Denise Gence

Denise Gence

Born: March 8, 1924
Died: September 29, 2011
in Paris, France

Movies for Denise Gence...

Duo
Title: Duo
Character: Maria
Released: May 16, 1990
Type: Movie
A couple who appears to have the perfect relationship finds their future in jeopardy following a scorching night of lust and debauchery in this erotic drama adapted from the controversial novel by French author Colette.
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La Dame de chez Maxim
Title: La Dame de chez Maxim
Character: Mme Petypon
Released: February 12, 1981
Type: Movie
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Buffet Froid
Title: Buffet Froid
Character: L'hôtesse au château
Released: December 19, 1979
Type: Movie
An absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.
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Les femmes savantes
Title: Les femmes savantes
Character: Belise
Released: August 19, 1978
Type: Movie
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That's Show Business
Title: That's Show Business
Character: Anna-Magdalena
Released: October 24, 1975
Type: Movie
Clement Mastard is the head of a leading journal dedicated to extravagant vaudeville. An unexpected contract requires him to reconnect with his former headliner Celia Bergson part to try to avant-garde theater. It is through this that he met Johann Sebastian Bloch, misunderstood musician who cause the loss but the side which Mastard, the man without scruples, to humanize and eventually produce a real masterpiece, the Missa Solemnis
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Le sexe faible
Title: Le sexe faible
Character: La comtesse
Released: November 2, 1974
Type: Movie
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Monsieur Bébé
Title: Monsieur Bébé
Character: Mme Francinet
Released: October 19, 1974
Type: Movie
In this extreme yet devastating testament to the loneliness of human existence, an older domestic woman, heartbreakingly rendered by Gence, is approached in the kitchen after a party by a young, gay man seeking affection. She is later offered money to act as his mother and becomes emotionally involved in a milieu unfamiliar to her.
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Le Tartuffe
Title: Le Tartuffe
Character: Mme Pernelle
Released: October 13, 1973
Type: Movie
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Histoire vraie
Title: Histoire vraie
Character: Mère Paumelle
Released: May 5, 1973
Type: Movie
A servant girl, given in marriage when she turns out to be pregnant, can't bring herself to live away from her master.
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George Dandin
Title: George Dandin
Character: Mrs. de Sottenville
Released: January 6, 1973
Type: Movie
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Tartuffe
Title: Tartuffe
Character: Mrs. Pernelle
Released: January 1, 1973
Type: Movie
A filmed version of Molière's play.
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Électre
Title: Électre
Character: The Narsès woman
Released: July 7, 1972
Type: Movie
During the long journey that brought him home victorious in the Trojan War, Agamemnon fell in love with one of his captives, Cassander, daughter of Priam, with whom he had children. The reception in Argos, more than ten years later, was icy. Annoyed by the double indelicacy of her husband, Clytemnestra, his wife who had meanwhile become the mistress of Aegisthus, killed him with the help of her lover. Aegisthus then became the regent and ensured the prosperity of the city alongside his mistress, the widowed queen. But Electra, one of the daughters of Agamemnon, has always foreseen the murder and adultery of her mother. Solitary, wild, she lives in the royal palace awaiting the return of Orestes, her brother who has taken refuge since childhood with an uncle, in order to take revenge. Electra can begin, the crimes of the Atreides family continue quietly, as planned.
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Ruy Blas
Title: Ruy Blas
Character: La Duègne
Released: February 10, 1972
Type: Movie
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Les Cent livres : A la recherche du temps perdu
Title: Les Cent livres : A la recherche du temps perdu
Character: Françoise
Released: December 22, 1971
Type: Movie
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Les fausses confidences
Title: Les fausses confidences
Character: Ms. Argante, mother of Araminte
Released: November 22, 1971
Type: Movie
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Un fil à la patte
Title: Un fil à la patte
Character: Marceline
Released: December 26, 1970
Type: Movie
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Les Hauts de Hurlevent - 2ème partie
Title: Les Hauts de Hurlevent - 2ème partie
Character: Nell Dean
Released: January 13, 1968
Type: Movie
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Les Hauts de Hurlevent - 1ère partie
Title: Les Hauts de Hurlevent - 1ère partie
Character: Nell Dean
Released: January 6, 1968
Type: Movie
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Title: Les Hauts de Hurlevent
Character: Nell Dean
Released: January 6, 1968
Type: TV
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Lamiel
Title: Lamiel
Character: La duchesse de Miossens
Released: August 30, 1967
Type: Movie
Lamiel is a poor orphan girl who climbs to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. A doctor lives vicariously through Anna as he oversees the progress of his female protégé. Lamiel finds love with a young thief who steals into her bedroom after her marriage to a penniless count, and the two experience a romantic rendezvous of forbidden love after Lamiel goes from being a poor peasant woman to living a life of comparative luxury.
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Huckleberry Finn
Title: Huckleberry Finn
Character: Widow Douglas
Released: January 28, 1967
Type: Movie
A TV movie about Huckleberry Finn, directed by Marcel Cravenne and released in France back in 1967.
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Normal Life
Title: Normal Life
Released: June 30, 1966
Type: Movie
The dramatic affair between Dr. Jean-Pierre Cazot and a young French woman, Laurence, a survivor of a death camp, who is expecting an unwanted child.
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The Double Bed
Title: The Double Bed
Character: Mamounette (segment 3 "La répétition")
Released: August 6, 1965
Type: Movie
Various sketches centered on alcove stories.
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The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Title: The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Character: La chaisière
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 Dance
Title: The Dance
Character: la directrice de l'institut Saint-Marc
Released: February 21, 1962
Type: Movie
The Dance is a 1962 French comedy film directed by Norbert Carbonnaux and starring Jean-Pierre Cassel, Françoise Dorléac and Arletty. The film is based on the French comic strip 13 rue de l'Espoir.
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Port-Royal
Title: Port-Royal
Character: Sister Louise
Released: June 1, 1960
Type: Movie
1661, the Assemblée du Clergé de France obliged all clergy to sign a form testifying to their submission to the decisions of the Holy See. In 1664, the Archbishop of Paris wanted to impose this decision on the nuns of Port-Royal. Among them was Sister Angélique de Saint Jean, admired by the very young Sister Françoise, who looked to her for comfort.
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Marriage of Figaro
Title: Marriage of Figaro
Released: November 4, 1959
Type: Movie
It's the day of Figaro's marriage to Susanna, but first he must help the Countess divert the Count's attention away from Susanna and back to her, while arranging the betrothal of Cherubino and Barbarina.
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Every Day Has Its Secret
Title: Every Day Has Its Secret
Character: Fina
Released: June 11, 1958
Type: Movie
Given up for dead three years ago in a plane crash in the Amazon rainforest, a young woman arrives in Paris to find her eminent ethnologist husband. She learns of his death in obscure circumstances, having remarried in the meantime. She sets out to unravel the mystery surrounding her husband's death.
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Lovers of Paris
Title: Lovers of Paris
Character: Lisa
Released: October 18, 1957
Type: Movie
Young, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the belles of the capital.
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Title: Airs de France
Character: Self
Released: January 15, 1955
Type: TV