Fanny Ardant

Fanny Ardant

Born: March 22, 1949
in Saumur, Maine-et-Loire, France
Fanny Marguerite Judith Ardant (born 22 March 1949) is a French actress and filmmaker. She is the recipient of numerous accolades, including two César Awards and a Lumières Award.

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Rachel's Game
Title: Rachel's Game
Character: Rachel
Released: March 13, 2024
Type: Movie
Home cook Rachel, a sort of Ma Dalton, has raised her sons Sam and Jeremiah, and her grandson, Nathan, in the cult of conning. From bad plans to petty theft, this friendly family of broken arms is always after the big score. Luck or fate, during a burglary, they steal a painting by Tamara de Lempicka without knowing its value. Céleste, a shrewd and charming detective, sets out in pursuit.
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American Star
Title: American Star
Character: Anne
Released: January 26, 2024
Type: Movie
An assassin on a final assignment in Fuerteventura, to kill a man he has never met. When his target is delayed, he finds himself drawn to the island, people and a ghostly shipwreck. Instead of following protocol he stays. But when the target returns, the world has shifted. Before everything was simple, now nothing is.
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Ma France à moi
Title: Ma France à moi
Character: France Cohen
Released: December 20, 2023
Type: Movie
France has been living alone in her apartment since the death of her husband. When she hears on the radio that the Singa association puts homeless migrants in contact with people who can take them in, she decides, against the advice of her family, led by her son, to take in Reza, a young Afghan broken by war and exodus. This is the story of two worlds that collide, get used to each other and end up reaching out to each other.
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Mr. Blake At Your Service!
Title: Mr. Blake At Your Service!
Character: Nathalie Beauvillier
Released: November 1, 2023
Type: Movie
Since his wife's death, Andrew Blake is depressed. In an ultimate impetus, he leaves London to go back to France, in the house he met her. This journey through happy days memories won't go as planned.
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Back to Alexandria
Title: Back to Alexandria
Character: Fairouz
Released: September 30, 2023
Type: Movie
After more than 20 years, Sue returns from Switzerland to her home country Egypt because her mother Fairouz is in a hospital bed. Sue ran away from the eccentric aristocrat as a young adult. Now she feels compelled to meet her again.
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The Palace
Title: The Palace
Character: The Marquise
Released: September 28, 2023
Type: Movie
A comedy set on New Year’s Eve 1999 in a luxurious hotel in the Swiss Alps where the lives of various guests and those who work for them intersect.
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Fanny Ardant - Naissance d'une passion
Title: Fanny Ardant - Naissance d'une passion
Character: Herself (archive)
Released: September 20, 2023
Type: Movie
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Italia: Fire and Ashes
Title: Italia: Fire and Ashes
Character: Self - French Narrator (voice)
Released: March 15, 2023
Type: Movie
The epic and poetic tale of the early years of Italian cinema, from 1896 to 1930: how peplum was born, how the first stars shone, how many daring filmmakers were able to create an original style amalgamating literature, theater, painting and opera; a tale of splendor and decadence.
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Title: Beau geste
Character: Self
Released: January 22, 2023
Type: TV
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Amusia
Title: Amusia
Released: November 18, 2022
Type: Movie
In a world saturated with music, a girl who is born without the means to hear it. The disease is called Amusia. It exists but nobody knows about it and it tortures her but nobody believes it. She had a lonely childhood which she spent defending herself from accusations and prejudice. The disease, and lack of acceptance, push her to run away, finding herself in a forgotten suburban neighbourhood. There she befriends a boy who is fighting his own solitude through music as he tries to prevent his own dreams from rotting away.
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The Colors of Fire
Title: The Colors of Fire
Character: Solange Gallinato
Released: November 9, 2022
Type: Movie
February 1927. The funeral of Marcel Péricourt, the most powerful banker in Paris. His daughter Madeleine must take the helm of the financial empire of which she is the heiress. But she has a son, Paul, who with an unexpected and tragic gesture will place her on the path to ruin.
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The Green Shutters
Title: The Green Shutters
Character: Jeanne
Released: August 24, 2022
Type: Movie
The twilight of a sacred monster, Jules Maugin, an actor at the height of his glory. Beneath the famous personality, the big mouth, and the social shell, lies the intimate portrait of a man laid bare.
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The Young Lovers
Title: The Young Lovers
Character: Shauna Loszinsky
Released: February 2, 2022
Type: Movie
Elegant, retired architect Shauna (70) crosses paths with Pierre, a happily married doctor in his 40s, who first made an impression on her in a brief meeting 15 years previously. Both are quite troubled to meet again and begin an affair. While Pierre’s family life is soon turned upside down, Shauna struggles with feelings she thought belonged to the past.
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Good Morning Midnight
Title: Good Morning Midnight
Released: October 17, 2021
Type: Movie
Like every other night, Sasha goes out to drown her loneliness in alcohol at the local bistro. But this time, she meet Paolo, an attractive man who wants to talk to her.
