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Danielle Darrieux is a Actor French born on 1 may 1917 at Bordeaux (France)
Among those, 20 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
Directed by François Ozon
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Comedy thriller, Musical, Crime
Themes Films about families, L'action se déroule en une journée, Feminist films, Films about music and musicians, Christmas films, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, Musical films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Danielle Darrieux, Isabelle Huppert, Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Ledoyen
Roles Mamy
Rating69%
The film is set in the 1950s in a large country residence as a family and its servants are preparing for Christmas. When the master of the house is discovered dead in his bed with a dagger in his back, it is presumed that the murderer must be one of the eight women in the house. Over the course of the investigation, each woman has a tale to tell and secrets to hide.
Directed by Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Animation
Themes Films about children, Films about religion, Political films, Children's films
Actors Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Simon Abkarian, François Jérosme, Gena Rowlands
Roles Marjane's Grandmother (voice)
Rating79%
At the airport Marjane Satrapi (Chiara Mastroianni) is unable to board a plane to Iran. She then takes a seat and smokes. She looks back at her childhood. She remembers the good and bad times with her family, especially all the political issues going on. As a young girl, Marji lived in Tehran and wanted to be a prophet and a disciple of Bruce Lee. Her childhood ambition is the general uprising against the Shah of Iran. Her middle-class family participates in all the rallies and protests. Marji wants to have pride in her future. Marji and a group of friends attempt to attack a young boy whose father, a member of SAVAK, killed Communists for no particular reason. One day, Marji's Uncle Anoush arrives to have dinner with the family after recently being released from his nine-year sentence in prison. Uncle Anoush inspires Marji with his stories of his life on the run from the government, a result of rebelling.
Directed by Maurice Tourneur
Origin France
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Danielle Darrieux, John Loder, Thérèse Dorny, Aimé Clariond, Jeanne Provost, Marcel Carpentier
Roles Katia
Rating58%
1857, la jeune Catherine Dolgorouki, dite Katia, fait la connaissance du Tsar Alexandre II dans le château familial des Dolgorouki. Elle le rencontre à nouveau, deux ans plus tard, à l’Institut Impérial de Smolny où elle est pensionnaire. Défiant les convenances, le Tsar l’emmène en promenade en traîneau. Séduit par sa beauté et son impertinence, il tombe amoureux. Quelques années plus tard, vivant près de la cour, elle devient la maîtresse du Tsar mais très vite Katia doit s’exiler en France par peur du scandale. Invité par Napoléon III, Alexandre II se rend à Paris et retrouve Katia qu’il n’a jamais cessé d’aimer.
Directed by André Cayatte
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Circus films
Actors Danielle Darrieux, Lise Delamare, Monique Joyce, Huguette Vivier, Gabrielle Fontan, Bernard Lancret
Roles Lilian Rander
Rating59%
Lilian Rander, la jolie écuyère du cirque qui vient de s'installer en ville, tourne aisément la tête des hommes. Pour un soir, elle accepte de faire croire qu'elle est amoureuse de René, un rugbyman. Celui-ci veut détourner les soupçons de Guy, son meilleur ami, qui pense, avec raison, que René est l'amant de sa femme, Hélène. Mais une sombre histoire d'impôts contraint le cirque à rester huit jours de plus dans la ville. René et Lilian se fâchent et Guy se charge de les réconcilier. Hélène soupçonne maintenant son mari d'être l'amant de l'écuyère…
Directed by Max Ophüls
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about prostitution, Films based on plays
Actors Jean-Louis Barrault, Simone Signoret, Danielle Darrieux, Daniel Gélin, Serge Reggiani, Odette Joyeux
Roles Emma Breitkopf, la femme mariée
Rating74%
It tells a series of stories about love affairs or illicit meetings involving a prostitute, a soldier, a chambermaid, her employer's son, a married woman, her husband, a young girl, a poet, an actress and a count. At the end of each encounter, one of the partners forms a liaison with another person, and so on.
Directed by Claude Autant-Lara
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion
Actors Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi, Jean Martinelli, Antoine Balpêtré, Alexandre Rignault
Roles Mme de Rénal
Rating66%
L'histoire de Julien Sorel, fils de charpentier, arriviste immortalisé par Stendhal, qui renonce à l'armée pour l'Église mais que l'amour mènera à la guillotine.
