Stéphane Audran

Stéphane Audran

Born: November 8, 1932
Died: March 27, 2018
in Versailles, Seine-et-Oise, France
Stéphane Audran (born Colette Suzanne Dacheville 8 November 1932 in Versailles, Yvelines) was a French film and television actress, known for her performances in Oscar winning movies such as Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972) and Babette's Feast (1987) and in critically acclaimed films like The Big Red One (1980) and Violette Nozière (1978).

She married French director and screenwriter Claude Chabrol in 1964, after a short marriage to the French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant. Her son by her marriage to Chabrol (which ended in 1980) is the French actor Thomas Chabrol (born in 1963).

Her first major role was in Chabrol's film Les Cousins (1959). She has since appeared in most of Chabrol's films. Some of the more noteworthy of his films Audran has appeared in are Les Bonnes Femmes (1960), La Femme Infidèle (1968), Les Biches (1968) as a rich lesbian who becomes involved in a ménage à trois (she first gained notice in this), Le Boucher (1970) as a school teacher who falls in love with a murderous butcher, Juste Avant La Nuit (1971), and Violette Nozière (1978). She won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her role in Les Biches at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival.

She also appeared in the first film of Éric Rohmer (Signe du Lion), and in films by Jean Delannoy (La Peau de Torpedo), Gabriel Axel (Babette's Feast, as the mysterious cook, Babette), Bertrand Tavernier (Coup de Torchon, as the wife of the cop turned serial killer) and Samuel Fuller (The Big Red One). The most celebrated of her non-Chabrol films was Luis Buñuel's Oscar-winning Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972) as Alice Senechal. Also appearing in English-language productions, Audran has appeared in American features like The Black Bird (1975), and in TV serials like Brideshead Revisited (1981), Mistral's Daughter (1984) and The Sun Also Rises (1984).

Audran won a French César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in Violette Nozière (1978) and British Film Academy award for Just Before Nightfall (1975).

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Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
Title: Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
Character: Self - Actress (archive footage)
Released: January 25, 2019
Type: Movie
An account of the life and work of French filmmaker Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), a sybarite Buddha, a furtive anarchist, an insolent lover of life.
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The Other Side of the Wind
Title: The Other Side of the Wind
Character: Stéphane Audran
Released: November 2, 2018
Type: Movie
Surrounded by fans and skeptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts to make his innovative comeback film. This film was started in 1970 but never completed during Welles lifetime.
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In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont
Title: In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont
Character: Self
Released: May 3, 2016
Type: Movie
On 6 December 2013, a public exhibition dedicated to her memory, Bernadette Lafont l'exposition hommage, was held in Paris. Actors Stéphane Audran, Guillaume Gouix and Alexandra Stewart read some extracts of Bernard Bastide's new biography Bernadette Lafont, une vie de cinéma, including some original letters written by Bernadette. The event was filmed by Gérard Courant and aired as an episode of Carnets filmés, In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont.
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Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'
Title: Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'
Character: Self
Released: February 3, 2013
Type: Movie
A documentary about the making of Luis Bunuel's 1972 film.
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Through Babette's Eyes
Title: Through Babette's Eyes
Character: Self
Released: November 5, 2012
Type: Movie
An interview with actress Stephane Audran about her role in Gabriel Axel's 1987 film BABETTE'S FEAST.
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Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
Title: Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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The Girl from Monaco
Title: The Girl from Monaco
Character: Édith Lassalle
Released: August 20, 2008
Type: Movie
A brilliant and neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a famous criminal. But, instead of focusing on the case, he falls for a beautiful she-devil, who turns him into a complete wreck... Hopefully, his zealous bodyguard will step in and put everything back in order... Or will he ?
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The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
Title: The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
Character: Self
Released: February 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Spring 2004, a house with a large garden welcomes filmmaker Claude Chabrol. He is about to celebrate his 54 films and 74 years of age. Thomas Chabrol, the filmmaker's son, as the perfect butler, is checking the table. "Figu", Claude's film sutler, plunges a lobster into the cauldron... The great merry-go-round can begin!
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Title: The Condor Mystery
Character: Louise Bonnier, ancienne employée de la DDASS
Released: August 8, 2005
Type: TV
Condor is a quiet and merry little town in the Gers which actively promotes sports. But things are not always what they seem and when horrible murders are committed there, it means tranquility is over - During the opening night of the Bandas festival, the mayor of the town is found dead, electrocuted in a fountain. The investigation gives Captain Julie Leroy a unique opportunity to dispel the mystery about her origins.
