Jenny Clève

Jenny Clève

Born: April 3, 1930
Died: February 17, 2023
in Roubaix, Nord, France

Movies for Jenny Clève...

A Mother
Title: A Mother
Character: Le grand-mère
Released: June 24, 2015
Type: Movie
Marie lives alone with her 16 year old son. She struggles to get by with this teenager who gets deeper and deeper in violence and juvenile delinquency. Speaking sentimentally, things are not going better: the relationship with her lover has come to an end. It may seems depressing, but Marie doesn’t give up, even if love seems to be an inaccessible dream. But love, there is. We can feel the affection of this mother for her troublesome child, thanks to Mathilde Seigner, who gives an astonishing performance. A subtle directing, a strong and captivating story, in short: a must see.
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Brèves de comptoir
Title: Brèves de comptoir
Character: La vielle dame
Released: September 24, 2014
Type: Movie
A small, old-fashioned cafe in a suburban square, opposite the cemetery, the Hirondelle. Every day at half past six, the customers dance with their stories and tirades, totally amazing.
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Arrest Me
Title: Arrest Me
Character: Mémé Gardie
Released: February 6, 2013
Type: Movie
One evening, a woman enters a police station and confesses to having killed her violent husband several years ago. As she listens to her fantastic story, the policewoman is increasingly less inclined to arrest her. Just why is the woman so eager to confess her crime, and why is the policewoman so reluctant to take her into custody?
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Les pieds dans le plat
Title: Les pieds dans le plat
Character: Suzanne Lagadec
Released: July 24, 2012
Type: Movie
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Welcome to the Sticks
Title: Welcome to the Sticks
Character: Old Lady singing the 'P'tit Quinquin'
Released: February 20, 2008
Type: Movie
Although living a comfortable life in Salon-de-Provence, a charming town in the South of France, Julie has been feeling depressed for a while. To please her, Philippe Abrams, a post office administrator, her husband, tries to obtain a transfer to a seaside town, on the French Riviera, at any cost. The trouble is that he is caught red-handed while trying to scam an inspector. Philippe is immediately banished to the distant unheard of town of Bergues, in the Far North of France...
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Itinéraires
Title: Itinéraires
Character: La grand-mère
Released: August 25, 2005
Type: Movie
It is the end of the judicial control of Thierry Chartier, 18 years old. He was a virgin in Heuzecourt, a small village in the north of France populated by farmers and retired miners, where his paternal grandmother lived. He earns his living by helping out in the fields, he helps his grandmother, and would like to take over the farm. But, following an incident, he is condemned to seven years of criminal imprisonment, for complicity of murder, Thierry leaves on parole with an English diploma and a tattoo. But above all a guilt forever anchored. It is now up to him to rebuild his life.
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Title: Zodiaque
Character: Victoire
Released: June 28, 2004
Type: TV
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The Children of the Marshland
Title: The Children of the Marshland
Character: Berthe
Released: March 3, 1999
Type: Movie
The film is set in Marais, a quiet region along the banks of Loire river in 1918. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly children. Garris lives alone with his recollections of World War I trenches. Their daily life consists of seasonal work and visits from their two pals: Tane, the local train conductor and Amédée, a dreamer and voracious reader of classics.
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XXL
Title: XXL
Character: Renée Bourdalou
Released: December 10, 1997
Type: Movie
Tunisian-Jewish businessman Alain Berrebi (Michel Boujenah) courts Ashkenazi princess Arlette Stern (Elsa Zylberstein). Her father David (Maurice Chevit) learns of the death of a rural Auvergne peasant who once hid David and his cousin Nathan (Felix Fibich) from the Nazis. Nathan is now a NYC diamond dealer on West 47th Street. David, Nathan, Arlette, and Berrebi head for the funeral in Auvergne. There they encounter the deceased peasant's son, Jean Bourdalou (Gerard Depardieu), who operates the family's restaurants in Paris. Arlette does a romantic take on Bourdalou, which sends the distraught Berrebi off to cry on the shoulder of his mother Gaby (Gina Lollobrigida). Back in Paris, Bourdalou and Berrebi make plans to open a trendy fashion restaurant in Manhattan.
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Lucie Aubrac
Title: Lucie Aubrac
Released: February 26, 1997
Type: Movie
A love story or a tale of the resistance, this poignant movie tells both the haunting story of a French resistance cell in Lyon but also the love of Lucie Aubrac for her husband...
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Elisa
Title: Elisa
Character: Marie's Landlord
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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Germinal
Title: Germinal
Character: Rose
Released: September 29, 1993
Type: Movie
It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them.
