Dany Carrel Movies

French leading lady Dany Carrel was born in Annam, Indochina. In addition to appearing in French films of the 1950s, Carrell has also appeared in international productions. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide
1972  
 
This is a French World War II action/adventure film. In the story, four French nurses and a doctor are caught by the German advance into North Africa. They are protected from being raped by their captors by a stiff-necked German captain. The doctor then heroically prevents the Germans from ambushing the rescue plane sent to pick them up. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

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1972  
 
Double and triple crosses complicate the lives of the amiable villains of this French crime-caper film. The story concerns a group of people living in a blue-collar neighborhood which is being demolished for a new office and housing development. In order to save their neighborhood, they get together and decide on a complicated plot involving jewel-theft and insurance fraud. Things get even more complicated when they call on the services of an expert burglar. ~ Clarke Fountain, All Movie Guide

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Starring:
Serge ReggianiMichel Bouquet, (more)
1969  
 
Delphine (Dany Carrel) is a country girl who travels to the big city in search of feminine emancipation and freedom. Attending wild parties and nightclubs, she meet a young rock star. She becomes pregnant by him and after she has an abortion, the singer could care less about her. Delphine is always followed by a little boy throughout the feature who constantly asks "what is your name?" She also confides in a boozing, middle-aged cynic who has given up on life but helps the young girl. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

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Starring:
Dany CarrelMaurice Ronet, (more)
1969  
 
Clerambard (Philippe Noiret) feeds his large family by killing cats and dogs. He also makes his family run hand looms with very little respite. His life forever changes when he sees Saint Francis. The Saint helps him prepare his horse as Clerambard suddenly goes out into the world to preach the gospel and reveal his newfound love of animals. This comedy is taken from the hit play by Marcel Ayme. Dany Carrel has an amusing role as the town prostitute. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

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Starring:
Philippe NoiretDany Carrel, (more)
1968  
 
A young female film editor specializes in discovering why other women degrade themselves in pornography and prostitution. She has a relationship with a boring artist, and her life is uneventful until she encounters an older, more worldly art dealer. The man shows her his photographs and she is mesmerized by a picture of a naked woman in chains. The man tries to hide the photo, but she is insistent on seeing it. The man admits this is how he gets aroused, by taking pictures of the bound beauties. The woman asks to come to a photo session where she is repulsed and intrigued at the same time. She leaves, but later returns to the man at his office and becomes hooked on his sadomasochistic voyeurism and begs to become the next model for his camera in the upcoming photo session. He brings in another woman and the session degenerates into a lesbian love fest that the man eagerly captures on film. Shamed, debased and degraded, she pulls her car onto a train track and contemplates her demise. Injured but not dead, she is straddled in her hospital bed when the man comes to visit. She goes into a psychedelic hallucination dream sequence in which her sexual escapades flash before her eyes as the man and her artist boyfriend engage in fisticuffs. Yikes! ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

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Starring:
Elisabeth WienerLaurent Terzieff, (more)
1968  
 
A young woman living on the Left Bank of Paris is a pickpocket and a prostitute. Running away from a man she has robbed, she sees a young street photographer and plants the stolen wallet on him. Before she goes to prison, the two fall in love. Upon her release, they are married and things look rosy until she reverts to thievery to earn money for her husband's studio. She then commits murder to hide her shady past (she is already married to another man) from her naive partner. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

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Starring:
Dany CarrelJacques Perrin, (more)
1968  
 
This violent crime drama finds police chief Joss (Jean Gabin) on the trail of a murderous mob boss. When the mob talks Joss' friend into turning to a life of crime, the maniacal mastermind kills the friend, along with the other robbery participants. Joss swears revenge and beats the crooks to the punch by robbing their next intended target. He leaks word to the mob where he can be found and uses a human decoy in an attempt to gun down the vicious murderer and clear his own name. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

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Starring:
Jean GabinDany Carrel, (more)
1967  
 
Goubi (Jean Lefebre) is the local village idiot, known by all, who dreams of someday going to Paris. When some locals learn of Goubi's wish, they put him in a truck and drive him to the city of lights. Goubi meets a hooker with a heart of gold and a lost orphan boy as he experiences his adventures in Paris. The locals soon miss the kindly Goubi, and the lovable idiot tries to make it back home. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

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Starring:
Dany CarrelJean Lefebvre, (more)
1966  
 
The friend of a diamond thief kills the man who refuses to call for medical help after a shootout in this low-budget crime drama, the first directed by Eddy Matalon. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

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Starring:
Claude BrasseurDany Carrel, (more)
1965  
 
Dany Carrel is an amnesiac girl who is supposed to be a rich heiress. Her guardian Jeanne (Madeleine Robinson) tries to help her to regain her memory. The mystery unfolds in a series of flashbacks in which the girl finally realized who she is. This psychological mystery is based on the bestselling, virtually unfilmable novel by Sebastien Japrisot. ~ Dan Pavlides, All Movie Guide

