Anémone

Anémone

Born: August 9, 1950
Died: April 30, 2019
in Paris, France
Anne Bourguignon, known as Anemone, is a French actress and screenwriter, born August 9, 1950 in Paris 15th from the marriage of André Bourguignon, psychiatrist, and Claire Justin-Besançon, and died April 30, 2019 in Poitiers (Vienne). She won the César for best actress in 1988 for the role of Marcelle in Le Grand Chemin. She is the mother of two children; Jacob and Lilly.

She spent her childhood at Château Mauras, a family property in Bommes, in Gironde. After primary and secondary studies at the Sainte-Marie-des-Invalides school (today Paul Claudel-d'Hulst), at the Victor-Duruy high school, at the Gaudéchaux course, at the Jaillard course, at the Sévigné college, within the congregation of the canonesses of Saint-Augustin of the Congrégation Notre-Dame (at the Notre-Dame-des-Oiseaux convent in Megève, at the Saint-Pierre Fourier institute in Brunoy) and at the Institut Notre-Dame in Épernay, it pursued higher education at Paris-III University and then at Paris-X1 University. Anemone began her career at the café-théâtre with the Splendid troupe. She takes her pseudonym from the first film in which she shot, Anemone by Philippe Garrel. It was Coluche who offered her her first big role in the cinema in You will not have Alsace and Lorraine in 1977. In 1979, she created on stage the play written by the Splendid troupe, Le Père Noël est une junk . Her role as Thérèse earned her great success with the public, a success confirmed and amplified by the adaptation of the play to the cinema, directed by Jean-Marie Poiré.

In the 1980s, she was a very popular actress who starred in many comedies: "Ma Femme S'Appelle Reviens", "Les Babas-Cool", "Pour Cent Briques, T'As Plus Rien"..., "Le Quart d'Heure Américain", and "Le Mariage Du Siècle", for which she wrote most of the screenplay. Michel Deville (Peril in the home, Aux petits bonheurs), then Jean-Loup Hubert offered her more serious roles from 1985. Successful counter-jobs, since she won the César for best actress for "Le Grand Chemin" in 1988. More discreet in the 1990s, Anemone worked with Tonie Marshall ("Pas Très Catholique", "Enfants De Bastard"), Romain Goupil ("Mom") or Christine Pascal, in "Le Petit Prince A Dit". In 1996, she played in the adaptation of Binet's comic strip, "Les Bidochon". In 2010, she returned to the cinema with the film "Les Amours Secrètes" by Franck Phelizon. She then turned to the theater, playing in "L'Avare" for Roger Planchon, "Mademoiselle Werner" at the Théâtre des Variétés or "Les Noeuds Au Mouchoir" at the Palais des Glaces which she announced would be her last play at the end of 2017.

In December 2017, she announced that she would definitely end her career at the end of the year, and also took a very critical and disillusioned look in this same interview at what has become of the world in general, and that of show- bizz in particular. Militant like her brother for a return to a more ethical and ecological society, Anemone chooses to live in the countryside in the small village of Sainte-Soline (Deux-Sèvres), near Lezay.

Anemone died on April 30, 2019 at the age of 68 in Poitiers (Vienne) from lung cancer. She admitted to being an “inveterate smoker”. Her funeral took place on May 9 in Poitiers, where she was cremated.

Movies for Anémone...

Title: Il était une fois Champs-Élysées
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: December 21, 2022
Type: TV
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Family Business
Title: Family Business
Character: Bertille
Released: January 10, 2018
Type: Movie
When their aunt's inheritance is given to their annoying cousin, three brothers and sisters have to work to get it back.
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Rosalie Blum
Title: Rosalie Blum
Character: Simone Machot
Released: March 23, 2016
Type: Movie
Vincent Machot knows his life by heart. He shares it between his hair dressing salon, his cousin, his cat, and his too-invasive mother. But life sometimes holds surprises, even for the most prudent of people... He crosses paths with Rosalie Blum by accident. She is a mysterious and solitary woman whom he is sure he has already met. But where? Intrigued, he decides to follow her everywhere, in the hope of knowing more about her.
