Alexis Michalik
Biography: Alexis Michalik, born 13 December 1982, is a Franco-British actor, scriptwriter and director. He adapted Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet into his play R&J and he has written and staged his own plays, including Le Porteur d'histoire, Le Cercle des illusionnistes, Edmond and Intra Muros. He has acted in a number of films, including Sagan by Diane Kurys and Le Chant du loup by Abel Lanzac and he has acted in a number of TV series, mini-series, and TV films, including the series Kaboul Kitchen by Allan Mauduit and Jean-Patrick Benes. He has received various Molière awards for his plays. He is the son of a Polish father, an artist, and a British mother. He was raised in the quartier des Abbesses in the 18th arrondissement of Paris. He studied at the collège Jules-Ferry, and at the conservatoire in the 19th arrondissement, and he passed the entrance examination for the Conservatoire national d'art dramatique. His first stage role was as Roméo in 2001, in the play Juliette et Roméo directed by Irina Brook at the théâtre de Chaillot. In 2003, he was admitted to the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique (CNSAD) in Paris. However, he gave up his place to stage his first show, Une folle journée, an adaptation of Mariage de Figaro by Beaumarchais. He created the show in 2005 at the Festival d'Avignon Off in the théâtre des Corps Saints, playing the role of the Count. Michalik used the name of his source material to name his theatre company, Los Figaros. In 2006, he created La Mégère à peu près apprivoisée at Théâtre La Luna (Buffon), a musical comedy adaptation of the play by Shakespeare, in which he played the role of Petruchio. He met Arthur Jugnot, who produced the play in Avignon in 2007 et 2008, at the théâtre des Béliers, then in 2009 at the Vingtième Théâtre and then in 2010 at Le Splendid. The adaption was then put on television on the show Paris Première. During this show, he met Dominique Besnehard, the show's host, who would later produce two of Michalik's first short films. In 2008, he created R&J, an adaptation of Roméo et Juliette by Shakespeare for three actors. In this production, he played various roles, including Romeo. The play was done in the théâtre des Béliers in Avignon, and then at the Ciné 13 Théâtre and at Studio des Champs-Elysées. In 2010, he adapted and directed the second act of Carmen by Bizet, in a show titled Carmen Rock & Soul Opéra. The show, which was put on at the Festival des Mises en capsules, starred the singer Julie Zenatti in the title role and Christophe Mali (Tryo) playing Don José, and 20 other actors, singers, dancers and musicians. The show as done at Ciné 13 Théâtre. Then Benjamin Bellecour, co-director of Ciné 13 Théâtre, invited Michalik to write and direct Michalik's first play, Le Porteur d'histoire. The play was done in a shortened form at the Festival Faits d'Hiver. In July 2011, the play was done in its current form at Théâtre des Béliers . The play came back to Avignon in 2012 and also was done in Paris at Théâtre 13 Jardin, where it was received well by the public and critics. His play was done again at the Studio des Champs-Élysées in February 2013 and at Théâtre des Béliers in 2017. ... Source: Article "Alexis Michalik" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Venice Doesn't Exist
2021-10-09
Venice Doesn't Exist
Overview: Venice, a special evening. Louise is convinced that Charles will finally ask her to marry him. But things don't always go as you imagined and so - As walking through the mirror of her own dream, Louise gets lost in the night of Venice, a very different Venice from what she had imagined and, thanks to the meeting with Giacomo, she discovers a new version of herself.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-10-09
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Sagan
2008-06-11
Sagan
Overview: France, 1950s. From the Quartier Latin to Saint-Tropez via New York, a young Parisienne becomes the icon of a whole generation. In 1954, 19-year-old Francoise Sagan shot to fame with her first novel, Bonjour Tristesse. Flamboyant, scandalous and underrated, Sagan lived her life at the furthest edge of excess. She won and lost fortunes at the roulette table, bought and crashed superb sports cars, drank, danced and partied, leaving a trail of lovers in her wake.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-06-11
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How to Survive Without Mum
2023-04-12
How to Survive Without Mum
Overview: After Antoine was fired from his job, he became a stay-at-home dad taking care of his four children, while his wife Isabelle restarts her career as a lawyer. For Antoine, the family's upcoming ski vacation is a godsend: he can finally take a break from parenthood and enjoy a luxury ski resort! But just as they are about to step on the train, Isabelle is called back to work for an emergency and Antoine has to deal, on his own, with his four mischievous kids going wild on the slopes and in the fancy hotel, as the trip turns into total chaos…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-04-12
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La banda Picasso
2013-01-25
La banda Picasso
Overview: Paris, 1911. When Da Vinci's painting “La Gioconda” is stolen from the Louvre museum, it is suspected that the authors of the audacious theft are members of a group of bohemian artists led by painter Pablo Ruiz Picasso and poet Guillaume Apollinaire…
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: es
Release Date: 2013-01-25
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The End of Silence
2011-12-07
The End of Silence
Overview: Centers on the Klein family, who live in a remote house in the mountains. Considered the black sheep, youngest son Jean is thrown out. Angry and threatening, he arrives at Nils and Ida's chalet for a hunting expedition. The next day, he learns how to kill. The following night, his mother's car is set on fire and he is blamed. He disappears into the mountains with a gun. On the third day, it pours down with rain and, in the evening, a storm brews. Shut up in their house, the Klein family await with dread the return of Jean, who will challenge them, weapon in hand.
