Artus de Penguern
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Birthday: March 13, 1957
Deathday: May 14, 2013
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Amélie
2001-04-25
Amélie
Overview: At a tiny Parisian café, the adorable yet painfully shy Amélie accidentally discovers a gift for helping others. Soon Amelie is spending her days as a matchmaker, guardian angel, and all-around do-gooder. But when she bumps into a handsome stranger, will she find the courage to become the star of her very own love story?
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-04-25
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Les mots de l'amour
1994-01-01
Les mots de l'amour
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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Agathe Cléry
2008-11-11
Agathe Cléry
Overview: Agathe Clery, a marketing manager for a cosmetics company, is snobbish, stubborn and racist. When she is diagnosed with Addison Syndrome, an disorder that darkens the pigmentation of one's skin, she suddenly finds herself resembling a black woman.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-11-11
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Saint-Jacques... La Mecque
2005-10-12
Saint-Jacques... La Mecque
Overview: Three siblings who detest each other and hiking must complete together a pilgrimage to Santiago de Compostela in order to be eligible to inherit their mother's wealth.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-10-12
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The Dinner Guest
2007-09-19
The Dinner Guest
Overview: Fifty years old, three years past of unemployment, benefits decreasing very quickly... Gerard is at the end of the rope when a position is offered him in Indonesia. To win the favor of his new employer, Gerard invites him to dinner at home. Fatal Error ! Terrified at the idea of not being up to par, his wife Colette begs Alexandre, their neighbor to help. Communication guru, Alexander accepts the challenge and gives a makeover to the couple in twenty-four hours. Apartment, decoration, lifestyle, dinner menu, uniforms, culture... Everything !
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-09-19
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Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
1994-03-09
Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy
Overview: A second-class horror movie has to be shown at Cannes Film Festival, but, before each screening, the projectionist is killed by a mysterious fellow, with hammer and sickle, just as it happens in the film to be shown.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-03-09
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Fool Moon
2008-07-16
Fool Moon
Overview: Une bande d'anciens copains de Sciences-Po, devenus de jeunes loups de la politique se retrouvent pour un week-end dans une maison isolée en Bretagne avec pour seul mot d'ordre: se détendre et surtout ne jamais parler politique. Mais la pleine lune, des voisins adeptes de mystérieux rites et le vieil Armagnac trouvé dans la cave vont les faire désavouer leur promesse, et tout va partir en live...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-07-16
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Gregoire Moulin vs. Humanity
2001-09-26
Gregoire Moulin vs. Humanity
Overview: Grégoire Moulin, a shy accountant, sets up a blind date with a dance teacher at a bar. What he needed to do was just to cross the road. But it didn't happen to be as easy as it seems especially because of the final game of French soccer championship the very same night!
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-09-26
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17ème jour de tournage du film "Police"
1984-12-05
17ème jour de tournage du film "Police"
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-12-05
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Henry & June
1990-09-28
Henry & June
Overview: While traveling in Paris, author Henry Miller and his wife, June, meet Anais Nin, and sexual sparks fly as Nin starts an affair with the openly bisexual June. When June is forced to return to the U.S., she gives Nin her blessing to sleep with her husband. Then, when June returns to France, an unexpected, and sometimes contentious, threesome forms.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-09-28
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A Matter of Taste
2000-04-26
A Matter of Taste
Overview: Nicolas, a handsome, young waiter, is befriended by Frédéric Delamont, a wealthy middle-aged businessman. Delamont, a man of power, influence and strictly refined tastes, is immediately smitten by Nicolas' charm. Lonely and phobic, Delamont offers Nicolas a lucrative job as his personal food taster. In spite of their differences, a close friendship begins to emerge between the two men. However, their bond of trust and admiration soon spirals downward into a dangerous game of deceit and obsession for which neither is prepared.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-04-26
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Belle Maman
1999-03-10
Belle Maman
Overview: At the altar where he is marrying Séverine, the groom, Antoine, gets his first glimpse of her mother, Léa, and suffers what the French call a coup de foudre which we know as love at first sight.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-03-10
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News from the Good Lord
1996-06-12
News from the Good Lord
Overview: When novelist Alessandro Battavia commits suicide, a taxi driver named Evangile and her brother Nord believe they are characters imagined in a novel, probably one written by God.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-06-12
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Sex, Lies and Surgery
2012-06-27
Sex, Lies and Surgery
Overview: John - conscientious and romantic - and Michael - thoughtless and unfaithful - are surgeons at their father’s private hospital. John felt madly in love with Priscilla, a wonderful nurse. But he is betrayed by Michael who decides to marry her. Shattered by his loss, John moves to Canada. But Michael’s new project to dedicate the clinic to plastic surgery leads them to bankruptcy, forcing John to come back in the hope of saving the clinic...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-06-27
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The Saint: The Software Murders
1990-08-04
The Saint: The Software Murders
Overview: From his home in California, Simon's friend Jack is investigating the deaths of three prominent scientists. Shortly after making an important discovery, Jack is murdered, and the killer threatens to come after Simon.
