Dominique Lavanant

Dominique Lavanant

Born: May 24, 1944
in Morlaix, Finistère, France
Dominique Lavanant (born 24 May 1944) is a César Award-winning French film and theatrical actress. She is known for her comedy skills especially with posh and distinguished characters like Rosalind Russell's; characters often defined by the adjective BCBG, bon chic bon genre, and which refers to a particular stereotype of the French upper middle class – to be conservative in both outlook and dress.

Dominique Lavanant achieved fame in the mid-1970s while filming Les bronzés with the acting troupe Le Splendid (Gérard Jugnot, Josiane Balasko, Michel Blanc, Thierry Lhermitte, Christian Clavier, Marie-Anne Chazel).Her stardom has kept growing ever since.

Her filmography includes many successful films: Papy fait de la résistance, La boum, Trois hommes et un couffin, Les bronzés font du ski, Inspecteur la Bavure (alongside Gérard Depardieu).

In 1988, she was awarded Best supporting actress for her role in Agent trouble (with Catherine Deneuve).

She also starred in the long-lasting French TV series Sœur Thérèse.com (2002-2011) playing a former policer who became a nun but is still a committed detective.

Source: Article "Dominique Lavanant" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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L'Âge d'or de la pub
Title: L'Âge d'or de la pub
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 2, 2023
Type: Movie
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Rouges étaient les lilas
Title: Rouges étaient les lilas
Character: La psy
Released: October 14, 2016
Type: Movie
In a Paris suburb condominium, after the death of a young woman's boyfriend, a strange and deadly game of death begins between three women living there.
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L'île aux femmes
Title: L'île aux femmes
Character: Anne
Released: April 14, 2016
Type: Movie
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Nicholas on Holiday
Title: Nicholas on Holiday
Character: Mémé
Released: July 9, 2014
Type: Movie
It's the end of the school year. The long-awaited moment of the holidays is arrive. The little Nicolas, her parents and Grandma take the road towards the sea, and settle in for some time at the Hotel Beau-Rivage.
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À votre bon cœur, mesdames
Title: À votre bon cœur, mesdames
Character: Yvette
Released: December 4, 2013
Type: Movie
The story of a septuagenarian, recently divorced, which in its reconstruction desire and quest for a new companion will rediscover the small pleasures of life and the art of seduction.
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Le Renard jaune
Title: Le Renard jaune
Character: Valérie
Released: June 26, 2013
Type: Movie
Charles Senac, author of a single novel but crowned by the Prix Goncourt, is hated by the regulars of the bar-restaurant "Le Renard jaune" who regularly insult him. One morning he is found dead in his home. For inspector Giraud, it is clear that the culprit is among the customers of "Le Renard jaune".
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Paulette
Title: Paulette
Character: Lucienne
Released: October 4, 2012
Type: Movie
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.
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Sex, Lies and Surgery
Title: Sex, Lies and Surgery
Character: Mademoiselle Phillips
Released: June 27, 2012
Type: Movie
John - conscientious and romantic - and Michael - thoughtless and unfaithful - are surgeons at their father’s private hospital. John felt madly in love with Priscilla, a wonderful nurse. But he is betrayed by Michael who decides to marry her. Shattered by his loss, John moves to Canada. But Michael’s new project to dedicate the clinic to plastic surgery leads them to bankruptcy, forcing John to come back in the hope of saving the clinic...
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The Wedding Cake
Title: The Wedding Cake
Character: La mère de Vincent
Released: March 10, 2010
Type: Movie
The wedding of Vincent and Berenger does not begin well. For starters, the fabulous cake for the reception falls apart as the butler of the château, and one of the caterers is taking down a flight of stairs falls. The cream puffs are carefully picked up from the floor an arranged as though nothing happened. The bride comes from a bourgeois family, presided by Maddie, an old lady with a secret in her heart. The wedding, to be performed at the local church, by father Victor, proves to be not the classic marriage that has been planned...
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Title: Scènes de ménages
Character: Mère de Fabien
Released: November 9, 2009
Type: TV
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Agathe Cléry
Title: Agathe Cléry
Character: Mimie, la mère d'Agathe
Released: November 11, 2008
Type: Movie
Agathe Clery, a marketing manager for a cosmetics company, is snobbish, stubborn and racist. When she is diagnosed with Addison Syndrome, an disorder that darkens the pigmentation of one's skin, she suddenly finds herself resembling a black woman.
