Sylvie Vartan
Biography: Sylvie Vartan (born Sylvie Georges Vartanian; 15 August 1944) is a Armenian-Bulgarian-French singer and actress. She is known as one of the most productive and tough-sounding yé-yé artists. Her performances often featured elaborate show-dance choreography, and she made many appearances on French and Italian TV. With 50 million records and CD's sold worldwide, 2000 magazine covers (number one French female artist before Bardot and Deneuve) and being the number one French female singer with concerts and audience worldwide, Sylvie Vartan is considered a true Legend and icon. Yearly shows with then-husband Johnny Hallyday attracted full houses at the Olympia and the Palais des congrès de Paris throughout the 1960s and mid-1970s. In 2004, after a break in performances, she began recording and giving concerts of jazz ballads in francophone countries. Sylvie Vartan was born in Iskrets, Sofia Province, in the then Kingdom of Bulgaria. Her father, Georges Vartanian (1912—1970), was born in France to a Bulgarian mother named Slavka and an Armenian father. He worked as an attaché at the French embassy in Sofia. The family shortened the name Vartanian to Vartan. Her mother, Ilona (née Mayer 1914–2007), daughter of prominent architect Rudolf Mayer, was of Hungarian-Jewish descent. When the Soviet Army invaded Bulgaria in September 1944, the Vartanian family house was nationalised and they moved to Sofia. In 1952, a friend of Sylvie's father, film director Dako Dakovski, offered her the role of a schoolgirl in the movie Pod igoto, a film about Bulgarian rebels against the Ottoman occupation. Participating in the film made her dream of becoming an entertainer come true. The hardships of postwar Bulgaria made the family emigrate to Paris in December 1952. At first they stayed in the Lion d'Argent hotel near Les Halles, where Georges found a job, then for the next four years they stayed in a single room at the Angleterre Hotel. Young Sylvie had to work hard to keep up at school and blend in with her schoolmates. She spent two years learning French. In 1960, her family moved to an apartment in Michel Bizot Avenue. Thanks to the influence of her music producer brother Eddie, music became teenage Sylvie's main interest. Her most influential genres were jazz and, out of spite toward her strict high school, rock 'n' roll. Her favourite artists included Brenda Lee, Bill Haley, and Elvis Presley. In 1961, Eddie offered Sylvie the chance to record the song "Panne d'essence" with French rocker Frankie Jordan. The Decca Records EP was a surprise hit. Although she was not credited on the sleeve, "Panne d'essence" provided Vartan her first appearance on French television. The journalists gave her the nickname la collégienne du twist. After the "twisting schoolgirl" had finished the Victor Hugo High School, she was free to sign a contract with Decca Records to start recording her own EP; carrying the title song "Quand le film est triste", a cover of Sue Thompson's "Sad Movies (Make Me Cry)", the EP was on sale by the beginning of December 1961. ... Source: Article "Sylvie Vartan" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge
1962-12-19
Un clair de Lune à Maubeuge
Overview: Paul, a friendly Parisian cab driver, has two loves: music and his fiancée Virginie. After graduating from the Conservatoire with a first prize, he lives on hope, offering his classical works to publishers. One day, while driving customers to the races, he plays a "toquard": Maubeuge, who wins. With his friends, he celebrates the event and, for dessert, composes a song for the occasion: "Tout ça ne vaut pas un clair de lune à Maubeuge". Monique, a secretary at the radio station and one of the guests, had a record made of the tape recording. And this record, following a mistake, was broadcast on a religious music program. It's a runaway success: for Paul, it's fame and fortune. which he had obviously coveted, but more with his symphonies, opera and sonatas. No matter, the "Clair de lune à Maubeuge" (Moonlight in Maubeuge) allows two happily engaged couples to become happily married.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1962-12-19
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Roger Kasparian, l'oeil des 60's
2014-11-02
Roger Kasparian, l'oeil des 60's
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-11-02
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Malpertuis
1971-01-02
Malpertuis
Overview: Malpertuis is the name of an old, rambling mansion which is in reality a labyrinth where characters from Greek mythology are imprisoned by the bedridden Cassavius. He manages to keep them, as well as his nephew and niece, prisoners even after his death, through a binding testament. As Jan, the nephew, unravels the mystery, he discovers that he cannot escape the house because Malpertuis is far more significant than he was led to believe.
