Bernadette Lafont

Bernadette Lafont

Birthday: 1938-10-28

Place of Birth: Nîmes, Gard, France

Biography: Bernadette Lafont is a French actress (born October 28, 1938 - died July 25, 2013). Thanks to his roles in “Les Mistons” (1957) by François Truffaut, “Les Bonnes Femmes” (1960) by Claude Chabrol, “La Fiancée du pirate” by Nelly Kaplan (1969), or even “La Maman et la Putain” (1973) by Jean Eustache, this popular star is considered one of the muses of the New Wave.

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Vivement Truffaut
Vivement Truffaut

A tribute to the late, great French director Francois Truffaut, this documentary was undoubtedly nam...

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Violette Nozière
Violette Nozière

Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disr...

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Sex-Power
Sex-Power

A young Frenchman arrives in Northern California looking to forget a lost love and ends up encounter...

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The Other One's Mug
The Other One's Mug

Martial Perrin is the president of a right-wing political party which is gearing itself up for a for...

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The Sleeping Car Murder
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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A Gorgeous Girl Like Me
A Gorgeous Girl Like Me

Young sociologist Stanislas Previne is writing a thesis on criminal women, so he visits Camille Blis...

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Male Hunt
Male Hunt

A few stories about marriage and its problems. Antoine is about to marry Gisèle. His friend Julien, ...

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Les petites couleurs
Les petites couleurs

Swiss drama in the form of a road movie starring Bernadette Lafont. Hairdresser Christelle is harass...

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Handsome Serge
Handsome Serge

After long absence, a man returns to his hometown only to find his best friend has become an alcohol...

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Sisi/Last Minute
Sisi/Last Minute

The immature young ruler of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, Franz Joseph, was extremely shy around wome...

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Ma sœur est moi
Ma sœur est moi

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School's Out
School's Out

A few days before the baccalaureate, a high school student decides to settle accounts with the most ...

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The Good Girls
The Good Girls

Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams....

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Christmas at Bunny's
Christmas at Bunny's

Santa Claus is depressed and refuses to give away gifts as he usually does. Bugs Bunny is charged wi...

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The Mischief Makers
The Mischief Makers

A group of young boys develops a crush on a girl, leading to jealousy toward her boyfriend. They sch...

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Mes amis, mes amours
Mes amis, mes amours

Two divorced fathers Mathias and Antoine, decide to raise their children together in London. Their l...

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Masques
Masques

In this deadly game of cat and mouse, Roland Wolf is writing a book on the life of game show host Ch...

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An Impudent Girl
An Impudent Girl

Charlotte Castang is a working-class 13-year-old girl, who lives in a drab, run-down neighbourhood, ...

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Inspector Lavardin
Inspector Lavardin

Inspector Lavardin is called to a provincial village to investigate a murder – only to find that one...

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Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad
Love Is Gay, Love Is Sad

In a cul-de-sac in the Faubourg-Saint-Antoine, Leon shares two rooms with his sister Marie. In one, ...

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A Game for Six Lovers
A Game for Six Lovers

Miléna is living in her grandmother's baroque château when the rich lady dies. The lawyer Miguel, wh...

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Le Révélateur
Le Révélateur

A 4-year-old child is the element from and around which the action develops, and brings sentiments a...

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48 Hours a Day
48 Hours a Day

A young professional woman takes radical action to force her husband's help with the household chore...

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Paul
Paul

Follows a young man who leaves his affluent life to join a wandering vegetarian cult. Led by a chari...

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Son of Gascogne
Son of Gascogne

You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous di...

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The Seasons of Pleasure
The Seasons of Pleasure

Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their produc...

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Elise, or Real Life
Elise, or Real Life

In the middle of the Algerian war, Elise, from Bordeaux, “goes” to Paris to join her brother to earn...

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Noroît
Noroît

After her brother was killed by a notorious all-female pirate gang, Morag dedicates her life to brin...

