Claire Maurier
Nascimento : 1929-03-27, Ceret, Pyrénées-Orientales, France
História
Claire Maurier (born Odette-Michelle-Suzanne Agramon; March 27, 1929) is a French actress who has appeared in more than 90 films since 1947.
Maurier was born Odette-Michelle-Suzanne Agramon on March 27, 1929 in the French commune of Céret, in the Pyrénées-Orientales region, which is in the southwest of France.
She started her acting career in small film roles at the end of the 1940s. Her first 'main' role came when she portrayed Gilberte Doinel, the mother of the main character in François Truffaut's 1959 film The 400 Blows. Another notable early role of hers was as Christiane Colombey, the bigamist wife of the main character in the 1963 film La Cuisine au beurre.
In 1978, she had a notable role in Édouard Molinaro's film La Cage aux Folles as Simone. In 1981, she was nominated the César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for A Bad Son. She played Madeleine, a seductive older woman.
In 2001, she gained international recognition when she starred as Mme. Suzanne, the owner of the Café des 2 Moulins, the Montmartre bistro where the titular character Amélie Poulain works as a waitress in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie (Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain). The film became the highest-grossing French-language film released in the United States. The film won four César Awards, and was nominated for five Academy Awards. In 2005, she starred as Maryse Berthelot in the French comedy series Faites comme chez vous!.
In 2010, she played the neglectful mother of Gérard Dépardieu's character Germain in Jean Becker's film My Afternoons with Margueritte.
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Hortense Verdier
Between September 1940 and August 1944, luxury hotels are requisitioned by the Germans as staff headquarters, giving the hotels' employees a ringside seat of the enemy's secrets and activities. Such is the case with Royal Palace, run by Maxime and Solange Verdier, in which the Abwerth, the German counter-intelligence service, establishes its HQ.
La mère
Baseado no livro “La Tête en Friche”, de Marie-Sabine Roger.
Quando criança, Germain (Gérard Depardieu) foi chamado de burro na escola por todos e em casa, com sua mãe solteira, não era diferente. A dificuldade de ler se perpetuou numa espécie de bloqueio intelectual. Já adulto, sua vida se resumia a viver de bicos, ainda ser alvo de brincadeira dos amigos e, principalmente, conviver com o eterno desamor da mãe. Contudo, quando Margueritte (Gisèle Casadesus) faz com que as páginas de um livro se abram novamente para ele, este reencontro com o universo das letras amplia seu horizonte e o único limite - agora - será somente a sua vontade.
L'experte
Sam é um motoboy, que como qualquer colega de profissão, não pode ser considerado exatamente como alguém que respeita o tráfego, para o desgosto do seu pai, que é policial de trânsito. Mas o problema de Sam começa quando ele recebe uma missão urgente, que o envolve com criminosos da pesada. Justamente no dia do casamento da irmã de Nadia, sua noiva, que o cobra por mais atenção no relacionamento. Mas ele não tem muita escolha... A corrida que ele vai fazer neste dia será o pior pesadelo de sua vida.
l'agent d'Alice
A novelist, an actress, and a struggling young singer all attempt to make their mark in modern day Paris in director Marc Fitoussi's cynical entertainment industry satire. Bertrand is a French literary professor whose students all know that he is shacked up with pretty math teacher Solange despite the couple's best efforts to keep their relationship under the radar. Though no one in the school much cares for Bertrand's prose, self-flagellating student Frederic is the one notable exception. Meanwhile, as Bertrand struggles to deliver his second novel, recent big city arrival Cora finds that her fondness for outmoded songwriters may be having an adverse effect on her career trajectory. While Cora struggles to make ends meet by working at a popular chain steakhouse, even this attempt to remain afloat ultimately proves disastrous.
Mme Zahn
On the one hand you have Judith Zahn, an arrogant, snobbish, bitchy Parisian editor. On the other hand meet Julien Demarsay: an insecure, timid, young bookseller from the East of France who has just written his first autobiographic novel, with what it takes of navel-contemplating and soul-searching. What do they have in common? Nothing much, except that sex will unite them, ambition part them before true love is born between them at last.
Colette
Gabriel passou quatro décadas gerenciando o Papagaio Azul, uma casa noturna parisiense onde se apresentava como drag queen e onde seu amigo Nicky se apresentava como mágico. Após sua morte, seus afilhados vêm a Paris para cuidar dos detalhes do funeral: Nino, um contador gay que traz seu jovem amante e Marianne, editora de uma conhecida revista feminina. Também estão Simone, ex-mulher de Nicky e mãe de Marianne, e Alice (Catherine Deneuve), outra ex-mulher de Nicky e mãe de Nino. Quando o testamento é lido, para surpresa de todos, a propriedade do cabaré é dada a Nino e Marianne, que não têm o menor interesse de gerenciar uma casa noturna e anunciam que pretendem colocar o local à venda. Nicky deseja manter o Papagaio Azul aberto, mas não possui recursos para comprá-lo, apesar do fantasma de Gabriel visitá-lo frequentemente pedindo que encontre uma solução de impedir que a casa feche.
