Jean-Marc Barr
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jean-Marc Barr (born on 27 September 1960 in Bitburg, Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany) is a French-American film actor and director. His mother is French. His American father was in the US Air Force and served in the Second World War. Jean-Marc Barr is primarily known as an actor, but is also a film director, screenwriter and producer. Barr is bilingual in French and English: he speaks French with a nasal, hybrid accent, reminiscent of his American upbringing - with a slight American accent and occasional anglicisms in interviews - and English with a Mid-Atlantic accent. He studied philosophy at the University of California, Los Angeles, the Paris Conservatoire and the Sorbonne. He went on to pursue an education in drama at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. In London he met his future wife, a pianist and composer Irina Dečermić. Jean-Marc Barr began working in theatre in France in 1986. After some television roles and film work, in particular, Hope and Glory (1987) by John Boorman, he was cast in the tremendously successful The Big Blue (1988). Luc Besson cast him in the role of French diver Jacques Mayol. He played in the role opposite Rosanna Arquette and Jean Reno. The Big Blue was the most financially successful film in France in the 1980s. In 1991, he starred in Danish director Lars von Trier's Europa, marking the beginning of a long friendship (he is the godfather of von Trier's children) as well as a significant professional relationship. He went on to appear in von Trier’s Europa (1991), Breaking the Waves (1996), Dancer in the Dark (2000), Dogville (2004) and Manderlay (2005). Also in 2005 he starred in the French film Crustacés et Coquillages. His collaboration with von Trier put him on track to start directing his own work. He debuted in 1999 as a director, screenwriter and producer with the intimate love story Lovers. This film became the first part of a trilogy; the two subsequent parts being the drama Too Much Flesh (2000) and the comedy Being Light (2001) which he co-directed with Pascal Arnold. He may also be recognized for his role as the attractive divorce lawyer, Maitre Bertram in the Merchant Ivory film le Divorce (2003). He appeared as Hugo in The Red Siren in 2002. He appeared as the main character in the video for Blur's 1995 single, "Charmless Man". Description above from the Wikipedia article Jean-Marc Barr, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Dancer in the Dark
2000-09-01
Dancer in the Dark
Overview: Selma, a Czech immigrant on the verge of blindness, struggles to make ends meet for herself and her son, who has inherited the same genetic disorder and will suffer the same fate without an expensive operation. When life gets too difficult, Selma learns to cope through her love of musicals, escaping life's troubles – even if just for a moment – by dreaming up little numbers to the rhythmic beats of her surroundings.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-01
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Breaking the Waves
1996-07-05
Breaking the Waves
Overview: In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1996-07-05
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The Big Blue
1988-05-10
The Big Blue
Overview: Two men answer the call of the ocean in this romantic fantasy-adventure. Jacques and Enzo are a pair of friends who have been close since childhood, and who share a passion for the dangerous sport of free diving. Professional diver Jacques opted to follow in the footsteps of his father, who died at sea when Jacques was a boy; to the bewilderment of scientists, Jacques harbors a remarkable ability to adjust his heart rate and breathing pattern in the water, so that his vital signs more closely resemble that of dolphins than men. As Enzo persuades a reluctant Jacques to compete against him in a free diving contest -- determining who can dive deeper and longer without scuba gear -- Jacques meets Johana, a beautiful insurance investigator from America, and he finds that he must choose between his love for her and his love of the sea.
