Nathalie Baye

Nathalie Baye

Born: July 6, 1948
in Mainneville, Eure, France
Nathalie Baye was born on July 6, 1948 in Mainneville, Eure, France. She is an actress, known for Catch Me If You Can (2002), A Pornographic Affair (1999) and Laurence Anyways (2012).

Movies for Nathalie Baye...

Mother Valley
Title: Mother Valley
Character: Hélène
Released: June 14, 2023
Type: Movie
In 1958, while revolution is rumbling in Beirut, three sisters spend their holidays in an isolated village of Lebanese mountains: rebellious Nada, romantic Eva, and the eldest Layla, a good woman, beloved by everyone. But the war threatens and the sudden entrance of two French summer vacationers leads Layla to revolt against patriarchal society.
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Godard Cinema
Title: Godard Cinema
Character: Self
Released: June 5, 2023
Type: Movie
Jean-Luc Godard is synonymous with cinema. With the release of Breathless in 1960, he established himself overnight as a cinematic rebel and symbol for the era's progressive and anti-war youth. Sixty-two years and 140 films later, Godard is among the most renowned artists of all time, taught in every film school yet still shrouded in mystery. One of the founders of the French New Wave, political agitator, revolutionary misanthrope, film theorist and critic, the list of his descriptors goes on and on. Godard Cinema offers an opportunity for film lovers to look back at his career and the subjects and themes that obsessed him, while paying tribute to the ineffable essence of the most revered French director of all time.
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Godard by Godard
Title: Godard by Godard
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 17, 2023
Type: Movie
Godard by Godard is an archival self-portrait of Jean-Luc Godard. It retraces the unique and unheard-of path, made up of sudden detours and dramatic returns, of a filmmaker who never looks back on his past, never makes the same film twice, and tirelessly pursues his research, in a truly inexhaustible diversity of inspiration. Through Godard’s words, his gaze and his work, the film tells the story of a life of cinema; that of a man who will always demand a lot of himself and his art, to the point of merging with it.
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Nicole Garcia, actrice-cinéaste
Title: Nicole Garcia, actrice-cinéaste
Character: Elle-même
Released: April 1, 2023
Type: Movie
Stage actress turned film actress and director, Nicole Garcia has worked with the greatest French directors. Mysterious, singular, elegant, she has become a major figure in French cinema, but in her forties, she wanted to tell her own stories. She took a big risk when she was being offered fewer roles as an actress and became a film director.
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Alibi.com 2
Title: Alibi.com 2
Character: Mme Martin
Released: February 8, 2023
Type: Movie
After closing his agency Alibi.com and promising Flo that he would never lie to her again, Greg's new life became quiet, too quiet... Not for long! When he decides to propose to Flo, Greg is up against the wall and has to introduce his family. But with his crooked father and his ex-charm actress mother, this could ruin his future union. He has no choice but to reopen his agency with his former accomplices for an ultimate Alibi and to find more presentable fake parents.
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Sheila, toutes ces vies-là
Title: Sheila, toutes ces vies-là
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 24, 2022
Type: Movie
The portrait of a woman who remembers. Sheila tells the story of Sheila, without concessions or evasions. Her childhood, her parents, her beginnings, the rumors, her love affairs, her marriage, her son, her successes, her farewells, her return, her mourning. The journey of an extraordinary popular icon who never stopped fighting. The courage of an artist who never gives up. "Sheila, toutes ces vies-là" is also a journey through time. 60 years of pop music, punctuated by numerous archives, personal films, timeless hits and illustrations by Marc-Antoine Coulon. But also 60 years of fashion, through a legendary wardrobe (her TV show outfits) that Sheila invites us to rediscover.
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Title: Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 21, 2022
Type: TV
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Downton Abbey: A New Era
Title: Downton Abbey: A New Era
Character: Mme de Montmirail
Released: April 27, 2022
Type: Movie
The Crawley family goes on a grand journey to the south of France to uncover the mystery of the dowager countess's newly inherited villa.
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Le soir où j'ai reçu le César
Title: Le soir où j'ai reçu le César
Character: Self
Released: February 23, 2022
Type: Movie
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Bacri, comme un air de famille
Title: Bacri, comme un air de famille
Character: Self
Released: January 14, 2022
Type: Movie
Jean-Pierre Bacri was never happy about anything. But beyond the caricature of the grumpy man, from his apprenticeship years to his death in January 2021, this film tells the story of this quintessential Frenchman: a man turned towards others, an actor by accident, a moralist by vocation, who was left unaffected by flattery and false honors by success, and ready for all kinds of anger when it was necessary to speak out against injustice and stupidity. The film tells the story of how Jean-Pierre Bacri's life changed several times: from Algeria to France when he was eleven years old in 1962; from bank clerk to apprentice theater actor; from Pieds-noirs film star to screenwriter for Alain Resnais; and from Cannes playboy to Agnès Jaoui's mad lover, the most decisive encounter for his life as well as for his work
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Haute Couture
Title: Haute Couture
Character: Esther
Released: November 10, 2021
Type: Movie
Esther is at the end of her career as Head Seamstress at Dior Avenue Montaigne workshop. One day, she gets her handbag stolen in the metro by a 20 years old girl, Jade. Instead of calling the police she decides to take care of Jade. She sees in her the opportunity to pass on her skills, the craft of dressmaking, her only wealth. In the frenetic world of Haute Couture, Esther will give Jade la beauté du geste, a way to reach beyond herself.