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Women in Prison
Women in Prison

Nicole (Agnes Soral) is sent up the river for infanticide in this routine woman-in-prison feature. T...

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Étoile aux dents ou Poulou le magnifique
Étoile aux dents ou Poulou le magnifique

In the 70s, in the Goutte d'or district, three friends of Algerian origin: Poulou, a failed boxer, A...

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A Very Curious Girl
A Very Curious Girl

Treated as an outcast and exploited by the villagers of a small town, a young woman liberates hersel...

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The Mother and the Whore
The Mother and the Whore

Aimless young Alexandre juggles his relationships with his girlfriend, Marie, and a casual lover nam...

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Red Needles
Red Needles

September 1960: on a purely punitive basis, eight scouts must climb the solid mass of Brévent to 250...

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The Botanical Avatar of Mademoiselle Flora
The Botanical Avatar of Mademoiselle Flora

A young woman lives sadly in a small garrison town with a soldier. Little by little, won over by bor...

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Gwendoline
Gwendoline

A beautiful woman hires an intrepid adventurer to help find her father, who has disappeared in the j...

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I Do
I Do

Life is easy for 43-year-old Luis, a happy single guy, fulfilled in his job of star nose with a perf...

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Wise Guys
Wise Guys

In Paris in the early 1960s, Ronald is a son of a good family, with a carefree, pleasure-oriented li...

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A Cat in Paris
A Cat in Paris

A thrilling mystery that unfurls in the alleys and on the rooftops of the French capital, Paris, ove...

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Nothing About Robert
Nothing About Robert

Didier never knew that a wrong film review of a film which he did not bother to watch would land him...

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A Good Little Devil
A Good Little Devil

One of the comtesse de Ségur's most popular works,it tells the tale of an orphan ,Charles,mistreated...

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Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick

An account of the life and work of French filmmaker Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), a sybarite Buddha, a...

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Skylab
Skylab

It is 1979 and Albertine, 10, and all her family members have gathered in Brittany to celebrate the ...

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Ville à vendre
Ville à vendre

A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He team...

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Out 1
Out 1

While two theater groups rehearse plays by Aeschylus, two solitary individuals wander the Parisian s...

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The Probability Factor
The Probability Factor

Fred works for an insurance company as a computer engineer. He is bored with enduring the trials of ...

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How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning

The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes...

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What a Flash!
What a Flash!

The producers of this French film took approximately 100 people, put them on a soundstage and had th...

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Seduction Squad
Seduction Squad

After witnessing and accidentally helping several thugs get away with a heist, the women rooming tog...

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Killer Spy
Killer Spy

The most secret agent Stanislas Dubois, tired of saving the world alone decides to retire and to sta...

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Claude Chabrol: Mon premier film
Claude Chabrol: Mon premier film

Documentary about the making of French director Claude Chabrol's first film Le Beau Serge in 1958....

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And Satan Calls the Turns
And Satan Calls the Turns

On a sun-kissed beach, six people linger lazily, each confident of fulfilling his or her desires bef...

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Paulette
Paulette

Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no ...

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Lovers of the Nile
Lovers of the Nile

During the Second World War, in 1943, Anne Frendo, a young dreamer and artist, living alone with her...

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Trap
Trap

A genuine performance film as Bernadette Laffont and Bulle Ogier engage, with reckless abandon, in a...

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A Swelled Head
A Swelled Head

A man inherits an old house in a very bad condition. With the help of a young mechanic, he begins to...

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Unloved
Unloved

France in the fifties. The teenage orphan Sylvie is put in an institution for "fallen" or endangered...

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Défense de savoir
Défense de savoir

When a woman is accused of murder, the investigation slowly reveals numerous political connections. ...

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Zadoc and Happiness
Zadoc and Happiness

Small, hunchbacked and unlucky, Zadoc dreams of finding love. Chased from his village, he is propell...

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Attila Marcel
Attila Marcel

Paul is a sweet man-child, raised — and smothered — by his two eccentric aunts in Paris since the de...

