Melvil Poupaud
Biography: Melvil Poupaud (born 26 January 1973) is a French actor, author and filmmaker. Description above from the Wikipedia article Melvil Poupaud, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: January 26, 1973
Deathday: N/A
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Known For
The Broken
2008-11-15
The Broken
Overview: The life of a successful radiologist spirals out of control when she sees the spitting image of herself driving down a London street. While attempting to uncover who the imposter could be, she stumbles into a terrifying mystery that her family and closest friends are somehow involved in, leaving her with no one to trust.
Genres: Thriller Drama Horror
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-11-15
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Time to Leave
2005-05-16
Time to Leave
Overview: Romain, 31, a fashion photographer with terminal cancer, elects to die alone, preparing others to live past him rather than prolong the inevitable with chemotherapy or be smothered in sympathy by those who know him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-05-16
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A Christmas Tale
2008-05-16
A Christmas Tale
Overview: When their regal matriarch falls ill, the troubled Vuillard family come together for a hesitant Christmastime reunion. Among them is rebellious ne'er-do-well Henri and the uptight Elizabeth. Together under the same roof for the first time in many years, their intricate, long denied resentments and yearnings emerge again.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-05-16
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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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Broken English
2007-11-22
Broken English
Overview: Nora Wilder is freaking out. Everyone around her is either in a relationship, married, or has children. Nora is in her thirties, alone with job she's outgrown and a mother who constantly reminds her of it all. Not to mention her best friend Audrey's "perfect marriage". But after a series of disastrous dates, Nora unexpectedly meets Julien, a quirky Frenchman who opens her eyes to a lot more than love.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2007-11-22
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Lucky Luke
2009-10-21
Lucky Luke
Overview: Fearless gunslinger, Lucky Luke, is ordered by the President to bring peace to Daisy Town.
Genres: Comedy Western Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-10-21
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Towards Zero
2007-10-31
Towards Zero
Overview: Inviting the ex-wife to a family reunion when the none-too-secure new wife will be there hardly seems to be a recipe for success, and true to form, bodies have begun to stack up by the end of this cinematic update of a classic Agatha Christie tale. Luckily for the extended clan gathered at a sumptuous waterfront estate in Northern France, Inspector Martin Bataille is on hand to find out not only "who done it" but why.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-31
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A Summer's Tale
1996-06-05
A Summer's Tale
Overview: A shy maths graduate takes a holiday in Dinard before starting his first job. He hopes his sort-of girlfriend will join him, but soon strikes up a friendship with another girl working in town. She in turn introduces him to a further young lady who fancies him. Thus the quiet young lad finds he is having to do some tricky juggling in territory new to him.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-06-05
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Crime Is Our Business
2008-10-02
Crime Is Our Business
Overview: Loosely based on "4.50 from Paddington" by Agatha Christie.
Genres: Comedy Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-10-02
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Those Were the Days
1995-09-13
Those Were the Days
Overview: The grueling, emotionally torturous world of French preparatory schools provides the framework for this mystery. The deliberately rigorous courses are designed to prepare students to take the brutal examinations for entry into the elite Grand Ecoles, where a select few will gain the skills and education needed to insure a bright, prosperous future for themselves. The story centers on Delphine, a girl from the lower classes, and the upper class Claude. Both young women aspire to attend the Ecole Normale Superieure on the Rue d'Ulm. Delphine lives in humble public housing with her dull mother and two young brothers while Claude, who considers herself a Communist, lives in luxury with her own servant; she is sexually involved with fellow- student, Axel, who thinks himself a fascist.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-09-13
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Feelings
2003-09-01
Feelings
Overview: Two seemingly happily married French couples are forced to contend with a number of issues.
