Claire Maurier

Claire Maurier

Born: March 27, 1929
in Ceret, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
Claire Maurier (born Odette-Michelle-Suzanne Agramon; March 27, 1929) is a French actress who has appeared in more than 90 films since 1947.

Maurier was born Odette-Michelle-Suzanne Agramon on March 27, 1929 in the French commune of Céret, in the Pyrénées-Orientales region, which is in the southwest of France.

She started her acting career in small film roles at the end of the 1940s. Her first 'main' role came when she portrayed Gilberte Doinel, the mother of the main character in François Truffaut's 1959 film The 400 Blows. Another notable early role of hers was as Christiane Colombey, the bigamist wife of the main character in the 1963 film La Cuisine au beurre.

In 1978, she had a notable role in Édouard Molinaro's film La Cage aux Folles as Simone. In 1981, she was nominated the César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for A Bad Son. She played Madeleine, a seductive older woman.

In 2001, she gained international recognition when she starred as Mme. Suzanne, the owner of the Café des 2 Moulins, the Montmartre bistro where the titular character Amélie Poulain works as a waitress in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain). The film became the highest-grossing French-language film released in the United States. The film won four César Awards, and was nominated for five Academy Awards. In 2005, she starred as Maryse Berthelot in the French comedy series Faites comme chez vous!.

In 2010, she played the neglectful mother of Gérard Dépardieu's character Germain in Jean Becker's film My Afternoons with Margueritte.

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Title: La Famille Katz
Character: Milly Cohen
Released: November 27, 2013
Type: TV
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La Guerre du Royal Palace
Title: La Guerre du Royal Palace
Character: Hortense Verdier
Released: May 6, 2012
Type: Movie
Between September 1940 and August 1944, luxury hotels are requisitioned by the Germans as staff headquarters, giving the hotels' employees a ringside seat of the enemy's secrets and activities. Such is the case with Royal Palace, run by Maxime and Solange Verdier, in which the Abwerth, the German counter-intelligence service, establishes its HQ.
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My Afternoons with Margueritte
Title: My Afternoons with Margueritte
Character: La mère
Released: June 2, 2010
Type: Movie
An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.
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Paris Express
Title: Paris Express
Character: L'experte
Released: February 24, 2010
Type: Movie
From multicultural Paris to designer Paris, Montmartre to the Champs-Elysées, sleazy sidewalks to high-end galleries... Watch out! Sam the courier is a man on a mission! On his scooter, Sam breaks every rule of the road to make good on the "express delivery" promise of the courier service he works for. But however hard he tries, Sam never gets a bonus from his boss, never beats his slicker colleagues and never gets past his Dad, a cop who books him every time. All Sam has up is Nadia, and she will turn on him if he doesn't show up for her sister's wedding. Trouble is, Sam has one more delivery to make and his day has just gone from bad to worse...
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TOC TOC
Title: TOC TOC
Character: Marie
Released: September 13, 2008
Type: Movie
The adventures and misadventures of a group of patients with OCD appointed at the same time.
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La Vie d'artiste
Title: La Vie d'artiste
Character: l'agent d'Alice
Released: September 5, 2007
Type: Movie
A novelist, an actress, and a struggling young singer all attempt to make their mark in modern day Paris in director Marc Fitoussi's cynical entertainment industry satire. Bertrand is a French literary professor whose students all know that he is shacked up with pretty math teacher Solange despite the couple's best efforts to keep their relationship under the radar. Though no one in the school much cares for Bertrand's prose, self-flagellating student Frederic is the one notable exception. Meanwhile, as Bertrand struggles to deliver his second novel, recent big city arrival Cora finds that her fondness for outmoded songwriters may be having an adverse effect on her career trajectory. While Cora struggles to make ends meet by working at a popular chain steakhouse, even this attempt to remain afloat ultimately proves disastrous.
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Ambitious
Title: Ambitious
Character: Mme Zahn
Released: January 24, 2007
Type: Movie
On the one hand you have Judith Zahn, an arrogant, snobbish, Parisian editor. On the other hand meet Julien Demarsay: an insecure, timid, young bookseller from the East of France who has just written his first autobiographic novel, with what it takes of navel-contemplating and soul-searching. What do they have in common? Nothing much, except that sex will unite them, ambition part them before true love is born between them at last.
