Capucine
Also Known As: Капюсин, Germaine Hélène Irène Lefebvre
Biography: Capucine (Born Germaine Hélène Irène Lefebvre, 6 January 1933 – 17 March 1990) was a French actress and fashion model best known for her comedic roles in The Pink Panther (1963) and What's New Pussycat? (1965). She appeared in 36 films and 17 television productions between 1948 and 1990. Her death was a result of suicide. Description above from the Wikipedia article Capucine, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Saint-Raphaël, Var, France
Birthday: January 06, 1928
Deathday: March 17, 1990
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Gender: Female
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The Pink Panther
Overview: The trademark of The Phantom, a renowned jewel thief, is a glove left at the scene of the crime. Inspector Clouseau, an expert on The Phantom's exploits, feels sure that he knows where The Phantom will strike next and leaves Paris for the Tyrolean Alps, where the famous Lugashi jewel 'The Pink Panther' is going to be. However, he does not know who The Phantom really is, or for that matter who anyone else really is...
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-18
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Aphrodite
Overview: Harry is a young millionaire on holiday; he takes his yacht to a Greek island, and stays in the mansion of his friend...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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North to Alaska
Overview: After striking gold in Alaska, the romantic George sends his womanizing partner Sam to bring his fiancée up from Seattle. When Sam finds that she has already married, he returns instead with Angel, a dancer originally from France.
Genres: Western Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-11-07
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Red Sun
Overview: In 1870, Japanese ambassador Sakaguchi and his entourage travel by train to Washington to deliver a valuable sword to the President of the United States, a gift from the Emperor of Japan. On board the same train are two robbers, Link and Gauche, ready to make their move…
Genres: Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-15
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Delirium: Photo of Gioia
Overview: Gioia is a buxom centerfold working for Pussycat magazine. In such a profession, having an admirer or two is expected, but Gioia's admirer is a vicious killer! He murders her fellow magazine models one at a time, using a variety of twisted implements of death. Gioia is the lucky recipient of a collection of photos, each with murdered bodies arranged around posters of her.
Genres: Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-04-02
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Curse of the Pink Panther
Overview: Inspector Clouseau disappears, and the Surete wants the world's second best detective to look for him. However, Clouseau's enemy, Dreyfus, rigs the Surete's computer to select, instead, the world's WORST detective, NYPD Sgt. Clifton Sleigh. Sleigh obtusely bungles his way past assassins and corrupt officials as though he were Clouseau's American cousin.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-08-12
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The Honey Pot
Overview: A millionaire fakes a terminal illness to fleece his former girlfriends.
Genres: Comedy Mystery Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1967-05-21
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Walk on the Wild Side
Overview: At a 1930s New Orleans bordello, Hallie is the main attraction for both clients and the shrewd madam. The arrival of Dove Linkhorn, her lovesick sweetheart from three years ago, disrupts the normal and triggers a chain of events involving a number of people, including the young woman he travelled with, who is now the Doll House's newest employee.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-03-21
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Incorrigible
Overview: Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is to make enough money to build a sea wall to protect Mont-Saint-Michel. Charlotte, a parole officer, shows up: she's young and seems taken in by Victor. He discovers she lives above the Senlus Museum, where her parents are the curators. With two pals he decides to steal a priceless El Greco triptych and then ransom it back to the cultural ministry. What will Charlotte do when she realizes he's used her to make a fortune?
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-15
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The Con Artists
Overview: Belle Duke, in order to get revenge on her former lover Philip Bang, organize his jail break. But instead of Philip is the Italian Felice Brianza, AKAS Felix, to escape. Now Felix is obliged to help Philip to escape. He will succeeded and from that moment on the two will join to defraud Belle. The swindle plot become more complicate when Felix falls in love for Philip's daughter.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-04-15
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Here We for Example...
