
Stéphane Audran
Stéphane Audran (born Colette Suzanne Jeannine Dacheville; November 8, 1932 – March 27, 2018) was a French film and television actress. Best known for her performances in Oscar-winning movies such as The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie (1972) and Babette's Feast (1987), and in critically acclaimed films like The Big Red One (1980) and Violette Nozière (1978), she became mostly associated with haughty bourgeois women roles.
She married French director and screenwriter Claude Chabrol in 1964, after a short marriage to the French actor Jean-Louis Trintignant. Her son by her marriage to Chabrol (which ended in 1980) is the French actor Thomas Chabrol (born in 1963).
Her first major role was in Chabrol's film Les Cousins (1959). She has since appeared in most of Chabrol's films. Some of the more noteworthy of his films Audran has appeared in are Les Bonnes Femmes (1960), La Femme Infidèle (1968), Les Biches (1968) as a rich lesbian who becomes involved in a ménage à trois (she first gained notice in this), Le Boucher (1970) as a school teacher who falls in love with a murderous butcher, Juste Avant La Nuit (1971), and Violette Nozière (1978). She won the Silver Bear for Best Actress for her role in Les Biches at the 18th Berlin International Film Festival.
She also appeared in the first film of Éric Rohmer (Signe du Lion), and in films by Jean Delannoy (La Peau de Torpedo), Gabriel Axel (Babette's Feast, as the mysterious cook, Babette), Bertrand Tavernier (Coup de Torchon, as the wife of the cop turned serial killer) and Samuel Fuller (The Big Red One). The most celebrated of her non-Chabrol films was Luis Buñuel's Oscar-winning Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie (1972) as Alice Senechal. Also appearing in English-language productions, Audran has appeared in American features like The Black Bird (1975), and in TV serials like Brideshead Revisited (1981), Mistral's Daughter (1984) and The Sun Also Rises (1984).
Audran won a French César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance in Violette Nozière (1978) and British Film Academy award for Just Before Nightfall (1975).
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Known For | Acting |
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Most Rating | 5.167 |
Birthday | 1932-11-08 |
Place of Birth | Versailles, Seine-et-Oise, France |
Also Known As | Colette Dacheville, Стефан Одран, |

1968

Les Biches
6/64
A bored bisexual millionaire picks up a young destitute street artist and whisks her away to her villa in Saint Tropez. They meet a dashing local arch...
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Les Biches

1959

The Cousins
6.756/90
Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a decadent, bohemian pleasure-seeker who shows the...
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1978

Violette Nozière
6.8/77
Paris, 1933. The daughter of a respectable lower middle class couple, Violette Nozière, leads a disreputable double life. Far from being the innocent...
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Violette Nozière

1995

Au petit Marguery
6.2/4
Hippolyte, the chef at the small Paris restaurant of the title, is losing his sense of smell - and without that, you can’t cook. Not in France. The re...
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1963

Bluebeard
6.342/57
Paris, France, during the First World War. While thousands of soldiers die every day on the battlefields, Henri Landru, a seemingly respectable furnit...
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Bluebeard

1970

The Butcher
7.1/232
An unlikely friendship between a dour, working class butcher and a repressed schoolteacher coincides with a grisly series of Ripper-type murders in a...
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1972

The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
7.5/816
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but never eats, their attempts continually thwarted by a v...
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1970

The Breach
6.103/39
An innocent woman falls prey to her abusive husband, his wealthy father and a shady family friend.
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1984

The Blood of Others
5/11
In the German-occupied Paris, Helene is torn between the love for her boyfriend Jean, working for the resistance and the German administrator Bergmann...
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1985

Cop au Vin
6.2/88
Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.
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1974

And Then There Were None
5.687/99
Ten people are invited to a hotel in the Iranian desert, only to find that an unseen person is killing them one by one. Could one of them be the kille...
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1970

The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
5.1/19
Dany Longo is red-haired, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on a...
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun

1989

Champagne Charlie
3/2
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1987

Babette's Feast
7.2/404
A French housekeeper with a mysterious past brings quiet revolution in the form of one exquisite meal to a circle of starkly pious villagers in late 1...
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1992

Betty
6.5/54
A drunken, self-destructive woman called Betty wanders into a Parisian bar where she meets middle-aged alcoholic Laure. Laure decides to take care of...
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1969

The Unfaithful Wife
6.9/111
Insurance executive Charles suspects his wife Hélène of playing the field, so he has a private detective locate his wife's lover, author Victor Pegala...
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1960

