Hélène Vincent
Birthday: Born in 1943-09-09 in Paris, France
Deathday: Alive
Hélène Vincent, born 9 September 1940, is a French actress. She received a César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role in 1989 for her role as Madame Marielle Le Quesnoy in Life Is a Long Quiet River and another in 1992 for J'embrasse pas. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hélène Vincent, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Joséphine, ange gardien
Character: Geneviève Beaumont
Josephine Delamarre is a guardian angel that Heaven sends to earth. With her psychological insight, ability of persuasion and magical powers, she manages to help people who have problems. She appears at the beginning of each mission; when the mission is completed, she disappears with a click of her fingers....
Un homme d'honneur
Character: Hélène Berger
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Meurtres à...
Character: Suzanne Dalmasio
Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region....
Les Filles du maître de chai
Character: Lucile
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Les Petits Meurtres d'Agatha Christie
Character: Kristin
French adaptations of the stories by Agatha Christie....
Le Comte de Monte-Cristo
Character: Heloïse de Villefort
A TV mini-series adaptation of the classic Alexandre Dumas novel. Edmond Dantes is unjustly sent to prison for 18 years. He escapes to reclaim his fiancée Mercedes and revenge against his nemesis, Mondego....
Panda
Character: Thérèse
Relaxed pacifist, matcha addict, and convinced vegan, Panda runs a small shack in a remote corner of the Camargue. No phone, no computer, no car; he lives with his 16-year-old in this perfect cocoon of peace and serenity, avoiding anything resembling conflict. How to imagine that this wise man in flip-flops and a faded t-shirt was once a cop? And not just any cop. One of the best. Unfortunately, even in paradise, there's no way to be completely peaceful. When his former life comes knocking at th...
Les Dames de la côte
Character: Lucie Vilatte
French miniseries....
Fais pas ci, fais pas ça
Character: Marie-Françoise Lepic
The daily life of two neighboring families, the Bouley and the Lepic, with literally opposite educational methods. Despite their social and cultural differences, they are friends and do not hesitate to face worries......
La Traque
Character: La femme du Commissaire Chenu
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Capitaine Marleau
Character: Blanche Muir
Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects....
Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
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La Rivière Espérance
Character: Agnès Lombard
La Rivière Espérance is a French TV series, 9 episodes of 90 minutes each, directed by Josée Dayan based on the novel by Christian Signol and shown in 1995 on France 2....
Une femme en blanc
Character: Solange Monnier
A young surgeon returns to her hometown to work in the local hospital. The relationship to her ex-lover, a well-known chief-surgeon, flames up again but not with happy consequences. The old friends become rivals in personal and professional fields....
Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
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C à vous
Character: Self - Guest
Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second part, the program welcomes, around a meal prepared by a qualified chef, artists in promotion....
Sacrée soirée
Character: Self
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En aparté
Character: Self - Guest
The guest of the day is received on a set, located in an apartment without an audience, and guided simply by the sound of the host's voice....
Faut Voir - L'hebdo cinéma
Character: Self - Guest
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Au plaisir de Dieu
Character: Hélène
Over several generations, the story of an aristocratic French family spanning the 20th Century, from the two World Wars to the social and political upheavals of May 1968. Facing adversity, old Duke Sosthène tries to keep traditions alive....
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Three Colors: Blue
Character: Journalist
The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected....
Life Is a Long Quiet River
Character: Madame Marielle Le Quesnoy
Two babies are switched at birth. When the mistake is discovered 12 years later, it leads to complications in the lives of both families. One family is affluent, with dutiful and (apparently) contented children. The other family is poor, with rambunctious (even delinquent) children, often hungry, but with lots of laughter in the house....
Saint-Jacques… La Mecque
Character: Mother Superior
Three siblings who detest each other and hiking must complete together a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in order to be eligible to inherit their mother's wealth....
The Astronaut
Character: Odette Desforges, Jim's grandmother
An aeronautical engineer at Ariane Espace, Jim has devoted himself for years to a secret project: building his own rocket and accomplishing the first manned space flight as an amateur. But to realize his dream, he must learn to share it....
15 Francs, Flowers and Panties
Character: Anatole's wife
Anatole and his wife, both about seventy, have already lived together for fifty years. They still love each other, make love, joke about each other, avoid each other sometimes, laugh and row. Except that one morning, Anatole is discouraged. He has forgotten something important which he tries vainly to remember. Some things come back to him: an old debt, some panties and the name of flowers....
