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  • Darling
  • Darling review by A customer from leamington
    Rated - 3 stars Two for one 19 October 2004
    ...The L-Shaped Room Leslie Caron plays a French girl who comes to London for an abortion. She takes up lodgings in a run down London house peopled by a host of colourful cha...  
  • Funny Bones
  • Funny Bones review by from London
    Rated - 5 stars A great film about comedians, and the best ever about Blackpool 27 October 2004
    ...ogether both famous - if too little seen - faces such as Lewis, Oliver Reed and Leslie Caron, and a host of variety and circus stars who have rarely been seen on screen bef...  
  • Daddy Longlegs
  • Daddy Longlegs review by A customer from Cheshire England
    Rated - 3 stars A Master Class in Dance 23 September 2006
    ...Jean Webster and thought the book was wonderful.It is the story is of Julie, (Leslie Caron) a cute orphan girl who is sponsored to go to College by playboy Jervis Pendlet...  

Leslie Caron - filmography


  • Chocolat on DVD (2000)
    Starring: Juliette Binoche,  Johnny Depp,  Carrie-Anne Moss
    Director: Lasse Hallstrom
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Lasse Hallstrom's CHOCOLAT is set in the late 1950s, but it might as well be the late 1850s in a small French town where everyone behaves as they should (supposedly), and attends church regularly. When a strong north wind blows through town, it brings the vivacious and mysterious Vianne (Juliette ..read more »
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 35,400 members
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  • Damage on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Jeremy Irons,  Juliette Binoche,  Miranda Richardson
    Director: Louis Malle
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In this gripping romantic thriller, a married and respected middle-aged MP becomes romantically and obsessively involved with his son's fiancee, ultimately ruining his career. Willing to pay any price for his passion, he goes a step too far, and ultimately arranges his own tragic demise.Academy ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 55% from 1,869 member
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  • Man Who Lived At The Ritz on DVD (1988)
    Starring: Perry King,  Cherie Lunghi,  David McCallum
    Director: Desmond Davis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    This is an intruiging film about an American art student (Perry King) who visits Paris and stays at the Hotel Ritz during a critical moment in World War II. As Germans take greater hold of France, the American suddenly finds himself living amongst a sea of Nazis at the hotel and enmeshed in their ..read more »
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 38% from 43 members
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  • Dangerous Moves (1984)
    Starring: Michel Piccoli,  Alexandre Arbatt,  Liv Ullmann
    Director: Richard Dembo
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Two very different men compete in the World Chess Championship Games. One is a 52-year-old Soviet Jew and chess master for the past 12-years, and the other is a 35-year-old genius who defected to the West several years earlier.
    Rate this: 2 stars out of 5 41% from 6 members
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  • Darling on DVD (1965)
    Starring: Julie Christie,  Dirk Bogarde,  Laurence Harvey
    Director: John Schlesinger,  Bryan Forbes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Julie Christie stars as the immensely charming Darling, a role that would garner her an Oscar as Best Actress. Although she's married, she falls hard for television interviewer Robert (Dirk Bogarde), and their friendship blossoms into a full-blown affair that has each of them leaving their spouses ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 1,700 member
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  • Father Goose on DVD (1964)
    Starring: Cary Grant,  Leslie Caron
    Director: Ralph Nelson
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    During WW2, a man persuaded to live on an isolated island and spot aircraft finds himself responsible for a teacher and several students, all female.
    Rate this: 3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 683 members
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  • The L-Shaped Room on DVD (1962)
    Starring: Cicely Courtneidge,  Brock Peters,  Leslie Caron
    Director: Bryan Forbes
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    A woman faces life in a shabby, suburban bed-sit after being jilted and left pregnant. Sharing her desperation with an assortment of neighbours, they help her to decide whether to have an abortion, in a sensitive study of social morals at the dawning of the Sixties sexual revolution.
    Rate this: 4 stars out of 5 75% from 210 members
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  • Fanny (1961)
    Starring: Leslie Caron,  Maurice Chevalier,  Charles Boyer
    Director: Joshua Logan
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Almost 19-year-old Marius feels himself in a rut in Marseille, his life planned for him by his cafe'-owning father, and he longs for the sea. The night before he is to leave on a 5-year voyage, Fanny, a girl he grew up with, reveals that she is in love with him, and he discovers that he is in love ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 56% from 5 members
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  • Gigi on DVD (1958)
    Starring: Leslie Caron,  Maurice Chevalier,  Louis Jourdan
    Director: Vincente Minnelli
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Set in Paris at the turn of the century, this delightful Lerner and Loewe musical, based on a story by Collette, follows a precocious French girl as she is groomed into a would-be courtesan, blossoming into a stunning woman. The story provides plenty of opportunity for Minnelli and MGM to pull out ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 62% from 2,294 members
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  • Daddy Longlegs on DVD (1955)
    Starring: Leslie Caron,  Fred Astaire,  Terry Moore
    Director: Jean Negulesco
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A globe-trotting playboy played by Fred Astaire spies a young woman living in an orphanage, and on impulse decides to anonymously sponsor her college education. The mystery of her benefactor's identity fuels romantic speculation in the girl, and her letters fuel romantic speculation in Astaire. ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 64% from 194 members
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  • An American In Paris on DVD (1951)
    Starring: Gene Kelly,  Leslie Caron,  Oscar Levant
    Director: Vincente Minnelli
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    One of the greatest of 1950s screen musicals is a happy collaboration between the grace and athleticism of Gene Kelly and colourful palette of Vincente Minnelli. An American G.I. lingers in Paris after the war to study painting and soon falls in love with Caron, an engaged mademoiselle, much to the ..read more »
    Rate this: 3 stars out of 5 63% from 3,275 members
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Leslie Caron facts

5 most recent films

Chocolat - 3.5 stars
Last Of The Blonde Bombshells - 3.5 stars
Funny Bones - 3.5 stars
Damage - 3.0 stars
Man Who Lived At The Ritz - 2.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

The L-Shaped Room - 4.0 stars
Father Goose - 3.5 stars
Last Of The Blonde Bombshells - 3.5 stars
Chocolat - 3.5 stars
Funny Bones - 3.5 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Subterraneans - 1.0 stars
Austerlitz - 2.0 stars
QB VII - 2.0 stars
Man Who Lived At The Ritz - 2.0 stars
Dangerous Moves - 2.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Maurice Chevalier - 2 times - show films
Juliette Binoche - 2 times - show films
Pat Phoenix - 2 times - show films
Judi Dench - 2 times - show films
Tom Bell - 2 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Vincente Minnelli - 2 times - show films
Bryan Forbes - 2 times - show films
John Schlesinger - 1 times - show films
Gillies Mackinnon - 1 times - show films
Rene Clement - 1 times - show films