Hélène Surgère

Acting

Hélène Surgère

Born 1928-10-20 · France

Hélène Surgère was born on October 20, 1928 in Caudéran, Bordeaux, Gironde, France as Hélène Marcelle Simone Collet. She was an actress, known for Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom (1975), The Divorce (2003) and Time Regained (1999). She died on March 27, 2011 in Paris, France.

Acting credits

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom poster
6.3

Four corrupted fascist libertines round up 9 teenage boys and girls and subject them to 120 days of sadistic physical, mental and sexual torture.

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom

1976

Le Divorce poster
5.0

While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.

Le Divorce

2003

The Bronte Sisters poster
5.8

In a small presbytery in Yorkshire, England, living under the watchful eyes of their aunt and father, a strict Anglican pastor, the Bronte sisters write their first works and quickly become literary sensations.

The Bronte Sisters

1979

Le retour de Christophe Colon poster
9.0

An American passing through France is hosted one stormy night by a couple who soon use his services shamelessly. A very curious way for the young foreigner to find his roots.

Le retour de Christophe Colon

1983

The Bet poster
6.3

Two rival "brothers-in-law" make a bet that they can stop smoking for 2 weeks. But, it's just not that easy...

The Bet

1997

Hunting & Gathering poster
6.5

When Camille falls ill, she is forced to live with Philibert and Franck.

Hunting & Gathering

2007

Fine Manners poster
5.7

Camille, a young, provincial, proletarian man works for Hélène Courtray, who is still beautiful and seductive. She's a sophisticated, cultivated and well-to-do woman who has engaged him to care for her reclusive son who has spent the past few years voluntarily locked up in his room. An encounter between two persons and two worlds where the relationship of the young man to this closed, strange and unknown universe rapidly turns tragedy.

Fine Manners

1978

Intimate Strangers poster
6.3

Because she picked the wrong door, Anna ends up confessing her marriage problems to a financial adviser named William Faber. Touched by her distress, somewhat excited as well, Faber does not have the courage to tell her that he is not a psychiatrist. From appointment to appointment, a strange ritual is created between them. William is moved and fascinated to hear the secrets no man ever heard.

Intimate Strangers

2004

Time Regained poster
6.3

In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.

Time Regained

1999

Australia poster
4.7

Following a stint as a WWII fighter pilot, Belgian-born Edouard falls in love with an Indonesian woman, has a daughter with her and immigrates to Australia, all without the knowledge of his family back home. Years later, his love has passed away, and he's raising his daughter on his own. When his brother calls seeking help with his failing wool-processing company, Edouard agrees to temporarily return home to aid him.

Australia

1989

Salò: Yesterday and Today poster
5.0

A thirty-three-minute documentary featuring interviews with director Pier Paolo Pasolini, actor-filmmaker Jean-Claude Biette, and Pasolini friend Ninetto Davoli.

Salò: Yesterday and Today

2002

That Day poster
5.9

A father is scheming to have his slightly mental daughter from an earlier marriage killed by allowing a murderous psychopath to be released from the asylum and led to his house. However, the psychopath and the daughter fall for each other.

That Day

2003

Loonies at Large poster
7.3

This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former professor Henri Toussaint Piccoli has been locked away in a psychiatric ward for some years for trying to strangle his wife when he found her in bed with another man. Now she has a terminal illness, and wants some sort of reconciliation with him. His therapist (Richard) decides to permit him to visit with her, provided he comes along. Except for his wide mood swings and occasional outbursts of lewd muttering, the professor "passes" for sane fairly easily. Not so the psychotic (Dominique Pinon) who stows away in the psychiatrist's car, who constantly calls attention to the other two.

Loonies at Large

1993

Three Seats for the 26th poster
5.7

Yves Montand, playing himself, returns to his hometown of Marseilles to appear in an autobiographical musical. Once there, he searches for the barmaid he once loved and also encounters young hopeful Marion, giving her the chance of a lifetime.

Three Seats for the 26th

1988

The Strangler poster
6.0

Émile targets women he believes are too depressed to go on living. As multiple victims fall to his suffocating white scarf, an inspector resorts to unorthodox methods to get him with the assistance of a potential victim.

The Strangler

1971

Demandez la permission aux enfants ! poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Demandez la permission aux enfants !

2007

The Marcorelle Affair poster
4.9

François Marcorelle, an investigation magistrate in Chambéry, finds himself in the room of a young Polish girl that he met in a restaurant

The Marcorelle Affair

2000

Lise and Andre poster
6.5

Lise is a Parisian prostitute who has a young son, Sebastien. Lise dotes on her boy, who has a gift for music and sings in a children's choir directed by aging parish priest Father Andre. Sebastien becomes involved in an auto accident that sends him into a coma; after he remains unconscious for three months, Lise begins to panic, desperate for a remedy that medical science can't provide. When she is told of a field in a village in rural France where a miracle is said to have occurred some years before -- an apparition of the Virgin Mary arrived to provide food for a group of starving children -- Lise wants to travel to the site of the miracle to pray for her son. She also insists that Father Andre come along, but the priest is not eager to go, due to his age, his health, and his increasing cynicism about religion. Lise is persistent, however, and before long the two are on the road in search of a much-needed miracle.

Lise and Andre

2000

Bandits poster
5.9

On the day Jean Gabin dies, a kidnaper who also takes a fortune in jewels heisted from Cartiers murders Simon Verini's wife. (Simon was fencing the jewels for a youthful gang who robbed Cartiers; he suspects them of the murder.) He's framed for the theft and spends ten years in prison, writing to his daughter, Marie-Sophie, who's 11 when he's sent away. Released, he reconnects to Marie-Sophie and to the young thieves, seeks revenge, and is quickly arrested again. She doesn't know what to make of her father, retreats to her Swiss fiancé, and is flummoxed when one of the young thieves falls for her. Is resolution possible when crime cuts across families and romance?

Bandits

1987

Drugstore Romance poster
5.8

Pierrot, mechanic in Paris, falls madly for a female chemist his senior—who at first refuses him, only accepting love after being diagnosed with a deadly illness.

Drugstore Romance

1979

Les fortifs poster
9.0

In 1943, the young Jean rejects the Obligatory Work Service and returns to his native suburb. His house being occupied by the Germans, he decides to create an information network and begins to establish dangerous connections... A fair and discreet fresco of the turbulence that shook the intimate and collective life of the Occupation.

Les fortifs

1987

My Life on Ice poster
5.6

Etienne is crazy about ice skating and videoing his daily life with a digital camera. He records his mother, friends, and geography teacher. Initially his intention is to setup a date between his mother and his teacher, however, he starts to realize that he is infatuated with the teacher himself.

My Life on Ice

2003

Qui êtes-vous Paul Vecchiali? poster
NR

A documentary about the French film director Paul Vecchiali.

Qui êtes-vous Paul Vecchiali?

2012

Pick Up Your Belongings poster
5.7

Pierre Cohen, a sophisticated Parisian psychologist, goes to his brother's farm in order to protect it from very hostile local landowners.

Pick Up Your Belongings

1983