Philippe Volter
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Biography: From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Philippe Volter (23 March 1959 – 13 April 2005) was a Belgian actor and director. Born Philippe Wolter to theatre director Claude Volter and his wife, actress Jacqueline Bir, young Philippe began his career in Brussels in 1985. He made many stage and film appearances, the latter of which peaked with such successful arthouse films as The Music Teacher (1988), The Double Life of Véronique (1991) and Blue (1993). Other appearances include Macbeth (1987) and The Five Senses (1999). Upon his father's death in 2002, he returned to Belgium and became artistic director for the Comedy Claude Volter. Philippe Volter committed suicide in 2005, aged 46.
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Uccle, Belgium
Birthday: March 23, 1959
Deathday: April 13, 2005
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Gender: Male
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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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The Double Life of Véronique
Overview: Véronique is a beautiful young French woman who aspires to be a renowned singer; Weronika lives in Poland, has a similar career goal and looks identical to Véronique, though the two are not related. The film follows both women as they contend with the ups and downs of their individual lives, with Véronique embarking on an unusual romance with Alexandre Fabbri, a puppeteer who may be able to help her with her existential issues.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1991-05-15
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Simple mortel
Overview: A young man, a researcher in ancient languages, begins to receive strange radio messages in a language only he knows. The messages ask him for very bizarre missions. Eventually, he understands that he's just a pawn in an intergalactic game, and that the fate of Earth depends on him.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-12-31
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The Five Senses
Overview: Interconnected stories examine situations involving the five senses. Touch is represented by a massage therapist who is treating a woman, while her daughter accidentally loses the woman's pre-school daughter in the park. The older daughter meets a voyeur (vision), a professional house-cleaner has an acute sense of smell, a cake maker has lost her sense of taste, and an older man is losing his hearing.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1999-05-18
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Dark Woods
Overview: In this gothic romance based on a 1950s novel by Robert Margerit, after a whirlwind romance, Violette, a Parisian girl, has married Gustave Dupin, a charming aristocrat, and returned with him to live on his country estate. There, she begins to discover that all is not as it seemed, and beneath her groom's charming exterior is an undreamt-of savagery. She forms an alliance with her husband's much saner brother Bastien which saves her in the end, but not before she must go on trial for the murder of her husband.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-08-23
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Three Years
Overview: After the French defeat of 1870, Julia took three years to love Alexander, with whom she married for her fortune. Alas, when Julia wants to declare his love to her husband, the latter confesses to him that his passion is extinguished.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-08-29
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Le Pantalon
Overview: Lucien is a young soldier in the French army during the First World War. Recently married and with a young daughter, his only aim is to get through the war unscathed and get back to his wife and daughter. But this world is turned upside down by a pair of trousers.
Genres: Drama War TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-12-08
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The Music Teacher
Overview: Aging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside to school two young singers. Although the rigorous training takes its toll on both teacher and students, there is plenty of time for relationships to develop between the three.
Genres: Music Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1988-08-01
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Doctor Semmelweis
Overview: The story of famous Hungarian doctor Ignaz Semmelweis.
Genres: Drama History TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-11-20
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Papa et rien d'autre
Overview: A widower fights to keep the custody of his daughter that his in-laws claim.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-11-02
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Tørst - Framtidens forbrytelser
Overview: Anthology film based on three short stories by Knut Hamsun, updated to modern times.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: no
Release Date: 1999-02-26
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Night of Destiny
Overview: Mr. Slimami is an Algerian retiree living in Paris who witnesses a murder while taking a walk one evening. He's spotted by the assailant, but Slimami manages to slip away before being caught. The victim turned out to be a prominent businessman, and police are soon searching for the witness as well as the killers. Slimami does not want to step forward, both as a matter of personal safety and because he prefers to let the French police handle their own affairs. His son Alilou, a budding journalist, openly decries the failure of the witness to come forward as a black mark on the Muslim community in Paris, unaware that the man in question is his father.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1999-05-05
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À chacun son tour
Overview: A German police commissioner investigates the murders of several Tour de France yellow jerseys.
