Mireille Darc

Mireille Darc

Born: May 15, 1938
Died: August 28, 2017
in Toulon, Var, France
Mireille Darc, who was born in 1938, was often compared to Brigitte Bardot. Her film career began in 1960 and she went on to make about 50 movies, including 1964’s Dandelion By The Roots which kicked off her work with Lautner. The pair would go on to make more than a dozen films together including The Great Spy Chase and 1967’s La Grande Sauterelle whose title also became her nickname.

She is perhaps most closely associated with Yves Robert’s 1972 comedy Le Grand Blond Avec Une Chaussure Noire in which she sported a now mythic backless dress. The movie was remade in English as The Man With One Red Shoe in 1985 and starring Tom Hanks.

Darc worked with Delon in such films as Jeff, L’Homme Pressé, Les Bons Vivants and Borsalino. The two were romantically involved for many years and reunited on stage in a 2007 Paris theater production of The Bridges Of Madison County.

Other directors she worked with included Edouard Molinaro, Jacques Deray, Roger Vadim and Jean-Luc Godard.

Darc took a break from film acting in the 1990s, working in several television series through the early 2000s. She also directed numerous documentaries for television.

Movies for Mireille Darc...

Le Terminus des prétentieux
Title: Le Terminus des prétentieux
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 14, 2020
Type: Movie
This year, Michel Audiard would have turned 100. To celebrate the life and work of the French screenwriter and director, Gaumont opens their vault and reveals some unknown information on the legendary witty dialogues writer.
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Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
Title: Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: May 7, 2019
Type: Movie
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Mireille Darc, la femme libre
Title: Mireille Darc, la femme libre
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: August 24, 2018
Type: Movie
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À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Title: À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Character: Self - Comédienne (archive footage)
Released: September 1, 2017
Type: Movie
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Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes
Title: Alain Delon, la beauté du diable et les femmes
Released: January 1, 2017
Type: Movie
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Michel Audiard : J'parle pas aux cons, ça les instruit
Title: Michel Audiard : J'parle pas aux cons, ça les instruit
Character: Self
Released: October 11, 2015
Type: Movie
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Gaumont, en effeuillant la marguerite
Title: Gaumont, en effeuillant la marguerite
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 2015
Type: Movie
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Mireille Darc, blessures intimes
Title: Mireille Darc, blessures intimes
Character: Mireille Darc
Released: November 27, 2013
Type: Movie
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Lino, il n'était que lui-même
Title: Lino, il n'était que lui-même
Character: Self
Released: August 14, 2012
Type: Movie
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The Great Restaurant II
Title: The Great Restaurant II
Character: The client who doesn't want to age
Released: April 30, 2011
Type: Movie
The great restaurant reopens with new extravagent costumers and the same beloved manager.
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Title: C à vous
Character: Self
Released: September 7, 2009
Type: TV
Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second part, the program welcomes, around a meal prepared by a qualified chef, artists in promotion.
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Title: Infrarouge
Character: Présentatrice
Released: February 2, 2006
Type: TV
French current affair show
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Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
Title: Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
Character: Self
Released: December 7, 2005
Type: Movie
This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre Richard, improbable synthesis of the talking ant silent films, heir to Buster Keaton for the gestural one and the expression of the body, and to Groucho Marx for the puns and the burlesque verbal one. Conceived like a voyage inside the universe of Pierre Richard, "the Art of unsteadiness" makes it possible to better understand its step, its method of actor, director and gag man. With through many testimonies, extracts of films and archives documents, drawn up here the portrait of one of the large last burlesques.
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Title: Frank Riva
Character: Catherine Sinclair
Released: November 7, 2003
Type: TV
After 25 years in exile, undercover cop Frank Riva comes back in Paris. He faces mob boss Norbert Loggia and his son Maxime, who put a bounty on his head during the French Connection days.
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Title: Le Bleu de l’océan
Character: Patricia
Released: July 2, 2003
Type: TV
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: Vivement dimanche prochain
Character: Self
Released: September 11, 1998
Type: TV
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L'ami de mon fils
Title: L'ami de mon fils
Released: June 3, 1997
Type: Movie
Louise has been a widow for years and teaches literature in a high school. She divides all her time between books and her son, Martin, who still lives with her. During a family lunch, she meets Martin's best friend, Stanislas, a young painter of Russian origin, who is studying at the Beaux-Arts and whose talent promises a brilliant career. Louise is still finding Stanislas very attractive and already the young man is madly in love with her. All it takes is a little something to bring the two lovers together in the same passionate embrace. Informed by his mother, Martin pretends to be delighted by this unexpected rapprochement between the two beings he loves the most. His rage bursts, however, during the family meeting that Louise has organized to make her affair with Stanislas official.