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The Roommates Party
Title: The Roommates Party
Character: Madame Abramovitch
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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I'm All Yours
Title: I'm All Yours
Character: La grand-mère
Released: September 30, 2015
Type: Movie
Charming thirty-year-old Hanna Belkacem has inherited the gene from her parents: she is unable to say no. And as she is the Director of Human resources of a big firm such infirmity is not without its problems, particularly when she has to fire someone. The only solution she has found to be forgiven is to... get l* with the men she lays off!
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The Secret of Arkandias
Title: The Secret of Arkandias
Character: Marion Boucher
Released: October 22, 2014
Type: Movie
Theo, not the most popular boy at his school, dreams of escaping the dreary everyday life, experiencing adventure and accomplishing great heroic deeds. His dream seems to be fulfilled when, one day, he finds a very old and magical book in the library and fascinates him with a short hand. He forges the plan to forge a ring with his best friend Bonav and the rebellious Laura, who can make him invisible. The charm succeeds, but the three friends conjure up all sorts of dangers of magical, but also secular nature. Only the mysterious red wizard Arkandias can now help you out of trouble.
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Un si joli mensonge
Title: Un si joli mensonge
Character: Louise
Released: May 28, 2014
Type: Movie
Bruno falls in love with Christine, a pretty dermatologist. Embarking upon a passionate affair, Bruno immediately wants children. But Christine has lied to him: playing on her beauty, she told him she was 42, but is actually 50.
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Jacky in the Kingdom of Women
Title: Jacky in the Kingdom of Women
Character: La générale Bubunne XVI
Released: January 29, 2014
Type: Movie
In a country where women are in charge, a man goes to unusual lengths to make his dream of marrying the daughter of a military leader come true.
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Deadly Summer
Title: Deadly Summer
Character: Mrs. Spinelli
Released: June 19, 2013
Type: Movie
A woman's plans to leave her husband and follow her lover abroad are thrown into turmoil when murder strikes.
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Nuts
Title: Nuts
Character: Dr. Vorov
Released: February 27, 2013
Type: Movie
François has everything he could ever want, until he is kicked out of the house by his wife after his umpteenth slip up; after moving back in with his parents, he vows to win her back.
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La Cosa
Title: La Cosa
Character: Mrs. Lesoufache
Released: January 1, 2013
Type: Movie
A woman who lives in a lighthouse takes action against her childhood sweetheart who runs a beach hotel.
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Grossesses Nerveuses
Title: Grossesses Nerveuses
Character: Mathilde
Released: May 24, 2012
Type: Movie
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Super 8 mon amour
Title: Super 8 mon amour
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: March 21, 2012
Type: Movie
The encounters between the almost disappearance of the Super 8 in the 90's and the ones who still love working on it.
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The Great Restaurant II
Title: The Great Restaurant II
Character: Widow who killed her husband
Released: April 30, 2011
Type: Movie
The great restaurant reopens with new extravagent costumers and the same beloved manager.
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Mademoiselle Drot
Title: Mademoiselle Drot
Character: Mme Chambart-Martin
Released: September 26, 2010
Type: Movie
In 1938 a young woman French woman, Benedicte Drot, is having a child and is not married. The child is placed in a religious orphanage, and when her family throws her out she's obliged to work as a governess for family Treives. She is at first horrified when she discovers that the family is Jewish, but when madame Treives is arrested by the the French militia, when leaving the free zone to join her husband in Paris, Benedicte decides to take care of the Familys newborn son and the house they left behind.
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Malevil
Title: Malevil
Character: Mrs. Menou
Released: July 1, 2010
Type: Movie
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Louise's Diary 1942
Title: Louise's Diary 1942
Character: Margot
Released: June 9, 2010
Type: Movie
An old man reads the diary of a young Jewish woman living at the time of the Nazi Occupation, sixty years ago. Sarah Rosemblum, 25, was young, beautiful and in love… with a German officer named Hans. Under a false name, Sarah lives under the protection of Huguette, a cabaret singer who makes a habit of hiding Jews and helping them to escape to England. In Huguette’s remote house, Sarah and Hans are able to pursue their romantic idyll, unaware that they are being spied on by Robert, a 16-year-old who is secretly in love with Sarah, and Huguette’s mother, who is still mourning her son’s death. With the world closing in on them, Sarah and Hans know that they must take flight, whilst they still have time…
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Little Nicholas
Title: Little Nicholas
Character: Mlle Navarin
Released: September 30, 2009
Type: Movie
Nicolas has a happy existence, parents who love him, a great group of friends with whom he has great fun, and all he wants is that nothing changes. However, one day, he overhears a conversation that leads him to believe that his life might change forever, his mother is pregnant! He panics and envisions the worst.