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The Big Red One : The Reconstruction
Title: The Big Red One : The Reconstruction
Character: Walloon
Released: May 3, 2005
Type: Movie
A re-working, re-editing, and restructuring of Sam Fuller's The Big Red One bringing it closer as originally envisioned by the late filmmaker. It includes forty-seven additional minutes which was not utilized in the film's original release. Supervised by Richard Schickel, Peter Bogdanovich, and editor Bryan McKenzie.
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Sissy is the Rebellious Empress
Title: Sissy is the Rebellious Empress
Character: Sophie
Released: June 15, 2004
Type: Movie
The last three days in the life of Elizabeth of Austria before her assassination
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J'ai faim !!!
Title: J'ai faim !!!
Character: Gaby
Released: November 7, 2001
Type: Movie
A chubby forty-ish florist is dumped for a gorgeous young woman. She decides to lose weight and to ruin her rival's life in order to win her handsome lover back.
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Title: The Blue Bicycle
Character: Lisa Montpleynet
Released: October 9, 2000
Type: TV
Léa, the daughter of a wealthy Bordeaux family, is spending happy days at the Montillac family estate at the end of the 1930s. Radiant with youth, she charms all the men who meet her on the blue bicycle offered to her by her father. She is in deep love with Laurent, when she tells him, he lets her down. He is in love with Camille, Lea's best friend. The war sounds the death knell of her carelessness. She takes refuge in Paris. There, she finds Laurent, his secret love, who has just married Camille. During a party given him, she meets mysterious François -a friend of Laurent who works for the government. He goes right on and starts to win Lea's heart, but she is not interested. Laurent has to go to the front-line. He asks Lea to stay with Camille in Paris, to look after her and the unborn baby. But the German troops are progressing, and Léa and Camille are forced to leave the capital.
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Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
Title: Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
Character: Lulu Kreutz
Released: January 19, 2000
Type: Movie
Joseph and Olga Stegudith, who are elderly Parisians of Viennese Jewish extraction, come to luxurious Evian with Olga's brother Michel Mazelsky to hear their son, virtuoso cellist Jascha, perform. Jascha is lovesick over violinist Anna Ghirardi, with whom he had a brief affair a year ago, although she's happily married to naturalist Primo.
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Belle Maman
Title: Belle Maman
Character: Brigitte
Released: March 10, 1999
Type: Movie
At the altar where he is marrying Séverine, the groom, Antoine, gets his first glimpse of her mother, Léa, and suffers what the French call a coup de foudre which we know as love at first sight.
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Madeline
Title: Madeline
Character: Lady Marie Covington
Released: July 10, 1998
Type: Movie
Horrified at the prospect of her beloved school being sold, a young French girl named Madeline uses her wit and craftiness to attempt to save it, making an unlikely new friend in the process.
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Arlette
Title: Arlette
Character: Diane
Released: April 16, 1997
Type: Movie
An actor owes big bucks to the Vegas mob. He's all set to pay them off; he's conned a rich widow into marrying him. But the mobsters blow his cover because they need him for a different scam. The lost heiress to a Vegas casino fortune has been found; she's a truckstop waitress in France. The mobsters' proposition: romance the broad, and get hitched. Or else. Then the crooks can bump her off and keep the casino for themselves...
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Petit
Title: Petit
Character: Françoise
Released: November 1, 1996
Type: Movie
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Maximum Risk
Title: Maximum Risk
Character: Chantal
Released: September 13, 1996
Type: Movie
Alain Moreau's investigation into the death of his identical twin brother leads him from the beauty of the south of France to the mean streets of New York City and into the arms of his brother's beautiful girlfriend. Pursued by ruthless Russian mobsters and renegade FBI agents, the duo race against time to solve his brother's murder and expose an international conspiracy.
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Au petit Marguery
Title: Au petit Marguery
Character: Josephine
Released: November 8, 1995
Type: Movie
Hippolyte, the chef at the small Paris restaurant of the title, is losing his sense of smell - and without that, you can’t cook. Not in France. The restaurant has to close. Guests and customers of the ailing master chef gather for one last fabulous meal. Between courses, personal conflicts are explored and flashbacks flesh out incidents from the lives of the restaurant owners.
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Son of Gascogne
Title: Son of Gascogne
Character: Self
Released: February 18, 1995
Type: Movie
You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because they all think you're the son of their long-dead legendary friend. You never knew your dad, but the facts of this famous guy's life suggest that he might have fathered you. Your mom tells you nothing. All the fuss makes you uncomfortable at first but soon you find it's rather fun to be the son of the famous Gascogne. And in the midst of it all you fall in love. It is, after all, springtime in Paris.
