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Josiane Balasko

Josiane Balasko is a French actress, writer, and director known for her comedic roles in films, including "French Twist" and "Too Beautiful for You." She has won several awards throughout her career and has also worked as a screenwriter and director.

Titles credited to Josiane Balasko

The Tenant

Le locataire

Film Age rating: 16 Year: 1976 IMDB Rating: 7.6

A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.

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The Bonfire of Destiny

Le Bazar de la Charité

Series Age rating: 15 Year: 2019 IMDB Rating: 7.6

After a devastating fire in 1897 Paris, three women find their lives upended by betrayals, deceptions and romantic turmoil. Inspired by real events.

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Santa Claus Is a Stinker

Le père Noël est une ordure

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1982 IMDB Rating: 7.5

Félix, disguised as Father Christmas, hands out leaflets advertising a sexy Christmas party. His place is taken by an African Santa Claus and he returns to his caravan only to find his girlfriend Jose...

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French Fried Vacation 2: The Bronzés go Skiing

Les Bronzés font du ski

Film Age rating: 6 Year: 1979 IMDB Rating: 7.4

In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Claude, and Christiane.

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French Fried Vacation

Les Bronzés

Film Age rating: 4 Year: 1978 IMDB Rating: 6.7

Holidaymakers arriving in a Club Med camp on the Ivory Coast are determined to forget their everyday problems and emotional disappointments. Games, competitions, outings, bathing and sunburn accompany...

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Too Beautiful for You

Trop belle pour toi

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1989 IMDB Rating: 6.7

A car dealer, well-to-do and with a beautiful wife, finds himself attracted to his rather plain new temporary secretary. Despite her own commitments she feels the same and the two soon embark on an af...

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A Happy Event

Un heureux événement

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 2011 IMDB Rating: 6.5

She drove me into a corner, then forced me to go beyond my limits. She made me confront the absolute: love, sacrifice, tenderness, abandonment. She dislocated me, transformed me. Why didn't anyone war...

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A Crime in Paradise

Un crime au Paradis

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 2001 IMDB Rating: 6.5

In the 1980 French countryside, farmer Jojo and his ill-tempered wife Lulu hate each other, though their respective interests speak against divorce. The only thing that keeps the oppressed Jojo from m...

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French Twist

Gazon maudit

Film Age rating: 14 Year: 1995 IMDB Rating: 6.4

After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.

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Hotel America

Hôtel des Amériques

Film Age rating: 11 Year: 1981 IMDB Rating: 6.4

Helene, a pill-addicted anesthesiologist, is mourning the death of her boyfriend when, through a car accident she causes, she chances to meet the lethargic Gilles, a young man who lives for free at hi...

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