Sandrine Bonnaire

Sandrine Bonnaire

Born: May 31, 1967
in Gannat, Allier, France
Sandrine Bonnaire (born 31 May 1967) is a French actress, who has appeared in more than 40 films including Hollywood movies.

Bonnaire was born in the town of Gannat, Allier, in the Auvergne region. She was born into a working-class family, the seventh of eleven children. Her acting career began at the age of 16 in 1983, when she starred in the Maurice Pialat film À nos amours. She played a girl from the suburbs beginning her sexual awakening. In 1984 she was awarded the César Award for Most Promising Actress.

Her international breakthrough came in 1986 when she played the main character in Sans toit ni loi (Vagabond), directed by Agnès Varda, for which she won her second César Award. She portrays a vagrant who fails both physically and morally. The film Monsieur Hire directed by Patrice Leconte followed in 1989, along with further work with directors Jacques Doillon and Claude Sautet. In 2004, she starred in another Patrice Leconte's film: Intimate Strangers, which was an arthouse box office hit in the United States.

Bonnaire has a daughter, Jeanne, from a relationship with actor William Hurt, whom she met in 1991 during filming of the Albert Camus novel La Peste (The Plague). They acted together in Secrets Shared with a Stranger (1994). Since March 2003 she has been married to actor and screenwriter Guillaume Laurant, with whom she has had a second daughter.

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The Soul Eater
Title: The Soul Eater
Character: Docteur Carole Marbas
Released: April 24, 2024
Type: Movie
When the disappearance of children and bloody murders multiply in a small mountain village, an old legend shrouded in sulphur reappears… Commander Guardiano and Captain of the Gendarmerie De Rolan are forced to join forces to uncover the truth.
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Dance First
Title: Dance First
Released: November 3, 2023
Type: Movie
Parisian bon vivant, World War II Resistance fighter, Nobel Prize-winning playwright, philandering husband and recluse…Samuel Beckett lived a life of many parts. Titled after Beckett’s famous ethos “Dance first, think later”, the film is a sweeping account of the life of this 20th-century icon.
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Comme une louve
Title: Comme une louve
Character: Élodie Piat
Released: September 20, 2023
Type: Movie
When Lili, 26 years old, poor, single mother of three, is wrongly accused of abuse and the social services take away her children, she collapses. But this is without counting on the luminous meeting of other women. With them, Lili fights to rebuild her family.
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Viva Varda!
Title: Viva Varda!
Character: Self
Released: May 17, 2023
Type: Movie
A pioneering post-war female film director, an instigator of the New Wave who was honored by Hollywood in her own lifetime, Agnès Varda has become a source of inspiration for a whole new generation of young filmmakers. With movies like Cléo de 5 à 7, Le Bonheur, Sans toit ni loi, Les Glaneurs et la glaneuse, she created a quirky, open to the world, sensitive to the disenfranchised, often silly body of work. Always one finger on the pulse, she shook everything up, including cinema itself which she refused to constrict to pure fiction or long-form films.
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Umami
Title: Umami
Character: Louise
Released: February 9, 2023
Type: Movie
Following a near-death experience France's leading chef throws himself into a quest seeking the flavor that has confounded his life since he was defeated by a Japanese chef's bowl of noodles as a young man.
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Shoot to Live
Title: Shoot to Live
Character: Self
Released: May 11, 2022
Type: Movie
A documentary on filmmaker Claude Lelouch, following him over seven years.
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Love Is Better Than Life
Title: Love Is Better Than Life
Character: Sandrine Massaro
Released: January 19, 2022
Type: Movie
Upon their release from prison twen­ty years ear­li­er, Gérard, Ary and Philippe asked them­selves if hon­esty was not the best rack­et of them all. Today, they are insep­a­ra­ble and scrupu­lous­ly above board. But Gérard learns he is ter­mi­nal­ly ill. Their friend’s days being num­bered, Ary and Philippe want to offer him one last love sto­ry… because, as Gérard likes to say : love is bet­ter than life.
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Happening
Title: Happening
Character: Gabrielle Duchesne
Released: November 24, 2021
Type: Movie
France, 1963. Anne is a bright young student with a promising future ahead of her. But when she falls pregnant, she sees the opportunity to finish her studies and escape the constraints of her social background disappearing. With her final exams fast approaching and her belly growing, Anne resolves to act, even if she has to confront shame and pain, even if she must risk prison to do so.