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Myriam's choice
Title: Myriam's choice
Character: Simone
Released: May 9, 2009
Type: Movie
The arrival in France of the first generation of Algerian immigrants. In the early sixties, Kader, soon joined by his wife Myriam, tries to build a new life on French soil. Like many other couples, they soon find themselves torn between the dream of returning to their homeland and that of prospering in a land that is not always welcoming.
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Title: Fais pas ci, fais pas ça
Character: Mme Fernet
Released: September 8, 2007
Type: TV
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Bataille Natale
Title: Bataille Natale
Character: Françoise Darcy
Released: December 6, 2006
Type: Movie
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The Jungle
Title: The Jungle
Character: la mère de Mathias
Released: July 12, 2006
Type: Movie
Vincent and Mathias are two friends, in their thirties, who live off Vincent’s father. One day, during a meal where the wine and talk both flow a little too freely, Vincent’s father offers the two friends a bet. If they can survive seven days and seven nights in Paris with just seven Euros in their pocket, he will pay off all of their debts. If not, they will have to learn to fend for themselves. Confident of their abilities to survive in the jungle that is Paris, Vincent and Mathias willingly accept the offer, but soon regret doing so...
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Title: Sable noir
Character: Marie
Released: March 19, 2006
Type: TV
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A Song of Innocence
Title: A Song of Innocence
Character: Léonce
Released: August 31, 2005
Type: Movie
Antoine Santana - Issues of class, gender roles and parenting bubble to the surface in this 19th-century tale about a shepherd girl (Isild Le Besco) who farms off her own newborn to a wet nurse in the countryside so that she can earn high wages nursing the infant of a wealthy couple. The two young mothers soon become friends, but trouble arises when the bourgeois hubby takes issue with his wife fraternizing with the help. Émilie Dequenne and Grégoire Colin star. - Isild Le Besco, Émilie Dequenne, Grégoire Colin
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Voisins, voisines
Title: Voisins, voisines
Character: Madame Gonzalés
Released: July 20, 2005
Type: Movie
The Mozart Residence is home to several "new owners" of all origins: a new concierge, Paco, of Spanish origin, who has just been released from prison, arrives at the residence. Around it, the hall and the mailboxes, the "ballet" of the Residence Mozart is organized.
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Title: Village départ
Character: Self
Released: July 3, 2005
Type: TV
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The Cop, the Criminal and the Clown
Title: The Cop, the Criminal and the Clown
Character: Carlotta Luciani
Released: December 24, 2004
Type: Movie
A bungling robber steals and resells for next to nothing a seemingly worthless piece of art that had 50 00$ belonging to a member of the Marseillaise Mafia hidden its framework. Dressed as a priest in an effort to hide from the dangerous threats, he is then mistaken by two police officers for Claude Laurin, a police investigator who they think is undercover.
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My Wife's Name Is Maurice
Title: My Wife's Name Is Maurice
Character: Claire Trouaballe
Released: September 25, 2002
Type: Movie
Georges, a wealthy Parisian, has a mistress who wants to marry him, but he has no intention of divorcing his wife, the source of his money. The mistress, meanwhile, has a jealous boyfriend, so when Georges dumps her, two people are angry with him. Add Georges' wife, who suspects the affair. The mistress calls Georges to say she's coming to tell his wife everything, so Georges asks Maurice, a stranger who's passing by, to pose as his wife and scare off the mistress. In this farce, nothing goes as Georges plans.
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Title: L'Invité
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2002
Type: TV
The show features an interview with a famous personality from the world of politics, economics or culture.
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Fortune Tellers and Misfortune
Title: Fortune Tellers and Misfortune
Character: Anémone
Released: April 11, 2001
Type: Movie
Chantel is happy: her son's away at school playing soccer, she and her husband get along, her neighbor Agnès is her best friend, and her job at a government office is easy. When her husband is laid off and she wonders for how long, her office pal Jackie recommends Alban, a psychic (and compulsive gambler), who promptly tells Chantel of a curse on her that will take three sessions (and 10,000 FF) to dispel. Through happenstance, she meets Alban's half-brother; thinking she is following the psychic predictions, she tries to start an affair with him. She also undergoes Alban's exorcism, and soon, terrible things indeed start to happen. Is there any way out of her misery?