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Family Hero
Title: Family Hero
Character: Colette
Released: December 20, 2006
Type: Movie
A story of a cabaret in Nice called "Le perroquet bleu" ("The blue parrot"). The innkeeper, Gabriel, dies at the beginning of the movie and leave his business to his godchildren : Nino and Marianne, whom father had been taken under Gabriel's wing when he was fifteen years old. After the reading of the will, the fate of "The Blue Parrot" is in their hands.
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Granny boom
Title: Granny boom
Character: Grand-mère
Released: May 17, 2006
Type: Movie
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The Car Keys
Title: The Car Keys
Character: La vieille dame dans le parc
Released: December 10, 2003
Type: Movie
Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
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The Birch-Tree Meadow
Title: The Birch-Tree Meadow
Character: Ginette
Released: February 12, 2003
Type: Movie
Myriam, a survivor of the concentration camp at Auschwitz, is a filmmaker and journalist who has spent many years living abroad. She takes part in a memorial event at the town hall in Paris commemorating the liberation of the camp, where she wins a flight to Cracow. At first she refuses to accept the prize, then decides to go.
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Les deux vieilles dames et l'accordeur
Title: Les deux vieilles dames et l'accordeur
Released: November 9, 2001
Type: Movie
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Amélie
Title: Amélie
Character: Suzanne
Released: April 25, 2001
Type: Movie
At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?
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Family Resemblances
Title: Family Resemblances
Character: La mère
Released: September 7, 1996
Type: Movie
An upper middle-class French family celebrates a birthday in a restaurant. In one evening and during one meal, family history, tensions, collective and separate grudges, delights, and memories both clash and coalesce.
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Appelez-moi Fouks
Title: Appelez-moi Fouks
Character: Stella
Released: August 13, 1986
Type: Movie
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La berlue
Title: La berlue
Character: Mathilde
Released: July 21, 1986
Type: Movie
Louis lives alone with his father. When he tries to find his past, he is met with refusals. One day, Louis understands everything, or rather he believes. What if he had been fooled?
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Blanche and Marie
Title: Blanche and Marie
Released: April 3, 1985
Type: Movie
A little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her husband Victor, who often goes out at night. Actually, Victor belongs to the Resistance. Soon, Blanche will be a resistant too. In the network, there is also Germinal, the hairdresser. His daughter Marie knows everything and asks to be part of it... Chronicle of the occupation and of the resistance through the eyes of the women.
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La vie est trop courte
Title: La vie est trop courte
Character: Cécile
Released: May 19, 1984
Type: Movie
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Side Roads
Title: Side Roads
Character: Marthe
Released: September 6, 1983
Type: Movie
The story of Itineraire Bis has no singular plot line, but swings back and forth between the adventures of a young man who wants to buy a pizza truck and the lives of two middle-aged brothers living in an enormous house. One of the brothers is wheelchair-bound and eventually makes the acquaintance of the pizza-driving aspirant and decides to give him the money he needs -- though this act of generosity in no way shields him from his own destiny. Other characters wander in and out of the story, such as Jeanne (Martine Kalayan), the young man's lover.
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Vous habitez chez vos parents ?
Title: Vous habitez chez vos parents ?
Character: Alice Martell
Released: August 10, 1983
Type: Movie
Three generations, the Chic, the Bumpkin and the New confront in a bourgeois family in Paris.
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L'Amant de Bornéo
Title: L'Amant de Bornéo
Character: Régine
Released: October 1, 1981
Type: Movie
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Title: Pause-café
Character: Mme le proviseur du L.E.P.
Released: February 12, 1981
Type: TV
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A Bad Son
Title: A Bad Son
Character: Madeleine
Released: October 14, 1980
Type: Movie
Bruno is released from prison. He looks for a job and tries to start a new life. His first stop is at his father's apartment.
