Marie Laforêt
Biography: Marie Laforêt (born 5 October 1939 - November 2, 2019) is a French singer and actress. In 1978, she moved to Geneva, Switzerland and acquired Swiss citizenship. Her career began accidentally in 1959 when she replaced her sister at the last minute in a French radio talent contest Naissance d'une étoile (birth of a star) and won. Director Louis Malle then cast the young starlet in the film he was shooting at the time, Liberté, a project he finally abandoned, making Laforêt's first appearance on screen opposite actor Alain Delon in René Clément's 1960 drama Plein Soleil. After this film she became very popular and interpreted many roles in the 1960s. She married director Jean-Gabriel Albicocco, who cast her in some of his own works, including La Fille aux Yeux d'Or (The Girl with the Golden Eyes), based on the Balzac story, which would become her nickname. Description above from the Wikipedia article Marie Laforêt, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: October 05, 1939
Deathday: November 02, 2019
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Jeudi 12
1998-12-22
Jeudi 12
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-12-22
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Purple Noon
1960-03-10
Purple Noon
Overview: Tom Ripley is a talented mimic, moocher, forger and all-around criminal improviser; but there's more to Tom Ripley than even he can guess.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-03-10
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Male Hunt
1964-09-18
Male Hunt
Overview: 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.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-09-18
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Happy Easter
1984-10-24
Happy Easter
Overview: Chronic serial womanizer Stephane Margelle drops his wife Sophie off at the airport so she can go away for Easter weekend. He immediately picks up beautiful young Julie, who has just had a fight with her married boyfriend. He gets her back to his apartment and is preparing for a sexy weekend, when his wife suddenly returns home. He makes up a bizarre, on-the-spot, spur-of-the-moment story that the gorgeous girl is actually his long-lost daughter. Julie plays along, but this leads to a whole series of increasingly ridiculous lies and comical situations (such as when her real mother shows up).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-10-24
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The Graduates of the Last Row
1982-08-18
The Graduates of the Last Row
Overview: The students of a prestigious law school try their best to mess things up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-08-18
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The Girl with the Golden Eyes
1961-09-01
The Girl with the Golden Eyes
Overview: A skirt-chasing fashion photographer meets a charming young woman who captures his interest immediately. She is not wholly forthcoming, but after a period of time, he realizes that he is in love with her -- she is not just another conquest. It takes awhile before he also realizes that she is the partner of his femme associate who is possessive, at the very least.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-01
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Sale destin
1987-01-14
Sale destin
Overview: Francois Marboni is a butcher who is being blackmailed for having an affair with the prostitute Rachel in this black comedy. He decides to hire a hit man when the blackmailer demands that he start cutting his profit margin to the bone. Francois soon becomes a target of the hitman he hired.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-01-14
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Heroines
1997-08-27
Heroines
Overview: Two best friends, Johanna and Jeanne, live in the small town of Decazeville, a mining town in France and sing in the music group "The Sirens". Suddenly their paths in music and in life drastically change...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-08-27
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The Camp Followers
1965-07-17
The Camp Followers
Overview: In WWII, Lieut. Martino and his men are assigned to lead a group of prostitutes through the mountainous ways to serve in brothels for Italian soldiers in Albania.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-07-17
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The Vultures
1984-03-28
The Vultures
Overview: April 5, 1943: a battalion of the Foreign Legion arrives in El Ksour, Tunisia, to escort a fortune in gold bars to the home front. A German ambush awaits, and all but four die. Thanks to the street smarts of Sergeant Augagneur, the Legionnaires successfully counter attack. The bank manager and his seductive wife arrive, and so does a German lieutenant, whom the French arrest. Augagneur wants to steal the gold; warrant officer Mahuzard wants to do his duty. A series of alliances form and break apart, the group dwindles in number, and the gold heads south toward Betahoua. But in whose possession?
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-03-28
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The Blue Panther
1965-08-25
The Blue Panther
Overview: Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin's place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger entrusts her with false jewels that contain a virus powerful enough to destroy all humankind.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-08-25
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La Folle Journée (Le Mariage de Figaro)
1989-09-20
La Folle Journée (Le Mariage de Figaro)
Overview: A valet wants to marry his beloved who tries to seduce Count Almaviva, his master.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-09-20
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Tom Thumb
1972-12-09
Tom Thumb
Overview: Classic fairy-tale story about Tom Thumb against Giant. Parents are poor and want to leave Tom Thumb in forest. But Tom Thumb is clever and marks his way by stones. Second time he is unsuccessful - he has only bread-crumbs and birds eat them. Tom Thumb finds a Giant and a beautiful princess in his entrapment, and is determined to free the princess.
Genres: Comedy Family Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-12-09
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Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!
1982-11-03
Will the High Salaried Workers Raise Their Hands!