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Les Damnés de la Commune
Title: Les Damnés de la Commune
Character: Mère de Victorine (voice)
Released: March 16, 2021
Type: Movie
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DNA
Title: DNA
Character: Caroline
Released: December 10, 2020
Type: Movie
DNA revolves around a woman with close ties to a beloved Algerian grandfather who protected her from a toxic home life as a child. When he dies, it triggers a deep identity crisis as tensions between her extended family members escalate revealing new depths of resentment and bitterness.
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La Belle Époque
Title: La Belle Époque
Character: Marianne Drumond
Released: November 6, 2019
Type: Movie
Victor, a disillusioned sexagenarian, sees his life turned upside down on the day when Antoine, a brilliant entrepreneur, offers him a new kind of attraction: mixing theatrical artifices and historical reconstruction, this company offers his clients a chance to dive back into the era of their choice. Victor then chose to relive the most memorable week of his life: the one where, 40 years earlier, he met the great love.
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The Bare Necessity
Title: The Bare Necessity
Character: Thérèse Perdrix
Released: August 14, 2019
Type: Movie
Pierre Perdrix has been enjoying an enchanted though restless existence since the enigmatic Juliette Webb burst into his life. a stranger who landed in his family's unique world like a meteorite, and who by her presence alone will force this tight-knit microcosm to redefie their boundaries and finally begin to fully live their lives.
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My Mother Is Crazy
Title: My Mother Is Crazy
Character: Nina Renner
Released: December 5, 2018
Type: Movie
A road trip comedy about a crazy mother who has a tense relationship with her son.
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Vostok N°20
Title: Vostok N°20
Character: (voice)
Released: August 24, 2018
Type: Movie
Daily life in a third-class Transsiberian wagon named Vostok N 20. Between discomfort, shared meals, boredom and confessions to strangers, people spend their time as they can. In the form of literary counterpoint, poems of Marina Tsvétaeva told by Fanny Ardant illuminates the feelings of passengers: their loneliness, their desires for freedom and love.
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Title: Ondes de choc
Character: Esther Fontanel
Released: July 13, 2018
Type: TV
The mini-series tells about shocking criminal cases from Switzerland, with each episode showing a self-contained story based on true events.
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Diary of My Mind
Title: Diary of My Mind
Character: Esther Fontanel
Released: January 27, 2018
Type: Movie
On February 27, 2009, pupil Benjamin Feller commits a crime which he has meticulously described beforehand in a diary entry. He goes to the post office to send the diary entry to his teacher before he shoots his parents and turns himself in to the police. His teacher Esther Fontanel tries to understand the events in retrospect. But as the journal’s addressee, she is increasingly targeted by the police herself.
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Lola Pater
Title: Lola Pater
Character: Lola
Released: August 9, 2017
Type: Movie
When his mother dies, Zino decides to look for his father, Farid. But twenty-five years ago, Farid became Lola.
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Night Shift
Title: Night Shift
Released: July 5, 2017
Type: Movie
With no career expectations, a temperamental young woman gave in to a job as a maid in a hotel. Makes the beds, replaces the towels, replaces the soaps. One day she discovers a suitcase left behind by a whimsical French tourist, inside which she finds a lime green canary, a natural yogurt and a five hundred euro envelope.
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Waiting for You
Title: Waiting for You
Character: Madeleine Brown
Released: February 24, 2017
Type: Movie
Compelled by grief and curiosity a young Englishman travels to France where he meets an eccentric older woman and unearths truths about the father he never really knew and about himself.
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Croque monsieur
Title: Croque monsieur
Character: Coco
Released: November 12, 2016
Type: Movie
Coco Baisos, a mature woman who likes to lead a big train, finds herself once again a widow, the fifth to be more precise. Bursting with energy and natural optimism, Coco is firmly determined not to be put down by fate. She immediately starts looking for a new companion, preferably a billionaire, so as not to have to give up her habits of luxury and pomp. She would indeed be very unhappy if fate forced her to modify her lifestyle. But the wallets trimmed do not run the streets. This manhunt, longer than expected, will hold many surprises for him ...
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For This Is My Body
Title: For This Is My Body
Character: La femme
Released: November 2, 2016
Type: Movie
This is the story of an encounter. An encounter between a groupie and the rock star she has always worshipped, This is a story of fascination and despair. She has loved him for many years, idolized his every move, lived for his songs. He is a shell. Scarred, alcoholic and paranoid, ruined by success. They find each other one morning, in a hotel room. He needs to be saved and all she wants is to protect him.
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Five
Title: Five
Character: Fanny (uncredited)
Released: March 30, 2016
Type: Movie
A young man paying the rent for himself and his lifelong friends ends up flat-broke and resorts to selling marijuana to pay the bills – only to get caught up in the dangerous world of drugs.
