Françoise Bertin
Also Known As: Francoise Bertin
Biography: Françoise Bertin was born on September 23, 1925 in Paris, France as Françoise Marie Suzanne Bertin.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: September 23, 1925
Deathday: October 26, 2014
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Gender: Female
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Une journée de merde !
Overview: This is an important day for Marc Chanois, an insurance advisor heading toward middle age: it's his fiancée Sabine's birthday, her parents arrive in Paris and Marc will meet them for dinner to announce the engagement (her father can't stand him), he's bought Sabine a Spitfire, and his most important client is to sign a policy. But, as the day wears on, he's vexed by an incompetent secretary, the unexpected return of a girlfriend he hasn't seen in five years, squatters who use his office at night, the jealous former lover of a flight attendant who lives in the building, and his boss's unexpected return from a Swiss clinic. Will he reach Sabine in one piece?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-03-03
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Hunting & Gathering
Overview: When Camille falls ill, she is forced to live with Philibert and Franck.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-03-21
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Skin of Man, Heart of Beast
Overview: After fifteen years of absence, a man returns to his family. Five-year-old Aurelie watches the stranger arrive and develops an immediate affinity with him. Her older sister, however, is very suspicious of the intruder and certain that misfortune will follow. The adults see nothing, but struggle with all their might when tragedy strikes. Naturally, the two girls bear the brunt of the impact. The film is an homage to the distant and primitive world of childhood, which shapes each of us.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-08-11
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Little Nicholas
Overview: Nicolas has a happy existence, parents who love him, a great group of friends with whom he has great fun, and all he wants is that nothing changes. However, one day, he overhears a conversation that leads him to believe that his life might change forever, his mother is pregnant! He panics and envisions the worst.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-09-30
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A Christmas Tale
Overview: When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Christmastime reunion. Among them is rebellious ne'er-do-well Henri and the uptight Elizabeth. Together under the same roof for the first time in many years, their intricate, long denied resentments and yearnings emerge again.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-05-16
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I Want to Go Home
Overview: Joey Wellman, an American cartoonist from Cleveland now largely forgotten at home, visits France with his partner Lena to attend an exhibition in Paris about the comic strip (bande dessinée) which features his work. He also hopes to be reconciled with his daughter Elsie who has been a student in Paris for two years, in flight from the American culture of which she sees her father as a typical example. Elsie is naively infatuated with French literature, and is trying to secure an introduction to the brilliant university professor Christian Gauthier, an expert on Flaubert but also an enthusiast for comic books. The meeting of father and daughter goes badly, but Elsie is persuaded to join Joey and Lena for the weekend at the country house of Gauthier's mother, Isabelle. During a comic-themed masquerade party, all of the characters are made to reconsider their present and past relationships.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-09-27
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Femmes Fatales
Overview: Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-02-11
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Leur morale… et la nôtre
Overview: On peut être un couple de bons Français, toujours amoureux, parents modèles, travailleurs et économes jusqu'à la manie et écouler au noir dans le sous-sol de sa villa de Béziers hyper sécurisée, des godasses de son ancien magasin et des produits "satisfaits ou remboursés" qu'on détourne dans tous les supermarchés de la région. A chacun sa morale !
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-08-27
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Make Room for Tomorrow
Overview: Four generations of Oppenheim men gather in Paris for Isaac's 90th birthday. He's "Romeo," still a lady's man, waiting to hear from a woman to whom he has proposed, threatening suicide if she says no. They gather at Isaac's grandson's, Ben, who lives with Peggy and their son Mathias who's 10. Joining them, from Israel, is Isaac's son Elie. Against a backdrop of Elie's attempts to call his ex-wife, Ben and Peggy's marital difficulties, Mathias's budding sexuality, everyone's love of chess and practical jokes, Ben's house (shifting dangerously on its foundation), and the twentieth-century struggles of the Jews, the film explores their relationships and Isaac's aging.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-06-06
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The Belgian Job
Overview: Willy Vander Brook, a world with Franco-Belgian roots, travels to Paris for an interview. He is welcomed by his childhood friend Serge, an ex pub operator, and his roommate Frank, a fierce supporter of the Walloon independence. When Willy discovers that his candidacy is not accepted because he is Belgian, he and his compatriots decide to take revenge
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-02-14
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Paulette
Overview: Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-10-04
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The Flower of Evil
Overview: Three generations of a wealthy Bordeaux family are caught in the crossfire when Anne decides to run for mayor, thanks to a political pamphlet that revives an old murder scandal.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-02-09
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The Pharmacist
Overview: An ecological pharmacist uses ancient Celtic techniques to murder industrial magnates whose practices harm the planet.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-15
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Le Locataire
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-12-12
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La Loire, Agnès et les garçons
Overview: In 1962, two teenage friends discover love in the form of a beautiful gypsy.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-07-22
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Dad on the run
Overview: Jonas (Clément Sibony), a 23-year-old dad attempts to carry out an important Jewish tradition: burying the foreskin of his newly circumcised son. The forgetful father only has a few hours to complete the task... but have a group of hit men on his trail won't help matters much.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-01-19
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Incontrôlable
Overview: Georges, one morning, became uncontrollable despite himself. Something that has the donkey's voice in Shrek, can control his body.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-02-08
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The Captive
Overview: Ariane and Simon met down by the water. Simon has managed to prize Ariane away from her friends, a bunch of free and arrogant girls, and move her into his place, with her own room at the end of the hall and her own bathroom next to his. He has taken on Andrée, one of the girls from the bunch by the water, to watch over Ariane, escort her wherever she goes and report back to him on everything she does. Andrée becomes Ariane’s accomplice. She’ll tell lies for her, and with her, and most likely they’ll make love together when the mood takes them.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-09-27
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Chat
Overview: Have you ever dreamed of freezing time?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-03-01
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Guardian Angels
Overview: A sleazy Paris nightclub owner and ex-detective flies to Hong Kong to rescue the young son of a friend murdered by the Chinese mob.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-10-11
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Diary of a Chambermaid
Overview: Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-03-04
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Together Is Too Much
Overview: Imagine, if you will, a somewhat contented married woman finding out her husband's infidelity during the celebration of a birthday party. That is what happens to Marie-France, when her husband, Henri, pulls out panties from his pocket to be used as a handkerchief. Marie-France becomes furious, storming out of the house. His son, Sebastian and his wife, Clementine, a struggling couple, decide to take Marie-France to their tiny apartment, something they feel it is a temporary arrangement. Little did they know what they were getting into...