Grand-mère
Marie
The adventures and misadventures of a group of patients with OCD appointed at the same time.
Ginette
Myriam, a survivor of the concentration camp at Auschwitz, is a filmmaker and journalist who has spent many years living abroad. She takes part in a memorial event at the town hall in Paris commemorating the liberation of the camp, where she wins a flight to Cracow. At first she refuses to accept the prize, then decides to go.
Suzanne
Após deixar a vida de subúrbio que levava com a família, a inocente Amélie muda-se para o bairro parisiense de Montmartre, onde começa a trabalhar como garçonete. Certo dia encontra uma caixa escondida no banheiro de sua casa e, pensando que pertencesse ao antigo morador, decide procurá-lo e é assim que encontra Dominique. Ao ver que ele chora de alegria ao reaver o seu objeto, a moça fica impressionada e adquire uma nova visão do mundo. Então, a partir de pequenos gestos, ela passa a ajudar as pessoas que a rodeiam, vendo nisto um novo sentido para sua existência. Contudo, ainda sente falta de um grande amor.
Mrs. Ménard
Uma família burguesa - incluindo a dominadora e matriarca Madame Menard, a filha rebelde Betty, o filho sem ambições Henri e seu irmão bem-sucedido financeiramente, ainda que perpetuamente irritado, Philippe - se reúne em um restaurante para celebrar o aniversário de Yolande, a esposa tímida de Philippe. À medida que a noite avança, rivalidades amargas e décadas de ressentimentos lentamente se revelam.
Stella
Mathilde
Louis lives alone with his father. When he tries to find his past, he is met with refusals. One day, Louis understands everything, or rather he believes. What if he had been fooled?
A little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her husband Victor, who often goes out at night. Actually, Victor belongs to the Resistance. Soon, Blanche will be a resistant too. In the network, there is also Germinal, the hairdresser. His daughter Marie knows everything and asks to be part of it... Chronicle of the occupation and of the resistance through the eyes of the women.
Cécile
Marthe
The story of Itineraire Bis has no singular plot line, but swings back and forth between the adventures of a young man who wants to buy a pizza truck and the lives of two middle-aged brothers living in an enormous house. One of the brothers is wheelchair-bound and eventually makes the acquaintance of the pizza-driving aspirant and decides to give him the money he needs -- though this act of generosity in no way shields him from his own destiny. Other characters wander in and out of the story, such as Jeanne (Martine Kalayan), the young man's lover.
Alice Martell
Three generations, the Chic, the Bumpkin and the New confront in a bourgeois family in Paris.
Régine
Madeleine
Bruno é libertado da prisão. Ele procura emprego e tenta começar uma nova vida. Sua primeira parada é no apartamento de seu pai.
Muriel
Creuzeville, uma pequena cidade provinciana com seus bosques, seus campos, suas muralhas, sua missa e seus bolinhos de domingo. Um estranho chega. Ele é um investigador particular em Creuzeville, sobre o qual reina uma antiga família de industriais, um assassinato acaba de ser cometido. A vítima é o ancestral fundador deste pequeno império que superou um homem. Em Creuzeville, dificilmente gostamos de estrangeiros, especialmente se forem vegetarianos, talvez homossexuais, sem dúvida anarquistas como, precisamente, este detetive. No entanto, o detetive por quem o escândalo quebrou quebrou o silêncio da cidade ao ir ao coração de segredos de família até então bem escondidos atrás de persianas roxas. Os assassinatos se sucedem. Atacamos à esquerda - um jovem ecologista - como à direita - um playboy cínico. Continuando a dissecar os móbiles e os personagens, o detetive largou as máscaras uma a uma. E, pouco a pouco, o medo e a violência vão se instalando na pequena cidade.
Simone Deblon
Casal gay muda seu estilo de vida para impressionar os futuros sogros do filho de um deles.
Armance Dupon
Paula
Lise
In order to get to know his two French collaborators better, Henry Wydmark, director of a large American company, invites them to spend a weekend in the Alps. They consider this trip to be part of their job. But as the wife of one and the husband of the other are not free, they do not hesitate to leave their "heart under the mat" and hire one a husband of convenience and the other a wife fictitious. This misunderstanding will trigger a cascade of disasters.
Mauricette, la femme de Louis
Nelly Cerutti
Barely out of the psychiatric hospital where he went to seek care, Gilbert Nodier commits several assaults to have some money.
Caroline Sinclair
Christine
Germain, a great seducer, collects the mistresses. There are four, all brown, and all married. When the husband of one of them disembarks to threaten him with death, he must break up. But with which? The gouailleur Robert Lamoureux interprets this man who does not like to leave women.
Irène
Uma tragédia muda a vida de Marie, que começa a se prostituir para conseguir se sustentar. Sua decisão abala a pequena e pacata aldeia onde vive.