Overview: The cynical boss of a big insurance agency invites his top-salary employees to spend a week-end in his country house. A modest clerical worker, also invited, discovers the hidden reason for this party - and decides to take advantage of it.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-11-03
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Desert of Fire
1997-01-01
Desert of Fire
Overview: A helicopter crashes in the Sahara Desert. The entire crew are killed - only a small infant miraculously survives. Emir Tafud, who has no children of his own, brings the child up as his successor. When Ben is 25 years old he decides to set off in search of his true parents. In Casablanca he meets French crook Jacquot, who takes him with him to Monte Carlo. They both actually manage to find Ben's mother Christine. She tells Ben that his father was a scientist on a secret mission to Africa. Christine wants Ben to stay in Monte Carlo and take over her firm, but Ben has his heart set on living in Belem with his adored Amina. But now Ben gradually unearths a dreadful secret: Christine's second husband François was responsible for the death of his father, who had discovered valuable minerals in the Sahara. After a bitter struggle, Ben finally succeeds in saving his homeland from Western greed.
Genres: Adventure Action
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Because, Because of a Woman
1963-08-17
Because, Because of a Woman
Overview: A young man is a collector of feminine conquests. One morning, leaving one of his mistresses he is addressed by one of his past flirts. As revenge, she denounces him later to the police as the murderer of her fiance who was found dead the same morning. With the help of his mistresses and some new ones he makes on the road, the young man goes in search of the man he thinks is the killer, then his blond consort with whom he fell in love at the first sight the evening before.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-08-17
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Gramps Is a Great Guy!
1987-08-22
Gramps Is a Great Guy!
Overview: Nightclub musician Sebastian, discovers one evening with surprise that he is supposedly the grandfather of a boy with the same name as him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-08-22
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Jack of Diamonds
1967-11-10
Jack of Diamonds
Overview: The protégé of a famous cat burglar reluctantly agrees to join forces with a lesser criminal in the daring heist of several famous jewels from a seemingly impenetrable vault.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-11-10
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Rat Trap
1963-06-08
Rat Trap
Overview: This South American adventure drama finds Charles (Charles Aznavour), a youthful Frenchman traveling to Paraguay to start a new life. Seeking out a rich uncle, the idealistic nephew is rejected by his miserly relation, and he goes on to get involved with a shady woman and a band of gun runners who supply arms for the revolution of the week. Charles and his new girlfriend head for the border after a shootout with federal troops, and a kindly railroad worker hides the couple in an abandoned copper mine. Charles is later thrown in prison while the girl becomes a concubine, but her violator is killed when Charles escapes to rescue her and exact revenge. A pretty harrowing composition could be written by the young couple on "How I Spent My Summer Vacation."
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-06-08
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Who Wants to Kill Sara?
1992-09-03
Who Wants to Kill Sara?
Overview: A beautiful lawyer about to be married is stalked by a mysterious man who knows her too well.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1992-09-03
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Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
1985-11-06
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
Overview: Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a legendary Argentinian tango star.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1985-11-06
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Fucking Fernand
1987-10-21
Fucking Fernand
Overview: A bombing raid makes travelling companions of a blind man, Fernand, and Antoine, a criminal. Fernand is a virgin and is depending on his new friend to find him a woman. But to Antoine, on the run, his fellow victim is more a burden than a boon.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-10-21
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A che punto è la notte
1994-04-07
A che punto è la notte
Overview: In Turin, a fanatic priest dies falling from the pulpit, killed by the explosion of a candle. A second assassination, that of a Carabinieri Marshal, complicates the investigation - but before he died, the Marshal managed to wrote down the word "Topos". Commissioner Santamaria now has to unravel the problem.
Genres: Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1994-04-07
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The Red and the Black
1961-12-19
The Red and the Black
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-19
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Believed Violent
1990-05-01
Believed Violent
Overview: Having developed a revolutionary device that puts water in the mouth of all secret services in the world, professor Forrester is about to go on a conference in San Francisco under the protection of Tom Lepski, an insurer.
Genres: Thriller Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-05-01
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Le pactole
1985-04-22
Le pactole
Overview: Yves Beaulieu lives with his wife Anne, his daughter Stephanie and his mother-in-law. Tired of his dangerous, thankless, underpaid and unrecognized job as a deminer, Yves decides to try his luck and carries out a robbery in the nearby supermarket. Hunted by Inspector Rousselet (Patrick Sébastien), he is subjected to a mysterious blackmail and tries to escape justice to profit from the fruits of his crime.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-04-22
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How Not to Rob a Department Store
1965-02-25
How Not to Rob a Department Store
Overview: To repay a debt, Marcel must commit a robbery in a large department store. Unfortunately his booty is intercepted by a gang of thugs.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-02-25
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Dark Journey
1962-04-13
Dark Journey
Overview: In this movie based upon Julian Green's novel, we follow Paul's downfall as he is torn between his love for Angele, a local prostitute, as he finds out too late, and Madame Grosgeorge's love for him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-04-13
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Una fredda mattina di maggio
1990-11-29
Una fredda mattina di maggio
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-11-29
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Love, Math and Sex
1997-08-05
Love, Math and Sex
Overview: A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-08-05
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Saint-Tropez Blues
1961-07-21
Saint-Tropez Blues
Overview: With her parents away, Anne-Marie drops her studies to spend eight days in Saint-Tropez with her friend Jean-Paul. They are soon caught up in the Saint-Tropez whirlwind. Jean-Paul is seduced by a wealthy woman while Anne-Marie ends up alone with a young man she meets along the way.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-07-21
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The Ghostly Rental
1965-04-17
The Ghostly Rental
Overview: At the end of the 19th Century, young Fanning finishes his studies in theology at the University of Cambridge. During a walk through the countryside, the boy, inspired by the lecture of romantic novels, discovers an abandonned house, from which an old man is coming out. He returns to the house regularly without ever seeing its mysterious inhabitant. Fanning finally surprises the old man while he is sitting on a bench at the cemetery and manages to gain his confidence...