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Him
Title: Him
Character: Mother
Released: October 27, 2021
Type: Movie
Lacking inspiration, a composer isolates himself at a desolate house, on a small island, in Brittany. There he finds an old piano and receives visits from people who won't let him rest.
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Sous le soleil de Pialat
Title: Sous le soleil de Pialat
Character: Self
Released: October 18, 2021
Type: Movie
In just ten films, Maurice Pialat painfully rose to the top of the cinema, draining into his legend a mad demand for truth as much as memorable fury to achieve it. With "L'Enfance nue", his first feature film at the age of 43, the filmmaker immediately made his mark, this "art of making things authentic", according to Chabrol. But throughout an unclassifiable filmography in the form of an autobiography, from a break-up to his fatherhood in wonder, through the agony of his mother, the filmmaker does not get rid of the feeling of being misunderstood, despite international recognition.
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Conversation avec Nathalie Baye
Title: Conversation avec Nathalie Baye
Character: Herself
Released: May 27, 2021
Type: Movie
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My Best Part
Title: My Best Part
Character: Bernadette Meyer
Released: October 28, 2020
Type: Movie
Jérémie, a young man reaching a breaking point on all fronts, decides to leave behind Paris and return to Limosin, to the home of his intrusive mother.
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Title: Criminal: France
Character: Caroline Solal
Released: September 20, 2019
Type: TV
Secrets emerge and entire cases unravel inside a police interview room in Paris, where suspects and investigators face off in an intricate dance.
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Title: Bonsoir bonsoir!
Character: Self
Released: April 1, 2019
Type: TV
Each day, Jean-Philippe Wauthier welcomes guests on the show in warm, friendly setting. His interviews focus on their newsworthy achievements but also, and most importantly, on their passions, interests and opinions.
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Soirée Pyjama
Title: Soirée Pyjama
Character: Self - Guest
Released: January 9, 2019
Type: Movie
To celebrate 2019, Barthès & Dedienne are hosting a sleepover with some friends.
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Thomas
Title: Thomas
Character: Anne Lancrey
Released: June 23, 2018
Type: Movie
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Title: Nox
Character: Catherine Susini
Released: March 12, 2018
Type: TV
A mother, herself retired from the police, embarks on an underground exploration of Paris to find her daughter, a missing investigator on a mission.
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The Guardians
Title: The Guardians
Character: Hortense Sandrail
Released: December 6, 2017
Type: Movie
In this ensemble drama set in rural France, the women of the Paridier farm are left to run it by themselves while their men are off fighting in World War I. But things become complicated with the arrival of American troops.
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Médée
Title: Médée
Character: The mother
Released: April 17, 2017
Type: Movie
A lonely mother and her son go to the opera where a performance of Cherubini’s opera Medea is given. It is the mother’s birthday and she wanted to surprise her son by inviting him to the opera. But, the son’s plan were different and he is quite upset about it. His mother tries to break the silent barrier behind which he hides. A semblance of discussion begins, not without humour. Tension is present but, as the performance goes on, both find themselves astounded, captured, alone in the opera house.
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Alibi.com
Title: Alibi.com
Character: Marlène Martin
Released: February 15, 2017
Type: Movie
Greg founded a company called Alibi.com that creates any type of alibi. With his associate, Augustin, and Medhi his new employee, they devise unstoppable stratagems and stagings to cover their clients. But meeting Flo, a pretty blonde who hates men who lie, will complicate Greg's life, which begins by hiding the true nature of his activity. During the presentation to parents, Greg understands that Gérard, the father of Flo, is also one of their clients.
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Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
Title: Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 2016
Type: Movie
Actors Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Monia Chokri, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Niels Schneider and Melvil Poupaud discuss working with the young Canadian director Xavier Dolan, who has conquered the hearts of both cinema lovers and prestigious festival juries with his films. To French actress Nathalie Baye, he seems very experienced despite his young age, while Cannes Director Thierry Frémaux says he may be insolent, but everyone agrees he is passionate, creative, a perfectionist and... in a hurry.
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It's Only the End of the World
Title: It's Only the End of the World
Character: Martine
Released: August 26, 2016
Type: Movie
Louis, a terminally ill writer, returns home after a long absence to tell his family that he is dying.
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Moka
Title: Moka
Character: Marlène
Released: August 17, 2016
Type: Movie
Diane Kramer is led by one obsession: to find the driver of the mocha color Mercedes which hit her son and devastated her life. With a few belongings, some money and a gun, she goes to Evian, where she's learned the driver lives.
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Title: Call My Agent!
Character: Self
Released: October 14, 2015
Type: TV
At a top Paris talent firm, agents scramble to keep their star clients happy—and their business afloat—after an unexpected crisis.
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Préjudice
Title: Préjudice
Character: Mother
Released: October 7, 2015
Type: Movie
A challenging psychological drama where the carefully nurtured harmony of a family is shattered one lovely summer evening. Cédric, who is generally shut away in a world of his own, doesn't react very well to the happy news of his sister’s pregnancy.
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The Assistant
Title: The Assistant
Character: Marie-France
Released: September 2, 2015
Type: Movie
With his wife in labor, father-to-be Thomas (Malik Zidi) speeds to the hospital, and in the process, accidentally kills a young man on the road. That death sets into motion events that will change everyone’s lives forever, including the young man’s mother Marie-France (Nathalie Baye), who cannot recover from the trauma. Nine years later, Marie-France takes a job as Thomas’s secretary without him knowing about her connection to his past. As Marie-France’s maternal rage reaches tragic proportions, she insinuates herself into his life, his work and his family in this classic thriller à la Hitchcock.