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French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever
Title: French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever
Character: Christiane Weissmuller
Released: February 1, 2006
Type: Movie
After the Club Med and skiing, what happened to the Bronzés 27 years later? Early response: the same, and worse.
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Madame Edouard
Title: Madame Edouard
Character: Rose
Released: June 2, 2004
Type: Movie
In Brussels, one discovers the bodies of young women buried behind the tombs of famous painters… In each of them, it lacks the right forearm. Yarn needles, Commissioner Leon, whose secret passion is knitting, unravels the intrigue of this dark history, with the heart of this case Mrs. Edward Island, transvestite housekeeper bistro "In Sudden Death," where one encounters a high wildlife colors.
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Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
Title: Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
Character: Self
Released: January 3, 2003
Type: Movie
Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of these cult films that have crossed generations without getting old. Go behind the scenes of these unusual films through completely unpublished anecdotes and funny stories told by the authors themselves.
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Title: Sœur Thérèse.com
Character: Soeur Therese
Released: September 30, 2002
Type: TV
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A Crime in Paradise
Title: A Crime in Paradise
Character: Mlle Goudilleux, la pharmacienne
Released: February 28, 2001
Type: Movie
In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. The only thing that keeps the oppressed Jojo from murder is the threat of the guillotine...
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Vivement dimanche prochain
Character: Self
Released: September 11, 1998
Type: TV
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Desire
Title: Desire
Character: Henriette
Released: April 10, 1996
Type: Movie
Désiré is a fine servant and butler who regularly seduces the ladies of the house where he works, but then he moves on. This time he is working for Odette, the mistress of the minister of Posts and he is living a new situation. He has fallen in love with with Odette.
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Ma sœur est un chic type
Title: Ma sœur est un chic type
Character: Claude Charmières
Released: December 28, 1994
Type: Movie
Pierre is about to meet his brother for the first time. He is shocked to discover that his brother... is a woman!
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The Monster
Title: The Monster
Character: Jolanda Taccone
Released: October 22, 1994
Type: Movie
A vicious serial sex killer is on the loose, and landscape gardener and shop-window outfitter Loris is the prime suspect, thanks to his unfortunate habit of getting caught in compromising situations (for which there is always a totally innocent explanation that the police fail to spot). Undercover policewoman Jessica is assigned by eccentric police psychologist Taccone to follow Loris and ...
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Dead Tired
Title: Dead Tired
Character: Dominique Lavanant
Released: May 18, 1994
Type: Movie
Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around him, and he gradually loses his grip. Taking the advice of a psychiatrist, Blanc retreats to the countryside with his friend Carole Bouquet, but Blanc still has not managed to escape all of his problems.
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A Shadow of a Doubt
Title: A Shadow of a Doubt
Character: Alexandrine's Teacher
Released: September 11, 1993
Type: Movie
Aline Issermann's "Shades of Doubt" ("L'Ombre du Doute"), a French film about a wrenching family crisis, is set forth with remarkable restraint. The subject is incest, but the story's potential for tawdriness is never exploited. Instead, Ms. Issermann presents a discreet, methodical account of how 12-year-old Alexandrine comes to bring and then recant charges against her father, Jean.
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My Wife's Girlfriends
Title: My Wife's Girlfriends
Character: Marguerite
Released: November 4, 1992
Type: Movie
A man discovers the qualities of his wife's friends, whom he had always hated.
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Ville à vendre
Title: Ville à vendre
Character: Eva Montier
Released: February 26, 1992
Type: Movie
A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He teams up with the victim's vulgar assistant to try to solve the mystery.
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The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
Title: The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
Character: Jacqueline Vidart
Released: April 24, 1991
Type: Movie
This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.
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Cross My Heart
Title: Cross My Heart
Character: Claire's mother
Released: February 27, 1991
Type: Movie
Young Martin has been acting strange. At his school, his teacher and classmates notice that he is less talkative and more withdrawn. When those around him begin to prod, they discover that Martin’s single mother has died. Fearful that he will be sent away from home now that he has no parents, Martin looks to his friends for help. With Jerome leading the charge to save Martin from the orphanage, the first thing they decide to do is dispose of the mother’s body.