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Ni vue ni connue
Title: Ni vue ni connue
Released: May 16, 1997
Type: Movie
Directed by Pierre Lary. With Mireille Darc, Christophe Odent, Jean-Marie Winling, Hugues Boucher.
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Sapho
Title: Sapho
Character: Fanny
Released: January 21, 1997
Type: Movie
The tumultuous affair between a young man and a woman twenty-five years his senior.
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Title: Terre indigo
Character: Clélia Debarbera
Released: July 8, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: Les Yeux d'Hélène
Character: Hélène Charrière
Released: September 7, 1994
Type: TV
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Title: Les Cœurs brûlés
Character: Hélène Charrière
Released: July 3, 1992
Type: TV
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Title: Stars 90
Character: self
Released: September 3, 1990
Type: TV
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Title: Nulle part ailleurs
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 1987
Type: TV
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New Year's Eve At Bob's
Title: New Year's Eve At Bob's
Character: Madeleine
Released: December 12, 1984
Type: Movie
On New Year's Eve, among the tower blocks of a huge housing estate in Paris, strange people - each for a different reason - are looking for the home of a man called Bob.
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Love Lies
Title: Love Lies
Character: Catherine
Released: March 19, 1983
Type: Movie
After a harrowing breakup, Marcel returns to his favorite hotel to find his room occupied by a journalist, whom he attempts to impress.
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Jamais avant le mariage
Title: Jamais avant le mariage
Character: Elisabeth
Released: September 1, 1982
Type: Movie
Bernard accompanies his friend Roger on a circuit. They witness a serious accident. Roger rushes in and saves the pilot's life. In the explosion that followed, the three boys were injured and were soon taken to hospital.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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For a Cop's Hide
Title: For a Cop's Hide
Character: La Grande sauterelle (uncredited)
Released: September 9, 1981
Type: Movie
Victim of manipulation, Cop Choucas is wanted for two murders and searched for by every cop in town.
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Reporters
Title: Reporters
Character: Self
Released: June 10, 1981
Type: Movie
The co-founder of the Gamma press agency, Raymond Depardon, created this documentary of press photographers in Paris and their subjects by following the photographers around for one month, in October, 1980. In-between long hours waiting for a celebrity to emerge from a restaurant or a hotel, boredom immediately switches to fast action as the cameras click and roll when the person appears. The reaction to the gaggle of photographers is as varied as the people they often literally chase all around town. While some of the celebrities, such as Jacques Chirac who was mayor of Paris at the time, are perceived as comical caricatures, others are shown simply going about ordinary pursuits - including Catherine Deneuve, Gene Kelly, and Jean-Luc Godard.
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The Small Timers
Title: The Small Timers
Character: Annie Garmiche
Released: September 27, 1978
Type: Movie
A gang of small time crooks, prosecuted by an stubborn police inspector, is unfairly accused of a breaking and entering. After being set free by the inspector's wife, she becomes their boss and starts planning their first big score.
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Death of a Corrupt Man
Title: Death of a Corrupt Man
Character: Françoise
Released: December 7, 1977
Type: Movie
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a racketeer with extant political connections. Serrano kept proofs of Dubaye's involvement in corrupt dealings and was poised to use them against the deputy. Xavier readily agrees to cover up for his old pal Philippe, but he soon runs into difficulties. Nobody believes Dubaye's alibi. And everybody -- influential personalities, powerful businessmen, dubious go-betweens and the police -- wants to get hold of the documents that served to blackmail Dubaye; by all possible means...
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The Hurried Man
Title: The Hurried Man
Character: Edwige
Released: August 10, 1977
Type: Movie
Art collector Pierre Niox rushes through life, lives a frantic life, does everything in full speed -- searching for and acquiring works of art or real estate, marrying or even dying -- and in total disregard for any kind of morality. His misdeeds finally turn on him and destroy him.