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The City of Silences
Title: The City of Silences
Character: Muriel
Released: November 14, 1979
Type: Movie
Creuzeville, a small provincial town with its woods, its countryside, its ramparts, its mass and its little Sunday cakes. A stranger arrives. He's a private investigator in Creuzeville, over which an old family of industrialists reigns, a murder has just been committed. The victim is the founding ancestor of this small empire that has outgrown one man. In Creuzeville, we hardly like foreigners, especially if they are vegetarians, perhaps homosexuals, undoubtedly anarchists like, precisely, this detective. However the detective by whom the scandal broke broke the silence of the city by going to the heart of family secrets hitherto well hidden behind purple shutters. The murders follow one another. We strike on the left - a young ecologist - as on the right - a cynical playboy. Continuing to dissect the mobiles and the characters, the detective dropped the masks one by one. And, little by little, fear and violence are settling in the small town.
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La Cage aux Folles
Title: La Cage aux Folles
Character: Simone Deblon
Released: October 25, 1978
Type: Movie
Two gay men living in St. Tropez have their lives turned upside down when the son of one of the men announces he is getting married. They try to conceal their lifestyle and their ownership of the transvestite club downstairs when the fiancée and her parents come for dinner.
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Le Rabat-joie
Title: Le Rabat-joie
Character: Armance Dupon
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
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Les Filles
Title: Les Filles
Character: Paula
Released: March 19, 1977
Type: Movie
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Le Cœur sous le paillasson
Title: Le Cœur sous le paillasson
Character: Lise
Released: September 23, 1976
Type: Movie
In order to get to know his two French collaborators better, Henry Wydmark, director of a large American company, invites them to spend a weekend in the Alps. They consider this trip to be part of their job. But as the wife of one and the husband of the other are not free, they do not hesitate to leave their "heart under the mat" and hire one a husband of convenience and the other a wife fictitious. This misunderstanding will trigger a cascade of disasters.
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Title: Midi Première
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1975
Type: TV
Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.
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Impossible Is Not French
Title: Impossible Is Not French
Character: Mauricette, la femme de Louis
Released: December 11, 1974
Type: Movie
Antoine, an accountant by trade, becomes a private detective to support his family. His wanderings lead him to transport a cargo of malachite to Le Havre, in the hope of a large bonus. With the help of his family, and despite a few mishaps, Antoine achieves his goal.
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The Hostage Gang
Title: The Hostage Gang
Character: Nelly Cerutti
Released: February 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Barely out of the psychiatric hospital where he went to seek care, Gilbert Nodier commits several assaults to have some money.
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Cash-Cash
Title: Cash-Cash
Character: Caroline Sinclair
Released: December 17, 1971
Type: Movie
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La Brune que voilà
Title: La Brune que voilà
Character: Christine
Released: September 17, 1970
Type: Movie
Germain, a great seducer, collects the mistresses. There are four, all brown, and all married. When the husband of one of them disembarks to threaten him with death, he must break up. But with which? The gouailleur Robert Lamoureux interprets this man who does not like to leave women.
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A Very Curious Girl
Title: A Very Curious Girl
Character: Irène
Released: December 3, 1969
Type: Movie
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.
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Christine
Released: July 21, 1966
Type: TV
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
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Title: Vive la vie
Character: Esther
Released: April 3, 1966
Type: TV
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Title: Don Quijote von der Mancha
Character: Die Herzogin / la duchesse
Released: October 8, 1965
Type: TV
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When the Pheasants Pass
Title: When the Pheasants Pass
Character: Micheline Camus
Released: September 10, 1965
Type: Movie
Arsène Baudu and Hyacinthe, a pair of small-time crooks, fall prey to Alexandre Larsan-Bellac, who involves them (against their will) in high-profile swindling, but their success is quite limited. For starters they are deceived by Mrs. Paterson, a charming widow. Later on, Ribeiro, a Portuguese contractor and former victim of the two crooks, traces them and forces them to work on one of his building sites for damages. Just then, Larsan-Bellac resurfaces with plans to lure Ribeiro once again. —Guy Bellinger
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Angelique: The Road To Versailles
Title: Angelique: The Road To Versailles
Character: Ninon de Lenclos
Released: July 7, 1965
Type: Movie
Angelique is saved by the king of the cutthroats when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman.
