Didier Sauvegrain
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Birthday: September 12, 1950
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Kings and Queen
2004-12-22
Kings and Queen
Overview: Shortly before her wedding, art gallery director Nora travels from Paris to Grenoble to visit her preteen son, Elias, who is spending time with her aging professor father, Louis, recently diagnosed with terminal cancer. During her stay, she reaches out to her former lover, Ismaël, a viola player and father figure to Elias who has been committed against his will to a mental hospital. Ismaël, however, has his own problems to sort out.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-12-22
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Les Sacrifiés
1983-03-23
Les Sacrifiés
Overview: In 1955, a year after the birth of the National Liberation Front (FLN), Mahmoud was expelled from Algeria by the colonial authorities who feared his revolutionary speeches. At the age of 27, he arrived in the Algerian slum of Nanterre. Roughly questioned by FLN activists, in disagreement with the Algerian Nationalist Movement (MNA) who wanted to recognize theirs, he was then accepted as the local hairdresser and shoemaker. Subsequently, he became a driver during anti-MNA expeditions. Accepting increasingly dangerous missions, he is imprisoned by the French police and once again undergoes interrogations and special treatment by the police which will definitively undermine his sanity. One day, he no longer recognized his companions, and when joy broke out among the FLN militants, at the announcement of the signing of the Evian Accords, Mahmoud remained alone, frozen in an attitude of refusal, walled in his madness. Algeria has just won its independence.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-03-23
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Le collier de velours
1986-09-04
Le collier de velours
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Genres: Thriller TV Movie Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-09-04
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Dossier 51
1978-08-30
Dossier 51
Overview: A French diplomat is surveilled by a secret service to find a weakness for political control, his private life becoming 'File No. 51'.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-08-30
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Safe Conduct
2002-01-09
Safe Conduct
Overview: The film is about the French film industry from 1942 to 1944 during the Nazi occupation. The film focuses on assistant director and resistance fighter Jean Devaivre and screenwriter Jean Aurenche. Aurenche is on the move so that he doesn't have to write anything collaborationist. Devaivre is in dangerous political activity. Devaivre also works for the German production company Continental where he is respected. On the other hand, Aurenche's scriptwriting doesn't help how he lives and he is a womanizer which causes him to procrastinate.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-01-09
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Le Beauf
1987-01-07
Le Beauf
Overview: Gilbert, assigned to incinerate old banknotes at the Bank of France, lives with his wife, Gisèle, and his young son, Thomas. A few years earlier, he had formed a rock band with Serge and Gisèle's brother, Marc. The latter, abusing his naivety, make him believe that he has been robbed of a briefcase containing a million dollars and that, because of his fault, Marc is in danger of dying. The objective is to force Gilbert to put his incinerator out of order to facilitate the bank robbery. Gilbert refuses at first, then gives in. But he discovers that he has been cheated. To get revenge, he tells the police the date and time of the robbery.
Genres: Comedy Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-01-07
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Le commissaire Perdrix ne fait pas le voyage pour rien
2012-09-12
Le commissaire Perdrix ne fait pas le voyage pour rien
Overview: Paul Anselmini is a former mobster and businessman. A romantic character, a barbouze with no morals, no scruples, no values other than himself. Alone, yes, but free and once powerful. But this freedom is precisely what Commissaire Perdrix and Lieutenant Webb have come to take, two cops lost in a country and a time that are not their own.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-09-12
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Autumn
2004-09-10
Autumn
Overview: Jean-Pierre is a hit man in Paris. He wants to stop; an incentive is reconnecting to Michelle, a childhood friend. He's ready to commit himself to her, but she has her own secrets: she sells bomb components to thugs. He hears rumors of a missing briefcase, which he finds in Michelle's flat. He asks no questions, and soon both of them are in trouble with Jean-Pierre's ex-employer and with her bomb buyers. Two other characters complicate the maneuvering: Jean-Pierre's best friend, who's always losing money on the ponies, and the ex-employer's new contract killer, a seemingly fragile woman. Is there any way that Jean-Pierre can protect Michelle and escape with his life? Written by
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2004-09-10
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Le Cri de la soie
1996-08-28
Le Cri de la soie
Overview: An illiterate seamstress has a powerful fetish for silk which gets her into trouble. The psychiatrist sent to help her becomes fascinated by her case and when he returns to France from World War One they fall in love, an affair that can only end in tragedy.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-08-28
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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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Scopitone
1980-04-09
Scopitone
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-04-09
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The Shoe
2011-07-21
The Shoe
Overview: The directorial debut of French cultural provocateur André Saraiva is a collaboration with luxury footwear brand J.M. Weston, featuring his actress girlfriend Annabelle Dexter-Jones, Leo Fitzpatrick and model Poppy Delevingne.