Genres: Drama Romance Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-09-01
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Black Heaven
2010-07-14
Black Heaven
Overview: An innocent young man becomes enamored with a mysterious girl. He is lured into "Black Hole" - a dark, obscure video game world of avatars with deadly serious intentions in the real world.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-07-14
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Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional
1993-11-23
Normal People Are Nothing Exceptional
Overview: Martine is 25. Since breaking up with François, she has the feeling that the world is caving in on her. Between small jobs and one-night stands, she can't seem to get a fix on herself. In desperation, after a last quarrel with François, she unintentionally causes an accident that leads her to the emergency ward of a psychiatric hospital. During her brief stay, she unexpectedly sparks into life. She takes an interest in two young patients, Pierre and Anne, convinced that she is doing the right thing in supervising their love life...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-11-23
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A Hell of a Day
2001-10-24
A Hell of a Day
Overview: Some days turn out to be simply unforgettable. For Marie, it all starts with a pregnancy test… that proves positive, a car accident and being fired from her job... For Hortense, mobile phone in hand, the frantic quest for sexual satisfaction begins in a traffic jam... For both Luis and Maurice, the unexpected appearance of a loved one pitches them into a world of dreams and nightmares. While some of the characters know each other, others come into contact by chance. One woman profits from all this, the other is shattered. One will have gone looking for trouble, the other will have asked for nothing. There'll be no fatalities.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-10-24
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City of Pirates
1984-02-22
City of Pirates
Overview: A surreal odyssey in which a melancholic maidservant crosses paths with a homicidal little boy, travels to a tiny island of pirates and encounters a man with multiple personalities.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-02-22
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Eros Therapy
2004-08-25
Eros Therapy
Overview: A husband wants to win back his wife, even though she has been living with her lesbian lover for six months.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-08-25
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Hideaway (Le refuge)
2009-12-11
Hideaway (Le refuge)
Overview: Mousse and Louis are young, beautiful, rich and in love. But drugs have invaded their lives. One day, they overdose and Louis dies. Mousse survives, but soon learns she's pregnant. Feeling lost, Mousse runs away to a house far from Paris. Several months later, Louis' brother joins her in her refuge.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-12-11
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Les Kidnappeurs
1998-11-25
Les Kidnappeurs
Overview: Ulysse, a gun-toting hood, gets together a team of four people, including himself, to carry out what he thinks will be a fail-safe heist...
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-11-25
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Shimkent hôtel
2003-04-23
Shimkent hôtel
Overview: Shimkent hôtel tells the story of a young man who's experienced the failure of a business venture in the Afghan mountains, and who suffers from shock in Kazakhstan.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-04-23
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Mysteries of Lisbon
2010-10-20
Mysteries of Lisbon
Overview: The tragic story of the many lives of Father Dinis, his dark origins and his pious works, and the different fates of all those who, trapped in a sinister web of love, hate and crime, cross paths with him through years of adventure and misfortune in the convulsed Europe of the late 18th and early 19th centuries.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2010-10-20
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Elisa
1995-02-01
Elisa
Overview: Marie has had a tough childhood ever since her mother Elisa committed suicide. She has spent most of her life in an orphanage and now makes a living as a small time criminal in Paris. Now she wants to unravel her past and find her father whom she blames for her mother's death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-02-01
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The 15 Year Old Girl
1989-09-13
The 15 Year Old Girl
Overview: Willy, a middle-aged divorcee, decides to take his 15 year-old son, Thomas, on holiday to Ibiza, staying at an isolated villa on the unspoilt part of the coast. Thomas insists on bringing his friend Juliette, a girl of his own age with whom he enjoys a close platonic relationship. When it comes to physical love, Juliette is wise beyond her years. She will only sleep with men older than herself and has no intention of committing herself to a long-term relationship.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-09-13
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Marcello Mio
2024-05-21
Marcello Mio
Overview: Pressured from all sides by the figure of her father, Chiara Mastroianni decides to bring him back to life through her own self. She goes by the name of Marcello, dresses like him and asks to now be considered an actor, not an actress. The people around her believe this to be a temporary joke, but Chiara is determined not to give up her new identity…
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-05-21
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Love Torn in a Dream
2000-11-22
Love Torn in a Dream
Overview: A serious young man of free spirit is forced by his surroundings to become rich at all costs. A group of blind children tries to open the eyes of the unbelievers to the Christian faith. Retired nuns who open a brothel, to pay the running costs of the convent. These rather ironic paradoxes turn this fairytale into a philosophical fable.