Genres: Drama Horror Fantasy
Original Language: nl
Release Date: 1971-01-02
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Rare and Unseen: The Beatles
2008-04-08
Rare and Unseen: The Beatles
Overview: The Beatles. Their story is told for the very first time using original rare film and video of the band, including home movies, concert footage, newsreels and photographs from private collections. There are also interviews with those who surrounded the band, and those who were there from the very start. Also included is an exclusive interview with fan and star in his own right, Phil Collins. For the first time we can see The Beatles relaxed, at play, on and off stage, on film and is a rare glimpse inside the lives of four musicians who shook the world.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-04-08
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Where Are You From, Johnny?
1963-10-29
Where Are You From, Johnny?
Overview: Without knowing it, Johnny, a young rock musician, finds himself involved with a Parisian drug gang. Realising he is being set up, he throws the drugs into the Seine and takes refuge in the Camargue with his family and his fiancée, Gigi. Meanwhile, the dealers are hot on their heels.
Genres: Adventure Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1963-10-29
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The Black Angel
1994-11-11
The Black Angel
Overview: Stephane, the wife of a prominent magistrate, shoots and kills a man in her home and claims he tried to rape her. While investigating her case, her lawyer becomes hopelessly enmeshed in a web of lies and subterfuges concerning her past.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-11-11
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Carlos Numéro 1
1979-06-20
Carlos Numéro 1
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-06-20
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My Mom, God and Sylvie Vartan
2025-03-19
My Mom, God and Sylvie Vartan
Overview: In 1963, Esther gives birth to Roland, the youngest of a large family. Roland is born with a club foot that prevents him from standing. Against everyone's advice, she promises her son that he will walk like the others and that he will have a fabulous life. From then on, Esther will do everything in her power to keep this promise. Through decades of trials and miracles of life, this film is the story of a true, funny and moving story, that of an incredible destiny and the greatest love there is: that of a mother for her child.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-03-19
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Sylvie Vartan : le récital
2021-10-12
Sylvie Vartan : le récital
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-10-12
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Michel Sardou une vie en chantant
2021-09-19
Michel Sardou une vie en chantant
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-19
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L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023-06-02
L'Âge d'or de la pub
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-02
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Johnny Hallyday : Tour 66 - Stade de France
2009-11-16
Johnny Hallyday : Tour 66 - Stade de France
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-11-16
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Friends of the family
1964-10-20
Friends of the family
Overview: Leon Rollo whose nickname is "Patate" is an inventor adored by his wife and is daughter. He is mostly happy but his best friend Noël seems to succeed in everything he undertakes... Patate become increasingly jealous of this incredible luck.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-10-20
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Repeated Absences
1972-11-01
Repeated Absences
Overview: François Naulet turns his bedroom into an island of drugs, loneliness and despair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-11-01
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La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022-01-07
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Overview: In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of modernity. One of his first decisions was to break up the ORTF with the creation of three new television channels: TF1, Antenne 2 and FR3. Three new public channels but autonomous and competing. It is a race for the audience which is engaged then, and from now on the channels will make the war! This competition will give birth to a real golden age for television programs, with variety shows in the forefront. The stars of the song are going to invade the living rooms of the French for their biggest pleasure. This unedited documentary tells the story of the metamorphosis of this television of the early 1970s, between freedom of tone, scandals, political intrigues and programs that have become mythical.