The Good Girls
6.2/66
Four Parisian women navigate the world of romance and daily life looking to fulfill their dreams.
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1988

Faceless
5.8/54
A detective investigating a missing model in Paris uncovers a plastic surgeon’s horrifying secret involving kidnapped women, blood, and organs.
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1981

Coup de Torchon
7.1/195
A pathetic police chief, humiliated by everyone around him, suddenly wants a clean slate in life, and resorts to drastic means to achieve it.
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1974

Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
7/131
Three friends navigate mid-life crises: a blocked writer, a disillusioned doctor, and a charming man facing bankruptcy and divorce. As their struggles...
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1973

Wedding in Blood
6.3/59
Lucienne Delamare and Pierre Maury are having an affair. Lucienne's husband Paul is the mayor, and a French deputy. Pierre's wife Clotilde has been we...
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2008

The Girl from Monaco
5.2/108
A brilliant and neurotic attorney goes to Monaco to defend a famous criminal. But, instead of focusing on the case, he falls for a beautiful she-devil...
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1997

Arlette
5.435/31
An actor owes big bucks to the Vegas mob. He's all set to pay them off; he's conned a rich widow into marrying him. But the mobsters blow his cover be...
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1983

Deadly Circuit
6.2/103
A P.I. is obsessed with a cute woman, who seduces and kills rich men around W. Europe.
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1980

The Big Red One
6.719/313
A veteran sergeant of World War I leads a squad in World War II, always in the company of the survivor Pvt. Griff, the writer Pvt. Zab, the Sicilian P...
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1982

Paradise for All
6.697/33
Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain...
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1983

Elective Affinities
6/1
On the outskirts of Weimar, Edouard and Charlotte, an aristocratic couple united after both becoming widows, invite two guests to their home: a childh...
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1962

Sign of the Lion
6.88/54
An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing fi...
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1995

Son of Gascogne
4.8/5
You're a provincial kid in Paris and suddenly you're the center of attention: Movie stars, famous directors and sexy women are doting on you because t...
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1988

The Seasons of Pleasure
4.595/21
Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and...
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1978

Blood Relatives
5.7/25
A Montreal police inspector cracks a murder case with clues from the victim's diary.
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1977

Death of a Corrupt Man
6.6/97
In the middle of the night, deputy Philippe Dubaye wakes up his old friend Xavier Maréchal with disturbing news: he has just killed Serrano, a rackete...
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1961

Wise Guys
5.4/5
In Paris in the early 1960s, Ronald is a son of a good family, with a carefree, pleasure-oriented life. He is one of the leading figures in the small...
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1966

Line of Demarcation
6.1/31
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1974

How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
5.5/29
A story about a guy who still lives with his mother and sells some really awful alcohol to bartenders. The only way for him to do this is to cry and i...
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How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby

2001

J'ai faim !!!
4.9/24
A chubby forty-ish florist is dumped for a gorgeous young woman. She decides to lose weight and to ruin her rival's life in order to win her handsome...
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1965

The Blue Panther
4.857/21
Marie-Chantal travels by train to her cousin's place to spend a winter holiday, when a stranger entrusts her with false jewels that contain a virus po...
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1967

The Champagne Murders
5.5/22
A champagne tycoon's partner suspects his partner's gigolo husband of murders he's been framed for.
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2019

Claude Chabrol, the Maverick
6.2/10
An account of the life and work of French filmmaker Claude Chabrol (1930-2010), a sybarite Buddha, a furtive anarchist, an insolent lover of life.
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1975

The Black Bird
4.6/9
The son of famous detective Sam Spade carries on the family tradition of getting involved with the Maltese Falcon - and with the people who will stop...
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The Black Bird

1999

Belle Maman
5.2/44
At the altar where he is marrying Séverine, the groom, Antoine, gets his first glimpse of her mother, Léa, and suffers what the French call a coup de...
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Belle Maman

1971

Just Before Nightfall
6.509/54
A married man who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn himself in.
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1990

Quiet Days in Clichy
4.4/24
Expatriate Henry Miller indulges in a variety of sexual escapades while struggling to establish himself as a serious writer in Paris.
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Quiet Days in Clichy

2000

Lulu Kreutz's Picnic
1/1
Joseph and Olga Stegudith, who are elderly Parisians of Viennese Jewish extraction, come to luxurious Evian with Olga's brother Michel Mazelsky to hea...
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1976

The Twist
3.8/9
Claire de La Tour Picquet shares her life between her husband, the successful novelist William Brandeis, and her lover, Jacques Lalouet, William's pub...
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The Twist

