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Denise Chalem
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Denise Chalem

French actress
April 25, 1952 (72 years old)

The Man in the Basement

V.O.: L'Homme de la cave
Fr. 2021. Thriller by Philippe Le Guay with François Cluzet, Jérémie Renier, Bérénice Bejo. In Paris, a man and a woman have a run-in with a sexagenarian with strange behavior to whom they sold a cellar in the building where they live.
Runtime: 114 min.
Fr. 2012. Comedy by Olivier Péray with Ariane Ascaride, Michel Aumont, Annick Blancheteau. A divorced woman in her early sixties regains a taste for adventure and love through her old high school friends.
Runtime: 98 min.
Fr. 2000. Melodrama by Pierre Grimblat with Benoît Magimel, Marion Cotillard, Jeanne Moreau. A filmmaker collects the testimony of an old woman who had a great love affair with a film actor in the 1930s.
Runtime: 109 min.
Runtime: 102 min.
Fr. 1993. Dramatic comedy by Bertrand Blier with Anouk Grinberg, Marcello Mastroianni, Myriam Boyer. Raised in a slum by a childish mother and an alcoholic father, a young girl suffers many setbacks in her search for happiness.
Runtime: 104 min.
Fr. 1992. Psychological drama by Pierre Lary with Annie Girardot, Françoise Christophe, Julien Cesbron. A teenager befriends a neighbor whose grandmother is trying to evict her since she was her husband's ex-mistress.
Runtime: 90 min.
Fr. 1991. Drama by Pierre Boutron with Nicole Garcia, Robin Renucci, Denise Chalem. A young atheist woman falls in love with the priest who slowly brings her back to Christianity.
Fr. 1989. Biography by Maroun Bagdadi with Richard Bohringer, Marie Trintignant, Wladimir Yordanoff. Profile of Jean-Paul Marat, eighteenth century French revolutionary who was famous for his intransigence.
Runtime: 99 min.

Too Beautiful for You

V.O.: Trop belle pour toi
Fr. 1989. Sentimental comedy by Bertrand Blier with Gérard Depardieu, Josiane Balasko, Carole Bouquet. The husband of a beautiful woman falls madly in love with a secretary with no apparent charm.
Runtime: 91 min.
Fr. 1988. Biography by Bruno Nuytten with Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Laurent Grévill. The young sculptor Camille Claudel ends up being destroyed by the consuming passion she feels for her art and for Auguste Rodin.
Runtime: 175 min.
Fr. 1984. Social drama by Charlotte Dubreuil with Denise Chalem, Patrick Bouchitey, Charles Gonzales. The hardships and the joys of eight teenagers living in subsidized housing with their educators.
Fr. 1984. Drama by Bruno Gantillon with Tcheky Karyo, Rüdiger Vogler, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu. Baited by a publisher, a young scientist publishes an article denouncing the tactics of the multinational company he works for.
Runtime: 104 min.
Fr. 1984. Drama by Bruno Gantillon with Tcheky Karyo, Rüdiger Vogler, Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu. A young scientist seeks to prove that he is not responsible for the deaths of three colleagues.
Runtime: 104 min.
Fr. 1984. Psychological drama by Charlotte Dubreuil with Denise Chalem, Isabelle Sadoyan, Patrick Laval. In her mind, a young woman relives her relationship with her mother who has just died.
Fr. 1982. Mores comedy by Philippe Defrance with François Marthouret, Anna Prucnal, Denise Chalem. When a woman learns of her husband's affair, she befriends her rival.
Runtime: 88 min.

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