Micheline Presle
Also Known As: Micheline Chassagne, Мишлин Николь Джулия Эмилинна Шассан, Micheline Nicole Julia Emilien Chassagne, Мишлин Пресль, Micheline Prelle
Biography: Micheline Presle (born Micheline Nicole Julia Émilienne Chassagne on 22 August 1922) was a French actress. She was sometimes billed as Micheline Prelle. Starting in 1939, she starred in over 50 French and English language films that were made in Hollywood and in France. Born in Paris, she wanted to be an actress from an early age. She took acting classes in her early teens and made her film debut at the age of fifteen in the 1937 production of La Fessée. In 1938, she was awarded the Prix Suzanne Bianchetti as the most promising young actress in French cinema. Her rise to European stardom, in films such as Devil in the Flesh, led to offers from Hollywood and in 1950, she was signed by 20th Century Fox. 20th Century Fox executives changed Presle's last name to Prell. It was later changed to Prelle after a soap company brought out Prell shampoo. Her first Hollywood production was a starring role opposite John Garfield in the film Under My Skin directed by Jean Negulesco. That same year director Fritz Lang cast her opposite Tyrone Power in the war drama American Guerrilla in the Philippines. In 1950, she became the second wife of American actor William Marshall with whom she had a daughter, Tonie. William Marshall had teamed up with actor Errol Flynn and his production company and in 1951 he directed Flynn and her in the film Adventures of Captain Fabian. Presle's marriage did not last and she returned to France, divorcing Marshall in 1954. Her career flourished in French films and in 1957 she was a guest on the American Ed Sullivan Show. In 1959 she performed in the United Kingdom English-language production of Blind Date directed by Joseph Losey. She returned to Hollywood in 1962 for the role of Sandra Dee's mother in the Universal Studios film If a Man Answers which also featured Dee's husband, singer Bobby Darin. The following year, Presle acted again in English in The Prize starring Paul Newman. She did not make another English film, but after performing in more than 50 films in French, in 1989 she appeared in the French-made bilingual production I Want to Go Home, for which she was nominated for the César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role. In 1971, Presle signed the Manifesto of the 343, publicly declaring she had an illegal abortion. Presle died in Nogent-sur-Marne on 21 February 2024, at the age of 101, at the Maison des Artistes, a retirement home for artists, which receives partial government support. Her death was confirmed by Olivier Bomsel, her son-in-law, without specifying the cause. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: August 22, 1922
Age: 102 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: February 21, 2024
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The Prize
Overview: A group of Nobel laureates descends on Stockholm to accept their awards. Among them is American novelist Andrew Craig, a former literary luminary now writing pulp detective stories to earn a living. Craig, who is infamous for his drinking and womanizing, formulates a wild theory that physics prize winner Dr. Max Stratman has been replaced by an impostor, embroiling Craig and his chaperone in a Cold War kidnapping plot.
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-12-25
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Lust
Overview: This short film by Jacques Demy was based on his memories of growing up in Nantes, France. While it was initially made for the omnibus film THE SEVEN DEADLY SINS (as the segment on "Lust"), it has also been distributed and exhibited separately.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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Male Hunt
Overview: A few stories about marriage and its problems. Antoine is about to marry Gisèle. His friend Julien, an established bachelor, desperately tries to convince him not to do it, recounting his own painful experiences.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-09-18
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The Blood of Others
Overview: In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann, who will do anything to gain her affection.
Genres: TV Movie Romance Drama War History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-08-25
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Christine
Overview: Vienna, 1906. A passionate love story develops between Franz Lobheiner and the young Christine. Lobheiner is, however, currently seeing the married Baroness von Eggersdorf. Upon learning of his wife's infidelity, the Baron von Eggersdorf provokes a duel with Lobheiner. But the former is no longer a real threat to the Baron. Lobheiner is now passionately in love with Christine. How will this love quartet end?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-12-19
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Donkey Skin
Overview: A fairy godmother helps a princess disguise herself so she won't have to marry her father.
Genres: Fantasy Comedy Music Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-12-20
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Letter to my brother Guy Gilles, filmmaker who passed away too soon
Overview: Posthumous tribute paid by actor Luc Bernard to his older brother, director Guy Gilles ( 1938 - 1996 ). Documentary composed of interviews with some of his brother's friends and some actors from his main films, excerpts of which we see.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Under My Skin
Overview: Set in Paris, Under My Skin stars John Garfield as a washed-up jockey who has stolen money from a crooked gambler (Luther Adler).
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-03-17
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Venus Beauty Institute
Overview: Aging beautician Angèle, already wounded by a long-ago romance, gets awkwardly dumped at a train station. Witnessing how she turns around a humiliating situation, younger sculptor Antoine becomes so smitten that he breaks up with his fiancée and sets out to win Angèle's heart. Meanwhile, Angèle attempts to quash the budding romance of her young co-worker, Marie, and a much older widowed client, despite their obvious rapport.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-02-03
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Après après-demain
Overview: In this romantic comedy, Paul, a good-looking gym teacher, falls hopelessly in love with Isabelle a very busy, professional fashion designer whose response to him runs both hot and cold, driving him to distraction.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-05-02
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Should Not!...
