Simone Signoret
Birthday: 1921-03-25
Place of Birth: Wiesbaden, Germany
Biography: Simone Signoret (born Simone Henriette Charlotte Kaminker; 25 March 1921 – 30 September 1985) was a French actress. She received various accolades, including an Academy Award, three BAFTA Awards, a César Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress, in addition to nominations for two Golden Globe Awards. Description above from the Wikipedia article Simone Signoret, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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The End of a Beautiful Epoch
Drama based on life and stories of one of the most popular Soviet/Russian writers - Sergei Dovlatov....
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Diabolique
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely...
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The Witches of Salem
Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a...
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The Sleeping Car Murder
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destina...
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Is Paris Burning?
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it be...
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Ship of Fools
Passengers on a ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the 1930s represent society at large in that...
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The Burned Barns
The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge, Larcher is in charge and thinks that...
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The Cat
Julien Bouin, a former typographist, and his wife Clemence, who used to perform in a circus, hardly ...
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Against the Wind
A disparate group of volunteers are trained as saboteurs and parachuted into Belgium to blow up an o...
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Gunman in the Streets
An American is on the run in the streets and back alleys of France....
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Death in the Garden
In a remote Amazon jungle village, a group of angry diamond prospectors revolt when the local govern...
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Madame Rosa
Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she's a retired prostitute, Jewish and an ...
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The Deadly Affair
Charles Dobbs is a British secret agent investigating the apparent suicide of Foreign Office officia...
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The Confession
The vice-minister of Foreign Affairs of Czechoslovakia, knowing he's being watched and followed, is ...
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Room at the Top
An ambitious young accountant schemes to wed a wealthy factory owner's daughter, despite falling in ...
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Police Python 357
A methodical police inspector becomes entangled in a web of deceit after a murder investigation reve...
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Army of Shadows
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Th...
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Adua and Her Friends
When a brothel closes because of new laws, four of the prostitutes decide to go into business runnin...
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The Lovely Month of May
Candid interviews of ordinary people on the meaning of happiness, an often amorphous and inarticulab...
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Impasse of Two Angels
Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine d...
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I Sent a Letter to My Love
A middle-aged disabled man unknowingly begins a lonely hearts correspondence with his own unmarried ...
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Naked Autumn
Milan is an ex Formula One driver and now he lives with his wife Roberte in a small country town. Bu...
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Thérèse Raquin
Star-crossed lovers Thérèse and Laurent think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's weakli...
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Casque d'Or
At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a fo...
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La Ronde
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets a...
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Shadow and Light
A few years ago, Isabelle Leritz, a famous pianist, suffered a fit of madness, in the middle of a co...
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Flesh of the Orchid
A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her...
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A Grin Without a Cat
Chris Marker’s A Grin Without a Cat is an epic political essay tracing the rise and decline of the g...
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Prince Charming
Rosine, who spends her time as a model, has to deal with the advances of a disreputable young man....
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The Devil's Envoys
At the end of the 15th century, a man and a woman, posing as traveling minstrels, are sent by the De...
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The Benefactor
A kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence and...
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Adieu Léonard
A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cous...
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Term of Trial
A schoolteacher plagued by alcoholism and his refusal to serve in World War II, Graham Weir inspires...
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Angel of the Night
A young sculptor presides over the destinies of a student club where a miserable young girl ends up ...
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Behold Beatrice
The belated and revolting passion of a famous surgeon for a young orphan whom he once took in. He go...
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Le mort ne reçoit plus
In his will, the late Jérôme Armandy has expressed the wish to have all the surviving members of his...
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Box of Dreams
Nicole tries to seduce a young man who lead a bohemian life in an untidy flat with his three pals....
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The Ideal Couple
Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love wit...
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The Widow Couderc
The relationship between a middle-aged French widow and a young drifter takes a turn when her young ...
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Games
A mysterious woman in black moves in with married Manhattan thrill-seekers and helps one trick the o...
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The Day and the Hour
It's the spring of 1944 and Therese is in a hurry to get back to Paris. The trains aren't running fr...
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Le Traqué
Manhunt in Paris and as far as Belgium to catch an American gangster escaped from a police van....
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Without Leaving an Address
A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left h...
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The North Star
Edouard Binet, an aimless Frenchman, has been travelling in North Africa for many years, and is sail...
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Back Streets of Paris
Madame Rose runs a seedy hotel in a suburb of Paris. Strong-minded but without the least moral scrup...
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Dedee
Dedee is a prostitute, working in Monsieur Rene's night club on Antwerp's harbour. The porter is Mar...
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The Sea Gull
Film adaptation of Anton Chekhov's story of life in rural Russia during the latter part of the 19th ...
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Fantômas
The invincible bandit faces his daughter, courageous and honest, who wants to end his criminal activ...
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The Adolescent
In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small ...
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Septembre Chilien
Bruno Muel's documentary on the coup in Chile in 1973. Muel, who was part of the famed Medvedkine g...
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The Cheat
The life of a weak-willed man is thrust into a downward spiral by the scheming of his manipulative g...
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a n...
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Boléro
As her neighbor Rémi Courmont has told her off for making his ears bleed with Ravel's Bolero, a musi...
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The Wind Rose
An international anthology about the struggles of female workers around the world....
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Terrorists in Retirement
Not just another documentary on the French resistance movement, this film focuses on one particular ...
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Langlois
Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française....
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Judith Therpauve
A former hero of the French anti-Nazi resistance is approached by old comrades to lead a financially...
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Dawn Devils
A lieutenant, at the head of a commando ready to land in France, finds among his men a maquisard who...
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The Shortest Day
Two jerks are enlisted in the Italian army during W.W.1 and by pure luck manage to help win an impor...
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Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has al...
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Countdown to Vengeance
10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices after a ...
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You Speak of Prague: The Second Trial of Artur London
Artur London was arrested in 1951 in a Stalinist purge, imprisoned and tortured for two years and fo...
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Lino Ventura, la part intime
The fall of 2017 marked the 30th anniversary of Lino Ventura's death. Whether in the role of tough c...
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Making 'The Misfits'
A behind-the-scenes and in-depth look at the making of John Huston's The Misfits (1961)....
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The American
A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among ol...
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Sweet and Sour
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywh...
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Yves Montand is Singing
The tour of the French singer Yves Montand and actress Simone Signoret to the USSR in 1956....
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A Small Rebellion
An angry young man of the theatre, who has written a play that could be a hit, if actress Sara Lesca...
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Manifesto of the 121
On September 5, 1960, the trial of about twenty French activists from the "Jeanson Network" began, s...
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On the Set of 'Casque D'Or'
Silent footage shot on the set of CASQUE D’OR provides a glimpse of film director Jacques Becker at ...
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