Nicole Desailly

Nicole Desailly

Born: October 17, 1920
Died: December 29, 2019
in Paris, France

Movies for Nicole Desailly...

Devil Story
Title: Devil Story
Released: November 26, 1986
Type: Movie
After their car breaks down in the French countryside, a young couple must fend off a Nazi mutant and his gypsy mother, a mummy, and a possessed horse.
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The Secret Wife
Title: The Secret Wife
Released: September 17, 1986
Type: Movie
It was during one of his missions in Norway that Antoine learned of his wife's death. He leaves his experimental submarine and returns to Paris. Helene was found in the Seine and had taken barbiturates. Even though he had not been with Hélène for six years, he knew her well enough to believe that she was incapable of committing suicide. So who and why?
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Tout le monde peut se tromper
Title: Tout le monde peut se tromper
Character: La seconde invitée du mariage
Released: February 10, 1983
Type: Movie
A young woman, employed in a jewelry store, decides to take advantage of the heist she witnesses. She shoots down one of the burglars; the other will pursue her.
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La Faute
Title: La Faute
Released: December 16, 1980
Type: Movie
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Le Curé de Tours
Title: Le Curé de Tours
Character: Mlle Pinsard
Released: December 2, 1980
Type: Movie
Father Birotteau and Father Troubert, both of whom are priests at Tours, have separate lodgings in the house belonging to the crabby spinster Sophie Gamard in that city. Birotteau is an other-worldly, gentle, introspective type; Troubert, who is ten years younger than his fellow boarder, is very much of the world: he is a careerist devoured by ambition.
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Buffet Froid
Title: Buffet Froid
Character: La femme divorcée
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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Monsieur Papa
Title: Monsieur Papa
Character: Goulards' neighbor
Released: August 23, 1977
Type: Movie
In this family comedy, Papa has no end of trouble getting his young son to accept his new girlfriend.
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Château Espérance
Title: Château Espérance
Character: Mme Merlin
Released: May 17, 1976
Type: Movie
Rachid, a North African immigrant worker in the Fayard company for several years, saved to bring his wife Leïla and their son Larbi. They arrive in France for the first time. Leïla full of hope came to join her husband in exile. But very quickly, it is the shock: the difficult working conditions, the hard daily life of her husband and the surrounding grayness marked by anti-Arab racism does not bode well. The 30-episode series was first broadcast on May 17, 1976 on TF1, and is the first French series to address immigrant issues in France.
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Gross Paris
Title: Gross Paris
Released: May 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Bernard, a journalist, and his friend Jules, a butcher by trade, are both passionate about horse racing.
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Two Men in Town
Title: Two Men in Town
Character: Neighbor (uncredited)
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: Movie
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
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The Day of the Jackal
Title: The Day of the Jackal
Character: Yvonne De Gaulle
Released: May 16, 1973
Type: Movie
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
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Qui êtes-vous Monsieur Renaudot ?
Title: Qui êtes-vous Monsieur Renaudot ?
Character: Marie de Médicis
Released: November 30, 1972
Type: Movie
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And Hope to Die
Title: And Hope to Die
Character: Nurse (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1972
Type: Movie
A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.
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Title: Les Sesterain ou le miroir 2000
Character: Mme Flandin
Released: September 24, 1971
Type: TV
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The Lion's Share
Title: The Lion's Share
Released: September 8, 1971
Type: Movie
A writer is reunited with an old childhood friend, who gives him the opportunity to devise a heist.
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Too Small My Friend
Title: Too Small My Friend
Character: Mile Kuker
Released: August 6, 1971
Type: Movie
Ticky Edriss, a dwarf, develops a scheme to avenge him on society and extort a bank.
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The Cat
Title: The Cat
Character: Nurse
Released: April 24, 1971
Type: Movie
Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished. His cat Greffier being the only one he still gives affection to, he becomes the object of Clemence's anger.
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Erotic Love-Games
Title: Erotic Love-Games
Released: September 23, 1970
Type: Movie
Partisan of total sexual freedom, a young woman with perfect physique leads, by her example, a married friend to live like her. The two friends then engage in all kinds of erotic experiences at random from their meetings with various gentlemen, but also between them.
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Le chien qui a vu Dieu
Title: Le chien qui a vu Dieu
Character: Mrs. Lucioni
Released: March 10, 1970
Type: Movie
In a small Italian village live a group of men, each as miscreant as the next. Among them is the baker, violent and miserly. One day, to benefit from an inheritance, he has to distribute fifty kilos of bread a day to the poor for five years. At the moment of distribution, a dog comes along and takes a loaf of bread in its mouth, to take to an old hermit whom the villagers are convinced "has seen God".
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Tender Moment
Title: Tender Moment
Character: The Concierge
Released: December 20, 1968
Type: Movie
Teenage student Olivier (Verley) meets 25 year-old Frédérique (Delon), wife of race car driver Enrico (Hossein), and start an affair. But guilt and doubt storm over Olivier's mind.
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The Crime of David Levinstein
Title: The Crime of David Levinstein
