Denise Gence

Acting

Denise Gence

Born 1924-03-08 · Paris, France

Acting credits

Histoire vraie poster
10.0

A servant girl, given in marriage when she turns out to be pregnant, can't bring herself to live away from her master.

Histoire vraie

1978

Ruy Blas poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Ruy Blas

1965

Duo poster
9.0

A couple who appears to have the perfect relationship finds their future in jeopardy following a scorching night of lust and debauchery in this erotic drama adapted from the controversial novel by French author Colette.

Duo

1990

Ondine poster
9.0

In the forest, knight-errant Hans meets and falls in love with Ondine, a water-sprite who is attracted to the world of mortal man.

Ondine

1975

La Commère poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

La Commère

1969

Le Tartuffe poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le Tartuffe

1973

The Devil and the Ten Commandments poster
5.6

The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.

The Devil and the Ten Commandments

1962

Électre poster
8.0

During the long journey that brought him home victorious in the Trojan War, Agamemnon fell in love with one of his captives, Cassander, daughter of Priam, with whom he had children. The reception in Argos, more than ten years later, was icy. Annoyed by the double indelicacy of her husband, Clytemnestra, his wife who had meanwhile become the mistress of Aegisthus, killed him with the help of her lover. Aegisthus then became the regent and ensured the prosperity of the city alongside his mistress, the widowed queen. But Electra, one of the daughters of Agamemnon, has always foreseen the murder and adultery of her mother. Solitary, wild, she lives in the royal palace awaiting the return of Orestes, her brother who has taken refuge since childhood with an uncle, in order to take revenge. Electra can begin, the crimes of the Atreides family continue quietly, as planned.

Électre

1972

Buffet Froid poster
7.1

Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.

Buffet Froid

1979

Amphitryon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Amphitryon

1967

That's Show Business poster
6.8

Clement Mastard is the head of a leading journal dedicated to extravagant vaudeville. An unexpected contract requires him to reconnect with his former headliner Celia Bergson part to try to avant-garde theater. It is through this that he met Johann Sebastian Bloch, misunderstood musician who cause the loss but the side which Mastard, the man without scruples, to humanize and eventually produce a real masterpiece, the Missa Solemnis

That's Show Business

1975

Lovers of Paris poster
6.1

Young, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the belles of the capital.

Lovers of Paris

1957

Tartuffe poster
9.0

A filmed version of Molière's play.

Tartuffe

1973

Lamiel poster
5.2

Lamiel is a poor orphan girl who climbs to the social elite in this 19th-century costume drama. Sansfin, provincial doctor, lives vicariously through her, as he oversees the progress of his female protégé. Defiant and rebellious, Lamiel goes to Paris to escape boredom and to know love.

Lamiel

1967

The Dance poster
5.0

The Dance is a 1962 French comedy film directed by Norbert Carbonnaux and starring Jean-Pierre Cassel, Françoise Dorléac and Arletty. The film is based on the French comic strip 13 rue de l'Espoir.

The Dance

1962

Le Légataire universel - Jean-Paul Roussillon poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le Légataire universel - Jean-Paul Roussillon

1975

Every Day Has Its Secret poster
6.3

Given up for dead three years ago in a plane crash in the Amazon rainforest, a young woman arrives in Paris to find her eminent ethnologist husband. She learns of his death in obscure circumstances, having remarried in the meantime. She sets out to unravel the mystery surrounding her husband's death.

Every Day Has Its Secret

1958

The Double Bed poster
3.4

Various sketches centered on alcove stories.

The Double Bed

1965

Les Fausses Confidences poster
10.0

No synopsis available yet.

Les Fausses Confidences

1971

No artwork available
NR

A TV movie about Huckleberry Finn, directed by Marcel Cravenne and released in France back in 1967.

Huckleberry Finn

1967

La Vérité de Mme Langlois poster
8.0

Is Thérèse guilty? Accused of her husband's murder, she confides in the investigating judge—the only man who has ever truly listened to her. Beyond the crime story, the film explores the strange bonds that form between people and the twists and turns of the human psyche.

La Vérité de Mme Langlois

1977

No artwork available
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le Docteur noir

1975

Les Cent livres : À la recherche du temps perdu poster
NR

An evocation, realistic and poetic at the same time, of Proust's work " in which he is locked up as in the room ". Halfway between the audiovisual adaptation and the portrait of the dandy and reclusive writer, all in black and white signed Claude Santelli, evoking the mystery, the intimate, and the fatality of existence.

Les Cent livres : À la recherche du temps perdu

1971

Le Sexe faible poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Le Sexe faible

1974