Françoise Bette

Actress

June 13, 1947 (58 years)

† March 3, 2006

Ath, Belgium

Biography

No biography available.

Filmography

4.5

The Adolescent

Violette

In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother.

7.7

I... for Icarus

Jane Bellony

Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee's final findings.

8.5

La Poupée sanglante

Annie

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.

6.5

Safe Conduct

Devaivre's mother

During the Nazi occupation of France, two filmmakers try to build a career without compromising their ideals.

7.0

Le Secret des Flamands

la servante

Inspired by the book The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors, and Architects by painter Giorgio Vasari, this historical soap opera, in which betrayals, kidnappings, murders and police investigations are interwoven, relates the discovery by the Italians of the secret of Flemish painting around 1470.

7.1

One Sings, the Other Doesn't

Concierge

The intertwined lives of two women in 1970s France, set against the progress of the women's movement in which Agnes Varda was involved. Pomme and Suzanne meet when Pomme helps Suzanne obtain an abortion after a third pregnancy which she cannot afford. They lose contact but meet again ten years later. Pomme has become an unconventional singer, Suzanne a serious community worker - despite the contrast they remain friends and share in the various dramas of each others' lives, in the process affirming their different female identities.

5.9

To Mathieu

la mère

Matthieu and Eric are two brothers who work at the same factory as their father in Normandy. When his father is dismissed for smoking on the factory floor, Matthieu is incensed and tries to have him reinstated, in vain. His brother has just got married and, with a child and mortgage on the way, is reluctant to stir up trouble...

4.8

Family Business

The Sister in Law

A recently released safecracker returns to stealing in order to support his family. After several successful thefts, he decides to induct his teenage son into the 'family business'.

6.5

Jury of One

The prostitute

A desperate woman, whose son is on trial for murder, blackmails the judge and kidnaps his wife.

7.1

It All Starts Today

Madame Delacourt

In a mining town which has been blighted by economic downturns, an elementary school headmaster struggles to obtain social services on behalf of his students.

5.9

Bandits

Michelle

On the day Jean Gabin dies, a kidnaper who also takes a fortune in jewels heisted from Cartiers murders Simon Verini's wife. (Simon was fencing the jewels for a youthful gang who robbed Cartiers; he suspects them of the murder.) He's framed for the theft and spends ten years in prison, writing to his daughter, Marie-Sophie, who's 11 when he's sent away. Released, he reconnects to Marie-Sophie and to the young thieves, seeks revenge, and is quickly arrested again. She doesn't know what to make of her father, retreats to her Swiss fiancé, and is flummoxed when one of the young thieves falls for her. Is resolution possible when crime cuts across families and romance?

6.4

The Girl from Paris

Sandrine's mother

A woman in her thirties gets tired of life in Paris and decides to leave and become a farmer.

4.5

Un été après l'autre

Yvonne

No description available

7.0

Hiver 60

Monique

In 1960, the announcement of social regression measures decided by the Belgian government triggered a wildcat strike by workers. Albert and Fred were at the forefront of a struggle that promised to be heated and risky. The great Walloon strike shook Belgium to its core. Violence, demonstrations, internationalists, red flags, Walloon flags. For five weeks, the country was paralyzed by a movement that often took on the air of an insurrection.

10.0

The Cold Soup

Juliette

Two young pretty Parisiennes sell their place and leave behind the capital and its pollutions to live a healthy and bucolic life in a small village in the south of France. Their arrival is an event.

You've seen it all! · 15 titles displayed