Elisabeth Margoni
Also Known As: Elizabeth Margoni
Biography: Élisabeth Margoni (born 16 January 1945) is a French actress. She appeared in more than seventy films since 1968. Source: Article "Élisabeth Margoni" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Mantes-la-Jolie, Yvelines, France
Birthday: January 16, 1945
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Gender: Female
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The Professional
Overview: French secret service agent Josselin Beaumont is dispatched to take down African warlord N'Jala. But when his assignment is canceled, he's shocked to learn that his government is surrendering him to local authorities. He is given a mock trial and sentenced to 20 years of hard labor. But Beaumont escapes from prison and vows not only to avenge himself against his betrayers but also to finish his original assignment.
Genres: Action Adventure Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-10-21
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Ma France à moi
Overview: France has been living alone in her apartment since the death of her husband. When she hears on the radio that the Singa association puts homeless migrants in contact with people who can take them in, she decides, against the advice of her family, led by her son, to take in Reza, a young Afghan broken by war and exodus. This is the story of two worlds that collide, get used to each other and end up reaching out to each other.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-12-20
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We Will All Meet in Paradise
Overview: Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, Étienne Dorsay becomes jealous and imagines various stratagems to identify the lover. In the meantime, he and his friends acquire a weekend house for a very low price.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-11-09
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C'est pas tout à fait la vie dont j'avais rêvé
Overview: A comedy. The husband, the wife, the mistress and the housekeeper. A Fable. The ape, the lion and the little boy.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-01-18
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My Best Pals
Overview: They are the best friends of the world. Five friends who shared everything: may 68, hippies years, the rock and their love for Bernadette. This Bernadette has left them to become a rock-star, and is back 15 years later for a weekend. Jean-Marie Poire describes with this movie the portrait of a generation with lots of humor served by excelent actors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-03-01
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If You Love Me, Follow Me
Overview: Thirty-five-year-old Max has a successful career and a beautiful wife, but one day he realises that his life isn’t exactly as he’d planned. He decides to leave it all behind to live out his teenage dream of being in a rock band. But fulfilling his dream at this point in his life is harder than he had imagined.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-07-05
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The Code
Overview: Dris is an ex-con, living in the borderline between a decent and a criminal life. He has a regular and simple work and lives a simple life with his wife Lise and loves his family. However, his childhood friends from his Arab community, including his best friend Yanis, are mobsters and his brother is a small time delinquent. Yanis tries to bring Dris back to his gang, and uses his former lover Nina to seduce him, taking him to expensive places to feel the importance of big money. Dris fights against the temptation, but an event will route him back to Yanis' gang and in a fight between gangs with tragic consequences for the whole community.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-22
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Cinq-Mars
Overview: In the 17th century, under Louis XIII, the policy of Cardinal de Richelieu aimed at the definitive establishment of a monarchic power, and gave rise to a struggle against the great feudal lords, who favored a weak central power. Numerous conspiracies against the Cardinal were led by the high nobility. The one led by Henri Coiffier de Ruzé d'Effiat, marquis de Cinq-Mars, was the last and most famous of them.
Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-16
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Exterior Night
Overview: Hoping to make a fresh start, Léo, a jazz musician, takes up temporary residence with his friend Bony, a young writer who is struggling to get his work published. One evening, Léo strikes up an acquaintance with a woman taxi driver, Cora; in spite of her impulsive and moody temperament, he cannot help being attracted to her. On the spur of the moment, Cora invites Léo to make love to her. When Bony meets Cora, he too finds her irresistible, but he lacks Léo’s self-confidence to make his move. Cora is not a woman that any man can possess readily. She is like a wild animal, a creature that revels in its freedom. Will either Léo or Bony be able to tame her...?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-09-10
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Compassionate Sex
Overview: Dolores is a mature and kind woman whose husband abandons her because he can't stand her uncanny generosity. Desperate to get her husband back, she devotes her life to works of charity, which is to go to bed with the other men of the town. Dolores, now "Lolita", becomes so famous that all men seek out her help now. It is through her compassionate sex that she brings back the colour and the happiness to a town that was immersed in sadness. Written by HoMordomo.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-06-30
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La Baston
Overview: After doing some time in jail, René has finally said goodbye to his criminal past. But when his son is mortally ill and in desperate need of expensive medical help, René can't refuse the offer to crack a safe in a villa. What René and his pals don't know is that they serve as a decoy for criminals who have much bigger plans. Can he escape from the police?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-08-07
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The Body of My Enemy
Overview: A man accused of murder discovers a trail of corruption leading to the powerful family of his former love. Going underground, he seeks allies in a town where trust is scarce.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-10-13
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The Ones That Got Away
Overview: In a train compartment, 6 people who do not know each other tell the story of their troubles in love. Only one of those seems to be a positive one.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-02-25
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Edgar et sa bonne - Voyage autour de ma marmite
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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The Horseman on the Roof
Overview: In a time of war and disease, a young officer gallantly tries to help a young woman find her husband.
Genres: Adventure Romance History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-09-20
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Storm
Overview: December 1999, France is experiencing one of the biggest storms in its history. Like many others, Julia and her husband Christopher will pay the price. The couple left New York to spend the Christmas holidays with friends in France. On their way, a fallen tree trunk on the road causes an accident. Christopher is hurt. Julia, in evening dress, must find help. But the place is deserted. After several hours of walking, she will finally cross the road of Thomas, a lonely farmer. While everything is against them, they will have to team up to rescue Christopher ...
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-19
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Ténor
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-09-16
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Love Actually
Overview: Eight London couples try to deal with their relationships in different ways. Their tryst with love makes them discover how complicated relationships can be.
Genres: Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-09-07
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The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
Overview: The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the present, with often drastic consequences. Godefroy de Montmirail travels to today to recover the missing family jewels and a sacred relic, guarantor of his wife-to-be's fertility. The confrontation between Godefroy's repellent servant Jack the Crack and his descendent, the effete Jacquart, present-day owner of the chateau, further complicates the matter.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-02-11
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Jeanne Poisson, Marquise de Pompadour
Overview: Jeanne Poisson, the headstrong, ambitious, witty and erudite, catches the eye and heart of French King Louis XV at a costumed ball. She masters the art of seduction well enough to become accepted even by the Queen, corpulent mother of ten. As a sensibly chosen Royal 'favorite' mistress she is soon ennobled Marquise of Pompadour to facilitate her introduction at court. The immature dauphin (crown prince) proves a bitter and unrelenting enemy, joined by his imposed Saxon bride, and his sister at her deathbed. Although friends at court help Pompadour return, her health gives way.
Genres: Drama History Romance TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-10-16
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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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Welcome Aboard
Overview: Isabelle, HR of a large cruise company, made the mistake of choosing her boss as a lover. Before embarking on the maiden voyage of the new flagship of the fleet, though, he decided to disembark from their relationship! Some women take their revenge by poison, firearm, or slander. Isabelle chooses Remy a flamboyant, unemployed ne'er-do-well who flunked out in life on land, but after all is said and done, might have better luck at sea... She recruits him as leader of her plot and on this Palace of the Seas, Remy will first prove to be the worst nightmare of the CEO and Richard, the Cruise Director...then, little by little, he will change his life and that of all those who cross his path...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-05
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Allo, Maman !
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-01-01
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Le Grand Jeu
Overview: A business owner has a consuming passion for gaming. He has lost almost everything and decides to sell his apartment. To do this, he must drive his wife away and put his driver in the confidence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Les Maîtres du pain
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-12-20
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Alors voilà,
Overview: A trucker, an accountant, a former plumber hospitalised after a suicide attempt... Presided over by the accountant, the three families decide to buy a truck, a trucker's dream. The father, practical joker, and larger-than-life lover, keeps a watchful eye. The children are his accomplices. One is his heroine. His daughter is his other heroine. A puzzle of life's desires in which all veers into the imaginary, into dreams of far-off lands.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-10-22
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Sortie de scène
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Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-09-07
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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Overview: In this adaptation of the play by Molière, Monsieur Jourdain, social climber, nouveau rich but naive, dreams of being recognized in high society. He hires masters of music, dance, philosophy. He has gone mad with thoughts of honors, decorations, and power.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-03-03
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The Adolescent
Overview: In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-24
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Madame Rosa
Overview: Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she's a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the oldest and her favorite, an Algerian lad whom she raises as a Muslim. He asks about his parents; she answers evasively. As she ages and takes fewer children, Momo must do more for her; as money is tight, he tries to earn pennies on the street with a puppet. He's a beautiful man-child, and Madame Rosa makes him promise never to sell himself or become a pimp. A film editor, Nadine, befriends him, and his father appears as well. Madame Rosa reaches her last days in fear of hospitals, and Momo must act.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-11-02
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