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Un jeu d'enfant
Title: Un jeu d'enfant
Character: Léonie
Released: April 4, 1990
Type: Movie
During the war in 1941, Antoine, 9, lived with his grandparents in Gironde. His mother prefers to keep him away in the free zone, with his cousins, where he discovers a more rigorous world.
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Title: Imogène
Character: Imogène Ledantec
Released: January 9, 1989
Type: TV
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Title: Palace
Character: Assistante du ministre du tourisme
Released: October 29, 1988
Type: TV
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L'Excès contraire
Title: L'Excès contraire
Character: Hanaë
Released: September 11, 1988
Type: Movie
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A Few Days with Me
Title: A Few Days with Me
Character: Madame Fonfrin
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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L'Œil au beur(re) noir
Title: L'Œil au beur(re) noir
Character: Simone Perron
Released: November 4, 1987
Type: Movie
Denis and Rachid, a black and an Algerian, are looking for an apartment in Paris. Both meet Virginie, whocould rent them the vacant apartment of her stepfather, but she'd rather rent to some low-lifes than to a black or an Algerian.
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Keep Your Right Up
Title: Keep Your Right Up
Character: Admiral's Wife
Released: September 19, 1987
Type: Movie
This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character, played by Godard himself, is an annoyingly perfectionist film-maker determined to wring every last drop of the finest performance possible from his stars.
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Title: Sacrée soirée
Character: Self
Released: September 2, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: Nulle part ailleurs
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 1987
Type: TV
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Agent Trouble
Title: Agent Trouble
Character: Karen
Released: August 19, 1987
Type: Movie
Amanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not be kept in zoos, while hitchhiking saw a mysterious bus with 50 dead tourists that later was found by autorities at the bottom of a lake. When Victorien gets in very serious problems due to what he saw Amanda seeks to find out what happened and soon also becomes a target.
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Kamikaze
Title: Kamikaze
Character: Laure
Released: December 10, 1986
Type: Movie
A disgruntled scientist is fired from his job; slipping into madness, he invents a machine which harnesses the airwaves and can shoot people through the TV screen.
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The Joint Brothers
Title: The Joint Brothers
Character: Un flic
Released: October 15, 1986
Type: Movie
After he is dismissed from his umpteenth job, Momo is kicked out of the family home by his fed-up father. He immediately joins his buddy Manu, who is also penniless having just lost his job at a cafeteria. The two decide to ask shady nightclub owner Sammy for a job, and he promptly hires them to transport back two statuettes from Amsterdam. Momo and Manu soon find out that these art objects are stuffed with drugs, but still manage to carry out their mission. They receive one kilo of grass in exchange, which they sell immediately. But while the business is lucrative, they discover that it's not so easy to become a full-fledged drug dealer...
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Death on a Rainy Sunday
Title: Death on a Rainy Sunday
Character: Hazel Bronsky
Released: September 10, 1986
Type: Movie
Thriller about a psycho looking for revenge. Bronsky is a paraplegic because of an accident at a construction site that was partly due to the head architect, David Briand. Many years after the accident, Bronsky shows up at Briand's residence with his family and his trailer looking for assistance. He and his wife insinuate themselves into the household without revealing their true identity. They start to work for Briand and his wife Elaine as a gardener and a babysitter with the sole objective of wreaking havoc on their lives and avenging Bronsky's disabilities.
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I Hate Actors
Title: I Hate Actors
Character: Miss Davis
Released: September 10, 1986
Type: Movie
A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up as corpses, killed before the critics could ever put pen to paper. Under suspicion is a talent agent. Is he guilty or not? These macabre events have everyone off their feed, from the producers down to the lowest gofer.
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Le Débutant
Title: Le Débutant
Character: Marguerite Balicourt
Released: May 19, 1986
Type: Movie
The journey strewn with adventures of François Veber, electrician who decides to embark on the theater. For his passion, he leaves his wife. Particularly awkward, he will have to work to achieve his dream.
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Billy Ze Kick
Title: Billy Ze Kick
Character: Madame Achere
Released: December 18, 1985
Type: Movie
Billy Ze Kick is name of a fictional serial killer in a bedtime story that a police inspector reads to his daughter. Soon three girls turn up murdered in his neighbourhood, and the killer leaves a note signed "Billy Ze Kick."