Overview: Bernard, an executive for a big company, tries to get home in time for his wedding but is caught in the middle of a mass suicide. He saves a sect member who then follows him like a puppy, and is chased by the sect leaders, two over-the-top crooks with bloated egos and a craving for money.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-11-20
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Les Disparus de Saint-Agil
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-09-16
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The Nun
Overview: In eighteenth-century France, a girl is forced against her will to take vows as a nun. Three mothers superior treat her in radically different ways, ranging from maternal concern, to sadistic persecution, to lesbian desire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-05-06
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Napoleon
Overview: The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-03-25
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Blind Date
Overview: Dutch painter Jan-Van Rooyer hurries to keep a rendezvous with Jacqueline Cousteau, an elegant, sophisticated Frenchwoman, slightly his elder, whose relationship with him had turned from art student into one of love trysts. He arrives and is confronted by Detective Police Inspector Morgan who accuses him of having murdered Jacqueline. Morgan listens sceptically to the dazed denials of Van Rooyer as he tells the story of his relationship with the murdered woman. Morgan, after hearing the story, realizes that the mystery has deepened, and it becomes more complicated when the Assistant Commissioner, Sir Brian Lewis, explains that Jacqueline was not married but was being kept by Sir Howard Fenton, a high-ranking diplomat whose names must be kept out of the case.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1959-08-01
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Angel and Sinner
Overview: During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known as "Boule de Suif", renders these people a signal service, but comes up against their stupidity and their sufficiency. A little later, Boule de Suif assassinates the formidable Prussian lieutenant whom his friends had nicknamed Fifi and who shamelessly displayed his taste for pillage and his sadistic tendencies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-10-13
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Devil in the Flesh
Overview: In France during World War I, Marthe waits for her husband, Jacques, while he fights on the front lines. Marthe then begins a tempestuous affair with 17-year-old François, with whom she had a dalliance before marrying Jacques. Jealous François struggles with the fact that Marthe is married, while she tries to prove her devotion to her young, hotheaded lover. Things become even more complex when Marthe becomes pregnant with Jacques' baby.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-09-12
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Beau temps mais orageux en fin de journée
Overview: This slice-of-life drama about an elderly couple and their estranged son covers twenty-four fateful hours that begin with the usual daily routine for the retired pair of former teachers (Micheline Presle and Claude Pieplu). Then their son telephones to say he will be coming over with his girlfriend and the normal pattern is changed, as he visits them rarely. While the mother is obsequious to her son when he arrives, past hurts and resentments bubble up during lunch, making it difficult for the son to tell them he is getting married. This is news enough, but the effect that announcement has on the son and his fiancée is unexpected and events later on in the day take a turn for the worse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-08-27
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The Love of a Woman
Overview: Marie, a young doctor, settles down on the Ouessant Island. She will be able to win the diffidence of the local population but she will have to fight for her independence after falling in love with an Italian engineer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-12-13
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The Legend of Frenchie King
Overview: Outlaw sisters in the old West inherit a ranch and try to settle down and develop relationships with neighboring family of lots of brothers.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-12-16
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France Boutique
Overview: Francois Cluzet and Karin Viard are the couple behind a French shopping channel whose business and marriage are both drifting towards the rocks, with Nathalie Baye as a smiling Rottweiller out to steal their business by conning them into offering a duff product, the 'Fear Eliminator,' and picking up the network for pennies in the ensuing financial fallout.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-10-29
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Secrets of a Ballerina
Overview: In 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme discover within it the secret of a passionate love affaire that once took a macabre and sadly turn. it all began 50 years previously, when the wealthy landowner Gérard de Clergue fell madly in love with the beautiful young dancer Clara Biondi. In the course of the ensuing romance, Gérard remains blissfully ignorant of the fact that Clara had a previous lover, James de Poulay...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-11-25
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If a Man Answers
Overview: Rich socialite Chantal marries photographer Eugene and everything seems blissful until her envious friend attempts to break them up. In desperation, she turns to her mother, but the advice she receives may do more harm than good.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1962-10-10
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Time Out for Love
Overview: Abandoned by her lover Philippe, Michèle, a Parisian fashion designer, tries to kill herself. She is saved by her doctor and Ann, a young American nurse, who takes up residence in Michèle's apartment to keep an eye on her patient.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-02-03
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Four Flights to Love
Overview: In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a dressmaker's assistant. Pierre has a flair for designing clothes, and he and his bride live in a blissful paradise, until the war breaks out and he becomes a soldier. Janine dies in childbirth and, no longer desiring to live, Pierre volunteers for a dangerous patrol behind German lines. While recuperating in the hospital from a wound he received on the mission, Pierre spends his time drawing sketches of dresses. He becomes rich and famous after the war. Years later, after devoting himself to his daughter, Pierre seeks a marriage with a girl no older than his daughter. A conflict develops and to ensure his daughter's happiness, Pierre sacrifices his own plans.
Genres: War Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-10-27
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Chouchou
Overview: Choukri, alias Chouchou, a transvestite Maghrebi with clear eyes, comes illegally to Paris to find his nephew. Hired as an assistant by a psychotherapist, known for his good mood, he also work as a waiter in a transvestite cabaret of Clichy where he meets Stanislas.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-03-19
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Fantastic Night
Overview: Denis, a poor student in philosophy, works as a night porter in the Paris market of Les Halles in order to pay for his studies. Constantly weary, he falls asleep and dreams of a beautiful girl in white, Irène, with whom he falls in love.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-07-10
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Alouette, je te plumerai
Overview: An old con-man fakes an illness and takes advantage of the kindness of one of his nurses.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-04-27
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Les Miserables
Overview: In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin, is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-03-22
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The Other Eye
Overview: This film essay explores the strange case of G.W. Pabst, the Austrian filmmaker who was considered a giant of early cinema before his reputation went behind a cloud.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-09-25
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Casque bleu
Overview: Winegrower Patrick Ponsac comes close to ruining his marriage when he has an affair with another woman. By way of atonement, he takes his wife back to the Mediterranean island where, 13 years earlier, they spent their honeymoon. Not such a good move, as it turns out. The peacemaking holiday coincides with the outbreak of a bloody civil war. Having failed to leave the country, Patrick, his wife and their eccentric entourage are taken hostage by merciless guerrillas…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-06-15
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I've Got You, You've Got Me by the Chin Hairs
Overview: In this satire, a police detectiveis investigating the disappearance and kidnapping of the host of a television dance show. However, instead of finding his man, he is trapped into becoming a contestant on a children's quiz show. What's worse is that he becomes a very successful contestant.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-04-04
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S'il vous plaît... la mer?