Genres: Drama Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-11-22
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Laurence Anyways
2012-05-18
Laurence Anyways
Overview: The story of an impossible love between a woman named Fred and a transgender woman named Laurence who reveals her inner desire to become her true self.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-05-18
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The Dark Room
2000-11-29
The Dark Room
Overview: In 14th-century France, Aliénor breaks with the codes governing girls’ behavior and does as she wishes. The King of France grants her the hand of her childhood love, but her new husband deserts her immediately after the ceremony. Undeterred, she sets out after him, traveling to Siena to bring him back.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-11-29
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Diary of a Seducer
1996-02-28
Diary of a Seducer
Overview: Student Claire lives with her mother, Anne, and Sebastien — a young man Claire brought home out of pity who is now trying to seduce them both. At school, Claire meets Gregoire, who loans her a book by philosopher Soren Kierkegaard that makes the reader attracted to whoever gave it to them. Smitten with Gregoire, Claire passes the book on to her therapist, who then falls in love with her.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-02-28
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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 Counterfeiters
2010-01-01
The Counterfeiters
Overview: The plot revolves around Bernard – a schoolfriend of Olivier's who is preparing for his bac – discovering he is a bastard and taking this as a welcome pretext for running away from home. He spends a night in Olivier's bed (where Olivier describes a recent visit to a prostitute and how he did not find the experience very enjoyable). After Bernard steals the suitcase belonging to Edouard, Olivier's uncle, and the ensuing complications, he is made Edouard's secretary. Olivier is jealous and ends up in the hands of the cynical and downright diabolical Comte de Passavant, who travels with him to the Mediterranean.
Genres: War TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-01-01
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The Edge
2011-04-27
The Edge
Overview: After studying in Paris, the young doctor François moves to Beauval, where single-family houses are lined up monotonously. He quickly becomes the focus of a group of young people, led by the charismatic Cédric and Matthieu, his assistant. The gang tries to escape their boredom with dangerous games at the edge of the forest. But things become bitterly serious when the body of a twelve-year-old girl is found and François is suspected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-04-27
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Ballet aquatique
2012-02-01
Ballet aquatique
Overview: In one of his very last projects, Raul Ruiz celebrates the films of his historical predecessor Jean Painlevé, a documentary innovator whose work always blended science with surrealism. Ruiz and friends further perfect the art of mystification. Why it is so difficult to count fish in an aquarium? Ruiz, his loyal actor Melvil Poupaud and his producer François Margolin come up with a wide range of hypotheses. With their bone-dry wit, they keep up the tradition of the French pataphysics: the science of imaginary solutions. (IFFR)
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-02-01
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Archipel
1993-03-17
Archipel
Overview: A teenager at a predominantly male boarding school learns lessons in love when he is invited to stay at a remote estate for the holiday season.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-17
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Just the Two of Us
2023-05-24
Just the Two of Us
Overview: When Blanche meets Grégoire, she thinks she has found the one. The ties that bind them grow quickly, and a passionate affair ensues. Together, they relocate. For Blanche, far from her family, from her twin sister, Rose, a new life begins. But little by little, she finds herself caught in the grip of a deeply possessive and dangerous man.
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-05-24
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My Sole Desire
2023-04-05
My Sole Desire
Overview: When aimless Manon begins work at À mon seul désir, a strip club that offers high concept performances, she instantly bonds with her fellow strippers, particularly Mia, an aspiring actress with a boyfriend and child. Manon learns that it is “not easy money, but fast money” and when she finds herself falling for Mia, she is forced to question her priorities as she explores her newfound erotic life.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-04-05
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Jeanne du Barry
2023-05-16
Jeanne du Barry
Overview: The life of Jeanne Bécu, who was born as the illegitimate daughter of an impoverished seamstress in 1743 and went on to rise through the Court of Louis XV to become his last official mistress.
Genres: Drama History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-05-16
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Fidelio, Alice's Odyssey
2014-09-01
Fidelio, Alice's Odyssey
Overview: Thirty-year-old Alice's occupation is rather unusual for a woman: she works as an engineer on a freighter. She loves her job and does it competently but even in a greasy blue overall a woman will be a woman, with her heart, her desires and her seduction - In such conditions can an all-male crew really remain totally insensitive to her charms? A situation all the more complicated as not only does Alice leave her fiancé Felix behind but she also discovers on board the Fidélio that the captain is Gaël, her first love.
