Catherine Samie
Biography: Catherine Samie (born 3 February 1933) is a French actress and member (sociétaire, doyen) of the Comédie-Française from 1962. On 14 July 2011 she became Grand Officier of the Legion of Honor. She is a Catholic. Source: Article "Catherine Samie" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Birthday: February 03, 1933
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My Life Is Hell
1991-12-04
My Life Is Hell
Overview: The naive and self-conscious Leah mistakenly signs a pact with the devil Abargadon. But she's on Heaven's hit list, so the Archangel Gabriel intervenes to bring about the demon's demise. But Leah begins to find Abargadon attractive and not so bad. She decides to save his soul.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-12-04
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The Old Maid
1972-01-05
The Old Maid
Overview: Muriel is a shy woman who bluffs and blusters around in order to hide her shyness and to protect her loneliness, even though she longs wistfully for a companion of some sort. She has been lonely so long that now she is an old maid and has never been wooed. In this gentle French film, Muriel gets a glimpse of romance when Gabriel walks into the seaside hotel she is vacationing in. His car has broken down, and he has to stay there for a few days while it is repaired. Hers is the only dinner table with room at it, and Gabriel cannot prevent himself from charming women. She is stiff with him at first, but soon they develop a friendship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-01-05
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Life Love Death
1969-01-29
Life Love Death
Overview: François Toledo, married businessman and father, falls head-over-heels in love with Janine, a work colleague. However, he is soon found out: after three dates, he strangles some prostitutes, when, the victim of blackmail, he becomes dishonored. He is taken to court, and sentenced to be killed by a guillotine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-01-29
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La Belle Verte
1996-09-18
La Belle Verte
Overview: As part of an intergalactic coalition, a well-meaning space alien volunteers to bring a message of self-actualization and harmony with nature to the one planet rejected by all her peers as incorrigible: Earth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-09-18
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Le Divorce
2003-08-08
Le Divorce
Overview: While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-08
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Woman Times Seven
1967-09-29
Woman Times Seven
Overview: Seven mini-stories of adultery: a widow misbehaves at her husband's funeral, a wife turns to streetwalking for revenge, a prudish girl surprises, a neglected wife vies for her husband's attention, a fight over a dress, a death pact, and a detective revealed as a jealous husband's spy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-09-29
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The Returned
2004-10-27
The Returned
Overview: The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-10-27
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Take It from the Top
1978-08-09
Take It from the Top
Overview: Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-08-09
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La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué
1996-09-01
La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué
Overview: La Comédie-Française is the oldest continuous repertory company in the world, founded in Paris in the late 17th century. This is the first time a documentary film-maker has been allowed to look at all the aspects of the work of this great theatrical company. Sequences in the film include sections of plays, casting, set and costume design, administrative meetings and rehearsals and performances of four classic French plays, Don Juan by Molière, La Thebaide by Racine, La Double Inconstance by Marivaux and Occupe-toi d'Amelie by Feydeau. (Zipporah Films)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-09-01
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Bernie
1996-11-27
Bernie
Overview: Bernie, a 30 years old orphan, decides to leave his orphanage and find his parents. After an investigation, he meets Marion, a young heroin addict and falls in love with her. He believes that his family was victim of a plot and this is why they deserted him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-11-27
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She No Longer Talks, She Shoots
1972-08-23
She No Longer Talks, She Shoots
Overview: Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities who use them as holy relics. Inspector Adrian Bondu is handling the case... But a young hippie who looks like Jesus will have Rosemonde suddenly feel very earthly feelings...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-08-23
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Mum's the Word
1960-04-26
Mum's the Word
Overview: Martin is a nurse in a private clinic in Paris. The victim of a serious concussion, an unidentified casualty, arrives in the emergency room one night. He is operated on immediately. When he wakes up, half-unconscious, he tells Martin a confused story about stealing jewels from a maharajah visiting Marseille... before falling into total amnesia. Real and fake policemen interrogate Martin, gangsters kidnap him to get him to reveal precious information, but... the nurse keeps his mouth shut!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-04-26
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How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
1965-10-28
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-10-28
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Victoire
2004-12-22
Victoire
Overview: Victoire is sweet, sensitive, nice and understanding. She leads an existence which doesn't leave her much time to wonder.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-12-22
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Eat, for This Is My Body
2007-09-10
