Ludmila Mikaël
Also Known As: Ludmilla Dmitrienko
Biography: Biography not available
Department: Acting
Place of Birth: Bois-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Birthday: April 27, 1947
Adult: No
Gender: Female
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Because of Her
Overview: Shy working class 15 year-old Antoine, bored with life and school, breaks a leg and has young higher class Olivia help him with his studies. As he silently falls in love with her, he also falls in love with books and his will to become a writer.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-06-16
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Marching Band
Overview: Diagnosed with leukemia, a successful orchestra conductor learns that he is adopted, and his younger brother is in a village marching band. The conductor decides to help them win a regional contest.
Genres: Comedy Drama Music
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2024-11-27
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Frenchmen 2
Overview: Alex, Antoine, Jeff and Manu. Four friends, four years later. Their relationships, friendship, shared secrets, feelings of guilt and their desire to change and improve.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-10-24
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Vincent, Francois, Paul and the Others
Overview: Three friends navigate mid-life crises: a blocked writer, a disillusioned doctor, and a charming man facing bankruptcy and divorce. As their struggles strain friendships, a younger man captures the attention of one friend's wife, complicating their lives further.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-10-23
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The Rashevski Tango
Overview: Adolphe 'Dolfo' Rashevski travels to Israel with grandson Ric, but his brother, orthodox rabbi Samuel 'Shmouel, refuses to come attend their fellow Auschwitz survivor sister Rosa's funeral. Back in their home, the whole well-integrated family and their 'gojim' (non-Jewish and would-be) partners regularly wrestle with the meaning of Jewish blood, traditions and religion. For one it seems the way to gain a wife, for others the bomb under or the obstacle for a marriage. Yet love tends to conquer all but death.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-09-03
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White Wedding
Overview: A philosophy professor has an illicit affair with one of his students, a bright yet troubled girl who lives alone.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1989-11-08
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Vagabond
Overview: After being burned in romance just one time too many, Quentin has become a master at amiable, superficial relationships. In fact, most people can't help but like him, as he is clearly a sensitive and thoughtful fellow, in addition to being friendly. He frequently pulls up stakes and moves to a new town when things grow too intimate for his liking. Now he has fallen in love with a single mother who makes settling down look more attractive than wandering on. However, achieving the breakthrough to real intimacy will cost him a good deal of pain.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-11-04
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The Night Clerk
Overview: Frédéric, a young man with a troubled past, has the good fortune to be given a job in a luxurious mountain hotel. When one of the hotel guests disappears one evening and is later found dead, Frédéric suspects he may have been killed by the family who employ him. But rather than betray his boss, Jacques Couvreur, he makes up his mind to protect him. Unwittingly, Frédéric puts himself in grave danger...
Genres: Thriller Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-03-01
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Frenchmen
Overview: The life of four best friends in Paris: Antoine (a gym school teacher), Jeff (director of a monthly journal), Alex (Jeff's associate in the monthly journal and a Don Juan) and Manu (owner of fine food store). Their time is shared between their respective jobs, their relationship with women (their own and others...) and the times they meet together to discuss about life and play sport lottery.
Genres: Comedy Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2003-04-02
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Diên Biên Phu
Overview: Vietnam, 1954. An American reporter finds himself in the middle of the battle of Điện Biên Phủ, between the French army and the Vietminh.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-03-04
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Why (Not) Brazil?
Overview: A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book adapt her in the process?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2004-09-15
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L'Art (délicat) de la séduction
Overview: The film follows Etienne, a 40-year-old car designer, who takes time off from work to study sexual mastery from a Zen master and several prostitutes, in the hopes of having the sexual skill to impress Laure. Laure, a blonde who was introduced to him by his friend Jacques, told Etienne on January 1 that she will not have sex with him until May 27 that year at precisely 9 PM.
