Manuela Gourary

Manuela Gourary

1949-07-10 41 Credits

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Heads or Fails

Heads or Fails

2025

7.0
Acting

Armande Pigeon, a queen of shenanigans in Brussels struggles to make ends meet because she can’t stop gambling on everything, always ending up on the ...

Tinquiète

Tinquiète

2022

Acting
Marry Me, Dude

Marry Me, Dude

2017

as Mamie

6.2
Acting

Yassine asks his best friend Fred to marry him in order to avoid deportation...

Suzanne

Suzanne

2013

as La voisine de Nicolas

6.9
Acting

The story of a family and a love affair told through the journey of a young woman called Suzanne.

Mesrine: Killer Instinct

Mesrine: Killer Instinct

2008

as Mado

7.3
Acting

Jacques Mesrine, a loyal son and dedicated soldier, is back home and living with his parents after serving in the Algerian War. Soon he is seduced by ...

Paris 36

Paris 36

2008

as Realistic singer

6.1
Acting

A star is born in a time of both celebration and instability in this historical drama with music from director Christophe Barratier. In the spring of ...

Le temps d'un regard

Le temps d'un regard

2007

as The newsagent

Acting
One Fine Day

One Fine Day

2006

as Mme Mercier

5.0
Acting

François Berthier’s life is a series of unfortunate events. One day, however, a miracle occurs for François and his expected misfortune is changed to ...

La Pomme de Newton

La Pomme de Newton

2005

as Adèle

Acting
La Bastide bleue

La Bastide bleue

2005

as Marinette

7.5
Acting
Raining Cats and Frogs

Raining Cats and Frogs

2003

as Madame Lamotte (voice)

6.9
Acting

It's a catastrophe! A flood has hit our planet and an unusual group of people are all that remains. Led by Ferdinand, a modern day Noah, this little g...

The Pact of Silence

The Pact of Silence

2003

5.9
Acting

Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalist Carmelite in a Brazilian convent, and Gaëlle has...

Chamonix

Chamonix

2002

Acting
Les Petites Mains

Les Petites Mains

2001

8.0
Acting

After the closure of a lace factory in Calais, Andrée, Lulu and Solange are out on the street.

Children's Play

Children's Play

2001

as Mme Worms

4.8
Acting

Marianne and Jacques are a young middle-class couple who live in a chic Parisian apartment with their two young children. One day, Marianne receives a...

L'Art (délicat) de la séduction

L'Art (délicat) de la séduction

2001

as Lulu

5.2
Acting

The film follows Etienne, a 40-year-old car designer, who takes time off from work to study sexual mastery from a Zen master and several prostitutes, ...

Nationale 7

Nationale 7

2000

as La prostitute 2

6.4
Acting

In a nursing home for disabled near Toulon, René is unanimously hated by all. With fifty years and suffering from myopathy, has an irascible, rebellio...

Girlfriends

Girlfriends

2000

3.5
Acting

Apprentice hairdresser Solange is a whiz at teasing locks and cutting hair but knows little about the act of sexual congress -- but she wants to know ...

Taxi

Taxi

1998

as Camille Coutant-Kerbalec

6.7
Acting

In Marseilles a skilled pizza delivery boy Daniel who drives a scooter finally has his dreams come true. He gets a taxi license. Caught by the police ...

The Kid from Chaaba

The Kid from Chaaba

1998

as La Zieurond

6.5
Acting

Le Gone du Chaâba (The Kid of the Chaaba), translated into English as Shantytown Kid by Naima Wolf, is an autobiographical novel by Azouz Begag about ...

L'ami de mon fils

L'ami de mon fils

1997

as Svetlana

Acting

Louise has been a widow for years and teaches literature in a high school. She divides all her time between books and her son, Martin, who still lives...

Une nana pas comme les autres

Une nana pas comme les autres

1995

as Madame Rochas

8.5
Acting

Julie Toronto, a 32-year-old dwarf, quit her accounting job in Paris, to be with Antoine Delisles, the man of her life. She started working as a nanny...

I Can't Sleep

I Can't Sleep

1994

as Mona's Mother

6.4
Acting

Ninon is a spirited hotel-manager who teaches self-defense classes to her terrified eldery neighbors. Daiga, an aspiring Lithuanian actress newly arri...

Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional

Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional

1993

as Mme. Caressa

6.4
Acting

Martine is 25. Since breaking up with François, she has the feeling that the world is caving in on her. Between small jobs and one-night stands, she c...

The Country Years

The Country Years

1992

as La tante de Bébert / Bébert's aunt

7.5
Acting

An adolescent comes of age during a summer in the Rhône valley with his maternal grandparents. Jules seems a little too close to his mother and distan...

Border Line

Border Line

1992

as Irène Michelet

10.0
Acting

On a whim, the long-married Hélène decides to look up a former lover of hers. At his apartment, she is met by the man's grown son, Julien, who tells h...

Epiphany Sunday

Epiphany Sunday

1991

as Mme Azaro, la voisine

5.8
Acting

Three old sisters get together every Sunday. For Epiphany Sunday, the program is busy: eating at the Chinese restaurant, drawing the kings and finally...

La clé n'est pas dans le pot de géranium

La clé n'est pas dans le pot de géranium

1989

Acting
La clé n'est pas dans le pot de géranium

La clé n'est pas dans le pot de géranium

1989

Director

Directing
Women in Prison

Women in Prison

1988

as Danseuse

3.8
Acting

Nicole (Agnes Soral) is sent up the river for infanticide in this routine woman-in-prison feature. There she meets Marthe (Annie Girardot), a fellow m...

The Comedy of Work

The Comedy of Work

1988

as La râleuse

5.7
Acting

Sylvain Berg, a "professional" unemployed who spends his time hiking and mountain climbing, and "model" bank employee Benoît Constant, who has just b...

Seven Women, Seven Sins

Seven Women, Seven Sins

1986

as (segment "Envy")

5.3
Acting

Seven Women, Seven Sins (1986) represents a quintessential moment in film history. The women filmmakers invited to direct for the seven sins were amon...

Adèle Frelon est-elle là?

1986

as Mme Frelon

Acting

Il Maestro

1986

Acting

Gavron demonstrates that jealous feelings are useless in this story of a man, the nephew of the theater director in a small town, who envies the work ...

The Terrible Lovers

The Terrible Lovers

1985

as Alice

6.2
Acting

This standard romantic drama focuses on three different couples who happen to come together in a small hotel in Rome and play out their differences in...

Laisse béton

Laisse béton

1984

as Huguette Moreau

5.0
Acting

Brian and Nourredine are two lousy young offenders. Their flights have a motive: a film brought back from San Francisco where the father of Brian, sin...

Transit

Transit

1982

as Lili

Acting

François Cremer is a truck driver who gets out of prison after having served a sentence of several months for a traffic of which he has always proclai...

Soeur Anne ne vois-tu rien venir?

1982

Acting

Two girls go to Berlin, one to find a German girl who lived at home in the 50s when her parents divorced, the other to look for a role in German cinem...

Memoirs of a French Whore

Memoirs of a French Whore

1979

6.3
Acting

Marie is nineteen and bored in her little suburban life with no future. In a café, she meets the charismatic and beautiful Gerard. Blinded by adoratio...

The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés

The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés

1977

as Marcelle

3.0
Acting

In 1951, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the private detective Nestor Burma was commissioned by an insurance company to find stolen jewelery. The deal seem...

The Swinger

The Swinger

1972

as Hélène (as Manuela Guite)

4.5
Acting

Justine, leaves her family, drops out of school at 18. Drifting in Paris, encountering odd characters she finally slips into prostitution.