Genres: Comedy Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-17
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Over the Wall
Overview: Simone and Jean have just married and, looking for a home in the Paris region, are lucky enough to find a house with a garden in a residential suburb. Expecting their first child, the young couple began to observe how the parents of neighboring families were raising theirs.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-08-22
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14 Juillet
Overview: As an elderly couple stroll through the streets of Paris on Bastille Day, their feelings intermingle and their emotions return.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-01-31
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Le dialogue dans le marécage
Overview: The Sienese Pia Tolomei is imprisoned in a castle by a jealous husband. Based on the novel by Marguerite Yourcenar, inspired by a story from the Italian Middle Ages.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-07-31
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The War Is Over
Overview: Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages to get free. When he arrives in Paris, he starts searching for one of his comrades to prevent him from going to Madrid where he could be arrested.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-05-11
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Last Year at Marienbad
Overview: In a strange and isolated chateau, a man becomes acquainted with a woman and insists that they have met before.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-05-25
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The Truth About Charlie
Overview: Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return to Paris, she finds that both her apartment and her bank account have been emptied, and her husband has been murdered. The more Reggie learns, the more she realizes the scope of the puzzle which she must solve to protect herself from ever-increasing danger.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-25
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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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The Blood
Overview: An apocalyptic vision of man after a cosmic catastrophe, this film is a terrifying metaphor of a dehumanized future. The Brazilian Cinema Novo, German expressionism of the twenties, and the ideologically motivated ‘cruelty’ of a Buñuel come together in this ferocious work of a French theatre collective – an ambitious, almost completely successful example of visual cinema at its best.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-03-20
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Peppermint Soda
Overview: In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer at the beach with their father. School starts. A turbulent year awaits them both.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-12-14
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La Danse Éternelle
Overview: Saïd, seventy, has been demoralized by his wife’s illness which has left her hospitalized. He withdraws into solitude and writes poetry to express the infinite love he carries for his beloved.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-31
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Far from the Barbarians
Overview: Zena lost her parents as a very young girl, and though she was born in Albania, only knows about life in Paris. She was raised by her uncle Selman, whom she is about to leave behind in order to start a new life in New York. Just before she leave, however, she hears of an Albanian who is being detained by French authorities for want of the proper paperwork. Ordinarily, that would not capture her attention. However, Vladimir, who is the man in question, claims to have information that Zena's father is not dead, and could be located. Zena postpones her trip to speak with Vladimir and, once he is free to travel, they begin to try and explore his information. There is only one problem in their traveling around France together: he doesn't speak a word of French, and she doesn't speak a word of Albanian. Somehow, they manage to communicate, and they eventually become lovers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-04-13
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Muriel, or the Time of Return
Overview: In the seaside town of Boulogne, no one seems to be able to cope with their past, least of all Hélène, an antique furniture saleswoman, her stepson Bernard, and her former lover Alphonse.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-10-01
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Hell
Overview: Three sisters share a connection to a violent incident from their childhood reunite to for the chance to come to terms with their past.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-11-16
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We Were Mistaken About a Love Story
Overview: Anne and Pierre work in the same company, they date but do not consider a long-term relationship until Anne learns that she is expecting a child. Having already had an abortion, she fears repeating the experience, so Pierre proposes to marry her.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-04-24
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Same Old Song
Overview: Odile is a business executive looking for a new, bigger apartment. Her younger sister Camille has just completed her doctoral thesis in history and is a Paris tour guide. Simon is a regular on Camille's tours because he's attracted to her. Camille has fallen for Marc, and they begin an affair. Nicolas is also looking for an apartment, since he hopes to eventually have his family join him in Paris.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-11-12
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