Jeanne Moreau
Birthday: 1928-01-23
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Biography: Jeanne Moreau (23 January 1928 – 31 July 2017) was a French actress, singer, screenwriter, and director. She made her theatrical debut in 1947, and established herself as one of the leading actresses of the Comédie-Française. She began playing small roles in films in 1949 and eventually achieved prominence as the star of Lift to the Scaffold (UK)/Elevator to the Gallows (USA) (1958), directed by Louis Malle, and Jules et Jim (1962), directed by François Truffaut. Most prolific during the 1960s, Moreau continued to appear in films until her death in 2017, at the age of 89. Moreau was the recipient of a César Award for Best Actress, a BAFTA Award for Best Foreign Actress and a Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Award for individual performances, and several lifetime awards.
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Chimes at Midnight
Henry IV usurps the English throne, sets in motion the factious War of the Roses and now faces a reb...
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Elevator to the Gallows
A self-assured businessman murders his employer, husband of his mistress, which unintentionally prov...
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Jules and Jim
In the carefree days before World War I, introverted Austrian author Jules strikes up a friendship w...
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The Trial
The surreal tale of an unassuming man who is accused of a never-specified crime and shambles through...
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The Victors
Intercutting dramatic vignettes with newsreel footage, the story follows the characters from an infa...
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A Cursed Monarchy
It is the early 1300's and the treasury of France, under the rule of Philippe IV (Philippe le Bel or...
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The Train
As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take...
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Until the End of the World
In 1999, a woman's life is forever changed after she survives a car crash with two bank robbers, who...
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Time to Leave
Romain, 31, a fashion photographer with terminal cancer, elects to die alone, preparing others to li...
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The Lovers
A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by romantic ...
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The Fire Within
Depressed Alain Leroy leaves the clinic where he was detoxified. He meets friends, acquaintances and...
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A Thousand Billion Dollars
A young journalist uncovers an assassination disguised as a suicide, linked to an American multinati...
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Going Places
Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, ...
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Vivement Truffaut
A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly nam...
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The Bride Wore Black
Julie Kohler is prevented from suicide by her mother. She leaves home, with the intent track down, c...
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Nathalie Granger
With little or no embellishment, filmmaker Marguerite Duras offers a simple, often wordless chronicl...
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Viva Maria!
1907 Central America: Maria II is the daughter of an Irish terrorist. After her father's death, she ...
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One Day You'll Understand
A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the ...
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Beyond the Clouds
Four tales, each centered on a woman, journey inward to explore the enigmatic reality of their lives...
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Nikita
A beautiful felon, sentenced to life in prison for the murder of a policeman, is given a second chan...
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Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find t...
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La Notte
A day in the life of an unfaithful married couple and their steadily deteriorating relationship in M...
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Diary of a Chambermaid
Celestine has a new job as a chambermaid for the quirky M. Monteil, his wife and her father. When th...
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Map of the Human Heart
In an Arctic village in 1931, British mapmaker Walter Russell selects 12-year-old Eskimo Avik as his...
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Mademoiselle
A sexually repressed school teacher releases her pent up passions in a series of shocking crimes....
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Dangerous Love Affairs
Juliette Merteuil and Valmont is a sophisticated couple, always looking for fun and excitement. Both...
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Bay of Angels
A bank clerk is drawn into the risky world of a gorgeous gambling addict....
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The Last Tycoon
Monroe Stahr, a successful movie producer, pursues a beautiful and elusive young woman — all the whi...
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French Provincial
In the 1930s, we follow the story of the laundress Berthe who marries the eldest son of a bourgeois ...
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I Love You, I Love You Not
A school student and her European-born grandmother share sad stories of their lives....
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A Witch's Way of Love
Michael Firch is very skilled in computers and he goes to Paris to meet very important persons to di...
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Miracle Healing
Faking an injury for insurance money, a peddler seeks out a cure to support his claims while a suspi...
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Close Up
More than 150 silent short films about singers, actors and directors captured during Press Conferenc...
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The Life and Times of Don Luis Buñuel
Made a year after Luis Buñuel's death in 1983 this is an illuminating portrait of the surreal and vi...
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Creezy
Julien Dandieu, leader of the socialist political party PRU is asked to be part of the new conservat...
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Disengagement
A political drama centered around Israel's pullout from the occupied Gaza strip, in which a French w...
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The Yellow Rolls-Royce
One Rolls-Royce belongs to three vastly different owners, starting with Lord Charles, who buys the c...
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Vagabond Humor
Benoît, a young provincial, arrives in the capital. He has left his family (mother, wife and child) ...
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Queen Margot
Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre...
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Hi-Jack Highway
A trucker encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police, who suspec...
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Orson Welles: The One-Man Band
Orson Welles' archives of unfinished/never released movies and the last years of his life from the p...
