Josiane Balasko

Josiane Balasko

Born: April 15, 1950
in Paris, France
Josiane Balasko (born 15 April 1950) is a French actress, writer and director.

She was born Josiane Balašković in Paris. One of Balasko's most recognized roles among English speakers is as a lesbian in 1995's Gazon maudit (French Twist). She won the 1996 César Award (shared with Telsche Boorman) for best writing for this film, for which she was also nominated as best director. The movie itself was nominated for best film.

Balasko's other César nominations for best actress were for Trop belle pour toi (1989), Tout le monde n'a pas eu la chance d'avoir des parents communistes (1993), Cette femme-là (2003).

She is married to George Aguilar, who is also an actor.

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Movies for Josiane Balasko...

When Fall Is Coming
Title: When Fall Is Coming
Released: October 2, 2024
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of Michelle, who is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a charming Burgundy village near her longtime friend Marie-Claude. She eagerly anticipates her grandson Lucas spending the school vacation with her, but things don’t go as planned. Feeling lonely, Michelle loses her sense of purpose, until Marie-Claude’s son gets out of prison.
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Party of Fools
Title: Party of Fools
Character: Bobotte
Released: January 24, 2024
Type: Movie
Paris, 1894. Who is Fanni, who claims to be voluntarily locked up in a women-only mental institution? Searching for her mother among the multitude of so-called 'madwomen', Fanni discovers a community of modern heroines who defy her expectations, along with the unexpected friendship of fellow patients. The sumptuous and renowned 'Party of Fools' of the asylum is in preparation. Politicians, artists, and socialites will flock to it. It’s her last hope of escaping the closing trap.
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Title: Bonjour ! La Matinale TF1
Character: Self - Guest
Released: January 8, 2024
Type: TV
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Au cœur du Papotin
Title: Au cœur du Papotin
Character: Self
Released: December 28, 2023
Type: Movie
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Des mains en or
Title: Des mains en or
Character: Martha
Released: June 7, 2023
Type: Movie
Philippe is a well-known writer, whose life was going smoothly: a surgeon wife, a circle of high-ranking friends, a Parisian mansion... And above all, an imminent entry into the Académie Française. Except that Philippe suffers from terrible back pain that plagues his life. When he meets the incredible Martha, who picks him up after a car accident on the roads of Normandy, his vision of the world changes. With her gentle madness and her healing hands, this woman who seems so free is especially concerned with treating others, even if it means forgetting herself. Between these two characters that everything opposes, a surprising friendship is woven, with the opportunity for them to finally seize the best that life can offer them.
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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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Un chalet à Gstaad
Title: Un chalet à Gstaad
Released: December 17, 2022
Type: Movie
Françoise and Jean-Jacques Lombard, very wealthy tax exiles whose fortune is based on the inventions of their husbands, are preparing to receive a couple of friends, Alicia and Grégoire Lagarde. He is a daddy's boy industrialist, She is a rich and stupid aristocrat. Everything could well happen if Alicia had not become infatuated with a spiritual coach who accompanies them to dinner. And inevitably, the varnish will end up cracking, especially when the guru will tell them the worst: their fortune is threatened.
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Title: Les Rencontres du Papotin
Character: Self
Released: September 3, 2022
Type: TV
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Le soir où j'ai reçu le César
Title: Le soir où j'ai reçu le César
Character: Self
Released: February 23, 2022
Type: Movie
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Price Of Parenting
Title: Price Of Parenting
Character: Chantal Blanc
Released: December 15, 2021
Type: Movie
Parents with empty nest syndrome find a clever way to make their kids stay interested: winning the lottery.
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Old Fashioned
Title: Old Fashioned
Character: La Reine-Mère
Released: December 1, 2021
Type: Movie
Paul Château-Têtard, a 45-year-old bachelor from the best of Parisian nobility, has – for the first time in his life – to take the Metro, and even buy a ticket. It is with extraordinary luck that the beautiful young Ava happens to be sitting at the counter: a spark ignites and wedding bells begin ringing in the distance.
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Tralala
Title: Tralala
Character: Lili
Released: July 16, 2021
Type: Movie
A 48-year-old homeless singer and composer receive a cryptic message that makes him believe he has been visited by the Virgin Mary.
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Knock, Knock, It's Mom!
Title: Knock, Knock, It's Mom!
Character: Jacqueline Mazerin
Released: June 16, 2021
Type: Movie
While her apartment is being renovated, Jacqueline is thrilled to be forced into spending "a few days" with her eldest daughter Carole and her son-in-law, who are both in couples therapy. These "few days" turn into "a few months". Jacqueline quickly feels at home. She prepares dinners, monopolizes the television, reorganizes the kitchen... She is here, and no one knows for how long!
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C'est la vie
Title: C'est la vie
Character: Dominique
Released: December 30, 2020
Type: Movie
Five women are about to give birth. They do not know each other, are not alike, but will find themselves in the same maternity to live the best day of their lives. The first contractions at birth, the film traces their journey, between laughter and tears.