Directed by Sacha Guitry
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Daniel Gélin, Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Raymond Pellegrin, Michèle Morgan, Sacha Guitry
Roles Eléonore Denuelle
Rating60%
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
Directed by Sacha Guitry
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical
Themes Histoire de France, French Revolution films
Actors Gérard Philipe, Françoise Arnoul, Sacha Guitry, Danielle Darrieux, Michèle Morgan, Jean Marais
Roles Agnès Sorel
Rating63%
L'histoire de Paris, de ses origines à 1955, racontée à de jeunes étudiants par Sacha Guitry, sous forme de « déclaration d'amour lucide ». Sont notamment évoqués la première rencontre de Charles VII (Paul Colline) et d'Agnès Sorel (Danielle Darrieux), la création de l'imprimerie sous l'impulsion de Louis XI (Sacha Guitry), le Louvre au temps de François Ier (Jean Marais), le vol de la Joconde, la nuit de la Saint-Barthélemy, l'assassinat d'Henri III (Jean Weber) par un moine fanatique, l'abjuration d'Henri IV (Jean Martinelli) à la prière de sa maîtresse Gabrielle d'Estrées (Michèle Morgan), l'embastillement du conseiller Broussel (Pierre Larquey) et celui du jeune Voltaire (Bernard Dhéran), l'énigme de l'homme au Masque de Fer, les évasions de Latude (Robert Lamoureux), les salons littéraires de Mmes Geoffrin (Jeanne Boitel) et d'Epinay (Suzanne Dantès), le règne de Rose Bertin (Sophie Desmarets) sur la mode 1780, l'agonie de Voltaire (Jacques de Féraudy) et son enterrement à la sauvette, la prise de la Bastille commentée par Beaumarchais (Aimé Clariond), l'exécution de Louis XVI (Gilbert Boka) et le procès de Marie-Antoinette (Lana Marconi), les soirées littéraires au café Procope, la Commune de Paris, l'affaire Dreyfus, les premières de Louise et de Cyrano de Bergerac, la découverte du vaccin antirabique par Pasteur...
Directed by Julien Duvivier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Dany Carrel, Jane Marken, Jacques Duby, Olivier Hussenot
Roles Caroline Hédouin
Rating69%
A young provincial, Octave Mouret, arrives in Paris during the Second Empire. Madame Josserand, a society woman who thinks of little other than marrying off her daughter Berthe, sets her sights on him. But Octave has already turned his attention to the married Madame Hédouin, who runs a large department store, "Au Bonheur des Dames", where he is hired as a salesman. She is beautiful, but remains distant despite Octave's efforts to be noticed. Upset, Madame Josserand forces Berthe, against her will, to marry Auguste Vabre, a shopkeeper with little money. Berthe soon becomes Octave's mistress, and Octave applies his commercial talents to straightening out Auguste's finances. Madame Hédouin, now widowed, then realizes the business and romantic possibilities with her handsome young salesman.
Directed by Yves Ciampi
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Météorologie, Transport films, Catastrophe climatique, Disaster films
Actors Jean Marais, Danielle Darrieux, Keiko Kishi, Sō Yamamura, Hitomi Nozoe, Kumeko Urabe
Roles Françoise Fabre
Rating58%
Le personnage central est Pierre Marsac, un ingénieur français qui travaille sur le chantier naval de Nagasaki.
Directed by Julien Duvivier
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Danielle Darrieux, Paul Meurisse, Bernard Blier, Lino Ventura, Robert Dalban, Paul Frankeur
Roles Marie-Hélène Dumoulin
Rating74%
A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin (Danielle Darrieux). The former members of the network have carried on with their lives after the war, but this evening they are going to have to live again a fateful night – the night their leader was killed. He had been betrayed, his name given to the Germans. The search for the traitor puts each personality in the spotlight – and also that of the killed leader, Castille.
Directed by Henri Verneuil
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Jean-Claude Brialy, Claudia Cardinale, Danielle Darrieux, Michèle Morgan, Lino Ventura, Darry Cowl
Roles Marie-Laure Robert-Guichard,
Rating58%
Albertine, une séduisante jeune femme de province en instance de divorce, devient l'objet d'une rivalité entre un médecin fameux, André Challenberg, et un écrivain snob du Paris mondain, Didier Marèze.