Eat, for This Is My Body
Overview: Haiti, a lonely forgotten black island abandoned to its poverty and misery. A white woman, Madame lives in a fantasy in which she helps to teach, inspire and feed the retched masses of the world. She is in fact completely cut off from them – a continent away. The awakening of desire between Madame and her black servant boy, Patrick, will lead her from her isolation out into the real Haiti, where she will for the first time see and hear the land and its people, discover the reality of her own body, her identity and come face to face with her own mortality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-09-10
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The Last Letter
2002-05-21
The Last Letter
Overview: Locked away in the Jewish ghetto of an occupied Ukrainian town in 1941, a mother revisits her life in a last letter to her son.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-21
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On ne badine pas avec l'amour
1978-01-01
On ne badine pas avec l'amour
Overview: While Camille refuses Perdican's advances, she takes offense when he courts Rosette. Then begins a confrontation of pride, where each seeks to establish his ascendancy over the other in the name of love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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La Puce et le privé
1981-03-11
La Puce et le privé
Overview: Val Brosse, a private detective, receives Françoise, who confesses to him that she murdered her husband. The story is false, but Val, intrigued, decides to investigate.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-03-11
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A Friend of Vincent
1983-09-28
A Friend of Vincent
Overview: Vincent is the victim of an assassination attempt carried out by a young woman who wants to avenge her sister. Albert, the childhood friend of Vincent, wants to help and begins to investigate the woman, but he realizes that Vincent is perhaps not the person he seems to be.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-09-28
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Les Femmes savantes
1966-06-07
Les Femmes savantes
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-06-07
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Hothead
1979-02-14
Hothead
Overview: François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-02-14
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La Vénitienne
2010-09-28
La Vénitienne
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Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-09-28
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Fric-Frac
1971-10-14
Fric-Frac
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-10-14
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Lovers of Paris
1957-10-18
Lovers of Paris
Overview: Young, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the belles of the capital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-10-18
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False Pregnancy
1993-09-11
False Pregnancy
Overview: Perhaps you have to love dogs in order to sell tins of slimy mystery meat to their owners. At any rate Martin, who is indifferent to pets in general, isn't doing all too well in his marketing job at Floppy Dog Foods. But right now this is the least of his problems: he has made a British au-pair pregnant in a one night stand; and while he is trying to figure out how to deal with this, his ex-wife (who divorced him over his not wanting children) and his mother (a militant anti-overpopulation, pro-birth control, pro-abortion activist) have a few comments to offer on the situation. Before his own child is born, Martin clearly has some growing up of his own to do.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-09-11
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L'impromptu de Versailles
1998-06-07
L'impromptu de Versailles
Overview: At Versailles, the last rehearsal of a play, ordered to molière by Louis XIV the king. Staged in their own characters, actors and author display their art's conception. It is, too, the opportunity for them to answer by irony to their detractors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-06-07
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La Mort du Chinois
1998-06-24
La Mort du Chinois
Overview: Michel, a children's book author, has always been successful in life until the day his wife leaves him for a Chinese person. Planning on killing his rival, he starts looking for them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-06-24
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Distracted
1970-12-09
Distracted
Overview: A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-12-09
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Un ange au paradis
1973-10-11
Un ange au paradis
Overview: A bored undertaker, married to an ex prostitute, falls in love with a transsexual.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-11
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La grande Paulette
1974-04-24
La grande Paulette
Overview: This is an attempt to imitate the inimitable, Jacques Tati. Paulette is a life-size blow-up doll. Imagine the rest yourself.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-04-24
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The Chicks
1985-01-30
The Chicks
Overview: Focuses primarily on three women and the (unseen) man who goes in and out of their lives. One member of this trio is a saleswoman with an open relationship that suddenly closes when she learns that her lover has been unfaithful. It seems that he has dallied with a book-dealer (her nemesis) who ultimately does not propose as much of a threat to the disillusioned saleswoman as a certain actress. Along with these three are several other females who interact with the main protagonists. Set up more in the manner of a stage play with changing scenes and acts.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-30
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The Oldest Profession
1967-04-07
The Oldest Profession
Overview: A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-04-07
