Béatrice Altariba
Also Known As: Béatrice Alta-Riba, Beatrice Altariba, Alta Riba
Biography: Béatrice Altariba (born 18 June 1939) is a French actress who was active between 1956 and 1969. Born in Marseille, she is the niece of symbolist poet Paul Fort. She started her career in revues and musical theatre, then she made her film debut at 17. Altariba was also active in Italian cinema. Her last French television appearance was in the first episode of the TV series The Aeronauts in 1967. Source: Article "Béatrice Altariba" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: June 18, 1939
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Gender: Female
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Crazy Desire
Overview: A middle-aged businessman meets a band of rowdy youths and is smitten by one, named Francesca.
Genres: Romance Comedy Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-03-15
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Les Misérables
Overview: In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-03-11
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Cemetery Without Crosses
Overview: Ruthlessly pursued by the Rogers family following a dispute over cattle, Ben Caine (Benito Stefanelli) is chased back to the Caine Ranch. Despite his wife Maria's (Michèle Mercier) desperate pleading, the Rogers family hangs Ben Caine, forcing Maria to watch. Consumed with revenge but finding her two brothers-in-law reluctant to assist, Maria enlists the help of Manuel (Robert Hossein). Manual, presumably preoccupied with the past, wears a single black glove and lives alone in a ghost town. Manuel agrees to Maria's plan with reluctance, in part because of his deep feelings/attraction to her. Manuel finds employment as foreman at the Rogers' ranch and surreptitiously kidnaps Pa Rogers' (Daniele Vargas) only daughter Johanna (Anne-Marie Balin). With Johanna as the bait, Maria will be in the perfect position to exact her revenge on the Rogers but things don't turn out quite as planned.
Genres: Western
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1969-01-25
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Eyes Without a Face
Overview: Dr. Génessier is riddled with guilt after an accident that he caused disfigures the face of his daughter, the once beautiful Christiane, who outsiders believe is dead. Dr. Génessier, along with accomplice and laboratory assistant Louise, kidnaps young women and brings them to the Génessier mansion. After rendering his victims unconscious, Dr. Génessier removes their faces and attempts to graft them on to Christiane's.
Genres: Drama Horror Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-01-11
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When the Child Appears
Overview: Charles Fouquet, the Minister of Family Affairs, is having a hard time. His wife Olympe, although not that young, is expecting a baby. His daughter Annie, as for her, is pregnant by her fiance. And let's not forget Georges, Fouquet's son, who has seduced Natacha, his close (too close!) collaborator. As if that were not enough, a former mistress of Charles' comes and reveals to him the existence of a son he knew nothing about. But Charles is a man of action and he is not so easily deterred: he WILL take action against this abundance of offspring.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-10-05
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A Man Named Rocca
Overview: Roberto goes to Marseilles to give a hand to his friend Xavier, wrongly imprisoned following a frame-up organized by his associate Villanova. Roberto sets out to seduce Villanova's mistress, but when Villanova is killed, Roberto ends up leader of the band...
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-11-17
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Forgive Our Trespasses
Overview: In a port area of France, clashes between a gang of young delinquents and a tribe of gypsies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-08-01
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Be Beautiful and Shut Up
Overview: A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up with a gang of jewel smugglers, and decides on a life of crime. However, she falls for and marries a policeman, putting a crimp in her criminal career.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-05-07
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Totò diabolicus
Overview: The marquis Galeazzo di Torre Alta is murdered by a mysterious killer who calls himself Diabolicus. His heirs are his three brothers and a sister, but all of them, with the exception of Monsignor Antonino di Torre Alta, are killed by Diabolicus. The police are unable to solve the case, but when Antonino gives his inheritance to Pasquale Bonocore, illegitimate son of his father and Pasquale is in prison and therefore can't be the killer, all the clues are in the hand of the police.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-04-07
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Robinson et le triporteur
Overview: A modern re-telling of the Robinson Crusoe story. But, this time, our hero is a macguivering expert. So he creates himself a modern paradise based on his beloved delivery tricycle that we saw in the previous movie"The tricyclist".
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-03-02
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Les Gorilles
Overview: A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-23
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I 4 moschettieri
Overview: 4 con men take the place of the real musketeers and manage to steal the Queen's necklace but then give it back to her, moved by her tears.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1963-03-31
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Les Violents
Overview: Pierre Tercelin who used to be a prosperous industrialist is now ruined and embittered, having become a mere lock keeper. A widower, he lives with his daughter Evelyne, a music-hall dancer. Claiming he is being persecuted by his cousin Edgar he gets in touch again with another cousin of his he hates, Bernard, a millionaire gun runner,who is also a victim of Edgar. It must be said that both Pierre and Bernard once caused Edgar to go bankrupt... Pierre offers Bernard to join efforts against Edgar. Soon after, Bernard dies of poison, which is only the first of a series of acts of violence. Tiercelin is shot at while going back home, Bernard's son is gunned down while his sister Luciane disappears. Chief-inspector Malouvier - who oddly enough looks very much like the suspect- investigates....
