Monique Mélinand
Biography: Biography not available
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: March 09, 1916
Deathday: May 16, 2012
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Une petite fille dans les tournesols
1984-12-05
Une petite fille dans les tournesols
Overview: The young teacher Marelle goes in search of her husband who mysteriously disappeared while attending the funeral of a childhood friend.
Genres: Drama TV Movie Crime Mystery Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-12-05
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
1970-10-22
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Overview: Dany Longo is red-haired, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there.
Genres: Mystery Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-10-22
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April in Love
2006-06-13
April in Love
Overview: Avril is a novice in a convent of "Baptistine" sisters, a monastic order which was officially dissolved by the end of the nineteenth century but that is kept alive by Mère Marie Joseph, the sadistic superior. While Avril is on retreat, locked in for a fortnight in a chapel prior to taking her vows, Soeur Bernadette, a sympathetic sister, discloses a secret to her: she has a twin brother...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-13
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Between Eleven and Midnight
1949-03-23
Between Eleven and Midnight
Overview: Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot whilst walking in a tunnel in Paris. The case is assigned to Inspector Carrel, who is Vidauban’s perfect double. Using his resemblance to the arch criminal, Carrel manages to infiltrate in Vidauban’s circle of acquaintances and contacts. He becomes embroiled in a bizarre web of intrigue and discovers no shortage of possible murder suspects, all of whom appear to be surprised to see him still alive.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-03-23
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Man with the Transplanted Brain
1972-03-29
Man with the Transplanted Brain
Overview: Professor Marcilly is a famed brain specialist who, following in-depth and extended research work, is now able to perform brain transplant surgery. One day, he finds himself in the presence of a young car accident victim for whom the only hope of survival would be a brain transplant. Marcilly, who has a heart condition and is terminally ill, decides to become the "donor". The operation is a success. But who is actually the patient discharged from the hospital: a young fellow with the brain of a young man or an old man in the body of a young one?
Genres: Horror Science Fiction Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-03-29
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The Mouth Agape
1974-05-08
The Mouth Agape
Overview: Monique is dying of cancer, lying in bed in the apartment above the store her family owns. Her philandering husband carries on with life, her son remains aloof, and her daughter-in-law wonders if she is witnessing her own decline. They all struggle to express, or feel, their love for one another.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-08
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Us Two
1979-05-23
Us Two
Overview: Françoise has gone into business seducing men whose wives want to divorce them, and who need incriminating evidence against them. In addition, she has a little blackmail operation going on on the side with politicians who can't afford a scandal. She got started on this business after she was raped, and hasn't looked back since. Now the police are on her trail, and she avails herself of the services of a couple who make a profession of hiding wanted criminals. At the hideout, she meets Simon, a second-generation mobster. As the police close in, Françoise and Simon go on the run together, pulling off occasional heists for operating money. Before long, they have also fallen in love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-05-23
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Rouletabille joue et gagne
1947-07-09
Rouletabille joue et gagne
Overview: The adventures of the famous Joseph Rouletabille, an adventurous young journalist, gone to solve a murder in the south of France. He puts an end to the conflict between two rival bands for the possession of a revolutionary metal, belenium.
Genres: Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1947-07-09
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Rouletabille Against the Queen of Spades
1948-12-21
Rouletabille Against the Queen of Spades
Overview: Rouletabille's fiancée, a young journalist always on the lookout for an investigation to solve, tells him how she has just suppressed a spy. Marriage is in question...
