Françoise BrionFilmography

Born:: January 29, 1938 in Paris, France
Occupation:: Actor

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Housewarming

Actors: Carole Bouquet, Giulia Dussolier, Ferdinand Chesnais, Sotigui Kouyaté, Jean-Pierre Castaldi

Synopsis: In Housewarming (the original title of which translates as Remodeling: You Know When It Starts...), Carole Bouquet stars as Chantal Letellier, a wealthy, powerful, and happily divorced Paris attorney who devotes a lot of her time to helping the city's poorly treated immigrants. Chantal literally Read More

2005
Dangerous Liaisons

Actors: Catherine Deneuve, Rupert Everett, Nastassja Kinski, Leelee Sobieski, Danielle Darrieux

Synopsis: French filmmaker Josée Dayan directs the erotic drama Les Liaisons Dangereuses, based on the 18th century novel by Choderlos de Laclos and updated by screenwriter Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt. A co-production of France and Canada, this French-language television miniseries is reimagined with a swinging Read More

2003
Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud

Actors: Emmanuelle Béart, Michel Serrault, Jean-Hugues Anglade, Charles Berling, Claire Nadeau, Danièle Lebrun

Synopsis: Almost a follow-up to director Claude Sautet's Un Coeur en Hiver (1992), Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud further explores repressed emotions and failed relationships. Nelly (Emmanuelle Béart), an attractive young woman, is six months behind in her rent and struggling with odd jobs, while her husband (Charles Berling Read More

1995
Vincennes Neuilly

Actors: Philippe Etesse, Anne Kessler, Françoise Brion, Henri Garcin

1991
Rue Du Bac

Actors: Geneviève Bujold, Vincent Vallier, Françoise Brion

1990
French Lesson

Actors: Jane Snowden, Alexandre Sterling, Jacqueline Doyen, Raoul Delfosse, Jeanne Herviale, Oystein Wiik

Synopsis: The French Lesson was released in some markets as The Frog Prince. Studying at the Sorbonne, young British lass Jenny (Jane Snowden) lives with a rural, respectable French family. Her head full of curious romantic notions, Jenny would like to surrender her virginity, but only when the "right" boy Read More

2/21/86
The Mysterious Death of Nina Chereau

Synopsis: In this drama, a woman is tried and convicted of murder. Though she swears her innocence, the judge sentences her to life in a mental institution. Ten years pass and she doesn't change her story. This causes a sympathetic psychiatrist to believe her and begin fighting for her release. ~ Sandra Read More

1986
La Tentation d'Isabelle

Actors: Ann-Gisele Glass, Fanny Bastien, Jacques Bonnaffé, Xavier DeLuc, Françoise Brion

Synopsis: In this argumentative, fractious drama about a warped sense of male-female love, Bruno (Jacques Bonnafe) who is clearly not playing with a full deck, devises a means to test the love of his girlfriend Isabelle (Ann Gisel Glass). Since Isabelle had been in love with Alain (Xavier Deluc) in the Read More

1985
Attention, Les Enfants Regardent

Actors: Alain Delon, Françoise Brion, Sophie Renoir, Richard Constantini

Synopsis: This disturbing French drama comments upon the effects of excessive television violence on children. It's set within a seaside villa, where under the care of a nanny, a group of children spend most of their days watching violent television shows. One day they all go to the beach. The nanny dozes Read More

1978
Le Point De Mire

Actors: Annie Girardot, Jacques Dutronc, Matthias Habich, Jean-Claude Brialy, Françoise Brion

Synopsis: Without knowing it, newspaper photographer Daniele (Annie Girardot) is caught up in a complex international situation involving super-secret conflicts between NATO, the CIA and the Pentagon. An American politician, whom she has been photographing, is the target of an assassination conspiracy. Her Read More

