Nicole Desailly
Also Known As: Ginette Nicolas
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Birthday: October 17, 1920
Deathday: December 29, 2019
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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The Cat
Overview: Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly talk to each other in their small house, soon to be demolished. His cat Greffier being the only one he still gives affection to, he becomes the object of Clemence's anger.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-04-24
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La parole est au témoin
Overview: Mustapha, a cab driver in Paris, charges a customer in a hurry, without realizing that he is in a hurry to escape his pursuers after robbing a jewelry store. The next day, reading the newspapers, Mustapha becomes aware of the role he has played in this affair, and would gladly assist the police if a fortuitous incident didn't make him fear the criminals' vengeance. It's a cruel dilemma in which he is both suspected by some and threatened by others. Weak but honest, he manages to get out of this predicament at the risk of his life!
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-11-17
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Girl with Grey Eyes
Overview: A village lost in the mountains where Catherine called L'Airelle's love affair takes place with a young doctor. Catherine's father is the local bonesetter whose wife threw herself into a glacier out of despair of love and whose body reappears intact twenty years later. In addition, the pharmacist of the country is accused of having seduced a young girl who is avenged by her mother. The bonesetter also dies, the village fortunately continues to live.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1945-11-24
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The Bouquinquant Brothers
Overview: A provincial, Julie Moret, is hired as a servant in a Parisian bourgeois residence. She is courted by one of the Bouquinquant brothers, Léon, who does not take long to ask her to marry him. Alas, Léon turns out to be violent, alcoholic and lazy. Faced with her misfortune, Julie gets closer to her brother-in-law Pierre, the opposite of Léon, serious and hardworking, and they become lovers. The drama will rush when Julie becomes pregnant with Pierre.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-01-11
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Devil Story
Overview: After their car breaks down in the French countryside, a young couple must fend off a Nazi mutant and his gypsy mother, a mummy, and a possessed horse.
Genres: Horror Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-11-26
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Too Small My Friend
Overview: Ticky Edriss, a dwarf, develops a scheme to avenge him on society and extort a bank.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-08-06
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Le chien qui a vu Dieu
Overview: In a small Italian village live a group of men, each as miscreant as the next. Among them is the baker, violent and miserly. One day, to benefit from an inheritance, he has to distribute fifty kilos of bread a day to the poor for five years. At the moment of distribution, a dog comes along and takes a loaf of bread in its mouth, to take to an old hermit whom the villagers are convinced "has seen God".
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-03-10
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Château Espérance
Overview: Rachid, a North African immigrant worker in the Fayard company for several years, saved to bring his wife Leïla and their son Larbi. They arrive in France for the first time. Leïla full of hope came to join her husband in exile. But very quickly, it is the shock: the difficult working conditions, the hard daily life of her husband and the surrounding grayness marked by anti-Arab racism does not bode well. The 30-episode series was first broadcast on May 17, 1976 on TF1, and is the first French series to address immigrant issues in France.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-05-17
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Overview: Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-03-07
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L'Été en hiver
Overview: Movie for French TV - Jean, a highly sought-after reporter, and Diane, an actress, have been married for three years, but are often separated by their respective professions. They have not lived together for more than six months. During the winter, they decide to spend a vacation together in Meschers, to relive the first moments of their relationship.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-01-04
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The Good Life
Overview: After twenty-seven long months spent in Algeria, Frédéric Simon, a young photographer is determined to forget this time of trouble. Now that the Army has finally discharged him he wants to live the good life. And at first, things go according to his wishes: not only does he marry Sylvie but they are invited by a wealthy man to Monte Carlo, where they spend a dream honeymoon. But back in Paris, hard times await them. Not finding work easily along with having to live in a cramped apartment make Frédéric bitter and unpleasant. When Sylvie becomes pregnant, he slams the door and finds consolation in the arms of Christine, an ex girlfriend, which he soon regrets. At last, the situation improves. Frédéric finds work and starts making money as a fashion photographer. But the good life cannot go on: one morning a policeman knocks at the young couple's door: the country wants Frédéric back in the Army.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-01-22
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Qui êtes-vous Monsieur Renaudot ?
