Valentine Tessier

Born: 1892-08-05


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The Hunchback of Notre Dame

as Aloyse de Gondelaurier
Released: 1956-12-19

Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square...

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French Cancan

as Mme. Olympe
Released: 1955-04-27

Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening...

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Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case

as Countess de Saint-Fiacre
Released: 1959-09-02

Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at...

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Lucrèce Borgia

as Julie Farnese
Released: 1953-10-23

In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and...

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Life Size

as La mère
Released: 1974-08-21

When Michel gets the life-sized sex doll he ordered, shipped directly from Japan, he is only...

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The Phantom Wagon

as la capitaine Anderson
Released: 1939-09-07

French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom,...

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Justice Is Done

as Marceline Micoulin,antiquaire, une jurée
Released: 1950-09-20

Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly....

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Églantine

as uncredited
Released: 1972-02-25

Léopold, a young schoolboy, returns from boarding school to spend the summer vacations with his...

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Élisa

as uncredited
Released: 1957-03-08

Recently released from reform school, Élisa works at Madame Irma's before moving to Paris, where...

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Girls' Club

as Gabrielle Aubry - la doctoresse
Released: 1936-06-20

A hotel for women-only and catering to working girls is the setting for not being able to get a...

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Ménilmontant

as Madame Collinet
Released: 1936-11-20

Because they brought her back a lost piece of jewelry, a very rich lady accedes to the request...

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Maddalena

as Geltrude
Released: 1954-08-07

The story takes plays during the annual Good Friday pageant in a tiny Italian village. Local...

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Madame Bovary

as Emma Bovary
Released: 1934-01-04

Soon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country...

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Leathernose

as Simone de Tainchebraye
Released: 1952-03-26

After being hurt in the face, Count de Roger Tinchebraye is forced to hide his disfigured face...

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Trial at the Vatican

as Mère Marie de Gonzague
Released: 1952-08-29

In 19th-century France, a little girl follows her two sisters into a Carmelite monastery with...

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Abused Confidence

as Hélène Ferney
Released: 1937-11-29

Lydia (Danielle Darrieux) is a student, poor and orphaned, who pretends to be the daughter of a...

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Stain on the Snow

as Mrs. Irma
Released: 1954-02-19

La neige était sale is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon....

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The Two Truths

as Madame Muk
Released: 1952-10-13

The young Loris is undergoing a trial for killing his girlfriend Maria Luce. According to the...

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The Four-Poster Bed

as Madame Porey-Cave
Released: 1942-07-09

In his prison cell, the composer Remi Bonvent composed an opera, The columns bed. The director...

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L'Embuscade

as Sabine Guéret
Released: 1941-03-26

A young man is hired by an industrialist, while a secret hangs over his birth. His boss's wife...

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Des quintuplés au pensionnat

as la directrice
Released: 1953-05-08

In a girls boarding-school run by Madame Piégeois, young Gisèle meets, at night, the count of...

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My Husband, His Mistress and I

as Grandma
Released: 1974-10-02

Middle-aged lust: a man, in his thirteenth and therefore omen-filled marriage year, cheats on...

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Distress

as Odette
Released: 1947-04-16

Martine discovers, on the eve of her wedding, that her mother, whom she believed to be dead,...

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Children of Love

as The director
Released: 1953-11-10

In a maternity hospital, young single mothers are accompanied by social worker Hélène Lambert,...

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The Queen and the Cardinal

as Madame de Chevreuse
Released: 1935-11-22

A hero of the Paris streets is recruited for a conspiracy against Mazarin in the court of the...

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