Aurélien Recoing
Biography: Aurélien Recoing (born 5 May 1958) is a French actor and stage director. Aurélien Recoing is the son of Alain Recoing (puppeteer), and the brother of Éloi Recoing (director and translator), Blaise Recoing (actor and musician), and David Recoing (pianist, composer). Born in Paris on May 5, 1958, Aurélien Recoing began training to be an actor in 1974 at Cours Florent, and studied at Quartier d'Ivry. In 1977, the actor-in-training, who spoke fluent English and a little Russian, joined the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in Paris, where he studied under Jean-Pierre Miquel and Antoine Vitez. He has appeared in more than 30 plays and has directed stage performances of works by Thomas Bernhard, Fernando Pessoa and Paul Claudel. He was awarded the Prix Gérard Philipe in 1989. In 1980, Aurélien Recoing took his first steps into the world of cinema, in Exploits of a Young Don Juan. Finding art-house cinema appealing to him, he worked with Philippe Garrel on Emergency Kisses (Les baisers de secours), and with Laurence Ferreira Barbosa on Modern Life. The actor rose to fame in 2001 thanks to Laurent Cantet's Time Out (L'Emploi du Temps), in which he plays a man who invents a false life to avoid having to tell his friends and family that he has been fired from his job. As he became more and more in demand, he alternated between blockbusters such as Ruby & Quentin and That Woman and art-house films like L'Ennemi naturel and Orlando Vargas. Lending his talents to a number of unusual projects, in 2006 he portrayed a gamblers in 13 Tzameti, Géla Babluani's black-and-white thriller, and also appeared in Forgive Me (Pardonnez-moi), Maïwenn's home-movie style drama. In the same year, the physically imposing actor found himself transported back to 1914 France in Fragments of Antonin, and then to 1959 Kabylia in Florent Emilio Siri's Intimate Enemies. In 2008, he starred in Franck Llopis' Paris Nord-Sud and in La Saison des Orphelins. The following year, he was cast in Gilles Béhat's crime thriller Diamant 13 with Gérard Depardieu, and in Denis Dercourt's Tomorrow at Dawn (Demain dès l'aube). He has made appearances in The Horde, directed by Yannick Dahan and Benjamin Rocher, Xavier de Choudens' Joseph and the Girl with Jacques Dutronc, and Léon Desclozeaux's Cargo, the Lost Men in 2010. He appeared in Frédéric Schoendoerffer's Switch, as well as in Olias Barco's Kill Me Please, which won the Marc'Aurelio d'Oro for best film at Rome Film Festival in 2010. He also appeared in Abdellatif Kechiche's Blue is the Warmest Colour, which took the Palme d'Or at Cannes. In 2020 he appeared in Adults in the room. An upcoming appearance is in Grand Ciel an Arte Film. He made his first short film as a director The Rifleman (Un Bon Tireur) which won an Award Winner for Best Drama in 2021. He is developing his first feature film Naked Hands (À Mains Nues) with Sensito Films Productions. Source: Article "Aurélien Recoing" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Black Box
2021-09-08
Black Box
Overview: Mathieu is a young and talented black box analyst on a mission to solve the reason behind the deadly crash of a brand new aircraft. Yet, when the case is closed by authorities, Mathieu cannot help but sense there is something wrong with the evidence. As he listens to the tracks again, he starts detecting some seriously disturbing details. Could the tape have been modified? Going against his boss' orders, Mathieu begins his own rogue investigation - an obsessional and dangerous quest for truth that will quickly threaten far more than his career...
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-08
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Ghosts
2005-09-15
Ghosts
Overview: Nina, an end-of-teenage orphan with mental problems, starts a new job as a garden cleaner when she meets Toni. They fell in love with each other, but soon Toni starts betraying Nina. In the meantime, Francoise is picked up at a psychic department of a Berlin hospital by her husband, Pierre. After seeing Nina, Francoise believes that she has found her kidnapped daughter Marie, but neither Toni nor Pierre believe her. Nina is unsure about what to think...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2005-09-15
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Counter Investigation
2007-03-07
Counter Investigation
Overview: A cop investigates whether the man convicted of murdering his daughter is really guilty.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-03-07
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13 Thirteen
2005-09-01
13 Thirteen
Overview: Sebastian, a young man, has decided to follow instructions intended for someone else, without knowing where they will take him. Something else he does not know is that Gerard Dorez, a cop on a knife-edge, is tailing him. When he reaches his destination, Sebastian falls into a degenerate, clandestine world of mental chaos behind closed doors in which men gamble on the lives of others men.