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Don Quijote
Title: Don Quijote
Character: Die Herzogin
Released: January 1, 1965
Type: Movie
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Requiem pour un caïd
Title: Requiem pour un caïd
Character: Jeannette Sorel
Released: July 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Police officer Antoine Delille is in charge of putting an end to the activities of a "kingpin", Jo Pinelli, trafficker, racketeer and pimp. He has three women working for him, including Eva and Jeannette, and is currently "conditioning" a charming, naive Orly employee, with whom he poses as an honorable businessman. Inspector Delille's plan is to arrest Jo for some crime and, while he's being held at the P.J., to delve into his other criminal activities and confound him.
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My Wife's Husband
Title: My Wife's Husband
Character: Christiane Colombey
Released: December 20, 1963
Type: Movie
After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disparition, his wife as made her life with a norman chef, sympathetic but a specialist of butter's cooking when Fernand cook only with oil!
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Sweet Ecstasy
Title: Sweet Ecstasy
Character: Claire
Released: March 7, 1962
Type: Movie
Olivier, a handsome but callow and moody young student, picks up an enthusiastic actress during a theatre rehearsal, and is introduced to her acquaintances -- a group of jaded rich kids who spend their time storming around the Riviera harassing passersby, throwing wild parties and following all the latest trends. When sexy Elke gives him the eye, he leaves the actress in the lurch and joins the gang for a decadent party aboard a yacht. However, Elke's wanton ways and Olivier's inexperience do not mesh, and in a snit, he accidentally sets the yacht afire. The gang wreaks its vengeance by luring him into a dangerous contest of bravura on a construction site.
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Les livreurs
Title: Les livreurs
Released: July 24, 1961
Type: Movie
These two friendly delivery boys from a Parisian department store not only take their job to heart as much as possible, but also consider themselves responsible for the happiness of the customers they have to deliver to. This leads them successively to help, at the cost of incredible acrobatics, a young couple celebrating the first anniversary of their marriage, to mingle with the clientele of a rather disquieting doctor, to almost perish in an ambush that was of course not intended for them, and to avoid a domestic quarrel.
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Daniella by Night
Title: Daniella by Night
Character: Esmerelda
Released: April 28, 1961
Type: Movie
Daniella, a fashion model, goes to Rome to replace a model who's been murdered. Once there, she meets two men, Count Castellani, whose clothes she'll model, and Karl Bauer, a reporter in the hotel room next to hers. Castellani gives Daniella the spotlight, which prompts jealousy from another model. Is he merely trying to seduce her? It's soon apparent that he has other plans as well: the line of clothes is a cover for smuggling and perhaps espionage. Daniella may be in danger - one model is dead already. Is Bauer to be her protector, or is he after something too? Is anyone who they seem?
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Desperate Flight
Title: Desperate Flight
Character: Marina Larsen
Released: April 26, 1961
Type: Movie
Larsen and Marina, a shady couple of motorists on the Côte d'Azur, pick up a man named Morlaix. A police roadblock, which he escapes by hiding in the back of the car, reveals the identity of their passenger.
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Rendezvous
Title: Rendezvous
Character: Claire Médina-Etiévant
Released: July 13, 1960
Type: Movie
In France, during the Second World War, journalist Paul Roy is a member of the Resistance, while his colleague and friend Jacques Médina is a collaborator. But it's thanks to Jacques that Paul is able to remain free, as he shelters him in his home after a roundup. The two friends co-wrote various Nazi propaganda articles, which appeared under Jacques' byline. The situation becomes complicated when Paul becomes the lover of Jacques' wife.
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A Mistress for the Summer
Title: A Mistress for the Summer
Character: Viviane
Released: February 26, 1960
Type: Movie
Philippe, a little known artist, has a mistress, Viviane, a woman he does not love. When he learns the bailiffs are about to seize his paintings, Philippe decides to leave alone for the French Riviera and spend, as he regularly does, comfortable and carefree holidays in the luxurious villa of his friend Paule. But, on his way, he meets Manette, a beautiful but poor girl to whom he offers to become his companion for the Summer. Manette accepts the strange deal in exchange for bed and board. As Philippe always comes in the company of his mistress of the time, the presence of Manette does not pose a problem. But the young woman soon feels ill-at-ease in such a dubious environment. moreover, she realizes that she is falling in love with Philippe, who might not be so cynical as he wants to appear... - Written by Guy Bellinger on IMDB
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Take Me As I Am
Title: Take Me As I Am
Character: June Chalmers
Released: January 29, 1960
Type: Movie
The director of the Rome office of an American news agency is seduced by his boss' daughter, who subsequently ends up dead at the foot of a cliff. Film adaptation of James Hadley Chase’s 1956 noir thriller novel You Find Him, I'll Fix Him.