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Original Language: xx
Release Date: 2011-07-21
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The Syringe
1984-11-14
The Syringe
Overview: Good dope is becoming rare in the North of Paris. Drugstores are being raided by junkies and gangs are nervous, fighting each others: the 'Viets', the 'Blackies', the 'Arabs', the neo-nazis 'Justiciers' and some mean gays. Vincent (Daniel Auteuil) is the good cop coming from Marseilles where he was a gangster. He's a soft method guy but also kicks assses hard and throw lethal dialog lines when needed. With the precious help of 'l'Arbalète'* (Marisa Berenson**), a tox' prostitute ex-member of Vincent's former gang, he will try to put order in that mess. There's also a violent and racist cop (Marcel Bozzuffi), Algeria veteran with hard methods, whose role could be more than to protect and to serve.
Genres: Crime Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-11-14
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Empire of the Wolves
2005-04-20
Empire of the Wolves
Overview: When the young detective Paul Nerteaux finds the third slashed female corpse of illegal Turkish immigrants, he decides to ask for support to the experienced dark retired detective Jean-Louis Schiffer to chase the serial killer. Together, they infiltrate in the Turkish mafia trying to find the answer to the crimes. Meanwhile, the worker Anna Heymes is being submitted to a brain treatment and has severe headaches and glimpses of memories and visions. When these two parallel events collide, disclose that the Turkish organization "The Wolves" is behind them.
Genres: Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-04-20
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De la folie des hamsters
De la folie des hamsters
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Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
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Surprise Sock
1978-06-14
Surprise Sock
Overview: Following a car accident, four men find themselves in the hospital, where they sow discord. Meanwhile, their wives take full advantage of their newfound freedom.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-06-14
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Déluge
2006-06-15
Déluge
Overview: I am there. I say nothing. In the lounge, the boxes still opened from our moving in. My father. My mother. Come to comfort me. Her father. Her mother. Incapable to say the words. To put into words what has happened. And outside, the rain. Diluvian. Improbable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-15
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The Education in Love of Valentin
1976-05-25
The Education in Love of Valentin
Overview: This sex comedy concerns the efforts of Julien to get his timid, "backward" 20-year-old son to take an interest in sex and get married. After a series of adventures with women (arranged by papa), Valentin finally gets married to a woman who appears to be as shy as he is. Things get complicated when his father begins an affair with her.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-05-25
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La Flambeuse
1981-05-13
La Flambeuse
Overview: A woman on the brink of middle age becomes bored and takes up playing cards. She becomes hooked on gambling and begins to neglect her husband and children.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-05-13
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Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition
1998-01-01
Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition
Overview: The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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The $2 Haircut
1975-03-20
The $2 Haircut
Overview: The furniture factory in which all the young guys in this film work is also full of older workers who make fun of their long hair, which for them is a badge of their independence. The boss, particularly, thinks long hair on men is dirty. When they refuse to cut their hair, he finds an excuse to fire them. The meaning of long hair is felt particularly deeply for one fellow, a painter, who, when he succumbs to his fathers' pleas that he cut his hair, turns his paintings to the wall and burns himself to death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1975-03-20
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Sarraounia
1986-07-01
Sarraounia
Overview: On 2 January 1899, starting from the French Sudan, a French column under the command of the captains Voulet and Chanoine is sent against the black Sultan Rabah in what is now the Cameroon. Those captains and their African mercenary troops destroy and kill everything they find on their path. The French authorities try to stop them sending orders and a second troop but the captains kill the emissaries who reach them. Sarraounia, queen of the Aznas, have heard about the exactions. Clever in war tactics and in witchcraft, she decides to resist and stop those mad men.
