Pierre-Loup Rajot
Biography: Pierre-Loup Rajot (born 9 February 1958) is a French stage, television and film actor, director, producer and screenwriter. He is a 1985 César Award recipient for Most Promising Actor for his performance in the 1984 comedy film Souvenirs, Souvenirs. Born in Ambert, Pierre-Loup Rajot later studied environmental science and technology at university. Following his graduation from university, he was a pupil of Francis Huster at the Cours Florent and attended Patrice Chéreau's theater courses at the Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers in Nanterre where Chéreau directed him in roles of four Shakespeare's plays (Love's Labours Lost; As You Like It; Much Ado About Nothing; Twelfth Night). He made his screen debut in the 1982 Maurice Pialat directed film À Nos Amours. In 1985 Rajot won the César Award for Most Promising Actor at the 10th César Awards for his performance in the 1984 comedy film Souvenirs, Souvenirs, directed by Ariel Zeitoun. He has appeared in films opposite Yves Montand in Garçon! (1983), Jeanne Moreau in La nuit de l'océan (1987), Michel Aumont in Le petit Marguery (1995) and Audrey Tautou in Voyous voyelles (2000). Rajot has also appeared in a number of French television films and serials. He is possibly best known for his leading role as Hugo Chalonges on the TF1 crime-drama series R.I.S, police scientifique from 2005 to 2010. He also appeared as the character Fiaux in the television mini-series The Blue Bicycle alongside Laetitia Casta (2000) and again with Casta, playing her father in the 2008 comedy-drama film Nés en 68. In addition to acting, Rajot has worked as a director, producer and screenwriter. Pierre-Loup Rajot is married to actress Céline Rajot (née Guignard) and is the father of three children: Mathis, Alma and Orfeo. Source: Article "Pierre-Loup Rajot" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Birthday: February 09, 1958
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Adventures of Félix
2000-04-19
Adventures of Félix
Overview: A charming comedy about going on a rather long walk. Félix is a laid-back guy living in the bleak northern coastal town of Dieppe. He lives happily with his lover Daniel and is a soap opera enthusiast and HIV-positive. After losing his job, Félix decides to find the father he never knew in Marseilles. Agreeing to meet Daniel in the southern port city in a week's time, Félix throws on his backpack and starts hiking. On his way, he discovers that family need not always be connected by blood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-04-19
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A Nos Amours
1983-11-16
A Nos Amours
Overview: Fifteen-year-old Suzanne seeks refuge from a disintegrating family in a series of impulsive, promiscuous affairs. Her fulsome sexuality further ratchets up the suppressed passions of her narcissistic brother, insecure mother and brooding, authoritarian father.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-11-16
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Replay
2001-08-22
Replay
Overview: Nathalie and Louise are friends from childhood. While studying drama at University Louise becomes hopelessly obsessed with her friend. Jealous of the male friends she has she breaks up the friendship, followed by a suicide attempt. Later, Louise marries, but finds time to see the, by now quite accomplished actress, Nathalie. They fight through the years, La Repetition following them as their friendship comes together and breaks up frequently, while never actually reaching anything that can be called a climax.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-08-22
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Souvenirs souvenirs
1984-09-19
Souvenirs souvenirs
Overview: A former singer, who was drafted and fought in the Algeria war, is demobilized and wants to make a come back, which is not easy when you've been gone for twenty-seven months; meanwhile, his kid brother falls in love with his music teacher and is involved in very bad things .Arrested, he is released thanks to the teacher's evidence who provides him with an alibi before leaving him for good.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-09-19
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The New Eve
1999-01-27
The New Eve
Overview: Camille is an emancipated 30-something woman who has no desire to settle down and have a family, preferring to coast along on a succession of ephemeral relationships and one-night stands. However, her lifestyle fails to satisfy her fully, and in a moment of depression she runs into a complete stranger, Alexis, whom she instantly falls in love with. Alexis, alas, is married, with two children, and works for the Socialist Party. None of this is going to deter Camille though…
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-01-27
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Pretty Devils
2000-02-09
Pretty Devils
Overview: Three very different adolescent girls team up to take revenge on men until one day it is no longer a game.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-02-09
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La Galette du roi
1986-01-29
La Galette du roi
Overview: In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris is marrying Maria-Helena, a princess who comes with a dowry that is made up of one half of her island kingdom. Her father, the cowardly King Arnold III is counting on the money this marriage will bring him. The country is now almost bankrupt because of the king's gambling debts. As Harris and the king look forward to their illusory profits from the royal merger, other characters add some liveliness to the otherwise predictable story.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-29
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Open Bodies
1998-06-23
Open Bodies
Overview: Born to a North African father and a French mother, 18-year-old Parisian high school senior Rémi works part-time in an Arab grocery store while studying management and commerce. He responds to a school ad seeking subjects for a film, and Marc, who placed the ad, auditions Rémi by filming an interview with him. Rémi and Marc wind up in bed, and Rémi soon has other sexual experiences – with a guy in a men's room and with a young woman who grabs him while she's dancing in the street.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-06-23
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Jour après jour
1989-02-15
Jour après jour
Overview: Two would be producers launch a singer's career.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-02-15
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Valentino! I love you
1991-05-11
Valentino! I love you
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-11
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Sale temps pour un voyou
1992-09-16
Sale temps pour un voyou
Overview: The story of three characters, a little marginal, whose existence will tip over into the dramatic, during a day like many others .....
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-09-16
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Cheb
1991-06-05
Cheb
Overview: After a conviction for theft, Merwan was expelled from France, where he had lived since the age of one, to Algeria, his country of birth. In a foreign country of which he knows neither the language nor the customs, he finds himself stripped of his belongings and on the street.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-06-05
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Boulevard des hirondelles
1993-03-17
Boulevard des hirondelles
Overview: Inspired by a story, that of a woman who, in the 1940s, organized a commando operation on Boulevard des Hirondelles to get her lover out of prison.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-03-17
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Les frères Gravet
1996-04-01
Les frères Gravet
Overview: Gravet brothers meet in Beaune during their mother's funeral.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-04-01
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Exes
2006-10-04
Exes
Overview: Virginie, a very famous writer, is caught up in her past. A serial killer with inhuman cruelty, Exes, the hero of his first novel, wants to take revenge on her.
Genres: Horror Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-10-04
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Les guérisseurs
1988-01-02
Les guérisseurs
Overview: Unable to resist the allure of the quick fix, a young West African executive falls for the mirage of financial success, too spectacular to be honest.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-01-02
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Berlin 1885: The Division of Africa
2011-02-23
Berlin 1885: The Division of Africa
Overview: A docudrama depicting the Berlin Conference in which the Western powers decided the partition of Africa.
Genres: Documentary Drama History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-02-23
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The Bengali Night
1988-10-26
The Bengali Night
Overview: Allan is an engineer working in 1930s Calcutta. He is invited to stay with the family of his boss, Narendra Sen which includes his wife, Indira and daughter Gayatri. Gayatri and Allan become romantically involved leading to tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-10-26
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Cent francs l'amour
1986-08-20
Cent francs l'amour
Overview: Jeremy, a young art photographer, needs money to finance an exhibition of his work. He turns to Maurice, a lonely bachelor who will do almost anything to buy Jérémy’s company. When his relationship with his girlfriend starts to fall apart, the young photographer visits a peepshow and is at once struck by the beauty of one of the performers, Otie. He uses the money Maurice gave him to pay for further visits to the sex shop...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-08-20
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Moi et mon blanc
2003-05-19
Moi et mon blanc
Overview: An African student stranded in Paris after losing his government grant discovers a bag of drugs and money while working as a parking garage attendant.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-05-19
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All Girls Cry
2010-03-29
All Girls Cry
Overview: Romantic drama in which a young woman must learn to live with her past in order to finally move forward.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-03-29
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Leclerc, un rêve d'Indochine
2003-07-14
Leclerc, un rêve d'Indochine
Overview: In Hanoi, a French couple who had come to adopt a baby met Maï, an old woman who had a love affair with a French officer in 1945. She tells how, sent by de Gaulle to restore order, Leclerc negotiates with Ho Chi Minh, against the advice of d'Argenlieu, the high commissioner.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-07-14
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Le Puits
2002-06-14
Le Puits
Overview: When the Big war started, the 2nd of August 1914, Louis is one of those first mobilized. He has to leave Marie and his village in Corsica for the plains of the Marne where the fights rage. On the front, he is a stretcher-bearer and crosses the battlefield, at night, in search of the wounded. One day, while the trench is sorely lacking water, he is chosen to go to a well situated halfway between the French and German territories in what they called "no-man's-land". There, he finds himself in front of a German soldier who has also come too stock up.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-06-14
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Le bus
1995-01-01
Le bus
Overview: A short feature forming part of the COURS-Y-VITE programme.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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When I'm a Star
2005-01-19
When I'm a Star
Overview: Glamorous theater actress, Diane de Montalte, finds it difficult to accept that her 23-year- old gay, live-in son, Marc, wishes to live a more low-key life. While Marc travels frequently from Paris to Marrakesh to visit his lover, Dionys, Diane begins a casual relationship with the only somewhat dashing Roland.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-01-19
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Lucy's Revenge
1998-06-17
Lucy's Revenge
Overview: After Polish-born writer-director Janusz Mrozowski, a French resident for the past 30 years, made a series of 30-minute films based on African writings, he was approached by Africans to do a cinematic survey of past events in African history. Filming in Burkina Faso, Mrozowski responded with this comedy about a dictator kidnapped from the present-day and taken back through the mists of time. There he meets the mother of humanity, Lucy, who teaches him the basics of sexual equality. By the time he returns to the present, he's also received an education in 16th-century slave-trading and European influences on Africa.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-06-17
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Waiter!
