Movie: Femmes Fatales

Top 10 Billed Cast

Jean-Pierre Marielle
Jean-Pierre Marielle

Paul Dufour

Jean Rochefort
Jean Rochefort

Albert

Brigitte Fossey
Brigitte Fossey

Suzanne Dufour

Bernard Blier
Bernard Blier

Father Émile

Claude Piéplu
Claude Piéplu

A guerrilla

Gérard Jugnot
Gérard Jugnot

A follower

Sylvie Joly
Sylvie Joly

The head doctor

Dominique Lavanant
Dominique Lavanant

The myopic woman

Claudine Beccarie
Claudine Beccarie

The gynecologist's patient

Pierre Bertin
Pierre Bertin

The canon

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    Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males...

  • Release Date

    1976-02-11

  • Average

    6.2

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    Français
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