Genres: Romance Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-05-10
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Cockles and Muscles
2005-03-30
Cockles and Muscles
Overview: Crustacés et coquillages is a fresh French comedy film with numerous surprise turnarounds and about the tolerance of a family of four. The family spend an idealistic summer vacation together where each of the family members gets involved in a new or old relationship.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-03-30
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Dogville
2003-05-21
Dogville
Overview: When a beautiful young Grace arrives in the isolated township of Dogville, the small community agrees to hide her from a gang of ruthless gangsters, and, in return, Grace agrees to do odd jobs for the townspeople.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-05-21
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Being Light
2001-12-05
Being Light
Overview: Maxime, a young man of 25, arrives in Paris, but wishes to join Justine, the woman he loves, in India. At the bar of the Raphael Hotel, he meets Jack Lesterhoof, a rich businessman who offers to be his interpreter for an important meeting. Maxime accepts. The two men soon become friends. Jack decides to take a break from the routine and accompany Maxime to India.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-12-05
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Tara Road
2005-05-11
Tara Road
Overview: A grieving Connecticut mother temporarily switches houses with a woman in Dublin, Ireland.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-05-11
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The Boss of It All
2006-12-08
The Boss of It All
Overview: An IT company hires an actor to serve as the company's president in order to help the business get sold to a cranky Icelander.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2006-12-08
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This Is the End
2023-02-16
This Is the End
Overview: Road trips through Los Angeles, famous verses in the Poetry Lounge and love in times of the pandemic: Rendezvous with an old flame, fourty years later. After Jaurès (2012), Vincent Dieutre presents another tender autofictional piece in the Forum.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-02-16
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Making Plans for Lena
2009-09-02
Making Plans for Lena
Overview: Ever since she broke up with Nigel, Lena soldiers on through life as best she can with her two kids. She valiantly overcomes the obstacles put in her way. But she has yet to confront the worst of them: Her unstoppable family has decided, by any means necessary, to make her happy.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-09-02
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Hope and Glory
1987-09-03
Hope and Glory
Overview: A middle-aged man recalls his childhood growing up in and around London during World War II.
Genres: Drama War Family
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-03
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Europa
1991-06-27
Europa
Overview: A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in postwar, US-occupied Frankfurt. As various people try to take advantage of him, he soon finds his position politically sensitive, and gets caught up in a whirlpool of conspiracies and Nazi sympathisers.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1991-06-27
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Le jour qui vient
Le jour qui vient
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Original Language: fr
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Baby Blues
2008-11-26
Baby Blues
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Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-26
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City of Shadows
2010-04-09
City of Shadows
Overview: A doctor broken by 8 years of war in North Africa tries to come back home. On his way, he is faced with a bigger challenge: save a city from the plague... and from madness.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-04-09
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Iron Horsemen
1995-01-27
Iron Horsemen
Overview: Bad Trip, a biker who has been freshly inducted into a gang, flees from them after stealing one of their bikes.
Genres: Action Thriller Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-01-27
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Ça ne se refuse pas
1998-08-12
Ça ne se refuse pas
Overview: Marthe, an aging queen of the night, roams the streets of a city haunted by the presence of an invisible murderer in search of money to pay a large gambling debt.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-08-12
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His Mother's Eyes
2011-03-23
His Mother's Eyes
Overview: A writer suffering from a lack of inspiration sneaks his way into the lives of a star television journalist and his lead ballerina daughter to write, unbeknownst to them, a non-authorized biography. Meanwhile, in Brittany, twenty-year-old Bruno, who lives with his parents, doesn't yet know the consequences that this story will have on his existence...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-03-23
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Le fils préféré
1994-12-21
Le fils préféré
Overview: Jean-Paul Mantegna, the son of Italian immigrants now living in Nice, is a hunted man, riddled with debt and involved in borderline illegal companies. To extricate himself, he has to rely on Philippe and François, his two brothers, and on Raphaël, his father; a family torn by disputes and tragic events. However, by rebuilding family unity, Jean-Paul also discovers the secret of his own destiny...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-12-21
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St. Ives
1998-01-01
St. Ives
Overview: In 1813, Capitaine Jacques St. Ives, a Hussar in the Napoleonic wars, is captured and sent to a Scottish prison camp. He's a swashbuckler, so the prison's commander, Major Farquar Bolingbroke Chevening, asks for lessons in communicating with women. Both men have their eyes on the lovely Flora, who resides with her aunt, the iconoclastic and well-traveled Miss Susan Emily Gilcrist. By chance, living close to the camp is Jacques's grandfather and brother, whom Jacques believes died years before. Jacques decides to escape, find his relatives, and win the hand of Flora; Major Chevening and an unforeseen enemy stand in his way. Can Miss Gilcrist contrive to make everything work out?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
