Acting

Colette Mareuil

Acting credits

Wicked City poster
5.3

A Canadian sailor becomes a fugitive for love after a night with a woman in Marseille.

Wicked City

1949

The Sensuous Teenager poster
5.0

A young woman falls down a staircase, and suddenly becomes... a nymphomaniac.

The Sensuous Teenager

1971

Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman poster
4.6

Modern-day Don Juan-styled Jeanne prides herself in the destruction of men who have fallen for her charms, and reveals to a priest the murder she has committed and honestly details her past sexual encounters.

Don Juan or If Don Juan Were a Woman

1973

Pleasures and Vices poster
5.7

He was nicknamed Gueule d'ange (Angel's Face) because of his good looks, which enabled him to make a certain amount of money from wealthy ladies. Having given up on touching little Marie, he fell into the clutches of fashionable decorator Loina. Both love money, both go for it. Their characters bind them together. So much so that when Loina falls on hard times, Gueule d'ange would fly to help her. A loyal friend stops him. Loina leaves. Distraught, the handsome boy looks inward. It's time for him to settle down.

Pleasures and Vices

1955

Fernandel the Dressmaker poster
6.3

A modest taylor the women found irresistible inherit a Maison de couture in financial difficulty. Decided to save it he prepare a great collection. But when his wife discovered his relations with one of the mannequin, how would he prevent the scandale without loosing... both of them?!

Fernandel the Dressmaker

1956

All Mad About Him poster
8.0

Mathieu is a mild-mannered man engaged to a woman whose father is involved in running a house of prostitution. When the father dies, Mathieu inherits the bordello and is unprepared for his new position. He overcomes his shyness and becomes a sexual dynamo when his workers feed him some powerful amphetamines.

All Mad About Him

1967

Gates of the Night poster
7.0

In post-Liberation Paris, a man reunites with a friend and meets the woman of his dreams, only to discover her brother's dark past.

Gates of the Night

1946

Déclic et des claques poster
4.5

From their native Algeria, four friends discover Paris, hoping to find fortune and love. One of them meets the charming Sandra, who is looking for meaning in her life.

Déclic et des claques

1965

The Big Softie poster
8.0

A young man who lives with his aunt falls for a free-spirited German model in this uninspired drama. Although he runs off with her for the summer, he returns to his aunt to live off her money after the model and an old flame rekindle their romance. The story unfolds in a series of flashbacks.

The Big Softie

1967

Les jouisseuses poster
3.5

Carol runs a hotel where one of the guests, her lover Mathias is a scientist who has invented a pill which can induce instant euphoria and sexual stimulation. Claude is keen to market the pill, but while Mathias is considering this proposition, he finds Carol making love to Lucy, and in his anger, he destroys the formula.

Les jouisseuses

1974

Hotel of Free Love poster
3.3

Madame Robert makes ends meet by running a boarding house, as her colonel widow's pension is not enough. A Norwegian pensioner, being young and athletic, starts doing gymnastics in the nude, in plain view of all respectable guests. Instead of being horrified, that leads everyone to express their inner selfs, as well as outer skin. Madame Robert can't take this, and expels all the guests, save the young Norwegian man, whom she considers a pure youth who didn't intend to start an orgy. Soon, she falls to his manly charms, and then invites back her lodgers to make the boarding house more pleasant, or rather, a "hotel de plaisir".

Hotel of Free Love

1974

This Man Is Dangerous poster
6.3

On the run from international police, Special Agent Lemmy Caution arrives in the South of France and soon becomes embroiled in a scheme with the infamous gangster Siegella. Whilst seeming to co-operate with the underworld boss, Lemmy is secretly acting for the FBI, and intends using Miranda Van Zelden, a wealthy heiress, as bait to trap a gang of crooks and put an end to Siegella's exploits...

This Man Is Dangerous

1953

The Eleven O'Clock Woman poster
6.2

Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends: the Pescara's. But the father keeps receiving anonymous letters. And soon a mysterious murder is committed. SOS begins to investigate...

