Dominique Marcas

Dominique Marcas

Born: August 8, 1920
Died: February 15, 2022
in Dozulé, Calvados, France
Dominique Marcas (8 August 1920 – 15 February 2022) was a French actress. She appeared in more than 140 films and television shows from 1950 to 2014. Marcas starred in the film Where Is Madame Catherine?, which was entered into the Un Certain Regard section at the 2003 Cannes Film Festival. She died in Illiers-l'Évêque, Eure, on 15 February 2022, at the age of 101.

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Pas Très Normales Activités
Title: Pas Très Normales Activités
Character: La grand-mère
Released: January 29, 2013
Type: Movie
A parody of Paranormal Activity.
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Mom Lost It!
Title: Mom Lost It!
Character: la vieille dame
Released: December 15, 2009
Type: Movie
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Fin de partie
Title: Fin de partie
Character: Nell
Released: September 23, 2008
Type: Movie
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Milady
Title: Milady
Character: Mother Superior
Released: January 6, 2004
Type: Movie
Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her suitors. And sometimes very dangerously.
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Where Is Madame Catherine?
Title: Where Is Madame Catherine?
Character: Madame Catherine
Released: July 5, 2003
Type: Movie
The life in a Catalan (Southern France) village near the border may be quite boring. A young man who is escaping from his homeland is seeking for something and may find it in this weird place. You see the relationship between the people in the village, their dreams, their past and their perspectives in life. The foreigner is hosted there and is messed in the deep whereabouts of these people and tries somehow to fit in.
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The Pharmacist
Title: The Pharmacist
Character: Mme Chaussois
Released: January 15, 2003
Type: Movie
An ecological pharmacist uses ancient Celtic techniques to murder industrial magnates whose practices harm the planet.
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À l'abri des regards indiscrets
Title: À l'abri des regards indiscrets
Character: Une commère
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: Movie
January 1st 2002. 1st day of Euro currency. The window of a cash dispenser is lifting up on a square, in Paris. 23 amazing characters will be meeting each other there, all along this very particular day...
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Madame De...
Title: Madame De...
Character: La mère du général
Released: October 1, 2001
Type: Movie
The action takes place in Paris in the 30-ies. The Countess Louise de... has made debts and she urgently needed cash. She decided to sell the family jeweler Remy earrings — a gift from her husband…
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Title: The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc
Character: an inquisitor
Released: October 27, 1999
Type: Movie
In 1429 a teenage girl from a remote French village stood before her King with a message she claimed came from God; that she would defeat the world's greatest army and liberate her country from its political and religious turmoil. Following her mission to reclaim god's diminished kingdom - through her amazing victories until her violent and untimely death.
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Melody for a Hustler
Title: Melody for a Hustler
Character: La vieille de l'immeuble
Released: October 14, 1998
Type: Movie
French novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionaire after he picks up hitchhiking 16-year-old Marie-Pierre (Virginie Lanoue). Actually living in a seedy apartment, Gaston deals in stolen goods, but he soon climbs to bigger heists, including car thefts. Concealing his illegal activities, Gaston operates his company, Extramill, out of upscale, posh offices, while he and Marie-Pierre move into a sedate upper-middle-class neighborhood. Life is sweet, but the onset of paranoia, kinky sex activities, and police probes eventually culminate in violence.
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Muriel's Parents Are Desperate
Title: Muriel's Parents Are Desperate
Character: Vieille dame
Released: October 17, 1995
Type: Movie
In this coming of age drama, 17-year old Muriel rebels against her French family and leaves for the bright lights of Paris. When she falls for Nora, Muriel enters a journey of heartbreak and discovery.
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Guardian Angels
Title: Guardian Angels
Character: Mère Angelina
Released: October 11, 1995
Type: Movie
A sleazy Paris nightclub owner and ex-detective flies to Hong Kong to rescue the young son of a friend murdered by the Chinese mob.
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Elisa
Title: Elisa
Released: February 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames for her mother's death.