Released: April 24, 1968
Type: Movie
David Levinstein, a young Jewish boy whose parents have been arrested and killed by the Nazis, is taken in by Monsieur Ray, the head of his school. Unfortunately for him, Donnadieu, a pro-Nazi schoolmaster, denounces him to the Gestapo and he is sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. After being released in 1945, David attempts to live normally. He even marries Jacky, the woman he has fallen in love with. But fifteen years pass and the taste of revenge invades him and becomes irresistible. He eventually traces the teacher who gave him way.
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Action Man
Title: Action Man
Character: Hélène (uncredited)
Released: May 31, 1967
Type: Movie
An American talks a retired French crook into robbing a bank, but kidnappers demand the loot as ransom.
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The Sleeping Car Murder
Title: The Sleeping Car Murder
Character: La concierge d'Eliane (non crédité)
Released: November 17, 1965
Type: Movie
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.
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The Sucker
Title: The Sucker
Character: Mme Chenu, la concierge (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1965
Type: Movie
In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".
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Male Hunt
Title: Male Hunt
Character: (uncredited)
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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Mata Hari, Agent H21
Title: Mata Hari, Agent H21
Character: Charlotte
Released: January 29, 1964
Type: Movie
Ordered to seduce French captain and steal from him classified papers, Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and a spy, instead falls in love with him and blows the cover.
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The Good Life
Title: The Good Life
Released: January 22, 1964
Type: Movie
After twenty-seven long months spent in Algeria, Frédéric Simon, a young photographer is determined to forget this time of trouble. Now that the Army has finally discharged him he wants to live the good life. And at first, things go according to his wishes: not only does he marry Sylvie but they are invited by a wealthy man to Monte Carlo, where they spend a dream honeymoon. But back in Paris, hard times await them. Not finding work easily along with having to live in a cramped apartment make Frédéric bitter and unpleasant. When Sylvie becomes pregnant, he slams the door and finds consolation in the arms of Christine, an ex girlfriend, which he soon regrets. At last, the situation improves. Frédéric finds work and starts making money as a fashion photographer. But the good life cannot go on: one morning a policeman knocks at the young couple's door: the country wants Frédéric back in the Army.
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L'Été en hiver
Title: L'Été en hiver
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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La parole est au témoin
Title: La parole est au témoin
Released: November 17, 1963
Type: Movie
Mustapha, a cab driver in Paris, charges a customer in a hurry, without realizing that he is in a hurry to escape his pursuers after robbing a jewelry store. The next day, reading the newspapers, Mustapha becomes aware of the role he has played in this affair, and would gladly assist the police if a fortuitous incident didn't make him fear the criminals' vengeance. It's a cruel dilemma in which he is both suspected by some and threatened by others. Weak but honest, he manages to get out of this predicament at the risk of his life!
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Title: The Seven Deadly Sins
Character: (segment "La colère") (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1962
Type: Movie
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.
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Eyes of Love
Title: Eyes of Love
Released: November 25, 1959
Type: Movie
During the German occupation, Jeanne Moncatel, pretty but complexed, has to put up with her mother, a cantankerous old woman who keeps telling her she's ugly, which she also believes. She takes in Pierre Ségur, who was fleeing the Germans and had his eyes burned out. His life is turned upside down.
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The Case of Dr. Laurent
Title: The Case of Dr. Laurent
Character: L'infirmière (uncredited)
Released: April 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Le Cas Du Dr. Laurent (The Case of Dr. Laurent) stars Jean Gabin as a Paris-based doctor who tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth. Working in a cloistered rural community, Gabin runs up against the stone walls of fear and prejudice. His theories are proven sound when unwed mother Nicole Courcel gives birth within Gabin's methodology. The childbirth sequence is filmed straight-on with a delicate combination of taste and frankness. Nonetheless, the lurid ad campaign of Cas Du Dr. Laurent sensationalized this sequence all out of proportion.
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Title: Plaisir du théâtre
Released: July 3, 1956
Type: TV
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The Bouquinquant Brothers
Title: The Bouquinquant Brothers
Released: January 11, 1948
Type: Movie
A provincial, Julie Moret, is hired as a servant in a Parisian bourgeois residence. She is courted by one of the Bouquinquant brothers, Léon, who does not take long to ask her to marry him. Alas, Léon turns out to be violent, alcoholic and lazy. Faced with her misfortune, Julie gets closer to her brother-in-law Pierre, the opposite of Léon, serious and hardworking, and they become lovers. The drama will rush when Julie becomes pregnant with Pierre.
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Girl with Grey Eyes
Title: Girl with Grey Eyes
Released: November 24, 1945
Type: Movie
A village lost in the mountains where Catherine called L'Airelle's love affair takes place with a young doctor. Catherine's father is the local bonesetter whose wife threw herself into a glacier out of despair of love and whose body reappears intact twenty years later. In addition, the pharmacist of the country is accused of having seduced a young girl who is avenged by her mother. The bonesetter also dies, the village fortunately continues to live.