Genres: Romance Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-09-01
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The Rules of Art
2025-04-30
The Rules of Art
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Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-04-30
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Duras and Cinema
2014-07-03
Duras and Cinema
Overview: Documentary on famous writer Marguerite Duras and her paradoxical relation to the seventh art by her former film editor.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-07-03
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44 Inch Chest
2009-10-08
44 Inch Chest
Overview: Colin is in agony, shattered by his wife’s infidelity, so his friends kidnap the wife's lover so he can have his revenge.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2009-10-08
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Lines of Wellington
2012-10-04
Lines of Wellington
Overview: Passionate romance, brutal treachery, and selfless nobility are set against the background of Napoleon’s 1810 invasion of Portugal.
Genres: Drama History War
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2012-10-04
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By the Sea
2015-11-12
By the Sea
Overview: Set in France during the mid-1970s, Vanessa, a former dancer, and her husband Roland, an American writer, travel the country together. They seem to be growing apart, but when they linger in one quiet, seaside town they begin to draw close to some of its more vibrant inhabitants, such as a local bar/café-keeper and a hotel owner.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-12
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Coup de Chance
2023-09-15
Coup de Chance
Overview: Fanny and Jean have everything of an ideal couple: fulfilled in their professional life, they live in a magnificent apartment in the beautiful districts of Paris and seem to be in love as on the first day. But when Fanny crosses, by chance, Alain, a former high school friend, she is immediately capsized. They see each other again very quickly and get closer and closer.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-09-15
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Heads or Fails
2025-03-26
Heads or Fails
Overview: Armande Pigeon, a queen of shenanigans in Brussels struggles to make ends meet because she can’t stop gambling on everything, always ending up on the wrong side of luck. When she teams up with Ronnie one night, everything changes — they win it all. And when you hit a winning streak, you have to know when to stop.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-03-26
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Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
2016-09-20
Xavier Dolan: Bound to Impossible
Overview: Actors Anne Dorval, Suzanne Clément, Monia Chokri, Gaspard Ulliel, Vincent Cassel, Niels Schneider and Melvil Poupaud discuss working with the young Canadian director Xavier Dolan, who has conquered the hearts of both cinema lovers and prestigious festival juries with his films. To French actress Nathalie Baye, he seems very experienced despite his young age, while Cannes Director Thierry Frémaux says he may be insolent, but everyone agrees he is passionate, creative, a perfectionist and... in a hurry.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-09-20
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The Making of A Summer’s Tale
2005-01-01
The Making of A Summer’s Tale
Overview: In 1995, producer Françoise Etchegaray recorded the production of A Summer's Tale. The footage remained on the shelf for years until director Jean-André Fieschi combined the images with bits of the finished film.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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Stronger Than the Devil
Stronger Than the Devil
Overview: Valentin, a man with a shady past but who is trying to turn over a new leaf, reunites with his estranged son Joseph and his son’s girlfriend Alice after years apart. But what seems at first like a heartwarming reunion, soon goes to hell as JP and Mila, nefarious acquaintances of Valentin, turn up with bloody plans.
Genres: Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
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Under the Stars
1994-04-13
Under the Stars
Overview: The first emotions in love with a young man of seventeen: Thomas who understands that his life belongs to him at last. Four young women contribute to his sentimental education.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-04-13
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The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm
2012-01-11
The Orphan Plus Minus an Arm
Overview: Eléonore is a gorgeous twenty-year-old who has lost her parents and one of her arms in an accident. She lives in an orphanage in Burgandy.
Genres: Drama Horror Comedy Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-01-11
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Benjamin Biolay - Christmas Show
2022-12-21
Benjamin Biolay - Christmas Show
Overview: Musical Christmas Special hosted by Benjamin Biolay.
