Madeleine Damien
Also Known As: Rachel-Marguerite Espir, Madeleine Christian, Daisy Espir
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: June 29, 1901
Deathday: June 28, 1981
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Enigma
Overview: Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-15
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The Eagle and the Dove
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-05-04
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Bilitis
Overview: A coming of age story centering on the exploits of a young girl during summer vacation.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-03-16
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The Christmas Tree
Overview: A French-American millionaire, his girlfriend and his war buddy try to grant his dying son's every wish.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-09-25
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A Quiet Place in the Country
Overview: A painter facing a creative block arranges to spend the weekend in the country at his mistress's villa. While staying there, his sanity begins to disintegrate.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1968-11-14
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Paris Does Not Exist
Overview: In this film, an artist attending a party smokes some dope and develops the ability to see into the future and the past. He returns to his apartment where he sees the vision of a woman who had lived there 30 years ago. His psychedelic hallucinations increase with time. Starring Richard Leduc and Danièle Gaubert with Serge Gainsbourg who also did the score.
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-10-22
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La Mandarine
Overview: Paris, seventies. In a hotel in the glittering Rue de Rivoli an English boy falls in love with the two young grandchildren of the owner. Based on the novel "La Mandarine" by Christine de Rivoyre.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-03-17
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la femme rompue
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-01-01
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Fric-frac en dentelles
Overview: Peter Simon, a famous American writer, deserts his girlfriend Eva to live incognito at a small Normandy inn. Eva shams her own murder for revenge. Meanwhile, a young reporter, Françoise, has tracked Peter down. The news of the crime quickly spreads and, believing Peter to be the murderer, the village is in an uproar. Despite misadventures galore, everything turns out right and Peter takes Françoise on their honeymoon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-07-24
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A Police Officer Without Importance
Overview: Camille, Dov and Joëlle live on the edge of society and are involved in petty theft helping them to buy their drug doses and to survive as best they can. One day, while attempting to rob a movie theater, they activate the alarm signal and it is Pierre, Camille's brother, who is doing a heist in the same building, who is arrested red-handed. The three young people decide to kidnap a police officer and exchange him for Pierre.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-04-12
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Themroc
Overview: Themroc, a bachelor house painter living at home with his mother, leads a sad and colorless life. One day, after a run-in with his boss, he rebels. He wrecks his apartment, rejects every facet of bourgeois life, and begins acting like an urban, modern-day Neanderthal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-02-22
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Et la tendresse ?… Bordel !
Overview: Francois, seducer very misogynist, directs an Eros Club, that from which suffers his Carole wife silently. Julie, saleswoman in a clock industry, as for it is taken of an access of madness after having surprised her husband, Léo, future
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-02-28
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Diary of a Chambermaid
Overview: Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When the father dies, Celestine decides to quit her job and leave, but when a young girl is raped and murdered, Celestine believes that the Monteils' groundskeeper, Joseph, is guilty, and stays on in order to prove it. She uses her sexuality and the promise of marriage to get Joseph to confess -- but things do not go as planned.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-03-04
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Love at the Top
Overview: A shy bank employee unexpectedly invites a young woman to a café, leading to a one-night stand. When he shares this with his disillusioned friend, the writer helps him navigate a dazzling social ascent.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-03-13
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The Thief of Paris
Overview: In Paris around 1900, a young man raised by his wealthy uncle plots revenge after his cousin is betrothed to a rich neighbor. He steals the fiancé's family jewels, reveling in the thrill, and sets off on a lifelong path of burglary.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-02-22
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La voyante
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-02-21
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Le pont japonais
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-09-25
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Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
Overview: Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. But thieves have hidden a cache of stolen diamonds in Herbie's gas tank, and are now trying to get them back.
Genres: Romance Comedy Family Action Adventure
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1977-06-24
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Very Happy Alexander
Overview: Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like a dog. When she dies in a car crash, he decides to stay in bed, absolutely free and inactive. Just a dog is occupied to carry food and newspapers to him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-02-09
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The Sunday of Life
Overview: After five years in the army, Valentin Brû marry a haberdasher. They move to Paris, where Valentin sells frames, while his wife becomes fortune teller. One day, Valentin replaces her, and predict a terrible event which will happen.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-13
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Trique, gamin de Paris
Overview: An old Montmartre building with countless tenants: on the seventh floor, a Russian painter, Igor, lives in his art and dreams, whose paintings express kindness and indulgence; two floors below, a poor cabaret singer, Seraphita, poses for her neighbor when she feels too lonely and abandoned; further down, the Prunelle family lives, where the father and mother, inveterate drunks, indulge in drink and give their eleven-year-old son. Tique, who seems to have become indifferent, the spectacle of atrocious domestic scenes. By the time the film begins, Father Prunelle, drunker than ever, has chased Tique's mother away with insults...
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-08-24
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Little Claus and Big Claus
Overview: Once upon a time there lived in the same village two men bearing the very same name. One of them chanced to possess four horses, the other had only one horse, so, by way of distinguishing them from each other, the proprietor of four horses was called "Great Claus," and he who owned but one horse was known as "Little Claus"...
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-25
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The Day of the Jackal
Overview: An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1973-05-16
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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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Don't Play with Martians
Overview: These space people have cat eyes and a disintegrating pistol; and when they touch a woman 's lips with their magic kiss.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-05-31
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Le temps des copains
Overview: Three young students, who met on the train, arrive in Paris and decide to find accommodation together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-15
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The Dunroamin' Rising
Overview: Sixty years ago Ian Sinclair was a revolutionary leader. Today he is in an old folks' home, but has not lost his sense of humour, or his appetite for the struggle. In protest at the proposed closure of the home, the old socialist firebrand embarks upon a hunger strike that ends up having wide-range repercussions.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-19
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