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SK1
Title: SK1
Character: Frédérique Pons
Released: January 7, 2015
Type: Movie
The hunt, capture and trial of Guy Georges, one of France's most notorious serial killers.
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Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Title: Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Released: December 13, 2014
Type: Movie
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Lou!
Title: Lou!
Character: Jeanne (La grand-mère)
Released: October 8, 2014
Type: Movie
Lou, a creative and dreamy 12-year-old girl, lives alone with her mother in an orange building with tons of little balconies that give access to the roof. Mina has been her best friend since kindergarten, and Lou has been in love with Tristan, one of her neighbors, since elementary school. Her mother has relinquished her own personal happiness of late so as to devote herself to her daughter, but their little bubble bursts when Mom meets a man and Lou at last dares speak to Tristan.
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Queens of the Ring
Title: Queens of the Ring
Character: Colette
Released: July 2, 2013
Type: Movie
More than anything, 30-year-old Rose longs to be reunited with Mickaël, her estranged 11-year-old son who has been placed with a foster family and blames his mother for their long separation. When she discovers that Mickaël is crazy about wrestling, Rose thinks she's found a way to melt the ice: she'll put together a tag team with three girlfriends from the store where all four work as checkout girls...
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Laurence Anyways
Title: Laurence Anyways
Character: Julienne Alia
Released: May 18, 2012
Type: Movie
The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self.
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Title: Spin
Character: Anne Visage
Released: January 25, 2012
Type: TV
The President of the French Republic, visiting Saint-Etienne in the Loire, in a striking plant dies, victim of a bomb attack. The political world is agitated: early presidential elections to be held within the next thirty-five days. There is no doubt that Philip Deleuvre, the prime minister, will run for the Elysee. But what few people know is that the leader of the government knows more things he claimed. This state causes lie back to business Kapita Simon, a former communications adviser (spin doctor) of the late president. Anxious to preserve the honor of his deceased friend and some form of political ethics, the man of the shadows has now set a goal: to find a candidate who will be able to beat Deleuvre.
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Bon vent Claude Goretta
Title: Bon vent Claude Goretta
Character: Self
Released: August 12, 2011
Type: Movie
Claude Goretta directed “L'invitation” in 1973. For filmmaker Lionel Baier, born in 1975, it is like a “travelling companion”, to adapt Serge Daney’s expression. He feels it is definitive proof that a Swiss can be deeply Chekhovian. The young filmmaker goes to Geneva to ask his elder how he achieved the whoosh of water effect in the film, why attention to detail matters so much, and how to film great actors such as François Simon. This encounter with Claude Goretta – but also with Isabelle Huppert, Nathalie Baye, Michel Robin and Frédérique Meininger – leads one of the greatest of Swiss filmmakers to open up about his work.
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Hitler in Hollywood
Title: Hitler in Hollywood
Character: Nathalie Baye
Released: May 4, 2011
Type: Movie
A bio-doc about Micheline Presle changes into a thrilling investigation of the long hidden truth about European cinema. This mockumentary thriller uncovers Hollywood's unsuspected plot against the European motion picture industry. Numerous directors and stars appear in the film, making it a choice morsel for all film lovers.
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Small World
Title: Small World
Character: Elisabeth Senn
Released: December 16, 2010
Type: Movie
Conrad Lang, a handyman in a rich family - he has been raised like a brother with Thomas, who has the same age -, accidentally puts fire to the big holiday house he keeps. He returns to the town he grew up in, to the family home, where Philippe, Thomas's son, and Simone are getting married. Conrad's frequent memory loss and behavioural problems rapidly reveal a neurological disease (Alzheimer's is suggested by doctor Cohen when he examens Elvira) which leads Elvira, Thomas's stepmother, to install Conrad in a guesthouse on the property, with the help of a nurse. When Conrad looses more and more his landmarks in present and past, memories of his youth come back to surface. They intrigue Simone, since these memories do not entirely fit together with the official family history...
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Beautiful Lies
Title: Beautiful Lies
Character: Mady
Released: December 8, 2010
Type: Movie
A hairdresser forwards a passionate love letter to her widowed mother.
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The Great Restaurant
Title: The Great Restaurant
Character: Une cliente du restaurant
Released: February 20, 2010
Type: Movie
Fragments of the lives of the customers of a great restaurant and the inconvenience of its manager.
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Together Is Too Much
Title: Together Is Too Much
Character: Marie-France
Released: February 17, 2010
Type: Movie
Imagine, if you will, a somewhat contented married woman finding out her husband's infidelity during the celebration of a birthday party. That is what happens to Marie-France, when her husband, Henri, pulls out panties from his pocket to be used as a handkerchief. Marie-France becomes furious, storming out of the house. His son, Sebastian and his wife, Clementine, a struggling couple, decide to take Marie-France to their tiny apartment, something they feel it is a temporary arrangement. Little did they know what they were getting into...
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Face
Title: Face
Character: Nathalie
Released: October 2, 2009
Type: Movie
Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth.
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God's Offices
Title: God's Offices
Character: Anne
Released: November 5, 2008
Type: Movie
A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women.
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Marie-Octobre
Title: Marie-Octobre
Character: Marie-Hélène Dumoulin / Marie-Octobre
Released: October 15, 2008
Type: Movie
After the Liberation of France during the World War II, ten former Resistant fighters meet again during a dinner organized by Marie-Octobre...
