Manuela Gourary
Also Known As: Manou Gourary
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Not available
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Birthday: July 10, 1949
Age: 75 years old
Gender: Female
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Memoirs of a French Whore
Overview: Marie is nineteen and bored in her little suburban life with no future. In a café, she meets the charismatic and beautiful Gerard. Blinded by adoration, Mary decides to leave her parents and her clerk job to live with the man she considers as the love of her life. But Gerard is a pimp, who soon forces her into prostitution. From within homes to out on the streets, the young woman gradually discovers a world of decay and violence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-10-17
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Taxi
Overview: In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, a loser inspector who can't drive, on the track of German bank robbers, so he doesn't lose his license and his dream job.
Genres: Action Comedy Crime Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-04-08
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Les Petites Mains
Overview: After the closure of a lace factory in Calais, Andrée, Lulu and Solange are out on the street.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-09-01
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Children's Play
Overview: Marianne and Jacques are a young middle-class couple who live in a chic Parisian apartment with their two young children. One day, Marianne receives an unexpected visit from two strangers, Mr and Mrs Worms, who claim to have lived in the apartment when they were children and who ask if they can just take a look around their former home. Marianne agrees, but no sooner have the mysterious Worms left than things take an inexplicable turn for the worse...
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-06-19
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Seven Women, Seven Sins
Overview: Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were amongst the world's most renown: Helke Sander (Gluttony), Bette Gordon (Greed), Maxi Cohen (Anger), Chantal Akerman (Sloth), Valie Export (Lust), Laurence Gavron (Envy), and Ulrike Ottinger (Pride). Each filmmaker had the liberty of choosing a sin to interpret as they wished. The final film reflected this diversity, including traditional narrative fiction, experimental video, a musical, a radical documentary, and was delivered in multiple formats from 16, super 16, video and 35mm.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-04-19
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The Comedy of Work
Overview: Sylvain Berg, a "professional" unemployed who spends his time hiking and mountain climbing, and "model" bank employee Benoît Constant, who has just been fired and does not want his wife to find out, both find themselves in Françoise Duru's office at an employment agency. Françoise is secretly in love with Sylvain, so in order to keep him close she convinces her employer to give Sylvain a job he doesn't want, instead of Benoit who not only wants it but also has the right qualifications.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-03-02
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The Swinger
Overview: Justine, leaves her family, drops out of school at 18. Drifting in Paris, encountering odd characters she finally slips into prostitution.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-08-02
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Marry Me, Dude
Overview: Yassine asks his best friend Fred to marry him in order to avoid deportation...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-10-25
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Girlfriends
Overview: Apprentice hairdresser Solange is a whiz at teasing locks and cutting hair but knows little about the act of sexual congress -- but she wants to know more. She hails from a small working class town close to Toulouse where she lives with her comely mother, who grudgingly works as a babysitter, and her father, who loves herding ostriches. Her best friend in beauty school is an African immigrant lass named Gary who dreads being returned to her native country for an arranged marriage. Gary offers Solange advice in her quest. Though there is a guy Solange fancies at her vocational school, she wants to know the lay of the land, so to speak, before she gets intimate with him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-08-30
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Chamonix
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-06-01
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La Pomme de Newton
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-09-02
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L'ami de mon fils
Overview: Louise has been a widow for years and teaches literature in a high school. She divides all her time between books and her son, Martin, who still lives with her. During a family lunch, she meets Martin's best friend, Stanislas, a young painter of Russian origin, who is studying at the Beaux-Arts and whose talent promises a brilliant career. Louise is still finding Stanislas very attractive and already the young man is madly in love with her. All it takes is a little something to bring the two lovers together in the same passionate embrace. Informed by his mother, Martin pretends to be delighted by this unexpected rapprochement between the two beings he loves the most. His rage bursts, however, during the family meeting that Louise has organized to make her affair with Stanislas official.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-06-03
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I Can't Sleep
Overview: Ninon is a spirited hotel-manager who teaches self-defense classes to her terrified eldery neighbors. Daiga, an aspiring Lithuanian actress newly arrived to Paris, becomes fascinated with the life of a mysteriously beautiful drag performer.
