Michèle Girardon
Also Known As: Michelle Girardon, Michele Girardon
Biography: Michèle Girardon (1938-1975), sometimes credited as Michele Girardon, was a French actress. She became an international star after she taught herself English while on the set of Howard Hawks’s ‘Hatari!’. In 1975 she committed suicide via an overdose of sleeping pills at the age of 36.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lyon, France
Adult: No
Birthday: August 09, 1938
Age: 86 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: March 25, 1975
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The Lovers
Overview: A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic notions of love, leading her further towards Paris and the country wilderness.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-11-05
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Hatari!
Overview: A female wildlife photographer arrives on an East African reservation where a group of men trap wild animals for zoos and circuses.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-06-19
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The Adventures of Scaramouche
Overview: Robert Lafleur (Scaramouche) is an actor in 18th century France who spends most of his time, including when he should be on stage, light-heartedly having love affairs and generally enjoying life. One day, a marquis visits him and asks him questions about the birth mark on his shoulder...
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1963-09-23
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Mais qui donc m'a fait ce bébé ?
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-10-27
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The Granddaughter's Model
Overview: Four young women embark on a journey of sexual awakening.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-05-05
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Sign of the Lion
Overview: An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing firmly in his horoscope.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-05-03
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Mercenaries of the Rio Grande
Overview: Dr. Karl Sternau, the personal physician of the count Bismarck, who spent much of his youth in Mexico, is sent back to that country during the occupation by French troops in the service of the Austrian 'Emperor' Maximilian, to carry an encouraging letter from U.S. President Lincoln to the nationalist Mexican president Benito Juarez.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-03-04
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Pyramid of the Sun God
Overview: Mexico, 1864. The country is divided by the struggle against the French occupation and emperor Maximilian. The German doctor Karl Sternau and his friend Andreas Hasenpfeffer come to love the country and support the cause of the proud Mexicans.
Genres: Adventure Western
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1965-04-17
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The Bakery Girl of Monceau
Overview: Early new wave effort from Rohmer, which was the first of his six moral tales. It concerns a young man who approaches a girl in the street, but after several days without seeing her again, he becomes involved with the girl in the local bakery. Eventually, he has to choose between them when he arranges dates with them on the same day.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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The Slave Merchants
Overview: The daughter of a noble man is sold into slavery, only to be later rescued by the film's hero. Repackaged from an original Sword-and-Sandal italian film.
Genres: Action Adventure Fantasy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-06-27
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Alyse et Chloé
Overview: Alyse, a successful cover girl, has had an affair with Luc Bordier, an advertising photographer, for one year now. But although Luc loves her truly, he tends to neglect her as he is too busy with his work. Chloé, who runs an advertising agency, takes advantage of these off-days to seduce Alyse. Alyse tries to hide the situation from Luc but the latter realizes what is happening. He urges Alyse to go with him on a trip to the West Indies but she refuses and joins Chloé, not without suffering from being separated from Luc...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-30
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Overview: Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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Pride
Overview: A woman leaves her lover to return to her husband who cheats on her, something that his pride can not admit.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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The Magnificent Cuckold
Overview: Andrea Artusi is a successful businessman with a beautiful wife, Maria, and a happy marriage - until he has an affair. After his own cheating, he starts to become obsessed with his wife's fidelity. Since she is one of the most desired women in town, he worries that it would be very easy for her to cheat on him. Now every time a man looks at his wife, Andrea goes crazy. Meanwhile, Maria finds out about her husband's affair and decides to plan her revenge.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1964-10-19
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I'll Sell My Skin Dearly
Overview: Shane’s a man come home to settle something he’d tried to forget, but has kept eating at him. His mother, father, and little sister, had been murdered for their land. Specifically an old mine the father had been working at for years with little result, but had finally struck a vein.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-05-16
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You Have Nothing to Declare?