Genres: Romance Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2001-03-21
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Fissures
Overview: Charlotte, an alienated sound engineer, travels to the country home where her mother was just murdered. She is quickly frustrated by the lack of progress in the police investigation and so begins her own. While listening to a fresh sound recording she made in her mother's house, Charlotte discovers a strange phenomenon, she can hear sounds from the past in her headphones. Soon she is using this ability to hear the past to piece together the last few days of her mother's life, drawing ever closer to discovering who killed her, even as the murderer returns to try and eliminate Charlotte before they are discovered.
Genres: Mystery Crime Drama Science Fiction
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-06-06
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Aux abois
Overview: Paul, a former insurer, is struggling to make ends meet. He agrees to meet Sarrebry, a loan shark introduced to him by his friend Daubelle. Paul mortally knocks out the disgusting crook and steals a large sum of money from him.
Genres: Crime Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2005-09-21
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Seaside
Overview: Seaside takes place in a small coastal town on the Bay of Somme. The year-round inhabitants find ways to make their lives work; Paul, a lifeguard in the summer, works at the grocery all winter. His mother, Rose (Ogier) likes to play the slots just about anytime; his girlfriend Marie works in the local factory - the town's biggest business - but watching the summertime vacationers each year just makes her increasingly curious about what else might be out there. From these and several other stories, aided by close, revealing observations, we see a community perched between transition and stasis.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2002-12-04
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L'avare
Overview: Harpagon, a miserly bourgeois, wishes to marry the young Mariane and marry his daughter Elise to Lord Anselme. He does not know that Cléante, his son, is in love with the young Mariane and that his daughter Elise loves a penniless young man, Valère, whom he has just hired as a steward.
Genres: Comedy Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-01-01
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East Wind
Overview: The true story of General Smyslovsky and the anti-Communist 1st Russian National Army receiving shelter in Liechtenstein in 1945 and successfully resisting Soviet pressure to be returned for execution in the USSR.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-01-20
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The Little Boy
Overview: Eight-year old Francois has moved from Paris to a quiet chateau with his parents who want to escape the stress of the war. In a nearby town, his father's mistress works as a tutor. Soon his father allows a refugee family of Polish Jews to move into the basement. Francois has a terrible crush upon their daugther. Real trouble begins when a Nazi commander and his unit also move into the house, totally unaware of the refugees living below them.
Genres: Drama Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1995-01-11
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Les Mystères de la duchesse
Overview: Cyril is doing his Taï-Chi in a corner of the Domaine du Manoir. A golf club slams into the back of his neck, killing him with a deadly blow. The investigation is entrusted to Maud Arthuis, who is more than 8 months pregnant but widowed.
Genres: TV Movie Thriller Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2022-09-11
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The Sergeant
Overview: THE SERGEANT is the story of the dark inner struggle of Master Sergeant Albert Callan to overcome the overwhelming attraction he feels for one of his charges. In the staid and stifling environment of a post-World War II army post in France, Callan's deeply repressed attraction to other men surfaces when he encounters handsome Private Swanson. Maintaining the rugged "man's man" image of a war hero, Callan barks orders to his underlings. Later, lonely in his solitude, he recalls the frightening experiences of war and the events that led to this crossroads. Filled with self-loathing and unable to act on the natural attraction he feels for Swanson, Callan's affection festers into antagonism. He pushes Swanson constantly with verbal assaults and undeserved punishments.
Genres: Drama War
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1968-12-20
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Sleeping Waters
Overview: When Denis returns from Cambodia, his mother tells him that his father has disappeared, apparently a runaway. But the mystery reigns around this case. Denis decides to see Eva again, the woman who encouraged him to leave France, but the young woman also disappears. Little by little, he finds himself trapped by the mystery of her disappearances.
Genres: Crime Drama Mystery
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1992-11-18
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Balle perdue
Overview: Antoine Rethel, a police inspector, meets a young woman to whom he has just prevented a traffic accident.To thank him, she invites him to drink at her house.She commits suicide a few moments later in the bathroom with her service weapon.Antoine swears to himself that he won't say a word about this dirty story and returns home. The next day, driven by curiosity, he decides to return to the scene of the tragedy...surprise, the corpse is no longer there...Antoine is not at the end of his troubles...the next day, he returns to the house and discovers another corpse in the bathtub...little by little, he sinks into a crazy story full of murders...He must hurry to elucidate the murders before it's too late.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1994-10-05
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Coup de jeune
Overview: A scientific working on a serum of youth accidentally take too much and become four years old.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-04-07
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Le rêve d'Esther
Overview: Esther, a Turkish emigrant, was naturalized French and now lives in Paris. Only her daughter Sarah has followed her. The child grows up in a cold boarding school, far from her mother, whose motives and stubbornness she does not understand, especially since Esther no longer visits or writes to her. Sarah thinks she has been abandoned. In reality, Esther, ill from so many hardships, does not want to reveal her condition to her daughter.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1996-02-26
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Archipel
Overview: A teenager at a predominantly male boarding school learns lessons in love when he is invited to stay at a remote estate for the holiday season.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: en
Release Date: 1993-03-17
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La Chambre
Overview: TV movie by Swiss director Yvan Butler, awarded at the Monte-Carlo festival
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-09-27
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Seasons of Love
Overview: 1934. Philippe falls in love with Odile, a beautiful stranger, and decides to marry her, against the will of his parents. They would have preferred a more bourgeois bride, ideally from their own milieu: the paper industry in Angoulême. Isabelle, for instance, whom they have known since she was a child, would have been the perfect match. But Philippe sticks to his choice and marries Odile. At first the newly-weds are passionately in love, and the whole family looks forward to the birth of an heir for the Marcenat family. But in vain. Instead, Odile neglects her marriage and devotes herself to drawing, a gift she inherited from her father. Or is her rekindled interest in art classes more the result of her encounter with the charming but mysterious artist François Crozant? Philippe sense that he's losing his wife and becomes madly jealous of François. Meanwhile Isabelle, who's secretly in love with Philippe, is just waiting for the right moment.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2012-01-14
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Frozen Memories
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Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-01-17
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Où es-tu maintenant ?
Overview: Mathieu disappeared ten years ago. Every year, he calls on Mother's Day. But his mother cannot stand it anymore. Believing she sees her son in the street, she has a heart attack. Mathieu's sister, Caroline, decides to look for her brother.
Genres: Drama Crime
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-10-18
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Il était une fois... Vincent, François, Paul et les autres
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Genres: Documentary TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2011-05-13
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Bleu Catacombes
Overview: The head of a famous artist with a sordid past is found in the catacombs in Paris. In his studio, Commissaire Rousseau and the young profiler Mariella De Luca discover a second decapitated body, his wife's. The mystery deepens when another head is found a few days later.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2014-01-21
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The Man Who Sleeps
Overview: A young student decides to have no more interaction with the world than is needed to minimally sustain life. His increasingly automaton-like behavior is coupled with a strange clarity of insight about the world around him.
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1974-04-24
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Dose mortelle
Overview: Sylvie Drapier is an attractive 40-year old surgeon, specializing in liver transplants, who heads a department in the foremost clinic of a small country town. Divorced, she lives alone with her eight-year-old son, David. One night, returning home from a major operation, Sylvie is violently assaulted and raped in the garage of her building. In the furious struggle with the rapist, she manages to scratch him with a brooch. Several weeks later, the rapist attacks a pharmacist, but this time, the victim escapes by severely injuring him. The assaulter is hospitalized and must undergo a liver transplant, an operation which only Sylvie Drapier can perform...
Genres: Thriller Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-09-17
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Victor Schœlcher, l'abolition
Overview: The struggle of Victor Schœlcher for the abolition of slavery in the French colonies.
Genres: TV Movie Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-01-01
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Un coup de baguette magique
Overview: While Achille sinks into despair after losing his job, Jeanne has an affair with a conductor.