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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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Les Damnés de la Commune
Title: Les Damnés de la Commune
Character: Louise Michel (voice)
Released: March 16, 2021
Type: Movie
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Into the World
Title: Into the World
Character: Jeanne
Released: August 12, 2020
Type: Movie
Jeanne works as an auxiliary in a maternity in Marseilles. Day and night, Jeanne and her colleagues fight to help mothers and their babies against the lack of staff and constant management pressure. Jeanne lives with her 18 year-old daughter, Zoé. When a tragedy occurs at the maternity and Zoé leaves to study in Paris, Jeanne’s secret past suddenly resurfaces and forces her to assert her life choices.
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Three Days and a Life
Title: Three Days and a Life
Character: Blanche Courtin
Released: September 18, 2019
Type: Movie
Christmas 1999, in a peaceful little village in the Ardennes. The life of a young boy named Antoine will soon be devastated by three tragic events : the death of a dog, the vanishing of a child, and a big ravaging storm.
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Ce soir-là et les jours d'après
Title: Ce soir-là et les jours d'après
Character: Irène
Released: June 26, 2019
Type: Movie
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Varda by Agnès
Title: Varda by Agnès
Character: Self
Released: March 28, 2019
Type: Movie
An unpredictable documentary from a fascinating storyteller, Agnès Varda’s last film sheds light on her experience as a director, bringing a personal insight to what she calls "cine-writing," traveling from Rue Daguerre in Paris to Los Angeles and Beijing.
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La Loi de Marion
Title: La Loi de Marion
Character: Marion Veyron
Released: October 2, 2018
Type: Movie
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The Truk
Title: The Truk
Character: Gabrielle
Released: August 30, 2018
Type: Movie
Fresh out of jail, Ulysse has only one idea in mind: making money. Confronted by his depressed mother, Gabrielle, the bills that never stop piling up and his desire to live his life to the full, he makes a plan. With his best friend, David, he travels from rave to rave, selling a mixture of water and Ketamine from their food truck. Together, they hit the road...
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A Season in France
Title: A Season in France
Character: Carole Blaszak
Released: January 25, 2018
Type: Movie
An African high school teacher flees his war-torn country for France, where he falls in love with a Frenchwoman who offers a roof for him and his family.
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Catch the Wind
Title: Catch the Wind
Character: Edith
Released: November 8, 2017
Type: Movie
Edith, a 45-year-old textile factory worker, sees her life turned upside down by the company’s downsizing measures. Estranged from her son and without any other ties, rather than go into unemployment, she decides to leave her life behind and follow her work at the factory which has been relocated in Morocco.
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Heaven Will Wait
Title: Heaven Will Wait
Character: Catherine Bouzaria
Released: September 8, 2016
Type: Movie
Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when she meets a boy on the Internet and falls in love with him, her world changes as she is gradually recruited by Daesh. Sonia is 17 years old, and she almost did something irrevocable to “guarantee” her family a place in paradise. These teenage girls might be called Anaïs, Manon or Leila, and one day they all might go some way down the recruitment process. But can they ever come back from it?
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Bébés volés
Title: Bébés volés
Character: Inès Barras
Released: April 4, 2016
Type: Movie
A devastated mother's desperate search for her daughter.
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Young Mothers in the '70s
Title: Young Mothers in the '70s
Character: la directrice
Released: March 8, 2016
Type: Movie
In the 1970s, the house of Plessis welcomes young pregnant minors. Even though these unborn children are the fruit of love or rape, in this institution, a single slogan: put these girls in the right way. But the day when the revolt rumbles, the mechanism fails... A story deliberately based on real events.
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The Final Lesson
Title: The Final Lesson
Character: Diane
Released: November 4, 2015
Type: Movie
At 92 years old, Madeleine decides to set the date and conditions of her death. By telling her daughter Diane and her son Pierre, she hopes to prepare them as gently as possible but it comes as a shock, and their minds are set ablaze. Until the end, Madeleine will keep her dignity, wits, and passion for life as a course of conduct, so she can give them all, and in particular Diane, a touching “final lesson”.
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The Soul of a Spy
Title: The Soul of a Spy
Released: August 28, 2015
Type: Movie
The Russian spy in England, Alex Wilkie, is tasked with infiltrating American intelligence and identifying a mole – our intelligence officer, who transmits intelligence information to the enemy. The hero is forced to overcome incredible obstacles in order to gain the trust of the Americans...