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Lautrec
Title: Lautrec
Character: Comtesse Adèle de Toulouse-Lautrec
Released: September 9, 1998
Type: Movie
The life of Henri de Toulouse Lautrec, famous french painter, who lived, enjoyed, loved in the late 1800s Paris' Montmartre cultural life. He suffered from suffered from congenital health conditions traditionally attributed to inbreeding. His lifestyle and work are a testimony of the late-19th-century parisian bohemian lifestyle, as he was commissioned to produce a series of posters for the Moulin Rouge cabaret opening. As an alcoholic, he was addicted to absinthe. The movie related his love affair with the french painter Suzanne Valadon.
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In and Out of Fashion
Title: In and Out of Fashion
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 3, 1998
Type: Movie
The legendary photographer William Klein has designed this fascinating book on fashion photography, with a selection of images from throughout his career, including material from his films. Though Klein claims roots in areas as diverse as painting, street photography, the tabloids, and B movies, his fashion work has been known since the fifties and sixties and has been a constant in his career.
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Marquise
Title: Marquise
Character: La Voisin
Released: August 20, 1997
Type: Movie
Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophie Marceau, the eponymous heroine is an engagingly ribald, but perhaps rather too modern, character. She rises from an impoverished background to become a favourite of the Sun King, Louis XIV, and the mistress of the celebrated Racine, who wrote roles especially for her; but her fate, in the end, is a tragic one.
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The Target
Title: The Target
Character: Clara
Released: April 23, 1997
Type: Movie
A young French sailor falls in love with a Russian tourist during a passion-filled three-day furlough, but is whisked away for a months worth of submarine duty before he can learn her last name and Moscow address. When he is finally freed again, he embarks upon a search for his lost love. Unfortunately, while his aim is true, his timing is off. His first stop is the broadcast headquarters of a major television network. He arrives shortly before the place blasted apart by a bomb. Later, he goes to the apartment of a noted talk-show host in hopes of receiving air-time during which he will plead for information concerning his lost love. But things don't come out as planned for somehow, the sailor ends up considered the prime suspect in the bombing while the real-life terrorist and his cohort, who happen to be in the same apartment building in hopes of knocking off a crooked judge.
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Le Cri de la soie
Title: Le Cri de la soie
Character: Cécile
Released: August 28, 1996
Type: Movie
An illiterate seamstress has a powerful fetish for silk which gets her into trouble. The psychiatrist sent to help her becomes fascinated by her case and when he returns to France from World War One they fall in love, an affair that can only end in tragedy.
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Les Bidochon
Title: Les Bidochon
Character: Raymonde Bidochon
Released: July 7, 1996
Type: Movie
Raymond and Robert Bidochon lead a dismal life in a suburban HLM. The change, so hoped for by Raymonde, could come from a reality show, Grand Bonheur, in which they participate.
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Enfants de salaud
Title: Enfants de salaud
Character: Sylvette
Released: April 3, 1996
Type: Movie
Sylvette, a sassy waitress, Sandro, a macho guy, Sophie, a shy bourgeoisie, and Susan, an American actress, do not know each other and do not have much in common. However, they all have the same father, a scammer named Julius.
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L'Échappée belle
Title: L'Échappée belle
Character: Jeanine, la juge
Released: March 27, 1996
Type: Movie
An aviation magnate takes desperate measures to regain custody of his kids after he is granted minimal visitation rights by a harsh female judge. It's true that Manu Barnes is free-spirited and for much of his twelve year marriage to Mathilde that he has been too centered on his career, but he does love his kids and believes he should see them more often than one weekend a month. The judge called him irresponsible and he decides to disprove her words by kidnapping Chloe, the judge's strong-willed adolescent daughter. He takes the girl to a remote, snow-bound mountain cabin. Unfortunately, she thinks Manu is sexually attracted to her. A disaster nearly occurs there, but Chloe manages to get back to Paris. Though he knows a private detective is trailing him, the determined Manu decides to abduct his kids and take them out of the country.