Genres: TV Movie Fantasy Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-04-17
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Tykho Moon
1996-11-28
Tykho Moon
Overview: The McBee family has erected a government over a future 'colony', that looks like a run-down Paris divided into sectors by the Berlin Wall. All male family members suffer from a mysterious disease and are in urgent need of organ transplants. The perfect donor, Tykho Moon, probably has been killed in a fire, but according to rumours he's still alive. Although assassins stalk the family members, the McBees start a hunt for Tykho. Trying to escape the dragnet, Alex, a sculptor, meets Lena, a killer posing as a whore.
Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-11-28
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Famous Love Affairs
1961-11-03
Famous Love Affairs
Overview: Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
Genres: History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-03
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The Miser
1990-04-06
The Miser
Overview: Misery money-lender Arpagone is looking to arrange three weddings simultaneously - to cut down on costs. One for himself and the others for his two children. Of course he doesn't approve of the choices his son and daughter have made and conspires to arrange more well to do spouses against their will. However, fate will prove itself to be on the side of true love, not of the greedy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1990-04-06
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God's Offices
2008-11-05
God's Offices
Overview: A realist dramedy about dedicated social workers who devote their long shifts to helping pregnant women.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-11-05
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Dispositif 47 - The Second Death
2010-05-26
Dispositif 47 - The Second Death
Overview: The concept includes a series of shorts titled "Dispositif + No + title". They all deal with subjects mixed in a unique and unusual presentation. It is an inventively surreal image and sound experience. It is Jean Cocteau for the twenty-first century.
Genres: Drama Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-05-26
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Women
1995-01-25
Women
Overview: Every Sunday, Mary, Alice and Joan, three long-time friends, find themselves at the pool to talk about their love affairs. Mary, who is a stockbroker, leads her love life with meetings. One night she is raped by Franck in a nightclub toilet. The young woman then discovers she is pregnant. Alice, a student dominated by an authoritarian father, she has difficult relationship with men. She meets a painter who wants to make her his model. Jeanne lives a dreary relationship with her husband and decides to work and earn a living through prostitution.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-25
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Le 13ème Caprice
1967-08-16
Le 13ème Caprice
Overview: A married man begins an affair with a girl he meets under strange circumstances.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-08-16
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Cop or Hood
1979-03-28
Cop or Hood
Overview: When the local police inspector was found dead in a prostitute's house, police division commissioner Stan Borowitz is sent to investigate the situation. Posing as the prostitute's long-lost brother "Antonio Cerruti," he discovers a mare's nest of police corruption. In fact, in this comedy thriller the whole town is corrupt. If they were closely examined, Stan's methods for pursuing this investigation might embarrass the police. For instance, he drives into a criminal's house in a fancy, expensive race car. In another incident, he callously blows up a casino owned by Musard , one of the town's crime bosses. On that occasion, he first forces Musard to remove his clothes, and the poor criminal watches his casino explode from across the square while standing naked in a phone booth. Meanwhile, Stan seduces the lovely Edmonde.
Genres: Comedy Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-03-28
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Los 4 Golpes
1962-08-17
Los 4 Golpes
Overview: In 1962, François Truffaut visited the Mar del Plata Film Festival to present his competition in the brand-new Jules and Jim. At that stage of the Festival, from 1954 to 1970, names that today sound mythical were common figures among the guests. Truffaut, along with his colleagues from the Cahiers du Cinéma, would take French films by storm with Les 400 Coups (1959) and the Nouvelle Vague would become a key movement in the history of cinema. A few years after his debut and accompanied by the success of Jules and Jim, Truffaut was already well on his way to becoming a legend. In his visit to the Festival, in 16 mm titled Los 4 Golpes (this, in Castilian), even exhibiting in that look a playful look on his work. This short film, for different reasons, was rarely shown and remains a rarity in the director's film.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-08-17
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Kean - Roi de théâtre
1968-06-04
Kean - Roi de théâtre
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-06-04
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