Christine Boisson
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Biography: Christine Boisson (April 8, 1956 - October 21, 2024) was a French actress. After she registered in a model agency, Just Jaeckin liked her photo, and she got a part in the film Emmanuelle starring Sylvia Kristel, in which she played a lollipop-sucking teenager who masturbates over a picture of Paul Newman. Then she got some more film roles, but she also continued to study acting. In 1977 she made her stage debut in Chekhov's The Seagull directed by Bruno Bayen. In 1984, she received the Prix Romy Schneider (most promising actress awards) for Rue Barbare. In 2005, she was starring in the stage play Viol by Botho Strauß (based on Titus Andronicus), directed by Luc Bondy. On 14 October 2010, she tried to commit suicide. Description above from the Wikipedia article Christine Boisson, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Salon-de-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Birthday: April 08, 1956
Deathday: October 21, 2024
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Gender: Female
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Emmanuelle
Overview: An employee at the French Embassy in Bangkok invites his wife to join him – and enjoy the benefits of their open marriage.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-06-25
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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 Truth About Charlie
Overview: Regina meets charming Joshua while vacationing in Martinique, as she contemplates ending her whirlwind marriage to enigmatic Charlie. Upon her return to Paris, she finds that both her apartment and her bank account have been emptied, and her husband has been murdered. The more Reggie learns, the more she realizes the scope of the puzzle which she must solve to protect herself from ever-increasing danger.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2002-10-25
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Born for Hell
Overview: Loosely based on the notorious Richard Speck murders, this is the grim tale of a disturbed Vietnam vet returning home via Belfast, who invades a house shared by eight nurses and proceeds to terrorize and murder them.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1976-03-12
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State Affairs
Overview: A plane explodes above the Gulf of Guinea. An escort girl is murdered in a Parisian park. Thousands of miles separate these two events, and yet Nora Chahyd, believes there's a connection between them, much to his superiors chagrin. As Nora investigates, getting dangerously close to the powers that be, the murders and betrayals accumulate, and signs point to a state affair at the heart of it all.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-11-25
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All About Actresses
Overview: A director wants to make a documentary about actresses, all actresses: the popular ones, the unknown ones, the intellectuals, the comedians, the forgotten ones... Filming everything, with or without their consent, the director gets caught up in the game and lets herself be devoured by these women, who are as fragile as they are manipulative.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-01-28
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I Dreamt Under the Water
Overview: Antoine, a handsome boy in his 20s, falls for a straight best friend who does not reciprocate, and being a junkie exits the film quite early. Enter a girl, who seems to make him happy again, after he has tried living as a rent boy with men, having some familial, financial difficulties. But the girl is a junkie too.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-08-08
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To the Extreme
Overview: Rich, bisexual Thomas makes his way through a swath of lovers of both sexes in Paris. His parents have died, and he doesn't have to work to earn a living, so his days are bacchanalia-filled affairs that run into each other in a hazy bliss. The only one capable of eking out genuine affection from him is his neighbor, Caroline. When she dies and leaves her son in his care, Thomas learns the joys of commitment and selflessness.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-08-23
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Sorceress
Overview: Dominican friar Etienne de Bourbon visits a 13th-century French village in search of heretics for the Inquisition. Despite the opposition of the local priest and the indifference of the villagers, he finds a seemingly perfect suspect: a young woman who lives in a forest outside the village and cures people with herbs and folk remedies. In the process, he discovers the cult of the greyhound "Saint" Guinefort, and confronts his own troubled past.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-09-23
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Jeanne's House
Overview: Jeanne runs a busy inn with her husband Georges, her two children and two sisters. There is perfect harmony and the constant sound of laughter coming from the kitchen and office. One day, Pierre, the landlord, takes up a room without a word of explanation. Jeanne gradually begins to feel a strong attraction toward the new guest.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-02-10
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The Mechanics of Women
Overview: Based on a notorious novel by Louis Calaferte, this erotic drama concerns a man exploring the boundaries of female sexuality through a variety of sexual encounters with beautiful women he barely knows. La Mecanique des Femmes features copious male and female nudity as the nameless leading character discusses sex and sensuality with his predominantly female supporting cast.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-08-23
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There Were Days... and Moons
Overview: How can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its characters towards violence and alienation.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-04-11
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The Groundhogs
Overview: A story of a family with numerous members drowned in their sentimental problems.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-11-10
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Identification of a Woman
Overview: Movie director Niccolò has just been left by his wife. Subsequently he embarks on an obsessive relationship with a young woman who eventually leaves him and disappears while searching for her, he meets a variety of other willing girls. This gives him the idea of making a movie about women's relationships. He starts to search for a woman who can play the leading part in the movie.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1982-10-15
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Street of the Damned
Overview: In a desolate Paris suburb, no one dares challenge crime boss Hagen, who rules his turf with an iron fist. That includes his former friend Chet, who vows to keep to himself in order to protect his loved ones. But Hagen keeps pushing his buttons… and Chet can only stand for so much before he explodes.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-01-04
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Exterior Night
Overview: Hoping to make a fresh start, Léo, a jazz musician, takes up temporary residence with his friend Bony, a young writer who is struggling to get his work published. One evening, Léo strikes up an acquaintance with a woman taxi driver, Cora; in spite of her impulsive and moody temperament, he cannot help being attracted to her. On the spur of the moment, Cora invites Léo to make love to her. When Bony meets Cora, he too finds her irresistible, but he lacks Léo’s self-confidence to make his move. Cora is not a woman that any man can possess readily. She is like a wild animal, a creature that revels in its freedom. Will either Léo or Bony be able to tame her...?