My Life in Pink
Character: Élisabeth
Ludovic is waiting for a miracle. With six-year-old certainty, she believes she was meant to be a little girl -- and that the mistake will soon be corrected. But where she expects the miraculous, Ludo finds only rejection, isolation and guilt -- as the intense reactions of family, friends, and neighbors strip away every innocent lace and bauble. As suburban prejudices close around them, family loves and loyalties are tested in the ever-escalating dramatic turns of Alain Berliner's critically ac...
Locked Out
Character: Madame Duval
Once upon a time, somewhere... a homeless guy finds a policeman's uniform......
Tresor
Character: Nadine
Nathalie and Jean-Pierre have been together for five years, to celebrate their anniversary, Jean-Pierre prepare a surprise present for his girlfriend: a cute four month english bullgod. Nathalie loves her present and calls the puppy "Tresor"; her relationship with the dog is close and strong since the begining but causes problems in the couple....
Part-time Parents
Character: Béatrice
Ten year old Noemie, fed up with being shunted from one separated parent's home to another, puts her foot down and demands to stay in one place all the time. The new arrangement, however, turns out to be a nightmare....
I Don't Kiss
Character: Evelyne
A good-looking but naive lad leaves his mountain village to try and make his way in Paris. He thinks maybe he will try acting but things don't go too well for him. Eventually he is forced to sell himself to men and though he meets an attractive girl she is herself a prostitute with a vicious pimp....
Les Irréductibles
Character: Jane
On the day that his son fails his baccalaureate, Michel loses his job. He has been employed at the same factory for twenty years and now he has no job, no qualifications, no prospects. Michel soon realises that the only way he is going to get another job is by first passing his baccalaureate. So, he goes back to school, with his friend Gérard, who is in the same position. Naturally, Michel’s son is not at all pleased to find himself in the same class as his dad......
Wandering Streams
Character: Lyse
Emile is a 70-ish former horticulturalist who once raised bonsai trees "because they don't take up too much room." Indeed, his whole existence is safe and uneventful to a fault, somewhat juiced by friendship with raucous fishing companion Edmond. Still, they trade pleasantries rather than confidences -- so Emile is shocked when it turns out his elderly pal watches porn, paints nudes and shags women who are his contemporaries that he meets online....
Antilles sur Seine
Character: Elizabeth
Corruption threatens to move into a heretofore idyllic village in this comedy-drama. Hector St. Rose is the mayor of a seaside community in the Antilles Islands, a French-controlled territory in the West Indies. Hector has long been determined not to sacrifice the well-being of his constituents in order to make the village more attractive to tourists, which has made him popular with his citizens, but not so much so with outside developers....
Bernie
Character: la mère
Bernie, a 30 years old orphan, decides to leave his orphanage and find his parents. After an investigation, he meets Marion, a young heroin addict and falls in love with her. He believes that his family was victim of a plot and this is why they deserted him....
Le soleil au-dessus des nuages
Character: Virginie
Jean, a little embittered and insupportable office worker, is fired for his heinous behavior. Fifty, single and revanchist, he has no friends and finds himself face to face with no future. He then meets Antoine, a young magician adept at meditation. Intrigued by this strange character who responds to his aggressiveness with a resolutely optimistic vision of life, Jean decides to accompany him to La Baule. On the way, despite some unforeseen and surprising encounters, the duo will get to know eac...
Le Bal des casse-pieds
Character: Marie-Paule
A tolerant veterinarian turns the other cheek when annoyed but changes his nature when he falls in love....
Prison à domicile
Character: Norma Klarh
Leonie Koutcharev, a top civil servant at the Ministry of Interior, proposes an ideal solution to the problem of overpopulated prisons: put model prisoners in the homes of carefully screened families. Jules and Norma Klarh, a childless couple, expect to receive an inoffensive juvenile delinquent but end up with the psychopath Marcus Steckner in their suburban home. The film centers on social criticism of the gap between reality and the bureaucratic assumptions of what reality should be....
Good Luck Sam
Character: Françoise
Samir has given much of his time and money developing ski equipments for a Swedish Olympic athlete. When the contract fails, his business partner and closest friend plans to save their company by sending Samir to represent Algeria at the Winter Olympics! Already broke, and expecting his second child, Samir trains to become the first Algerian cross-country skiing male athlete to participate in the winter games. Samir, the eldest son of an Algerian emigrant must first go back to his father's homel...