1997-12-12
Tranceformer: A Portrait of Lars von Trier
Overview: A portrait of Denmark's most acclaimed and controversial director, Lars von Trier. A meeting with von Trier on a private level as well as with his film universe. Filmmaker Stig Björkman follow von Trier during a period of more than two years, meet him at work, at home and at leisure. Written by Fredrik Klasson
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: da
Release Date: 1997-12-12
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Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday
1998-09-13
Don't Let Me Die on a Sunday
Overview: Ben works in a morgue. Ben's wife left him and he is into various kinds of alternative sexuality. Teresa dies of an ecstasy overdose on the dance floor. When she is brought to the morgue, she is resurrected -how shall I say?- in Ben's arms (that part based on a true story). From this starting point, the film revolves around the interactions between them and Boris (orgy fan), Abdel (no sentimental life), Ducon (wants to kill himself), Nico (dying of AIDS), etc... A social study of the 90s with heavy references to sex and deat
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-09-13
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American Translation
2011-06-07
American Translation
Overview: From the moment they meet, brooding Chris and the beautiful Aurore fall instantly and passionately in love but it's not long before their intense connection is consumed by Chris's dark obsession with gay men. Before long, the pair embarks on a violent and sexual journey filled with seduction and destruction of young gay hustlers.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-06-07
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The Car Keys
2003-12-10
The Car Keys
Overview: Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-12-10
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The Scarlet Tunic
1998-06-12
The Scarlet Tunic
Overview: Passions erupt between a German hussar (Jean-Marc Barr) serving with King George III's personal cavalry and the only daughter of an English solicitor (Emma Fielding) in this period tearjerker adapted from a short story by Thomas Hardy. Longing to escape their own personal imprisonments -- he, his service to the king, and she, her engagement to a man she doesn't love -- they find solace in each other's arms.
Genres: Drama History Romance War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1998-06-12
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The Red Siren
2002-08-21
The Red Siren
Overview: Nearly 13, Alice rebels, telling the Paris police that her mother is a murderer. Alice has no evidence; her mother, Eva, rich and powerful, avoids charges. Alice promptly runs away, determined to find her dad whom she claims lives in Portugal. The police believe he is dead and that Alice is in denial. Nonetheless, they dispatch Anita, an Italian police officer on loan to the French, to find Alice and bring her back. Meanwhile, Eva has launched her own paramilitary force to hunt for Alice, and Alice has found a protector in Hugo, an ex-soldier turned hit man and gang member. He promises to get her to her father. All roads lead to a small town on the Portuguese coast.
Genres: Drama Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-08-21
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What I Did for Love
1998-06-17
What I Did for Love
Overview: A man falls in love from afar with a woman who has just broken up acrimoniously with her husband and is disgusted with all men except her gay friends.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-06-17
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Too Much Flesh
2000-09-24
Too Much Flesh
Overview: In an Illinois farming community, Lyle lives quietly with his wife Amy. But their life is set spinning when Lyle's friend Vernon visits with his girlfriend Juliette. Soon Lyle and Juliette have embarked on a passionate affair which has the town talking and the religious community frowning.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-09-24
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Big Sur
2013-11-01
Big Sur
Overview: Big Sur is a film adaptation of the Jack Kerouac autobiographical novel of the same name.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-11-01
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Parc
2009-01-14
Parc
Overview: Georges Nail lives in a new suburb. He's married, loves his wife, son and dog. Paul Hammer is good looking, rich and intelligent. But he is torn by his severe judgment of the world and a desire to be part of it. One day, their paths meet. Nail sees this meeting as an opportunity to create a new friendship. On his side, Hammer sees it as a new reason for living : to crucify the perfect image of the happy western man and his incarnation in the person of Georges Nail. A nail is the perfect victim for a hammer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-01-14
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And They Call It Summer
2012-11-22
And They Call It Summer
Overview: Dino and Anna are a couple in their forties. Their relationship is hardly conventional: in fact, it is unconsummated. Dino gets out of it, gratifying himself with prostitutes and swingers. He reaches his nadir when he looks up Anna’s old boyfriends to ask about their sexual relations with her, and even begs them to take her back, as a way to end their relationship. Anna can’t find a way out herself; she can’t bring herself to end this one-of-a-kind, tormented love affair. In the end, Dino’s angst is what makes her feel loved, feel unique. No solution seems to be waiting in the wings.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2012-11-22
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Vandal
2013-10-09
Vandal
Overview: 15-year-old Chérif feels like a million bucks behind the wheel of a stolen car. Placed under the guardianship of his Aunt and Uncle, he has to return to his apprenticeship as a mason. It's his last chance. But every night graffiti artists descend upon the city's walls. And with this, a whole new world opens up before him...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-10-09