Overview: On a deserted beach bordered by the sea, three characters make incomprehensible movements that sound will later explain. At the same time as these images, some characters dialogue. A couple and a young girl - their daughter? - who remains mute. A dialogue of a great platitude where it is literally question of the rain and the good weather. We then realize that the mute daughter is staging - on the beach - the mother who refuses her desire and the father who makes it impossible. At the end of the film, we see the "parents" at the water's edge leaving the girl alone again.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-11-07
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The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Overview: The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-09-14
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The Spanking
Overview: A husband, exasperated by his wife, spanks her without paying attention to the open window in front of which he is. He is annoyingly surprised to discover the next day that the scene has been photographed by a neighbor, and that the image is circulating in Paris. A debate then ensues: is this an opportunity to call for revolt or a welcome manifestation of marital authority?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1937-11-10
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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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Parade in 7 Nights
Overview: In the pound, Pipo the dog recounts his adventures to his fellow inmates.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-09-24
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Vous seule que j'aime
Overview: After the death of her trapeze artist father, a little girl is taken in by two clowns.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-06-29
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The Beautiful Adventure
Overview: On the very day of his wedding, Valentin Le Barroyer sees the one he was to marry fly away. Hélène has always loved her cousin André, to the great displeasure of her aunt who had combined the failed marriage. The two lovers take refuge in the Dordogne at the home of Hélène's grandmother who believes them to be really husband and wife. Valentin finds the young couple too late, he only has to console himself with a friend of Hélène's.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1942-12-20
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American Guerrilla in the Philippines
Overview: American soldiers stranded in the Philippines after the Japanese invasion form guerrilla bands to fight back. Preserved by the Academy Film Archive in partnership with Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation in 2001.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1950-11-08
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Earth Light
Overview: The Tunisian born hero of the film decides to break with his disorganized yet habit-ridden life in Paris, and sets off to discover his homeland, which he left at 6 years old, and to rekindle the memory of his mother, who died when he was a child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-11-18
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Going South
Overview: In the summer, 27 year-old Sam drives towards the south of France in his Ford. He meets Matthieu and his sister Léa and takes them along in his apparently aimless journey. Matthieu has a crush on Sam and tries to seduce him. Léa is a beautiful, young, provocative girl who likes men so much that she got pregnant. She soon brings along Jérémie with them. Throughout the trip, they learn to know, fight and love each other. In spite of a blooming relationship with Matthieu, Sam isolates himself because of his secret: he is headed for Spain to find his long-lost mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-12-30
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Grabuge!
Overview: Maurice works at the police service for foreigners. He is single, loves Spanish music and spends all his free time in a Hispanic cabaret.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-09-14
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The Baron of the Locks
Overview: The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for more attractive scenery offered by a wealthy local man. Meanwhile, there is a certain charming cafe owner that the Baron finds irresistible -- at least for awhile.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-04-13
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Charming Fellow
Overview: Octave and his friends, Achille and Hector, wander around at night in the grocery stores, the regulars' restaurants and the creepy bars. Octave meets Esther by chance. These two people have diametrically opposed characters. She is beautiful, cultured, free, creative, while he is rude, violent and whiny. The latter falls in love with her. The game is going to be difficult.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-01-24
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Les pieds nickelés
Overview: Three tramps in search of adventure and fortune decide to try their luck at swindling. After an initial failure at shoplifting, they take over a bateau-mouche and exploit tourists in their own way.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-09-30
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Fanfan
Overview: After seeing the initial passion and romance fade into a series of routine and boring relationships, Alexandre (Vincent Perez) concludes that romance ends when sex enters into a relationship. Determined to prevent this from happening with his latest love-interest—a sexy young woman named Fanfan (Sophie Marceau)—he decides that platonic love is the solution. Despite the wonderful, romantic, and inventive ways Alexandre finds for them to spend time together, Fanfan is left disappointed by his refusal to make love to her. Their exciting relationship becomes jeopardized by Alexandre's unwillingness to change his new approach to love.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-06-16
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Thelma, Louise et Chantal
Overview: Chantal, Gabrielle and Nelly, three fiftyish women, decide to make the trip to the wedding of an ex together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-03-03
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A Chef in Love
Overview: The story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a flashback from the present, as a French-Georgian man whose mother was Pascal's lover translates his memoirs for Pascal's niece.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: ka
Release Date: 1996-06-06
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Paris Frills
Overview: Philippe Clarence, a famous Parisian dressmaker, seduces his friend's fiancee. But, for the first time in his life, this is for real. The film is also a sharp picture of the fashion world.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-06-20
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Law of Men
Overview: After a planned robbery on an armoured car the investigating police officer encounters a female journalist who specialises in criminology, and who he suspects may have had a role in the heist.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-07-04
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Bad Company
Overview: Delphine is a sweet innocent young girl, her new best friend pulls her into a world where she falls in love with a local pretty boy. Working her hardest to make him love her drags her into prostitution.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-10-20
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A Slightly Pregnant Man
Overview: Marco Mazzetti, a driving instructor, lives with his wife Irène and their young son. After a series of nauseous dizzy spells he goes to the doctor and discovers that he is four-months pregnant. Marco then becomes internationally famous.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-09-20
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Dark Purpose
Overview: An American woman in Italy falls in love with a man, unaware that he has an insane wife hidden in the attic.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1964-02-05
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Just Like Brothers
Overview: Since Charlie is no longer there, the lives of Boris, Elie, and Maxime have been torn apart. These three men, who have nothing in common, all shared one thing: their love for Charlie. One loved her like a sister, one loved her like the woman of his dreams, one loved her like a friend. Except that Charlie is dead and none of them - not Boris, an accomplished businessman, not Elie, a night owl scriptwriter, and not Maxime, still living at home with his mother - know how to deal with it. But because she asked them to do so, they abruptly decide to undertake a journey together, heading for Corsica and the house that Charlie loved so much. Except that here they are stuck in a car together for over 500 miles. It's going to be a long journey. Boris, Elie and Maxime, three men, three generations, no affinity. But by the time they arrive at their destination, they will have realized one majorly important thing: Charlie has changed their lives forever.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-11-21
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I Sing
Overview: Charles's uncle is the headmaster of a chic girls school .He is short of the readies and he has lots and lots of debts.