Genres: Action Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1990-08-04
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La Fleur de l'âge
2013-05-01
La Fleur de l'âge
Overview: Gaspard Dassonville may be 63 but he stubbornly refuses to show his age. A well-known television producer, he amuses himself with women who are half his age, and life has never felt so good. Then, one day, his age catches up with him with a vengeance, when he is forced to take care of his elderly father Hubert. An indomitable oldster, Hubert soon manages to unsettle his son’s illusory youth, but things take an unexpected turn when a care assistant with a colorful imagination comes between them...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-05-01
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Big City
2007-12-12
Big City
Overview: Description : Set in the American Wild West, this French-language film quickly overcomes its dire beginning--the Native American ambush of a group of immigrants--and becomes an enjoyable comedy. When the adults of Big City leave for the ambush site, the children realize they are all alone and in charge. With a cast composed almost entirely of young people...
Genres: Adventure Family Western
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-12-12
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Les gens honnêtes vivent en France
2005-03-02
Les gens honnêtes vivent en France
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-03-02
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Les belles-sœurs
2011-04-26
Les belles-sœurs
Overview: Nicole invites her husband's two brothers and their wives for their housewarming party. Except that she also asked the assistant of one of them, the mysterious Talia, to come. This does not seem to please the other guests.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-04-26
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La polyclinique de l'amour
1998-01-01
La polyclinique de l'amour
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Le Homard
1995-01-01
Le Homard
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Mina Tannenbaum
1994-03-02
Mina Tannenbaum
Overview: The film tells the story of two girls who are of totally different character. They know each other since their childhood and were friends until they became teenagers. But growing up and becoming adults they go different ways.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-03-02
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Levy & Goliath
1987-01-27
Levy & Goliath
Overview: A very faithful Jewish man works making diamond dust in his family's workshop, to sell to industries. One day he goes on businnes trip. In the same train goes a very sexy girl, with some heroin bags (you guess it) very similar to the diamond bags. The police begins to chase the girl, and she hides the drug into the Levy's bag. The girl calls his boss ('Goliath') the situation and he and his band begins to hound Levy, who, by this time, selled the bags to a factory, not knowing the content. He has to get out of the problem with the help of his brother and his God.
