Catherine Rouvel
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Biography: Catherine Rouvel (born Catherine Vitale; 31 August 1939 in Marseille) is an acclaimed French actress. Her career spans from 1959 in television to 2004. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charles Denner, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Adult: No
Birthday: August 31, 1939
Age: 85 years old
Gender: Female
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Bluebeard
Overview: Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furniture dealer, married and father of four children, relentlessly feeds his own sinister factory of death.
Genres: Drama Crime History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-01-25
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The Breach
Overview: An innocent woman falls prey to her abusive husband, his wealthy father and a shady family friend.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-08-26
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Law Breakers
Overview: A judge investigating police corruption finds that the deeper he digs, the more roadblocks he finds.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-05-07
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Les Rois de la comédie
Overview: At the end of the 1950s, four humor specialists simultaneously experienced recognition. Fernandel with “The Cow and the Prisoner”, Bourvil with “The Hunchback”, Jacques Tati with “My Uncle” and Louis de Funès with “Oscar” at the theater. On the big screen or on stage, each of these artists has a unique style of humor. They are the kings of French comedy. But how did they manage to become true box office champions? How did they experience their immense popularity? How do they still influence the comedy genre? And above all, are- are they funny in life? Where is the line between their character in the cinema and their real personality?
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-01-01
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Borsalino
Overview: In 1930s Marseilles two small-time crooks decide to join forces when they meet while brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and boxing matches, they soon find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.
Genres: Crime Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-05-19
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Kings & Queen
Overview: Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her aging professor father, Louis, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. During her stay, she reaches out to her former lover, Ismaël, a viola player and father figure to Elias who has been committed against his will to a mental hospital. Ismaël, however, has his own problems to sort out.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-12-22
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Black and White in Color
Overview: French colonists in Africa, several months behind in the news, find themselves at war with their German neighbors. Deciding that they must do their proper duty and fight the Germans, they promptly conscript the local native population. Issuing them boots and rifles, the French attempt to make "proper" soldiers out of the Africans. A young, idealistic French geographer seems to be the only rational person in the town, and he takes over control of the "war" after several bungles on the part of the others.
Genres: Drama Comedy War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-09-22
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Borsalino and Co.
Overview: Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-23
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Picnic on the Grass
Overview: Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion. To celebrate his engagement to a cousin, he hosts an aseptic picnic, where mother nature asserts herself. A shepherd's flute conjures a windstorm that throws Alexis together with the luscious Nénette, a farm lass who wants to have a baby but is unimpressed with men.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-11-11
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Louise... l'insoumise
Overview: While watching the others on her TV screen, Louise becomes a rebellious girl.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-03-13
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The Loner
Overview: In Paris , Commissioner Stan Jalard and Inspector Simon Lecache plan to quit the police to go and enjoy a more peaceful life in the West Indies. In a nightclub, during a routine visit, they spot Schneider, a dreaded gangster and public enemy. At the time of his arrest, Simon is killed at close range by the criminal. Stan then decides to stay in the police to avenge Simon. Being the godfather of Christian, Simon's son, who sometimes lives in a boarding school, sometimes at home, he takes charge of his education. Two years later, Stan has been promoted, and he's told that Schneider had resurfaced in the capital. A long hunt begins.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-03-18
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Va Savoir (Who Knows?)
