Sylvie Joly

Acting

Sylvie Joly

Born — Died

1934-10-28 — 2015-09-04

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

57 titles

Sylvie Joly (18 October 1934 – 4 September 2015) was a French actress and comedian. She was best known for her roles in the films Going Places (1974) and Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (1978). Joly was born in Paris. She had a daughter, Mathilde Vitry, and a son Gregoire Vitry. In October 2010, she revealed she had Parkinson's disease. Joly died from a heart attack on 4 September 2015 in Paris, aged 80. Source: Article "Sylvie Joly" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Known for

Film credits

2020s · 2 titles

2000s · 11 titles

Lucky Luke and the Daltons poster
3.6

Joe and Averell are the eldest and youngest of the four Dalton brothers, the worst outlaws in Wild West history...

Lucky Luke and the Daltons

2004

The Red Inn poster
5.5

A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard. The story unfolds as the monk tries to save the guest's lives without violating the holy secrecy of the confession.

The Red Inn

2007

My Wife's Name Is Maurice poster
4.7

Georges, a wealthy Parisian, has a mistress who wants to marry him, but he has no intention of divorcing his wife, the source of his money. The mistress, meanwhile, has a jealous boyfriend, so when Georges dumps her, two people are angry with him. Add Georges' wife, who suspects the affair. The mistress calls Georges to say she's coming to tell his wife everything, so Georges asks Maurice, a stranger who's passing by, to pose as his wife and scare off the mistress. In this farce, nothing goes as Georges plans.

My Wife's Name Is Maurice

2002

Tomorrow's Another Day poster
4.7

A group of Parisians frets over the minutiae of life in the course of one week.

Tomorrow's Another Day

2000

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) poster
6.0

No synopsis available yet.

Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)

2009

La Nuit du rire II à l'Olympia poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Nuit du rire II à l'Olympia

2004

Sylvie Joly - Je suis votre idole poster
NR

Best of de ses spectacles, enregistré au Casino de Paris en 2001.

Sylvie Joly - Je suis votre idole

2002

Jusqu'au bout de la route poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Jusqu'au bout de la route

2003

Sylvie Joly : La Cerise Sur Le Gâteau poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sylvie Joly : La Cerise Sur Le Gâteau

2005

À la poursuite de l'amour poster
5.6

Camille returns from a business trip. Young and rich heiress of a cosmetics company, Cosmos, which she has taken over since the death of her father, she discovers that Vincent, the man who shares his life, took advantage of his absence to leave and move his business without even leaving him a word of farewell. Determined to win back her former lover, she finds an unexpected ally in the person of Zac, Lena's betrayed fiancé, whom she met fortuitously at the Bois de Boulogne, while both were in the process of to spy on their ex. Zac is a broke writer, lacking inspiration: they make common cause to recover their lost loves ...

À la poursuite de l'amour

2009

Sylvie Joly : La Vie C'est Pas De La Rigolade poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sylvie Joly : La Vie C'est Pas De La Rigolade

2001

1990s · 9 titles

The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time poster
6.0

The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the present, with often drastic consequences. Godefroy de Montmirail travels to today to recover the missing family jewels and a sacred relic, guarantor of his wife-to-be's fertility. The confrontation between Godefroy's repellent servant Jack the Crack and his descendent, the effete Jacquart, present-day owner of the chateau, further complicates the matter.

The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time

1998

588 rue Paradis poster
7.2

A successful playwright reflects on his journey from his Armenian roots to adapting in France, forty years after his family's move to Marseilles. He now goes by a new name to fit in better with French society.

588 rue Paradis

1992

L'Ami du jardin poster
7.0

An ordinary night in the village of Beugneux. Mademoiselle Tronchet discovers her brother Léon - a notary and a great collector of garden gnomes - hanging from the beams of the attic. It could be the start of a police intrigue.

L'Ami du jardin

1999

La Mort du Chinois poster
6.3

Michel, a children's book author, has always been successful in life until the day his wife leaves him for a Chinese person. Planning on killing his rival, he starts looking for them.

La Mort du Chinois

1998

Ça n'empêche pas les sentiments poster
5.8

A former schoolteacher turned film distributor, Jean-Pierre Jackson made his directorial debut with this French comedy about two losers. When alimony payments catch up with Felix (Philippe Chevaillier), his furniture is seized. After a decade-long marriage, Raoul (Regis Laspales) leaves his wife. The two team for a job with Le Gai Vendangeur (The Jolly Vintner) as sales reps, but they score zero while tooling around Brittany in a silly station wagon decorated with an immense wine bottle atop the vehicle's roof. However, when they're joined by friendly, sexy Eliane (Cecile Bois), sales surge. The wine pours, and so does the money. Life is sweet, but it all turns sour when an affair begins between Felix and Eliane, much to Raoul's regret.

Ça n'empêche pas les sentiments

1998

Sidecar poster
3.3

The gloomy life of a high school censor is turned upside down the day he meets an old classmate.

Sidecar

1997

Trois coups pour rire poster
5.0

No synopsis available yet.