Genres: Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-09-01
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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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Ruby & Quentin
2003-10-22
Ruby & Quentin
Overview: After hiding his loot and getting thrown in jail, brooding outlaw Ruby befriends Quentin, a dim-witted and garrulous giant. After Quentin botches a solo escape attempt, they make a break together. Unable to shake the clumsy Quentin, Ruby is forced to take him along as he pursues his former partners in crime to avenge the death of the woman he loved and get to the money.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-10-22
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Belle and Sebastian: Next Generation
2022-10-19
Belle and Sebastian: Next Generation
Overview: 10-year-old Sebastien reluctantly spends his vacation in the mountains with his grandmother and aunt. Helping them with the sheep is hardly an exciting prospect for a city boy like him - but that is without considering his encounter with Belle, a huge dog mistreated by her owner. Ready to do anything to fight injustice and to protect his new-found friend, Sebastien will spend the craziest summer of his life.
Genres: Adventure Family Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-10-19
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Cold Showers
2005-05-14
Cold Showers
Overview: Mickael's family is struggling (they don't have enough money to pay for hot water) however his life is full with Judo and his girlfriend Venessa. Then Mickael makes a decision to open up his relationship to include Clement his rich-kid Judo partner, starting a chain of events.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-05-14
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La fille et le garçon
2023-04-21
La fille et le garçon
Overview: Malina, a young Iranian immigrant, visits Jean in his beautiful downtown apartment. She wants to know why her boyfriend Denis, who is working on Jean's apartment, lingers after hours, showering in front of Jean's wife Paula. Step by step, Jean and Paula get to know Denis and Malina, sliding from prostitution to friendship, from unacknowledged desires to more sincere affection, from love to family - a new kind of family, including the desire for a child. Overcoming trials and taboos, this quartet lays the concrete foundations for a new ideal of love, with great freedom, both carnal and intellectual.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-04-21
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Tomorrow at Dawn
2009-08-12
Tomorrow at Dawn
Overview: Mathieu, a piano virtuoso, goes home to help his brother Paul to take care of their sick mother. Paul is into reenacting old battles, dressing up and getting into character, even dueling if necessary. Mathieu gets involved in this world and play becomes real.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-08-12
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Intimate Enemies
2007-10-03
Intimate Enemies
Overview: A drama following a French platoon during Algeria's war of independence.
Genres: Drama War History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-03
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Time Out
2001-09-10
Time Out
Overview: An unemployed man finds his life sinking more and more into trouble as he hides his situation from his family and friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-09-10
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Hanging Offense
2003-10-15
Hanging Offense
Overview: A strange investigation doesn’t erase the regrets of a grieving woman cop. Every four years, the past catches up with her. Every four years this woman is very afraid. Her fear is such that she feels it could kill her because in her dreams reality begins.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-10-15
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The Soviet Revolution Told Through its Cinema
2017-10-12
The Soviet Revolution Told Through its Cinema
Overview: The two decades following the Russian revolution are marked by a gang of young people who profoundly influenced Russian Cinema. This artistic revolution was led by directors, actors, technicians and poets. They are the characters and voices of our film. The Soviet Actress, Ada Voistik, and its camrades tell us the story of this unique period, through the images of soviet fic-tional works produced between 1917 and 1934. We can thus catch a glimpse of their fight for a new society, where creative freedom was of utmost im-portance. A utopia which will be brought down by an authoritarian power impacting cinema as much as the rest of society.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-10-12
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Natural Enemy
2004-12-08
Natural Enemy
Overview: Set in Brittany, a detective called Nicolas Luhel is asked to unravel the circumstances of a teenage boy's death. The main suspect is the boy's father. Shattered by the suicide of the main witness, Nicolas lets himself get snared by the strange and fascinating influence that the father exerts on everyone around him. Eventually, Luhel discovers the truth about the murder and feels that the law is inadequate to deal with it. As a consequence, he decides to destroy the evidence and keep it a secret.
