Cécile Vassort
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Birthday: June 02, 1941
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Evil Pleasure
1975-01-01
Evil Pleasure
Overview: Philippe Malaiseau, writer and historian, died before completing his study of Charles le Témeraire, so the publisher sent Marc Lancelot, Malaiseau's “negro”, to Fontbonne in the Midi. There are five women in Fontbonne: Julie, a ravishing and very particular secretary who seduces Marc, Malaiseau's old mother, Marianne, the distant widow, Christine, the cousin, and Melisa, an Italian friend. The four women are all related to Malaiseau. Did he die in a simple accident?
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-01
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Three Men and a Cradle
1985-09-18
Three Men and a Cradle
Overview: Three young men - Jacques, Pierre, and Michel - share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of Jacques' tells him he has a quite compromising package to deliver, and asks him if he can leave it discreetly at their place. Jacques agrees and, as he works as a steward, flies away for a one-month trip in Japan, telling Pierre and Michel about the package. Then, one of Jacques' former girlfriends drops a baby before their door, making Pierre and Michel believing it is the package they are waiting for. Their lives are then completely changed.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-09-18
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Two Men in Town
1973-10-24
Two Men in Town
Overview: 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.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-24
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La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
1978-11-12
La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
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Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-11-12
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Is Paris Burning?
1966-10-26
Is Paris Burning?
Overview: Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-26
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Blanche and Marie
1985-04-03
Blanche and Marie
Overview: A little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her husband Victor, who often goes out at night. Actually, Victor belongs to the Resistance. Soon, Blanche will be a resistant too. In the network, there is also Germinal, the hairdresser. His daughter Marie knows everything and asks to be part of it... Chronicle of the occupation and of the resistance through the eyes of the women.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-04-03
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The Judge and the Assassin
1976-03-10
The Judge and the Assassin
Overview: France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders many teenagers over years. The judge Rousseau captures him, but to serve his ambition seeks to avoid that Bouvier is simply declared insane.
Genres: History Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-10
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La situation est grave... mais pas désespérée
1976-03-31
La situation est grave... mais pas désespérée
Overview: Sophie, viscountess of Valrude, believes herself being a widow since her husband disappeared in the Amazon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-31
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Captain Conan
1996-10-16
Captain Conan
Overview: The last days of World War I, Eastern front. Captain Conan, a lone wolf, a true warrior, leads a band of ruthless French fighters who love hand-to-hand combat; they are not fit for peacetime, they only feel really alive in the chaos of the battlefield.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-10-16
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Sorrel Flower
1967-09-22
Sorrel Flower
Overview: 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...
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-09-22
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Lady of the Camelias
1981-02-26
Lady of the Camelias
Overview: A young girl from the provinces, comes to Paris with one goal: to become a part of the rich bourgeoisie. To achieve this she will use her unique beauty and charm.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1981-02-26
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A Piece of Pleasure
1975-01-15
A Piece of Pleasure
Overview: Phillipe and Esther live an apparently idyllic life with their daughter, Elise. In an attempt to preserve this bliss, Phillipe decides that he and Esther should each have affairs, being sure to tell each other openly about them. The plan backfires with tragic results as Phillipe becomes engulfed in jealously.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-15
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Gaspard des montagnes
1965-12-30
Gaspard des montagnes
Overview: We are in 1814, in Auvergne, in the dark fir forests of Livradois, near La Chaise Dieu. Gaspard and his beautiful cousin Anne-Marie see their love thwarted and their lives disrupted because of a treasure that an old uncle, who made his fortune in Guadeloupe, buried in the mountains of Auvergne.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-12-30
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Angel's Leap
1971-09-21
Angel's Leap
Overview: In this French crime thriller, you can leave the mob, but the mob won't leave you. Louis (Jean Yanne) has retired to a Thailand plantation with an Asian wife and child. Back in Marseilles, however, because a no-holds-barred gang war has broken out, Louis' large collateral family is wiped out, and he is family are slated for destruction.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-21
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A Woman in White
1965-04-28
