Daniel Mesguich
Biography: Daniel Mesguich (born 15 July 1952) is a French actor and director in theater and opera, and professor of stage acting school. In 1970, he was admitted into the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'Art Dramatique, after which he opened the Théâtre du Miroir ("Mirror Theater"), with whom he opened a course in drama. After ten years, he returned to the school to teach at the request of Jean-Pierre Miquel, becoming the youngest professor on campus. He is currently the director of the school. He has acted in over a hundred plays, fifty operas in France and abroad, and some 40 movies and television pieces. The actor William Mesguich is his son. Source: Article "Daniel Mesguich" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Birthday: July 15, 1952
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Love on the Run
1979-01-24
Love on the Run
Overview: Antoine is now 30, working as a proofreader and getting divorced from his wife. It's the first "no-fault" divorce in France and a media circus erupts, dredging up Antoine's past. Indecisive about his new love with a store clerk, he impulsively takes off with an old flame.
Genres: Romance Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-24
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Le radeau de la Méduse
1998-07-15
Le radeau de la Méduse
Overview: Iranian Iradj Azimi directed this French historical drama re-creating events depicted in the famous 1819 painting The Raft of the Medusa by Jean Louis Andre Theodore Gericault (1791-1824). The ill-fated voyage of the frigate Medusa begins when it departs Rochefort for Senegal in 1816. After striking a sandbar off the African coast, 150 civilians row safely to shore, but Captain Chaumareys (Jean Yanne) orders 140 soldiers and sailors onto a raft (minus supplies) and has it cut loose. Only 14 survive from the 140, creating a scandal back in France. Gericault (Laurent Terzieff) later talks to three of the survivors while researching his painting. Work on this film began in 1987, but sets destroyed by Hurricane Hugo caused delays, so the film was not completed until 1990. However, it then remained undistributed until an incident in which writer-director Azimi slashed his wrists in front of French Ministry of Culture officials.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-07-15
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The Austrian
1990-09-19
The Austrian
Overview: A woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering from terrible haemorraghe. Her name is Marie-Antoinette of Lorraine, from Austria, and she's living her last four days.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-09-19
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Les Îles
1983-03-16
Les Îles
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-03-16
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Womanlight
1979-08-29
Womanlight
Overview: Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-08-29
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The Musketeer
2001-09-07
The Musketeer
Overview: Young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death - but he finds that the musketeers have been disbanded.
Genres: Adventure Action Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2001-09-07
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L’enfer de Matignon
2008-10-23
L’enfer de Matignon
Overview: In a series of long interviews, 12 prime ministers talk about their experience in the upper echelons of power. The function of prime minister, torn between the president and the parliament, appointed without necessarily being elected but responsible for everything, is at the center of debate. With the exception of Jacques Chirac (1974-1976 and 1986-1988), deliberately left out because of his image as French President, those who governed France for the past 35 years agreed to discuss the exercise of power, as seen through archive footage, but also how they experienced it personally. Filmed in the same studio and sitting in the same chair, 12 French prime ministers talk freely about their time in office, from their appointment until their resignation.
Genres: Documentary History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-10-23
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La Vie de Berlioz
1983-11-11
La Vie de Berlioz
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Genres: History Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-11-11
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The Rashevski Tango
2003-09-03
The Rashevski Tango
Overview: Adolphe 'Dolfo' Rashevski travels to Israel with grandson Ric, but his brother, orthodox rabbi Samuel 'Shmouel, refuses to come attend their fellow Auschwitz survivor sister Rosa's funeral. Back in their home, the whole well-integrated family and their 'gojim' (non-Jewish and would-be) partners regularly wrestle with the meaning of Jewish blood, traditions and religion. For one it seems the way to gain a wife, for others the bomb under or the obstacle for a marriage. Yet love tends to conquer all but death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-09-03
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Quartet
1981-10-25
Quartet
Overview: When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-10-25
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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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L'Affaire Dreyfus
1995-05-18
L'Affaire Dreyfus
Overview: In 1894, the French Army discovered the existence of a traitor Alsatian and Jewish, the French officer Alfred Dreyfus makes an ideal culprit. For lack of evidence, the War Ministry creates a damning document Dreyfus overwhelming. Judged and sentenced, Dreyfus is deported to Devil's Island. In 1896, the Army flushed out the real culprit. The truth broke out in 1898 thanks to the mobilization of intellectuals shaken by Zola's "J'accuse!"
Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-05-18
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The Satin Spider
1986-03-26
The Satin Spider
Overview: The setting is Les Fauvettes School for Girls just after WWI, where sternly Teutonic headmistress Ingrid Caven vies with Catherine Jourdan, a morphine addicted, fabric fetishist gym teacher, for the sexual favours of liquid eyed nymphet Scyluna. Meanwhile the chaplain conducts a nude exorcism.
Genres: Crime Drama Horror
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-03-26
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La Chanson du mal-aimé
1982-02-03
La Chanson du mal-aimé
Overview: Biography of the life of Guillaume Apollinaire.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-02-03
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The Sorceress
1982-05-25
The Sorceress
Overview: An adaptation of La Sorcière from Jules Michelet
Genres: Fantasy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-05-25
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The Beautiful Prisoner
1983-02-16
The Beautiful Prisoner
Overview: Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up. He takes her to a villa to get a doctor, and ends up being locked in a bedroom with her. While she is making love to him, he has visions of surrealistic images from René Magritte's paintings. In the morning, the girl, Marie-Ange, has vanished, the villa looks derelict, and his neck is bleeding. Was it all just a nightmare?
Genres: Mystery Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-02-16
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Limited Edition
1997-01-22
Limited Edition
Overview: Edward is an editor in a small English publishing house. The story concerns what happens when he receives a very good manuscript from Nicholas, an old friend, who up until now has been a hack writer. The manuscript sheds light on events both men lived through, and Edward comes to the conviction that it reveals that it was Nicholas who raped the woman Edward loved, and that he is therefore responsible for her subsequent suicide. Very carefully, he plots his revenge.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-01-22
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The Boy Soldier
1981-03-04
The Boy Soldier
Overview: In the 1930s a young fellow, Simon Chalumet, is sent to a military school by his overbearing father, an ex-soldier who has little sympathy for his son's more gentle temperament, or for his interest in films.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-03-04
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Den döende dandyn
1989-04-01
Den döende dandyn
Overview: A movie about the volatile marriage between artist Nils Dardel and Thora Klinckowström.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: sv
Release Date: 1989-04-01
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L'Affaire Salengro
2009-04-13
L'Affaire Salengro
Overview: July 1936. Leon Blum's (Daniel Mesguich) left-wing coalition government is facing one of the hardest strikes paralyzing the whole country's economy. But one man alone is about to get the French people back to work, and peacefully: Roger Salengro (Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu).
Genres: History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-04-13
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Un pique-nique chez Osiris
2001-05-21
Un pique-nique chez Osiris
Overview: The year is 1898. Héloïse, 9 years old, comes from a family belonging to the anti-Dreyfus and anti-Semitic Parisian high bourgeoisie. In a spirit of revolt, she begins a love affair with Maxime, a young Jewish journalist. During a terrible quarrel with her father, the latter suffers a stroke and dies. To get her away from Maxime, her mother Mathilde and her cousin Olympe take Héloïse on a trip to the Orient. After Cairo and the Pyramids, they go up the Nile and cross the desert in a caravan.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-05-21
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The Lady Banker
1980-08-27
The Lady Banker
Overview: Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. She quickly becomes popular with small savers, but leads a scandalous life that will cost her.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-08-27
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Le Bon Plaisir
1984-01-18
Le Bon Plaisir
Overview: Claire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter, he urges his pregnant mistress to have an abortion. Claire immediately alerts the President's men. From that moment, the machinery of state swings into action.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-01-18
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La Femme fardée
1990-11-07
La Femme fardée
Overview: Marivaudages of a privileged group embarked on the "Narcissus" for a musical cruise in company of the famous diva La Doria.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-11-07
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La Garçonne
1988-09-21
La Garçonne
Overview: The neglected daughter of an industrialist who made his fortune in explosives supplies during the war and of a mother who was mostly concerned with herself, Monique Lerbier is a pretty blonde with generous but strong ideas and a hard character. She has chosen to be an atheist since her adolescence and does not tolerate injustice and social hypocrisy. She was to be married to an engineer, Lucien Vigneret. It was an arranged marriage, the dowry having to allow Vigneret to enter the capital of his father's company, which needed it to finance its business. But two weeks before the wedding, Monique surprises the fiancé with a mistress.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-09-21
