Monique Chaumette
Also Known As: Hélène Claire, Helen Claire
Biography: Monique Chaumette (born 4 April 1927) is a French actress. She appeared in more than forty films since 1958. She was married to Philippe Noiret from 1962 until his death in 2006. Source: Article "Monique Chaumette" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: April 04, 1927
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Gender: Female
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The Sleeping Car Murder
Overview: Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-11-17
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La Barricade du Point-du-Jour
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Genres: History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-11-12
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Instinct de femme
Overview: Young - beautiful - married, fulfilled, Martha is bored. Passive in an active society, she took a first step by serving as a "guinea pig" to her brother researcher who undertook a comparative study on animal behavior and human behavior.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-11-07
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A Sunday in the Country
Overview: In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.
Genres: Drama Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-04-11
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Beatrice
Overview: Somewhere in France during the Middle Ages. Béatrice is impatient to see her father return from English captivity. She doesn't expect however that the father whom she loves from distance will be the most hateful person who will submit her and her family to abuse and humiliation.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-11-11
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The Confession
Overview: The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is one day arrested and put into solitary confinement by his blackmailers.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-04-29
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Masques
Overview: In this deadly game of cat and mouse, Roland Wolf is writing a book on the life of game show host Christian Legagneur--or is he?
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-02-11
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Turk's Head
Overview: A 14 year old boy, an ER doctor, a cop looking for revenge, a mother fighting for her children and a man distraught by the death of his wife see their destinies come together. As the doctor spends several days in a coma, events keep on happening and all will be swept by the shock wave.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-03-31
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Solemn Communion
Overview: In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families from the 1890s to the 1970s. In one of many related tales, a man who was engaged to the older daughter of a farmer elopes with the younger one. After many years and the birth of five children, the man leaves his wife and family for the bright lights of the city but continues turning up from time to time, until he is finally taken into the home of one of his sons when he is a quite old man. The complex interactions of the legitimate and illegitimate children of a womanizing miner give rise to yet another set of related stories.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-04-27
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Delicacy
Overview: A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-12-20
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Don't Touch the White Woman!
Overview: A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.
Genres: Comedy Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-23
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The Hatter's Ghost
Overview: A hatter in a provincial town (Michel Serrault) leads the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial murderer. The only person to suspect this is his neighbour the tailor (Charles Asnavour).
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-05-26
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Des Gens Bien
Overview: During a misfire, Gabriel and Raphael, two robbers Sunday, escape by accidentally kidnapping Paloma, an 8-year-old girl. Michel, an experienced cop, makes it a point of honor to stop the two men and recover the girl. Soon Gabriel and Raphael discover that the girl is not alone. Paco, her imaginary "friend", accompanies her and protects her against a heavy secret - Paloma is a child beaten by her parents. They now have the choice: to make the girl to these executioners and be bastards, where to keep with them and pass for bastards.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-04-03
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The Lacemaker
Overview: Pomme is a meek and mild French beautician whose life takes a fateful turn during a vacation to Normandy. She becomes the lover of middle-class literature-student François. The relationship sours when François takes her home to meet his parents, thanks in no small part to their differing social backgrounds.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-05-25
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Let Joy Reign Supreme
Overview: A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.
Genres: War History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-03-23
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The Widow Couderc
Overview: The relationship between a middle-aged French widow and a young drifter takes a turn when her young niece pays a visit.
Genres: Action Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-15
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Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
Overview: "Hangar" is a new agency whose purpose is to carry out missions even too sensitive for the police or intelligence services. The agency must eliminate a German female terrorist by the name of Birgitt Haas. The murder is to be disguised as a crime of passion, so an agent must lure Birgitt into falling in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-09-02
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L'Abolition
Overview: The story of Robert Badinter who was the major architect of the abolition of the death penalty in France .
Genres: TV Movie History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-01-27
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Boomerang
Overview: A reformed gangster turns to his old associates for help after his son kills a police officer.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-08-15
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Poil de carotte
Overview: In rural France, an undernourished and unloved young boy attempts suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-08-29
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Camomille
Overview: A bakery employee gives shelter to a young female addicted to drugs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-05-04
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Félicité
Overview: After a bout of intense jealousy, Félicité finds herself alone. For one night, as her family dissipates, she relives her torments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-05-22
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The Judge and the Assassin
Overview: France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders many teenagers over years. The judge Rousseau captures him, but to serve his ambition seeks to avoid that Bouvier is simply declared insane.
