Michel Amphoux
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Department: Acting
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A Letter to L...
Overview: She was 18. They were in love and lived together for ten years. 20 years later, he receives a letter from her. L is very ill. He grabs hold of his camera and films while trying to make her talk about other things, about cinema and what’s become of those political struggles…
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-02-02
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Bandits
Overview: On the day Jean Gabin dies, a kidnaper who also takes a fortune in jewels heisted from Cartiers murders Simon Verini's wife. (Simon was fencing the jewels for a youthful gang who robbed Cartiers; he suspects them of the murder.) He's framed for the theft and spends ten years in prison, writing to his daughter, Marie-Sophie, who's 11 when he's sent away. Released, he reconnects to Marie-Sophie and to the young thieves, seeks revenge, and is quickly arrested again. She doesn't know what to make of her father, retreats to her Swiss fiancé, and is flummoxed when one of the young thieves falls for her. Is resolution possible when crime cuts across families and romance?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-06-03
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The Mystery of Alexina
Overview: In 1856, fresh from life with nuns in an orphanage school, Alexina Barbin comes to a coastal village in La Rochelle to teach the village girls. She is deeply religious. She shares the classroom and a bedroom with the young and vivacious Sara, with whom she falls in love. Alexina has another secret: her gender is mysterious. She and Sara begin a scandalous love affair, but Alexina seeks marriage and social acceptance. She discloses her secrets to the village priest, to her mother, to the bishop, and to the bishop's physician. After the church and court rule on her petition, marriage to Sara becomes Alexina's sole purpose and hope.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1985-09-25
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La Balance
Overview: A Paris police detective plays rough with a prostitute and her pimp/lover, whom he wants as an informant.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-11-10
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The Story of Paul
Overview: A young man is checked into a mental hospital for unexplained reasons.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1975-10-15
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Fernand
Overview: Everybody takes advantage of Fernand who has just come out of prison.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1980-02-27
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Plurielles
Overview: A couple deal with their problems like any other, while actors read Friedrich Engels' "The Origin of the Family, Private Property and the State", and in interviews, the director discusses the status of women in 1978.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-03-14
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Dead Tired
Overview: Stressed and overworked, famous French movie star Michel Blanc is beginning to wear down, physically and mentally, from the pressure and demands of fame. Already in a fragile state of mind, strange events start to transpire all around him, and he gradually loses his grip. Taking the advice of a psychiatrist, Blanc retreats to the countryside with his friend Carole Bouquet, but Blanc still has not managed to escape all of his problems.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-05-18
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Lien de parenté
Overview: In this drama, the popular French film star of the '30s and '40s Jean Marais plays Victor, a disgruntled, cranky old man who is forced to come to terms with the fact that he is now the guardian of his mulatto grandson Clem (Serge Ubrette). Victor is shocked to discover his grandson's mixed heritage when he travels to London to pick him up, but resigns himself to the situation. Once at home in France, the brash Clem manages to steal the heart of the most coveted young woman in town, but that only gets him into trouble with her tough-guy boyfriend and his buddies. Meanwhile, Grandpa is trying to come to grips with his own biases as best he can.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1986-03-19
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Le chasseur de la nuit
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Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-06-01
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