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Nobody Loves Me
Nobody Loves Me

Several lives intersect when a middle-aged woman is left by her husband, and she decides to trek him...

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Rainbow pour Rimbaud
Rainbow pour Rimbaud

Arthur Rimbaud (1854-1891) was a leading light in the symbolist movement of French literature, which...

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Retour en force
Retour en force

Released after 8 years in prison, Adrien finds his family home. He discovers that his wife Teresa ha...

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Ladies First
Ladies First

An FBI agent works to arrest David Griffin, a murderous drug trafficker, and protect Juliette, the b...

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Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !
Arrête de ramer, t'attaques la falaise !

The Saracens invade Spain again, but they seem content to compose music and watch the dancers....

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Waiting for the Moon
Waiting for the Moon

Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s Fran...

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The Delinquents
The Delinquents

Jean-Pierre, who has escaped from prison, tries to reintegrate into society with the help of workers...

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Au bas de l'échelle
Au bas de l'échelle

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Stolen Holidays
Stolen Holidays

Danielle (Bernadette Lafont), a grandmother in her sixties, is planning to take her two grandchildre...

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Le Pactole
Le Pactole

Yves Beaulieu lives with his wife Anne, his daughter Stephanie and his mother-in-law. Tired of his d...

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Le petit Nicolas
Le petit Nicolas

At school, Nicolas is falsely accused of misbehaving and is expelled. On school photo day, Nicolas w...

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Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge
Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge

Paul, a friendly Parisian cab driver, has two loves: music and his fiancée Virginie. After graduatin...

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Like a Turtle on Its Back
Like a Turtle on Its Back

Unable to put a single word on paper, a youngish man with one novel to his credit finds that his lif...

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Bazar
Bazar

Gabrielle, a pleasant woman in her sixties, learns that she is about to be evicted from her second-h...

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Love in Ambush
Love in Ambush

An Australian woman searches for her soldier brother in Cambodia during the civil breakdown from whi...

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The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot

Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped....

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La Décharge
La Décharge

A fake documentary on the life forms of the Paris Suburbs, viewed through the eyes of homeless, unem...

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A Whale That Had a Toothache
A Whale That Had a Toothache

Bernardette is feeling bored in a country house. She decides to send weekend invitations to a lot of...

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Pas de toit sans moi
Pas de toit sans moi

She is a black illegal immigrant, he's white and unemployed - Both of them are racists and they hate...

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Les Beaux Quartiers
Les Beaux Quartiers

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My New Partner III
My New Partner III

It's been ten years since the paths of René and François parted ways. From the glorious era when, as...

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La très excellente et divertissante histoire de François Rabelais
La très excellente et divertissante histoire de François Rabelais

Sensual, facetious, satirical and mocking, François Rabelais born at the end of the 15th century, al...

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Cap Canaille
Cap Canaille

Paula Barretto (Juliet Berto) is caught in this underworld because her father was involved in the dr...

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Dog Day
Dog Day

A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his poss...

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Zig Zig
Zig Zig

Two women work as entertainers and prostitutes to raise enough money for their dream home....

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Notes for Jerome
Notes for Jerome

During the summer of 1966 Jonas Mekas spent two months in Cassis, as a guest of Jerome Hill. Mekas v...

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Surprise Sock
Surprise Sock

Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhil...

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Valparaiso, Valparaiso
Valparaiso, Valparaiso

Alain Cluny is Balthazar, a bumbling middle-aged intellectual who spouts off from time to time about...

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I. You. They.
I. You. They.

Little did this pretty brunette know when she applied for a babysitting job that her employer was an...

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The Baker's Wife
The Baker's Wife

Theatre play broadcast live from the Théâtre André Malraux in France....

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Certaines nouvelles
Certaines nouvelles

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Speak Softly, If This Is Love
Speak Softly, If This Is Love

Caroline and Olivier are sixteen, in love and would like nothing more than to be left alone. Unfortu...

