Brigitte Sy
Biography: Brigitte Sy (born 26 January 1956) is a French actress and filmmaker. Her directorial film debut, Les Mains libres, was released in 2010 to critical acclaim in France. She is the mother of the actors Louis Garrel and Esther Garrel whom she had with the director Philippe Garrel. In an Arte short film collection about AIDS awareness, she revealed that she has been HIV-positive since 1990, contracted from a partner who previously had a drug addiction. She also addresses the issue in Les mains libres and L'endroit idéal where the protagonist, Barbara (played by Ronit Elkabetz), is HIV-positive. She opposes the feminist #MeToo movement (#BalanceTonPorc in France) and signed an anti-metoo letter in Le Monde, on 9 January 2018, arguing that men have the freedom to harass (importuner) women. She is of Sephardic Jewish descent. Source: Article "Brigitte Sy" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Birthday: January 26, 1956
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Versailles
2008-08-13
Versailles
Overview: A young mother Nina and her son Enzo find themselves sleeping on the streets of Paris. Eventually there lifestyle leads them to Versailles.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-08-13
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Sang craché des lèvres belles
Sang craché des lèvres belles
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Fear(s) of the Dark
2007-10-21
Fear(s) of the Dark
Overview: Several scary black-and-white animated segments in different styles appeal to our fear(s) of the dark.
Genres: Animation Horror Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-21
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Emergency Kisses
1989-05-31
Emergency Kisses
Overview: The familiar conflicts of a film director planning to make a movie about his life and the confrontation he has with his wife, an actress who was turned down for such project in which she wanted to play herself.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-05-31
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Declaration of War
2011-08-31
Declaration of War
Overview: Roméo and Juliette are two young actors. They fall in love at first sight, move in together and make a baby. A love story and the founding of a home like millions of others. Except that their little boy, Adam, behaves abnormally. The young parents try hard to persuade themselves that everything is okay but, with the passing of time, they cannot delude themselves anymore: their son has a problem. From now on, war is declared. A war against illness. A war against Death. A war against despair.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-08-31
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Little Girl Blue
2023-11-01
Little Girl Blue
Overview: In 2016, French writer and photographer Carole Achache took her own life. After Carole's death, her daughter Mona Achache, a film director, discovers thousands of photos, letters and recordings that Carole left behind, but these buried secrets make her disappearance even more of an enigma. Through the power of filmmaking and the beauty of incarnation with the help of actress Marion Cotillard, the director brings her mother back to life to retrace her journey and find out who she really was.
Genres: Drama History Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2023-11-01
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Street Flow
2019-10-12
Street Flow
Overview: Noumouké, from the suburb of Paris, is about to decide which brother's foot steps to follow - the lawyer student Soulaymaan or the gangster Demba.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-12
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A Better Life
2011-11-18
A Better Life
Overview: Yann, a cook, and Nadia, a waitress and mother of 9-year-old child, decide to risk everything on the purchase of a restaurant. With plenty of talent, energy, love and dreams, but no finance of their own, they find themselves forced into a jungle of financing and bank loans that quickly overwhelms them. To bail them out, Nadia has to take a job in Canada, while Yann is forced to stay behind to save the restaurant. Together, he and the child confront a relentless avalanche of creditors, an uncaring system and the daily grind from which there is no respite… Yann finally understands that his only chance of salvation lies in joining his lover – as well as reuniting mother and child – by following Nadia to Canada and a better life.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-11-18
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Last Screening
2011-08-09
Last Screening
Overview: Sylvain, a young man, devotes his life to small, local movie theater destined to be shut down. He lives in the theater's basement and is the theater programer, projectionist, and ticket seller. Each night, after the last screening, he leaves the building to carry out a ritual killing.