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Son of Gascogne
Title: Son of Gascogne
Character: Self
Released: February 18, 1995
Type: Movie
You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because they all think you're the son of their long-dead legendary friend. You never knew your dad, but the facts of this famous guy's life suggest that he might have fathered you. Your mom tells you nothing. All the fuss makes you uncomfortable at first but soon you find it's rather fun to be the son of the famous Gascogne. And in the midst of it all you fall in love. It is, after all, springtime in Paris.
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Something Fishy
Title: Something Fishy
Character: Maxime Chabrier
Released: April 6, 1994
Type: Movie
A private eye finds that her professional and personal lives are beginning to intertwine in this French drama. Maxime Chabrier (Anémone) is a woman in her mid-40s who works as a private detective. Despite her chain smoking and sloppy appearance, Maxime is regarded as a skilled investigator by her colleagues and considered the best PI at her agency by her boss. While Maxime has romantic dalliances with both men and women, she hasn't been involved in a long-term relationship since she left her husband 15 years ago. However, Maxime is hired to look into a case that suggests that her former husband has become involved with insurance fraud, which brings her into contact with her 17-year-old son Baptiste (Gregoire Colin) for the first time since the divorce. Just as Maxime is trying to mend fences with her son and find out what her ex has gotten himself into, she finds herself falling in love with Jacques (Michel Didym), an economist.
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Life's Little Treasures
Title: Life's Little Treasures
Character: Hélène
Released: January 12, 1994
Type: Movie
This movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a few days in a villa, around a piano and the music of Gottschalk who is perhaps the main actor.
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Sunfish
Title: Sunfish
Character: Anne
Released: September 22, 1993
Type: Movie
A Mediterranean scrubland. The relentless noise of crickets. In the distance a highway and the procession of lorries travelling through the countryside at top speed. Among the green oaks and thorn bushes the construction of a leisure Centre is nearing completion. On the other side, from the building workers' prefabs can be heard the happy chaos of children shouting, families getting together and Ramadan celebrations. Moving incessantly between the two, are Fabienne, daughter of the manageress of the Centre, and Latifa, daughter of one of the workers. Fabienne and Latifa are friends, they tell each other everything, or almost... When you are 16 there are secrets that you don't share, even with your best friend. Then, there are questions which one would love to be able to answer and mysteries one would love to understand... The Centre's opening day approaches. It is the day of Fabienne's 16th birthday. But why do her mother Anne and her uncle Tom seem to be so fearful of that day?
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Ma soeur, mon amour
Title: Ma soeur, mon amour
Character: Laura Bécancour
Released: December 25, 1992
Type: Movie
In 1929, Mr. Messier, owner of a small print shop in a village in Quebec became a widower, he lives with his two children, Rachel, 9 years old, and Gaëtan, 7 years old. In this closed universe and in the absence of their mother, a great complicity is established between the children.
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And the Little Prince Said
Title: And the Little Prince Said
Character: Melanie
Released: November 24, 1992
Type: Movie
A divorced Swiss couple must come to terms with their daughter's life-threatening illness. He, a scientist, snatches his daughter from the examining table at the clinic and takes her away as if to kidnap her from the disease. His ex-wife, an actress, takes to bed weeping uncontrollably when she learns of her daughter's tumor. The girl's step-mother, an Asian-American physician, is clinical in her response, outlining a treatment regimen of surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation. It is left to the girl herself, ten-year-old Violette, to be calm, reassuring, philosophical, and even metaphysical as she faces death.
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Loulou Graffiti
Title: Loulou Graffiti
Character: Juliette
Released: April 8, 1992
Type: Movie
A little suburban troublemaker, Loulou Graffiti tries to bring together a man and a woman who aren't cut out for each other at all. She discovers, he steals.
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The Beautiful Story
Title: The Beautiful Story
Character: Mme Desjardins
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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Les Enfants volants
Title: Les Enfants volants
Released: February 24, 1991
Type: Movie
Gilbert has been released from the mental hospital, but it's clear that whoever signed the form was either irresponsible, stupid, or naive. He's still completely nuts. The chaos he perpetrates around him causes as much violence as he does himself, but nothing stops him in his quest to get to the ocean. Suzanne never was in a hospital for the insane, but perhaps she should have been. The energy that sparks between them leads to yet more mayhem and death, but nothing, nothing at all can prevent Gilbert from seeing the ocean.