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Marcello Mastroianni: The Ideal Italian
Title: Marcello Mastroianni: The Ideal Italian
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 2014
Type: Movie
A documentary about Marcello Mastroianni.
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Ce que le temps a donné à l'homme
Title: Ce que le temps a donné à l'homme
Character: Self
Released: December 1, 2014
Type: Movie
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Blood Red
Title: Blood Red
Character: Alma
Released: November 12, 2014
Type: Movie
Brest, the end of the world. A young woman's foot is found near the sea. Alma Schneider, a cop fresh from Paris, leads the investigation. She can only count on the support of César Istria, forensic pathologist and passionate archaeologist. Together, they find the site where the victim is believed to have been buried. But the body they exhume is not that of a woman! It's that of a man, probably a sailor. Not one murder to solve, but two... And the mystery thickens still further when they realize that the young woman was in fact a transsexual named Diana, a veritable icon and influential figure in the whole town. Alma and César join forces to solve this enigma, which takes them deep into the bowels of Brest.
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We Love You, You Bastard
Title: We Love You, You Bastard
Character: Nathalie Béranger
Released: April 2, 2014
Type: Movie
A war photographer and absent father, who spends more time taking care of his camera than his four daughters, enjoys a happy life in the Alps with his new girlfriend. But his life is turned upside down the day that his best friend tries to reconcile him with his family by telling them a big lie.
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Adieu Paris
Title: Adieu Paris
Character: Françoise Dupret
Released: July 11, 2013
Type: Movie
Bank manager Frank and writer Patrizia meet by coincidence again and again at the airport. They commute between Dusseldorf and Paris, but behind their travels are two fateful stories. Frank wants to complete the business of his life, Patrizia visits her lover, who is in a coma since a car accident. For both life comes out of joint and they each suffer heavy losses. What connects them is the search for hold, a listener, the need to be needed and the hope that there is a beginning in each end.
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La Balade de Lucie
Title: La Balade de Lucie
Character: Lucie
Released: March 6, 2013
Type: Movie
When her husband is arrested, all Lucie's bearings seem to crumble. To rebuild her life and give it new meaning, she entrusts her kids to her mother and isolates herself on the coast near Bordeaux. But the kids decide to go look for her.
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Crulic: The Path to Beyond
Title: Crulic: The Path to Beyond
Released: October 21, 2011
Type: Movie
An animated feature-length documentary telling the story of the life of Crulic, a 33 year-old Romanian accused of having stolen a wallet from an important Polish judge. Crulic was brought to the Krakow Detention Center Custody prison. He decided to start a hunger strike from the day he was arrested, demanding a meeting with somebody from the Romanian Consulate.
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Title: Signature
Character: Daphné
Released: April 22, 2011
Type: TV
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Queen to Play
Title: Queen to Play
Character: Hélène
Released: August 5, 2009
Type: Movie
Hélène, a housekeeper at a ritzy hotel in Corsica, is devoted to her family but lacks any passion in her own life. When she sees a handsome couple play a passionate game of chess, she becomes inspired to play herself. Hélène's working-class husband and spoiled daughter are soon bewildered by her obsession with chess. They also grow suspicious of Hélène's close relationship with Dr. Kröger, her eccentric American expat tutor.
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Mark of an Angel
Title: Mark of an Angel
Character: Claire Vigneaux
Released: June 13, 2008
Type: Movie
Elsa Valentin is in the middle of a brutal divorce and custody battle when she is struck by the appearance of a pretty young girl named Lola (Héloïse Cunin). Her interest in the child grows to an obsession, and she finds any possible excuse to be near her. When Lola's mother, Claire, grows unnerved by all this, Elsa admits she believes Lola is her daughter.
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A Simple Heart
Title: A Simple Heart
Character: Félicité
Released: March 26, 2008
Type: Movie
Unable to forget her first love, Félicité, a simple and kind maid, devotes herself completely to her new master, Mathilde Aubain. As the passing of time doesn't heal her wounds, she gives love to all those who surround her: Mathilde's children, her nephew Victor. But fate seems to always deny her from any love in return. Still she tries to find someone who'll accept her unconditional love.