1977
Néa: A Young Emmanuelle

Actors: Ann Zacharias, Sami Frey, Micheline Presle, Françoise Brion

Synopsis: Chafing under her suppressive parents, Nea begins keeping a secret diary, recording her innermost erotic yearnings. When imagination proves inadequate, she decides to experience first-hand the things she's previously only fantasized about. Nea eases into her sexual adventures out of boredom rather Read More

1976
La Traque

Actors: Mimsy Farmer, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean-Luc Bideau, Michel Constantin, Michel Lonsdale

Synopsis: When a young Englishwoman (Mimsy Farmer) crosses the paths of an annual hunting party, two of the hunters rape and try to kill her. She manages to shoot one of them and escape. The rest of them decide to hunt her down. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide Read More

5/14/75
Adieu Poulet

Actors: Lino Ventura, Patrick Dewaere, Victor Lanoux, Françoise Brion, Claude Rich

Synopsis: In truth, there are two French Detectives in this European crime melodrama. Lino Ventura plays an aging, been-around gumshoe, while Patrick Dewaere is his young, callow and cynical associate. The two detectives don't like each other much at first, but this will change. Their current assignment Read More

1975
Vanda Teres

Actors: Françoise Brion, Vania Vilers

Synopsis: The boy in this film lived quite happily on his family's Indochinese rubber plantation. Then, during World War II, the plantation was occupied by the Japanese. The occupying officer, refusing to tell his men of the Emperor's surrender, retains control of his force and forces the boy's father to Read More

1975
Rosebud

Actors: Peter O'Toole, Richard Attenborough, Cliff Gorman, Claude Dauphin, John V. Lindsay

Synopsis: Based on a novel by Joan Hemingway and Paul Bonnecarrere, Rosebud opens with five young women vacationing aboard a luxurious yacht called the Rosebud. All five of the women are the daughters of wealthy and powerful men; one of them is the daughter of an influential American senator. Their vacation Read More

1975
Les Bijoux De Famille

Actors: Françoise Brion, Corinne O'Brian, Jacqueline Staup, Michel Fortin, Alexandre Rignault

1975
Caravan to Vaccares

Actors: Charlotte Rampling, David Birney, Michel Lonsdale, Marcel Bozzuffi, Michael Bryant

Synopsis: This glossy Alistair MacLean action programmer concerns the machinations involved in smuggling an Eastern European scientist out of France and into the United States while being pursued by gang of international pirates, who want the scientist for themselves so that they can grab the secrets that Read More

1974
Le Sourire Vertical

Actors: Françoise Brion, Francois Perrot, Henri Serre, Oliver Hussenot

Synopsis: A kaleidoscope of images from history populate this skillfully animated French feature. The story concerns a history professor whose ideas about human history cause him distress. Amid a flurry of newsreel-type images, Joan of Arc's trial is shown. Another theme which emerges is of two ages (in the Read More

1973
La Chambre Rouge

Actors: Françoise Brion, Sharon Gurney

Synopsis: In this Belgian/French romance, based on the novel by Françoise Mallet-Joris, Tamara (Françoise Brion), a sex-hungry and ambitious woman "on the make," trifles with the affections of Lena (Sharon Gurney), in order to gain affection with Lena's wealthy father. When Tamara and the father are wed Read More

1973
Les Soleils de l'Île de Pâques

Actors: Norma Bengell, Françoise Brion, Jacques Charrier, Maurice Garrel

Synopsis: An international group of travelers trek around the world, from France to Brazil and Chile and, finally, to Easter Island, where some of their number are chosen to meet aliens who resemble small suns. One man who was not chosen tags along uninvited. For punishment, he is given the task of guarding Read More

1972
Un Beau Monstre

Actors: Helmut Berger, Virna Lisi, Charles Aznavour

Synopsis: Helmut Berger is Alain, a real sicko, who may be so because his mother was a prostitute. He can only make love with a "decent" woman when she is drugged senseless, though he can manage one-time encounters with prostitutes and also gladly suffers the abuse of his boyfriends. He seems to have Read More

