Dominique Farrugia
Biography: Dominique Farrugia (born 2 September 1962) is a French actor, film director, screenwriter, producer, humorist and comedian. He is a member and founder of the group of comedians Les Nuls alongside Alain Chabat, Chantal Lauby and Bruno Carette. Farrugia was born in Vichy, France, to a Jewish pied-noir and Maltese family. Since the launching of Canal+, in 1984, he works in editing trailers and as a broadcast production assistant on the Tous en scène show. Thus he meets Canal+ first weatherman, Alain Chabat, with whom he would form the group of comedians Les Nuls alongside Chantal Lauby and Bruno Carette in 1986. In 1987 he is included in the writing of the TV series Objective: nul (7 d'Or for best comedy TV show), the first parody by Les Nuls. He hosts a parodic weather forecast in the 'JTN' of 'Nulle part ailleurs' from 1987 to 1988. Initially, he did not want to act, but rather write. The absence of one of the actors in an episode of Objective: nul accidentally placed him in front of the camera. TVN 595, a TV special which was broadcast in October 1988, won the 7 d'Or for best show. Les Nuls' career lasts until 1992. In 1994, La Cité de la peur is released making 3,216,436 entries in the French box office. After Les Nuls split, Dominique Farrugia starts a film career as a director with Delphine 1, Yvan 0 and Trafic d'influence. He subsequently becomes a producer founding the RF2K production company with the actor Olivier Granier. In 1997 he founded the cable and satellite TV channel Comédie!, discovering new comic talents such as Les Robins des Bois, Franck Dubosc, Titoff, Kad & Olivier and Jonathan Lambert. In April 2001, he created the cable and satellite TV channel Cuisine TV. In 2001-2002, he produces Vidocq (1,865,998 entries in France) and Monsieur Batignole (1,872,045 entries in France). In 2002, he first becomes director-general and deputy director of broadcasting and programming at Canal+ and later president from April 2002 to February 2003 and to date, only assistant becoming president of Canal+. In July 2003, he created FEW (Farrudg Entertainment Worldwide), a media company producing feature films. In 2007 he produced the show of Manu Payet, then two years later of Laurent Lafitte. In 2009, he launched the website Les graves infos which presents false news. The site is closed on 23 February 2010. In 2010, he co-directed with Arnaud Lemort the film L'amour c'est mieux à deux (1,250,000 entries in France, more profitable movie of 2010, with its particular stage of Clovis Cornillac, Virginia Efira and Manu Payet). Between September 2010 and May 2011, he is a columnist in the show Tout le monde il est beau, tout le monde il est gentil, hosted by Bruce Toussaint, every Sunday on Canal+. On 20 November 2012, FEW, his production company and Luc Besson's EuropaCorp, signed an agreement under which all FEW films will be produced exclusively in partnership with EuropaCorp. Source: Article "Dominique Farrugia" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Known For
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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Didier
1997-01-29
Didier
Overview: Jean-Pierre Costa is a football manager upon whom fate appears not to be smiling. First, a friend, Annabelle, dumps a pet Labrador named Didier on him whilst she goes off to make a report in Los Angeles. Next, one of his star players is injured, leaving him one player short for a crucial match. As if things could not get any worse, Costa wakes up one morning to find that that Didier has been transformed into a man...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-01-29
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Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve)
2008-10-07
Stéphane Guillon - Portraits au vitriol (1ère salve)
Overview: Les portraits désormais cultes de Stéphane Guillon sur Canal+ . S'adressant aux invités, il ose un ton inédit, parfois irrévérencieux mais toujours hilarant et taquine avec facétie et perspicacité Jean Dujardin, IAM, Christophe Lambert, Judith Godrèche, Rocco Siffredi, David Douillet, Joey Starr, Fabrice Luchini, Nagui, Marianne James, Bernard Kouchner... Et retrouvez en bonus, les invités en colère qui ne voulaient plus jamais entendre parler de leur portrait !...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-10-07
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Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
2014-12-13
Les Enfoirés - Les Enfoirés en chœur de 1985 à aujourd'hui
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Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-12-13
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Delphine : 1, Yvan : 0
1996-06-19
Delphine : 1, Yvan : 0
Overview: C'est une histoire d'amour banale présentée comme un match de foot ordinaire. Ce sont donc Thierry Roland et Jean-Michel Larqué qui commentent, avec leurs mots (d'amour) et leurs noms (d'oiseaux), la première année de vie en couple de Delphine et Yvan, filmés pas à pas, dans leurs ébats et leurs éclats.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-06-19
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Leave Your Hands on My Hips
2003-08-03
Leave Your Hands on My Hips
Overview: Odile is 42 years old actress and single mother. One day her 18 year old daughter decided to leave her and start living with the boyfriend. All of a sudden alone in her empty house, the anguish takes over...