1983-11-09
Waiter!
Overview: After a tumultuous life, a middle-aged headwaiter in a Parisian restaurant dreams of opening a seaside amusement park. When an old flame reappears, he reignites his feelings, but she is involved with another man.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-11-09
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La nuit de l'océan
1992-06-03
La nuit de l'océan
Overview: After the disappearance at sea of a young fisherman, his childhood friend and his mother begin an ambiguous relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-06-03
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La croisade des enfants
1988-04-07
La croisade des enfants
Overview: TV movie about the children crusade of the Middle Ages.
Genres: TV Movie History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-04-07
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Au petit Marguery
1995-11-08
Au petit Marguery
Overview: Hippolyte, the chef at the small Paris restaurant of the title, is losing his sense of smell - and without that, you can’t cook. Not in France. The restaurant has to close. Guests and customers of the ailing master chef gather for one last fabulous meal. Between courses, personal conflicts are explored and flashbacks flesh out incidents from the lives of the restaurant owners.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-11-08
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Next Summer
1985-01-09
Next Summer
Overview: Edouard is patriarch of a large family: his second wife, Jeanne, has just had a baby and finally had enough of his philandering. As the marriage between them unravels, Edouard's daughters experience their own emotional shock waves. Dina, in a relationship with playwright Paul, wants more from her daily life, while Sidone is married to a fellow musician but is terrified of performing in public. Fast-forward seven years: Edouard is gravely ill, and the family shares their issues, hopes and fears.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-09
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Family Tree
2010-02-16
Family Tree
Overview: When Frédérick, the patriarch of the Alsatian Muller family, is conspicuously absent from his son Charles' funeral, Frédérick's surviving son and his granddaughter, raw from their loss, await an explanation. Once revealed, Frédérick's reasons and the painful secret Charles harbored for years threaten the foundations of the entire family.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-02-16
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Bras de fer
1985-09-18
Bras de fer
Overview: Complex and more cerebral than a wartime action-thriller, this espionage drama focuses on the relationship of two former buddies who were fencing masters before the war and in love with the same woman. Now Delancourt (Bernard Giraudeau) is apparently living a good life managing a gym in a Paris hotel under Nazi control, where he meets his former friend Pierre (Christophe Malavoy), who is on a secret assignment to mislead the Nazis on the date of the Normandie invasion. Pierre, alias Augustin, cannot figure out if Delancourt is a real resistance fighter or if he is a double agent. Circumstances create a larger and larger gap between the former friends while the plot goes through several twists and turns before Pierre's doubts are resolved.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-09-18
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Born in 68
2008-05-21
Born in 68
Overview: 1968. Catherine, Yves and Hervé are twenty years old. They're students in Paris and they love each other. The May student uprisings radically change their lives. Overtaken by communal utopia, they leave the city with a few friends to set up house in an abandoned farm in the Lot region. A desire for freedom and the search for individual fulfillment lead them to make choices that cause them to separate.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-05-21
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Signs of Life
2001-03-09
Signs of Life
Overview: There were four friends. Now there are only three – one of them has just died in Sicily in a stupid road accident. Fifteen years earlier, Tomas, a young French filmmaker, had made the group the subject of a documentary. He had become their friend, their brother from Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-09
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Scarlet Fever
1983-08-08
Scarlet Fever
Overview: In a building on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris lives ten-year-old Roger, who is surrounded by women - his great-grandmother, his grandmother, and his mother Nicole. Living in an exclusively feminine environment, the boy wishes more than anything else to have a masculine presence around. His dream comes true when he meets Jacques, who's madly in love with Nicole and who is about to completely turn the boy's life upside down.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-08-08
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