Simone Valère

Acting

Simone Valère

Born — Died

1921-08-02 — 2010-11-11

Place of birth

Paris, France

Known for

Acting

Credits

52 titles

Simone Valere was a French actress.

Known for

Film credits

1970s · 4 titles

1960s · 15 titles

The Triumph of Michael Strogoff poster
6.8

In this adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, the Czarina asks an intrepid colonel to protect her nephew as he fights an invasion in 19th century Russia.

The Triumph of Michael Strogoff

1961

La Cerisaie poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Cerisaie

1966

Germinal poster
7.8

Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at the Voreux coal mine. But work was hard, wages were low and safety left much to be desired. Lantier tried to organize the miners into a union. When mine manager Hennebeau refused to negotiate, the workers launched a general strike, which ended with the intervention of the troops.

Germinal

1963

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

Franciscan of Bourges poster
6.4

Albert is a Franciscan monk and a medical orderly at a monastery in France. Although he is German, the kindly monk helps hide French resistance members. Albert tries to maintain the delicate balance between the warring factions by helping out the afflicted and not getting involved in political ideology.

Franciscan of Bourges

1968

The Game Is Over poster
5.4

Renee Saccard is a pampered, selfish young wife of a middle-aged Parisian businessman who falls in love with her stepson but is driven to the point of madness when her husband tricks the stepson into betraying her.

The Game Is Over

1966

Graduation Year poster
8.5

In a small provincial town, students meet at a party organized by one of them, and share their thoughts on the difficult year they are leaving : the preparation of high school diploma.

Graduation Year

1964

Brigade Anti Gangs poster
6.5

The struggle between a ruthless leader of a bank robbers and the cops who are determined to put him in jail for long.

Brigade Anti Gangs

1966

La Vie parisienne poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Vie parisienne

1967

Le deuxième coup de feu poster
7.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le deuxième coup de feu

1969

La Double Inconstance poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Double Inconstance

1964

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Nuit de nos adieux

1962

Amphitryon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Amphitryon

1960

Rhinocéros poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Rhinocéros

1965

Les Fausses Confidences poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Les Fausses Confidences

1964

1950s · 9 titles

The Grand Manoeuvre poster
6.0

Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.

The Grand Manoeuvre

1955

The Great Deception poster
6.0

Burgundy 1728. Old count Antoine d'Eon is overjoyed. His daughter-in-law has finally given birth to a boy and he will at long last be able to transmit his inheritance to his son Pascal. At least this is what he thinks, for Pascal has concealed from his father the fact that his son was ... a daughter, his eighth daughter! Well, enough is enough and Geneviève has no other choice but become a boy first, then a soldier and even the special envoy of Louis XV, King of France, to Catherine II, the Czarina of Russia.

The Great Deception

1959

Jocelyn poster
9.0

In 1786, Jocelyn entered the Seminary. He leaves his share of the inheritance to his younger sister Julie. In 1793, on the point of being ordained a priest, the Revolution forced him to take refuge in the Alps. There he meets Laurence, first disguised as a young boy. A great friendship binds them which turns into love when Jocelyn discovers the girl's true identity. Yet faithful to the promise he made to the Superior of his Seminary, Jocelyn will not abandon his faith.

Jocelyn

1952

The Beauty of the Devil poster
7.2

Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs at the ravages of old age ... whereupon Mephistopheles, agent of Lucifer, appears as a virile, handsome young man and exchanges bodies with him to induce Faust to sign a pact to exchange his soul for renewed youth, riches and power. But though the "new" Faust is attracted by the material improvements in his life, he remains wary of signing, while Mephistopheles, now posing as the aged professor whose body he inhabits, must find a way to trick him into signing the pact - and dissuade him from the love of a gypsy girl who prays for his soul - or find himself damned by his own Master...

The Beauty of the Devil

1950

The Night Is My Kingdom poster
6.2

After an accident, Raymond has gone blind. His family treats him like a child, but fortunately a nun comes to his rescue. She works in a center where blind people learn to read using the Braille alphabet.

The Night Is My Kingdom

1951

Imperial Violets poster
5.7

Violeta, an Andalusian gypsy, foretells a lady she will become empress. The lady is Eugenia de Montijo, and when she marries emperor Luis Napoleón of France she takes the young girl with her. The empress'cousin readily makes her his focus of attention, then she discovers a criminal attempt against the empress.

Imperial Violets

1952

Les Vignes du Seigneur poster
6.0

Now Gisèle Bourjeon is the mistress of the count Hubert Martin de Kardec.After a long journey abroad Henri Lévrier, a champagne producer has come back and meets again his friends Hubert and the Bourjeon family.And surprise, Henri doesn't drink alcohol anymore.He says Gisèle that he was drinking because he loved very much.Henri and Gisèle feel well together and become lovers.

Les Vignes du Seigneur

1958

My Wife Is Formidable poster
4.5

Raymond Corbier, a sculptor, has a wonderful wife, Sylvia, whom he adores. To save a passionate admirer who simulates suicide because she does not respond to her advances, Sylvia, an irreproachable wife, is forced to lie for the first time to Raymond.

My Wife Is Formidable

1951

La Répétition ou l'Amour puni poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Répétition ou l'Amour puni

1958

1940s · 17 titles

The Last One of the Six poster
6.1

Paris, France. Commissaire Wens is put in charge of the investigation into the murder of one of six friends who, in the past, made a very profitable promise.

The Last One of the Six

1941

Manon poster
6.8

Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collaborating with the Nazis, and Robert, a freedom fighter who saved her from reprisals, tell the captain about the many challenges they have had to face in order to survive.