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Title: We're Live
Character: Self - Guest
Released: September 26, 2020
Type: TV
On est en direct is the place where we talk about news and culture, where we host singers, actors, writers, and where surprises, and humor are par for the course! It's freedom of speech, with guests coming to speak on the news for debates without filter. It's also an opportunity to discover new talents ...
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L'Esprit de famille
Title: L'Esprit de famille
Character: Marguerite, la mère d'Alexandre
Released: January 29, 2020
Type: Movie
A writer must face the sudden death of his father, but after the burial, the latter reappears to him. He will have to learn to live with this facetious companion, but difficult to explain the situation to his family, because he is the only one who can see him. This disturbing presence will create an earthquake in the family.
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The Spellbound
Title: The Spellbound
Character: Leonora Evesco
Released: December 11, 2019
Type: Movie
For the "story of the month," Coline, a contributor to a women's magazine, is sent deep into the Pyrenees to interview Simon, a rather wild artist who claims his mother appeared to him at the precise moment she died. Coline is particularly intrigued since her beautiful neighbor Azar insists the same thing happened with her father! On the night they meet, Simon attempts to seduce Coline, who resists but falls in love...
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Title: The Bonfire of Destiny
Character: Madame Huchon
Released: November 18, 2019
Type: TV
After a devastating fire in 1897 Paris, three women find their lives upended by betrayals, deceptions and romantic turmoil. Inspired by real events.
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Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux
Title: Vous êtes jeunes, vous êtes beaux
Character: Mona
Released: October 2, 2019
Type: Movie
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My Out-Laws
Title: My Out-Laws
Character: Coline Rossi
Released: June 19, 2019
Type: Movie
When their daughter decides to get a divorce, Coline and Andre can’t come to terms with it as they are very fond of their son-in-law. The only way to keep seeing him is in secret. But for how long can they lead a double life?
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By the Grace of God
Title: By the Grace of God
Character: Irène, Emmanuel's Mother
Released: February 20, 2019
Type: Movie
Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who abused him decades ago continues to work with children. He joins forces with others victims of the priest, to bring justice and “lift the burden of silence” about what they endured.
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All Inclusive
Title: All Inclusive
Character: Lulu
Released: February 13, 2019
Type: Movie
A man goes on an all-inclusive vacation to the Caribbean and finds out he must share his room with someone else.
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15 Minutes of War
Title: 15 Minutes of War
Character: Michèle Sampieri
Released: January 30, 2019
Type: Movie
February 1976. Somalian rebels hijack a school bus carrying 21 French children and their teacher in Djibouti City. When the terrorists drive it to a no-man’s-land on the border between Somalia and French territory, the French Government sends out a newly formed elite squad to rescue the hostages. Within a few hours, the highly trained team arrives to the crisis area, where the Somalian National Army has taken position behind the barbed wire on the border. The French unit is left with very few options to rescue the hostages. As the volatile situation unravels, the French men quickly come up with a daring plan: carry out a simultaneous 5 men sniper attack to get the children and the teacher out safely. A true story.
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J'ai perdu Albert
Title: J'ai perdu Albert
Character: Mme Le Couidec
Released: September 12, 2018
Type: Movie
Chloe has been living a successful life thanks to one trick: Albert Einstein is in her mind. But one day, he decides to move and chooses another body: Zac, a depressive beekeeper.
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Neuilly sa mère, sa mère !
Title: Neuilly sa mère, sa mère !
Character: Mme Bachelot
Released: August 8, 2018
Type: Movie
In 2008, Sami Benboudaoud discovered the hell of Neuilly-sur-Seine. Ten years later, now that everything is for the best for Sami who brilliantly completes his studies of political science, nothing will go for his cousin Charles of Chazelle.
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Bécassine !
Title: Bécassine !
Character: Mademoiselle Châtaigne
Released: June 20, 2018
Type: Movie
Born to a poor farming family in Brittany, Bécassine finds work as a nanny with the Marquise de Grand-Air who has recently adopted a lovely baby named Loulotte. A strong bond develops between Becassine and Loulotte, and life is sweet, until the Grand-Airs are threatened with financial ruin… Can Bécassine save the day? Naïve, funny, dreamy, optimistic, loving, Bécassine is also inventive, courageous and always ready to handle any situation in her own unique way – a superheroine like no other. César-winner Bruno Podalydès returns with a family movie adapted from the beloved French comic book Bécassine.
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Volontaire
Title: Volontaire
Character: La mère
Released: June 6, 2018
Type: Movie
The story revolves around 22-year-old Laure, who is trying to find her feet. After performing brilliantly in her literature studies, she enrols as a communications officer in the Naval Fusiliers. She will quickly have to adapt to and assimilate the rules that apply within the institution. But Laure is a determined woman, and she has a thirst for knowledge – still. A thirst to learn to get to know and be comfortable with herself, and to find her place.
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The New Adventures of Cinderella
Title: The New Adventures of Cinderella
Character: la méchante belle-mère / la voisine
Released: October 18, 2017
Type: Movie
It's Julie's birthday but she seems to be the only one who remembers... Until Marco, the man she secretly loves, calls her and tells her he's going to drop off her son because the babysitter had a setback. Julie is devastated, everyone considers her to be a maid. Alone with this particularly obnoxious little boy, Julie decides to tell him the story of Cinderella... well, almost.