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The Passengers
Title: The Passengers
Character: Nicole
Released: March 9, 1977
Type: Movie
A man and his stepson driving across Europe are terrorized by a man following them in a pickup truck.
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The Undertaker Parlor Computer
Title: The Undertaker Parlor Computer
Character: Charlotte
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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Title: 30 millions d'amis
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1976
Type: TV
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The Pink Telephone
Title: The Pink Telephone
Character: Christine, la call-girl de Mme Claude
Released: October 15, 1975
Type: Movie
A small industrialist from Toulouse, goes to Paris to negotiate the buyout of his company from an American financial group. During his stay, the representative of the large firm calls on a luxury call girl to facilitate their "business".
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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Title: Système 2
Character: Self
Released: January 19, 1975
Type: TV
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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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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Tell Me You Love Me
Title: Tell Me You Love Me
Character: Victoire Danois
Released: December 12, 1974
Type: Movie
Two couples, undermined by frequent scenes, fall apart: the men, Richard and Bertrand, directors of an advertising agency, move into their office; soon Lucien, their main client and friend, suffering from the same afflictions, joins them in this new bachelor life. For their part, the women regroup and organize themselves: Victoire absorbs herself in her work as a decorator; Charlotte, long submissive to Richard's personality, raises her head and finds a job; as for Pascaline, she runs off with Tabard, her husband Lucien's groom, to start raising sheep. These three crises, combined with a series of twists and turns, bring unexpected results for each of the couples.
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The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Title: The Return of the Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Character: Christine
Released: November 12, 1974
Type: Movie
With 'little captain' Cambrai raising serious doubts about the reality of the so-called "super spy", Colonel Toulouse kidnaps Christine and forces Francois to play again the character of "The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe" in some fake adventures. All this to stop the investigation into the death of Colonel Milan.
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Borsalino and Co.
Title: Borsalino and Co.
Character: Prostitute in the street (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1974
Type: Movie
Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."
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Icy Breasts
Title: Icy Breasts
Character: Peggy Lister
Released: August 28, 1974
Type: Movie
On a beach in Nice, François meets the mysterious Peggy and falls in love with her. Following her to a villa, he meets Marc, a lawyer who has a strange relationship with the girl.
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OK Patron
Title: OK Patron
Character: Mélissa
Released: June 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Mario, the head of the Mafia in France, has just been mortally wounded. His "companion" decides to find him a successor, before the New York "organization" appoints one. She instructs her two bodyguards to take on anyone who likes money, doesn't have any and, above all, doesn't want to work too hard - in short, "the average Frenchman"... They discover Léon Bonnet, a representative of "magic crosses". They send him gifts: champagne, weapons (a mistake...), a ring for his fiancée, and a meal worthy of the finest gourmets. In return, they take him to Mario's dying bedside, and have him sign over the estate. It's then that Leon, with his angelic good looks, restores order within the Mafia, surprising all his adversaries with his manners, and outwitting the police...
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Man in the Trunk
Title: Man in the Trunk
Character: Françoise
Released: October 12, 1973
Type: Movie
A beautiful and thoroughly modern young French women, Francoise, gets involved with an Israeli agent working in Libya. The agent is exposed and in order to save his life, he has to be smuggled out of the country in a trunk ("valise"). Francoise and the agent get through a lot of turbulent adventures, in the process of which the thoroughly liberated young woman also seduces a Libyan agent and an Egyptian officer, who also fall wildly in love with here.
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Where There's Smoke
Title: Where There's Smoke
Character: Olga Leroy
Released: May 16, 1973
Type: Movie
An election campaign becomes more interesting when anonymously published photographs depict the wife of a candidate, Dr. Peyrac, attending a sex party. Are the photographs fake or genuine ?
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The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Title: The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
Character: Christine
Released: December 6, 1972
Type: Movie
Hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.
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Vagabond Humor
Title: Vagabond Humor
Released: July 5, 1972
Type: Movie
Benoît, a young provincial, arrives in the capital. He has left his family (mother, wife and child) in his native Charente. But for him, the difference in the standard of living is trying, and he loses his bearings among this crowd of anonymous people. A young woman, Myriam, crosses his path. But the encounter is short-lived, and Benoît returns home. A tragedy has occurred.
