Hugues Quester
Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Hugues Quester (born 5 August 1948 in Échemiré, Maine-et-Loire) is a French actor. He has appeared in over 60 films and television shows since 1969. He starred in Raúl Ruiz's 1983 film City of Pirates. Description above from the Wikipedia article Hugues Quester, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: August 05, 1948
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Three Colors: Blue
1993-09-08
Three Colors: Blue
Overview: The wife of a famous composer survives a car accident that kills her husband and daughter. Now alone, she shakes off her old identity and explores her newfound freedom but finds that she is unbreakably bound to other humans, including her husband’s mistress, whose existence she never suspected.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-09-08
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I Love You, I Don't
1976-03-10
I Love You, I Don't
Overview: The petite waitress Johnny works and lives in a truck-stop, where she's lonely and longs for love. She develops a crush on the garbage truck driver Krassky, although her sleazy boss Boris warns her that he's gay.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1976-03-10
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Grande petite
1994-03-30
Grande petite
Overview: An indecisive, shy young woman, Benedicte is 20 years old and lives with Henri who is considerably older. She is still haunted by two former loves, Pierre, whom she still cares for, and Paul, who still cares for her. She is faced with a major decision when she finds a bag filled with a fortune of francs and a gun. Should she keep it for herself, or should she return it? This question plagues her and she gets no help from family, friends, or lovers.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-03-30
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A Tale of Springtime
1990-04-04
A Tale of Springtime
Overview: The story of an introverted young girl just reaching adulthood who takes a liking to an older woman she meets at a party and determines to match her off with her father, despite the latter's already having a lover of his own.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-04-04
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The Night of Varennes
1982-05-15
The Night of Varennes
Overview: During the French Revolution, a surprising company shares a coach, trying to catch up something - the time itself, perhaps.
Genres: History Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-05-15
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Staircase C
1985-06-06
Staircase C
Overview: Story of a snooty young critic at the centre of several plotlines which run throughout his apartment block.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-06-06
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Hard to Be a God
1990-01-25
Hard to Be a God
Overview: Another planet in the period of medieval times. An employee of the institute of experimental history from Earth, who is send under the name of noble don Rumata of Estor as a spy with a mission to contact the local resident of the institute, arrives in the city of Arkanar. But the resident perishes under an unlucky attempt to make a palace coup, and Rumata have to take his place as the resident. Soon he meets all the horrors of the medieval society - a peasant war, palace coups, mass executions. To continue to be an indifferent watcher of all these horrors turns out to be simply impossible...
Genres: Drama Adventure Science Fiction
Original Language: de
Release Date: 1990-01-25
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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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Flesh of the Orchid
1975-01-29
Flesh of the Orchid
Overview: A disturbed young woman is kept prisoner in a castle by her aunt for her money. The game-keeper, her guardian, tries to rape her but she escapes. In her flight she meets a man also running away, from two killers.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-01-29
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Bérénice
2000-09-12
Bérénice
Overview: An adaptation of Jean Racine's tragedy which depicts the thwarted loves of Antiochus, Titus (the future emperor of Rome) and Berenice (the queen of Palestine).
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2000-09-12
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The Iron Rose
1973-04-12
The Iron Rose
Overview: A young couple out for a walk decide to take a stroll through a large cemetery. As darkness begins to fall they realize they can't find their way out, and soon their fears begin to overtake them.
Genres: Horror Drama Fantasy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-04-12
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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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George Who?
1973-05-03
George Who?
Overview: The film depitcs the life of the French author George Sand.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-05-03
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No Man's Land
1985-08-28
No Man's Land
Overview: Madeleine, who runs a disco on the French-Swiss border, dreams of going to Paris to pursue a singing career. Her lover, Paul, who makes his living smuggling money, gold and goods across the border, plans to emigrate to Canada. Mali, a pretty young Algerian woman who lives in France and works in Switzerland, would like to be anywhere except where she is. Louis, born on a Swiss farm and trained as a clockmaker, would give anything to leave his mistress, Lucie, and move in with Mali.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-08-28
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Una notte, un sogno
1988-06-15
Una notte, un sogno
Overview: Silvia, who lives in a villa in the hills, has a quarrel with her husband and his friends and then goes away down to the city, where she has the bad luck of being attacked by a group of misfits. At her rescue is a photographer who, in turn, is in trouble for having witnessed a murder by the Chinese mafia...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1988-06-15
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Les matins chagrins
1990-10-31
Les matins chagrins
Overview: Dan, a journalist, lives alone with his daughter since his wife left him for a friend. When he accepts an appointment with him, he finds him dead. Dan decides to investigate the circumstances of the death.