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Her Name Is Sabine
Title: Her Name Is Sabine
Character: Herself
Released: January 29, 2008
Type: Movie
A sensitive portrait of Sabine Bonnaire, the autistic sister of the french actress Sandrine Bonnaire.
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Demandez la permission aux enfants !
Title: Demandez la permission aux enfants !
Character: Marie
Released: April 4, 2007
Type: Movie
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Could This Be Love?
Title: Could This Be Love?
Character: Elsa
Released: February 8, 2007
Type: Movie
Lucas, a wealthy, 43 year-old divorced businessman, is irresistibly attracted to Elsa, a 38 year old renowned sculptor from whom he has commissioned a piece to decorate the reception at his office.
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Marcello, una vita dolce
Title: Marcello, una vita dolce
Character: Self
Released: May 21, 2006
Type: Movie
After shooting to fame with Federico Fellini’s “La Dolce Vita” (1960), actor Marcello Mastroianni (1924-1996) starred in more than 160 films in his nearly half-a-century career. Directors Mario Canale and Annarosa Morri look into the melancholic charm of one of the most famous Italian actors through interviews with his two daughters, Barbara and Chiara; directors Fellini and Luchino Visconti; actresses Claudia Cardinale and Anouk Aimee; and in archival footage of Mastroianni himself. The subject matter ranges from Mastroianni’s passion for kidney-bean pasta and his addiction to the telephone to his famous laziness, humility and talent. Shown in black-and-white, Mastroianni — elegantly holding a cigarette in between his fingers — is undeniably the dandy.
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Le Procès de Bobigny
Title: Le Procès de Bobigny
Character: Martine Lang
Released: April 3, 2006
Type: Movie
In 1972 16-year-old Marie-Claire became pregnant after a rape. With help from her mother Michelle and three other women, she underwent a clandestine abortion. Under a 1920 law, the five women were arrested and charged. Supported by a procession of well-known French (eg Simone de Beauvoir), the five were released and the law was adapted.
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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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The Light
Title: The Light
Character: Mabé
Released: November 3, 2004
Type: Movie
Camille arrives in Ouessant, the island of her birth off the Brittany coast, to sell the family home. She spends a last night in the house during which she discovers a secret. In 1963 a man came to work with her father, who was the Jument lighthouse operator. He only stayed two months, but his presence proved to be a disturbing catalyst.
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The Giraffe's Neck
Title: The Giraffe's Neck
Character: Hélène
Released: September 29, 2004
Type: Movie
Le Cou de la girafe (The Giraffe's Neck) is a 2004 French/Belgian film directed by Safy Nebbou.
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Intimate Strangers
Title: Intimate Strangers
Character: Anna
Released: February 5, 2004
Type: Movie
Because she picked the wrong door, Anna ends up confessing her marriage problems to a financial adviser named William Faber. Touched by her distress, somewhat excited as well, Faber does not have the courage to tell her that he is not a psychiatrist. From appointment to appointment, a strange ritual is created between them. William is moved and fascinated to hear the secrets no man ever heard.
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Resistance
Title: Resistance
Character: Lucette Oomlop
Released: July 16, 2003
Type: Movie
The epic tale of an American reconnaissance pilot downed in occupied Belgium at the height of World War II. Hidden by resistance fighters, the pilot falls in love with the wife of the man who will save him. When their affair is exposed, an act of betrayal threatens their lives and the entire resistance movement, forcing the pilot to make a powerful choice that could change the course of the war.
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Title: La maison des enfants
Character: Margaux Dampierre
Released: March 31, 2003
Type: TV
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Vagabond: Remembrances, Interviews, Notes and Comments
Title: Vagabond: Remembrances, Interviews, Notes and Comments
Character: Interviewee
Released: January 1, 2003
Type: Movie
18 years after the making of the film "Vagabond", director Agnès Varda created this documentary which includes interviews with the cast.
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Femme Fatale
Title: Femme Fatale
Character: Special Guest Cannes Film Festival
Released: April 30, 2002
Type: Movie
A $10-million diamond rip-off, a stolen identity, a new life married to a diplomat. Laure Ash has risked big, won big. But then a tabloid shutterbug snaps her picture in Paris, and suddenly, enemies from Laure's secret past know who and where she is. And they all want their share of the diamond heist. Or her life. Or both.