Genres: Comedy Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-11-30
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Castle of the Banned Lovers
Overview: The beautiful Beatrice Cenci, daughter of the noble Francesco, falls in love with Olimpio. But she has to face the jealousy of his violent and morbid father, and the hostility of his stepmother Lucrezia, who has a relationship with her other stepson, James. The stepmother and stepson-lover plan to kill Francesco. And when the latter dies accidentally, they decide to put the blame on Beatrice and Olimpio.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-09-06
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Comedy of Happiness
Overview: Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any sensible fellow on earth would do: they have him committed to a mental hospital. But Jourdain manages to escape and decides to make everybody happy except... his heirs!
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-12-23
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Adventures of Captain Fabian
Overview: It all begins with the discreet romance between the Creole maid Lea Mariotte and her young boss, George Brissac, an amoral bourgeois who plans to inherit his uncle's fortune and marry a young woman from a good family. After an incident where she kills a man, she is saved from the gallows by Fabian, a ship's captain, who has personal reasons for antagonizing the Brissacs. He takes care of her and falls in love with her, but doesn't tell her. She, in turn, takes the opportunity to return to her lover Brissac's arms, forcing him to marry her after seeing him murder his uncle.
Genres: Adventure Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1951-10-06
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Thieves After Dark
Overview: A crime story set in Paris about a Bonnie-and-Clyde couple -- how they got together and how they are pursued for a murder they never committed.
Genres: Thriller Romance Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-02-27
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Rue Mandar
Overview: When their beloved Polish immigrant mother passes away, the sisters Emma (Kiberlain) and Rosemonde (Devos), and their brother, Charles (Berry), are obliged to deal with the personal and physical aftereffects, which include the cozy, old fashioned flat where she lived on the movie’s titular street (located in the heart of Paris’ chic 2nd arrondissement).
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-01-22
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Grève party
Overview: While France is on strike, Jean, a Parisian bookseller, opens his shop. A former trade unionist, he has in fact decided not to take part in the movement. However, a phone call from his friend René awakens his enthusiasm.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-03-04
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The Red and the Black
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-12-19
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Hail! Mafia
Overview: A couple of hit men set out to kill an old friend.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1965-08-10
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Demoniac
Overview: Gervais escapes from a German concentration camp and assumes the identity of a recently deceased fellow prisoner. Knowing that the dead man has been carrying on a romance by correspondence with Hélène, whom he has never seen, Gervais makes the acquaintance of the woman and they move in, but her sister Agnès dabbles in the black arts, which should be warning enough for Gervais to make himself scarce. Yet he sticks around, intrigued that the dead man's sister, Julia, refuses to blow the whistle on him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-04-26
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Tender Souls
Overview: Jacques, 50-something bachelor painter and great seducer, is about to receive the charming Claire for dinner. Broke but clever, Jacques concocted a sumptuous meal. Everything looks great when, suddenly, a door slams and turns the evening into a fiasco. Jacques will have to change his plans, play the unexpected. However, that evening, it is the unexpected that will play with him.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-12-05
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Mistress of the World - Part I
Overview: Professor Johansson has made a huge scientific breakthrough; a device that will create a huge magnetic pulse that knocks out all electricity over a continent-wide area. The military applications are already being thought of when Dr. Johansson is kidnapped by a group of profit-seeking mercenaries. Meanwhile, his daughter, Karin, finds herself having to consort with all manner of shady characters as she searches for her father.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-04-14
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Les impures
Overview: When Mario, a bad boy, is released from prison, he plans to live honestly with his wife Geneviève. But the latter has not waited for him and Mario, out of spite, accepts to work as a tout for Mr. Charlie, the boss of a white slave trade gang. His first assignment consists in seducing Michèle, a Montmartre nightclub singer and hostess, into signing a contract for Tangier. The young woman, however, who does this job only to support her young sister Danièle, falls for him and he for her. From then on Mario, without betraying himself, does his utmost to save Michèle -and Danièle for that matter - from the clutches of the gang...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-04-07
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Nea
Overview: In Genève, bookseller and publisher Axel Thorpe catches willful, rich 16-year-old Sibylle Ashby shoplifting. She brags about her writing, so he challenges her to produce a book. She writes an erotic novel that Thorpe publishes anonymously, and it becomes a best seller. She also tries to capture the love of this 40-year-old publisher but he drops her for her older sister.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-08-17
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Twilight
Overview: At the beginning of the 20th century, the destiny of Félicie Nanteuil, a young girl from the provinces who became a big star on the stage thanks to a comedian who committed suicide out of love for her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1944-12-20
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Foolish Husbands
Overview: By mutual agreement, a man and a woman are separated to allow the wife to join her lover.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1941-12-18
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The Assassin
Overview: Suave antiques dealer Alfredo Martelli is picked up by the police with no justification. At the precinct, Martelli realizes what the investigation is all about-- that he is the main suspect in the killing of his wealthy ex-lover. Is he guilty, or is he just a sleaze?