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Chic!
Title: Chic!
Character: Alicia Ricosi
Released: January 7, 2015
Type: Movie
Helene must act as a matchmaker for her world famous fashion designer boss, Alicia Ricosi.
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The Session
Title: The Session
Character: Comtesse de Castiglione
Released: December 28, 2014
Type: Movie
A photographer gets to take a last picture of a muse he is obsessed with during a rather strange session.
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Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Title: Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
Released: December 13, 2014
Type: Movie
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Alliés Nés
Title: Alliés Nés
Character: The mother
Released: September 16, 2014
Type: Movie
Micha works with her father who owns a shoe repair shop. Like every Friday evening, he goes to dinner with his parents. That evening, his brother Samuel is there too. Samuel is younger than Micha. He is passing through, he lives abroad. He is the favorite son. What Micha never put up with...
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Casanova Variations
Title: Casanova Variations
Character: Lucrecia
Released: August 21, 2014
Type: Movie
Alone in a secluded mansion, Giacomo Casanova cries out then collapses. When the mysterious and beautiful writer, Elisa von der Recke, comes to visit, it breathes new life into the old man. A movie that captures the myth of the greatest seducer of all times, Casanova, his story is told both through fiction and on-stage opera performances that unravel the tale of his adventures, his passions, and ultimately his fear of death.
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Title: Resistance
Character: The Countess
Released: May 19, 2014
Type: TV
In occupied France, 17-year-old Lili encounters war before love, and joins the Resistance. Through the interconnecting destinies of its teenage heroes, Resistance tells the story of young people going to any lengths to defend their country.
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Bright Days Ahead
Title: Bright Days Ahead
Character: Caroline
Released: June 19, 2013
Type: Movie
Bright days ahead? Caroline has retired, at last. A new life lies before her: time to take care of her children, her husband, and, most of all, herself. However, she soon comes to realize that this new freedom is synonymous with boredom and idleness. Especially when she receives a membership to her neighborhood’s senior club as a birthday present… Reluctant at first, she nevertheless decides to take the plunge. Oddly enough, she meets great people there, starting with the young computer science teacher, who is far from insensitive to her charms. Caroline gradually takes control of her life again and lives a second youth: taking a new lover, living new experiences, breaking the rules, not doing what’s expected of her… Who said that retirement was the beginning of the end and not a new beginning?
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The Great Beauty
Title: The Great Beauty
Character: Fanny Ardant (uncredited)
Released: May 21, 2013
Type: Movie
Jep Gambardella has seduced his way through the lavish nightlife of Rome for decades, but after his 65th birthday and a shock from the past, Jep looks past the nightclubs and parties to find a timeless landscape of absurd, exquisite beauty.
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The Lanzac Clan
Title: The Lanzac Clan
Character: Elisabeth Lanzac
Released: March 2, 2013
Type: Movie
A war of inheritance in the Lanzac family, a rich industrial family from Bordeaux, against a backdrop of family secrets and the unsaid. Elisabeth Lanzac authoritatively leads an important industrial group specializing in wood. Her eldest son, Nicolas, is her named successor, but he dies in a road accident. When the will is read, the family is stunned to learn that he has left his share to Julien, his secret son...
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Miroir mon amour
Title: Miroir mon amour
Character: La reine
Released: October 26, 2012
Type: Movie
The story starts where the tale ends: Snow White wakes up to the age of sexuality and discovers a world where the dwarves have become tall, and her Prince Charming is deprived of charisma. And, most terrible of all, her mother is incomparably more sexy.
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The Lookout
Title: The Lookout
Character: Giovanni's Wife (uncredited)
Released: September 5, 2012
Type: Movie
When police is about to apprehend a famous gang of bank robbers, an elite sniper opens fire from a roof, thus facilitating the flee of his accomplices. However, one of them is seriously injured, which compromises the plans of the thieves.
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Second Chances
Title: Second Chances
Character: Elisabeth Andrieu
Released: January 18, 2012
Type: Movie
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Rasputin
Title: Rasputin
Character: L'Impératrice Alexandra
Released: December 30, 2011
Type: Movie
A group of Russian noblemen want to maintain the monarchy and plan to kill Rasputin.
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D'un film à l'autre
Title: D'un film à l'autre
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: April 13, 2011
Type: Movie
On April 13, 2011, Les Films 13 production company turned 50. How can one celebrate an anniversary of this sort ? By simply making "another" film that would sum up all the earlier ones. D'un film à l'autre is hence a kind of anthology of the films produced Les Films 13 since the 1960s (short and feature films written and directed for the main part by Claude Lelouch), a best-of of half a century of cinema, going from Le Propre de l'homme to What Love May Bring. A biography in images of a filmmaker as admired as he is criticized. In reality, D'un film à l'autre is more than a series of film excerpts, interviews, and making-of documents (some of which possess an undeniable historical value, like that from A Man and A Woman, or the final performances of Patrick Dewaere).