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: Self
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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Marriage of the Century
Title: Marriage of the Century
Character: Adrienne de la Roussette
Released: October 8, 1985
Type: Movie
Princess Charlotte is scheduled to marry a boring duke, but before that event happens, Paul has taken a bet that he can seduce her. He does, profits from his act, and then falls in love with her. Meanwhile, the wedding with the duke is still planned, and it remains to be seen whether Paul will give in and give up.
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Three Men and a Cradle
Title: Three Men and a Cradle
Character: Ms. Rapons
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: Movie
Three young men - Jacques, Pierre, and Michel - share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of Jacques' tells him he has a quite compromising package to deliver, and asks him if he can leave it discreetly at their place. Jacques agrees and, as he works as a steward, flies away for a one-month trip in Japan, telling Pierre and Michel about the package. Then, one of Jacques' former girlfriends drops a baby before their door, making Pierre and Michel believing it is the package they are waiting for. Their lives are then completely changed.
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Rendez-vous
Title: Rendez-vous
Character: Gertrude
Released: May 15, 1985
Type: Movie
Nina is a young, carefree actress who arrives in Paris searching for her big break. There, she finds drama both on- and offstage as she becomes involved with three men: a mild-mannered real-estate agent who offers her stability, a bad-boy actor who lives dangerously on the edge, and an intense theater director who casts her in a production of “Romeo and Juliet.” As opening night approaches, the emotional extremes of Nina’s love life fuel her art.
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All Mixed Up
Title: All Mixed Up
Character: L'infirmière du Docteur Belin
Released: March 19, 1985
Type: Movie
After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.
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The Chicks
Title: The Chicks
Character: Evelyne
Released: January 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Focuses primarily on three women and the (unseen) man who goes in and out of their lives. One member of this trio is a saleswoman with an open relationship that suddenly closes when she learns that her lover has been unfaithful. It seems that he has dallied with a book-dealer (her nemesis) who ultimately does not propose as much of a threat to the disillusioned saleswoman as a certain actress. Along with these three are several other females who interact with the main protagonists. Set up more in the manner of a stage play with changing scenes and acts.
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Paroles et musique
Title: Paroles et musique
Character: Florence
Released: December 19, 1984
Type: Movie
When Peter, Margaux's American writer husband, leaves Paris in a funk and heads home, she finds herself the single parent of two near teens. She also gets a new assignment at work: to find, sign, and promote new rock singers. She discovers a duo, Jeremy and Michel, and jump-starts their music careers. Jeremy is attracted to the older Margaux, asserts himself with her, befriends her children, and neglects Michel and their music. The kids go to New York to be with their father Peter, freeing Margaux to respond to Jeremy. Does that relationship have any future? And what of the musical duo?
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La Smala
Title: La Smala
Character: Pierrot-Rita
Released: August 29, 1984
Type: Movie
When the mother of a "tribe" of five children leaves for good, their inept father is not sure how to keep the family clothed and fed, and without the help of his neighbor Simone, he would be nowhere. She is attracted to him but eventually gives up on the relationship. Meanwhile, the father grabs his brood and they take off for Paris in search of the wife. But Simone accidentally ends up on the same train...
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The Leopard
Title: The Leopard
Character: Pauline Fitzgerald
Released: March 14, 1984
Type: Movie
A former secret agent, who retired and wrote a first novel which tells the eventful adventures of his hero "Le Léopard ", comes back to work, reluctantly helped by an old maid.
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Gramps Is in the Resistance
Title: Gramps Is in the Resistance
Character: Bernadette Bourdelle, fille Bourdelle, fiancée de Michel
Released: October 26, 1983
Type: Movie
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!
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My Other Husband
Title: My Other Husband
Character: Solange
Released: September 21, 1983
Type: Movie
A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.
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Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
Title: Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
Character: Mireille
Released: August 17, 1983
Type: Movie
Barely out of prison, where she spent five long years, a pretty prostitute sows disorder in the life of a hitherto peaceful couple.
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Entre Nous
Title: Entre Nous
Character: L'aboyeuse
Released: April 6, 1983
Type: Movie
In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. Lena and Madeleine meet at their children's school in Lyon in 1952 and the intensity of their relationship strains both their marriages to the breaking point.
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Is There a Frenchman in the House?
Title: Is There a Frenchman in the House?