1971
To Grab The Ring

Actors: Ben Carruthers, Al Mancini, Vladek Sheybal, Françoise Brion

Synopsis: This film takes a decidedly satirical look at the inner workings of the gangster underworld. Alfred Lowell (Ben Carruthers) is a washed-up actor sent to London to take care of some mob business. Alfred's mind is not on his job, as he prefers to probe his past for the reasons why he has failed as a Read More

1968
La Blonde de Pekin

Actors: Mireille Darc, Claudio Brook, Edward G. Robinson, Pascale Roberts, Françoise Brion

Synopsis: The third film from director Nicolas Gessner, this espionage drama is a filmed adaptation of the novel You Have Yourself a Deal by James Hadley Chase. Mireille Darc stars as Christine, a mysterious blonde suffering from amnesia who becomes the focus of international attention as rival spies Read More

8/25/67
Alexandre le Bienheureux

Actors: Philippe Noiret, Françoise Brion, Marlène Jobert, Paul Le Person

Synopsis: This amiable French comedy stars Philipe Noiret as Alexander, an shiftless farmer who prefers sleep to work. After his nagging wife dies, Alexander becomes even lazier. The farmer becomes entranced by a beautiful young woman, and proposes marriage. But when his prospective wife gives evidence of Read More

1967
The Immoral Moment

Synopsis: In this French crime drama, an ex-Resistance fighter has a ruined reputation after he succumbed to Nazi torture during the war and spilled vital information. After the war, he witnesses a killing and finds himself considered the prime suspect. He is brought in for questioning. The leader of an Read More

1967
Attack of the Robots

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Françoise Brion, Sophie Hardy, Fernando Rey

Synopsis: This entertaining spy comedy marks the first appearance of suave secret agent Al Pereira, portrayed here by actor-singer Eddie Constantine, best known as the similar Lemmy Caution in Alphaville and other films. Cult director Jesus Franco's final black-and-white film has Pereira on the trail of Read More

1966
Un Mondo Nuovo

Actors: Christine Delaroche, Nino Castelnuovo, Tanya Lopert, Madeleine Robinson, Georges Wilson, Pierre Brasseur

Synopsis: A beautiful free-lance photographer meets and falls in love with a French medical student at a fancy ball and becomes pregnant after their passionate tryst. Now the formerly free-wheeling student finds himself facing a difficult situation. He decides that the woman should abort the child, and so Read More

1966
Dragées Au Poivre

Actors: Guy Bedos, Sophie Daumier, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Francis Blanche, Jacques Dufilho

Synopsis: Director Jacques Baratier's Sweet and Sour is an independently produced project with a surprising amount of European movie-industry input. Guy Bedos, a Brando wannabe, plays one of several young French cineastes who take to the streets to make improvisational movies. The "cinema verite" quality of Read More

9/4/63
L'Immortelle

Actors: Françoise Brion, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Guido Celano, Catherine Robbe-Grillet

Synopsis: French avant-garde novelist Alain Robbe-Grillet, who previously wrote the screenplay for the ground-breaking L'Annee Derniere a Marienbad, made his directorial debut with this allegorical drama. A man known as N (Jacques Doniol-Valcroze) encounters L (Francoise Brion), a mysterious woman who may Read More

3/24/63
The French Game

Synopsis: In this romance, a youthful painter, vacationing in the French Riviera, falls in love with a beautiful woman who, unfortunately, has come there to tryst with her older, married lover, a Chilean diplomat. To her disappointment, he does not come, so the painter and the girl team up and begin Read More

1963
Codine

Actors: Françoise Brion, Nelly Borgeaud, Maurice Sarfati

Synopsis: An ex-convict struggles to survive by brute force alone in a turn-of-the-century slum in Bucharest. Codine (Alexandre Virgil Platon) is the thug who served 10 years for murdering a friend. He returns home to his miserly mother, whose penny-pinching ways infuriate her son. A young boy looks up to Read More

