Manuela Gourary

AKA: Manou Gourary
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1949-07-10

Biography

Crew Roles

La clé n'est pas dans le pot de géranium
Director
Cast RolesCast Roles Played = {41}

1979-10-17 6.1

Memoirs of a French Whore

Marie is nineteen and bored in her little suburban life with no future. In a café, she meets the charismatic and beautiful Gerard. Blinded by adoration, Mary decides to leave her parents and her clerk ...
Genre :Drama

Camille Coutant-Kerbalec

1998-04-08 6.707

Taxi

In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police for a huge speed infraction, he will help Emilien, ...
Genre :Action, Comedy, Crime, Adventure

2001-09-01 8

Les Petites Mains

After the closure of a lace factory in Calais, Andrée, Lulu and Solange are out on the street. ...
Genre :

Mme Worms

2001-06-19 4.783

Children's Play

Marianne and Jacques are a young middle-class couple who live in a chic Parisian apartment with their two young children. One day, Marianne receives an unexpected visit from two strangers, Mr and Mrs ...
Genre :Drama, Fantasy, Horror, Mystery, Thriller

(segment "Envy")

1986-04-19 5.3

Seven Women, Seven Sins

Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were amongst the world's most renown: Helke Sander (Glutton ...
Genre :Drama

La râleuse

1988-03-02 5.7

The Comedy of Work

Sylvain Berg, a "professional" unemployed who spends his time hiking and mountain climbing, and "model" bank employee Benoît Constant, who has just been fired and does not want his wife to find out, ...
Genre :Comedy

Hélène (as Manuela Guite)

1972-08-02 4.5

The Swinger

Justine, leaves her family, drops out of school at 18. Drifting in Paris, encountering odd characters she finally slips into prostitution. ...
Genre :

Mamie

2017-10-25 6.239

Marry Me, Dude

Yassine asks his best friend Fred to marry him in order to avoid deportation... ...
Genre :Comedy

2000-08-30 3.5

Girlfriends

Apprentice hairdresser Solange is a whiz at teasing locks and cutting hair but knows little about the act of sexual congress -- but she wants to know more. She hails from a small working class town cl ...
Genre :Drama

2002-06-01 0

Chamonix

Nine people tell an anecdote, tall story or dramatic narrative straight into the camera. ...
Genre :

Adèle

2005-09-02 0

La Pomme de Newton

Genre :Comedy

Svetlana

1997-06-03 0

L'ami de mon fils

Louise has been a widow for years and teaches literature in a high school. She divides all her time between books and her son, Martin, who still lives with her. During a family lunch, she meets Martin ...
Genre :Drama

Mona's Mother

1994-05-18 6.1

I Can't Sleep

Ninon is a spirited hotel-manager who teaches self-defense classes to her terrified eldery neighbors. Daiga, an aspiring Lithuanian actress newly arrived to Paris, becomes fascinated with the life of ...
Genre :Drama, Mystery, Thriller

La prostitute 2

2000-12-06 5.7

Nationale 7

In a nursing home for disabled near Toulon, René is unanimously hated by all. With fifty years and suffering from myopathy, has an irascible, rebellious character. But not resist provocations candor a ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

Marcelle

1977-06-01 2.8

The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés

In 1951, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the private detective Nestor Burma was commissioned by an insurance company to find stolen jewelery. The deal seemed easy and Burma got an appointment with a well-k ...
Genre :Mystery, Crime

Lili

1982-09-06 0

Transit

François Cremer is a truck driver who gets out of prison after having served a sentence of several months for a traffic of which he has always proclaimed himself innocent. He soon realizes that he is ...
Genre :Drama

2022-10-27 0

Tinquiète

Genre :

Mme. Caressa

1993-11-23 6.4

Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional

Martine is 25. Since breaking up with François, she has the feeling that the world is caving in on her. Between small jobs and one-night stands, she can't seem to get a fix on herself. In desperation, ...
Genre :Drama, Comedy

Mme Azaro, la voisine

1991-03-20 5.1

Epiphany Sunday

Three old sisters get together every Sunday. For Epiphany Sunday, the program is busy: eating at the Chinese restaurant, drawing the kings and finally going to see, reluctantly, the show of the fourth ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama

La tante de Bébert / Bébert's aunt

1992-06-03 7.5

The Country Years

An adolescent comes of age during a summer in the Rhône valley with his maternal grandparents. Jules seems a little too close to his mother and distant from his father, who wants Jules out of their Pa ...
Genre :Drama, Romance

Mado

2008-10-22 7.311

Mesrine: Killer Instinct

Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by the neon glamour of sixties Paris and the easy mon ...
Genre :Drama, Action, Thriller, Crime

1989-01-01 0

La clé n'est pas dans le pot de géranium

Genre :

Mme Frelon

1986-01-01 0

Adèle Frelon est-elle là?

André arrives in a city he doesn't know. He only has the address of a young woman in his pocket: Adèle Frelon, but he will never manage to see her. ...
Genre :

Marinette

2005-07-16 7.5

La Bastide bleue

Genre :TV Movie, Comedy, Drama

Irène Michelet

1992-03-25 10

Border Line

On a whim, the long-married Hélène decides to look up a former lover of hers. At his apartment, she is met by the man's grown son, Julien, who tells her that his father died just a few days before. Be ...
Genre :Drama

1982-01-01 0

Soeur Anne ne vois-tu rien venir?

Two girls go to Berlin, one to find a German girl who lived at home in the 50s when her parents divorced, the other to look for a role in German cinema. ...
Genre :

Alice

1985-01-16 6.4

The Terrible Lovers

This standard romantic drama focuses on three different couples who happen to come together in a small hotel in Rome and play out their differences in that setting. The couples are made up of a Parisi ...
Genre :

Huguette Moreau

1984-03-14 5

Laisse béton

Brian and Nourredine are two lousy young offenders. Their flights have a motive: a film brought back from San Francisco where the father of Brian, singer of rock of the sixties, today in prison, made ...
Genre :Drama

2003-03-05 5.722

The Pact of Silence

Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalist Carmelite in a Brazilian convent, and Gaëlle has been in prison for a heinous crime. Sarah comes t ...
Genre :Mystery, Thriller

La voisine de Nicolas

2013-12-17 6.874

Suzanne

The story of a family and a love affair told through the journey of a young woman called Suzanne. ...
Genre :Drama

La Zieurond

1998-01-14 6.115

The Kid from Chaaba

Le Gone du Chaâba (The Kid of the Chaaba), translated into English as Shantytown Kid by Naima Wolf, is an autobiographical novel by Azouz Begag about his life as a young Algerian boy growing up in a s ...
Genre :Drama

Madame Lamotte (voice)

2003-12-03 6.9

Raining Cats and Frogs

It's a catastrophe! A flood has hit our planet and an unusual group of people are all that remains. Led by Ferdinand, a modern day Noah, this little group have managed to defy the furiously raging ele ...
Genre :Animation, Fantasy, Adventure

Danseuse

1988-10-12 3.4

Women in Prison

Nicole (Agnes Soral) is sent up the river for infanticide in this routine woman-in-prison feature. There she meets Marthe (Annie Girardot), a fellow murderess who receives special treatment from the w ...
Genre :Crime, Drama

Lulu

2001-03-21 4.938

L'Art (délicat) de la séduction

The film follows Etienne, a 40-year-old car designer, who takes time off from work to study sexual mastery from a Zen master and several prostitutes, in the hopes of having the sexual skill to impress ...
Genre :Romance, Comedy

The newsagent

2007-11-28 0

Le temps d'un regard

Genre :

Mme Mercier

2006-03-15 5.028

One Fine Day

François Berthier’s life is a series of unfortunate events. One day, however, a miracle occurs for François and his expected misfortune is changed to never-ending luck. ...
Genre :Comedy

Realistic singer

2008-09-24 6.101

Paris 36

A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of 1936, Paris is in a state of uncertainty; while th ...
Genre :Drama

Madame Rochas

1995-04-12 8.5

Une nana pas comme les autres

Julie Toronto, a 32-year-old dwarf, quit her accounting job in Paris, to be with Antoine Delisles, the man of her life. She started working as a nanny at Antoine's. Julie is delighted: Antoine asked i ...
Genre :TV Movie, Comedy

1986-01-01 0

Il Maestro

Gavron demonstrates that jealous feelings are useless in this story of a man, the nephew of the theater director in a small town, who envies the work of the conductor, one of his uncle’s employees. Pa ...
Genre :Comedy

2025-03-26 6.5

Heads or Fails

Armande Pigeon, a queen of shenanigans in Brussels struggles to make ends meet because she can’t stop gambling on everything, always ending up on the wrong side of luck. When she teams up with Ronnie ...
Genre :Comedy, Drama, Romance

Mimi

1983-11-23 6.1

The Hitchhiker

A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series. ...
Genre :Drama, Crime