Loading Page
La Garçonne(1957)
Status: Released
Date: 1957-04-05
10%
1 Votes
Time: 1h 37m
Overview:
La Garçonne is a 1957 French film directed by Jacqueline Audry. It follows Monique, an ingenue and a clueless girl who believes in true love. When she discovers her future husband has a lover, she rebels against her bourgeois life:s he will lead a free and wild life and she will live like a man. Soon she becomes the toast of Gay Paris, sleeping with all the men around, and even with a woman.
Languages: French.
Countries:
France
ProductionCompanies:
Élysée Films
Movie: La Garçonne
Top 10 Billed Cast
Fernand Gravey
Georges Sauvage
Andrée Debar
Monique Sorbier, 'la garçonne'
Jean Danet
Lucien Vigneret
Jean Parédès
Edgar Lair
George Reich
Peer-Rys
Colette Mars
Nichette
René Lefèvre
Professeur Vignabos
Elisabeth Manet
Ginette
HomePage
Overview
La Garçonne is a 1957 French film directed by Jacqueline Audry. It follows Monique, an ingenue and a clueless girl who believes in true love. When she discovers her future husband has a lover, she rebels against her bourgeois life:s he will lead a free and wild life and she will live like a man. Soon she becomes the toast of Gay Paris, sleeping with all the men around, and even with a woman.
Release Date
1957-04-05
Average
1
Rating:
0.5 startsTagline
Genres
Languages:
FrançaisKeywords
Recommendations Movies
64%
The Safety of Objects(en)
2002-10-25
In a suburban landscape, the lives of several families interlace with loss, despair and personal crisis. Esther Gold has lost focus on all but caring for her comatose son, Paul, and neglects her daughter and husband. Lawyer Jim Train is devoted to his career, not his family. Helen Christianson wants to find a new spark in life, while Annette Jennings tries to rebuild hers.
64%
The Trials of Cate McCall(en)
2013-11-28
In order to be reinstated to the bar and recover custody of her daughter, a hotshot lawyer, now in recovery and on probation, must take on the appeal of a woman wrongfully convicted of murder.
62%
My Brilliant Career(en)
1979-08-17
A young woman who is determined to maintain her independence finds herself at odds with her family who wants her to tame her wild side and get married.
64%
Origin(en)
2023-12-08
While investigating the global phenomenon of caste and its dark influence on society, a journalist faces unfathomable personal loss and uncovers the beauty of human resilience.
68%
Iron Jawed Angels(en)
2004-01-16
Defiant young activists take the women's suffrage movement by storm, putting their lives at risk to help American women win the right to vote.
63%
Hollywood Dirt(en)
2017-09-01
Hollywood arrives in force to Quincy, the small town where the secret Crown Cola billionaire's live. They want to film about the billionaire's and how they made their fortunes. Summer Jenkins, who was the town pariah, joins forces with the scout, Ben, and finds filming locations, extras, lessons with the town officials and house owners, etc. When Cole Masten arrives, they hate each other, but sparks fly. Cole is running from a nasty divorce, yet is captivated by Summer. Summer is dying to leave town to get away from the gossip. This is a great story about Southern customs, a Southern girl, and a Hollywood star who finds his lady.
64%
Hounddog(en)
2008-09-19
A drama set in the American South, where a precocious, troubled girl finds a safe haven in the music and movement of Elvis Presley.
58%
Strange Weather(en)
2016-09-12
Years after her son's suicide, a woman longs to confront both the past and a friend of his who took his business idea.
70%
Heaven Will Wait(fr)
2016-09-08
Mélanie, 16 years old, lives with her mother. She likes going to school, her friends, playing the cello, and she wants to change the world. But when she meets a boy on the Internet and falls in love with him, her world changes as she is gradually recruited by Daesh. Sonia is 17 years old, and she almost did something irrevocable to “guarantee” her family a place in paradise. These teenage girls might be called Anaïs, Manon or Leila, and one day they all might go some way down the recruitment process. But can they ever come back from it?
58%
The Girl in the Book(en)
2015-06-13
The story of a young writer's transformation when her past invades her present.