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-12-19
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Posseteni ot gospoda
Overview: Kesten is a picturesque village on the border between Bulgaria, Turkey and Greece. A French sociologist named Franæois Denis comes to the village to study the risk of ethnic conflict in this part of the Balkans. He finds out that in a place situated only 100 kilometers from Kosovo there are Muslims and Christians capable of living in peace just as they have for hundreds of years. But what is far more interesting to this western visitor is meeting the local inhabitants: Vladimír, who fills all municipal posts from mayor to postmaster, a poet whose verse has never been published and who longs to see Rossellini's The Greatest Love one last time, and a smuggler who is willing to do anything for his mentally disabled brother. It's a fascinating and absurd, though harmonious, world where anything can happen - where even wine has flowed from the water taps...
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-07-06
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Charlotte dite 'Charlie'
Overview: Two teenage girls are rehearsing a scene from a play by Marivaux, a love scene, and from the first seconds, we know who will be the heroine, who will be Charlotte, the one who will, to summarize brutally, discover her homosexuality.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-05-31
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Abracadabra
Overview: As an amateur magician, Phil is probably okay, but as a small-time criminal, he is definitely not destined for the big-time. When he is granted a twenty-four-hour furlough from prison in order to attend his mother's funeral, he is aware of this and intends to keep out of trouble. Furthermore, he has the same intention for when he finishes his prison term. Thus, his brothers' attempts to get him involved in a really neat theft they have dreamed up do not at first meet with much favor in his eyes. Eventually, their enthusiasm and the almost overwhelming assortment of pleasures they have arranged for him to enjoy soften him up enough for him to cooperate with them. Predictably, things don't go well, but an unsought chance to renew lost love also comes to him at this time, and good fortune finally intervenes on his behalf.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-02-03
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Madame Sans-Gêne
Overview: In August 1792, on the eve of the attack on the Tuileries, Catherine Hubscher, a laundress in Paris, met a sergeant and an artillery lieutenant who would become respectively Marshal Lefèvre and Emperor Napoleon I. 1810. Napoleon was about to marry Marie-Louise. Fearing the inconstancies and moral lessons of Marshal Lefebvre, the emperor asked her husband to keep her away from the wedding ceremonies. He is unaware that the hotheaded young woman has received a personal invitation from the Austrian embassy.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-02-11
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Les gens honnêtes vivent en France
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-03-02
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Resistance
Overview: The epic tale of an American reconnaissance pilot downed in occupied Belgium at the height of World War II. Hidden by resistance fighters, the pilot falls in love with the wife of the man who will save him. When their affair is exposed, an act of betrayal threatens their lives and the entire resistance movement, forcing the pilot to make a powerful choice that could change the course of the war.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-07-16
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L'Enfant de personne
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-08-26
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Basse tension
Overview: A hitman must fulfill a contract aboard a train. He faces great difficulties going to the sleeping car where sleeps the man he must kill.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-01-01
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Cyrano de Bergerac
Overview: Famed swordsman and poet Cyrano de Bergerac is in love with his cousin Roxane. He has never expressed his love for her as he his large nose undermines his self-confidence. Then he finds a way to express his love to her, indirectly.
Genres: Drama Comedy History Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1990-03-28
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Noces cruelles
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Genres: Crime Mystery Romance TV Movie Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-05-11
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Dernier stade
Overview: The negative physical and psychological effects of anabolic steroids, growth hormones, and masking agents are examined in this European drama which focuses upon the conflict felt by a young runner whose fear of failure exceeds her fear of the drugs. Catherine Delaunay, a 25-year old runner, has just be named French champion after the real winner is disqualified for using drugs. When she suffers a small injury herself she begins using the drugs at the insistence of her German trainer and an unethical sports doctor. Catherine becomes hooked upon her regimen of medication and begins to suffer physical and mental side-effects. To conceal her drug use, Catherine keeps a large supply of "clean" urine. When she really does become drug free, her times suffer. A federation official strongly suggests she get pregnant as they hormones produced by early pregnancy will help her speed.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-11-30
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Aline
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Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-02-12
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