Monique Vita
Actor · b. 1935 · Marignane, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Movies24
Movie5.6DramaIn order to pay the rent, a young ballet dancer living in Paris accepts a job in an upmarket strip club. She soon devises a unique act that captivates audiences and catapults her to stardom.
Strip-Tease
1963 · 14 votes
Movie6.4DramaAt the end of World War II, shallow, self-centered Mara is the prettiest girl in her small Italian village; Bebo is a Communist partisan who is finding it difficult to adjust to the dull banalities of life in peacetime. When Mara’s father, a passionate Communist, declares that his daughter will marry the returning hero, her reactions range from joy to bitter resentment.
Movie4.3CrimeDramaAn artist grows hateful of commercial demands on his questionable talents when his friend and artist commits suicide. He puts the blame for his friend's death on an art critic and a shady art dealer. He is able to take out his frustrations on the pretentious critic at a party. When an elderly man moves into the boarding house, he brings a machine he invented that can make people realize their subconscious dreams...
Movie4.2ComedyRomanceErotic comedy about an incorrigible womanizer whose lecherous love life becomes too much to handle. Things culminate when his jealous friends arrange for his fiancee and his mistresses to meet him at the same time.
Movie4.7DramaA young priest works as a barman in a Pigalle cafe in Paris. He tries to prevent the women there to prostitute themselves....
Movie6.6DramaDetermined to assert his paternal rights, Quentin leaves his small village on the Swiss border to go to Lyon to look for his daughter, now a hairdresser, who, busy with her work, hasn't been back to the village for two years. In a few days, it will be Denise's birthday, the youngest of his daughters, and, urged on by his wife, he sets off, determined to bring the prodigal son back to the family celebration. But Denise is now living off her charms.
Movie4.0ComedyTo improve their sex life, a married couple check themselves into a sex clinic.
Movie5.6ComedyDramaPursued by a rival gang after a violent robbery, Toni escapes with nearly thirty million francs. On the train to Paris, to avoid arousing suspicion, he has no choice but to threaten an honorable philosophy professor, Justin Mignonnet, with his gun, so that he will carry the loot for him. To make sure he returns the money, he takes his papers and makes him promise to be present at the exchange appointment at the Pigalle Hotel the next day. Completely lost, Mignonnet decides to obey orders, but just as he is about to return the money, a young woman, a member of the enemy gang, comes to collect it.
Movie6.1DramaYoung, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the belles of the capital.
Movie7.5ComedyPeter Simon, a famous American writer, deserts his girlfriend Eva to live incognito at a small Normandy inn. Eva shams her own murder for revenge. Meanwhile, a young reporter, Françoise, has tracked Peter down. The news of the crime quickly spreads and, believing Peter to be the murderer, the village is in an uproar. Despite misadventures galore, everything turns out right and Peter takes Françoise on their honeymoon.
Fric-frac en dentelles
1957 · 2 votes
Movie3.9ComedyNaturally optimistic and mischievous, Jérôme Aubin crossed the time of his adolescence, around 1945, with ease and good humor. The years passed. He married the pretty Françoise, a little neighbor he had known since the age of eight, and soon found himself a secondary school teacher, a little anxious at the thought of facing for the first time students he had been told were particularly turbulent. How will he master this new difficulty? Better than you'd think, thanks to a delicious optimism: boldly going against the grain of conventional methods, he surprises his young audience, thwarting the plans of the dissipated gossips and turning their most tendentious attitudes to his advantage. All this provokes astonishment and concern among the college's leaders. But Jérôme Aubin is no pushover, and even the dreaded general supervisor finds himself obliged to give in to his most audacious initiatives...
Movie3.7In a shabby corner of Paris, Gigi (Monique Vita) a prostitute attempts to settle scores with the pimp who controls her life and income, drifting through cheap interiors and tourist-friendly views of the city, repeatedly interrupted by erotic encounters and lingering close-ups of an antique Métro train. The confrontation offers no escape, only a return to the same cycle of exploitation and dependence.
Movie6.1ThrillerPierre Rossi and Béatrice live in the same block of flats in Marseille and love each other. One night, Béatrice leaves her apartment. Pierre knows that his fiancée goes to a rendezvous, but she would not tell him more than just that. Worried, Pierre follows her but he is attacked and stolen his identity papers by two men, Tom and Nasol, on the payroll of Quaglio, one of the city's bosses. Later on, Quaglio kills Nasol and deposits the body in a garage, leaving Pierre's papers nearby. As for Pierre, he manages to follow Tom to a villa where several young women have been invited. Pierre, horrified, realizes that this place is the headquarters for the white slave trade. - Written by Guy Bellinger
Movie4.0ComedyLiving in cramped quarters with Charley, an architecture student, four of his friends force him to dress up as a woman and play the role of his own godmother in order to rent Mr. de Saint-Sevran's mansion at low prices. The result is a series of misunderstandings and comical situations that only end when the real godmother arrives.
La Marraine de Charley
1959 · 2 votes
Movie4.6DramaCrimeAlice Rémon, a pharmacist, is a prostitute who managed to leave the streets by getting married. Her husband dies one day, poisoned. Her mother-in-law, who hates her, accuses her of murder.
Movie3.3ComedyCount Gabriel de Lachaune is a wealthy and hedonistic hotelier. Never short of ideas, he organizes an erotic rally between five libertine couples. Those who justify the greatest number of sexual relations will take as a first prize one million gold francs in the form of a winged phallus and the following will gain in compensation a free stay in the palace of the count.
Movie2.0A woman starts working in her dead husband's brothel.
Les Demoiselles à péage
1975 · 2 votes
MovieAt a construction site, an ex-con tries to sabotage the marriage of a man who married his fiancée while he was in prison.
Movie3.3ComedyWalter Petit is the laughing stock of the secretaries at the office.
Hard Love
1975 · 3 votes
Movie8.0ComedyMadame Arrieu is the owner of an apartment building in Paris, where she lives with her three respectful nieces. Then, Elvira, a lady who paints nudes, gets behind in her lodging payments. Elvira, wishing to impress a prospective customer from the United States, asks Mme. Arrieu to let her use her (better) apartment, to receive him - just for a couple of hours. The lady refuses, but then she must leave for a short spell... Temptation is too big.
Movie5.2HorrorA group of friends decide to spend a weekend in a castle belonging to Riccardo, a moody and hyper-sensitive young artist. The only other inhabitants of the castle are a mysterious housekeeper, Caterina, and the demented Aldo. The group are joined by two friends: Serena and a young American medium, Anthony. During a seance Anthony predicts a tragedy, then leaves the castle, shocked by his own visions. An hour later, Serena is found strangled to death in bed. The others become gradually more and more diffident and suspicious, especially when another girl is murdered...
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Movie7.5DramaHelena goes to the French coastline to meet up with old flame Roy. At Roy's swanky house Helena is told by a man at the door named Frank that Roy is preoccupied with another woman. Helena immediately hits it off with Frank only for things to turn sour after a gang of vicious thugs break into the house.
Movie6.5Barbara and Jacques Bellemont, a couple of Parisians are in search of new sensations, They embark for Africa to be by hosted Olivier, a hunting guide and his mistress Dora.She tries to win back her husband by witchcraft.