Frédéric Saurel
Biography: Frédéric Saurel, then a college student, auditioned for a play by Luigi Pirandello, and thus obtained his first role. Describing himself as a "bad student", except in French and theater, he repeated his second year before stopping everything to study drama. From 1984 to 1986, Fred Saurel followed the drama course of Alain Janey and Paulette Frantz. In 1986, at the age of 19, Fred Saurel was admitted to the National Conservatory of Dramatic Art in Paris (1986 -1988).2 He played in the theater in “Les dégoudis de la 11ème” with Robert Hirsch and Darry Cowl. He will return to the theater in 2016 in a single on stage: “The Soliloquy of Grimm” by Bruno George. In the cinema, he has played in more than 30 films (“Give me wings” by Nicolas Vanier) and on television in nearly fifty series or TV films (“Baron Noir, Season 3” for Canal +). Also a producer and director, he directed two feature films (“Bâtards” TPS/Pathé Vidéo) and produced around ten short films. Fred Saurel created S.P.A.C.E (European Artistic and Cinematographic Production Company) in 1989, producing independent short and feature films, based in Aveyron.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: May 01, 1967
Deathday: N/A
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The shadow of Mont st. Michel
2010-09-11
The shadow of Mont st. Michel
Overview: After the death of his mother, Elisa (Claire Borotra) is responsible for custody of her sister Audrey (Penelope Leveque), a troubled teen and something he hardly knows. Following the last will of her mother, both go to Mont Saint Michel, where the two grew up, to spread his ashes. The second night of stay, and after a flood, Audrey disappears while the mayor's daughter, which suggests a voluntary escape, but Elisa does not think so, so it will not stop until its trace sister.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-09-11
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Un monde violent
2025-01-29
Un monde violent
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Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-01-29
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Les Parasites
1999-01-20
Les Parasites
Overview: Oulage has it all planned: New Year's eve, at the stroke of midnight, he'll finally kiss Brigitte, the girl he's madly in love with. That'll be the moment, because Brigitte is having a costume party. Oulage has it all planned—except for the fact that Brigitte has also invited a gang of truly parasitical friends: an old girl friend who never leaves Brigitte's side, a manic-depressive police officer, a paranoid psychopath, a cannabis-addict suffering withdrawal pains, a stunning Cuban woman on the prowl for immigration papers, and many others who do everything to ruin Oulage's life.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-01-20
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Storm Warning
2020-09-18
Storm Warning
Overview: As an unforgettable storm lashes the Breton town of Perros-Guirec, a ten-year-old boy goes missing.
Genres: Thriller TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-09-18
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Twisted Souls
2005-11-25
Twisted Souls
Overview: A young couple set out for the quiet of a country house. During their stay, hidden from other people's gazes, they slip into a violent and passionate relationship that will drive them to commit a dreadful act.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-11-25
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Asylum
2008-04-16
Asylum
Overview: Jack, a young thug, mingles with a bunch of hard boiled gangsters and tries to outsmart them. He ends up tied to a tree on a chain like a dog. A new adventure begins, not the one he had wished for.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-04-16
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Mayday
1995-03-14
Mayday
Overview: This a beautiful May evening. The sun has just set behind the hill. Tonight the inhabitants of the Le Corbusier housing unit are going to experience a slight change of program. They are all sitting in front of their TV sets and in twelve minutes the face of the new President of the Republic will appear on the screens..
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-03-14
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Bâtards
2002-11-13
Bâtards
Overview: Returning from a vacation in Spain in September, Agathe, a dental technician, and her husband Alexandre, a salesman, break down on a deserted stretch of freeway. They are then forced to follow a mechanic who appears out of nowhere. Towed to an isolated camp in the middle of nowhere, the couple discovers a family composed of six adopted children, all approximately 25 years old and of different origins. Forced to wait for the car's engine to be repaired, the vacationers participate in spite of themselves and for a few hours in their community life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-11-13
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Even Pigeons Go to Heaven
2007-01-27
Even Pigeons Go to Heaven
Overview: On a moonlit fall night, a priest races to the home of Mr. Moulin running a motorcycle off the road and arriving just in time to catch the old man as he falls from a chair on which he stacked books in order to reach a bottle of cognac. Mr. Moulin is a miser with a sock full of money that the priest would like to appropriate by selling the old man a space capsule that will take him to paradise. After a test drive and some negotiation, the deal may be struck, but then, there's a knock at the door.
Genres: Animation Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-27
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Mauvaise fille
1991-01-23
Mauvaise fille
Overview: Rose, 20, lives in Camargue with her brother Vincent, her elder, and her mechanic father who has never recovered from the departure of their mother when they were children. She serves as the wife and mother to both and, tired of this situation, she wants to go to Marseille to find a job, and then live there.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-01-23
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Murphy's Law
2009-11-04
Murphy's Law
Overview: After four years in jail, Elias is doing his rehabilitation in an hospital as stretcher bearer. In five hours, his parole will be completed. He will make a fresh start and forget about his past. But that would be forgetting about Murphy's law and its string of problems.
