Christine Pascal
Also Known As: Christine Pascale
Biography: Christine Pascal (29 November 1953 – 30 August 1996) was a French actress, writer and director. Born in Lyon, Rhône, Pascal made her film debut at 21 in Michel Mitrani's Les Guichets du Louvre (1974), and began a working relationship with Bertrand Tavernier in her next film, L'Horloger de Saint-Paul (1974). Other films with Tavernier include Que la fête commence (1975), for which she received a César nomination for Best Supporting Actress; The Judge and the Assassin (1976); Des enfants gatés (1977), which she co-scripted; and Round Midnight. Other film appearances include Black Thursday (1974), La Meilleure façon de marcher (1976), The Maids of Wilko (1979), Entre Nous (1983), and Le Grand Chemin (1987). She made her directorial debut with Félicité, and also directed La Garce, Zanzibar, Le Petit prince a dit (which won the Louis Delluc Prize) and Adultère, mode d'emploi. Source: Article "Christine Pascal" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Lyon, Rhône, France
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Birthday: November 29, 1953
Age: 71 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: August 30, 1996
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Spoiled Children
Overview: Successful writer/director Bernard Rougerie is at a creative dead end and decides to isolate himself from his wife in order to complete the script for his next film. Bernard moves into an apartment building whose tenants are in the midst of a revolt against their abusive landlord. Reluctant at first, he joins their cause and then becomes involved in an affair with young, unemployed resident Anne.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-09-06
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The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Overview: Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realizes that he knew far less about his son than he thought.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-16
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'Round Midnight
Overview: Inside the Blue Note nightclub one night in 1959 Paris, an aged, ailing jazzman coaxes an eloquent wail from his tenor sax. Outside, a young Parisian too broke to buy a glass of wine strains to hear those notes. Soon they will form a friendship that sparks a final burst of genius.
Genres: Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-09-23
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The Grand Highway
Overview: Louis, a nine-year-old boy from Paris, spends his summer vacation in a small town in Brittany. His mother Claire has lodged him with her girlfriend Marcelle and her husband Pelo while she's having her second baby. There Louis makes friends with Martine, the ten-year- old girl next door, and learns from her about life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-03-25
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See How They Fall
Overview: A middle-aged sales rep drops everything to track down the killers of his cop friend. Two years earlier, an older gambler forms an intense bond with a naive young man, who changes his name to please him.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-08-31
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Promised... sworn!
Overview: The life and love affairs of a 12-year-old boy Pierre who lived in France during the Nazi occupation in 1944. We see his family, his chubby friend, the girl who ignores him - and the German defector who hides in the cellar. He suffers from a slightly more prominent nasal appendage than the average of his congeners. This complex initially serving it, will ultimately be the detonator of his success with women and the entire population of the city.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-12-09
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Hell Train
Overview: Hell Train is a French film based on a true story. One evening at a ball in a small town, a fight breaks out in an atmosphere tinged with racism. Three of the ringleaders end up at the police station. The next day, November 14, 1983, on the Bordeaux-Ventimiglia train, the three men who were candidates for enlistment in the Foreign Legion beat Habib Grimzi, a 26-year-old Algerian, before throwing him out of a window. A young woman, who witnessed the murder, alerted the police. The investigation begins in a climate of extreme tension. In the city, provocations and attacks are increasing...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-09
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The Best Way to Walk
Overview: In 1960, Marc and Philippe are counselors at a summer camp in the French countryside. One night, Marc finds Philippe dressed and made up as a woman, and from now on, he will keep on humiliating Philippe.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-03
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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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Let Joy Reign Supreme
Overview: A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-03-23
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Elle voulait faire du cinéma
Overview: Biopic of French film pioneer Alice Guy-Blaché, considered the world's first female director, who directed, produced and/or supervised over 700 films between 1896 an the 1920s, in France and, for a period, in the US.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-03-11
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Subterfuge
Overview: After committing a hit and run, a man insinuates himself into the lives of the victim's family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-05-09
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Sincerely Charlotte
Overview: In a most unusual, near menage a trois, Charlotte is a terrified young singer who is forced to hide out at the home of her ex-boyfriend -- her current male companion has been murdered in his apartment, and she fears the worst. The trouble is that Mathieu, her ex, is happily living with his new love Christine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-02-20
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Paco the Infallible
Overview: In Madrid of the 20's, many women were hired as wet nurses for middle class families. Milk is paid very well, so women are turning to the honest services of Paco, glazier by trade, which completes his monthly salary getting pregnant the clients who pay for it.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-10-03
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Surprise Sock
Overview: Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhile, their wives take full advantage of their newfound freedom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-06-14
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The Maids of Wilko
Overview: Set in the late '20s. A thirtyish young man, who heads a small factory, faints at the funeral of a close friend. He decides to go home to his aunt and uncle for a while, but gets involved with a family of five women who had been in love with him at one time though he had apparently loved only one, who, unknown to him, has died since his departure. The women are mainly disillusioned with life or estranged from husbands while the youngest has a crush on him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 1979-09-04
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Félicité
Overview: After a bout of intense jealousy, Félicité finds herself alone. For one night, as her family dissipates, she relives her torments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-05-22
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We Forget Everything!
Overview: Anne, who has just had an argument with her boyfriend Vassili, is put up for the night by Jacques and Odile, a couple of friends. But when Jacques takes her home the next day, he is arrested by the police, who mistake him for Vassili. In reality, Vassili is a terrorist.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-03
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The Indians Are Still Far Away
Overview: A 17-year-old high school student, Jenny Kern, is found dead from cold and exhaustion in the suburbs of Lausanne, Switzerland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-03-19
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Entre Nous
Overview: In 1942 in occupied France, a Jewish refugee marries a soldier to escape deportation to Germany. Meanwhile a wealthy art student loses her first husband to a stray Resistance bullet; at the Liberation she meets an actor, gets pregnant, and marries him. Lena and Madeleine meet at their children's school in Lyon in 1952 and the intensity of their relationship strains both their marriages to the breaking point.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-06
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Nothing But Lies
Overview: Frustrated with her life, a Parisian tells her philandering husband about her lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-12-11
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The Patriots
Overview: Ariel, a young French Jew, decides to leave his family to go to Israel and secretly become an agent of Mossad, the Israeli secret service. After years of training, his first mission is in Paris to steal secrets from Remy Prieur, a French atomic scientist.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-05-18
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Black Thursday
Overview: In Paris, in 1942, on a Thursday, the Parisian police herded together some 13,000 Jews for deportation to German territory. In this story, Paul (Christian Rist) is a teenager who tries to prevent this from happening. At first he attempts to save two elderly Jews, but they are resigned to their fate and comply with the order to assemble. For a short while, he is able to keep Jeanne (Christine Pascal) from joining them, but, after a long and strenuous day, she finally escapes from him he is too tired to chase after her.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-08-28
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The Color of the Wind
Overview: Louise, literary advisor to the Cercle Editions, receives a large manuscript from the United States. Upset by the reading of this book, she begins an epistolary relationship with Paul, the author.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-11-02
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Le Sixième Doigt
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-09-26
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La Travestie
Overview: Nicole is a female attorney who is frustrated with the male-dominated world of provincial law. She embezzles money from a law firm and travels to Paris where she disguises herself as a man in hopes it will make a difference in her life and career. Nicole has two lesbian affairs and becomes a pimp for one of the women. She also has an affair with a man who indicates that he doesn't want a serious relationship. Nicole's loneliness leads her to the affairs as she continues the downward spiral into schizophrenia in this depressing psychological drama.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-08-03
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