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You Never Left
Title: You Never Left
Released: December 10, 2010
Type: Movie
Set in an allegorical "other place" that is a metaphor of a lost Egypt. Sketching a parallel between exile and death, creating a genuine self-portrait in film, at once intimate and solemn.
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Chimères absentes
Title: Chimères absentes
Character: Makvina
Released: January 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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Tresor
Title: Tresor
Character: Françoise Lagier
Released: November 11, 2009
Type: Movie
Nathalie and Jean-Pierre have been together for five years, to celebrate their anniversary, Jean-Pierre prepare a surprise present for his girlfriend: a cute four month english bullgod. Nathalie loves her present and calls the puppy "Tresor"; her relationship with the dog is close and strong since the begining but causes problems in the couple.
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Face
Title: Face
Character: The Producer / Queen Herodias
Released: October 2, 2009
Type: Movie
Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that explores the Salomé myth.
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Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water
Title: Flowers in the Mirror, Moon in the Water
Character: Self / The producer / Queen Herodias
Released: June 28, 2009
Type: Movie
The title of the François Lunel film is the Buddhist proverb concluding by: "all is but illusion". His movie draws the Tsai Ming-Liang's face during the shooting of his movie Visage, which itself is also a movie within a movie.
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La Traversée du désir
Title: La Traversée du désir
Character: Self
Released: March 16, 2009
Type: Movie
What was your first desire? What did you long for most? Arielle Dombasle put these questions to a wide circle of famous people.
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Hello Goodbye
Title: Hello Goodbye
Character: Gisèle Gaash
Released: November 26, 2008
Type: Movie
French film icons Gérard Depardieu and Fanny Ardant star in this romantic comedy about a Parisian couple in their fifties who share a comfortable life, a beautiful home, a posh country club and a midlife crisis. Following a dream vacation to Israel where Alain (Depardieu) explores his Jewish roots, Gisèle (Ardant) insists they change their life and move to Tel Aviv. While Gisèle, a Jewish convert, finds her new life inspiring; Alain fights to embrace Hebrew, Jewish tradition and a new circumcision. Will Alain and Gisèle learn whether Shalom represents Hello or Goodbye?
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Il Divo
Title: Il Divo
Character: French Ambassador's Wife (uncredited)
Released: May 28, 2008
Type: Movie
Italy, early '90s. Calm, clever and inscrutable, politician Giulio Andreotti has been synonymous with power for decades. He has survived everything: electoral battles, terrorist massacres, loss of friends, slanderous accusations; but now certain repentant mobsters implicate him in the crimes of Cosa Nostra.
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The Trial Begins
Title: The Trial Begins
Character: Caterina
Released: September 7, 2007
Type: Movie
A civil servant (Michele Lastella) uses shady methods to become a powerful businessman.
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Crossed Tracks
Title: Crossed Tracks
Character: Judith Ralitzer
Released: June 27, 2007
Type: Movie
The successful novelist Judith Ralitzer is interrogated in the police station about the disappearance of her ghost-writer. A serial-killer escapes from a prison in Paris. A missing school teacher leaves his wife and children. In the road, the annoying and stressed hairdresser Hughette is left in a gas station by her fiancé Paul while driving to the poor farm of her family in the country. A mysterious man offers a ride to her and she invites him to assume the identity of Paul during 24 hours to not disappoint her mother. Who might be the unknown man and what is real and what is fiction?
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The Secrets
Title: The Secrets
Character: Anouk
Released: June 14, 2007
Type: Movie
Noemi, the studious, devoutly religious daughter of a prominent rabbi, convinces her father to postpone her marriage for a year so that she might study at a Jewish seminary for women in the ancient Kabalistic seat of Safe.
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Paris Je T'aime
Title: Paris Je T'aime
Character: Fanny Forestier (Pigalle)
Released: June 21, 2006
Type: Movie
Olivier Assayas, Gus Van Sant, Wes Craven and Alfonso Cuaron are among the 20 distinguished directors who contribute to this collection of 18 stories, each exploring a different aspect of Parisian life. The colourful characters in this drama include a pair of mimes, a husband trying to chose between his wife and his lover, and a married man who turns to a prostitute for advice.
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Mag Bodard, un destin
Title: Mag Bodard, un destin
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 2005
Type: Movie
Mag Bodard, un destin is an archive documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2005.
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François Truffaut, une autobiographie
Title: François Truffaut, une autobiographie
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 2004
Type: Movie
A documentary tracing the career of filmmaker François Truffaut through the testimony of collaborators and admirers.
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De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
Title: De Caunes-Garcia - Le meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: September 24, 2004
Type: Movie
For seven years, Antoine de Caunes and José Garcia made their mark on French comedy history each evening in prime-time on their show, "Nulle part Ailleurs".