Genres: Adventure Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-01-27
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A lovely summer afternoon
A lovely summer afternoon
Overview: Four Parisian friends spend an afternoon with a friend in the countryside. However, he is suffering from a minor psychological problem with paranoid tendencies.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
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Urgence
1985-01-30
Urgence
Overview: When a neo-Nazi group of terrorists is set to blow a pop concert off the face of the earth because it is an anti-racist benefit, they are faced with the intrepid Jean-Pierre Mougin, a macho sports reporter with zero tolerance for Nazi hate crimes. Going along with Mougin to stop the bombing is Lyza, whose brother was killed by this group of fascists, and so she is ardently seeking revenge. After Mougin gets his hands on a videotape that reveals the plot to blow up the concert and its audience, he and Lyza join forces. As the fuse gets shorter and shorter, Mougin is also joined by sympathetic street gangs. Thus reinforced, he faces his opposition (including crooked cops) in increasingly more desperate attempts to stop Murmeau, the leader of the Nazi gang, from carrying out his terrorist objective.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-01-30
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La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
2002-04-03
La merveilleuse odyssée de l'idiot Toboggan
Overview: This program of short films by Vincent Ravalec (Never twice, Le Masseur and Les Mots de l'amour) deals with themes such as desire and death through the journey of a group of characters.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-04-03
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Paradise Hotel
1986-04-15
Paradise Hotel
Overview: A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman (Fernando Rey) is a washed-up Hollywood actor making a living in the dinner-theater circuit. Accompanied by his wife Sarah (Carole Regnier), Goldman meets Frederique (Berangere Bonvoisin), who is hiding from her former lover. French financier Arthur (Fabrice Luchini) hopes to get into the film industry and bends the ear of a British director (Michael Medwin). The talkative film has little action, and none of the characters evoke much interest or resolve their dilemma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-04-15
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The Man Who Wanted a Child
2007-03-21
The Man Who Wanted a Child
Overview: Alfred lives with his mother in a small village keeping chickens and selling eggs at the local market. He doesn't speak, except to his mother and to children. He has a girlfriend of sorts, although she shies away from any physical contact with her. But more than anything, Alfred wants a child. As natural fatherhood is out of the question he takes the next best option, and makes an application to adopt. With a very un-French lack of bureaucracy Alfred's adoptive son arrives, but turns out not to be the bouncing baby he was hoping for. [taken from London Film Festival 2006 catalogue]
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-03-21
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Prends ton passe-montagne, on va à la plage
1983-01-12
Prends ton passe-montagne, on va à la plage
Overview: By chance, a band of merry friends is getting in command of a thalasso therapy center.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-12
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The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
1991-05-01
The Favour, the Watch and the Very Big Fish
Overview: A farce, Hoskins plays a photographer who specializes in religious pictures who searches for a model for Jesus. He does a favor for a friend and finds himself doing a voice track for a porno movie with Natasha Richardson. Hoskins finds his model for Jesus in Jeff Goldblum and a romantic triangle begins in which Goldblum finds adoring crowds believing him to be Jesus and then begins to believe it himself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1991-05-01
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Rien de Grave
2004-01-01
Rien de Grave
Overview: An airplane is having trouble right above our heads. A pilot instructor, sitting in his car, is driving towards the airport. Cell phone in hand, he gives the steward instructions to avoid the worst. But soon the communication is cut...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Si le shampooing était illégal... (Drame capillaire)
1998-01-01
Si le shampooing était illégal... (Drame capillaire)
Overview: Shampoo dealer
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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U
2006-10-11
U
Overview: Since her parents passed away, Princess Mona lives by herself in a castle with two hideous, ghastly characters, Goomi and His Lordship. One day her sobs draw the attention of a unicorn, called U, who wants to comfort and protect Mona for as long as she needs. U becomes Mona's companion, her confidant and her inseparable friend. While Mona grows into a beautiful princess, a group of charming, peaceful and fanciful Yeah-Yeah’s settles in the neighboring forest. They have no particular special powers, yet they soon bring about major changes in everyone's lives, especially in Kulka, the dreamy musician.
Genres: Music Animation
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-10-11
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Ouvrez le chien
1997-01-01
Ouvrez le chien
Overview: After a stickup , gangsters fight for the loot and the story looks like a treasure hunt with a little hide and seek in a disused railway station,where the locomotives are still rolling.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-01-01
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Frantic
1988-02-19
Frantic
Overview: The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris and, to find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
Genres: Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-02-19
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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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Une mère comme on n'en fait plus
1997-05-21
Une mère comme on n'en fait plus
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Genres: Drama TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-05-21
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Roulez jeunesse !
1993-04-28
Roulez jeunesse !
Overview: After a missed burglary, deux young cads take refuge in a retiring-pension sowing terror. On the call of one of the pensioners, the police catch them. But some of the old people are puzzled by their situation and decide to ask about them...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-04-28
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