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C'est la vie
Title: C'est la vie
Character: Suzanne
Released: November 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Dimitri joins La Maison, a place where people are welcomed for whom medicine can not do anything anymore. There he meets Suzanne, a volunteer who is dedicated to supporting people at the end of their lives.
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Mademoiselle
Title: Mademoiselle
Character: Claire Canselier
Released: March 21, 2001
Type: Movie
Claire is a young woman who leads a somewhat formatted life. Pierre is an improviser, but not an actor. Brief encounter, brief romance, doomed or not, who can say? When things like that happen, you act on the spur of the moment.
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East/West
Title: East/West
Character: Marie
Released: September 1, 1999
Type: Movie
June 1946: Stalin invites Russian emigres to return to the motherland. It's a trap: when a ship-load from France arrives in Odessa, only a physician and his family are spared execution or prison. He and his French wife (her passport ripped up) are sent to Kiev. She wants to return to France immediately; he knows that they are captives and must watch every step.
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The Color of Lies
Title: The Color of Lies
Character: Vivianne Sterne
Released: January 13, 1999
Type: Movie
In a small Breton town, a 10-year-old girl is found murdered. René, her art teacher, a professional painter, is the last person to have seen her alive. The inspector in charge of the investigation immediately questions him. In this small provincial town where people all know each other and regularly meet at the Bar des Amis, René is increasingly unsettled by the other inhabitants' suspicions and by the inspector's investigation. Children stop coming to him for lessons. His wife, Viviane, a district nurse, protects him and supports him with her love. However, a self-centred media-star writer adds to René's confusion...
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The Human Eye
Title: The Human Eye
Character: Herself
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
A 55-minute film by director Xavier Giannoli that analyses 'À nos amours'. The film features former Cahiers du cinéma editorial director Jean-Michel Frodon, actors Jacques Fieschi and Sandrine Bonnaire, and other members of the cast
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Stolen Life
Title: Stolen Life
Character: Olga
Released: September 9, 1998
Type: Movie
Three women live together in an old rectory on the seashore. Alda lends her body to a string of carnal relationships but never commits her feelings. Olga, the elder sister, has opted for a reclusive life as the soul of the household. Her daughter, Sigga, is a young adolescent. The house harbors a finely balanced marriage between desire and memory—until Olga’s destiny tips the scales.
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Secret Defense
Title: Secret Defense
Character: Sylvie
Released: March 18, 1998
Type: Movie
After scientist Sylvie discovers her brother Paul trying to steal a gun from her lab, he explains that he wishes to avenge the death of their father whom he suspects died at the hands of his business partner.
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Debt of Love
Title: Debt of Love
Character: Monica Besse
Released: January 16, 1998
Type: Movie
Simon Granderath has been found dead in his appartment. His only daughter, Monika Besse, who lives in Luxembourg, arrives to arrange the funeral and settle his estate. She wishes to get back to Luxembourg and to her normal life as quickly as possible. However, she quickly realizes that in fact, she hardly knew her father, and tries to trace the various stages and encounters that made up his life. Much later, she realizes that the search for the identity of her father has actually become a search of her own identity – though still she believes she can get closer to her father after his death.
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Never Ever
Title: Never Ever
Character: Katherine Beaufort
Released: September 17, 1997
Type: Movie
Thomas Murray and Amanda have just moved to Paris. He works for a bank owned by Amanda's father Arthur Trevane. Amanda decides that she does not like Paris, so she goes back to London. But trouble begins on a drive through the countryside, where he meets a free spirit whose charms pressure his long-distance marriage.
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Title: Une femme en blanc
Character: Margaux Dampierre
Released: March 31, 1997
Type: TV
A young surgeon returns to her hometown to work in the local hospital. The relationship to her ex-lover, a well-known chief-surgeon, flames up again but not with happy consequences. The old friends become rivals in personal and professional fields.
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Secrets Shared with a Stranger
Title: Secrets Shared with a Stranger
Character: Natalia
Released: June 14, 1996
Type: Movie
In Russia, in 1907, a rich lenient husband of a loose unfaithful woman is brutally murdered. She and her two lovers are suspects, but what about the stranger she met just before the murder? With no friends left, she and the stranger bond.
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La Ceremonie
Title: La Ceremonie
Character: Sophie Bonhomme
Released: August 30, 1995
Type: Movie
Sophie, a quiet and shy maid working for an upper-class French family, finds a friend in the energetic and uncompromising postmaster Jeanne, who encourages her to stand up against her bourgeois employers.