Genres: Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-10-31
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Anne Trister
1986-05-27
Anne Trister
Overview: After the death of her father, Anne — a brilliant but emotionally unstable painter/sculptor — returns from Switzerland to her home town in Quebec. Setting up a studio, she becomes obsessed with her work, to the extent that she grows farther and farther from her Swiss lover.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-05-27
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Goodbye Vinyle
2023-08-26
Goodbye Vinyle
Overview: Late 1950s in France. One woman, two men. She, Ève Faugère, a glamorous diva at the peak of her career. The man, her husband, Maurice Faugère, an immense author who made her and propelled her for years to the firmament of the song. And finally the lover, Jean Leprat, her pianist who adores her and burns with passion for her. The atrocious poison of jealousy will consume them to the point of tragedy, the trap of a Machiavellian plot will take them all three. And she, the other one, the so pretty Florence, so fresh. This ambitious young singer, ready to do anything to overthrow the one she admires, is she not also caught in the trap of a diabolical game that is beyond her? Where does the danger come from? Who is orchestrating this fatal merry-go-round engraved in the vinyl of the brand new singles that brings its poisonous message every day? Who will die? Who will survive?
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-08-26
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Mina Tannenbaum
1994-03-02
Mina Tannenbaum
Overview: The film tells the story of two girls who are of totally different character. They know each other since their childhood and were friends until they became teenagers. But growing up and becoming adults they go different ways.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-03-02
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The Adolescent
1979-01-24
The Adolescent
Overview: In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-24
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The Way Out
1986-10-15
The Way Out
Overview: Leaving prison, Paul goes to the port. That's where he lived and where he got caught. This is also where his father died. And before leaving to try his luck elsewhere, Paul wants to avenge him.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-10-15
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Paradise Hotel
1986-04-15
Paradise Hotel
Overview: A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman (Fernando Rey) is a washed-up Hollywood actor making a living in the dinner-theater circuit. Accompanied by his wife Sarah (Carole Regnier), Goldman meets Frederique (Berangere Bonvoisin), who is hiding from her former lover. French financier Arthur (Fabrice Luchini) hopes to get into the film industry and bends the ear of a British director (Michael Medwin). The talkative film has little action, and none of the characters evoke much interest or resolve their dilemma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-04-15
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The Hips of J.W.
1997-10-29
The Hips of J.W.
Overview: Two actors performing in Strindberg's "Inferno" as God and Lucifer, find themselves competing in real life as well. One of them, Henrique, has spiritual obsession with John Wayne and his way of walking. He and de Dieu, his fellow actor who plays Lucifer and also directs the Strindberg play, engage in a philosophical and spiritual tug-of-war, especially when they meet an author named God, who has plans for another drama to feature both actors.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-10-29
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A Stone in the Mouth
1983-10-05
A Stone in the Mouth
Overview: A fugitive takes refuge in a manor where a blind retired thespian lives.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-10-05
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Appointment in Bray
1971-12-22
Appointment in Bray
Overview: In 1917, the First World War is raging. Julien is from Luxemburg, so instead of having to go to war he studies piano in Paris. One day his friend Jacques, also a musician and now a fighter pilot on the front, invites him to spend a few days in his family's empty house in Bray. The housekeeper, a beautiful stoic woman lets Julien in, but his friend is late and he is obliged to wait. In the meantime, he starts reminiscing of the pre-war days spent with his friend and Jacques' girlfriend Odile.
Genres: Drama Music War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1971-12-22
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Paradise Hotel
1986-04-15
Paradise Hotel
Overview: A diverse group of guests gather in a small hotel in Paris to contemplate the state of their lives in this pretentious drama. Joseph Goldman (Fernando Rey) is a washed-up Hollywood actor making a living in the dinner-theater circuit. Accompanied by his wife Sarah (Carole Regnier), Goldman meets Frederique (Berangere Bonvoisin), who is hiding from her former lover. French financier Arthur (Fabrice Luchini) hopes to get into the film industry and bends the ear of a British director (Michael Medwin). The talkative film has little action, and none of the characters evoke much interest or resolve their dilemma.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-04-15
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Somewhere, Someone
1972-10-18
Somewhere, Someone
Overview: A portrait of loneliness in contemporary France.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1972-10-18
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Parking
1985-05-29
Parking
Overview: Orpheus is a rock star who composes love songs for Eurydice, who designs his album covers. As he wrestles with his additional love for Calaïs, his sound engineer, Orpheus finds that Eurydice had died of a drug overdose, so he descends into the Underworld to try and make a deal with Hades.
Genres: Music Fantasy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-05-29
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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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Rhinocéros
2009-11-04
Rhinocéros
Overview: A staging of Eugène Ionesco's play "Rhinoceros" by mmanuel Demarcy-Mota.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-11-04
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