Overview: After finding love and success in Italy, French actress Camille returns to Paris, the city she fled three years ago. She secretly dreads confronting her ex-boyfriend Pierre. Her new lover Ugo also has a secret, as he’s meeting with the intriguing Dominique while on his quest for an unpublished manuscript.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-09-28
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The Buddies
Overview: Seven old pals live inseparable lives, dividing their time between hilarious pranks and memorable drinking bouts. Bénin is the mastermind, Broudier the enforcer and Lesueur the prankster. One evening, a grandiose plan was hatched: to wreak havoc in two peaceful sub-prefectures: Ambert and Issoire. Broudier begins: in the middle of the night, disguised as a minister, he wakes up a barracks in Ambert and sets in motion a thunderous maneuver. The next day, disguised as a Dominican, Bénin climbed to the pulpit of the cathedral and delivered a sermon insulting Christian doctrine. The same day, in Issoire, the local authorities were preparing to unveil a statue of Vercingetorix. But the statue came to life, pelting the crowd with tomatoes: it was Lesueur. With their minds at rest, the friends headed off to the Côte-d'Or for a vacation. But already, one of them begins to perform a new prank.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-01-15
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Elisa
Overview: Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames for her mother's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-02-01
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That's Show Business
Overview: Clement Mastard is the head of a leading journal dedicated to extravagant vaudeville. An unexpected contract requires him to reconnect with his former headliner Celia Bergson part to try to avant-garde theater. It is through this that he met Johann Sebastian Bloch, misunderstood musician who cause the loss but the side which Mastard, the man without scruples, to humanize and eventually produce a real masterpiece, the Missa Solemnis
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-24
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Highway Pick-Up
Overview: An escaped convict makes a remote gas station his safe haven. But soon the cunning, devious wife of the owner seeks a chance to use him to get what she wants.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-13
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Les Grands Moyens
Overview: The sweet elderly aunt and her two nieces survive the vendetta killing of their whole family because they are out picking flowers at the time. Undaunted, the aunt, a tough old Corsican, tracks down and kills all but one of the men who wiped out her kinfolk.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-02-06
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On the Shore
Overview: In this study of the lust for youth, Michel, a disillusioned cop nearing retirement, becomes obsessed with the body of a beautiful woman he meets on the beach. His search for an unattainable love drives him deeper into darkness.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-01-04
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La Demoiselle de Coeur
Overview: The kings of the card game, tired of serving for the amusement of men, decide to participate in the lives of humans and behave like them.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-01-01
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I Miss Sonia Henie
Overview: One camera in one setting, one attic and eight young directors – the result is a unique Dadaistic collage of seven short sketches. The original task for each filmmaker was to keep each short under three minutes, to set it in one hotel room, and to include the sentence “I miss Sonja Henie." This experimental film was shot over a single night at the international film festival FEST in Beograd in 1971.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: sh
Release Date: 1971-01-20
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L'école est finie
Overview: Julien, fifteen-year-old, meets Nathalie, a girl his age whom he falls in love. Soon she is expecting a child. Their parents take the news with reservations. The baby will come and with it, the difficult learning of life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-10-10
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Jubiabá
Overview: Jubiabá is a French-Brazilian film based on the homonymous novel by Jorge Amado. The film tells the story of the interracial love between the daughter of a rich Commander and Antonio Balduíno, a rascal, fighter and famous lover from Salvador.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1987-09-17
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Fuegos
Overview: The action takes place at the turn of the century in a remote village in South America. Drunkard and brutal, a father reigns over a world of women whom he whips. For a long time, he imposed his "macho" law. But he created a flame of hatred in the heart of his eldest daughter, who organized the death of the tyrant...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-03-11
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The Virtuous Bigamist
Overview: The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his quarrelsome wife for his weekly round. On the train he meets a young woman, Marie, who looks a little lost. No wonder. Marie is pregnant but lacks the customary husband. She's returning to her village but is not exactly looking forward to the confrontation with her parents and the villagers, all pretty conservative people. After getting to know Paul a little better (for which there is ample time during the trip by train and bus) Marie decides to ask Paul to act as her husband, just to allay the suspicions of her family. After some hesitating Paul accepts, charmed by the girl and unaware of the complications such is bound to cause to his own life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1956-12-20
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L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères)
Overview: Two monks come to a small village to lead a simple life but their first act of charity is to try and seduce one of the village women.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-08-17
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On the Lam
Overview: A young couple of burglars, waiting for trial, marry in jail. Annick writes down her observations of the women's ward. When she hears that her lover must serve a twice as long prison sentence, she plans their escape.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-29
