Monique Chaumette

Acting

Monique Chaumette

Born

1927-04-04 (99)

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

43 titles

Monique Chaumette (born 4 April 1927) is a French actress. She appeared in more than forty films since 1958. She was married to Philippe Noiret from 1962 until his death in 2006. Source: Article "Monique Chaumette" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known for

Delicacy poster
6.3

A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.

Delicacy

2011

La Grande Bouffe poster
7.1

Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.

La Grande Bouffe

1973

Alone in Berlin poster
6.7

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.

Alone in Berlin

2016

The Sleeping Car Murders poster
6.9

Six people travel by overnight train from Marseilles to Paris. When they arrive, one of them, a young woman, is found dead in a sleeping berth. The police, led by Inspector Grazzi, investigate the other five passengers, suspecting that one among them was responsible. However, as the investigation is stepped up, the others start turning up dead. It's up to the remaining two to solve the case, lest they become the next victims.

The Sleeping Car Murders

1965

A Sunday in the Country poster
6.9

In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.

A Sunday in the Country

1984

The Widow Couderc poster
6.8

The relationship between a middle-aged French widow and a young drifter takes a turn when her young niece pays a visit.

The Widow Couderc

1971

Film credits

2010s · 5 titles

Delicacy poster
6.3

A French woman mourning over the death of her husband three years prior is courted by a Swedish co-worker.

Delicacy

2011

Alone in Berlin poster
6.7

Berlin in June of 1940. While Nazi propaganda celebrates the regime’s victory over France, a kitchen-cum-living room in Prenzlauer Berg is filled with grief. Anna and Otto Quangel’s son has been killed at the front. This working class couple had long believed in the ‘Führer’ and followed him willingly, but now they realise that his promises are nothing but lies and deceit. They begin writing postcards as a form of resistance and in a bid to raise awareness: Stop the war machine! Kill Hitler! Putting their lives at risk, they distribute these cards in the entrances of tenement buildings and in stairwells. But the SS and the Gestapo are soon onto them, and even their neighbours pose a threat.

Alone in Berlin

2016

Turk's Head poster
5.7

A 14 year old boy, an ER doctor, a cop looking for revenge, a mother fighting for her children and a man distraught by the death of his wife see their destinies come together. As the doctor spends several days in a coma, events keep on happening and all will be swept by the shock wave.

Turk's Head

2010

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Lumière du phare

2013

Des Gens Bien poster
5.8

During a misfire, Gabriel and Raphael, two robbers Sunday, escape by accidentally kidnapping Paloma, an 8-year-old girl. Michel, an experienced cop, makes it a point of honor to stop the two men and recover the girl. Soon Gabriel and Raphael discover that the girl is not alone. Paco, her imaginary "friend", accompanies her and protects her against a heavy secret - Paloma is a child beaten by her parents. They now have the choice: to make the girl to these executioners and be bastards, where to keep with them and pass for bastards.

Des Gens Bien

2019

2000s · 3 titles

1990s · 2 titles

1980s · 10 titles

A Sunday in the Country poster
6.9

In France, before WWI. As every Sunday, an old painter living in the country is visited by his son Gonzague, coming with his wife and his three children. Then his daugther Irene arrives. She is always in a hurry, she lives alone and does not come so often... An intimist chronicle in which what is not shown, what is guessed, is more important than how it looks, dealing with what each character expects of life.

A Sunday in the Country

1984

Beatrice poster
5.9

Somewhere in France during the Middle Ages. Béatrice is impatient to see her father return from English captivity. She doesn't expect however that the father whom she loves from distance will be the most hateful person who will submit her and her family to abuse and humiliation.

Beatrice

1987

Birgit Haas Must Be Killed poster
6.4

"Hangar" is a new agency whose purpose is to carry out missions even too sensitive for the police or intelligence services. The agency must eliminate a German female terrorist by the name of Birgitt Haas. The murder is to be disguised as a crime of passion, so an agent must lure Birgitt into falling in love.

Birgit Haas Must Be Killed

1981

Camomille poster
7.5

A bakery employee gives shelter to a young female addicted to drugs.

Camomille

1988

The Hatter's Ghost poster
6.4

A hatter in a provincial town (Michel Serrault) leads the life of a respectable citizen but is in fact a serial murderer. The only person to suspect this is his neighbour the tailor (Charles Asnavour).

The Hatter's Ghost

1982

Clara and the Why Notes poster
5.6

In 1981, in Grenoble, Mickey, Bertrand, Frédéric, Charles, Louise, and Aimée—brought together by a shared desire to make music—are the members of a band called the “Why Notes.” During a wedding ceremony in a church where Charles is playing the harmonium for the occasion, Bertrand, who has come to join him, notices the groom interrupting the ceremony and running away. A few hours later, just as the band is about to leave for a concert in Paris at the high school they attended, Bertrand runs into Clara, who suggests they run away together and then disappears... Bertrand, completely captivated by Clara, leaves the band and sets off in search of her... in Paris.

Clara and the Why Notes

1981

Masks poster
6.7

In this deadly game of cat and mouse, Roland Wolf is writing a book on the life of game show host Christian Legagneur--or is he?

Masks

1987

Lamento poster
9.0

Chronicles the hopeless reunion between a mother and daughter, as they try to rekindle their relationship after twelve years of being apart.