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-08-03
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Influence Peddling
1999-03-31
Influence Peddling
Overview: Maxime and Gerard are a couple of white-collar criminals condemned to 5 years in prison. Sandrine Athan, an honest and principled young police officer, is assigned the banal task of escorting them to the nearest prison in Melun. Things get complicated when killers try to knock them off. Meanwhile, they must contend with strikes which have paralyzed the country and make travelling a nightmare. Added to this mess are the prisoners' many botch escape attempts. All these complications turn a simple transfer into a hellish adventure.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-03-31
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CANAL+'s 30th anniversary
2014-11-04
CANAL+'s 30th anniversary
Overview: Primetime special to celebrate 30 years of CANAL+.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-11-04
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The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
1991-04-24
The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
Overview: This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-04-24
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The Strategy of Failure
2001-11-20
The Strategy of Failure
Overview: My various experiences in the field of failure have allowed me to highlight specific areas in which it is crucial to get disorganized and to recognize the steps to be taken to end in ineffective management. This sentence is totally incomprehensible. It's normal. The longer the sentences, the less we understand them. It is the strategy of failure. To help us understand the failure and illustrate this video, we will need two men who we will call Luc for further misunderstanding. We will also need a woman whom we will call Sylvie for hygiene reasons.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-11-20
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L'Intégrule - Les Nuls
2003-11-18
L'Intégrule - Les Nuls
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-11-18
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Let There Be Light!
1998-07-08
Let There Be Light!
Overview: God comes to Earth in order to make a film.
Genres: Comedy Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-07-08
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L'Âge d'or de la pub
2023-06-02
L'Âge d'or de la pub
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-06-02
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L'Intégrule 2 - Les Nuls
2004-11-15
L'Intégrule 2 - Les Nuls
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-11-15
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Paparazzi
1998-04-29
Paparazzi
Overview: Franck shows up in a gossip magazine photo behind a brawling TV star at a football match.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-04-29
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Bacri, comme un air de famille
2022-01-14
Bacri, comme un air de famille
Overview: Jean-Pierre Bacri was never happy about anything. But beyond the caricature of the grumpy man, from his apprenticeship years to his death in January 2021, this film tells the story of this quintessential Frenchman: a man turned towards others, an actor by accident, a moralist by vocation, who was left unaffected by flattery and false honors by success, and ready for all kinds of anger when it was necessary to speak out against injustice and stupidity. The film tells the story of how Jean-Pierre Bacri's life changed several times: from Algeria to France when he was eleven years old in 1962; from bank clerk to apprentice theater actor; from Pieds-noirs film star to screenwriter for Alain Resnais; and from Cannes playboy to Agnès Jaoui's mad lover, the most decisive encounter for his life as well as for his work
Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-01-14
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Les Nuls : La Pub
1992-01-01
Les Nuls : La Pub
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Casablanca Driver
2004-06-30
Casablanca Driver
Overview: This mockumentary follows the world's worst boxer and the events that led to his meteoric rise in the year 1969.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-06-30
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Room(h)ates
2017-04-19
Room(h)ates
Overview: Delphine and Yvan divorce. While his financial situation does not allow him to find a home, Yvan remembers that he owns 20% of his ex-wife's house. He then returned to live with Delphine, in his 20%. The two ex will discover the joys of forced housemates.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-04-19
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TVN 595, la télévision des nuls
1988-11-26
TVN 595, la télévision des nuls
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-11-26
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RRRrrrr!!!
2004-01-28
RRRrrrr!!!
Overview: In 35,000 BC, the tribe of the Dirty Hairs is at war against the tribe of the Clean Hairs for eight hundred years, trying to get their shampoo. The chief of the Dirty Hairs sends his daughter Guy disguised to the enemy tribe to get some shampoo for his tribe. When the healer of the Clean Hairs tribe surprisingly kills two cavemen of his tribe, their imbecile chief assigns Pierre with curled hair and Pierre blonde to investigate the murder and find the criminal.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-01-28
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Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique
1995-03-08
Les Enfoirés 1995 - Les Enfoirés à l'Opéra-Comique
Overview: Show recorded at the Opéra Comique in Paris on March 6, 1995 for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur.
Genres: Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-03-08
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Les Enfoirés 1993 - Les Enfoirés chantent Starmania
1993-03-06
Les Enfoirés 1993 - Les Enfoirés chantent Starmania
Overview: Show recorded on February 26, 1993 at the Grande Halle de la Villette in Paris for the benefit of the Restos du Coeur.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-03-06
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La Classe américaine
1993-12-31
La Classe américaine
Overview: George Abitbol, the classiest man in the world, dies tragically during a cruise. The director of an American newspaper, wondering about the meaning of these intriguing final words, asks his three best investigators, Dave, Peter and Steven, to solve the mystery. (Sixteen French actors dub scenes from various Warner Bros. films to create a parody of Citizen Kane, 1941.)
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-12-31
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The Car Keys
2003-12-10
The Car Keys
Overview: Who would think losing car keys could lead us that far ? Be careful, adventure is on every street corner...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-12-10
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Le Show de Noël Must Go On
2020-12-21
Le Show de Noël Must Go On
Overview: Hosted by French comedian Manu Payet, here to cheer you up for Christmas in such hard times.
Genres: Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-12-21
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Le Clone
1998-06-17
Le Clone
Overview: Thomas is a computer whiz working on a program aimed at curing timidity. The program's host, Leo, is Thomas' alter ego. One night, he decides to see the world for himself and takes over the body of Patrice, the houseworker.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-06-17
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40
2024-11-04
40
Overview: Primetime special to celebrate 40 years of CANAL+.
Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-11-04
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Les nuls, l'émission avec Lio
1991-01-12
Les nuls, l'émission avec Lio
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-01-12
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Les nuls, l'émission
1991-12-28
Les nuls, l'émission
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-12-28
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La télé des Nuls
2019-11-02
La télé des Nuls
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Genres: Documentary Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-11-02
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