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Julietta
Julietta Valendor is in love with lawyer André Landrecourt. He is unaware of her feelings. He puts h...
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Monte Walsh
Monte Walsh is an aging cowboy facing the ending days of the Wild West era. As barbed wire and railw...
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Face
Hsiao-Kang, a Taiwanese film director, travels to the Louvre in Paris, France, to shoot a film that ...
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Banana Peel
Two scoundrels cheat a millionaire out of a huge bankroll on the French Riviera....
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Seven Days… Seven Nights
Anne Desbarèdes is a young woman who is married to a wealthy businessman and lives a monotonous exis...
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The Trout
The sexual and social dysfunctional behaviour of the corporate elite are further aggravated when a n...
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The Immortal Story
An aged, wealthy trader plots with his servant to recreate a maritime tall tale, using a local woman...
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Ich will nicht wissen, wer ich bin - Heiner Müller
This film not only illuminates Heiner Müller's life and works, it is more about questioning the "Sph...
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Eva
Best-selling author Tyvian Jones has a life of leisure in Venice, Italy, until he has a chance encou...
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One Hundred and One Nights
Monsieur Cinema, a hundred years old, lives alone in a large villa. His memories fade away, so he en...
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The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea
A con artist couple takes a young, handsome petty thief under their wing, but jealousies flare when ...
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Mr. Klein
Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits ...
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The Scheming Women
The renowned theatre manager, Paul Rémy, is accused by his general secretary Andrieux of having kill...
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Three Sinners
A man assists his gravely ill wife to die and wants to face justice for this, but his brothers try e...
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Three Days to Live
Struggling actor Simon witnesses a murder; he didn't see the killer, but that doesn't stop him from ...
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Looking for Truffaut
Documentary about François Truffaut who is one of the most respected directors in the history of cin...
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Back to the Wall
Rich industrialist Jacques Decret learns his wife Gloria is having an affair with a young actor. For...
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The Oldest Profession
A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages....
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The Dialogue of the Carmelites
This drama about the Carmelite order of nuns is set during the French Revolution. A young woman seek...
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The Proprietor
An expatriated French novelist returns to Paris when she learns that her childhood home is being pla...
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The Clothes in the Wardrobe
Margaret is a shy, pale, middle-class Englishwoman who is reluctantly engaged to her older, twittish...
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A City Runs Through the Festival
A City Runs Through the Festival is an anatomy of the Festival through the eyes of its own audience....
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Gebo and the Shadow
Despite his age and general weariness, Gebo keeps on working as an accountant to provide for his fam...
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Five Branded Women
Five Yugoslav women who consorted with the German occupiers are publicly humiliated and banished by ...
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A Foreign Field
Nostalgic comic drama in which Cyril and Amos, two veterans of the Normandy landings, return to Fran...
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Great Catherine
When British Capt. Charles Edstaston arrives at the court of Catherine the Great in St. Petersburg, ...
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Until the Last One
Just released from prison after serving a six-month sentence, Fernand Bastia goes into hiding. He ha...
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The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir
Part One, "The Last Christmas Dinner," is about the relationship between an old man and an old woman...
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Lullaby to my Father
The film intertwines historical events and intimate memories. I observe how architecture represents ...
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Go West
In the 1990s, the Yugoslavia Federation falls apart in bloody wars. Perpetual student Milan, a Serb ...
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A Lady in Paris
Anne leaves Estonia to come to Paris as a caretaker for Frida, an elderly Estonian lady who emigrate...
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The World of Jacques Demy
Agnès Varda's documentary portrait of her late husband, Jacques Demy. A companion piece to her Jacq...
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Lumière
Sarah, an actress nearing her forties, has invited 3 friends to join her for a holiday in Provence. ...
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Ain't Misbehavin
18 years after his last film, (The Troubles We've Seen), Marcel Ophuls emerges from retirement as on...
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Château en Suède
In a castle, isolated in the heart of winter, lives a strange family: Hugo, in his forties; Eléonore...
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Love & Confusions
Amour et confusions is a French film which was released in 1997. It stars Patrick Braoudé, Kristin S...
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Lisa
Stumbling across an uncompleted 1939 film called "Princess Marushka", filmmaker Sam becomes intrigue...
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Roméo et Juliette
Juliette, 15, is the only child of an eminent judge and has had the best of education in the best of...
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Mata Hari, Agent H21
Ordered to seduce French captain and steal from him classified papers, Mata Hari, an exotic dancer a...
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Demoniac
Gervais escapes from a German concentration camp and assumes the identity of a recently deceased fel...
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Anna Karamazoff
This film is of interest primarily because it contains within it the entire surviving footage of an ...
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Dear Louise
Louise lives alone and seems to like it that way. She has been through a divorce and the recent deat...
