Catherine Lachens

Catherine Lachens

Born: September 2, 1945
Died: September 27, 2023
in Boulogne-Billancourt, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France

Movies for Catherine Lachens...

Le Molière imaginaire
Title: Le Molière imaginaire
Character: Marquise de Sablé
Released: February 14, 2024
Type: Movie
Royal Palace Theatre, Paris . February 17th 1673, the King’s theatre group is playing « Le Malade Imaginaire » when Moliere started spitting blood, but he takes the decision to keep playing until the end. During his agony, he let enter in the theatre all the elements and ghost who made his life. Starting a fight to preserve his dignity, he plan to transfigure his death in a last laugh instrument.
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French Cuisine
Title: French Cuisine
Character: Maman François
Released: December 30, 2015
Type: Movie
François and Charlotte directed together a gourmet hotel and restaurant on the edge of the sea, but their marital relationship is not fixed beauty: obsessive hard, Francis wants his first star in the Michelin Guide while Charlotte, at the dawn of the quarantine, dreams of a first child. This already complicated situation will literally explode the day where Charlotte's first husband, Alex, disembarked in their lives while everyone believed him dead in the terrible tsunami of 2004...
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Bright Days Ahead
Title: Bright Days Ahead
Character: Sylviane
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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Bonjour Madame, Bonjour Monsieur
Title: Bonjour Madame, Bonjour Monsieur
Character: Voisine
Released: February 6, 2012
Type: Movie
A man with a serious illness, visits his doctor. His condition does not improve. So, he asks him to come back with his wife. But here is the problem, he makes believe for several years to ...
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Title: Scènes de ménages
Character: Prostituée du quartier qui prend sa retraite
Released: November 9, 2009
Type: TV
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Title: Scènes de ménages
Character: Une prostituée retraitée
Released: November 9, 2009
Type: TV
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À vot' bon cœur
Title: À vot' bon cœur
Character: Madame Bisance
Released: August 31, 2005
Type: Movie
French independent director Paul Vecchiali playfully bites the hand that periodically feeds him (and many of the nation's other creative filmmakers) in this dark comedy. Writer and director Vecchiali stars as a moviemaker named Paul Vecchiali, who is trying to complete his latest project, a dramatic love story about a young couple whose relationship is complicated by the man's addiction to drugs. Short on funds, Vecchiali approaches the National Cinema Center, who offer loans and grants to independent filmmakers whom they believe are deserving. The NCC is less than impressed with Vecchiali's latest script, and they turn him down, just as they have done a number of times in the past. Angry and determined that the NCC will never break the spirit of another director, Vecchiali and his crew block out a plan to assassinate the nine members of the funding board, though the press and public seem more bemused than outraged by the sudden rash of killings.
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One Fine Day, a Hairdresser
Title: One Fine Day, a Hairdresser
Character: Wealthy Client
Released: September 30, 2004
Type: Movie
How do you ask a wild, impetuous hairdresser on a date if you're a pathologically timid philosophy student with no social skills?
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It's Hard Killing Someone Even on a Monday
Title: It's Hard Killing Someone Even on a Monday
Character: La vieille
Released: May 16, 2001
Type: Movie
Jean doesn't want to stagnate in the anonymity of an unattractive life anymore. He chose to start a new career very mediatic but quite dangerous.
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French Twist
Title: French Twist
Character: Fabienne, owner of Sopha
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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The Beautiful Story
Title: The Beautiful Story
Character: La chasseuse de tête
Released: March 18, 1992
Type: Movie
A film with emphasis on visuals and music, the plot concerns characters who meet in present time, mainly the male gypsy Jesus, and the female thief and con-artist Odona, who share parallel experiences from lives 2000 years in the past. These stories are juxtaposed.
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The Maid
Title: The Maid
Character: Catherine Olivier
Released: August 2, 1991
Type: Movie
A man goes off to Paris to start his new job at a bank. When he falls in love with a beautiful woman, he decides to work as her maid -- until he discovers she not only is his boss, but his colleague at the bank.
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Le Cri du cochon
Title: Le Cri du cochon
Released: July 23, 1991
Type: Movie
On vacation in the country, a group of friends are requisitioned by a city official to work at the slaughterhouse.