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A French Gigolo
Title: A French Gigolo
Character: Judith
Released: October 8, 2008
Type: Movie
Marco leads a double life. As Marco, he is a construction worker but rich ladies craving sexual excitation know him as Patrick. As Marco he is married to Fanny, an ambitious young woman who has opened her own hairdressing salon in partnership with her friend Rosalie. Marco/Patrick is not a male prostitute at heart: in fact he does the job in order to support his wife's business. Which doesn't prevent Judith, an elegant tele-shopping presenter who buys his services, from falling in love with him. But when Fanny learns what Marco does and with whom, she first gets mad but soon starts interfering in their affair.
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Title: Club social
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 2008
Type: TV
A magazine show about culture and trends and how they can shape society in unexpected ways.
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Off and Running
Title: Off and Running
Character: Irène Montier-Duval
Released: April 16, 2008
Type: Movie
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The Price to Pay
Title: The Price to Pay
Character: Odile Ménard
Released: April 4, 2007
Type: Movie
Jean-Pierre, a wealthy businessman, is lonely. He still desires his wife but she only seems interested in shopping and the beauty salon. Tired of lunching alone every day, one day he decides to invite his chauffeur to join him, and a relationship quickly develops as the two find they have much in common. Are they just cash machines for their wives? Don't they deserve some love in return? Jean-Pierre confiscates his wife's credit card, but things don't turn out exactly the way he'd hoped...
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Acteur
Title: Acteur
Character: Camille
Released: March 16, 2007
Type: Movie
A look at the world of acting: is it possible to go from the shadows to the limelight without losing one's soul?
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Michou d'Auber
Title: Michou d'Auber
Character: Gisèle
Released: February 28, 2007
Type: Movie
Set in France during the struggle for Algerian independence, Messaoud's mother is terminally ill and his father, needing to work long hours in the factory, can't look after him, so decides to put him and his older brother Abdel in foster care. Sent to the countryside, Abdel has to work on a farm, but Messaoud is taken in by a childless woman, who conceals his Arab origins from her fiercely Gaullist ex-army husband. Re-named Michel/Michou, and with his hair comically dyed blond, the young boy quickly steals the hearts of both foster-parents, and eventually is instrumental in saving their troubled marriage.
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Tell No One
Title: Tell No One
Character: Maître Elysabeth Feldman
Released: November 1, 2006
Type: Movie
A man receives a mysterious e-mail appearing to be from his wife, who was murdered years earlier. As he frantically tries to find out whether she's alive, he finds himself being implicated in her death.
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La Californie
Title: La Californie
Character: Maguy
Released: May 26, 2006
Type: Movie
Mirko and Stefan, Serbian refugees, move to the French Riviera. There they meet Maguy who lives in a luxurious mansion up the hill above Cannes with an odd group of friends.
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My Son
Title: My Son
Character: Mother / La mère
Released: March 7, 2006
Type: Movie
Julien and his mum care for each other very much. But Julien has committed a deadly sin: he is growing into a teenager! Worse, he has found himself a girlfriend of his age. "Mummy" is not going to tolerate such an ignominy. Julien is HER baby and will remain HERS for ever, encouraged in her "crusade" by her bovine husband and barely thwarted by the more courageous interventions of Suzanne, Julien's sympathetic big sister.
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The Young Lieutenant
Title: The Young Lieutenant
Character: Commandant Vaudieu
Released: August 31, 2005
Type: Movie
A rookie policeman from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure Parisian homicide bureau and is assigned to a middle-aged woman detective.
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One Stays, the Other Leaves
Title: One Stays, the Other Leaves
Character: Fanny
Released: January 12, 2005
Type: Movie
A story about two couples, longtime friends in which both husbands engage in long-term affairs and, as the title says, ultimately one remains with his wife and one makes a new life with another woman.
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François Truffaut, une autobiographie
Title: François Truffaut, une autobiographie
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 2004
Type: Movie
A documentary tracing the career of filmmaker François Truffaut through the testimony of collaborators and admirers.
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Une vie à t'attendre
Title: Une vie à t'attendre
Character: Jeanne
Released: March 10, 2004
Type: Movie
A married Frenchwoman living in Brazil returns to her native country to visit her ailing elderly mother. There, she ends up rekindling a love affair with a man whom she hadn't seen in twelve years.
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France Boutique
Title: France Boutique
Character: Sofia
Released: October 29, 2003
Type: Movie
Francois Cluzet and Karin Viard are the couple behind a French shopping channel whose business and marriage are both drifting towards the rocks, with Nathalie Baye as a smiling Rottweiller out to steal their business by conning them into offering a duff product, the 'Fear Eliminator,' and picking up the network for pennies in the ensuing financial fallout.
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Feelings
Title: Feelings
Character: Carole
Released: September 1, 2003
Type: Movie
Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues.
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The Flower of Evil
Title: The Flower of Evil
Character: Anne Charpin-Vasseur
Released: February 9, 2003
Type: Movie
Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.
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Catch Me If You Can
Title: Catch Me If You Can
Character: Paula Abagnale
Released: December 16, 2002
Type: Movie
A true story about Frank Abagnale Jr. who, before his 19th birthday, successfully conned millions of dollars worth of checks as a Pan Am pilot, doctor, and legal prosecutor. An FBI agent makes it his mission to put him behind bars. But Frank not only eludes capture, he revels in the pursuit.