Genres: Drama Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-05-18
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Nationale 7
Overview: In a nursing home for disabled near Toulon, René is unanimously hated by all. With fifty years and suffering from myopathy, has an irascible, rebellious character. But not resist provocations candor and uprightness of Julie, a special educator rookie. He confesses he wants to make love to a woman before her degenerative disease definitely catch it. Then Julie goes after one of the prostitutes who work in caravans along the N7.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-12-06
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The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Overview: In 1951, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the private detective Nestor Burma was commissioned by an insurance company to find stolen jewelery. The deal seemed easy and Burma got an appointment with a well-known black trumpet player in the neighborhood who could provide him with information. But the musician does not come and we find him murdered. The investigation becomes more complicated and Nestor must find an alibi so as not to be suspected of the crime.
Genres: Mystery Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-06-01
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Transit
Overview: François Cremer is a truck driver who gets out of prison after having served a sentence of several months for a traffic of which he has always proclaimed himself innocent. He soon realizes that he is being followed and threatened by former acquaintances. Alone against all, he has no other recourse than to ask for help to a radio hostess, who had orchestrated a campaign for his release. She becomes frightened and refuses to help him, but he forces her to follow him in his escape. Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-09-06
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Tinquiète
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-10-27
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Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional
Overview: Martine is 25. Since breaking up with François, she has the feeling that the world is caving in on her. Between small jobs and one-night stands, she can't seem to get a fix on herself. In desperation, after a last quarrel with François, she unintentionally causes an accident that leads her to the emergency ward of a psychiatric hospital. During her brief stay, she unexpectedly sparks into life. She takes an interest in two young patients, Pierre and Anne, convinced that she is doing the right thing in supervising their love life...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-11-23
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Epiphany Sunday
Overview: Three old sisters get together every Sunday. For Epiphany Sunday, the program is busy: eating at the Chinese restaurant, drawing the kings and finally going to see, reluctantly, the show of the fourth sister, the extravagant one, the scandalous one, who is part of a comic troupe of the third age...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-03-20
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The Country Years
Overview: An adolescent comes of age during a summer in the Rhône valley with his maternal grandparents. Jules seems a little too close to his mother and distant from his father, who wants Jules out of their Parisian house. It's to be a summer of transition, perhaps to a boarding school, and during these weeks in the country, Jules fishes with his grandfather; proves himself to the local youths, a group led by the bullying Red; takes on some tough guys; feels rejected by his mother; and, meets and pursues Evelyne, the village beauty. She's responsive, and Jules doesn't exactly know what to do next. Then, something happens that propels Jules into decisiveness and maturity.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-06-03
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Mesrine: Killer Instinct
Overview: Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy money it presents. Mentored by Guido, Mesrine turns his back on middle class law-abiding and soon moves swiftly up the criminal ladder.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-10-22
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La clé n'est pas dans le pot de géranium
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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Adèle Frelon est-elle là?
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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La Bastide bleue
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Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-07-16
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Soeur Anne ne vois-tu rien venir?
Overview: Two girls go to Berlin, one to find a German girl who lived at home in the 50s when her parents divorced, the other to look for a role in German cinema.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-01-01
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Border Line
Overview: On a whim, the long-married Hélène decides to look up a former lover of hers. At his apartment, she is met by the man's grown son, Julien, who tells her that his father died just a few days before. Before long, she has become Julien's lover, but she is also increasingly becoming attached to the rather unlikely idea that Julien and she are genetically related. Meanwhile, her cardiologist husband cannot fathom her increasingly bizarre behavior. It is one thing to have an affair, even with a much younger man, but she seems to be edging ever-closer to the borderline between sanity and madness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-03-25
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The Pact of Silence
Overview: Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalist Carmelite in a Brazilian convent, and Gaëlle has been in prison for a heinous crime. Sarah comes to the attention of Fr. Joachim, a priest and physician; he can find no cause for her debilitating abdominal pain. When Sarah and he are transferred to Paris, Joachim looks for Gaëlle, now on probation and finding no respite from society's approbation. An enterprising reporter is digging into Gaëlle's life, the mother superior of Sarah's convent hovers over her, and Joachim investigates the phenomenon of twin's symmetry. Is there any release from the past?
