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Eliza's Horoscope (1975)
Character: Lila
A young woman arrives to Montreal to find love. A fortune teller tells her that a wealthy man meant for her is right around the corner so she goes looking even among her odd rag tag group roommates.
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Trotsky is Dead (1976)
Character: Natasha
'It's as if the revolution was here again. They are storming the Winter Palace on my own doorstep.' In Palmerston Road, Reading, there is a crisis ...
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Tell Me a Riddle (1980)
Character: Eva
Touching story of elderly couple David and Eva who go on one last journey across the USA when they discover Eva is dying, ending up with their granddaughter Jeannie in San Francisco. Restored in 2022 by the Academy Film Archive and The Film Foundation. Restoration funding provided by the Hobson/Lucas Family Foundation.
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La prossima volta il fuoco (1993)
Character: Mother
The study of semantics has convinced Amedio that things only have relative validity, and that everything is changeable. So it seems, because while on an Italian holiday with his family, he conceives the idea that his aging wife should assume the role of his mother, and his daughter, who has an infant son, should assume the role of his wife and lover. His real mother, an elderly invalid, dies just as this conceit begins to take form, and, inexplicably, the women placidly go along with this odd notion for a time, but eventually return to their former roles.
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Nido de viudas (1977)
Character: Mother
The arrival of some unwanted visitors interrupts the peaceful Cuban home life of sisters Dolores, Carmen and Elvira, as their presence stirs up unwelcome memories.
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Le paradis des riches (1978)
Character: Camille Chevallier
During a trip organized by a municipality to cheer up the loneliness of the elderly in summer, seven "little old men" visit Orly airport and decide to leave one day for Tahiti. Penniless, they get organized by living in the same apartment and stealing from stores to finance their future tropical adventure. But a private detective is on their trail, hired by the local shopkeepers who are fed up with the repeated petty thefts. The "gang" make him disappear and decide to leave for Tahiti.
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Rak (1972)
Character: David's mother
David learns that his mother has cancer and only two months to live. He decides not to let her know.
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Kriss Romani (1963)
Character: Kirvi
The idyllic life of a beautiful gypsy girl is shattered when she runs away from a pre-arranged marriage to a member of her tribe. Away from the safety of her people, she encounters bigotry against her kind. A little girl feels sorry for the missing gypsy beauty and searches for a magic root that can cure the wandering gypsy from her wanderlust and bring her home again. Music, dance, ancient gypsy rituals, and colorful European scenery highlight this feature which takes a decidedly jaundiced view of the racial indignities suffered by the heroine.
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Ce joli monde (1957)
Character: Léa
Pépito runs a gang of thugs with authority. He has a natural son, Gaston, a professor of literature in Aix-en-Provence, whom he has hardly ever seen. Gaston announces himself for Christmas, and Pépito decides to make him look good by moving into his headquarters: a château where the crooks will be able to exercise their talents as composers.
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Jusqu'au dernier (1957)
Character: Marcella Bastia
Just released from prison after serving a six-month sentence, Fernand Bastia goes into hiding. He has indeed double-crossed his gang by keeping part of the product of a robbery for himself. Thanks to his sister Marcella, Fernand has taken refuge in a small circus where she works. There, he falls in love with Gina but also arouses the jealousy of Quedchi, a fairground stall-holder who has seen him hiding the stolen money. After a while, Fredo Riccioni, the boss of the gang and his men, manage to trace him...
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Les Chiffonniers d'Emmaüs (1955)
Character: Bastien's wife (uncredited)
The Emmaüs community opened and functioned thanks to the generous impetus of Abbé Pierre Groues, bringing together a cross-section of the underprivileged: unemployed truck drivers, former paratroopers, young people leaving prison, etc., and underprivileged families. The "ragpickers" manage to make a bit of money by practicing the art of "chine", while the abbé tries his hand at winning radio games. The accident and death of one of them will unite the Emmaus companions even more.