Genres: Drama Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-12-08
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The Horde
2010-02-10
The Horde
Overview: A bunch of crooked cops raid a ruined building located in an impoverished suburb of Paris, determined to furiously avenge the death of one of them, murdered by the ruthless criminal gang hidden on top of the dark labyrinth that will become a deathly trap when the living, unexpectedly turned into the undead by a mysterious plague, begin to devour the world.
Genres: Action Horror Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-02-10
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Kill Me Please
2010-11-03
Kill Me Please
Overview: Doctor Kruger dreams to insert “the suicide in modernity”. He offers to his patients the service of a private clinic where one can die in all peace, champagne glass to the hand. But in the private clinic of “ideal death”, nothing occurs as envisaged.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-11-03
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The Wrong Man
2012-11-25
The Wrong Man
Overview: One night Louise is being stalked and harassed by a lover who thinks she's the woman of his life.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-11-25
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Children's Play
2001-06-19
Children's Play
Overview: Marianne and Jacques are a young middle-class couple who live in a chic Parisian apartment with their two young children. One day, Marianne receives an unexpected visit from two strangers, Mr and Mrs Worms, who claim to have lived in the apartment when they were children and who ask if they can just take a look around their former home. Marianne agrees, but no sooner have the mysterious Worms left than things take an inexplicable turn for the worse...
Genres: Drama Fantasy Horror Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-06-19
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The Plough
2023-03-08
The Plough
Overview: Three siblings comprise the latest generation in a family of puppeteers led with passion by their father. They are magicians of a kind, but can barely make ends meet, working mainly for the love of their craft. Their grandmother contributes too, not only as a seamstress but also as a repository of memories and wisdom. A tragic event will challenge the desire of each sibling to carry on.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-03-08
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The Rest of the Night
2008-06-11
The Rest of the Night
Overview: A wealthy community in north-east Italy deals with its immigration fears.
Genres: Drama Crime Thriller
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2008-06-11
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La femme à abattre
1993-07-07
La femme à abattre
Overview: A policeman discovers during a case that he is investigating himself. His wife has witnessed a terrorist attack committed by her lover.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-07-07
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Le Crime des Renards
2005-03-15
Le Crime des Renards
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-03-15
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Fidelity
2000-04-05
Fidelity
Overview: A talented photographer who lands a lucrative job in Paris with a scandal-mongering tabloid and becomes romantically involved with an eccentric children's book publisher while resisting the sexual advances of another photographer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-04-05
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Switch
2011-06-06
Switch
Overview: In Montreal, the unemployed fashion designer Sophie Malaterre is shown a website, switch.com, where it is possible to switch houses with a stranger for vacation. Sophie seeks an apartment in Paris nearby the Eiffel Tower that belongs to Bénédicte Serteaux and they change apartments. Sophie arrives in Paris on Saturday morning. The next morning, policemen break in the apartment and arrest Sophie while she is having a bath. Detective Damien Forgeat interrogates Sophie believing that she is Bénédicte and she learns that a beheaded body was found in her room and all evidence of her life has been deleted.
