Françoise Prévost
Françoise Prévost (13 January 1930 – 30 November 1997) was a French actress, journalist and author. She was the daughter of writer Marcelle Auclair. She appeared in more than 70 films between 1949 and 1985.
Prévost was born and died in Paris, France. She made her film debut at 18, in Jean de la Lune. After several minor roles she emerged with the Nouvelle Vague, with roles of weight in films by Pierre Kast, Jean-Gabriel Albicocco and Jacques Rivette. Starting from 1960s she was also pretty active in the Italian cinema, starring in leading roles in dramas, comedies and genre films. In 1975 Prévost gained critical appreciation and commercial success as an author, with an autobiographical book about her struggle against an incurable disease, Ma vie en plus.
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| Known For | Acting |
|---|---|
| Most Rating | 6.834 |
| Birthday | 1929-01-13 |
| Place of Birth | Paris, France |
| Also Known As | Francoise Prevost, Françoise Prevost, |
1964
Ein Mann im schönsten Alter
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Ein Mann im schönsten Alter
1968
Spirits of the Dead
6.3/147
Anthology film from three European directors based on stories by Edgar Allan Poe: a cruel countess haunted by a ghostly horse, a sadistic young man ha...
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Spirits of the Dead
1961
Paris Belongs to Us
6.545/67
A young woman joins a theatrical troupe where she slowly believes that the director is involved with a secret group and that he is in grave danger.
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Paris Belongs to Us
1961
Payroll
6.7/28
A vicious gang of crooks plan to steal the wages of a local factory, but their carefully laid plans go wrong, when the factory employs an armoured van...
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Payroll
1970
The Lovemakers
4.6/4
Carlo Danieli, an industrialist of Sicilian origins, manages a French fries company. The man marries Elena, his girlfriend for years, who has decided...
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The Lovemakers
1969
A Woman on Fire
4.9/8
Clara, the sexually frustrated wife of a businessman goes on vacation with her husband, daughter and best friend. While there, she finally learns that...
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A Woman on Fire
1968
Johnny Hamlet
6.3/21
On his way back from the Civil War, Johnny Hamilton is visited in his sleep by the ghost of his father who lets him know that he has been murdered and...
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Johnny Hamlet
1967
The Other One
5/1
Anne, an unhappily married actress, temporarily assumes the identity of her sister Simone, the successful director of a London fashion house.
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The Other One
1961
The Game of Truth
5.9/12
A dozen elegant people are gathered in a writer's desirable mansion. In the grand tradition of Agatha Christie, they all have something to hide.They b...
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The Game of Truth
1975
The Pink Telephone
4.8/17
A small industrialist from Toulouse, goes to Paris to negotiate the buyout of his company from an American financial group. During his stay, the repre...
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The Pink Telephone
1962
Bon Voyage!
5.316/19
The Willards from Terre Haute, Indiana travels abroad for the once-in-a-lifetime vacation in Paris, France. Harry Willard believes that the greatest p...
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Bon Voyage!
1966
The Murder Clinic
6.2/22
Patients and those working in an isolated mental hospitals are murdered, one by one, by a madman lurking in the corridors
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The Murder Clinic
1966
Galia
5/10
Newly arrived in Paris, Galia lives in a small apartment near Notre-Dame cathedral. One evening, whilst walking along the banks of the River Seine, sh...
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Galia
1963
The Verona Trial
6.3/3
This film is the moving story of Edda Ciano, the daughter of Italian dictator Mussolini, who was unable to prevent the atrocious assassination of her...
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The Verona Trial
1970
Un caso di coscienza
5/2
Discovering that a woman from their small town in Sicily cheated on her husband, a group of upper class men investigate and try to identify her.
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Un caso di coscienza
1969
Rabbit in the Pit
6.4/4
A young girl falls in love for the first time, but she has a dark secret and her boyfriend is on the verge of finding out.