Genres: History Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-01-07
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Sheila, toutes ces vies-là
2022-12-24
Sheila, toutes ces vies-là
Overview: The portrait of a woman who remembers. Sheila tells the story of Sheila, without concessions or evasions. Her childhood, her parents, her beginnings, the rumors, her love affairs, her marriage, her son, her successes, her farewells, her return, her mourning. The journey of an extraordinary popular icon who never stopped fighting. The courage of an artist who never gives up. "Sheila, toutes ces vies-là" is also a journey through time. 60 years of pop music, punctuated by numerous archives, personal films, timeless hits and illustrations by Marc-Antoine Coulon. But also 60 years of fashion, through a legendary wardrobe (her TV show outfits) that Sheila invites us to rediscover.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-12-24
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J'ai tout donné
1972-06-21
J'ai tout donné
Overview: An intimate cinéma vérité style documentary following french mega star Johnny Hallyday's summer tour.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-06-21
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Sunset People
1984-03-03
Sunset People
Overview: Sunset Boulevard stretches 27 miles from Los Angeles’ Chinatown all the way to the ocean – a ride made famous by Philip Marlowe in the Chandler books. Film star mansions give way to tatty motels; exclusive offices stand alongside nightclubs with aspiring comics, and amateur nude contests. Then the famous ‘strip’ and Hollywood’s legendary coffee shop, Schwabs, where (they say) a girl in a tight sweater turned into Lana Turner. Meet some of Sunset’s most colourful and improbable residents – the failed showbiz impresario who made his millions selling cookies, and the high-rise developer who let John Wayne take his cow up in the lift… the lucky ones have achieved a peculiarly Hollywood brand of success, but every day on Sunset you meet the other ones: still looking for a break, for a job, for a deal. All of them still trying to play their part in the Hollywood dream.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-03-03
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Johnny Hallyday : Parc des Princes 93
1993-09-01
Johnny Hallyday : Parc des Princes 93
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-09-01
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Sylvie Vartan: Live in Las Vegas
1982-12-11
Sylvie Vartan: Live in Las Vegas
Overview: French superstar Sylvie Vartan performs at the MGM in Las Vegas with an introduction by Gene Kelly.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-12-11
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L'Amour, la mort, les fringues
2011-02-26
L'Amour, la mort, les fringues
Overview: They stick to our skin and soul, our clothes. We believe we buy them, they own us. Warning ! these rags are traitors: far from dressing us they expose our complexes, our moods ... Clinging to their hangers, to our memories too, they exercise an underhand dictatorship. Snuggled up, huddled together, they build a bulwark against oblivion in our closets. Often stained for eternity with ink or redcurrant, impregnated with perfume, tears sometimes, piled up or messed up on our shelves, they remain forever linked to the happy or unhappy chapters of our life. It is through the evocation of their wardrobe that Gigi, Eve, Marie, Nora, Françoise, Amanda, Lisa and the others evoke the past, missed appointments and those that changed their lives, the joys and childhood revolts, giggles, disappointments, dramas, parties and hopes too…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-02-26
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Cherchez l'idole
1964-02-26
Cherchez l'idole
Overview: After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning to the music shop he discovers that the precious instrument has just been sold! The problem is complicated by the fact that five stars all bought the same model that morning...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-02-26
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L’ange et la femme: le cinéma de Jean-Claude Brisseau
2008-10-01
L’ange et la femme: le cinéma de Jean-Claude Brisseau
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-10-01
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It Happened in Saint-Tropez
2013-01-13
It Happened in Saint-Tropez
Overview: Zef’s stormy relationship with his brother Roni is further aggravated when Roni marries his daughter just as he is attending to his wife’s funeral. The two brothers have never got on with each other. One is faithful to his religion, the other lives only for the present. Between London, Paris, Saint-Tropez and New York, a series of confrontations and betrayals threatens to drive the family further apart, but out of this confusion will come a great love story, perhaps even two...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-01-13
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The Ponies
1967-06-12
The Ponies
Overview: The rise and fall of a journalist, named Max Torp, who runs a youth magazine, a private club, a tour agency and a pirate radio.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-06-12
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Just for Fun
1963-02-01
Just for Fun
Overview: When the government cuts the quota of musical programs permitted on television, teenagers Mark and Cherry lead others youngsters in forming their own political party.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1963-02-01
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Mausolée pour une garce
2001-11-17
Mausolée pour une garce
Overview: Adapted from a best-selling novel by Frédéric Dard. Agnès Taride has a closet full of skeletons. A beautiful woman, accustomed to using her body to get what she wants, she persuades her lover to murder her ex-husband for the life insurance money that will otherwise go to her daughter when she reaches her upcoming 18th birthday. The murder attempt goes awry, and not only does the ex survive, but a witness calls on his underworld connections to avenge the attack on his friend. From here, the plot and counter-plot become ever more complicated, with blackmail, kidnap, murder, seduction and suicide on the agenda, and a surprise twist in the ending.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-11-17
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Unknown Beauty: François Nars
2023-09-12
Unknown Beauty: François Nars
Overview: Photographer and make-up artist François Nars reveals his visually stunning inner world in this feature-length documentary by filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland. Mr. Nars takes us on a tour of the fashions, designers and models of '70s Paris, the underground of '90s New York, and the timeless world of cinema, filled with actors, actresses, and directors who have shaped his visual aesthetics.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-09-12
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