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-04-01
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Imperial Venus
Overview: The romanticized gallant adventures of Pauline Bonaparte, Napoleon's sister. First "engaged" to the Conventionnel Fréron, then separated from him by her brother for political reasons, Pauline joined Napoleon in the Italian army, where she fell in love with the comté de Canouville. But the First Consul married her to his friend, General Leclerc, whom she followed on the expedition to Saint-Domingue. Unconcerned about fidelity, she began to love her husband just as he was about to die of yellow fever. Back in France, she was soon consoled by other gallants. Napoleon, now emperor, hastened to marry her off to Prince Borghese, but he was unable to make her love him. She soon returned to Paris to lead the life of a gallant woman, incognito, and again met Canouville, whom the emperor tried in vain to separate from her. But soon the Russian campaign begins, and her lover is killed. All that remains for Pauline, this time disconsolate, is to reconcile with her brother on the road to exile.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-12-22
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Two Big Girls in Pyjamas
Overview: A French man invites two Sweden girls to spend time with him after his wife left for vacation.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-04-26
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Vous êtes de la police ?
Overview: A former policeman resentfully enters a retirement home. To deceive his boredom, he will investigate the murder of another resident.
Genres: Crime Thriller Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-12-19
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Your Turn, My Turn
Overview: Family mother and model wife, Agnes hits a vehicle while driving in Paris. She immediately falls in love with the driver of the damaged car.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-03-15
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Anna in Corsica
Overview: Shattered by the death of her husband, a young woman takes refuge in Corsica at her grandmother's who will do everything to pull her out of her despair.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-09-08
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A Man and His Dog
Overview: An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-01-14
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Mignon Has Left
Overview: With her father on trial, 15-year-old Mignon leaves Paris to stay with her Italian relatives. The rather prim, snooty teen at first struggles to fit in with the more earthy Forbicioni family, each with their own problems. Eventually she bonds with her lovestruck little cousin Giorgio—who'll learn important life lessons over the course of his summer with Mignon.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-10-20
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The Heart at Work
Overview: A porn film director convinces his producer to make a romantic film, but the cast is grappling with tensions in their private lives.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-07-12
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Vertiges de l'amour
Overview: A man has pre-wedding jitters on the eve before his marriage. His thoughts switch between sweet dreams and nightmares of a life with another woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-12-19
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Certaines nouvelles
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-03-12
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Diary of a Seducer
Overview: Student Claire lives with her mother, Anne, and Sebastien — a young man Claire brought home out of pity who is now trying to seduce them both. At school, Claire meets Gregoire, who loans her a book by philosopher Soren Kierkegaard that makes the reader attracted to whoever gave it to them. Smitten with Gregoire, Claire passes the book on to her therapist, who then falls in love with her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-02-28
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It All Depends on Girls
Overview: In Montmartre, Paris, two friends are leading a happy carefree Bohemian existence. Jean-Luc is a cabinetmaker, Mathieu is a sculptor. Then they both meet the love of their lives and decide to get married. Unfortunately, the objects of their desire are not so eager to be drawn into matrimony.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-02-13
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Seduction Of The South
Overview: Based on the events from the Italian civil war. In 1860's, a member of a guerrilla force captures a colonel from the opposing army and later leads one of the sides to victory.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-12-16
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Don't Bite, We Love You
Overview: Georges,a trucker, is the single father of young Frédéric. His job prevents him from seeing his son as often as he could, as often as he should. Brought up by his grandparents, Frédéric proves a difficult child. His only friend is his twelve-year-old neighbor Rose. One day, Georges tells his son how Agnès, his mother, abandoned him at birth. Upset by such a revelation, Frédéric decides to be revenged...