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Après après-demain
Title: Après après-demain
Character: Isabelle
Released: May 2, 1990
Type: Movie
In this romantic comedy, Paul, a good-looking gym teacher, falls hopelessly in love with Isabelle a very busy, professional fashion designer whose response to him runs both hot and cold, driving him to distraction.
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Maman
Title: Maman
Character: Lulu
Released: February 14, 1990
Type: Movie
Lulu is released from prison. Determined to fulfill her dream, find her kids, those of her best friend who remained locked up and go very far. The former inmate will do everything to carry out the "heist" that will get her the money.
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Zanzibar
Title: Zanzibar
Character: The woman in the orange dress at the Césars ceremony
Released: October 4, 1989
Type: Movie
In this "inside look" at French filmmaking, Marechal - who is a has-been director - a producer, Vito Catene and Camile Dor, a big-name actress, have agreed to make a film about drugs, but don't have a story, financing, or any of the other elements needed to make it. This doesn't stop them; they cobble together the financing and begin shooting anyway. The producer is very fond of the leading actress, and when she gets hooked on drugs for real in the course of shooting what he feels to be a farcical imitation of a film, he gives up his shares in the film and heads off for the back of beyond (Zanzibar) to lick his wounds. To add insult to injury, the film winds up being a critical and commercial success.
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Twisted Obsession
Title: Twisted Obsession
Character: Marianne
Released: September 5, 1989
Type: Movie
An American writer in Paris is hired to do a script for an edgy young director he can't stand. When he falls in love with the director's cold and manipulative pretty sister, his life starts to unravel and he realizes that he's been used.
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Emergency Kisses
Title: Emergency Kisses
Character: Minouchette
Released: May 31, 1989
Type: Movie
The familiar conflicts of a film director planning to make a movie about his life and the confrontation he has with his wife, an actress who was turned down for such project in which she wanted to play herself.
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Sans peur et sans reproche
Title: Sans peur et sans reproche
Character: Rose
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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Envoyez les violons
Title: Envoyez les violons
Character: Isabelle Fournier
Released: August 3, 1988
Type: Movie
Fred, a commercial director, decides to learn the flute to relieve his stress. His music teacher is none other than Isabelle, a flutist he once saw playing in the subway. He falls under her charm.
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Title: Nulle part ailleurs
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 1987
Type: TV
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The Grand Highway
Title: The Grand Highway
Character: Marcelle
Released: March 25, 1987
Type: Movie
Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year- old girl next door, and learns from her about life.
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Poule et frites
Title: Poule et frites
Character: Béatrice
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
Roger, a chip seller on a Cote d’Azur beach, divides his life between his wife, a painter with a flair for originality whose work is unrecognized, and his mistress Bébé, a beautician on vacation. But his encounter with a third woman, a picaresque singer with whom he falls madly in love, will be accompanied by numerous adventures.
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I Love You
Title: I Love You
Character: Barbara
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
In another indictment of the flaws of our so-called civilization, this satire from the late director Marco Ferreri features Christopher Lambert as Michel, a miserable man who has failed at love and finds solace in a mechanical key holder.
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Marriage of the Century
Title: Marriage of the Century
Character: Princess Charlotte
Released: October 8, 1985
Type: Movie
Princess Charlotte is scheduled to marry a boring duke, but before that event happens, Paul has taken a bet that he can seduce her. He does, profits from his act, and then falls in love with her. Meanwhile, the wedding with the duke is still planned, and it remains to be seen whether Paul will give in and give up.
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Death in a French Garden
Title: Death in a French Garden
Character: Edwige Ledieu
Released: February 13, 1985
Type: Movie
The wealthy Tombsthays hire a guitar tutor, David Aurphet, for their daughter Vivian. The wife, Julia, begins a passionate affair with David. Edwige, Julia's new neighbour, also takes an interest in David. David is attacked one night on returning home but saved by a mysterious stranger Daniel who reveals himself to be a hired killer. David begins to suspect that his affair is no longer secret.