Genres: Music TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-12-21
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Mad Love
2015-09-16
Mad Love
Overview: 1959. Guilty of a double-murder, a man is beheaded. At the bottom of the basket that just welcomed it, the head of the dead man tells his story: everything was going so well! Admired priest, great lover - his earthly paradise seemed to have no end. Inspired by a scandal surrounding the Priest of Uruffe in the 1950s.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-09-16
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The Great Game
2015-12-16
The Great Game
Overview: Pierre Blum, 40, is a writer who had his time of glory in the early 2000s. One evening, on a casino terrace, he meets Joseph Paskin. This mysterious man, charismatic and manipulative, is influential in the world of politics and persuades Pierre to take on a strange mission that takes him back to a past he’d prefer to forget, and puts his life in danger. In the middle of all this, Pierre falls in love with Laura, a young extreme-left activist. But in this world of subterfuge, who can really be trusted?
Genres: Thriller Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-12-16
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A Lost Man
2007-09-19
A Lost Man
Overview: Inspired by the photographic travels of Antione d'Agata, Danielle Arbid's worldly drama follows a French photographer who travels the globe to seek out the most extreme experiences imaginable. Thomas is a fearless shutterbug who's always willing to put his life on the line for the sake of a good shot. Upon falling under the spell of an enigmatic old man named Fouad Saleh, the photographer travels to the Far East in hopes of uncovering the secrets of the man who can no longer recall his own past. As the photographer soon finds out, it's often the most innocent endeavors that yield the most profound and transformative results.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-09-19
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Fado, Major and Minor
1995-03-29
Fado, Major and Minor
Overview: Pierre, a middle-aged tourist guide, is the victim of a sudden failure : he does not recognize anything about him any longer. He goes back home and in his apartment he finds a mysterious young man who tells him he is here to avenge a young woman who has taken her own life. What share of responsibility does Pierre hold in this situation?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-03-29
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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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In Bed with Victoria
2016-09-14
In Bed with Victoria
Overview: Victoria is a thirty-something divorced lawyer who's struggling to raise her two daughters. She is canny and cynical but on the verge of an emotional breakdown. At a friend's wedding she reconnects with Vincent, an old friend, and Sam, an old client. Her life is about to take a new turn.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-09-14
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La Vie de Marianne
1997-09-08
La Vie de Marianne
Overview: In the aristocratic society of the seventeenth century, the fate of Marianne child who survived the deadly attack on a convoy.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-09-08
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Il était une fois... « Grâce à Dieu »
2023-06-07
Il était une fois... « Grâce à Dieu »
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-07
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The Argument
2011-01-01
The Argument
Overview: A Frenchman stuck in New Orleans has just had a colossal argument. The mother of his infant child has left him wallet-less and with a wailing baby. He must get diapers for his son, but he does not speak English.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2011-01-01
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Bruce Springsteen, le chanteur qui murmurait à l'oreille de l'Amérique
2024-07-31
Bruce Springsteen, le chanteur qui murmurait à l'oreille de l'Amérique
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Genres: Documentary Music TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-07-31
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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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Treasure Island
1986-01-01
Treasure Island
Overview: Jim is a small child who lives in an inn run by his parents. The arrival of a strange captain to the Island they live will trouble his existence and tip him into an universe of adventures.
Genres: Drama Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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The Insomniac on the Bridge
1985-10-02
The Insomniac on the Bridge
Overview: This quickly-filmed avant-garde farce by prolific director Raul Ruiz features an insomniac (Michel Lonsdale) whose main preoccupation is surreptitiously watching private matters -- he is a voyeur. He and an equally disreputable acquaintance rape a woman alongside the Seine, a crime made all the worse because she is pregnant. The rest of this slow-paced film deals with the consequences of that action.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-10-02
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Innocent Lies
1995-06-30
Innocent Lies
Overview: In September 1938 a British detective comes to a small French coastal town in order to investigate the death of a colleague. Prime suspects are the members of English aristocratic family with plenty of skeletons in the closet. This is a loose adaptation of the Agatha Christie novel Towards Zero.