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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There Once Was a Cop
Title: There Once Was a Cop
Character: Christine alias Françoise
Released: February 11, 1972
Type: Movie
Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the identity of a gangster's brother, who was already killed, he has to play the role of a loving husband with child - something that is not so easy for a confirmed single like Campana. Unfortunately American killers chase behind the Nice mafia clan too, in order to get control of French drug trades to USA.
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Troubleshooters
Title: Troubleshooters
Character: Carla
Released: April 7, 1971
Type: Movie
The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the jewels stolen during his last stickup. On the other hand the police inspector who arrested him offers him protection on condition he gives him the same piece of information. Serge refuses and is about to be tortured by Varèse's henchmen when Michel, a friendly hood, comes to his rescue. His friendship will result in... a heap of corpses! —Guy Bellinger
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Fantasia chez les ploucs
Title: Fantasia chez les ploucs
Character: Caroline Harrington "Tchoo-Tchoo"
Released: January 15, 1971
Type: Movie
Sagamore Noonan vit reclu dans une ferme de l'Alabama où il distille de la gnôle au temps de la prohibition. Il reçoit la visite de son frère Doc Noonan et de son fils Billy. Une jeune strip-teaseuse et son compagnon gangster viennent troubler leur tranquillité.
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Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
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The Love Mates
Title: The Love Mates
Character: Agatha
Released: December 18, 1970
Type: Movie
Julien and Agatha appear to be a great couple, loving, caring and seem to feel complete with each other. Though Julien often gives the impression of being interested in other girls, his lover doesn't care all that much and sometimes even looks like she's encouraging him to do that. It all changes when they meet an American woman who'll change their lives and their perception of love.
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Borsalino
Title: Borsalino
Character: Une prostituée
Released: May 19, 1970
Type: Movie
In 1930 Marseilles two small-time crooks join forces when they meet brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and fights, they start to find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.
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She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
Title: She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
Character: Francine
Released: April 17, 1970
Type: Movie
Housemaid Georgette loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.
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Monte Carlo or Bust!
Title: Monte Carlo or Bust!
Character: Marie-Claude
Released: April 28, 1969
Type: Movie
Sequel to "Those Magnificent Men In Their Flying Machines". This time an international car rally from England to Monte Carlo provides the comedic farce.
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Jeff
Title: Jeff
Character: Eva
Released: April 25, 1969
Type: Movie
Jeff is a gangster who's disappeared with a million dollars, and Laurent is looking for him to catch him before the other members of the gang find him.
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Summit
Title: Summit
Released: October 16, 1968
Type: Movie
Paolo, a special guest of an Italian newspaper, leaves for Paris to attend an international conference, a summit meeting, the 'summit' of hope. He subordinates all his interests - work, the newspaper, friends - to the urgent task of winning back Annie, with whom he had previously had an affair.
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Weekend
Title: Weekend
Character: Corinne Durand
Released: December 29, 1967
Type: Movie
A supposedly idyllic weekend trip to the countryside turns into a never-ending nightmare of traffic jams, revolution, cannibalism and murder as French bourgeois society starts to collapse under the weight of its own consumer preoccupations.
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Sorrel Flower
Title: Sorrel Flower
Character: Catherine Aigros, compagne de Pierre
Released: September 22, 1967
Type: Movie
Catherine is left unmarried and pregnant when her mobster sweetheart is killed in this gangster comedy. With the help of another unmarried mother-to-be, Catherine goes looking for the stash of cash buried by her lover before his death. Soon other thugs and her suspicious neighbors are following their every move in an attempt to recover the lost loot...
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The Blonde from Peking
Title: The Blonde from Peking
Character: Christine Olsen
Released: August 25, 1967
Type: Movie
Spies from several countries try to find out what secrets are hidden in the mind of a young amnesiac girl who has appeared in Paris.
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Casino Royale
Title: Casino Royale
Character: Jag (uncredited)
Released: April 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Sir James Bond is called back out of retirement to stop SMERSH. In order to trick SMERSH, James thinks up the ultimate plan - that every agent will be named 'James Bond'. One of the Bonds, whose real name is Evelyn Tremble is sent to take on Le Chiffre in a game of baccarat, but all the Bonds get more than they can handle.