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Absolutely Fabulous
Title: Absolutely Fabulous
Character: Patricia 'Patsy' Laroche
Released: August 29, 2001
Type: Movie
The wildly popular British television show Absolutely Fabulous gets a Francophonic makeover with this film version directed by Gabriel Aghion. In this go around, Josiane Balasko and Nathalie Baye play the incorrigible Eddie and Patsy, who leave no impulse unenacted and no lust unsated -- be it for sex or the latest in designer clothing. Waking up from a night of drunken debauchery, the two dip right into a feast of champagne and caviar, much to the irritation of Eddie's elegant mother and her resentful daughter. As Eddie stretches an appalling pair of leopard-print leotards (complete with matching shoes, purse, and hat) over her massive rear end, she and Patsy learn of a handsome young Rollerblading delivery boy who quickly becomes the object of their lust. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival.
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Barnie's Minor Annoyances
Title: Barnie's Minor Annoyances
Character: Lucie
Released: February 21, 2001
Type: Movie
Barnie lives in Calais but works in London. Everyday, he takes the Eurostar to go to his office. Although he is married to Lucie, Barnie has two lovers in London: Margot, a young and fresh advertising executive, and Mark, a hot 35 years old auctioneer. Everything could work out fine like that, until Margot, Mark and Lucie separately offer Barnie the same birthday present: a return ticket to Venice on the Orient-Express, and on the same dates. What will Barnie do? Who will he choose to go with? After thinking that going with Lucie could actually save his marriage, problems are not over: Margot and Mark both show up at Barnie and Lucie's house, pretending to be a couple, and asking Barnie for some explanations. Which he obviously can't give...
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Tomorrow's Another Day
Title: Tomorrow's Another Day
Character: Sophie
Released: November 15, 2000
Type: Movie
A group of Parisians frets over the minutiae of life in the course of one week.
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To Mathieu
Title: To Mathieu
Character: Claire
Released: September 6, 2000
Type: Movie
Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory floor, Matthieu is incensed and tries to have him reinstated, in vain. His brother has just got married and, with a child and mortgage on the way, is reluctant to stir up trouble...
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An Affair of Love
Title: An Affair of Love
Character: Her
Released: September 4, 1999
Type: Movie
A man and a woman meet to fulfill her sexual fantasy.
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Venus Beauty Institute
Title: Venus Beauty Institute
Character: Angèle Piana
Released: February 3, 1999
Type: Movie
Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train station. Witnessing how she turns around a humiliating situation, younger sculptor Antoine becomes so smitten that he breaks up with his fiancée and sets out to win Angèle's heart. Meanwhile, Angèle attempts to quash the budding romance of her young co-worker, Marie, and a much older widowed client, despite their obvious rapport.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Beware of My Love
Title: Beware of My Love
Character: Muriel
Released: September 2, 1998
Type: Movie
Muriel, a writer nearing 50 whose older lover won't live with her in Paris, meets a man on a train - Samuel, an Arab. He's attracted to her and pursues her, dropping in, asserting himself. She's willing to connect. He's passionate, then boorish, then jealous and possessive. He seems fixed on "Who's the strongest?," while she wants respect and trust. She's self-possessed as well as sexually charged, willing to laugh, and alternately firm and forgiving. He has little money, no immigration papers, few prospects, and a gambling jag. What does each want, and why does she stick with it? Is this colonial strife, war between the sexes, or a love story?
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Paparazzi
Title: Paparazzi
Character: Nicole, de l'agence Magma
Released: April 29, 1998
Type: Movie
Franck shows up in a gossip magazine photo behind a brawling TV star at a football match.
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Food of Love
Title: Food of Love
Character: Michele
Released: October 19, 1997
Type: Movie
A group of ex-university students reunite to perform a Shakespeare play in a quaint English village.
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Enfants de salaud
Title: Enfants de salaud
Character: Sophie
Released: April 3, 1996
Type: Movie
Sylvette, a sassy waitress, Sandro, a macho guy, Sophie, a shy bourgeoisie, and Susan, an American actress, do not know each other and do not have much in common. However, they all have the same father, a scammer named Julius.
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Les Enfoirés 1996 - La Soirée des Enfoirés
Title: Les Enfoirés 1996 - La Soirée des Enfoirés
Released: February 10, 1996
Type: Movie
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François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - The Wild Child
Title: François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - The Wild Child
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
A fascinating glimpse into Truffaut’s creative process and how his life informed his art, told from the perspectives of those who knew him best.
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François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death
Title: François Truffaut: The Man Who Loved Cinema - Love & Death
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
A fascinating glimpse into Truffaut’s creative process and how his life informed his art, told from the perspectives of those who knew him best.
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The Machine
Title: The Machine
Character: Marie Lacroix
Released: May 28, 1994
Type: Movie
This deftly made French psychological thriller terrifies with its exploration of an experiment gone horribly wrong. Dr. Marc Lacroix, a psychiatrist specializing in brain functions, is obsessed with the link between mind and spirit. To find his link he studies the criminally insane. He builds a secret machine, known only to his mistress Marianne, in which he hopes to exchange minds between humans. He simultaneously wants to help the mentally ill recover, and he wants to experience their madness. He chooses the psychotic killer, Zyto, a man who stabbed at least three women, for his experiment. The initial experiment is successful and the two exchange minds. But trouble ensues when Zyto refuses to reverse the switch. There is little Marc can do when Zyto takes over Marc's life, and more ominously his wife and child whom are unknowingly in mortal danger. Marc, encased in Zyto's body, is returned to the asylum. Will Marc's wife recognize the danger? Will Zyto kill again?