Genres: Comedy Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1997-08-27
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Mauvais garçon
Overview: Thomas, a specialist at breaking and entering, gets out of jail after nine months and finds another man in bed with his girl. In the next 24 hours, he seduces one woman, steals her bracelet, and gives it to another in exchange for felatio. Soon after, he sets eyes on Léa; at first she's just another challenge. She dismisses him, but he's persistent. Finally she decides to love him, but warns him that she's hard to get but harder to get rid of. When he does decide to leave her, she is devastated, but so, it appears, is he, and back he comes. Now all seems wonderful, but his past, in the form of the woman whose bracelet he stole, comes back to haunt him. How will Léa handle it?
Genres: Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1993-11-24
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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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Interdit de vieillir
Overview: Louis is 50 years old, but he is very afraid of aging, so he finds a "miraculous" way to slow it down.
Genres: TV Movie Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1998-06-03
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Horace
Overview: A staging of Pierre Corneille's play "Horace" by Jean-Pierre Miquel.
Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1973-03-24
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Partage de midi
Overview: A staging of Paul Claudel's play "Partage de Midi" by Antoine Vitez.
Genres: Comedy Drama
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1977-06-23
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Boys and Girls
Overview: Ten young people (six boys and four girls), most of whom students, rent a house in bad repair and set about living together. The experience is not obvious and the ten tenants have to cope with more than one difficulty. But they also have their moments. Things really go awry when Françoise, an unmarried girl, is forced to deliver the baby she carries prematurely and when Solange, the lonely girl of the group, attempts suicide. Shortly afterwards, the group learns that the house is due for demolition. They decide to take advantage of this opportunity to face adult life individually.
Genres: Comedy
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-09-21
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The Police War
Overview: Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of combating serious crime and cleaning up the underworld.
Genres: Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-11-14
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The Royal Chase
Overview: Two friends, who go hunting meet a woman who questions their practice.
Genres: Drama Romance
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-26
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Aqui D'El Rei!
Overview: At the end of the nineteenth century, an army force led by Major Mouzinho de Albuquerque, a cavalry officer, imprisoned in Mozambique the tribal chief Gungunhana, who had rebelled against Portuguese government and sovereignty. Mouzinho instantly becomes a national hero but his raising popularity worries the State.
Genres: Drama History
Original Language: pt
Release Date: 1992-04-24
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Les Eaux mêlées
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Genres: Drama TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1969-12-06
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Sweet Evil
Overview: Fifteen-year-old Céline knows more about life than is appropriate for her age. She wanders the streets, surviving, with the help of her boyfriend Romain, thanks to her defiance and ruthless practicality. She secretly sleeps in the garden house of a luxury villa, where one evening she is discovered by the owner, Judge Henri van Eyck. Despite his wife Nathalie's reticence, he takes the girl in and Céline gradually gains their goodwill and affection. The fragile balance of their mutual trust, however, comes in serious jeopardy when the web of lies the girl has told her protectors begins to unravel, revealing her real motives.
Genres: Drama Thriller
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2010-05-12
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Voyage of Silence
Overview: Director Christian De Chalonge uses a docudrama-styled approach to tell the lonely story of Portugese workers in France. In hopes of avoiding the Army, a boy leaves Portugal bound for Paris to find a job. He meets other Portugese upon his arrival but spends most of his time wandering the streets of Paris when his friend cannot be found. The tedium of the feature overshadows the good intent to bring attention to the plight of immigrant workers struggling to survive in a new country.
Genres: No genres available
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1967-01-25
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René Bousquet ou le grand arrangement
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Genres: TV Movie
Original Language: fr
Release Date: 2007-11-16
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La trilogie de la Villégiature
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-06-17
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La seconde surprise de l'amour
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1983-06-08
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Le Soulier de Satin
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1987-07-09
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Les caprices de Marianne
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1982-06-04
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La direction d'acteur
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Original Language: fr
Release Date: 1979-01-21
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