Farid Chopel
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: December 04, 1952
Deathday: April 20, 2008
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Water War
1998-04-18
Water War
Overview: The tribulations of an engineer and an archaeologist who search for a lost city in the desert of the United Arab Emirates.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-04-18
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L'Addition
1984-04-03
L'Addition
Overview: For having wanted to defend a young girl accused of theft, a comedian finds himself in prison. Embarked in spite of himself in an escape attempt, he is condemned by a particularly incompetent court which follows without thinking the pleadings of an overzealous public prosecutor! Once incarcerated, the poor comedian has to deal with the harassment of one of the guards, a kind of dangerous sociopath frustrated with life.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-04-03
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My Best Friend's Girl
1983-08-31
My Best Friend's Girl
Overview: The charming Pascal, owner of a clothing store in Courchevel, and the chubby and scruffy Micky, disc jockey in a nearby club, are best of friends. Pascal accumulates women, much to the chagrin of Micky, who is consoled of his failures by listening to his friend talk about his successes. Viviane arises, ravishing and icy, but she's seasonal. Pascal, sincerely in love, seduces her and then leaves. This is a dire situation for Micky: Pascal is far away and the beauty is so kind to him. Complications arise once Pascal returns.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-08-31
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Jane B. for Agnès V.
1988-03-02
Jane B. for Agnès V.
Overview: The interests, obsessions, and fantasies of two singular artists converge in this inspired collaboration between Agnès Varda and her longtime friend the actor Jane Birkin. Made over the course of a year and motivated by Birkin’s fortieth birthday—a milestone she admits to some anxiety over—Jane B. by Agnès V. contrasts the private, reflective Birkin with Birkin the icon.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-03-02
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The Flesh
1991-05-09
The Flesh
Overview: A beautiful film which is basically about a man, a piano player, who meets and falls in love with a beautiful and voluptuous woman, who, by some strange procedure, leaves the man unable to move but with a permanent priapism! After some time he becomes sick of it and she relieves his paralysis. Eventually she gets bored and decides to leave, but he can't take it because he loves her…
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1991-05-09
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Follow My Gaze
1986-04-23
Follow My Gaze
Overview: A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food commercial on less than one tank of intelligible French. Another skit shows a silent duel between an airport custodian and an automatic door, while another with the renowned Michel Galabru sets up a strange teacher-student exchange.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-04-23
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Irena and the Shadows
1987-07-08
Irena and the Shadows
Overview: Costa, a projectionist in a porno cinema, plunges into a dark story of abduction, following a phone call that was not intended for him. Is Mome Pralier dead? Has the ransom been paid? Who killed Baumgartner? What's the doc up to in his clinic? AND SURTOUT - who is Irena? - and how far will she take Costa?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-07-08
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All Mixed Up
1985-03-19
All Mixed Up
Overview: After the death of her little boy, Anita wants to take her own life.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-03-19
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A Vampire in Paradise
1992-08-19
A Vampire in Paradise
Overview: Is Nosfer Arbi a vampire? Or is he just a very emaciated, very strange and possibly quite lonely young man from an Arabic country with an obsession with death? On the other hand, why is the previously cheery Parisian teenager Nathalie Belfond throwing fits and speaking in Arabic? Her strange behavior began with the appearance of a caped and cadaverous man outside her window. Mr. & Mrs. Belfond have their hands full trying to sort this mess out, in this extremely unusual and award-winning comedy which puts a new wrinkle on the vampire mythos.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-08-19
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Wild Animals
1984-04-18
Wild Animals
Overview: Berg and Bela are married stunt drivers, but one night Bela dies in an accident. Jaded and reclusive, Berg becomes a nighttime security guard where he befriends a young woman, Mimi, who works nights too. Soon a shadowy figure from Bela's past comes into Berg and Mimi's lives. Berg is forced to protect Mimi and seems responsible for a murder, but the man from Bela's past who caused her so much pain won't stop until he sees Berg suffer as much as Bela did.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-04-18
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The Hallucinogenic Toreador
1986-09-03
The Hallucinogenic Toreador
Overview: An aficionado barber lets his clerk shave a client while he watches television and mimes the bullfight being broadcast.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-09-03
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The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent
1984-11-28
The Vengeance of the Winged Serpent
Overview: An international intrigue with terrorists threatening to blow up the presidents of the most powerful countries.
Genres: Adventure Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-11-28
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It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You
2007-05-09
It's Gradiva Who Is Calling You
Overview: An English historian travels to Morocco to work on a study of the painter Delacroix. He hears of a rare series of engravings and embarks on a search for them that takes him through the mysterious streets of the ancient medina. He becomes obsessed with the figure of a beautiful blond woman dressed in white that he sees there. but it appears that she may have died years before.
Genres: Mystery Drama Thriller
Original Language: ru
Release Date: 2007-05-09
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Un si beau voyage
2009-03-18
Un si beau voyage
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-03-18
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A City Is Beautiful at Night
2006-11-08
A City Is Beautiful at Night
Overview: Adapted from the best-seller, the films is a road movie full of music and poetry, driving us from the hot districts of Marseille, to Paris, Montrealand Dakar. Paulo, the young writer, follows Richard, the old musician, in his wanderings, encounters, love stories and will share his vision of life. Richard transmits to Paulo his crazy and strange experience, opening the door to an enchanting world of passion.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-11-08
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Les Princes
1983-11-02
Les Princes
Overview: Nara, a 30-year-old gypsy, lives with her nine-year-old daughter Zorka and her grandmother in a public housing project in the Paris region.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-11-02
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La Goutte d'or
1990-09-11
La Goutte d'or
Overview: Idris is a young shepherd in the desert of Tunesia. One day a jeep drives by and a woman takes a picture of him; she says she's from Paris and promises to send him a copy. But when nothing arrives during the next months, Idris becomes worried. His father advises him to get his "face" back or bad things may happen to him. So he sets out to Paris... and discovers Paris as a world full of strange things and weird behavior.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-09-11
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Plato's Banquet
1989-07-27
Plato's Banquet
Overview: At house of Agathon get together many intellectuals and philosophers, including Socrates, to discuss the theme of love and sex: each of them intervenes to support its argument dialogical rules, within the context symposial.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: it
Release Date: 1989-07-27
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