Manon

1949

Le Cavalier de Croix-Mort poster
7.0

Elisabeth D'Anthar cheats on her husband François with Simon De Chabre. François, who suspects something, surprises his rival and wounds him. Elisabeth 's sister, to save the situation, claims that Simon is actually in love with her and came to see her. They have to get engaged and Simon breaks up with his lover. But Elisabeth is not prepared to accept it, and she becomes the head of a gang of "drivers" in order to kidnap her husband. Famous Vidocq intervenes.

Le Cavalier de Croix-Mort

1948

The Queer Assignment poster
4.7

A young man, Robert Dupont, with suicidal tendencies and a bit stupid to boot, is saved by a stranger who pretends to be a well-known banker. This stranger then entrusts him with a suitcase full of mysterious documents, which he asks him to take with him to Indochina. But in reality, the suitcase is stuffed with banknotes from a scam.

The Queer Assignment

1945

Pontcarral, Empire Colonel poster
5.9

For 15 years after Waterloo, a baron refuses to accept the defeat. He reluctantly marries one of 2 Bourbon sisters but lands up dueling with the wife's former lover. Finally he gets a chance to prove himself again in battle.

Pontcarral, Empire Colonel

1942

Miss Bonaparte poster
5.7

Cora Pearl, a demi-mondaine under the Second Empire, falls in love with a legitimist while she is the mistress of Jérôme Bonaparte, the cousin of Napoleon III.

Miss Bonaparte

1942

Le Voyageur de la Toussaint poster
7.4

A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has always despised his - now dead - parents because they were music hall artists, "entertainers". But because he's the sole legatee of an uncle's fortune, his relatives become friendly with him... at least for a while.

Le Voyageur de la Toussaint

1943

The Loves of Colette poster
8.1

François, a young student at a provincial college, likes Colette, the daughter of the headmaster. Turlot his colleague, who commits suicide, left a diary where he writes of his relationship with Colette.

The Loves of Colette

1948

The Bride of Darkness poster
6.1

Sylvie, a young woman who believes to be cursed, lives in the town of Carcassonne with her guardian, Mr. Toulzac. He is a retired teacher who wishes to discover the secret of the Cathars, a Christian sect of the Middle Ages that glorified death over life. Sylvie meets Roland, a composer who instills new hope into her troubled mind. Mr. Toulzac then asks her then to renounce the world and go down a secret tomb he has just found.

The Bride of Darkness

1945

The Revenge of Roger poster
7.2

Roger Laroque is now a rich man. He returns to France under the name of William Farnell. There, he discovers that on the one hand his wife has died of a broken heart and on the other that his daughter Suzanne is in love with Raymond de Noirville, the son of his former mistress. With the help of a few friends, Roger coldly prepares his revenge.

The Revenge of Roger

1946

The Roquevillards poster
9.0

France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that prides itself on its impeccable morals. Francois's world rapidly begins to fall apart when his son Maurice elopes to Italy with Edith Frasne, the wife of an esteemed notary.

The Roquevillards

1943

Annette and the Blonde Woman poster
7.0

Based on the short story by Georges Simenon. Annoying Annette is bent on seducing Maurice, a handsome lawyer who has his eye on a haughty American Myriam who is running after bashful Bernard. The story takes place in hotels, prisons, and music-making apartments in Cannes.

Annette and the Blonde Woman

1942

The Black Rider poster
8.0

In Flanders in the eighteenth century, Ramon de Ortila, a young lord who has been dispossessed of property has turned into a gentleman brigand. His main target is Monsieur de Saint-Brissac, the salt tax farmer. But Solange, his daughter, sets a trap and lures the young man to her father's manor. Little does she know that love is at the rendezvous.

The Black Rider

1945

Her First Affair poster
6.7

Micheline Chevassu is a young, naive woman living in an orphanage. Through classified ads, she has a date with an unknown man. She escapes from the orphanage to go to it, dreaming of the Prince Charming. But comes Nicolas Rougemont, an unattractive middle-aged man... He pretends not to be the author of the letters, who could not come...

Her First Affair

1941

Barry poster
9.0

Lovers since childhood, Sylvain and Angelina do not see their lives separated from each other. However, Sylvain is sent to war and the young woman desperately awaits his return. Years pass and the latter is forced by her father to marry Jean-Marie, a man she does not love. One day, while Angelica and her family are climbing in the Alps, an avalanche sweeps them away. Safe and sound, she comes face to face with her childhood sweetheart, Sylvain.

Barry

1949

La Route du bagne poster
8.0

Paris, 1865. In a music-hall Manon accidentally kills her partner who was trying take sexual advantage of her. She is condemned to twenty years of hard labor first and then to be deported to marry a released convict. On the ship where she sails with her female fellow-sufferers she gets to know a young doctor and helps to suppress a revolt. Once arrived at her destination, Manon hesitates between her official fiancé and the doctor whose household she does not want to break...

La Route du bagne

1945

Two Loves poster
7.0

Sylvain is the town clerk of the small Provençal village of Coursoul. He is the darling of all the girls in the country. His brother, Désiré, a disabled carpenter, secretly loves Toinette, the lumber merchant's daughter. She falls in love with Sylvain. This one, convinced by the director of a traveling circus of the excellence of his voice, is about to leave everything to follow his career. But Désiré learns from Toinette that she is expecting a child from Sylvain. He goes to inform his brother, who reconsiders his decision. But Désiré will leave in his place, not to sing, but with his bruised heart to play Paillasse.

Two Loves

1949

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