Family Pack
Character: Esther Kessler
A young woman tries to ease herself out of the closet without terrifying her parents in the process in this comedy-drama. The year is 1969, and Sacha (Marie Bunel) is a young Belgian woman living in Canada. Sacha's family sent her to Canada to attend medical school, but she hasn't had the heart to tell them that she's dropped out of college to devote herself to her new interest in photography. Sacha also hasn't told her parents that she's a lesbian -- and that she has a new girlfriend, Odile (Ma...
A Few Hours of Spring
Character: Yvette
Forty-eight-year-old Alain Evrard is obliged to return home to live with his mother. This situation causes all the violence of their past relationship to rise to the surface. Alain then discovers that his mother has a fatal illness. In the last months of her life, will they finally be capable of taking a step toward each other?...
Retrotherapy
Character: Yvonne
Yvonne loses her mind and confuses her teenage granddaughter, Manon, with her deceased daughter. Manon plays the role of the mother she never knew, reviving her grandmother's years of feminist activism. In this troubled game, Manon will learn to become a woman....
Dédé
Character: Yvonne, the mother
In this retelling of the story of Hamlet, the young man is a soldier on leave to attend his widowed mother's marriage to his uncle - a marriage which is unpleasantly near in time to the death of his father. Every element of Shakespeare's tragic story is present, except that, this time, Dede refuses to kill anyone, no matter how persistent his father's frustrated ghost is....
Angel's Wing
Character: Henry's mother
When a plane crashes in his back yard, a wealthy young man (Lambert Wilson) decides he would rather be a pilot than a musician....
Attila Marcel
Character: Aunt Anna
Paul is a sweet man-child, raised — and smothered — by his two eccentric aunts in Paris since the death of his parents when he was a toddler. Now thirty-three, he still does not speak. Paul's aunts have only one dream for him: to win piano competitions. Although Paul practices dutifully, he remains unfulfilled until he submits to the interventions of his upstairs neighbour. Suitably named after the novelist, Madame Proust offers Paul a concoction that unlocks repressed memories from his childhoo...
The Husbands, the Wives, the Lovers
Character: Odette
In the summer holidays, a group of women stay behind in Paris whilst their husbands and children take a vacation on the sunny Island of Ré. The women – wives, frustrated spinsters and adolescents – profit from their new-found freedom to sort out their love lives and the men indulge their earthy passions with no less enthusiasm. Only the children seems capable of rising above this infantile summer madness......
Meurtres a Albi
Character: Suzanne Dalmasio
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When Fall Is Coming
Character: Michelle
Michelle is enjoying a peaceful retirement in a Burgundy village, close to her longtime friend Marie-Claude. When her Parisian daughter Valérie drops off her son Lucas to spend school vacation with his grandma, Michelle, stressed out by her daughter, serves her toxic mushrooms for lunch. Valérie quickly recovers, but forbids her mother from seeing her grandson anymore. Feeling lonely and guilty, Michelle falls into a depression... until Marie-Claude's son gets out of prison....
35 kilos d'espoir
Character: Charlotte
The film is based on a novel by Anna Gavalda, and adapted for the small screen by M. Langlois and Veronique Lecharpy. The idea that a formal academic school program is traditionally seen as the way for young minds to be formed and molded, yet how many children that are deemed failures by the same system go on to make names for themselves as they discover fields and subjects not taught by the educational establishment world-wide....
L'école est finie
Character: Mme Villebois
Julien, fifteen-year-old, meets Nathalie, a girl his age whom he falls in love. Soon she is expecting a child. Their parents take the news with reservations. The baby will come and with it, the difficult learning of life....
La Trouvaille de Juliette
Character: Léonie Prouhèze dite La Taupe
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Samba
Character: Marcelle
Samba migrated to France 10 years ago from Senegal, and has since been plugging away at various lowly jobs. Alice is a senior executive who has recently undergone a burnout. Both struggle to get out of their dead-end lives. Samba's willing to do whatever it takes to get working papers, while Alice tries to get her life back on track until fate draws them together....
Tom est tout seul
Character: Tom's mother
After his fiancée leaves him, Tom finds himself alone and helpless. He has to wash his clothes himself and so goes to the laundromat. There, he meets a quaint tribe and opens up to a new world and incredible horizons....
The Roads of Exile
Character: La comtesse d'Egmont
French philosopher Jean Jacques Rousseau (François Simon) lives in 18th-century exile with his mistress (Dominique Labourier)....
