and has an affair with her.
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Trap
Title: Trap
Character: Une religieuse
Released: March 11, 1970
Type: Movie
A genuine performance film as Bernadette Laffont and Bulle Ogier engage, with reckless abandon, in a flurry of senseless destruction in a house at night. Somewhere between a hallucination and a nightmare. Both the explosive soundtrack and narration that accompanies the mayhem was provided by François Tusques.
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The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short
Title: The Man Who Had His Hair Cut Short
Character: One of the Seven
Released: September 5, 1966
Type: Movie
Govert Miereveld is a lawyer from a small Flemish town who also teaches in a school for girls. He harbors a secret love for one of his young students, Fran, whom he loses touch with after her graduation. Some time later, Miereveld has to attend an autopsy, and the shock of the experience deeply affects his mental balance. He finds out - or he believes so - that Fran has become a popular singer. He arranges to meet her to finally reveal his feelings. An ambiguous but perhaps tragic denouement follows which might be a figment of the protagonist's disturbed mind.