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-03-05
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The Terrible Lovers
Overview: This standard romantic drama focuses on three different couples who happen to come together in a small hotel in Rome and play out their differences in that setting. The couples are made up of a Parisian woman and her Slavic boyfriend out to spend some quality time together; a Frenchman (Jean-Noel Picq) searching for his sexually awakened teenage mistress; and a woman out to reunite with her Italian lover (Michele Placido). These people manifest different approaches to a romantic partnership that are tested in their brief encounters in Rome.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-16
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Laisse béton
Overview: Brian and Nourredine are two lousy young offenders. Their flights have a motive: a film brought back from San Francisco where the father of Brian, singer of rock of the sixties, today in prison, made a tour.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-03-14
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Raining Cats and Frogs
Overview: It's a catastrophe! A flood has hit our planet and an unusual group of people are all that remains. Led by Ferdinand, a modern day Noah, this little group have managed to defy the furiously raging elements. People and animals alike are dragged through this incredible whirlpool of an adventure.
Genres: Animation Fantasy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-12-03
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Women in Prison
Overview: Nicole (Agnes Soral) is sent up the river for infanticide in this routine woman-in-prison feature. There she meets Marthe (Annie Girardot), a fellow murderess who receives special treatment from the warden Dessombes (Marie-Christine Barrault). The warden frames Nelly (Bernadette Lafont) for drug possession and has her thrown into solitary confinement. Sabien (Corinne Touzet) is a newcomer convicted of armed robbery who latches on to the lesbian Lucie (Milva), a longtime prisoner slated for release.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-10-12
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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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Le temps d'un regard
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-11-28
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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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The Kid from Chaaba
Overview: Le Gone du Chaâba (The Kid of the Chaaba), translated into English as Shantytown Kid by Naima Wolf, is an autobiographical novel by Azouz Begag about his life as a young Algerian boy growing up in a shantytown next to Lyon, France, called the Chaâba by its inhabitants. The story covers a period of approximately three years in the life of the protagonist and deals with issues developing from the clash between two cultures, that of France and that of North Africa, as well as the difficulties of finding a cultural identity between the two. The story focuses on the cultural differences between the Arab and French communities, as well as how the two groups react to each other
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-01-14
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Suzanne
Overview: The story of a family and a love affair told through the journey of a young woman called Suzanne.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-12-17
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Paris 36
Overview: A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of 1936, Paris is in a state of uncertainty; while the rise of the Third Reich in Germany worries many, a leftist union-oriented candidate, Léon Blum, has been voted into power, and organized labor is feeling its new power by standing up to management.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-09-24
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Une nana pas comme les autres
Overview: Julie Toronto, a 32-year-old dwarf, quit her accounting job in Paris, to be with Antoine Delisles, the man of her life. She started working as a nanny at Antoine's. Julie is delighted: Antoine asked if he could marry her and both of his children love her. However, Antoine who is a lawyer, aspires to be President of the Bar. He understands pretty soon that the job he wants to fill is not necessarily compatible with the love he feels towards Julie Toronto.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-04-12
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Il Maestro
Overview: Gavron demonstrates that jealous feelings are useless in this story of a man, the nephew of the theater director in a small town, who envies the work of the conductor, one of his uncle’s employees. Part of the omnibus anthology film Seven Women, Seven Sins as Envy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Heads or Fails
Overview: Armande Pigeon, a queen of shenanigans in Brussels struggles to make ends meet because she can’t stop gambling on everything, always ending up on the wrong side of luck. When she teams up with Ronnie one night, everything changes — they win it all. And when you hit a winning streak, you have to know when to stop.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-03-26
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