Dominique Davray
Dominique Davray (born Marie-Louise Gournay; 27 January 1919 in Paris – 16 August 1998 in Paris) was a French actress. She performed in more than ninety films from 1942 to 1983. Source: Article "Dominique Davray" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Le gang
In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the front-wheel drive gang". The police attempt to stop their crime spree with little success, but how long will their luck last?
L'aile ou la cuisse
Charles Duchemin is an exquisite restaurant owner and runs a magazine of fine French dining. He is an expert of tasting food and when arch enemy Jacques Tricatel opens a fast-food restaurant that sells fabricated French meals, Duchemin fells challenged and must prove that he is the best. A cult French comedy with Louis de Funès.
Les valseuses
Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeoisie holds dear, whether it’s cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor.
Le gendarme en balade
The entire squad of gendarmes from Saint-Tropez has been retired. But there is no such power that could stop them from protecting the law and public order.
Le tatoué
An art dealer wants to buy a Modigliani, which is tattooed on the back of an old soldier.
Le gendarme se marie
The gendarme Cruchot meets the widow Josepha. They quickly fall in love but Cruchot's daughter doesn't like Josepha and is determined to prevent the wedding by all means necessary.
Les grandes vacances
Monsieur Bosquier, the owner of a private school, is far from pleased when his eldest son, Philippe, fails his end of year exams. He decides to send his wayward offspring to England to improve his English. In exchange, Philippe’s host, a wealthy whisky distiller, Mac Farrel, will send his daughter, Shirley, to live with the Bosquiers in France.
Paris au mois d'août
A man is alone in Paris during the month of August while his woman and children go on vacation. He meets a young English girl posing as a model who came to Paris for a shoot.
Piège pour Cendrillon
Based on Sébastien Japrisot's novel, the story revolves around a young girl who suffers from amnesia after surviving a terrible fire.
Coplan prend des risques
In a factory working for the National Defense, an employee steals a prototype. In charge of the investigation is Francis Coplan.
Mélodie en sous-sol
Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He enlists a former cell mate, Francis, to assist him in pulling off one final score, a carefully planned assault on the vault of a Cannes casino.
Les tontons flingueurs
La vie de Fernand Naudin, ex-truand devenu depuis petit propriétaire d'une usine de tracteurs, est bouleversée quand son ami d'enfance, un gangster notoire, l'appelle à son chevet...
Du mouron pour les petits oiseaux
In a building close to the Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris, a tale of criss‑crossings in turn romantic, gourmet, interested or mystical, between an Italian gigolo and a nightclub hostess, a family of butchers and an apprentice rocker, a mystic tailor, a writer sending himself telegrams, an alert paralytic woman, a thoughtful concierge, a…
Le bateau d'Émile
Charles-Edmond, the eldest of the Larmentiel brothers, decides to return to La Rochelle, his hometown to die there. Forty years earlier he had been driven out by his father. Before passing away, the old eccentric announces that he has a hidden son, Émile, a fisherman to whom he wishes to bequeath his property.
Cléo de 5 à 7
Agnès Vardas’ first feature film is an hour an a half from the life of singer Cléo in which she walks through Paris while waiting the results of a cancer test. The film showed the Nouvelle Vague the first woman to become famous from the film school.
Cartouche
In the 18th century, Louis de Bourguignon is working with the Malichot's gang, but their ways are too 'unethical' for him. He creates his own band, acting under the name of Cartouche, making audacious robberies of the rich people, and even distributing the takings with the poor.
Terrain vague
Director Marcel Carné's 1960 look at juvenile delinquency, a pressing social issue in France at that time. Based on "Tomboy", an American pot-boiler novel by Hal Elison.
Maigret tend un piège
Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't molested. As the famed police inspector Jules Maigret pieces the clues together, he comes to realize that for the elusive man that he suspects to be unmasked, he has to set him a trap.
Touchez pas au grisbi
An aging, world-weary gangster is double-crossed and forced out of retirement when his best friend is kidnapped and their stash of eight stolen gold bars demanded as ransom.
Papa, maman, la bonne et moi...
The film tells how a young lawyer Robert Langlois fell in love with a student Catherine and how they both managed to "tame" their parents and get their consent to marriage.
Suivez cet homme
While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier (Bernard Blier) recalls two of his most-celebrated cases. The first involves duplicitous moneylender Olga (Suzy Prin). The second concerns the brutal broad-daylight murder of innocent young Yvonne (Veronique Deschamps).
Casque d'or
Ispirato ad una storia vera. Parigi, fine Ottocento. La bella prostituta Marie vive nel quartiere di Belleville ed è soprannominata Casco d'oro per via dei suoi meravigliosi capelli biondi: il suo amore è conteso da due uomini, un mite falegname ed il protettore della ragazza.
Le passe-muraille
Léon Dutilleul est un excellent homme qui se découvre le don de passe-muraille. Un jour, il tombe éperdument amoureux d'une souris d'hôtel qu'il essaye de subjuguer en se faisant passer pour le fameux gangster Garou-Garou. Cela le mène tout droit en prison... Une rigolade pour lui de s'en échapper.
Maya
Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance) who is all things to all men. No matter what sort of woman her client wants, she will become that woman -- at least for the night.
Le diable boiteux
Evocation, avec tout l'esprit de Guitry mais aussi celui de Talleyrand, de la vie de ce dernier, qui passe du service de la republique à celui de Bonaparte et de celui de Napoleon à celui de la royauté, avec pour seul but la grandeur de la France.
La duchesse de Langeais
Edwige Feuillère and Pierre Richard-Willm star in director Jacques de Baroncelli's adaptation of the Balzac novella The Duchesse de Langeais, which tells the tale of a Parisian socialite who is romantically pursued by a Napoleonic war hero. With a screenplay by Jean Giraudoux.