Character: Ginette Alcazar
Released: April 28, 1982
Type: Movie
An official's earlier rise to power had some sordid aspects that are about to be uncovered by the death of his uncle. While he is trying to contain any potential scandal, the man becomes enamored of the daughter of his uncle's maid. This new romance inspires him to forget worries about a public image and focus on a new life -- not any easy objective when unsavory friends and foes have their own agendas in mind.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Hotel America
Title: Hotel America
Character: Jacqueline
Released: December 2, 1981
Type: Movie
Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the lethargic Gilles, a young man who lives for free at his mother's hotel. Gilles pursues Helene romantically, and she eventually softens up. Gilles, however, is also devoted to Bernard, a petty crook who revels in mugging gay men. All three struggle with relationships that seem to be going nowhere.
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Men Prefer Fat Girls
Title: Men Prefer Fat Girls
Character: Arlette
Released: August 19, 1981
Type: Movie
Lydie, a physically unattractive young woman, is brutally dumped by her fiancé when she had just acquired the lease of an apartment to live with him.
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Pourquoi pas nous ?
Title: Pourquoi pas nous ?
Character: Jacqueline Puiset
Released: June 14, 1981
Type: Movie
A wrestler and a bookseller disgraced by life fall in love with each other.
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Is This Reasonable?
Title: Is This Reasonable?
Character: Mme Lavanant, la restauratrice (non créditée)
Released: March 25, 1981
Type: Movie
A young journalist comes from Nice to Paris to meet with the famous judge, Simon, hoping he will help her understand a case. She does not know that, according to the will of fate, in the office of judge was fugitive criminal. The couple hit the road.
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The Party
Title: The Party
Character: Vanessa, l'ex-maitresse de François
Released: December 17, 1980
Type: Movie
A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
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Inspector Blunder
Title: Inspector Blunder
Character: Marie-Anne Prossant, journalist
Released: December 3, 1980
Type: Movie
A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.
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Umbrella Coup
Title: Umbrella Coup
Character: Mireille, femme de Frédo, ex-maîtresse de Grégoire
Released: October 8, 1980
Type: Movie
Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
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The Horse of Pride
Title: The Horse of Pride
Character: Marie-Jeanne, la sage-femme
Released: September 24, 1980
Type: Movie
In early twentieth-century Brittany, two peasants marry, have a son, and live in traditional Breton ways: three generations under one roof, a division of labor between the sexes, elders' stories at night, politics and religion during their little free time. Times are hard: la Chienne du Monde drives some to suicide; Ankou (death) is close at hand. Pierre is born into this republican family, his lyric childhood interrupted by the outbreak of war and his father's conscription. He learns his catechism and, as a child of a Reds, also reveres school. His grandfather and father often put him on their shoulders, giving him a ride on the horse of pride.
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The Other One's Mug
Title: The Other One's Mug
Character: la fille de la chambre verte
Released: December 12, 1979
Type: Movie
Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a forthcoming election. When he learns that a notorious criminal named Kraus has escaped from prison, Perrin panics and goes into hiding. His deputy, Constant, hires Perrin’s cousin, Gilbert, an actor who is a perfect double of Perrin, to replace him. What Gilbert does no know is that the killer Kraus is bumping off the people who were implicated in the affair for which he was arrested, and that Perrin is next on his list.
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French Fried Vacation 2: The Bronzés go Skiing
Title: French Fried Vacation 2: The Bronzés go Skiing
Character: Christiane, la coincée
Released: November 22, 1979
Type: Movie
In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Claude, and Christiane.
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Courage fuyons
Title: Courage fuyons
Character: Mathilda
Released: October 17, 1979
Type: Movie
At forty years old, Martin Belhomme leads a quiet life with his wife and two children. One day, he falls hopelessly in love with Eva, a cabaret singer. He decides to follow her to Amsterdam. From then on, his life becomes very eventful!
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A Little Romance
Title: A Little Romance
Character: Mme. Cormier
Released: April 27, 1979
Type: Movie
A young American girl and a young French boy meet in Paris and fall in love, with the assistance of an old man and his stories.
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Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
Title: Cause toujours... tu m'intéresses
Character: Michèle, l'ex-femme de François
Released: April 18, 1979
Type: Movie
François Perrin is a journalist who reads the news on RTL radio. Alone in life, his only "amusement" is his neighbor from Africa, who makes mildly fun of him from time to time. One evening, François is bored, and decides to call a random telephone number. He gets Christine on the line, a bit of an old school pharmacist, who hesitates to put down the phone, and plays the game of seduction with the charming "Mr X"...