The Scent of Mandarin
Character: Emilie
During World War I, a home care nurse treats a man who lost one leg on the front lines. A strong bond arises between them and evolves into a passionate love affair....
A Cloud in the Teeth
Character: Mother of the family
Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris....
The First Summer
Character: Madeleine
Two sisters meet up late one summer to clear out the house of their deceased grandparents....
Itinéraires
Character: Denise Chartier
It is the end of the judicial control of Thierry Chartier, 18 years old. He was a virgin in Heuzecourt, a small village in the north of France populated by farmers and retired miners, where his paternal grandmother lived. He earns his living by helping out in the fields, he helps his grandmother, and would like to take over the farm. But, following an incident, he is condemned to seven years of criminal imprisonment, for complicity of murder, Thierry leaves on parole with an English diploma and ...
Pierre and Paul
Character: Michèle
Pierre is a middle-aged factory worker with plenty of unresolved anger. After his father's death, his mother feels compelled to move in with him. Having just moved there with his beautiful girlfriend, he begins to feel the pressure. When the May Day revolt begins, he goes crazy....
The French Calvinists
Character: Catherine de Vergnas
A few years after the revocation of theEdict of Nantes, the Camisards, Protestants from the Cévennes region, mostly peasants and silk workers, formed groups following Gédéon Laporte and fought Louis XIV's dragoons....
La fête des mères
Character:
A young woman invites her mum to spend Mother’s Day week-end at a luxurious spa to tell her that she loves another woman....
Life-Changing Ad
Character: Jacqueline
Annette, 38, answers an ad from Paul, a farmer. She has only met him twice when she and her son Eric move in with him in the dead of winter. There Annette has to face Paul's hostile sister and her own past, which soon catches up with her....
Mourir d'aimer
Character: La proviseur
Priests and educational institutions try to put an end to a forbidden love between a 16-year-old student and his 40-year-old teacher....
We Will Go
Character: Marie
Marie, an 80-year-old woman battling terminal cancer, has decided to end her life on her own terms. She embarks on a journey accompanied by her somewhat dysfunctional family and Rudy, a kind-hearted caregiver she’s just met. Unable to reveal her true intentions, Marie creates a story about an inheritance in Switzerland to convince her unreliable and distracted son Bruno, granddaughter Anna, and Rudy, to take a road trip in their old RV. But will Marie find the courage to reveal the true purpose ...
A Bun in the Oven
Character: Mamilette
There is one thing that Nicole, who is soon turning fifty, would have loved to be spared, is to learn that the symptoms that have been ruining her life for some time are not those of a latent menopause, but those of a real pregnancy! What a drag…...
Marie-Francine
Character: Annick Legay, dite Dadick
A woman at the age of 50 moves back in with her parents after her husband leave her for a younger woman....
C'est la vie!
Character: Pierre's Mother
Max is a battle-weary veteran of the wedding-planning racket. His latest — and last — gig is a hell of a fête, involving stuffy period costumes for the caterers, a vain, hyper- sensitive singer who thinks he's a Gallic James Brown, and a morose, micromanaging groom determined to make Max's night as miserable as possible. But what makes the affair too bitter to endure is that Max's colleague and ostensible girlfriend, Joisette, seems to have written him off, coolly going about her professional du...
Looking for Rohmer
Character: Rohmer's mother
The first homosexual love story themed movie to receive approval for theatrical release in China. The film follows the initial meeting of, and the subsequent secret relationship between Zhao Jie and Rohmer. They decide to travel to Tibet together. During their travels they are involved in an incident which leads to the death of a child. Although they are not responsible, they feel a lot of guilt. They quarrel about it and end up going separate ways. Later Zhao Jie learns that Rohmer has been in ...
Knock
Character: La Veuve Pons
Doctor Knock is a former thug who has become a doctor and arrives in the small village of Saint-Maurice to make his fortune according to a particular method. It will make the villagers believe that they are not as healthy as they might think. It is thus that he will find in each one an imaginary symptom, or not, and thus will be able to exercise his profession lucratively. Under his seductive looks and after gaining the confidence of the village, Knock is on the verge of achieving his ends. But ...
Joint Custody
Character: Mère de Sandrine
A wife finds out her husband has a mistress. She decides to propose her to share her life with her husband, alternating every two weeks....
Ticket Gagnant
Character: Jeanne Vautrin
The life of a man who discovers he has won the lottery, but faces numerous challenges in trying to claim his prize. Through a series of comedic and heartwarming events, the film explores themes of luck, fate, and the true nature of happiness....