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Dead Tired
Title: Dead Tired
Character: Woman 1
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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Albert souffre
Title: Albert souffre
Released: September 2, 1992
Type: Movie
Albert dreams of going to Australia. Jérôme loves Jeanne, but ignores her while cramming for exams. An African named Charles writes and is a watchman at night. The American girl, Joann, lives her life in a " bachelor pad. " Love, friendship and chance take them all to a hotel in Bordeaux where, in the course of a weekend, their lonely hearts meet. The weekend is held over to leave time for love.
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La Vie de Bohème
Title: La Vie de Bohème
Character: Shop Owner
Released: February 27, 1992
Type: Movie
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
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A Star for Two
Title: A Star for Two
Released: August 10, 1991
Type: Movie
Love between a man and a woman that endures the ravages of time.
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Dr. Petiot
Title: Dr. Petiot
Character: Mme Valéry
Released: September 19, 1990
Type: Movie
A true story shot in a German Impressionistic style. In France during the Nazi occupation, Dr. Petiot (Michel Serrault) offered to help Jews escape the Nazis. They would come to his house, and he would kindly give them lethal "vaccinations" for their anticipated travel to Argentina. Then he would steal everything the brought with them (in addition to their up-front payment to him) and burn their bodies in his home-made crematorium.
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L'Énigme blanche
Title: L'Énigme blanche
Character: Julie
Released: December 26, 1985
Type: Movie
Like every year, five old friends come together in a chalet in the middle of a Canadian snow desert. Henri, his wife Apolline, brother-in-law Maxence, Jean and Paul are waiting for cozy evenings with board games and good food - a typical ski holiday. But on the first day Henri announces that he knows about the affair between Apolline and Jean. An oppressive mood spreads in the secluded hut until the spiral of jealousy and sadism kills one from its midst.
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The consultation
Title: The consultation
Released: September 22, 1985
Type: Movie
A mother's visit to a psychoanalyst who does not belong to the human race. Issues of incest and racial intolerance.
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Gwendoline
Title: Gwendoline
Character: Translator
Released: February 8, 1984
Type: Movie
A beautiful woman hires an intrepid adventurer to help find her father, who has disappeared in the jungle while searching for a rare and priceless butterfly. Along the way they run into cannibals, a race of Amazon warriors and all the usual attractions one would expect to find in a lost jungle.
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Title: La Filière
Character: La Sœur Tourière, au couvent
Released: January 5, 1978
Type: TV
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Un amour de jeunesse
Title: Un amour de jeunesse
Released: July 2, 1977
Type: Movie
Normandy 1850. A stagecoach drives along a road in the middle of the countryside. Inside, the passengers are all asleep except two men who are talking. Suddenly the coach stops: an axle has just broken. When one of the two men leans out of the window to see what is going on, his gaze lingers on the front a provincial abode, which seems to upset him. He soon starts remembering facts that took place forty years earlier...
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François le Champi
Title: François le Champi
Character: La Zabette
Released: December 15, 1976
Type: Movie
A young miller takes under her protection an orphan brought up by an old woman.
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The Margin
Title: The Margin
Released: September 22, 1976
Type: Movie
A businessman leaves his country home, and wife and young son for a business trip to Paris. While there he develops a sexual and spiritual bond with a call girl.
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Monsieur Albert
Title: Monsieur Albert
Character: Mrs Masure
Released: March 30, 1976
Type: Movie
In this poetic slice-of-life film that reveals the problems and needs of a group of lowlife characters, unwed mother Vivaine (Dominique Labourier) falls in love with working-class youth Francois (Patrick Chesnais) who has a shady past. Albert (Philippe Noiret), a no-good insurance con-artist, poses for many years as Francois' friend, but tragedy ensues when Albert comes between the lovers, and Francois and Albert resort to physical violence to settle their differences.
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Aloïse
Title: Aloïse
Released: April 2, 1975
Type: Movie
The painful life of a mentally unstable but highly gifted woman is unveiled in this film, based on episodes from the life of an actual person. Aloise (Delphine Seyrig) creates a series of haunting drawings while she is incarcerated in an institution for the insane in turn-of-the-century Switzerland. She endures torments as a musically gifted girl and later as a young woman; her developing madness and the barbaric treatments of the time are shown.