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The 400 Blows
Title: The 400 Blows
Character: Gilberte Doinel
Released: June 3, 1959
Type: Movie
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by inconsiderate adults, including his neglectful parents, Antoine spends his days with his best friend, Rene, trying to plan for a better life. When one of their schemes goes awry, Antoine ends up in trouble with the law, leading to even more conflicts with unsympathetic authority figures.
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Back to the Wall
Title: Back to the Wall
Character: Ghislaine
Released: March 7, 1958
Type: Movie
Rich industrialist Jacques Decret learns his wife Gloria is having an affair with a young actor. For revenge, he bombards her with anonymous letters, convincing her that her lover is the culprit while Gloria desperately seeks a way out.
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La Parisienne
Title: La Parisienne
Character: Caroline Herblay
Released: December 16, 1957
Type: Movie
The spoiled daughter of the French Ambassador tricks one of his aides into marrying her.
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Tonight the Skirts Fly
Title: Tonight the Skirts Fly
Character: Le mannequin espagnol
Released: June 14, 1956
Type: Movie
At Christmastime, the love affairs of five clothing models working for Pierre Roussel, a renowned Paris fashion designer. Marlène hesitates between two suitors. Blanche, who loves Jean, Roussel's son, wants him to talk to his father about their relationship. Catherine learns that her lover has a wife and two kids. Jeannette throws herself into the arms of an Oriental prince. In despair the fifth one attempts to commit suicide...
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The Adventures of Gil Blas
Title: The Adventures of Gil Blas
Released: April 6, 1956
Type: Movie
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La belle de Cadix
Title: La belle de Cadix
Character: Alexandrine Dupont
Released: December 24, 1953
Type: Movie
A group of French filmmakers travel to Andalucia for film a movie titled" Beauty of Cadiz". It stars are Carlos, a famous heartthrob, and an unknown gypsy named Maria-Luisa.
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Les vacances finissent demain
Title: Les vacances finissent demain
Released: July 17, 1953
Type: Movie
A group of boys and girls go camping after winning a publicity contest. A bad boy infiltrates the group, and one of the girls falls in love with him. Another devotes herself to a comrade weakened by the war, and the novelist Clémence watches over this youth with authority, providing the theme for her next book.
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Un caprice de Caroline chérie
Title: Un caprice de Caroline chérie
Character: Jeannette, Caroline's chambermaid
Released: March 6, 1953
Type: Movie
Caroline de Bienre, the 16-year-old daughter of French nobility, meets the handsome rogue, Gaston de Sallanches, who is expected to ask for the hand of her older, plainer sister in marriage. Gaston instead joins Caroline in her secret hiding place in the château's attic, where the infatuated Caroline begins an affair with him. Meanwhile, she is being courted by the dull, sincere Livio, but holds him off since she is in love with Gaston. When the revolution of 1789 breaks out Caroline is sent to a convent but her carriage is waylaid. She escapes and makes her way to Gaston's home, where she finds him in the arms of his mistress. She is angry and then agrees to marry Livio, now an out-of-favor revolutionary and a marked man, and Caroline is also now on the death list.
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Rayés des vivants
Title: Rayés des vivants
Character: A girl
Released: October 24, 1952
Type: Movie
With the help of a social worker and Isabelle, Pierre, a delinquent influenced by Marcelle, undertakes a slow and difficult reintegration.
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This Rascal of Anatole
Title: This Rascal of Anatole
Character: Germaine de la Boëtie
Released: May 14, 1952
Type: Movie
Anatole, quivering nostrils and greedy lips, is the resourceful clerk of Mrs. Paufilat, a butcher. It takes a fancy to take on the identity of the Paufilat son, Paul. He must then undergo the assaults of the tumultuous Germaine, exhilarated by the money of Paul Paufilat.