A Woman in White
Overview: Claude Sauvage, a tenacious young gynecologist takes a months long internship in a Paris hospital. Between her private life and medical career, she set her doubts and desires in a society where the square and the plight of women remain at that time a secondary issue. The film follows Claude and the staff through the case of some patients while the crucial debate on women's professional ambition, contraception and abortion rights.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-04-28
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Les Trois Sœurs
1974-03-30
Les Trois Sœurs
Overview: Olga, Masha, and Irina Prozoroff lead lonely and purposeless lives following the death of their father who has commanded the local army post. Olga attempts to find satisfaction in teaching but secretly longs for a home and family. Masha, unhappy with her marriage to a timid schoolmaster, falls hopelessly in love with a married colonel. Irina works in the local telegraph office but longs for gaiety. Their sense of futility is increased by their brother's marriage to Natasha, a coarse peasant girl. She gradually encroaches on the family home until even the private refuge of the sisters is destroyed. They dream of starting a new life in Moscow but are saddled with the practicalities of their quiet existence. Despite their past failures, they resolve to seek some purpose and hope when the army post is withdrawn from the town.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-30
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A Little Virtuous
1968-02-21
A Little Virtuous
Overview: In Paris, the young photographer Ferdinand falls in love with Claire, a pickpocket. Shortly after, he is assaulted because he took pictures of the young woman with another man, Brady, his sponsor. The policeman Lorenzi is put on the case, but in love, Ferdinand does not want to denounce her. However, a stolen object that she offered him will allow his indictment: Claire will spend a year in prison. When she is released, Ferdinand marries her. Kerman, Ferdinand's new boss, employs Claire in his cabaret. She puts on a famous act during which she picks the pockets of the spectators, then gives the objects back at the end of the show. But Brady reappears, demanding 80% of the young woman's earnings, otherwise he will denounce Claire's bigamy, to whom he is still married! Ferdinand prepares to flee with his wife. When he finds her, he comes across the corpse of Brady, whom Claire has just killed.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-02-21
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The Invitation
1973-09-13
The Invitation
Overview: After the death of his mother, middle-aged insurance employee inherits her small cottage surrounded by a garden. Selling the cottage which is situated on unexploited ground near the center of a big city makes him a rich man and he buys a big house in the countryside. He takes some time off and decides to throw a big garden party at the house and invite all his colleagues from the office. Aided by alcohol, the guests gradually lose all their inhibitions and reveal personality traits and frustrations that they normally keep hidden.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-09-13
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One Deadly Summer
1983-05-11
One Deadly Summer
Overview: In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-05-11
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Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
1988-02-26
Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Overview: This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew who was incarcerated in a Stalinist prison. Zupanev (Erland Josephson) is a sympathetic court registrar who smuggles the documents and later presents them to the poet's son Grisha (Vincent David).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-02-26
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The Italian of the Roses
1973-05-16
The Italian of the Roses
Overview: This thoughtful French film tells of the events leading to a young man's attempt at suicide. As Raymond (Richard Bohringer) sits on a ledge of his apartment building, and people try to talk him back inside, he remembers the events of his day and his life before this moment. Things seemed to be going along well enough until something triggered his revulsion at the pettiness and falseness that is the everyday currency of life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-16
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Adieu, je t'aime
1988-05-04
Adieu, je t'aime
Overview: A wife struggles with her husband's infidelity with another man and eventually gives herself to both of them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-05-04
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The Watchmaker of St. Paul
1974-01-16
The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Overview: Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realizes that he knew far less about his son than he thought.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-16
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The Diary of an Innocent Boy
1968-01-12
The Diary of an Innocent Boy
Overview: Set in 18th century France, a naive 17-year-old orphan named Benjamin is taken in by his wealthy aunt, the Countess de Valandry. There, he is seduced by a variety of women, including a few flirtatious maidservants and neighboring countesses who all want to be Benjamin's "first".
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-01-12
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Une mère comme on n'en fait plus
1997-05-21
Une mère comme on n'en fait plus
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Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-05-21
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