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The Big Grasshopper
Title: The Big Grasshopper
Character: Salène
Released: January 11, 1967
Type: Movie
While he is trying to escape from a hit man, Carl is setting up a kidnapping in Beirut. He gets lost on his way, falling in love with Salène, a.k.a. "La grande sauterelle"...
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À belles dents
Title: À belles dents
Character: Eva Ritter
Released: July 5, 1966
Type: Movie
An orphaned young woman goes to Paris looking for work and love. Working as an au-pair, she is discovered by a fashion photographer and becomes a model. She falls in love with an architect but leaves him to marry a rich man.
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Let's Not Get Angry
Title: Let's Not Get Angry
Character: Églantine Michalon
Released: April 20, 1966
Type: Movie
One-time gangster Antoine is enjoying retirement on the coast, now managing a boating club. He receives a visit from a former accomplice who asks for a loan. The money will be repaid by a crook who is now in hiding; Antoine intends to recover his money.
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Balearic Caper
Title: Balearic Caper
Character: Polly
Released: March 10, 1966
Type: Movie
A scepter is stolen, and it's hunted for by various groups of international robbers and spies, for various reasons - in a parody of 007 movies.
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The Upper Hand
Title: The Upper Hand
Character: Lili Princesse
Released: March 2, 1966
Type: Movie
In Paris, a gold smuggler is at war with other local gangsters who want piece of the action. Then the mob shows up and makes things worse. And an undercover US Treasury Department agent is trying to infiltrate the smuggling business.
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Galia
Title: Galia
Character: Galia
Released: January 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Newly arrived in Paris, Galia lives in a small apartment near Notre-Dame cathedral. One evening, whilst walking along the banks of the River Seine, she saves a young woman from drowning. The woman, Nicole, tells Galia that she intended to drown herself, having left a suicide note for her husband, Greg. Having settled Nicole in her apartment, Galia sets out to recover the suicide note, but waits so that she can observe Greg’s reaction. When Greg appears unmoved by the note, Galia decides to wait for him at the art gallery where he works...
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How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Title: How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Character: Marie Truchet, « putain » dite « Éloïse » (Les Bons Vivants)
Released: October 28, 1965
Type: Movie
The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes a lantern from the entrance to a brothel. The second part is about how the lantern and jewelery were stolen from a young baroness. And in the third part the hero of Louis de Funes hangs a lantern at the entrance to his house.
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Title: Dim Dam Dom
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 1965
Type: TV
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The Great Spy Chase
Title: The Great Spy Chase
Character: Amaranthe
Released: December 10, 1964
Type: Movie
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.
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Male Hunt
Title: Male Hunt
Character: Georgina
Released: September 18, 1964
Type: Movie
A few stories about marriage and its problems. Antoine is about to marry Gisèle. His friend Julien, an established bachelor, desperately tries to convince him not to do it, recounting his own painful experiences.
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Hard Boiled Ones
Title: Hard Boiled Ones
Character: Josette
Released: June 10, 1964
Type: Movie
A playwright has to murder if he does not want to be murdered.
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Dandelions by the Roots
Title: Dandelions by the Roots
Character: Rockie la Braise
Released: May 6, 1964
Type: Movie
Jockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry the gangster's knife attack backstage at a theatre and the latter ends up dead being put into a double bass case. A day later the gangster mysteriously has disappeared, but it turns out that he was carrying a bet ticket for a horse race now worth over a million. A turbulent run for the money begins.
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Monsieur
Title: Monsieur
Character: Suzanne, l'ex-femme de chambre de "Monsieur"
Released: April 22, 1964
Type: Movie
Désespéré par la mort de sa femme, le banquier René Duchesne se promène le long de la Seine. Seule la rencontre de Suzanne, son ancienne femme de chambre lui révélant les infidélités de Madame, le sauve du suicide. Monsieur décide alors d'aider sa protégée à sortir de la prostitution, et d'empêcher ses beaux-parents de faire main basse sur l'héritage.
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4XD
Title: 4XD
Character: Herself
Released: January 14, 1964
Type: Movie
In 1964, on the request of UniFrance, writer and director Philippe Labro filmed four young actresses – Mireille Darc, Marie Dubois, Catherine Deneuve, and Françoise Dorléac – in order to promote these young talents around the world. He took a free approach to the project, trying to capture the personality of each one, while also providing a vision of Paris as the quintessential backdrop of French cinema.