Directed by Philippe de Broca, Emmanuel Gust
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Jean Rochefort, Nicole Garcia, Annie Girardot, Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Alric, Carol Lixon
Roles Suzanne Taylor
Rating61%
À travers sa quête perpétuelle de séduction, que cherche en réalité Édouard Choiseul, époux quinquagénaire et pianiste virtuose ?
Directed by Alain Resnais
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Philosophie, Psychologie
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Roger Pierre, Nicole Garcia, Pierre Arditi, Nelly Borgeaud, Danielle Darrieux
Roles Self (archive footage)
Rating75%
The didactic film is built around the ideas of French physician, writer and philosopher Henri Laborit, who plays himself in the film. It uses the stories of three people to illustrate Laborit's theories on evolutionary psychology regarding the relationship of self and society.
Directed by Denys Granier-Deferre
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Films about families, L'action se déroule en une journée, Films about marriage
Actors Jérémie Rénier, Clémence Poésy, Danielle Darrieux, Dominique Lavanant, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Léa Drucker
Roles Madeleine
Rating55%
Bérengère et Vincent, tous deux issus de familles bourgeoises, s'unissent religieusement entourés des leurs. La journée, qui commençait plutôt bien, se dégrade au fil des heures. Le mariage est vécu d'un point de vue différent par certains membres de la famille des jeunes mariés et par les mariés eux-mêmes : secrets, rancœurs, malentendus et quiproquos se succèdent à l'ombre d'un très, très ancien secret… de famille.
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Among those, 20 have good markets following the box office.
Here are the best films classified by number of entries :
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Add to a movie list8 Women (2002)
, 1h51Directed by François Ozon
Origin France
Genres Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical theatre, Comedy thriller, Musical, Crime
Themes Films about families, L'action se déroule en une journée, Feminist films, Films about music and musicians, Christmas films, Films about sexuality, Théâtre, LGBT-related films, Musical films, Films based on plays, LGBT-related films, LGBT-related film, Lesbian-related films
Actors Danielle Darrieux, Isabelle Huppert, Catherine Deneuve, Emmanuelle Béart, Fanny Ardant, Virginie Ledoyen
Roles Mamy
Rating69%
The film is set in the 1950s in a large country residence as a family and its servants are preparing for Christmas. When the master of the house is discovered dead in his bed with a dagger in his back, it is presumed that the murderer must be one of the eight women in the house. Over the course of the investigation, each woman has a tale to tell and secrets to hide.
Persepolis (2007)
, 1h35Directed by Marjane Satrapi, Vincent Paronnaud
Origin France
Genres Drama, Biography, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Animation
Themes Films about children, Films about religion, Political films, Children's films
Actors Chiara Mastroianni, Catherine Deneuve, Danielle Darrieux, Simon Abkarian, François Jérosme, Gena Rowlands
Roles Marjane's Grandmother (voice)
Rating79%
At the airport Marjane Satrapi (Chiara Mastroianni) is unable to board a plane to Iran. She then takes a seat and smokes. She looks back at her childhood. She remembers the good and bad times with her family, especially all the political issues going on. As a young girl, Marji lived in Tehran and wanted to be a prophet and a disciple of Bruce Lee. Her childhood ambition is the general uprising against the Shah of Iran. Her middle-class family participates in all the rallies and protests. Marji wants to have pride in her future. Marji and a group of friends attempt to attack a young boy whose father, a member of SAVAK, killed Communists for no particular reason. One day, Marji's Uncle Anoush arrives to have dinner with the family after recently being released from his nine-year sentence in prison. Uncle Anoush inspires Marji with his stories of his life on the run from the government, a result of rebelling.
Katia (1938)
, 1h29Directed by Maurice Tourneur
Origin France
Genres Drama, Historical, Romance
Actors Danielle Darrieux, John Loder, Thérèse Dorny, Aimé Clariond, Jeanne Provost, Marcel Carpentier
Roles Katia
Rating58%
1857, la jeune Catherine Dolgorouki, dite Katia, fait la connaissance du Tsar Alexandre II dans le château familial des Dolgorouki. Elle le rencontre à nouveau, deux ans plus tard, à l’Institut Impérial de Smolny où elle est pensionnaire. Défiant les convenances, le Tsar l’emmène en promenade en traîneau. Séduit par sa beauté et son impertinence, il tombe amoureux. Quelques années plus tard, vivant près de la cour, elle devient la maîtresse du Tsar mais très vite Katia doit s’exiler en France par peur du scandale. Invité par Napoléon III, Alexandre II se rend à Paris et retrouve Katia qu’il n’a jamais cessé d’aimer.