65%
My Little Princess(fr)
2011-06-29
Young Violetta and her mother Hannah are a peculiar couple. Ten-year-old Violetta lives a quiet life with her grandmother, while her mother Hannah is an unpredictable photographer who lives off of the generosity of others. When Hannah forces her daughter to pose as a model, Violetta finds her life with her loving grandmother turned upside down.The resulting pictures quickly become a sensation for the trendy 70's Paris art scene, and Violetta finds herself caught in between her new stature as an art muse and her dull childhood.
60%
Lucky Them(en)
2013-09-06
More interested in partying and flirting with young musicians than work, veteran rock journalist Ellie Klug has one last chance to prove her value to her magazine’s editor: a no-stone-unturned search to discover what really happened to long lost rock god, Matt Smith, who also happens to be her ex-boyfriend. Teaming up with an eccentric amateur documentary filmmaker, Ellie hits the road in search of answers.
63%
I Believe in Unicorns(en)
2015-05-29
Feeling awkward and isolated, an imaginative and strong-willed teenage girl runs away from home with an older punk rock drifter.
75%
I Can't Think Straight(en)
2008-06-01
Tala, a London-based Palestinian, is preparing for her elaborate Middle Eastern wedding when she meets Leyla, a young British Indian woman who is dating her best friend. Spirited Christian Tala and shy Muslim Leyla could not be more different from each other, but the attraction is immediate and goes deeper than friendship. But Tala is not ready to accept the implications of the choice her heart has made for her and escapes back to Jordan, while Leyla tries to move on with her new-found life, to the shock of her tradition-loving parents. As Tala's wedding day approaches, simmering tensions come to boiling point and the pressure mounts for Tala to be true to herself.
64%
Return(en)
2011-02-10
Back from a tour of duty, Kelli struggles to find her place in her family and the rust-belt town she no longer recognizes.
66%
From the Land of the Moon(fr)
2016-10-19
In 1950s France, a free-spirited woman trapped in an arranged marriage falls in love with an injured veteran of the Indochinese War.
72%
Bastard Out of Carolina(en)
1996-12-15
A poor, struggling South Carolinian mother and daughter face painful choices with their resolve and pride. Bone, the eldest daughter, and Anney her tired mother, grow both closer and farther apart: Anney sees Glen as her last chance.
68%
Antigone(fr)
2019-11-08
Sophie Deraspe’s adaptation of the classic Greek tragedy of the same name reimagines the story of a woman’s quest for justice as a commentary on the immigrant experience in contemporary Montreal.
71%
My King(fr)
2015-10-21
Tony is admitted to a rehabilitation center after a serious ski accident. Dependent on the medical staff and pain relievers, she takes time to look back on a turbulent relationship that she experienced with Georgio.
Similar Movies
48%
Baise-moi(fr)
2000-06-28
Nadine and Manu are two mad women, as tidy as can be, almost perfectionists. They have several things in common: extreme sex, drugs, beer and the trigger. They find the solution to their problems with guns and beware to those who dare to get in their way!
55%
The Heart Is a Dark Forest(de)
2007-12-27
A woman's life is destroyed when she discovers that her husband has another family.
55%
Hotel Very Welcome(de)
2007-02-13
Five young Europeans (German, English, and Irish) try to find answers to life's questions in India and Thailand.
64%
Shall We Dance?(en)
2004-10-15
A bored estate lawyer spots a beautiful woman in the window of a ballroom dance studio. He secretly starts taking dancing lessons to be near her, and then over time discovers how much he loves dancing. His wife, meanwhile, has hired a private detective to find out why he has started coming home late smelling of perfume.
67%
A Girl Called Rosemarie(de)
1996-10-25
Katja Flint, Hannelore Elsner and Heiner Lauterbach star in this German film about a woman who climbs the social ladder by sleeping with those she encounters on her way to the top. When she's discovered dead in her apartment in 1957, the police try to piece together the clues to find out who murdered her … but to no avail.