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Betty
Title: Betty
Character: Laure
Released: February 19, 1992
Type: Movie
A drunken, self-destructive woman called Betty wanders into a Parisian bar where she meets middle-aged alcoholic Laure. Laure decides to take care of Betty. Recovering in a hotel room, Betty begins to recount to Laure the story of her bourgeois life and her unhappy and unfaithful marriage.
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The Turn of the Screw
Title: The Turn of the Screw
Character: Mrs. Grose
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
A young woman is hired by a wealthy but sinister man to tutor his two children at the family's isolated estate. When the woman gets there, she finds that the two children are not quite what they seem to be--in fact, they are possessed by the spirits of the evil Quint and his lover.
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Weep No More, My Lady
Title: Weep No More, My Lady
Character: Minna
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
When demanding actress Leila is found drowned there are numerous suspects but the main suspect is her husband Ted. Adapted from the novel by Mary Higgins Clark.
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Quiet Days in Clichy
Title: Quiet Days in Clichy
Character: Adrienne
Released: May 9, 1990
Type: Movie
Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.
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Mass in C Minor
Title: Mass in C Minor
Character: Marie-Laure Villegrain
Released: January 31, 1990
Type: Movie
Friends Philippe and Laurent, a violinist and a cello player, frequently team up to play special gigs. While performing for a wedding, they meet the high-class Sophie. Unfortunately for Sophie and the musicians, both of whom she eventually has relationships with, Sophie has an entirely unscrupulous drug-peddling mother, who will stop at nothing to pursue her plans.
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Sons
Title: Sons
Character: Florence Sr.
Released: January 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war.
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Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice
Title: Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice
Character: Sister Amanda
Released: May 26, 1989
Type: Movie
In this unusual feature, Manika is a girl born in a Catholic family in a south Indian fishing village is convinced that she has recently had a former life as a Brahman wife in Nepal. Her parish priest, Father Daniel is under orders to convince her otherwise, as reincarnation does not accord with official Catholic doctrine. Instead, he agrees to journey with her to the site of her dreams of a previous life. Once there, they discover that all is just as she had dreamed it, and her former husband has remarried despite promising not to. Her arrival on the scene does not disturb the man, but it really upsets his new wife, who departs with her baby. Manika decides that it helps no one for her to remain there in Nepal, and returns to her home in the south. However, all this has caused a genuine crisis of faith for the priest who, witnessing all this, has had to grapple with some irreconcilable issues.
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Title: Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story
Character: Pauline de la Rochelle
Released: April 30, 1989
Type: TV
The true story of Barbara Hutton, who had inherited $40 million by the age of 6. This insight explores the effects that money can have on one's life, loves, and careers.
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Champagne Charlie
Title: Champagne Charlie
Character: Thérèse
Released: April 12, 1989
Type: Movie
This is the story of the Charles Heidsieck who opened the market for Champagne sales in America just prior to the American Civil War. He is a reluctant French spy and is captured and spends time in a Union prison. There are two parallel love stories (he is French) and some battles with his uncle for control of the family vineyard (because his father married his mother who the uncle also loved).
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Title: The secret files of Inspector Lavardin
Character: Catherine
Released: September 15, 1988
Type: TV
The Dossiers of Inspector Lavardin is a French television series in four 90-minute episodes, created by Dominique Roulet and Claude Chabrol and broadcast between September 15, 1988 and February 1, 1990 on TF1. It follows the two films Chicken in Vinegar and Inspector Lavardin directed by Claude Chabrol and already featuring Jean Poiret in the role of Lavardin. This short series depicts the investigations of Inspector Lavardin, a tongue-in-cheek policeman known for his bad manners.
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The Spider Labyrinth
Title: The Spider Labyrinth
Character: Mrs. Kuhn
Released: August 25, 1988
Type: Movie
A young professor travels to Budapest to locate a lost colleague. Once there, he gets tangled up in a supernatural mystery.
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Faceless
Title: Faceless
Character: Mrs. Sherman
Released: June 22, 1988
Type: Movie
A model named Barbara Hallen has disappeared and her father gets private detective Sam Morgan to go to Paris to find his daughter. Barbara's trail leads Morgan to a plastic surgery clinic owned by Dr. Flamand. Morgan's investigation reveals the horrifying secret behind the Doctor's miracle cures which is blood and organs taken from kidnapped young women. As Morgan's investigation closes witnesses are eliminated, one by one, each in a more horrible way.