1963
Les Parisiennes

Actors: Françoise Arnoul, Françoise Brion, Darry Cowl, Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Ary, Henri Tisot, Dany Robin

Synopsis: The French omnibus feature Tales of Paris is made of four separate romantic playlets, each with its own cast, director, and scenarist. "The Tale of Ella," directed by Jacques Poitrenaud, stars Dany Saval as an ambitious nightclub performer who very nearly messes up her chances for success by Read More

1/17/62
Et Satan Conduit le Bal

Actors: Françoise Brion, Catherine Deneuve, Jacques Perrin, Bernadette Lafont

Synopsis: In a complex sequence of romantic musical chairs, this routine, New Wave style drama looks at a series of couples that have come together for awhile in the villa of a wealthy tycoon who has a few emotional hang-ups. The business magnate has fallen for a sudsy, superficial actress, but she is not Read More

1962
A Game for Six Lovers

Synopsis: In this convoluted drama, a young woman and two cousins, whom she doesn't know, find that they are named as beneficiaries in their grandmother's will. The young woman, because she's never met them, mistakes a friend of her cousin, for her cousin. Meanwhile a maid begins sleeping with the butler Read More

1962
La Denonciation

Actors: Maurice Ronet, Françoise Brion, Nicole Berger, Sacha Pitoeff

Synopsis: A few gratuitous erotic scenes undermine the supposed seriousness of this routine drama of murder and intrigue by director Jacques Domiol-Valcroze. The past comes back to haunt a young film producer when he makes an unexpected return trip to a nightclub one afternoon and discovers a murder victim. Read More

1961
Lemmy Pour Les Dames

Actors: Eddie Constantine, Françoise Brion, Robert Berri

Synopsis: Lead Eddie Constantine first began his stint as Lemmy, the hard-drinking, hard-fighting, womanizing American agent, back in 1951. He continues in that well-established role in this routine spy story about blackmail and state secrets. While Lemmy is relaxing on vacation, a woman is murdered and he Read More

1961
Le Coeur Battant

Actors: Françoise Brion, Jean-Louis Trintignant, Raymond Gerome

1960
Comment Qu' Elle Est

Actors: Eddie Constantine, André Luguet, Françoise Brion, Françoise Prevost

Synopsis: This "B"-grade spy drama features the ubiquitous Eddie Constantine as Lemmy (a favorite role), the special agent who has an unbounded capacity for Scotch and women, though not necessarily in that order. Lemmy has come to France to help the secret police track down a dangerous spy. His ability to Read More

1960
L'Eau A La Bouche

Actors: Bernadette Lafont, Françoise Brion, Alexandra Stewart, Jacques Riberolles, Michel Galabru

Synopsis: In this standard comedy of sex and odd manners, a few men and women converge on a picturesque chateau for the reading of a will and then start pairing off. One of the women lives with her successful photographer-boyfriend, and she arrives at the chateau because she is supposed to have inherited Read More

1960
Katia

Actors: Romy Schneider, Curd Jürgens, Pierre Blanchar, Monique Melinand, Gabrielle Dorziat, Françoise Brion

Synopsis: Feeling hamstrung and confined by Hollywood, writer/director Robert Siodmak returned to Europe to make most of his latter-day films. Produced in France, Magnificent Sinner stars Curt Jurgens as Czar Alexander II, with Romy Schneider as schoolgirl Katja. The Czar takes Katja as his mistress Read More

1959
Le Bel Age

Actors: Jean-Claude Brialy, Françoise Brion, Jacques Doniol-Valcroze, Françoise Prevost

Synopsis: Director Pierre Kast is known for his cinematic portrayals of personal relationships, and this low-on-budget, high-on-talk drama focuses only on that theme. Episodes vary, as a small group of men tell their version of a romance and then the distaff side relives the same experiences from their Read More

1959
Le Saint Mene La Danse

Actors: Felix Marten, Jean Desailly, Nicole Mirel, Françoise Brion

1959

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