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-11-30
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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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Eyes of Love
Overview: During the German occupation, Jeanne Moncatel, pretty but complexed, has to put up with her mother, a cantankerous old woman who keeps telling her she's ugly, which she also believes. She takes in Pierre Ségur, who was fleeing the Germans and had his eyes burned out. His life is turned upside down.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-11-25
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Gross Paris
Overview: Bernard, a journalist, and his friend Jules, a butcher by trade, are both passionate about horse racing.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-01
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The Lion's Share
Overview: A writer is reunited with an old childhood friend, who gives him the opportunity to devise a heist.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-09-08
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The Crime of David Levinstein
Overview: David Levinstein, a young Jewish boy whose parents have been arrested and killed by the Nazis, is taken in by Monsieur Ray, the head of his school. Unfortunately for him, Donnadieu, a pro-Nazi schoolmaster, denounces him to the Gestapo and he is sent to the Auschwitz concentration camp. After being released in 1945, David attempts to live normally. He even marries Jacky, the woman he has fallen in love with. But fifteen years pass and the taste of revenge invades him and becomes irresistible. He eventually traces the teacher who gave him way.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-04-24
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Un monsieur bien rangé
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-04-10
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Monsieur Papa
Overview: In this family comedy, Papa has no end of trouble getting his young son to accept his new girlfriend.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-08-23
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Erotic Love-Games
Overview: Partisan of total sexual freedom, a young woman with perfect physique leads, by her example, a married friend to live like her. The two friends then engage in all kinds of erotic experiences at random from their meetings with various gentlemen, but also between them.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-09-23
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The Secret Wife
Overview: It was during one of his missions in Norway that Antoine learned of his wife's death. He leaves his experimental submarine and returns to Paris. Helene was found in the Seine and had taken barbiturates. Even though he had not been with Hélène for six years, he knew her well enough to believe that she was incapable of committing suicide. So who and why?
Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-09-17
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Male Hunt
Overview: A few stories about marriage and its problems. Antoine is about to marry Gisèle. His friend Julien, an established bachelor, desperately tries to convince him not to do it, recounting his own painful experiences.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-09-18
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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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Tender Moment
Overview: An eighteen-year-old student is infatuated with an older woman, the mistress of a famous racing driver. Taking advantage of a misunderstanding between the two lovers, he manages to seduce her and falls in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1968-12-20
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Action Man
Overview: An American talks a retired French crook into robbing a bank, but kidnappers demand the loot as ransom.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-05-31
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Le Curé de Tours
Overview: Father Birotteau and Father Troubert, both of whom are priests at Tours, have separate lodgings in the house belonging to the crabby spinster Sophie Gamard in that city. Birotteau is an other-worldly, gentle, introspective type; Troubert, who is ten years younger than his fellow boarder, is very much of the world: he is a careerist devoured by ambition.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-12-02
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Two Men in Town
Overview: A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-24
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The Case of Dr. Laurent
Overview: Le Cas Du Dr. Laurent (The Case of Dr. Laurent) stars Jean Gabin as a Paris-based doctor who tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth. Working in a cloistered rural community, Gabin runs up against the stone walls of fear and prejudice. His theories are proven sound when unwed mother Nicole Courcel gives birth within Gabin's methodology. The childbirth sequence is filmed straight-on with a delicate combination of taste and frankness. Nonetheless, the lurid ad campaign of Cas Du Dr. Laurent sensationalized this sequence all out of proportion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1957-04-03
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The Sucker
Overview: In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-03-24
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The Sleeping Car Murder
Overview: Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police led by Inspector Grazzi investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one of them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the other passengers start turning up dead. It is then up to the last remaining two to solve the case, before they become the next victims.
Genres: Crime Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1965-11-17
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And Hope to Die
Overview: A crook on the run hooks up with a criminal gang to commit a kidnapping. However, things don't go quite as planned.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-09-15
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La Faute
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-12-16
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Tout le monde peut se tromper
Overview: A young woman, employed in a jewelry store, decides to take advantage of the heist she witnesses. She shoots down one of the burglars; the other will pursue her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-02-10
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Mata Hari, Agent H21
Overview: Ordered to seduce French captain and steal from him classified papers, Mata Hari, an exotic dancer and a spy, instead falls in love with him and blows the cover.
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-01-29
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The Desert of Pigalle
Overview: A young priest works as a barman in a Pigalle cafe in Paris. He tries to prevent the women there to prostitute themselves....
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1958-04-02
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