Twisted Mistress (1942)
, 1h25Directed by André Cayatte
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Circus films
Actors Danielle Darrieux, Lise Delamare, Monique Joyce, Huguette Vivier, Gabrielle Fontan, Bernard Lancret
Roles Lilian Rander
Rating59%
Lilian Rander, la jolie écuyère du cirque qui vient de s'installer en ville, tourne aisément la tête des hommes. Pour un soir, elle accepte de faire croire qu'elle est amoureuse de René, un rugbyman. Celui-ci veut détourner les soupçons de Guy, son meilleur ami, qui pense, avec raison, que René est l'amant de sa femme, Hélène. Mais une sombre histoire d'impôts contraint le cirque à rester huit jours de plus dans la ville. René et Lilian se fâchent et Guy se charge de les réconcilier. Hélène soupçonne maintenant son mari d'être l'amant de l'écuyère…
La Ronde (1950)
, 1h50Directed by Max Ophüls
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Romantic comedy, Romance
Themes Films about sexuality, Films about prostitution, Films based on plays
Actors Jean-Louis Barrault, Simone Signoret, Danielle Darrieux, Daniel Gélin, Serge Reggiani, Odette Joyeux
Roles Emma Breitkopf, la femme mariée
Rating74%
It tells a series of stories about love affairs or illicit meetings involving a prostitute, a soldier, a chambermaid, her employer's son, a married woman, her husband, a young girl, a poet, an actress and a count. At the end of each encounter, one of the partners forms a liaison with another person, and so on.
The Red and the Black (1954)
, 3h6Directed by Claude Autant-Lara
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion
Actors Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Antonella Lualdi, Jean Martinelli, Antoine Balpêtré, Alexandre Rignault
Roles Mme de Rénal
Rating66%
L'histoire de Julien Sorel, fils de charpentier, arriviste immortalisé par Stendhal, qui renonce à l'armée pour l'Église mais que l'amour mènera à la guillotine.
Napoleon (1955)
, 3h2Directed by Sacha Guitry
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Biography, Historical
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, Napoleonic Wars films, French Revolution films
Actors Daniel Gélin, Jean Gabin, Danielle Darrieux, Raymond Pellegrin, Michèle Morgan, Sacha Guitry
Roles Eléonore Denuelle
Rating60%
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
If Paris Were Told to Us (1956)
, 2h10Directed by Sacha Guitry
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Historical
Themes Histoire de France, French Revolution films
Actors Gérard Philipe, Françoise Arnoul, Sacha Guitry, Danielle Darrieux, Michèle Morgan, Jean Marais
Roles Agnès Sorel
Rating63%
L'histoire de Paris, de ses origines à 1955, racontée à de jeunes étudiants par Sacha Guitry, sous forme de « déclaration d'amour lucide ». Sont notamment évoqués la première rencontre de Charles VII (Paul Colline) et d'Agnès Sorel (Danielle Darrieux), la création de l'imprimerie sous l'impulsion de Louis XI (Sacha Guitry), le Louvre au temps de François Ier (Jean Marais), le vol de la Joconde, la nuit de la Saint-Barthélemy, l'assassinat d'Henri III (Jean Weber) par un moine fanatique, l'abjuration d'Henri IV (Jean Martinelli) à la prière de sa maîtresse Gabrielle d'Estrées (Michèle Morgan), l'embastillement du conseiller Broussel (Pierre Larquey) et celui du jeune Voltaire (Bernard Dhéran), l'énigme de l'homme au Masque de Fer, les évasions de Latude (Robert Lamoureux), les salons littéraires de Mmes Geoffrin (Jeanne Boitel) et d'Epinay (Suzanne Dantès), le règne de Rose Bertin (Sophie Desmarets) sur la mode 1780, l'agonie de Voltaire (Jacques de Féraudy) et son enterrement à la sauvette, la prise de la Bastille commentée par Beaumarchais (Aimé Clariond), l'exécution de Louis XVI (Gilbert Boka) et le procès de Marie-Antoinette (Lana Marconi), les soirées littéraires au café Procope, la Commune de Paris, l'affaire Dreyfus, les premières de Louise et de Cyrano de Bergerac, la découverte du vaccin antirabique par Pasteur...