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El año del diluvio
Title: El año del diluvio
Character: Schwester Consuelo
Released: April 28, 2004
Type: Movie
In a particularly hot summer, Sister Consuelo, superior of an order dedicated to caring for the sick, decided to transform the dilapidated hospital into a modern nursing.
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Words in Progress
Title: Words in Progress
Released: April 15, 2004
Type: Movie
Documentary featuring footage from six decades of Cannes Film Festivals.
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The Scent of Blood
Title: The Scent of Blood
Character: Silvia
Released: April 2, 2004
Type: Movie
A couple of bourgeois intellectuals, Carlo and Silvia, have been married for twenty years. While she lives in their flat in Rome, he spends most of his time in the country house where he writes his books, openly living with his younger lover, Lù. In return, Carlo has long accepted that her wife may have lovers, but her volatile relationship with a young neo-fascist suddenly rekindles his jealousy.
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Nathalie...
Title: Nathalie...
Character: Catherine
Released: September 11, 2003
Type: Movie
Paris doctor Catherine starts to think her husband, Bernard, is having an affair when she hears an unfamiliar woman's message on his voice mail. Hoping to learn more about his extramarital activities, Catherine heads to a strip club, where she hires call girl Nathalie to have a fling with Gerard. As the affair progresses, Nathalie gives Catherine regular status reports, and the relationship between the women evolves from business to personal.
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Sarah
Title: Sarah
Character: Sarah Bernhardt
Released: January 17, 2003
Type: Movie
A stage play by John Murrell, adapted by Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, performed to perfection by Fanny Ardant and Robert Hirsch about the last days of Sarah Bernhardt. The play concentrates on an uneasy relationship between Sarah and her servant to whom she dictates her memoir, as well as a fragile relationship between her memories, actual history and reality.
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Callas Forever
Title: Callas Forever
Character: Maria Callas
Released: September 18, 2002
Type: Movie
Aging opera singer Maria Callas tries to make a comeback by performing in a production of Bizet's "Carmen."
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8 Women
Title: 8 Women
Character: Pierrette
Released: February 6, 2002
Type: Movie
Eight women gather to celebrate Christmas in a snowbound cottage, only to find the family patriarch dead with a knife in his back. Trapped in the house, every woman becomes a suspect, each having her own motive and secret.
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Don't Tempt Me
Title: Don't Tempt Me
Character: Marina D'Angelo
Released: November 30, 2001
Type: Movie
Two angels, one from the heaven and one from the hell, come to earth to save the soul of a boxer.
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Change My Life
Title: Change My Life
Character: Nina
Released: November 28, 2001
Type: Movie
Slightly over-the-hill actress Nina has a fainting spell in a Paris park and Sami, an Algerian man, out for a run comes to her aid. She seeks him out afterwards to return some property and discovers he works at night as a female prostitute. Nina is drawn to him and a friendship develops as he attempts to kick his drug habit and she tries to revive her acting career that sidelined when she moved to Russia for years.
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The Libertine
Title: The Libertine
Character: Madame Therbouche
Released: March 15, 2000
Type: Movie
French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.
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The Son of Français
Title: The Son of Français
Character: Anne
Released: December 15, 1999
Type: Movie
A young boy and his two grandmothers flee from headhunters and other villainous types in the Brazilian rain forest in this wacky family adventure. Benjamin, whose mom is dead and whose dad is off in the jungle searching for gold, is more cool-headed than his two grandmothers, both of whom hate one another. Upper class teacher bristles at the coarse behavior of working class Suzanne, who shoplifts and cheats at cards. Soon bad guys threaten them, and the chase begins.
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Title: Balzac
Character: Eve Hanska
Released: September 13, 1999
Type: TV
As Balzac prepares to die, his entire past flashes before his eyes. As a young writer, he was driven by the desire to achieve something great. With the support of Laure de Berny, he started printing and publishing without much success, but it was with his pen that he achieved fame, thanks to the constant support of Madame de Berny. Balzac became a writer that readers devoured.
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Balzac: A Life of Passion
Title: Balzac: A Life of Passion
Character: Eve Hanska
Released: September 13, 1999
Type: Movie
This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the dramas and adventures of his own life - a life that he shaped into one spectacular and unforgettable blaze of passion. At the heart of the story are the women in Balzac's life. Although gruff, unsophisticated, and far from handsome, Balzac exerts an irresistible fascination on women.