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A Piece of Pleasure
Title: A Piece of Pleasure
Released: January 15, 1975
Type: Movie
Phillipe and Esther live an apparently idyllic life with their daughter, Elise. In an attempt to preserve this bliss, Phillipe decides that he and Esther should each have affairs, being sure to tell each other openly about them. The plan backfires with tragic results as Phillipe becomes engulfed in jealously.
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Zig Zig
Title: Zig Zig
Character: La régisseuse à la banane
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
Two women work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home.
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Liza
Title: Liza
Character: Maria
Released: August 11, 1972
Type: Movie
Liza meets the artist Giorgio and falls in love with him. She dreams of becoming the wife of Giorgio, but he is married. She dreams of being a close friend to him, but he has a favorite dog. Liza is ready for any sacrifice for the sake of her love. She kills Giorgio's dog and takes her place. Now she is a woman who always and everywhere follows her master.
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Just Before Nightfall
Title: Just Before Nightfall
Character: Mme Ortiz
Released: March 31, 1971
Type: Movie
A married man who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn himself in.
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Love Me Strangely
Title: Love Me Strangely
Character: Une voisine
Released: February 10, 1971
Type: Movie
Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window. Enlisting the help of an equally perverse casual acquaintance, Dino, the "handsome brute" proceeds to emotionally torture his second wife, Nathalie. The sadistic plan is picked up on by Officer Leroy who suspects the truth. Will he be able to snatch the unfortunate woman from the evil Alain's clutches?
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L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
Title: L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
Released: April 18, 1969
Type: Movie
Julien Brûlebois, a brave peasant from Auvergne, learns that he has been summoned to Strasbourg to collect an inheritance. Amazed by the operation of the bus that takes him from the station to his notary's home, he decides to buy it. What follows is a bewildering chase between the agents of the Strasbourg transport authority, the capitalists, the naive peasant and his lucid, pretty fiancée.
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La difficulté d'être infidèle
Title: La difficulté d'être infidèle
Character: La domestique de Jean
Released: May 15, 1964
Type: Movie
Olivier and Françoise, newlyweds, have Chantal at their service, whose main function is to pretend to be his boss, while she takes care of the housework. But Olivier is suddenly tempted by an extramarital affair with a young Italian woman, Frédérique. Pretending a business trip, he sends his wife and maid to their respective mothers, intending to bring Frédérique to his home...
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Trouble Among Widows
Title: Trouble Among Widows
Released: April 15, 1964
Type: Movie
When Guillaume Valmont dies in a car accident, the only thing he leaves his wife Isabelle is his pharmacy. She never loved her older husband and she regards his death as a deliverance. At the funeral, she meets Judith, widow too, and she soon realises that her husband had been leading a double life. A short while later, the pharmacy is broken into, but nothing is stolen. Police Inspector Laforêt is put in charge of the case. Isabelle becomes suspicious when Judith offers to buy the pharmacy.
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Rob the Bank
Title: Rob the Bank
Character: Une habitante du quartier (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Shopkeeper Victor Garnier has naively invested his family's life savings in an African mine, on his banker's recommendation. When the mine is nationalized, rendering the stock worthless, he considers himself shamelessly robbed by the bank; it seems only fair to him to return the 'favor' and rob the bank, teaming up with the whole family as they were all duped. Even for professionals such an enterprise -he decides to dig a tunnel- is quite demanding, but for simple commoners it's daunting, as they also have their personal downsides; thus Victor's wife has a most unwelcome tendency to blurt out the truth, even to the grumpy local copper: a crazy risk when you need to keep a criminal plan secret.
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Who Stole the Body?
Title: Who Stole the Body?
Released: February 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Edouard and Félix work in a real estate agency. One day, they are threatened with dismissal if they don't manage to sell a very isolated house to an elderly, silver and somewhat unusual Englishwoman. In the house, they discover a corpse. The visit is spent dragging the corpse from room to room, cupboard to chest, so as not to frighten the otherwise impressed buyer. But the corpse disappears. He has to be found before the deed can be signed. The two salesmen become detectives, tracking down the dead man's many female acquaintances. All the seducer's conquests are sifted through, to find the one who left her jewels at the scene of the crime.