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Corps z'à corps
Title: Corps z'à corps
Character: Edna Chabert
Released: June 15, 1988
Type: Movie
A newspaper editor attempts to save a failing girlie magazine.
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The Seasons of Pleasure
Title: The Seasons of Pleasure
Character: Bernadette
Released: February 10, 1988
Type: Movie
Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and somewhat disturbed son-in-law, will be the butler.
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Babette's Feast
Title: Babette's Feast
Character: Babette Hersant
Released: August 11, 1987
Type: Movie
A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 19th century Denmark.
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Follow My Gaze
Title: Follow My Gaze
Character: The wife of the couch potato
Released: April 23, 1986
Type: Movie
A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food commercial on less than one tank of intelligible French. Another skit shows a silent duel between an airport custodian and an automatic door, while another with the renowned Michel Galabru sets up a strange teacher-student exchange.
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The Gypsy
Title: The Gypsy
Character: Brigitte
Released: February 12, 1986
Type: Movie
Hubert Durieux is a banker in a small French town who is struggling to keep up with the demands of all the women in his life. Just when things couldn’t get any worse, his precious white Citroën is stolen under his eyes by a beautiful gypsy girl, Mona.
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Night Magic
Title: Night Magic
Character: Janice
Released: December 18, 1985
Type: Movie
Night Magic, a musical fantasy, is set on earth but it is also about the heavens. At the centre of it all is Michael, a music hall artist, who finds Judy, an angel that epitomizes the woman of his dreams at the System Theatre where he is about to open his new show. For Michael it is just another show along the road but once inside something happens. The night is full of possibilities- full of love and romance, jealousy and infidelity, music and dance, even good and evil. Most of all it is full of magic.
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La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding
Title: La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding
Character: Matrimonia
Released: November 20, 1985
Type: Movie
Third and final version of the La Cage aux Folles series has Renato's drag queen lover Albin learning that he can inherit a vast fortune from a distant relative. But the catch is that Albin must marry (a woman) and produce a heir within a year or the whole inheritance will be forfeited.
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Cop au Vin
Title: Cop au Vin
Character: Madame Cuno
Released: April 10, 1985
Type: Movie
Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.
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Title: The Sun Also Rises
Character: Georgette
Released: December 9, 1984
Type: TV
Adaptation of the novel by Ernest Hemingway.
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Title: Mistral's Daughter
Character: Paula Deslandes
Released: September 24, 1984
Type: TV
Beautiful and naïve Maggy Lunel arrives in Paris completely broke. She becomes an artist's model and the toast of Paris, attracting the attention of Picasso-like painter Julien Mistral, an arrogant and selfish man who places his work above everything. Their paths diverge as Mistral's art catches the eye of a rich American woman who becomes his patroness and eventually his wife. During the war years in France, Mistral collaborates with the Nazis in order to continue with his work, a decision that will come back to haunt him years later. In the meantime, Maggy has a daughter named Teddy who grows up and falls in love with Mistral with whom she has a child named Fauve. As Mistral ages, he comes to terms with his selfish past and wartime betrayal through his art, leaving a beautiful legacy for his daughter, Fauve.
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The Blood of Others
Title: The Blood of Others
Character: Gigi
Released: May 2, 1984
Type: Movie
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.
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Thieves After Dark
Title: Thieves After Dark
Character: Isabelle's mother
Released: February 27, 1984
Type: Movie
A crime story set in Paris about a Bonnie-and-Clyde couple -- how they got together and how they are pursued for a murder they never committed.
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Scarlet Fever
Title: Scarlet Fever
Character: Minon
Released: August 8, 1983
Type: Movie
In a building on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris lives ten-year-old Roger, who is surrounded by women - his great-grandmother, his grandmother, and his mother Nicole. Living in an exclusively feminine environment, the boy wishes more than anything else to have a masculine presence around. His dream comes true when he meets Jacques, who's madly in love with Nicole and who is about to completely turn the boy's life upside down.
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Deadly Circuit
Title: Deadly Circuit
Character: Germaine, la dame en gris
Released: March 9, 1983
Type: Movie
A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.
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Les Affinités électives
Title: Les Affinités électives
Character: Charlotte
Released: January 22, 1983
Type: Movie
On the outskirts of Weimar, Edouard and Charlotte, an aristocratic couple united after both becoming widows, invite two guests to their home: a childhood friend of Edouard's called the Captain, and despite Charlotte's ominous premonition, Ottilie, Charlotte's beautiful and orphaned niece...