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L'Été en hiver
Title: L'Été en hiver
Character: Diane, the actress wife
Released: January 4, 1964
Type: Movie
Movie for French TV - Jean, a highly sought-after reporter, and Diane, an actress, have been married for three years, but are often separated by their respective professions. They have not lived together for more than six months. During the winter, they decide to spend a vacation together in Meschers, to relive the first moments of their relationship.
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Pouic-Pouic
Title: Pouic-Pouic
Character: Patricia Monestier
Released: November 20, 1963
Type: Movie
Léonard Monestier owns a large fortune, alas his wife Cynthia made a bad investment in a worthless oil concession. Far from letting this get him down, Léonard decides to find a sucker to buy this concession from him. Right on cue appears Antoine Brévin, a befuddled billionaire who is very interested in Léonard's beautiful daughter Patricia and would do anything to win her hand...
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People in Luck
Title: People in Luck
Character: Jacqueline (« Le Vison »)
Released: April 26, 1963
Type: Movie
A light French comedy of 5 segments.
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Virginie
Title: Virginie
Released: October 17, 1962
Type: Movie
Two friends, a journalist and a scientist, plan to sail to Argentina for an expedition of discovery, but their plans are thrown into confusion when they rescue two attractive women.
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The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Title: The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Character: Une amie de Mauricette
Released: September 14, 1962
Type: Movie
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.
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The New Aristrocrats
Title: The New Aristrocrats
Character: Milou Rivoire
Released: December 13, 1961
Type: Movie
Denis, a hypersensitive teenager, is revolted both against his distant, pretentious, well-to-do parents and their superficial society firends and the stiff, intolerant catholic establishment in which he studies. Fortunately,he has an open-minded philosophy teacher, Father Philippe de Maubrun, who understands him and supports him in his distress.
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To Die of Love
Title: To Die of Love
Released: August 30, 1961
Type: Movie
Michel, a writer of detective novels, is married to Pat, a pretty woman he's been neglecting. One day, the results of a private investigation reveal that his wife is cheating on him. But he'd never contacted a private detective before. The facts are all the more disturbing in that they coincide with the detective story he is writing with his beautiful young secretary. Pat is murdered and found next to her dying lover, who is said to have attempted suicide. But the police soon realize that this is a double murder. The investigation develops; Michel is strongly suspected, as many presumptions seem to weigh heavily on him. The outcome of the investigation brings a surprise that clears Michel's name.
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Hauteclaire
Title: Hauteclaire
Character: Hauteclaire Stassin
Released: June 13, 1961
Type: Movie
The action takes place under the Restoration, at the Château de Savigny, near Nerville, a devout and prudish little town in the Cotentin region. Doctor Torty is the doctor. He tells a story of which he is the only one to know the secret, that of a criminal couple, without any remorse. The pretty Hauteclaire Stassin, daughter of the master of arms, meets the Count of Savigny, married to the noble and languid Delphine. Madly in love with the count, Hauteclaire joined the castle as a servant. Shortly after, the countess died of poisoning. Will the guilty lovers go unpunished?
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Please, Not Now!
Title: Please, Not Now!
Character: Marie-Jeanne
Released: April 19, 1961
Type: Movie
A sexy model pretends to have a new boyfriend in a wacky plan to make her ex-lover jealous.
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¿Pena de muerte?
Title: ¿Pena de muerte?
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
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Trapped by Fear
Title: Trapped by Fear
Character: Maïa
Released: November 4, 1960
Type: Movie
Two French paras who had lived through deadly situations in Algeria, meet again in civil life. Frapier is a newspaper reporter, and one day finds his friend Porte - surrounded by the police after a car theft, and an accidental killing of a police officer. He helps him escape, and provides shelter with the complicity of his girlfriend Vera. Later, Frapier will have doubts about Vera's love, and lives a passionate night with beautiful Arabelle. However, he finds himself playing a game of life and death both with Vera, and Porte. It will end in sadness for one, and death for another.
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La grande bretèche
Title: La grande bretèche
Character: Jane
Released: October 14, 1960
Type: Movie
Transposed to the 1960s, this short story by Balzac tells the story of a jealous husband who hears a door slam when he returns home. His wife swears there was no one there, but refuses to open the oil tank. To get to the bottom of it, the husband has fuel delivered. To what fatal outcome will their stubbornness lead them?