Genres: Mystery Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-12-07
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Far West
2003-01-21
Far West
Overview: Eric is forced to spend his holidays on his grandfather's farm in the countryside. Bored out of his mind, an unexpected visit from over-the-top friends Mika and Koko, and the appearance of a hunky farmhand, pull Eric out of the doldrums.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-01-21
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Flo
2023-11-01
Flo
Overview: World premiering on the Plage, it tells the story of « the little fiancée of the Atlantic », who’s career reached its peak with her victory of the Route du Rhum in 1990.
Genres: History Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-11-01
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It Happened in Saint-Tropez
2013-01-13
It Happened in Saint-Tropez
Overview: Zef’s stormy relationship with his brother Roni is further aggravated when Roni marries his daughter just as he is attending to his wife’s funeral. The two brothers have never got on with each other. One is faithful to his religion, the other lives only for the present. Between London, Paris, Saint-Tropez and New York, a series of confrontations and betrayals threatens to drive the family further apart, but out of this confusion will come a great love story, perhaps even two...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-01-13
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Dangerous Liaisons
2022-07-08
Dangerous Liaisons
Overview: The innocent Célène might be falling in love with popular surfer Tristan at her new school. But she has no idea that, in actuality, she’s the object of a cruel bet between Tristan and Instagram influencer Vanessa.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-07-08
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Holiday Camp
2010-11-18
Holiday Camp
Overview: At a meeting of the game "Truth or Dare?" two young boys, Matthew and Maximus, are challenging to embrace. The kiss will cause them some excitement. From that time, teens who witnessed this scene are allusions more or less directly to the possible homosexuality of Maxim. A revelation will then destabilize the group.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-11-18
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With Love... from the Age of Reason
2010-07-28
With Love... from the Age of Reason
Overview: The day she turns 40, Marguerite Flora, a successful rep for a nuclear power company, begins receiving letters she'd sent to herself at age seven. The letters tell her what to do if her life hasn't turned out the way she thought it should, when she was living in poverty with her mother and brother in a small village in southern France. She decides to go back to her birthplace to get the lawyer to stop the letters, but also to visit her childhood sweetheart and her long-forgotten brother, in order to find peace within herself.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-07-28
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Alexandre Dumas, le Flamboyant
2020-01-01
Alexandre Dumas, le Flamboyant
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Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-01-01
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A Love Story
2023-04-12
A Love Story
Overview: Justine has never dated a woman, and Katia knows her life is hanging by a thread. But when they meet, it's love at first sight. Katia and Justine decide to confront life living a love story, and giving birth to a baby girl, Jeanne. Twelve years later, Justine come to an orderly life and Katia, who kept the child, learn she is doomed. She has to find urgently a guardian for her daughter. Her only option : her brother William, a cynical and desillusioned writer...
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-04-12
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Our Fallen Heroes
2016-06-04
Our Fallen Heroes
Overview: France 1919. Paul, a sculptor, goes from village to village erecting the memorials to the dead which blossom throughout the country. But when he arrives in the small town of Sancerre, the traumatisms of war resurface: after so many names engraved in stone, will this memorial at last be a return to the living?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-06-04
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The Three Musketeers: Milady
2023-12-13
The Three Musketeers: Milady
Overview: D'Artagnan, on a quest to rescue the abducted Constance, runs into the mysterious Milady de Winter again. The tension between the Catholics and the Protestants finally escalates, as the king declares war — forcing the now four musketeers into battle. But as the war goes on, they are tested physically, mentally and emotionally.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-12-13
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Monsieur Max
2007-01-27
Monsieur Max
Overview: Portrait of a homosexual bohemian who converted from Judaism to Catholicism and was captured by the Gestapo in the 1940s.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-27
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Les Amants de la Dent Blanche
2006-02-11
Les Amants de la Dent Blanche
Overview: The impossible and forbidden love between two young peasants, Marthe, beautiful and fierce, and her cousin Théophile, a bastard, born of a rape.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-02-11
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La Trouvaille de Juliette
2014-12-16
La Trouvaille de Juliette
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Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-12-16
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Dad in Training
2016-04-06
Dad in Training
Overview: Following the breakdown of his marriage, a self-involved man begins to embrace fatherhood.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2016-04-06
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The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
2023-04-05
The Three Musketeers: D'Artagnan
Overview: D'Artagnan, a spirited young Gascon, is left for dead after trying to save a noblewoman from being kidnapped. Once in Paris, he tries by all means to find his attackers, unaware that his quest will lead him to the very heart of a war where the future of France is at stake. Aided by King's Musketeers Athos, Porthos and Aramis, he faces the machinations of villainous Cardinal Richelieu and Milady de Winter, while falling in love with Constance, the Queen's confidante.
