FrameThrower · Actors · Michèle Mercier
Michèle Mercier
2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1960–1963
Born 1 January 1939 · Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Michèle Mercier is a French actress. In the course of her career she has worked with leading directors like François Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Deray, Dino Risi, Mario Monicelli, Mario Bava, Peter Collinson and Ken Annakin. Her leading men have included Marcello Mastroianni, Vittorio Gassman, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Jean Gabin, Charles Aznavour, Robert Hossein, Charles Bronson, Tony Curtis and Charlton Heston. Although she appeared in more than fifty films, it is for her role as "Angélique" that she is best known in France.
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Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 2 films · 130 frames · top-billed in 1 · 1960–1963
- Knight of the Legion of Honour2023
- Officer of Arts and Letters2022
- Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres
How their films are shot
Measured across 130 frames from the 2 films we hold. This is the look of the work Michèle takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 2 films we hold, 72% of their frames are night, 56% low key — the look of the work Michèle takes.
Time of day
Lighting
Shot size
Camera angle
Mood
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 130 frames from Michèle Mercier's 2 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.