After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident. Read More »
Tag Archives: Nathalie Baye
Honeymoon AKA Lune de miel (1985) Patrick Jamain, Nathalie Baye, John Shea, Richard Berry
A Frenchwoman in Manhattan, in danger of being deported because of her relationship with a recently arrested drug offender Read More »
Préjudice (2015) Antoine Cuypers, Ariane Labed, Nathalie Baye, Julien Baumgartner
During a family meal, Cedric, 32, learns that his sister is expecting a baby. Read More »
The Man Inside (1990) Bobby Roth, Jürgen Prochnow, Peter Coyote, Nathalie Baye
Gunter Wallraff is a journalist seeking to expose the unethical journalism practiced by The Standard Read More »
Venus Beauty Institute (1999) Tonie Marshall, Nathalie Baye, Bulle Ogier, Samuel Le Bihan
Madam Nadine manages with pride the “Vénus beauté” Salon which offers relaxation, massage and make-up services. Read More »
Every Man For Himself (1980) Jean-Luc Godard, Isabelle Huppert, Jacques Dutronc, Nathalie Baye
An examination of sexual relationships, in which three protagonists interact in different combinations. Read More »
The Flower of Evil (2003) Claude Chabrol, Nathalie Baye, Benoît Magimel, Suzanne Flon
Anne runs for re-election to the town council, shepherded by Matthieu, her fellow candidate and campaign manager. Read More »
Feelings (2003) Noémie Lvovsky, Nathalie Baye, Jean-Pierre Bacri, Isabelle Carré, Drama, Romance
Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues Read More »
Une étrange affaire / Strange Affair (1981) Pierre Granier-Deferre, Michel Piccoli, Gérard Lanvin, Nathalie Baye, Drama
Louis Coline assists the head of advertising of a department store in decline. Read More »
Une semaine de vacances / A Week’s Vacation (1980) Bertrand Tavernier, Nathalie Baye, Gérard Lanvin, Flore Fitzgerald, Drama
Laurence, a young schoolteacher from Lyons, takes a week’s leave. During the break, she reflects on her career and her personal life.
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Le retour de Martin Guerre / The Return of Martin Guerre (1982) Daniel Vigne, Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye, Maurice Barrier, Biography, Crime, Drama
Avril 1542. Quand Martin revient dans son vilage, après huit ans d’absence, tous le reconnaissent bien qu’il ait beaucoup changé. Pourtant, bientôt, un doute s’installe dans sa propre famille.
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Le petit lieutenant / The Young Lieutenant (2005) Xavier Beauvois, Nathalie Baye, Jalil Lespert, Roschdy Zem, Crime, Drama
When a fresh young police academy graduate from provincial Le Havre volunteers for the high pressure world of the Parisian homicide squad, his schoolteacher wife is reluctant to go with him. He moves into a rooming house that caters to single cops as he embraces his fellow officers as an extended family. He becomes close to an Arab officer and his boss, a very professional but lonely, middle-aged female detective who is also a recovering alcoholic. Routine police procedure gives way to an intensive search among the city’s homeless for an undocumented Russian immigrant who may be responsible for a series of violent crimes.
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Une liaison pornographique / An Affair of Love (1999) Frédéric Fonteyne, Nathalie Baye, Sergi López
They recount their impressions to the Interviewer. They met through a magazine ad, She and He. They corresponded through the Internet. He responded to her ad seeking someone to fulfil her fantasy for “a pornographic affair”. This is their first meeting in a Paris café. He’s a little reticent. She wants to know whether or not he’s hairy. (He is; he’s Spanish.) They retire to a nearby hotel room. The door of the room closes. Unseen, the affair is consummated… They continue to see one another regularly each week. They find they get along well together. Soon she suggests that they try normal sex the next time…
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La gueule ouverte / The Mouth Agape (1974) Maurice Pialat
Monique is dying. Around her gather her unfaithful husband, her son, who is like his father, and her daughter-in-law. We observe them playing with life as she dies.
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La balance (1982) Bob Swaim
Nicole is a Parisian streetwalker and Dede is her racketeer boyfriend, on the outs with his mob bosses because of a dispute over Nicole. When a police informant (“balance”) is murdered, the cops have to scramble for a replacement. Deciding on Dede, they begin to put a nasty squeeze on him and Nicole.
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