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Starring:
Dany CarrelMadeleine Robinson, (more)
1964  
 
Dany Carrel and Danielle Darrieux star in this adaptation of a novel by Jean-Pierre Ferriere. Attending the funeral of her husband, a widow notices a stranger present. The stranger turns out to be a woman who was involved with a drug deal her deceased husband was making. Now the stranger is after some missing heroin and uses her boyfriend to try to find out where it might be. The unfortunate widow, however, is not as much a victim as she seems. French director Jacques Poitrenaud of Du Grabuge Ches Les Veuve/Trouble Among Women would go on to act in such films as Autour de Minuit/'Round Midnight and Un Dimanche a la Campagne/A Sunday in the Country. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide

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Starring:
Danielle DarrieuxDany Carrel, (more)
1962  
 
This routine drama set during World War II in Algeria is based on a true and tragic incident. A French garrison has been demoralized by the strength of the German forces in the region, so when the Allies land, it gives them some hope. They are put under orders to take and hold a bridge, allowing no one to cross it. When a German company wants to use the bridge (peacefully), a narrow-minded French captain gives the orders not to let the Germans through. At first, the Germans are put off by a series of tricks, but that cannot last forever. Sooner or later, if the captain's orders are followed, an ill-equipped and outnumbered French unit will find itself up against the superior strength of the German contingent. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

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Starring:
Dany CarrelPaul Meurisse, (more)
1962  
 
The friendship between two rival soldiers provides the basis of this comedy. The tale is set during the Franco-Prussian War of 1870. The soldiers meet while swimming in the same place. They become friends. When they get out of the water, they accidentally trade uniforms. Together they go to a farmhouse. There they meet an old farmer and his pretty granddaughter. They engage in friendly rivalry for the girl, go for another swim and get their proper uniforms back. They then bid each other adieu and return to their troops. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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1962  
 
A few years before he was to gain a name as the French secret agent "Tiger" in spy spoofs by Claude Chabrol, Roger Hanin appeared as Jean, a serious secret agent who is teamed with Vigo (Claude Brasseur) in a case involving a stolen Russian code. One of the attachés in the Russian embassy has come under suspicion because he lost some important papers, and then he has some mysterious dealings with a saleswoman and is apparently kidnapped. The two agents have their work cut out for them as they try to decipher what is really going on -- and who has the papers, as well as the code. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

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Starring:
Pascale AudretDany Carrel, (more)
1961  
 
In this thriller, a greedy young woman becomes a police informer. Her father is in prison for participating in a jewel theft. The girl is looking for the jewels he hid. Unfortunately, she must compete with other real criminals. In the end she is arrested for killing her own lover. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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1961  
 
In this crime drama, a nightclub singer discovers that she is being pursued by the police, an insurance agency, and the mob as she endeavors to resume her profession after being released from prison. All of them are after information concerning the whereabouts of her former lover. It is the mob that sends a handsome fellow to win her heart and glean information. Unfortunately for them, he really does fall in love with her and decides to go straight. In the end, the hapless chanteuse is poisoned by the man's former boss. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide

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1960  
 
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In this offbeat costume horror film set in 1912, Hans (Pierre Brice), a young art student, is sent to a remote Dutch village to collect information about the local windmill. The windmill is decorated with moving sculptures of women in various gruesome scenes of torture and death. Professor Wahl (Herbert Boehme), the curator of the windmill, also teaches art and sculpture. Among the professor's students, Hans meets Liselotte (Dany Carrel), his childhood friend who still loves him. He also gets acquainted with Wahl's beautiful daughter, Elfi (Scilla Gabel), who suffers from a rare blood disease and is not allowed to leave her house. Then Hans discovers the shocking secret behind the professor's attempts to keep his daughter alive. ~ Yuri German, All Movie Guide

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Starring:
Pierre BriceDany Carrel, (more)
1960  
 
A routine wartime tale of double-crossing spies and Nazi evils, The Enemy General is about the stereotypical, not exceedingly brilliant, and crass fascist Gen. Bruger (John Van Dreelen) who is one of the targets of the French Resistance movement. When Lemaire (Van Johnson) gets the unwanted assignment of safely escorting the evil general to England, he is especially torn up about the job. Gen. Bruger was responsible for killing a dozen hostages, among them Lemaire's fiancée. As he sets off with the general, Lemaire has been told that the man has valuable information to give to the British, and that is why he needs to get him safely to England. On the other hand, Lemaire begins to piece things together and eventually realizes that the general is as Nazi as ever and has every intention of betraying British secrets to the German high command. ~ Eleanor Mannikka, All Movie Guide

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Starring:
Van JohnsonJean-Pierre Aumont, (more)

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