Skip to content
MovieCove
Cécile Aubry

Cécile Aubry

Actor and writer · Died July 19, 2010, aged 81 · Paris, France

Cécile Aubry (3 August 1928 – 19 July 2010) was a French film actress, author, television screenwriter and director. Born Anne-José Madeleine Henriette Bénard, Aubry began her career as a dancer. At age 20, she was signed to 20th Century Fox. She made her break as the star of Henri-Georges Clouzot's Manon (1949), which won the Golden Lion at the famed Venice Film Festival. That brought her a leading role alongside Tyrone Power and Orson Welles in American director Henry Hathaway's feature The Black Rose (1950). She had a strong performance in Christian-Jacque's Bluebeard (1952), one of the first French-produced films to be made in color. For a short time, she was a Hollywood success, signing a lucrative contract with Fox, employing her parents as a publicity team, and regularly appearing in French film magazines as an example of the perfect hybrid of Franco-American femininity. Her film career was short. It was interrupted by a secret six-year marriage to Si Brahim El Glaoui, the eldest son of the pasha of Marrakesh. She announced her retirement from film in 1959, claiming that she had only enjoyed cinema for its travel opportunities. She went on to write children's books and scenarios for children's television with considerable success. She was known in France for her TV series for children, Poly, about a boy and a horse, and Belle et Sébastien, adapted for television from her books. The main character in both series was played by her son, Mehdi El Glaoui (credited as "Mehdi"). On 19 July 2010, she died from lung cancer in Dourdan (Essonne), France, aged 81. Description above from the Wikipedia article Cécile Aubry,licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Read more

Biography from TMDB.

Born
August 3, 1928
Died
July 19, 2010 (aged 81)
From
Paris, France
Works as
Actor and writer
Titles
7 on MovieCove · 18 credits in all
Links
IMDb (opens in a new tab)TMDB (opens in a new tab)Wikidata (opens in a new tab)

Known for

TMDB popularity, last 39 days to Oct 28Down 2% in 30 days

What are Cécile Aubry's films like?

Across their 7 MovieCove titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Bonds and Power.

Themes

share of theme weight
Bonds
61%
Power
17%
Self
10%
Morality
4%
Survival
4%
Ideas
4%
Family bonds3 titles, browse their movies with this themeRomantic love2 titles, browse their movies with this themeGreed2 titles, browse their movies with this themeFriendship2 titles, browse their movies with this themeLoyalty2 titles, browse their movies with this theme

What they feel like to watch

their average across 7 films
ToneFeelDemandtheir average · filled zone: the category
Light: How heavy the subject matter and outlook get. Browse their light movies.
Tone · Weight
lightdark

Light 5 · Serious 1 · Dark 1

Stylized: How far its world departs from everyday reality. Browse their stylized movies.
Tone · Style
naturalisticheightened

A split, not a type: Grounded 4 · Stylized 3 · Heightened 0

Charged: How hard the emotional peaks hit while you watch. Browse their charged movies.
Feel · Intensity
gentleintense

Gentle 3 · Charged 3 · Intense 1

Steady: How much it swings between very different feelings. Browse their steady movies.
Feel · Swings
steadyswings

Steady 6 · Shifting 1 · Whiplash 0

Some laughs: How much of the runtime is played for laughs. Browse their some laughs movies.
Feel · Humor
noneconstant

A split, not a type: Straight-faced 4 · Some laughs 2 · Funny 1

Even-paced: How fast it moves from scene to scene. Browse their even-paced movies.
Demand · Pace
slowrelentless

A split, not a type: Slow burn 4 · Even-paced 3 · Relentless 0

Casual: How much focus it asks of you — look away and lose the thread? Browse their casual movies.
Demand · Attention
casualfull focus

Casual 6 · Engaged 1 · Full focus 0

Resolved: How much is left for you to interpret. Browse their resolved movies.
Demand · Resolution
resolvedambiguous

Resolved 7 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0

Roles they play

2 analyzed roles

Moods and endings

endings are an aggregate; no title is named

Dominant moods · mentions across their titles

Warm
4
Hopeful
3
Tense
3
Joyful
2
Melancholic
1
Other
4

How their films linger

Feel-good6 titles, browse their movies with this aftertasteHopeful5 titles, browse their movies with this aftertaste

How their films end

  • Happy4
  • Bittersweet2
  • Tragic1

AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.