Genres: Family Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-05-03
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Out of Whack
Overview: Rien ne va plus is a series of comedy sketches of disparate quality, on the social, cultural, and political foibles that make the French, French. Various settings and character types are given a once-over, including pseudo-intellectuals, punk bikers, right-wingers, and patrons of a low-end cafe.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-12-12
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At the Top of the Stairs
Overview: A woman returns after twenty years to Toulon where her husband, who collaborated with the nazis, was murdered. Her motives are unclear.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-10-12
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La Dame aux camélias
Overview: Young and handsome Armand Duval falls in love with Marguerite Gautier, a 'demi-mondaine'. He manages to persuade her to give up her life as a courtesan and they both settle down in the country. Tthe beginning of their idyll is like a dream but a short-lived one as their relationship is considered scandalous by Armand's family. During a secret visit to Marguerite, Armand's father convinces her to leave his son, which she does broken-heartedly but out of love for Armand. Her end will be doubly tragic; not only does she suffer from terminal tuberculosis but she is abandoned by everyone, including by Armand, who believes she has betrayed her. At long last, learning the truth, Armand rushes to her bedside and Marguerite has the joy to breathe her last in his arms.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-11-06
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Five Day Lover
Overview: Claire is a young mother and married to Georges, but she is also having an affair with bachelor Antoine, who is being kept by her good friend Madeleine, a wealthy fashion designer. But the meetings at Antoine's apartment, five afternoons a week, come to a halt when their partners learn the truth.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-02-24
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Something Fishy
Overview: A private eye finds that her professional and personal lives are beginning to intertwine in this French drama. Maxime Chabrier (Anémone) is a woman in her mid-40s who works as a private detective. Despite her chain smoking and sloppy appearance, Maxime is regarded as a skilled investigator by her colleagues and considered the best PI at her agency by her boss. While Maxime has romantic dalliances with both men and women, she hasn't been involved in a long-term relationship since she left her husband 15 years ago. However, Maxime is hired to look into a case that suggests that her former husband has become involved with insurance fraud, which brings her into contact with her 17-year-old son Baptiste (Gregoire Colin) for the first time since the divorce. Just as Maxime is trying to mend fences with her son and find out what her ex has gotten himself into, she finds herself falling in love with Jacques (Michel Didym), an economist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-04-06
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Les Fausses Confidences
Overview: Araminte is a wealthy young widow. Over a matter of land, she is in conflict with Count Dorimont, whom her mother would like her to marry. In need of a steward, she hires Dorante, a handsome young man without a fortune, whose secret ambition is to win the young woman's heart and hand. It's Dubois, Dorante's former valet, now Araminte's, who, by manipulating all the household staff, hatches a plot based on true, false and mixed confidences, designed to lure Araminte into Dorante's arms. Dorante eventually confesses to Araminte, who forgives him and marries him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-10-02
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Her Bridal Night
Overview: A country girl is discovered by a Paris magazine, and becomes a top model.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-10-25
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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 Devil in the Box
Overview: Alain Brissot, an executive in a major company, was made redundant following a redundancy plan, but decided to put up a fight by continuing to occupy his office against all odds... He soon went on hunger strike, and, after many ups and downs, ended up taking back the job of his former manager, who had himself been ousted following the failure of a lucrative contract with an African country.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-04-19
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Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
Overview: Nobles try desperately to cling to the crumbling aristocracy in the days following World War I. The Count (Jean-Claude Brialy) and his Countess Mahe (Sylvia Fennec) delight in throwing lavish costume balls. The couple develops a friendship with a young boy who delights in the parties thrown by the noble couple. Love soon blooms between the Countess and the boy as she searches for something more than a string of endless parties and social affairs. The masquerades are an attempt to freeze time and hold on to the nostalgia of a bygone era. For fear of losing her, the Count allows the Countess to continue her love affair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-06-30
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The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
Overview: A butcher dreams of becoming a famous director. He hires stars that he begins to kill.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-02-19
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Girls in Distress
Overview: Somewhat reminiscent of 'Mädchen in Uniform' (1931), the story is set in a private girl's school, populated almost exclusively by children from broken homes. Among the few students who can claim family stability is Micheline Presle, but even her happiness is threatened when her lawyer father Andre Luguet inaugurates an affair with stage actress Jacqueline Debulac. With the help of Debulac's daughter Louisa Carletti, Presle is able to break up her father's romance and deliver him into the open arms of her mother Marcelle Chantal.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-01-10
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Mistress of the World - Part II
Overview: Karin is now continuing her father's research and is also caught in the cross hairs of the mysterious opponents. Johanson himself retreats to a Cambodian monastery in order to escape the gangsters' shots and recover. Meanwhile, the international criminals manage to steal Johanson's energy formula. Karin then goes after the thieves, supported by Lundstrom. But he also has his own goals. The hunt takes them around the world. It soon turns out that a certain Madame Latour is behind the sinister machinations. Eventually old Johanson falls into her hands. In Southeast Asia, a showdown ensues between the kidnappers and Lundstrom and Karin.
Genres: Science Fiction Adventure Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1960-04-26
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I Will Show My Breasts
Overview: I saw my mother rot like a vegetable. One day, she woke up and she was ten years older. And yet, she fought for her life. For nothing.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-05-22
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They Were Twelve Women
Overview: Early in the war, a group of women decide to help the soldiers in the war front. They enlist the help of the wealthy Madame Marion.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-04-16
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Women Are Talkative
Overview: Sentimental marivaudage between Nicole, her husband Christian, her friend Alexandre and a provincial girl, Marie-Josèphe, who marries Alexandre after arousing Nicole's jealousy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-06-04
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In inniger Feindschaft
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Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1989-01-01
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A Mistress for the Summer
Overview: Philippe, a little known artist, has a mistress, Viviane, a woman he does not love. When he learns the bailiffs are about to seize his paintings, Philippe decides to leave alone for the French Riviera and spend, as he regularly does, comfortable and carefree holidays in the luxurious villa of his friend Paule. But, on his way, he meets Manette, a beautiful but poor girl to whom he offers to become his companion for the Summer. Manette accepts the strange deal in exchange for bed and board. As Philippe always comes in the company of his mistress of the time, the presence of Manette does not pose a problem. But the young woman soon feels ill-at-ease in such a dubious environment. moreover, she realizes that she is falling in love with Philippe, who might not be so cynical as he wants to appear.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-02-26
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
Overview: Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
Genres: Drama History Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1954-02-10
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My Name is Victor
Overview: No one knows, or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden from the outside world in attics and basements over the years. In this wry comedy, Basile is an eleven-year old boy living in a rural French town (along with his mother) with his grandparents. He has the usual boyish adventures in town, punctuated with odd goings-on brought about by events which take place in his grandfather's crocodile farm. However, there is a deep rivalry between his grandmother and her wheelchair-bound half-sister, Cecile, who has kept hidden from the world (and her family), and has lived in the attic for decades. Basile eventually feels the wrongness of her situation and feels that he may be the reincarnation of Victor, Cecile's long-lost lover. Eventually things come to a head in a confrontation which provides the town gossips with material for years to come.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-03-16
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Un enfant, un secret
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-05-03
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The Dog
Overview: Grotesque and artless, this repugnant sexploitation film is about two unbalanced brothers who try to force an itinerant bum to rape their mother, and then all three men go after the promiscuous woman who lives next door. When it is revealed that the homeless man is none other than the father of the two brothers, the plot slides even further downhill.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-07-26
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King of Hearts
Overview: An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache.