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One Hundred and One Nights
Title: One Hundred and One Nights
Character: The Transformable Wanderer
Released: January 25, 1995
Type: Movie
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he engages a young woman to tell him stories about all the movies ever made.
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Joan the Maid II: The Prisons
Title: Joan the Maid II: The Prisons
Character: Jeanne d'Arc
Released: February 10, 1994
Type: Movie
Joan has succeeded in lifting the siege on Orléans and Charles VII has been ordained King of France. However, she is injured in her failed attempt to take Paris, weakening her position at court. When she is finally captured and put on trial, she finds both her life and the sanctity of her body at stake.
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Joan the Maid I: The Battles
Title: Joan the Maid I: The Battles
Character: Jeanne d'Arc
Released: February 9, 1994
Type: Movie
Convinced that only she can lead France to victory against the invading English, Joan of Arc leaves her childhood home to plead Charles, heir to the French throne, to allow her to guide his troops on the battlefield.
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The Plague
Title: The Plague
Character: Martine Rambert
Released: August 26, 1992
Type: Movie
In a city in South America an outbreak of bubonic plague occurs. While people try to flee and the military close the city, an idealistic doctor decides to stay and help the sick. In the ever-changing circumstances, he puts up a brave fight, being helped by others but also involving them without being able to control the situation.
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Prague
Title: Prague
Character: Elena
Released: May 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Alexander is a young, emotionally-repressed Scot who, upset by his Czechoslovakian mother's death, journeys to Prague to scatter her ashes and track down a piece of film that contains the only existing footage of his family.
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The Sky Above Paris
Title: The Sky Above Paris
Character: Suzanne
Released: May 26, 1991
Type: Movie
Marc is in love with Lucien, who's in love with Suzanne, who's in love with someone else.
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Towards Evening
Title: Towards Evening
Character: Stella
Released: December 21, 1990
Type: Movie
Italy, 1977. Professor Bruschi is a retired widower who lives according to a strict routine he set for himself. An ardent old-style communist, he has always been at odds with the unconventional lifestyle led by his son and his hippieish girlfriend Stella. When their four-year-old daughter is left in his care out of the blue after the two break up, the old professor becomes a sort of father figure to the girl, growing fond of her. However he's once again challenged when Stella also arrives for a stay in his elegant villa, reclaiming custody of her daughter.
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Captive of the Desert
Title: Captive of the Desert
Released: April 18, 1990
Type: Movie
A European researcher is abducted by some ill-educated rebels in a North African country. Their reasons are unclear...
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Thick Skinned
Title: Thick Skinned
Character: Annie
Released: May 31, 1989
Type: Movie
Two brothers set fire to a barn while drunk, inadvertently causing the death of a sleeping wanderer. One of them takes all the blame for the incident and spends ten years in prison.
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Monsieur Hire
Title: Monsieur Hire
Character: Alice
Released: May 24, 1989
Type: Movie
A French man spies on a lovely younger woman across the way. When he's spotted by the woman shortly after being questioned by the police about a local murder, the man's simple life becomes more complicated.
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A Few Days with Me
Title: A Few Days with Me
Character: Francine
Released: August 14, 1988
Type: Movie
Martial is discharged from a mental insitution where he spent a few years due to a serious nervous breakdown. Upon his return he finds his mother, a busy business woman who owns a supermarket chain, convinced that her son will be able to find himself again if tasked with some responsibilities. Soon enough, he's sent to Limoges on a business trip to check on one of their stores in the hope to reinvigorate the failing business. Once he arrives, Martial is faced with responsibilities he had never imagined, including dealing with the store's personnel.
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The Innocents
Title: The Innocents
Character: Jeanne
Released: December 23, 1987
Type: Movie
A woman becomes trapped in the middle of a feud between two men while attempting to free her younger brother from a life of petty crime.
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Title: Nulle part ailleurs
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 1987
Type: TV
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Under the Sun of Satan
Title: Under the Sun of Satan
Character: Mouchette
Released: May 14, 1987
Type: Movie
Satan tempts Father Dossignan, who is trying to save the soul of a young girl who killed one of her lovers.