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Escape to the Sun (1972)
Character: Sarah Kaplan
Two young university students wish to escape the oppressive Soviet Union. But their plans are monitored by the KGB, who try to intimidate them. One of them is taken into custody and tortured, which spurs them to make an escape attempt that could cost them their lives
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Mon pote le gitan (1959)
Character: 'La Choute'
The "Védrines", whose head of family is a publisher, are well established in Paris. The "Pittuiti", on the other hand, are gypsies camping out in the suburbs. Young Zita belongs to the tribe and meets Théo Védrines, the publisher's son, a wild seducer. Zita is soon forced to tell her family that she is expecting a child. A scandal for the Pittuiti family, who instruct Zita's brother to apply the law of retaliation, Bruno must in turn seduce the pleasant Gisèle Védrines. And why not? But while Théo gradually becomes an anarchist, Bruno becomes more and more embourgeoise as Védrines discovers in him a real talent for writing. Still, Bruno and Gisèle will be as happy as Théo and Zita ever were.
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Ultimatum (1938)
Character: Irina
About the assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and the beginning of the First World War. Focuses on the relationship between a Serbian officer and his Austrian-born wife and their involvement in espionage between the countries.
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Soft Beds, Hard Battles (1974)
Character: Madame Grenier
In this comedy, set during the Nazi occupation of France, Peter Sellers plays most major male parts, so he stars in nearly every scene, always bumbling in inspector Clouseau-style.
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La Mort d'un tueur (1964)
Character: La mère de Massa
When Massa is released from prison, he's sure that Luciano, an old freind, is responsible for his incarceration. Massa proceeds to keep watch on Luciano, who has been living with Massa's beloved sister Maria. Feeling doubly betrayed because of his unhealthy adoration for Maria, Massa is determined to get back at Luciano and ends up in a deadly game of roulette.
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Maigret a Pigalle (1966)
Character: Rose
Maigret is about to leave for the holidays but a colleague asks him for help in investigating the mysterious murder of a stripper and a noblewoman, both of which took place in Pigalle.
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Il medaglione insanguinato (Perche?!) (1975)
Character: Contessa Cappelli
The titular medallion is a gift presented to young Nicole Elmi. Once the girl places the gift around her neck, she is possessed by the spirit of a dead child who was a murderess.
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Le canard en fer blanc (1967)
Character: Rosa
In South America, airplane pilot François Cartier is searching for treasure for a group of political exiles who helped him escape the death penalty. But the members of the group are being murdered one by one. Having managed to get his hands on the loot, François will use it to exchange it for a beautiful revolutionary with whom he has fallen in love. But the return flight proves particularly perilous.
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A Time for Loving (1972)
Character: Madame Olga
The story of an apartment in Paris and the various people that occupy it over the years.
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Clair de femme (1979)
Character: Sonia Tovalski
Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship.
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Calle Mayor (1956)
Character: Pepita
A small town in Spain, October 1955. Isabel, a 35-year-old dreamer who feels like a failure because she is not married yet, becomes the new target of a group of soulless pranksters.
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Le orme (1975)
Character: Mrs. Heim
Alice, a young translator, finds the real world slowly merging with her recurring nightmares as she tries to solve the puzzle of her recent memory loss. A postcard leads her to the island of Garma where the locals seems to know her. Is she who she thinks she is? And what significance does her dream of an astronaut abandoned on the moon have?
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Weg Ohne Umkehr (1953)
Character: Ljuba
A Russian army officer is haunted by the memory of a girl he met during the war.
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Penelope (1966)
Character: Princess Sadaba
When Penelope gets married to banker James Elcott, she finds him too preoccupied with work to pay much attention to her, so she robs his bank in disguise. After she confesses to her psychiatrist, Greg Mannix, he offers to return the money for her, as he is secretly in love with her. However, he abandons the money when the police approach. Penelope becomes determined to admit to the crime, but neither James nor the police believe her story.
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Le Cavaleur (1979)
Character: Olga
A discontented concert pianist causes all sorts of heartbreak with his egotistical and womanizing antics, and all the people in his life attempt to force him to grow up in this French comedy/drama.
