Nicole Courcel
Also Known As: Nicole Marie Jeanne Andrieu, Николь Курсель
Biography: Nicole Marie Jeanne Andrieu (21 October 1931 – 25 June 2016), better known as Nicole Courcel, was a French actress who achieved popularity through the 1950s and 1960s, though she is mostly unknown outside of France. Born in Saint-Cloud, in the western suburbs of Paris, she appeared in 43 films between 1947 and 1979. After working as an extra in a few films, she won a major role in Rendez-vous de juillet (1949), with Brigitte Auber. In 1970 she turned to television, appearing in different television films and miniseries, in which she continued to work until 2004. Courcel is best known for her role in Serge Bourguignon's Sundays and Cybele (1962). She had notable parts in: La Marie du port (1950, opposite Jean Gabin), Sacha Guitry's Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954), and La Sorcière (1956, opposite Marina Vlady). Source: Article "Nicole Courcel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint-Cloud, Seine-et-Oise [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Birthday: October 21, 1931
Deathday: June 25, 2016
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Money Money Money
Overview: When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-05-04
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Testament of Orpheus
Overview: Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, the palace of Pallas Athena, the spear of the Goddess which pierces the poet's heart, the temptation of the Sphinx, the flight of Oedipus and the final Assumption.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-02-18
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Sundays and Cybele
Overview: The tragic story of a young orphan girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the French Indochina War.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-11-12
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Marie of the Port
Overview: Henri Chatelard is well into his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciates women. When he meets Marie, an 18-ish strong-head who just lost her father in a small fishing village, it is not clear who is the hunter and who is the prey.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-02-27
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Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
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Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-11-26
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The Slap
Overview: A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-23
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Monelle
Overview: A beautiful young pianist falls for her mentor.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-09-15
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In the Eyes of Memory
Overview: Director Jean Delannoy's immediate followup to his brilliant Les Jeux sont Faits was the more conventional Aux Yeux du Souvenir (aka Souvenir and To the Eyes of Memory). The film is based on a true story, wherein an France airliner managed to survive a journey from Rio De Janeiro to Dakar with two of its engines incapacitated. To this already intensely dramatic situation has been added a romantic subplot involving Claire Magny (Michele Morgan) and Jacques Forester (Jean Marais). The love story adds very little to the film; fortunately, neither does it detract from the film's overall quality. As was the case with many French productions of the 1940s, Aux Yeux du Souvenir benefits immeasurably from the Wagnerian musical score by Georges Auric.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-11-24
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The Case of Dr. Laurent
Overview: 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.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-04-03
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The Blonde Witch
Overview: Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in a remote Swedish village, meets Ina, who has been raised in forested isolation by her haggish mother and believes herself to be a witch. He falls in love with her and tries to convert her to civilization; but in the meantime, his female boss, Kristina, has fallen in love with him, while the villagers turn against him for consorting with someone they believe is cursed by the Devil.
Genres: Drama Romance Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-06-06
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Rendezvous in July
Overview: Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-06
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No Exit
Overview: The scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first, the group fails to comprehend where they are or why they're there. When the horrible truth dawns upon them, they carp and snipe at one another, blaming everyone but themselves for their dismal fate.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-12-22
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Gigolo
Overview: Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, he fell into misery when he left it. His only asset was his good looks, which did not escape the attention of Madame Alice, a shady woman who persuaded him to pose for pornographic photos meant for lonely aging women. Marceau also served as a gigolo before the war and captivity put an end to this juicy business. Now he wants to start a new life, all the more as ha has found love in the person of a pure young lady named Dominique. But Madame Alice won't hear of it...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-11-08
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Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
Overview: Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever after if the housing crisis did not force them to live together with Gabrielle and Fernand, Robert's parents. For, despite the good will on either side, tension soon arises. What else to expect when there is too little space in their Montmartre apartment for four people (then for six then eight, the couple having... two pairs of twins!) ; the continued presence there of Fernand (who loves peace and quiet) after he is driven to retirement ; the difficult beginnings of Robert as a lawyer in a room of the apartment, etc... Other troubles follow and the harried family is on the verge of implosion...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-10-18
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Amazons of Rome
Overview: Marching down the Italian peninsula to sack ancient Rome, Etruscan warrior Drusco instead offers to hold back his onslaught if the Romans hand over hostages, including Clelia, the sexy leader of a clan of woman warriors. But before long, intrigue and betrayal unravel the fragile peace. Directors Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and Vittorio Cottafavi helm this vintage sword-and-sandal epic.
Genres: Drama Adventure History
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-24
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The Strangler
Overview: Émile targets women he believes are too depressed to go on living. As multiple victims fall to his suffocating white scarf, an inspector resorts to unorthodox methods to get him with the assistance of a potential victim.
