Cast: Catherine Fonteney

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Catherine Fonteney. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


7.2

41 votes

Such a Long Absence (The Long Absence)

1961 · Movie · 85 min. · France

Direction Henri Colpi

Cast Alida Valli · Georges Wilson · Charles Blavette · Amédée

Synopsis 1961: Cannes Film Festival (Golden Palm - ex aequo with "Viridiana").

7.0

360 votes

7.0

360 votes

Drink

1908 · Movie · 36 min. · France

Direction Albert Capellani

Cast Eugénie Nau · Alexandre Arquillière · Catherine Fonteney · Jacques Grétillat

Synopsis Based on the novel by Émile Zola, the film is about the degradation of humans, deals with alcoholism and is, ultimately, a very pessimistic story.

6.1

23 votes

6.1

23 votes

The Tender Enemy

1936 · Movie · 69 min. · France

Direction Max Ophüls

Cast Simone Berriau · Catherine Fonteney · Laure Diana · Jacqueline Daix

Synopsis Two ghosts attend an engagement party, unseen by the other guests. One ghost, Dupont, is the father of the bride-to-be. He looks back on his marriage to her mother. His wife Annette was always very unhappy; business kept him away...

6.0

37 votes

6.0

37 votes

Divine

1935 · Movie · 82 min. · France

6.0

46 votes

6.0

46 votes

I Spit on Your Grave

1959 · Movie · 100 min. · France

Direction Michel Gast

Cast Christian Marquand · Claude Berri · Christian Boisseau · Daniel Cauchy

Synopsis In the American south, light-skinned Afro-American Joe Grant leaves Memphis and moves to a small town after his 18-year-old brother Sonny is brutally lynched for attempting to marry a white woman. Joe's skin is so light that he is able...

5.7

41 votes

5.7

41 votes

Wicked Duchess

1942 · Movie · 99 min. · France

Direction Jacques de Baroncelli

Cast Edwige Feuillère · Pierre Richard-Willm · Aimé Clariond · Lise Delamare

Synopsis The Duchess of Langeais, as beautiful as she is brilliant, is a woman who likes to seduce but who does not give in. Until the day when she falls in love with General de Montriveau, a cabal goes up against...

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L'entraîneuse

1939 · Movie · 95 min. · France

Direction Albert Valentin

Cast Michèle Morgan · Gilbert Gil · Andrex · Gisèle Préville

Synopsis The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one night she gets propositions from a rich widower who would like to have her as his girlfriend, Suzy wishes to leave this...

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La demoiselle et son revenant

1952 · Movie · 87 min. · France

Direction Marc Allégret

Cast Robert Dhéry · Annik Morice · Félix Oudart · Henri Vilbert

Synopsis Rosette is young and charming but she is crippled so she cannot make the most of her life. Which upsets Jules Petitpas, a single inventor, her eccentric but kind-hearted neighbor. Jules pledges to help her by creating a potion that...

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Au bonheur des dames

1943 · Movie · 88 min. · France

Direction André Cayatte

Cast Michel Simon · Albert Préjean · Blanchette Brunoy · Suzy Prim

Synopsis Denise Baudu, an orphaned girl in need, decides to go to Paris where her uncle Baudu keeps a small draper's shop, "Le Vieil Elbeuf". The young woman hopes her kinsman will be able to give her a position. Unfortunately Octave...

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Le prince de minuit

1934 · Movie · 80 min. · France

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Mademoiselle de La Seiglière

1921 · Movie · 87 min. · France

Direction André Antoine

Cast Huguette Duflos · Catherine Fonteney · Félix Huguenet · Charles Granval

Synopsis The Marquis de la Seiglière returns to France once the Revolution is over. His possessions, which had been sold as material properties, had been purchased by Stamply, a farmer. The latter restores them to the Marquis, who decides to allocate...

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Poliche

1934 · Movie · 90 min. · France

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Trial at the Vatican

1952 · Movie · 115 min. · France

Direction André Haguet

Cast France Descaut · Jean Debucourt · Suzanne Flon · Catherine Fonteney

Synopsis In 19th-century France, a little girl follows her two sisters into a Carmelite monastery with the goal of becoming a saint.

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Feu Mathias Pascal

1937 · Movie · 92 min. · France

Direction Pierre Chenal

Cast Pierre Blanchar · Isa Miranda · Catherine Fonteney · Ginette LeClerc

Synopsis Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely lucky at several gambling resorts. He returns home and discovers that a drowned man, fished out of the river, bears an uncanny likeness to...

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L'inconnu d'un soir

1949 · Movie · 90 min. · France

Direction Hervé Bromberger · Max Neufeld

Cast Raymond Rouleau · Nadia Gray · Claude Dauphin · Robert Berri

Synopsis Edith, a young orphan, is exploited as a waitress and bullied by her adoptive father. But she has a dream: she wants to become a star. One day the Orient Express, which never stops at the little station across the...

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Les beaux jours

1935 · Movie · 80 min. · France

Direction Marc Allégret

Cast Simone Simon · Jean-Pierre Aumont · Raymond Rouleau · Maurice Baquet

Synopsis Sylvie, a rich girl, learns at the same time the death and the ruin of her father. Forced to find work in Paris, she is given shelter by a medical student who soon falls for her. Another young man falls...

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Under the Paris Sky

1951 · Movie · 114 min. · France

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The Devil in the Heart

1928 · Movie · 120 min. · France

Direction Marcel L'Herbier

Cast Betty Balfour · Jaque Catelain · Roger Karl · André Nox

Synopsis Ludivine Bucaille stupidly wishes that Leherg and his son Delphin both die at sea. Amazingly, Leherg actually is lost at sea but his son somehow survives. His mother subsequently dies of sorrow. Remorseful, Ludivine gets her parents to take Delphin...

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