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Rabbit in the Pit
1962
The Condemned of Altona
7/15
A dying German magnate invites his youngest son and daughter-in-law home to discuss the future of the family's shipbuilding empire. There, the daughte...
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The Condemned of Altona
1967
Pronto... c'è una certa Giuliana per te
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Pronto... c'è una certa Giuliana per te
1966
Enter Inspector Maigret
7.5/6
After the theft of a priceless Van Gogh from a Parisian museum, Maigret follows his chief suspect to Lausanne where the suspect is found murdered.
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Enter Inspector Maigret
1963
Bekenntnisse eines möblierten Herrn
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Bekenntnisse eines möblierten Herrn
1973
When Love Is Lust
4.9/18
A decadent countess, middle-aged but still attractive, forces her young and timid daughter to marry a rich butcher. But the couple’s sexual relation i...
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When Love Is Lust
1968
Italian Secret Service
6.8/8
A war hero turned unemployed is hired by a British man whose life he saved during the war, for a secret mission: to kill a neo-nazi.
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Italian Secret Service
1970
Your Sweet Body to Kill
6/11
Tells the story of a husband who wants to kill his unfaithful wife. He has many murderous fantasies in which he murders her. After the disposal of her...
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Your Sweet Body to Kill
1961
The Girl with the Golden Eyes
5.5/10
A man becomes obsessed with a woman, who is unreceptive to his advances. Jealous of her attraction to another, he becomes increasingly desperate. His...
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The Girl with the Golden Eyes
1971
Le inibizioni del dottor Gaudenzi, vedovo col complesso della buonanima
5/2
Doctor Gaudenzi, a real Sicilian manly man living in Rome, Italy, married the daughter of a wealthy industrialist. One day, his wife is about to die,...
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Le inibizioni del dottor Gaudenzi, vedovo col complesso della buonanima
1958
That Night
5/4
Jean, who is the artistic director of a fashion magazine, is married to a very pretty cover girl, Sylvie. They both work for André Reverdy, a very cyn...
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That Night
1975
The Return of the Exorcist
5.4/27
An archaeology student photographs a mysterious naked woman by a waterfall, unaware that she is a female demon called Haggia, who soon takes possessio...
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The Return of the Exorcist
1974
The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine
4.5/20
Lucita has been locked away in a convent by her family in order to keep her away from her lover, Esteban. The pair make plans to elope, but Esteban is...
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The Sinful Nuns of Saint Valentine
1961
Playtime
6/3
A young American girl at a French boarding school develops a crush on an egotistical sculptor living next door. One night, driving in a drunken stupor...
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Playtime
1960
The Enemy General
5.5/2
OSS agent, working with the French underground, ambushes Nazi convoy with high-ranking general, who escapes. Later they take him from a Nazi prison an...
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The Enemy General
1973
Van der Valk and the Rich
0/0
Dutch police officer Van der Valk is pulled away for a private investigation for a friend of the chief of police to find the missing junior manager. W...
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Van der Valk and the Rich
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
1962
The Sea
6.25/13
A well known actor comes to off-season Capri to unwind and meets a young man. The attraction is immediate and mutual but before their relationship can...
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The Sea
1977
Mala, Love and Death
3/2
The young Marisa, after having inherited from her aunt, gets involved in blackmail and crime.
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Mala, Love and Death
1953
The Three Musketeers
6.333/36
The umpteenth adaptation of Dumas' novel finds d'Artagnan and his friends promoting the love affairs of Anne of Austria and the Duke of Buckingham, in...
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The Three Musketeers
1963
A Sentimental Attempt
6.5/1
Carla and Dino, both in a matrimonail crisis, fall in love. But life will not help this love story.
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A Sentimental Attempt
1971
The Beasts
2/1
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The Beasts
1970
Mont-Dragon
4.3/7
Because he has seduced Germaine de Boismenil, Georges Dormont is thrown out of the army by the colonel and husband of the beautiful. After the death o...