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Let the Sunshine In
Title: Let the Sunshine In
Character: Maxime
Released: September 27, 2017
Type: Movie
Isabelle, Parisian artist, divorced mother, is looking for love, true love, at last.
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Michèle Bernier, l'irrésistible
Title: Michèle Bernier, l'irrésistible
Character: Self
Released: March 24, 2017
Type: Movie
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Title: Diversion
Character: Self
Released: February 3, 2017
Type: TV
Six magic artists—illusionists, quick change specialists and even pickpocket artists—create a one-of-a-kind experience.
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Back to Mom's
Title: Back to Mom's
Character: Jacqueline Mazerin
Released: June 1, 2016
Type: Movie
At 40, Stephanie loses her job and is forced to move back in with her mother. She is welcomed with open arms to the joys of overheated apartment, Francis Cabrel playing on loop, Scrabble games and precious motherly advice on how to behave at the table and live her life.
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Josephine, Pregnant & Fabulous
Title: Josephine, Pregnant & Fabulous
Character: la mère de Joséphine
Released: February 10, 2016
Type: Movie
At last, Josephine has found her perfect non-smoker-cat-loving-amazing-cook-perfect-man-soulmate. They’ve been in love for two years and everything is peachy. Until she realizes she’s… pregnant. Time for Josephine to transform her life, mature into a responsible adult, not become like her mother, get a job, hold on to her man, refrain from falling out with her friends, and tell her sister, who's been crashing at her place, that she's got to move out. A bunch of overwhelming challenges that Josephine will have to face in her own, special way.
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Arrête ton cinéma !
Title: Arrête ton cinéma !
Character: Brigitte
Released: January 13, 2016
Type: Movie
Sybille, an accomplished actress, is given the chance to direct a film based on her own screenplay. Everything seems to go well at first. Her producers, two sisters, are two wacky but lovable characters, and Sybille dives into the adventure with them, putting aside her family life. But, from the unlikely choice of actresses, the successive rewrites of the script and the financial issues, the wonderful dream turns into a nightmare. Ever the optimist, Sybille will realise too late that her whimsical and totally crazy producers are going to drag her in their madness ... One thing is certain, nothing will happen as planned.
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The Roommates Party
Title: The Roommates Party
Character: La gardienne
Released: December 23, 2015
Type: Movie
An unusually cold winter forces the french government to push the best housed people to accommodate some poor fellow citizens. The decree called "Le Grand Partage" creates some trouble among the residents of a Paris upscale apartment block.
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Un grand moment de solitude
Title: Un grand moment de solitude
Character: Brigitte Gaillard
Released: April 7, 2015
Type: Movie
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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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Title: Un soir à la tour Eiffel
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 2014
Type: TV
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Les Gazelles
Title: Les Gazelles
Character: Brigitte
Released: March 26, 2014
Type: Movie
Marie and Eric, a couple in their thirties who have been together since college, buy their first apartment when Marie is suddenly overcome by doubt. Her encounter with a handsome, dark-haired man forces her to make a decision...
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Title: La Loi de Barbara
Character: Maître Barbara Malo
Released: March 8, 2014
Type: TV
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Aunt Hilda!
Title: Aunt Hilda!
Character: Dolorès (voice)
Released: February 12, 2014
Type: Movie
Plant loving Hilda, has created a museum where she preserves endangered and rare plants from all over the world. Meanwhile Attilem, a new genetically modified cereal, is launched on the market. Growing with little water and fertilizer while generating high crop field Attilem looks like an ideal solution to eradicate starvation and provide an alternative to diminishing oil reserves. But nothing is at it seems...
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Cinéast(e)s
Title: Cinéast(e)s
Character: Self
Released: October 15, 2013
Type: Movie
Is there such a thing as strictly feminine cinema? Is it more difficult for a woman than for a man to direct a film? Is gender parity necessary in the industry? Actress and producer Julie GAYET and actor and director Mathieu BUSSON ask these questions to twenty French woman filmmakers, who face a camera together for the first time. After over an hour of lively, informal, spontaneous and funny interviews, it becomes obvious that these issues are still problematic and definitely worthy of a documentary. As Mia HANSEN-LØVE remarks, “In the eyes of the people, a woman’s film is always a woman’s film, while a man’s movie is simply… a movie”.
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Half-Sister
Title: Half-Sister
Character: Antoinette
Released: June 4, 2013
Type: Movie
When Nénette discovers the identity of her father in a letter, she quickly goes off in search of him. But instead of finding her father, she is met by her half-brother, Paul. Paul, a bitter man who gave up his dream to take over his father’s pharmacy business, is less than thrilled at the arrival of his ‘embarrassing’ half-sister. After refusing to take her in, he soon gets a taste of his own medicine. Under the influence of a potent drug, for one day Paul is generous, happy and sensitive. The next morning, however, once the drug has worn off, his nasty side comes back...