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Slices of Life
Title: Slices of Life
Character: Cécile / Hélène
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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The Chicks
Title: The Chicks
Character: Odile
Released: January 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Focuses primarily on three women and the (unseen) man who goes in and out of their lives. One member of this trio is a saleswoman with an open relationship that suddenly closes when she learns that her lover has been unfaithful. It seems that he has dallied with a book-dealer (her nemesis) who ultimately does not propose as much of a threat to the disillusioned saleswoman as a certain actress. Along with these three are several other females who interact with the main protagonists. Set up more in the manner of a stage play with changing scenes and acts.
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Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Title: Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Character: Thérèse
Released: January 14, 1985
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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A Man of My Measure
Title: A Man of My Measure
Released: January 16, 1983
Type: Movie
A tall and gangly Victoire arrives in Paris looking for the ideal French lover -- and because she stands well above many of her preceding romantic partners, that is an added dimension to consider. As she finds and drops a series of possibilities -- a free-wheeling sociologist, an up-tight intellectual, and a dentist fixated on sports -- she begins to wonder if this simple quest may turn out to be an impossibility after all.
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Ladies' Choice
Title: Ladies' Choice
Character: Bonnie
Released: September 28, 1982
Type: Movie
As a result of an automobile accident, a sophisticated TV producer meets her car mechanic/blue collar nemesis. They start a comic affair, but can they reconcile their totally different worlds?
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Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Title: Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Character: Thérèse de Monsou dite « Mme S.O.S »
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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For 200 Grand, You Get Nothing Now
Title: For 200 Grand, You Get Nothing Now
Character: Nicole, publiciste pour établissements bancaires
Released: May 12, 1982
Type: Movie
After getting screwed over by life (again), two losers decide that enough is enough. Using stolen ski masks and stolen toy guns, they take hostages in their local bank, holding them for ransom. Things go well until the hostages learn what's going on, and demand a piece of the action for themselves.
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Singles
Title: Singles
Character: Nadine
Released: January 27, 1982
Type: Movie
Abandoned by his wife, Bernard struggles to overcome his grief and settles in a residence for singles. Employed by "SOS Doctors", he provides night guards to occupy his insomnia. That's how he is brought one night to help a neighbor, Nadine Foulon, victim of discomfort in the elevator. It turns out that Nadine is also going through a difficult time, since her companion, Terry, a singer-guitarist, has left her. A professional photographer, she can not forget it and has since oscillated between depression and bulimia. Gathered by their pains of heart, these two beings will, with the wire of the confidences, become more intimate ...
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
Title: Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
Character: Alexandra
Released: December 16, 1981
Type: Movie
Whilst driving through rural France, Antoine Bonfils comes across a community of babas - men and women who have turned their back on the modern commercialist world and live, free of constraints, as close to nature as they can. After a tiff with his girlfriend, he decides to swap his comfortable but empty life in Paris for a new life with the babas. Adapting to the new life-style proves to be far from easy...
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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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La Gueule du loup
Title: La Gueule du loup
Released: November 10, 1981
Type: Movie
Upset by the death of one of her patients, Marie, a young nurse, decides to go in search of the relatives of the deceased. This is how she meets the gang of thugs of which he was a part.
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Title: La Guerre des insectes
Character: Anaïs
Released: March 20, 1981
Type: TV
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Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend's
Title: Come to My Place, I Live at a Girlfriend's
Character: Adrienne
Released: January 25, 1981
Type: Movie
Guy is fired from is job, and asks to stay with his friend and his girlfriend in their apartment. The longer he stays, the more disaster he creates.
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Une merveilleuse journée
Title: Une merveilleuse journée
Released: November 12, 1980
Type: Movie
The unusual day of a young pharmacist's assistant, between Deauville and Cassis.
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Rat Race
Title: Rat Race
Character: Liliane
Released: April 22, 1980
Type: Movie
Young dynamic executive, married and father of two children, Jérôme Ozendron dreams of writing and escaping a life he considers mediocre. The meeting with a former comrade, who had become an actor, brought him into contact with the world of cinema. He meets, Natacha, a cover girl, for whom he is ready to give up, wife and children. Then he becomes the lover of Lilianne, a marginal who persecutes and pursues him. He quit his job to devote himself to writing a novel. But nothing goes as he wants.