Genres: Crime Horror Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-24
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Boom on Paris
Overview: In the early 1950s, the popular radio show "La Kermesse aux Étoiles", hosted by the famous Jean Nohain, mixing lottery games and performances of various artists, will be disrupted by the adventures of a man and his fiancée seeking to recover a dangerous bottle of perfume (explosive) which was unfortunately mixed with the prizes to be won ...
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-02-19
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Ein Mann geht durch die Wand
Overview: Mr. Buchsbaum, third class taxes employee, lives a peaceful life until the new chief immediately criticizes his work. His only confort is his stamps collection. Sadly, even this consolation and his peace are threatened by a new, charming, neighbour who teaches piano. Increasingly infuriated, he discovers accidentally one evening that he has the ability to go through walls. With this power, he decides to settle the scores, firstly with his boss who downgraded him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1959-10-14
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Nick Carter and Red Club
Overview: A secret agent uncovers four atomic rockets with a lethal gas warhead which have been stolen from a secret factory, and a dastardly plot.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-11-26
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Club of Women
Overview: A remake of a pre-war French film success, Club de femmes is a seriocomedy centralized in an all-female boarding house. Forced to band together because of a housing shortage, the film's heroines set up camp in a deserted structure, despite the tongue-cluckings of local busybodies and do-gooders. Complications ensue when a huge corporation announces plans to raze the building and erect a factory. Amazingly, the ladies are saved by the very company that wants to evict them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-05-18
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Stop Train 349
Overview: Cold War drama about an East German man trying to escape to the West via a U.S. military train passing through the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1963-06-26
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Tomorrow Is My Turn
Overview: Following the defeat of France by Germany during WWII, two French soldiers are taken to a German farm as forced laborers.
Genres: Romance Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-10-27
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The Inspector Likes a Fight
Overview: To protect him, Georges takes the place of his twin brother, Jacques, suspected of murdering an aircraft manufacturer and stealing the plans for a revolutionary engine. He sets out to compromise the police investigation and the actions of the document smugglers seeking to recover the plans.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-06-12
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Fatal Affair
Overview: Didier's wife is ill, and he does the best he can to take care of her. But he's often absent and he has casual love affairs. But Leone he meets in Bruxelles wants to become his one and only mistress.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-04-09
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Le collège en folie
Overview: Charming, charming but unstable, Rudy is married to Lydia. He dreams of becoming a famous painter. His father-in-law offers him a contract: if he stays in the same job for at least two months, he can devote himself to painting. Under the name of his friend Ravot, Rudy is hired to teach gymnastics at a girls' college. Things soon get complicated. The jealous Lydia, who plays student, keeps an eye on her husband. The headmistress glares at him, and the arrival of the real Mme Ravot doesn't help matters. The contract is almost not honored, but as in the best comedies, everything works out.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-06-16
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Thomas
Overview: In Troyes, Thomas, the son of a bourgeois family, is in the final stages of his adolescence. He's almost an adult when he discovers that his mother has a lover. At the same time, he realizes that his father is turning a blind eye, and that the estranged couple are only together for show. Thomas rebels, but has to hide his dismay and satisfy his great need for tenderness at the same time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-03-05
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Paris Loves
Overview: Les amours de Paris focuses on three disparate couples and their problems in the arena of romantic love. One couple is comprised of a faithful husband and a sick wife whose stay in the hospital is not so bad because she has taken a sudden interest in her doctor. In the second pairing, a womanizer comes to see that the model who is in love with him is worth more than yet another conquest. And to complete the trio, two zany people finally realize they are a couple.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-02-10
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Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Overview: Henri IV falls in love with the young Charlotte de Montmorency, 40 years his junior. The king decided to marry her off to his nephew, Henri de Condé, so that he could later make her his mistress.
Genres: History Adventure Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-04-04
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The Beguines
Overview: Hélène, a fragile and romantic teenager, discovers that her father, a rich business man, has a mistress. Curious, she decides to go and meet this woman who is described as strange. At the first chance she has she goes to her house in the Ramparts of Béguines... from then on she goes back often, discovering a new world of artists and nightowls where she also experiences love in the arms of Tamara.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-09-19
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Konga Yo
Overview: Two Congolese men and three Europeans are thrown together as they try to avoid the political turmoil of the Congo.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-05-01
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A Police Officer Without Importance
Overview: Camille, Dov and Joëlle live on the edge of society and are involved in petty theft helping them to buy their drug doses and to survive as best they can. One day, while attempting to rob a movie theater, they activate the alarm signal and it is Pierre, Camille's brother, who is doing a heist in the same building, who is arrested red-handed. The three young people decide to kidnap a police officer and exchange him for Pierre.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-04-12
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
Overview: Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-02-10
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Milady
Overview: Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her suitors. And sometimes very dangerously.