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Paradise for All
Title: Paradise for All
Character: Édith
Released: August 25, 1982
Type: Movie
Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain Durieux. This is great success, everybody's happy except may be Alain's wife, Jeanne, who's worrying about the changes in Alain's personality. Other patients use the treatment with similar successes, and Valois's happy about it. But the monkeys are changing: non-cured ones are made mad by the over-stability and stereotyped behaviour of the cured ones. So are the humans. When Valois realises he can't stop the process, he decides to "flash" himself.
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Le Choc
Title: Le Choc
Character: Jeanne Faulques (uncredited)
Released: April 28, 1982
Type: Movie
Martin Terrier wants to quit his job as a hired hitman, but his organized crime employers are unwilling to see him turned out to pasture, Terrier knows too much, and he is still useful to the organization. He escapes to the countryside where he meets Claire, and the two soon fall in love. Back in Paris to confront his employers, Terrier learns that they've stolen all his money from the bank. They give him an ultimatum—do one last job for them and he gets his money and his freedom...
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Boulevard des assassins
Title: Boulevard des assassins
Character: Francine
Released: March 29, 1982
Type: Movie
After a messy divorce, a struggling writer takes a holiday on the French Riviera, where he decides to investigate a series of mysterious incidents.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Coup de Torchon
Title: Coup de Torchon
Character: Huguette Cordier
Released: November 4, 1981
Type: Movie
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.
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Title: Brideshead Revisited
Character: Cara
Released: October 12, 1981
Type: TV
Charles Ryder, an agnostic man, becomes involved with members of the Flytes, a Catholic family of aristocrats, over the course of several years between the two world wars.
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Le Beau Monde
Title: Le Beau Monde
Character: Ariane
Released: June 6, 1981
Type: Movie
Jean Pierre, a young Parisian salesman, decides to go on vacation by hitchhiking at random. Taken as a jaguar by a rich man, he finds himself invited to his villa in Saint Tropez and discovers a luxurious, idle and decadent universe. A tasty TV movie, written and directed by Michel Polac, with a very young Fabrice Luchini.
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The Plouffe Family
Title: The Plouffe Family
Character: Mme Boucher
Released: April 7, 1981
Type: Movie
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
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La Cage aux Folles II
Title: La Cage aux Folles II
Released: December 10, 1980
Type: Movie
In a move to make his partner, Renato, jealous, the flamboyant Albin waits in a local cafe - dressed as a woman - hoping to be picked up. But Albin gets more than he bargains for when the fly he catches in his web is actually a spy, who uses him as an unwitting courier of secret microfilm. Now on the run from ruthless agents, Albin and Renato flee to Italy where they attempt to hide out on a farm, with Albin posing as Renato's wife. Can Albin escape the deadly pursuit of these relentless spies or does he have to sustain this charade - as a woman - forever?
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Le Cœur à l'envers
Title: Le Cœur à l'envers
Character: Jeanne
Released: September 9, 1980
Type: Movie
Laure is a 40-year-old psychologist who doesn't know her son, Jean. But the latter comes back to Paris and finds a brand new woman when he sees his mother.
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The Big Red One
Title: The Big Red One
Character: Walloon
Released: January 22, 1980
Type: Movie
A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian Pvt. Vinci and Pvt. Johnson, in Vichy French Africa, Sicily, D-Day at Omaha Beach, Belgium and France, and ending in a concentration camp in Czechoslovakia where they face the true horror of war.
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Le Soleil en face
Title: Le Soleil en face
Character: Geneviève
Released: January 16, 1980
Type: Movie
Famous writer, Marat retires to Portugal, where he lives surrounded by his family, including his wife Genevieve. When she learns she is diagnosed with cancer, she tries to hide the truth. But Marat doesn't take time to know.
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Le Gagnant
Title: Le Gagnant
Character: Mme Hélène Dupré-Granval
Released: November 28, 1979
Type: Movie
A plumber finally meets the woman of his dreams. But as her uptight family tries to keep him away, he wins the lottery and starts plotting his revenge.
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Title: Orient Express
Character: Maria von Pallberg
Released: November 10, 1979
Type: TV
A six-part French tv series first broadcast in 1979, each episode of Orient Express focuses on a different tale of a journey on the legendary train; each one is set between the outbreak of the First World War and the outbreak of the Second.
