Valentine Tessier
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Aloyse de GondelaurierParis, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square...
Movie pageFrench Cancan
as Mme. OlympeNineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening...
Movie pageMaigret and the St. Fiacre Case
as Countess de Saint-FiacrePolice Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at...
Movie pageMadame Bovary
as Emma BovarySoon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country...
Movie pageLife Size
as La mèreWhen Michel gets the life-sized sex doll he ordered, shipped directly from Japan, he is only...
Movie pageLucrèce Borgia
as Julie FarneseIn the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and...
Movie pageJustice Is Done
as Marceline Micoulin, antique dealer, jurorElsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly....
Movie pageAbused Confidence
as Hélène FerneyLydia (Danielle Darrieux) is a student, poor and orphaned, who pretends to be the daughter of a...
Movie pageStain on the Snow
as Mrs. IrmaLa neige était sale is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon....
Movie pageGirls' Club
as Gabrielle Aubry - la doctoresseA hotel for women-only and catering to working girls is the setting for not being able to get a...
Movie pageChildren of Love
as DirectorIn a maternity hospital, young single mothers are accompanied by social worker Hélène Lambert,...
Movie pageTrial at the Vatican
as Mère Marie de GonzagueIn 19th-century France, a little girl follows her two sisters into a Carmelite monastery with...
Movie pageMaddalena
as GeltrudeThe story takes plays during the annual Good Friday pageant in a tiny Italian village. Local...
Movie pageLeathernose
as Simone de TainchebrayeAfter being hurt in the face, Count de Roger Tinchebraye is forced to hide his disfigured face...
Movie pageDes quintuplés au pensionnat
as la directriceIn a girls boarding-school run by Madame Piégeois, young Gisèle meets, at night, the count of...
Movie pageThe Four-Poster Bed
as Madame Porey-CaveIn his prison cell, the composer Remi Bonvent composed an opera, The columns bed. The director...
Movie pageL'Embuscade
as Sabine GuéretA young man is hired by an industrialist, while a secret hangs over his birth. His boss's wife...
Movie pageThe Phantom Wagon
as la capitaine AndersonFrench version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom,...
Movie pageÉlisa
as Mrs. IrmaRecently released from reform school, Élisa works at Madame Irma's before moving to Paris, where...
Movie pageÉglantine
as uncreditedLéopold, a young schoolboy, returns from boarding school to spend the summer vacations with his...
Movie pageThe Queen and the Cardinal
as Madame de ChevreuseA hero of the Paris streets is recruited for a conspiracy against Mazarin in the court of the...
Movie pageDistress
as OdetteMartine discovers, on the eve of her wedding, that her mother, whom she believed to be dead,...
Movie pageThe Two Truths
as Madame MukThe young Loris is undergoing a trial for killing his girlfriend Maria Luce. According to the...
Movie pageMy Husband, His Mistress and I
as GrandmaMiddle-aged lust: a man, in his thirteenth and therefore omen-filled marriage year, cheats on...
Movie pageMénilmontant
as Madame CollinetBecause they brought her back a lost piece of jewelry, a very rich lady accedes to the request...
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