Françoise Berd

Françoise Berd

Born: March 2, 1923
Died: August 10, 2001
in Saint-Pacome, Québec, Canada
Françoise Berd (born Françoise Bernadette Loranger; March 2, 1923 – August 10, 2001) was a Quebec actress and founder of the theatre company L'Égrégore.

Berd played the role of the caretaker in the film A Special Day (Una Giornata particulare) by Ettore Scola (1977), alongside Sophia Loren and Marcello Mastroianni.

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Movies for Françoise Berd...

Wind from Wyoming
Title: Wind from Wyoming
Character: Soeur Amanda
Released: May 26, 1994
Type: Movie
Manon, is obsessed with famous writer Chester Celine, who hails from Wyoming. Manon learns Chester is coming to town and becomes a slinky, svelte temptress
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Agnes of God
Title: Agnes of God
Character: Sister Thérèse
Released: September 13, 1985
Type: Movie
When a dead newborn is found, wrapped in bloody sheets, in the bedroom wastebasket of a young novice, psychiatrist Martha Livingston is called in to determine if the seemingly innocent novice, who knows nothing of sex or birth, is competent enough to stand trial for the murder of the baby.
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The Lady of Colours
Title: The Lady of Colours
Character: Mme Dupuis
Released: January 29, 1985
Type: Movie
In Quebec 40s, orphans or abandoned children are placed in a gigantic psychiatric hospital where children were locked. Were they sick? No, they simply had no family. To escape this oppressive universe, they created a parallel world: the institution's basement where, in a maze of tunnels, they founded an independent company, with its rituals, spells. A young girl, Agnes, reigns over this underground world that adults seem to tolerate.
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Contrecoeur
Title: Contrecoeur
Character: Mrs. Lavallé, Théo's mother
Released: March 11, 1983
Type: Movie
Contrecoeur is a film using fantastic realism to talk about psychology, drift and love. Three characters must define themselves in an enclosed space, a truck trapped in a snowstorm, and dream of somewhere else to find each other.
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Au pays de Zom
Title: Au pays de Zom
Character: Mme. Zom
Released: January 1, 1982
Type: Movie
A film-opera divided into nine segments, Au pays de Zom tells a day in the life of Mister Zom, a capitalist infatuated with his own person, whose conformism is only matched by his artistic velleity. A thematic sequel to his movie filmed with Mexican peasants, here Groulx asks, by making a business man sing, a second question on happiness: this time about the ones for whom happiness is linked with the possession of overabundance. He delivers, by developing the theatrical dimension with great emphasis, a social pamphlet with a strong satirical charge that he himself qualified as a "neo-surrealist fantasy".
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Piwi
Title: Piwi
Character: Mme Picard
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
The nightmares of a poor and lonely delivery man.
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Cordélia
Title: Cordélia
Character: Mrs. Parslow
Released: February 7, 1980
Type: Movie
In a little village at the end of the 1890's, a young woman offends all the 'right-thinking' villagers by allowing men in her house in the absence of her husband. When he is found dead, all of the suspicion is directed towards the liberal woman. She is judged more for her morality then for the crime she is accused of. Her culpability is still a subject of debate today.
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La Belle apparence
Title: La Belle apparence
Character: Cécile Gauthier
Released: March 30, 1979
Type: Movie
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Quintet
Title: Quintet
Character: Charity House Woman
Released: February 9, 1979
Type: Movie
During a future ice age, dying humanity occupies its remaining time by playing a board game called Quintet. For one small group, this obsession is not enough. They play the game with living pieces, and only the winner survives.
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Title: Chez Denise
Character: Eva
Released: February 4, 1979
Type: TV
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A Special Day
Title: A Special Day
Character: Concierge
Released: August 11, 1977
Type: Movie
In Rome, fascist supporter Emanuele attends a parade commemorating Adolf Hitler's historic meeting with Italian leader Benito Mussolini, leaving his apolitical wife, Antonietta, to tend to household duties. Antonietta encounters a man, Gabriele, who appears surprisingly nonplussed by the political event. Over the course of the day, the two forge a close friendship that will forever change their perceptions of life, love and politics.
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J.A. Martin Photographer
Title: J.A. Martin Photographer
Character: An Old Maid
Released: May 26, 1977
Type: Movie
The wife of photographer J.A. Martin decides to go with him in his tour of the hard Canadian countryside at the turn of the century. She hopes the intimacy will revive their marriage.
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Parlez-nous d'amour
Title: Parlez-nous d'amour
Character: Grande Admiratrice de Jeannot
Released: September 23, 1976
Type: Movie
A television host tries to react to the process of alienation that the public is subjected to from variety shows.
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Hot Water, Cold Water
Title: Hot Water, Cold Water
Character: Françoise
Released: January 4, 1976
Type: Movie
In a poor neighborhood, teenagers plot an assassination while a party is being organized for the local usurer.
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Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang…
Title: Ti-Mine, Bernie pis la gang…
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
A married man and his family take in his brother, who is coming out from a religious order. They decide to realise the old family dream, migrate to Florida. But it won't be as easy as they think.
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Bar Salon
Title: Bar Salon
Character: Leslie
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Tragicomic portrait of a bar's owners and patrons in a poor Montreal neighbourhood.
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Kamouraska
Title: Kamouraska
Character: Sa femme
Released: July 18, 1973
Type: Movie
A writer, Kamouraska is based on a real nineteenth-century love-triangle in rural Québec. It paints a poetic and terrifying tableau of the life of Elisabeth d'Aulnières: her marriage to Antoine Tassy, squire of Kamouraska; his violent murder; and her passion for George Nelson, an American doctor. Passionate and evocative, Kamouraska is the timeless story of one woman's destructive commitment to an ideal love.
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The Time of the Hunt
Title: The Time of the Hunt
Released: October 6, 1972
Type: Movie
A young boy learns the rituals of what his father and his friends perceive as manhood on a weekend hunting trip.