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Eagle's Wing
Title: Eagle's Wing
Character: The Widow
Released: July 26, 1979
Type: Movie
Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meeting marauded stagecoach travelers and garrisoned Mexicans along the way.
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Violette Nozière
Title: Violette Nozière
Character: Germaine Nozière
Released: May 24, 1978
Type: Movie
Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent 18-year-old her parents mistake her for, she spends her nights with dissolute young men in the less salubrious areas of the city.
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Blood Relatives
Title: Blood Relatives
Character: Mme Lowery
Released: February 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary.
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Death of a Corrupt Man
Title: Death of a Corrupt Man
Character: Christiane
Released: December 7, 1977
Type: Movie
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt dealings and was poised to use them against the deputy. Xavier readily agrees to cover up for his old pal Philippe, but he soon runs into difficulties. Nobody believes Dubaye's alibi. And everybody -- influential personalities, powerful businessmen, dubious go-betweens and the police -- wants to get hold of the documents that served to blackmail Dubaye; by all possible means...
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The Devil's Advocate
Title: The Devil's Advocate
Character: Contess Anne Di Sanctis
Released: October 26, 1977
Type: Movie
A dying priest is commissioned to investigate the deeds of Giacomo Nerone, a dead wartime partisan, and find out if he truly is worthy of being canonized.
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Silver Bears
Title: Silver Bears
Character: Shireen Firdausi
Released: June 3, 1977
Type: Movie
Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he arrives, Fletcher finds that the bank, acquired by his associate Prince di Siracusa, consists of some shabby offices above a restaurant. To make up for this, the Prince suggests that Fletcher invests in a silver mine owned by Shireen and Agha Firdausi. This solves one problem, but the mine also attracts the attention of some of the most powerful people in the silver business. Fletcher must pull out all his wheeler-dealing skills in order to keep hold of everything he's worked for, in the process romancing a banker's discontented wife.
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The Twist
Title: The Twist
Character: Claire
Released: June 23, 1976
Type: Movie
Bored aristocratic Parisian couples begin affairs with each other which only brings trouble.
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Chi dice donna, dice donna
Title: Chi dice donna, dice donna
Character: Mimì / Chantal
Released: February 11, 1976
Type: Movie
Film in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who become prostitutes, a worker who improvises a sexy bomb and a priestess who gives herself as wife to an emigrant.
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The Black Bird
Title: The Black Bird
Character: Anna Kemidov
Released: December 25, 1975
Type: Movie
The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon - and with the people who will stop at nothing, including murder, to get it.
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Hay que matar a B.
Title: Hay que matar a B.
Character: Susana
Released: June 14, 1975
Type: Movie
In a fictitious South American country there's lots of political tension, the labor-unions have all their members on strike. The public demands the return of politician B. from exile. However private trucker Pal can't afford to strike, so he's beaten up and his truck burned. In the headlines he's described as strike-breaker. This is only part of an intrigue which shall get him to murder B.
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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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Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
Title: Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
Character: Catherine, l'ex-femme de Vincent
Released: October 23, 1974
Type: Movie
Three friends face mid-life crises. Paul is a writer who's blocked. François has lost his ideals and practices medicine for the money; his wife grows distant, even hostile. The charming Vincent, everyone's favorite, faces bankruptcy, his mistress leaves him, and his wife, from whom he's separated, wants a divorce. The strains on the men begin to show particularly in François and Paul's friendship and in Vincent's health. A younger man, Jack, becomes attractive to Lucie, François's wife. Another young friend, the boxer Jean, who's like a son to Vincent and whose girlfriend is pregnant, has taken a bout with a merciless slugger. Has happiness eluded this circle of friends?
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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And Then There Were None
Title: And Then There Were None
Character: Ilona Morgan
Released: September 24, 1974
Type: Movie
Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the killer?
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Cry of the Heart
Title: Cry of the Heart
Character: Claire
Released: September 11, 1974
Type: Movie
Alexandre, a young man from a wealthy family, suffers a serious fall. One leg is finally amputated, leaving the other paralyzed. Desperate, the boy tries to come to terms with his new existence. He quickly adopts a cruel attitude towards those closest to him, blackmailing the house gardener and his mother, who has a lover. Obsessed with sex, he is unable to have an affair with a girl and ends up committing suicide.
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How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
Title: How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
Character: Cécile Malempin
Released: June 19, 1974
Type: Movie
A story about a guy who still lives with his mother and sells some really awful alcohol to bartenders. The only way for him to do this is to cry and invent himself an awful life. Then he meets the beautiful woman whose goal in life is to sleep with the less exciting guys on Earth.