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Le Sixième Doigt
Title: Le Sixième Doigt
Character: Carole
Released: September 26, 1990
Type: Movie
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Venetian Red
Title: Venetian Red
Character: La Giro
Released: September 20, 1989
Type: Movie
Venice. March 1735. The carnival is in full swing Everybody's happy mood and the lively streets are filled with musicians, mimes, clowns and acrobats of pickpockets who practice their craft each, displaying a colorful rainbow and sounds. At every corner, there is something going on that should not be missed - especially if it's something forbidden. However, some people are concerned about something else. One is Carlo Goldoni young lawyer of 27 years, he dreams only theater and he thinks only the part that wants to ride. Alas, the money was also hard to find at that time than now. His two friends, Antonio Vivaldi and Gian Battista Tiepolo are better known than him but they are also looking for this rare bird: a patron, who was not on ONLY the desire but also the means to sponsor a work of art.
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The Two Crocodiles
Title: The Two Crocodiles
Character: Greta
Released: October 14, 1987
Type: Movie
Rene (Jean-Pierre Marielle) is a small-time crook who tries to shake down storekeeper Emile (Jean Carmet) in this uneven and humorless comedy. Things change when Rene starts to fall for the terminally boring and provincial Emile.
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Title: Série rose
Character: La comtesse
Released: November 8, 1986
Type: TV
An anthology of erotic stories by famous writers like Guy de Maupassant, Nicolas Edme Restif de La Bretonne, Marquis de Sade, Giovanni Boccaccio, Marquis de Foudras, Daniel Defoe, Anton Tchekov, Jin Ping Mei, and Aristophanes.
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Rosa la Rose, Public Girl
Title: Rosa la Rose, Public Girl
Character: Quarante
Released: March 2, 1986
Type: Movie
Rosa la Rose is the most beautiful prostitute of Les Halles. Every client wants her and she accepts everything. Her pimp is a sympathetic and generous man and there is not much to tell about Rosa’s life. Until one day she meets Julien, a young guy, and falls in love with him. But will it be worthy to leave her life for a madness love?
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The Blood of Others
Title: The Blood of Others
Character: Mme Grant
Released: May 2, 1984
Type: Movie
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.
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Swann in Love
Title: Swann in Love
Character: Aunt
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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It Could Be Worse
Title: It Could Be Worse
Character: Inspector Lanvin
Released: February 9, 1983
Type: Movie
A macho junk shopkeeper, a lunar lawyer and a storekeeper meet by pure chance and develop the century's hold-up.
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The Prize of Peril
Title: The Prize of Peril
Character: Madeleine
Released: January 25, 1983
Type: Movie
In a futuristic society, contestants pit their survival skills against each other in a fight to the death for cash prizes, and the contest is aired live on television.
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Bad Hats
Title: Bad Hats
Character: Catherine
Released: September 5, 1982
Type: Movie
In this routine drama, two men (a crass Brit and a slow Frenchman) decide to evade the war in 1917, but their flight on a stolen boat goes awry and they end up on the coast of France, close to the fighting they wanted to leave behind. Once on shore, they make the acquaintance of a like-minded young widow who begins an affair with both men (she just wants to have a child by each) -- but their unusually idyllic existence is threatened with imminent tragedy as the French army advances ever closer.
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On s'en fout… nous on s'aime
Title: On s'en fout… nous on s'aime
Character: Grégory's mother
Released: June 16, 1982
Type: Movie
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Two Lions in the Sun
Title: Two Lions in the Sun
Character: Babette
Released: October 29, 1980
Type: Movie
Paul and Rene, two men in their forties weary with life. One a widower, the other is divorced and pays alimony to his ex-wife. They live together, go on vacations together. This last vacation has been a washout and so is their return.
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The Other One's Mug
Title: The Other One's Mug
Character: Florence
Released: December 12, 1979
Type: Movie
Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a forthcoming election. When he learns that a notorious criminal named Kraus has escaped from prison, Perrin panics and goes into hiding. His deputy, Constant, hires Perrin’s cousin, Gilbert, an actor who is a perfect double of Perrin, to replace him. What Gilbert does no know is that the killer Kraus is bumping off the people who were implicated in the affair for which he was arrested, and that Perrin is next on his list.
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The Medic
Title: The Medic
Character: Zoa
Released: October 26, 1979
Type: Movie
The film is set in a modern war, probably between a European country and a country in the Far East. Behind the battle lines, in a medical unit, a surgeon falls in love with an idealistic nurse after an initially difficult meeting.
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Le divorcement
Title: Le divorcement
Released: August 22, 1979
Type: Movie
In this rambling comic tale about a man and a wife, with four children, who calmly announce to the children that they want to divorce one another, it is impossible to tell who is dissatisfied with whom about what. They had seemed to be a perfect couple. Their flabbergasted children have mixed feelings, and the most difficult thing about the divorce, besides understanding why it is taking place at all, is deciding what will happen with the couple's numerous pets.