Genres: Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1948-12-21
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Seven Deaths by Prescription
1975-12-03
Seven Deaths by Prescription
Overview: Dr. Brézé and his sons, all surgeons with limited abilities fight any competition on their sector with all means.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-12-03
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To Die of Love
1971-01-20
To Die of Love
Overview: A love story between a teacher, Daniele, 32 years and one of his students Gerard, 17 during the heated atmosphere of May 68. Daniele is a fiery young woman, very involved politically. Gerard's parents accuse Danièle of statutory rape and complain. Danièle is trapped and the drama begins...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-01-20
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Lady Paname
1950-05-26
Lady Paname
Overview: The evocation of Paris in the 1920s mingles with the rapid rise of the irresistible Caprice, a talented singer, and her tumultuous love affair with Jeff the composer. A photographer nicknamed Bagnolet, a gentle anarchist, gently monitors the activities of Caprice, who has become Lady Paname and, in the absence of morality, makes love triumph.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-05-26
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The Sinners
1949-09-30
The Sinners
Overview: Au Royaume des Cieux takes place in in a dreadful girls' reformatory. A couple of lovers will try to escape from this living hell.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1949-09-30
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Blood to the Head
1956-08-10
Blood to the Head
Overview: François Cardinaud is one of the richest shipowners in the region. But this success arouses resentment and jealousy. When Marthe, his wife, leaves the home without warning, Cardinaud sees her life cracking little by little.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1956-08-10
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Transatlantique
1997-09-03
Transatlantique
Overview: In this French-Portuguese film -- directed by Jacques Rivette's screenplay collaborator Christine Laurent -- French vocalist Laure Constant (Laurence Cote) goes to Montevideo, Uruguay, to see her old lover Colossus (Jose Olivera), but when he's a no-show, she becomes involved with several other men, while listening to advice from some older French women who are costume designers. Shown at the 1997 Locarno Film Festival.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-09-03
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The Passion of Slow Fire
1961-03-02
The Passion of Slow Fire
Overview: Stéphane Blanchon lives a quiet life in Switzerland with his wife, Christine, until a young American boarder named Belle, who was living with them, is found murdered. Despite Stéphane's innocence, the evidence points to him, and he learns that Belle harbored romantic feelings for him. Suspicions mount against him; even Christine thinks he is the culprit. Stéphane's sanity begins to crumble, and he lashes out in unprecedented ways.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1961-03-02
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Âmes d'enfants
1927-01-01
Âmes d'enfants
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1927-01-01
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Jean Moulin, une affaire française
2003-01-06
Jean Moulin, une affaire française
Overview: Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French resistance and the patriotism during the dark years of Nazi occupation.
Genres: History Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-06
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Katia
1959-12-22
Katia
Overview: Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and becomes his mistress. With the help of Katia, Alexandre prepares a liberal constitution, but these reforms make him hostile to the more privileged subjects without satirising the revolutionaries against the regime.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-12-22
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Angelique
1964-12-08
Angelique
Overview: In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac out of convenience, but eventually, she falls in love with him. So when Jeoffray is arrested and then vanishes, she bravely sets out to find him. This is the first of many dramas based on Anne and Serge Golon's novels about strong-willed Angélique and her adventures during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King.
Genres: Adventure Romance History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-08
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Overseas
1990-12-19
Overseas
Overview: In French Algeria, after WWII, three daughters of wealthy settlers begin their adult lives. Zon marries an often absent sailor. Malene's husband, Gildas, refuses to work in the farm, so she has to take care of everything. Gritte, the youngest, does not want to marry and is a nurse for the natives. We will follow their three different destinies.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-12-19
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The Scarlet Lady
1969-05-14
The Scarlet Lady
Overview: Comedy about a self-made woman in Paris contemplating the idea of suicide at first, then murder.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-05-14
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Nightmare
1980-12-24
Nightmare
Overview: A troubled young woman who lives alone in a rundown house meanders around and one day reveals a hidden talent when she goes into a bar, plays magnificently at the piano, and leaves as mysteriously as she came. Meanwhile, an unidentified man is on her trail and eventually tracks her down to the bar she had visited. As the dragnet around her closes in, it becomes apparent that the young woman's stepmother is behind the effort to locate her. But questions over why she is hiding out and what she is hiding from begin to take on more importance as the history of the young woman starts to surface.
Genres: Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-12-24
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The Curtain Rises
1938-10-06
The Curtain Rises
Overview: 1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique"). The first-year entrance exams are in full swing. Many applicants, few accepted. Isabelle (Janine Darcey) is one of the few chosen. She joins former students from the second and third years, including François (Claude Dauphin) and Cécilia (Odette Joyeux). They attend the drama class run by Professor Lambertin (Louis Jouvet). The young people, passionate and eager to become comedians, clash in tumultuous love affairs, because by dint of acting, they imagine that life is a farce. François, for example, is in love with Isabelle, who also loves him, but is pursued by Cecilia, his former mistress... "Put art in your life and life in your art!"
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1938-10-06
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Toubab Bi
1992-01-02
Toubab Bi
Overview: Soriba Samb is a Senegalese who has just received a much sought after internship to study filmmaking in Paris. Soriba heads to Paris, accompanied by the five-year old son of a friend who he believes to be still living in Paris. On arrival he struggles to find the boy’s father. In addition to coping with his new internship, Soriba has to also spend time tracking down the boy’s father ‘Issa’.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-01-02
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Bad Starters
1976-02-11
Bad Starters
Overview: 15-year old schoolboy Denis and the nun Clotilde fall in love with each other. During the war the two of them take shelter at an abandoned farm and live happily together until the locals start to become suspicious.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-02-11
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They Call It an Accident
1982-09-28
They Call It an Accident
Overview: A woman tries to come to terms with the death of her son, who was killed by a hospital error.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-09-28
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The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz
1967-10-28
The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz
Overview: TV adaptation of Jules Verne's posthumously published novel.