Genres: History Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-10
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La Grande Bouffe
Overview: Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-16
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La Lumière du phare
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2013-11-16
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Lamento
Overview: Chronicles the hopeless reunion between a mother and daughter, as they try to rekindle their relationship after twelve years of being apart.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-03-26
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Aurore
Overview: Once upon a time there was a kingdom where dancing was forbidden by a tyrant king. Defying the edict of her father, the Princess Aurore continues to dance, for the amusement of herself and brother, Solal. With the kingdom virtually bankrupt, the King has no choice but to marry his daughter to a wealthy prince. As preparations are made for a ball that will set the seal on the marriage, the princess discovers that she is in love.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-03-22
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Alone in Berlin
Overview: Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.
Genres: War Thriller Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-02-15
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Le Théâtre National Populaire
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-06-08
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You'll Miss Me
Overview: In an airport, six destinies, during a short moment, will change, separate and meet. And if these characters were going through, without knowing it, the most important moment of their lives? Olivier and Lila ... Will he miss his love or will she miss the plane? Julia and Marcel ... Will she avoid death or will he mess up his life? Fanny and Max ... Will she lack of courage or will he be out of luck?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-06-10
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Monsieur Albert
Overview: In this poetic slice-of-life film that reveals the problems and needs of a group of lowlife characters, unwed mother Vivaine (Dominique Labourier) falls in love with working-class youth Francois (Patrick Chesnais) who has a shady past. Albert (Philippe Noiret), a no-good insurance con-artist, poses for many years as Francois' friend, but tragedy ensues when Albert comes between the lovers, and Francois and Albert resort to physical violence to settle their differences.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-30
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The Overworked
Overview: A young woman wins a typing contest and sets off to work in Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-01
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Five Leaf Clover
Overview: A middle-aged couple moves into an old villa populated by eccentric characters.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-08-22
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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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Eeeny, Meeny, Miney, Moe
Overview: In the autumn of '43, Mina, a little girl of Jewish origin, is entrusted to farmers in the Cévennes. Shocked by Jeroboam's frustrated manners and Deborah's cruel reflections - who is still suffering two centuries later from the struggle between Protestants and Catholics - Mina thinks she'll find refuge with Jeannot. But the young boy doesn't like girls and mistreats Mina. Fortunately, she has a friend: the village pastor. Thanks to him, she can go to school. Despite their constant bickering, Mina takes a liking to Jeannot. She convinces him to come to school with her. Together, they go for walks or take advantage of the passage of maquisards to force open the cellar door where hams hang! The arrival of an "informer" at the little school and encounters with the Germans disturb Jeannot.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-06-02
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The Two of Us
Overview: Toussaint and Madeleine have loved each other from the cradle. They are now sixty. They have reached retirement age and have decided to return to Corsica. Toussaint has spent thirty years underground in the maintenance workshops of the Paris metro system. he is happy, but Madeleine misses Paris with its excitement and, above all, their son, who is a doctor in one of the French capital's major hospitals. Madeleine has such love for her son that Toussaint teases her by saying she should ask the Pope for dispensation in order to marry him. Toussaint and Madeleine return to Balba at the beginning of the winter when the days are short, the village bar is closed and the men too scarce for even a game of cards. The silence is occasionally broken by the village idiot, Napolean, as he ambles about shouting the coming death of Corsica while on patrol of the locked-up houses he's been set to guard...
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-04-22
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The Bit Between the Teeth
Overview: Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math whiz who uses his talent for picking the winners. Charles (Michel Galabru) is the wealthy scrap-iron magnate who has embarrassing evidence on many prominent political figures. Loic (Jacques Dutronc) is the aspiring politico who seeks to further his career by any means possible. Charles approaches Loic and asks his political party for a loan in hopes of fixing an upcoming race....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-09-01
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Shock Troops
Overview: A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but apparently there is an additional prisoner among them who is suspected of being an enemy spy.
Genres: War Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-04-05
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Forgery and the Use of Forgeries
Overview: Fleeing fame, the writer Anatole Hirsch decides to publish his new book under the name of his cousin, Martin Bassane. This book wins the Prix Goncourt. A film inspired by the story of Romain Gary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-08-22
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The Watchmaker of St. Paul
Overview: Lyons, France. Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives alone with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and informs him that Bernard killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realizes that he knew far less about his son than he thought.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-16
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