Micheline Camus
Arsène Baudu and Hyacinthe, a pair of small-time crooks, fall prey to Alexandre Larsan-Bellac, who involves them (against their will) in high-profile swindling, but their success is quite limited. For starters they are deceived by Mrs. Paterson, a charming widow. Later on, Ribeiro, a Portuguese contractor and former victim of the two crooks, traces them and forces them to work on one of his building sites for damages. Just then, Larsan-Bellac resurfaces with plans to lure Ribeiro once again. —Guy Bellinger
Die Herzogin
Ninon de Lenclos
Angelique is saved by the king of the cutthroats when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman.
Christiane Colombey
After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disparition, his wife as made her life with a norman chef, sympathetic but a specialist of butter's cooking when Fernand cook only with oil!
Claire
Olivier, a handsome but callow and moody young student, picks up an enthusiastic actress during a theatre rehearsal, and is introduced to her acquaintances -- a group of jaded rich kids who spend their time storming around the Riviera harassing passersby, throwing wild parties and following all the latest trends. When sexy Elke gives him the eye, he leaves the actress in the lurch and joins the gang for a decadent party aboard a yacht. However, Elke's wanton ways and Olivier's inexperience do not mesh, and in a snit, he accidentally sets the yacht afire. The gang wreaks its vengeance by luring him into a dangerous contest of bravura on a construction site.
Marina Larsen
Claire Médina-Etiévant
Viviane
Philippe, a little known artist, has a mistress, Viviane, a woman he does not love. When he learns the bailiffs are about to seize his paintings, Philippe decides to leave alone for the French Riviera and spend, as he regularly does, comfortable and carefree holidays in the luxurious villa of his friend Paule. But, on his way, he meets Manette, a beautiful but poor girl to whom he offers to become his companion for the Summer. Manette accepts the strange deal in exchange for bed and board. As Philippe always comes in the company of his mistress of the time, the presence of Manette does not pose a problem. But the young woman soon feels ill-at-ease in such a dubious environment. moreover, she realizes that she is falling in love with Philippe, who might not be so cynical as he wants to appear... - Written by Guy Bellinger on IMDB
June Chalmers
The director of the Rome office of an American news agency is seduced by his boss' daughter, who subsequently ends up dead at the foot of a cliff. Film adaptation of James Hadley Chase’s 1956 noir thriller novel You Find Him, I'll Fix Him.
Gilberte Doinel
Antoine Doinel, a figura representativa do cinema de Truffaut, vive uma infância marcada pela ausência dos pais, a severidade dos professores e pequenos delitos. Baseado nas próprias experiências do diretor, o filme fez parte da inovação cinematográfica que deu origem à Nouvelle Vague.
Ghislaine
Rich industrialist Jacques Decret learns his wife Gloria is having an affair with a young actor. For revenge, he bombards her with anonymous letters, convincing her that her lover is the culprit while Gloria desperately seeks a way out.
Caroline Herblay
Une Parisienne é um filme de comédia francês de 1957 dirigido por Michel Boisrond e estrelado por Brigitte Bardot.
Le mannequin espagnol
At Christmastime, the love affairs of five clothing models working for Pierre Roussel, a renowned Paris fashion designer. Marlène hesitates between two suitors. Blanche, who loves Jean, Roussel's son, wants him to talk to his father about their relationship. Catherine learns that her lover has a wife and two kids. Jeannette throws herself into the arms of an Oriental prince. In despair the fifth one attempts to commit suicide...
Alexandrine Dupont
A group of French filmmakers travel to Andalucia for film a movie titled" Beauty of Cadiz". It stars are Carlos, a famous heartthrob, and an unknown gypsy named Maria-Luisa.
Jeannette, Caroline's chambermaid
Caroline de Bienre, the 16-year-old daughter of French nobility, meets the handsome rogue, Gaston de Sallanches, who is expected to ask for the hand of her older, plainer sister in marriage. Gaston instead joins Caroline in her secret hiding place in the château's attic, where the infatuated Caroline begins an affair with him. Meanwhile, she is being courted by the dull, sincere Livio, but holds him off since she is in love with Gaston. When the revolution of 1789 breaks out Caroline is sent to a convent but her carriage is waylaid. She escapes and makes her way to Gaston's home, where she finds him in the arms of his mistress. She is angry and then agrees to marry Livio, now an out-of-favor revolutionary and a marked man, and Caroline is also now on the death list.
A girl
With the help of a social worker and Isabelle, Pierre, a delinquent influenced by Marcelle, undertakes a slow and difficult reintegration.
Germaine de la Boëtie
Anatole, quivering nostrils and greedy lips, is the resourceful clerk of Mrs. Paufilat, a butcher. It takes a fancy to take on the identity of the Paufilat son, Paul. He must then undergo the assaults of the tumultuous Germaine, exhilarated by the money of Paul Paufilat.