Genres: Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-11-04
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Chicken with Plums
2011-10-26
Chicken with Plums
Overview: Since his beloved violin was broken, Nasser-Ali Khan, one of the most renowned musicians of his day, has lost all taste for life. Finding no instrument worthy of replacing it, he decides to confine himself to bed to await death.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-10-26
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Accidental Saint
2002-05-15
Accidental Saint
Overview: Raph and Swan, two thugs, are hanging out looking for a bad thing to do. When they steal a bag from a defenceless girl, Swan does a good deed. A halo begins to glow over his head. Determined to make it disappear, Raph and Swan try to find the dirty trick that will save them.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-05-15
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The Cruel Embrace
1987-11-25
The Cruel Embrace
Overview: Ludovic is the son of Nicole, a single mother who married Micho, a man older than her. He agreed to adopt her son. Ludo is the scapegoat of Tatave, first son of Micho and the favoured victim of his teacher. Communication between Ludo and his mother is non-existent. While her own health is deteriorating, she eventually entrusts him to an asylum.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-11-25
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Hot Acts of Love
2005-06-29
Hot Acts of Love
Overview: Franck and Paul are working as team buddies in their Paris police unit. They are sent on a mission in Toulon to solve a drug traffic mystery, but things get out of hand when Paul learns that Franck has an affair with Valeria, his wife, who also happens to work in the police forces...
Genres: Comedy Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-06-29
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Back in Crime
2013-06-05
Back in Crime
Overview: Inspector Richard Kemp never got around to putting the handcuffs around the Eardrum Slasher, a dangerous serial killer whose rampage began 20 years before. When Hélène, a psychologist, witnesses the Slasher’s latest crime and offers to testify, Kemp falls in love with her at first sight. In a mysterious turn of event, Kemp is suddenly transported back in time to the site of the Eardrum Slasher’s first murder, he realizes that this could provide a second chance to catch the killer...
Genres: Crime Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-06-05
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Gamer
2001-03-21
Gamer
Overview: Tony is crazy about video games. But he is arrested during a hold-up which failed, and he goes to prison for eight months. When he gets out, he contacts Valery, GameStar's boss, and offers her a new video game concept.
Genres: Action Thriller Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-21
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Ragazzi
1991-03-06
Ragazzi
Overview: In this very light romantic comedy, two young men who are in search of the hypothetical perfect woman believe they have found her at a wedding reception. There, they see Lisa. Alexandre is the shy one, but he is also the one with the greatest yen to meet such a woman. He and Romain track Lisa down the next day and, though she is already dating someone, when Romain approaches her, she agrees to meet the two of them at a restaurant. They are dismayed when the part-Italian girl brings her mother with her as a chaperone. Other difficulties arise as well, and they resolve that this quest is less important than their friendship. Besides, Alexandre has by now discovered the charms of Romain's younger sister.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-03-06
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Le fusil de bois
1994-10-25
Le fusil de bois
Overview: At the height of the Algerian war, Sergeant Dallers discovers Lagrange in his patrol, a boy with learning disabilities enlisted by mistake. The discharge papers are delayed and Lagrange, seeking desperately to be accepted, suffers the humiliations inflicted by the other soldiers. Moved, Dallers soon takes him under his wing.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-10-25
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Le Troisième Jour
2010-11-05
Le Troisième Jour
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Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-11-05
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Crossfire
2008-06-11
Crossfire
Overview: A grizzled Parisian detective is sent to an outpost town in Southern France to dismantle a gang of killers which has freed a notorious criminal. The detective inherits a team of unmotivated and dishevelled detectives, and he makes connections nobody else ever saw because nobody else bothered to look. A mysterious, charismatic figure, he leads by example, and gradually his team begins to feel like cops again.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-06-11
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Dans l’ère du temps
Dans l’ère du temps
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Original Language: fr
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Les Dégourdis de la onzième
1986-01-17
Les Dégourdis de la onzième
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-17
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School of Life
2017-02-22
School of Life
Overview: Paris 1930. Paul has only ever had one and the same horizon: the high walls of the orphanage, an austere building in the Parisian working class suburbs. Entrusted to a joyful country woman, Célestine, and her husband, Borel, the rather stiff gamekeeper of a vast estate in Sologne, the city child, recalcitrant and stubborn, arrives in a mysterious and disturbing world, that of a sovereign and wild region. The huge forest, misty ponds, heaths, and fields all belong to the Count de la Fresnaye, an elderly taciturn man who lives alone in his manor.
Genres: Drama Comedy Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-02-22
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Serial (Bad) Weddings
2014-04-16
Serial (Bad) Weddings
Overview: A catholic French couple sees their life upside down when their four daughters get married to men of different religion and origins.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-04-16
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It's Never Too Late
2014-11-11
It's Never Too Late
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Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-11-11
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Tête de chou
2001-11-10
Tête de chou
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Genres: Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-11-10
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Spread Your Wings
2019-09-12
Spread Your Wings
Overview: Christian, a visionary scientist, studies wild geese. For his son, a teenager obsessed with video games, the idea of spending a holiday with his father in the wilderness is a nightmare. However, father and son will get together around a crazy project: save a species endangered, thanks to the ultralight of Christian! Then begins an incredible and perilous journey ...
Genres: Adventure Family
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-09-12
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Ducoboo 2: Crazy Vacation
2012-04-24
Ducoboo 2: Crazy Vacation
Overview: Ducobu goes on holiday in the south of France.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-04-24
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With Open Arms
2017-04-05
With Open Arms
Overview: Jean-Étienne Fougerole is an intellectual bohemian who released his new novel "In Open Arms" and calling the wealthiest people to welcome home the families in need. While he promotes his book during a televised debate, his opponent criticized him for not applying what he himself advocates. While stuck, Jean-Étienne Fougerole accepts the challenge, for fear of being discredited. The same evening, a family of Roma rings the door of his Marnes-la-Coquette villa and the writer feels obliged to house them.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-04-05
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La Tournée
2025-06-18
La Tournée
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-06-18
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