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The Prude
Title: The Prude
Character: Manon
Released: December 3, 1986
Type: Movie
Pierre is the artistic director of a theater, and when his daughter Manon lets him know that she is coming to see him after a year's absence, Pierre decides to prepare for the meeting. He goes to the theater with his girlfriend Ariane and has the actresses in his troupe act out different aspects of his daughter's character. Unfortunately, this is not adequate preparation, for when Manon does show up, nothing goes quite as he imagined...
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Vagabond
Title: Vagabond
Character: Mona Bergeron
Released: December 4, 1985
Type: Movie
Mona Bergeron is dead, her frozen body found in a ditch in the French countryside. From this, the film flashes back to the weeks leading up to her death. Through these flashbacks, Mona gradually declines as she travels from place to place, taking odd jobs and staying with whomever will offer her a place to sleep. Mona is fiercely independent, craving freedom over comfort, but it is this desire to be free that will eventually lead to her demise.
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Police
Title: Police
Character: Lydie
Released: September 4, 1985
Type: Movie
Mangin, a police inspector in Paris, leans hard on informants to get evidence on three Tunisian brothers who traffic in drugs. He arrests one, Simon, and his girl-friend Noria. Simon's brothers go to their lawyer. He springs Noria, who promptly steals 2 million francs that belong to the Tunisians. They suspect her of the theft; her life as well as the lawyer's is in danger. Meanwhile, Noria is playing with both the lawyer and Mangin's affections. Mangin is mercurial anyway: intimidating and bloodying suspects, falling for a police commission trainee before flipping for Noria, wearing his emotions on his sleeve. Can he save the lawyer and Noria, and can he convince her to love?
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Le Meilleur de la Vie
Title: Le Meilleur de la Vie
Character: Véronique
Released: May 22, 1985
Type: Movie
Two quarreling lovers from opposite sides of the economic scale take central stage in this drama about Veronique and Adrien. Veronique is wealthy and from the provinces, Adrien is impoverished and his ancestors come from Brittany. In spite of their different backgrounds, the two fall in love, marry, and eventually have a baby girl. At just about that time, Veronique decides to go back to school, and Adrien becomes both mother and father to their baby. Unable to cope with Veronique's new-found intellectual friends and different lifestyle, Adrien clashes with her, and their arguments lead to a separation for awhile. The two then get back together again, but not for long. It is on a return trip from visiting his mother in Brittany that Adrien's life undergoes a dramatic change, and his story takes an equally unexpected turn.
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Blanche and Marie
Title: Blanche and Marie
Character: 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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Fire on Sight
Title: Fire on Sight
Character: Marilyn
Released: September 5, 1984
Type: Movie
Inept policemen try to stop an amoral young duo on a spree of robbery and murder in France.
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A Nos Amours
Title: A Nos Amours
Character: Suzanne
Released: November 16, 1983
Type: Movie
Fifteen-year-old Suzanne seeks refuge from a disintegrating family in a series of impulsive, promiscuous affairs. Her fulsome sexuality further ratchets up the suppressed passions of her narcissistic brother, insecure mother and brooding, authoritarian father.
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The Party 2
Title: The Party 2
Character: Une élève du lycée (Silhouette) (non créditée)
Released: December 8, 1982
Type: Movie
A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have already done it.
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Cinématon XXIV
Title: Cinématon XXIV
Character: N°238
Released: July 17, 1982
Type: Movie
Reel 24 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Cinématon
Title: Cinématon
Character: N°238 / N°1742
Released: December 20, 1978
Type: Movie
Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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Limonov: The Ballad
Title: Limonov: The Ballad
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
A revolutionary militant, a thug, an underground writer, a butler to a millionaire in Manhattan. But also a switchblade-waving poet, a lover of beautiful women, a warmonger, a political agitator, and a novelist who wrote of his greatness. Eduard Limonov’s life story is a journey through Russia, America, and Europe during the second half of the 20th century.
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Finalement
Title: Finalement
Character: Sandrine
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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The Future Awaits
Title: The Future Awaits
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
In July 1942, during the Vel’ d’Hiv’ Roundup of Jewish families in Paris, 13 year old Tauba Birenbaum and her parents, who are Polish Jews, find refuge in a tiny room for the next 765 days. Living conditions are tough and they fear being discovered at any moment. But while her parents sink further into despair, Tauba’s fighting spirit shines through. She finds joy in every little thing, from a piano drawn on the floor, to the views of Paris through an open window. Despite extreme circumstances, she will keep hope until the liberation of Paris, and take back control of her life.