Maria Machado
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Karlsruhe, Germany
Birthday: October 16, 1937
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Is Paris Burning?
Overview: Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if he cannot maintain control of the city. After much contemplation Choltitz decides to ignore his orders, enraging the Germans and giving hope to various resistance factions that the city will be liberated. Choltitz, along with Swedish diplomat Raoul Nordling, helps a resistance leader organize his forces.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-26
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An American Werewolf in Paris
Overview: An American man unwittingly gets involved with werewolves who have developed a serum allowing them to transform at will.
Genres: Horror Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1997-05-29
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Derborence
Overview: Antoine leaves his new bride behind to go on a skiing excursion with his uncle up the mountain behind their village of Derborence. Nine weeks after an avalanche apparently buries them alive, Antoine returns home. Certain that his uncle has also survived, he resolves to go back up and look for him—leaving his now-pregnant wife behind once more.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-04-27
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Natalia
Overview: WW2: in an occupied France, a young Jewish girl wants to become a movie star.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-04-12
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One Deadly Summer
Overview: In spring 1976, a 19-year-old beauty, her German-born mother, and her crippled father move to the town of a firefighter nicknamed Pin-Pon. Everyone notices the provocative Eliane. She singles out Pin-Pon and soon is crying on his shoulder (she's myopic and hates her reputation as a dunce and as easy); she moves in with him, knits baby clothes, and plans their wedding. Is this love or some kind of plot? She asks Pin-Pon's mother and aunt about the piano in the barn: who delivered it on a November night in 1955? Why does she want to know, and what does it have to do with her mother's sorrows, her father's injury, this quick marriage, and the last name on her birth certificate?
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-05-11
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The Monk
Overview: Ambrosio is a monk who is sexually tempted by an emissary of the Devil, a young girl in monk's robes. After he has committed numerous crimes, it appears that he will be caught and punished by the Inquisition. Instead, he signs up on the Devil's team and wins his freedom.. and eventually, the papacy.
Genres: Drama Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-11-02
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Charlotte
Overview: In 1939, Charlotte Salomon leaves Berlin to seek refuge at her grandparents' villa in the south of France. A little later, war breaks out, and Charlotte must, besides forgetting all she left behind, deal with her grandmother's depression, and her mother's suicide. To fight despair, Charlotte starts to paint, producing over one thousand images. "Is my life real, or is it theater?" This is the title she gives her body of work, which highlights her former life in Berlin. She finds herself though her art, but in 1943 is deported to Germany and Auschwitz.
Genres: War Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-02-26
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A Fine Romance
Overview: An Italian gentleman and a doctor's wife plot to break up their spouses' tryst in Paris.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-06-07
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Promise at Dawn
Overview: A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never gives in.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1970-11-25
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