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Hard Off
Title: Hard Off
Character: Marie Langmann, épouse de Claude
Released: May 17, 1999
Type: Movie
This French romantic comedy-drama concerns Claude Langmann, a middle-aged auctioneer, who is in a loving marriage with his second wife of 15 years. Though he is deeply in love with his wife and has remained faithful to her, he finds himself unable to perform in bed. His wife says she is satisfied with Claude's love and tenderness, but he visits a sex specialist anyway. There he learns of Viagra, which is not yet approved in France, though it is available in Switzerland over the counter. Soon Claude is on his way to Geneva, and eager to prove his manhood, tries to bed Agnes, his very attractive and very available assistant. His daughter, who also comes along for the trip, interferes with her own problems.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Elizabeth
Title: Elizabeth
Character: Mary of Guise
Released: September 13, 1998
Type: Movie
The story of the ascension to the throne and the early reign of Queen Elizabeth the First, the endless attempts by her council to marry her off, the Catholic hatred of her and her romance with Lord Robert Dudley.
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The Dinner
Title: The Dinner
Character: Flora
Released: September 3, 1998
Type: Movie
An evening at an Italian restaurant. Hosted by tolerant and relaxed Flora, various parties of middle-class people come in -- large and small, young and old, regulars and tourists, married and single -- to dine, converse, argue, celebrate, make confessions; to overhear other people's discussions, to interrupt them, to sing, listen to music, and enjoy life. The camera, just like the people, moves constantly from table to table, into the kitchen and the back room to observe the staff's petty jealousies and frustrations -- until two hours later it's time for everybody to go home.
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Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés
Title: Les Enfoirés 1997 - Le Zénith des Enfoirés
Released: February 8, 1997
Type: Movie
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Ridicule
Title: Ridicule
Character: Madame de Blayac
Released: May 9, 1996
Type: Movie
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
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Desire
Title: Desire
Character: Odette
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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What a Drag
Title: What a Drag
Character: Evelyne, dite Eva
Released: March 27, 1996
Type: Movie
A closeted gay man's attempt to "act straight" for the sake of his job has unexpected consequences.
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Sabrina
Title: Sabrina
Character: Irene
Released: December 15, 1995
Type: Movie
An ugly duckling having undergone a remarkable change, still harbors feelings for her crush: a carefree playboy, but not before his business-focused brother has something to say about it.
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Beyond the Clouds
Title: Beyond the Clouds
Character: Patricia
Released: October 27, 1995
Type: Movie
Made of four short tales, linked by a story filmed by Wim Wenders. Taking place in Ferrara, Portofino, Aix en Provence and Paris, each story, which always a woman as the crux of the story, invites to an inner travel, as Antonioni says "towards the true image of that absolute and mysterious reality that nobody will ever see".
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One Hundred and One Nights
Title: One Hundred and One Nights
Character: The Star That Turns at Night
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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Colonel Chabert
Title: Colonel Chabert
Character: Gräfin Ferraud
Released: September 21, 1994
Type: Movie
When Colonel Chabert returns from the war, he discovers that he has lost everything.
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Amok
Title: Amok
Character: She
Released: October 9, 1993
Type: Movie
Whenever people are released from their society's constraints, there is the possibility that they will behave badly, at least according to the rules of the society they have left behind. This seems to have been particularly the case for Europeans living in colonial establishments in Africa and Asia. In this drama, based on a story by Stefan Zweig, Dr. Steiner (Andrzej Seweryn) was caught with his fingers in the till at a German hospital. Rather than prosecute him, they gave him the option of emigrating elsewhere. He chose to serve at a clinic in a remote part of Portuguese Goa. He has been on his best behavior for years, but when the beautiful wife (Fanny Ardant) of a diplomat comes to him asking for an abortion, he is tempted to ask for sexual favors in return, and his life swiftly goes out of control.
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François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
Title: François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
Character: Self
Released: May 14, 1993
Type: Movie
Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors and writers, a neighbor, and boyhood friends - talk about François Truffaut. They discuss his attitudes toward wealth, his early writings about cinema, the undercurrent of violence in his films and his personality, the way he used and altered events in his life when making films, his search for a father (both artistic and biological), his relationship with his mother, the scenes in his films that cause a squirm of embarrassment, and his ultimate mysticism. Clips from a dozen of his films are included.
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Nothing But Lies
Title: Nothing But Lies
Character: Muriel
Released: December 11, 1991
Type: Movie
Frustrated with her life, a Parisian tells her philandering husband about her lover.
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Afraid of the Dark
Title: Afraid of the Dark
Character: Miriam
Released: October 10, 1991
Type: Movie
A little boy, obsessed with blindness and violence, slowly gets trapped in his own delusions.
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Adventure of Catherine C.
Title: Adventure of Catherine C.
Character: Catherine Crachat
Released: August 29, 1990
Type: Movie
In Paris, unhappy movie actress Catherine Crachat becomes infatuated with the mathematician Pierre Indemini, but then breaks up with him. After a film shoot in Vienna, Catherine stays with a rich admirer, Fanny Hohenstein. Fanny has a history of many lovers of both sexes, two of whom killed themselves over her.