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Mont-Dragon
1960
Women Are Like That
5.4/7
American FBI agent Lemmy Caution arrives in France to track down a dangerous spy.
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Women Are Like That
1969
The Fourth Wall
0/0
Marco Baroni spent four years in an English school. When he returns to Rome, the behavior of his family members finds him unprepared: his father, moth...
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The Fourth Wall
1981
Merry-Go-Round
6.9/13
New Yorker Ben Phillips and mysterious Léo Hoffmann are strangers who are summoned to Paris by a mutual acquaintance. Upon arrival, they meet and soo...
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Merry-Go-Round
1974
La prova d'amore
0/0
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La prova d'amore
1969
La donna a una dimensione
0/0
Paola, still young and married to a rich industrialist, seeks an outlet to the uselessness of her life by coming into contact with the young activists...
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La donna a una dimensione
1960
Le Bel Âge
5.3/6
Steph, Jean-Claude and Jacques work in a Parisian art shop, but they mainly work in the field of eroticism, which they conceive as a wide-ranging fiel...
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Le Bel Âge
1969
Les vieilles lunes
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Les vieilles lunes
1949
Jean de la Lune
1/1
Marceline is pretty but inconstant. She has a brother, eccentric as well as invading, who serves as a go-between between the fickle young woman and he...
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Jean de la Lune
1961
Time Out for Love
5/4
Abandoned by her lover Philippe, Michèle, a Parisian fashion designer, tries to kill herself. She is saved by her doctor and Ann, a young American nur...
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Time Out for Love
1975
Mais où sont passées les jeunes filles en fleurs ?
0/0
Two students, one of whom is still a virgin, spend a few days on vacation in the castle of the aunt of one of them.
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Mais où sont passées les jeunes filles en fleurs ?
1971
The Hideout
2/1
A jewel thief hides his loot in a WELL while escaping. He returns several years later only to find there is a Resort on the site and the well is the c...
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The Hideout
1963
Portuguese Vacation
5.6/12
Françoise and her husband Jean-Pierre invite some friend couples to spend a weekend in their large villa on the Portuguese coast. What follows is a ro...
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Portuguese Vacation
1962
Sign of the Lion
6.896/53
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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Sign of the Lion
1965
The Glass Cage
0/0
A study of conscience set against the trial of Eichmann in Israel.
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The Glass Cage
1951
Miracles Only Happen Once
5.7/9
1939 : what a beautiful year for Claudia and Jerôme. No sooner do they meet that they are under each other's spell. 1939 : what a horrible year for th...
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Miracles Only Happen Once
1951
Clara de Montargis
0/0
Renaud, a young student who is camping alone at the moment, has a dream one night, in which the woman of his dreams appears. When he wakes up the next...
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Clara de Montargis
1952
Leathernose
5/3
After being hurt in the face, Count de Roger Tinchebraye is forced to hide his disfigured face behind a leather mask. Dispirited for a while, he decid...
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Leathernose
1961
The Season for Love
5.2/12
Sylvain, a suave, witty player as well as an accomplished writer and Genevieve met 10 months ago. He wanted a serious relationship for the first time...
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The Season for Love
1964
Thank You, Natercia
0/0
A wealthy widow, Natercia, helps Alain, a poor young man, to put together the film he plans to make. They decide to pool their resources to make the p...
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Thank You, Natercia
1969
Winter Wind
7/6
The preparation, in Hungary, of the assassination in Marseilles of King Alexander of Yugoslavia in 1934.
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Winter Wind
1961
Over the Wall
6/2
Simone and Jean have just married and, looking for a home in the Paris region, are lucky enough to find a house with a garden in a residential suburb....
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Over the Wall
1966
Via Macau
0/0
An arms smuggler organization uses a pirate television station to spread dissention among representatives in an international conference in Portugal....
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Via Macau
1973
The Angels
4/1
Larry, who is awaiting a large inheritance, lives with his uncle who hopes to receive part of the hefty sum. He meets another specimen of its kind, we...
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