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Les Amants de Montparnasse (1958)
Character: Anna Zborowsky
Biographic film chronicling the last year of the life of the Italian painter Amedeo Modigliani, 1919, who falls in love with a girl from a wealthy family. Her parents are against this relationship and stop financial help. Modigliani worked and died in abject poverty in the Montparnasse Quarter of Paris, France.
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Torn Curtain (1966)
Character: Countess Kuchinska
During the Cold War, an American scientist appears to defect to East Germany as part of a cloak and dagger mission to find the formula for a resin solution, but the plan goes awry when his fiancee, unaware of his motivation, follows him across the border.
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Some Girls (1988)
Character: Granny
While on Christmas break, college student Michael journeys to Quebec City to spend time with his attractive girlfriend, Gabriella. Not long after he arrives, Gabriella breaks up with him, but her two equally gorgeous sisters waste no time showing romantic interest. In the meantime, Michael is left to deal with Gabriella's eccentric grandmother and offbeat father, an academic who spends most of his time naked.
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Le locataire (1976)
Character: Madame Gaderian
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
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Alla mia cara mamma nel giorno del suo compleanno (1974)
Character: Contessa Mafalda
Count Fernando, called Didino, a shy and sexually repressed man, lives under the oedipal authority of countess Mafalda, his bloodsucking and over-controlling mother, until their family hires a new young maid that changes his life.
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Des gens sans importance (1956)
Character: Mme Vacopoulos
During a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman Clothilde who works there. Their friendship soon develops into a passionate love affair, even though Jean is already married and is old enough to be Clothilde’s father. Things take a turn for the worse when Jean loses his job and his wife finds out about his affair. But Clothilde’s predicament is even more distressing...
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Tenderly (1968)
Character: Yolanda's Mother
Childhood friends Franco and Jolanda accidentally meet again after 15 years and both know it is love. This comedy traces their troubled relationship.
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Razzia sur la Chnouf (1955)
Character: Léa, la toxicomane
Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy preceding him, he sets himself to the task of knowing why the French operations were not so profitable - and soon he is master of all links of the organization. He can now get it honed to perfection - or destroy it. Only... the Police are following his every step.
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Les Égouts du paradis (1979)
Character: Charlotte
In July of 1976, the Societé Générale of France was robbed of well over $10 million dollars by a group burrowing through the sewers of Paris. This movie is based on a book by the thieves' mastermind, Albert Spaggiari. The famous theft won the nickname, "the great drain robbery," and this romanticized cinematic retelling of the true story stars Francis Huster as Spaggiari.
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La Femme et le Pantin (1958)
Character: Manuela
Handsome and rich Spanish gentleman abandons his wife and riches for his love of a young girl of poor stock who taunts and degrades him.
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Αλέξης Ζορμπάς (1964)
Character: Madame Hortense
An uptight English writer traveling to Crete on a matter of business finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.
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The Kremlin Letter (1970)
Character: Madam Sophie
After an unauthorized letter suggesting U.S. support for a Russian attack on China is sent to Moscow, a former naval officer and his team go undercover to retrieve it. Their plans are disrupted when a cunning politician raids their hideout.
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A High Wind in Jamaica (1965)
Character: Rosa
In 1870, a Jamaican colonial family sends its children to Britain for proper schooling, but their ship is taken over by pirates, who become fond of the kids.
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Futures vedettes (1955)
Character: Mme. Dimate - mère de Sophie
At the Conservatory of Vienna the students only have eyes for their beautiful singing teacher, tenor Eric Walter.
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Blood Tide (1982)
Character: Sister Anna
An adventurer hunting for treasure in Greece accidentally frees a monster that forces local villagers to sacrifice virgins.
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Moi, fleur bleue (1977)
Character: Countess de Tocqueville
A man hires a P.I. to find a sexy woman he fell in love with. The woman lives with her underage teen sister who dreams about having sex for the first time, but wants a real man. That's when the P.I. shows up and stirs up the household.
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