1962

The Third Lover
6.203/37
The story of a journalist in southern Germany who stays with a novelist and his wife and gradually begins to destroy the young couple's lives.
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The Third Lover

1988

The Spider Labyrinth
6.7/45
A young professor travels to Budapest to locate a lost colleague. Once there, he gets tangled up in a supernatural mystery.
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The Spider Labyrinth

1982

Le Choc
5.2/28
Martin Terrier wants to quit his job as a hired hitman, but his organized crime employers are unwilling to see him turned out to pasture, Terrier know...
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Le Choc

1990

Mass in C Minor
0/0
Friends Philippe and Laurent, a violinist and a cello player, frequently team up to play special gigs. While performing for a wedding, they meet the h...
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1979

Eagle's Wing
5.304/23
Two men, an aging Native American and a ne'er-do-well trapper from North America, race to claim the stallion Eagle's Wing in antebellum Mexico, meetin...
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Eagle's Wing

1992

The Turn of the Screw
5.8/11
A young woman is hired by a wealthy but sinister man to tutor his two children at the family's isolated estate. When the woman gets there, she finds t...
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The Turn of the Screw

1984

Thieves After Dark
4.7/6
A crime story set in Paris about a Bonnie-and-Clyde couple -- how they got together and how they are pursued for a murder they never committed.
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Thieves After Dark

1975

Hay que matar a B.
4/6
In a fictitious South American country there's lots of political tension, the labor-unions have all their members on strike. The public demands the re...
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Hay que matar a B.

2005

The Big Red One : The Reconstruction
8.571/7
A re-working, re-editing, and restructuring of Sam Fuller's The Big Red One bringing it closer as originally envisioned by the late filmmaker. It incl...
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The Big Red One : The Reconstruction

1989

Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice
6.5/1
In this unusual feature, Manika is a girl born in a Catholic family in a south Indian fishing village is convinced that she has recently had a former...
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Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice

1982

Boulevard des assassins
5.8/6
After a messy divorce, a struggling writer takes a holiday on the French Riviera, where he decides to investigate a series of mysterious incidents.
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Boulevard des assassins

1976

Chi dice donna, dice donna
5.7/3
Film in five episodes on the female universe. Among the women portrayed, neglected wives who become prostitutes, a worker who improvises a sexy bomb a...
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Chi dice donna, dice donna

1970

Only the Cool
5/6
A network of spies affects the lives of people in and out of the organization in this espionage drama. Dominique is the neglected wife of a spy who tr...
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Only the Cool

2004

Sissi, the Rebellious Empress
6/6
The last three days in the life of Elizabeth of Austria before her assassination.
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Sissi, the Rebellious Empress

1972

A Murder Is a Murder
5.417/12
Murder mystery involving a man and his relationship with twin sisters.
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A Murder Is a Murder

1985

La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding
5.1/61
Third and final version of the La Cage aux Folles series has Renato's drag queen lover Albin learning that he can inherit a vast fortune from a distan...
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La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding

1977

The Devil's Advocate
8/1
A dying priest is commissioned to investigate the deeds of Giacomo Nerone, a dead wartime partisan, and find out if he truly is worthy of being canoni...
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The Devil's Advocate

1972

Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street
5/1
A private detective (Glenn Corbett) infiltrates a gang of drug-dealing extortionists who prey on politicians.
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Dead Pigeon on Beethoven Street

2018

The Other Side of the Wind
6.692/216
Surrounded by fans and sceptics, grizzled director J.J. "Jake" Hannaford returns from years abroad in Europe to a changed Hollywood, where he attempts...
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The Other Side of the Wind

1980

La Cage aux Folles II
6/107
In a move to make his partner, Renato, jealous, the flamboyant Albin waits in a local cafe - dressed as a woman - hoping to be picked up. But Albin ge...
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La Cage aux Folles II

1965

La Muette
0/0
A boy buys earplugs to block out the shouting of his constantly quarreling parents, but his innocent act has tragic results.
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La Muette

1985

Night Magic
5.3/3
Night Magic, a musical fantasy, is set on earth but it is also about the heavens. At the centre of it all is Michael, a music hall artist, who finds J...
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Night Magic

1996

Petit
0/0
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1988

Corps z'à corps
0/0
A newspaper editor attempts to save a failing girlie magazine.
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Corps z'à corps

1964

Hard Boiled Ones
3.5/2
A playwright has to murder if he does not want to be murdered.
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Hard Boiled Ones

1983

Scarlet Fever
8/1
In a building on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris lives ten-year-old Roger, who is surrounded by women - his great-grandmother, his grandmother, and h...
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Scarlet Fever

