Isabelle Petit-Jacques
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Place of Birth: Not available
Birthday: July 09, 1954
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The Girl on the Bridge
1999-03-31
The Girl on the Bridge
Overview: It's night on a Paris bridge. A girl leans over Seine River with tears in her eyes and a violent yearning to drown her sorrows. Out of nowhere someone takes an interest in her. He is Gabor, a knife thrower who needs a human target for his show. The girl, Adele, has never been lucky and nowhere else to go. So she follows him. They travel along the northern bank of the Mediterranean to perform.
Genres: Drama Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-03-31
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Man on the Train
2002-10-02
Man on the Train
Overview: A man, Milan steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetry teacher named M. Manesquier. The two men strike up a strange friendship and explore the road not taken, each wanting to live the other's life.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-10-02
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Seven Years of Marriage
2003-06-25
Seven Years of Marriage
Overview: After seven years of marriage, a couple of professional workers (he, a doctor and she, a banker) try to refresh their sex life.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-06-25
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White Lies
1998-08-15
White Lies
Overview: Believing she comes from a wealthy family, thugs kidnap a young woman hired as an au pair in Paris.
Genres: Crime Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-08-15
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American Cuisine
1998-10-21
American Cuisine
Overview: Following his discharge from the Navy for hitting a superior officer, Loren takes a chance and moves to France, to learn haute cuisine under a four star chef...
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-10-21
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Words in Blue
2005-03-22
Words in Blue
Overview: Clara is afraid of words. Her daughter, Anna, is afraid of others. Vincent is afraid to grow up. But he won't be afraid to love them.
Genres: Romance Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-03-22
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J'invente rien
2006-08-16
J'invente rien
Overview: Paul has no specific life goal, and Mathilde, who provides for their household, despairs that he can find one. If he continues like this, she may well drop him. So Paul thinks he's got to invent something.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2006-08-16
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Voir la Mer
2011-05-03
Voir la Mer
Overview: Two brothers live in Montbard, Burgundy. For their summer vacation, they decide to visit their mother in Saint-Jean-de-Luz, because it’s been a long time, because it would make her happy… There’s no shortage of reasons. They buy a second-hand motor home and plan to stay open to whatever the road brings them, embarking on a brothers’ journey across France. Just the two of them. But then an endearing young woman crosses their path...
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-03
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My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister
1986-03-05
My Brother-in-law Killed My Sister
Overview: Two members of the French Academy agree to help the attractive young veterinarian Esther investigate the suspicious death of her sister. Esther is convinced her brother-in-law is responsible, but soon it becomes apparent that those responsible are linked to the very highest echelons of power in the Vatican.
Genres: Thriller Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-03-05
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Vive la vie
2005-10-05
Vive la vie
Overview: A businessman gets depressed when his wife leaves him and he learns that his IQ is very low. A friend, a clown in hospitals, wants to cheer him up.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-10-05
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Nobody Loves Me
1994-03-09
Nobody Loves Me
Overview: Several lives intersect when a middle-aged woman is left by her husband, and she decides to trek him down with the help of her equally troubled sister.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-03-09
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The Husbands, the Wives, the Lovers
1989-01-04
The Husbands, the Wives, the Lovers
Overview: In the summer holidays, a group of women stay behind in Paris whilst their husbands and children take a vacation on the sunny Island of Ré. The women – wives, frustrated spinsters and adolescents – profit from their new-found freedom to sort out their love lives and the men indulge their earthy passions with no less enthusiasm. Only the children seems capable of rising above this infantile summer madness...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-01-04
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Fortune Express
1991-04-24
Fortune Express
Overview: Following a climbing accident in the mountains, Pascal loses the use of his legs and is confined to a wheelchair. The film follows his gradual acceptance of this during his stay in a rehabilitation centre and, with the support of fellow residents, the return of his will to live.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-04-24
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Golden Boy
1996-02-21
Golden Boy
Overview: Antoine a Union representative works in a financially troubled factory. He's not the sharpest tool in the box but he has a big heart and when he and his wife win the jackpot of the national lottery. Antoine will invest his gain to try and safe the factory.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-02-21
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The Grand Dukes
1996-02-21
The Grand Dukes
Overview: Three aging and failed comedians, Georges Cox, Victor Vialat and Eddie Carpentier, hit the road again with a lousy production of a lousy play, of course under the worst possible conditions.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-02-21
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The Crisis
1992-12-02
The Crisis
Overview: Victor is a legal advisor who finds himself abandoned by his wife and fired the same day. He tries to seek comfort from different friends and family members, but everyone he meets is concerned with their own problems. His morale begins to falter when he realizes that no one cares about him.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-12-02
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The Hostage of Europe
1989-09-29
The Hostage of Europe
Overview: On the island of Saint Helena, a prisoner Napoleon resisted allies who, through the voice of the English governor, Hudson Lowe, tried to humiliate him, break him, poison him in the figurative sense of the word, and perhaps literally.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-09-29
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Désiré Landru
2005-09-19
Désiré Landru
Overview: Désiré Landru - husband, lover - and murderer. Based on documented facts, this is the full story of one of the most ambiguous criminals and lovers of the 20th century, the first modern serial killer.
Genres: Crime TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-09-19
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La thune
1991-11-20
La thune
Overview: Kamel, a young Arab raised in Paris, wants to become rich. He meets Edwige, a bourgeois girl, whose father disapproves of him as Edwige's boyfriend.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-11-20
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The Suicide Shop
2012-09-26
The Suicide Shop
Overview: In a cold French city where suicide is a common urge, there is a colorful shop, managed for many years by the Tuvache family, where it is very easy to obtain the necessary tools to satisfy the sinister desires of so many depressed citizens.
Genres: Comedy Animation Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-09-26
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Clémence
2007-06-06
Clémence
Overview: A young mother caught up in an uncontrollable spiral of passion after meeting a stranger abandons everything and leaves Paris.
Genres: Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-06-06
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Ridicule
1996-05-09
Ridicule
Overview: To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-09
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Une nana pas comme les autres
1995-04-12
Une nana pas comme les autres
Overview: Julie Toronto, a 32-year-old dwarf, quit her accounting job in Paris, to be with Antoine Delisles, the man of her life. She started working as a nanny at Antoine's. Julie is delighted: Antoine asked if he could marry her and both of his children love her. However, Antoine who is a lawyer, aspires to be President of the Bar. He understands pretty soon that the job he wants to fill is not necessarily compatible with the love he feels towards Julie Toronto.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-04-12
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Princesse Alexandra
1992-04-04
Princesse Alexandra
Overview: In search of freedom, Duchess Alexandra, cousin of Empress Sissi, leaves Austria and her violent husband to settle incognito in Paris.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-04-04
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