Overview: Poet Palmambrogio Guanziroli loses his wallet mere moments after arriving in Milan. He locates the culprit, a photographer nicknamed 'Click' and takes up residence with him until he either gets his money back or his poetry published.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1977-10-28
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The Lion
Overview: Young Tina lives with her mother and stepfather on a wildlife reserve in Kenya. While her stepfather believes this is a wonderful environment for her to grow up in, her mother becomes increasingly concerned by her behaviour. These concerns are reinforced when it is revealed that her daughter's best friend in the whole world is a fully grown lion. Worried that her daughter may be turning into a savage, she sends for her former husband, Tina's biological father, in the hope that he can take her back to civilization (in this case rural Connecticut). But it seems as though Tina's mother wants something more than a civilized upbringing for her daughter.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-08-19
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Jaguar Lives!
Overview: The world's newest kung fu legend, Joe Lewis, takes on evil gangsters and saves the world.
Genres: Action Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-08-09
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The Betrayal
Overview: A seductive and ruthless spy in the service of Germany steals state secrets- including the formula for poison gas-from England and France during World War I. British intelligence, in turn, tries to hunt her down.
Genres: Action Drama War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-24
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The 7th Dawn
Overview: Political and personal intrigues surround a group of characters in Malaya, after the close of the Second World War.
Genres: Adventure Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-09-02
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My Friend Sainfoin
Overview: The honeymoon in Italy of Guillaume and Eugénie de Puycharmois escorted by friend Sainfoin, a second-hand driver. Sainfoin's humor displeases Eugenie. Guillaume takes the wheel in such a way that it is necessary to hire a "driver", Yolande. Jealous, Eugenie asks Sainfoin to conquer Yolande. In the working car, two happy couples drive through the Italian landscapes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-05-10
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From Hell to Victory
Overview: In 1939, at a Paris café, six friends of various nationalities vow to meet again at the same spot after the end of WW2.
Genres: War
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-03-15
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Atrocious Tales of Love and Death
Overview: Raphael, a restaurant mandolin player with a limp, a father to support, and a lot of debt, accepts a job offered by his friend, Giardino, to play a serenade under an apartment window at the behest of a mysterious blonde. As he’s playing, a man high up on a balcony is pushed to his death. Raffaele is compelled to conduct his own investigation and becomes embroiled in a mystery involving a macabre secret...
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1979-04-12
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Song Without End
Overview: The romantic story of Hungarian pianist Franz Liszt, whose scandalous love affair forced him to abandon his adoring audiences.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1960-08-11
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The Exquisite Cadaver
Overview: A publisher of novels begins to receive packets containing macabre: members of a female corpse. The appearance of a mysterious woman who seems related packages will lead to a situation of dramatic denouement.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1969-08-25
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The Triumph of Michael Strogoff
Overview: In this adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, the Czarina asks an intrepid colonel to protect her nephew as he fights an invasion in 19th century Russia.
Genres: Adventure History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-15
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The Queens
Overview: Four comedic shorts explore quirky relationships and misadventures: a teenage girl's journey home, a self-serving babysitter, a husband confronting infidelity, and a wealthy woman's drunken escapades with her butler.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-04-21
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Deadheat
Overview: A man travels to Siena, Italy, looking for his father, a jockey whom he has never met. The father is dead, and in investigating the circumstances of the death, the son ends up involved in a plot of murder and intrigue.
Genres: Action Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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My First 40 Years
Overview: Marina is a woman who never says no...to men, money and fame! Determined to climb the social ladder, she works her way up from a marriage of a millionaire prince. At last, she's living the life of wealth and glamour she's always dreamed of. Then Love comes along and ruins everything! A starving artist steals her heart and seduces her away to his bohemian world. Will Marina manage to stay happy living a lifestyle out of the fast lane?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-11-05
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Fellini Satyricon
Overview: After his young lover, Gitone, leaves him for another man, Encolpio decides to kill himself, but a sudden earthquake destroys his home before he has a chance to do so. Now wandering around Rome in the time of Nero, Encolpio encounters one bizarre and surreal scene after another.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-09-18
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Nest of Vipers
Overview: A background of rising fascism in Venice in 1930s. A music-student, Matthias, mixes with the town's bourgeoisie and falls in love with a mature teacher, Carla, the mother of his friend Renato, and then with his young colleague, Elena.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1978-03-03
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Ciao, Federico!
Overview: A behind-the-scenes documentary about the filming of the Federico Fellini film, "Satyricon."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-10-28
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For Love
Overview: A classical pianist falls in love with a friend's young daughter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1976-01-01
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Arabian Adventure
Overview: An evil caliph (Christopher Lee) offers his daughter’s hand in marriage to a prince if he can complete a perilous quest for a magical rose. Helped by a young boy and a magic carpet, Prince Hasan (Oliver Tobias), has to overcome genies, fire breathing monsters and treacherous swamps to reach his prize and claim the hand of the Princess Zuleira (Emma Samms).
Genres: Fantasy Science Fiction Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-07-08
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The Paranormal Peter Sellers
Overview: This documentary revealed Peter Sellers obsession with the occult. Sellers was a highly superstitious man who consulted fortune tellers, clairvoyants and mediums to help him make key decisions in his life and work. Many of Sellers important decisions were influenced by Maurice Woodruff - a clairvoyant and astrologer based in London. Advice from the other side was taken on his marriage to Britt Ekland, accepting film roles such as Inspector Clouseau and dealing with his near fatal heart attack.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-01-01
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Mademoiselle from Paris
Overview: Micheline Bertier is as wise as she is graceful, and is the perfect assistant to her boss, couturier Maurice Darnal. Darnal's business is faltering and he has to close down. Micheline's family is also in trouble. Her crazy-headed sister is about to steal her fiancé away from her. At the suggestion of singer Jacqueline François, Micheline goes on tour as an accompanist, and meets up with Darnal in Nice, full of projects he wants to involve her in. Micheline, who arrives in time to save her sister from a suicide attempt, will know how to run the new fashion house.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-06-28
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Trail of the Pink Panther
Overview: The Pink Panther diamond is stolen once again from Lugash and the authorities call in Chief Inspector Clouseau from France. His plane disappears en-route. This time, famous French TV reporter Marie Jouvet sets out to solve the mystery and starts to interview everybody connected to Clouseau.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-03
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Martin Eden
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Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1980-10-11
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What's New Pussycat?
Overview: A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-06-22
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Beach Casanova
Overview: Mr. Edmond is a middle-aged playboy, living by his wits on the Riviera. Among the women with whom Edmond dallies are three gorgeous ladies.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-22
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Gila and Rik
Overview: The film tells the birth of a love story and its evolution between the vicissitudes, the frenzies and the complications between the two young protagonists.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Bernard and the Lion
Overview: The carefree Bertrand, gamekeeper for a castellan, puts himself in danger when he discovers that his boss is the leader of a gang of counterfeiters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1951-05-04
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Frou-Frou
Overview: A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-06-19
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Rouge Capucine
Overview: The life of the actress and model Capucine inspired this film by Michel Soutter, played by Capucine herself in the company of Heinz Béat, Antoinette Moya, Corinne Corderey and Jean-Pierre Malo.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-10-24
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The Eagle with Two Heads
Overview: Political intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her face for the ten years since her husband's assassination, longing to join him in death. Stanislas, a poet whose pen name is Azrael, is a suicidal anarchist, his imagination haunted into hate by longing for this queen who's drawn apart. He enters her private quarters intent on killing her then himself, but they fall in love, in part because he looks like the king. Stanislas wants her to regain political power by appearing to the public, and she tries to convince him to find hope and escape. All the while, the queen's enemies plot to keep the lovers together but to thwart their plans.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-09-22
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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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Stray Bullets
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-13
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Branquignol
Overview: In this sketch comedy compared to the American film Hellzapoppin, a spectacle is put on to celebrate the wedding of a nobleman, but the results are disastrous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-12-16
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