FrameThrower · Actors · Françoise Dorléac
Françoise Dorléac
3 films · 188 frames · top-billed in 3 · 1964–1967
Born 21 March 1942 · Paris, France · died 26 June 1967
Françoise Paulette Louise Dorléac was a French actress. She was the elder sister of Catherine Deneuve, with whom she starred in the musical comedy film, The Young Girls of Rochefort (1967). Her other films include Philippe de Broca's That Man from Rio, François Truffaut's The Soft Skin (both 1964), Val Guest's Where the Spies Are (1965), and Roman Polanski's Cul-de-sac (1966).
Dorléac was the daughter of screen actors Maurice Dorléac and Renée Simonot. Slim, fair and blonde, she modeled for Dior and then made her film debut in The Wolves in the Sheepfold (1960), directed by Hervé Bromberger. She went on to appear in The Door Slams (1960) with Dany Saval and her sister Catherine Deneuve.…
How their films are shot
Measured across 188 frames from the 3 films we hold. This is the look of the work Françoise takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 3 films we hold, 71% of their frames are day, 43% natural — the look of the work Françoise takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 188 frames from Françoise Dorléac's 3 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.