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Australia
Title: Australia
Character: Jeanne Gauthier
Released: September 13, 1989
Type: Movie
Following a stint as a WWII fighter pilot, Belgian-born Edouard falls in love with an Indonesian woman, has a daughter with her and immigrates to Australia, all without the knowledge of his family back home. Years later, his love has passed away, and he's raising his daughter on his own. When his brother calls seeking help with his failing wool-processing company, Edouard agrees to temporarily return home to aid him.
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Pleure Pas My Love
Title: Pleure Pas My Love
Character: Roxane
Released: January 18, 1989
Type: Movie
After the suicide of his actress-mother, a young man announces his identity to his father, who happens to be the man who directed his mother's last film.
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Title: La Grande Cabriole
Character: Laure-Adélaïde de Chabrillant
Released: January 4, 1989
Type: TV
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Love and Fear
Title: Love and Fear
Character: Velia
Released: April 19, 1988
Type: Movie
Three sisters, played by Fanny Ardant, Greta Scacchi and Valeria Golino, struggle with their illusions, goals and desires in Margarethe von Trotta’s film adaptation of Anton Chekhov’s play.
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L'altro enigma
Title: L'altro enigma
Character: La veggente
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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The Family
Title: The Family
Character: Adriana
Released: January 20, 1987
Type: Movie
"The Family," an album with a velvet cover, is meant to touch the extended family of man. Formal portraits, bookends in this 80-year saga, enclose the central story, which opens with the baptism of Carlo, a baby in his grandfather's lap, and ends with Carlo as a grandfather with a baby in his arms. And never once do we get out of the house, whose rooms provide the film's structure. Comfort or passion? Carlo couldn't really decide until it was too late.
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Mélo
Title: Mélo
Character: Christiane Levesque
Released: September 3, 1986
Type: Movie
Pierre Belcroix and Marcel Blanc are violinists and lifelong friends living in Paris in the 1920s. While Marcel has become famous and Pierre has not, both are happy with their lives. Pierre is happily married to Romaine, a stylish young flapper. However, Marcel meets and falls in love with her, which Marcel little suspects.
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The Nonentity
Title: The Nonentity
Character: Mlle Lotte
Released: August 13, 1986
Type: Movie
Each evening, four men – a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant – meet up in a deserted bar to play cards. As they play, the bar’s owner, her downtrodden barman (nicknamed “le paltoquet”) and a strange woman in white watch from a distance. One night, the card game is disturbed when a police inspector suddenly appears and declares that a dead body has been found nearby. Certain that one of the four men is the murderer, the inspector starts his investigation. All the evidence suggests that the doctor did the deed, but we soon learn that nothing is quite what it seems…
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Family Business
Title: Family Business
Character: Marianne, the mother
Released: March 19, 1986
Type: Movie
French rocker Johnny Halliday stars as a professional thief just released from jail. He returns to stealing to support his family. After several successful thefts, he decides to include his under-aged kid into the "family business".
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Vivement Truffaut
Title: Vivement Truffaut
Character: Self / Barbara (archive footage)
Released: July 12, 1985
Type: Movie
A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly named after his last movie, Vivement Dimanche!, released in 1983. Included in this overview of Truffaut's contribution to filmmaking are clips from 14 of his movies arranged according to the themes he favored. These include childhood, literature, the cinema itself, romance, marriage, and death.
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Next Summer
Title: Next Summer
Character: Dina
Released: January 9, 1985
Type: Movie
Edouard is patriarch of a large family: his second wife, Jeanne, has just had a baby and finally had enough of his philandering. As the marriage between them unravels, Edouard's daughters experience their own emotional shock waves. Dina, in a relationship with playwright Paul, wants more from her daily life, while Sidone is married to a fellow musician but is terrified of performing in public. Fast-forward seven years: Edouard is gravely ill, and the family shares their issues, hopes and fears.
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Les enragés
Title: Les enragés
Character: Jessica Melrose
Released: January 9, 1985
Type: Movie
Marc and Laurent, two worrying misfits, break into a large isolated property in the middle of the countryside. Marc discovers with amazement that the place belongs to his idol, the movie star Jessica Melrose, of whom he is crazy. After a strange night, in the morning, Jessica meets the two "explorers" who will make her live a day of waking nightmare .
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Love Unto Death
Title: Love Unto Death
Character: Judith Martignac
Released: September 5, 1984
Type: Movie
A man is haunted after waking up from his sleep, during which he was pronounced dead by his doctor.
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Swann in Love
Title: Swann in Love
Character: Duchesse de Guermantes
Released: February 23, 1984
Type: Movie
In early 20th century, Charles Swann, a young and wealthy dandy, spends most of his time hanging out with the old nobility, notably the Duke and Duchess of Guermantes. He is madly in love with a pretty demi-mondaine, Odette de Crécy. Idle, Swann surrenders complacently to the torments of jealousy. After hours of suffering, he manages to spend a night with Odette. In the morning, he believes that ultimately, this one is "not his type". However, we find him, many years later, alongside Odette who, now his wife, gave him a daughter. In the company of Baron de Charlus, brother of the Duchess of Guermantes, he wonders about the failure of his sentimental life, so far removed from this absolute he dreamed of.