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Mes héros
Title: Mes héros
Character: Olga
Released: December 10, 2012
Type: Movie
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Maman
Title: Maman
Character: La mère
Released: May 9, 2012
Type: Movie
Sandrine and Alice are two sisters who, in their thirties, decide the time has come to attempt a reconciliation with their mother.
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Of Women and Horses
Title: Of Women and Horses
Character: Joséphine de Silène
Released: January 25, 2012
Type: Movie
This microcosm of power and money has no time for Gracieuse, whose only assets are her talent, her fiercely stubborn character, and, most particularly, her determination to succeed. A high tension wire who's ready to stand up to Franz Mann and to face any obstacle, even if it means stepping outside the law, she pursues her sole obsession: to have a horse to call her own that she will take to the top.
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Beur sur la ville
Title: Beur sur la ville
Character: Mamie Nova
Released: October 11, 2011
Type: Movie
25-year-old Khalid Belkacem has failed at everything: college education, summer camp instructor's permit, driver's license, and even his BCG. He never expected to become the first "positive discrimination" member of the police force. But as his mother says: "That's France for you! A country where everyone has a chance."
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A Happy Event
Title: A Happy Event
Character: Claire
Released: September 27, 2011
Type: Movie
She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn't anyone warn me? Why doesn't anyone ever talk about this?" Un heureux événement, or an intimate view of motherhood, sincere and with no taboos.
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Il était une fois... Le père Noël est une ordure
Title: Il était une fois... Le père Noël est une ordure
Character: Self
Released: January 31, 2011
Type: Movie
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Holiday
Title: Holiday
Character: Christiane Mercier
Released: December 8, 2010
Type: Movie
After a crazy and tumultuous night embellished with singular encounters, Michel's awakening is brutal and painful. Not only does he find himself accused of murder, but his wife cannot be found.
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Title: It's Only TV
Character: Self - Guest
Released: April 1, 2010
Type: TV
This hilarious, high-rating format sees a witty host put a panel of opinionated guests – TV commentators, comedians and stars – through their paces in a series of fast-paced formatted segments that catch up on, discuss and make fun of the latest shows and news in the TV world.
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Neuilly Yo Mama!
Title: Neuilly Yo Mama!
Character: Mme Bachelot, directrice du collège Saint-Exupéry
Released: August 12, 2009
Type: Movie
Samy moves from the underdeveloped crime-ridden French suburb to the riches of Neuilly.
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Park Benches
Title: Park Benches
Character: Solange Renivelle
Released: July 8, 2009
Type: Movie
As she does every morning, Lucie takes advantage of her journey to work to lose herself for a while in the pages of a good book. And as she does every morning, she joins her colleagues at the office with a smile. It's a working day just like any other. Then suddenly all activity in the office stops. All attention is turned towards the window of the opposite building opposite and abanner reading: Man Alone. Is it a hoax? A cry for help? Everyone has his own interpretation, and will try, by any means possible, to discover what lies behind this mysterious message.
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The Hedgehog
Title: The Hedgehog
Character: Renée Michel
Released: July 1, 2009
Type: Movie
Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and philosophy, she questions and documents her life and immediate circle, drawing trenchant and often hilarious observations on the world around her. But as her appointment with death approaches, Paloma finally meets some kindred spirits in her building's grumpy janitor and an enigmatic, elegant neighbor, both of whom inspire Paloma to question her rather pessimistic outlook on life.
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A Day at the Museum
Title: A Day at the Museum
Character: La mère en Chanel
Released: November 19, 2008
Type: Movie
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.
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A French Gigolo
Title: A French Gigolo
Character: Irene
Released: October 8, 2008
Type: Movie
Marco leads a double life. As Marco, he is a construction worker but rich ladies craving sexual excitation know him as Patrick. As Marco he is married to Fanny, an ambitious young woman who has opened her own hairdressing salon in partnership with her friend Rosalie. Marco/Patrick is not a male prostitute at heart: in fact he does the job in order to support his wife's business. Which doesn't prevent Judith, an elegant tele-shopping presenter who buys his services, from falling in love with him. But when Fanny learns what Marco does and with whom, she first gets mad but soon starts interfering in their affair.
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Françoise Dolto, for the love of children
Title: Françoise Dolto, for the love of children
Character: Françoise Dolto
Released: September 12, 2008
Type: Movie
After the Second World War, Claude, son of communist resistance fighters, whose mother died in Auschwitz, and Ben, child of a prostitute and a Jew, face the demons that haunt them with the help of Françoise Dolto.
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The Key
Title: The Key
Character: Michèle Varin
Released: December 19, 2007
Type: Movie
Depuis peu Eric Vincent, trentenaire sans histoire, a un fort sentiment de malaise. Est-ce la peur d'avoir un enfant ou celle de voir brutalement resurgir le fantôme d'un père qu'il n'a jamais connu ? Un matin, un inconnu l'appelle pour lui proposer de récupérer les cendres de son père. D'abord réticent, il finit par accepter et se retrouve plongé au coeur d'une machination infernale.
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The Red Inn
Title: The Red Inn
Character: Rose Martin
Released: December 5, 2007
Type: Movie
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story unfolds as the monk tries to save the guest's lives without violating the holy secrecy of the confession.
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Ruby Blue
Title: Ruby Blue
Character: Stephanie
Released: May 17, 2007
Type: Movie
An elderly man's innocent friendship with an eight year old girl is tarnished by the assumptions of a community when the little girl goes missing.
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Title: Salut les Terriens !
Character: Self (guest)
Released: November 4, 2006
Type: TV
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French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever
Title: French Fried Vacations 3: Friends Forever
Character: Nathalie Morin
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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La vie est à nous !
Title: La vie est à nous !
Character: Blanche Delhomme
Released: December 7, 2005
Type: Movie
Louise and Blanche run L'Etape, a cafe restaurant in a Savoy village. Facing them is Le Virage, run by Lucie and her daughters. The rivalry between the two cafes will be exacerbated during the truckers' strike that blocks the village.
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Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés
Title: Les Enfoirés, 15 ans d'Enfoirés
Released: November 25, 2005
Type: Movie
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I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
Title: I Saw Ben Barka Get Killed
Character: Marguerite Duras
Released: November 2, 2005
Type: Movie
January 1966. In a Paris apartment, police discovers the corpse of Georges Figon, the man who broke the scandal of the Ben Barka affair and undermined Gaullist power.
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The Ex-Wife of My Life
Title: The Ex-Wife of My Life
Character: Marie-Pierre
Released: December 8, 2004
Type: Movie
Six years after their split, a woman attempts to get her ex-husband back by unusual means.
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Madame Edouard
Title: Madame Edouard
Character: Nina Tchitchi
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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Hanging Offense
Title: Hanging Offense
Character: Michèle Varin
Released: October 15, 2003
Type: Movie
A strange investigation doesn’t erase the regrets of a grieving woman cop. Every four years, the past catches up with her. Every four years this woman is very afraid. Her fear is such that she feels it could kill her because in her dreams reality begins.
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The Race
Title: The Race
Character: Madame Jo
Released: March 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Sami, Tacchini, Yaya and Kader are four small-time crooks from the suburbs of Paris. After a failed robbery, their boss, Carlito, sends them to Canada to spy on his fiancée. There, they are mistaken for a band of professional killers and are hired to assassinate the heiress Léonore de Segonzac...
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Absolutely Fabulous
Title: Absolutely Fabulous
Character: Edith 'Eddie' Mousson
Released: August 29, 2001
Type: Movie
The wildly popular British television show Absolutely Fabulous gets a Francophonic makeover with this film version directed by Gabriel Aghion. In this go around, Josiane Balasko and Nathalie Baye play the incorrigible Eddie and Patsy, who leave no impulse unenacted and no lust unsated -- be it for sex or the latest in designer clothing. Waking up from a night of drunken debauchery, the two dip right into a feast of champagne and caviar, much to the irritation of Eddie's elegant mother and her resentful daughter. As Eddie stretches an appalling pair of leopard-print leotards (complete with matching shoes, purse, and hat) over her massive rear end, she and Patsy learn of a handsome young Rollerblading delivery boy who quickly becomes the object of their lust. This film was screened at the 2001 Toronto Film Festival.
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Title: Burger Quiz
Character: Self
Released: August 27, 2001
Type: TV
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A Crime in Paradise
Title: A Crime in Paradise
Character: Lulu Braconnier
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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Actors
Title: Actors
Character: André Dussollier 2
Released: April 5, 2000
Type: Movie
Les Acteurs is the absurd story of Jean-Pierre Marielle desperately waiting for a cup of hot water, the story of a conspiracy against actors, the story of aging actors whose careers are slowly less active than they used to be, but a stunning tribute to French actors and their cinema.
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The Libertine
Title: The Libertine
Character: Baronne d'Holbach
Released: March 15, 2000
Type: Movie
French philosopher Denis Diderot produces the first encyclopedia while indulging in 18th-century decadence.
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Les Enfoirés 2000 - Enfoirés en 2000
Title: Les Enfoirés 2000 - Enfoirés en 2000
Released: February 26, 2000
Type: Movie
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The Son of Français
Title: The Son of Français
Character: Suzanne
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: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur
Title: Les Enfoirés 1998 - Enfoirés en cœur
Released: February 7, 1998
Type: Movie
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Un grand cri d'amour
Title: Un grand cri d'amour
Character: Gigi Ortega
Released: January 7, 1998
Type: Movie
A famous couple is going on stage after ten years of separation and hate.
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Arlette
Title: Arlette
Character: Arlette
Released: April 16, 1997
Type: Movie
An actor owes big bucks to the Vegas mob. He's all set to pay them off; he's conned a rich widow into marrying him. But the mobsters blow his cover because they need him for a different scam. The lost heiress to a Vegas casino fortune has been found; she's a truckstop waitress in France. The mobsters' proposition: romance the broad, and get hitched. Or else. Then the crooks can bump her off and keep the casino for themselves...
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Didier
Title: Didier
Character: Commentateur sportif, Jean-Philippe
Released: January 28, 1997
Type: Movie
Jean-Pierre Costa is a football manager upon whom fate appears not to be smiling. First, a friend, Annabelle, dumps a pet Labrador named Didier on him whilst she goes off to make a report in Los Angeles. Next, one of his star players is injured, leaving him one player short for a crucial match. As if things could not get any worse, Costa wakes up one morning to find that that Didier has been transformed into a man...
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Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique
Title: Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique
Released: March 8, 1995
Type: Movie
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French Twist
Title: French Twist
Character: Marijo
Released: January 18, 1995
Type: Movie
After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.
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Dead Tired
Title: Dead Tired
Character: Josiane Balasko
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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Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents
Title: Not Everybody's Lucky Enough to Have Communist Parents
Character: Irène
Released: December 1, 1993
Type: Movie
This bright domestic drama captures a moment in time when, for a large number of idealistic and grateful French men and women, the promise of Russian communism was bright, and everything Russian was a source of joy and amazement. In the story, Irene was rescued from Auschwitz by soldiers from the U.S.S.R., and since that time she has enthusiatically considered Russia to be the source of hope in the world. Her more pragmatic husband has, by 1958, grown somewhat weary of her enthusiasm, which has led her to decorate their apartment with anything Russian she can get her hands on. Matters come to a head when she is befriended by three members of the Red Army Choir during their tour of Paris.
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Les Enfoirés 1993 - Les Enfoirés chantent Starmania
Title: Les Enfoirés 1993 - Les Enfoirés chantent Starmania
Released: March 6, 1993
Type: Movie
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My Life Is Hell
Title: My Life Is Hell
Character: Leah Lemonier
Released: December 4, 1991
Type: Movie
The naive and self-conscious Leah mistakenly signs a pact with the devil Abargadon. But she's on Heaven's hit list, so the Archangel Gabriel intervenes to bring about the demon's demise. But Leah begins to find Abargadon attractive and not so bad. She decides to save his soul.
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The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
Title: The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
Character: La scientifique
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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Title: Stars 90
Character: self
Released: September 3, 1990
Type: TV
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Too Beautiful for You
Title: Too Beautiful for You
Character: Colette Chevassu
Released: October 21, 1989
Type: Movie
A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an affair. Though it would seem it has happened before his wife finds this particular entanglement of her husband's very difficult to accept.
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L'Ex-femme de ma vie
Title: L'Ex-femme de ma vie
Character: Frankie
Released: February 1, 1989
Type: Movie
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Sans peur et sans reproche
Title: Sans peur et sans reproche
Character: Companion threatened with rape
Released: December 14, 1988
Type: Movie
Without fear and beyond reproach: the life of the brave knight de Bayard reviewed and corrected with humorous sauce.
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Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale
Title: Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale
Character: la journaliste
Released: June 8, 1988
Type: Movie
The leader of a nudist colony enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor.
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Lady Cops
Title: Lady Cops
Character: Inspecteur Molyneux
Released: December 16, 1987
Type: Movie
Mireille Molyneux, police inspector, tracks down pimps. With the complicity of Yasmina, a prostitute, she arrested Charlie, her pimp. To take revenge on Mireille, Jean-Pierre, another pimp, accuses him of corruption. It was then the subject of an investigation by two IGS inspectors: Blondel and Lacroix. Soon after, Charlie was released for lack of evidence. To keep Yasmina, he kidnaps his son and threatens to kill him.
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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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The Joint Brothers
Title: The Joint Brothers
Character: Aline
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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Nuit d'ivresse
Title: Nuit d'ivresse
Character: Frède
Released: September 23, 1986
Type: Movie
Jacques Belin, presenter of a silly TV show, gets drunk after receiving an award and misses the train bringing his TV-soap-star fiancée. He meets up with Frède, just out of prison after a three year sentence and, in between numerous arguments and Jacques' break-up with his girlfriend, the two of them get drunker together, going across Paris in search of more alcohol and adventure.
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All Mixed Up
Title: All Mixed Up
Character: Anita
Released: March 19, 1985
Type: Movie
After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.
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Slices of Life
Title: Slices of Life
Character: La parisienne
Released: February 6, 1985
Type: Movie
A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal!"
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Title: Télématin
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 1985
Type: TV
Télématin is a French breakfast television news show, broadcast on France 2 since January 7, 1985. It is broadcast in Metropolitan France weekdays from 6:30 to 9:00 am CET. TV5 broadcast the show in Canada in its entirety until September 2011: it now shows a 90 minute version between 6:30 and 8:00 am Eastern Time, when the French original version is now 2h30 long. Télématin is hosted by William Leymergie. The show is daily seen by around 40% of the French morning audience, a very high percentage for French TV. In Metropolitan France, the newscasts are presented at 7:00, 7:30 and 8:00, with newsflashes at 6:30 and 8:50, and two press reviews at 7:20 and 8:30. The 6:30, 7:30 and 8:50 newscasts are usually presented by a female reader and the hourly newscasts by a male. The usual readers are Nathanaël de Rinquesen, Sophie Le Saint, Julien Benedetto, Sophie Gastrain, Patrice Romedenne and Frédéric Vion.
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Title: Télématin
Character: Self (Duplex)
Released: January 10, 1985
Type: TV
Télématin is a French breakfast television news show, broadcast on France 2 since January 7, 1985. It is broadcast in Metropolitan France weekdays from 6:30 to 9:00 am CET. TV5 broadcast the show in Canada in its entirety until September 2011: it now shows a 90 minute version between 6:30 and 8:00 am Eastern Time, when the French original version is now 2h30 long. Télématin is hosted by William Leymergie. The show is daily seen by around 40% of the French morning audience, a very high percentage for French TV. In Metropolitan France, the newscasts are presented at 7:00, 7:30 and 8:00, with newsflashes at 6:30 and 8:50, and two press reviews at 7:20 and 8:30. The 6:30, 7:30 and 8:50 newscasts are usually presented by a female reader and the hourly newscasts by a male. The usual readers are Nathanaël de Rinquesen, Sophie Le Saint, Julien Benedetto, Sophie Gastrain, Patrice Romedenne and Frédéric Vion.
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Nuit d'ivresse
Title: Nuit d'ivresse
Character: Simone
Released: January 1, 1985
Type: Movie
In a bar, ex-TV host Belin meets Frede, an ex-maid who just got out of prison. Between them, they manage to create panic everywhere they go. The next morning Belin has forgotten everything.
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The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent
Title: The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent
Character: Jackie
Released: November 28, 1984
Type: Movie
An international intrigue with terrorists threatening to blow up the presidents of the most powerful countries.
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La Smala
Title: La Smala
Character: Simone
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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Petit Con
Title: Petit Con
Character: Rolande
Released: January 18, 1984
Type: Movie
An adolescent who fancies himself a sexy and conscientious young man abuses all his friends and family in a quest for his own independence.
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Signes extérieurs de richesse
Title: Signes extérieurs de richesse
Character: Béatrice Flamand, inspecteur des impôts
Released: November 9, 1983
Type: Movie
Jean-Jacques Lestrade is the owner of a renowned veterinary clinic in Paris who lives in a luxurious apartment. He is part of Parisian high society and lives a wealthy lifestyle surrounded by young women and money. He relies on his trusty accountant, Jérôme Bouvier, to manage his finances. All goes well until the day that Béatrice Flamand, a tax inspector, shows up at his clinic, at which point Lestrade is now in trouble.
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Gramps Is in the Resistance
Title: Gramps Is in the Resistance
Character: La pharmacienne qui couche avec Ralph, un Allemand
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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Title: L'Académie des 9
Character: Self
Released: September 13, 1982
Type: TV
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Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Title: Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Character: Marie-Ange Musquin, présidente de l'association
Released: August 25, 1982
Type: Movie
Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a transvestite visit their office.
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Bunny's Bar
Title: Bunny's Bar
Character: Anita, dame 'pipi'
Released: April 14, 1982
Type: Movie
In the cloakroom of Bunny's Bar, a shabby striptease box, Anita, a cloakroom lady, celebrates her last night of work: she has to join Paul in Metz to start a new life.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Droit de Réponse
Title: Droit de Réponse
Character: Self
Released: December 12, 1981
Type: Movie
"Droit de Réponse" (Right of Reply) is a French debate program broadcast between December 12, 1981 and September 19, 1987 on the TF1 channel, presented by Michel Polac and produced by Maurice Dugowson. Broadcast live on a weekly basis, on Saturdays from 8.30 p.m., the right of reply has been the source of many controversies, due to the various speakers who have come to present their point of view on the show (which leads to famous scandals , remained in the memory of viewers), but also for the variety and relevance of the topics covered, which ensured the success of the program on the air for several years. On French television, this program is considered by some observers as a “pioneer program in terms of controversy-show or clash, in modern language”.
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Hotel America
Title: Hotel America
Character: Colette
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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Le Maître d'école
Title: Le Maître d'école
Character: Jacqueline Lajoie, depressed teacher
Released: October 28, 1981
Type: Movie
After having lost his job for having saved a child accused of shop lifting, Frédéric Barbier decides to become a school teacher with some funny results.The great comedy actor Coluche is excellent as a simple school teacher.
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Men Prefer Fat Girls
Title: Men Prefer Fat Girls
Character: Lydie Langlois
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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Clara and Chics Types
Title: Clara and Chics Types
Character: Louise
Released: January 14, 1981
Type: Movie
Three days in the lives of six friends who are nearly 30 years old, live in Grenoble, and have a rock band called the "Why Notes?". They're to play in Paris at Charles's school reunion. In getting to Paris and back, the characters interact with Aimee's ex-husband and her abrasive, cruel ex-mentor, Louise's would-be lover who turns out to have a husband, Mickey's long-time lover and her children, Bertrand's Germanic wife and their children who speak no French, and Frederic's distant mother. The band also meets Clara, a mercurial free spirit who beguiles Bertrand, then Mickey, then takes up with someone else in the band.
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Title: Les 400 Coups de Virginie
Character: Emma-Ammé
Released: December 22, 1979
Type: TV
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French Fried Vacation 2: The Bronzés go Skiing
Title: French Fried Vacation 2: The Bronzés go Skiing
Character: Nathalie Morin, femme de Bernard
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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Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears
Title: Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears
Character: La cliente blessée, à la banque
Released: January 17, 1979
Type: Movie
Two brothers are fighting for a one girl attention...
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Title: Rire et sourire : Le Splendid
Character: Différents rôles (Thérèse Verrou, M.L. Chavasse, M. Pereira)
Released: November 19, 1978
Type: TV
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French Fried Vacation
Title: French Fried Vacation
Character: Nathalie Morin, la femme de Bernard
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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Like a Turtle on Its Back
Title: Like a Turtle on Its Back
Character: une fêtarde dans la voiture
Released: September 27, 1978
Type: Movie
Unable to put a single word on paper, a youngish man with one novel to his credit finds that his life is crumbling to ruins around him because of his severe case of writer's block. He tries every remedy known to man and makes up a few new ones in this comedy. All his efforts are futile: he loses his girlfriend and his apartment and has a succession of misadventures until finally, homeless and hospitalized, he rediscovers his inspiration.
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Si vous n'aimez pas ça, n'en dégoûtez pas les autres
Title: Si vous n'aimez pas ça, n'en dégoûtez pas les autres
Character: une spectatrice
Released: May 30, 1978
Type: Movie
A bunch of actors (mixed theater gangs from Le Café de la Gare and Le Splendid) are reunited in a movie theater to watch an anonymous porn flick. Their reactions to the images. All dialogs have been improvised.
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Pauline et l'ordinateur
Title: Pauline et l'ordinateur
Character: Pauline
Released: January 25, 1978
Type: Movie
Seeking medical advice to lose a few pounds, a woman lands up finding out about the usefulness of a computer, not just for her diet but also for work, with her parents,and to find a new boyfriend after the previous one has left her.
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We Will All Meet in Paradise
Title: We Will All Meet in Paradise
Character: Josy, la petite amie de Lucien
Released: November 9, 1977
Type: Movie
Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, Étienne Dorsay becomes jealous and imagines various stratagems to identify the lover. In the meantime, he and his friends acquire a weekend house for a very low price.
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This Sweet Sickness
Title: This Sweet Sickness
Character: Nadine
Released: September 28, 1977
Type: Movie
Industrious accountant David Martinaud claims to be visiting his parents every weekend, but it's merely a cover for the labor-intensive refurbishing of his country cottage. The reason for David's secrecy is that his childhood crush, Lise, lives nearby, and, although she's married, he still believes they'll get together. His devotion to the idea borders on mania, and, when Lise's husband is accidentally killed, he quickly spirals out of control.
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Monsieur Papa
Title: Monsieur Papa
Character: The woman in the phone booth
Released: August 23, 1977
Type: Movie
In this family comedy, Papa has no end of trouble getting his young son to accept his new girlfriend.
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Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
Title: Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
Character: (uncredited)
Released: June 24, 1977
Type: Movie
Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. But thieves have hidden a cache of stolen diamonds in Herbie's gas tank, and are now trying to get them back.
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The Little Wheedlers
Title: The Little Wheedlers
Character: Corinne
Released: June 24, 1977
Type: Movie
Sylvie, Corinne and Sophie all live in the same accommodation in Paris. The first sells clothes on the steps. The second works in a factory restaurant and the third is divorced, has a child and does odd jobs.
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An Unusual Girl
Title: An Unusual Girl
Character: Simone
Released: April 10, 1977
Type: Movie
While chaos and the impending doom of World War II are just over the horizon, the members of an impoverished French family are occupied with their own concerns. Most notable among them are the romance of the teenaged girl with a young socialist and the boy's friendship with a German boy.
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The Tenant
Title: The Tenant
Character: Office Worker
Released: May 26, 1976
Type: Movie
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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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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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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The Year 01
Title: The Year 01
Character: A televiewer / The cyclist
Released: February 22, 1973
Type: Movie
The film narrates a utopian abandonment, consensual and festive of the market economy and high productivity. The population decides on a number of resolutions beginning with "We stop everything" and the second "After a total downtime will be revived-reluctantly-that the services and products including lack will prove intolerable. Probably: water to drink, electricity for reading at night, the TSF to say "This is not the end of the world, this is an 01, and now a page of Celestial Mechanics". The implementation of these resolutions is the first day of a new era, Year 01. The Year 01 is emblematic of the challenge of the 1970s and covers such diverse topics as ecology, negation of authority, free love, communal living, rejection of private property and labor.
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L'Agression
Title: L'Agression
Character: Jeune femme
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
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Scoundrel in White
Title: Scoundrel in White
Released: September 29, 1972
Type: Movie
Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Paul, a former womanizer who marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be trusted and make poor wives. A car accident leaves him bedridden and he begins to miss his playboy days, when Christine's bombshell sister Martine arrives and Paul decides he must have her. He begins drugging Christine at night so he can sneak out to kill of Martine's many suitors one by one.
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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La bonne étoile
Title: La bonne étoile
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie