Michelle Marquais
Also Known As: Michelle Pouvreau
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: May 19, 1926
Age: 99 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: January 29, 2022
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Villa Amalia
Overview: Ann leaves Thomas and everything else behind when she catches him kissing another woman. With her music and help from Georges, she begins a journey to find herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-04-08
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The Red Sweater
Overview: A film version of author Gilles Perrault's best-selling book about the 1976 trial and execution of Christian Ranucci, the youth who was convicted with extremely inconclusive evidence of murdering an eight-year-old girl in Southern France. The publicity the book and film helped abolish capital punishment in France in 1981.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-10-07
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Just a Game
Overview: Emile Michel, Lapland, orphan, is obliged to bring back within the tribe the ancestral totem: a gold plumb line "borrowed" formerly by his grandfather Raymond Michel. His quest will take him aboard a floating boat that crosses Baffin Bay in the icy waters of Greenland.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-04-22
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One Fine Day
Overview: François Berthier’s life is a series of unfortunate events. One day, however, a miracle occurs for François and his expected misfortune is changed to never-ending luck.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-03-15
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Queen Margot
Overview: Paris, Kingdom of France, August 18, 1572. To avoid the outbreak of a religious war, the Catholic princess Marguerite de Valois, sister of the feeble King Charles IX, marries the Huguenot King Henry III of Navarre.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-05-13
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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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The Taking of Power by Louis XIV
Overview: Cardinal Mazarin dies, leaving a power vacuum in which the young Louis asserts his intention to govern as well as rule. Mazarin's fiscal advisor, Colbert, warns against Fouquet, the Superintendant who has been systematically looting the treasury and wants to be prime minister. Fouquet believes Louis will soon tire of exercizing power and overplays his hand by offering a bribe to Louis' mistress to be his ally. She reports this to the king who arrests Fouquet. Louis and Colbert design a brilliant strategy to keep merchants making money, nobles in debt, the urban poor working and fed, and peasants untaxed.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-08
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Le jardinier
Overview: This is a surreal comedy is about a factory set in a barren landscape that dispenses a minute portion of water to stragglers carrying pans as receptacles. Inside, the workers seem to be doing nothing that makes any sense, and they are watched over by a periscope set up by twins who run the factory. An unexplained, plain woman living on the premises is sought after by the whimsical foreman (Maurice Benichou) -- also known as the "gardener" because he has planted flowers in the coal wagons that remain on a maze of train tracks -- the only "stock" owned by the company.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-14
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