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Joanna Francesa
Joana is a sophisticated, beautiful woman, so she has a choice of lovers, and destinies. She will le...
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Heat of Desire
In France in the near future, revolt and chaos erupt. A right-wing politician, Philippe Muphand, is ...
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Not Delivered
After resolving to start a new life with his girlfriend Jacqueline, Bastien Sassey decides to give u...
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The Suspended Step of the Stork
A reporter notices an old man in a border town who may be an important Greek politician who disappea...
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Dr. Schweitzer
In 1912, the Alsatian Albert Schweitzer, missionary doctor and musician, goes to Gabon, a French col...
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Cet amour-là
Cet Amour-là is an intimate portrait of a legendary love affair. Set against the beauty of the Breto...
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The Prince's Manuscript
A solitary, disappointed, proud and educated old man meets and becomes the teacher of an intelligent...
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Eleanor's Secret
Natanaël, seven, still doesn't know how to read. His eccentric old aunt bequeaths her house to his p...
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The Wages of Sin
Bourgeois melodrama about the family of a wealthy businessman in La Rochelle, who dismisses the marr...
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The Sailor from Gibraltar
Alan, after quarreling with his girlfriend Sheila, becomes intrigued by Anna, a mysterious widow who...
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Akoibon
A disparate group of people meet at a hotel on a gorgeous and isolated Mediterranean island. Meanwhi...
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Balzac: A Life of Passion
This is the sprawling saga of Honoré de Balzac, a man who created a great literary oeuvre from the d...
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The 400 Blows
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by ...
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The Garden That Tilts
Karl, a young killer is to kill Kate, an adventurous lady living in a mansion by a lake. He approach...
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La Femme fardée
Marivaudages of a privileged group embarked on the "Narcissus" for a musical cruise in company of th...
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Inside a Girls' Dormitory
In a little town with a renowned college a female student is found after she was hogtied and strangl...
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They'll Love Me When I'm Dead
As his life comes to its end, famous Hollywood director Orson Welles puts it all on the line at the ...
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Matisse ou Le talent de bonheur
From his childhood in the lowlands of northern France to his death in Nice, a look at the life of pa...
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The Deep
A couple's honeymoon trip aboard a yacht leads to a claustrophobic drama when another vessel runs in...
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Miles Davis: Birth of the Cool
An immersive look at the eventful life and brilliant artistic career of visionary American jazz trum...
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Love Actually
Eight very different couples deal with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all se...
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Diane's Body
Diane is married to Julien, an architect. The two met in Czechoslovakia before marrying and moving t...
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Hu-Man
An actor is placed in dangerous situations and his fear will be broadcast to the television audience...
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Zaïde, un petit air de vengeance
Haunted by the mysterious death of her son, found drowned, Anna returns to the town where he lived....
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A Woman Is a Woman
Longing for a baby, a stripper pursues another man in order to make her boyfriend jealous....
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The Nonentity
Each evening, four men – a doctor, a journalist, a professor and a merchant – meet up in a deserted ...
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My Name is Victor
No one knows, or is ever likely to know how many disabled or handicapped relatives have been hidden ...
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Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid
Set within the super-rich jet-set society of Paris, Richard Harris portrays a man whose life is grad...
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To Make a Film Is to Be Alive
A behind-the-scenes look by wife Enrica Antonioni into Michelangelo Antonioni's passion for cinema a...
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Langlois
Documentary portrait of Henri Langlois, co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française....
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Carmel
Israeli filmmaker Amos Gitaï offers a look impressionist long history of armed conflict in their na...
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The Strange Mr. Steve
Georges Villard, a minor bank employee, is won over by Mr Steve who does him favours, treats him to ...
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Catherine the Great
Trapped in a loveless arranged marriage to the immature future Czar, a young German Princess proves ...
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François Truffaut, une autobiographie
A documentary tracing the career of filmmaker François Truffaut through the testimony of collaborato...
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Portrait: Orson Welles
Excerpts and fragments from different interviews with Orson Welles making a statement to journalists...
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Francois Simon the Presence
The work of legendary actor François Simon, son of Michel Simon....
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EverAfter
Danielle, a vibrant young woman, was forced into servitude after the death of her father when she wa...
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With Orson Welles: Stories from a Life in Film
A two-and-a-half hour documentary retrospective on the career of Orson Welles....
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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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Repeated Absences
François Naulet turns his bedroom into an island of drugs, loneliness and despair....
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Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés
"Le Tambourin", a Montmartre nightclub, is on its way down. Although it can boast great performances...
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Les Hommes en blanc
Jean Nerac completes his medical studies, sure of a successful career, but less sure of his attempts...
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La nuit de l'océan
After the disappearance at sea of a young fisherman, his childhood friend and his mother begin an am...
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Last Love
Hélène has an affair with Alain for ten years, but does not want to divorce her husband. Alain recei...