Genres: Crime Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-06-06
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Red Sunset
2004-06-25
Red Sunset
Overview: Michel, was born in Latin America, "on the other side of the world", as the script emphasizes, of a French father he hardly knew at all. He goes to Paris to start a new life. His only possession is a painting which his father left him, along with the advice: "If you ever need to sell the painting, do so in France, where it's worth a fortune." But Michel discovers that his father's tumultuous and secret past comes along with the valuable painting. Meanwhile, Clara, a middle age Spanish-Argentine mother gets a strange present from a now dying childhood friend in Buenos Aires. It's a roll of Super 8 film which brings back very strong, and emotionally charged memories from the 1970s and before.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-06-25
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La Saison des orphelins
2008-08-06
La Saison des orphelins
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Genres: Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-08-06
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Life's Little Treasures
1994-01-12
Life's Little Treasures
Overview: This movie is about love affairs, simple pleasures of a few men and women who will gather for a few days in a villa, around a piano and the music of Gottschalk who is perhaps the main actor.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-01-12
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A Perfect Friend
2006-04-26
A Perfect Friend
Overview: "Julien Rossi wakes up in a hospital bed and finds he has no memory of the events that left him in a coma in the early hours of New Year's Day. Was he attacked? Or was his head injury caused in an accident? This is only the first of many mysteries Julien has to resolve. Who is Marl?ne, the beautiful woman who claims to be his girlfriend? Why doesn't his real girlfriend, Anna, return his calls? What made him walk out on his job as a leading investigative reporter? Julien relies on Lucas, his best friend and
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-04-26
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One Long Winter Without Fire
2005-01-19
One Long Winter Without Fire
Overview: Six months after losing their five years old daughter in a fire in the barn of their little farm, Jean and his wife Laure are facing troubles in their relationship and financial problems. Laure grieves the loss of their daughter and blames herself for her absence and Jean for his negligence for the fire; Jean is trying to rise from the ashes and somehow rebuild his life; and the insurance company refuses to pay the prize for the accident. Jean asks for a job in a mill to a friend to make money and support the psychiatric treatment of Laure. In his new job, he meets and becomes friend of the Kosovo refugee's siblings Kastriot and Labinota, while the Laure's sister Valérie separates them. Jean feels the passion of love and sense of life in his relationship with Labinota, who had her life destroyed with the war.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-01-19
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Pardonnez-moi
2006-11-22
Pardonnez-moi
Overview: Expecting her first child, actress Violette decides to dive deep into her dysfunctional family's history by filming a documentary about them.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-11-22
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Joseph et la fille
2010-08-18
Joseph et la fille
Overview: Joseph has just spent 20 years in prison. After being released, he has only one obsession: to make one last heist. To perform this masterpiece, he needs an accomplice. He cannot trust anyone, so decides to prepare Julie, 20 years old. The confusion and uncertainty, however, stand between these two beings so opposite ...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-08-18
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Blue Is the Warmest Color
2013-10-09
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Overview: Adèle's life is changed when she meets Emma, a young woman with blue hair, who will allow her to discover desire, to assert herself as a woman and as an adult. In front of others, Adele grows, seeks herself, loses herself, finds herself.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-10-09
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A Son
2003-08-28
A Son
Overview: Selim, a young man adrift, is a transvestite and a prostitute who desperately longs for his father's love. Omar, his father, lives a secluded life of grief and has never recovered from the loss of his wife. Like two lonely ships, they pass silently without ever really connecting. Only destiny will bring father and son together... a little too late.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-08-28
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Pacific Fear
2024-07-11
Pacific Fear
Overview: Follows a group of surfers looking out for waves in a mysterious island that's been vanished from all maps.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-07-11
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The Human Factor
2012-01-28
The Human Factor
Overview: In 1914, an engineer sent away to reorganize a factory exchanges letters with his wife. As he tells her about his experiments in taylorism, she picks up bits and pieces of this method and applies it to her daily tasks at home. While he gets disappointed by the Taylor system, she becomes a true domestic engineer. Mingling images of American institutional movies to extracts of handbooks on management from the 1900s and 1910s The Human Factor aims at showing the genesis of Taylorism and its main effects upon industrial societies. It is also a love story.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-01-28
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Trois couples en quête d'orages
2005-04-27
Trois couples en quête d'orages
Overview: Olivier, Rémi and Pascale are three friends who have known each other since childhood. As they approach middle age, they each experience something of a crisis in their lives. Olivier, a doctor before becoming wheelchair bound, faces a bleak future after the break up of two relationships. The fact that Rémi and his wife Estelle are unable to have children puts an increasing strain on their marriage. And Pascale, a filmmaker, is on the point of leaving her husband to pursue an affair with an opportunistic career politician.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-27
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Orlando Vargas
2005-06-22
Orlando Vargas
Overview: In Uruguay, where he lives with his wife and son Thomas, Orlando Vargas suffers from pressure from the government. Permanently watched by a policeman, Orlando seems not to care about danger. He decides to leave with his family to go to Josefina, the last village by the sea before Brazil. There, things move faster: on the day of his arrival, Orlando fails to return home.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2005-06-22
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The Jewish Cardinal
2013-01-24
The Jewish Cardinal
Overview: The Jewish Cardinal tells the amazing true story of Jean-Marie Lustiger, the son of Polish-Jewish immigrants, who maintained his cultural identity as a Jew even after converting to Catholicism at a young age, and later joining the priesthood. Quickly rising within the ranks of the Church, Lustiger was appointed Archbishop of Paris by Pope John Paul II―and found a new platform to celebrate his dual identity as a Catholic Jew, earning him both friends and enemies from either group. When Carmelite nuns settle down to build a convent within the cursed walls of Auschwitz, Lustiger finds himself a mediator between the two communities―and he may be forced, at last, to choose his side.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-01-24
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Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
2013-01-22
Marcel Dassault, l'homme au pardessus
Overview: Late 1950s, the CIA Office in New York after viewing the footage shot by their agent, investigators are puzzled how Marcel Dassault, the French engineer, he managed to build better than their planes? Order of the White House, four officers flew to Paris. Their mission: to solve the mystery Dassault. This man has a unique course because besides being a genius of aviation, it is also patron of the press, arms dealer, MP ...