The Eleven O'Clock Woman

1948

No artwork available
8.0

Hitchhiking on their vacation with no set destination, two girls are picked up by a man who involves them in rape and murder.

Teenage Teasers

1975

Three Sinners poster
7.0

A man assists his gravely ill wife to die and wants to face justice for this, but his brothers try everything to keep the family's name clean.

Three Sinners

1950

By the Window poster
6.5

Gaston, nicknamed Pilou, has left his native village and Yvette, the girl of his heart, to go to Paris where he has found work as a painter. He is a naive good-natured man who, like most of his fellow-workers, favors a little song or two while he works. For the time being he is busy repainting the exterior of a block of flats and, when he does not sing to pass the time, he looks through the windows, observing the tenants in their daily lives. As time goes by, he goes as far as intervening and changing the course of their lives. In the end, despite having found a lookalike of his fiancée, he returns to her.

By the Window

1948

Drôle de noce poster
6.2

Mr and Mrs Barbezat,Concierges are to marry their only daughter to a butcher's boy. Both the in-laws and the groom have an obsession: come what may, they are keen on honoring their engagements: promises are made to be kept is their motto. And when, on the wedding day, the unfortunate parents cannot provide the newly weds with...the "Mérinos" mattress which is part of the bride's Trousseau ,they are desperate. The husband will spend the whole wedding festivities trying to keep his word.

Drôle de noce

1952

Les trois cousines poster
8.0

To receive the inheritance of his uncle, who died in Brazil, Claude, who has no money, must absolutely marry one of his three cousins.

Les trois cousines

1947

Pleasure Mafia poster
NR

A fictionalized report from the Côte d'Azur. Preparing for vacation (diet and artificial tanning). The vacation route (a hitchhiker has her luggage stolen by a motorist; hitchhikers steal, rape and leave in their victims' cars...). "Dolce vita" in Saint-Tropez. The art of spending a vacation with a minimum of money (prostitution, cheating at gambling, pussies kept by old ladies...). Naturists on the Ile du Levant. Vacation club romance. Drugs (a girl gets stung and falls into a coma next to her friend, already dead). The end of a vacation (a young woman, ruined by her stay on the Riviera, indulges for a day in slaughterhouse prostitution to pay for her return).

Pleasure Mafia

1971

The Two Orphans poster
9.0

A story about two girls who grew up as sisters, were separated and finally met again.

The Two Orphans

1965

Elle voit des nains partout ! poster
4.5

La reine de France meurt en couche. Elle met au monde un petite fille prénommée Blanche-neige. Le roi deçu de n'avoir pas un fils est résolu à faire disparaître sa progéniture mais c'est sans compter sur la protection de nombreux personnages de la littérature enfantine : les fées, Tarzan, Robin des Bois ou d'autres encore...

Elle voit des nains partout !

1982

One Does Not Die That Way poster
9.0

In the studio where the famous director Eric Von Berg reigns, Pierre Vanier, the male star of the film and the lover of Berg's muse, dies while rehearsing a scene. Over the course of a tangled investigation, the culprit is unmasked. This honest dresser is the adoptive mother of Vanier's wife, too unhappy with such a husband. The inspector, moved, concludes a suicide.

One Does Not Die That Way

1946

The Girl's Dead, Man poster
3.3

A young couple discover an ancient book in the attic and start reading the story of the Malemort family: a sombre household set in the nineteenth century in rural France. The old man Deroze plays his violin and tries to seduce the maid. His elder daughter Maxime "qui tue les mouches et deguste en cachette des fruits juteux". Underneath her bourgeois facade her senses are not yet put to rest. There is the rest of this upstairs/downstairs family who is visited by a sea captain who learns of a hidden treasure The storyline of this adult fairy tale is less important than the cinematography and the lyric fairy tale atmosphere that surrounds this movie. A little masterpiece still to be rediscovered.

The Girl's Dead, Man

1974

Destiny poster
7.0

This is the story of two brothers: the good one, the virtuous gent, an acclaimed singer, and the bad one who leads a wild life.

Destiny

1946