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Nucingen House
2009-06-03
Nucingen House
Overview: Surreal gothic comedy about a gambler who wins a strange Chilean mansion and takes his frail wife there.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-06-03
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Saltimbank
2003-09-10
Saltimbank
Overview: The title reflects the brand of a financial institution, the bank of the Saltim family: Frederic, the younger brother, runs the family bank; his brother Bruno rejected the position of executive director, and chose to fund a theatrical company. Around them, there is a net of family members, friends, and acquaintances who seem to swirl around the banking brothers. Frederic and Bruno are both trying to control the future of their beautiful niece, Vanessa. The coffee shop owners Eve and Jim complicate everybody's life with their intrigues and lies. A strange stage director comes from his foreign exile. And lack of funds suddenly reveals the true colors of everyone - in banking, on stage, and everywhere.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-09-10
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Manhattan Romance
2013-10-15
Manhattan Romance
Overview: Annette is a young French actress. During her stay in New York to promote her latest film, she meets up with Alex, an Armenian photographer and long time friend. As the week progresses, they become inseparable and spend all of their time with together. They meet different people in New York and draw comparisons and differences with their own views and ideas of love, marriage, friendship and life. They have a special connection, but there is something unspoken between them. They begin to reveal themselves only when Alex photographs Annette throughout New York City. From friends to lovers there is only one step. Their relationship is about to unravel, but is it?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-10-15
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Blaze
1991-05-26
Blaze
Overview: All of Europe was affected by the Great Depression of the 1930s, but some parts were hurt less badly than others. France, for instance, was relatively prosperous. In this grim drama, a sturdy Polish boxer and his family have settled into a mining town in northern France because that's where the work is. Like European "guest workers" in the 1990s, the Polish immigrants then were frequently treated badly by the locals. In this drama, the romantic aspirations of the boxer's son are thwarted by the concerted efforts of the local men and his own family's preference that he marry another Polish girl. After his romance fails, the son becomes a union activist and sacrifices a great deal to try to gain higher wages for the miners, but the contract he works out is reneged on by the duplicitous owners.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-05-26
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The Pod Generation
2023-08-11
The Pod Generation
Overview: In a not-so-distant future, couples can share pregnancy on a more equal footing via detachable artificial wombs. While botanist Alvy has doubts about this new way of birthing babies, his love for Rachel prompts him to take a leap of faith.
Genres: Science Fiction Comedy Romance Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-08-11
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Here’s Looking at You, Boy
2007-02-16
Here’s Looking at You, Boy
Overview: Documentary on the history of gay and lesbian film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2007-02-16
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Fantasmes ! Sexe, fiction et tentations
2013-10-12
Fantasmes ! Sexe, fiction et tentations
Overview: A documentary about erotic obsessions by Laure Michel.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-10-12
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Heavy Rain
2010-02-23
Heavy Rain
Overview: A powerful short documentary inspired by the launch of the genre breaking PlayStation 3 title HEAVY RAIN. Directed by the acclaimed filmmaker Neil LaBute, the seven minute short was filmed in London, LA & Paris and asks leading luminaries, 'How far would you go to save someone you love?'
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-02-23
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CQ2 (Seek You Too)
2004-09-13
CQ2 (Seek You Too)
Overview: CQ2 (seek you too) is the story of an teenager, with an uncertain future, who canalises her lust for life in the study of contemporary dance.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-09-13
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Mary's Sons
2002-05-19
Mary's Sons
Overview: After the death of her husband and teenage son, a woman puts an ad in a newspaper for a surrogate child.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-19
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Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
2013-12-25
Nymphomaniac: Vol. II
Overview: The continuation of Joe's sexually dictated life delves into the darker aspects of her adult life and what led to her being in Seligman's care.
Genres: Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-12-25
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The Anarchist's Wife
2008-06-26
The Anarchist's Wife
Overview: "The Anarchist's Wife" is the story of Manuela who is left behind when her husband Justo fights for his ideals against Franco's Nationalists during the Spanish Civil War. He is deported to a concentration camp, and upon his release, continues the fight against nationalism in the French resistance. Years, pass without a word from him, but his wife never gives up hope of seeing him again.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2008-06-26
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The Plague
1992-08-26
The Plague
Overview: In a city in South America an outbreak of bubonic plague occurs. While people try to flee and the military close the city, an idealistic doctor decides to stay and help the sick. In the ever-changing circumstances, he puts up a brave fight, being helped by others but also involving them without being able to control the situation.
