Valentine Tessier
Date of birth: 1892-08-05
Place of birth: Paris, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
Movie Credits
Madame Bovary
1934-01-04
Soon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country docto
The Phantom Wagon
1939-09-07
French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a
Lucrèce Borgia
1953-10-23
In the early 16th century, Italy is ruled by the powerful Borgia family, led by César Borgia and his
Justice Is Done
1950-09-20
Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All m
The Queen and the Cardinal
1935-11-22
A hero of the Paris streets is recruited for a conspiracy against Mazarin in the court of the King,
Distress
1947-04-16
Martine discovers, on the eve of her wedding, that her mother, whom she believed to be dead, leads a
L'Embuscade
1941-03-26
A young man is hired by an industrialist, while a secret hangs over his birth. His boss's wife turns
The Four-Poster Bed
1942-07-09
In his prison cell, the composer Remi Bonvent composed an opera, The columns bed. The director of th
Life Size
1974-08-21
When Michel gets the life-sized sex doll he ordered, shipped directly from Japan, he is only intrigu
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1956-12-19
Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside C
My Husband, His Mistress and I
1974-10-02
Middle-aged lust: a man, in his thirteenth and therefore omen-filled marriage year, cheats on his wi
Maddalena
1954-08-07
The story takes plays during the annual Good Friday pageant in a tiny Italian village. Local priest
Des quintuplés au pensionnat
1953-05-08
In a girls boarding-school run by Madame Piégeois, young Gisèle meets, at night, the count of Champr
Abused Confidence
1937-11-29
Lydia (Danielle Darrieux) is a student, poor and orphaned, who pretends to be the daughter of a famo
Ménilmontant
1936-11-20
Because they brought her back a lost piece of jewelry, a very rich lady accedes to the request of th
Leathernose
1952-03-26
After being hurt in the face, Count de Roger Tinchebraye is forced to hide his disfigured face behin
Children of Love
1953-11-10
In a maternity hospital, young single mothers are accompanied by social worker Hélène Lambert, who t
Élisa
1957-03-08
Recently released from reform school, Élisa works at Madame Irma's before moving to Paris, where her
French Cancan
1955-04-09
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of
Églantine
1972-02-25
Léopold, a young schoolboy, returns from boarding school to spend the summer vacations with his fami
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
1959-09-02
Police Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at the r
The Two Truths
1951-11-30
The young Loris is undergoing a trial for killing his girlfriend Maria Luce. According to the recons
Club de femmes
1936-06-20
Young women search for love whilst living in a cheap Parisian boardinghouse that does not allow men.
Stain on the Snow
1954-02-19
La neige était sale is based on a novel and play by the phenomenally prolific Georges Simenon. Upon
Trial at the Vatican
1952-08-29
In 19th-century France, a little girl follows her two sisters into a Carmelite monastery with the go