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L'Habit ne fait pas le moine
Monique, happy and about sixty, is at the head of a small meeting agency, specializing in the third ...
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To Each His Own Cinema
Commissioned to mark the 60th anniversary of the Cannes Film Festival, "To Each His Own Cinema" brou...
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Dispositif 47 - The Second Death
The concept includes a series of shorts titled "Dispositif + No + title". They all deal with subject...
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Alberto Express
A young Italian, living in Paris with his French wife, is about to become a father. Before the baby ...
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Bulles de Vian
"Vian Bubbles" - On June 23, 2009, fifty years to the day after the death of Boris Vian, a supernatu...
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M'sieur la Caille
Pépé la Vache, who coveted Fernande's love, denounced her protector: Dominique le Corse, who was arr...
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Sauve-toi, Lola
Lola, a young lawyer, is raising her little boy Bolivar, and sustains his family. Diagnosed with can...
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The Man in My Life
L'homme de ma vie stars Madeleine Robinson as Madeleine, who after being abandoned by her lover is f...
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André Téchiné: A Passion for Cinema
A walk through the career of French filmmaker André Téchiné, from his own point of view and that of ...
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François Truffaut l'insoumis
This portrait of the world-famous French director based on his personal correspondance reveals the l...
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François Truffaut: Stolen Portraits
Twenty-six people - including two daughters, an ex-wife, his last lover, actors, fellow directors an...
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The Architecture of Doom
Featuring never-before-seen film footage of Adolf Hitler and the Nazi regime, The Architecture of Do...
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Magician: The Astonishing Life and Work of Orson Welles
The extraordinary life of Orson Welles (1915-85), an enigma of Hollywood, an irreducible independent...
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The Absence
Four nameless people -- the old man, the woman, the soldier, and the gambler -- journey to a desolat...
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Wim Wenders in Tokyo
A documentary which follows director Wim Wenders and Sean Naughton, the high-definition-video desig...
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Hot House
Michel, a young man idolized by his mother, falls in love with Madeleine. What he does not know is t...
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Jeanne raconte Jeanne
It was while going to film Jeanne Moreau in the summer of 1970 in her house at Garde Freinet that Gu...
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Querelle
A handsome Belgian sailor on shore leave in the port of Brest, who is also a drug smuggler and murde...
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Jeanne Moreau: Free Spirit
An account of the life of actress Jeanne Moreau (1928-2017), a true icon of the New Wave and one of ...
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Alex in Wonderland
Bohemian Alex Morrison has just finished directing his first feature length movie. In its previews, ...
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The Other Side of Welles
Film The Other Side of Welles portrays the life, work and intellectual heritage of Orson Welles in Y...
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Calling the Shots
Documentary about women in the film industry. Numerous notable actresses and female directors share ...
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The Lover
A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon....
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The Car That Became a Star
This promotional film showcases the automobile whose adventures are chronicled in The Yellow Rolls-R...
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Filming Under Pressure
A doc made during the nightmarish filming of The Suspended Step of the Stork at Florina....
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Jeanne Moreau : Vive le cinéma !
Jeanne Moreau, filmed by Jacques Rozier, meets with Jerry Lewis, Barbet Schroeder and Orson Welles, ...
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The Secrets of the Bed
Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural background t...
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A Bad Encounter
Meet the wicked story of a symbiotic friendship between two boys, Wolf and Mando. They meet on a ben...
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Sous les vents de Neptune
Commissioner Adamsberg and his team are undergoing training supervised by the Quebec scientific poli...
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Marguerite Duras interviews Jeanne Moreau
Duras interviews an exhausted Jeanne Moreau, addressing her friend as vous, despite the fact "the tw...
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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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Lillian Gish
New York, summer 1983. Jeanne Moreau goes to meet Lillian Gish to film a portrait of her. The star o...
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Au coeur de Nikita
A documentary that captures some moments on set of filming of Luc Besson's "Nikita"....
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Agatha Christie’s The Last Seance
Simone is growing increasingly worried about her powers but is promised by her overbearing fiance th...
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Venice 70: Future Reloaded
Made for the Venice Film Festival's 70th anniversary, seventy filmmakers made a short film between 6...
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The Passions of Louis Malle
A documentary portrait of the legendary French film director Louis Malle featuring many of his colla...
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Bride of Trailer Camp
A compilation of "coming attractions" from bad '50s melodrama through the greatest disaster movies o...
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The Life of Mirrors
The Life of Mirrors is one of the sections of the exhibition Luis Miguel Cintra - Small Theatre of t...
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The Orson Welles Story
Profile of Orson Welles, looking at his life and career in theatre, radio and particularly film....
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Fassbinder's Women
An essay film in which filmmaker Rosa von Praunheim interviews "the willing victims of Rainer Werner...
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