Genres: Science Fiction TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-10-28
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Delphine
1969-02-19
Delphine
Overview: Delphine is a country girl who travels to the big city in search of feminine emancipation and freedom. Attending wild parties and nightclubs, she meet a young rock star.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-02-19
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Love Me Strangely
1971-02-10
Love Me Strangely
Overview: Alain Revent, a seductive and refined man, derives a peculiar satisfaction from debasing his wives. The first, driven to the brink of despair, throws herself out of a window. Enlisting the help of an equally perverse casual acquaintance, Dino, the "handsome brute" proceeds to emotionally torture his second wife, Nathalie. The sadistic plan is picked up on by Officer Leroy who suspects the truth. Will he be able to snatch the unfortunate woman from the evil Alain's clutches?
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-10
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Time Regained
1999-05-19
Time Regained
Overview: In early 1920s France, an author, lying on his deathbed, looks at various photographs and is flooded with memories of the people and events that have shaped his life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-05-19
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Plurielles
1979-03-14
Plurielles
Overview: A couple deal with their problems like any other, while actors read Friedrich Engels' "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State", and in interviews, the director discusses the status of women in 1978.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-03-14
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Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
1971-02-10
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
Overview: Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-02-10
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Hellé
1972-05-02
Hellé
Overview: Hellé is a young deaf-mute living among the mountains. She’s ignored by everyone except, now and then, the local woodsmen, who use her for their pleasure. She has no education, no knowledge of right or wrong. One summer, a young man comes to spend the holidays in her village.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-05-02
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Horizon
1967-04-12
Horizon
Overview: Antonin is a young French soldier who returns home from World War I to recover from his wounds. When he falls in love with a young widow, Antonin questions his role in battle and contemplates desertion as he recalls the horrors of war. He is pressured by his patriotic father to honor his military commitment even if it means he will die.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-04-12
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Three Lives and Only One Death
1996-05-15
Three Lives and Only One Death
Overview: Four intertwining stories of bizarre occurrences in Paris featuring a man who was stolen away by fairies, a professor who becomes a tramp, the lovers who inherit a chateau – and the last tale that connects all that has gone before.
Genres: Comedy Crime Fantasy Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-15
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Savage Souls
2001-05-20
Savage Souls
Overview: At a wake one night in 1945, a group of aged women recall the life of one of their number. Sixty years before, Thérèse was barely 20 years old when she eloped with her boyfriend, Firmin, a blacksmith, to Châtillon, a town in Provence. Here, she makes the acquaintance of the wealthy Madame Numance, who is known for her good deeds. Realising that Thérèse is pregnant and unemployed, Madame Numance insists that she moves into a house on her estate. Whilst Firmin resents the arrangement, Thérèse soon finds that she can exploit the situation, using her benefactor's naivety and generosity for her own gain..
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-05-20
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The Thief of Paris
1967-02-22
The Thief of Paris
Overview: In Paris around 1900, a young man raised by his wealthy uncle plots revenge after his cousin is betrothed to a rich neighbor. He steals the fiancé's family jewels, reveling in the thrill, and sets off on a lifelong path of burglary.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-02-22
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Genealogies of a Crime
1997-05-04
Genealogies of a Crime
Overview: An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-05-04
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The Giraffe's Neck
2004-09-29
The Giraffe's Neck
Overview: Le Cou de la girafe (The Giraffe's Neck) is a 2004 French/Belgian film directed by Safy Nebbou.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-09-29
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Women Are Weak
1959-02-11
Women Are Weak
Overview: A playboy is pursued by three women seeking romance.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1959-02-11
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Last Known Address
1970-02-25
Last Known Address
Overview: Marceau Léonetti, a competent and energetic officer stops by chance the son of an influential lawyer driving under the influence of alcohol. A few months later, the lawyer falsely accuses Léonetti as being violent and incompetent. As a result Marceau is transferred to a small police station, where he meets young and beautiful Jeanne. Soon they are faced with a tough investigation.