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Wedding in Blood
Title: Wedding in Blood
Character: Lucienne Delamare
Released: April 12, 1973
Type: Movie
Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne's husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre's wife Clotilde has been weak and sickly for years. Lucienne's husband holds no excitement for her, and he is always away in Paris on business. Pierre is now the vice-mayor, thanks to Paul. Lucienne and Pierre have a secret meeting spot by a lake along a country lane. Pierre's wife dies suddenly, by suicide the town gossips believe. Pierre confesses otherwise to Lucienne. Paul proposes a shady land deal which will "benefit the town", and wants Pierre's political support and collusion. Then Paul discovers proof of his wife's affair...
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Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
Title: Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
Character: Dr. Bogdanovich
Released: November 17, 1972
Type: Movie
A private detective (Glenn Corbett) infiltrates a gang of drug-dealing extortionists who prey on politicians.
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The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Title: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
Character: Alice Sénéchal
Released: September 15, 1972
Type: Movie
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a vaudevillian mixture of events both actual and imagined.
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A Murder Is a Murder
Title: A Murder Is a Murder
Character: Marie Kastner / Anne
Released: August 23, 1972
Type: Movie
Murder mystery involving a man and his relationship with twin sisters.
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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As Far as Love Can Go
Title: As Far as Love Can Go
Character: La femme de Michel
Released: October 20, 1971
Type: Movie
The boyfriend of Isabelle has just committed suicide. Therefore Isabelle roams the streets of Paris until she decides to change her life radically and leave the city. She travels to the coast where she meets a young history professor on the beach...
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Without Apparent Motive
Title: Without Apparent Motive
Character: Hélène Vallée
Released: September 15, 1971
Type: Movie
A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all these murders.
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Just Before Nightfall
Title: Just Before Nightfall
Character: Hélène Masson
Released: March 31, 1971
Type: Movie
A married man who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn himself in.
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Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
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Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Stephanie
Released: November 29, 1970
Type: TV
Tatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of these countries. The show is broadcast on the channels of ARD in Germany, ORF in Austria and SF1 in Switzerland.
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Title: The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Character: Anita Caldwell, ancienne amie de Dany
Released: October 22, 1970
Type: Movie
Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there.
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The Breach
Title: The Breach
Character: Hélène Regnier
Released: August 26, 1970
Type: Movie
An innocent woman falls prey to her abusive husband, his wealthy father and a shady family friend.
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Only the Cool
Title: Only the Cool
Character: Dominique
Released: June 3, 1970
Type: Movie
A network of spies affects the lives of people in and out of the organization in this espionage drama. Dominique is the neglected wife of a spy who tracks him down at a Paris antique shop. Finding him with a female spy, the enraged wife shoots both of them. Dominique hides out on a boat while the police investigate the murders, and international spies scramble to recover some missing microfilm. Helen is the spy boss who orders a hit man to go after Dominique.
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The Butcher
Title: The Butcher
Character: Hélène Davile, aka 'Mlle Hélène'
Released: February 27, 1970
Type: Movie
An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a provincial French town.
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The Unfaithful Wife
Title: The Unfaithful Wife
Character: Hélène Desvallées
Released: January 22, 1969
Type: Movie
Insurance executive Charles suspects his wife Hélène of playing the field, so he has a private detective locate his wife's lover, author Victor Pegala.
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Les Biches
Title: Les Biches
Character: Frédérique
Released: March 22, 1968
Type: Movie
Bored bisexual millionaire Frédérique picks up a young street artist named Why, and whisks her away to her villa in St. Tropez for the winter season. They soon meet dashing architect Paul and both fall for him, setting in motion a ménage à trois of deception and betrayal.
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The Champagne Murders
Title: The Champagne Murders
Character: Jacqueline
Released: March 31, 1967
Type: Movie
A champagne tycoon's partner suspects his partner's gigolo husband of murders he's been framed for.
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Line of Demarcation
Title: Line of Demarcation
Character: La femme du Dr. Lafaye / Wife
Released: May 25, 1966
Type: Movie
It is based on upon the memoir Mémoires d'un agent secret de la France libre et La Ligne de démarcation by Gilbert Renault under his pseudonym Colonel Rémy. A small village in the Jura is split by the river Loue which creates the line of demarcation between Nazi occupied France and freedom. A French officer, Pierre, is released by the Nazi soldiers to find his chateau converted into a German command centre. Whilst he is obliged to co-operate with the enemy, his wife Mary supports the resistance movement and is willing to risk her life for it. The Nazis step up their activity against the resistance, insisting that any who attempt to cross the line of demarcation will be shot. When his wife is arrested, Pierre decides to switch his allegiance.
