Pauline Lafont

Pauline Lafont (6 April 1963 – 11 August 1988) was a French actress. She was the daughter of film star Bernadette Lafont and Diourka Medveczky, a Hungarian sculptor. Born Pauline Aïda Simone Medveczky in Nîmes, France, she died in a hiking accident in Barre-des-Cévennes, Lozère, France. Three months and ten days after she had set out, her body was found by a passing farmer at the foot of a cliff, four kilometres from her home. Investigators determined she had fallen more than ten metres and died instantly. Prior to the discovery of her body, her disappearance had triggered several rumours regarding her whereabouts. Source: Article "Pauline Lafont" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Keep Your Right Up (1987)

This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character, played by Godard himself, is an annoyingly perfectionist film-maker determined to wring every last drop of the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Luc Godard
CAST:  Jean-Luc Godard  •  Jane Birkin  •  Jacques Villeret  •  François Périer

This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional roles to a background of rock music. The lead character, played by Godard himself, is an annoyingly perfectionist film-maker determined to wring every last drop of the ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Luc Godard
CAST:  Jean-Luc Godard  •  Jane Birkin  •  Jacques Villeret  •  François Périer

The Bay Boy (1984)

A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should be become a priest? What should he do about the murder he witnessed, committed by a local cop and upstanding parishioner? And how ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Daniel Petrie
CAST:  Kiefer Sutherland  •  Liv Ullmann  •  Peter Donat  •  Alan Scarfe

A Roman Catholic teenage boy in Glace Bay, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia during the 1930s faces various growing-up problems: Should be become a priest? What should he do about the murder he witnessed, committed by a local cop and upstanding parishioner? And how ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Daniel Petrie
CAST:  Kiefer Sutherland  •  Liv Ullmann  •  Peter Donat  •  Alan Scarfe

Vive les femmes! (1984)

The love affairs of Bob, a womanizer and seducer and Mammouth, the unhappy loner.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Claude Confortès
CAST:  Roland Giraud  •  Maurice Risch  •  Catherine Leprince  •  Michèle Brousse

The love affairs of Bob, a womanizer and seducer and Mammouth, the unhappy loner.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Claude Confortès
CAST:  Roland Giraud  •  Maurice Risch  •  Catherine Leprince  •  Michèle Brousse

Sale destin (1987)

Francois Marboni is a butcher who is being blackmailed for having an affair with the prostitute Rachel in this black comedy. He decides to hire a hit man when the blackmailer demands that he start cutting his profit margin to the bone. Francois soon becomes a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sylvain Madigan
CAST:  Victor Lanoux  •  Pauline Lafont  •  Marie Laforêt  •  Jacques Penot

Francois Marboni is a butcher who is being blackmailed for having an affair with the prostitute Rachel in this black comedy. He decides to hire a hit man when the blackmailer demands that he start cutting his profit margin to the bone. Francois soon becomes a ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Sylvain Madigan
CAST:  Victor Lanoux  •  Pauline Lafont  •  Marie Laforêt  •  Jacques Penot

Gramps Is in the Resistance (1983)

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Marie Poiré
CAST:  Christian Clavier  •  Roland Giraud  •  Gérard Jugnot  •  Martin Lamotte

It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Marie Poiré
CAST:  Christian Clavier  •  Roland Giraud  •  Gérard Jugnot  •  Martin Lamotte

Jing du qiu xia (1987)

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DIRECTION:  Xie Hong
CAST:  Zhang Fengyi  •  Pauline Lafont  •  Kun Jiang  •  Chen Pei-Si

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DIRECTION:  Xie Hong
CAST:  Zhang Fengyi  •  Pauline Lafont  •  Kun Jiang  •  Chen Pei-Si

Mad Love (1985)

After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Andrzej Żuławski
CAST:  Sophie Marceau  •  Tchéky Karyo  •  Francis Huster  •  Yann Collette

After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Andrzej Żuławski
CAST:  Sophie Marceau  •  Tchéky Karyo  •  Francis Huster  •  Yann Collette

La Galette du roi (1986)

In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris is marrying Maria-Helena, a princess who comes with a dowry that is made up of one half of her island kingdom. Her father, the cowardly King Arnold III ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Michel Ribes
CAST:  Roger Hanin  •  Jean Rochefort  •  Jacques Villeret  •  Eddy Mitchell

In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris is marrying Maria-Helena, a princess who comes with a dowry that is made up of one half of her island kingdom. Her father, the cowardly King Arnold III ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Michel Ribes
CAST:  Roger Hanin  •  Jean Rochefort  •  Jacques Villeret  •  Eddy Mitchell

Deux minutes de soleil en plus (1988)

A small town in the south of France. Sun, deserted streets. Unshaven, wearing poorly, Vic came, driving his 4x4, his wife has been released from the psychiatric hospital where she was serving a sentence of 5 years for killing their child. But is she really healed ?  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gérard Vergez
CAST:  Christophe Malavoy  •  Pauline Lafont  •  Catherine Wilkening  •  Marc Berman

A small town in the south of France. Sun, deserted streets. Unshaven, wearing poorly, Vic came, driving his 4x4, his wife has been released from the psychiatric hospital where she was serving a sentence of 5 years for killing their child. But is she really healed ?  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gérard Vergez
CAST:  Christophe Malavoy  •  Pauline Lafont  •  Catherine Wilkening  •  Marc Berman

I Hate Actors (1986)

A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up as corpses, killed before the critics could ever put pen to paper. Under suspicion is a talent agent. Is he guilty or not? These macabre events have everyone off ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gérard Krawczyk
CAST:  Pauline Lafont  •  Dominique Lavanant  •  Jean Poiret  •  Michel Galabru

A Hollywood studio is producing another spectacular when the top billed male stars suddenly show up as corpses, killed before the critics could ever put pen to paper. Under suspicion is a talent agent. Is he guilty or not? These macabre events have everyone off ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gérard Krawczyk
CAST:  Pauline Lafont  •  Dominique Lavanant  •  Jean Poiret  •  Michel Galabru

Cop au Vin (1985)

Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Claude Chabrol
CAST:  Jean Poiret  •  Stéphane Audran  •  Michel Bouquet  •  Lucas Belvaux

Unorthodox detective Jean Lavardin is called to a provincial French town after a prank turns deadly.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Claude Chabrol
CAST:  Jean Poiret  •  Stéphane Audran  •  Michel Bouquet  •  Lucas Belvaux

L'été en pente douce (1987)

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When he inherits the family house and property after his mother's death, aspiring novelist Fane returns home with his bimbo girlfriend Lilas. He must care for his idiot brother Mo and contend with a greedy garage owner who covets Fane's property to expand his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gérard Krawczyk
CAST:  Jacques Villeret  •  Jean-Pierre Bacri  •  Pauline Lafont  •  Jean Bouise

When he inherits the family house and property after his mother's death, aspiring novelist Fane returns home with his bimbo girlfriend Lilas. He must care for his idiot brother Mo and contend with a greedy garage owner who covets Fane's property to expand his ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Gérard Krawczyk
CAST:  Jacques Villeret  •  Jean-Pierre Bacri  •  Pauline Lafont  •  Jean Bouise

Les planqués du régiment (1983)

A young engineer, inventor of a dangerous ping-pong ball, which makes him pursued by the American and Russian secret services, finds refuge in a military camp where his irruption sows some semi-catastrophes.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michel Caputo
CAST:  Paul Préboist  •  Michel Modo  •  Jacques Préboist  •  Pauline Lafont

A young engineer, inventor of a dangerous ping-pong ball, which makes him pursued by the American and Russian secret services, finds refuge in a military camp where his irruption sows some semi-catastrophes.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Michel Caputo
CAST:  Paul Préboist  •  Michel Modo  •  Jacques Préboist  •  Pauline Lafont

Le pactole (1985)

Yves Beaulieu lives with his wife Anne, his daughter Stephanie and his mother-in-law. Tired of his dangerous, thankless, underpaid and unrecognized job as a deminer, Yves decides to try his luck and carries out a robbery in the nearby supermarket. Hunted by ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Pierre Mocky
CAST:  Richard Bohringer  •  Marie Laforêt  •  Bernadette Lafont  •  Pauline Lafont

Yves Beaulieu lives with his wife Anne, his daughter Stephanie and his mother-in-law. Tired of his dangerous, thankless, underpaid and unrecognized job as a deminer, Yves decides to try his luck and carries out a robbery in the nearby supermarket. Hunted by ...  (more)

DIRECTION:  Jean-Pierre Mocky
CAST:  Richard Bohringer  •  Marie Laforêt  •  Bernadette Lafont  •  Pauline Lafont

Vincent mit l'âne dans un pré (et s'en vint dans l'autre) (1976)

This is the tale of a father-son duo who are unable to leave each other. The trouble begins when the son decides to destroy his father's image.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pierre Zucca
CAST:  Fabrice Luchini  •  Michel Bouquet  •  Virginie Thévenet  •  Bernadette Lafont

This is the tale of a father-son duo who are unable to leave each other. The trouble begins when the son decides to destroy his father's image.  (more)

DIRECTION:  Pierre Zucca
CAST:  Fabrice Luchini  •  Michel Bouquet  •  Virginie Thévenet  •  Bernadette Lafont