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And the Band Played On
Title: And the Band Played On
Character: Dr. Françoise Barre
Released: September 11, 1993
Type: Movie
The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
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Mensonge
Title: Mensonge
Character: Emma
Released: May 26, 1993
Type: Movie
Emma has been happily married to Charles, a hardworking journalist, for over ten years. They have a son, and are considering having another child when she learns that she is both pregnant and HIV-positive at a time when Charles is away. As Emma has never used drugs or slept around, and has never had a blood transfusion, there can only be one source for her infection: her absent husband. Shocked to the core by this turn of events, she goes through his things and finds an address book with the names of many women in it. Determined to discover what has been going on, she begins contacting every name in the book. She continues her investigations even after her husband, whom she confronts over this, returns.
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François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
Title: François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
Character: Self
Released: May 14, 1993
Type: Movie
Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk about François Truffaut. They discuss his attitudes toward wealth, his early writings about cinema, the undercurrent of violence in his films and his personality, the way he used and altered events in his life when making films, his search for a father (both artistic and biological), his relationship with his mother, the scenes in his films that cause a squirm of embarrassment, and his ultimate mysticism. Clips from a dozen of his films are included.
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The Voice
Title: The Voice
Character: Lorraine
Released: September 14, 1992
Type: Movie
The tale of two lovers spending time in Rome when, suddenly, in a restaurant, the man believes he recognizes the voice of a woman he once loved... remembrances and dreams of past love ensue.
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Les contes sauvages
Title: Les contes sauvages
Released: March 16, 1991
Type: Movie
Directed by Gérald Calderon and Jean-Charles Cuttoli
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The Man Inside
Title: The Man Inside
Character: Christine
Released: October 26, 1990
Type: Movie
Gunter Wallraff is a journalist seeking to expose the unethical journalism practiced by The Standard, a very popular and powerful German newspaper. He goes undercover, using forged identity papers and at great personal risk, to join their staff. Once there, he sees how they don't just report the news, but manufacture it to suit the personal political agenda of the paper's leaders.
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Every Other Weekend
Title: Every Other Weekend
Character: Camille Valmont
Released: August 28, 1990
Type: Movie
Camille, a mercurial César-winning actress, has seen better times. Estranged from her husband, she's with her children only every other weekend. It's her weekend, but her agent has booked her to MC a Rotary club dinner in Vichy. She takes them with her, and when her husband learns this, he demands to pick them up at once. She bolts in a rented car to the seaside, trying to improve her relations with the children, especially the precocious and distant Vincent. He loves astronomy. A rare meteor shower is due in a few days, so she suggests they go to a plateau in Spain hoping to see it. He agrees, but the relationship remains difficult, and her husband is on their trail.
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C'est La Vie
Title: C'est La Vie
Character: Lena
Released: February 14, 1990
Type: Movie
A story is about young teenage girl, with sister and brothers, a pleasant uncle and aunt, an annoying nanny, a young boy interested in kissing her, a close relationship with the imaginary addressee of her daily diary and her parents' disintegrating marriage - all this in a rented house in a summer resort.
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Massacre Play
Title: Massacre Play
Released: January 1, 1989
Type: Movie
Film makers Clem Da Silva (Tomas Milian) and Theo Steiner (Elliott Gould) are childhood friends, although now estranged. While both are gifted and equally passionate about cinema, their destinies couldn’t have been any different – multiple Oscar winner Theo is successful and admired around the world, whereas few have ever heard of Clem, because he often gets to work only for television. Clem has accused Theo of plagiarising his ideas that, to add insult to injury, went on to win awards.
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No Harm Intended
Title: No Harm Intended
Character: Catherine Duchêne
Released: February 3, 1988
Type: Movie
When Catherine is caught with her illicit lover by her father-in-law Paul, the concerned father leaves to tell his son Thomas about the incident. Paul is injured in an auto accident and returns home in a wheelchair unable to speak. Catherine's guilt weighs heavily on her as she hopes to never let Thomas know she was unfaithful. She panics and seeks a way to eliminate Paul in this psychological thriller.
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Engagements of the Heart
Title: Engagements of the Heart
Character: Alice
Released: December 16, 1987
Type: Movie
Alice is the widow of a Jewish surgeon who helps the former diplomat Jerome smuggle Jews out of Austria to save them from the Nazis. The duo recruits Charles, a shoe manufacturer whose uncle is a Nazi sympathizer in the Vichy government. Charles and Alice become lovers when they are picked up in Paris by Nazi soldiers on a curfew violation.
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: (Album of the Year for Children)
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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Honeymoon
Title: Honeymoon
Character: Cécile Carline
Released: November 20, 1985
Type: Movie
A Frenchwoman in Manhattan, in danger of being deported because of her relationship with a recently arrested drug offender, enters into a marriage of convenience with a stranger that is arranged through an agency. But even though the two are not supposed to even meet, her new husband starts taking his faux wedding vows entirely too seriously.
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Beethoven's Nephew
Title: Beethoven's Nephew
Character: Leonore
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: Movie
The plot centers around old Beethoven's fixation on the welfare of his nephew, for whom he fought a lengthy custody battle against his brother's former wife. Beethoven thought she was a bad influence on the boy. Sadly, the nephew isn't receptive to Beethoven's "overtures", and resents his boorish uncle's efforts on his behalf. The nephew is a complete nonentity, lacking in both interest and talent. He seems to wish only to be left alone.