Genres: Drama Thriller Mystery
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-06-30
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Souvenir
1996-06-13
Souvenir
Overview: An elliptical, poetic film about an American woman sportswriter who wanders around Paris remembering traumatic experiences in her life.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1996-06-13
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The Lover
1992-01-22
The Lover
Overview: A poor French teenage girl engages in an illicit affair with a wealthy Chinese heir in 1920s Saigon. For the first time in her young life she has control, and she wields it deftly over her besotted lover throughout a series of clandestine meetings and torrid encounters.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-01-22
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Shooting Stars
1997-06-25
Shooting Stars
Overview: A mobster is determined to find the drugs his mistress stole from him before running off with a young hustler.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-06-25
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The Heart's Root
2000-10-18
The Heart's Root
Overview: Set in the Lisbon during the festivities of Saint Anthony, the patron saint of lovers and the old town. The story is about Cato, a nationalist politician who is charismatic and unscrupulous. He obsessively pursues Silvia, a mystical and mysterious young transvestite whom he meets at the festival. When Silvia runs into Vicente, a policeman who arrests transvestites and threatens them, Silvia must look towards blackmail to save herself. Compromising photos of Cato start to emerge among opposition parties and he must do all in his power to save his political career.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 2000-10-18
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The Lady in the Portrait
2017-12-20
The Lady in the Portrait
Overview: An empress commissions a painting of herself from a French outsider in hopes of stirring her husband's interest in this lavish period piece. The Lady in the Portrait is a period yarn evoking the unique rapport between a French missionary and the Manchurian Empress whose portrait he's ordered to paint.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-12-20
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Dans un miroir
1986-01-02
Dans un miroir
Overview: A man comes to visit an acquaintance who is supposed to be sick and talks to his sister while he is waiting.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-02
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Golden Youth
2019-01-16
Golden Youth
Overview: Paris, France, 1979. Rose, a rebellious orphaned teenager, and Michel, a young aspiring painter, enjoy their crazy love under the neon lights of the decadent nightclub Le Palace, where they establish an ambiguous relationship with Lucille and Hubert, two bohemian bourgeois who will change their lives.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-01-16
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Face Down
2015-10-14
Face Down
Overview: Samy is a Frenchman accused of smuggling counterfeit money from Bulgaria to France. To avoid jail, he becomes an informer for the French police, joining under cover a Bulgarian channel for human trafficking. Gradually, he falls in love with Elka, an underage gypsy prostitute. Torn by the pressure from all sides, he almost turns into an unscrupulous pimp. His feelings for the girl will help him keep the last thing he has – his dignity.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-10-14
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When Margaux Meets Margaux
2018-03-14
When Margaux Meets Margaux
Overview: 20-year-old Margaux makes the acquaintance of 45-year-old Margaux: they have a lot in common – so much so that it turns out they are one and the same person, at two different ages and stages of their life…
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-03-14
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By the Grace of God
2019-02-20
By the Grace of God
Overview: Alexandre, a man in his 40s living in Lyon with his wife and children, discovers that the priest who abused him decades ago continues to work with children. He joins forces with others victims of the priest, to bring justice and “lift the burden of silence” about what they endured.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-02-20
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Silent Streams
2019-04-10
Silent Streams
Overview: Women and men are lost in their thoughts at random hours of the day and streets of the city. From this sudden intimacy, the murmurs of their little inner voice let us hear the anxieties of love.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-04-10
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Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
2005-01-01
Les Contes secrets ou les Rohmériens
Overview: Les Contes Secrets ou les Rohmériens features interviews with 16 actors who have appeared in Rohmer's films, and they talk on camera about his unusual working methods, his personality, and his spare but evocative signature style. Among the thespians who share their memories are Jean-Louis Trinitignant, Marie-Christine Barrault, Zouzou, Jean-Claude Brialy, Béatrice Romand, Françoise Fabian, and Andre Dussolier; the film also includes rare footage of Rohmer himself at work on the set of his 1978 effort Perceval.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-01-01
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An Officer and a Spy
2019-09-30
An Officer and a Spy
Overview: In 1894, French Captain Alfred Dreyfus is wrongfully convicted of treason and sentenced to life imprisonment at the Devil’s Island penal colony.
Genres: History Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-09-30
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Hillbilly Chainsaw Massacre
1995-01-01
Hillbilly Chainsaw Massacre
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Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-01
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Speed Racer
2008-05-07
Speed Racer
Overview: Speed Racer is a young and brilliant racing driver. When corruption in the racing leagues costs his brother his life, Speed must team up with the police and the mysterious Racer X to bring an end to the corruption and criminal activities.