Genres: Adventure Action Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-04-05
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The Other Dumas
2010-02-10
The Other Dumas
Overview: Alexandre Dumas, at the height of his career, takes Auguste Maquet, his chief literary collaborator or 'ghost writer' ten years his junior, to meet a young unknown admirer, Charlotte Desrives. The two men are at the summit of their artistic collaboration for they have just published "The Count of Monte Christo", "Queen Margot" and "The Three Musketeers". If it's Maquet who writes the majority of the texts, both the honours and fame go to Dumas.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-02-10
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Family Heist
2017-01-04
Family Heist
Overview: A high-profile burglar reconciles with his two daughters (half-siblings) to help him retaliate against his ex-partner who betrayed him.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-01-04
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Cyrano, My Love
2018-11-10
Cyrano, My Love
Overview: Paris, France, December 1897. The young playwright Edmond Rostand feels like a failure. Inspiration has abandoned him. Married and father of two children, desperate and penniless, he persuades the great actor Constant Coquelin to perform the main role in his new play. But there is a problem: Coquelin wants to premiere it at Christmas and Edmond has not written a single word.
Genres: Comedy History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-11-10
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At Eternity's Gate
2018-11-15
At Eternity's Gate
Overview: Famed but tormented artist Vincent van Gogh spends his final years in Arles, France, painting masterworks of the natural world that surrounds him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-11-15
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10 Days with Dad
2020-02-19
10 Days with Dad
Overview: Antoine is the Head of HR of a big company. Managing people is his thing, so when his overwhelmed wife suddenly decides to go on holiday and leave him with the responsibility of the house and their four kids, he knows it will be a piece of cake for him. But Antoine has drastically underestimated the mess that four mischievous kids can cause...
Genres: Family Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-02-19
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Tolo Tolo
2020-01-01
Tolo Tolo
Overview: Checco is a young Apulian entrepreneur dreamer who has opened a sushi restaurant in his Apulia. However, after one month, the restaurant went bankrupt and he chose to emigrate to Africa to escape from debt. Here he adapts to being a waiter in a resort in Kenya, but at the outbreak of a civil war he decides to embark on a stowaway trip on a boat for migrants to Europe and chooses to do it with his African friends. However, he would not like to return to Italy, but rather to go to Liechtenstein where banking secrecy is in force and there is a lower tax burden than in Italy.
Genres: Comedy Drama Family
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2020-01-01
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The Wolf's Call
2019-02-20
The Wolf's Call
Overview: Shown from the perspective of a young submariner with unusually sensitive hearing and uncannily precise sound recognition. The fate of many often depends on his ability, and one time, whilst highly stressed, he makes a incorrect call which put his entire crew in mortal danger. Trying to regain the confidence of his comrades, he conducts an unauthorised investigation of an apparent plot which, it turns out, risks escalating into a nuclear apocalypse. Suddenly working under pressure with the fleet admiral, they must do whatever is necessary, even the unthinkable, to prevent a nuclear war, since a confirmed nuclear strike order cannot be countermanded.
Genres: Thriller Action Adventure
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-02-20
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A Mermaid in Paris
2020-03-11
A Mermaid in Paris
Overview: A man rescues a mermaid in Paris and slowly falls in love with her.
Genres: Romance Fantasy Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-03-11
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Little Tickles
2018-11-14
Little Tickles
Overview: Odette is a 8-yr-old girl who loves to dance and draw. Once she has become an adult, Odette realizes she was abused, and immerses herself body and soul in her career as a dancer while trying to deal with her past.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2018-11-14
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Mention particulière : Bienvenue dans l'âge adulte
2021-05-10
Mention particulière : Bienvenue dans l'âge adulte
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Genres: Drama Comedy TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2021-05-10
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24 Days
2014-04-30
24 Days
Overview: When Ilan Halimi is kidnapped for ransom because Jewish and supposedly rich, his family and the police start a race against time to save him from the tortures of the "gang of barbarians".
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-04-30
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Boys On Film 5: Candy Boy
2010-10-25
Boys On Film 5: Candy Boy
Overview: Boys On Film 5: Candy Boy features nine award-winning short films. Boys will be boys in Pascal-Alex Vincent's FAR WEST and CANDY BOY, where a farmyard and an orphanage get a gay makeover. GO-GO REJECT sees Flashdance obsessive Daniel aim for the stars, as SWEAT has Holby City's David Paisley infiltrating a bath house with unexpected results. Meanwhile, love proves to be timeless when LAST CALL unites past and present, but TWOYOUNGMEN, UT. hints at an uncertain future. Looking back on the dictatorship of Augusto Pinochet, BLOCKS focuses on the sexual awakening of a peeping Tom. Two more young boys, a confused JAMES and mute DAVID, both reach out for an experienced hand, but will they find what they are looking for?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2010-10-25
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