Genres: Action Drama
Original Language: es
Release Date: 1992-08-26
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Silent Land
2022-08-23
Silent Land
Overview: A perfect couple rents a holiday home on a sunny Italian island. The reality does not live up to their expectations when they find out that the pool in the house is broken. Ignorant of the fact that the island faces water shortage, they ask for someone to fix it. The constant presence of a stranger invades the couple's idea of safety and starts a chain of events, which makes them act instinctively and irrationally, heading to the darkest place in their relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: pl
Release Date: 2022-08-23
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Table ronde autour de Lars von Trier
2023-07-02
Table ronde autour de Lars von Trier
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-07-02
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Practical Guide to Belgrade with Singing and Crying
2011-12-08
Practical Guide to Belgrade with Singing and Crying
Overview: This is a modern age romantic comedy about the trials to find the right person, in four very different love stories. Initially, Stefan, a young overbearing Belgrade driver who does not believe in anyone or anything, falls in love with Sylvie, French singer, which controlled herself for too long, and now is on the verge of a nervous breakdown and for the first time she will do all that she has always dreaming of. Melita, a frustrated middle-aged woman, who by day works as an organizer of the concert evenings becomes disappointed because her lover, Brian, an American diplomat, in fact, is not the guy that he say he is.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: sr
Release Date: 2011-12-08
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Buğday
2017-11-24
Buğday
Overview: The global corporations have established cities and agricultural zones in areas where the climate is relatively good. These cities are populated by the elites, while the immigrant masses struggle with hunger and epidemics. For unknown reasons, the city’s agricultural plantations have been hit by a genetic crisis - and, as a result, by massive crop failure. Professor Erol Erin, a seed genetics specialist learns of Cemil Akman, a fellow scientist. Apparently, Cemil wrote a thesis about the recurrent crisis affecting genetically modified seeds - but the work was banned by the corporation..
Genres: Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-11-24
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Homme et Dauphin : Mode d’emploi
1997-01-01
Homme et Dauphin : Mode d’emploi
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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The Rebellious
2024-01-01
The Rebellious
Overview: Paris, France, April 2020. Félix, manager of a luxury hotel, decides to start a clandestine business during the first lockdown caused by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-01-01
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Hotel du Lac
1986-03-02
Hotel du Lac
Overview: Romantic novelist Edith Hope so horrifies her friends that they banish her to the solitude of a Swiss hotel. She decides to work out her exile by observing her fellow guests.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1986-03-02
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The Name of This Film Is Dogme95
2000-11-01
The Name of This Film Is Dogme95
Overview: The Name of this Film is Dogme95 is an irreverent documentary exploring the origins of Dogme95, the most influential movement in world cinema for a generation. The film tells how a 'brotherhood' of four Danish directors armed with a radical Manifesto, has inspired, outraged and provoked filmmakers and filmgoers the world over. The rules of Dogme95 take filmmaking back to its brass-tacks - stories must be set in the here and now; the films must be shot on location, with a handheld camera, using natural light, and direct sound; the rules forbid murders and weapons (staples of the much-loved action-movie genre); and, most amusingly, the director must not be credited (that holds also for the director of The Name of this Film is Dogme95...).