Where can I watch Cécile Aubry's films?

As of October 24, 2026, 2 of their 7 MovieCove titles stream on a subscription or free service.

Also on these channels

Subscription and free streaming for Cécile Aubry's titles on MovieCove; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Midcredits score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.

Filmography

18 credits, 7 with a MovieCove page; 4 appearances as themselves are hidden until asked for.

  • Belle and Sébastien: The New Generation(2022)

    Characters

    Midcredits score: 47th percentile of all films

  • Poly(2020)

    Novel

    Midcredits score: 31st percentile of all films

  • Belle & Sebastian: The Adventure Continues(2015)

    Characters

    Midcredits score: 71st percentile of all films

  • Belle & Sebastian(2013)

    Characters

    Midcredits score: 80th percentile of all films

  • Love at First Sight (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1992)

    Show 1 episode · Writer

  • Belle and Sebastian (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1981)

    Show 52 episodes · Novel

  • Le Jeune Fabre (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1973)

    Show Creator

  • Sébastien and Mary-Morgane (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1970)

    Show 13 episodes · Creator · as Self

  • Belle and Sebastian (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1965)

    Show Creator

  • Poly (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1961)

    Show 26 episodes · Director · Creator · Writer

  • La ironía del dinero(1957)

    as La extranjera

    Midcredits score: 37th percentile of all films

  • Tanz in der Sonne (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1954)

    as Ninon

  • Piovuto dal cielo (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1953)

    as Maria

  • Bluebeard (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1951)

    as Aline

  • The Black Rose(1950)

    as Maryam

    Midcredits score: 50th percentile of all films

  • Manon(1949)

    as Manon Lescaut

    Midcredits score: 72nd percentile of all films

  • One Night at the Tabarin (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)(1947)

    Actor

  • Belle, Sebastian and the Horses (not in the MovieCove catalog yet)

    Show Creator

Career shape

Star power in the 64th percentile of 239,109 people with a billed film role, over a full career of 18 titles, 17 of them dated from 1947 to 2022.

Biggest box office

Belle and Sébastien: The New Generation (2022)

$5.8M worldwide

Highest rated

Belle & Sebastian (2013)

Midcredits 80th

Most popular right now

Belle & Sebastian: The Adventure Continues (2015)

Film career

  • 1949Screen debut· Manon

By role

only this rolewith another role
Acting7 of 18: 7 only acting, 0 with another roleDirecting1 of 18: 0 only directing, 1 with another roleWriting7 of 18: 6 only writing, 1 with another roleOther crew5 of 18: 4 only other crew, 1 with another role

By decade

1940s2 · acting1950s5 · acting1960s2 · crew1970s2 · crew1980s1 · crew1990s1 · crew2010s2 · crew2020s2 · crew

Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it.

How do Cécile Aubry's films land?

Their typical MovieCove film has a Midcredits score in the 50th percentile, the median of all 7; across their 7 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 56th percentile for acclaim.

Acclaim · how much people like their films

56thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 7

Approval · how many liked their films

48thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 7

Reach · how many have seen their films

59thpercentile
Typical film, the median of 7

Midcredits score across 7 titles, by percentile

  • 75th and up1
  • 50th to 74th3
  • 25th to 49th3

Shape of the crowd

4 of their 7 titles are Crowd Pleasers.

  • Cult Classic1
  • Crowd Pleaser4
  • Mixed2

Most divisive · writer

Belle and Sébastien: The New Generation (2022)

72nd percentile spread · 19% rated it 4 or lower

Most loved · writer

Belle & Sebastian (2013)

Midcredits 80th · 69% liked

Reviewers score the acting 72/100 in their films, across 4 reviewed titles; fans 79, detractors 48. The element that speaks to their work as an actor.

Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on MovieCove; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Midcredits score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their MovieCove titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.

Who does Cécile Aubry work with?

People who share at least 2 of Cécile Aubry's MovieCove titles, grouped by what they did on them; Clément Miserez shares the most, 3.

Directors

Writers

Actors

Composers, cinematographers and editors

Producers