Genres: War Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-07-01
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Royal Vacation
1981-01-21
Royal Vacation
Overview: Informative but not dramatically charged, this fictional documentary looks at an incident in 1976 when a group of dissidents were forcibly exiled to an island hotel in order to keep them silenced during the visit of King Carlos of Spain to France. This pseudo-documentary features a Canadian filmmaker who is looking into the group of dissidents. He interviews them to get the story of what happened recorded for posterity. Among the group was another man of Spanish ancestry who suddenly arrived on the island but managed to find a way out. His future exploits are brought into question since there are certain terrorist connotations to his character.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1981-01-21
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Alexandre
1983-01-01
Alexandre
Overview: Three years ago Ariane left Antoine, sending him a postcard announcing her departure for the mountains with a certain Alexandre. After a long journey abroad, Antoine returns to the site of his former relationship, where he meets Alfred, recently abandoned by Ariane.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-01-01
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The Royal Exchange
2017-12-27
The Royal Exchange
Overview: After many years of confrontation, the treasures of Spain and France are empty. In 1721, the regent of France draws up an ambitious plan to inaugurate an era of peace and prosperity that will heal the economies of both nations: his intention is to build a solid network of marriage alliances that will involve four children of very different ages who know nothing of betrayals and power games…
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-12-27
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L'homme fragile
1981-04-21
L'homme fragile
Overview: A middle class leftist man of the Seventies decade, starting to show signs of aging and a loss of identity, runs away from his commitments.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-04-21
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Lady Bar 2
2009-09-11
Lady Bar 2
Overview: The sequel of Lady Bar follows Jean and Pat opening a match-making resort on a beautiful Thai island while Jean's friend Polo finds himself soul-searching in a buddhist monastry.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-09-11
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I... For Icarus
1979-12-19
I... For Icarus
Overview: Following the assassination of President Marc Jarry, a member of the investigation committee refuses to sign off on the committee's final findings.
Genres: Thriller Crime Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-12-19
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Une robe noire pour un tueur
1981-01-14
Une robe noire pour un tueur
Overview: The "black robe" in the title of this suspense film belongs to a female lawyer, Florence Nat who has just lost a case in which she defended Simon Risler, a man wrongly accused of murder. Risler escapes before he can be put in prison, and seeks help from attorney Nat in finding the real killer, partly by going after the police inspector who framed him in the first place. A retired surgeon, in the process of setting up a drug rehab clinic gets involved in solving Risler's case, and soon the solution seems to be pointing to high-ranking figures with every desire and ample means to keep the truth well-hidden.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-01-14
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Umbrella Coup
1980-10-08
Umbrella Coup
Overview: Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. He takes their don for a producer, and they mistake him for a hitman with whom they had an appointment. Deluded Lecomte signs contract with them. He is supposed to kill gun dealer Otto Krampe at his birthday party in Saint-Tropez by piercing him with a cap of the umbrella with a built-in syringe with potassium cyanide. Lecomte is not aware that it has to be a real murder.
Genres: Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-10-08
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Roads to the South
1978-04-28
Roads to the South
Overview: France, 1975. Jean, an exiled Spanish Communist, is a successful screenwriter who, after a tragic event, struggles with his political commitment, his love for his country, under the boot of General Franco, whose death he and his comrades have waited for years, and his complicated relationship with his son. (A sequel to “The War Is Over,” 1966.)
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-04-28
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Les mélancolies de Sade
2020-01-29
Les mélancolies de Sade
Overview: During the last years of his life, the Marquis de Sade was imprisoned. Alone in his wanderings, this man of letters wrote almost every day. We discover a man of exquisite complexity: his painful introspection reveals a man in love, a visionary, but also a fragile and terribly human being... this story flies in the face of presuppositions about Sade.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-01-29
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The Outsider
1983-10-26
The Outsider
Overview: Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord who is essentially inaccessible -- but not immortal.
Genres: Action Crime Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-10-26
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Regular Lovers
2005-09-30
Regular Lovers
Overview: 1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend, Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself. They fall in love. A year passes; François continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and François do?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-09-30
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Joan the Maid I: The Battles
1994-02-09
Joan the Maid I: The Battles
Overview: Convinced that only she can lead France to victory against the invading English, Jeanne d'Arc leaves her childhood home to plead Charles, heir to the French throne, to allow her to guide his troops on the battlefield.
Genres: History Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-02-09
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Eugénie Grandet
2021-09-29
Eugénie Grandet
Overview: Felix Grandet reigns supreme in his modest house in Saumur where his wife and daughter Eugenie lead a distraction-free existence. Extremely avaricious, he does not take a favorable view of the beautiful parties who rush to ask for his daughter's hand. Nothing should damage the colossal fortune he hides from everyone. The sudden arrival of Grandet's nephew, an orphaned and ruined Parisian dandy, turns the young girl's life upside down.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-09-29
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Enigma
1982-10-15
Enigma
Overview: Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1982-10-15
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Et avec les oreilles qu'est-ce que vous faites?
1974-05-15
Et avec les oreilles qu'est-ce que vous faites?
Overview: Two friends, Arthur and Jérôme, want to make a film. After much hesitation, they give up their primary aspirations and opt for a trendy theme: eroticism! Benefiting from a tidy sum of money, all they have to do is find the ideal cast. But the tandem is far from imagining that this somewhat crazy project will completely change their existence.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-05-15
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Jour d’éclipse
2025-01-29
Jour d’éclipse
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Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2025-01-29
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