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Detective
Title: Detective
Character: Françoise Chenal
Released: August 23, 1985
Type: Movie
Emile Chenal and his wife, Françoise, leaned on boxing manager Jim Fox Warner to cough up the considerable sum of money that he owes them, with both the police and the mob circling the situation. In the same hotel, Inspector Neveu looks into a murder that took place years before, and his storyline overlaps with the arc of the Chenals.
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Rive droite, rive gauche
Title: Rive droite, rive gauche
Character: Sacha Vernakis
Released: October 30, 1984
Type: Movie
Longtime friends Guarrigue and Sénanques own a successful law practice in Paris. The dreaded businessman Pervillard is one of their clients. One night, Sénanques, who is in an unhappy relationship, meets Sacha. For her sake, he causes a political scandal involving Pervillard and puts himself in danger.
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Our Story
Title: Our Story
Character: Donatienne Pouget / Marie-Thérèse Chatelard / Geneviève Avranche
Released: May 23, 1984
Type: Movie
Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life. An attractive young woman, Donatienne, suddenly enters the compartment and offers to make love to him. Robert accepts but, when the woman leaves the train afterwards, he decides to follow her...
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I Married a Shadow
Title: I Married a Shadow
Character: Hélène
Released: February 16, 1983
Type: Movie
After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident.
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La Balance
Title: La Balance
Character: Nicole Danet
Released: November 10, 1982
Type: Movie
A Paris police detective plays rough with a prostitute and her pimp/lover, whom he wants as an informant.
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The Return of Martin Guerre
Title: The Return of Martin Guerre
Character: Bertrande de Rols
Released: May 14, 1982
Type: Movie
Village of Artigat, southern France, summer 1542, during the reign of Francis I. Martin Guerre and Bertrande de Rols marry. A few years later, accused of having committed a robbery, Martin suddenly disappears. When, almost a decade later, a man arrives in Artigat claiming to be Martin, the Guerre family recognizes him as such; but doubts soon arise about his true identity.
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Short Memory
Title: Short Memory
Character: Judith Mesnil
Released: March 3, 1982
Type: Movie
In this thriller, a UNESCO translator stumbles across a group which is hiding and supporting Nazis and facilitating their travel around the world. She had been given an assignment to study the work of a writer who recently had died, and the conspiracy is revealed in materials he left behind. She comes upon a young man who is going through the writer's papers, and she immediately assumes he must be one of the conspirators. However, he soon convinces her of his innocence in that regard, and the two together begin a search for the ringleader.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Strange Affair
Title: Strange Affair
Character: Nina Coline
Released: December 23, 1981
Type: Movie
A young Parisian advertising executive becomes so captivated by the unsettling charm of his mysterious new employer that he eventually abandons his family and friends, viewing it a privilege to let the ubiquitous employer take over his home, his life, his desire. Only his wife remains suspicious, recognizing both the pathos and the evil in the man’s soul-stealing power.
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The Red Shade
Title: The Red Shade
Character: Anna
Released: October 28, 1981
Type: Movie
The time is the 1930s and two Soviet spies (both Frenchmen by nationality) have been helping Communist factions during the Civil War in Spain. It is the time of Stalin's iron rule in the USSR, and the two agents are suddenly called to Moscow by the KGB. Knowing that they are in trouble for no fault of their own, fear drives one of them to suicide while the other gets his lover and her child and begins a run for his life, knowing that the KGB will never let him go free.
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Beau Pere
Title: Beau Pere
Character: Charlotte
Released: September 15, 1981
Type: Movie
Rémi is a man trapped in a deteriorating marriage. When his wife is unexpectedly killed in a car accident, Rémi is left with his stepdaughter, Marion, who chooses to stay with him rather than live with her birth father. After the initial shock passes, Rémi is caught off-guard when Marion begins expressing her attraction to him. Initially repulsed, Marion's mature beauty wears him down as he finally caves to her seductions.
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Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie))
Title: Voyage à travers un film (Sauve qui peut (la vie))
Character: Self
Released: February 3, 1981
Type: Movie
A televisual journey guided by Jean-Luc Godard inside his film Sauve qui peut (la vie), incorporating filmed conversations between him and Isabelle Huppert and the film critic Christian Defaye.
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La provinciale
Title: La provinciale
Character: Christine Delumet
Released: January 21, 1981
Type: Movie
In this drama, a provincial girl goes to Paris in search of her fortune. Although she finds the City of Light to be quite different from what she'd imagined it to be, the girl manages to retain her dignity. It is only after she is thoroughly disillusioned by her experiences there that she returns to her country life.
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Every Man for Himself
Title: Every Man for Himself
Character: Denise Rimbaud
Released: September 8, 1980
Type: Movie
A look at the sexual and professional lives of three people — a television director, his ex-girlfriend, and a sex worker.
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A Week's Vacation
Title: A Week's Vacation
Character: Laurence Cuers
Released: June 2, 1980
Type: Movie
Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyon, takes a week's leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.
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Rat Race
Title: Rat Race
Character: Brigitte Ozendron
Released: April 22, 1980
Type: Movie
Young dynamic executive, married and father of two children, Jérôme Ozendron dreams of writing and escaping a life he considers mediocre. The meeting with a former comrade, who had become an actor, brought him into contact with the world of cinema. He meets, Natacha, a cover girl, for whom he is ready to give up, wife and children. Then he becomes the lover of Lilianne, a marginal who persecutes and pursues him. He quit his job to devote himself to writing a novel. But nothing goes as he wants.
