Hélène Dieudonné
Also Known As: Helene Dieudonne
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Adult: No
Birthday: December 24, 1884
Age: 140 years old
Gender: Female
Deathday: September 29, 1980
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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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The Door Slams
Overview: Between a whimsical wife, two insolent girls, a son who is engaged in strange chemical experiments and a mother-in-law who is being courted by a rich English lord, André Costais, an intractable industrialist, is struggling to impose his authority on his family.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-12-21
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Hedda Gabler
Overview: Hedda and Tesman have just returned from their honeymoon and the relationship is already in trouble. Trapped but determined, Hedda tries to control those around her, only to see her own world unravel.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-10-24
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The Old Guard
Overview: Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-09-02
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Therese
Overview: Thérèse is living in a provincial town, unhappily married to Bernard, a dull, pompous man whose only interest is preserving his family name and property. They live in an isolated country mansion surrounded by servants. Early in her marriage her only comforts are her fondness for Bernard's pine-tree forest, which was her primary reason for marrying him, and her love for her sister-in-law and Bernard's half-sister, Anne. The movie recounts in flashback the circumstances that led to her being charged with poisoning her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-09-21
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The Saint Lies in Wait
Overview: Oscar Chartier plays a dangerous double game by selling secret plans to the German and American secret services, to ensure a comfortable future for his daughter, Sophie. But the plans are fake and Chartier decides to get help from his good friend Simon Templar.
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-10-26
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The President
Overview: At 73, a former President of the French Council reflects on his political career while writing his memoirs, delving into his relationships with key figures, including the one set to become the next President.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-01
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Thomas the Impostor
Overview: In the First World War, when Paris is expected to fall to the Germans, the attractive widow, Princesse de Bormes, organises a convoy of cars to evacuate the wounded from the front, and bring them back to her villa in Paris to recuperate. The authorities will not give them passes until an innocent 16-year-old boy, Guillaume Thomas de Fontenoy, joins them and is mistaken as the nephew of the popular General de Fontenoy. The Princess is enraptured by Thomas and her daughter, Henriette, falls in love with him. However Thomas feels impelled to see more of the action of the war.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-06-01
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Les choses voient
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Genres: Drama Romance Mystery TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-05-28
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Les portes claquent
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-11-24
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Les Grands Moyens
Overview: The sweet elderly aunt and her two nieces survive the vendetta killing of their whole family because they are out picking flowers at the time. Undaunted, the aunt, a tough old Corsican, tracks down and kills all but one of the men who wiped out her kinfolk.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-02-06
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Agent 38-24-36
Overview: A Russian spy is sent out to steal sensitive information from NATO about military mobilization. Without much intelligence of his own, the distrusted agent of Soviet intelligence needs all the help he can get from his "talented" partner Penelope Lightfeather as they scatter around the French countryside for secret rendez-vous' while trying to avoid being caught by counter intelligence agents and distrustful communist operatives.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-03-12
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Soldier Martin
Overview: A troupe of French actors on tour in Normandy become involved in the events of WWII.
Genres: War Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-09-28
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The Game Is Over
Overview: Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in love with her stepson but is driven to the point of madness when her husband tricks the stepson into betraying her.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1966-06-22
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Don't Cry with Your Mouth Full
Overview: Annie, a 16 years old girl, loves Frédéric who is away doing his national service. During her holidays in the country, she meets Alexandre. He's older, owns a car and she experiences the "first time" with him. Back during a leave, Frédéric finds his sweetheart in the arms of this clumsy oaf and eventually hits it off with him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-25
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The Moment of Peace
Overview: The movie "L'instant de la paix" consists of three segments: 1. "Les rideaux blancs" (France) 2. "Berlin N 65" (West Germany) 3. "Matura" (Poland)
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-11-25
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Work and Freedom
Overview: Due to a garbage strike, inmates are called in to take care of the garbage collection. Taking advantage of this unexpected situation, three of them manage to elude their guards.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-12-23
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The Itchy Palm
Overview: A widow in her fifties,Madame Lacoste ,meets Jean when they both come to put their pussy in a cattery.The man borrows a hefty sum from her ,to send his sick young son to breathe the fresh air of the country ,or so he said;in fact there's no son at all.He gives the money to his mistress who claims she's pregnant by him and who wants to have an abortion.She lies too ,for she does not expect any child and she intends to help the young man she's in love with to buy a scooter.But the latter does not care about her either and intends to marry a "rich " girl ....who's actually the concierge's daughter.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-02-03
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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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OK Patron
Overview: Mario, the head of the Mafia in France, has just been mortally wounded. His "companion" decides to find him a successor, before the New York "organization" appoints one. She instructs her two bodyguards to take on anyone who likes money, doesn't have any and, above all, doesn't want to work too hard - in short, "the average Frenchman"... They discover Léon Bonnet, a representative of "magic crosses". They send him gifts: champagne, weapons (a mistake...), a ring for his fiancée, and a meal worthy of the finest gourmets. In return, they take him to Mario's dying bedside, and have him sign over the estate. It's then that Leon, with his angelic good looks, restores order within the Mafia, surprising all his adversaries with his manners, and outwitting the police...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-06-01
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A Loser
Overview: Granier, a former accountant imprisoned for financial embezzlement, is released from prison and decides to help his cellmate to escape...