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Loonies at Large
Title: Loonies at Large
Character: La mère supérieure
Released: August 11, 1993
Type: Movie
This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former professor Henri Toussaint Piccoli has been locked away in a psychiatric ward for some years for trying to strangle his wife when he found her in bed with another man. Now she has a terminal illness, and wants some sort of reconciliation with him. His therapist (Richard) decides to permit him to visit with her, provided he comes along. Except for his wide mood swings and occasional outbursts of lewd muttering, the professor "passes" for sane fairly easily. Not so the psychotic (Dominique Pinon) who stows away in the psychiatrist's car, who constantly calls attention to the other two.
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Far from Brazil
Title: Far from Brazil
Character: Honorine
Released: September 9, 1992
Type: Movie
Since her husband left to live in Brazil years ago, Juliette has lived alone in a vast Normandy estate, with only a grumpy housekeeper, Honorine, for company. Nevertheless, she puts on a happy face and looks forward to the traditional Mother's Day celebrations with her five children and their offspring. Benoît arrives first, accompanied by his boyfriend, Kim. Then come Isabelle, married to a gym teacher, and Laurent, her twin brother. Still missing are Sophie, the family's star TV journalist, and Marc, the eldest son, a wealthy businessman. Relations between the siblings are rather strained, until Juliette learns that her husband, seriously ill, has returned from Brazil and invites them all to his home.
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IP5: The Island of Pachyderms
Title: IP5: The Island of Pachyderms
Character: la sœur de Léon
Released: June 12, 1992
Type: Movie
Young graffiti artist Tony and his friend Jockey jump-start an unexpected adventure on the streets of Grenoble, France, when they steal a car that's already occupied by an older man who's been sleeping in the back, Léon Marcel.
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Shipwrecked Children
Title: Shipwrecked Children
Character: Martha
Released: February 19, 1992
Type: Movie
Eight children of a wrecker live together on a strange island, in a supernatural happiness. Until their little paradise is disturbed when an old lady is discovered murdered there. They then embark on the investigation in search of the truth.
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The Murdered House
Title: The Murdered House
Released: February 1, 1988
Type: Movie
After World War I, a young ex-soldier, Sébastien Monge, returns to his home village. Ignorant of his past, he learns that, 24 years before, his entire family was slain in their home one stormy night. Only Sébastien, then a four-month old baby, was spared. Whilst Sébastien is being seduced by Charmaine, Dupin is killed by someone else. Sébastien’s next victim, the miller Didon Pujol, is also murdered before he has a chance to take his revenge. Sébastien realises that someone is watching his every move and is going to extraordinary lengths to protect him. But who, and why..?
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Le Meilleur de la Vie
Title: Le Meilleur de la Vie
Character: Adrien's mother
Released: May 22, 1985
Type: Movie
Two quarreling lovers from opposite sides of the economic scale take central stage in this drama about Veronique and Adrien. Veronique is wealthy and from the provinces, Adrien is impoverished and his ancestors come from Brittany. In spite of their different backgrounds, the two fall in love, marry, and eventually have a baby girl. At just about that time, Veronique decides to go back to school, and Adrien becomes both mother and father to their baby. Unable to cope with Veronique's new-found intellectual friends and different lifestyle, Adrien clashes with her, and their arguments lead to a separation for awhile. The two then get back together again, but not for long. It is on a return trip from visiting his mother in Brittany that Adrien's life undergoes a dramatic change, and his story takes an equally unexpected turn.
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Partenaires
Title: Partenaires
Released: December 26, 1984
Type: Movie
Most of the action takes place in two dressing rooms of a Parisian theater during the performance of a successful play. Marion, 40, beautiful and famous, is the star. Gabriel, her 55-year-old husband, is less fortunate: he's the one who discovered Marion, but never managed to impose himself. That evening, throughout the performance, the couple will indulge in a savage settling of scores, while the anecdotes of the evening and the other actors provide a comical counterpoint to the monstrous confrontation.
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The Bitch
Title: The Bitch
Character: Madame Beffroit
Released: September 5, 1984
Type: Movie
After serving time for sexual assault, a disgraced cop finds work as a private detective and becomes enmeshed in a bizarre web that includes a gangster and his former girlfriend…the same woman who sent the cop to prison years before.
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Title: Lace
Character: Nurse
Released: February 26, 1984
Type: TV
A young actress gathers three former school friends to find out which one is her natural mother, who gave her up for adoption as a newborn.
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Hiver 60
Title: Hiver 60
Character: Nelly, la mère d'André
Released: July 1, 1983
Type: Movie
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One Deadly Summer
Title: One Deadly Summer
Character: Mrs. Montecciari, Pin-Pon's Mother
Released: May 11, 1983
Type: Movie
In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?