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-09-10
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Across the Road
Overview: Author Jean Dorset has suffered from a bad case of writer's block since his first novel became a bestseller. He lives in a small apartment in Paris with his wife Michelle and, in spite of their ostensible success, the couple are having trouble making ends meet. One day they receive the utterly unexpected news that they are the sole inheritors of a wealthy neighbor, M. Guillemet, whom they have never met. Guillemet has left them his old townhouse along with all of his belongings, but with two conditions -- the first is that the dead man's papers be left untouched, and the second is that his live-in maid Clemence Richbourg remain employed at the estate. The Dorsets soon learn why they were the recipients of such strange generosity. Guillemet had set up a camera with a massive zoom lens pointing to their bedroom window. The couple is shocked and disgusted, but not enough to give up their new tony digs.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-02-09
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The Passage
Overview: Film-maker Jean Diaz lives with his son David after separated from his wife. On their way to the new house near the sea, Jean and David have a car accident provoked by The Death (portrayed here like a grim-reaper). The doctor actually can save Jean, but The Death sabotages the equipment with his computer. The Death offers Jean to wake David from his coma, but Jean must make an animation movie against the violence for him.
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-12-03
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La Chanson du mal-aimé
Overview: Biography of the life of Guillaume Apollinaire.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-02-03
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Radio corbeau
Overview: This fast-paced mystery is in part based on a novel by Yves Ellena and is at least equally based on the 1943 classic Le Corbeau, which in 1951 was produced in English by Otto Preminger as The Thirteenth Letter. In this movie, someone is using a pirate radio broadcast to dish the dirt on the lives of the elite of a small French town.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-02-01
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Adom ou Le sang d'Abel
Overview: Adom is red in Hebrew, and the first times of the first men could only be a confrontation with the elements, nature, characters and differences. Caien lives as a farmer while Abel is from the pastoral people.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-11-16
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Sandra
Overview: Sandra, a schoolteacher, would like to control every moment of a life she finds too banal. Even if she seems to have found an ideal in love, she takes two lovers, in the person of Pierre, ordinary but in love, and of Blaise a splendid black photographer.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-01-24
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The Way Out
Overview: Leaving prison, Paul goes to the port. That's where he lived and where he got caught. This is also where his father died. And before leaving to try his luck elsewhere, Paul wants to avenge him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-10-15
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Oh pardon ! Tu dormais...
Overview: A couple is torn apart for a whole night, evoking old age, death, memories, everyday life together, their work, their anguish.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-12-08
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The Deep End of the Ocean
Overview: A recently retired psychologist takes on a gruesome murder case.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1998-03-08
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Suffocating Heat
Overview: On June 30, 1990, in Rome, Marie Christine is getting ready to take her son Pietro and Paolo to their father for the weekend. As the Football World Cup is taking place in Italy, Rome is flooded with supporters; the traffic is chaotic and French-born Marie Christine, who works as a translator, finds a bag that belongs to Miriam, who must leave the next day. Marie Christine decides to find her to return her passport, but one Giuliano Ferrini tries to prevent this. So Marie Christine finds herself navigating through a hot Roman night in a city she doesn't know, among people she never dreamed could inhabit the same city.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-08-26
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Jenatsch
Overview: A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who was mysteriously murdered in 1639. Initially disinterested, the journalist begins to uncover unflattering truths about the national hero and experiences visions in which he seems to be witnessing events that transpired over 300 years ago. As he obsessively pursues the investigation, his personal life and his grip on reality disintegrate, drawing him relentlessly toward the fatal carnival at which Jenatsch was killed.