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Jean Renoir, le patron, 1re partie: La recherche du relatif
Overview: The first of three documentaries by Rivette on Jean Renoir.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-18
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Closed Shutters
Overview: 1930. Adelaide is fed up with Paris and founds a 'retreat' for her women friends in a Breton port. They live well and take their pleasure seriously, until the attractive sailor Thomas arrives and nothing is ever the same again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-02-01
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Mont-Dragon
Overview: Because he has seduced Germaine de Boismenil, Georges Dormont is thrown out of the army by the colonel and husband of the beautiful. After the death of the Count of Boismenil, Dormont arrived at the castle of the widow with the firm intention of taking revenge. From the outset, he seduces Pierrette, the servant, revives the heart of Germaine, having gotten an appointment with the widow, he makes her naked, humiliates and leaves her. Witness of the scene, Martha, the proud orphan, throws herself into the arms of Gaston, faithful order of the colonel, to avenge her mother. George soon flouted their feelings. He then forces Germaine to reveal his attachment to Pierrette and causes a beautiful scandal.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-12-16
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Le soldat Laforêt
Overview: When he gets separated from his unit, Laforet (Roger Van Hool) becomes a de facto deserter during 1939 fighting in the French provinces. Most of the story concerns his love affair with a local farmgirl, as he competes for her affection with a refugee from Spain. When he presses her to make a decision between them, the choice doesn't go in his favor. Soon after this he joins up with the Resistance movement.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-04-21
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The Last Steps
Overview: A young poster artist sees an older married woman among the audience of a Parisian movie theater and falls madly in love with her.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-05-27
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Mr. Freedom
Overview: Mr. Freedom, a bellowing good-ol'-boy superhero decked out in copious football padding, jets to France to cut off a Commie invasion from Switzerland. A destructive, arrogant patriot in tight pants, Freedom joins forces with Marie Madeleine to combat lefty freethinkers, as well as the insidious evildoers Moujik Man and inflatable Red China Man, culminating in a star-spangled showdown.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-01-08
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The Marseille Contract
Overview: An important drug lord settled in Marseille is suspected of having ordered the killing of an American agent, but it is impossible to impute him due to his political influences, so the dead agent's boss decides to hire the services of a hitman to kill him.
Genres: Crime Thriller Action
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-09-04
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The Lovers of the France
Overview: Seeing an opportunity to make a financial recovery for the family, a nobleman attempts to wed his son to his wealthy friend's daughter. His plan is to send the boy for a cruise on the SS France with the prospective female. Upon arriving to meet the lovely girl, the young man switches places with his valet. Unbeknownst to him, however, is the fact that the girl has pulled a similar deception. Though Jean-Marc Ripert is responsible for much of the cinematography in this New Wave comedy, it is Francois Reichenbach who handled the camera for many of the ocean-liner scenes.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-04-29
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Le roi du village
Overview: Moïse, a foundling, is raised by the inhabitants of a village and grows good and strong, well-liked by everyone, loved in silence by Agnese, a girl in the same conditions. One day, however, four graceful Parisians come to the village for a short vacation, and with their light-hearted behavior, they upset Moses and the villagers, who are quick to make the unwelcome guests return to the capital.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-06-22
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Le boulanger de Suresnes
Overview: Suresnes, Paris region, April 1970. The Voittins run a baker's shop in their neighborhood. Like the other small traders, they are beginning to be threatened by large-scale retail outlets. Now, their daughter Caroline falls in love with the son of an - industrial baker and soon considers marrying him. As can be expected, things will not follow naturally.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-02
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The Diary of an Innocent Boy
Overview: Set in 18th century France, a naive 17-year-old orphan named Benjamin is taken in by his wealthy aunt, the Countess de Valandry. There, he is seduced by a variety of women, including a few flirtatious maidservants and neighboring countesses who all want to be Benjamin's "first".
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-01-12
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Le Secret des Andrônes
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-08-21
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Gypsy Law
Overview: The idyllic life of a beautiful gypsy girl is shattered when she runs away from a pre-arranged marriage to a member of her tribe. Away from the safety of her people, she encounters bigotry against her kind. A little girl feels sorry for the missing gypsy beauty and searches for a magic root that can cure the wandering gypsy from her wanderlust and bring her home again. Music, dance, ancient gypsy rituals, and colorful European scenery highlight this feature which takes a decidedly jaundiced view of the racial indignities suffered by the heroine.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-24
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Les Mamies
Overview: When 12 year old Alex runs away, his grandmother ask her 6 friends for help and follow the kid from Paris to Lisbon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-11-11
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Retour à Cherchell
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-04-05
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