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The Blue Panther
Title: The Blue Panther
Character: Olga
Released: August 25, 1965
Type: Movie
Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin's place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger entrusts her with false jewels that contain a virus powerful enough to destroy all humankind.
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La Muette
Title: La Muette
Released: July 8, 1965
Type: Movie
A boy buys earplugs to block out the shouting of his constantly quarreling parents, but his innocent act has tragic results.
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Six in Paris
Title: Six in Paris
Character: The Mother (segment "La Muette")
Released: May 19, 1965
Type: Movie
Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and Montparnasse et Levallois (Godard) are stories of love, flirtation and prostitution; Place d'Etoile (Rohmer) concerns a haberdasher and his umbrella; and La Muette (Chabrol), a bourgeois family and earplugs.
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Code Name: Tiger
Title: Code Name: Tiger
Character: La chanteuse d'opéra
Released: November 18, 1964
Type: Movie
A Turkish ambassador arrives in Paris to sign an important trade agreement, allowing Turkey to buy a sophisticated new war plane from France. Immediately he is the target of an assassin, and a special agent is assigned to protect him.
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Hard Boiled Ones
Title: Hard Boiled Ones
Character: Rika Lormond
Released: June 10, 1964
Type: Movie
A playwright has to murder if he does not want to be murdered.
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Bluebeard
Title: Bluebeard
Character: Fernande Segret
Released: January 25, 1963
Type: Movie
Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.
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Sign of the Lion
Title: Sign of the Lion
Character: La Patronne de l'Hôtel
Released: May 3, 1962
Type: Movie
An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope.
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The Third Lover
Title: The Third Lover
Character: Hélène
Released: May 2, 1962
Type: Movie
The story of a journalist in southern Germany who stays with a novelist and his wife and gradually begins to destroy the young couple's lives.
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Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak
Title: Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak
Character: Charlotte (voice)
Released: November 20, 1961
Type: Movie
Two young people, Walter and Charlotte, are walking through a small village in Switzerland a snowy winter day. Walter introduces Charlotte to Clara, hoping to make Charlotte jealous. After saying good-bye to Clara, Walter accompanies Charlotte into her house, although she doesn't want him to. Charlotte is hungry and cooks a steak. She asks Walter if he wants a piece of it. He says no, but she gives him a small piece anyway. He wants a kiss, and she says no. She starts to compare herself with Clara, who Walter agrees is more beautiful. In spite of this, Walter says he likes Charlotte much more, but she thinks he is lying. She notices that he is cold and shivering. She hugs him, he kisses her, and she starts kissing him. After leaving the house he accompanies her to the train.
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Saint-Tropez Blues
Title: Saint-Tropez Blues
Character: Lucie
Released: July 21, 1961
Type: Movie
With her parents away, Anne-Marie drops her studies to spend eight days in Saint-Tropez with her friend Jean-Paul. They are soon caught up in the Saint-Tropez whirlwind. Jean-Paul is seduced by a wealthy woman while Anne-Marie ends up alone with a young man she meets along the way.
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Wise Guys
Title: Wise Guys
Character: Xavière, la danseuse
Released: March 17, 1961
Type: Movie
In Paris in the early 1960s, Ronald is a son of a good family, with a carefree, pleasure-oriented life. He is one of the leading figures in the small world of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Following a trivial parking incident, he meets Arthur, a young man with a straight face who hurts his pride. It is at this moment that Ambroisine, a beautiful young woman, appears... she will be the instrument of Ronald's revenge.
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The Good Girls
Title: The Good Girls
Character: Ginette
Released: April 22, 1960
Type: Movie
Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams.
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The Cousins
Title: The Cousins
Character: Françoise
Released: March 11, 1959
Type: Movie
Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a decadent, bohemian pleasure-seeker who shows the meek, diligent Charles the thrills of city life. When Charles falls for Florence, one of Paul's acquaintances, relationships begin to shift.
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Secrets of a French Nurse
Title: Secrets of a French Nurse
Character: Aline Monnier
Released: February 19, 1958
Type: Movie
A gangster is back in business after a while and tries to take it back the hard way, but things don't go as well as planned. At the same time, we watch the fate of a young nurse in a hospital. Soon, the two stories meet when the gangster faces his problems.