Nadia Barentin
Also Known As: Marthe-Jeanne Barentin
Biography: Nadia Barentin (17 October 1936 – 22 March 2011) was a French actress, known for her theatre and film roles, including Les Blessures assassines in 2000. She was nominated for the Molière Award for Best Supporting Actress for Monsieur Klebs et Rosalie in 1993. Barentin died on 22 March 2011, aged 74, from undisclosed causes. Source: Article "Nadia Barentin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: October 17, 1936
Age: 88 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: March 22, 2011
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Beautiful Memories
Overview: Although barely 30, Claire believes she is showing the first symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, a condition from which her mother has recently died. Her sister, Nathalie, is certain that her memory loss, caused by a lightning strike, is temporary. In the clinic where she is being treated, Claire is attracted to Philippe, a man who is still traumatized after a car accident in which his wife and child were both killed. In spite of their personal tragedies, Claire and Philippe fall in love. When Philippe recovers, Claire moves into his home. Then Claire's condition takes a turn for the worse.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-08-24
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Coming to Terms with the Dead
Overview: It’s summer, on the beach of this little town in Brittany, a man is building a sand castle. A few people watch him. We will be told the story of three of them: a boy, Jumbo, aged 9; François and his sister Zaza. All of them had to deal with the death of somebody they cherished.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-10-05
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The Round Up
Overview: A faithful retelling of the 1942 "Vel' d'Hiv Roundup" and the events surrounding it.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-03-10
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Marriage of the Century
Overview: Princess Charlotte is scheduled to marry a boring duke, but before that event happens, Paul has taken a bet that he can seduce her. He does, profits from his act, and then falls in love with her. Meanwhile, the wedding with the duke is still planned, and it remains to be seen whether Paul will give in and give up.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-10-08
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A Self-Made Hero
Overview: Set in France at the end of World War II Albert Dehousse finds out his father wasn't a war hero and his mother is a collaborator.
Genres: Drama War Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-15
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Un grand cri d'amour
Overview: A famous couple is going on stage after ten years of separation and hate.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-01-07
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Le Sourire
Overview: An old psychiatrist finds out that he is likely to suffer a second and probably fatal heart attack in the near future. As a consequence he becomes determined to seduce Odile, a young woman he first encounters in a railway compartment.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-08-17
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In All Innocence
Overview: High-profile lawyer Michel takes on the defence of a young and pretty small-time thief, Cécile, after the botched hold-up of a jewellery shop. As predicted by his elegant art-dealer and sculptress wife Viviane, Michel goes well beyond his brief, jeopardising his career and ruining his marriage of 18 years.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-10-06
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Felix and Lola
Overview: Félix, operator of dodgem cars in a fairground, becomes obsessed by one of his customers, a mysterious young woman named Lola. Félix soon discovers that Lola is running away from her former boyfriend, a singer who continues to taunt her. Lola asks Félix to prove his love for her by murdering a man he does not know...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-07
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L'Art (délicat) de la séduction
Overview: The film follows Etienne, a 40-year-old car designer, who takes time off from work to study sexual mastery from a Zen master and several prostitutes, in the hopes of having the sexual skill to impress Laure. Laure, a blonde who was introduced to him by his friend Jacques, told Etienne on January 1 that she will not have sex with him until May 27 that year at precisely 9 PM.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-21
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Fissures
Overview: Charlotte, an alienated sound engineer, travels to the country home where her mother was just murdered. She is quickly frustrated by the lack of progress in the police investigation and so begins her own. While listening to a fresh sound recording she made in her mother's house, Charlotte discovers a strange phenomenon, she can hear sounds from the past in her headphones. Soon she is using this ability to hear the past to piece together the last few days of her mother's life, drawing ever closer to discovering who killed her, even as the murderer returns to try and eliminate Charlotte before they are discovered.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-06-06
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On Air
Overview: A well known radio talk show host lives as a recluse during the day, until she found her real mother.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-01-11
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The Light
Overview: Camille arrives in Ouessant, the island of her birth off the Brittany coast, to sell the family home. She spends a last night in the house during which she discovers a secret. In 1963 a man came to work with her father, who was the Jument lighthouse operator. He only stayed two months, but his presence proved to be a disturbing catalyst.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-11-03
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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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The Red Sofa
Overview: Marie returns to live in La Rochelle, the city of her childhood, with her husband Marc, a policeman, and meets Nadia. The two young women scour the city's stores, looking for a red sofa. They soon discover one in the store of Maxime, a second-hand dealer. A few days later, Nadia seems tormented when Marie mentions the sofa. During a visit, Marie discovers Nadia's lifeless body.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-01
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Angelique: The Road To Versailles
Overview: Angelique is saved by the king of the cutthroats when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman.
Genres: Adventure Mystery Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-07-07
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De gré ou de force
Overview: A subsidiary of Générale Financière d'Investissement (GFI), Medic-Hall, a medical equipment company, employs nine salespeople. As part of the restructuring of the group, management decided to separate from them, without paying them severance pay. For this, the company called on Sébastien Jalabier, a degreasing specialist, who undertakes to make them resign by resorting to various means of pressure: tracking down professional misconduct, humiliation, bullying, thankless tasks ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-11-13
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Hard Off
Overview: This French romantic comedy-drama concerns Claude Langmann, a middle-aged auctioneer, who is in a loving marriage with his second wife of 15 years. Though he is deeply in love with his wife and has remained faithful to her, he finds himself unable to perform in bed. His wife says she is satisfied with Claude's love and tenderness, but he visits a sex specialist anyway. There he learns of Viagra, which is not yet approved in France, though it is available in Switzerland over the counter. Soon Claude is on his way to Geneva, and eager to prove his manhood, tries to bed Agnes, his very attractive and very available assistant. His daughter, who also comes along for the trip, interferes with her own problems.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-05-17
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Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
Overview: Whilst driving through rural France, Antoine Bonfils comes across a community of babas - men and women who have turned their back on the modern commercialist world and live, free of constraints, as close to nature as they can. After a tiff with his girlfriend, he decides to swap his comfortable but empty life in Paris for a new life with the babas. Adapting to the new life-style proves to be far from easy...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-12-16
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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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Le Bison (et sa voisine Dorine)
Overview: Isabelle Nanty is a Paris concierge, four children to look after and a fifth in gestation with a loutish and uncaring husband who runs off with the girlfried of one of the lodgers in her building. This same lodger called Le Bison has rather strange hours and both he and Dorine ( the concierge ) get on each other's nerves because each makes noise at the "wrong" time for the other ! The fact that their respective mates have run off together nevertheless bring the two together and with Dorine's children getting very attached to Le Bison, there are the makings of an "idylle" between the two of them which the return of the two offending mates fails to break
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Old Goriot
Overview: A poor but ambitious young man arrives in Paris and settles down in the boarding house run by Madame Vauquer. He soon gets to know the guests: Victorine Taillefer, a young lady her rich father refuses to recognize; Horace Bianchon, a medical student; Monsieur Vautrin, a mysterious and disconcerting man; Goriot, a rich merchant who spent all his fortune for his daughters, Delphine and Anastasie, to make a rich marriage. Eugène becomes friends with Goriot but while the former, thanks to his cousin Madame de Beauséant, is introduced in high society, Goriot, both exploited and scoffed at by his daughters, continues his descent into hell.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-11-09
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The Seventh Company Has Been Found
Overview: The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.
Genres: Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-10
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Huit femmes
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-02-07
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Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears
Overview: Two brothers are fighting for a one girl attention...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-17
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Agathe et le grand magasin
Overview: A bygone symbol of the luxury of yesteryear and a true institution in a provincial town, the "Grand Magasin" is living its last hours. Indeed, the management, which can no longer afford the establishment, is preparing to sell the store to a large distribution group. Agathe, a saleswoman in the men's department for more than 25 years, is shocked to discover that all the staff will be laid off. Feeling both betrayed and responsible for the future of the "Grand Magasin", she becomes a passionaria, leading her colleagues to revolt, a true leader. The operation finally seems to bear fruit when the sale is cancelled and a new director is appointed.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-12-17
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Brigade des mineurs
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-06-30
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Agathe tricote
Overview: 65 years old Agathe Ledu refuses to grow old alone. That's why she's visiting the graveyard on a daily basis, honouring her husband and son, Breton sailors lost in sea five years ago. She's talking to them, all the while knitting. But for whom is Agathe knitting ? (One of the two shorts that inspired "Amélie".)
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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L'amour sur un fil
Overview: Sandrine, a former fashion designer who is unemployed, is now working in a garment factory as a worker. There she meets Mathieu, the company's human resources manager and a former childhood sweetheart. The two of them get closer, but their relationship is hampered by the economic crisis that is catching up with the company... The employees then decide to join forces to buy the company by creating a clothing line, "Les P'tits Lutins", for which Sandrine is, of course, asked to contribute. However, the situation turns out to be tense. How will Mathieu react to these new directions?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-06-12
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Les Ritals
Overview: This 2-part TV film, adapted from an autobiography, tells the childhood of writer François Cavanna, son of an Italien emigrant and a French mother.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-05-24
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Our Story
Overview: Robert Avranche, a middle-aged, alcoholic garage owner, is sitting on a train, reflecting on the emptiness of his life. An attractive young woman, Donatienne, suddenly enters the compartment and offers to make love to him. Robert accepts but, when the woman leaves the train afterwards, he decides to follow her...
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-05-23
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