Genres: Drama TV Movie History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-01-22
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Ça ne peut pas continuer comme ça!
2013-01-22
Ça ne peut pas continuer comme ça!
Overview: With the President of the Republic very ill, an advisor offers an unusual suggestion: hire a double to replace him during his convalescence. The lucky chosen one is a member of the Comédie-Française but he is also shy, unexciting and often consigned to the supporting role...But a seismic change is about to happen in the Republic.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-01-22
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Fragments of Antonin
2006-11-08
Fragments of Antonin
Overview: A psychiatrist who probes the mind of traumatized soldiers attempts to unlock the secret that drove a gentle but deeply-disturbed World War I veteran to the edge of insanity.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-11-08
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Grand ciel
2022-08-25
Grand ciel
Overview: A kid on a bike on a country road. It's Lionel, the Legrands' adopted son. Later the same teenager, helmet and yellow leather jacket on a motorcycle, a gift from his mother Colette. In the meantime, there will have been handball matches, the installation of windmills, visits to the construction site with the German engineer, Colette's madness, the gossip of the workers at the factory, the ardor of the young Lucie. And for all of them, leaning against this lavender countryside as far as the eye can see, the search for an elsewhere that is either appropriate or inaccessible.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-08-25
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Modern Life
2000-03-01
Modern Life
Overview: The lives of three people faced with an uncertain future. Marguerite, 17, is uncomfortable with her family enviroment and turns to God. Claire, who desperately wants a child, encounters again a former lover. Eva asks the unemployed Jacques, who has been left by his wife and his daughter, to find a missing friend.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-03-01
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Le JT des nouvelles technos
Le JT des nouvelles technos
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Original Language: fr
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La Vie à trois
1997-12-08
La Vie à trois
Overview: The arrival of a first child disrupts the life of a young couple who had been living a free and carefree existence until then.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-12-08
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L'ombre d'un flic
2011-01-07
L'ombre d'un flic
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Genres: Crime Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2011-01-07
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Sartre, Years of Passion
2006-12-11
Sartre, Years of Passion
Overview: Biographical film about French writer Jean-Paul Sartre, concentrating on his passionate affairs with women.
Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-12-11
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The Stranger
2007-08-05
The Stranger
Overview: Yvan, forty, finds his life thrown into turmoil on the day a young stranger falls down dead in the yard of his house. Yvan lives isolated in the countryside and so he finds himself at home with the body of a man whom he doesn’t even know. Confused by this event, he carries out a series of incoherent or unreasoned actions, and little by little the situation becomes irreversible.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-08-05
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Exploits of a Young Don Juan
1986-11-04
Exploits of a Young Don Juan
Overview: In 1914, sixteen year old Roger returned home from boarding school during vacation to find his puberty hit hard in a house filled with beautiful women. These women have previous engagements with other men who are away, and during this time, Roger impregnates them all, including his aunt and sister, then devises plans to cuckold the men.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-11-04
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Sea Workers
1986-10-01
Sea Workers
Overview: Les Travailleurs de la mer is a franco-soviet film directed by Gizo Gabeskiria (Russia) et Edmond Séchan (France). It is an adaptation of Victor Hugo's 1866 novel Les Travailleurs de la mer. It follows the story of a recluse living in the Channel Islands who develops an obsession with the ward of wealthy steam engine enterpreneur Mess Lethierry, his niece Deruchette, in the 1820s.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-10-01
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Pure Life
2014-08-28
Pure Life
Overview: 1949, a French explorer goes on a solitary expedition in the Amazon forest. He leaves behind him a diary that reflects the meaning of Pure Life and his encounters but leaves the mystery of his own disappearance unsolved. Based on a true story.