Genres: Drama Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-04-18
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The Dialogue of the Carmelites
Overview: This drama about the Carmelite order of nuns is set during the French Revolution. A young woman seeks refuge with the Carmelites because she is terrified of dying during the upheaval. The longer she associates with the nuns the more she is transformed by their faith and devotion.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-06-01
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Chicken Soup
Overview: The fiancée of a gangster who has been shot by the police takes an entire police station hostage, armed with a revolver and a bottle of nitroglycerine...
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-06-12
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A Monkey in Winter
Overview: During World War II, an innkeeper vows to abstain from alcohol for the sake of his family. Years later, as they thrive in Normandy, his resolve is tested by a charming advertising professional who loves to drink.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-07-29
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Love on a Pillow
Overview: A young girl rescues a man from a suicide attempt. He turns out to be a sociopath, who begins to take over her life, abusing her both verbally and emotionally, yet she can't seem to tear herself away from him.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-09-05
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Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
Overview: Baron Yves de Kerfunte learns of his uncle's death. Overjoyed, he is astonished to discover that seven other individuals are vying for the inheritance. Worse still, when they open the will, they learn that only the elderly Louise de Kerfunte is the heiress, and that she intends to squander the money quickly.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-08-14
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The Little Bather
Overview: Louis-Philippe Fourchaume, another typical lead-role for French comedy superstar Louis de Funès, is the dictatorial CEO of a French company which designs and produces sail yachts, and fires in yet another tantrum his designer André Castagnier, not realizing that man is his only chance to land a vital contract with the Italian magnate Marcello Cacciaperotti. So he has to find him at his extremely rural birthplace in 'la France profonde', which proves a torturous odyssey for the spoiled rich man; when he does get there his torment is far from over: the country bumpkin refuses to resume his slavish position now the shoe is on the other foot, so Fourchaume is dragged along in the boorish family life, and at times unable to control his temper, which may cost him more credit then he painstakingly builds up...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-03-22
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All Mad About Him
Overview: Mathieu is a mild-mannered man engaged to a woman whose father is involved in running a house of prostitution. When the father dies, Mathieu inherits the bordello and is unprepared for his new position. He overcomes his shyness and becomes a sexual dynamo when his workers feed him some powerful amphetamines.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-05-24
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Recourse in Grace
Overview: Mario di Donati, a deserter from the Italian army, lives in Paris under a false name with Germaine, his French lover. When the latter learns about his hidden past, she feels hurt by Mario's lack of trust in her and she distances herself from him. In despair, Mario surrenders to the law but, at the time of trial, he runs away to join the woman he loves.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-05-19
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The American Beauty
Overview: Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-29
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Relax Yourself Darling
Overview: Hélène and François are a perfect couple happily married for twelve years. But Hélène discovers psychoanalysis via a very handsome Dr. Kougloff, and he convinces her that the apparent well-balanced nature of her husband is in fact a cover for horrible tragedies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-08-19
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Night Dance Hall
Overview: Martine is a young woman plagued both by poverty and by uncaring, problem parents who in no way can provide the kind of nurturing that Martine needs during her adolescent years. As a result of her family situation, Martine runs away from home and gets involved with a group of teens and young adults from the wrong side of the moral tracks.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-07-24
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Somewhere, Someone
Overview: A portrait of loneliness in contemporary France.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-18
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The Counterfeiters of Paris
Overview: "Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money counterfeiters. He is contacted from Paris to organize a new job. He says no. But when he finds out the the currency that should be counterfeited is the Dutch florin, he accepts immediately. He retired after having counterfeited 100 florin notes just before the Queen Wilhelmina retired them from circulation. He flies to Paris. But the gang is not to be trusted, at least not all of them.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-09-27
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Paris Blues
Overview: During the 1960s, two American jazz musicians living in Paris meet and fall in love with two American tourist girls and must decide between music and love.
Genres: Romance Drama Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1961-09-27
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La Fenêtre
Overview: Two suicides take place in the same room of a hotel in Paris. The police investigate the reason why two previous tenants was pushed to hang themselves at that particular place.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-08-02
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