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Les mots pour le dire
1983-10-12
Les mots pour le dire
Overview: A psychological drama that details the tormented relationship between Marie and her mother, stemming from Marie's childhood on their estate in Algeria. The mother, Eliane had lost a child before Marie was born and was consumed with hatred for her husband who was carrying tuberculosis and may have been the cause of the child's death. That hatred was never resolved, and Marie grew up in a bitter and strained household. As both women grow older, Marie marries and raises a family while her mother sinks ever deeper into anger, frustration, poverty, and isolated despair. She vents her destructive emotions on her daughter and is completely resistant to her daughter's attempts to help her, to make her life better.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1983-10-12
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Everything Went Fine
2021-07-18
Everything Went Fine
Overview: When her elderly father has a stroke, Emmanuelle rushes to his bedside. Sick and half-paralysed in his hospital bed, he asks Emmanuelle to help him end his life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-07-18
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Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été
1979-01-01
Ève avait l'éclat métallique de l'été
Overview: The demoness Sylvie Bréal offers voyeurs a breast to die for. Notable for being the first French feature shot on video.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1979-01-01
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Quartet
1981-10-25
Quartet
Overview: When her husband's arrest leaves her penniless, a woman accepts an invitation to move in with a strange couple.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1981-10-25
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La fille de Prague avec un sac très lourd
1979-09-12
La fille de Prague avec un sac très lourd
Overview: Who is Milena whose arrival is announced to Sophie and Nicolas by postcard? The train from Prague brings for three weeks, the time of a visa, this young Czech and his bag stuffed with forbidden texts, marginal films and music. She will strive to make them known with the help of her new friends.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-09-12
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Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme
1980-04-16
Même les mômes ont du vague à l'âme
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Release Date: 1980-04-16
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Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion
2018-05-12
Asterix: The Secret of the Magic Potion
Overview: Following a fall during mistletoe picking, Druid Getafix decides that it is time to secure the future of the village. Accompanied by Asterix and Obelix, he undertakes to travel the Gallic world in search of a talented young druid to transmit the Secret of the Magic Potion.
Genres: Family Animation Comedy Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-05-12
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The Elegant Criminal
1990-12-19
The Elegant Criminal
Overview: On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while awaiting execution. He also asks Allard to care for Hermine, a lass to whom he has been guardian for more than ten years. In flashbacks, from the prison as Lacenaire writes, from Allard's study as he and Hermine read, and from other readers' memory after the book is published, we see Lacenaire's childhood as he stands up to bullies, including priests, his youthful thieving, his first murder, his brief army career, his seduction of a princess, and his affair with Avril, a young man who dies beside him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-12-19
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Charter 2020
1980-04-19
Charter 2020
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-04-19
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Dom Juan
2005-02-14
Dom Juan
Overview: Escorted by his valet Sganarelle, Dom Juan, a libertine gentleman, brave and hypocritical, seduces women, fights duels, denies his father's authority, and mocks Heaven. Carried away by his passion for women and gambling, he goes so far as to commit perjury. A classic revisited by Mesguich with a lot of visual effects: special effects, magic tricks, imposing sets. A playful staging for this tragi-comic play.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-02-14
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Molière
1978-08-30
Molière
Overview: Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is raised by his father and his grandfather because his mother dies when he's still very little. He works as a handyman, studies the law at a university and travels the country as an actor before he becomes the celebrated playwright Molière who impresses firstly the Duke of Orleans and then even King Louis XIV.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-08-30
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Jefferson in Paris
1995-03-31
Jefferson in Paris
Overview: His wife having recently died, Thomas Jefferson accepts the post of United States ambassador to pre-revolutionary France, though he finds it difficult to adjust to life in a country where the aristocracy subjugates an increasingly restless peasantry. In Paris, he becomes smitten with cultured artist Maria Cosway, but, when his daughter visits from Virginia accompanied by her attractive slave, Sally Hemings, Jefferson's attentions are diverted.
Genres: Drama Romance History
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1995-03-31
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