Trois coups pour rire

1991

Sylvie Joly : La si jolie vie de Sylvie Joly poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sylvie Joly : La si jolie vie de Sylvie Joly

1996

Sylvie Joly : La cigale et la Joly poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Sylvie Joly : La cigale et la Joly

1999

1980s · 7 titles

Wild Animals poster
4.6

Berg and Bela are married stunt drivers, but one night Bela dies in an accident. Jaded and reclusive, Berg becomes a nighttime security guard where he befriends a young woman, Mimi, who works nights too. Soon a shadowy figure from Bela's past comes into Berg and Mimi's lives. Berg is forced to protect Mimi and seems responsible for a murder, but the man from Bela's past who caused her so much pain won't stop until he sees Berg suffer as much as Bela did.

Wild Animals

1984

Agent trouble poster
5.6

Amanda Weber is a museum employee. Her nephew, Victorien, who feels that wild animals should not be kept in zoos, while hitchhiking saw a mysterious bus with 50 dead tourists that later was found by autorities at the bottom of a lake. When Victorien gets in very serious problems due to what he saw Amanda seeks to find out what happened and soon also becomes a target.

Agent trouble

1987

A Friend of Vincent poster
6.2

Vincent is the victim of an assassination attempt carried out by a young woman who wants to avenge her sister. Albert, the childhood friend of Vincent, wants to help and begins to investigate the woman, but he realizes that Vincent is perhaps not the person he seems to be.

A Friend of Vincent

1983

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

The Seasons of Pleasure poster
4.6

Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and somewhat disturbed son-in-law, will be the butler.

The Seasons of Pleasure

1988

Septième ciel poster
10.0

Vicky goes to Paris to become an actress and ends up as a hostess in a phone sex company. Her friend Jimmy, who lives in the Camargue, discovers her on the cover of a famous magazine. Back in Paris, he meets Zoe, an eight-year-old girl who will help him find Vicky.

Septième ciel

1987

Miracle Healing poster
5.4

Faking an injury for insurance money, a peddler seeks out a cure to support his claims while a suspicious investigator tries to expose the scam.

Miracle Healing

1987

1970s · 11 titles

Going Places poster
6.7

Two whimsical, aimless thugs harass and assault women, steal, murder, and alternately charm, fight, or sprint their way out of trouble. They take whatever the bourgeoisie holds dear, whether it’s cars, peace of mind, or daughters. Marie-Ange, a jaded, passive hairdresser, joins them as lover, cook, and mother confessor. She’s on her own search for seemingly unattainable sexual pleasure.

Going Places

1974

Femmes Fatales poster
6.1

Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males...

Femmes Fatales

1976

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs poster
6.6

Solange is seriously depressed, and her kindhearted husband, Raoul, makes it his mission to cure her doldrums. After many failed attempts to cheer her up, Raoul hits upon a possible solution: find his wife a lover. Unfortunately, his choice, Stéphane, proves to be just as ineffectual in restoring her flagging spirits. In the end, the gorgeous Solange finds her own, highly problematic tonic to her troubles in the form of a 13-year-old boy.

Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

1978

Take It from the Top poster
5.5

Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life...

Take It from the Top

1978

Your Turn, My Turn poster
4.5

Family mother and model wife, Agnes hits a vehicle while driving in Paris. She immediately falls in love with the driver of the damaged car.

Your Turn, My Turn

1978

Hail the Artist poster
5.4

Marcello Mastrioanni stars as aging actor Nicolas whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeking an anchor in his life, Nicolas attempts a reconciliation with his ex-wife. But in this, as in his professional life, Nicolas is doomed to disillusionment and failure.

Hail the Artist

1973

We'll Grow Thin Together poster
5.7

Victor is a screenwriter whose last work about the Marechal Pétain is refused by his producer. To add insult to injury, he tells Victor he is paunchy. The unfortunate man becomes obsessed by his weight. He goes out of his way to lose pounds, abetted by his wife, Corinne, who puts him on a reducing diet. He must also go to a health center where he takes exercise. Nothing really works. And one day, in a brewery, he cannot withstand his diet anymore and he has a gastronomic meal. Desperate, he tries his luck at a weight watchers reunion.

We'll Grow Thin Together

1979

Piaf poster
8.3

Édith Giovanna Gassion is born in 1915. As a young girl she sings on the streets of Paris until a nightclub owner, Louis Leplée, discovers her. When he is murdered the composer Raymond Asso takes care of her and lets her perform at the ABC theatre, which leads to her breakthrough.

Piaf

1974

L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères) poster
3.5

Two monks come to a small village to lead a simple life but their first act of charity is to try and seduce one of the village women.

L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères)

1973

Pierrot mon ami poster
7.0

Pierrot, a short-sighted, indolent and distracted young boy gets involved in a carnival at the Palais de la Rigolade whose main attraction is to place the women in an ascending current of air which makes their skirts fly. A fight in this Palace makes him lose his job. Then he meets Yvonne, the daughter of Pradonet, the owner of the funfair. He falls in love with Yvonne who hardly seems to share his feelings.

Pierrot mon ami

1979

The Egg poster
6.8

Emile Magis, a modest employee, more or less ostracized by the others, would like only one thing, to be happy. Little by little he realizes that life in society is a matter of convention, lies and deception. When he has understood that cynicism rules the world, he decides to play by its untold rules and to take his revenge.

The Egg

1972

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