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We're All Still Here
We're All Still Here

Two housewives discuss philosophical themes (actually an updated dialogue between Plato and Socrates...

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Le livre des morts de Belleville
Le livre des morts de Belleville

Michael thought he'd seen his mother for the last time when she passed away in a Paris hospital, but...

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Sophie's Ways
Sophie's Ways

Céline is a free-spirited woman is married to a dull, middle manager Philippe. Her husband's co-work...

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Une merveilleuse journée
Une merveilleuse journée

The unusual day of a young pharmacist's assistant, between Deauville and Cassis....

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The White Gloves of the Devil
The White Gloves of the Devil

A murder at the Whisky Bar leads a Buddhist policeman on the trail of a strange deal that links the ...

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The Egg
The Egg

Emile Magis, a modest employee, more or less ostracized by the others, would like only one thing, to...

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Boom boom
Boom boom

Sofía, a dentist, and Tristán, owner of a shoe store, live in the same building but have never met o...

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Lamiel
Lamiel

Lamiel is a poor orphan girl who climbs to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. Sans...

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Out 1: Spectre
Out 1: Spectre

Out 1: Spectre begins as nothing more than scenes from Parisian life; only as time goes by do we rea...

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Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?
Permettete signora che ami vostra figlia?

Gino Pistone is an actor in a local theatre, but his plays aren't successful. But then he gets a gen...

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Plein fer
Plein fer

The Italians have bocce ball, and the French have a similar game, boules. This is played (generally ...

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Dingo
Dingo

Young John Anderson is captivated by jazz musician Billy Cross when he performs on the remote airstr...

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Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)
Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre)

This is the tale of a father-son duo who are unable to leave each other. The trouble begins when the...

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The Good Thief
The Good Thief

Caleb, "son of nobody" (Enrico Montesano) lives in Galilee in Jesus' day and struggles as a thief an...

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Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman
Bernadette Lafont: And God Created the Free Woman

A journey in the company of Bernadette Lafont, French Cinema’s most atypical actress. Tracing her ca...

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So Woman!
So Woman!

Clemence is a brilliant young lawyer who has just settled herself in a comfortable chair. She does n...

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Idiot in Paris
Idiot in Paris

Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris....

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A Happy Divorce
A Happy Divorce

After having been rescued from suicide, a young man is the object of a bet by his doctor that the do...

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Catch Me a Spy
Catch Me a Spy

While on vacation, a woman's husband is taken by the Russian government. After one attempt fails, sh...

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À double tour
À double tour

The mistress of the wealthy Henri Marcoux is murdered and the family accuses the milkman of committi...

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Genealogies of a Crime
Genealogies of a Crime

An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to st...

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Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale
Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale

The leader of a nudist camp enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he sh...

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Ciboulette
Ciboulette

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Crime Thief
Crime Thief

A man witnesses a suicide and starts imagining that it was a murder committed by himself....

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It Means That Much to Me
It Means That Much to Me

Eddie Constantine stars as a reporter mixed up in the spy world in this routine espionage actioner b...

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The Thief of Paris
The Thief of Paris

In turn-of-the-century Paris, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inhe...

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The Robbed Robber
The Robbed Robber

When his loot is mysteriously stolen, a small-time thief on the run hides out in a small village, po...

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L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues
L'Amour, la Mort, les Fringues

They stick to our skin and soul, our clothes. We believe we buy them, they own us. Warning ! these r...

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Renaissance
Renaissance

A year and a half after "Le Lit e la vierge", Zouzou and Pierre Clémenti are in another bed, this ti...

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La famille
La famille

A film by Yvan Lagrange....

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The Idols
The Idols

This satire concerns three French singing idols and their attempt to stay in the public eye. A press...

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Marie et le Curé
Marie et le Curé

A priest succumbs to the charms of his lovely cleaning lady and decides to find a husband when she f...

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On n'est pas sorti de l'auberge
On n'est pas sorti de l'auberge

It's about a couple owning a small hotel who are trying to sell it....