Genres: Adventure Documentary Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-08-28
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Des pierres en ce jardin
2015-06-17
Des pierres en ce jardin
Overview: The Lefort family celebrates the New Year in the homestead. Pascale, the adopted girl often sidelined, was invited. A few months later, Pierre Lefort, who runs the family business, commits suicide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-06-17
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Souli
2004-11-06
Souli
Overview: Somewhere on the African continent in a small fishing village cut off from the rest of the world, the lives of five people are caught in a web of violence and passion. Loosely based on Othello, an exploration of the bonds between the West and Africa and between appearance and reality.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-11-06
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The Blue Note
1991-06-05
The Blue Note
Overview: A look at the last few days of in the life of composer Frédéric Chopin's professional life.
Genres: Music Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-06-05
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Diamond 13
2009-06-21
Diamond 13
Overview: A cop goes up against his lifelong friend, who has become one of the city's biggest drug traffickers.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-06-21
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Souffler plus fort que la mer
2017-05-10
Souffler plus fort que la mer
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-05-10
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My Worst Nightmare
2011-09-12
My Worst Nightmare
Overview: Agathe runs an art gallery. Her husband François is a publisher. Together they have one son, and in every way seem to be the picture of normality — but emotions are stewing under the surface. All it takes is the arrival of a complete stranger for things to start unravelling. Patrick is brash, uncouth and totally unselfconscious...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-09-12
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Despite the Night
2016-07-06
Despite the Night
Overview: After returning to Paris, a heartbroken man searching for his missing lover finds solace, and a passionate but troubled love, with a grieving nurse. This unconventional romance unfolds against a backdrop of music and defies expectations, venturing into uncharted emotional territory.
Genres: Horror Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-07-06
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Ruby Is Dead
2017-06-07
Ruby Is Dead
Overview: The body of a teenager is found in a river.
Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-06-07
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Antarctica, in the footsteps of the Emperor
2016-02-23
Antarctica, in the footsteps of the Emperor
Overview: Gombessa Expedition 3 Protected by an international treaty Antarctica has been spared the effects of hunting and fishing. But signs in ice’s cyclical patterns and its biodiversity have become worrying. Connected to the planet’s global ecosystem via atmospheric circulation and ocean currents, this white haven is suffering the effects of human activities. To document and explain what is unfolding in Antarctica, photographer, diver, and marine biologist Laurent Ballesta and photographer of extreme environments Vincent Munier will be blending their artistic perspectives of a rapidly changing continent. Laurent will tackle technical and human prowess below the ice to bear witness to its remarkable underwater life. His photographs will advance knowledge on Antarctica’s unique and little-known biodiversity. On land, his eye riveted to the lens of his camera, Vincent captures snapshots of life in an Emperor Penguin colony.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-02-23
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Emergency Kisses
1989-05-31
Emergency Kisses
Overview: The familiar conflicts of a film director planning to make a movie about his life and the confrontation he has with his wife, an actress who was turned down for such project in which she wanted to play herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-05-31
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Louis, the Child King
1993-11-04
Louis, the Child King
Overview: January 1649: Since the death of his father, the young Louis XIV must undergo the hard apprenticeship of royal power. He must face the intrigues of the great ones of the kingdom who lead La Fronde, the agreements and the betrayals of those close to him. He is helped in this by his mother Anne of Austria and by the Cardinal Mazarin.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-11-04
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Cargo, the Lost Men
2010-01-01
Cargo, the Lost Men
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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The Clouzot Scandal
2017-10-17
The Clouzot Scandal
Overview: Great filmmakers claim the artistic influence of French director Henri-Georges Clouzot (1907-1977), a master of suspense, with a unique vision of the world, who knew how to offer both great shows and subtle studies of characters. Beyond the myth of the tyrannical director, a contrasting portrait of a visionary, an agitator, an artist against the system.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-10-17
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Pasteur et Koch : Un duel de géants dans la guerre des microbes
2018-10-05
Pasteur et Koch : Un duel de géants dans la guerre des microbes
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Genres: Documentary History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-10-05
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Le pays des ours
2003-12-03
Le pays des ours