Overview: Married against her will to the Comte de Trivelin, Paulette Dupont shares her anxieties with her childhood friend Labaule. Warned too late to prevent the ceremony from taking place, Labaule follows the couple on their honeymoon and prevents the consummation of the marriage by repeatedly intruding on the couple's privacy. Put on notice by Paulette's parents to consummate the marriage, Trivelin - who believes himself to be at fault - consults a psychiatrist. The latter advises him to visit a lady of lesser virtue: Gloria. But Gloria's clientele includes Dupont himself - Paulette's father - and Labaule!
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-08-29
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Shadows of Adultery
Overview: Anna, twenty-seven, married to building contractor Eric, refuses to live in his wake. Craving independence, she can exist through the art gallery she runs, but isn’t this occupation a mere wholesome distraction? When she meets Bruno and becomes his lover she thinks she will find fulfillment only to realize that she is just another plaything in a man’s hands.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-04-13
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Tender Scoundrel
Overview: Tony Maréchal is a professional seducer. Having conquered countless women, proclaims that there is none that can resist his charm. To prove this makes a difficult challenge: to seduce baroness Minna von Strasshofer.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-12-12
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White Slave Ship
Overview: The Albatross travels from England to the New World in 1675, with a number of passengers, a couple of political prisoners along with a dozen other women convicts, these to be sold into slavery on arrival. The woman activist frees the dozen of low-cast women, and they take over the ship. After a storm, the captain takes back control of his ship. Since mutiny is punishable by death in the New World, the mutineers try to reroute the course, tossing Desny and Purdom in the brig. A practical male mutineer wants to throw the women overboard to save rations, but the women free Purdom and the captain to battle the mutineers. A British warship comes to the rescue, and the captain pardons Angeli and Purdom for having saved his life.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-01
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Vive les vacances
Overview: Roger and Jeannot, two jolly good fellows, are workers in a car factory. When the summer holidays come they merrily mount their scooter and head for the French Riviera where they intend to live cheerful holidays. They finally reach their destination after going through a host of colorful misadventures on the road and are soon caught into an imbroglio. Indeed, after boarding a yacht following two sailors, the boat sails away and they are unable to disembark, at least for a while. This is only a minor problem since they are immediately hired as mechanics and cooks, to everyone's satisfaction. To crown it all, there is Graziella, the niece of the king of naphtha, whose endearing charms do not leave Roger insensitive. And the belle has a lady friend by the name of Ingrid, who happens to be as rich as she is, and who kindles Jeannot's flame. But things are not as simple as they appear.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-12-24
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Death in the Garden
Overview: In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local government undertakes a violent crackdown.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-09-21
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Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc
Overview: The story of the couple from the very first meeting to break up told from a view of a man, Jean-Marc. The film shares the same plot with "Françoise ou La vie conjugale", that tells the same story from another perspective.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-01-31
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The Hour of Truth
Overview: At the end of World War 2, a Nazi escapes arrest by assuming the identity of concentration camp victim. 20 years later, he is threatened with exposure. The only way out would seem to be murder. Hour of Truth was lensed largely on location in Israel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-04-28
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The Invincible
Overview: In addition to his passion for red roses, Count Henri de Verlaine adores wooing all the women he meets.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1966-05-20
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Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise
Overview: The story of the couple from the very first meeting to break up told from a view of a woman, Francoise. The film shares the same plot with "Jean-Marc ou La vie conjugale", that tells the same story from another perspective.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-01-31
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Virginie
Overview: Two friends, a journalist and a scientist, plan to sail to Argentina for an expedition of discovery, but their plans are thrown into confusion when they rescue two attractive women.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-10-17
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Il principe fusto
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1960-03-26
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Portuguese Vacation
Overview: Françoise and her husband Jean-Pierre invite some friend couples to spend a weekend in their large villa on the Portuguese coast. What follows is a romantic intrigue, with each character discovering a little more about themselves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-10-09
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There Is No Plane to Zagreb
Overview: A retrospective of events in director Louis van Gasteren’s life from 1964 to 1969, filmed by him in that period and reflected on from his vantage point over 40 years later at the age of 90.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 2012-11-20
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Strange Game
Overview: In 1944, in Paris, the leader of a resistance network is looking for the traitor who gave away a radio operator.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-04-05
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