57%
Subway in the Sky(en)
1959-11-01
Berlin provides the backdrop for this crime drama that centers on a military doctor falsely accused of dealing illegal drugs. Determined to prove his innocence, he escapes from the MPs and ends up holing up in the apartment his wife rented. He doesn't know that she has sublet the flat to a nightclub singer. When he finds out, he begs the singer to assist him. She is attracted to him and agrees. The doctor believes that his wife is behind the black-market dealings, but in the end, they find the real culprit.
64%
Inbetween Worlds(de)
2014-02-11
Jesper is a soldier in the German army, who reports for a new tour of duty in Afghanistan. His unit is to protect a village from the Taliban.
58%
Veera Madakari(kn)
2009-03-20
Madakar is an honest police officer who is murdered by a local thug, Babji, and his son Munna. After his death, his daughter is mysteriously left at the door of Sathyaraju, Madakar's lookalike.
42%
Paris Seen By... 20 Years After(fr)
1984-05-11
Film comprised of six vignettes each illustrating one aspect of life in the French capital, each set in a different area of the city.
70%
Nanayo(ja)
2008-11-01
Saiko travels to Thailand but she jumps out of the cab after knowing the driver's intentions. However, her life changes after she meets Greg.
66%
Passion(cn)
1986-07-24
Sylvia and Cora Miao play two widowed mothers, best friends and confidants who spend their days reminiscing about times past. Over the course of a lazy weekend afternoon, the two women conjure memories of Cora's husband, his life, his death, and his passionate affair with Sylvia. A series of wistful flashbacks reveal the sometimes touching, sometimes painful circumstances around the women's deep friendship with one another, and their love for the same man.
60%
Splendid Float(zh)
2004-12-04
Roy is a Taoist priest but also a drag queen performer. He meets and falls for Sunny but when Sunny disappears without saying goodbye, Roy begins to suspect that something terrible has happened.
55%
The Reincarnation of Golden Lotus(cn)
1989-08-04
An exceptionally beautiful Chinese woman falls prey to violence and social control. After remembering how her previous reincarnation followed a similar path, she tries to break free of the mould.
62%
The Story of Woo Viet(cn)
1981-04-23
The Story of Woo Viet, seven years before they traded wistful looks in An Autumn's Tale. Chow, in one of his earliest and meatiest film roles, plays the title role of Woo Viet, a Vietnamese refugee who hopes to immigrate to the United States.
42%
Zodiac Killers(cn)
1991-07-20
Hong Kong student Ben Lee becomes friends with his mainland Chinese classmate Chang Chih while studying abroad in Japan. Ben is unmotivated to study and only cares about money and on the other hand, whenever Chih encounters a Chinese person, he would ask whereabouts of his childhood sweetheart. Ming is also from Hong Kong and in order to elevate his social status, he becomes involved with a bar hostess and owner Yuriko, hoping to become Yakuza leader Yamada Ishikawa's brother in-law.
62%
Macondo(de)
2014-02-14
A drama centered on an 11-year-old Chechnyan refugee living in Vienna whose life is thrown into disarray when a friend of his deceased father materializes.
60%
My American Grandson(zh)
1991-11-07
A 12-year-old boy from America experiences the clash of cultures and the generation gap when he visits his grandfather in Shanghai.
59%
The Private Lives of Pippa Lee(en)
2009-07-07
After her much older husband forces a move to a suburban retirement community, Pippa Lee engages in a period of reflection and finds herself heading toward a quiet nervous breakdown.
10%
Noor(ur)
2014-04-23
Noor wants to be a man. He doesn't belong anymore to the Khusras, Pakistan's transgender community. And he is definitely done with the love story he had with one of them, that had drastically changed his life. Now, he is doing a man's job in a Truck Decoration Center and he made up his mind: he will find a girl who will accept him as he is.
8%
Yoshiko & Yuriko(ja)
2011-09-07
Based on a true story, Yoshiko and Yuriko relates the journey and great love affair of Yoshiko, who was a renowned translator of Russian literature and drama, and Yuriko, who was a feminist novelist and great activist of the post-war democratic literature movement. Both have left huge marks on Japanese literary history. The two women shared a strong attraction to each other from their first meeting and enjoyed a powerful love affair. Yoshiko reveals that she's an out lesbian, whilst Yuriko is married (not altogether happily) to a well-known scholar - a situation she can't walk away from with ease.