1980

Le Cœur à l'envers
4.5/2
Laure is a 40-year-old psychologist who doesn't know her son, Jean. But the latter comes back to Paris and finds a brand new woman when he sees his mo...
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Le Cœur à l'envers

1980

Le Soleil en face
3.8/3
Famous writer, Marat retires to Portugal, where he lives surrounded by his family, including his wife Genevieve. When she learns she is diagnosed with...
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Le Soleil en face

1964

Code Name: Tiger
3.8/6
A Turkish ambassador arrives in Paris to sign an important trade agreement, allowing Turkey to buy a sophisticated new war plane from France. Immediat...
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Code Name: Tiger

1977

Silver Bears
5.904/26
Financial wizard "Doc" Fletcher is sent by crime boss Joe Fiore to buy a bank in Switzerland in order to more easily launder their profits. When he ar...
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Silver Bears

1986

The Gypsy
4.5/19
Hubert Durieux is a banker in a small French town who is struggling to keep up with the demands of all the women in his life. Just when things couldn’...
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The Gypsy

1961

Saint-Tropez Blues
5.3/7
With her parents away, Anne-Marie drops her studies to spend eight days in Saint-Tropez with her friend Jean-Paul. They are soon caught up in the Sain...
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Saint-Tropez Blues

1965

Six in Paris
6.569/29
Six vignettes set in different sections of Paris, by six directors. St. Germain des Pres (Douchet), Gare du Nord (Rouch), Rue St. Denis (Pollet), and...
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Six in Paris

1979

The Winner
5/7
A plumber finally meets the woman of his dreams. But as her uptight family tries to keep him away, he wins the lottery and starts plotting his revenge...
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The Winner

1992

Weep No More, My Lady
3.8/4
When demanding actress Leila is found drowned there are numerous suspects but the main suspect is her husband Ted. Adapted from the novel by Mary Higg...
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Weep No More, My Lady

1971

As Far as Love Can Go
0/0
The boyfriend of Isabelle has just committed suicide. Therefore Isabelle roams the streets of Paris until she decides to change her life radically and...
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As Far as Love Can Go

1971

Without Apparent Motive
5.8/50
A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all thes...
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Without Apparent Motive

1998

Madeline
6.156/225
Horrified at the prospect of her beloved school being sold, a young French girl named Madeline uses her wit and craftiness to attempt to save it, maki...
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Madeline

1990

Sons
8/1
A trio of stepbrothers accompany their paralysed father on a jaunt to Normandy where the old boy saw combat and romantic action during the war.
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Sons

2016

In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont
0/0
On 6 December 2013, a public exhibition dedicated to her memory, Bernadette Lafont l'exposition hommage, was held in Paris. Actors Stéphane Audran, Gu...
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In Memoriam Bernadette Lafont

2012

Through Babette's Eyes
0/0
An interview with actress Stephane Audran about her role in Gabriel Axel's 1987 film BABETTE'S FEAST.
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Through Babette's Eyes

1996

Maximum Risk
5.757/505
Alain Moreau's investigation into the death of his identical twin brother leads him from the beauty of the south of France to the mean streets of New...
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Maximum Risk

1961

Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak
5.6/30
Two young people, Walter and Charlotte, are walking through a small village in Switzerland a snowy winter day. Walter introduces Charlotte to Clara, h...
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Presentation, or Charlotte and Her Steak

1974

Cry of the Heart
1/1
Alexandre, a young man from a wealthy family, suffers a serious fall. One leg is finally amputated, leaving the other paralyzed. Desperate, the boy tr...
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1958

Secrets of a French Nurse
5.143/7
A gangster is back in business after a while and tries to take it back the hard way, but things don't go as well as planned. At the same time, we watc...
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Secrets of a French Nurse

1981

The Plouffe Family
6.6/14
The lives of the average Quebecois Plouffe family during the final years of the depression and through World War II.
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The Plouffe Family

2006

The Life and Work of Claude Chabrol
0/0
Spring 2004, a house with a large garden welcomes filmmaker Claude Chabrol. He is about to celebrate his 54 films and 74 years of age. Thomas Chabrol,...
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1986

Follow My Gaze
6.3/3
A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. A...
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2013

Once Upon a Time... 'The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie'
0/0
A documentary about the making of Luis Bunuel's 1972 film.
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1981

Le Beau Monde
0/0
Jean Pierre, a young Parisian salesman, decides to go on vacation by hitchhiking at random. Taken as a jaguar by a rich man, he finds himself invited...
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