Genres: Family Action Adventure Comedy
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2008-05-07
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Qui es tu Johnny Mac?
1984-01-01
Qui es tu Johnny Mac?
Overview: Melvil Poupaud short film noir about an alcoholic detective and a killer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Qui es tu Johnny Mac?
1984-01-01
Qui es tu Johnny Mac?
Overview: Melvil Poupaud short film noir about an alcoholic detective and a killer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1984-01-01
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Ces jours où les remords vous font vraiment mal au cœur
1985-01-01
Ces jours où les remords vous font vraiment mal au cœur
Overview: Melvil Poupaud short in 5 chapters about different guys reading farewell letters.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1985-01-01
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Quelque chose
1999-01-01
Quelque chose
Overview: Melvil Poupaud short about one crying man and one man in good mood. A companion to his early short "Ces jours où les remords vous font vraiment mal au coeur"
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-01-01
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Summer of 85
2020-07-14
Summer of 85
Overview: What do you dream of when you're 16-years-old and in a seaside resort in Normandy in the 1980s? A best friend? A lifelong teen pact? Scooting off on adventures on a boat or a motorbike? Living life at breakneck speed? No. You dream of death. Because you can't get a bigger kick than dying. And that's why you save it till the very end. The summer holidays are just beginning, and this story recounts how Alexis grew into himself.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-07-14
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15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour
2022-06-08
15 Ways to Kill Your Neighbour
Overview: "Drinking, dancing and... killing me. It's the new life my neighbour Jose has decided to live. What better way to escape boredom than coming to kill me every thursday? His wife, Lucie, prefers to go to a shrink. To each their own therapy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-06-08
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3 Jours...
1988-01-01
3 Jours...
Overview: An arrogant parisian guy is stuck in a small village for 3 days waitng his car being repaired.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1988-01-01
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Souvenirs and Evocations
2008-12-31
Souvenirs and Evocations
Overview: A short program in which the participants describe how they fell in love with cinema.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-12-31
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One Fine Morning
2022-10-05
One Fine Morning
Overview: With a father suffering from neurodegenerative disease, a young woman lives with her eight-year-old daughter. While struggling to secure a decent nursing home, she runs into an unavailable friend with whom she embarks on an affair.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-10-05
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The Young Lovers
2022-02-02
The Young Lovers
Overview: Elegant, retired architect Shauna (70) crosses paths with Pierre, a happily married doctor in his 40s, who first made an impression on her in a brief meeting 15 years previously. Both are quite troubled to meet again and begin an affair. While Pierre’s family life is soon turned upside down, Shauna struggles with feelings she thought belonged to the past.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-02-02
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Qui a tué Johnny Mac?
2004-01-01
Qui a tué Johnny Mac?
Overview: 20 years later Melvil Poupaud returns to his short "Qui es-tu Johnny Mac?" and replay the story of an alcoholic detective and a killer.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-01-01
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Brother and Sister
2022-05-20
Brother and Sister
Overview: Alice and Louis are brother and sister. She is an actress; he was a teacher and poet. For more than 20 years, Alice has hated her brother. In all this time they haven’t seen one another. The death of their parents brings the siblings face to face.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-05-20
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Pronobis
2003-01-01
Pronobis
Overview: Philippe lives in his deceased parents' large flat. He hides a dark secret there, wich a girlfriend will soon discover...
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-01
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Melvil
2006-05-17
Melvil
Overview: «Melvil» is the name of a character who manoeuvres between cinema and reality, searching for a family, a place to take over, a role to play.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-05-17
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The Hands of Orlac
The Hands of Orlac
Overview: Film based on the novel The Hands of Orlac.
Genres: Thriller Fantasy
Original Language: fr
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Richard III
1986-01-01
Richard III
Overview: Richard of Gloucester uses murder and manipulation to claim England's throne.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-01-01
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Bavardages en sida mineur
1994-01-01
Bavardages en sida mineur
Overview: A young woman's questions about her partner's possible infidelities and the risks of his "irresponsibility" in the face of prevention.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-01-01
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