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L'Habit ne fait pas le moine
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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Strauberg ist da
Strauberg ist da

German film....

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The Groper
The Groper

Because he dishonored the daughter of a mafia boss, Ernesto must leave Rome and take shelter with hi...

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Pourquoi partir?
Pourquoi partir?

Pierre and Maryel have the same mother but have never met even though they have been writing to each...

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L'Enfant de personne
L'Enfant de personne

After suffering from amnesia for three long years following a terrible accident, a young woman learn...

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The Army Game
The Army Game

Jean Lerat begins his military service at an army camp. Despite his aunt’s attempts to pull a few st...

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Easy in Mind
Easy in Mind

A woman who only has a couple of months left to live decides to go on a final journey, crossing seve...

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Death's Glamour
Death's Glamour

Whilst seeking out locations in the South of France for his next film, director Luc Moullet comes ac...

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Velvet Paws
Velvet Paws

Bernadette Lafont and Michel Bouquet reteam with Kaplan as, respectively, a clairvoyant and a crimin...

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Night Dance Hall
Night Dance Hall

Martine is a young woman plagued both by poverty and by uncaring, problem parents who in no way can ...

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U
U

Since her parents passed away, Princess Mona lives by herself in a castle with two hideous, ghastly ...

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Monsieur Jean-Claude Vaucherin
Monsieur Jean-Claude Vaucherin

A writer goes through a prolonged ritual of preparation but is unable to put a word on paper....

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The First Star
The First Star

A married father of three, lives in Créteil doing odd jobs and spends his time at the local PMU bar....

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Broken English
Broken English

Nora Wilder is freaking out. Everyone around her is either in a relationship, married, or has childr...

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Jusqu'à plus soif
Jusqu'à plus soif

A young teacher arrives in Normandy, where she intends to put an end to illegal alcohol trafficking ...

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Cherokee
Cherokee

In this detective and crime comedy, the heir to a large fortune is an unknown, and nobody knows him ...

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The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol

Spring 2004, a house with a large garden welcomes filmmaker Claude Chabrol. He is about to celebrate...

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Souvenirs souvenirs
Souvenirs souvenirs

Homemade footage of parties, travel, and everyday life....

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We'll Grow Thin Together
We'll Grow Thin Together

Victor is a screenwriter whose last work about the Marechal Pétain is refused by his producer. To ad...

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Mersonne ne m'aime
Mersonne ne m'aime

After a feminist is found murdered in her own home, a police detective investigates the crime with t...

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Un moment d'inattention
Un moment d'inattention

Can a loving relationship of eight years go down the drain because of a single moment of carelessnes...

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La tendresse de l'araignée
La tendresse de l'araignée

A mother takes vengeance on her dead son's ex-girlfriend....

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Sam's Enough
Sam's Enough

After trying a job as a stripper in a Barcelona carnival, Eva (Aure Attika) is ready for something n...

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Recto/Verso
Recto/Verso

Riddled with debts after having been unfairly fired from his job, a star TV presenter—and inveterate...

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A Day in the Life of French Cinema
A Day in the Life of French Cinema

Documentary showing one day of work of over 90 actors and filmmakers from French cinema on the same ...

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La Bête noire
La Bête noire

In this creatively organized story of one "delinquent," director Patrick Chaput has put together a w...

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Le Roi des cons
Le Roi des cons

Georges Le Roi lives odd jobs and shares his life between two girlfriends. One day, he falls in love...

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Si ma gueule vous plaît...
Si ma gueule vous plaît...

A French satirical comedy that examines society’s obsession with appearance. A man with unconvention...

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La vie très étrange de Madame Anastasie
La vie très étrange de Madame Anastasie

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Un possible amour
Un possible amour

Fabienne, a young woman in her thirties, returns to her mother's house after four years in prison. B...

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Les Voleurs de lumière
Les Voleurs de lumière

A nuclear explosion has devastated France. Since then, Thomas and hundreds of other survivors have b...

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