Denise Gence
Also Known As: not available
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: March 08, 1924
Age: 101 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: September 29, 2011
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The Dance
Overview: The Dance is a 1962 French comedy film directed by Norbert Carbonnaux and starring Jean-Pierre Cassel, Françoise Dorléac and Arletty. The film is based on the French comic strip 13 rue de l'Espoir.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-02-21
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Tartuffe
Overview: A filmed version of Molière's play.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-01-01
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Buffet Froid
Overview: An absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-12-19
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The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Overview: The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-09-14
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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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Duo
Overview: A couple who appears to have the perfect relationship finds their future in jeopardy following a scorching night of lust and debauchery in this erotic drama adapted from the controversial novel by French author Colette.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-05-16
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Histoire vraie
Overview: A servant girl, given in marriage when she turns out to be pregnant, can't bring herself to live away from her master.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-08-05
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Les Cent livres : A la recherche du temps perdu
Overview: An evocation, realistic and poetic at the same time, of Proust's work " in which he is locked up as in the room ". Halfway between the audiovisual adaptation and the portrait of the dandy and reclusive writer, all in black and white signed Claude Santelli, evoking the mystery, the intimate, and the fatality of existence.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-12-22
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Un fil à la patte
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-12-26
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Lovers of Paris
Overview: Young, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the belles of the capital.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-10-18
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Ruy Blas
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-02-10
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Marriage of Figaro
Overview: It's the day of Figaro's marriage to Susanna, but first he must help the Countess divert the Count's attention away from Susanna and back to her, while arranging the betrothal of Cherubino and Barbarina.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-11-04
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Every Day Has Its Secret
Overview: Given up for dead three years ago in a plane crash in the Amazon rainforest, a young woman arrives in Paris to find her eminent ethnologist husband. She learns of his death in obscure circumstances, having remarried in the meantime. She sets out to unravel the mystery surrounding her husband's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-06-11
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Normal Life
Overview: The dramatic affair between Dr. Jean-Pierre Cazot and a young French woman, Laurence, a survivor of a death camp, who is expecting an unwanted child.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-06-30
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La Dame de chez Maxim
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-02-12
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Le Tartuffe
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-13
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Monsieur Bébé
Overview: In this extreme yet devastating testament to the loneliness of human existence, an older domestic woman, heartbreakingly rendered by Gence, is approached in the kitchen after a party by a young, gay man seeking affection. She is later offered money to act as his mother and becomes emotionally involved in a milieu unfamiliar to her.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1974-10-19
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Lamiel
Overview: Lamiel is a poor orphan girl who climbs to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. Sansfin, provincial doctor, lives vicariously through her, as he oversees the progress of his female protégé. Defiant and rebellious, Lamiel goes to Paris to escape boredom and to know love.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-08-30
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Les femmes savantes
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-08-19
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Le sexe faible
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-11-02
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Électre
Overview: During the long journey that brought him home victorious in the Trojan War, Agamemnon fell in love with one of his captives, Cassander, daughter of Priam, with whom he had children. The reception in Argos, more than ten years later, was icy. Annoyed by the double indelicacy of her husband, Clytemnestra, his wife who had meanwhile become the mistress of Aegisthus, killed him with the help of her lover. Aegisthus then became the regent and ensured the prosperity of the city alongside his mistress, the widowed queen. But Electra, one of the daughters of Agamemnon, has always foreseen the murder and adultery of her mother. Solitary, wild, she lives in the royal palace awaiting the return of Orestes, her brother who has taken refuge since childhood with an uncle, in order to take revenge. Electra can begin, the crimes of the Atreides family continue quietly, as planned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-07-07
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George Dandin
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-01-06
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Les fausses confidences
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-11-22
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Port-Royal
Overview: 1661, the Assemblée du Clergé de France obliged all clergy to sign a form testifying to their submission to the decisions of the Holy See. In 1664, the Archbishop of Paris wanted to impose this decision on the nuns of Port-Royal. Among them was Sister Angélique de Saint Jean, admired by the very young Sister Françoise, who looked to her for comfort.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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The Double Bed
Overview: Various sketches centered on alcove stories.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-08-06
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Les Hauts de Hurlevent - 2ème partie
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-01-13
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Les Hauts de Hurlevent - 1ère partie
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-01-06
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Huckleberry Finn
Overview: A TV movie about Huckleberry Finn, directed by Marcel Cravenne and released in France back in 1967.
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-28
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Le Légataire universel - Jean-Paul Roussillon
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-06-07
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Le mariage de Figaro
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-12-09
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La trilogie de la Villégiature
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-06-17
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La Commère
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-10-14
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Amphitryon
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-06-04
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La Vérité de Mme Langlois
Overview: Is Thérèse guilty? Accused of her husband's murder, she confides in the investigating judge—the only man who has ever truly listened to her. Beyond the crime story, the film explores the strange bonds that form between people and the twists and turns of the human psyche.
Genres: Mystery Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-02-16
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