Lamento

1988

Instinct de femme poster
NR

Young - beautiful - married, fulfilled, Martha is bored. Passive in an active society, she took a first step by serving as a "guinea pig" to her brother researcher who undertook a comparative study on animal behavior and human behavior.

Instinct de femme

1981

La Lanterne des morts poster
5.5

That evening, in the Vosges mountains, a snowstorm swept through the valley. Within the walls of a farmhouse, another deluge descends on a family watching over one of its members on his deathbed in a heavy atmosphere, favorable to the return of old superstitions... Can they still hope for a spark to shake them out of their torpor?

La Lanterne des morts

1985

1970s · 17 titles

La Grande Bouffe poster
7.1

Four friends gather at a villa with the intention of eating themselves to death.

La Grande Bouffe

1973

The Widow Couderc poster
6.8

The relationship between a middle-aged French widow and a young drifter takes a turn when her young niece pays a visit.

The Widow Couderc

1971

Boomerang poster
5.7

A reformed gangster turns to his old associates for help after his son kills a police officer.

Boomerang

1976

The Judge and the Assassin poster
6.9

France, 1893. Joseph Bouvier attempts to shoot his love who refused to marry him and to commit suicide. Upon release from the filthy asylum where he was placed, with bullets still remaining in his head, he wanders the country roads and rapes and murders many teenagers over years. The judge Rousseau captures him, but to serve his ambition seeks to avoid that Bouvier is simply declared insane.

The Judge and the Assassin

1976

Don't Touch the White Woman! poster
5.5

A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.

Don't Touch the White Woman!

1974

The Lacemaker poster
6.8

Pomme is a meek and mild French beautician whose life takes a fateful turn during a vacation to Normandy. She becomes the lover of middle-class literature-student François. The relationship sours when François takes her home to meet his parents, thanks in no small part to their differing social backgrounds.

The Lacemaker

1977

The Watchmaker of St. Paul poster
6.9

Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives in Lyon with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and inform him that Bernard has killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realises that he knew far less about his son than he thought.

The Watchmaker of St. Paul

1974

The Bit Between the Teeth poster
5.9

Three men with a penchant for gambling on the horses soon find themselves in trouble because of their addiction. Pierre (Michel Piccoli) is the math whiz who uses his talent for picking the winners. Charles (Michel Galabru) is the wealthy scrap-iron magnate who has embarrassing evidence on many prominent political figures. Loic (Jacques Dutronc) is the aspiring politico who seeks to further his career by any means possible. Charles approaches Loic and asks his political party for a loan in hopes of fixing an upcoming race....

The Bit Between the Teeth

1979

Let Joy Reign Supreme poster
6.4

A look at 18th-century France, when the depravity of the authorities contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another.

Let Joy Reign Supreme

1975

The Confession poster
7.3

In 1950s communist Czechoslovakia, a government minister, a war veteran long a loyal party man, leads a relatively comfortable life with his wife. However, he soon finds himself under surveillance, then under arrest. Unclear what his offense is, agents for the totalitarian regime interrogate and torture him, aiming to use their unending power to gain a false confession for these supposed crimes against the state.

The Confession

1970

Solemn Communion poster
4.7

In this complex chronicle of the evolution of a provincial family's life, the story follows three generations of at least two neighboring families from the 1890s to the 1970s. In one of many related tales, a man who was engaged to the older daughter of a farmer elopes with the younger one. After many years and the birth of five children, the man leaves his wife and family for the bright lights of the city but continues turning up from time to time, until he is finally taken into the home of one of his sons when he is a quite old man. The complex interactions of the legitimate and illegitimate children of a womanizing miner give rise to yet another set of related stories.

Solemn Communion

1977

La Barricade du Point-du-Jour poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

La Barricade du Point-du-Jour

1978

Five Leaf Clover poster
6.5

A middle-aged couple moves into an old villa populated by eccentric characters.

Five Leaf Clover

1972

Eeeny, Meeny, Miney, Moe poster
4.8

In the autumn of '43, Mina, a little girl of Jewish origin, is entrusted to farmers in the Cévennes. Shocked by Jeroboam's frustrated manners and Deborah's cruel reflections - who is still suffering two centuries later from the struggle between Protestants and Catholics - Mina thinks she'll find refuge with Jeannot. But the young boy doesn't like girls and mistreats Mina. Fortunately, she has a friend: the village pastor. Thanks to him, she can go to school. Despite their constant bickering, Mina takes a liking to Jeannot. She convinces him to come to school with her. Together, they go for walks or take advantage of the passage of maquisards to force open the cellar door where hams hang! The arrival of an "informer" at the little school and encounters with the Germans disturb Jeannot.

Eeeny, Meeny, Miney, Moe

1972

No artwork available
8.0

In rural France, an undernourished and unloved young boy attempts suicide.

Poil de carotte

1973

Monsieur Albert poster
9.0

In this poetic slice-of-life film that reveals the problems and needs of a group of lowlife characters, unwed mother Vivaine (Dominique Labourier) falls in love with working-class youth Francois (Patrick Chesnais) who has a shady past. Albert (Philippe Noiret), a no-good insurance con-artist, poses for many years as Francois' friend, but tragedy ensues when Albert comes between the lovers, and Francois and Albert resort to physical violence to settle their differences.

Monsieur Albert

1976

Félicité poster
4.6

After a bout of intense jealousy, Félicité finds herself alone. For one night, as her family dissipates, she relives her torments.

Félicité

1979

1960s · 3 titles

Series credits