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Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
Title: Scénario de 'Sauve qui peut la vie'
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 10, 1979
Type: Movie
Jean-Luc Godard proposes a diary of his creative process. Looking at photos of three actors, Jacques Dutronc, Isabelle Huppert, and Miou-Miou, who were previously cast to play in "Sauve qui peut (la vie)," Godard speaks about great image makers: Dreyer and Wim Wenders, the painters Edward Hopper and Pierre Bonnard.
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Mon premier amour
Title: Mon premier amour
Character: Fabienne
Released: August 30, 1978
Type: Movie
This sentimental drama is the story of the relationship between a lovely mother and her 20-year-old son who never really knew her. When he learns that she is dying of leukemia, he tries to get to know her. By the end of the film, the two have reconciled and she dies feeling at peace.
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The Green Room
Title: The Green Room
Character: Cecilia Mandel
Released: April 5, 1978
Type: Movie
A WWI veteran decides to build a memorial to all of the people who have mattered to him but are now dead.
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Monsieur Papa
Title: Monsieur Papa
Character: Janine
Released: August 23, 1977
Type: Movie
In this family comedy, Papa has no end of trouble getting his young son to accept his new girlfriend.
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The Man Who Loved Women
Title: The Man Who Loved Women
Character: Martine Desdoits
Released: April 27, 1977
Type: Movie
At Bertrand Morane's burial there are many of the women that the 40-year-old engineer loved. In flashback Bertrand's life and love affairs are told by himself while writing an autobiographical novel.
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Solemn Communion
Title: Solemn Communion
Character: Jeanne Vanderberghe
Released: April 27, 1977
Type: Movie
In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families from the 1890s to the 1970s. In one of many related tales, a man who was engaged to the older daughter of a farmer elopes with the younger one. After many years and the birth of five children, the man leaves his wife and family for the bright lights of the city but continues turning up from time to time, until he is finally taken into the home of one of his sons when he is a quite old man. The complex interactions of the legitimate and illegitimate children of a womanizing miner give rise to yet another set of related stories.
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Mado
Title: Mado
Character: Catherine
Released: October 27, 1976
Type: Movie
Middle-aged businessman, Simon Léotard finds his future in jeopardy when his partner Julien commits suicide after having accumulated a mass of debts. Simon's unscrupulous business rival Lépidon offers to save him from bankruptcy by buying his company, at a discount rate. Reluctant to fall into Lépidon's trap, Simon decides to resolve the crisis himself. A prostitute, Mado, provides him with the solution to his problems...
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The Honeymoon Trip
Title: The Honeymoon Trip
Character: Sophie
Released: April 21, 1976
Type: Movie
Paul and Sarah form a happy couple with no problems. But when Sarah sees Paul wrapped in the arms of a young woman her peaceful happiness collapses. She in turn takes a lover. Paul realizes that he's losing his wife and proposes a second honeymoon in Morocco...
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The Last Woman
Title: The Last Woman
Character: la fille aux cerises
Released: April 20, 1976
Type: Movie
Psychological drama of the compelling relationship between a young French engineer and the girl he takes into his home after his wife has left him with their baby son.
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Fill 'er Up with Super
Title: Fill 'er Up with Super
Character: Charlotte
Released: April 7, 1976
Type: Movie
When a young auto salesman is forced to give up a vacation with his wife in order to drive a big American car to its new owner who lives on the Riviera, he makes the best of things. First, he gets and old friend to ride along with him. Then, the two of them are joined by another pair of men who want to ride south.
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Esquisse d'une jeune femme sens dessus dessous
Title: Esquisse d'une jeune femme sens dessus dessous
Character: Fabienne Veyrier, the young woman
Released: October 11, 1975
Type: Movie
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Un jour, la fête
Title: Un jour, la fête
Released: February 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Michel returns from a trip. He meets up with his friends from the H.L.M. housing estate. Together, they have set up a meeting place. The developer has the place demolished. Furious, instead of rebelling, the friends organize a party in the housing estate. The party gets off to a good start, but a tragic event interrupts it...
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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The Slap
Title: The Slap
Character: Christine Abeillé
Released: October 23, 1974
Type: Movie
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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The Mouth Agape
Title: The Mouth Agape
Character: Nathalie
Released: May 8, 1974
Type: Movie
Monique is dying of cancer, lying in bed in the apartment above the store her family owns. Her philandering husband carries on with life, her son remains aloof, and her daughter-in-law wonders if she is witnessing her own decline. They all struggle to express, or feel, their love for one another.
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L'Inconnu
Title: L'Inconnu
Released: December 11, 1973
Type: Movie
The descent into hell begins for Edouard, a disillusioned marginal, when he loses his job, and his wife leaves with his son. His meeting with a mysterious stranger, who claims to work for the secret services, leads him to commit the irreparable. Was it a trap or just a symptom of his madness? There is doubt...
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Day for Night
Title: Day for Night
Character: Joelle
Released: May 24, 1973
Type: Movie
A committed film director struggles to complete his movie while coping with a myriad of crises, personal and professional, among the cast and crew.
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
Title: Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
Character: Giselle
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: Movie
Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two brothers live in the large house. One is divorced and one has recently remarried, both of them live there with their teenaged and adult children. Though the boys of the household are drawn to Faustine, she grows ever more smitten with the divorced older man...