Genres: Comedy Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-12-21
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The Bamboo Stroke
Overview: Albert is the irremovable waiter in a small bistro that has just been sold by his former bosses, Angèle and Léon. Angèle, having forgotten the ten million paid by the notary in a cab, prefers to feign madness rather than incur her husband's wrath; but Léon, in turn, eventually learns what has happened to his money, goes mad and kicks out the honest cab driver who comes to return the lost sum. A phone call from the police station later informs Albert that the money is at his boss's disposal; but as the boss is now in an institution, Albert borrows his identity papers and goes to collect the money - which he pays in full to the pari-mutuel betting house. After a series of shocks and counter-shocks, Angèle and Léon regain their senses enough to watch for the outcome of the race, and share with Albert the final winnings, which are very substantial.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-04-11
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All Roads Lead to Rome
Overview: A young geometrician goes to Rome with his sister. During the trip, they meet Laura, an actress who offers them many surprises.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-16
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The Last Days of Pompeii
Overview: In Pompeii in the year 79, Lycias and Helen fall in love. Helen's guardian, the high priest of Isis, wants to separate them. To do so, he tries to make Lycias drink a love potion, but a young slave threatens to reveal everything. The high priest, unable to silence her, kills her and arranges to have Lycias accused...
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-03-02
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The Voyage of Penelope
Overview: Maxime and Paulo are two young men in their very early twenties. Maxime is spending his summer holidays with his parents in a camping resort, which he hates, and Paulo is working in the nearest cafeteria. They hope to win a cruise to Bora-Bora by collecting capsules from pop-soda bottles. They are missing only one capsule, which is unfortunately found by Penelope, who works in the local supermarket. Unfortunately, because Penelope is not very attractive. The two boys make Penelope believe that Paulo is going to go on the cruise with her, but Maxime decides to ride along with them, in Penelope's old car, to Marseille, where the ship is leaving from. Actually the two boys plan to steal Penelope's capsule, get rid of her, and go on the cruise together. But, on their way to Marseille, they are going to meet a couple of very strange elderly people, Hermine and Gaspard.
Genres: TV Movie Family Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-03-25
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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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Hitler in Hollywood
Overview: A bio-doc about Micheline Presle changes into a thrilling investigation of the long hidden truth about European cinema. This mockumentary thriller uncovers Hollywood's unsuspected plot against the European motion picture industry. Numerous directors and stars appear in the film, making it a choice morsel for all film lovers.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-04
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Les Anges 1943, histoire d'un film
Overview: Les anges 1943, histoire d'un film is a documentary filmed for television by Anne Wiazemsky in 2004, devoted to Robert Bresson's film Angels of Sin.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-09-19
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The French Way
Overview: Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1940-06-27
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The Journey to Paris
Overview: Shy and still living with his mother, a highway cashier one day decides to finally live his craziest dream: to visit Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-07-07
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Fathers' Day
Overview: In this comedy, Thomas and Stephane are a couple of gay men who want to raise a baby. When their efforts to adopt one fall through, they hit on the scheme of having Carole, the (gorgeous) young woman they have saved from a bad relationship, bear a child for them. When she insists that only natural reproduction methods be used, they gamely play good sports by going to bed with her, and become the father(s) of twins.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-03-14
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Démons de midi
Overview: At 45, divorced, unemployed and father of two children, Franois Morot realizes that he can no longer support the society in which he lives and decides to leave everything.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-11-28
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The Chips Are Down
Overview: "Les jeux sont faits," is a fantasy film based on a screenplay by French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. A society heiress and a resistance fighter are tragically killed at the same moment and meet in the afterlife. They are offered a second chance at life if they can prove their love is real or be doomed to roam the earth as ghosts.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-07-01
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Danielle Darrieux : Il est poli d'être gai !
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-03-11
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À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
Overview: Documentary about filmmaker Jean Grémillon.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-01-01
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Le voyageur sans bagage
Overview: We see how a man, who has no memory of his past, deals with his past when he finds out about it.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-09-25
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La Gueule de l’emploi
Overview: Jacques and Jean-Claude, unemployed actors, start experimenting with various creative petty scams to get by. More and more daring, with the help of Anne, a charming young girl, they blackmail the rich and influential in a different way.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-27
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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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Devil in the Brain
Overview: Oscar is trying to re-establish an affair with Sandra, a disturbed young woman. Having found her husband Fabrizio shot dead and her young son Ricky standing beside him with a gun, Sandra suffered a complete breakdown and now lives in isolation with her protective mother. The latter saved the young boy from recrimination by placing the gun in his father's hand, making it seem like he committed suicide. However, things are not what they seem...
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1972-04-13
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Transfixed
Overview: Bo is a transexual prostitute in Brussels who left home after being abused by her father. She's infuatuated with a neighbor and suspected by the police in a series of transexual murders. In order to clear herself she must turn detective.