Genres: Thriller Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1970-02-25
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The Last Writer
1993-11-03
The Last Writer
Overview: Jacques asks a public writer to compose love letters for a beautiful stranger that he pretends he has just met.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-11-03
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How to Make a French Dish
1964-01-29
How to Make a French Dish
Overview: In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and chronicles the woman's romantic exploits with men. Though she was involved with many men, only one really touched her heart. He was a bartender who was tragically shot and killed during an attempted robbery. She later marries and has a daughter. Unfortunately she alienates herself from her daughter when she has an affair with her daughter's fiance. Her remorse is short lived. The film jumps back to the present with the woman leaving the casino on the arm of a handsome millionaire.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-01-29
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La Machine
1977-09-17
La Machine
Overview: Pierre Lentier murders an 8-year-old in horrendous circumstances. This 30-something solitary factory worker who lives on the edge of society is sentenced to death. A damning indictment of the death penalty and the manipulative behaviour of the media.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-09-17
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Towards Ecstasy
1960-09-22
Towards Ecstasy
Overview: Catherine married Jérôme, a wealthy landowner living in North Africa, from a bourgeois but noxious background. While living in total family harmony, she is seized by a mystical crisis following a vision of a cleric in ecstasy. She abandons her home and worldly possessions to take a job as a maid. After a bumpy road that severely tested her spirituality, Catherine found peace by returning to live with her devoted partner.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1960-09-22
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Les jambes en l'air
1971-05-13
Les jambes en l'air
Overview: Story of a marginal couple, César and Favouille, who set out to find their youngest daughter, who run away from home.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-05-13
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The Drunkard
1953-02-27
The Drunkard
Overview: Unfairly accused of her husband's murder, a woman is imprisoned.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1953-02-27
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Your Turn, My Turn
1978-03-15
Your Turn, My Turn
Overview: Family mother and model wife, Agnes hits a vehicle while driving in Paris. She immediately falls in love with the driver of the damaged car.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-03-15
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The Great Spy Chase
1964-12-10
The Great Spy Chase
Overview: A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.
Genres: Comedy Action Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1964-12-10
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The Elders of Saint-Loup
1950-09-08
The Elders of Saint-Loup
Overview: Due to financial problems, the boarding-school of Saint-Loup is on the verge of closing its doors. In desperation, Jacquelin, the headmaster, has the idea to invite former students to a fund-raising reunion. Among the alumni, three men whose common point is to have been in love at the time with the headmaster's niece. One is a banker, the second a priest and the last one a globetrotter. All of a sudden, the peace of the assembly is disturbed: Jacquelin's niece has just been murdered.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1950-09-08
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The American
1969-09-24
The American
Overview: A man returns to Rouen, after fifteen years in the United States, and feels like a stranger among old friends.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-09-24
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Joan the Maid II: The Prisons
1994-02-10
Joan the Maid II: The Prisons
Overview: Jeanne d'Arc has succeeded in lifting the siege on Orléans and Charles VII has been ordained King of France. However, she is injured in her failed attempt to take Paris, weakening her position at court. When she is finally captured and put on trial, she finds both her life and the sanctity of her body at stake.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-02-10
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Avanti
2012-09-22
Avanti
Overview: What does ‘normal’ actually mean? And what is ‘crazy’? Everybody attempts to convince Léa that her mother, Suzanne, is mentally ill. Her father wants to see her returned to the psychiatric clinic, but Léa refuses to see her mother in the same light: Suzanne is happy – even if she doesn’t act like others expect her to. She appears to live a joyfully infantile existence after calmly letting go of life’s pressures. Léa captures her mother’s life on film and focuses her attention on examining the old super-8 films from the family archives. When she is left to drive her mother back to the clinic after a weekend at home, Léa grabs her opportunity: She turns the car around and whisks Suzanne off on a journey; a road trip without the judgements of others. AVANTI follows a mother-daughter relationship with an ease and depth that highlights the complexity of the emotional ties within a family.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-09-22
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Léa in Winter
1971-03-20
Léa in Winter
Overview: It starts with the discovery of a woman's corpse, then gradually reveals the past of this woman as well as the police investigation which follows the discovery.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-03-20
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Creezy
1974-04-10
Creezy
Overview: Julien Dandieu, leader of the socialist political party PRU is asked to be part of the new conservative government as minister of foreign affairs. However his reputation is somewhat tarnished by his adulterous relationship with Creezy, a fashion model seen on every magazine cover. Ready to sacrifice his family for his career, he is eventually faced with the ultimate choice: his career ambitions or a lifetime with his beautiful girlfriend, who has recently mysteriously disappeared.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-04-10
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Manon Roland
1989-12-28
Manon Roland
Overview: The story of revolutionary woman Manon Roland.
Genres: History TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-12-28
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