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Title: L'Ennemi de la mort
Character: La Grande
Released: August 28, 1981
Type: TV
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Cocktail Molotov
Title: Cocktail Molotov
Character: Frederic's mother
Released: February 6, 1980
Type: Movie
"Cocktail Molotov" is the story of the adventures of this threesome, who reach Venice only to learn of the outbreak of the May 1968 disturbances at home. Once again, Anne, Frederic and Bruno realize that the important things of their time are happening somewhere where they are not. Swindled out of their car and virtually broke, they hitchhike back to Paris, hoping to arrive in time for some of the excitement.
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Hurricane Rosie
Title: Hurricane Rosie
Character: Mother Superior
Released: January 4, 1980
Type: Movie
Raoul has best chances to become next boxing champion in light-heavy weight. For a bet he tries to beat through a door with his bare fist. He wins the bet, but his hand is broken, his career ruined. He starts working on a fair; there he meets Hurricane Rosy the first time. When he sees her the next time, she's star of Mike Fernando's women wrestling show. They passionately fall in love, but their their love must survive her rising fame and his violent jealousy
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Plurielles
Title: Plurielles
Released: March 14, 1979
Type: Movie
A couple deal with their problems like any other, while actors read Friedrich Engels' "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State", and in interviews, the director discusses the status of women in 1978.
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Like a Turtle on Its Back
Title: Like a Turtle on Its Back
Character: Germaine
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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Dossier 51
Title: Dossier 51
Character: Agent 747, femme de ménage de 51
Released: August 30, 1978
Type: Movie
French diplomat Dominique Auphal is put under surveillance by an unnamed secret service. They wish to find a weakness in his life in order to control him politically. Auphal becomes "File no. 51": his private life is spied, analysed and commented.
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The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Title: The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Character: Mireille
Released: June 1, 1977
Type: Movie
In 1951, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the private detective Nestor Burma was commissioned by an insurance company to find stolen jewelery. The deal seemed easy and Burma got an appointment with a well-known black trumpet player in the neighborhood who could provide him with information. But the musician does not come and we find him murdered. The investigation becomes more complicated and Nestor must find an alibi so as not to be suspected of the crime.
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Shadow of the Castles
Title: Shadow of the Castles
Character: Une foraine
Released: April 27, 1977
Type: Movie
In the north of France, the life of a nice family of marginalized.
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Solemn Communion
Title: Solemn Communion
Character: Lucie Fourcignie-Ternolain
Released: April 27, 1977
Type: Movie
In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families from the 1890s to the 1970s. In one of many related tales, a man who was engaged to the older daughter of a farmer elopes with the younger one. After many years and the birth of five children, the man leaves his wife and family for the bright lights of the city but continues turning up from time to time, until he is finally taken into the home of one of his sons when he is a quite old man. The complex interactions of the legitimate and illegitimate children of a womanizing miner give rise to yet another set of related stories.
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Mr. Klein
Title: Mr. Klein
Character: (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1976
Type: Movie
Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with whom he could be mistakenly identified, something dangerous in such harsh times.
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: La mère de Mirko
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: TV
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
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F as in Fairbanks
Title: F as in Fairbanks
Character: La grand-mère
Released: May 5, 1976
Type: Movie
André Fragman, nicknamed "Fairbanks" after his childhood idol by his film projectionist father, returns home from military service. He meets and falls in love with Marie, an aspiring actress who is rehearsing for a stage production of 'Alice in Wonderland'. All his attempts to find a job and a way out end up in failure, his friends Étienne and Jean-Pierre are powerless to help him, and the dreamy yet desperate hero loses his mind.
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Femmes Fatales
Title: Femmes Fatales
Character: The guardian who calls the women
Released: February 11, 1976
Type: Movie
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males...
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Doctor Francoise Gailland
Title: Doctor Francoise Gailland
Character: Denise Fourcade
Released: January 14, 1976
Type: Movie
Dr. Françoise Gailland has a hectic schedule, which causes her to have little time to spend with her family, which consists of her husband Gérard, her pregnant teenager daughter Élisabeth, and her sullen son Julien. However, she does manage to find the time to spend with her lover, Daniel Letessier. While her life in such disarray, she learns that she has cancer. Françoise tries to put a brave face on it, and is determined to face the life-threatening disease with courage.
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Love Brides of the Blood Mummy
Title: Love Brides of the Blood Mummy
Character: The Farmer
Released: June 21, 1973
Type: Movie
A revived mummy needs the blood of young women to slake his thirst.