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The Baron of the Locks
Title: The Baron of the Locks
Character: Woman in the airfield (uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1960
Type: Movie
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for more attractive scenery offered by a wealthy local man. Meanwhile, there is a certain charming cafe owner that the Baron finds irresistible -- at least for awhile.
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La peau de l'ours
Title: La peau de l'ours
Released: August 30, 1957
Type: Movie
A police commissioner lives with his two children, wife, mother-in-law and maid. But he discovers that he has been poisoned with arsenic, and that the culprit must be someone close to him.
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Miss Catastrophe
Title: Miss Catastrophe
Released: April 24, 1957
Type: Movie
A talented but crazy painter, Elvire Mercier agrees to sell one of her canvases to Pierre Leroy, a rich heir. But after a string of misunderstandings, she hands her painting over to a swindler. And her problems have only just begun.
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Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
Title: Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
Character: La cliente de la voyante (non créditée)
Released: October 18, 1955
Type: Movie
Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever after if the housing crisis did not force them to live together with Gabrielle and Fernand, Robert's parents. For, despite the good will on either side, tension soon arises. What else to expect when there is too little space in their Montmartre apartment for four people (then for six then eight, the couple having... two pairs of twins!) ; the continued presence there of Fernand (who loves peace and quiet) after he is driven to retirement ; the difficult beginnings of Robert as a lawyer in a room of the apartment, etc... Other troubles follow and the harried family is on the verge of implosion...
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Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
Title: Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
Character: Henriette (uncredited)
Released: November 26, 1954
Type: Movie
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Les amoureux de Marianne
Title: Les amoureux de Marianne
Released: July 2, 1954
Type: Movie
Gaston Duboutois and Catherine Berton love each other, and are about to play Romeo and Juliet in their small provincial town. The industrialist Duboutois is opposed to his accountant Berton, both of whom are running for parliament. Tempers flare and invective quickly escalates. In the end, Duboutois wins and Berton loses his position. Although futile and foolish, it's the excellent Mme Duboutois who brings peace to the situation, brings about reconciliation and helps the two children to unite.
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Daughters of Destiny
Title: Daughters of Destiny
Character: (segment "Jeanne") (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1954
Type: Movie
Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war widow who comes on pilgrimage in Italy.
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Jeunes mariés
Title: Jeunes mariés
Released: June 3, 1953
Type: Movie
Jacques and Gisèle, who are just married, are starting their honeymoon. But at nightfall, on their way to marital bliss, their car chooses to break down and the lovebirds find themselves stranded in the village of Montigny. And instead of bathing in ecstasy as expected, Jacques and Gisèle become unwillingly entangled in the conflict that tears the villagers apart : should they continue to tolerate the presence of an American Army unit on municipal territory ?
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Femmes de Paris
Title: Femmes de Paris
Released: May 17, 1953
Type: Movie
Professor Charles Buisson, astronomer and Nobel Prize winner, has just discovered a nova. He informs the other observatories by telephone. Just as he thinks one of them is calling back, he finds himself on the line with a young woman threatening suicide at the Ruban Bleu cabaret, if her lover hasn't joined her by midnight. Intrigued, the professor decides to go and prevent the unfortunate woman from committing suicide. One of his students, who earns her living as an understudy in a knife act, helps him in his investigation, while the school principal and a policeman suspect him of being a prankster or even of selling drugs. For the scientist, it's an opportunity to discover a world of music-hall that he'd never known before: "I thought I knew the sky chart by heart, but there's one planet that was totally unknown to me: Earth. I'll be back!
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Rue de l'Estrapade
Title: Rue de l'Estrapade
Character: la bonne de Denise
Released: April 14, 1953
Type: Movie
While Henri Laurent speeds along on the racing circuits, his pretty wife Françoise goes from luxury boutique to luxury boutique with her best friend Denise. One day, Denise lets her know that Henri has a lover. Outraged, Françoise moves out of marital home and rents a maids' room in Rue de l'Estrapade. Henri tries to get his wife back but Françoise does not listen. She even looks for a job in a prêt-à-porter shop and lets herself be courted by Robert, her neighbor across the landing...
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Les Dents longues
Title: Les Dents longues
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 15, 1953
Type: Movie
A young, talented and ambitious journalist, Louis heads off to try his luck in Paris. He's spotted by Walter, editor-in-chief for a major daily newspaper, who takes to him and furthers his career. What he doesn't realise is that Louis is ready to betray anyone to achieve his ends...
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The Call of Destiny
Title: The Call of Destiny
Character: (uncredited)
Released: February 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Young conductor Roberto Lombardini has never known his father who is actually a former musician, a failed piano player who has sunk into alcoholism.
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The Lottery of Happiness
Title: The Lottery of Happiness
Character: (uncredited)
Released: February 15, 1953
Type: Movie
Mr Lucas, a grocer, wants to attract the clientele; he imagines a lottery; every week, you can win a bike. It's a big success.
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She and Me
Title: She and Me
Character: Une invitée (uncredited)
Released: December 31, 1952
Type: Movie
You never can tell. Jean had always been one of the most confirmed bachelors that kept swearing to anyone that would listen he would never put a ring on a female finger. But that was before he met Juliette, a capricious but irresistibly lovely young woman. Well, what else can you do when you fall dead in love with a creature of the kind? And too bad if their honeymoon proved catastrophic. To say nothing of their housing problems : what to do when neither husband nor wife has any money? How to build one's love nest when the housing crisis rages? How to get by when your wife has luxury tastes?
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The Happiest of Men
Title: The Happiest of Men
Released: November 26, 1952
Type: Movie
An industrialist who prefers painting to business is cheated on by his wife with a painter who prefers business to painting.
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Beauties of the Night
Title: Beauties of the Night
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1952
Type: Movie
A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.
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Le crime du Bouif
Title: Le crime du Bouif
Released: March 5, 1952
Type: Movie
A poacher nicknamed "Le Bouif" is accused of having murdered his son-in-law, trainer of a horse stable in Maisons-Laffitte.
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Love, Madame
Title: Love, Madame
Character: (uncredited)
Released: January 23, 1952
Type: Movie
Madame Célerier is determined to marry off her son François to a rich and haughty woman but François has other plans.
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Adorable Creatures
Title: Adorable Creatures
Character: (uncredited)
Released: January 2, 1952
Type: Movie
Andre Noblet, a 21-year-old French artist falls madly in love with Christine, the mother of two children. He tells Chistine he will tell all to her husband and demand her freedom. Christine learns that her husband has been carrying on a romance of his own and they have a meeting.
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Perfectionist
Title: Perfectionist
Character: (non crédité)
Released: November 28, 1951
Type: Movie
Professor Louis Delage is a kidney transplant specialist. He is so good in his field that his peers nickname him the "great man". But one day, one of his patients die during surgery and Delage starts doubting. Is he actually such a great man? To fight desperation he decides to take in the deceased child while devoting more time to Florence, his hitherto neglected wife.
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Gigolo
Title: Gigolo
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, he fell into misery when he left it. His only asset was his good looks, which did not escape the attention of Madame Alice, a shady woman who persuaded him to pose for pornographic photos meant for lonely aging women. Marceau also served as a gigolo before the war and captivity put an end to this juicy business. Now he wants to start a new life, all the more as ha has found love in the person of a pure young lady named Dominique. But Madame Alice won't hear of it...
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Gunman in the Streets
Title: Gunman in the Streets
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1950
Type: Movie
An American is on the run in the streets and back alleys of France.
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Le Traqué
Title: Le Traqué
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 15, 1950
Type: Movie
Manhunt in Paris and as far as Belgium to catch an American gangster escaped from a police van.
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Justice Is Done
Title: Justice Is Done
Character: (uncredited)
Released: September 20, 1950
Type: Movie
Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All members are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads something different into the presented facts.
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The Elders of Saint-Loup
Title: The Elders of Saint-Loup
Character: Une villageoise (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Due to financial problems, the boarding-school of Saint-Loup is on the verge of closing its doors. In desperation, Jacquelin, the headmaster, has the idea to invite former students to a fund-raising reunion. Among the alumni, three men whose common point is to have been in love at the time with the headmaster's niece. One is a banker, the second a priest and the last one a globetrotter. All of a sudden, the peace of the assembly is disturbed: Jacquelin's niece has just been murdered.