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Certaines nouvelles
Title: Certaines nouvelles
Character: Marie-Annick
Released: March 12, 1980
Type: Movie
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Title: Les 400 Coups de Virginie
Character: Marie-Ghyslaine
Released: December 22, 1979
Type: TV
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French Postcards
Title: French Postcards
Character: Christine
Released: October 19, 1979
Type: Movie
French Postcards rings both comic and true. The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their French-English dictionaries, they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic artist's life, and look for grown-up love. The French tutor them well, as befits their reputation. Jean Rochefort is the harassed headmaster with a hankering for affairs, and Marie-France Pisier is his very sexy wife. Watch for a newcomer named Debra Winger, and another-Mandy Patinkin.
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Take It from the Top
Title: Take It from the Top
Character: La scripte
Released: August 9, 1978
Type: Movie
Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life...
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Sale rêveur
Title: Sale rêveur
Character: Colette
Released: April 4, 1978
Type: Movie
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You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
Title: You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
Character: La cousine Lucienne
Released: October 19, 1977
Type: Movie
Whilst King Gros Pif I amuses himself at debauched banquets, his musketeers pursue their tax-collecting duties with a malicious zeal. Goaded by the court jester (who is also the Queen’s lover), the ministers decide to put an end to this regime and have the King locked up. Hearing the news, the famous Chevalier Blanc comes to his rescue. Aided by the knight and his cousin Lucienne, the King flees to Flanders, where he devises a scheme to win him back the throne of France...
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Title: Les Héritiers
Character: Josée
Released: September 24, 1977
Type: TV
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The Model Couple
Title: The Model Couple
Character: Claudine
Released: March 30, 1977
Type: Movie
In 1977 France, the Ministry of the Future chooses two “normal,” white, middle-class citizens, Claudine and Jean-Michel, for a national experiment. They will be monitored and displayed on television for six months in a model apartment outfitted with state-of-the-art products and nonstop surveillance—the template for “a new city for the new man".
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Pardon Mon Affaire
Title: Pardon Mon Affaire
Character: Concierge
Released: September 22, 1976
Type: Movie
On an otherwise normal day, Étienne, a happily married man and a good father, sees something that stops him dead in his tracks: a gorgeous woman in a billowing red dress. Long after she has left his vision, her memory continues to haunt his mind. He falls instantly in love with her and tries everything to get to know her better. Helping Étienne snare his elusive lady in red are his three bumbling buddies, which all have secret affairs and/or cheat on their wives.
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The Undertaker Parlor Computer
Title: The Undertaker Parlor Computer
Character: Une secrétaire
Released: April 7, 1976
Type: Movie
Fred works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. He is bored with enduring the trials of his shrewish wife, so, after using actuarial tables to calculate the most common means of death, he cleverly prepares the family bathroom and brings about her demise. For a while he is content with his new freedom, but then he recognizes that a friend is in a similar situation.
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Let's Make a Dirty Movie
Title: Let's Make a Dirty Movie
Character: Eva
Released: February 17, 1976
Type: Movie
A bumbling film crew attempts to make a porno movie.
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Incorrigible
Title: Incorrigible
Character: Prostitute (uncredited)
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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Title: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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I. You. They.
Title: I. You. They.
Character: La deuxième candidate au poste de nounou
Released: June 28, 1973
Type: Movie
Little did this pretty brunette know when she applied for a babysitting job that her employer was an artist and that everything at his place differed from the outside world. What struck her the most was to find out that her boss had shrunk his wife and kept her in the fridge in order, as he said, to keep her safe from a hostile world!
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The House
Title: The House
Released: August 26, 1970
Type: Movie
Former professor of natural history, Louis Compiegne lives in retirement in a big house, with Pascal, his faithful servant. The arrival of a young American student comes to disorder the quiet life of the pensioner.
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Anemone
Title: Anemone
Character: Anémone
Released: February 13, 1968
Type: Movie
The portrait of a young girl from the Parisian bourgeoisie. As a brief shot indicates us, it could have been called "Portrait of the artist as a young girl." though probably "young girl" is just a previous title, but the style and the presence of the Father leaves no doubt about who paints and who's hiding behind the young girl.
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Title: Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
Character: Nadine
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: TV
Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series
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Title: Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
Character: Thérèse
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: TV
Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series