Pierre-Alain Chapuis
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Dark Night, October 17, 1961
2005-06-07
Dark Night, October 17, 1961
Overview: Parisian authorities clash with the Front de Libération Nationale (FLN) in director Alain Tasma’s recounting of one of the darkest moments of the Algerian War of Independence. As the war wound to a close and violence persisted in the streets of Paris, the FLN and its supporters adopted the tactic of murdering French policemen in hopes of forcing a withdrawal. When French law enforcement retaliated by brutalizing Algerians and imposing a strict curfew, the FLN organizes a peaceful demonstration that drew over 11,000 supporters, resulting in an order from the Paris police chief to take brutal countermeasures. Told through the eyes of both French policemen as well as Algerian protestors, Tasma’s film attempts to get to the root of the tragedy by presenting both sides of the story.
Genres: TV Movie Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-06-07
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Zanzibar
1989-10-04
Zanzibar
Overview: In this "inside look" at French filmmaking, Marechal - who is a has-been director - a producer, Vito Catene and Camile Dor, a big-name actress, have agreed to make a film about drugs, but don't have a story, financing, or any of the other elements needed to make it. This doesn't stop them; they cobble together the financing and begin shooting anyway. The producer is very fond of the leading actress, and when she gets hooked on drugs for real in the course of shooting what he feels to be a farcical imitation of a film, he gives up his shares in the film and heads off for the back of beyond (Zanzibar) to lick his wounds. To add insult to injury, the film winds up being a critical and commercial success.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-10-04
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On a très peu d'amis
1998-03-04
On a très peu d'amis
Overview: Two friends are taken hostage while on their way to see a childhood buddy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-03-04
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Undercover
2022-02-09
Undercover
Overview: October 2015. French customs seize seven tonnes of cannabis in the heart of the capital. The same day, Hubert Antoine, a former mole with a shady past, contacts Stéphane Vilner, a journalist at Libération. He claims to be able to demonstrate the existence of State drug trafficking led by Jacques Billard, prominent media figure and high-ranking French police officer. Suspicious at first, the young journalist finally dives into an investigation that will lead him to the darkest corners of the Republic.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-02-09
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Baptême
1989-08-23
Baptême
Overview: In this film, director Rene Feret tells the story of his parents' lives. In 1935 his mother Aline works in her parents' cafe in a mining town in northern France. There, she meets a customer, Pierre and decides she is going to marry him. In a reversal of roles, she is the one who proposes to him, and she also engineers a false pregnancy to persuade her parents to okay the match. With a few stops along the way, the story picks up after the war with the birth of the couple's third son, who is given the name Rene in memory of their first, dead son. Never rich, they achieve some level of financial stability just as their sons are about to head off to the city for college. The love between the two older people is highlighted in a poignant scene as, just as he is about to die, the father shares a champagne toast with his wife in memory of one of their happier moments.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-08-23
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Summer Strolls
1992-03-11
Summer Strolls
Overview: When a group of student actors travel to a workshop in Dordogne to put on a production of Shakespeare's As You Like It as a summer project, they are as lively and high-spirited a group as one could ask for. While they are there, the young man who has the leading role begins casting cow eyes at the director's wife (Valerie Stroh), and soon she and the boy are having an affair. By the end of the summer, the wife is sufficiently charmed to wonder how she could have gotten into this situation where she deeply loves both men.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-03-11
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Waiting for the Moon
1987-06-15
Waiting for the Moon
Overview: Fictionalized portrait of one of history's great literary couples: Stein & Toklas. Summer 1930s France, Alice tends to ailing Gertrude; they visit Fernande Olivier, Guillaume Apollinaire, others; and Hemingway pops in.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-06-15
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Lie with Me
2023-02-22
Lie with Me
Overview: An author returns to his hometown of Cognac for the first time in 35 years to help promote a distillery. Once there, he meets his first love’s son, Lucas. Memories come rushing back to him: irrepressible attraction, bodies becoming one in the heat of desire, a passion that can never be revealed… His first love’s name was Thomas. They were 17.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-02-22
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Le malade imaginaire
2008-09-30
Le malade imaginaire
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-09-30
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First Name: Carmen
1983-09-04
First Name: Carmen
Overview: The protagonist is Carmen X, a sexy female member of a terrorist gang. She asks her uncle Jean, a washed-up film director if she can borrow his beachside house to make a film with some friends, but they are in fact planning to rob a bank. During the robbery she falls in love with a security guard. The film intercuts between Carmen's escape with the guard, her uncle's attempt to make a comeback film, and a string quartet attempting to perform Beethoven.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-09-04
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Time Regained
1999-05-19
Time Regained
Overview: In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-05-19
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C'est pas de l'amour
2014-02-05
C'est pas de l'amour
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-02-05
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Violette
2013-09-06
Violette
Overview: Born out of wedlock early in the last century, Violette Leduc meets Simone de Beauvoir in postwar Saint-Germain-des-Près. An intense lifelong relationship develops between the two women authors, based on Violette's quest for freedom through writing and on Simone's conviction that she holds in her hands the destiny of an extraordinary writer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-09-06
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150 Milligrams
2016-11-18
150 Milligrams
Overview: In the hospital where she works in Brest, France, a lung specialist discovers a direct link between suspicious deaths and state-approved medicine. She fights single-handedly for the truth to come out.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-11-18
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Je vous ai compris : De Gaulle, 1958-1962
2010-11-02
Je vous ai compris : De Gaulle, 1958-1962
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Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-11-02
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Les Mamies
1992-11-11
Les Mamies
Overview: When 12 year old Alex runs away, his grandmother ask her 6 friends for help and follow the kid from Paris to Lisbon.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-11-11
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La part des anges
2011-09-17
La part des anges
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-17
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