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Dumb But Disciplined
Title: Dumb But Disciplined
Character: Ingrid Cochy
Released: August 21, 1979
Type: Movie
Jacques does his military service. Shy, round and clumsy, he is forced to agree to be the driver of a special ambulance.
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Cop or Hood
Title: Cop or Hood
Character: Simone Langlois
Released: March 28, 1979
Type: Movie
When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers a mare's nest of police corruption. In fact, in this comedy thriller the whole town is corrupt. If they were closely examined, Stan's methods for pursuing this investigation might embarrass the police. For instance, he drives into a criminal's house in a fancy, expensive race car. In another incident, he callously blows up a casino owned by Musard , one of the town's crime bosses. On that occasion, he first forces Musard to remove his clothes, and the poor criminal watches his casino explode from across the square while standing naked in a phone booth. Meanwhile, Stan seduces the lovely Edmonde.
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Too Shy to Try
Title: Too Shy to Try
Character: La camionneuse
Released: August 23, 1978
Type: Movie
Pierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and can't say no to the salesman, Aldo; he spends 6,000 francs on tapes, books, and a punching bag. Soon after, he's smitten by Agnes, a hotel guest with a model's looks and photographers wherever she goes. When she leaves for Nice, he follows, meeting Aldo on the way. Aldo becomes his boldness coach. Pierre gets a job washing dishes where Agnes is staying, but after a week or so, she's off to Deauville, with Aldo and Pierre in pursuit. Using funds they get by selling Aldo's car, this time Pierre poses as a polo-playing jet setter. Will this win the heart of Agnes?
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These Sorcerers Are Mad
Title: These Sorcerers Are Mad
Character: Thérèse Picard
Released: June 28, 1978
Type: Movie
Julien est envoyé par son patron à l'île Maurice, où il fait la connaissance d'Henri, un chômeur professionnel. Un soir de beuverie, les deux hommes se soulagent au pied d'une statue sacrée. Offensés par ce sacrilège, les dieux les punissent en leur ôtant leur reflet et en les faisant léviter. Si cette situation leur paraît au début invivable, les deux hommes finissent cependant par tirer parti de ces désavantages pour régler leurs problèmes personnels.
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Monsieur Papa
Title: Monsieur Papa
Character: Miss Carpentier
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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Dis bonjour à la dame !..
Title: Dis bonjour à la dame !..
Character: Mrs. Jeannot, the neighbor
Released: March 30, 1977
Type: Movie
Robert Ferry, a PTT employee, is having problems with his two sons. The elder has impregnated his girlfriend, a young hippie, and the younger, Daniel, is said to have homosexual tendencies. Determined to put his son back on the straight and narrow, Robert decides to go against his principles and force a young girl on him...
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The Gang
Title: The Gang
Character: Janine
Released: January 19, 1977
Type: Movie
In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the front-wheel drive gang". The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will their luck last?
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Silence... We're Shooting
Title: Silence... We're Shooting
Character: Paulette Fromenteau
Released: May 26, 1976
Type: Movie
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Monsieur Albert
Title: Monsieur Albert
Character: Roseline
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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Let's Make a Dirty Movie
Title: Let's Make a Dirty Movie
Character: Laurence
Released: February 17, 1976
Type: Movie
A bumbling film crew attempts to make a porno movie.
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Winter Is Approaching
Title: Winter Is Approaching
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
An intimate report on Paris. A heavy, mysterious night-time Paris: that of a young homosexual wandering the streets in search of desire.
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Incorrigible
Title: Incorrigible
Character: The girl at the educators office
Released: October 15, 1975
Type: Movie
Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is to make enough money to build a sea wall to protect Mont-Saint-Michel. Charlotte, a parole officer, shows up: she's young and seems taken in by Victor. He discovers she lives above the Senlus Museum, where her parents are the curators. With two pals he decides to steal a priceless El Greco triptych and then ransom it back to the cultural ministry. What will Charlotte do when she realizes he's used her to make a fortune?
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Flic Story
Title: Flic Story
Character: Jenny
Released: October 1, 1975
Type: Movie
The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.
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The Arrest
Title: The Arrest
Character: Lola Lamaret
Released: January 1, 1975
Type: Movie
A young writer has just written a new novel, which has been accepted by an editor. A simple and familiar story about the terrifying power the state has over people’s lives.
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Ariane
Title: Ariane
Character: Erato
Released: December 1, 1974
Type: Movie
A dreamlike adaptation of the legend of Ariadne and the Minotaur.
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The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Title: The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: Movie
Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.