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-01-10
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A porte chiuse
Overview: The movie is about the celebrated trial of Olga Duvovich, very beautiful woman accused of killing her husband, a wealthy financier.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1961-03-22
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The Tricyclist
Overview: Antoine Peyralout is baker Mouillefarine's tricycle delivery man. Comical and stuttering, Antoine shows more interest in the local soccer team than in professional integrity. A wedding cake pays the price for it and the young man is dismissed. Not dispirited in the least, Antoine decides to go to Nice, where his favorite team will play the final of the Cup. On his merry (and eventful) way, he has the opportunity to save a pretty camper, Popeline, with whom he falls in love. Once in Nice, he discovers that Dabek, the brilliant goal-keeper is not up to his task following bad news...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-12-04
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Three Faces of Sin
Overview: Laurent is an artist and sometimes con-man. He wanders into the life of Renee one day in her antique shop and tries to seduce her. Before they can leave town on a weekend getaway together, Renee's teenage daughter Daniele quits school and unexpectedly shows up. Laurent and Daniele fall for each other immediately and end up getting married. The film follows the disastrous situation created by the jealous mother and her daughter's immature husband.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-12
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Man and Child
Overview: Fred Barker, an unmarried American who remained in France after heroically defending the country during the Second World War, runs the perfume factory in Grasse of his friend Carlo Ferelli, whose life he saved during the conflict. Fred has since adopted a little girl, Cathy. One day, he receives a visit from Félix Mercier, an old man who informs him that he has taken Cathy into his custody and that he will return her to him when Fred finds his granddaughter Hélène, a 17-year-old teenager who accuses the factory of being a front for white slavery. Fred, dumbfounded, sets out to find Hélène, so he can quickly get Cathy back.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-11-28
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A Friend of the Family
Overview: Pierre, an unhappy lover, is saved from suicide by his friend Paul. Extremely grateful, Pierre unloads his suitcases on his friend's family, who will soon regret not having let him commit suicide.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-07-02
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The Little Professor
Overview: Naturally optimistic and mischievous, Jérôme Aubin crossed the time of his adolescence, around 1945, with ease and good humor. The years passed. He married the pretty Françoise, a little neighbor he had known since the age of eight, and soon found himself a secondary school teacher, a little anxious at the thought of facing for the first time students he had been told were particularly turbulent. How will he master this new difficulty? Better than you'd think, thanks to a delicious optimism: boldly going against the grain of conventional methods, he surprises his young audience, thwarting the plans of the dissipated gossips and turning their most tendentious attitudes to his advantage. All this provokes astonishment and concern among the college's leaders. But Jérôme Aubin is no pushover, and even the dreaded general supervisor finds himself obliged to give in to his most audacious initiatives...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-09-26
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Et la femme créa l'amour
Overview: Laurent, a young playboy, lives off his charms, maintained by wealthy women of the world. He becomes the lover of Sonia, a young woman painter, a lover at heart of course. But Sonia has a provincial friend, Clotilde. One day, Clotilde pays Bona a visit. As she has just come into a large inheritance, Laurent courts her and marries her. The young couple embark on a misguided life of easy pleasures and questionable company. Clotilde's nerves crack at this game. Among Laurent's acquaintances, François, a doctor, treats her in his clinic: sleep cure, rest, etc. Meanwhile, Laurent distracts himself with other women. But Clotilde, convalescing, refuses to resume life together. Laurent turns to his former mistress, Sonia.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-05-24
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Hold-up à Saint-Trop’
Overview: An unscrupulous young man uses his "fiancée", who haunts gambling halls, to recruit the collaborators he needs to pull off his scams. When these unlucky gamblers are driven to dishonor by debts, he has his fiancée lend them money, and the next day he has them write checks, which of course bounce. All they have to do then is walk straight ahead, her charm encouraging them to do so. But the carefully planned hold-up at the home of a wealthy American tax dodger is a fiasco. The thief finds the safe already emptied by the very man who reported the bargain. But the unfaithful informer is fooled in turn: the loot he was about to take away in an Air-France suitcase is innocently snatched by a group of nuns who take the wrong luggage and unknowingly take off with 500 million dollars.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-07-24
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On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
Overview: The habits and customs of a strange association, "La Sociéte des Gentlemen Redempteurs", which has turned assassination into a veritable art form. But all the fine mechanics of this secret organization go haywire when each member offers his wife to become the next victim.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-11-19
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The Boss of Champignol
Overview: Claudius finds a foal and takes it home to his boss. The men who stole the animal are looking for him. Claudius names him Champignol and trains him for racing. When he grows up, Champignol wins a regional race. But the thieves return, and Claudius is forced to do odd jobs to keep his horse.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-03-16
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Hardboiled Egg Time
Overview: A shy, penniless employee of the garage owner Grillot, the gentle Louis wins $10 million in the lottery. Flitting along the banks of the Seine, he takes in Raoul Grandvivier, an unknown, untalented painter who has just botched a spectacular suicide intended to draw attention to himself. Raoul takes him back to his studio, where he meets his charming daughter Lucie. In order to see Lucie again, with whom he is in love, Louis offers to sell the paintings. In reality, he's the one paying for them, to make it look like a wealthy art lover.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-03-19
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Easy Come Easy Go
Overview: Édouard and Félix, two inseparable friends, live off the times and do odd jobs, sharing a tiny apartment in Montmartre with Laurence, Félix's sister, a model in a fashion house who alone supports the trio.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-05-26
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Agent 3S3: Passport to Hell
Overview: A 1965 Italian adventure-Eurospy film directed by Sergio Sollima (credited as Simon Sterling). This is the first chapter in the Sollima's spy film trilogy with Agent 3S3. Here the intelligence agent from the U.S. is tasked with uncovering the leader of the Black Scorpion.
Genres: Adventure
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1965-05-25
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The Seventh Sword
Overview: In this costume adventure, a dashing swordsman helps protect Philip III of Spain from the traitors trying to overthrow him.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1962-10-29
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Woman in Chains
Overview: Gallery director Stanislas bolsters the development of modern art with his collection of surprising works. His newest acquisition is a sculpture by Gilbert, whose wife Josée is captivated by Stanislas. But unbeknownst to her, Stanislas is amassing photographs of a very perverse, disturbed nature.
Genres: Drama Romance Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-11-20
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