Genres: Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-08-08
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It Happened in the Park
Overview: Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are consumed. The movie is made of six vignettes set there.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1953-12-18
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Teuf-teuf
Overview: An automobile tribute
Genres: TV Movie Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-10-05
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Petite peste
Overview: Marceline, a fearless 17-year-old girl, is expelled from her boarding school. Her adoptive parents then sent her to a stricter school.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1939-02-22
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The Broken Mirror
Overview: Anne lives with her husband in Belgium where she works as a restorer of paintings. When she becomes pregnant, she finds herself remembering a picture she did some time ago and of which she has no memory, no recollection of what happened to it. It becomes her goal to discover and clarify the mystery behind this painting, at the same time she notices that a strange man is following all of her moves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-04-02
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Le soleil a toujours raison
Overview: Tonio, pretty Micheline's fiance, meets Georgia ,a gypsy who makes advances to him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1943-01-27
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Archipelago of Love
Overview: Nine short films about love.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-03-16
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Saltimbank
Overview: The title reflects the brand of a financial institution, the bank of the Saltim family: Frederic, the younger brother, runs the family bank; his brother Bruno rejected the position of executive director, and chose to fund a theatrical company. Around them, there is a net of family members, friends, and acquaintances who seem to swirl around the banking brothers. Frederic and Bruno are both trying to control the future of their beautiful niece, Vanessa. The coffee shop owners Eve and Jim complicate everybody's life with their intrigues and lies. A strange stage director comes from his foreign exile. And lack of funds suddenly reveals the true colors of everyone - in banking, on stage, and everywhere.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-09-10
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Jean Paul Gaultier : Freak & Chic
Overview: Inspired even as a boy by the Folies Bergere, the legendary Paris cabaret venue, couturier Jean-Paul Gaultier always wanted to stage a show there. "But what story can I tell?" he muses in this doc about the six months of preparation that went into the show. "Mine." Combining fashion with film, dance, theater, and unapologetic over-the-top-ness, the revue offers a 40-year career retrospective of the designer who is practically never spoken of without using the phrase enfant terrible. Notorious among cinephiles for his costumes for The Fifth Element and The Cook, The Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover and among pop fans for Madonna's pointy cone brassiere, he also incorporated teddy bears and S&M fetish gear as design motifs. In the show, the fanciful and outrageous meets the naughtily witty (a skit sending up Vogue dragon lady Anna Wintour) and the poignant (a tribute to his partner Francis Menuge, who died in 1990).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-12-19
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House of Ricordi
Overview: The film covers a hundred years in the lives of the Ricordi family, the Milan publishing house of the title, and the various composers and other historic personalities, whose careers intersected with the growth of the Ricordi house. It beautifully draws the parallel between the great music of the composers, the historic and social upheavals of their times, as well as the "smaller stories" of the successive generations of Ricordi.
Genres: History Drama Music
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1954-12-01
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Point d'orgue
Overview: Sébastien Fischer, a celebrated pianist, takes the advice of his agent and friend Gorgio and decides to take a break and spend some time in a little village in Provence, at the house of Avril Espart.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-03-30
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Thirteen at the Table
Overview: Madeleine Villardier is terribly superstitious, and she's in a lot of trouble for the New Year's Eve party she's planning. Inexorably, the number of guests is down to thirteen. To add to her dismay, the presence under her roof of a certain Consuelo is proving cumbersome, especially as this lady has revelations to make about Antoine Villardier's stormy past. The mistress of the house's trances alternate with marital explanations. But why not consider the fateful number as a lucky charm?
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1955-12-28
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Bobosse
Overview: Bobosse is increasingly immersing himself into the world of theater and experiencing his role as an actor more intensively. He plays in a piece where a man is abandoned by his wife and processes this philosophically. When his wife actually abandons him, he becomes embarrassed and plans to kill her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-03-18
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La vie au grand air
Overview: Juliette has fought to keep her family's oyster business, called La Claire, afloat. She is ready to fight even harder, now that her heritage is threatened. On her Breton island, Juliette has to face developers who want to occupy her production site at any price to build a thalassotherapy center. Despite their tempting offers, Juliette refuses to sell and inevitably attracts the enmity of the industrialists who only think in terms of profitability and easy money. The conflict becomes more and more radical, each side sticks to its position and the confrontation risks going beyond the legal framework.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-02-04
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Qui trop embrasse...
Overview: How couples unite, interact, separate, reunite or find other partners. The links in this chain begin with Christian and Nathalie, who are coworkers and friends. Christian discovers that his lover Francoise is having an affair, and Nathalie advises him to give his feelings some time to heal, about two years. Nathalie is angry that her lover Mark does not want to see her more often, while he is jealous of the men in her past. Meanwhile, Francoise finds out that her new lover is not that interested in her anymore, and after they split, she encounters him with someone else. As romance fluctuates like the lunar tides, the myth of one true love takes a beating.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-06-11
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A Day at the Museum
Overview: Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes Vierges, des gardiens épuisés par Rodin, un ministre perdu dans une exposition de sexes, une voiture disparue au parking Rembrandt, des provinciaux amoureux des Impressionnistes, touristes galopins galopant d'une salle à l'autre, passager clandestin dans l'art premier, Picasso, Gauguin, Warhol, ils sont tous là dans ce petit monde qui ressemble au grand, dans ce musée pas si imaginaire que ça, valsant la comédie humaine jusqu'au burlesque.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-11-19
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Seul face au crime
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Genres: Crime
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-01-30
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Bankable
Overview: The wealthy Deville family loses their fortune at the same time the unassuming Ricci family suddenly become internet millionaires; things look bleak until their mutual banker suggests Mr. Deville goes to work for the Riccis!
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-05-04
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