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-01
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Marching in Darkness
1996-04-27
Marching in Darkness
Overview: A young recruit to the Italian army discovers and rejects the seedy world of soldiers who prostitute themselves to supplement their income. But before leaving this world he is raped by a highly-respected senior officer and must decide whether to risk bringing proceedings against him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1996-04-27
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Wax - We Are The X
2016-03-31
Wax - We Are The X
Overview: A mysterious video falls into the hands of a troupe of reporters following an accident involving three thirty-something year olds – two men and a woman. The video chronicles the lives of the trio one week prior, during their road-trip through the French Riviera to shoot a commercial. Shot in the style of found footage – sometimes with an iPhone – this innovative film touts itself as the first “selfie” movie. But, this isn’t a cheeky jab at today’s culture of obsessive self-documentation. Director Lorenzo Corvino’s debut film was born out of a desire to capture the spirit and frustrations of Generation X, the post baby boomers who inherited the economic crisis of the prior generation and who now struggle to compete with the increasingly tech-savvy younger generations. - Vivian Yuen
Genres: Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2016-03-31
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The Academy
2025-03-20
The Academy
Overview: Jojo, a young art student, discovers the microcosm of an art academy with all of its opportunities and contradictions.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: de
Release Date: 2025-03-20
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Les Faussaires
1994-11-23
Les Faussaires
Overview: This comedy was shot in Tahiti. It focuses on the rocky relationship between Cohn, a local con man, and author Jack Baker who wants to profile Paul Gauguin in an upcoming book. Cohn, an obnoxious crook and pathological liar originally from Paris, has been the bane of the local population for years, yet despite his annoyances they will not arrest him. Hearing that Cohn owns an authentic Gauguin, Jack Baker makes his acquaintance. They do not get off to a great start, but eventually become friends after Cohn's secret is discovered.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-11-23
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Halo of Stars
Halo of Stars
Overview: Set against the backdrop of a small traveling circus, a European clown and his 5-year-old daughter lead each other through the everyday mysteries of love, magic and loss. Based on the long poem “The Clown” by Anthony Lucero.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
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Hexameron
Hexameron
Overview: In Europe after the outbreak of the Black Death, an ascetic nonk falls in love with the Devil.
Genres: Horror
Original Language: cs
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UK18
2017-04-19
UK18
Overview: A documentary film-maker suspects she is being brainwashed by a secret government organisation.
Genres: Drama Thriller Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-04-19
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Maurice
1987-09-18
Maurice
Overview: After his lover rejects him, Maurice attempts to come to terms with his sexuality within the restrictiveness of Edwardian society.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1987-09-18
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Dolphin Man
2017-10-28
Dolphin Man
Overview: As well as providing the subject for Luc Besson’s The Big Blue, Jacques Mayol did more than anyone to establish the sport of free diving to enormous depths without an oxygen supply. Using breathing techniques derived from yoga, he went to 50, 60, and even 100 meters—depths no one had considered to be within the bounds of human possibility. Mayol was a sportsman, a mystic, a vagabond, but above all, a man who believed in testing the limits of experience. This visually stunning tribute shows a man’s quest to be at one with the vastness of the ocean and to have no fear of the abyss within, where lurks serenity, freedom and finally, death.
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2017-10-28
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Anecdotes from Europa
2005-01-01
Anecdotes from Europa
Overview: Documentary with interviews of the cast and crew of Lars von Trier's 1991 film "Europa."
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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After the War
2017-10-19
After the War
Overview: Bologna, 2002. Amidst protests against the labor reform, the assassination of a lawyer opens old wounds between Italy and France. Former far-left terrorist Marco, convicted of murder during the Years of Lead and living in Paris since then thanks to the Mitterrand Doctrine, is suspected of being its instigator. When the Italian government asks for extradition, Marco goes into hiding with his daughter Viola, precipitating also the life of his family back in Italy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2017-10-19
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The Call
2018-06-01
The Call
Overview: An aged woman is taking a bath. While entering the water a new world reveals. The phone, on a chair, connects her with her son and keeps her linked to the world.