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She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
1970-04-17
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
Overview: Housemaid Georgette loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-04-17
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Tolérance
1989-10-20
Tolérance
Overview: An English hermit Rupert Everett) has somehow been brought to France in the period following the French Revolution, and prior to the Napoleonic Era, a period (1795-1799) known as "The Directory." He eventually comes down out of his tree into a chateau owned by an Italian nobleman (Ugo Tognazzi) and his wife. Before long, the hermit has washed and bathed and become quite presentable, even charming. However, his appearance in their midst is like a sentence of death for many of those who associate with him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1989-10-20
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News from Planet Mars
2016-03-09
News from Planet Mars
Overview: Philippe Mars wants to please everyone. He wants to be a good father, a friendly ex-husband, a helpful colleague and an understanding brother. Unfortunately, his little world goes out of its planned orbit. His son becomes a hardcore vegetarian, his daughter a compulsive swot, whilst his sister exhibits giant paintings of their naked parents. At the office he must face the rampages of his mentally unstable colleague Jerôme who one night turns up at his door with a young woman in tow who has just been released from a clinic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-03-09
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The Origin of Violence
2016-05-25
The Origin of Violence
Overview: A French teacher makes a startling discovery while on a trip to Buchenwald.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-05-25
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22 Bullets
2010-03-23
22 Bullets
Overview: A retired mobster goes on a revenge spree after being left for dead with 22 bullets in his body by his former childhood friend.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-03-23
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Salsa
2000-01-22
Salsa
Overview: At age 24, Rémi Bonnet, brilliant pianist, abandons Chopin and Toulouse to play the music he has secretly loved for years - Salsa! He heads for Paris, the salsa capital of Europe, only to discover to his great surprise, that nobody wants a white boy in Latin band! Felipe, his Cuban friend, sets him straight: " You don't have the Latino look, muchacho! Today, if your are not Cubano or Columbiano, you are out!". Undaunted, Rémi deliberately takes on the identity, accent and complexion of an unemployed alien in a city where most foreigners will do almost anything to become French. Barreto, 75, the legendary Cuban composer, who is about to close down the once famous Casa Cubana, offers Rémi a job giving dance lessons to the locals. It is here that Rémi falls in love with Nathalie. Her family's "secrets and lies" reveal parental links to Barreto. Do these links explain why this shy beauty ought to be a bomb on the dance floor?
Genres: Music Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-01-22
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What Maisie Knew
1995-12-22
What Maisie Knew
Overview: Paris during the 1920s. Ever since her parents' separation, ten-year-old Maisie has been travelling to and fro between her father Beale Farange and her mother Ida. She spends half a year with each one alternately. But neither parent can provide Maisie with the warmth and affection she so desperately needs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-12-22
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La Dame de chez Maxim
1981-02-12
La Dame de chez Maxim
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-02-12
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Links of Life
2020-04-10
Links of Life
Overview: Marion is a charismatic fifty-year-old French woman who was born with an attention disorder. Rob is a desperate and mysterious thirty-year-old American man. In the wilderness of Canyonlands, Utah, they meet.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-04-10
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Gawin
1991-04-17
Gawin
Overview: Six-years-old and terminally ill, Felix dreams of meeting an extra-terrestrial. Hearing this his Dad decides to make his dream come true by finding a 'saucer' and playing the part by dressing up as an alien.
Genres: Drama Adventure Family Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-04-17
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Un fil à la patte
1970-12-26
Un fil à la patte
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-12-26
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Les Plaisirs de l'île enchantée
1981-07-08
Les Plaisirs de l'île enchantée
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-07-08
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George Dandin
1973-01-06
George Dandin
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-01-06
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Les précieuses ridicules
1997-06-07
Les précieuses ridicules
Overview: Theater play "Les précieuses ridicules" played by the "Comédie française" in 1997.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-06-07
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L'école des femmes
1999-06-07
L'école des femmes
Overview: Theater play "L'école des femmes" played by the "Comédie française" in 1999.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-06-07
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French Twist
1995-01-18
French Twist
Overview: After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-18
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Deux femmes à Paris
2000-11-27
Deux femmes à Paris
Overview: In Paris in 1935, a young Jewish woman married to an anti-fascist activist befriends her neighbor who is dating a far-right supporter.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-11-27
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