Lovers of Paris (1957)
, 1h55Directed by Julien Duvivier
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Gérard Philipe, Danielle Darrieux, Dany Carrel, Jane Marken, Jacques Duby, Olivier Hussenot
Roles Caroline Hédouin
Rating69%
A young provincial, Octave Mouret, arrives in Paris during the Second Empire. Madame Josserand, a society woman who thinks of little other than marrying off her daughter Berthe, sets her sights on him. But Octave has already turned his attention to the married Madame Hédouin, who runs a large department store, "Au Bonheur des Dames", where he is hired as a salesman. She is beautiful, but remains distant despite Octave's efforts to be noticed. Upset, Madame Josserand forces Berthe, against her will, to marry Auguste Vabre, a shopkeeper with little money. Berthe soon becomes Octave's mistress, and Octave applies his commercial talents to straightening out Auguste's finances. Madame Hédouin, now widowed, then realizes the business and romantic possibilities with her handsome young salesman.
Typhoon Over Nagasaki (1957)
, 1h55Directed by Yves Ciampi
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes La fin du monde, Seafaring films, Météorologie, Transport films, Catastrophe climatique, Disaster films
Actors Jean Marais, Danielle Darrieux, Keiko Kishi, Sō Yamamura, Hitomi Nozoe, Kumeko Urabe
Roles Françoise Fabre
Rating58%
Le personnage central est Pierre Marsac, un ingénieur français qui travaille sur le chantier naval de Nagasaki.
Marie-Octobre (1959)
, 1h35Directed by Julien Duvivier
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Danielle Darrieux, Paul Meurisse, Bernard Blier, Lino Ventura, Robert Dalban, Paul Frankeur
Roles Marie-Hélène Dumoulin
Rating74%
A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin (Danielle Darrieux). The former members of the network have carried on with their lives after the war, but this evening they are going to have to live again a fateful night – the night their leader was killed. He had been betrayed, his name given to the Germans. The search for the traitor puts each personality in the spotlight – and also that of the killed leader, Castille.
The Lions Are Loose (1961)
, 1h38Directed by Henri Verneuil
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Jean-Claude Brialy, Claudia Cardinale, Danielle Darrieux, Michèle Morgan, Lino Ventura, Darry Cowl
Roles Marie-Laure Robert-Guichard,
Rating58%
Albertine, une séduisante jeune femme de province en instance de divorce, devient l'objet d'une rivalité entre un médecin fameux, André Challenberg, et un écrivain snob du Paris mondain, Didier Marèze.
The Skirt Chaser (1979)
, 1h50Directed by Philippe de Broca, Emmanuel Gust
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Actors Jean Rochefort, Nicole Garcia, Annie Girardot, Danielle Darrieux, Catherine Alric, Carol Lixon
Roles Suzanne Taylor
Rating61%
À travers sa quête perpétuelle de séduction, que cherche en réalité Édouard Choiseul, époux quinquagénaire et pianiste virtuose ?
My American Uncle (1980)
, 2h5Directed by Alain Resnais
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Musical, Romance
Themes Philosophie, Psychologie
Actors Gérard Depardieu, Roger Pierre, Nicole Garcia, Pierre Arditi, Nelly Borgeaud, Danielle Darrieux
Roles Self (archive footage)
Rating75%
The didactic film is built around the ideas of French physician, writer and philosopher Henri Laborit, who plays himself in the film. It uses the stories of three people to illustrate Laborit's theories on evolutionary psychology regarding the relationship of self and society.
The Wedding Cake (2010)
, 1h35Directed by Denys Granier-Deferre
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Romantic comedy
Themes Films about families, L'action se déroule en une journée, Films about marriage
Actors Jérémie Rénier, Clémence Poésy, Danielle Darrieux, Dominique Lavanant, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Léa Drucker
Roles Madeleine
Rating55%
Bérengère et Vincent, tous deux issus de familles bourgeoises, s'unissent religieusement entourés des leurs. La journée, qui commençait plutôt bien, se dégrade au fil des heures. Le mariage est vécu d'un point de vue différent par certains membres de la famille des jeunes mariés et par les mariés eux-mêmes : secrets, rancœurs, malentendus et quiproquos se succèdent à l'ombre d'un très, très ancien secret… de famille.