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Desiderio
Title: Desiderio
Character: Lucia
Released: February 23, 1984
Type: Movie
After losing the ferry that should bring her to Greece by her husband, an Italian-French journalist finds herself in her native country in Puglia and ends up involved in a violent passionate meeting.
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Benvenuta
Title: Benvenuta
Character: Benvenuta
Released: September 7, 1983
Type: Movie
A passionate affair set against the intense encounter between a film-maker and a novelist. The story begins with young scriptwriter François tracking down the author of a once-scandalous novel. His aim is to adapt the work for the screen but several elements of the novel he finds difficult to comprehend. The author, Jeanne, is initially cautious of relaying information, insisting the presumably autobiographical book in no way relates to her personal life. However, eventually she takes the man into confidence to tell the background of Benvenuta.
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Confidentially Yours
Title: Confidentially Yours
Character: Barbara Becker
Released: August 10, 1983
Type: Movie
Claude Massoulier is murdered while hunting at the same place as Julien Vercel, an estate agent who knew him and whose fingerprints are found on Massoulier's car. As the police discover that Marie-Christine Vercel, Julien's wife, was Massoulier's mistress, Julien is the prime suspect. But his secretary, Barbara Becker, while not quite convinced he is innocent, defends him and leads her private investigations.
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Life Is a Bed of Roses
Title: Life Is a Bed of Roses
Character: Livia Cerasquier
Released: April 20, 1983
Type: Movie
In this whimsical fable, Resnais deftly interweaves three story lines: the creation of an early-20th-century utopia; romantic high jinks at a school conference; and a fantasy sparked by F/X pioneer Georges Méliès.
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Title: Le Chef de famille
Character: Katy
Released: February 12, 1982
Type: TV
The head of the family is a beautiful and independent woman who lives with her mother Isa, grand-mother Liane, aunt Teresa. The tribe spends holidays in the countryside. Everyone carries his issues, despite the pleasure to be together.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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The Woman Next Door
Title: The Woman Next Door
Character: Mathilde Bauchard
Released: September 30, 1981
Type: Movie
Madame Jouve, the narrator, tells the tragedy of Bernard and Mathilde. Bernard was living happily with his wife Arlette and his son Thomas. One day, a couple, Philippe and Mathilde Bauchard, moves into the next house. This is the accidental reunion of Bernard and Mathilde, who had a passionate love affair years ago. The relationship revives... A somber study of human feelings.
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Les bons bourgeois
Title: Les bons bourgeois
Character: Philomène
Released: July 15, 1981
Type: Movie
In May of 1968, a well-off family from the XVIth district in Paris lives through the revolutionary fever of the Latin District in its own idiosyncratic way. The play harks back to Molière's plays 'Femmes savantes' and 'Précieuses ridicules'
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Bolero: Dance of Life
Title: Bolero: Dance of Life
Character: Véronique
Released: May 27, 1981
Type: Movie
The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and times, with their own theme scores that evolve as time passes. The main event in the film is the Second World War, which throws the stories of the four musical families together and mixes their fates. Although all characters are fictional, many of them are loosely based on historical musical icons (Édith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Herbert von Karajan, Glenn Miller, Rudolf Nureyev, etc.) The Boléro dance sequence at the end brings all the threads together.
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The Fall of the House of Usher
Title: The Fall of the House of Usher
Character: Madeline Usher
Released: April 12, 1981
Type: Movie
After a long journey, Alain arrives at the Usher mansion to visit his old friend, Roderick Usher. Upon arriving, however, he discovers that Roderick and his sister, Madeline, have been afflicted with a mysterious malady: Roderick's senses have become painfully acute, while Madeline has become nearly catatonic.
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Title: Les Dames de la côte
Character: Fanny Villatte
Released: December 22, 1979
Type: TV
French miniseries.
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The Dogs
Title: The Dogs
Character: Nurse
Released: March 7, 1979
Type: Movie
After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence.
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Title: Le Mutant
Character: Jeanne Laurent
Released: June 15, 1978
Type: TV
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Marie, the Doll
Title: Marie, the Doll
Character: Marie-Paule
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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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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Title: Apostrophes
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 1975
Type: TV
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.
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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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La Bonne chaleur de l'animal
Title: La Bonne chaleur de l'animal
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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The Opera!
Title: The Opera!
Character: Proserpina
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
Modern version of Orpheus and Eurydice.
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Modigliani - Il Principe
Title: Modigliani - Il Principe
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie
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Title: Le Meilleur de nulle part ailleurs
Character: Self
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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Rainier III par lui-même
Title: Rainier III par lui-même
Character: Narration
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie