Valérie Mairesse
notum enim: Acting
dies natalis: 1954-06-08
Locus Natus: Paris, France
Et ut:
A Fishy Business in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon
An actress, Céline, is hired by the famous director Milan Zodowski to star in a mysterious film shooting in Saint-Pierre et Miquelon. She...
release : 2022.05.25popularis : 1.971
La dame aux camélias
The beautiful Parisian courtesan Marguerite Gauthier (Cristiana Réali), who is called a "Lady of The Camellia" because of the preference for...
release : 1997.01.01popularis : 2.045
Act of Aggression
After his wife and daughter are raped and killed by a motorbike gang, a man sets out to take revenge.
release : 1975.04.16popularis : 4.273
The Merry Widow
Anne-Marie lives an easy life with Gilbert, a rich plastic surgeon: a beautiful house, a doggy, a cleaning lady, expensive furniture, the lot. Not so...
release : 2007.11.01popularis : 7.502
What Love Means
The movie, for the most part, charts the AIDS epidemic in France from 1980 – present through the microcosm of a family, but particularly...
release : 2008.03.26popularis : 0.704
Umbrella Coup
Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by...
release : 1980.10.08popularis : 5.599
An Amazing Couple
A woman, concerned by her husband's eccentric behavior, hires a detective to follow his every move -- which yields unexpected results.
release : 2002.09.12popularis : 2.598
One Sings, the Other Doesn't
In this story of friendship and reproductive rights, 14 years in the relationship between two very dissimilar women are chronicled. Pauline is a...
release : 1977.03.09popularis : 7.036
The Cheat
In the docks of Bordeaux a well-known homosexual was murdered. Police Inspector Michel Verta starts investigating, when he falls in love with...
release : 1984.08.08popularis : 4.862
You Will Be My Son
Paul de Marseul, a prestigious wine-maker and owner of a renowned chateau and vineyard in Saint-Emilion, is disheartened by the notion of his son...
release : 2011.08.23popularis : 5.533
Droit de Réponse
"Droit de Réponse" (Right of Reply) is a French debate program broadcast between December 12, 1981 and September 19, 1987 on the TF1 channel,...
release : 1981.12.12popularis : 2.449
Banzaï
Michel works there manically solving people's problems over the phone. He is about to tie the knot with his girl friend Isabelle, an airline hostess....
release : 1983.03.23popularis : 5.752
The Joint Brothers
After he is dismissed from his umpteenth job, Momo is kicked out of the family home by his fed-up father. He immediately joins his buddy Manu, who is...
release : 1986.10.15popularis : 2.765
It's Not Me, It's Him
Pierre Renard is the blackboy of the writer George Vallier. At the time of a reception, the Italian actor Aldo Barazutti takes him for the writer and...
release : 1980.01.23popularis : 4.133
Gros dégueulasse
A fat and disgusting man is rejected by society... A vitriolic adaptation of the famous comic strip by Reiser.
release : 1986.06.26popularis : 2.87
A Crime in Paradise
In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce....
release : 2001.02.28popularis : 7.845
Ville à vendre
A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He teams up with the victim's vulgar assistant to try to...
release : 1992.02.26popularis : 1.604
Seven Deaths by Prescription
Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.
release : 1975.12.03popularis : 3.446
Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre Richard, improbable synthesis of the talking ant...
release : 2005.12.07popularis : 0.88
Amelia Lópes O'Neill
A well-bred young woman who prizes the virtue of fidelity remains faithful to the doctor who deflowers her, even after he marries her invalid sister.
release : 1992.02.05popularis : 4.981
Emmenez-moi au Ritz
The three ex-wives of a real estate developer join forces to get revenge on him.
release : 1977.09.29popularis : 1.288
Venetian Red
Venice. March 1735. The carnival is in full swing Everybody's happy mood and the lively streets are filled with musicians, mimes, clowns and acrobats...
release : 1989.09.20popularis : 1.428
Location Hunting
After 10 years separation from his wife, a film director (Jean-Louis Trintignant), imagines he can make up with her by giving her a part in his next...
release : 1977.11.16popularis : 4.684
Femmes Fatales
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer,...
release : 1976.02.11popularis : 10.423
One to Another
A story about bunch of people who live in a town in provincial France. At the center of it all is Pierre, a conceited and vain bisexual musician in...
release : 2006.07.21popularis : 12.628
Wild Animals
Berg and Bela are married stunt drivers, but one night Bela dies in an accident. Jaded and reclusive, Berg becomes a nighttime security guard where...
release : 1984.04.18popularis : 3.307
Such a Lovely Town...
Stephane (Victor Lanoux) is the mayor of a small village. He is also the manager of the tannery which provides the inhabitants with work. In a fit of...
release : 1979.02.28popularis : 2.479
Rene the Cane
"René la Canne" was the second collaboration between Francis Girod and Ennio Morricone, coming after "Le Trio Infernal" (1974) and before "La...
release : 1977.02.16popularis : 2.003
The Bottom Line
An advertising photographer, François, has agreed to sell the poetic script of one of his friends to a porn-maker without his knowledge. But...
release : 1976.06.16popularis : 5.038
Funny Boy
Micky leaves his provincial and bourgeois background and leaves to live in Paris, where he performs as a transvestite singer in a cabaret.
release : 1987.08.26popularis : 1.999
Brèves de comptoir
A small, old-fashioned cafe in a suburban square, opposite the cemetery, the Hirondelle. Every day at half past six, the customers dance with their...
release : 2014.09.24popularis : 1.743
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970s and 1980s.
release : 2017.09.01popularis : 0.999
The French Trilogy
The French Trilogy showcases a series of 62 photographs taken by Philippe Terrier-Hermann with 25 actors in 6 French regions echoing his previous...
release : 2013.06.08popularis : 2.271
Modern Comforts
Irene is an ordinary married woman living in Amiens, in the North of France. She works in a bank where, one day, she finds herself duty-bound to...
release : 2000.07.12popularis : 1.136
Dose mortelle
Sylvie Drapier is an attractive 40-year old surgeon, specializing in liver transplants, who heads a department in the foremost clinic of a small...
release : 1993.09.17popularis : 3.234
One Day in the Life of Andrei Arsenevich
A documentary about the Russian filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky. The film was an episode of the French documentary film series Filmmakers of our time. The...
release : 1999.05.15popularis : 2.832
L'entraînement du champion avant la course
Fabrice is an otherwise brutish truck driver who loves the disciplines involved in bicycle racing. He's no champion and doesn't appear to care much...
release : 1991.03.25popularis : 0.806
Leopard Ties
The CEO of a recycling company blames lazy staff for declining results. To motivate them, he sends executives to a survival course in the Corsican...
release : 1992.02.06popularis : 1.169
Mother of a Drug Addict
Hélène, a Parisian nursery director, navigates her son Paul's hidden heroin addiction, straining their bond in this poignant tale.
release : 2001.03.18popularis : 1.221
The Sacrifice
Alexander, a journalist, philosopher and retired actor, celebrates a birthday with friends and family when it is announced that nuclear war has begun.
release : 1986.05.09popularis : 9.147
Dora et la lanterne magique
Eleven-year old Dora (Nathalie Manet) is forced to chase after clues concerning her inventor-father's death while being chased by thugs working for...
release : 1978.03.01popularis : 1.38
The Beaches of Agnès
Filmmaking icon Agnès Varda, the award-winning director regarded by many as the grandmother of the French new wave, turns the camera on...
release : 2008.12.17popularis : 12.142
Cold as Summer
A female detective investigates the case of a young mother whose infant left behind has died.
release : 2002.10.02popularis : 3.95
The Pleasure of Love in Iran
An Iranian man and a French woman stroll around the city of Isfahan, Iran and find that their love is mirrored perfectly in the architecture and...
release : 1976.07.06popularis : 1.474
Bunny's Bar
In the cloakroom of Bunny's Bar, a shabby striptease box, Anita, a cloakroom lady, celebrates her last night of work: she has to join Paul in Metz to...
release : 1982.04.14popularis : 1.452
Stand Up Crabs, the Sea Is Rising!
Barely out of prison, where she spent five long years, a pretty prostitute sows disorder in the life of a hitherto peaceful couple.
release : 1983.08.17popularis : 0.927
2 Hours from Paris
A mother never knew who her daughter's father was. When the daughter starts to crave an answer, they both return to their home region of Picardy to...
release : 2018.06.27popularis : 1.739
The French Detective
When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty...
release : 1975.12.10popularis : 7.063
Toussaint Louverture
Toussaint opposes the Spanish army and joins the French troops. On Saint-Domingue he succeeds to push the English back. He proclames himself as the...
release : 2012.02.14popularis : 2.621
Life Without Trick
Popolo, a magician full of spirit who works at a small circus, loses the legs of his beloved assistant Amabilé during the act of the woman cut...
release : 2013.09.25popularis : 1.215
Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
In antique Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar...
release : 1982.10.06popularis : 6.798
Women Are Naturally Creative: Agnès Varda
A documentary about French film director Agnès Varda on the set of her 1977 film ONE SINGS, THE OTHER DOESN'T. It includes interviews with...
release : 1977.12.31popularis : 0.668
The Bird Walker
Since childhood, the farmer's daughter Sarah Minarel neighbors considered a strange child and bullied her. When she grew up and became an attractive...
release : 2007.01.06popularis : 1.967
My Neighbors' Neighbors
An ogre breaks his teeth the day before Saint-Festin, the ogres’ great celebration day. A magician botches his trick of sawing a woman in half,...
release : 2022.02.02popularis : 3.565
Storm Warning
As an unforgettable storm lashes the Breton town of Perros-Guirec, a ten-year-old boy goes missing.
release : 2020.09.18popularis : 1.167
Life Doesn't Scare Me
We follow how four ordinary little girls learn about life, love and all that sort of things.
release : 1999.01.01popularis : 2.093
Sup de fric
Two business students hatch a perfect plan: buy their own school.
release : 1992.07.22popularis : 3.129
The Grand Restaurant III
He had opened his Great Restaurant twice, in 2010 and 2011, as part of an entertainment broadcast on France 2. Pierre Palmade “reopens it after...
release : 2021.02.03popularis : 4.389
Hue and Cry
After the Great War, a wounded Frenchman lives atop a mountain with his wild brother who violates the property of villagers below.A second kind of...
release : 1978.02.22popularis : 0.588
A Souvenir
At a turning point in his life, Thomas Lebey, a famous writer, decides to return to the location of his first love. That was in 1960 in a small...
release : 2009.07.09popularis : 1.015
A Day at the Museum
Un conservateur terrorisé par les plantes vertes, une mère plastifiée pour être exposée, un ballet de Saintes...
release : 2008.11.19popularis : 3.847