Genres: Adventure TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-01-06
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Stars Meet in Moscow
Overview: Documentary essay about the First Moscow International Film Festival, held in August 1959, about its participants and guests - Soviet and foreign actors, directors who came to the film forum.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 1959-08-30
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L'Esprit de famille
Overview: Charles Moreau, general practitioner, and Hélène, his wife, have four girls aged 11 to 20 years. The eldest, Claire, plays the piano when she does not let her mind indulge in solitary reverie. Bernadette has a real passion for horses, while Cecile, the youngest, plays from a young age to realize all her whims. As for Pauline, at the age of 17, she decided that she would become a novelist. So she writes a book telling the story of family life. One day, when she comes out of high school, she meets Pierre, a penniless painter, from whom she immediately falls.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-02-28
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La Parisienne
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-07-25
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La peau de l'ours
Overview: A police commissioner lives with his two children, wife, mother-in-law and maid. But he discovers that he has been poisoned with arsenic, and that the culprit must be someone close to him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-08-30
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The Lovers of Bras-Mort
Overview: Jean Michaut is a bargeman who lives nearby an old barge cemetery named "Bras-Mort". He is in love with Monique, the daughter of a wealthy boat owner. The girl returns his affection but runs her head against the wall of her family's class prejudices. Her "nearest and dearest" prove indeed prepared to do everything to separate the two lovers. But Monique will not buy in. On the contrary, she leaves her intolerant family to live with Jean among simple, more tolerant bargemen.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-17
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The Night of the Generals
Overview: A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
Genres: Thriller Mystery War Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-01-29
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Vice Dolls
Overview: In this French crime drama, a young man gets revenge upon the criminals who caused his grandfather to kill himself. Unfortunately, the fellow doesn't realize how bad the criminals are. Fortunately, a kindly hooker, who does know the crooks, saves him from the same fate.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-10-18
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Nights of Shame
Overview: Marie-Thérèse is firmly involved in a charity dedicated to the rehabilitation of prostitutes. She approaches Marcelle who, for the love of Pierre, an honest painter, hides her dishonorable profession, and she befriends Maria, in love with the gentle René. Marcelle's aunt is murdered, and her daughter arrested. Marie-Thérèse sets out to prove her innocence, but the two boys learn all about the two unfortunate women. Pierre is unforgiving. Happier, Maria will start a new life with René.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-08-04
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Credo
Overview: Based on an actual Cold War incident in which a Ukrainian prisoner of conscience was forced to defend his Christian faith while under Soviet interrogation
Genres: Drama Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-26
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The Lady and the Gipsy
Overview: Georgina comes to see her sister Gladys in Paris in order to dissuade her from becoming attached to Rigo, a gypsy conductor. When she meets the latter, it is love at first sight. Louis, Georgina’s husband, does not accept this situation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-08-21
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Antoine & Antoinette
Overview: 1947, in France, Antoine and Antoinette, a young couple living in Paris, lead a monotonous existence: he works in a print shop while she is a shop assistant. But one evening, they regain hope: Antoine finds a winning lottery ticket in his girlfriend's handbag. He decides to cash it in, but loses his wallet. What follows is a series of twists and turns that redefine the couple's priorities while forcing them to remain optimistic.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-09-27
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The Devil's Tricks
Overview: Ginette Chaluzac, who has left Central France for Paris, now works as a seamstress in a modest workshop in the Marais district. Her life is quiet and uneventful until the day when, to her surprise, she receives a letter containing a hundred-franc banknote. The sender, who remains anonymous, renews his gift day after day and Ginette grows accustomed to the situation. Her material situation improves but after a while she starts asking herself questions about the one who sends her the money and his/her intentions. Till obsession. To make it clear in her mind she eventually decides to investigate...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-06-15
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Madame Bovary
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-11-29
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The Big Flag
Overview: For Naval officers duty comes first. Navy Lieutenant Favrel is one of these men. He has promised his wife Simone to stay with her all the time but a last mission aboard a training cruiser makes him realize that his life is tied to the sea. For his part, Navy cadet Pierre Hardouin understands that sailing is his vocation. The prospect of staying home alone while Pierre is on mission, frightens Madeleine, the girl of his heart. But the young woman ends up accepting the ordeal and marrying Pierre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-06-21
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Arden de Faversham
Overview: Faversham's Arden, the first tragedy to be about ordinary people, is both a realistic, social painting of 16th-century England and a psychological portrait. Alice and her lover Mosbie, with whom she has a complex and passionate relationship, decide to murder her husband Thomas Arden, but their plan repeatedly fails.
Genres: History Crime Drama Mystery TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-02-23
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La dame de Noël
Overview: A French drama about a mysterious woman who appears in a small village during the Christmas season. Her presence brings unexpected revelations and transformations to the lives of the villagers, intertwining themes of hope, redemption, and the magic of the holiday spirit.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Dialogues des Carmélites
Overview: The story of a group of nuns executed during the French Revolution for refusing to renounce their vows.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-02-15
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