Genres: Horror Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-08-09
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La rupture
2020-04-22
La rupture
Overview: The love story between Jean, a great French writer and his/her young mistress Marie Louise, ends during a long break from which each emerges willy-nilly, until fate puts them face to face with one another. In one version of the film, the main couple is made up of a man and a woman, in the other version, two women.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2020-04-22
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Melody for a Hustler
1998-10-14
Melody for a Hustler
Overview: French novelist Vincent Ravalec made his directorial debut with this French drama about small-time crook Gaston (Yvan Attal) who poses as a millionaire after he picks up hitchhiking 16-year-old Marie-Pierre (Virginie Lanoue). Actually living in a seedy apartment, Gaston deals in stolen goods, but he soon climbs to bigger heists, including car thefts. Concealing his illegal activities, Gaston operates his company, Extramill, out of upscale, posh offices, while he and Marie-Pierre move into a sedate upper-middle-class neighborhood. Life is sweet, but the onset of paranoia, kinky sex activities, and police probes eventually culminate in violence.
Genres: Drama Comedy Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-10-14
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Vandal
2013-10-09
Vandal
Overview: 15-year-old Chérif feels like a million bucks behind the wheel of a stolen car. Placed under the guardianship of his Aunt and Uncle, he has to return to his apprenticeship as a mason. It's his last chance. But every night graffiti artists descend upon the city's walls. And with this, a whole new world opens up before him...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-10-09
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Nuts
2013-02-27
Nuts
Overview: François has everything he could ever want, until he is kicked out of the house by his wife after his umpteenth slip up; after moving back in with his parents, he vows to win her back.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-02-27
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Déluge
2006-06-15
Déluge
Overview: I am there. I say nothing. In the lounge, the boxes still opened from our moving in. My father. My mother. Come to comfort me. Her father. Her mother. Incapable to say the words. To put into words what has happened. And outside, the rain. Diluvian. Improbable.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-06-15
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Liberty at Night
1984-10-03
Liberty at Night
Overview: In the mist of the Algerian events, a man finds a fugitive happiness beside a local woman.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1984-10-03
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The Ministries of Art
1989-02-11
The Ministries of Art
Overview: Philippe Garrel’s documentary on France’s second wave of masterful filmmakers. Featuring Jean Eustache, Chantal Akerman, André Téchiné, Leos Carax, Jacques Doillon and Benoit Jacquot.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-02-11
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Casting
1983-05-17
Casting
Overview: A famous director wants to make a film about true love, the kind his grandparents experienced when they lived together for 60 years. For this project, he holds auditions in a commercial real estate office. He asks the actors and actresses he meets to tell him about their conception of Love, with results that differ from those he expected...
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-05-17
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Unexpected Love
2015-10-13
Unexpected Love
Overview: Jeanne Dorwa, 57, faces early retirement when she falls head-over-heels in love with 35-year-old Pascal, throwing her life and everyone around her into turmoil.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2015-10-13
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A Place On Earth
2013-08-28
A Place On Earth
Overview: Antoine is a joyful but disenchanted photographer. His only true friend, Mateo, is 7 years old and the son of his neighbor, who is often absent. One day, he hears a piano sonata coming from the building across the courtyard. Mesmerized by the music, he becomes obsessed by Elena, the beautiful but mysterious pianist, and starts to photograph her at every opportunity. An intense relationship develops between fragile and idealistic Elena and Antoine, who is transformed by this encounter.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-08-28
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I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar
1991-09-11
I Can No Longer Hear the Guitar
Overview: For those who were young, living under the delusions of love and soft drugs in Paris, May 1968 - even if the guitar is still playing, they can't hear it any longer.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-09-11
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Choosing Love
2008-01-23
Choosing Love
Overview: In Paris, a university student attempts to lead a double life - in love with her French boyfriend Pascal, and staying true to her Algerian family, particular her strict, traditional father. In Algiers, her cousin Yacine leads a parallel life, preparing to leave his girlfriend to move to Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-01-23
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All That Divides Us
2017-11-08
All That Divides Us
Overview: A middle-class house in the middle of nowhere. A council estate in Sète. A mother and daughter. Two childhood friends. A vanishing. Blackmail. A clash between two worlds.