Genres: Animation
Original Language: ro
Release Date: 2018-06-01
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The Cellar
2018-08-27
The Cellar
Overview: The marriage of Tana and Milan Labat is going through a crisis. They are constantly quarreling while their 16-year-old daughter goes missing at her birthday party. The couple redefine their marriage as they set off to find their child.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: sk
Release Date: 2018-08-27
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FreeDogme
2000-01-01
FreeDogme
Overview: Marie Berthelius and Roger Narbonne conference call Lars von Trier, Win Wenders, Lone Scherfig, and Jean-Marc Barr and are also linked by digital video. The discussion is about the Dogme 95 film movement and how technological transformations affect cinematic practice.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-01-01
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Manderlay
2005-06-03
Manderlay
Overview: In 1933, after leaving Dogville, Grace Margaret Mulligan sees a slave being punished at a cotton farm called Manderlay. Officially, slavery is illegal and Grace stands up against the farmers. She stays with some gangsters in Manderlay and tries to influence the situation. But when harvest time comes, Grace sees the social and economic reality of Manderlay.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: da
Release Date: 2005-06-03
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The Infidels
1997-01-02
The Infidels
Overview: The story takes place in an around Lebanon. It concerns Farid, a repentant Islamic fundamentalist and Charles, a French diplomat. Farid is prepared to give the French secret service a list of names of terrorists operating in France on the condition that they liberate a friend of his imprisoned in France. The deal is complicated by the fact that Farid and Charles are irresistably attracted to each other, which inflames great jealously in Charles' wife, Juliette, estranging the couple.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-01-02
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Dimension
2010-08-24
Dimension
Overview: Dimension is a short film written and directed by Lars von Trier, released in 2010. The film was shot in three-minute segments over several years. The original intention was to continue production for a period of 30 years for a final release in 2024. However, von Trier lost interest in the project and it was shelved in the late 1990s. The short film consists of the completed footage at the time the film was abandoned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-08-24
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My Best Part
2020-10-28
My Best Part
Overview: Jérémie, a young man reaching a breaking point on all fronts, decides to leave behind Paris and return to Limosin, to the home of his intrusive mother.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-10-28
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Cut Off
2018-04-20
Cut Off
Overview: Struggling with his new life in New Orleans, Clive follows Trevor, a former professor to his country home on the bayou to gain a new perspective. While Trevor helps Clive deal with his demons, Clive is sucked into a mission to kill.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-04-20
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Whoever Was Using This Bed
2016-01-13
Whoever Was Using This Bed
Overview: A married couple is woken in the dead of night by a mysterious phone call. Unable to sleep, they are drawn into an unsettling examination of their fears and desires.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2016-01-13
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Le Divorce
2003-08-08
Le Divorce
Overview: While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.
Genres: Drama Romance Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-08-08
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The Last Mirage
2014-02-14
The Last Mirage
Overview: A thriller about the disappearance of a manuscript from the Baghdad Museum, during the US-offensive in Irak. Feat. Livingstone, a biologist + explorer, Abdallah a police officer combining fine detective flair + shrewd psychological acumen.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-02-14
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Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
1985-05-08
Going for the Gold: The Bill Johnson Story
Overview: The true story of Bill Johnson, the first US men's skiing gold medal winner, whose Olympics dreams were threatened by his rebellious attitude.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-05-08
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Lifeline
1996-05-15
Lifeline
Overview: After her daughter is kidnapped by white slave traders, a mother enlists the aid of a world war 2 vet and a boat captain. Together they hunt down the kidnappers.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-05-15
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King David
1985-03-29
King David
Overview: This is a movie about the life of Israel's king David.
Genres: Action Adventure History Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-03-29
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L'Échappée belle
1996-03-27
L'Échappée belle
Overview: An aviation magnate takes desperate measures to regain custody of his kids after he is granted minimal visitation rights by a harsh female judge. It's true that Manu Barnes is free-spirited and for much of his twelve year marriage to Mathilde that he has been too centered on his career, but he does love his kids and believes he should see them more often than one weekend a month. The judge called him irresponsible and he decides to disprove her words by kidnapping Chloe, the judge's strong-willed adolescent daughter. He takes the girl to a remote, snow-bound mountain cabin. Unfortunately, she thinks Manu is sexually attracted to her. A disaster nearly occurs there, but Chloe manages to get back to Paris. Though he knows a private detective is trailing him, the determined Manu decides to abduct his kids and take them out of the country.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-03-27
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Meurtres en dentelles
Meurtres en dentelles
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Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: fr
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Death of a World Star
1994-06-01
Death of a World Star
Overview: A mockumentary directed by Christoph Schlingensief.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1994-06-01
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blur | The Best Of
2000-11-28
blur | The Best Of
Overview: Blur: The Best Of is a greatest hits compilation album by English Britpop band Blur, first released in late 2000 and is the final Blur album by Food Records. It was released on CD, cassette tape, MiniDisc, double 12" vinyl record, DVD and VHS. The CD album includes 17 of Blur's 23 singles from 1990 to 2000, plus non-single, "This Is a Low". A special edition of the CD version included a live CD. The DVD/VHS version contains the videos of Blur's first 22 singles. The album, which has had enduring sales, hit number 3 in the band's native UK in the autumn of 2000, while denting the US charts at number 186. The cover is by artist Julian Opie. The painting of this Blur album can be found at the National Portrait Gallery in London, England. The album's cover bears some similarity to that of Queen's 1982 Hot Space.
Genres: Music
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2000-11-28
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