Overview: The desperate wandering of three persons at bay. Gérard Maubuisson, a fifty-six-year-old firm manager, decides to close up shop and to leave his wife. Geneviève Maubuisson, his wife, goes round in circles in her apartment, at a loss for news from him. There is also Henri, a disillusioned surgeon, who sleeps with the wives of some of his patients and conducts illegal euthanasia...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-12-03
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The Elegant Criminal
1990-12-19
The Elegant Criminal
Overview: On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-12-19
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Adults in the Room
2019-10-03
Adults in the Room
Overview: A universal theme: a story of people trapped in an inhuman network of power. The brutal circle of the Eurogroup meetings, who impose on Greece the dictatorship of austerity, where humanity and compassion are utterly disregarded. A claustrophobic trap with no way out, exerting pressures on the protagonists which finally divide them.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-03
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Opération Turquoise
2007-11-19
Opération Turquoise
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Genres: War Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-11-19
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Private Life
2007-07-11
Private Life
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-07-11
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Le pays des enfants perdus
2004-03-13
Le pays des enfants perdus
Overview: In the 1960s, orphans from Reunion Island were deported to France to repopulate a department where rural exodus was rampant.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-03-13
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The Kid Tintouin
2011-02-04
The Kid Tintouin
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Genres: Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-02-04
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Müetter
2006-01-11
Müetter
Overview: Stephane is a young urbanite. Though he originally hails from a rural environment, he much prefers his current metropolitan surroundings to the thought of returning to his family home. Fate comes knocking, however, when Stephane receives the news of his grandmother, Muetter's, impending death - and travels out to the country to be with her at her bedside. Once there, he encounters a sweet, pretty young lady named Marguerite, who is expecting a child but devotes the majority of her time to caring altruistically for Muetter. Upon discovering that the elderly woman's doctor has simply prescribed and administered morphine for her, Stephane is visibly upset, and devotes himself to doing as much as he can - everything from preparing a feast in celebration of Muetter to summoning another physician. Meanwhile, Stephane's cousin, Mathieu arrives and struggles with various feelings about Stephane's presence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-01-11
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Premier cri
2002-12-11
Premier cri
Overview: A hardened businessman takes a prostitute to his house. He hopes she can help him feel human again.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-12-11
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Poor Girl!
2003-11-23
Poor Girl!
Overview: Finding herself alone and pregnant, Esther, soon to be in her thirties, rejects the proposal of Gontran, her roommate and gay lover, to raise her child together.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-11-23
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Textiles
2001-02-01
Textiles
Overview: Michel is a funny boy, a kind of intellectual. With Pauline, a very beautiful girl he met on the beach, they are going to get naked and discuss surrealism, sincerely and without trickery. But who are they really?
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-02-01
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Le repenti
2009-02-07
Le repenti
Overview: A former crook who is believed to be dead has built a new life abroad after extensive reconstructive facial surgery. The old judge in charge of his case tracks him down and asks him to go back to his home town to infiltrate the criminal gang he used to work with under his new identity. A dark, addictive tale of betrayal and revenge.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-02-07
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Le Pain du diable
2010-02-13
Le Pain du diable
Overview:
Genres: Crime Drama History Mystery TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-02-13
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Les Tisserands du pouvoir
1988-10-21
Les Tisserands du pouvoir
Overview:
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-10-21
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Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte
1988-12-16
Les Tisserands du pouvoir 2, la révolte
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Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-12-16
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Deux femmes
2021-09-06
Deux femmes
Overview: In 1965, Monique Case, who claimed her moral freedom, was wrongly accused by misogynist cops. She will be saved from the guillotine by a shy and reserved examining magistrate who chooses to rebel against the machismo of the judicial hierarchy and of the time.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-06
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Le Soulier de Satin
1987-07-09
Le Soulier de Satin
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-07-09
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Monsieur
Monsieur
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Genres: Crime Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
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