Du soleil dans mes yeux
Character: Nicole
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Back Home
Character: Catherine
The prodigal son of a family in turmoil returns home to his French rural home to reconnect with his family and make sense of their dysfunctions....
The Specials
Character: Hélène, Joseph's Mother
For twenty years, Bruno and Malik have lived in a different world—the world of autistic children and teens. In charge of two separate nonprofit organizations (The Hatch & The Shelter), they train young people from underprivileged areas to be caregivers for extreme cases that have been refused by all other institutions. It’s an exceptional partnership, outside of traditional settings, for some quite extraordinary characters....
Cocktail Molotov
Character: La femme du diplomate
"Cocktail Molotov" is the story of the adventures of this threesome, who reach Venice only to learn of the outbreak of the May 1968 disturbances at home. Once again, Anne, Frederic and Bruno realize that the important things of their time are happening somewhere where they are not. Swindled out of their car and virtually broke, they hitchhike back to Paris, hoping to arrive in time for some of the excitement....
Mine de rien
Character: Thérèse
In a region that was once the flagship of the mining industry, two long-term unemployed men come up with the idea of building an "artisanal" amusement park on the site of a disused coal mine. By saving the mine and its memory, they will regain their strength and dignity....
Dear Mother
Character: La mère (Brigitte)
One day, Jean-Louis discovers that his heart has stopped. He is not dead, can walk and talk, but his heart is no longer beating. With the help of his wife and a friend, he tries to understand the origin of this mystery....
The Golden Anniversary
Character: Alix Saint-Cast
"Allow me to be your husband." Not only does Alix Saint-Cast, who has Alzheimer's disease, recognize her husband Octave two days before her Golden Wedding, she has also fallen in love again. Their new beloved is Farhad Mozafari, Iranian, also suffering from Alzheimer's disease and can not be separated from Alix. So Farhad has to come with son Iradj and his little daughter to the stately home of the Saint-Casts. However, they are only gradually aware of the unusual family encounters that newcomer...
By the Grace of God
Character: Odile Debord, François' Mother
Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who abused him decades ago continues to work with children. He joins forces with others victims of the priest, to bring justice and “lift the burden of silence” about what they endured....
West Indies
Character: L'assistante sociale
Aboard a giant slave ship in an abandoned Citroën factory, the history of the West Indies is traced through several centuries of French oppression. The ship becomes a stage for the people to tell stories via song and dance—from their enslavement to their displacement in Metropolitan France....
Isn't She Lovely?
Character: Grand-mère Rose
A couple of parents get in over their heads when they decide to use Scandinavian alternative teaching methods for their teenager....
Poorly Extinguished Fires
Character: Jeanne
A French army journalist bears witness to the atrocities of the Algerian war in 1962 in this gripping French war movie. It is based on the 1967 novel by Philippe Labro. The film begins in Paris as Jerome Carier, ready to embark to Algiers, is beaten and questioned about the politically sensitive photographs he has. The photos were sent to him by Francois, a friend stationed in Algiers. Francoise is trying to get the French and the Algerians to reconcile. Jerome arrives in the war-torn country an...
La Beauté sur la terre
Character: Martine
Coming to live with her uncle in the canton of Vaud after the death of her father, a pretty 17-year-old woman of mixed race turns men's heads....
Le Deuxième Couteau
Character: Arlette Olivier
The entire Parisian literary scene is in turmoil: Sandra, a renowned author, has just been found strangled. Her murder is the subject of much speculation in her entourage, and some are tempted to conduct the investigation alone. All the more so as Commissioner Bartillot is obviously more sensitive to the charms of a suspect than to those of the case....
Travail du comédien
Character:
We follow the rehearsals and the staging work of Bertold Brecht's play 'Dans la jungle des villes' in 1972 by the company Théâtre de l'Espérance. The three directors: Jean-Pierre Vincent, Jean Jourdheuil and André Engel discuss their joint work of staging and their vision of the play. Interviews with the actors (Gérard Desarthe, Maurice Bénichou, Hélène Vincent), whom we follow at different stages of the work (source: Média Scérén). The film was screened for the 1973 Directors' Fortnight, at the...
Let Joy Reign Supreme
Character: Madame de Saint-Simon
A look at 18th-century France, when the authorities depravity contributed to social oppression, and the uprisings flared up one after another....