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French Fried Vacation
Title: French Fried Vacation
Character: Christiane, la coincée frustrée
Released: November 11, 1978
Type: Movie
Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany a continual succession of casual affairs.
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Take It from the Top
Title: Take It from the Top
Character: La voisine
Released: August 9, 1978
Type: Movie
Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life...
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Butterfly on the Shoulder
Title: Butterfly on the Shoulder
Character: La jeune femme
Released: May 3, 1978
Type: Movie
On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in a strange clinic without remembering who brought him there. The doctor insists he hallucinated, but it's not long before he obtains evidence that it wasn't a dream.
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House Specialty
Title: House Specialty
Character: Christiane
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Sophie Tatischeff's short film set in the small town of Sainte-Sévère-sur-Indre, three decades after its use in her father's film 'Jour de Fête'. The conversation from a typical village bar is transplanted to a patisserie with particularly tempting tartlets: 'No reason for us not to have another' says one habitué; 'no more for me thanks,' says another. 'A shortbread at this time of day?' asks the woman behind the counter.
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Peppermint Soda
Title: Peppermint Soda
Character: The Math Teacher
Released: December 14, 1977
Type: Movie
In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer at the beach with their father. School starts. A turbulent year awaits them both.
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You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
Title: You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
Character: La reine Madeleine
Released: October 19, 1977
Type: Movie
Whilst King Gros Pif I amuses himself at debauched banquets, his musketeers pursue their tax-collecting duties with a malicious zeal. Goaded by the court jester (who is also the Queen’s lover), the ministers decide to put an end to this regime and have the King locked up. Hearing the news, the famous Chevalier Blanc comes to his rescue. Aided by the knight and his cousin Lucienne, the King flees to Flanders, where he devises a scheme to win him back the throne of France...
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As the Moon
Title: As the Moon
Character: Yvette
Released: August 31, 1977
Type: Movie
Normandy, France, 1976. After 2 years of wild love with Nadia, Pouplard - unemployed heating engineer, working in his girlfriend's butcher's - decides to marry her and leave for good his (regular) wife and daughter.. He'll have to struggle against his own jealousy and Nadia's incredible sexappeal to get through this 'moment de vie'.
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Marie, the Doll
Title: Marie, the Doll
Character: Tante Alice
Released: August 25, 1976
Type: Movie
Marie, who was orphaned as a young girl, has a case of arrested development that makes her act younger than her age. One day she stops to look in a store window displaying various ornate dolls. Claude, the affluent, eccentric store owner, sees her and becomes infatuated which leads to her and him meeting and deciding to go and take a look at Claude personal doll collection at his house. Marie, unaware of Claude's bizarre obsession with dolls, decides to marry him.
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Silence... We're Shooting
Title: Silence... We're Shooting
Character: The porn actress who doesn't take the pill
Released: May 26, 1976
Type: Movie
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Femmes Fatales
Title: Femmes Fatales
Character: The myopic woman
Released: February 11, 1976
Type: Movie
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males...
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Cookies
Title: Cookies
Character: Marie Pape, prostituée en costume breton
Released: August 20, 1975
Type: Movie
Henri Serin (Jean-Pierre Marielle), an umbrella salesman, leads a quiet life between his work, his family and his passion for painting. During his many business trips, Henri indulges in a few amorous escapades, which provide a welcome change from the tiresome daily routine his bigoted wife locks him into. One fine day, Henri decides to drop everything and live on love and fresh water. He ends up in Pont-Aven, where he meets Émile, a local painter imitating Gauguin, with whom he shares his drinking and other feminine attractions..
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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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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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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Parade
Title: Parade
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 18, 1974
Type: Movie
For his final film, Jacques Tati takes his camera to the circus, where the director himself serves as master of ceremonies. Though it features many spectacles, including clowns, jugglers, acrobats, contortionists, and more, Parade also focuses on the spectators, making this stripped-down work a testament to the communion between audience and entertainment.
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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The Big Store
Title: The Big Store
Character: la jeune femme en panne de voiture
Released: September 6, 1973
Type: Movie
Four guys working for a small grocer in trouble, declare war on a new giant neighborhood supermarket by attempting several coups. A film about the big store taking over the business of smaller stores.
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV