Florence Brière

Actress

October 23, 1895 (89 years)

† September 21, 1985

Paris, France

Biography

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Filmography

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Les Cinq Dernières Minutes

Mireille Pignans

Les Cinq Dernieres Minutes is a crime based French television series

8.0

The Accursed Kings

La Mère Abbesse du couvent

It is the start of the 14th century and Philip IV the Fair reigns supreme over France. His three sons would rule after him. Isabelle, his only daughter, is married to King Edward II of England. Under Philip's reign, France is great but its people are unhappy. Only one power dares to stand up to him: the order of the Knights Templar. When the last Grand Master of the Temple, Jacques de Molay, is burned at the stake, he curses Philip and so begins a dark period, full of blood and violence, death and tears ...

8.5

La Poupée sanglante

Ms. Langlois

Paris, 1925. Bénédict Masson, bookbinder and poet, is secretly in love with his neighbor, Christine. Christine works at the strange Coulteray mansion where the marquise accuses her husband of being a vampire. But Bénédict has other preoccupations: six of his apprentices have disappeared without a trace.

5.5

Sin with a Stranger

La vieille voisine

François, a journalist, is approached on the train home by pretty a blonde. She leaves at the same station as him and follows him until he ends up inviting her to his house.

4.1

The Twilight Girls

Le professeur de mathématiques

A beautiful and sophisticated teenager is placed in a regimented French girls' boarding school after her father apparently commits suicide over a business scandal. She immediately gains admirers -- a lustful middle-aged artist, a handsome young composer, a fellow female student -- as well as a jealous rival. With the help of her schoolmates, she attempts to elope with the composer, but the adults catch on to the plot, and she is locked into her room at night.

6.4

Return to Life

Gossip (segment *Le retour de Louis") (uncredited)

In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War.

4.8

The Ones That Got Away

mother Villedieu

In a train compartment, 6 people who do not know each other tell the story of their troubles in love. Only one of those seems to be a positive one.

6.1

Why Not!

Alexa, Fernand, and Louis form a tender yet unconventional trio in a quiet suburban home. Fleeing failed marriages and societal expectations, they build a life rooted in love and mutual support. But their unorthodox arrangement stirs suspicion, especially from a curious police inspector whose own life is about to change in unexpected ways.

6.2

Pastoral Symphony

a friend of Gertrude

A minister falls in love with a blind young woman he sheltered, but so does his son.

6.5

The Baron of the Locks

Receiver of Posts (uncredited)

The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town, where the Baron's seafaring companion leaves for more attractive scenery offered by a wealthy local man. Meanwhile, there is a certain charming cafe owner that the Baron finds irresistible -- at least for awhile.

8.0

Detective Story

Madame Farragut

No description available

9.0

La pendule à Salomon

Jean-Baptiste Rousse, nicknamed Noble Coeur, a journeyman carpenter in a village in Bigorre, was deported in 1942. On his return, he realizes that his compatriots have let the wood reserves on his building site be stolen. After an altercation with the mayor, he decides to take justice into his own hands and, with the help of his son Roland, cuts down the trees in the communal forest to pay him back. The mayor alerts the police. Noble Coeur takes refuge in the bell tower and, when the mayor refuses to let him bring in his wood, he demolishes it with an axe.

6.4

Too Small My Friend

La femme de ménage

Ticky Edriss, a dwarf, develops a scheme to avenge him on society and extort a bank.

6.0

Life in a Song

The cinematographic illustration of fifteen cheerful, tender or ferocious songs that made the success of the songwriter of the comedian Noël-Noël. After "Les casses pieds", "La vie chantée" stages several sketches of daily life where everyone can recognize themselves and laugh about it.

10.0

Le destin s'amuse

A guardian, abusing his prerogatives, imposes on a young girl the husband he has chosen for her. On the very day of the wedding ceremony, the bride fled. She is picked up on the road by four bandits who are going on a business expedition. After many adventures, each as implausible as the next, the heroine will marry the man of her choice.