Genres: Fantasy Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1987-06-01
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Une lumière dans la nuit
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Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-05-03
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Divine
Overview: Olivier, a young man, falls in love with Marion Renoir, theatre and screen star, to the despair of his fiancée Antonia. The latter goes to find the actress and asks her to invent a ploy to help her win back her lover's heart. The actress gets caught up in the game and ventures into an intrigue where simulation and sincerity are dangerously confused.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-06-10
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Thomas
Overview: In Troyes, Thomas, the son of a bourgeois family, is in the final stages of his adolescence. He's almost an adult when he discovers that his mother has a lover. At the same time, he realizes that his father is turning a blind eye, and that the estranged couple are only together for show. Thomas rebels, but has to hide his dismay and satisfy his great need for tenderness at the same time.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-03-05
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Something Fishy
Overview: A private eye finds that her professional and personal lives are beginning to intertwine in this French drama. Maxime Chabrier (Anémone) is a woman in her mid-40s who works as a private detective. Despite her chain smoking and sloppy appearance, Maxime is regarded as a skilled investigator by her colleagues and considered the best PI at her agency by her boss. While Maxime has romantic dalliances with both men and women, she hasn't been involved in a long-term relationship since she left her husband 15 years ago. However, Maxime is hired to look into a case that suggests that her former husband has become involved with insurance fraud, which brings her into contact with her 17-year-old son Baptiste (Gregoire Colin) for the first time since the divorce. Just as Maxime is trying to mend fences with her son and find out what her ex has gotten himself into, she finds herself falling in love with Jacques (Michel Didym), an economist.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-04-06
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La vie à mains nues
Overview: A business school graduate causes consternation in his family when he decides to become a mason, like his grandfather.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-03-27
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The Dreamers
Overview: Set in the Middle East in 1919, a group of European Jews planning on settling in the Sinai Desert are attacked by Bedouin tribesmen. As they fight for their lives they realize that they are beginning a struggle for a new Jewish nation. This film chronicles the beginning of the modern Jewish struggle for a homeland.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-01-01
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Playing with Fire
Overview: A banker hires a seedy detective to find his daughter and keep her safe from kidnappers.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-02-19
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Liberty at Night
Overview: In the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-10-03
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Alone
Overview: Jean, the lead character in this psychological journey is torn by a search for his lost childhood, the overwhelming need to love a woman of his dreams (someone he has invented), and a struggle with his latent bisexuality. Jean finds some photos inside an automatic photo station that look like his mother who died soon after he was born. He starts to fantasize about the woman, giving her a name and identity and waiting for her to appear. During this time, he meets Carole and has an affair with her, all the while pretending he has this other relationship with the woman in the photo. Significantly, the couple who introduce him to Carole is childless, and they eventually split up - perhaps a comment on the importance of childhood to the adult world. In the end, Carole discovers that Jean's "other woman" has no real existence, causing a crisis that finds a symbolic expression as the last scenes close on the story.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-10-07
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La part de l'autre
Overview: Two twin brothers, Romain and Sylvain, live together in an isolated house by the ocean. Between them, violent relationships that oscillate between love and hate. The guardians of the house watch, fascinated and powerless, their dangerous games. Until the day when Hélène, who has already lived with them, returns to look for Sylvain, with whom she has chosen to live.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-07-24
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A New Life
Overview: In a shock after her mother’s sudden death, warehouse forklift driver Tina seeks out the rich, enigmatic businessman father she has never known and discovers a half-sister, Lise.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-10-13
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Bonjour Tristesse
Overview: Cécile is a decadent young girl who lives with her rich playboy father, Raymond. Anne, a mature and cultured friend of Raymond's late wife, arrives at Raymond's villa for a visit.
Genres: Drama Romance TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-05-29
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Flic Story
Overview: The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.
Genres: Crime Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-01
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Ma culotte
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-02-01
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Coloscopia
Overview: The sublime Jackie Larose, queen of the charm and the eroticism, undergoes an operation of the bowel which leaves her with a colostomy.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Calamity Who?
Overview: Documentary about a woman who claims to be Calamity Jane's daughter.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-02-09
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Ernesto Che Guevara, the Bolivian Diary
Overview: A documentary about Che Guevara in Bolivia, based upon his journal listing daily agendas
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-02-24
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Sindromul Timișoara
Overview: A perspective on the Romanian revolution which started in Timișoara.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2004-12-17
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How Much We Hated Each Other
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-03-23
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The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Overview: In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-10-17
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My Wife's Girlfriends
Overview: A man discovers the qualities of his wife's friends, whom he had always hated.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-11-04
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The Dawn
Overview: In a drama in which even Gad has a role as well as Michael York, it is certain that serious issues are at stake. Set during the time before the state of Israel was created and established, a British officer has been captured by a band of Jewish resistance fighters with the intent of killing him at dawn. One of the Jews was sentenced to die after being captured by the English, and this death will be in retaliation. The trouble is that a young and ambivalent fighter is left holding the officer captive with orders to shoot him at the pre-arranged time. It is a long night of soul-searching before the Jewish soldier comes up with a solution to his quandary.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-12-17
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La rage au cœur
Overview: Jeanne, her second husband, Michel, and her teen daughter Marie live quietly in the South of France. However, Jeanne's secret past comes back to haunt her.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-06-05
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