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2017-11-08
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Wild Life
2014-10-29
Wild Life
Overview: The new film by French director Cédric Kahn focusses on Philippe Fournier, a man who lives with his 2 sons, having decided not to give them back to their mother after she won custody of the children. The children Okyesa and Tsali must grow up in the shadow, hunted by the police but always free and on the move.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-10-29
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Online Billie
2019-10-14
Online Billie
Overview: The story of a wannabe actor who falls in love with a camgirl.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-10-14
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Closed Circuit
2013-10-23
Closed Circuit
Overview: Hired to oversee the security of a superstore, Pierre soon discovers a dark secret and becomes a threat to the system he helped create.
Genres: Drama Thriller Crime TV Movie Action
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2013-10-23
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Cinématon
1978-12-20
Cinématon
Overview: Cinématon is a 156-hour long experimental film by French director Gérard Courant. It was the longest film ever released until 2011. Composed over 36 years from 1978 until 2006, it consists of a series of over 2,821 silent vignettes (cinématons), each 3 minutes and 25 seconds long, of various celebrities, artists, journalists and friends of the director, each doing whatever they want for the allotted time. Subjects of the film include directors Barbet Schroeder, Nagisa Oshima, Volker Schlöndorff, Ken Loach, Benjamin Cuq, Youssef Chahine, Wim Wenders, Joseph Losey, Jean-Luc Godard, Samuel Fuller and Terry Gilliam, chess grandmaster Joël Lautier, and actors Roberto Benigni, Stéphane Audran, Julie Delpy and Lesley Chatterley. Gilliam is featured eating a 100-franc note, while Fuller smokes a cigar. Courant's favourite subject was a 7-month-old baby. The film was screened in its then-entirety in Avignon in November 2009 and was screened in Redondo Beach, CA on April 9, 2010.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1978-12-20
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Crack 6T
1997-07-02
Crack 6T
Overview: Outwardly a chilling portrait of the aimless lives of unemployed inner city youths living on society's fringe, the underlying message of this volatile drama seems to call for violence to rectify social injustices. The film centers on two teenaged gangs who basically terrorize their neighborhoods with their anarchic behavior. There are few limits to their unpleasant philosophy of "desire equals acquisition." The loosely structured tale reaches its climax at a concert where the two rival groups collide.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-07-02
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Regular Lovers
2005-09-30
Regular Lovers
Overview: 1968 and 1969 in Paris: during and after the student and trade union revolt. François is 20, a poet, dodging military service. He takes to the barricades, but won't throw a Molotov cocktail at the police. He smokes opium and talks about revolution with his friend, Antoine, who has an inheritance and a flat where François can stay. François meets Lilie, a sculptor who works at a foundry to support herself. They fall in love. A year passes; François continues to write, talk, smoke, and be with Lilie. Opportunities come to Lilie: what will she and François do?
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-09-30
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The Invisibles
2019-01-09
The Invisibles
Overview: Following a city councils decision, a women's shelter will soon be closed and social workers have only three months to accommodate the residents.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2019-01-09
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Cinématon XXVI
1982-12-14
Cinématon XXVI
Overview: Reel 26 of Gérard Courant’s on-going Cinematon series.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-12-14
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Rien dans les poches
2008-12-14
Rien dans les poches
Overview: 25 years of the life of Marie, a Parisian party girl, first teenager leaving her mother at 17, then short star of the song, and finally mother of a teenage girl, Esther, who flees as she fled her mother.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2008-12-14
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Nice
2009-05-22
Nice
Overview: Martial, seventeen year-old, has ran away to Nice, to see his mother, singer with a chaotic life. Near her house, he meets three women : an employee of the Organization managing unemployment, a former classmate, and owner of the place. Three educational and sentimental fragments. Three secrets. Three songs.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2009-05-22
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Genealogies of a Crime
1997-05-04
Genealogies of a Crime
Overview: An attorney defends a young man on trial for killing his aunt — a psychiatrist who took him in to study possible homicidal tendencies.
Genres: Crime Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-05-04
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